Genius Warlock-Episode 584
584. Wendy (3)
“It's just as you thought. It was about 30 years ago that the Year of Forgetting was called the Year of Forgetting. And that's when Neverland was created..”
The interesting story made Oliver take his eyes off the chart and look at Hook..
Neverland, the fan base, was founded 30 years ago. Maybe it was quite useful information..
But more importantly, Hook knows this well..
Before Oliver could ask about this, Hook spoke first..
“For your information, I was there when a fan created Neverland 30 years ago. Using countless children and islands as materials, the fan created his own little world... Wendy Ho imitated it..”
Oliver understood immediately what I meant..
The Wendy is a creature recreated by combining a huge sailing ship, countless emotions, vitality, magic, and the memories, affection, and will of the magician Hook..
What that means is that Neverland is fundamentally the same as Wendy Ho..
“However, the difference is that the scale is the difference between heaven and earth..”
Hook pointed to the exact center of a sea chart made 30 or 40 years ago..
There was one large island surrounded by several islands..
The island was marked as a colonial city of the United Kingdom, but the city's name was erased..
“This island must be Neverland.”
Hook shined with speculation and confidence.
“It's definitely bigger than a boat... But how can you be sure? Don’t you know roughly the location of Neverland??”
“I searched all the other islands. According to the method of elimination, this is the only place left.”
Hook was confident and tapped the center of the Sun of Forgetting again with his hook..
Oliver exclaimed..
“oh······. That's amazing. I searched this large place one by one..”
“Anyone can do it if you have enough time.”
It wasn't humility, it was sincerity, but Oliver shook his head..
“Still, you're amazing. Not only is it not as easy as it sounds to search for such a long time, but isn't the Year of Forgetting a dangerous place??”
“I have a different case.”
“yes?”
“It's true that the Year of Forgetting is dangerous, but it's not that dangerous to me..”
“What do you mean by that??”
“hmm······. What can I say? It's a thought that occurred to me recently, and I feel like my fans don't have the intention to kill me as much as I do..”
“Why do you think that??”
“Because I'm not dead, I'm alive.”
Hook said firmly..
“It took me almost 10 years to escape Neverland and become self-sufficient. And I spent the next 20 years looking for Neverland. But I'm still alive.”
“Isn’t it thanks to Captain Hook’s skills??”
“I admit that Wendy Ho is strong. She is confident in any number of warships, even 10 or 20 ships at once, and is no different from a military wizard..”
Hook paused for a moment and shook his head..
“However, even so, it is not invincible. The scale of creatures in the Year of Oblivion is enough to overwhelm me. But I've never done that before.”
“Not once?”
“There were a few dangerous enemies, but they never went beyond that. It's been like this for nearly 20 years. It doesn't make sense unless you're looking at me..”
Hook's guess turned into certainty, and then confidence gave way to doubt..
“20I can't believe you've been following me for years... Dave, does anyone know? This is why my fans won't kill me?”
Oliver didn't answer right away, but looked at Hook's emotions..
His serious, heartbreaking emotions shined through..
“hmm······. well. I have a personal guess, but I'm not sure..”
“I'll make the decision, so please tell me. please.”
Very polite attitude. It seemed to be that important to Hook..
Oliver opened his mouth out of respect for Hook, who helped him..
“I think it's some kind of condition..”
“It's a condition?”
“Yes, I don't know the details, but there is a way to double the power of black magic by giving it some rules. For example, fishing anglerfish..”
“I know what it is. It's a fan technique that deceives the target and creates more powerful black magic than the original..”
Hook, who knows his fans, understood right away..
“So, Dave, what you're saying is that I am one of those conditions.?”
“Yes, I think it is exactly a necessary condition to maintain Neverland. At least in my opinion... Mr. Hook said that Neverland is a dream island for children. Is that correct??”
“you're right. It is an island of dreams and adventure where chocolate gold coins are buried everywhere, fairies live, mermaids sing, unicorns play, and you can play war with red men every day... At least on the outside.”
“I think that simply having a lot of ingredients is not enough to maintain an island that size. So, they maintained the island by imposing some kind of condition. For example, since it is a children's island, the condition is that adults, as opposed to children, keep visiting..”
An extremely ambiguous explanation. But Oliver was rather confident..
Black magic is like a painting, and depending on how it is designed, it can produce unexpected effects..
One example is a black magic item that performs unexpectedly..
Moreover, no matter how big of a creature it was, a device was needed to maintain such massive and delicate black magic for a long period of time..
No, it was even more necessary since it was a creature..
If nothing is done, the huge creature will try to escape the magician's control..
After hearing Oliver's explanation, Hook thought about it carefully and nodded..
“It's quite possible..”
“Not sure.”
“No, I thought it through before I said it..”
Sincerity.
“When I think about it, the fact that I was able to escape from Neverland makes no sense. It's strange that Bell helped Neverland in its unstable early stages..”
