Genius Warlock-Episode 673
673. darkest moment (7)
[What do you see me as??]
Merlin penetrates the gap. Oliver, who stood in front of them, was the first to ask a question..
As soon as Merlin heard the question, Merlin, who had been attacking him fiercely just now, froze and stopped all his actions..
It felt like an unknown force was constricting my body and mind..
Even though we used the power of the invitation archive in preparation for the apocalypse.
Differences in innate rank.
Then Oliver asked again.
[I asked what do I look like?.]
Merlin, who had been approaching low, relaxed his posture and looked straight at Oliver..
White-washed hair, dark-black eyes, a child's face with youthful traces, and an expressionless expression on that face..
Merlin could read a strange refreshingness and arrogance that had never been seen before in that expressionless expression..
“······I see my temporary disciple..”
[lie.]
Paang━!
Oliver waved his hand from left to right, making his own judgment..
An indifferent hand gesture that feels like shaking off dust.
It was broken in the air by his hand, and the fragments flew in all directions..
Rather than simply targeting Merlin, they destroyed the space where Merlin was standing, and Merlin was not in the debris..
“That's right.”
Merlin leaps through space and appears behind Oliver..
A new book opened next to him, and passionate magic flowed out, dwelling in Merlin's body clad in pure white light..
With the power of the ancestral archive, Merlin took out all of the magical power and created a sharp magical sword to cut Oliver down..
Passsss······.
The magical sword disappeared like a crumb before it even reached Oliver's body..
It was the same as the last attack before..
Beyond simply using force to offset it, it was as if the world itself did not allow the attack..
However, Merlin did not give up and opened several books and launched numerous attacks..
He created a crack in the space where Oliver was standing, cast the sea water in the sky with tens of thousands of swords and made it fall like rain, and swung a paper containing the will and magic of the archive to cut off the energy contained in Oliver's body..
A very dangerous attack that can take every single life..
But all those attacks didn't do any damage to Oliver..
At best, it only had a hindering effect..
It was truly amazing.
Because I knew it wouldn’t work anyway..
The true purpose of the attack is to waste time... To be precise, it was to secure time to convey the message..
“You are right. It's a lie.”
Merlin denied what he had just said. It appears that Oliver is a temporary disciple. he was sincere.
Oliver, who saw through that feeling, asked again..
[So what do you see??]
“I don't know. what am i seeing.”
[lie.]
“It's not a lie.”
Merlin gave an answer that even he wasn't sure about..
My head had already come to a conclusion, but my heart couldn't accept it..
Merlin asked himself whether it was a vain delusion, hope, or stubbornness. No answer came back.
“But your first friend knows how to look.”
At that moment, Oliver's movements stopped for a moment. Merlin digs into that gap and exerts his power over space. He tried to push Oliver to the other side of the world..
At that level, you should be able to move a few steps..
Wow-!
As Merlin expected, Oliver took only a few steps back..
Fortunately, Oliver, who was pushed back, did not move right away, and Merlin took advantage of the gap to catch his breath and continue the story..
“Haaa... Your friend will still see you as her friend..”
[······.]
“He may look clumsy, but he is smarter than anyone else. Although he looks weak, he is stronger than anyone else, he looks blunt, but he is kinder than anyone else, and he always tries to go in the right direction... To be that kind of friend.”
Merlin said, recalling his conversation with Cant. There was respect in that voice..
Because I really respected you.
Even though Merlin told Cant the truth and speculations he had learned by becoming an archive, he maintained the same attitude about Oliver..
Unlike myself, who keeps shaking.
Oliver seemed to have conveyed his feelings as he stood there in silence..
Just as I was about to hope that this might be the way to escape the current situation, Oliver opened his mouth..
[Now I see a sinner in my eyes.]
Oliver's eyes looked straight at Merlin..
Merlin looked into Oliver's eyes looking at him, and was able to see his own sin reflected in those eyes..
