Chapter 434 – Eugenics in the New World (1)
Return of the Beast.
A magic that makes Nord, a master of scales who couldn’t even use mana, into an Earth hero. It was one of the driving forces that allowed me to grow rapidly as an adventurer, and it was also a skill that I still use to pick mulberries.
But in fact, questions big and small remained about this magic.
I know why the magic was created.
The root of beast return is the magic that tries to beat Odin like a crow following a stork. So, it has the effect of making the user accumulate mana of old gods and increasing strength and defense.
I don’t know why imitating the god of magic is so powerful and my defense power goes up.
The question starts from the stele where this magic was discovered.
──Returning the Beast is too high-performance magic to obtain with just one spell.
I want you to think about how shitty I am to learn low magic even after getting Odin’s eye cheats.
If the magic that strengthens the body is something like a 8th grade Chinese character license that anyone can get, would the warriors I met refuse to upgrade their specs because they were idiots?
Magic that can be easily learned eventually has its limits.
Unless you’re creating new magic by combining spells like I do.
Ulster people I met on the way to Romania. Even the strengthening magic, which is very similar to the beast return they used, had a condition that they had to eat animal hearts from an early age.
This magic is not magic that the semi-automatic Papago Nord, who used to be Magical☆Worm, could learn while he was doing it.
At least there was some reason for this explanation.
Side effects such as mutation magic, or the fact that it was difficult to find an aptitude for using magic.
But even now that I found out about it, I still have my doubts.
In the words of the tombstone written in Ulster’s Ogham script, the old king of Ulster and a person who was in a position of high priest said that he had received this magic from a close friend.
And it wasn’t long before I mistook it for a curse, and said that I resented that friend.
I’ve been thinking about it, paying close attention to it.
What the hell is a quality that allows you to activate Beast Return? I can handle this magic as never before.
What was the reason for the person or people who developed this magic——even with this much power, they disappeared without leaving a single name in history.
We met today with questions biting on our tails, swallowed up in the missing links of history, and unresolved.
And now, I met a cub who might know the answer to that question.
***
[No fuck, why are you using that?]
I opened my eyes wide and suddenly felt as if I had been slapped on the cheek, so I forgot the situation and muttered.
What the hell’s the point of a talking troll bastard using Beastreturn? I thought I would use rune magic at least, but I was at a loss for words because I was more devastated than surprised.
[Curious why? If so, you might as well ask. As far as I know, I will answer honestly.]
─Crisp. The Troll King said as he drew his greatsword.
[However, if you can afford it.]
– Booung! The great sword blurred with short, quick movements.
What was able to stop it was thanks to the spearmanship sharpened after being hit by the knight commander of Cornelius the Elders.
Thick… !!!
I reflexively protected myself by covering the spear with a mana coating, but even that wasn’t enough, so I fell to my knees.
[Oh my gosh… !!]
With a body that used to live without exercising even as much as a rat, the weight seemed to have been picked up even by a signboard that had fallen off!!
[Hyung, I’m dying!!!!]
I ran right away screaming. A great sword that passes through the space where I was standing like a guillotine!!
Chew-!!
Fuck you, bitch!
I couldn’t avoid it and cut my forearm lightly. If it wasn’t for the giant skin armor, it might have been cut deeply.
Haha!! It suddenly became quiet!! Don’t you have time to open your mouth!!!]
[A man must have a heavy mouth, Amdu troll boy!!!]
The armor was fine, but the brushed arm was tingling. I held my breath and focused all my energy on dodging.
‘Fuck!! It seems like it’s twice as fast!!’
It was unbelievable speed. It felt like a praying mantis thrown into a blender as the big, erratic bastard moved while babbling and babbling.
Power is no joke either. Discussing the defensive power of the leather armor means that the mana coating of Beast Return that I wore was cut by that bastard’s sword and touched the armor. If he didn’t have the armor, he might have become Shanks!!
Besides, even Odin’s eyes can’t predict the action!
‘This bastard is the type to push the gang with no skills!!’
That itself is a point that I had already noticed after competing several times, but at least until a little while ago, the power was boiling.
But not anymore.
I can’t even predict the attack with the eye cheat, but the situation is extremely laggy from power to speed!!
[This roider bastard!! Are you disobeying the national rule that speed comes with large strength?
Without going through my brain, I stepped on the steps of escaping from the master’s degree.
