Genius Warlock-Episode 481
481. scene of consciousness (1)
‘This······. It's unexpected.’
The lowest level of an abandoned mine. Oliver thought as he arrived at the end of the tunnel..
According to the map inside the abandoned mine, this was clearly the end, but there was a strange cave dug here that was not marked on the map..
It's a huge cave that looks like it was dug by hand into a solid rock wall..
The size was quite large at first glance, so there seemed to be no problem moving around at all..
“How on earth······?”
Someone asked a question. It was a natural reaction since a solid rock wall located deep underground was dug on this scale without the knowledge of the Government General..
‘It was sold in a puffy manner..’
Oliver guessed as he examined the dent in the rock wall. Twisted handprint. Most likely, it was sold one by one by a fleshy creature called Pugulpugul..
Considering the power of that creature, it was quite possible..
“Kreacher must have sold it. The one we dealt with earlier... If you look at the handprint here, there is nothing else than that..”
Pinkman Team Leader Ricky carried the magic gun on his shoulder and pointed to a hollow part of the rock wall..
Even though he was not a warlock, he saw this right away with his excellent observation skills. And that wasn't the end..
“The question is not how this cave was dug, but in which direction it was dug..”
The paladin responded.
“direction?”
“yes······. The direction in which this oyster grew. It's south where First Step is..”
In response to Ricky's words pointing to the oyster, the other Pinkman and Paladin each checked the map, compass, and markings on the mine to see if Ricky's words were correct. What Ricky said was true..
“It could be a coincidence, but personally I don't think there are any coincidences in this type of thing. This huge, endless tunnel is heading towards First Step..”
Oliver silently nodded in agreement with Ricky's words..
Of course, there was a good reason why I became a team leader at a young age..
However, I couldn't just admire it. Regardless of Ricky being great, the situation was heading towards the worst..
The Red Man Warlock and Fan were carrying out a ritual, the water was turning red, and there was a huge cave secretly dug in the direction of the city, other than that the ritual was taking place underneath the city..
Either as a ritual sacrifice or to bring down a demon in the middle of the city, or both..
Whatever it was, it ended in a terrible catastrophe..
“Phew... This is a big deal. If it extends all the way to the city, the distance must be considerable..”
Anselm said, clutching the wound. As he said, the distance between this abandoned mine and First Step was quite long..
People here also came here by car right now..
Of course, it wasn't a distance that couldn't be covered by running, but the problem was time and stamina..
Even if they all had bodies like superhumans, it was questionable whether they would be able to arrive on time even if they ran on two feet, and it was also questionable whether they would be able to deal with Pan and the Red Man Warlock in that condition..
Above all, I felt the strong energy of black magic in the deep darkness of the cave, so I was reluctant to go in..
At a time when everyone was hesitating, Oliver slightly raised his hand..
“I wonder what I can do, could you please leave it to me for a moment??”
Everyone's eyes were on Oliver..
“Is there any way??”
“Yeah, I'm not sure..”
It was an unprofessional answer, but Anselm was willing to give it a try..
There were no good options, and more than anything, I saw Oliver's skills..
Oliver was the only one who got permission. Just right. I moved forward with my quarter step on the ground and immediately stuck my hand into the hole..
When he put his hand in, as expected, the darkness in the cave enveloped Oliver's hand, covering it like paint and trying to swallow it up..
A subtle force of attraction. It was the shadow of a fan. It was truly amazing.
Even though he was cut and stabbed six times with a blood-red dagger imbued with disease-weakening black magic, he still has this strength. However, what was even greater than that was the loyalty of the shadow itself..
Although the Creature was unstable and artificial, it had the characteristics of a living creature, and sometimes behaved as it wanted, and even attacked its owner. However, Pan's Shadow was loyal to its owner, Pan, despite its worsening physical condition..
I could feel it indirectly through the darkness.
According to the book, there are only two cases like this..
Was the owner's power so overwhelmingly stronger than that of the creature that he did not dare to fight against it, or was he able to tame the creature well?.
Whatever it was, it was a part that showed the skill of the magician..
Oliver increasingly wanted to see the face of the fan who had done all of this, apart from the demon summoning ritual..
