Chapter 238 – 8. The Fallen Daedalus (8)
The blow with sincerity did not have any effect on the surroundings, and the speed of thinking that could not be achieved with the structure of primitive creatures.
Unlike Er and Allen, who are only now beginning to realize that something has happened, the scientist who transformed into a giant monster was staring straight at himself, even though it was only his eyes.
There was only one way to explain this.
It was clear that he had counteracted telekinesis with telekinesis and, like himself, had accelerated his thought speed through psychic powers.
Something, obviously there will be more.
Although there was a difference in basic calculation ability and thinking speed compared to himself, the fact that he seemed to fall short of himself despite the degree of overclocking through psychic energy was not a reason for him to be afraid of him.
While examining him, Yuria caught her eye on something with a red light behind him.
Only a small portion of it was visible, but Yuria was very surprised when she saw what appeared to be a large red ring.
‘Stefanos?’
Stephanos, commonly known as the crown.
It is a restraining tool worn on heinous sinners, and sharp thorns protrude from the ring specially designed for the perfect restraint of psychic abilities, and penetrate into the brain, limiting not only the ability but also the target’s thinking ability.
Due to its inhumane characteristics, it was a restraining tool that was prohibited from being used except for a few heinous criminals.
When she thought that if that thing had been put on her, YuRia’s spine felt chilly.
‘Dangerous… ‘
In a way, it’s a more dangerous thing than that wicked snake-soldier.
If that was put on his head, he would…
Yuria, who had gone crazy thinking about that, decided to think about it later, and only thought that she had to get rid of it from this world right now.
The hair and eyes that were shining brightly were expressed with a much brighter light. The telekinesis at the maximum output possible right now converged to a small point, thereby distorting the surrounding space-time.
Telekinesis is not gravity, but when this amount of force converges on this amount of points, it is not a black hole, but it becomes something that is almost like a black hole.
The pseudo-black hole caused by the telekinesis formed above the scientist’s head struck him as it was, and at that moment, a flash of light occurred.
――――――――――――!!!!
A gigantic flash that cannot be described in words.
Due to the shock wave, the air outside the telekinesis barrier that Yuria had already created was blown away before it even made a sound, so no sound could be heard, but a tremendous roar could have been heard from outside.
If all the aftermath disappears due to telekinesis and neutralization caused by telekinesis, it is enough to change the method.
This explosion right now is not caused by telekinetic power, but rather an explosion that occurs when the distorted space-time is released due to excessive telekinetic power.
I don’t know what his abilities are, but I don’t think he’ll survive that explosion.
But if it’s a crown…
“Yu, Yuria sister?”
Er, shocked by the huge explosion, looked at Yuria.
Allen, who was half out of his mind, also came back to his senses in a daze when the laboratory, the source of his nightmares, was swallowed up in a huge explosion and disappeared.
“Ahhh…?”
“…”
YuRia let out a sigh at the sight of Allen making an expression that seemed to have finally healed a wound that had been lingering for so long.
Because he understood Allen’s feelings.
The days of hell where every day doesn’t seem to be lived…
The despair of endless pain is a type of trauma that those who haven’t experienced it can never understand.
He hadn’t gotten over the trauma himself yet.
It’s just that I’ve had a bigger trauma than that, and I’ve been able to be relatively calm about this side of work.
No, it must be because of that trauma that he suddenly committed an unreasonable attack without thinking about it.
The moment I saw the crown, I felt as if my head had turned white.
The fear of being caught on the laboratory table again and subjected to all sorts of terrible experiments.
On the other hand, it may be fortunate that there are other traumas that allow you to endure that trauma a little bit.
If it hadn’t been for that, he might have panicked like Allen and been taken to that dreaded laboratory with a crown on his head.
Thinking about it made me want to cry.
That terrible trauma might be fortunate.
I felt sick to my stomach.
However, thanks to that, it was definitely true that he escaped from the danger of breaking up with Roa forever.
When I thought that way, I couldn’t just deny it, so my feelings became complicated again.
Not far from the lab.
Of course, even so, Yuria, who had landed hundreds of kilometers away, felt dizzy from the excessive use of her abilities.
‘I’m sleepy… ‘
She didn’t consume her power excessively to the extent that her body shrunk like the time of the new singular tree, but she really exhausted her power to the point where she became empty after a long time, and her eyes kept closing. Come.
“Er… Go to Gacheu. I think I need to sleep…”
“Uh, sister…”
YuRia, who had been dozing off with a pale complexion, eventually fell asleep, and Er sighed softly as she looked at YuRia, who looked very weak.
Gashra…
Certainly, in the current situation, Gash would be better.
In order to properly take care of her now older sister, she would have to go to the World Tree or Thebes Noah’s temple, but between the two, the World Tree is closer.
“Allen, are you okay now?”
“Uh, uh, uh…”
Allen replied weakly.
I was still in a daze, but the fear that I felt like I would die at any moment as I watched the research center being destroyed has now disappeared, and now I am filled with confusion that is difficult to describe.
She couldn’t even explain her feelings to herself.
Such a strange feeling. Feeling for the first time.
But anyway. I felt like I could move on my own now.
