Chapter 611 – The Doll’s Knight
Seong-il realizes that he has come to the right place and smiles at his conversion.
“Ha!! How dare you laugh?! Everyone!! Fire a volley!!”
Perhaps it was thought that the smile on Seongil’s lips revealed under the mask meant mockery, but the brown-haired beauty gave orders to her subordinates in a more hoarse voice.
Pi Yoo-Woong!!!!
Sharp magic arrows and flying menacing lightning magic attacks. Seong-il moves his body violently, then subtly spreads his telekinesis all over the place and evades them by lightly touching the orbit.
‘Is that Ariadne?’
Seong-il, who once again sets off her smoke grenade on her floor to block her enemy’s view, investigates her by projecting the face of the beautiful woman she saw earlier into her augmented reality window.
‘The color of her hair, her appearance, her way of speaking, even the moles under her eyes. She must be Ariadne Filorusi.’
During that short period of time, Seong-il opens a set of her settings and compares her impressions to find out that the woman in front of her is Ariadne.
‘…Wasn’t he the one in charge of the gag in this game with the phantom thief?’
Even though it was a game with cute graphics and a boy and a girl as the main characters, Doll’s Knight was a game with a fairly heavy story.
Perhaps because the target audience was teenagers, it was judged that an unnecessarily heavy atmosphere would harm sales, and the game company made a lot of effort to evoke the atmosphere by inserting a lot of gag elements in the middle of the game.
Among them, the story of the phantom thief & Ariadne couple was the most representative gag event, and the two of them would make the gamers smile by bursting into ridiculous things in between and getting the main character caught up in it.
‘But… In the original story, the thief came out as a funny guy, but if you think about it, he’s also a pretty talented guy.’
In fact, among the temporary companions of the main character’s party, the fighting ability of the phantom thief who entered the top rank. Not only was he good at fantasy and elemental magic, but he was also portrayed as having a deep knowledge of swordsmanship.
‘…And at the end of the game, it came out as marrying Ariadne.’
While Seong-il goes on a rampage with alter egos and guards, he leisurely casts a mute spell to make himself invisible using a low-level spell storage that he cast using the magic book of the universe in the past.
After that, Seong-il activates the magic imprint and secretly flies to the target point in a floating state.
‘Ariadne’s… She’s probably a descendant of a pretty good magic house. He’s actually talented, but I know he ran away from home because of his parents forcing him into an arranged marriage…’
Since he and he are planning to be a duo (?) For the time being, Seong-il carefully recalls Ariadne’s personal details.
‘In the end, I couldn’t stop the thief, so when I was fired from the government post, I couldn’t win against my parents’ annoyance and went to see the match, right? The one I met there was a thief…’
Seong-il smiles as he recalls the ending scene by his colleague that was funny until the end. Then, he cautiously stretches out his hand on the target he has arrived at.
‘Carefully…’
“Quaaang!!!”
“…!!”
I tried to touch the box as carefully as possible, but when Seong-il touched it, the box exploded violently. To make matters worse, the box removed even the smoke around it, probably because of the purification magic.
“Oh ho ho ho!! You’re caught!! Edric!!”
Ariadne laughing at him with her magic wand raised near where Seongil holds the box.
“I knew that if I spread the deception, you guys would touch that glass box in a careless state!!”
‘Trap…?!’
Since it was a scene that was not seen in the original film, Seong-il felt his spine tingle in an instant.
‘Fuck… Somehow… In the original story, the thief skillfully used a rope dropped in the air and bounced around with it…!!’
While Seong-il regrets it, a huge amount of additional attack magic is activated from the box and starts flying towards Seong-il.
“Tsk…!!”
Mental interference, lightning strikes, sleeping gas, shockwaves, curses, and more. Innumerable magics jump out towards the holy day. However, as if denying it, the incomprehensible ring emitted an ominous aura to protect Seongil.
Ugh…!!
