episode_0015
by admin“Hey! When are we giving away whale meat? There are so many people that it’s hard to breathe!”
“Yes! I heard you could eat whale meat, so I didn’t even eat lunch!”
Excited voices came out from all over.
Whale meat! The news that a festival was being held to honor precious whales, which people had never dared to eat because they were always sold at high prices at auction, was enough to excite the entire city.
People of all ages and genders flocked to the square not to miss this precious opportunity, and all local officials also participated in the festival in order to win over the public opinion of the city residents in the name of holding a festival. And because the city’s security forces to manage large crowds of people were surrounding the square, the population density in the square was beyond excessive and reached a saturation point.
And the heat of the crowd gathered like that paralyzed individual reason and made them conform to the collective consciousness.
A rat beastman stood on an altar made of ice.
“Now, now! everyone. You’ve waited a long time! From now on, we will be giving away whale meat, so please come closer!”
When the rat beastman gave a signal, several men rushed in and pulled down the tent covering the whale.
When the whale appeared, the already crowded crowd rushed at the whale carcass, not caring whether the person in front would fall or not, or whether someone would step on it or not. As if possessed by something.
Perhaps if there was a wizard here, he would have noticed something strange. Whether it was the sight of the strangely excited public, or the feeling of the terrible magic lurking inside the whale carcass. Run away now! It’s a terrible warlock’s hex! You could have warned loudly.
But unfortunately, there were no wizards here, the capital of a quiet rural kingdom.
A wizard was like a flower that could only grow with special talent and high-level education, so raising one in such a small kingdom that mainly focused on fishing was ridiculous, and there was no time to hire a proper wizard.
So it was close to impossible.
“Giggle. Now, let’s set off fireworks to signal the start of the festival!”
What is stopping me?
“[Corpse Explosion]”
———-
Rat, the male animal, was feeling something uneasy. I felt an inexplicable, unpleasant energy coming from the whale carcass behind me, and I couldn’t understand the crowd that was rushing towards me without reason. Above all, the unique ‘rat’ instinct that had allowed him to survive even in the gutter was warning him to run away right now.
‘damn. Even at first glance, there was no doubt that she was a witch. ‘I got involved in something wrong!’
A bitch wearing a black robe and giving off an ominous aura all over her body. From the moment I first met him, I wanted to run away, but I couldn’t.
It was impossible to hide in the back alleys because Dobson was clearing them up in an instant, dragging unknown assailants with him, and if he ran away to another city, he would have to start from the gutter again. I didn’t like that. Even worse than dying.
Therefore, I had no intention of receiving payment from her after the work was finished. I just hope that I can survive.
But was that wind too much?
A strange sound began to come from the whale carcass behind.
It starts with a small sound.
The extremely ominous sound of something cracking inside the whale carcass behind him reached Rat’s ears.
What caught Rat’s eyes as he looked back was the whale’s carcass slowly swelling up.
“Uh, huh? Why is this like this? I never said anything like this.”
The rat’s instincts now went beyond sounding an alarm and were sending out a warning that felt like a needle prick.
Rat, sensing a crisis of a level he had never experienced before in his life, tried to take a step back, but was unable to take a single step back. Because it was already full of people everywhere with no space to step.
“What the fuck! You bastards, step back! Can’t you see that thing swelling?!”
Since I couldn’t see anything anymore, I started yelling and swearing, but it didn’t have any effect.
Because the crowd’s eyes were so turned that they couldn’t really see anything.
Instead of moving back, they just stepped on each other and tried their best to cling to the whale carcass.
It explodes. That thing will definitely explode.
The whale carcass had already swelled to more than three times its original size.
Even if it wasn’t a beastman’s unique instinct, if it swelled like that, there seemed to be no other outcome than exploding.
“You idiots! That thing explodes, you fucking bastards!”
It was already too late to run away. It was difficult to even take a single step, and it seemed like it might explode at any moment.
All Rat could do was scream in anger.
“Fuck you! It’s different from what you promised, you damn bitch! Please just save me. If you want it to bark, it will bark, if it wants to crawl, it will crawl, and it will even lick its feet, so please just save it. Mr. Lee…!”
Kwaaa!
———-
Bleep—
“Wow, my ears are deaf. Ariel. You can let me go now.”
I got out of Ariel’s arms and gently brushed my white hair, which had become matted in the aftermath of the explosion, with my hands.
“As expected, it’s a corpse explosion… The performance is solid.”
Even under natural conditions, whale carcasses produce so much methane gas that they often explode.
The hardships of accelerating the decomposition of the whale carcass, filling it with methane gas beyond its limit, suppressing it with magic to prevent it from exploding, planting a trigger, etc. while enduring the cold of the freezer without sleep, flashed by like a panorama.
It seemed as if the efforts had paid off, and the sight in the square was absolutely horrendous.
There was not even a trace of the whale carcass and the ice altar supporting it, and the 100m radius around the center of the explosion was full of shattered pieces of flesh, making it even more difficult to find parts that were not covered in blood.
People who escaped the immediate blast radius were lucky to survive, but the shock wave shattered all their bones and they were barely breathing, and even those inside the building were unable to move because their eardrums were ruptured.
How many people did you kill with this one move?
I feel a large amount of karma rushing in like a wave crashing over me.
Just as strong waves carve rocks and create strangely shaped rocks, the waves of karma carve rough stones and polish them to shine even more.
Crack.
I feel it.
The wall that surrounded me was unable to withstand the waves and was breaking apart.
The world that feels like a crack is much different from what it is now, and I am confident that if this wall is broken, we will be able to get one step closer to the center of the world.
The waves don’t stop and keep coming towards me.
Because it was too much karma for me to accept, I went through a process of continuously being pushed towards me, colliding with me, chipping away at it, and seeping into it. Until the walls break and the bowl expands.
Quarr.
Unable to overcome the continued barrage of waves, the wall finally collapses.
Just as a small hole in a dam spreads into a large crack without any way to do anything, the waves of karma instantly collapsed the wall, flowed into me, and began to fill the vessel that I am.
A feeling that my very existence becomes clearer.
No matter how much I closed my eyes and savored it, the waves that had no end in sight finally came to an end, and the swelling momentum that threatened to burst subsided quietly.
“Hmm… It’s thrilling.”
I accumulated a lot more karma than I thought. If they wipe out all the city’s residents as planned, they can even aim for the 6th rank.
I didn’t feel any guilt, even though I wiped out thousands of innocent civilians who had committed no crime and showed no hostility toward me. No, rather, I felt like I would become addicted to this thrill.
So there was no time to hesitate.
The fireworks were like a harbinger of the beginning of the festival, and there were still plenty of things to do around the square.
I took a step and headed to the center of the square.
Standing in the center of the blood-red square, with not a single trace of the original gray in sight, and inhaling the thick scent of death, the already good feeling becomes even hotter.
As if my head would spin.
“Puhuhuh. Now, let the real festival begin. A festival of blood and slaughter I have prepared! If you can, run away. You can close your eyes in fear and jump off the castle wall, or you can jump into the cold sea with your child in your arms to avoid the oncoming fire. Or you can fight back! I hope everyone enjoys it comfortably!”
I don’t know if anyone will listen, but what if no one hears?
I raised my arms high and raised my staff.
After breaking the wall and ascending to the 5th rank, the amplified magical energy is released and contained at the tip of the staff.
As I slowly lower the staff and lightly touch the ground with the tip of the staff, the compressed magic spreads out in all directions, causing ripples.
“[Undead Rise]”
Let’s have fun!
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