Ruler of the Game 617

Chapter 617 – The Doll’s Knight

After seeing his outfit, Seong-il realizes that the man in front of him is Ruchel, a sub-mate from Chapter 1 and a powerful great mage.

“Ah!! You’re the wizard who used magic for us a while ago?!”

“Whoops… Yes. That’s right.”

Lucille answers cute Mila’s reaction with a soft smile. He takes something out of his arms and hands it to the children, continuing his words.

“Take it.”

“…This?”

“It is a letter of introduction that allows you to skip the rite of passage that is essential when entering the Monastery of St. Severantia.”

“Eh? Such a precious thing…?”

Of course, the first person they see helps them. After handing over the letters of introduction, Mila and Theo look dumbfounded.

“Because the cult is targeting you. The Monastery of St. Sevrantia is a place that can guarantee your safety, so you’d better go there quickly.”

“Ah…”

“The phantom thief in front of me and I are not the ones targeted by the cult, so we will keep an eye on the cultist captured here. Everyone, hurry up and go to the monastery.”

“Ah…But it’s a bit like we’re going alone…”

Perhaps they feel sorry for leaving with their benefactor in front of them, but the two boys and girls look slightly hesitant.

As if the kind hearts of such children were conveyed, Ruchel smiled and continued talking as if reassuring them.

“Haha. You don’t have to be sorry. With so many cultists captured, the two of us can’t drag them all away, right? Someone has to go quickly and tell the guards at St. Sevrantia Monastery anyway.”

“Ah!! That’s right!!”

Theo nodded his head with a guilty expression, as if he was persuaded by Lucille’s logical words.

“Then I’ll come back with the guards in a little while!!”

“Is it so.”

Theo and Mila look at the map he gave them with excited expressions and hurriedly move toward the monastery.

“…”

The time when Theo and Mila started walking. Ruchel turns her back and stares at Seongil with grave eyes.

‘This… The atmosphere…’

Lucille’s sad face. Seong-il becomes a little nervous after realizing that he is not friendly to her.

“The children are far away. Shall we begin our story then?”

“…Hmm? What do you mean?”

In response to Lucille’s cold words, Seong-il answers him in an innocent tone, as if he doesn’t know anything.

“You’ve been spying on those kids around here for days, haven’t you?”

“…!!”

Surprisingly, Ruchel seemed to know that Seong-il was following Theo & Mila.

Seong-il was greatly surprised by those words, but he responded to him with a bold expression based on the courage he had grown from traveling around the world.

“What do you mean… I just walked along the pilgrimage route?”

“Is that so? But the forest didn’t talk like that.”

“…”

Lucille spits out puzzling words. Seong-il stood there silently because he could not understand his words. Ruchel begins to weave his luck about his abilities.

“I’m very friendly with the spirits of the earth. Especially since I’ve lived alone in this beech forest for so many years, the spirits, trees, and forest life that dwell here have all become my friends.”

‘…No way?’

Ruchel’s words made my spine ache. When Seong-il hesitates for words, Ruchel calmly continues his explanation.

“I learned about a person with a legacy left by a doll knight through a newspaper the other day…”

Ruchel calmly begins to explain her reasoning to Seong-il. Surprisingly, he seemed to have guessed exactly that, like the cult’s apostle, one of the pilgrims had obtained a doll and was adventuring along the pilgrimage route.

“…So I asked all the beings living in this forest to take a deep interest in the pilgrims passing through this place. Keep collecting their information and pass it on to me.”

“…”

“And in the meantime. Trees and spirits told me about you. About a man secretly pursuing two boys and girls.”

‘It sucks.’

“Not only was he good at stealth and tracking, but he also seemed to have mystical powers.”

An obvious back story. Even though Seong-il had prepared so thoroughly, he felt extremely depressed when he was found out in vain.

“So I asked the birds and trees to watch ‘you’. Isn’t it? Today, you tried to act wildly, unlike usual, and I was suspicious of it, so I cautiously approached the boy and girl. Then This incident happened. How is it? My reasoning.”

‘…For some reason, I kept getting a chilly feeling in the forest.’

