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Genius Warlock-Episode 417

417. counterattack (1)

“Can you all keep what happened just now a secret??”

After talking with the puppet, when he disappeared, Oliver asked the Murat family, the Kimbell family, and Jane..

Thankfully, they obediently accepted Oliver's request..

If it was natural, it was natural..

A puppet of the same level as the human meat cook who caused unrest in the capital of Gallos, one of the most powerful nations selected. And the puppet and Oliver talked as equals..

At first glance, it seemed like Oliver took the courtesy unilaterally, but those with knowledge could see that Puppet respected Oliver..

If there had not been respect in the first place, the conversation itself would not have been established..

Perhaps the fact that Puppet left without killing anyone was an extension of that respect..

To be honest, there wasn't much to know, but the quick-witted Lucien and Murphy instinctively figured that it was safest to follow Oliver's words..

Oliver said after hearing the answer.

“Thank you everyone. Then, we will guide everyone to a safe place... therefore······. It's a relatively safe place..”

Oliver corrected himself, remembering the situation in this city. In some cases, the entire city may not be safe..

After seeing Jane, Oliver thought of Kevin, Terence, and Yarely, who came to this city together... Maybe there's even more reason to stop human meat cooks.

After thinking about it, Oliver took out a piece of paper from his pocket and threw it on the floor..

Then, the magical energy stored in the body is linked to activate the spell. The magic power contained in the paper glowed purple and created a portal in the air..

“scroll?”

Someone said in surprise. Because spatial magic was difficult, scrolls were also relatively rare..

“uh······. It's similar. Would you all please come in here? It is connected to the University of Loculi.”

it was true.

When he visited the College of Law with Kevin, Oliver secretly planted a few pieces of paper just in case..

Fortunately, it came in handy as expected..

At Oliver's words, Murphy and Lucien took their family inside without any doubt..

one person at a time.

Finally, it was Jane's turn. she said curiously.

“The scrolling performance seems to be good. I know it's quite a distance from Loculi University..”

Oliver understood what Jane meant..

Portal magic, one of the spatial magics, was a magic that was difficult for even professionally trained magicians to use..

Only two or three out of ten people were able to use their own strength without the use of assistive devices, and even that number decreased depending on the distance and the contents being moved..

Scrolls were also not free from such laws, so in order to move the distance between cities, considerable effort and cost had to be spent, such as fixing coordinates in advance and installing stable auxiliary devices..

Anyone who knows such things could have noticed that there was something strange about Oliver's portal magic..

At best, dozens of people were able to travel a considerable distance using paper as a medium..

Considering the performance of existing portal magic, it could be said to be quite disturbing. Oliver didn't know this either..

However, apart from that fact, Oliver did not know the exact reason..

“······Are you studying magic??”

Jane nodded..

“yes······. If you made a friend at the Magic Tower, you have to put in that much effort. To avoid being ignored.”

“I never ignored Miss Jane..”

Jane laughed softly..

“Hehe... i know. I was just joking..”

“ah······. Anyway, you're amazing. You must be busy with work, but you are also studying magic. I don't have time to explain it to you right now, so could you explain it later? First of all, I think it's more important to get in..”

Oliver pointed to the purple portal, and Jane nodded..

“yes. That's how it should be... Zenon, no, Dave. Can I call you Dave? It's just the two of us now?”

Oliver looked around and nodded..

“yes. it's okay.”

“thank you······. Dave's going to stop the meat cook.?”

“Probably so. 'Cause that's my job.”

After hearing the answer, Jane showed signs of worry, concern, and a desire to stop her anxiety. The feeling was stronger than she expected and it almost came down her throat and out of her mouth..

However, she closed her eyes and controlled her emotions. Faith and will shine.

“······So, can you promise me just one thing??”

“Promise?”

“Yes, please come back safely and without getting hurt as much as possible..”

“hmm······. That might be a little difficult. You look stronger than I thought, Human Meat Chef..”

Oliver answered, remembering the human meat cook he met in the basement..

Although on the outside he was just a strong adult male, his life force was so vast and concentrated that it was beyond imagination. And he was a man with proportional magic and emotions..

This is probably because it has lived for hundreds of years and eaten humans and other creatures. Maybe that's why the quantity and quality were beyond imagination..

Just looking at the energy makes you think it's a creature that transcends humans..

‘Still, the essence is human.’

After hearing Oliver's explanation, Jane suddenly burst into laughter. When she asked why she smiled she answered.

“No, what should I say... Because it’s like Dave. Normally, in times like this, I would tell you to take it easy..”

“ah······.”

Oliver sighed again. Now that I think about it, the girls at Angel's House talked about it..

If a woman is scared, give her a gentle hug, pat her on the back, and reassure her even if it's not pretentious. That's a gentleman.

