Genius Warlock-Episode 614
614. Contaminated area (7)
government ordinance.
As a being outside the world, it is known to exist between the human world and the outside world..
Like all beings in the world, they were creatures born from the hand of God, and they managed all of nature, including forests, rivers, seas, land, and weather, on God's behalf, and were therefore powerful beings..
More than most people, let alone most wizards, know..
That must have been the reason why Sheamus' subordinates tried to summon him as a special move in the past..
‘Even though it just went away.’
Anyway, what Oliver wanted to say here was that spirits are powerful beings..
More than most wizards combined. Because they were beings that could be said to be the embodiment of nature..
A representative example is that numerous wizards and druids courted spirits to borrow their power..
Most people thought that summoning a spirit was calling them a spirit, but in reality, it was closer to asking for a favor in exchange for an innate ability to communicate with nature or magical power..
So, I could raise a question here.
Are spirits invincible??
The answer was no..
It was true that spirits were powerful beings from outside the world and shouldered the enormous task of managing nature, but they were not invincible..
Oliver, who rarely saw spirits in person, was unable to confirm them with his own eyes, but was able to learn something about them through books..
Spirits could also suffer damage if they appeared in the human world..
Immune to normal attacks and strong resistance to magic and black magic, but I definitely took damage..
So, it was not impossible for Salas to attack the spirit and injure it..
The impossible area was for him to absorb the power of the spirit that caused the injury..
Absorbing the power of spirits, entities outside the world, into the human body. This really didn't make sense..
“Why are you surprised?! Isn’t this already expected to some extent??”
said Salas, who forcibly caught the spirit in the air and absorbed its power into his body..
Just in case, Salas, with the help of Puppet, transplanted some of the spirit power into his body and modified it to be able to absorb it..
‘After all, it was based on my thesis..’
I thought of the thesis [Reconstruction and Transplantation of Body and Organs Combining Blood Magic and Life Magic] that Oliver had written to become an official member of the Magic Tower..
Looking at the form in which the spirit was implanted into Salas' body, it was almost certain. Although Puppet seems to have changed it a bit in his own way..
Amazing understanding and application skills. However, what was more surprising was Salas' willingness to deviate from the path he had walked his entire life and preserve his efforts and achievements even while modifying his body..
Although the specific process is unknown, Salas also seemed to know about the apocalypse and held the puppet's hand to prepare for it..
‘What did Puppet want from the apocalypse that led him to join hands with the wizard??’
Naturally, Oliver had his doubts, but not for long..
Because I didn't want to know that much..
What matters to Oliver now is his work..
Oliver caught the spirit and looked up at Salas, who was falling here along with a huge pile of dirt..
Even though he used black magic [Wail] that mimicked the bizarre stone statue summoned by the Swan Prince to temporarily nullify the space magic, Salas did not give up and tried to attack Oliver..
Rather than hatred, anger, or malice, positive emotions such as a desire to win and a desire to explore shine..
Salas tried to cast the spell, and Oliver once again made the corpses scream..
match!
━━━━━━━!!
The corpses clapped their hands together and let out a bizarre roar that could not be heard as a scream or a prayer..
As the terrible sound echoed, all spells in the space were nullified, but Salas resisted the roar using the power of the spirit he had forcibly absorbed..
He used the power of beings outside the world to resist Oliver's black magic. In other words, the power of the spirit could be clearly used..
As if to show this, Salas absorbs the power of the spirit and at the same time processes a part of the falling dirt into the shape of an arm and connects it to his body..
Using the arm as a medium, he made many piles of soil that fell together into a huge cube shape and turned the soil into a lump of iron..
Turning dirt into a lump of iron. Behavior outside the realm of normal magic.
By using the power of the spirit, many huge pieces of metal fell on Oliver's head..
A lump of metal with overwhelming mass and physical power.
In response, Oliver used the corpse under his control as a transformer and activated a spell throughout the huge underground..
[Black magic: Parasite)]
[Druid's Sorcery: Rapid Growth]
[Druid's Sorcery: Grafting]
In accordance with Oliver's chanting, the magic spread through the corpses, and the giant trees that filled the underground forcibly absorbed the remaining spirit power and grew even more gigantic..
Ujijik! Ujijijik!!
The trees grew to a size that was visible to the eye and tangled with each other, forming one huge tree and filling the entire underground area..
