Only I Level Up: Ragnarok - Episode 166
Only I Level Up: Ragnarok Episode 166
dragon's nest.
This expression would be appropriate..
In the place where the dragon soldiers were guarding, eggs the size of people were gathered in one place..
I didn't have time to count them one by one as I was busy fending off the mercenary soldiers that were rushing in, but at first glance, there were more than a few hundred..
“Was it moved by mercenaries??”
“I think so. There is no way the dragons would have gathered here and laid eggs during the war..”
It was just as he said..
Given the circumstances, it seemed like the mercenaries here had gathered eggs that were hidden somewhere in one place..
I don't know where these eggs were originally, but I guess they thought it would be easier to protect them this way.?
‘Or it's the instinct of mercenaries.’
Then suddenly a strange question occurred to Sirka..
“But why did your husband leave these behind??”
“Leave it behind?”
“No, that's right. The Shadow Lord is famous for automatically transferring enemies into his shadow army when they are killed..”
“ah!”
Cha Hae-in also realized something from Sirka’s words..
The souls of many dead dragons here have already become shadow soldiers and serve Seong Jin-woo as king..
Is there any reason for them to keep the existence of these eggs a secret from Seong Jin-woo??
Even though the eggs were hidden in a secret place before the dragons served Seong Jin-woo, their location was bound to have reached Seong Jin-woo's ears now..
In other words, as Sirka said, the conclusion is that Seong Jin-woo deliberately left these eggs behind even though he knew they were here..
‘Why?’
Eventually, Cha Hae-in was able to understand the reason..
“……ah.”
The moment I inadvertently touched a nearby dragon egg.
Damn. Passchuk-
“……!”
Surprisingly, the surface of the egg, which seemed as hard as a stone, began to scatter like dust as soon as I touched it..
“What, what??”
Cha Hae-in and Sirka's eyes widened..
Surprisingly, the inside of the egg was empty..
“It was empty inside?”
Seeing this, Sirka was also excited and hurriedly touched the other eggs nearby one by one..
Passchuk.
crispy-
The eggs were reduced to ashes and scattered into the air so vainly that I wondered how they had maintained their shape until now..
Like the gray snowstorm that fills the tombs of these wild dragons..
“These are also hollow!”
“What happened??”
“Maybe your husband knew they were already dead and didn't care??”
Sirka's guess was quite reasonable..
But Cha Hae-in's expression was still serious..
“Sirka, if a dragon's egg dies without hatching, it's normal for it to be empty like this.?”
“Well, well? I'm fine up to that point…….”
Sirka, an ice elf, did not have much knowledge about the ecology of the dragon race..
However, one more plausible guess came to mind..
“Could it be that it was an egg that was almost ready to be born? So your husband took all the souls of these eggs... … If you took it as a shadow soldier?”
“Even if that were the case, wouldn't there still have been a body left in the egg??”
“That's right.”
Cha Hae-in was silent for a moment at Sirka's sighing affirmation..
Regardless of common sense about whether eggs are unfertilized or fertilized, it was doubtful no matter how much I looked at the fact that the seemingly healthy eggs were actually empty..
Moreover, why are these eggs being guarded by mercenaries??
“……First, let's check everything..”
Cha Hae-in and Sirka began to touch all the remaining eggs in earnest..
However, there was nothing unusual, and the eggs inside the nest began to scatter and disappear one by one..
Meanwhile, Cha Hae-in's gaze was coolly observing the behavior of the mercenary soldiers..
‘The number did not decrease at all. Aren’t these eggs the owners of the mercenary soldiers??’
It is hard to say that there is no connection, but as the number of eggs decreases, the ferocious spirit of the mercenary soldiers becomes more and more brutal..
‘Or is there a separate owner? Or, there are still live eggs left among them..’
Carefully recalling various hypotheses in his mind, Cha Hae-in continued to reduce the number of eggs..
and finally.
“This…….”
I found it.
“This is a bit small?”
Cha Hae-in's eyes sparkled as he discovered a small egg the size of an ostrich egg that was hidden among human-sized eggs..
The egg had a mana scent that was distinctly different from other hollow sweets..
And when Cha Hae-in suddenly picked up the egg in his hand, he felt a considerable weight..
It didn't turn into powder and scatter like other eggs..
And the moment the egg was held in Cha Hae-in’s hands.
Wow!!
The lethality of the mercenary soldiers has become extremely intense..
“Chacha! These guys are in a weird state! First, evacuate to a safe place... … uh?”
[purr.]
It was then.
The shadow drake Kaisel, who had been sleeping quietly until now, opened his eyes..
[Kyaaa-]
Kaisel spread his wings wide and yawned, as if stretching on Cha Hae-in's shoulder..
Then, he took the real dragon egg that was in Cha Hae-in's hand into his arms, wrapped it in a coil, and hugged it carefully..
As if it were your own egg.
OK……
“ah?”
The spirit of the mercenary soldiers, who were overflowing with brutal murder, died down in an instant..
Cha Hae-in and Sirka looked around with puzzled expressions at the sudden change..
Quickly and easily!
The mercenary soldiers who were rushing in as if it was a life-or-death decision surrounded Cha Hae-in and Sirka and began to kneel on one knee and bow their heads..
No, exactly…….
[purr.]
Towards Kaisel, the shadow drake who cherishes the egg..
Looking at that scene, Cha Hae-in and Sirka muttered with bewildered expressions..
“I guess… … I think I won?”
“Chacha, I pray for this too.?”
