Genius Warlock-Episode 671
671. darkest moment (5)
The moment Oliver stood up and the Pied Piper collapsed, people moved..
The strong and the weak kneel equally.
The rich and the poor bow equally..
The wise and the foolish worship alike..
The living and the dead were equally silent..
Is it because of that??
As if the sound had died, the world fell into a crazy silence..
It was a natural result.
Not only people but even a leaf, a grain of sand, and a handful of wind were silent..
Because Oliver wouldn't allow it..
However, an old man appeared with a flash of light, breaking the absolute silence..
“······It happens like this.”
The old man was none other than Merlin, covered in dust..
It may be an illusion, but when he appeared, the world that seemed to have stopped started moving again, and the sounds that had died came back one by one..
The sound of the wind blowing through the forest, the sound of blades of grass brushing against each other, the sound of tree branches rubbing against each other, and the sound of sand rubbing against each other..
People who recognized this fact gasped and moaned like people who had fallen into the water..
As if confirming that they are alive..
Merlin opened his mouth..
“Thank you. Paladin Lady... Thanks to your courage, the clock stopped for a moment..”
Joanna had no answer to those unknown words. That goes for most other people too. Cardinal Roderick and Kevin were the only ones who understood what was being said..
Among them, the one who showed the most heterogeneous reaction was none other than Oliver..
Oliver, whose hair had turned white and his child's face revealed under the leather mask, was silent and could only tilt his head..
The appearance was similar to that of a child who met a strange ant..
Very little interest, the time postponed because of it..
Unfortunately, Oliver, who was tilting his head as if the time had run out, stretched out his hand towards Joanna's younger brother again..
Thump.
And Merlin grabbed Oliver's wrist..
Oliver's wrist. with bare hands.
“······.”
People were shocked at that sight just as quietly and calmly as when Oliver woke up..
Something that couldn't happen... Like I saw a miracle.
Oliver was equally surprised, as his eyes, as black as the abyss, looked at Merlin..
Oliver's attention shifted to Merlin..
Merlin looked at Oliver and smiled sadly..
“Suddenly I remember that day.”
Oliver tilted his head further to one side and looked at Merlin..
I don't know what they were thinking, but the only thing is, they weren't looking at the same person..
“When Mattel helped you.”
Taking advantage of Oliver's attention being focused on Merlin, Kevin dragged out the frozen Joanna and her younger brother and placed them next to Yarely and the other children who could not evacuate to ensure their safety..
Merlin continued to say to Oliver:.
“Do you remember? At that time, I said I would test your worth..”
Oliver didn't answer..
Instead, he lightly shook off Merlin's hand that was holding his wrist and swung again to hit Merlin..
Merlin shatters like glass.
The moment the broken fragments of Merlin scattered in the air and were about to disappear like dust, the broken fragments of Merlin came together again, as if time had flown backwards..
At the same time, a brilliant pure white light shines in front of Oliver. The light hit Oliver..
Incredibly, Oliver was pushed back by that light..
“······?!!”
[······.]
People are shocked and Oliver is silent.
Oliver looked up and looked at Merlin..
The pure white light that flashed earlier was still surrounding Merlin, and an old book was floating open in the air next to him..
There was a line of faded letters written on the opened page of the book..
[Chapter 0. archive]
Oliver looking at the letters closely.
Merlin smiled at Oliver..
“You did your best back then... This time I'll try my best.”
At those words, Oliver smiled innocently yet eerily like a child..
Oliver smiled and rushed towards Merlin, and Merlin did not dodge..
the two collided.
***
When Oliver and Merlin collide, an intense flash of light explodes and engulfs everything around them..
One tree, one blade of grass, one grain of sand, one handful of air, even one person..
People who encountered the flash of light were able to instinctively feel it in that brief moment..
The moment they are swallowed up by the flash of light, their existence will disappear. Also, there is nothing they can do.
Just as he was about to face his certain extinction, Merlin's magic spread through the gap that split the moment into tens of thousands of parts, enveloping all the people around him and transporting them far away..
To a forest far away from the spot where Oliver and Merlin collided..
As evidence, a large amount of magic light flashed in a corner of the forest and thousands of people appeared..
A realm of miracles impossible with existing magic..
But people were neither surprised nor amazed by the miracle..
Because I faced something worse than that.
“Ahhh······. AA AA AA······!”
