Genius Warlock-Episode 513
513. contradiction (1)
Oliver disappeared in an instant with a magic circle forming under his feet..
Everyone who saw it said nothing..
Not only Yareli, Derek, and her sister from the Tower of Magic, but even the traditional Skadi school wizards who are on the same side as Lilith..
No one could accept what was happening in front of their eyes. As if it were a dream.
“Wow!!!”
A scream woke everyone up from their dream..
The one who screamed was none other than Viktor, and Derek stabbed his hand with a dagger..
Normally, it would not have been easy due to the huge difference in size, but Victor, whose entire body was frozen with cold after being attacked by Oliver, had no choice but to suffer the attack without being able to resist..
Derek asked, waving the dagger he had stabbed in..
“Hey, big guy. What happened? Where did you take me??”
Viktor continued to scream at the voice mixed with emotions and the blade mixed with emotions..
“Wow!! This son of a bitch······!”
“I guess I still don't understand the situation?”
As Derek continued to sharpen the blade, he even added heat. The smell of burning meat spread through the air, and Victor's screams grew louder..
His companions tried to move, but before they could take a step, their legs froze without any sign..
Yareli used the power of the magic eye, and she glared at them with her cold eyes. It was so cold and harsh that the magicians of the Skadi school who manipulated ice were unable to resist even once and were completely discouraged..
Yareli completely captured the mood. However, without feeling any emotion from such facts, she approached Victor and asked. very calm and cold.
“where did they take him?”
Victor was silent, neither screaming nor swearing. Because he felt a greater fear than Derek's threat, his instincts warned him that it was really dangerous..
Viktor, who didn't even know what was going on, was silent, and for a moment the colder-than-ice silence settled down before Yareli tried to move on to the next step. At that time, I heard a voice from behind.
“Hey, you have to hold your breath to hear the answer..”
Derek and Yareli reflexively turned their heads. Behind them were the wizards of the Magic Tower..
Also, wizards belonging to the mainstream line of each school.
***
“hmm······.”
Oliver groaned and looked around..
A huge, but collapsed, dirty, and abandoned-looking underpass. No matter how I looked, it was a contaminated area in Zone F..
Obviously, a small town outside of Landa. We were fighting against the Skadi School, but suddenly we found ourselves in a contaminated area... To be precise, it was a place where a contaminated area was realized with magic. I wondered what kind of harmony this was..
“Is this by any chance Lilith’s work??”
Oliver asked, looking at the woman sitting on one side of the contaminated area..
To an unrealistically beautiful woman with radiantly white skin, hair that sparkles like real gold, and a body as slender as if sculpted... Well, the interior made more sense than the exterior..
Blonde woman. Lilith answered..
“Yeah, that's cool.?”
Oliver nodded..
“cool······. Although it is a project that Magic Tower was researching..”
“Oh my, you know.?”
Lilith sneered disguised as politeness. Combined with her beautiful appearance, her provocation had even greater power, but since her opponent was Oliver, it did not work at all..
I just continued the conversation.
“I heard it. What is a stolen project? Long-distance deployment of magic using the World Tree, energy conversion of the magic power contained in the World Tree, magic that embodies the memories of the World Tree into reality, re-embodiment of the body of a living creature using body parts, etc. It's all an interesting topic, I remember it..”
“You must have a stomach ache. We snatched up the project we were researching and completed it..”
Oliver shook his head..
“I'm surprised, but my stomach doesn't hurt..”
“is it so?”
“yes. It's truly surprising that the technique was completed, but it must have already been something Puppet was researching. My stomach doesn't hurt. It doesn't matter who it is, it's okay if it's completed..”
Oliver suddenly brought up the word puppet..
Reasoning that goes well beyond several levels of conversation and exploration. However, Oliver was sure.
Because Lilith's body was none other than the work of a puppet..
“is not it?”
Oliver asked, looking at Lilith, and she answered.
“that's right······. How did you know??”
“I've already seen Puppet's corpse doll three times. Since each and every stitch of a corpse doll is made by human hands, if you look closely, you can tell who made it. So I thought it was Puppet..”
Oliver, who didn't have a single wrinkle on his face, said something that could only be said if he had spent his entire life making corpse dolls..
A very arrogant statement. However, the release did not follow suit..
Because Oliver was worthy of saying that. No, even the word qualification was funny..
Arrogance, qualifications... Such a concept could not be added to a being who can decide anything in the world..
It's just that you don't realize it... Or maybe you didn't realize it.
“Why are you doing that??”
Oliver asked Lilith, who was lost in thought. she said again.
“No, it's funny... The corpse doll is made by human hands. Because it's a funny thing to say.”
Oliver tilted his head. He boasted that he developed a sense of humor by consistently investing an hour a day, but he didn't understand what was funny about it..
Could it be that we've reached the point where we're joking without even realizing it? Or, am I still lacking in understanding??
At a time when Oliver was worried, Lilith asked a question..
“But how did you know? Puppet has already done research similar to the Magic Tower project once..”
“Just.”
Oliver gave an insincere answer without a moment of hesitation. But, I meant it..
“Since he has been conducting research for hundreds of years, I think he must have done research like this. Hasn’t he lived longer than most organizations or countries??”
“It is said that a warlock who has lived for hundreds of years studies the knowledge of wizards.?”
“yes. People in the Mage Tower may dislike it, but personally, in my opinion, wizards and warlocks are similar, with only slight differences. Is there a point where we can converge if we work hard to a certain extent? More than anything······.”
Oliver looked around when he looked away from Lilith..
