Genius Warlock-Episode 474
474. awkward companionship (3)
“dave······.”
“hello. Sir.”
Oliver greeted calmly. As if he ran into him by chance while walking down the street. It was actually similar.
However, Joanna was very agitated..
Confusion, guilt, regret, embarrassment, etc., like when I met Oliver in the closed slave camp. A variety of emotions shined through. In particular, embarrassment and guilt.
I didn't know why these emotions were shining, but it didn't seem like they were simply being consumed by the fan's shadow..
Joanna's emotions were too complex and deep to be a one-dimensional reaction caused by external factors..
Oliver asked, looking at Joanna's unusual appearance, both inside and out..
“Are you okay? Sir.”
“ah······. yes, it's okay.”
After hearing the question, Joanna finally came to her senses and answered..
However, contrary to the answer, it didn't look that good in Oliver's eyes..
Not only was my emotional state complicated, but my body didn't look good either..
I wondered if I was hurt somewhere, but I wasn't. Although there was blood on his body, it was not his own blood. It was probably buried during a battle with a red man warlock..
Oliver reflexively focused his attention on the warlock's eyes, and soon noticed that his excessive emotions were taking a toll on his body..
Life force that fluctuates under the influence of emotions. As a result, the pale face, cold sweat on the forehead, and unstable breathing are evidence of this..
It looked like she needed to rest for a bit, but Joanna looked around to see if she had any intention of not doing so and immediately got up..
“Okay, let's go find the others..”
Oliver obeyed obediently..
Looking at it objectively, it seemed like a good idea to take a break, but I knew I wouldn't be able to rest even if I was alone with myself..
Joanna was most uncomfortable being alone with herself right now. That was why he was trying to find someone else..
He was in the same state as when he refused to talk to me in the closed slave camp..
As soon as Oliver agreed, Joanna took out a map of the inside of the abandoned mine, checked the current location by comparing it to the numbers engraved on the walls and pillars, and focused her holy power on her eyes. I looked at the people around me with my golden eyes shining..
Oliver also looked around with the eyes of a warlock, and fortunately, although he was a bit far away, he could see a few people there..
It was somewhat bland considering that even the soul was used to forcibly transfer it..
After checking her current location and surroundings, Joanna instinctively walked towards it, and Oliver followed her..
As in the closed slave camp, Joanna walked without saying a word, and Oliver also said nothing this time..
Because he knows how uncomfortable Joanna is talking to him..
Thanks to this, only Joanna and Oliver's footsteps regularly echoed in the abandoned mine..
Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. Jeez. slump.
‘slump?’
Oliver stopped at the foreign sound, and in the meantime, Joanna moved further forward. Like a person being chased by something.
As the distance between Joanna and Oliver widened by a few steps, sticky darkness crept in between Oliver and Joanna and immediately separated them..
Like a living life.
Oliver drew on the magical power stored in his body and created a light source to illuminate the surroundings, but a heterogeneous darkness surrounded the surroundings, narrowing the range of vision to the minimum..
In response, Oliver injects emotion into the light source. Created black light to defeat the surrounding darkness..
“What is this······.”
Oliver muttered as the darkness cleared and he looked around..
Parts of the mine passage, made up of dirt, rock walls, wooden planks and pillars, had turned into a smooth fleshy surface in a mixture of red and pink..
The surface of the flesh was covered in slippery mucus, and the floor was also lightly covered with a similar fleshy surface..
Oliver realized at that moment. The long passageway of the abandoned mine is turning into an intestine due to black magic. It is a tube-shaped digestive organ connected to the stomach..
“Ahhhhh!!”
“Kyaha! Hahahahahaha━!”
“Ah━! Ughhhhh!!”
While Oliver was looking around, he heard the howl of an animal far ahead from Joanna..
Looking through the eyes of a warlock, I could see Joanna surrounded by creatures..
Oliver ran through the mine passage that turned into intestines, using a light source that mixed emotions and magic as a beacon..
Kurung! Rumbling!!