As soon as a king in the center of the continent who had moved through space magic left his seat, he collapsed and let out a sound that could be either a scream or a wail..
A desperate sound as if the soul is escaping..
As if to say that the sound was not for nothing, the king's hair turned white, the weight disappeared in an instant, and wrinkles became deep..
An indescribable fear had affected his body, and he needed immediate help..
However, no one around him extended a helping hand to the king..
Because everyone else was too busy being scared..
“Huh...! Heo Eok······!”
“Ugh······.”
Even though everyone mentally recognized that they were out of danger, the aftermath seemed to not go away, and they were out of breath, drooling, shaking, and breaking out in a cold sweat like a waterfall..
It may seem strange at first glance, but if you think about it, it was a natural reaction..
I couldn't even show this fear when Oliver was around..
Paradoxically, now that I was evacuated with Merlin's help, I had to let out the fear I had been suppressing..
“Professor Kevin.”
Not everyone was like that.
Cardinal Roderick, who refused to kneel before Oliver, approached Kevin, who was sitting on the floor trying to catch his breath..
Originally, a paladin should have been standing next to Roderick, but now there was no one by his side..
All of the paladins were half-conscious and could not move at all..
It was not incomprehensible that I had broken my oath not to kneel to anyone except my Father in Heaven..
Seeing the Holy Knight like that, Kevin took a deep breath, exhaled, and forced himself to stand up..
He didn't show it, but his legs were shaking slightly, as if he had suffered a lot of damage. The voice was the same as usual.
“Please speak, Your Majesty.).”
“Professor, tell me everything you know..”
Roderick skipped the introduction and got straight to the point. However, it was not coercive..
The chief priest made a request rather than an interrogation..
“Please, please... As a Cardinal Priest of the Church of Pater, I have a duty to understand the current situation..”
People who were screaming, shaking, and sweating endlessly looked at Roderick and Kevin talking one by one..
They all knew it subconsciously. The conversation these two are having right now is the most important conversation in the world..
Beyond one individual, one organization, and one country, the very existence of a human being can be affected..
Kevin answered while looking at their gazes..
“I do not know.”
A short, concise answer that may seem irresponsible given the circumstances. However, Roderick was neither angry nor excited..
He continued the conversation..
“Aren't you a disciple of the archive?.”
“Just because you're a disciple doesn't mean you know everything. majesty. Hasn’t Paterism also had a close relationship with the archives for a long time??”
“It is true that it has been a long time, but it is not a close relationship... Archives don't share the most important information. On the other hand, you seem to have a clue about something.?”
An affirmation in the form of a question. But Kevin just continued to maintain the same attitude..
“I don't know anything for sure. just guessing.”
“We need that guess right now-”
━━━━Quagwagwagwagwagwagwagwanggwang!!!!!
While Roderick was speaking, he heard a terrible roar from afar, as if the sky was collapsing..
Everyone turned their attention to that sound, and people soon realized that it was not a metaphor but a fact..
The point where Oliver and Merlin collided. The sky was shaken by an unknown force and soon split, and blue sea water poured out through the gap and began to fill the sky, defying gravity..
The creation of the sea on the land.
Surprisingly, the sea that was created in this way did not pour down a single drop, as if it were influenced by a different gravitational force, but simply filled the vast sky..
A realm of power that cannot be achieved even with magic..
A whirlpool arose in the heavenly sea, the Heavenly Sea, created by that power, and a huge creature as big as a small continent jumped out of it..
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!
It was Leviathan, a giant aquamarine-colored crocodile that could crush the air, shatter the sea, and destroy the earth just by moving..
The monster, with huge scales like tombstones all over its body, let out a roar that shook the ground and opened its huge maw toward the ground..
It looks like a mythical monster coming down through the sky and swallowing the world..
At that time, the earth shook once again and another monster rose up from the ground..
Fiery red eyes, a huge maw that looks like it could swallow everything, skin densely covered with dark red scales, huge wings that seem to cover the sky, and a body that looks bigger than a mountain and sleeker than the wind..
It was Oliver's dragon..
A dragon whose head was cut off while fighting the Pied Piper.
For some reason, the dragon woke up again with its neck attached..
Bigger, fiercer, and more powerful than ever before..
The dragon raised its head toward the sky filled with sea water, opened its flame-filled maw, and charged..
