Chapter 572 – #118_Betrayal
#572
One.
Although Dorothy left ahead of schedule, Leruye, who was saddened, quickly regained her energy.
Instead of sitting idly by, she chose to bury herself in her military studies materials and magazines that had been her gift.
Even refusing to accompany the ordeal.
Since Siwoo was engrossed in his work, including going through trials, he decided to focus on his work as well.
“It’s a real experience event.”
An ordeal in which sparring is infinitely close to actual combat.
Furthermore, it was a great experience to be able to compete with a black knight who was several times superior in performance, not just a person who showed his potential.
Comparing the time before entering the ordeal and now after pouring a month into the ordeal….
Wouldn’t it be more than twice the difference with simple combat power?
At first, the black knight, who felt like a dead end, seemed like he could catch up within three months at the longest, or a month at the shortest.
Unlike Siwoo, who keeps getting stronger, the growth of the Black Knight is fixed once at the time of registration, so it must be all the more so.
For example, the black knight could not use the magic newly obtained after forming a relationship with Rruye.
Of course, even if he had a relationship with Siwoo, he couldn’t copy the high-level magic at once.
However, through repeated relationships, the prototype was reproduced more precisely, and I was making it my own through many trials and errors.
As she gains a relationship with her, her magnetic magic that she has learned is ‘waves of the Demon Sea’.
The magic was the gigantic tidal wave that swallowed the small city lightly when it faced Rruye in the first fish tank.
Classified into systems, it is a type of force field magic.
Going down a more detailed branch, it is a dynamic wave magic that converts a large amount of sea water into magic water to create waves, and uses the waves as a medium.
The angry wave that arose was the tyrant itself, crushing all resistance with unprecedented power.
Compared to Siwoo’s other magics, his destructive power alone was the best.
The shadow armor reinforced with elemental magic was torn to shreds before it even touched the waves.
However, she couldn’t use the ‘waves of the sea’ exactly like her.
Aside from the incompleteness of the cloning, it was because it required a lot of magic power to use it once.
Leruye was born rich in magical powers.
Moreover, Leruye efficiently managed super-large construction machine-level fuel efficiency by summoning actual seawater through other magnetic magic with auxiliary characteristics.
But Siwoo doesn’t have that kind of talent.
In such a situation, even if she imitates her wave, she will only create one wave and her magical power will be drained.
So Siu took a detour.
It was decided to use it as one of the ways to deal with the distortion field of the red branch.
Although it has been described as a tsunami, in reality, the way Leruhe creates a huge wave is closer to a ‘rogue wave’ in principle.
An anomalous wave of tens of meters that rises suddenly without any warning in the middle of the flat ocean and throws a large ship aground.
When the wave’s wavelength and direction match.
In other words, when the waves overlap, the energy is concentrated and creates a huge force.
Grafting the sequence that draws out that huge power to the ‘distortion field’ of the red branch.
It does not stop at simply limiting, compressing, or releasing the distortion field, but leads to waves with destructive power added.
This is a new magic that I perfected after days of theory.
“Let’s use it in practice today.”
I finished preparing the eolchu.
Close your eyes and place your hand on the cradle of dreams to infuse magic.
A consciousness that subsides at that moment.
Siwoo entered the space of courtesy ordeal with the feeling of dizziness after a long time.
“Uh?”
However, as soon as I entered the space, I felt a sense of incongruity.
Originally, there is an ‘end’ in the space of this ordeal where he competed with the black knight.
There was a cliff at the end of the square ground so that you could give up halfway even if you didn’t have to die inside.
But now it didn’t exist.
Like a Colosseum where you have to fight for your life, the white walls were wrapped around like a box, and the walls and the earth were unknown.
Innumerable magical formulas shining in gold are engraved on it.
“What?”
Like the time when the red branch that had been extracted before was held in the hand of the black knight again, this strange phenomenon may also be a bug.
No matter how artifacts are, if they are not maintained regularly, they will break down.
Perhaps the structure of this artifact has been revealed, just as the circuit board of an old electronic device has been exposed.
“By the way…. What about that magic formula?”
However, Siu, who looked around the magic ceremony inside, somehow felt familiar.
I felt ominous at the same time.
It is an intuition close to an instinct acquired while crossing the line.
-Clap clap clap clap
The Black Knight appeared like a mirage.
Shin Si-woo himself, who fully bloomed his inner potential.
Only then did he realize the identity of the magic formula that made up this cage.
A quirk that even a witch with excellent calculation skills could not imitate.
An inner unconscious that prepares for all variables and possibilities, and is closer to a supercomputer than a human if compared to Go.
If so, that wasn’t what the witches of the deep sea had intended.
It is not an error of any kind.
It is a field of ordeal that the Black Knight interfered with the artifact and redrawn according to his own intention.
For what?
“Why didn’t you embrace the witch of salvation?”
The dialogue heard from inside the helmet is his own unfamiliar voice.
An inorganic tone that has never been heard except for ‘Bloom’, in which all emotions have been worn out, hits the back burner.
“Why do you turn away from the fastest way to gain strength?”
There is no resentment for being a rebuke.
Advice is not in any favor.
However, the tone of tone clearly criticizes stupidity.
“What are you talking about?”