At the word “bell,” the fairy peeked out from Hook’s arms..
“I thought it was because of Belle and Miracle that I was able to escape from Neverland, but maybe the fan let me go on purpose. To maintain Neverland..”
Hook had accepted Oliver's guess as a given..
And Oliver also thought this had a lot of potential..
The situation at the time when there were difficulties in creating Neverland, Hook's escape using that timing, and the situation where Hook was left alone even though he continued to search for Neverland, etc. Other than that, it was difficult to explain..
However, there was something difficult for Oliver to understand..
How were fans so sure that Hook would continue his search for Neverland?.
Isn't that so??
Of the thirty years Hook left Neverland, ten were spent acquiring his own ship, and the remaining twenty were spent exploring and traveling to and from the Year of Oblivion..
Even in Oliver's opinion, this was a huge deal..
The average person was likely to give up after getting tired of it in the first ten years..
Because that's normal.
But Hook was still looking for Neverland..
He can become a warlock or a pirate and live the life he dreams of if he wants..
Oliver wondered why. That too very much.
“Captain Hook... This may be a bit sensitive, but can I ask you a question??”
“······Tell me.”
“Can you guess why you keep coming back to Neverland? I don't think it's simply due to personal desires..”
Oliver recalled the emotions he felt during his negotiations with Hook. Altruistic desires expressed by others.
Hook was silent after hearing the question..
“ah······. I'm sorry if I was insensitive. I also have a desire to gather information. If you have trouble speaking-”
“-I was asked to.”
Hook interrupted Oliver..
“Please?”
“Yes, I was asked to do so by Wendy..”
Wendy from Neverland, Wendy from Hook, Wendy from there again.
Oliver couldn't help himself and asked.
“What on earth is this Wendy??”
Hook also tried to open his mouth, as if he had no intention of hiding it anymore..
That was right then..
“Captain! Entering the Year of Oblivion!”
Hook's crew, assigned to the Wendy, reported eloquently. Together with him, the winds and currents that blew freely shook the Wendy..
Characteristics of the Year of Forgetting. Hook immediately grabbed the keys and ended the conversation..
“Let's put this story aside for a moment..”
“Yes, that's good. I have to prepare anyway..”
As Oliver said that, he took out his glutton bag and took out the corpse dolls - Bathory and Durance - and put Child - First and Second in them respectively..
Bathory and Durance come to life as Child enters..
Oliver said to Child who went inside.
“Please escort the ship..”
“good.”
“iced coffee······.”
The children each warmed up and responded..
***
“From here, man-eaters and human-faced birds attack simultaneously.!”
A few hours into the year of oblivion.
Hook shouted as he passed between islands where the wind and currents blew wildly..
Just as he said, on a small island where shabby houses were built, a man-eating demon wearing a strange mask suddenly appeared and fired javelins and arrows at the island.,
On the opposite island, a human-faced bird with the body of a bird, the face of a woman, and the wings of an insect flew high into the sky and aimed at the Wendy from above..
Wow!!!
Attacks from the flanks and from the sky.
Although it was a fairly threatening position, Oliver extracted the emotions he had prepared in advance and created a huge curtain covering the Wendy, blocking all incoming projectiles and human faces..
Cracking!
Stop.
Arrows and javelins bouncing off the black curtain. The stampede that stops.
Right at that moment, Oliver called..
“first, second.”
At Oliver's call, the black curtain disappeared, and the corpse dolls - Bathory and Durance - moved..
The one who moved first was First, who entered Bathory..
First wrapped bat wings made of red blood on his back and flew up into the sky at once..
[Blood sword)]
When Bathory swung his wings, a large amount of blood turned into bats and cut down most of the dozens of human birds in the sky..
It's similar to slashing a piece of meat in one go with a large, sharp butcher knife..
The First didn't stop there, but used the blood to create a huge scythe and cut down the remaining human birds in one fell swoop and sent them plummeting to the bottom of the sea..
“Kyahahahahahahaha!!”
Subsequently, the second that entered the corpse doll-Durance also moved..
The Second used Durance's specialty, body manipulation, to change one arm into a combination of a sniper rifle and a machine gun, and fired a large amount of lead bullets..
It seemed like Second was referencing the gun books he bought and read with his salary, and as if to prove the saying that reading is power, the corpse doll-Durance showed firepower that was significantly different from before..
Bubbling bubbling-!
The lead bullets pierced through the bodies of the man-eaters and exploded.,
Most of the bullets hit the man-eater.,
The projectiles fired by hundreds of man-eaters were overwhelmed..
Power, hit rate, fire rate. In every way, the corpse doll-Durance crushed the swarm of man-eaters. There-
“Whoa! Whoa! Uga!”
“Woogachacha! Uga tea!!”
“Oh my gosh! Ugagak!!”