While he was running at maximum speed with his black suit wrapped around his legs, the passage that had suddenly turned into a bowel began to oscillate up and down and shook violently. Oliver, who paused for a moment to regain his balance, looked around with the eyes of a warlock..
Surprisingly, Joanna and Oliver were suddenly divided up and down instead of front and back, and the passage where Oliver was was completely transformed into intestines and began to tighten on all sides..
As if it would crush and absorb whatever was inside..
I tried to escape, but before I knew it, I was completely blocked, either forward or backward, and was no different from a poisoned rat. But Oliver didn't panic and just extracted his emotions. He struck the shiny wall with black magic.
[Hate Bullet)]
A bullet of hatred struck the wall with a chant..
However, the huge intestine created by the fan was only scratched and did not suffer any major damage..
Thanks to the skill of the magician and the ingredients used.
Of course, it wasn't impossible to break through if you used your magic and emotions sparingly, but it was obvious that if you did that, you would use up all the materials..
Quite an awkward situation. However, Oliver did not panic and immediately pulled out the blood-red dagger from his waist and stabbed the floor that had turned into intestines..
deeply.
The intestines, which easily withstood black magic, were pierced by the dagger with strange ease, and tens of thousands of diseases were slowly administered around the wound..
When the narrowing intestinal passage reached the size of a single room (1 pyeong or so), the bottom where the dagger was embedded began to bubble up and create numerous tumors, causing extreme pain in the intestines..
“━━━━━━━!!!”
The huge intestine convulsed with a silent scream, and Oliver thrust the dagger deeper and slightly twisted the handle to make it hurt more. clockwise.
As a result, the intestines felt even more intense pain, produced yellow pus, and the narrow passage expanded to its original size, like a child holding a hand to a fire..
Nevertheless, Oliver plunged the dagger deeper, and soon the floor began to crumble, corroded by tens of thousands of diseases..
Without missing the timing, Oliver wrapped the quarter staff with black magic and threw it towards the floor, causing the intestines, weakened by the disease, to collapse..
Push!
Oliver goes down with rotten flesh, pus, and tumor lumps.,
At that moment, Oliver could see. Joanna surrounded by pale monsters.
She was surrounded by numerous creatures and was unable to resist, only defending herself. It's not like I've run out of strength..
Oliver remotely controls the quarter staff. A black javelin was brought down into the middle of a group of creatures..
bang━━!!
When a quarter staff wearing a black suit fell from above, several creatures within the range were shattered, and creatures outside the range were also knocked down and pushed away by the indirect impact..
But that wasn't the end.
Oliver uses targeting and lands on the quarter staff. In that state, he controlled the black suit and unraveled the black suits that were woven like cloth one by one, spreading them widely and tightly around the ground along the ground..
In that state, Oliver is given magical power. Activated his magic.
[main lightning)]
As soon as the spell was activated, the black suit spread along the floor reassembled into a lightning rod shape and exploded mixed with magical power. An ear-piercing sound rang out, and a pillar of black lightning surged upward, piercing through all the surrounding creatures..
At first glance, the extensive attack seemed like it would threaten even Joanna, but Joanna, surrounded by creatures, did not suffer any damage..
It was a technique that focused on delicate control and precision striking rather than power, so it was natural..
The Creeds who were attacked couldn't even scream and were pierced by lightning and fell to the ground and were destroyed, and Oliver approached Joanna. That was right then..
“Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa━━!!”
The creatures that were disappearing united together through the hatred and resentment that made them up to avoid extinction, and stretched out their thin yet long arms and grabbed Oliver by the neck..
At that moment, Oliver was able to see in detail. Joanna and the creature that attacked her.
Surprisingly, Creature was modeled after a red man..
Although all of its hair was bald, it was pale due to not being able to see sunlight for a long time, its back was curved in a deformed way, and its skinny body looked more like a mythical monster, a Ghoul, than a human, this creature was modeled after a red man. Considering its detailed appearance and the characteristics of creation-type black magic, there was a high probability that it was a real-life red person..