“Do you think your brainwashing is off?”
“Mo, I don’t know… But since he’s not by her side, wouldn’t it matter?”
Er held out her hand to Allen, who was about to get up from her seat. What about Allen? She got up from her seat holding her hand, even though she was awkward.
“Go, thank you”
“There’s nothing to be thankful for. If you’re sick, even those cuties won’t like it.”
Allen said haha… She let out an awkward laugh.
“Let’s hurry. We have a long way to go.”
Er held out her Yuria to Allen. Allen accepted YuRia and she nodded her head slightly.
“Okay, let’s hurry up. It’s obvious that this idiot didn’t even think about his condition and overreacted.”
Although she was possessed by his powers due to trauma, Allen is also a disciple of Nell, the official strongest in the West Continent.
When she took her heart and started moving in earnest, her speed was not normal.
Seeing Allen like that, Er flew through the sky and looked out from above, keeping an eye on her Allen.
It’s not that she doesn’t trust Allen, but she was somehow insecure.
More than anything else, it was hard to believe that she had yet completely escaped his brainwashing powers, so Er didn’t let go of her attention.
* * * * *
Loa breathed a sigh of relief as tents piled up around a huge crackling bonfire.
Fortunately, the group of beastmen we encountered for the first time after entering Gash were very kind, so Roa received a warm cloak made of fur and the princess received a fur clothes.
For some reason, seeing them looking so naive, the princess became a little complicated.
It is not that there are no different races in one kingdom, but it is rare to see them, so the princess had a slight prejudice against them.
As it is half-man and half-beast, there will be a difference in degree depending on the mixed beast, but I presumed that it would be feral, rough, and savage, and the beastmen who went around with the devil’s contractor who actually entangled him were not so different from their prejudice, so the princess’s The prejudice did not have a chance to be corrected, but the innocent look of the beastmen who treated them so kindly made the princess look very ugly for her narrow-mindedness.
Thinking about it, the princess became even more ashamed when she thought that the reason why people who originally lived all over the continent came to live together in one place was to avoid and escape from human persecution.
Who is ferocious and who is wild?
“How are the different races?”
“…”
“Of course, not all of them are like this because they are of different races. Sometimes even among them there are very selfish and self-righteous beings.”
Around the large campfire were several makeshift stoves made of stone and clay.
A large pot hung over the stove, bubbling and giving off a delicious aroma.
“It’s widespread here too.”
A faint but familiar smell mingled with the smell of the boiling stew.
The smell of dried vegetables developed by YuRia and onions fried to an almost black hue.
Feeling nostalgic for the familiar scent, he was about to close his eyes for a moment when a beastman cat was holding out a wooden bowl full of stew to him and the princess.
“You guys must be hungry too, let’s eat together”
“Ah… Thank you.
“It’s not that it’s so rude that you can’t serve even one or two dishes to guests.”
Loa smiled for some reason when she saw her cute little clenched hands.
Is this why the Ents in the kingdom go crazy when they say they are beasts?
Even so, he had no intention of understanding the Ent-in Kingdom.
The figure in front of her was quite cute, but she didn’t really like her as the opposite sex.
“Let’s eat, Princess. Before it gets cold.”
“…Yes”
As the hot stew went into my stomach, a warm feeling flowed through my body.
In the meantime, I felt like my body was stretching because I felt like my stomach was loosening up after eating a proper meal.
Perhaps the princess is also similar in that respect, but when she smiles for the first time, Roa’s father’s smile comes out naturally.
We are of similar age, but for some reason, I feel like taking care of a child rather than being a woman.
Without noticing Roa’s gaze, the princess was absorbed in the warm soup she hadn’t eaten in a long time.
While she was taking a break after a long time, Roa stood up from her seat, carefully moving her hands around her waist at the bizarre signs she felt around her.
“Sir Loa?”
“I’m not sure yet, but something is strange.”
Did the group of beastmen who saw Roa feel something about her? One by one, they drew their weapons and began to guard their surroundings with torches and shields.
The bustling sound full of vitality died silently, only silence lingered around, and everyone was tense and wary of the surroundings.
“Guest, looking at the first thing you noticed, it seems like a very good knight, but didn’t you find out something?”
Roa shook her head slightly at the Myoin tribe who quietly approached Roa.
“I don’t know, but it’s a sign I’ve felt at some point.”
It was a feeling that can’t be described in words.
Where did you get this feeling…
After thinking about it for a long time, Roa hooked! He sensed something flying and hurriedly swung his sword to cut it off.
It was in the dark, so it was cut out with senses, but with that sense, Loa realized its true identity.
“A goblin stinger?”
“Be careful nyang! The enemy is a bunch of goblins nyang!!”
Although the goblin could be said to be the weakest of the monsters, it was an opponent that could not be caught off guard.
Especially on a dark night like this.
However, Roa thought that it was definitely not the only one.
There was no way he could have felt this way from a mere goblin.
“…”
Loa is quiet. However, he warned the princess quietly, in a voice that the princess could clearly hear.
“Be careful. Apparently, goblins are for blindfolding.”