A terrible sin that can never be washed away, committed by a foolish and arrogant person..
The weight of sin that had weighed on Merlin's shoulders throughout his life was made a reality by Oliver's will. Its weight pressed down on Merlin, the Leviathan below him, and the human meat cook..
━━━━━━━━!!!!
The sea monster and the earth monster, who fought while changing the surrounding terrain, fell to the ground, unable to withstand the weight of the sin committed by one human being..
A huge earthquake occurred that seemed to shake the entire center of the continent, with a roar that could not be contained in human language or problems..
The distorted earth. A huge wave of earth rose from the center and spread out in all directions, covering the world with thick dust..
That wasn't the end.
The impact that collapsed the earth also affected the sea in the sky..
Shoot aaaaaaaaa━━!
The evidence is the salt-laden rain falling across the entire continent..
Thanks to this, the dust that filled the surrounding area was washed away, and the land hidden by the dust was revealed..
The forest, unable to withstand the monster's fight and fall, became a wasteland, and on top of the wasteland, two monsters fell, entangled like an ouroboros..
Red blood flowed like a river from between the monsters' torn flesh, staining the ground red, and Merlin fell to one knee on the blood-stained ground..
He was breathing heavily, his face pale, as if he had been greatly shocked by the fall..
[I see your sins. Your sins as well as those of others..]
Oliver came up to Merlin, who was kneeling on one knee, and said:.
Merlin lifted his head with difficulty and looked up at Oliver..
Even though the ground collapsed, the rain poured down, and everything was stained red with blood, nothing was left on Oliver's body..
Not even a drop of dust, a drop of water, or a drop of blood..
It felt like I was here but not there at the same time..
Oliver, looking incredulous, looked down at Merlin and said.
[Archive Merlin······. A wizard born with outstanding talent. And a sinner who committed the sin of arrogance intoxicated with that talent..]
Merlin knelt on one knee and bowed his head..
[Do you remember your sins??]
Merlin lowered his head and raised his head with his eyes closed..
The blood that colored the earth gathered around Merlin, drop by drop..
[Do you know how many lives you have killed by being intoxicated with talent??]
Merlin opened his closed eyes..
Drops of blood gathered around Merlin and formed a puddle of blood..
[How many men, women, children, elderly and disabled people were killed??]
Merlin opened his eyes and looked around..
From the pool of blood that had accumulated around Merlin, the sins he had committed rose one by one..
[In the name of understanding God's creation, in the name of human progress, they were dissected alive..]
That crime meant people who had their eyes removed, their skin peeled off, and their bellies cut open to expose their bones and organs..
The people embodied in a lump of blood prayed while clutching Merlin's clothes as he knelt on one knee, all looking worse than dead..
[Shut up...! Shut up······!!]
[Ahhh...! Please save me!! mom!]
[Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! English······!]
Merlin remained silent..
[We recorded the death process by injecting poison and bacteria, and removed organs to observe what happened..]
New people jumped out of the pool of blood.
Plague, cholera, sea water, arsenic, etc. Infected with various diseases and poisons, they crawled on all fours and grabbed Merlin's legs..
[sick······. It hurts so much······.]
[Please save me. please take some medicine······.]
Merlin was silent again..
[Because they wanted to see the birth of life, they cut open the bellies of pregnant women, dissected children, soaked them in formalin, and connected and separated their bodies. And that too in front of their families..]
Pregnant women with slit bellies and dissected babies rose from pools of blood..
Pregnant women with bulging bellies and babies the size of palms alike approached Merlin and grabbed him, spilling their internal organs..
[Not my child! I can't do it······!!]
[please! Please just my child······!]
[Argh!!!! Ahhhhh!!]
[Mite! Mite! mite!]
Merlin was silent again..
Thanks to this, countless people caught Merlin. There was no longer any place to hold on to..