At the same time, powerful magic begins to spread from Seongil’s body.
『Advanced Crisis Preparedness Activation!!』
A powerful defense spell that spreads with a magical cry that only you can hear. Seong-il recalls that he used a magic book to protect himself a while ago and put a defense magic on it.
‘Ohh… I did have a crisis preparedness set up, right?’
An automatic defense magic that lasts for about a month once applied to the body. In such a specific situation, defensive magic to protect the owner is activated and begins to bounce off surrounding magic.
『Sphere of Magic Defense!』, 『Steel Skin!』, 『Spell Absorption!』
As soon as the powerful spell defense magic is applied, Seong-il feels that he is safe and his composure returns.
‘Honey!! They say it’s Yubimuhwan!!’
Grabbing the magic that can be used five times a day and investing all of it in defense magic, I am grateful for this luck, and Seong-il quickly grabs the glass box with both hands.
“Oh, no!!”
Ariadne showed joy at the thought that she could finally capture that heinous phantom thief. However, when the thief casually destroys her trump card and grabs her box, her face turns to contemplation.
“Go… Attack!!”
“But… The box!!”
“Is that a problem now?!”
Ariadne sees Seongil’s figure clinging to the ceiling with her box, and orders her to attack.
At her words, her soldiers throw her magic bows and spells at Seong-il as if they can’t help it.
Tuong!! Tuong!!
However, the 7 class spells learned in the cursed throne world. The sphere of magic defense bounces off their magic as if it were funny.
‘Oh… The magic shortbow has the advantage of allowing non-wizards to use magic… But there is a problem that it is not as good as a normal arrow at penetrating such advanced defensive spells? This is interesting…’
Amused by her streak of good fortune, Seong-il again sets off her smoke grenade to blind her enemy.
‘The Ethereal Stone…’
Seong-il then uses the Stone of Matter to dismantle the blocked wall.
‘Everyone run away!!’
“Huh!!”
At Seongil’s command, the alter egos who had struggled with the enemy all ran toward the wall and tried to escape.
“Catch it!! Catch it now!!”
As the phantom thief and his alter ego escape, Ariadne orders the chase with an evil voice.
Feeling pressured by her appearance, the guards fire their weapons at once and pursue the clone troop.
‘How are you?’
Laughing at them, Seong-il uses the inner plane in the smoke to leave.
***
“Oh fuck… I was embarrassed.”
It was the first time he had fallen in the middle of an incident like this as soon as he logged into the game world, so Seong-il muttered while wiping his sweat.
“Whoa… I wonder if I brought it properly?”
Since Ariadne’s last reaction was real, Seong-il guesses that the item she brought is genuine.
“An antique diary… The key the doll is holding… It seems to fit, but there is no clearing sound? Is it a fake?”
Seong-il was a little anxious at that time. His phone vibrates and alerts you.
“Congratulations! You have cleared the urgent mission!!』
“Oh. That’s right? Honey!!”
Seong-il smiles when he hears the quest clear message. Then, he inadvertently opens the diary of the doll he brought with him.
“Hmm…?!”
And the fantasy unfolding in front of Seongil’s eyes. In an instant, he feels that he has reached a dark space.
‘I think the fantasy is right…’
A special ability that ranks as the king of fantasy. Since it is a holy day to use the ‘clear sea’, he quickly catches that the place he has arrived is an illusion.
‘Is it a trap? It’s not that hard to break this illusion, but…’
Seong-il ponders whether to break the illusion that has hit him now, as he has gained a deep understanding of the magic of fantasy while operating the environment.
『Borrowing the power of darkness, the abyss will be sealed here!!』
‘…!!’
While Seong-il pondered for a while, a man’s voice came from the dark space. At the same time, green light radiates from the floor and illuminates the surroundings.
‘The magic circle… And the doll in the middle?’
A brown-haired male standing in the center of a magic circle and casting a spell. And in front of him was a piece of furniture that looked like a table. A man-sized, elaborately crafted doll lay upon it.