For example, slaves who were forced into a mine and had to mine magic stones until they died..
Oliver seemed to understand only then. Why did Joanna only defend and not attack? Probably because of the guilt she feels..
While Oliver was concentrating on understanding the situation, Hongin-Creature spewed out terrible hatred and resentment towards Oliver and grabbed Oliver's neck with his free hand and lifted him up..
Then he stretched his arms and screamed. A shriek that tears apart as if cursing the world..
“Ahhhhh!! Wow!━”
━Kwasik!!
When Oliver stayed still without any resistance, Joanna, who had been passively defending herself, stood up and struck the Red Creature in the face with her mace..
Due to the sudden shock, the Red Man-Creature lost sight of Oliver and flew backwards, and Joanna caught up with her spurs on the ground and finished off the Creature..
A creature whose head is completely smashed by a mace and disappears..
Joanna shouted at Oliver with guilt instead of the satisfaction of defeating her enemy..
“Why on earth did you stay still?! ······It was dangerous.!!”
“sorry.”
Oliver apologized. To Joanna, who wielded her weapon despite her guilt to save herself..
Joanna looked at Oliver in silence and then felt extremely burdened by heightened emotions and fatigue and nauseated herself..
“Wow! Wow······!”
Oliver took out a canteen hanging from his belt, took a sip, tasted it, and held it out to her..
“······.”
“It's a magic canteen using space magic, so there's plenty of water..”
Joanna, who was worried, eventually took the canteen and drank it..
While Joanna was drinking water, Oliver took out four calorie bars from his bag and offered one to Joanna..
“are you okay.”
“Wouldn't it be better to eat it? It tastes like chocolate with a lot of sugar..”
“It's really okay-”
“-Director Ameline and the orphanage children would like you to eat it..”
Joanna was startled and glared at Oliver with wide eyes..
Anyway, Oliver held out the calorie bar to Joanna again. Chocolate flavored calorie bar with a lot of sugar.
Joanna glared at Oliver for a while and eventually reluctantly took the calorie bar and ate it, and Oliver also walked away from Joanna and ate the calorie bar in silence..
Munch. Munch. Munching······.
Fortunately, the passage of the abandoned mine that had been turned into an intestine was quiet, perhaps because of the pain they had experienced earlier, and Oliver and Joanna were able to eat the entire calorie bar in one sitting without any disturbance..
One for Joanna, three for Oliver..
Oliver asked after eating the last calorie bar. Guess Joanna's reaction.
“Do you know what happened to the red people here??”
Joanna, who had become a little calm after eating a high-sugar calorie bar, responded..
“yes······.”
“That's right too.”
Oliver said as if he expected it..
***
Pandora connected to the World Tree and told her about the Red Man Warlocks just before leaving..
Why do they become warlocks and terrorize the city?.
It was quite a long story, but to sum it up in one word, it was said to be the legitimate rights of those who were taken away and invaded. At least that's what Pandora says.
“Pandora said that to the red people, we are nothing more than invaders who arbitrarily took the land of our ancestors... He also told us what the red people had done to us..”
Oliver described calmly. How did the first explorers who came to this land kill the red people who served them food, what exploitation they did afterwards to obtain gold and resources, what torture they did for that exploitation, how many massacres they committed, and how many tribes there were as a result. It's gone, is it disappearing?.
“So Pandora said that she personally supports the Red Man Warlocks. Because they are the victims and we are the perpetrators. ······How did you find out about the driver??”
“······From the books written in the religious order and from the red people of the slums..”
“ah······.”
Oliver exclaimed. I thought it was really ironic. Joanna, who had faced injustice and evil in Landa, was faced with something like that again here..
“Don't get me wrong. But that doesn't mean I'm defending their terrorist acts... I'm just wondering if it's right to invade the slums, torture everyone, and kill the warlocks here instead of arresting them..”
Oliver nodded silently. He had seen how the red people were searched and interrogated in the slums where they lived..
Once suspicious, anyone was arrested and interrogated..
“Then, why on this mission and not on an escort mission?······.”
