Chapter 262 – Lightning Storm (6)
【Hey, here it is!! Someone is buried here in a pile of stones!
【Lord, kill me!! No, overpowered!!]
Save me, fuck.
I thought it was finally my turn, and I thought the blood was draining from my face. But, fortunately or not, it was someone else they found.
─Puffy!! Puck puck!!
The guard of the store, who seemed to have been caught up in our battle and died, became a rag.
At first glance, his broad shoulders made him look like a radish gangster bastard, so there was no guilt.
However, if I went that way, in the next few minutes, I would either have holes in my body, or I would be caught and eaten with another world version of corongtang.
【… Veronica? Hear?】
I tried telepathy, but there was no answer.
It was as if the runes had been blown away by Enrir’s thunderstorm. Having said that, there really wasn’t much left.
‘Fuck… !! Come quickly, quickly… !!’
I urgently waited for a change in the situation.
I had no strength in my body, and it was obvious that all the potions I had brought with me had either been destroyed or evaporated. There was only one hole through which I could survive.
Shuwaaaaagh——!!
The desired change came then.
Mana poured through the ceiling! I cheered as I buried myself in the rubble.
‘Come!!’
The mana that Enrir possessed was absorbed into me.
It was an incomparable amount even when the giant was caught on the Garden Island of the Bicorns.
I felt like I was choking on my breath, and I almost let out a scream of pain.
‘Chi, foot… !! There are more than I thought… !!’
The first law of mana. Excessive mana is detrimental to her body.
I tightly closed my eyes and endured the old mana filling her body.
‘The seal… Are you all right!’
Thank god. Her clothes were in tatters, but luckily the ogre’s seal was not badly damaged.
I filled the seal with the mana of the old god absorbed.
Then, to get out of here, he learned a new rune.
The rune of ᚲ (Kenaz) is a handshake. Even if his presence disappears or his impression becomes blurred, he will be able to see clearly, so he cannot avoid being arrested.
‘The only rune I have to pick is ᛒ (Berkanan)!’
I had no idea that I would not have much aptitude for transformation magic.
But I couldn’t help it. To get out of here, I had to transform into something like a small animal and leave.
─Whiririririk!
I even gained true enlightenment in order to use mana to learn runes and unlock transformation magic.
Even then, there was quite a bit of mana left in the Gusin, but the situation was not good enough to properly check the amount.
With all his might, he reached for the spear and cast a spell.
【ᛒ(Berkanan)…】
When I chanted at a minimum volume, fortunately the transformation was successful.
─Whoops!
The wooden plank that covered me collapsed as I turned into a little mouse.
【What, what!!】
【It’s over there!! Unit 1 Gathering!!]
Guards making a fuss!
I had just witnessed that they didn’t let go of a single rat, so I checked my body nervously like a dog being chased while grunting.
‘Fuck… ! Even if you transform, the damage won’t go away… !’
Having become a four-legged animal, I moved my weak body awkwardly.
The equipment or objects that were possessed entered the category of transformation. Every time Veronica transforms, it seems to be the same principle as when she changes objects or clothes.
Besides, as I expected, I had no talent for transformation magic.
‘Perhaps he’s keeping it close with the rune stone’s buff.’
It was thanks to the rune magic buff of the rune stone Veronica gave me, who has no aptitude for transformation magic.
It’s like wearing tight pants and tearing your legs.
It felt like if I moved a little too roughly, the doll’s clothes would tear and I would jump out of the inside.
It was fine if I stayed still, but the more I moved, the more I felt uncomfortable.
‘Still, it’s better than being caught.’
It seems that the transformation state and the damage of the body are linked, but is the body of a small mouse easier to move than the human body? Even though I couldn’t adapt to the awkwardness, I moved to avoid the guards.
“Crrrr… Kkong kuk kuk kuk!!!”
As I circled the store building, the awakened guard dogs started barking at me.
Enril and I don’t even get scared when we’re out, but that means we’re not afraid of rats. Being fed up, I transformed into a cute Pomenarian.
“Kuong? (Meme?)”
A guard dog tilting its head! I, who became a white Pomeranian, opened my eyes wide and exhaled blood.
“Kerleung Keng Keng Alr!! (Where is the potion, Gaskey!!)”
“──Keeeeen!!!!”
