Genius Warlock-Episode 670
670. darkest moment (4)
“You worked hard, leave..”
a familiar voice.
Puppet, Merlin, cant in that voice. Everyone turned their heads.
At the end of their line of sight stood a man..
A man wearing a thick and large cloak like a traveler.
He stood naturally as if he had been there from the beginning..
“This is a face everyone knows... Sssssha.”
He stepped on the remains of the broken building, climbed up to where Puppet, Merlin, and Cant were and bowed..
“Nice to meet you all. An excellent craftsman who creates all kinds of miraculous items. My name is Ewan Bremner, a genius negotiator who traded beans for cows, a great debt collector, and a great wanderer who has traveled across the sea to desert lands, the East where dragons fly, a crazy world where rats shoot guns, and the sky where giants live..”
Lee Wan greeted everyone with exaggerated gestures and speech like an actor in a play..
The appearance was not pleasant, even somewhat playful, but it included Cant. Puppet and Merlin said nothing..
As if I had encountered an unexpected ambush..
While they were silent, Lee Wan lifted his hips and returned to his normal speaking tone..
“Nice to see you all again.”
“······I'm not that happy.”
The puppet reacted to Lee Wan’s words..
Lee Wan agreed..
“To be honest, I'm not happy either. Because I owe it to everyone here..”
Lee Wan smiled and said jokingly.
By the way, that was not a joke, it was true..
A very distant past. Lee Wan once borrowed money from his fingers, Puppet and Archive. Relatively recently he even borrowed money from Cant..
In return, save me from the druid's attack. Even though he said he would just give me money, he refused..
But what surprised those present was not simply the money lent..
Relaxation was in existence itself..
Whether he knew this or not, Lee Wan began to make a characteristic joke..
“Why is this atmosphere like this? Ah, everyone seems quite surprised that I showed up here. Well, admit it. Honestly, I’m also amazed at how I ended up here! I won't necessarily say who it is, though. I almost died because of the world's worst joke teller. I met the disciples I sold away a long time ago.!!”
Jeez. Jeopuk.
“It's not a joke, I really thought I was going to die. The guys who were forced to work for over 20 years because of me, who were my teachers and idiots, are going on a rampage by dismembering them alive and making them into black magic item materials... Crazy guys! But what's even more absurd is that the guy who said he would protect me saved the girl and the kids, and then he just left. As if I forgot! But do you know what's even more surprising??”
Jeez. Jeopuk.
“You really forgot about me!! The day I helped with good intentions!!! I still can't forget it. When I came out of the dirty water of the Shem River on the Wendy, the look in his eyes... Ah, the look in your eyes that I forgot!! I was so hurt by those eyes that I ended up missing the right time to get off the boat! Thanks to that, I went back into the river with a gurgling sound and even drank the dirty water.!”
Jeez. Jeopuk.
“Thanks to you, I can finally set foot in this city. Do you know what the moral of my story is??”
Iwan, who was telling all kinds of stories, suddenly stopped right next to Merlin and asked..
Because he was talking so frantically, it was only after hearing the question that I realized that he was standing next to Merlin, or more accurately, in front of Cant..
“what is the lesson?”
Puppet asked back the question asked to Merlin..
“The moral of this story is that timing is everything. If you hesitate, there will come a moment you can't turn back..”
Lee Wan answered the puppet’s question. However, his eyes were looking at Merlin..
His eyes and voice were so serious that it was completely different from before..
so much.
Merlin closed his eyes for a moment, perhaps realizing something from those words, and then turned to look at Cant..
Cant looked at Merlin and said something with his eyes..
That's how the silent, unspoken conversation began..
After a while, the two finished their conversation. Merlin put back the magic that shook the surrounding air and activated the space movement magic..
I left this place without a sound.
***
Landa where zombies' screams, gunshots, explosions, and people's screams echo..
Three people remained there..
Puppet attacked Landa, Cant was attacked, and Iwan suddenly broke in..
They were silent, looking at each other as if they couldn't understand..
Of course, the silence was soon broken..
It was the puppet who broke the silence..
