Genius Warlock-Episode 421
421. human meat chef (3)
Ta-da-da-da-dak...Kaang━!!
As soon as Oliver delivered the slash, ripples appeared in the sea of rotten blood on the floor, and the human meat cook immediately approached Oliver..
After gaining distance, he swung his knife, and Oliver also swung the dagger he was holding to defend himself..
When steel collided with steel, a sharp sound was heard and a faint shock wave was released..
“Unique checkered blade... It's made from Northland steel cast using traditional methods..”
During the sword fight, the meat cook looked at Oliver's dagger and said,.
And it was true.
This dagger was received from none other than Willes, one of the leaders of the Kell Free Independence Army..
After defeating Bathory at Mountain Face, Oliver healed him and even gave him alcohol and cigarettes, and he gave him this dagger in return..
He said that if you take this dagger to the Kell community, you can either get help or meet him..
That is, some kind of identification.
The meat cook continued as he examined Oliver's dagger..
“It's a good knife! Northland steel itself is good, and when cast using traditional methods, it has good magical and dark magic conductivity. However, it is not something that can be easily obtained even if you pay money, so how did you get it? Did you get that as a gift too??!”
“yes.”
“That's good. I'll take care of it with the quarter staff.!”
Taking those words as a signal, the meat cook used his arms to push Oliver away and then swung his knife wildly..
Oliver was pushed away, but immediately regained his balance with Rob's help and swung his dagger in response to the human meat cook's attack.,
Dozens of black lines appeared in the air and began to collide with each other so quickly that it was difficult to follow them with the naked eye..
Like, a storm of swords.
That momentum was not normal. A level that is difficult to approach.
As the momentum did not go to either side, the meat cook pulled out a cleaver reminiscent of an ax from his belt..
Kwaang━━!!
The meat cook flashily swung the French knife with one hand while slashing the cleaver with all his might with the other hand..
Like chopping firewood.
In fact, the Meat Chef's Cleaver cut everything in its direction, including floors and buildings, in half..
Except for one Oliver..
he asked, looking at Oliver, the only one who couldn't be cut..
“I didn't know you could handle a knife so well... where did he learn?”
Just before the meat cook struck, Oliver deflected the French knife and cut Cleaver's sword strike with perfect timing..
It was a technique that was only possible if it was equal to or better than the swordsmanship of a human meat cook..
Oliver answered honestly..
“never learned.”
“like······. okay?”
“yes. I learned the quarter staff briefly, but I didn't learn the sword... It's so sharp and scary.”
“They say you're too good to learn... What an arrogant idea. But why are you using a knife against me??”
“Because I'm not that sneaky when it comes to dealing with human meat chefs..”
I meant it..
That's right, his roots were clearly human, but his current vast energy and the body that contained that energy surpassed anything Oliver had ever seen before..
Honestly, even if he only allowed one, Oliver knew he was in danger..
So it was questionable.
Why do you touch it gently as if you are grasping it instead of pressing it with powerful firepower all at once?.
I thought he was just watching, but it felt awkward..
It was as if he wanted an apple but was wary of it being poisonous..
Just as I was about to ask about this, the meat cook opened his mouth a beat faster..
“Oh, the guy who defeated the son of an angel thinks highly of me. Why are you so grateful? It's truly an honor.”
Oliver tells the truth and lies in his words. To be precise, I was able to read the truth, shame, and anger..
he continued to say.
“So, should I try to live up to that as well? I'd like to see your quote too... [Corps Infection)]”
As the human meat chef chanted, the vast emotions contained in his body poured out and spread out in all directions..
The spreading emotions combined with the blood and flesh of the corrupted giant, causing a chemical reaction, which soon gave birth to a disease..
“Do you know what black magic I used??!”
The human meat cook approached at once like before and asked:.
He swung the cleaver horizontally, and Oliver used his emotions to extend the length of the dagger, then used a snap of his wrist to deflect the attack diagonally..
Thanks to this, the slash emitted from the cleaver flew sideways and split the building horizontally rather than vertically..
Indeed, tremendous power.
However, Oliver did not back down, but instead took a step forward and swung his dagger..
