episode_0018

“You made your base by the lakeside… It’s really gloomy.”

Lorraine shuddered and said out loud that she hated being associated with warlocks.

I looked at Lorraine like that and asked for her opinion.

“How do you think I should get in here?”

At those words, Lorraine looked down, thought for a moment, and then gave a very simple, yet intuitive method.

“Can’t you just break it and go in?”

“You’re breaking it?”

“Yes. From my experience, it definitely exists, but if you can’t see it, there’s a high chance that the entrance is blocked with magic. So… ”

Lorraine fires her sword at an unseen speed, striking the entire shore of the large lake.

As I was watching the spectacle of countless things being cut down at once, Lorraine added shortly.

“Found it.”

I found the entrance leading down.

*

It seems like after casting the welcome magic, they cast a perception-obstructing magic.

What comes into view is a hut that wasn’t there originally, cut in half and left there.

I lifted the spirit onto my shoulder to check out its suspicious appearance, no matter who saw it.

“Byebye!”

Judging from your anger, it looks like you’ve come to the right place.

After hearing that, I went inside and saw a black magician lying on the floor with his body cut off.

‘It looks like he died from Lorraine’s sword attack.’

Judging from his expression, his eyes were still open, as if he didn’t even realize he was dead.

I looked at the corpse and then kicked it down the stairs next to me.

Judging by the sound of metal flapping, there doesn’t seem to be any other traps.

I signaled to Lorraine to come in and went downstairs.

When we went down, what we saw was a strange laboratory reminiscent of a giant aquarium.

When I was frowning at the strange creatures swimming around in the water.

I was able to discover something quite shocking.

[How to effectively remove negativity]

It looks like an extension of the experiment that was discovered in the tail a while ago.

I was able to find a paper that contained research results and methods for eliciting as much negative emotion from people as possible and for as long as possible.

The content was so disgusting that I deliberately ignored it and just left it alone.

The sentence that I first saw about killing each other as a family keeps coming to mind and I feel disgusted.

‘… crazy guys.’

When I was thinking that it was unbearable to write down things that should not be done as a human being in the name of efficiency and to do it over and over again.

Right in the middle of the lab, I was able to discover something rather peculiar.

‘… Black beads?’

A small black bead tied with numerous crimson threads.

The things around me were monsters or human corpses, but suddenly marbles started popping out, which made me curious.

Looking at this, I realized that it was the key item in this case and was about to approach it.

“I think this is the first time an uninvited guest has come. Nice to meet you.”

A man with an unremarkable… if not rather appealing appearance walked forward and greeted us.

“Aren’t you the young master of Carsarilga and Sir Lorraine? Although they are uninvited guests, they are quite valuable guests, so as the owner of this place, I should treat them properly. I wonder if I can treat them well enough.”

He speaks to us in an extremely competent and calm voice.

It doesn’t really matter if you ignore it, but the reason I came here was because of the ‘Lilia Sister Assassination Incident’.

Just as I was about to open my mouth to extract as much information as possible.

“Behind me, Master.”

Lorraine takes up her sword and sends me backwards.

Seeing him say that, it seemed like he had decided that I was an enemy he could never defeat at my level, so he nodded and stepped back.

‘This is better than just hanging around and causing trouble.’

Help is only provided if the level is right.

Since the gap in level was this wide, it would only be a hindrance rather than a help, so I stepped back without hesitation and spoke.

“Please.”

“Yes.”

Contrary to our expectations, the black magician waved his hand as he spoke.

“I think you’re misunderstanding something. I have no intention of fighting with you. Fighting is pointless and will only cause losses. ”

He added a word to Nanlorane after hearing that.

“It seems like you’re trying to waste time.”

“I thought so too.”

But after spending a long time together, we have come to see eye to eye.

I turned my gaze away, thinking that I could just leave it to her.

‘In the first place, I came here to find information related to the assassination.’

I looked around here and there, reminding myself that information gathering comes first.

All kinds of documents and traces of numerous experiments.

I tried to quickly skim through it to figure out the relevant content, but I couldn’t see anything different.

As I frowned and wondered if this was the place, the spirit shook my body and pointed to the black orb.

‘Now that I think about it, there was that.’

Given that the warlock is strangely showing signs of trying to guard it, there’s a high probability that the most important item in this laboratory is that marble.

I tried to calm down the spirit that was barking and whining next to me and approached it.

I felt a powerful mana barrier blocking me.

‘I guess that’s why you’re abandoning me.’

I don’t know about Lorraine, but she seems so convinced that I can never get through it that she doesn’t even look at me.