“First of all, I'd like to say thank you, but I guess that's not right.?”
I thought about the puppet once even though I knew it clearly..
“It's hard to do with bare mouth. First, should I cancel the debt I owe and then talk about it??”
Lee Wan spoke as if he could cooperate if the conditions were right..
Not a bad story for a puppet. However, the puppet just snorted at her..
“You're talking about something that doesn't work. A being free from the shackles of the world would put money on the table as a negotiation condition..”
“Kiya... I'm not fooling you. Did you notice it??”
“I just can't understand... How could someone who ran away from the apocalypse alone in his own world want to get involved in this world? The end is not the problem of this world or you, the wanderer..”
“I really don't understand.”
Lee Wan opened his mouth, imitating the puppet's movements..
“Why on earth do you make such a fuss and try to be human??”
“······.”
“iced coffee. I'm not being sarcastic, I'm asking sincerely. I don’t understand why an infinite being free from the constraints of aging and lifespan would want to become a limited, finite being..”
“······.”
“Now that I've said it, I'm asking. Is it really your own will that makes you want to become human? Or is it because of my grandfather? If it's the latter, it could be said that it lives up to the name puppet..”
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa━━━!!!
Kyahahahahahahahaha━━━━━━!!!
Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu━━━━!!!!!
As soon as Lee Wan finished speaking, the expression of the corpse doll controlled by the puppet hardened, and at the same time, a roar that shook the entire W area rang out..
The zombie army that was attacking Landa's major facilities and defense facilities had gathered here in Area W under the control of Puppet..
“Look. cant enema.”
A puppet whose mood has changed. He called Cant, the director of the Poor Brothers' Welfare Center..
This alone makes it clear that Puppet's real goal is cant..
They attacked Landa, the world's largest city, just because of an old man..
An unrealistic situation that you cannot believe even when you see it with your own eyes. In the meantime, Cant desperately tried to maintain his senses and respond calmly..
“What is?”
“Please cooperate with me for a moment. Then there will be no more bloodshed..”
“I'm asking you to cooperate and make this happen now.?!”
Cant pointed to the employees who lost their lives in the puppet attack. I tried to maintain my senses, but for a moment I got excited by the tragedy unfolding before my eyes..
Puppet took aim at this point..
“exactly. If we don't cooperate, there will be more corpses. First, we will annihilate the humans living in this area..”
It wasn't a bluff. In the first place, he was not the one who invaded Landa for that reason alone..
At that terrible sound, Cant's complexion turned even whiter than when he was attacked, but Iwan intervened..
“Don't listen to me. Are you so obsessed with my words that you just say whatever you want? Seeing you acting so nervous, I guess you're very angry..”
Provoking Lee Wan. Puppet ignored him and pressed Cant..
“Again, I don't mind if you refuse. I just have to do as I say.”
With those words, an army of zombies pushing through the road in the distance came into view..
The zombie army, a mixture of corpse golems and corpse dolls, was surprisingly armed with the latest weapons..
Even though there were simultaneous surprise attacks, it was strange that Landa's defense force failed to respond properly, but at that level, it was understandable how Landa's defense force, which was well-funded, could not respond properly..
A sight that breaks your fighting spirit just by looking at it..
But Lee Wan’s attitude remained the same..
“I have a lot of questions today. How can you talk like you already won??”
“Ask the opposite. How will a fugitive from the bonds of the world stop me??”
“With the power of hundreds of years of misfortune?”
Lee Wan took out a large wad of old paper from inside the thick cloak he wore..
It was an IOU that Lee Wan had collected over tens and hundreds of years, and he tore it up in one go..
Wow-!
As the sound of the ID card being torn is heard, an unknown shock wave emanates from Iwan's body. I pushed out the corpse doll-archive that surrounded me..
Then, a large amount of emotion, magic, and natural power that could be seen with the naked eye began to flow from Iwan's body..
Strange phenomenon that cannot be understood through common sense.
Taking advantage of everyone's attention on the strange phenomenon, Iwan took out a huge wooden staff from inside his cloak and struck the ground..
A sound that spreads clearly.