I was curious about everything: who on earth had this kind of skill, how could he successfully perform an unstable demon summoning ritual, and why was he trying to summon a demon?.
Oliver strained his hand to satisfy his curiosity..
“The darkness... Got it?”
One of the pink men who was examining Oliver said in surprise. As he said, Oliver grabbed hold of the formless darkness. Almost like grabbing someone by the collar.
Even in that state, he exerted his will to exercise control over the darkness, using the darkness under the shadow's influence to explore its interior, find the very end of it, and even take the coordinates..
Pan's shadow, which dominated the darkness, desperately tried to block it, but Oliver ignored it with his unique grip and jerked his skinny arm and tore up the space in the darkness..
Boouk······!
The darkness was torn apart and a gap appeared in the air, and through the gap came another darkness with a different texture from the darkness in the cave..
Oliver calmly entered the darkness..
“······Oh, everyone can come in..”
Oliver, who went in alone, belatedly peeked out again and said, and the rest of the group followed him in..
***
“here is······?”
“This is the innermost part of the oyster..”
Oliver, who came through the darkness first, answered by creating a black light source that mixed magic and emotions..
The black light source, paradoxically, illuminated the surroundings by dispelling the darkness with black light..
Even so, it was limited to a radius of about 10 meters..
10Beyond a meter, it was difficult to see as it was covered in darkness like a curtain. Because it used a human soul, even Oliver's eyes had limitations..
“It's black everywhere. where to go.”
The pink men, who had lost their sense of direction due to the thick darkness, spoke. Instead of complaining, some of the dogs took out their compasses to check the direction, but for some reason, all of the compasses stopped working..
Everyone was just spinning around and around like dogs chasing their tails..
And that wasn't the only strange thing.
Something pounded inside Oliver's canteen..
Oliver reflexively opened the canteen out of curiosity, and frogs jumped out of the canteen..
croak. croak. croak.
The people around were startled when a frog jumped out of the canteen, the lid of which was completely separated from the inside and the outside..
Oliver was the only one who looked at the frogs pouring out of the canteen in silence..
‘2The first omen (徵兆). A swarm of frogs is rampant..’
As Oliver was reflecting on what was written in the devil's book, he made eye contact with a frog that had grabbed the mouth of the canteen with its front paws..
Dogs, cats, horses, and even chimeras all started fighting when they encountered Oliver, but the frog tilted his head, placed one front paw on his chest, and lowered his head. As if greeting you.
Shut up!
As soon as he saw this, Oliver became interested and quickly closed the canteen to prevent the frog from escaping..
to research later.
“I guess I'll have to hurry..”
Oliver said to the paladins as he packed his canteen..
The Paladins, perhaps aware of the seriousness of the situation, used holy magic to completely light up the surroundings and as they were about to check the direction, one side of the darkness covering the surroundings opened like a curtain and opened the way..
Although it was subtle, there was a light at the end..
Although they were not sure what the light was, Oliver and the others were instinctively convinced that that was their destination, and moved forward in silence..
“oh my god······.”
When we arrived in front of the light, someone said in astonishment:.
The scene that unfolded before my eyes was so bizarre and profane..
About a hundred people were burning like firewood in a huge bonfire, and around them people who seemed neither alive nor dead were spinning around, beating drums, and dancing..
It was so bizarre and constant that it didn't seem like people were dancing, but it actually was..
Over the heads of the dancers, indefinable, vague beings were grabbing their heads and arms and forcing them to dance..
Pinkman and Paladin couldn't see them, but Oliver could vaguely see them..
Normally, he would have been interested in what that was, but there was something that caught his attention even more, and Oliver's attention was immediately taken away..
That being was none other than a girl in the middle of a ritual..
A red-faced girl with a very thin face and limbs, and an abnormally swollen belly..
“Beautiful?”
A child's voice was heard in a nightmarish landscape..
When I turned my head to one side, following the sound, I could see a boy..
This is a boy wearing an orange warbonnet on top of his head and sitting on a large, ornate throne that does not fit his body..
match. match. match.
“Congratulations on making it this far. To be honest, I thought it would come after a while, but I praise you..”
***
The boy clapped his hands and said.
Like an adult praising a child, like an arrogant child praising an adult..