Oliver stopped speaking reflexively. As he spoke, he seemed to know the reason..
Joanna is a paladin. Since it was ordered from above, it should have been followed..
I could tell as soon as I made eye contact with Joanna, that just as Oliver read Joanna's thoughts, Joanna also read Oliver's thoughts..
She shone with shame and guilt. Like in the past cathedral.
“I'm embarrassed. It's still like this... I, I really, really-”
Joanna stammered with a sad smile. Oliver said without realizing it. Her words that have been stored in her heart for a long time.
“-The world is complex, and the Paterism is a very old and large organization, so sometimes we have to compromise with the world..”
“······.”
“This is what Knight Elton said. The person who was Joanna’s partner. He met Joanna after he was transferred to another place after claiming gratitude for Wizard Landa.,”
“······Did you know?”
“Engineer Elton told me this. He seemed like a nice person.”
Joanna nodded slightly. Well, he is the one who trusted Joanna and tolerated her meeting with the warlock..
“He told me many good stories. For example, regarding the reality that cannot be moved by simple definitions alone. If you do that, you'll end up moving away from the incident and not even have a chance to resolve it..”
“······It's just an excuse.”
“hmm······. No, that's not an excuse. 'Cause I couldn't say anything.”
It was like that. When Elton said the above, Oliver was speechless. It's not that he didn't have anything to say, he just didn't have anything to retort..
Now that I think about it, it was a bit of an embarrassing memory..
“At the cathedral, I said whatever I wanted. It's presumptuous... Please forgive me. Sometimes I get presumptuous.”
“no······. No matter what excuse I made, I couldn't do what was written in the scriptures at that time. Even though he is a paladin.”
Oliver was silent. He honestly agreed with Joanna. It seemed a bit odd to Oliver that a paladin would follow or not follow the contents of the scriptures depending on the situation..
But at the same time, I understood her. Because I met the people at Arc Orphanage. If those people were family, I might have hesitated..
Suddenly, Oliver became curious. What would it have been like if he had grown up in an orphanage like that?.
‘Well, that's a stupid idea..’
Oliver lamented his foolishness for less than a second. I am the one who brought that what if situation together in the first place..
“Still, I think Joanna is better than me. At least you're trying to fix it later, aren't you suffering and worrying even at this very moment?.”
“······.”
“I can't do that yet..”
It was like that. Although Oliver had heard the tragedy of the red men as deeply and vividly as Joanna, and even more vividly than Joanna, he did not feel the same way at the moment..
Ah, something like that happened..
It wasn't particularly surprising or shocking. She said this wasn't new to her anymore..
Even after hearing the anecdote about Nora and her brother Nico, Oliver did not feel the slightest sympathy, guilt, or sadness. I only felt sadness at the fact that I couldn't feel anything about that fact..
“Not being able to feel anything... It's sad?”
“Selfishly... Isn't it true? I killed someone else's family, and even then, I only thought and felt about myself. Actually, this is why I came to see you, Joanna. I was thinking of consulting and getting advice..”
“······Why me?”
“They say that if you go back to the beginning, you will find the answer. Didn't Joanna let you know that I had a problem??”
Joanna, who heard those words, looked more shocked than when she was in the slave camp..
“Dave... No, Oliver.······.”
Joanna cannot speak easily. Then, Oliver raised his hand and interrupted her..
“But then I realized. Even now, I haven't changed at all from when I was Nora. I'm only interested in my own problems, and I don't care at all what kind of situation Joanna is in or what kind of agony and pain she's in because of me..”
Joanna shook her head in denial, but Oliver was convinced..
Even after coming to the New World, he was selfish. Not caring about Joanna's situation. He only cared about his own problems..
“Even at this moment, I just want to get advice from Joanna on this issue. Even though it's not the time at all.”
Oliver said, illuminating the passage that turned into intestines with the black light source he created..
Joanna, who had been mentally concentrated, finally noticed the changes around her..
“What the hell is this······.”
“It seems to be a fan's work. Creation type black magic.”
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