Chapter 951 – On the Last Ear
“Ummm…”
A very typical moan.
When I realized that the pain was coming out of my mouth, I opened my eyes.
Cheer. Cheer.
…My head is throbbing.
In some pain. What I could see from my softly opened eyes was black hair like a flowing waterfall.
…Is it a woman?
A woman with black hair and long hair like a waterfall.
Who is it
Funny enough, the first thing that came to my mind was a girl who looked like my friend, whom I couldn’t meet after coming to this world, even though I wanted to.
But since she is in the original world, is it Clarir?
However, this is Matan.
Although the odds of Clarir being here aren’t zero, she must be infinitely low.
Then who are you? This guy
Of all the waterfall-like dark-haired women I know… Most likely, she is that woman.
Vice Bishop Lee Ha-ryun.
After the deal, I knew that the woman I had let go, telling me to live as I pleased, had returned to Matan.
Since he seemed to have a strange interest in me, it wouldn’t be strange to say that he was looking for an opportunity to kidnap me after I came to Matan.
And, there is another woman who would enjoy kidnapping and incapacitating me.
Not too long ago, Shin Jin-pae came and warned her, the business partner of ‘The Goddess’.
A ridiculous girl who has troublesome skills and is definitely looking for a chance to hit me, even though she must be stronger than Shin Jin-pae.
I deliberately blinked her eyes without calling her name.
And I was surprised.
It was because the moment after I blinked, that person was right in front of me.
Seeing him up close, he was a complete stranger.
I am, perhaps, the girl in the white dress that the existence in front of my eyes only heard about. I thought it might be, but my expectations were nicely missed.
First of all, the clothes the opponent was wearing were not the sky-high dresses worn by girls, but red armor that was hard and seemed to have a mix of oriental and western designs.
In addition, the lower official who could be seen from the perspective where the blur disappeared and regained clarity was too dignified to be considered a woman’s.
“You opened your eyes.”
The voice is thick.
Ah.
You were a man
The long-haired, black-haired man I know is about the scholar type…
Looking at it now, he was wearing a goblin mask that covered half of his face.
It was a guy I had never seen before.
But, why did Lee Ja bring me…?
I tried to raise my upper body, and the man silently reached out his hand.
“Lie down. You’re in the worst condition.”
“…”
It must be the worst.
Strengthen, transcend. Cost. Own flame.
In addition, he forcibly changed the conditions of Yonginhwa, which were restricted in order to bring in incomplete power, and applied loads to his body.
I don’t know, but I must have been in the worst condition than the last time the kids shed tears thinking I was going to die.
After hearing that it was the worst, I felt a pain like being stabbed with a needle through my body.
“Here is?”
“The palace. And my room.”
Palace…?
As I savored those words, I opened my mouth wide.
[Drehem!!!]
It was dragged into the inner world with a sound like a cry.
Standing in front of me blinking my eyes is a huge black dragon.
The dragon he fought earlier had white streams of water carved around his majestic dragon’s eyes, to the point of snoring that it was just an illusion.
In other words. Crying.
[Idiot. What are you doing!!]
Malakia who yells at her without her usual concept tone.
I was the one who acted on my own this time, so I apologized with a wry smile.
“I’m sorry, Malachia.”
[How stupid…]
Malachia, grunting and whimpering, was about to reach out her hand to me.
“As expected. Plaguebyeongryong is in the air.”
“…!!”
Hearing the voice from the outside, I immediately escaped from my inner world, immediately put Ryunar in my hand, and guarded my opponent.
This man is strong.
Will I be able to win with a half-corpse body?
“I’m going to faint from the pain, but being able to marry Ryunar. Huh.”
The admiring man stretched out his hand far away.
Then a chair floated up and landed next to my bed.
He sat down in a chair and crossed his arms.
“What is your name?”
“…”
I narrowed my eyes and surveyed the situation.
There is only one man here.
Around, no one.
Is this your chance to escape…?
However, I already knew I didn’t have to.
Although there was hostility toward the man in front of me, it wasn’t directed at me.
“What are you so nervous about? If I had tried to kill you, I would have tried while I was fainting.”
Trial?
I narrowed my brows at something ambiguous.