In response to the sound, the natural power in Iwan's body amplified and spread through the wooden stick to the ground, encompassing the entire W area..
Dedddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd-!
As the power of nature spread, the ground seemed to shake, and a huge bean tree rose up from the ground, collapsing the building..
“What the hell is that······.”
“Don't worry, I've already sown the beans..”
Iwan said to Cant, who was shocked to see a beanstalk growing as if it would pierce the sky, as if to reassure him..
As Cant looked at him in surprise, Iwan shrugged his shoulders..
“When it comes to gambling and bitching, I do it at the same time.?”
A truly absurd attitude.
But Cant had no answer..
Because the huge beanstalk pierced the air and created a hole.
Surprisingly, a large and colorful sailing ship appeared through the hole, sparkling as if fairy dust had been sprinkled on it..
Dang! Dang! Deng!
The identity of the sailing ship is none other than Captain Hook's Wendy..
The Wendy sailed over Area W and attempted to fire large-scale artillery fire at the zombie army below..
Sweet. Sweet. Like that... Slap! Like that... Slap! Churrrrrr-tang!
Gun doors opened all over the ship's bottom, and countless cannons and machine guns came out..
Countless war weapons spewed out fire all at once, and oak barrel bombs fell continuously..
Quagwagwagwagwagwagwanggwang━━!!!
The zombie army that filled the road was instantly swept away by its overwhelming firepower..
But that wasn't the end.
Warlocks and heavily armed militia poured out through the hole opened by the beanstalk and began to clear the area that Captain Hook had swept away..
“empty city······?”
“Did I tell you? A great debtor.”
Lee Wan responded, gesturing with his hand. Then a new beanstalk grew and again created a hole in the air..
Through the hole, this time, strong physically capable people wearing bandages poured out and swept away the zombie army that had caused even the Landa Defense Force to struggle..
It was the anti-development committee that owns Zone Y and Zone Z..
“I also borrowed money from those guys..”
Lee Wan, who instantly turned the tide, joked calmly..
Puppet looked at Iwan in surprise..
I was surprised at his strength, but I was also surprised that a human being like Lee Wan could act like this..
“Oh, and it sucks..”
“······what?”
“The reason why I, a nomad who cannot settle down anywhere, got involved... The more I look at it, the more it sucks. A situation where an ordeal that neither God, angels, nor adults could handle was passed on to the child. Do you know why I'm telling you this??”
“I just wanted you to back off from that kind of talk.?”
“no way······. I was just trying to kill time.”
wedge━━━!!
At that moment, something beyond sound flashed and passed by, striking the puppet..
The pre-summoned corpse doll-Archive responded and took no damage, but the puppet's attention was suddenly focused on something that intruded..
An unusual energy even at first glance.
At the end of the puppet's line of sight, there stood a man with bandages all over his body and a coat that looked like rags on top of him..
It was Bartholomew, a senior member of the anti-development committee..
He oozed black energy through the bandages and aimed a quarter staff made of cast flesh at the puppet..
“Stop. piece of wood.”
words full of contempt.
At those words, the puppet let out a raucous laugh. For a very long time.
“This is so funny. How am I so funny that a fugitive who escaped alone from the apocalypse and a fugitive who is trying to escape from his own sins block my path...?”
Puppet frowned. At the same time, the corpse doll-archives radiated enormous magical power. The momentum was not inferior to Merlin's..
Lee Wan shrugged his shoulders without being frightened by the force..
“That is the blessing given to humans. Even if you make a mistake or commit a sin, you can correct it if you reflect on it.······.”
“That's why I hate humans.”
the puppet said.
With that, the pages of the book containing the corpse doll-archive turned over, Iwan tore up a large number of IOUs again, and Bartholomew's body expanded and broke the bandage..
A battlefield where flying sailing ships, corpse dolls, and zombie armies fight together..
One of them collapsed.
A huge pillar of five-colored light mixed with various energies rose above the collapsed building, and the sinner contaminated by the apocalypse revealed his true form..
same time.
An old man and a boy met face to face in an inland area across the sea..
[······.]
“······It happens like this.”
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