episode_0057

As soon as Nyal came out of the air, he snapped his fingers and a magic circle was engraved on the bottom of the goat’s leg.

Soon, white flames rising from the magic circle engulf the medicine bottle that Goat Legs is holding, causing him to drop the bottle.

Clink-

“Ikeke! No problem!”

But that’s just a moment. The guy shook off the flames again and stood up.

“Peria! Is it impossible to kill him at all?”

“That’s not possible! Nyal cannot directly interfere with living beings other than those contracted!”

I would like to completely finish one side, but it seems there are more restrictions than I thought.

“Then you can do it indirectly!”

“Oh really! You’re not saying it’s someone else’s business like that, brother!”

Then, Nayal, who succeeded in causing a very small disruption, speaks to Peria.

[The action just cost 90 gold coins. If you want more actions than this, offer 180 gold coins.]

“ This is really expensive!”

[This is a risky action for me as well. From the beginning, you probably decided not to call anything other than a bet, right? You are the one who broke this.]

“Geugeuggeukgeuk…! okay! Okay, so do something!”

When Peria has the same conversation again with Nayal, whom she has not seen in a long time, the woman in armor blocks other people’s attacks while looking at Nayal and threatening her.

“Residents of the early morning! You’d better get it done! Otherwise I will kill you too! You don’t think you can beat me with that little talent, do you?”

The opponent holding the great sword moves to the middle of the feria and the goat bridge and blocks the target.

Then the goat leg goes to pick up the bottle again.

“Feria. Quickly!”

“Pfft. Nayal! Again!”

[There are 180 gold coins.]

“Okay! Do it quickly!”

It felt like a huge hand was swinging into the air, and the space opened up.

Strange-looking creatures pouring out from inside.

Dozens of eyeless, six-winged bats without eye sockets open their circular mouths and pour out.

“Uuuuh! Please take this off!”

It bites the body of a woman holding a goat leg and a large sword with small but sharp teeth that look like they are over 100 units tall.

Then Goatleg kicked the bottle away in a panic, causing all the pills inside to spill out.

“Oh, it’s really annoying! Only a trickster is bothering me?”

The opponent holding the great sword seems so angry that he begins to gather red magic power from his hands.

Clap la la rock-

Squeak!

At the same time, with the woman at the center, the magical energy flowing out of the body whips around the area like a whip, breaking all the bats into pieces.

And while dealing with us, he creates a spear made entirely of magical power in one hand.

“I warned you! I will never let you use something like the Ghost of Dawn again!”

Kwaang-

The woman makes us retreat with a wide swing of her great sword, then draws her spear back.

A magical spear that looks ominous at first glance.

‘That must be the most dangerous thing I’ve seen today.’

Other people besides me felt it too.

“Shield back!”

Based on Hygenic’s decision, everyone runs behind Noan’s shield.

“Peria!”

But Feria is too far away.

“Spear of Death.”

The woman threw the spear.

A spear made of red magic that shoots out like a ray of light.

Quad deud deuk!

The spear flew away, lightly tearing through Noan’s sturdy shield, which blocks both the magic power contained in the great sword and huge magic, as if laughing.

“Ouch!”

[K…Aaaah! Damn trickster bitch! I will curse you in hell!]

The spear flew straight through and pierced Nayal’s arm floating in the air, destroying Peria to pieces.

An intangible spear of pure magic that touches a pillar on one side of the hall and disappears as if it has done its job.

It created a shock wave and a cloud of dust until it finally disappeared.

“Ugh…”

“Grunt…”

In the blurry vision, everyone’s moans can be heard.

‘shit. This is irreparable damage.’

A huge blow was inflicted with just one technique.

The moment Noan’s shield was pierced, Vincent and Winnet quickly defended themselves with swords and gauntlets to protect others, but both of them broke their arms in return, perhaps because they had twisted their powerful force.

As if timing it right, the moonlight is obscured by clouds and becomes dark.

The atmosphere in the hall became dark, like the current gloomy situation.

“Really persistent.”

The other person says this while watching Peria revive in front of me from a fainted state.

“Humans are ultimately so weak compared to us, so I wonder why they don’t perish.”

Just right.

When the opponent snaps his fingers, a red string of magical energy pops out from the floor and binds the other people lying on the floor.

“Quaaah!”

People shaking as if an electric current had passed through them.

‘uh? ‘You’re not coming to me?’

However, unlike people who faint from magic, the small snake-like string circles around me and disappears without being able to entangle only me and the teacher.

The woman clicked her tongue when she saw that.

“Tsk! It’s a magic that responds to even the slightest bit of magical energy, but they make pitiful things that don’t even work. It’s not beautiful. I’m so disgusted with the wretched appearance.”

I guess I was lucky because I didn’t have any magic power.

‘But who is disgusting with whom?’

I don’t like the way he opened his mouth because he thought he had won the game.

Thanks to this, I get emotional and retort even in not-so-good situations.

“In my opinion, you demons look more abnormal. I heard you were human too? And the one with legs and a tail is even more disgusting?”

After hearing what I said, Goatleg fumbled around on the floor for some medicine, probably because of his broken glasses, and then looked in this direction and shouted.

“This appearance is a symbol of great power! This is the appearance of the true rulers of this era, free from the weak human body!”

“Marcus, shut up and let the work proceed. Because if I look at your legs, I will die of disgust.”

