Chapter 63 – Awakening Madness (8)
Ugliness that can never be explained by just saying ugly!!
That guy’s skeletal structure and muscle shape were far from modern humans——a new genealogy of human evolution!!
“Wow!! I’m fucking amazing!!”
I forgot the situation and my heart skipped a beat at the discovery of a new creature that stimulated the scholar’s passion for learning.
My profession is an archaeologist, but this was a new discovery that will remain immortal for future history. This was an academic shock comparable to that of a pan-human born from mating with a killer whale in the sea and claiming their rights!!
“Everyone, shut up!! Who said half-orcs!!!”
Kkakdugi made an ugly face even more ugly with anger and wrote an evil word.
“The name of this body is Tabula!! I am an Einheri who serves the madness of the great heavens, and an immortal warrior!! Not like a half-orc at all!!!!”
“A half-orc… No?”
A thought passed through his mind at his words.
“Then…”
It was an intuition as if soil submerged beneath the surface of the water was tossed with a pebble and lifted up.
I trembled at the feeling of being reminded of something I had forgotten.
“Then you—didn’t you want to be called a ‘half human’ rather than a half orc?”
Half human!
It was not a human with orcish blood, but an orc with human blood.
‘Unbelievable!’
I was acutely aware of my mistake and greatly blamed myself.
This was unconscious racism!
I had already realized and deplored the discriminatory customs against mixed races between humans and other races in a conversation with the blacksmith Clara!
This was clearly my mistake.
The things I hate the most in the world are racism, reds, political correctness, and professors, but without even realizing it, I ended up discriminating against a serious mixed-race!!!!
I thought about how much my words hurt him.
If he had considered himself a warrior of the Horde, how hateful was the human blood that flowed through him!
My unconscious racism was denying his identity and treating him as a human being.
This was as innocent verbal violence as black children asking a mixed Asian child why you live in America!!
“Sorry. Brave orc warrior. Forgive me for my mistakes.”
Realizing my mistake, I sincerely apologized to Tabula.
“—You are not a human with Orc blood, but an Orc with human blood. I will no longer deny that fact.”
Even though we were between enemies and enemies who could only live on each other’s corpses, that was no reason not to respect each other.
─It’s soft.
Upon hearing my apology, Tabula trembled as if thrilled. The burned fists were tightly clenched.
The sight of it made my heart ache. How on earth did he live with such discrimination that he was so moved by such a small understanding and consideration?
Tabula’s life must have been littered with fierce discrimination based on her ugly appearance and race. I just hope that my understanding will be the last memory for Tabula.
─It’s glaring.
Tabula, who had been fiddling around for a while, raised her head.
“… Don’t kill me.”
Tabula’s eyes were stained with fury. The huge half-man roared as if bursting with the hatred of the past!!
“I’m going to kill you!!!!!!!!!!! Kitai people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“No?!”
I was taken aback by his attitude of indignation, which seemed to bring down the cave.
Why are you angry? Besides, are you Kitai?
Is it called that because the mask shattered, revealing the color of my face? I couldn’t possibly guess why Tabula was angry.
Not only am I not from that country, but the act of deliberately calling someone by a title mixed with the national color was a bridgehead leading to national supremacy!
Could it be that he was an amdu fucking racist? I was taken aback by his hideous appearance as he rushed at me with veins forming on his scalp, but I soon noticed one fact.
“——Ah. Right.”
He defined himself as an orc rather than a human.
To him, all humans were enemies, monsters, and prey.
Calling me Kitai must have been based on the same logic as we humans classify goblins into swamp jammins, desert jammins, etc.
“But do you know? Warrior of the Horde.”
I declared, taking the stance of Cheonjimatu.
“If you define your identity as an orc——you are no longer human.”
Orcs are monsters.
Monsters are the enemies of mankind.
So even killing it is OK.
You will not be able to protest against such a cruel and sensuous development of science-style logic. Because it was a very common and universal thing for humans to kill non-human creatures.
If so, burying him as a warrior would be the greatest courtesy I could send him.
Having made up my mind, I flicked his hand while maintaining 〈 flaming touch 〉.
“——Come on. This is your grave, quasi-human.”
“Porridge!!!!!!!!!!!!! Uh!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Enraged, Tabula charged like a wild beast.
Booooo!!!