This is a 'virtual world' or 'world of magic' that is perfectly realized using the memories of the World Tree and the magic power contained in the World Tree. No, is it the ‘world of the world tree’??
“······Although it was being researched at the Magic Tower, it was literally in the research stage. It doesn't make sense to complete this all at once just because you stole the project. so-”
“-Puppet has probably already done similar research! ······ Is this what you mean??”
As Oliver looked around, Lilith suddenly appeared in front of him..
Like Merlin, who freely uses space magic, and like a demon that transcends cognition, move freely without restrictions..
It was a surprising sight, but Oliver soon figured out the principle..
This space is none other than the space implemented by Lilith. In other words, it could be said to be in the palm of her hand. In this place, it was not strange for Lilith to freely jump through space..
Her understanding of space magic was deep enough to implement and maintain this ridiculously large and delicate technique..
Oliver gathered his thoughts and nodded..
“That's right. By any chance, am I wrong??”
The blonde woman stared into Oliver's eyes in a way that seemed burdensome. She looked for a while and then the woman answered..
“No, that's right. Puppet has already begun its own research on the World Tree. He went so far as to go to great lengths to kill the druid elder. He almost died, but he succeeded... You know a lot about puppets.?”
“I've met him about three times. We also ate ice cream together..”
“aha! is it so?”
“yes······. what's the problem?”
Oliver asked, seeing Lilith's blatant reaction and wild emotional changes..
She expressed mixed feelings about Oliver. Feelings of disappointment, anger, doubt, anticipation, a little affection, denial of that affection, etc..
It was so intense that even Oliver's eyes hurt a little..
At the same time, Pandora and Eve came to mind..
Pandora, who was stabilized through learning with the help of Heimdall, and Eve, who was captured by the druids and was unable to establish her identity..
Because Lilith felt like a mixture of the two..
I learned a lot, but I am unstable... It could indeed be said to be a contradictory state..
Lilith answered..
“There is no problem. It's not illegal to meet a puppet and eat ice cream together... No, is it illegal? But, that's human law. There's no problem at all. However, it's strange. I thought you hated things like puppets..”
“Why do you think that??”
Lilith clapped her hands in response to Oliver's question..
It responded to the delicate magical energy gathered in the hand to the sound of the pair, and the entire space changed in real time..
The scenery changed quickly, as if moving through time or space..
From the basement of the contaminated area, it turned into the ground, a forest, a city, a village, a wasteland, and then into some kind of basement again. An underground laboratory..
“Mmmmmmm······!!”
There were a lot of pregnant women in an underground laboratory..
They were all tied up on a surgical bed. After a while, a man wearing a gown approached..
An extremely tall man in his 40s with pale skin, a hooked nose, prominent cheekbones, and a skull-like appearance, he took a pregnant woman somewhere..
Grumble. Grumble. The eerie sound of wheels rang out..
“Off...! Shut up!!”
A pregnant woman screaming with her eyes so wide that they seem to pop out. She arrived at an operating room, and her shadow was reflected through the window..
The man's shadow fixed the surgical bed, and as soon as he finished fixing it, he held up a scalpel. That scalpel-
“-What is this?”
Oliver turned his head and looked at Lilith..
“One of hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of experiments that Puppet has done over hundreds of years. He sampled the fetus on a daily basis..”
“Why are you showing me this??”
“It's strange and contradictory.?”
Lilith, who looked noble, started walking with exaggerated gestures..
He tilted his head, shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands wide, and shook his hips from side to side..
Playful and innocent, like a child. However, a great deal of dissatisfaction and anger was building up inside him. Anger and dissatisfaction with Oliver.
Full of unknown things. Oliver continued the conversation to find out..
“What is strange and contradictory??”
“The person who went into Mattel alone to save a little boy whose face he has only seen a few times has some favor towards the puppets that have been subjected to human experiments for a very long time. Isn’t it strange and contradictory??”
“······.”
Oliver was silent. Well, Lilith could have seen it that way..
“well. If you're talking about Rossburn, that's just personal... Puppet is also to me-”
“-This is also strange. ”
Lilith raised her index finger. Her golden hair changed to dazzling shades of blue, plum, purple, red, and pink..
“After trying to convince the road gang babbler several times, he just crushed the head of the hotel bum to death with a huge sledgehammer. bang!”
Lilith struck down her left hand with her clenched right hand..
“Eli looked at my face... Mr. Hogg personally said that I-”
“-Well, it could be natural. People are very light and changeable beings that change from moment to moment depending on distance and location. But, you······.”
Lilith frowned and looked at Oliver again. Her body movements were light and pleasing to the eye, almost like dancing, but strangely enough, Oliver felt an inexplicable discomfort..
“······Because you are only interested in your own interests. I don't care what is, what happens, or what happens. But even here, a contradiction arises..”
“excuse me-”
“-Why is it that someone who abandoned a stable organization and went out on the streets alone out of curiosity is so passive about himself??”
“I don't know what it means to be passive.······.”
“A being outside the world, mixing emotions and magic, manipulating the forces of nature without training, respecting and respecting even demons, fearing even spirits, and making the owners of a land once destroyed by a catastrophe bow down to him as a great person. ·····. Why don't you try to find out more about yourself? Even at a superficial level. In the old days, he would have thrown it all away and tried to find out..”
Anger, sadness, joy. Oliver's face, which was almost like a mask and did not show any emotions, fluctuated ever so slightly. It's so subtle that most people can't see it..
However, Lilith saw through the emotions reflected behind the mask and smiled. A cheerful yet soggy smile that seems to have succeeded in getting revenge..
“who are you?”
Lilith continued to smile and asked.
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