“Keuuu…”

Goat Bridge protested and couldn’t even get his money back. Seeing that, the woman holding the great sword laughed at the demon and confirmed me.

“I agree with that. To be honest, the body of a demon is not very beautiful. So, at first, I started building a body like this in order to become at least as beautiful as I was.”

“Building a body?”

“Yes. The thing I am writing now is not the same body as you with the soul disease. Although the principles are similar, they are dolls made from materials that are different from yours. Unlike you guys whose souls are tied up there, I just control it remotely.”

After saying that, the other person opens his stabbed body with his fingers and shows the inside.

Inside the wound was another membrane, and inside, red magic was flowing through the blood vessel-like membrane.

‘is it. Was he a puppeteer?’

Information learned through death, obtained by the Master at the start of the first battle.

The gap between his gaze and his next action was a bit slow.

I kept dealing with it, paying attention to it, but I just thought it was a strange habit.

However, the reason for the strange delay was because the guy was actually a puppeteer.

“It is a bit difficult because it has to be controlled remotely, but since it is an early model, it can be modified. It is of a different class from a crude body like yours.”

The wounds on the body controlled by the puppeteer can be seen slowly healing.

‘More than anything, this kid has a golden spoon.’

Since we don’t have healing magic, the only way to get repairs is through rough tinkering, but with a body that is capable of self-healing and flowing with magical power, I could feel the difference from birth.

I’m so envious of that that I can’t help but ask. And I thought I asked for no reason.

“Hey, how much did it cost to make that?”

“Huh? I’m curious about something interesting in this situation. There’s nothing I can’t tell you. In human money, it’s about 5,000 gold?”

“Fuck.”

It was an amount that I couldn’t even afford.

Is this a problem with the exchange rate, or did this guy spend extra money?

‘I think it’s the latter, though.’

“Because the money was spread out like that, of course it would be high.”

“Financial resources are all abilities. The same goes for networking. Besides, I am unrivaled as a demon puppeteer, right? Even if you use the same money and knowledge as me to create something, there are only a few people in this world who can give you the magic power to move this much. I received magical power from the Demon King, so I am using this body now. Of course, in return, I have to do this kind of annoying cleaning up.”

“I’m a bit envious of that.”

Some people are running around without proper support, but this guy is an absolute gold digger.

I was completely discouraged by the overwhelming gap.

“Are you not finished yet?”

“Please wait a moment. One medicine is missing. Time has already passed…”

“Sheesh! Slowness is.”

Goat Legs is still busy picking up the pills from the bottle he dropped earlier.

‘There seems to be no other way, so what should I do?’

In the meantime, I try to organize the situation and get my head around it.

The two people who can inflict fatal damage using magical power are already seriously injured and the others are also detained.

The time has already passed for presbyopia to come back, but it is not coming back.

He may have already used up all of his spare body. In that short period of time, Master and I died eight more times.

Meanwhile, Master was not saying anything and then suddenly opened his mouth.

“It would be possible.”

“Huh? What?”

“What is it?”

The puppeteer and I turn around at the same time.

“It means that it is possible to kill you.”

The puppeteer looks at the teacher in confusion.

“Ha! That sounds funny. So far, both you and the spirit soldier next to you have died 4 times to me. What’s more, the people lying down there are much stronger than you. Have you lost your senses? This doll’s standing position is different from yours.”

The puppeteer snorts as if he is dumbfounded.

‘Why are you saying that?’

I too have doubts about Master’s words.

It seemed to me that there was no further chance of winning. The opponent appears to be alive and well, although it is slightly lighter than before firing the spear, as if he still has some magic power left.

“Everything has already been figured out. You have no talent.”

The puppeteer’s expression becomes distorted.

“What?”

“Didn’t you hear? That means you have no talent. You may have wealth and connections, but in the end, it means that you lack the talent and skills to handle the doll. You just wield a powerful body made of money and the power of others that resides within it. So wouldn’t your body look like that now?”

Certainly, the wounds on the puppeteer’s body had already healed, but there were many holes in the armor and clothes.

Although he was clearly a strong person in terms of magical power and physical ability, he did not have good sense enough to allow an attack once in a while even when we moved without using magical power.

Master, who wasn’t even holding a magic sword, stabbed Estark once, aiming for a place where magic power was flowing slowly, and he was also wounded.

I thought it was because it wasn’t my body, but I think it was just because I didn’t have much combat experience.

‘The reason I said it was an early model in the first place may mean that it is being operated for the first time.’

The puppet master responds as if he is annoyed by the teacher.

“But I killed you many times. That fact doesn’t change. So it’s my victory.”

“Well, it’s true that they killed us. But, we are soul sick. And you know we’re still not quite dead yet.”

“What do you mean?”

“Even though you tried to win, you were not able to completely finish us off. If you had truly been strong enough to overwhelm us, if you had been able to read and understand your opponent’s movements, if you had even thought about gaining something from the back-and-forth fight, we would all have been dead already. However, in the end, he was struggling and was only able to overwhelm him with borrowed magic rather than a sword. It’s proof that you yourself are a demon who can never grow.”

The puppeteer, who heard the teacher’s words, frowned as if in a very bad mood.

“To me, it only looks like you’re trying to buy some time, right? I could kill you right now.”

“Okay. It looks difficult now that all the magic power has been used up.”

“You’ll find out if you try.”

As soon as the puppeteer finished speaking, he thrust forward, holding out his sword.