Chapter 619 – The Doll’s Knight
“Mister. Are you done? Teleport!!”
Seong-il, who said a word in a voice full of annoyance, activates the magic imprint and casts teleportation behind Ruchel.
“!!!!”
Ruchel is shocked when Seong-il casts a teleportation magic of a style she has never seen before without proper casting and disappears.
“Get some sleep.”
“!?”
Shaking his head from side to side, he tried to find Seong-il, who had disappeared. Hearing a male voice behind her, Ruchel feels eerie and tries to turn her back.
Awesome!!!
“Kuh…!!”
However, before she could even move her body, she felt a strong shock in her neck. Even with her defensive magic wrapped around her, a strong blow to her neck causes Ruchel to feel her eyes darken and collapse.
『Neonohm…!!』
The Prince of the Earth, who saw the oath fell, roared at Seong-il in a slow but angry tone.
『Kreureung!!』
As if laughing at the prince of the earth who turned his head away, the messenger of destruction began to beat the prince of the earth with his six pitchforks. As if she would make her pay the price for taking a glance at him in front of her.
『Umm…!!』
The prince of the earth whose connection with the material world begins to weaken, perhaps because the oaths have disappeared.
“I swear by my name and my magic that I will not harm Lucille.”
『…』
“So, please return to the spirit realm in good faith. Otherwise…”
Looking at the prince of the earth glaring at him, Seong-il fires a fiercely blazing sunyang river from his hand.
『Promise… Keep it…』
He could clearly feel how dangerous the flame in front of his eyes was, so the prince of the earth reverse-summoned the summoned beast to the spirit realm with an expression that he could not help it.
『Greung…』
As the Ent begins to transform into an ordinary tree again, the messenger of destruction who had been beating the prince of the earth calmly stops swinging his six arms and stops the battle.
“Come back the messenger.”
『Greung.』
A messenger of destruction who quietly returns to his shadow at the summoning command of Seongil. After looking at it for a while, the earth prince returns to the spirit realm.
‘Hey! Come back.’
When the annoying hindrance disappears, Seong-il orders the cursed sword, whose mind is linked to him, to return thanks to the alter ego summoning technique.
“Howdy!! Done?”
“Huh.”
Soon after Seong-il’s order is given, a wooden doll in front of him approaches him with her Aira wrapped around her shoulder and stumbling around.
“First of all… Let’s clean up these guys first.”
After summoning his alter ego, Seong-il gathers the cultists lying around in a mess and begins to arrest them.
“Whoa… If this is enough… Hmm?!
At that time, I was thinking about leaving the recovery potion for Ruchel on the floor. Seong-il’s reaction starts to catch something dangerous.
“…Enemy?”
A large number of people who are grasped by the sensitive sense of Holy Day. People flocking around Seongil as if besieging it made it possible to feel that a person with light movements was not an ordinary person.
‘How many people can even feel the strong divine power…?’
It’s inferior to Ruchel, but when a couple of people who are still quite threatening begin to come in, Seong-il realizes that this situation is not good for him and hardens his expression.
‘Why is this happening? Ah…!!’
Seong-il, thinking about the reason for the sudden large crowd, recalls Theo and Mila, who ran to the Monastery of St. Sevrantia some time ago.
‘…The elite soldiers and priests of St. Severantia Monastery are flocking to it because of the children’s report.’
The current situation seems clear that the priest is leading the elite troops from the monastery after the children report it due to the relationship with the cult.
‘This theory… Can be misunderstood…’
Originally, he would have just imitated the phantom thief and then showed condescension and ran away, but now he is in a perfect situation to be misunderstood as he not only had a huge fight with Ruchel out of the blue, but even defeated him.
‘Escape… It won’t be easy.’
The teleport has already been used up a limited number of times to fight and track the main character’s party. It seems that the opponent is not easy to avoid the situation with transparency.
‘…The High Priestess of St. Severantia Monastery is a priest so powerful that she has the title of one of the three sages of the continent. He tries to hide clumsily, but things get worse.’
Seong-il, who had been thinking about many things for a fleeting moment, muttered with a sigh.
“Fuck… In the end, the only answer is the inner plane.”
Cursing that the number of choices is small, Seong-il hurries to catch Aira and Ruchel and casts an inner plane.
“This is it!! Huh…?”
Theo frantically returned to the battlefield with the priest and soldiers. In his eyes, he sees a battlefield with traces of a terrifying battle.
“Uh…”
“What the hell is this…?!”
An elderly priest appeared behind Theo, who was frozen in shock. He looks shocked to see the horribly smashed battle scene as if the end had come.
“They are the authors!! Cultists!!”
For a while, I stood in a daze of surprise. Theo hastily raises his hand and points to the bound cultist.
“What about Sir Ruchel?”
“Well… Looking at the number of those people, it roughly matches the number of people who attacked me earlier… Ah!! Didn’t the phantom thief and I go to catch the boss?!”
“…Boss?”
“Yes !! There was a strange lady who was dragging a wooden doll around !! She subdued them first, and then she went to catch her!? If she lost, cultists wouldn’t be tied down like that!!”
“Hmm… I guess that could be the case.”
While Seong-il hides, Theo and the priest begin to organize the situation by analyzing the remaining places.
***
“Uh… That’s a goal…”
Seong-il succeeds in escaping to the Inner Plain with Ruchel and Aira on his back. With a tired expression on his face, he once again summons his alter ego to carry them on his back.
“Oh my body… I need to rest for a while…”
This is how I ended up using the inner plane. Seong-il decides to take Ruchel to the Little Pineapple House.