There is no bird to turn to counterattack! If he hadn’t tampered with the Heswald sisters’ footwork, his limbs would have already been blown off and turned into pig bodies in the butcher’s freezer.
‘Fuck! I’m running out of time!’
It was not easy to drag it along and see the gap.
The enemy army that was chasing us as we fled was at a distance before we knew it, and the knives of the golems that Fran had made were shattered and rolling around.
I still have a reprieve thanks to the longer wires, but it’s more than enough to surround me in 2-3 minutes!
‘We bet again!’
Kufaaaaa withwithwithwithwith-!!!
I squeezed the spear hard, inflating the mana coating on my body. The buff doesn’t get stronger, but the thicker it is, the higher the defense itself!
[Heo Jangseong Se-ro. Don’t break it!!!]
The greatsword was struck in a straight line. I opened my eyes and stabbed the spear in the track.
[Search!!]
[Hmm?!]
Keying-!!
[Gerture] Counterattack 4th Poomsae. The technology that offsets the energy bought a moment of time.
In less than a second, I performed a series of backspin rolls, wrapping the fog around my body again.
It is a limited activation of Mamamoo, a slippery leaf-type camouflage silver thread technique.
[That skill again!! It won’t happen twice!!]
─Quguaguagua!! The troll king came running at breakneck speed.
The guy let out a rough breath as if he was out of breath for this short battle, and passed the greatsword behind his shoulder like a baseball bat. He probably intends to cut me down with the fog.
It was as planned. I lit a fire on my right arm, shining the only light in my eyes that was not covered by fog.
Blood Demonic Art
Kaiser Phoenix
Pooh-!!
A phoenix of blue flame broke through Mamamoo and ran out. The angle is 45 degrees from right to left.
The Troll King, who was concentrating mana in the hand holding the greatsword, smirked.
[Stupid! Where are you aiming to shoot——what is it?!]
The troll king who laughs at my aim and then rolls his eyes.
A phoenix flying toward the blue sky at a 45-degree angle had one rune stone attached to its tail.
A rune stone that can store mana. It was a seal rooted by an ogre.
─Parr. A pupil earthquake occurred in the Troll King’s eyes. I smiled condescendingly.
Hiding in Mamamoo was not preparing for a counterattack.
Making dodge angles through hostage operations!
That was my purpose
‘Running away from the enemy is not like a macho, but this is a matter before winning.’
If I stay and do my best, I don’t know how I can achieve victory while avoiding fatal wounds. I’m the type of macho with a lot of high firepower special moves. Fighting wasn’t a handshake.
But what’s the use of competing with this guy!
‘Even if I try to beat the troll king, there’s no fucking point if I’m surrounded by a mixed ogre/troll army coming from behind!’
And it is insane to expect these bastards to be treated as prisoners of war in accordance with the Geneva Conventions!!
Now, the first thing to do is to run away and prepare your posture!
‘You bastard. Is it more important to pluck my neck than the royal seal? No, that can’t be!’
Perhaps this cub is a psychotic troll who finds in her powers the longing for her dead mother when she was a child.
So, rooting the seal is no different than stealing the key to a sports car that will become their mother.
Fortunately, from that bastard’s point of view, the seal was all it took to get me back.
But, what if the scepter is in a situation where it will become Weldon hotly if it deals with me!
[Brother!!! It’s me!!! Oksae!!!]
[Kuh… !! It is the seal of my country!! Do you shoot them so they disappear!!!]
Yes, it was also.
The troll king loses his cool for the first time, choosing the seal over me. She was determined to retrieve the seal before it was consumed by Kaiser Phoenix’s heat.
─Pulp!! The ignorant hulking jumped into the sky!!
[Oppa is more important than me!!!!]
Caught! I immediately turned my back and dodged at full speed.
[Done!!!! Let’s break up!!!!]
[No, what?!]
The troll king was shocked. While he was in the air, he probably expected me to attack him, but he didn’t think I would jump.
As I ran, I looked behind me as well. The guy who was thinking of defense was shocked and went into the retrieval of the seal.
Our kaiser phoenix was grabbed by the neck in a violent hand, but at that moment my sensational rune magic was activated.
[Kuuuuu, this flame!!!]
Roaring—!!
With the power of the ᛒ (Berkanan) rune, Kaiser Phoenix clung to that bitch’s arm like a curtain!
The weakness of HP recovery type monsters from generation to generation is the flame type!! A troll’s regeneration is delayed when the wound closes!!