Using his comrades as shields, he attempted to escape, quickly aiming the sword-off shotgun hidden inside his body at the man-eaters who had narrowed the distance, and shooting them away..
Pfft━! Wow━!
Just two corpse dolls defeated hundreds of creatures.
Meanwhile, Hook and his crew went about their business..
Hook's crew kept the Wendy's speed at maximum by moving the sails and rowing the boat while keeping an eye out for other creatures that might not be present.,
Hook stabilized the Wendy, which was swaying in the current and wind, and dealt with the fish people approaching head on..
“I'll bake it deliciously.”
Hook pressed the button on the key..
Clap.
When Hook pressed the button, a hole opened at the bottom of the front of the Wendy, and intense, dense fire spewed out through it, roasting the approaching fish-men..
A huge wave of flames suddenly appeared ahead..
The Wendy crossed the waves of flame like the Red Sea and escaped between the island where the man-eaters and the human-faced birds were..
“This is how we escaped the trap island. Thanks to you, I can go faster..”
Hook said as he looked at Bathory, who came down from the sky and landed, and Durance and Oliver, who had fended off hundreds of man-eaters..
That's right, Trap Island is a shortcut, but it was a route not taken on purpose due to the rough terrain, fierce currents, and numerous creatures..
However, thanks to Oliver, First, and Second, I was able to get through..
It's a huge time saver..
“Now, if you keep going like this, you will reach the center of the Year of Forgetting..”
“hmm······. Can I ask you a question??”
“Tell me.”
“Captain Hook, you said you discovered the island where Neverland is located using the method of elimination, but you didn't see it in person.?”
“yes.”
“Was my visit very timely??”
Oliver raised a very reasonable question..
Hook said that he has searched the Year of Oblivion for the past 20 years and visited it all in person..
Except for the island in the center of the Year of Forgetting, which is presumed to be Neverland..
There is only one candidate left. Oliver was curious as to why he didn't visit sooner. I wish I could have visited before Oliver came..
Hook pointed forward..
“That's because I can't get over there..”
Oliver followed Hook's finger and looked forward..
There was a thick fog there. To be precise, it is a mist that is a mixture of deep resentment, obsession, resentment, and jealousy, like a ghost..
“······It's not normal fog..”
Oliver said, looking at the emotions of hundreds, thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people..
The overwhelming scale was enough to make even the crew of the creature Wendy and Child flinch..
“It is the fog that surrounds the center of the Year of Forgetting, and it is a barrier that prevents access to Neverland. Even though I found the island that was supposed to be Neverland, I couldn't go there because I couldn't get over there. Even if you go in a straight line, you'll be outside before you know it..”
“Is it like a space spell??”
“No, the thick fog paralyzes all vision and sense of direction and sends you outside..”
Oliver opened the warlock's eyes and looked at the fog ahead..
There was definitely no space magic..
There is only the injustice, resentment, and obsession with life of the people who died stranded here in the Year of Oblivion..
With that level of emotion, it seemed like the human eye or the eyes of a warlock would be of no use..
‘Still, it might take a little effort?’
Oliver thought about it and asked Hook..
“But if you've come this far, you probably know how to get by.?”
“In theory.”
Hook took out a compass..
At first glance, it looked like an ordinary compass, but when I opened the lid, I immediately saw that it was not a compass..
The compass had tiny eyes like seashells, and had fingers instead of needles..
“Compass of the heart. As you can see, it's a black magic item. It's the only ladder that can get over the fog.”
“Does that give me directions to Neverland??”
“To be exact, it is an item that tells you the direction of what you want..”
“ah······. But why couldn't you get over the fog??”
As Oliver asked, the Wendy entered the fog..
Some powerful emotions caused the surrounding fog to clump together and form a ghostly shape..
Gooooooooo.
hook said.
“Because I can't use this compass properly..”
As if to prove that point, the middle finger of the compass suddenly started spinning in place..
Because of the thick fog, I couldn't see more than a few steps ahead, but I could see the compass clearly..
Swish!
Hook suddenly threw the compass to Oliver..
Oliver grabbed the compass..
“That's why I guided Dave. Think of your friend. If you have pure sincerity without any distracting thoughts, the compass will respond..”
Oliver thought of Jane while holding the compass as Hook told him to do..
After a while, the finger, which had been spinning in place as if it had lost its direction, stopped and pointed to the left..
“I'm serious. differently from me.”
After checking the compass, Hook calmly admired the key and moved the key. Wendy Ho squeaked and turned her direction..
“Are you saying Hook didn't mean it??”
Oliver asked, seeing Hook's emotions. Hook was also serious about finding Neverland..
“It seems so. Well, the reason I visited Neverland was simply because of Wendy’s request..”
“who is wendy?”
The conversation returns to the beginning again. Hook answered..
“This is the girl who first sang me a lullaby..”
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