Tentacle-like tree branches and green leaves came between Salas and Oliver, blocking each other's view, and Oliver did not miss the timing and created an artificial soul. I threw it around the quarter staff..
This action was chosen because spirits are resistant to most types of magic and black magic..
As if his prediction was correct, Oliver's quarter staff flew through the branches and leaves and passed right between the spirit and Salas, freeing the spirit from Salas's grasp..
Salas, who was not able to completely absorb the spirit, was disappointed, but did not have any regrets, and used the momentum to infuse the iron mass with magic, causing it to fall down.,
Oliver had to defend it using giant trees that had come together..
After a while, the piece of metal collided with the giant tree, creating a large shock wave..
The ground shook as if a meteor had fallen, and the aftermath reached all the way to the ground..
The giant tree that Oliver worked so hard to create was completely shattered by a huge cube-shaped piece of metal. The only result was that Oliver was missed..
As a huge impact struck and thick dust filled the surroundings with silence, Salas appeared through the dust and fell with an arm wrapped in metal, striking Oliver by surprise..
Along with the wet sound of meat being crushed, a lump of metal filled with magic crushed Oliver..
Oliver's flesh was scattered everywhere. At that time, Oliver's flesh turned black. Not the real Oliver, but Oliver's shadow. The shadow, which returned to its original form, turned into dozens of tentacles and tied Salas up..
“I didn't know you could prepare for this.”
Salas said as he looked at Oliver, who was suddenly standing far away, chained to the shadows..
A fishing anglerfish used by Pan, activated by Oliver as soon as the giant tree grows..
“Personally, I am disappointed with the results of abandoning the original path, artificially remodeling the body, and even absorbing the spirits. Is it pathetic??”
“No, because I don't think I'm qualified to evaluate anyone. but······. I think it would have been better to go the way I originally took..”
Oliver spoke his honest feelings.
I don't know how I came to know about the apocalypse, but I haven't really arrived yet, so it was a shame that I abandoned the path I was taking and artificially remodeled my body..
It would have been better if we met in a slightly different form..
“Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do. In the first place, I didn't spend my life honing my magic to look good to anyone. I did it for me.”
“······.”
“Well, I don't think it's a very good choice. Still, isn’t this a humane choice??”
“What do you mean?”
“This means that strong desires and lack lead us to make decisions even when we know they are not right. It's like drinking sea water when you're thirsty..”
Kwasik!!
The quarter staff thrown by Oliver from the sky fell and pierced Salas, who was tied up in the shadows..
There was a dull sound of breaking pottery, and fragments of a pottery clone imitating Salas' appearance were scattered everywhere..
Salas was not the body from the beginning..
Oliver probably knew it too, so he wasn't surprised and naturally turned his head to look at Salas on the cube-shaped piece of metal..
Salas was standing there.
Even the final blow was to send a self-immolation in preparation for an unexpected situation. It was truly a wizard-like decision..
“Why are you suddenly saying that to me??”
“Let's just say this is advice for a student I know. I think you are in a similar situation..”
“······.”
“I don't understand, but it seems like you too are obsessed with one goal. It's good to have a goal, but it's not good to be too obsessed with it. Then, you end up getting lost. It's kind of ironic.”
“······I'm not sure what you mean.”
“It seems like the host and guest have been converted. you······. You care about killing refugees, but didn't you even blink when I mentioned that the world would be destroyed? something is strange.”
Oliver was silent..
Salas shrugged, perhaps getting an answer from that silence..
“Of course, I could be wrong. Anyway, it was nice to meet you..”
Salas finished speaking, snapped his fingers, and disappeared through the purple portal..
Even after seeing that, Oliver didn't do anything to stop him. Even Oliver didn't know why. Probably, it was because it was enough to send them out of the contaminated area..
Oliver looked around, which had turned into a huge pit..
There was still a lot of dust, and here and there there were huge cube-shaped chunks of metal and traces of broken trees..
Oliver moved the part of the broken tree that still retained its shape and brought it in front of him..
At the end of a long brown tree branch, bud-shaped leaves were wrapped around something, which was none other than a spirit..
A spirit with a green head, a gray body, and brown limbs..
The spirit was in a very weakened state as its power had been absorbed by Salas. This was evident in the fact that he had no strength to run away even after seeing Oliver..