─Break up!
The instinct of the beast imprinted the relationship between the top and the bottom in one shot.
While flipping over, the obedient guard dogs guided me to the room with the potion.
I wonder if it was a dog that was smart enough to be used as a guard dog, and the guard dogs carried me to the warehouse where the potion was without a mistake.
I chased them out and struggled into the warehouse.
I turned into a snake and crawled under the crack in the door, where I canceled my transformation.
I picked up the recovery potion from the shelf with a body that seemed to be about to be searched. I lay flat and sprayed the potion all over my body, like taking a shower.
─Quarrel.
─Chiiyiik.
The chewed-up wound healed leaving a scar. I ran my head through it, feeling my strength recover.
‘Patience. The wounds from being stabbed with knives are still visible.’
The electric shock scar was ugly. I’ll have to spend some money later to treat it or something. We can’t let our wives gouge their eyes every time they have sex.
─Kwajik.
I roughly destroyed a nearby box, feeling my health returning.
I trimmed it with the claws of beast return and pierced the eye holes. The clumsy mask was completed by tying it with the string that was in the box. I added a rune to it and wrote it on my face.
“Woo go go.”
Thus, a barbarian with a spear, wearing a mask and wearing a topless body, was born.
Maybe this will add the legend of the Aztec cannibal to Hremar’s urban legend.
─Kwajik!!
It was a warehouse without windows, so I broke the lock and escaped.
Concentrating on my five senses, I ran in the direction of the commotion. The sound of a fight could be heard mixed with the wind, as if it hadn’t been able to get over the president of the company yet.
Dash again while paying attention to the distribution of stamina.
Transformed into a mouse again, I stopped by the place where Enrir was beaten, and I clicked my tongue.
‘As expected, none.’
I activated the rune and looked for it, but Enrir’s soul was nowhere to be found.
It was because I exerted my strength to win, either because I was pulverized by magic or because I did something trick like in the case of Yerna, and the soul disappeared right away.
‘I’m sorry, but I can’t help it.’
Well, that’s it There is nothing you can do about it.
Fortunately, there were a few things I learned.
‘In addition, mana pain has increased considerably.’
I’ll have to check how much it is later, but it was almost twice as much as the previous feeling just by getting a rough idea.
Even if you add up all the mana gained through mana succession so far, it seemed that the amount of mana you got today would be more. Anyway, they’re like human elixir babies.
– Chuck!!
I climbed onto the roof and arrived at the scene of the fight.
As if they had moved their location during the battle, everyone broke the upper wall and came out. There are no guards. The wives were also unharmed.
I went down to the roof while checking the battle situation.
【Aaaaa!!!
Zoid screamed as he was beaten in the head and was bleeding. That roar was reminiscent of the exhaust sound of an 8-cylinder motorcycle with the accelerator fully pulled.
The Zoids sprinted forward and slashed the sword.
Chairman Sang received Zoid’s sword as a gauntlet.
─Chaeeng!!
Where did the hammer go? The chairman was empty-handed, but the reason why he didn’t block it with the remaining shield was probably because Veronica was chanting from behind.
【Get out of here, you coward!!!!!】
【Cheukhak!!】
The president of the store let out a loud shout and blew the Zoids away.
〈Now!!〉
It was then. Ralilura swung Lingling’s arm. A chain of mana extended from the hammer held by her puppet and wrapped itself around the arm of her chieftain.
【Turn it off!!!】
─Whiriririk!
Veronica finished her spell as her chains escaped her shield and grabbed her arm. Chairman Sang’s arms spread left and right as if being pulled by her invisible hand.
As his eyes radiated from his helmet, Chairman Sang resisted the force.
【Is Dberg’s descendant going to lose in a power struggle!!!】
─Creak, creak, creak!!
His arm, which had stopped moving due to Sang’s muscle strength, narrowed.
With three of our party members and Zoids attached, we were only able to earn a little less than 5 seconds of time, but Fran ran out as if the purpose was to earn those 5 seconds.
Fran’s fist was covered with the rock golem’s hand. Every time he stepped on the ground, his footprints remained.
─Quaaaaang!!!!
Fran’s fist landed on Chairman Sang’s stomach, who stopped his movements. The destructive power was so serious that it almost shattered his armor and blew Chairman Sang back.