It was the first conversation Siwoo had with a deeply asleep unconscious.
“Unable to see your foolishness, Kether relieved the burden on your small heart. If it were me, I could have reached a level several times higher than four.”
“…….”
Rather than the words, this situation is embarrassing, and I am speechless.
What is keter?
And what are you going to do?
“Even though it was a very simple thing to have more witches, you didn’t do anything.”
Accident that followed.
Siwoo becomes stronger as he forms relationships with many different witches.
It is thanks to the ability to copy magic.
If Siu had put up a poster saying ‘I want a one night stand’ in Gehenna, at least hundreds of people would have flocked like a cloud to have a relationship with the first male witch.
If that was the case, I would have been able to obtain various magics as the black knight said.
But there are already too many people to take responsibility for.
It is true that I have refrained from doing so even though many opportunities have come my way.
And I didn’t think it was the right way.
It seems that the opinions of the black knight and Siwoo were greatly divided in that regard.
“I don’t need you anymore.”
Along with the declaration of the black knight, the magic ceremony spread in all directions shined.
I grasped the words and the flow of magic reflected in my left eye, and figured out the type.
The real feeling of having a vivid dream disappeared, and it was discovered that this space itself was transformed into ‘reality’.
“I will kill you and take your body.”
The magic ceremony that took control of the cradle of dreams drew the ordeal, which was only a fleeting dream, into a completely different space.
A place of life and death where the leadership of the surface consciousness is fought.
Even if you die, you can’t wake up.
There is no cliff to run to the end and fall down.
If you lose in this, all that remains is to be trapped in the darkness of endless unconsciousness.
Maybe I was too complacent in the first place.
If the cradle of dreams is to lead Siwoo to the ‘base of the unconscious’.
It should also have been expected that the unusual Shin Si-woo’s subconscious flowed backwards and took over this space.
“No, how do you expect this?”
When I think about it, it makes no more sense.
Would you have dared to imagine that the unconscious would be so out of standard?
“Bloom.”
It is no different from meeting a bear at a mineral spring after going out for an early morning jog for exercise and a light heart.
As if the conversation had ended here, Siwoo also donned an armor against the black knight who lifted the red branch.
2.
At that time, Lerouet was killing time.
“Oh oh…. I will definitely buy this.”
Like a woman who makes a fuss while shopping at home, she drools again when she sees Nimitz-class aircraft carriers in military magazines.
It was so much fun to imagine standing tall atop this gorgeous aircraft carrier, waving a baton and cape flapping in the rough sea breeze.
“By the way…. The price…. It is quite expensive.”
42 billion dollars.
I’m not sure how much, but it’s definitely a lot of money.
It’s probably hard enough to handle even if you inherit all the inheritance.
It seemed like it would cost a fortune even if it was just the money to mount the aircraft and build an escort fleet.
After a while, Leruhe, who was grunting and thinking, gave a clear answer.
“No problem! All you have to do is plunder the neighboring countries!”
If necessary, there may be a way to raid US military bases and plunder them for free without paying money.
Around the time when a dreamy girl spreads her happy imagination.
Leruhe jumped up.
Because she felt a presence inside the submarine.
She was evidently the presence of Dorothy, her best friend, whom she had only thought had left hours before, so Leruhe threw down her magazine and ran straight to her parlor.
“Dorothy! What is this!”
“Queen~ Hello~”
In the sunny spring season, L’ruhe runs up and down like a excited fawn after picking new shoots and hugs her.
Dorothy opened her arms and lightly accepted L’ruhe’s physical charge.
“Didn’t I say the vacation was over? What a surprise that came back without a word! Wouldn’t Jim be very happy if he did this!”
She smiled brightly and looked at Leruhe, whom she liked, and Dorothy also smiled.
“Actually~ I won’t stay for long, there are things I left behind for a while. Oh, there is also a gift that I forgot to share.”
“What did you leave behind? Gift?”
Dorothy’s magic reflection light shines in a deep silver light that blinds the bewildered Lruhe.
Why is Dorothy using magic?
Is a gift a special artifact?
Leruye, who was cradled in her arms without any doubt, felt a sharp pain spreading through her abdomen.
The small sound that came in late was a light sound as if a fork had been inserted into the tofu rather than tearing and ripping through her flesh.
“Ah…. Uh?”
Dorothy’s hand holding a sword shining white.
The lower abdomen that the blade pierced through.
Red bloodstains blooming like flowers on the white cloth.
Just like when a sword pierced through the stomach, it came out lightly without any resistance.
“Cool… !”
L’ruhe sighed and stared at Dorothy and at her wound.
Reflexively, she belatedly tried to cast her magic, but nothing happened.
The place where Dorothy attacked was the vital point that, if she was a witch, she should never be hurt.
Her slumped L’ruhe looked up at Dorothy in disbelief.
“Why… Dorothy…. Why…?”
Dorothy was still laughing.
It was a smile that seemed to have been pulled up with fishing hooks hanging from the corners of her mouth.
“Queen, this is my last gift and lesson.”
It gave me goosebumps.
The benevolent smile she always displayed did not fade even the moment her hands were stained with blood.
“It’s better not to believe in achievements too much~”
Whoa a feint.