It was a rush that completely lost the disciplined martial arts that had been shown until just before. As if technology were to be paid for, the speed increased. Tabula’s physical ability increased.
─It tingles.
In the face of Tabula’s heinous murder, I remained calm.
“But you fucking bitch. I said.”
Actually, I forgot about it because I was not in a hurry, but it just came to my mind with Kitai-in drip.
That bastard broke the mask my girlfriend made for me.
“You’re behind me, son of a bitch.”
It’s me who should be angry, not that bastard. As if the blazing rage had gained substance, my fists increased the firepower even more fiercely.
Rurrrr
I extinguished the flame in my left hand and concentrated mana in my right. My right hand emitted an intense flame like a teppan chef’s fire show.
“Kyaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!”
Woo woo woo woo-!!!
Tabula, who approached at superhuman speed, threw a punch. A large, straight fist was about to break my head. It was an idea that a man who had gone mad with the intent to kill would think.
Therefore——you just have to predict it and avoid it.
─Shuhwaah!
I stretched my legs and dodged Tabula’s punches. He punched through the gap under his fist caused by the difference in height.
Change his blazing right hand into the form of a sword and wield it!!
“Red rain in Berlin!!!!!”
─Fuhuaaaaa!!
“Haaaaa!!!”
Sudo wielding a flame broke Tabula’s side.
There is no such thing as sharpness in the capital. It was a forcible attack using the heat and strength of the flames. It was right to say that he smashed it while smashing it.
“Cheer, huh…”
─Kooung.
Tabula knelt down. As it was smashed to pieces, flesh and blood burst out from the medium-grilled flanks.
Patter, Patter—.
The flank he lost from being attacked by me was a fatal wound.
The intestines were smashed and burned. The lungs may also have disappeared a bit. It was difficult for human vitality to survive in that state. Or even a superhuman or half human.
I stepped back leaving 〈 Burning Hands on 〉.
“Hey, bastard… !”
Even though it was about to be searched, Tabula’s eyes did not die. There was a case where he approached hastily for a confirmed kill and was hit by a final counterattack.
In nature, wounded animals are the scariest. I don’t want to see you get hurt while trying to put an end to a dying guy.
Wheein-.
I could feel the flow of mana from behind. Me and Tabula glared at each other and sent part of our senses in that direction.
“The mana of the ice that flows in the north.”
Away away, Tyrsi was performing a magic chant.
“You, the king of all currents who reign over the surface of the water. I am the little king of the law who reigns over you. This is the 3rd realm of the 4 elements, the execution of the frozen land——”
Even from a distance, I could feel the mana gathering. A powerful spell to kill Tabula. Since I can end it without approaching, Tyrsi would be a better sniper than me.
“Kuh. Heh heh… How can I fall for such a trivial provocation and show such rudeness?”
Tabula laughed as if she had lost her mind. I was vigilant and watched him.
“It’s not an insignificant provocation at the point of passing, you bastard. Did my head go over there because it was insignificant?”
I had no idea what kind of provocation he was talking about, but he told me to get rid of it. Tabula laughed like crazy, then suddenly shut up.
Then he quietly glanced at me.
“… I will teach you a lesson.”
“Spit out your will, you idiot.”
What are you talking about while running? What kind of structure should the brains of psychos have in order to have sensibilities that others cannot understand? It’s fucking scary.
Hehe. It’s a will That is what I will do.”
Tabula murmured and suddenly thrust his fingers into her own remaining eye.
─Pu-wook!!
“This shit?”
I was immediately horrified at the unknown act of self-harm. A strange feeling of discomfort crawled up my back, just like when this crazy bastard first appeared.
Rumble—.
“Regret your own arrogant wisdom in Niflheim.”
Tabula plucked out her own eyes and said as her eyes gushed blood.
“It ain’t over until it’s over.”
Fuhuaaaaa!!!
The moment he laughed hideously, a disgusting feeling of mana rose around him. What if radioactive waste is in front of you? I hurriedly retreated to the black mana that aroused people’s primal displeasure.
“Khehehe! Haha!! Was it destined to become like this after all? Will I, Tabula, end up becoming an irrational beast!!”
Tabula threw off the blindfold. There was only empty darkness where both eyes should have been.
“But even so!!! I will take only you guys as my road companions!!!!!!”
Blood dripped from the black eye socket, like a broken bottle spilling its contents. Tabula raised her nerve-wracking eyes high as if offering them to the sky.