Although he felt unusual in the forest, he always felt the same wherever he went, so Seong-il assumed that it was because the energy of this forest was not normal.

‘Fuck… All the creatures in the forest are watching me, so how do I know and deal with that?’

If one or two creatures were watching him, he would think, ‘Is someone watching me?’, But now, ‘all’ beings in the forest were watching him.

At first, he felt a sense of incongruity through the response, but since the stimulation continued for several days without a break, Seong-il had no choice but to be vigilant.

‘…Although the reaction gave me attention, he didn’t even express a crisis to me…’

Because of this, Seong-il believes that Seong-il will be able to solve the current situation with enough words, so she tries to answer him with a conciliatory attitude.

“Hmm… I don’t have anything to say since you said that. That’s right. I followed those kids. However, it’s absolutely not because I had any ill intentions towards them. I happened to get information through a route I couldn’t tell you, I knew they were trying to steal their dolls and I was just trying to protect them.”

Seong-il defends his innocence to Ruchel in the most confident tone. However, Ruchel still raises her staff with a cool expression and answers Seongil.

“Is that so? I don’t think so.”

“…?”

On the holy day, it wasn’t just for Ruchel to force herself. He has some grounds and he realizes that he is trying to rebut him in a strong tone.

“I think you’re a cultist’s pursuer.”

“…What bullshit?”

Let the opponent give an answer that is too shocking. Seong-il forgets to use a polite tone in his absurdity and spits out a half-swearing answer.

“No… Right now, I helped subdue the enemy’s leader in this fight, but what…?”

“First.”

“…?”

“The ring you are wearing right now.”

Ruchel is dumbfounded and cuts off Seong-il’s words, pointing at his hand.

Looking at the direction his fingertips were pointing, Seong-il was able to identify the incomprehensible ring he was wearing.

“I can sense all sorts of sinister mysticism in that ring, though it hides its presence with powerful mysteries. My eyes can’t fool it.”

‘Ah fuck…’

Seong-il realizes that he is in a difficult situation and swears inwardly. In fact, as Ruchel said, the incomprehensible ring is made of pieces of the ‘abyss’, the end of everything, so Seong-il realizes that he is in a situation where he can doubt enough.

“The second is the sword you’ve been wearing for days.”

“…Knife?”

“Yes. That sword that seems to have been endowed with necromancy power.

“!!!!”

Surprisingly, of course, Lucille knows that Seong-il was holding the cursed sword. He shows a figure that seems to have grasped the history of the sword.

“Third. You claimed to have subdued the cult leader. When her cult leader fell, the doll with her sword you were holding snatched her away like her ghost.”

‘I’m sick…’

“You subdued her boss, but you also took her out at the same time. That’s not a normal situation. Am I wrong?”

“…”

Seong-il feels that he will never be able to resolve the misunderstanding because the situation is twisted. Because of that, Seong-il, who was nervous, raised his internal energy.

Ruchel also gives magic to the staff and tells Seong-il.

“I don’t think you’ve been following the children around for good purposes, whether you’re a cult or not. So I think you should go with me to the Monastery of St. Severantia.”

“…I can’t do that?”

“Then there’s nothing you can do about it.”

After that, Ruchel lifts her staff and starts pouring strong attack spells at Seong-il.

The appearance of a blade of cold and a vine that hinders the movement of Seongil. Seong-il activates Chrono Shield’s physical defense and once again applies 『Blessing of Nazarus』 On his body to apply all kinds of buff magic.

I’m going to have a good time…!!

In the meantime, heavy chunks of ice flew over Seongil’s body. However, the incomprehensible ring worn on Seongil’s finger strongly denies magic and annihilates it, as if it cannot tolerate magic harming its owner.

“… Indeed, it’s not an ordinary item. Is it a holy thing of the Shinigami?”

‘It’s a similar thing in a different sense, but…’

Seong-il smiles bitterly at Ruchel’s cry and begins to wrap the Sunyang Ganggi in his hand.

Shaaah…!!

As soon as such a holy day waved his hand, the magical plants growing on the floor were instantly burned up, and the ice began to melt without even reaching it.