However, Sanghoejang endured by tripping on his foot.
【It’s insignificant!!!】
The mirror shield was moved to nullify the chain of mana, and Veronica’s magic was also broken by swinging the mirror.
Fran also entered a series of attacks.
Boooung-!!!
When the fist created by the golem creation magic flew, Chairman Sang held up his magic reflecting shield, and Fran, who saw it, released the golem and poured the soil out of the meeting room.
Fran’s hammer struck the guy’s arm from the side of the chairman, who was obstructed from view.
─Pud Deuk!!
The black armored arm was struck with a hammer and turned into an inverted joint in an instant, but Chairman Sang tried to head-butt Fran as if he did not feel pain.
【Where are you kissing my wife?】
Of course, at that time, hiding my presence, I was in a situation where I could hit the helmet of the president of the company. ─ Wow!! Sang Hoe-jang, who was hit by a spear in the head, bounced like a bouncy ball and flew away.
【Nor, that wound… !!】
Fran was surprised to see me messing around here and there, but he seemed to think it was not the time to talk leisurely. Fran’s sad face, biting her lip even though she was wearing a mask, was good to my eyes.
─Puffpuffpuff!!
The throwing knife flew without delay and pierced the gap in the armor of Chairman Sang, who stopped his feet. Not even making a sound of pain was subtly creepy.
【… Pooh, whoops, whoops.]
Chairman Sang changed into a victim of pirate roulette and gasped.
【That much lightning has been poured down, but you are still alive… That immature must have died.]
【Why? Do you miss your childhood friend? You’ll see it when you look back. You bastard and that bastard will go to the same place.]
[Is it Niflheim? If I had been afraid of the cold, I wouldn’t have come this far.]
Are you prepared to go to hell? It wasn’t even funny. Even in a world with an afterlife, the number of offspring who commit sins does not decrease.
【… Brother. I still don’t understand.】
Zoid, who had been squeezing his stomach, said. At the word brother, the head of the business glared at him.
【I would have said that you are no longer my brother.】
【Noisy. Why? Why are you even doing this? Even if I didn’t know about my older brother’s sins, I do know about his past. When I was young, my older brother wasn’t a warrior or anything.]
I noticed it wasn’t just small talk. It was because Veronica was secretly moving mana.
Enrir’s lightning broke the connection between me and Veronica’s mind, but it seemed that Veronica had instructed Zoid to buy some time.
【My older brother at that time was an ordinary dwarf kid who admired his artisan’s work and dreamed of showing it off to the whole world. On the day his father died, he swore to make that dream come true!]
【… Kuhh ha ha! Haha!! A dream? An oath?]
The chairman responded to the conversation as if he had a change of heart after being hit.
【Yes, it was like that at one time. Until he finds out that his father’s death was poisoned——until he loses his wife and 2-year-old daughter in return for finding out.]
【… Poisoned? Father?】
Zoid passed out as if he had been beaten in the head. Chairman Sang treated such a younger brother as if he were looking at filth.
【That day. The day I died in the forest after being chased by elves. I heard the truth of the world from those who saved my life. The reason why my father had to die, and the story about the cursed human blood flowing through my body.]
─Whiririririk!!
As he said that, the letter X appeared in the heart of the store chairman.
It’s a rune It was the rune of ᚷ (Gebō) to make an oath to oneself.
The president of the store had a blood clot. Blood overflowed from under the chin of his helmet. If it were a hundred, it would have been Hamgu-ryeong, who had been forced to swear by the organization of Tabula and Enrir.
His eyes glistened with demons, befitting someone who suppressed his anger.
【… We must go beyond the ancient times and return to the new age. Only by recovering the purity of blood and recovering the skills that even the gods couldn’t imitate, will the future open up for the clan’s future!!]
Fran’s heartfelt punch shattered the chairman’s armor.
Her chest with the rune of ᚷ (Gebō) on it——was covered in scales like a reptile.
【──Glory to the descendants of Deberg!!】
Chairman Sang took off his helmet and threw it away.
The old dwarf, who looked like Zoid, plucked out his fucking eyes with Fran’s knife. Then, with his optic nerves dangling, he hung his plucked out eyeball in the sky.
