114 – Gray Rat (6)
Rakan was stunned and looked around.
It was the ward where Rakan lay right before entering the Somnium’s common dream.
Princess Rain Rover was looking at Rakan with worried eyes.
“Are you okay Rakan?”
“Ah yes. it’s okay.”
I felt the taste of blood in my mouth.
Someone slapped him on the cheek, and his cheek was very hot.
Rakan thought that the only person who could slap him in the face was the Rain Rover.
If it was Nadal, I would have woken up with magic.
“Thank you, Princess. Thanks to you, I got out.”
“What is gratitude? It was Nadal who woke up Rakan, not me.”
“yes?”
It was only then that Rakan could see Nadal’s face.
Nadal’s normally white face turned red.
And when I looked at the palm of my hand, it was stained red as if it had been bruised.
Nadal’s skin was so fragile that he bruised blue with just one punch.
“Master! Are your hands okay?”
“I am OK. Is your body any better than that?”
“yes. I’m OK.”
Rakan could see that Nadal was a little different than usual, even if he didn’t have to use his advanced search ability.
Nadal felt more relieved that Rakan had returned safely than the pain in his palms.
It wasn’t just Rakan that felt this way.
Rain Rover remembered Nadal seeing Rakan in peril and slapped him several times in the face as he grabbed Rakan by the collar and shook him with great excitement.
A wizard would have been able to wake him up with magic like a wizard, but he was so excited that he forgot he was a wizard for a moment.
‘It seems that something has changed a lot…’
When Rain Rover and Rakan looked at him a little strangely, Nadal quickly returned to his usual dignified appearance.
And healed the bruised palms with the 4 circle healing magic.
It was the first time that he was being humbled like this, so Rain Rover and Rakan looked even more strangely.
“greatness! Rather than that, let’s get the Nightmare out of the way.”
Rakan wanted to talk about Nadal’s change, but that wasn’t the point, so he agreed with Nadal.
“Ah yes. But where did Tigris go? Can’t you see?”
“I headed to the location of Somnium you found out a while ago with Bastian-sama. Is this the Centinental Hotel Room 707?”
“Ah yes. Right. But how… Ah, I could see the world of my dreams.”
“okay.”
At that moment, a message appeared in Rakan’s eyes.
[Quest accomplished!]
Find the location of Somnium and inform Tigris!
[Acquire 60,000 points!]
Rakan sighed in relief.
In the quest success notification, Rakan did everything he could, as he also got the maximum point that Rakan could get of 60,000 points.
Besides, Rakan departed before he woke up, so Somnium might still be in the dream world.
“If you do it really well, will you be able to catch it?”
“It would be nice if that was the case. First of all, Rakan thinks about the operation day later and rests well.”
“yes. All right.”
Rakan lay on his side bed to get the Nightmare out.
* * *
Tigris and Bastian opened the door of the Continental Hotel 707, opposite the Norverd Tower, and entered.
Opening the door wasn’t too difficult.
This was because Tigris was able to receive the No. 707 card key as soon as Tigris showed the Inquisitor investigator’s symbol, a gift, to the counter staff.
“for awhile······.”
“Wait a minute.”
Tigris and Bastian stopped each other at the same time.
The reason was simple.
It was because there was a magic trap at the entrance of the door.
It was not a problem he could solve, so Tigris stepped back.
Bastian quickly identified the magic trap and disarmed it in just three seconds.
“·················ogue.”
But Bastian’s expression was not so good.
I wondered if it was because of the strategy, but in Tigris’ eyes, Bastian seemed a little embarrassed.
But he quickly regained his emotions and stepped aside.
Tigris was a little puzzled about such a Bastian, but securing Somnium was the priority.
Tigris didn’t say anything to Bastian and walked forward quietly.
‘Now there is only one somnium.’
The location of Somnium was known from the moment we arrived in front of door 707.
However, he was careful and careful until he came to the front of the master bedroom with Somnium.
Tigris carefully opened the bedroom door.
On the bed was a woman with dark hair, sleeping soundly.
Tigris recognized the woman’s face at once.
it is somnium
‘It looks like you haven’t come out of your dream yet.’
It seemed that Rakan was holding the time well, or he was late to sort out the situation inside the dream.