At that act, I was so angry that I decided to break it and take the bead, so I grabbed my mace and was about to break it.

“Go and kill him now!”

“Move quickly, quickly? Do you want to die?”

“Surround them!”

A large number of people are pouring in from behind.

After realizing that this was the reason I had been wasting time, I let out a hollow laugh and called out to the spirit.

“Myaaak!”

The Sun Spirit is furious at the number of warlocks and their associates growing too high, and is even more displeased than usual, bristling with anger.

I flicked my mace, asking the spirit to lend me its strength.

‘The Sun Spirit is a spirit originally suited for battle.’

Normally, it is spread out in a very thin shape to bring in warm air from the north, but when these are gathered together, their power becomes incredibly strong.

‘Usually, it’s not used often because the power is so strong that the damage increases too much once used.’

Now that there is absolutely no need to worry about damage, it means that you can fight freely and unleash your power.

I asked the sun spirit to lend me his strength and scattered fire in all directions.

The fire of the sun that never goes out.

This power, which can be seen as being similar to a white phosphorus bomb, continued to burn those who touched it.

“Kkaaah!”

“Sa,save me,save me.”

“Turn it off!”

Everything around them is burning and screaming in pain.

It wasn’t a very nice scene to watch because it was overly cruel.

Perhaps because of the experimental content I had seen before, I didn’t feel any guilt.

“Ba, fight back! If we continue like this, we’ll all be dead anyway! ”

Still, it seems that there is a guy who makes normal judgments, so he shoots magic to chase down the remaining people.

A slight sense of crisis arose faintly because countless strong manas reminiscent of sharp spears were fired.

Hururuk.

The great wall of fire created by the spirits turned all of this into pure white ash.

The sense of crisis quickly evaporated, turning everything into a meaningless attack.

“You little monster.”

I let out a hollow laugh at the voice coming from in front of me.

The real monster is Lorraine and the guy with the red hair fighting over there, but I’m calling him a monster because I find it funny.

After dealing with all those who were shocked and terrified, I was about to take the black bead when a woman with a somewhat haggard face walked out from among the warlocks and opened her mouth.

“Cheeky… Cheeky, cheeky, cheeky.”

A gloomy-looking woman, who is scarring herself by scratching with her fingernails, glares at me with anger.

As I looked at the dark magic spreading out so intensely, I felt that this would not be an easy opponent, so I took a deep breath.

The woman who was scratching my body suddenly stopped and started laughing strangely while talking to me.

“Do you think that, that rejection trick, would work? You… you? ”

The pitch of the voice changes rapidly, as if the vocal cords were torn.

I looked at Line Sang with a frown because he was a guy who gave me an instinctive feeling of rejection.

She told me the story with a smile.

“If you break it… I, I’ll admit it. Ugh, I can’t break it, but. ”

It was such an overly crude provocation that rather than making me angry, I just found it funny.

So, just as I was about to ignore it and ignite the flames of the sun.

Suddenly, an interesting thought popped into my head.

‘If I really break this glass wall and take the black marble, things might get interesting.’

Of course, it won’t be as easy as the original black magician said, and he’ll abandon me.

Still, a sense of triumph emerged, wanting to try it at least once.

That’s why I held the mace tightly and pushed the mana inside my body.

Only a year had passed since he had taken up the weapon, so the act of charging mana into the weapon was still crude and unpolished.

Maybe it’s because I had the experience of giving up my whole body and radiating warmth to the North for a year.

The moment the mace was filled with the solar mana sent by the sun spirit, I was able to manifest the aura more skillfully than the mana in my body.

“Huh, huh?”

A panicked voice is heard from ahead.

Judging from the reaction, it seems like he didn’t expect me to display this level of aura.

I took my eyes off the warlock who had forgotten to even scratch his own body, and used all my strength to smash the glass containing the black orb.

The whole place is filled with flames.

The moment the intense flames that melt everything and the aura that destroys common sense reach the glass wall, everything begins to distort.

There was a very loud bang and shards of glass began to fly out, flying everywhere.

“… You crazy guy!”

A terrifying sound is heard.

As I heard that sound, I was about to grab the black marble to quickly strike before they attacked me from that side.

“Angry meow.”

The sun spirit that was riding on my shoulder quickly advanced and ate the black orb.

“… ?”

I looked at the spirit as if asking what it was doing.

The spirit spoke to me with a proud smile on her cute face that had become more round than before.

“Wow!”

I could only blink blankly at the sight of her saying, “You did well, didn’t you?”