In this way, the aquamarine monster and the dark red monster collided between the sea and the earth..
When the two monsters collided, the air was distorted by the powerful physical force, creating a huge ripple that spread around..
In the aftermath, the sky split apart, causing a huge tsunami, and the earth split and twisted, creating valleys and mountains..
In addition, the terrain itself was rebuilt, with all trees within a radius of several kilometers being broken or uprooted and the forest itself disappearing..
Nevertheless, the monsters did not stop, but opened their huge maws and twisted their bodies, biting each other. Each time, an earthquake occurred and the surrounding terrain was reconstructed..
People sat down again and lost their minds at the unrealistic and gigantic sight..
All that comes out of their mouths is the sound of the wind driven by despair.
However, even that was drowned out by the monster’s cries and disappeared..
Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehe·········!!
Yiiiiiiiiiiit profit━━!!
Monsters fighting together without giving an inch.
Above the monsters, wooden dolls-golems and the dead, as small as ants, began to mix and fight, and between them, Merlin and Oliver, who had a presence greater than the monsters, clashed..
Every time they hit, the air became distorted and broken, reaching a point where it was impossible to even see with the naked eye..
Just as everyone was about to lose their minds at that sight, Kevin opened his mouth..
“majesty!”
Kevin singing the cardinal priest.
The Cardinal Priest reacted.
“······speak.”
“Please take the person here and go as far as possible. If you continue to stay here, you may get swept away... Even if you don't get swept away, if you continue to see that scene, your mind will collapse..”
Roderick silently agreed..
Just as a person would step on an ant while walking and die, I thought I might die just by being in this place..
The shaking ground is the proof.
Also, continuing to fight like that was extremely mentally dangerous..
Even Roderick seemed to realize how small and insignificant he was as he continued to fight..
Still, I had to ask..
“······where do you plan on going.”
“I'm thinking of going back there.”
Kevin pointed with his finger to the Hell Island where the space was distorted by the battle..
There, giant monsters were biting each other, creating a huge circle, ouroboros..
In the process, the sea and the earth began to break and tremble and gradually blend into one..
I wondered if I could call it a fight anymore, but one thing was certain..
It was true that the moment you went in there, your life could not be guaranteed..
Still, Kevin didn't give up..
“Still, I have to go. There's something you need to find.”
“······Are you a quarter staff member??”
Joanna, who was calming down her younger siblings, quietly intervened and asked a question..
Kevin, Roderick, Yarely, etc. People around her looked at her.
“That's right.”
“What is that quarter staff you're looking for??”
“It is Zeno's most precious item.,”
Kevin recalled a story Merlin had told him in the past..
Immediately after rescuing Oliver from Mattel, Merlin demanded a valuable item from Oliver in return..
Surprisingly, Oliver admitted that the quarter staff was his most precious piece, but refused to hand it over.,
Oliver, who would give in to anything, only refused the quarter staff..
Because it was a gift from my first friend.
Kevin closed his eyes and opened them..
“······I can't say for sure, but I think at least that quarter staff is really needed right now..”
Cardinal Roderick looked Kevin in the eyes and said nothing..
I believed what he said. He had no choice but to believe in the first place..
“So I have to leave. His Highness Roderick, please lead your people and run as far away from here as possible to minimize damage. Even for later..”
For later. It seemed like a lot of meaning was implied..
“Professor, I will go with you too..”
Yareli, who was listening quietly, called Kevin who was about to move and stopped him..
Yareli, one of the core members of the Skadi school, said he would go to hell with him..
However, Kevin accepted the offer without much hesitation..
It was a decision that took into account the seriousness of the situation and the possibility that he would not be able to find the quarter staff on his own..
Of course, I didn't forget the warning..
“I can't guarantee my life.”
“I made up my mind.”
“wait a minute.”
Joanna intervened and opened her mouth..
“I will go with you too..”
“sister······?”
The students at Arc Orphanage, Joanna's younger sister, were surprised and caught her. But even though Joanna patted and calmed her children, she did not give up her opinion..
“It might help me too. Please take me too.”
“It's not possible. Sir.”
“yes?! How-”
“-Someone has to stay and watch over the children. Especially Rossburn. The driver said Rossburn······.”
Kevin stopped talking..
Looking around and finding something wrong.
Rossburn was nowhere to be seen..
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