Although it was blocked by the meat chef's French knife,.
“······Corpse Infection. It's called corpse disease..”
Oliver answered.
It was a black magic that I had read about in Joseph's study in the past..
It was a black magic that was more common in battlefields than in cities, and was none other than black magic that used corpses as catalysts to cause disease..
The difficulty itself was not that high, but apart from that, it was a fairly high risk black magic..
That's because the power of black magic was determined not only by the skill of the magician, but also by the quality of the material, so when there were a large number of corpses or the quality of the corpses was high, it could produce power beyond the level that could be used..
Just like now.
“Cough.”
Oliver coughed and looked at the putrid blood on his trousers, shoes, and other parts of his body..
Even though the emotional robe and magic power within the body were circulated to block and push away disease-weakening black magic, the corpse disease continued to infiltrate Oliver, perhaps because the material was a giant..
Even though it has only been a while since the previously inflicted disease-weakening black magic was neutralized..
‘I couldn't even neutralize them all..’
Oliver thought, aware of his throbbing eyes, sore skin, slightly shaking hands, and stiff joints..
I still have the symptoms of shingles, red spots on my eyes, crazy nerves, and joint calcification, but honestly, I've been fine so far..
It was getting better. The problem wasn't getting better, it was getting worse..
Growling······.
“Ah, it looks like it's starting to kick in..”
The human meat chef, who heard Oliver's belly button clock, said while swinging the cleaver and French knife alternately in both hands..
An.
However, due to lack of firepower and hunger, I ended up flying backwards..
Unable to overcome the shock, the quarter staff escapes from Oliver's hand and flies into the air, and Oliver falls on a sea of rotten blood..
Oliver asked, feeling his hunger slowly but surely growing stronger..
“A trigger is coming... Is it black magic starvation disease??”
“okay.”
“It's the black magic I used earlier..”
Oliver asked, remembering those who had committed suicide after being attacked by a larva-shaped creature. The meat cook answered again..
“that's right. As expected, you have good eyes.”
“Umm... May I ask why this alone cannot be neutralized? I neutralized everything else, but this doesn't work... I know it's not this difficult black magic, but?”
Indeed, it was..
Starvation, whose official name is Starvation, was a basic form of disease-weakening black magic..
Naturally, the resources and level required for use were low, and the risk was proportionally low..
To put it a little extreme, the black magic could be canceled just by eating food..
However, what happened to Oliver was not at that level..
It's not fatal enough to take your life right away, but-
“-Slowly increasing hunger? But it doesn't work out?”
Oliver heard the question and slowly nodded..
I tried to neutralize or shake off this hunger earlier, but it never went away..
“Of course it will. Because I made it with my emotions.”
Oliver understood immediately what that meant..
Black magic has greater power when the caster's own emotions are used, but the effect is doubled as the emotions used are more intense..
Oliver looked at the human meat cook while holding his stomach that was crying out for food..
Wide shoulders, strong muscles visible even through the shirt, long legs and a sturdy physique..
He didn't look like someone who grew up starving, but Oliver knew from the puppet that that wasn't the case..
Rather, it was the opposite. The human meat cook was very friendly with hunger..
He was born as the child of a poor woodcutter and spent his entire childhood in hunger..
‘And in the end, it was abandoned in the forest······.’
Oliver looked at the meat cook and asked a question..
“Thank you for your kind explanation.”
“It was nothing! I had the joyful discovery that my strength was working, so I should show that level of kindness. Thanks to you, I gained confidence.”
“······?”
“After all, he's going to die soon, so what can't he say? Can you feel it too? If you just stay like this, you'll die soon? Because I was hungry too.”
“······yes.”
“So, what do we do now??”
As soon as he heard the question, Oliver touched the sea of blood, which had become a hotbed of disease, and gave him magic power and emotions, activating blood magic..
Even if it was rotten, blood was still blood..
[Blood Maiden)]
At Oliver's call, the pool of blood on the floor gathered around the human meat cook and formed a huge coffin with a woman's face..
A huge coffin of blood that one person can easily swallow.