“Yes? But why only me…”
When Loa made a quiet gesture by placing her finger on his mouth, the princess closed his mouth.
And while she was thinking for herself, she wasn’t sure if her thoughts matched Loa’s, but she seemed to know a little about why.
If you spread this fact to those around you, those who are aiming for this place will be caught.
For Sir Loa, he is sorry for these kind people, but his own well-being is his first priority.
Above all, if they thought their plan was uncovered, they would come out even more aggressive, possibly causing more damage.
‘Did you say that if you want to deceive your enemies, you must first deceive your allies?’
It seems that that’s why Lord Loa didn’t inform anyone except himself.
Although she had warned her in advance that she really couldn’t do anything wrong.
Silence for a while.
And soon Shu Shu Shu Shoot! The sound of something small and thin flying countless times could be heard from all directions, and the silence that surrounded the surroundings was finally broken.
“Come!”
“Properly block! If hit, it’s dangerous!”
The poisonous stings of goblins are truly different.
Poisonous needles mixed with one’s own excrement and excretions were generally mild, but depending on the poisonous plant used in the base of the poison, what characteristics would come out, and sometimes it was a truly terrifying poison.
Most of them were weak poisons, so it was not something to look at lightly.
The secretions produced by the goblins themselves contained a mildly paralytic substance, and the excretions caused infections.
With just these two, the goblin’s stinger was a nuisance in many ways.
Rather than suffocating the prey at once, it takes several days to deplete the hunter’s stamina, tie the group’s feet through these injured people, and gradually sever the breath.
That was the goblin’s way of hunting.
Pick in the dark! Hooked! And those who were hit by the poison needle began to appear one after another here and there.
Although most of them were blocked by shields, a few shields couldn’t stop the goblin’s poisonous stings pouring down in the middle of how many goblins must have gathered.
“Kuk!”
“Aww!”
Hooked! Fubuk!
In the meantime, Roa, who was leisurely striking out all the poisonous needles flying towards herself and the princess, focused her aura on his eyes and gazed through the darkness.
If a goblin secretly shoots a spit and hides right away, you won’t be able to find it. The goblins are pouring in one after another like now.
No. Something disguised as a goblin would never escape its own eyes.
Roa, who was watching through the darkness to uncover the identity of the enemy, could see that one person was blowing a strange barrel that could shoot dozens of poison needles.
Ugh! Evil!! Loa, who identified the enemy, gathered black gravity orbs with the tip of her sword while those who continued to fall from poison needles continued to appear here and there.
In the trail of the sword that scattered the air with a hum, the trajectories of the light poison needles bent and began to gather in one place.
And those who shot poison needles at such a scene were embarrassed and forgot that they had shot poison needles, and those who stared blankly began to appear one after another.
“Ha!”
When the group of poison needles that had been pulled in were sent back with a slash, the assailants panicked and fell into confusion.
Prince Woo went into a frenzy, fell to the floor, and ran away after being hit by the poison needles they were shooting back. Roa hurriedly raised his sword reflexively and blocked the way.
Teeing!!
“!?”
It’s not like a light goblin stinger.
Even though it is a needle, this needle made of heavy steel was a memorized instrument made to kill a person with a determination.
‘Does he have no intention of hiding it anymore?’
If that was the case, Roa also had no intention of looking after her hands anymore.
The quest ends here.
[Upload everyone]
Roa, who conveyed the words to the people around her through electronic music, gathered more and more gravity and tied it to the end of her sword, swinging her sword as it was, releasing her gravity power in all directions.
In the darkness, very thin black lines extending in all directions spread out in an instant, silently cutting down the trees around them.
The moment they thought something was strange, they were astonished at the upper body falling from the lower body, and those who suffered like that started screaming.
And a little later than people like that. Trees began to gurgle and fall down here and there, attacking the assailants who were lying face down.
“!#?!#@$?”
Kude deed.. Kurleung!
Pusssss!
Aww!?
Wow!
Loa quietly opened her mouth while being wary of the mess around her.
“Princess, do you have any witchcraft that can detoxify poison?”
“Mo, not all poisons, but some specific poisons or weak poisons…”
At those words, Loa was still wary of her surroundings and asked the princess for a favor.
Ask the person closest to you to decipher it.
“Ah, I get it”
In the midst of a lot of tension, the princess cautiously moved forward and approached the fox-bearer who was lying down with her body trembling.
Although not completely immobilized, the fox beastman, who could not move her body as she wished, calmly accepted the princess performing magic on her.
In the meantime, Roa swung her sword at the iron long needle that came flying again and cut off his long needle.
“Where!”
In the meantime, Roa saw it in the forest.
Numerous assassins with blow guns to shoot these heavy assassination needles exclusively for humans, not the tiny poison needles of goblins.
“What, what?”
Up until now, I wonder if I have been restraining myself, thinking about the past. Roa was taken aback by their behavior, as if they had given up on taking care of themselves.
Will I be able to stop it alone?
But it will never come easy.
Roa, who was drawing a black line following the sword’s trajectory, raising gravity again, pointed the tip of the sword with the sphere of gravity in the direction that seemed to be their headquarters.
“Come on”