‘…I’m sure it’s less shocking to be in a bizarre house than an empty white space when you open your eyes.’
Thinking so, Seong-il moves to the Pineapple House with his alter ego.
“Are you here? Eh? Are there any men? Didn’t you only bring a woman named Aira?”
Elysia, who was cleaning the house at Seong-il’s visit, greets him with a happy expression and is puzzled to see that there are additional uninvited guests.
“Um… The situation got twisted… Can you take Aira for a moment? I haven’t been ‘convinced’ yet, so keep her tied up.”
“Ah… I see.”
Perhaps because she had already explained the situation to Seong-il, Elysia nodded her head and agreed to Seong-il’s request.
“So who is this old man?”
Sitting on the sofa opposite the cursed sword possessed by the wooden doll Seong-il summoned, he asks Seong-il who Lucille is using his magical voice.
“This person? Ruchel Milotti. The great mage who lives in seclusion on the continent of Eldin. He is one of the greatest wizards on the continent, but his reputation is surprisingly low as he has thoroughly concealed his whereabouts.”
『Hoo… Really? Aren’t you an important person?”
“That’s right. He’s the one who will help Teo and Mila to prevent the resurrection of the god of death, and also play a big role in stopping the Empire’s crazy ambitions.”
Seong-il answers the cursed sword about Ruchel while restoring his tired body from the battle with a potion.
『Oh Hong! Are there many people like this?”
“Yes. Sir Thomas, the head of the intelligence agency formed by the union of the five kingdoms, Luna, the pirate who rules the bizarre sea where the wind does not blow, and Edric the phantom thief whom I have possessed. It’s a character. It’s especially important among dogs.”
『Oh Hong…』
Seong-il calmly explains the position Ruchel is in charge of while opening her inventory and taking out the elixir.
“Hmm? Are you hurt a lot? Why Elixir?』
“… This man used a spell to subdue me, even using a portion of his life. I wondered if this person’s problem would be solved by using this elixir that can revive all injuries, even the dead.”
『Ho-oh… It’s a great spell with your life as collateral… You must have been quite a threat, right?』
“Well… That’s right.”
Originally, he had a talkative personality, but he seems to have been particularly bored today, so he continues to ask questions to the cursed black Seong-il.
Normally, he would have been annoyed, but now the battle was over and his body was relaxed for a while due to fatigue. I’ll have to wait for Lucille to wake up. Seong-il kindly continues to answer the sword.
“But why did you bring that person? Wasn’t he just supposed to bring Aira?』
“…The emotion warned me that that wouldn’t work.”
『Hmm… Your response is practically the same as the ability of foreknowledge, isn’t it? I wouldn’t have given you such a warning without meaning.”
Perhaps because of his long-standing experience with Seong-il, the cursed sword seems to understand the current situation better than any of his colleagues.
“It’s not like that.”
While Seong-il answers, he raises the body of a doll made of cursed black wood and approaches Ruchel and begins to examine him.
『Hehe… Is this person amazing? The precision and density of magical power is amazing. Of course, not as much as my former owner』
“…Argent was a great guy.”
“Huh. He’s from the emperor of the magic empire. He is also a monster who has lived for over a thousand years.”
Upon hearing the cursed sword’s evaluation, Seong-il naturally opens the inventory and takes out the black ball to examine it.
“Ah… I have to deal with this monster bastard, but… Nope…”
Seong-il looks at the black ball and continues to talk to himself as if he is sorry. If he hadn’t used this orb on Argent, he would have been able to catch the dragon and use it as a minion.
『Instead, you got the incomprehensible ring that you are wearing right now on your finger. The magic book of all things, of course.』
“Well… That’s right. I was able to meet the true creator of the throne world. Also, in the process, I got a cosmic relic… As a bonus…”
“Huh. Blackballs are great stuff, but they’re cheap when you consider the consequences that come with them. Don’t be sorry.”
“Huh.”
The words of the cursed sword were reasonable enough, so Seong-il nodded his head in agreement.
“By the way, would it be okay if I took Aira with me?
Seong-il looks at the sword and starts complaining. They said that they didn’t know what would happen if they kidnapped Aira after the main character had been followed.
“…Isn’t it actually too irresponsible to take the last descendant of a puppet knight’s family to strengthen my puppet summoning skills? I really want this world to be peaceful.”
Seong-Il’s complaint is answered with an agonizing figure with arms folded in the body of a cursed black wooden doll.
“Hmm… If you feel really guilty, why don’t you just go after the kids and cut all the bad guys?”
“…Hmm. What if fate takes a negative twist again? Huh…”
The time when the holy day was not over. Someone near the holy day asks him a question in a soft tone.
“Isn’t that a good thing after all?”
“…!!”
Geom and Seong-il both turned their heads in fright at the man’s voice coming from the side. Then, you can see the figure of Lucille sitting on the floor looking at the two.
“The fact that the future has changed drastically despite light intervention means that we can change the future with our own hands. There is no need to view it negatively.”
“No… No… When did you wake up? No, apart from that, how the hell did you avoid my emotions…?”
There has never been a being that evaded his own sharp sensing technology, so Seong-il is horrified as he looks at Lucille, who is sitting calmly in his seat, avoiding the response.
“Hmm… I can’t answer that part because I don’t know what emotion is. However, to answer the question of when I’ve seen it… I said I’ve been watching since Phantom Thief knocked me out. I can give it to you.”
“…”
In fact, Seong-il feels a chill in his spine when he hears Ruchel’s words that he heard all the lines he and the sword had from the beginning.