As Oliver clenched his fist, the bloody tube opened left and right and swallowed the human meat cook in one go..
The human meat cook didn't respond as if he had some reason to believe him, but Oliver didn't care and operated the blood coffin in that state. Numerous spikes sprouted inside and out..
Nails made of blood.
Quagwagwagwagwanggwang━!!
There was a loud noise and the nails were driven inward and outward..
Looking at the huge and countless spikes, it seemed like nothing inside could survive, but Oliver, who directly controlled the blood magic, could tell that the attack had not been applied properly..
Because there was no taste whatsoever.
As if to prove that feeling, something bulged as if something was trying to come out of the blood-filled coffin, and eventually, when it reached its limit, something came out with a roar like tearing metal..
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
It was a blade made of pure rage..
It was a blade of emotion that the human meat cook spewed out by injecting malice into his fluctuating emotions, and the blade made of anger spread out in all directions, shattering the blood coffin..
Obviously, a blood coffin would be harder than steel of the same thickness... Indeed, shocking power.
But what was even more shocking was that the human meat cook's body was intact, with only his clothes torn..
Even though dozens of nails were driven into it, the flesh cook's body was not even scratched..
“Now it's my turn.”
The human meat cook attacked Oliver by manipulating the blade of emotion that spread out in all directions and left deep cuts on the building and the land..
Huge black blades flying from all directions.
Although he tried to avoid it, the meat cook injected his emotions into the cleaver and French knife..
The moment you avoid it, you will take advantage of that gap..
‘Will it work??’
Oliver pondered and increased his emotional control, dividing his robe into several branches and wrapping them in the robe according to the speed of the incoming slashes, absorbing all of them..
Thanks to this, Oliver was able to feel the human meat chef's anger with his skin rather than simply seeing it..
Feelings of helplessness and betrayal that have accumulated over hundreds of years.
In that state, Oliver took a slash with his dagger through his robe and launched it towards the human meat cook with all his might..
The human meat chef didn't back down and threw a slash at Oliver with a fierce smile, and soon the two slashes collided..
Kwaaang······!
Surprisingly, the slash thrown by Oliver cut through the slash thrown by the human meat cook and hit the human meat cook..
In a way, it was natural.
Not only the emotions of the human meat chef but also the emotions extracted by Oliver were added..
As the dust settled, Oliver could see the power of his slash..
A deep cut was made on the floor, and blood poured into it, and the meat cook's knife also shattered..
In fact, the human meat cook was standing there looking just as fine as when he came out of the bloody coffin..
“This is the end-”
-[Blood Wedge)]
Oliver cast blood magic on the quarter staff he had missed earlier and threw it at the human meat cook..
The quarter staff gathered as much blood as possible from the surrounding area and flew towards the human meat cook in the form of a huge wedge bullet..
With the tendency to split anything.
However, the human meat chef did not dodge even though he did not have a kitchen knife, but rather showed even more confidence and concentrated his strength on one arm..
Then the muscles on one of the meat cook's arms swelled, and scales and fingernails sprouted..
closer to that of a reptile than to a human.
He swung his arm like that and shattered Oliver's blood magic..
With only overwhelming physical strength.
Oliver retrieved the quarter staff as if half expecting it, and the human meat chef asked a question with confidence..
“Is there anything more to try??!”
“ha······. I'm hungry.”
Oliver answered, trying to keep his mind from growing increasingly hungry and tired..
wanted to eat something.
***
“Damn it.”
The center of Raville is like a battlefield..
There, Kevin, the professor and master of the Magic Tower, muttered lowly. with all my heart.
Because it was literally a fucking situation..
“I.”
“requests regarding·····.”
“Did you do it??”
A rag-tag wizard wearing nothing but rags.,
A large druid wearing a bear skin on his head.,
The hunchbacked warlock answered each sentence individually..
Because of that, it was very annoying to hear, but what was even more annoying was that there was actually only one person standing guard in front..
To put it more simply, it was a puppet..
“Thank you for trusting me right away..”
“There are a lot of people who don't believe me.”
“Thanks to you, the story went faster.”
Three men... No, said the puppet, who was handling three corpse dolls at the same time..