The people who captured Merlin each had pleading, pain, hatred, resentment, anger, curses, etc. All kinds of terrible emotions were shining, and he tried to drag Merlin down to that pool of blood..
[The reason why the experiment process was shown to their parents, children, and friends was to understand how intense fear, anger, and hatred affect the human body and soul. How was that possible??]
Merlin was silent again this time.-
“-Because I didn't see them as people..”
Merlin, who had been silent in a puddle of blood, spoke for the first time..
Not only that, he got up from his knee and got out of the pool of blood..
[Ahhh!! Ahhhhh!!!]
[die!! You too are dying!!!]
[Help me! mom!! mom!!!]
[My child!! my child······!!]
[Mite! mite!]
Naturally, the people who emerged from the pool of blood grabbed Merlin even stronger and tried to pull him in..
Merlin did not shake them off, but instead, he did not get dragged away and just stood there, enduring their touch..
Oliver looked at Merlin like that..
His complexion was pale, cold sweat was forming on his forehead, and all kinds of emotions were forming in his moist eyes..
Negative emotions such as regret, guilt, and self-loathing. However, within those emotions, there was also faith, responsibility, and will..
[Why didn't I see you as a person??]
“Because their skin color was different from mine, because they could not use magic unlike me, because they were uneducated, unlike me, because they were poor, unlike me, because they were not talented, unlike me... So I didn't see them as people.”
[Are you saying not now??]
“Yeah no. I found out later. These people are also people. Someone who knows how to hurt, feel sad, and be happy like me... They were people. I realized it too late.”
One by one, the people who came out of the pool of blood ran out of strength and ran back into the pool of blood..
In the meantime, they grabbed Merlin and cursed him..
Why do I have to suffer like this, why are you alive?.
With that curse in the background, Oliver asked the question again..
[And yet, you shamelessly live on. To the subject who is a sinner who has committed a terrible crime.]
“I still have work to do.”
[Is that thing blocking my path??]
Merlin was silent for a moment and thought. After a short silence she opened her mouth again..
“······No, my job is not to stop you, but to prevent your mistakes. Even if it's temporary, I'm your teacher.”
[That's funny. Like a sinner.]
Oliver's words were filled with contempt. After hearing those words, Merlin promised with a sad smile..
“That's right. I am a sinner. A sinner who falls to the very bottom of hell and deserves to suffer forever. But even such a sinner can do the right thing once in a while. If you are a sinner and cannot even do the right thing, then only sin will remain in the world. So I'm going to stop you before you make more mistakes..”
Oliver opened his mouth for the first time at that sight..
“I don't make mistakes anymore.”
Voice, not whole sound. In that voice-
I'm crying······!
-Merlin has eyes, nose, mouth and ears. Bleeding from seven holes.
Even after seeing that, Oliver continued talking..
“Because now I know. How tainted by sin the world is.
Because now I know. How dark the world has become.
Because now I know. How insignificant and weak you are..
Because now I know. That I was just tied up in a spider's web.”
There was emotion in Oliver's voice..
Anger and futility, as if I had been deceived all this time..
Oliver's voice filled with emotion made Merlin shed tears of blood, and when Oliver looked at Merlin like that, he asked:.
“But not anymore. The spider web that was shackling me has been broken. So say it. What can you do other than kill time? How are you going to stop me? Or do you have some kind of belief??”
Merlin stumbled and bled from seven orifices..
It looks so fragile that it looks like it could be broken if you swing your arm like this..
But Oliver didn't do that..
Because what Merlin said was sincere. He truly intended to stop Oliver and believed it was possible..
Oliver waited to hear the answer, and Merlin answered while wiping the blood from his eyes..
“There is a part of me that believes.”
“what is that?”
“That's right, you.”
At that moment, I saw small lights far away in a world filled with darkness..
It's weak, but its will is strong..
“oliver!”
It was Joanna, Kevin, and Yarili holding the quarter staff..
Merlin said as they appeared.
“The relationships you've made.”
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