【Those who taste blood, I will ask about Berserk–!】
The chant, reminiscent of Jade’s hemorrhage, ended there. It’s because the frozen beam I fired hit his hand.
─Bad!!
Eyeballs exposed to the pressure of steam and cold air crumbled like dehydrated snowballs.
【You’ve seen it already, dude.】
Duplication is strictly prohibited. I said while blowing smoke like smoke from my fingers.
【Giant and 2nd phase, do it in moderation. I’m tired of playing with your friend until now.]
─Passes. Ice powdered snow fell to the floor.
No matter how merciful the Great Madness that dwells in the sky would not accept that as a sacrifice. There is a degree of respect for the paired eyes.
Cherish the eye candy your parents gave you.
【Kuuuuu… !!】
When the head of the Chamber shook his frozen hand, Veronica cast her magic.
As she drew her lips down vertically, the mandala of ᛁ (Isaz) rose on Chairman Sang’s shield. The shield, which had been as smooth as a mirror, turned to a darker one.
【──How!!】
【The root of magic reflectivity is rune magic. If the structure is shown to that extent, there is no reason not to destroy it.]
Said Veronica. The shield that reflected magic was nullified.
Fran and I grabbed our weapons and ran out. The president of the office untied the straps on the shield and threw it at us.
It’s the last step. I gathered the recovered stamina and hit the shield.
─Kaaaaang!!
Relics of ancient civilizations flew backwards like frisbees.
Fran dashed through the blank space I created. The strong armor came off. Fran’s weapon was changed to a knife.
Approaching francs. Just by stabbing it like this, the situation was over, and Chairman Sang’s broken arm swelled.
【──Ugh!!】
Fran, who was not vigilant, seemed to be contemplating retreat, but then a sword flew out of nowhere and stuck into Chairman Sang’s arm.
It is Zoid’s sword.
Zoid threw his sword through the gap in the armor that had been opened due to the swollen arm muscles.
So Fran didn’t stop.
─Bright!!
Fran’s arm was thrust out like a beam of light.
The throwing knife broke between the thick scales and the strength of the franc.
However, it did not fail to fulfill its role.
【… Cool.]
The decrepit Chamber Chief stared at the knife through his chest as he was cut in half.
Fran, holding the knife, did not hold back——but somehow, with compassion, he pulled out the blade.
─Patter. Blood poured out of the plugged heart.
【If the past where you lost your family made you who you are today… You had to be more faithful to the present life than to the future of the clan, which may come at any time.]
Fran said as she let go of the broken knife.
【Because a happy future comes to those who work hard today.】
【… Did your husband tell you that too?]
【Nope. I learned from watching him.]
At Fran’s answer, Sang Hoi-jang shut her mouth.
Then he looked at me as if comparing Fran’s face and said.
【… There is a force that opposes all types of humans in the world. They will never forgive the human race, even the mixed-bloods from which the human race flows.]
He drenched the front island with roaring blood. The gauntlet that held the heart splashed blood as if suppressing a fountain.
As if the runes on his chest were squeezing his heart in return for telling forbidden knowledge.
【You may take all my treasures. Even if left unattended, I don’t think it will find a normal owner.]
─Blow up.
After leaving such a message, Sanghoejang knelt down.
【Children of the same race, beware of the elves outside the wilderness…】
He bowed his head at Franc’s feet, as if in penitence for his wrongdoing, and became motionless.
【Marina, Sophie… I’m sorry.]
Lastly, leaving only those words.
Those were probably the names of Chairman Sang’s wife and her daughter, who had only been together for a very short time, so that even Zoid didn’t know.
Seeing him like that, Fran thought what he was thinking, so he took off some of his gear and put his hood over his face.
【There are sins that cannot be repaid even by death… It’s just my mood to be relieved by insulting the corpse.]
Fran said it as if he sensed my doubts.
Was it enough if I punished all the wrongs that needed to be punished? I could guess that feeling, so I decided not to comment on Fran’s decision.
【… Let’s back off. Before the guards arrive.]
【… Yes.】
Fran said that and he took me into my arms.
─Break it!
So we climbed over the fence and escaped the half-destroyed store while avoiding the swarming of the guards.
That night’s fight, which was futile to be revenge and emotional to be punished by God, ended like that.
I just hoped it would be an end for Fran.