To be honest, I couldn't believe it and didn't want to believe it, but Kevin decided to accept reality with cool-headed reasoning..
“Because there is no one other than a puppet who can handle a corpse doll like that..”
Kevin said casually. He was not someone to be treated with courtesy or anything, but an enemy..
In particular, in this urgent situation where the gates of hell may be opened... It was really embarrassing.
“What I want is simple.”
“No more entering the city center.”
“Then, no one hurts anymore. no one.”
As if to prove that statement, there were numerous corpses piled up around the corpse doll..
First of all, the wizard wearing only rags was sitting on a small mountain made of corpses, torn corpses were strewn around the druid, and around the warlock were corpses neatly trimmed like specimens, being eaten by gluttons..
The number is approximately two hundred..
Among them were wizards from the University of Loculi, police officers, and military personnel, as well as subordinates of the human flesh cook and even civilians..
As he said, everything that tried to go to area 1 was excluded..
Kevin kept his head cool and looked at his troops' strength..
Next to Kevin were Terence, who was armed with a military firearm, Yarely, who came with Oliver's help, and about a dozen wizards from the University of Loculi who had formed a team..
It was all at a level that could be used in actual combat, and was quite an impressive force..
That's right, with this number of people, they crushed several units of the human meat cook's subordinates and even defeated several creatures from the other world..
Kevin even captured three giants alone with the help of Salamander..
Power that won't be defeated no matter who you compete against.
Nevertheless, Kevin could not move forward..
They instinctively felt that the three corpse dolls in front of them were much more dangerous than themselves..
Wizard, Druid, Warlock. It was an unusual combination, but beyond that, each one had threatening power..
Kevin organized the situation in his head..
The Human Flesh Chef tried to use the chaos in the city to open the gates of Hell, and Oliver went alone to stop him, while the Puppet surrounded him to block outside intervention..
A truly mind-boggling situation..
“Just one question. The reason they stop us is to open hell?”
Puppet answered..
“No, I don't really care about that because it's hell..”
“I just want to watch..”
“And those who try to interfere will only be killed. What should I do??”
Kevin thought deeply and had a silent conversation with Terence. What is the best choice in this situation?.
Perhaps because we fought on the same battlefield, we were able to immediately share our thoughts with each other even though we did not exchange words..
“If you don't go in, you don't care what we do?”
Maybe it was an unexpected answer, but Yareli was surprised..
Puppet answered calmly..
“As I said before... As long as you don't disturb me, I won't do anything..”
“The basis for trusting?”
“I'm staying still right now.”
The puppet spoke confidently, and his words convinced Kevin..
“Going back... Terence. Send an emergency signal through the communication device and tell everyone to gather at the university. After explaining the situation, evacuate out of the city immediately..”
Kevin said confidently as he went back the way he came..
Yareli, who had been listening silently as commanded, finally opened his mouth..
“Won't you help Zenon??”
“No, now is the time to help. If you let the puppet get involved, it won't help you..”
Yarely, who heard Kevin's words, could not say anything..
I'm just a little excited right now, but I also have a calm personality, so I knew that Kevin's choice was the right one..
The only thing that could help Zeno now was to step back so that his fingers could no longer intervene..
“Well then, we have to do what we can. Let those who can be saved escape from any possible disaster... Is there anything wrong with my opinion??”
Yareli, as well as the wizards at Loculi College, could not say anything..
Because this is the best thing to do under the circumstances..
They also had eyes and experience, so they knew it wouldn't be easy against puppets..
No, it was rather dangerous. I thought there was another corpse doll besides the corpse doll I just saw..
Intervening here and now would only mean pouring oil on a burning house..
“So, it's best to report this to the University of Loculi and get out of this city, taking with you the citizens you rescued and the citizens you can rescue..”
“but······. Mr. Zenon.”
Yareli muttered in pain. She said she got help from Oliver, and it seemed like she owed him a lot..
still a student.
While Terence was comforting Yareli and saying something, Kevin spoke firmly..
“I'm sorry, but it's up to Zenon from here on out. there's nothing we can do.”
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