“hello?”
Oliver greeted the spirit that did not run away upon seeing him for the first time and activated Ptah's Assistant..
And after a while. He manipulated the earth and rose above the ground..
As if to show how intense the battle was, the twisted basement left traces even outside the ground..
While Oliver was looking at the traces, he was able to spot Marie, Joe, and the people from the refugee camp who had come here..
Among them were the corpse dolls - Bathory and Sheamus..
While Oliver was away, another force was stationed in case there was an attack, but it seemed like there was an attack as expected..
“sorry. Dave. I continued to feel large vibrations. Are you okay??”
Marie asked cautiously, and others, including Joe, responded similarly..
Oliver gave it a proper look as it happened while dealing with external forces underground, but in the process, he made eye contact with refugee children and young people in the contaminated area who were staring at him..
They stared at the huge pit that had suddenly appeared and at Oliver, who had helped create it..
Oliver sensed something in their gaze and asked.
“Do you want to learn?”
***
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
A distinctive sound like the flapping wings of an insect rang out and a purple portal opened in the air..
An old man jumped out through the portal..
Salas Rigas, the former original master of the traditional Gaia school and the current head of Pinkman, must have had a hard time fighting Dave, and when he came out of the portal, he lost his balance for a moment and fell down..
It's been a long time since a battle this intense.
However, what was more shocking than that was the fact that if Dave had decided to kill himself, he would have died..
After absorbing the spirit, I became more aware of it..
“I guess you had a hard time.”
An old man spoke to Salas, who was taking a breather. An old gentleman with white hair, a white shirt, and glasses, he was none other than the secretary to the royal family of the United Kingdom..
“puppet.”
When Salas spoke while looking at the royal secretary, the secretary turned her head this way..
“Why is this busy man here??”
Secretary to the royal family. No, the puppet shrugged her shoulders..
“I said more useless things than I thought.”
Salas, who understood what he meant, smiled involuntarily. He meant that he heard the entire conversation between Dave and himself..
It wasn't strange. For a puppet that had influence all over the world, it seemed more natural..
“I did say a lot. But is there a problem??”
“at all.”
That's how Puppet responded to Salas' behavior, which could easily cause problems with the plan. Sincerely, not falsely.
“To be honest, it doesn't matter because Landa won't be able to reveal what Pinkman cut in the contaminated area. It would not be possible to reveal that the wizards of the Magic Tower used traces of the Great Disaster to study and deal with demons, and that Landa City also turned a blind eye. More than anything······.”
The puppet's speech was briefly blurred for effect..
“······Dave. He doesn't intend to reveal this publicly..”
Salas agreed silently. Dave, Randa's problem solver. He seemed gentle at first glance, but at least he was acting completely selfishly for his own purposes..
Desire is not something you can cover up..
“Well, more noisy things will happen in the future, so no one will care about what happened in places like contaminated areas. I don't plan on blaming you.”
“Then why did you come??”
“curious. Why are you saying useless things while holding my hand? I'm curious as to why. It's contradictory?”
Puppet asked in a voice that was neither accusatory nor mocking. What I could hear in his voice was pure curiosity. Like researchers observing experimental animals.
Salas answered.
“That's just how people are.”
“······.”
“Even if you go the right path, you can fall into the wrong path, and even if you go the wrong path, you want to go the right path. Or even if you make a fool of yourself, you hope that others won't do the same..”
“Are you saying that what you are doing is stupid??”
“If transplanting a spirit into a human body isn't stupid, what would be stupid? It's no different from trying to make a dog stronger than a lion..”
Salas declared that what he was doing was foolish and contrary to reason..
“Then why did you hold my hand??”
“Because people do things even if they know they are stupid. You must also have expertise in that area.?”
For a moment, a sharp energy like a scalpel flowed from the puppet's body..
Touching a sensitive part of the puppet. However, the puppet that lived for hundreds of years soon lost its energy..
“But, there is someone similar to you..”
Salas could not overcome his curiosity and opened his mouth. he asked, guessing that if it was a puppet he would know.
“What is Merlin's disciple??”
Salas, who had absorbed the spirit's power, asked, recalling the time he saw Oliver, and Puppet answered..
“A being similar to me. A pitiful being who wants to become a human being.”
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