“In the first place, you must have noticed that I had no hostility. Is it because of my friendship with the Plague Dragon?”
“It’s not a Plague Dragon.”
A cold voice escaped from my mouth.
“Don’t call me that nickname.”
“Annihilation… Is it?”
The laughing man bent his head upward and let out a sigh.
“If you won’t tell me your name, can I guess?”
“Yes?”
Come to think of it, did I ask for your name?
“Dragoon. Isn’t it?”
“…Similar.”
First of all, it’s a nickname. The tone is also similar.
“Haha!! It’s like that!!”
I said it half-jokingly, but the man clapped loudly as if he was very happy, then held out his hand to me.
“This is an honor!! Was there anyone who inherited the will of the Dragoons in those days!!”
“Uh…”
Why is this man who is hostile to Malachia so friendly?
What is Dragoon’s maintenance?
I was puzzled, but I needed to tune in to this man to see what was going on.
I reached out and took his hand.
“I’m late in introducing myself. I…”
“The one who shot the bow and tried to kill us to the ghost king.”
I tried not to, but sarcastic words came out of my mouth.
Haha. Indeed indeed. You are a warrior who knows how to value his friends. Yes. I have no choice but to be hostile to me for trying to hurt my friends!”
“…”
Even my sarcasm was passed over in an adult manner, so there was no more hostility.
“I am Hakjinmu, one of the generals of the Magical Kingdom, who was given the title of King Seong (弓聖).”
I opened my mouth.
“The palace…!”
Even in Elyunar, which is huge and dirty like Jupiter, there are only five sword stars.
However, as wide as it is, there are not only those who have reached the extreme of the sword.
Although not near Enthiaer, there are people in this world who have reached the extreme of non-mainstream weapons such as spears, bows, and even chain scythes.
The man in front of me is a skilled swordsman.
He is the one who has reached the pinnacle of the bow.
Indeed, I wanted to get angry at a big guy for being hit by a bow, but if it was an arrow shot by a nobleman with this level of skill, I would have been angry.
Well, that’s it
There is an important point.
“Hakjinmu. Are you keeping your sanity?”
“Ah. Yes. I know that I myself have become a ghost, and I also know that the magic bullet has become a demonic realm full of ghosts.”
Hak Jin-moo replied as if nothing happened.
“I saw with my own eyes the day when the demons perished. And according to the laws of the world, we have reached a state where we can say that we are still alive, albeit in a limited way.”
“Laws of the world…”
Hak Jin-moo smiled and continued.
“Did you guys call it the will of the dimension?”
“…!!”
Hakjinmu looked at my surprised face with interest.
“The only crazy people who can enter this demonic realm are strangers. As expected, you guys have come to solve the trials imposed by the laws of the world.”
Trials imposed by the laws of the world. Are you talking about quests?
You mean you know about the existence of quests?
I had no choice but to admit that the being in front of me was an intelligent being.
“The people of the Magical Kingdom, all…”
“Ah. That’s not it.”
You shake your head and deny my words in advance.
“There are very few people like me who are rational enough to have a smooth conversation. The palace soldiers have enough intelligence to carry out orders, but that is all. Also, since their bodies are bound by magic bullets, they will return to corpses as soon as they go outside. “
“…Outside…”
When I blurted out my words, Hak Jin-moo grinned.
“The more I see you, the more I like you. Now, since we can’t go outside as ghosts, are you feeling sad that we might feel bored for the rest of our lives?”
What is this man
Why are you so quick-witted?
Is it because of the palace, or is it a good eye?
“It’s better than I thought because my perspective changed after becoming a ghost. Also, even though we couldn’t go outside, we were able to extract information from those who entered here.”
That is why Hakjinmu said with a smile that he knew a little about the outside news.
“Then, what is your purpose?”
“Hmm?”
“If you know about the trials imposed by the laws of the world, what do you want?”
Now, if the people of the Magical Kingdom exist as ghosts and the reason this man is maintaining his sanity is because of the quest to Return to the Magician’s Ear.
Is it their purpose to keep the laws that keep them alive, preventing them from completing their quest?
“Ah. There’s a misunderstanding. Even if you solve the ordeal, we won’t disappear.”
“…Is that so?”
“Then, you might be wondering why we attack and block the demons? It’s simple. It’s what the law says.”