‘This is… A memory from the past? Then there’s no need to break the illusion.’
Seong-il realizes that the present fantasy is not a trap, but a memory of the past. He puts down his worrying mind and begins to carefully observe the scene unfolding.
『The abyss is darkness. Darkness will circulate with magical power…”
A brown-haired man who is reciting something that seems to be a mantra incessantly. Every time he memorizes an incantation for a long time, the magical power of the magic circle shines in various colors and begins to be injected into the doll’s body.
『The last… Just put in the ‘piece’…』
As if the work was hard, the sweaty man picks up the ominously glowing green lump with a tired expression.
‘What is that…?’
An unusual piece of energy. Seong-il could feel the deep energy of death there.
Sreung… Chuck!!
While Seong-il is contemplating, the man places it on the doll’s heart and puts the lid on his chest.
Gulluck… Gulluck…
Then, despite being obviously made of metal, the doll’s body begins to wriggle and rebuild itself like a living creature.
『Just a little more… Just a little bit…』
A brown-haired man who desperately uses magic and continues to do something. It wasn’t long after that, the power of the magic circle began to penetrate into the doll.
『Whoa… It’s okay… I succeeded in completely sealing the piece of Anazura. This doll will completely control and hide the power of death, so the cult will never find a piece again.”
‘Ah, that’s 『Puppet: Death』?’
Seong-il sees this scene and realizes that the doll in front of him is a key item that penetrates the story.
‘It’s the strongest doll made by the doll knight, and it’s also the material to resurrect the god of death.’
In fact, the resurrection event of Anazura, the god of death, started with a cult stealing the doll from a phantom thief in the latter half of the game.
‘…Didn’t you say that the phantom thief, who learned the existence of 『Doll: Death』 By interpreting the diary, got it by exploring the ruins out of curiosity? ‘
Edric, the phantom thief, liked the doll knight and conceived this raid with the intention of collecting his mementos.
However, he came to recognize the existence of 『Puppet: Death』 By accidentally obtaining information from this diary in game.
Of course, the thief, who was very interested in the keepsakes left by the doll knight, surreptitiously found the secret storage briefly recorded in the diary to find 『Doll: Death』. In the end, he also succeeds in getting the doll.
‘Actually, the thief who got 『Puppet: Death』 In the middle was really strong…’
However, the cultists realized that the doll used by the phantom thief was the ‘doll’ they were looking for.
In order to get the doll, Xie Jiao seized the magic train with many civilians including Ariadne and threatened to commit a massive terror attack if the doll was not released. Fall
‘…I almost got fucked, maybe?’
In many ways, the resurrection of Anazra, one of the worst events in the second half, was the death god.
Seong-il recalls the resurrection of Anazra, which boasted a heinous difficulty even in the game, and he thinks that he should not make the mistake that the original phantom thief made.
‘If I get 『Puppet: Death』 First and throw it into the Inner Plane, the cultists won’t be able to resurrect Anazra, right? Isn’t that a dog’s profit?’
In the midst of that thought, the unfolding fantasy disappears and the scene of the inner plane unfolds in front of Seong-il’s eyes again.
“Kkeuh… Is the fantasy seen through this diary a ‘Memory Fragment’ reward? It’s a pity that the reward was used against my will…”
Seong-il regrets that the scene he just saw was helpful to him, but it was unfolded against his will.
Click…!!
“…?”
When I grumbled for a while. The jewel embedded in the center of the diary glows red and then automatically detaches and flies into Seongil’s hand.
‘This…?’
Seong-il, puzzled, checks the item through emotion.
『Memory Fragment: Can be used once』
– You can bring back memories of the main/supporting characters in the world of doll knights.
“Ohh…!!”
It seems that the scene I saw earlier was not a reward. Seong-il thinks while holding the jewel with a delighted expression.
‘Should I look at some more memories of Aira?’