“Great madness that dwells in the sky!! Your Einheri is paying tribute, so I pray for the protection of the lowly flesh and blood!!”
Touquaaaaa!!
Black mana swirled around Tabula like a storm. At that time, Tirsi, who finished the chant, aimed the wand and shouted.
“Stuck in a coffin on a glacier and fall asleep in the territorial sea! 〈 Dominion of Permanent〉!!”
─It’s so-so-so-so!!
Three pillars of ice rose from where the wand was aimed. The created ice pillar tried to freeze the tabula trapped inside by weaving the ice like a coffin with cold air.
Whooooo!!
Haha!!!”
Even in that life-or-death situation, Tabula spread his arms with a lofty beam of light.
【Those who taste blood, I will ask about Berserk (At berserkja reiðu vilk spyrja)!!!】
“──Fuck!!”
Magic spell! Realizing that I was screwed, I snatched a spear from a nearby thief. 〈 Burning Hand 〉 was extinguished and the power of Beast Return was thrown at Tabula.
Wedge love liquid-!!
─Kaang!!
The spear I threw bounced back in vain. He couldn’t penetrate the whirlwind of black mana. Even Tyrsi’s ice magic didn’t seem to affect the inside of the whirlwind.
【They are called those who wear wolfskins, who push bloody shields in battle (Ulfheðnar heita, þeirs í orrostumblóðgar randir bera;), and bloody red are their spearheads in battle (vigrar rjóða,es til vígs koma)!!!】
The language the bastard spoke was interpreted. The language of Germania? No, it’s an older word than modern Vikings use.
‘Old magic used in the golden age!’
I broke out in a cold sweat. Not kidding, it was really dangerous. It is a type of magic that is activated by using one’s own eyes as a sacrifice, even though one does not know what effect it is. If you activate it, there is no countermeasure!
Have no choice but to block
I have no choice but to stop it——even that is impossible!!
【As Berserk howls (grenjuðu berserkir), the wolf roars and wields iron spears (emjuðu ulfheðnar ok ísǫrn dúðu)!!】
Tabula completed the spell. His eyeballs, which were fine even in the whirlwind of mana, were crushed and exploded in his big hand.
【Hamask!!】
─Puff!
The whirlwind of black mana stopped. As if her thread had been cut, mana, which had been rotating on her centrifugal force, spread throughout the cave.
Jjwoong-!!
When the whirlwind that was interfering with the freezing disappeared, her pillar of ice completed the coffin in the blink of an eye. When a 5-meter-long black ice coffin was erected, Tabula’s body was completely covered.
Lastly, nothing happened. As if the uproar just before was a lie.
“… Fuck.”
I took the sword from the thief’s corpse and heard it. She shot a coffin of black ice. Her heart trembled and felt like it would jump out of her mouth.
──I know. That the real fight starts now.
Is it because it is a national rule that the enemy is resurrected in this situation? No.
There’s no way I’m so lucky to win so vainly? No.
An evil sign that makes people feel bad.
It was because it was constantly exuding from the coffin.
Awesome…
– Clink!!!!!
“Kyaaaaa!!!!!”
Breaking the ice coffin, a huge hulking leaped out. It was a bipedal monster with brown hairs growing all over its skin.
The two upright legs are retro-jointed, but the outstretched arms are human-like. Except for a fingernail the size of a cleaver.
Both eyes were empty, and something black flowed from them. Judging by the viscosity, it’s probably blood.
─Tudub!
The beast, which looked like a mixture of a boar and a wolf, came out of the coffin, put its feet on the ground, and growled. He is blind, but his nose and ears are intact. That would have been enough for the beast.
“… Arthur.”
“I am in front, you are behind. Support with magic.”
We said nothing more, nothing less, just to that point. Tyrsi and I shared our thoughts without using many words.
No one asked who the beast was.
“Krrrr…”
The monster snorted and stood up. It looked at the place where I was, as if its empty eye socket never missed it.
I smirked and held out my fist.
“Hand.”
“──Kryyyyyyyyyaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!”
The beast leaps.
With empty eyes shedding bloody tears.
I swung my sword.
Using the fear of a bursting heart as firewood for fighting spirit.
There wasn’t even a hint of blur in our murderous intent.
Because the only choice in front of us was to die or die.