At a time when everyone was buzzing at the boy's sudden appearance, Pinkman team leader Ricky looked at the throne the boy was sitting on and muttered..
“That... Throne of the Kingdom of Fragen?”
“do you know something?”
“40It is a small kingdom in the center of the continent that was destroyed for about ten years. I only heard rumors that the kingdom was destroyed and the throne disappeared along with it, and that it was floating around on the black market.······.”
“Oh oh······. After all, Pink Man! Because I hate doing it. You know what sucks, right? I'll clap again.”
match. match. match.
The boy clapped his hands in such an arrogant tone that it felt big..
When the boy clapped his hands, the monkey dolls holding cymbals that were hiding in the surrounding darkness came out, squeaking, and started hitting cymbals along with the fan..
Chaeng. Chachaeng. Chaeng. Chaeng······!
Despite its huge size, the cymbals were not particularly annoying to the ears..
“are you a fan?”
Anselm, a paladin who saw the Creature, aimed his sword and asked the boy..
“Yes, old man. I'm a fan. Eternal child fan. Besides that, he is also the finger of the Black Hand, the owner of Neverland, and above all, the prince. If you want to bow, do it..”
“Stop conscious right now.”
Anselm, ignoring the fan's lengthy explanation, got straight to the point. The fan just grumbled..
“This is why I hate old people... I don't listen to people properly and only say what I have to say. Even that is unreasonable. Try thinking with that old brain. If I wanted to stop telling you to stop, I would have done something like this?”
That makes sense. However, what he said next was somewhat difficult to agree with..
“Instead of talking about such nonsense, how about watching the ceremony? As a reward for coming this far, I will allow you to watch the demon being summoned with me. It’s a sight so beautiful that it’s a shame to see it alone.?”
Oliver looked back at the scene of the ritual, including the huge bonfire, the dancing, and the skinny girl..
It was an interesting sight, but I didn't think it was beautiful..
Well, value is relative..
‘Did they use red people as sacrifices??’
Oliver thought calmly. If he was going to summon a demon, he should have anticipated this risk..
Still, it was questionable. Summoning a demon is not something that can be successful just by meeting the conditions..
“Liam!”
Anselm suddenly called his colleague's name. At those words, the red-haired paladin pulled out his ax and ran towards the direction where the ritual was being performed..
Trying to physically stop it by destroying the consciousness itself with that axe. It wasn't a bad idea, but the fans didn't react at all. Because there was no need to do it.
Shhhhh······!!
When he tried to destroy the ritual itself with an ax imbued with sacred law, the air distorted, and black smoke came out, making the sound of wind, and stopped the ax..
The paladin resisted by activating holy magic, but the smoke leaking out of the air ignored it and lightly knocked him away. Just like chasing away annoying flies.
Seeing that sight, everyone felt that their consciousness could not be stopped by force..
The Holy Knights immediately took their steps to hit the fan, and then, behind the fan, the monkeys began to squeak and beat the cymbals noisily..
Chaeng······!!
The huge cymbals resonated with each other's sounds, and at the loud sound, Paladin and Pinkman all stopped and covered both ears..
Chaeng······!!!
When the second cymbal sounded, some people lost their sense of balance. I stumbled and fell.
Chaeng············!!!!
In the third, bones, flesh, and blood vessels rang, and just as the fourth and final cymbal was about to sound, Oliver manipulated the shadows to create a huge mouth and screamed..
To the sound of the monkey's cymbals.
············!!
Invisible sound waves shook the air, canceling out the sound of the cymbals..
Oliver did not miss the timing and manipulated the shadow to swallow the monkey doll behind the fan with a huge shadow mouth..
“swimming······. Why didn't you target me right away? As a problem solver, I really need to be careful not to kill children.?”
“No, not really. At that time, it was a reflex... It wouldn't have worked anyway..”
“Oh, yes?”
When Pan tilted his head and answered, Oliver's shadow mouth was torn open and a huge gorilla came out of it..
A gorilla with an angry face, monkey hair hanging around its neck, and eight arms..
It was a monkey holding a cymbal combined into one..
“why? I thought they could deal with me with just an improvised creature.?”
“no.”
Oliver answered, completely oblivious to the fan's provocation..
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