“Sorry about that. I forgot for a moment. I don't want to lie to my friends.”

“That makes me kind of happy..”

Oliver hesitated and awkwardly spread his arms..

It was an attempt to put into practice the teachings of the House of Angels, and Jane seemed to have noticed what was happening and raised her hand to quietly express her refusal..

“Thank you, but I will decline for now. Because it's not good for the heart... Can you just promise that you'll come back safely? I want to pay off my debt..”

“I owe you?”

“yes. Thanks to Dave, I negotiated well with Lucien and found a way to invest. There's no way I can help you now, so I'd like to repay you later..”

Oliver, who awkwardly opened his arms, closed them and promised..

“I will try my best.”

“······That's enough..”

Jane answered and went straight into the portal..

So as not to take up Oliver's time..

When the last person entered, the purple portal completely disappeared in thin air, as if reflecting the magician's will.,

Oliver retrieved the paper that had lost all of its strength and put it in his arms, then immediately focused his attention on his eyes and opened the warlock's eyes..

To find out where none other than the human meat cook prepares the ritual..

The puppet didn't tell me, but it wasn't that hard to figure out..

There will be a place at the end of the city's madness, confusion, anger, and fear that flows beneath Oliver's feet..

Thinking like that, Oliver focused his consciousness on the warlock's eyes and expanded the area..

10Meter, 100 meters, 1,000 meters, 10,000 meters... Keep going until you see your goal..

Although he was a bit dizzy and his eyes were itching at the scale of his first experience, Oliver's field of vision expanded to encompass the entire city, and he soon discovered a point where a stream of emotions pooled like water in a hollow bowl..

It was District 1, right in the center of the city, with a vortex-shaped structure that was uncoordinated, like snakes eating each other..

There, the emotions gathered from the entire city were gathered together and climbed up a huge tower..

quite an interesting sight.

But that wasn't the only interesting sight..

As Oliver arrived in the sewers, a large number of wizards from Loculi University came out of the university and fought against the minions of the human meat cooks..

I could tell because I vaguely remembered the emotions and magical powers of the wizards at Loculi University, and among them were Kevin, Terence, and Yareli..

They all joined forces with the wizards, police, and military forces of the University of Loculi to fight the rampaging minions of the human meat cook..

While the University of Loculi moved systematically by joining forces with the police and military, the human meat chefs moved on their own, perhaps because their goal was to cause chaos in the city, and were able to gain a relative victory..

However, there are exceptions everywhere..

Contrary to expectations, there were some who fought systematically and pushed the University of Law into a crisis..

The problem was that Yareli was there too..

“First of all, from here.”

Oliver took out a piece of paper from his pocket and threw it..

The paper opened a purple portal like before, and Oliver immediately jumped into it..

A blackout occurred and the landscape changed from underground to above ground.,

Oliver could see frozen floors and walls, burning buildings, dead Loculi College wizards, and Yareli desperately fighting among them..

She had already consumed a considerable amount of magical power and was fighting with damage to her eyes and surrounding area, even taking off her glasses..

The opposing side were wizards from the Department of Life Alchemy who had betrayed the University of Loculi and joined the Human Flesh Chef side, and they were extremely embarrassed by the sudden appearance of Oliver..

As if an intruder appeared just as he was about to capture all the game he had caught..

The short moment that resulted from that.

Oliver instinctively reached out and placed his hand on the back of Jarelli's head..

Yareli was surprised, but Oliver did what his instincts told him to do and stabilized her racing eyes..

Even Oliver didn't know the principle..

It was just a reflexive action the moment I saw Yareli with blood around her eyes due to overload..

“······!”

Fortunately, as if Oliver's actions were meaningless, Yarely's eyes, which had been running wild, immediately calmed down..

As evidence, the blood around the eyes subsided, and the power that was overflowing due to uncontrollable concentration was properly concentrated on one point, penetrating through the flame barrier that the opposing wizards had spread, and freezing them all..

Damn it━!!

Wizards of the Life Alchemy Department who froze in an instant.

Yareli immediately closed his eyes and resealed the opened eyeball..

The area under my eyes and eyelids were chapped due to the cold and there were numerous tiny wounds. Oliver took out some ointment for wounds from her arms and held it out..

“Are you okay??”

“······Uh, how did you do it??”

Yareli asked, startled and stuttering uncharacteristically..

That's right, because we succeeded in stabilizing the eyes (special body), which we had not been able to find even through our family's research, just through physical contact..

Although there were cases where magical power was used to treat the side effects of unusual entities, this was unprecedented..

“Please excuse me for a moment.”

Instead of answering, Oliver asked for understanding. Then suddenly he wrapped his arms around Yareli's waist..

Yarelli was taken aback by Oliver's sudden behavior, forced her painful eyes open, and she could see..

5Something over a meter tall breaks through the burning building and runs towards us..