[Kwaaaaa exchange of their place of trade,
The Troll King endured with the defensive power of the returning beast, and with pressure reminiscent of a hydraulic press, the flames that were clamping his hands were ripped out.
– Chuck! The one who landed on the ground trembled as if fascinated by the brilliance of the rune stone rather than chasing me.
[——Finally.]
The Troll King shouted in a voice full of joy as he held the Seal of the Seal.
[The royal seal that will prove my rightness has finally returned to my hands!! With this, our Huldupolk-kun–]
… Perong!
In the grip of the troll king, who was about to give a speech, the seal, which was the size of a dick compared to his palm, turned into steam and disappeared. The clone that disguised the form with my mana had exhausted its effect.
I sweated a bit trying to recreate at least the texture with beast return mana. I raised my index finger and whispered humbly.
[Ninnin niami.]
It’s fake, you asshole.
Take a little taste of the Eastern alter ego magic.
[… You tricked me, inferior species!!!!!!]
The troll king, who quickly deduced the cause and effect, instead of running after me, grabbed the epaulet on his chest.
[Don’t miss it aaaaa!!!]
─Paaa!!
The epaulettes glowed like the LEDs on a gaming keyboard, and a rock spear was pulled out of his hand. A long, sharp javelin made of black rock!! Its shape was very familiar.
Damn!! Is it the window that has been interfering with everything since earlier?!
[This Mr. Palom!! Male trolls, don’t kick your ass!!]
[There is only death for those who run away from a duel——!!]
[Where’s the crazy guy who’s fighting a one-on-one duel, you bastard behind his mother!!!]
Whee ae ae ae liquid—!!!
A looming stone spear!! I spread a triangular shield with Beast Return’s mana.
[Three thousand innocence!!! I refuse!!!]
Parkin——!!! The javelin, loaded with three times the strength of a normal troll, shattered the triangular shield and hit me in the chest.
[Duot heuk… !!]
A tremendous shock shook my body, but Pinpoint’s additional mana coating prevented the damage.
It’s because I didn’t intend to stop it 100% from the beginning.
─Wet love liquid!!
With the power of the javelin, I flew back even faster, accelerating my retreat.
[Look, you savage troll!! This is my escape route!!]
[Rfd Du Ohku dos──!!! (Cowardly inferior species——!!!)]
I blew cuckoo at the roaring ones in my own words, taking this gap as far as possible.
I’m already at a distance where both wings of the encirclement can shatter my elite cob in under a minute like a watermelon. Even though it was already out of the siege to some extent.
There was no more time to provoke or curse.
‘Even if they chased, they wouldn’t be able to follow us.’
That fucker was faster than me in Beast Regression, but after a few minutes of fighting he was running out of breath. The troll king’s beast return lacked lasting power.
Until now, there was no user of Beast Return other than me, so I couldn’t imagine it, but this primitive magic must have sucked the user’s physical strength.
There’s a reason that troller didn’t use it from the beginning.
‘Come to think of it, the first time I used it, I lost all my strength due to exhaustion of mana and exhaustion of stamina.’
It was at the time of the first request from Nord, a hard worker in his childhood.
Because of that, I couldn’t move myself, so I was carried on the back by Fran. That embarrassing experience is still fresh in my memory.
Of course, after that time, no matter how fiercely I fought, I rarely ran out of stamina.
This was the power of mankind. Isn’t the strength of humans, primates, lies in the continuity of physical strength?
If it was a long-distance getaway, we had an advantage.
─Shwaaaaa!!
As I was running on the plain like that, I was able to find the corpse of an ogre that had protruded far into the lightning jade in my absolute sky realm and had been searching for it.
As I glanced past it, mana flowed from the corpse and was sucked into me.
It’s a mana succession phenomenon that I haven’t seen in a long time.
Little was known about this phenomenon, except for the fact that it happened when an enemy with the old god’s mana was hit.
First of all, it is said that it happens to people other than me from time to time, but there are probably no bastards who experience it as often as I do.
Anyway, increasing mana is a good thing. I couldn’t have imagined that troll army would retreat with this.
It was a little disappointing that I didn’t grow as abundantly as when I finished
‘I have to think of a way to deal with it before those bastards come after me.’
I ran through the winter wind to the Pictish village, hearing the roar of the troll king erupting in the distance.
It felt like my body, which had been heated up by the battle, was cooling down.