“Okay, tell Suho..”
I think I found a dragon egg that is still alive, possibly the only one in this universe..
* * *
Coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo!
Meanwhile.
[Solord! Swirls of sand surrounded the entire shore.!]
As Berr reported, Haeundae was hit by an untimely natural disaster..
The whirlpool that started on the sandy beach did not simply suck people downward, but turned upward into a sandstorm that swept all around..
Like a barrier.
‘It's similar to the Harmakan era, but much more explicit..’
Harmakan, a fellow demon race, surrounded the entire village with a barrier called an ‘instance dungeon’..
It was a barrier so clever that people who stepped into it did not even notice that they had fallen into it..
However, I don't know if the demon race that appeared this time was a difference in style or clumsiness, but they blatantly created a barrier and trapped people in a sandstorm..
“Seong Su-ho!”
Just then, a voice calls out for Suho from behind..
Lim Tae-gyu, leader of the Shinigami guild and S-class hunter, was running fiercely through the sandstorm..
“fall to the side!”
He attached a magical arrow to the Shinigami's bow and aimed it at the center of the sand swamp..
Quaoooooooooo!
Powerful magic arrows grazed Suho’s body and flew toward the center of the barrier..
Kukwakwaang-!
That moment.
The arrow that penetrated the sandy swamp exploded..
[Wow! How dare a human being-!]
Suddenly a scream echoes all over the place.
Along with that, the angry voice of the demon race was heard..
“It was there too!”
Lim Tae-gyu's eyes sparkled like an eagle that had caught its prey, and magical arrows rained down again..
Phuwak!
Kikekekekeke!
At that time, numerous skeletons appeared through the sandstorm and attacked Lim Tae-gyu from all directions..
Lim Tae-gyu snorted as if it was laughable and hit the skeletons that came to interfere with him with the Reaper's bow..
Kwajangchang!
The Reaper's Bow, an S-class weapon, was harder than most clubs, and the skeletons were smashed with an exciting noise..
“Is it just this much?!”
[No way.]
“……!”
creepy.
Im Tae-gyu hurriedly became alert to his surroundings when he heard a gloomy voice whispering right behind him..
[He's quite strong for a human..]
Of all the hunters here, the eerie voice was only ringing in the ears of Lim Tae-gyu..
[but… … No matter how much magical power we have, humans are just a weak race..]
‘He said to Lim Tae-gyu with a chuckle..
[The human soul is degraded.]
Wow!!
“……!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the scenery that caught Lim Tae-gyu's eyes changed in an instant..
[The demonic illusionist Jarvier uses ‘Skill: Mirage’..]
‘mirage?’
Thanks to the system message that appeared right before his eyes, Suho realized two pieces of information..
The culprit behind this situation is the demonic illusionist Jarvier..
And the mirage.
[Solord! Beware of illusions……!]
Ber's urgent voice faded away, and the scenery before Suho's eyes also began to change..
* * *
Jarvier, the demonic illusionist.
He never doubted his victory.
It had to be that way..
He conducted various experiments using the souls of humans collected on this beach, and as a result, he came to one conclusion..
‘humans are weak.’
The demon race was born as a race that enjoyed studying various things with souls..
To them, souls were experimental materials with infinite potential, and by using them, they could create really interesting magic..
It might be terrible for some people.
mirage.
A powerful illusion that brings out the most terrible or intense moment in the target's memory..
Through the illusion, Xavier was able to enjoy the various fears hidden in the lowly inner world of humans..
‘What a fun species..’
Because humans were fundamentally weak, the fear they felt was much more fundamental and raw than that of other races..
‘Other races have at best a fear of death..’
But look at the people gathered in front of here.!
How many different fears are being expressed??
‘for example…….’
Just like that.
-……honey.
“No, that's ridiculous.…….”
Lim Tae-gyu, who had the most magical power among the hunters who fell into illusion, was in the greatest despair..
This is because the image of his ‘dead wife’, or rather, ‘the wife he killed with his own hands’ appeared before his eyes..
And the wife's body... … It was slowly burning, surrounded by blue smoke..
His wife slowly approached Lim Tae-gyu with extremely sad eyes..
-Why do you look like that? You're the one who killed me.
“I'm sorry. I'm really sorry…….”
‘Hehehe.’
How pleasant it is to watch a soul struggling in despair.!
Xavier, an illusionist from the Demon Spirit tribe, was feeling extreme pleasure while appreciating Lim Tae-gyu's despair and fear..
[Haha! Absolute terror that cannot be resisted! how beautiful this is!]
Whether it's S-class or something else, the soul is just the same insignificant human soul..
His illusions were on a different level from simple illusions..
It was possible to bring into reality powerful memories engraved deep in the subject's soul, while also demonstrating physical strength..
[S-class hunter, don’t struggle and just accept death. In fact, I was only hoping for this moment.…….]
creepy.
Xavier was giggling and mocking Tae-gyu Lim, then quickly turned his gaze somewhere else..
And I couldn't help but believe my eyes.
[Well, what is that?……!]
The young hunter who caused a blizzard out of nowhere earlier..
He too was looking from afar at a fantasy deeply engraved in his memory..
however…….
something was strange.
Shwaaaaagh!
[What on earth is that?!]
Xavier couldn't believe his eyes..
mirage.
A powerful spell that brings out powerful memories engraved deep in the soul..
By the illusion that Xavier boasted about,
A being in Suho's memories was slowly revealing itself..
Surrounded by black energy like the abyss.
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