Bald head, small eyes, long arms and round shoulders, misaligned teeth, and a torso packed with muscle and fat..

Yareli realized that the monster in front of him was an extinct ogre from the past..

The Ogre lifted up the pillar of the building with one hand and struck it down, and Oliver quickly dodged the attack with Yareli next to him..

As I learned in the book, the power of the auger was so strong that the ground hit by the pillar broke apart like an explosion, and a pillar of earth rose from the bottom to the top..

If he had stopped it, Jarelli, even Oliver, would have been quite shocked..

But I still couldn't relax.

Crumble rumble━━!!

Through the dust raised by the ogre, a werewolf with black fur followed Oliver..

Although not as tall as an ogre, the werewolf, which was over 3 meters tall, quickly closed the distance with agility unbefitting its size and targeted Oliver and Yareli with its dark red teeth and claws strengthened with black magic..

“minion.”

At Oliver's call, two minions hiding in his arms quickly jumped out and spit bullets into the eyeballs of the approaching werewolf..

Swish! Swish!

It was a perfectly timed attack, but the werewolf dodged the attack with incredible reflexes and raised its long arms..

I'm trying to tear it down like this..

At that time, Yareli opened her eyes and froze the werewolf's legs..

Jeokjeok!

Due to the high speed, the werewolf's legs suddenly froze and he fell forward..

I thought we had overcome another crisis, but Oliver did not let down his guard..

Because we had already confirmed that there were more enemies in the basement..

As soon as he touched the ground, Oliver's feet were tied to the ground..

The land controlled by magic swallowed Oliver's feet like a swamp and then solidified..

As I moved my gaze along the magical energy given to the ground, I saw that many wizards, believed to be from the Life Alchemy Department, were working together to bestow magical energy on the ground..

Half of them focused only on tying Oliver's feet, while the other half performed defensive techniques to prevent Oliver from being attacked..

Efficient Collaboration,

Oliver naturally looked up into the sky..

Surprisingly, a large amount of blood was floating like a cloud in the sky..

[Impalement)]

A woman's voice echoed in the air..

In response to that voice, the large amount of blood floating above Oliver's head rotated around a single point, condensed into a pile, and fell from the top to the bottom..

Oliver, seeing this, threw the quarter staff he was holding in one hand high into the sky..

[Black Javelin)]

The quarter staff, covered in a black suit, flew towards the falling bloody stake and crashed into it, shattering the stake and disappearing into the sky..

The blood destroyed by the Black Javelin turned into red rain and fell to the ground. The sight was so impressive that the rushing attack stopped for a moment..

Oliver didn't miss the timing and greeted the woman standing beyond the werewolf and ogre..

“hello? Desihe Durance.”

The woman who heard the greeting approached, emitting more magical power than when she had seen it before..

It seemed like his strength had been strengthened with Gretel's help..

“You know me?”

“I met you briefly at Lake Village Social Church. Are you Desihe Durance, Dean of the Life Alchemy Department??”

The woman nodded..

If Oliver remembers correctly, despite his appearance of being in his early thirties, his actual age is 64..

She said that she looked very young compared to her actual age..

“I'm honored that the wizard who defeated Theodore remembers me..”

Perhaps Desihe heard from Gretel, but she knew that Oliver had defeated Theodore..

Oliver answered.

“I just got lucky.”

“I agree. If I hadn't absorbed the lake's magic, I wouldn't have been able to deal with Theodore.?”

Oliver nodded his head in agreement. If it weren't for the magical power of the lake, it would definitely have been difficult due to the overwhelming firepower difference..

“Well, it doesn't make sense to absorb that vast amount of magical energy... In that sense, I am very lucky today. They said you can eat anything you capture in this city. I can eat not only the eyes of the Ice Eye family, but also yours..”

“uh······. I promised to return safely, so couldn't you just let me go? I'm just here to help Mr. Yareli..”

“Are you talking as if you can win? Theodore, is it funny that I beat that old man??”

“no.”

Oliver answered sincerely. But unfortunately, Oliver's will did not seem to reach the woman in front of her..

“I am also one of the wizards representing the university. Also, unlike Theodore, you do not have a large amount of power to absorb... What confidence??”

“There seems to be some misunderstanding, but I am not looking down on Dejihe. And it's not like there's nothing you can absorb. Honestly there are a lot.”

When Dejihe tilted his head, Oliver immediately showed it in action..

Oliver used magic by outputting some of the magical power stored in his body..

[Ptah's Assistant)]

As Oliver chanted, a mechanical hand laced with magic particles appeared next to Oliver's arm..

In that state, Oliver moved part of the black suit on his body and wrapped it around Ptas Assistant, creating a hand..

A huge hand made of advanced magic power and emotions..

Oliver said quietly.

“extraction.”