The law.
In other words, are these beings whose orders of will of the dimension have been input?
“Then why are you leaving me alone now…”
When I blurted out my words again, Hakjinmu laughed heartily.
“Haha. Did you realize it yourself? You’re a smart friend as well.”
Hakjinmu looked outside.
I followed his gaze and looked outside, and then I saw the blackened sky.
Even with the lightsaber, it seems that it was difficult to completely remove that terrible miasma.
“Yes. As you think, it’s because I killed the Plague Dragon of fantasy. Originally, that was the condition for the ordeal.”
Ambiguous words.
I have to pay attention to the word bondi, but I was angry in another part.
“So. Don’t call me Plague Dragon…”
“Ah…”
I stopped trying to speak in a disgruntled voice.
It was because Hakjinmu covered his mouth with both hands and shivered.
He looked slightly distressed, but the corners of his mouth twitched and his eyes glistened with madness.
“Aaaaah…! To think that in thousands of years, I would be able to see that damned old dragon die, even in a fantasy…”
“…”
“Ah. That scene, that was so enchanting.
The joy and sympathy I felt just a moment ago. Awe.
All those emotions disappeared, and only cold emotions remained in me.
Also.
This guy is the enemy
As long as there is a friend inside of me.
The moment I was about to arouse hostility, Hakjinmu reached out his hand.
“Ah. I don’t like Plague Dragon, but I’m full of goodwill towards you. So, stop your speculation.”
“You have a favor for me? Why? For doing something I haven’t been able to do for thousands of years?”
Hakjinmu twisted his mouth as if in trouble at my hostility.
“Umm. Of course there is that too. But I don’t know because it’s been destroyed for a long time, but Matan is originally a dragon, or a country that worships fallen dragon hunting.”
“…Uh.”
Suddenly study history?
“There was something heartwarming about the image of you facing the dragon. The reason why we didn’t do anything to the ghost who became a half-corpse and even treated him was because there was no way to kill him, but also because we liked him.”
“Why couldn’t you kill me…”
Tiring!!
[Blessing of the Holy Dragon
Remaining: 3]
“…”
Ah. Okay.
To be honest, I didn’t even think about it completely without thinking.
The divine protection bestowed by the Holy Dragon.
Intuitively, I sensed that the blessing was to protect life, so I threw it at the phantom Malacia…
“If you were originally, he would be dead.”
“…”
“This is the first time I’ve seen such a technology with such huge side effects. Well, it would be natural if a human threw off his human mask and became a dragon, a creature of a higher dimension… You vomited blood, your stomach split open, your internal organs protruded, and your bones swelled out. It broke into pieces and became like a hedgehog.”
OMG.
Awesome
Just imagining it hurts.
“But I survived. It’s probably because of that incredibly dazzling, yet ominous protection.”
“Hoo…”
Dazzling but ominous
This is another interesting point of view.
Seen through the eyes of a ghost, does Holy Dragon’s protection look like that?
“Yes. And you’ve been passed out for four days.”
“Ohh. Four days…”
…
Eh?
“Four days?!?!”
“Hmm”
“My colleagues…?”
“Well? I don’t know because I only retrieved demons? At least I hope I don’t go into that hideous ghost’s nest.”
I opened my mouth and tossed the blanket.
It wasn’t the time to be like this!!
Jump!!
Suddenly the door slammed open.
I wondered if a magician’s soldier had entered, but the one who entered was… A very unexpected person.
Unlike before, it was clean and there was no dust on it, so it stood out even more.
An illusion she saw a while ago.
It was an unidentified woman who followed our subjugation party.
Was this woman not a living woman, but a citizen of the Magical Kingdom…?
By the way, she came to close her distance to me with strides.
The moment I muttered, “It’s scary because her eyes are so sharp…”, She grabbed me by the collar and pushed her face against me and shouted.
“You!! What’s the relationship between the teacher and vice president Ha-Ryoon Lee!!”
What?
Lee Ha-ryun?
“Tell me!! You were on good terms with that woman!!”
“No…”
Hak Jin-moo, who seemed to be looking at us blindly, made a ho-ho sound as if he was interested.
“A battle of love? Interesting.”
It’s not, you son of a bitch.