“…You’re more amazing than I thought.”

When Seong-il neutralizes his attack with a single gesture of strange power, Ruchel raises his wooden staff into the air again with a really surprised expression.

‘What’s wrong… I don’t want to hurt Ruchel…’

Seong-il hesitated for a while, as it could be a headache if he seriously injured or killed him by mistake. Ruchel begins to summon many spirits around her by reciting chants at an unbelievable speed.

‘What’s so fast?!’

No matter how great a mage he may be, when he summons a group of earth, water, and wind spirits in an instant, Seong-il sticks out his tongue at his tremendous skills.

‘Ah fuck… Is there anything special? Let’s beat it once! If I have to, I’ll just use an elixir to save him.’

Since his opponent’s skill is his skill, Seong-il realizes that he will suffer if he does not give his all, and prepares an attack by gritting his teeth.

‘First of all, the number of summons…!!’

With an incomprehensible ring, Seong-il decides to subdue the spirits that annoy him one by one, enduring the ruthless baptism of magic pouring down on him with the ring of incomprehensibility.

“First of all, you…!!”

When the rock spirit tries to protect Ruchel’s safety by covering his eyesight, Seong-il violently swings his fist.

Wow!!!

Then, everywhere, as if in a quarry, the sound of bombs being used to break rocks resound. And after the dust settles, the appearance of the smashed rock spirit appears.

Boredom…?!

The upper level water spirit must be greatly surprised by Seongil’s terrifying power, so he urgently distances himself from Seongil and launches a fierce water ball to attack from a distance.

“Plaguy…!!”

Seong-il, who catches the cold and rocks thrown by Lucille with the power of terrifying psychokinesis, returns the attack to the water and wind spirits that annoy him.

Byu Lulu…

Shaa…

In this way, Seong-il succeeds in destroying half of the spirit army summoned by Lucille in just one breath. Then he glares at Ruchel with a confident expression and provokes her.

“This is the end? This isn’t the only ability of Lucille Milotti, the retired great mage of the Fildin continent, right?”

As the adrenaline surges to the tip of her head, Seong-il roughly blows a provocative comment to Ruchel that he would not normally do well.

“…Do you know me?”

To Lucille’s surprise, when the man in front of her knows her personal details, he looks really surprised.

“Then I will do my best.”

Ruchel lightly evaded the teleportation-loaded boulders flying towards her with teleportation magic. He then proceeds to carve something of himself into the floor by moving stones around him, also using telekinetic magic.

“How dare you…!!”

Since Seong-il is not blind, he laughs at Ruchel’s actions and throws the stone he lifted with telekinesis to disrupt the magic.

Burr…!!

The spirits of water and wind, who survived the bloody attack of Seong-il, made a face of determination for a moment and then threw themselves at the stone.

Puck!! Few!!

Of course, since it was not a normal stone, the spirits that were hit directly by it could not survive and were reverse summoned to the spirit realm on the spot.

However, are their sacrifices not in vain? Ruchel succeeds in completing the magic circle she wants to draw on the floor.

“Prince of the earth, come to this world according to the contract you made with me!!”

‘What the fuck…’

No matter what she did, Seong-il looks horrified at the appearance of Ruchel, who seems to have summoned the strongest person in the spirit realm.

『Why… Did you… Call me…?』

“There is an apostle of death before my eyes. I can’t defeat him with my own strength, so I need your help!!”

“Hmm…”

The prince of the earth took a light look at the holy day at Ruchel’s words, and scattered mystical powers around him to block the stones loaded with telekinesis.

『Nature… Become an army according to my will…』

The heavy cry of the Prince of the Earth. Then, the power of fearsome life force starts to run out of the surrounding trees.

‘…Fuck this?!’

And Seong-il, who roughly realized what the situation was and the gameplay. He realizes he’s in the worst situation and swears inwardly.

Wooddeuk!! Deuk!!

And as if his ominous imagination was not wrong. The surrounding trees make a grotesque sound like old joints colliding, and all of them transform into tree spirits, Ents, and begin to surround the holy day.