“Is that woman Somnium?”
“yes. you’re right.”
It’s a defenseless situation that could kill you if you put a knife in your heart right now.
But the order given to Tigris is to secure Somnium’s recruits.
Since the amount of advanced information that Somnium was aware of was enormous, if he was captured, he could have skipped the all-out war between Rota and Arphem, which Tigris had been through before his return.
Tigris asked Bastian quietly.
“How long does it take to dispel all magic traps?”
“It takes 5 minutes at the earliest and 10 minutes at the latest.”
Of course, there were a lot of magic traps around the bed where Somnium was sleeping.
If you touch it wrong, it’s all over.
“Is there any way to fix it?”
“no. It is possible to just cut them to death.”
Five to ten minutes is a really vague time.
In the meantime, if Somnium wakes up or Somnium’s comrades come to visit, everything goes into vain.
Tigris thought briefly and opened his mouth.
“Let’s try to dispel magic first. If you leave, I will kill you.”
“I see.”
Tigris was fully prepared to strike the sword at any moment.
Bastian immediately began work on disarming the magic.
Dispel and dispel magic have slightly different meanings.
Dispel is to remove the magic just before it is activated, and dispel magic means to safely dispel the magic that has already been activated as it is now.
Naturally, the difficulty of the latter is twice as high.
However, Bastian was dispelling the magic of a wizard he had never seen before, but he was dispelling the magic very quickly.
Tigris looked away from Bastian and focused on Somnium’s face.
If there was any sign of something happening, I thought I’d hit it right away.
‘But it’s a little strange. Somnium is a shaman, so why is there a magic trap?’
If Somnium put magic traps everywhere to protect her body, it would be understandable.
However, it was a little surprising that the advanced trap magic was so elaborately arranged that even the 7th Circle Archmage struggled.
At that moment, I felt a faint feeling of living with the feeling of standing up.
Tigris immediately struck down the sword.
Scratch!
Magic traps were cut into useless swords with the image of amputation.
The magic circle was cut off, so no magic was activated.
The black Bastian flew toward Somnium’s neck so quickly that even the black Bastian did not dare to notice.
However, a red barrier was created on Somnium’s body.
This red shield was familiar.
It was the 7th Circle Reflection Barrier that Levis made to protect Morita.
The reflection barrier and the sword of Tigris met.
During the battle with Morita, Tigris was using a polymorph, so he could not capture the image of amputation with his sword, so he did not raise his sword hastily.
But now it’s different.
Tigris’ sword cut the reflection barrier like a piece of paper.
And somnium disappeared.
Somnium was taken out by the wizard who cast the reflection barrier magic with warp magic.
The location wasn’t too far.
Tigris immediately fired a sword in an X-shape, aiming at the opponent beyond the wall.
Scratch!
The sound of something being cut was heard again, and the wall collapsed, and the field of vision was opened.
There was an old man with his left arm cut off and dripping blood, and Somnium clutching his neck.
“Kreuk…….”
Somnium covered the scars with both hands to stop the red blood gushing out of the half-cut neck, but that was barely enough to stop the bleeding.
Tigris looked away from Somnium and looked at the old man.
Tigris knew the old man’s identity very well.
Pelen, the slayer of pride.
It was the 8th circle archmage and the greatest force possessed by Arfem.
“I got this.”
Pelen looked at the severed left hand as if it were funny.
He looked at me indifferently as if there was no pain, but that wound could never be healed.
Since it was cut with a sword containing the image of amputation, it was impossible to regenerate it even with the 7th circle recovery spell, ‘Recovery’.
I don’t know if it’s the legendary cure elixir.
But Pelen didn’t have time to care about the severed left hand.
“Sa…
Somnium clings to Pelen with bloody hands.
But Felen shook her head.
“It’s no use anymore. Somnium.”
As soon as Somnium was injured, I used the 7 Circle Anti-Magic Recovery that I had memorized, but Somnium’s wounds did not heal.
Somnium hurriedly took holy water from the subspace pocket and poured it on his neck.
However, only precious holy water was wasted and Somnium’s wounds were not healed.
“I can’t die like this. I can’t die like this…”
Somnium eventually passed out due to excessive bleeding.
Pelen looked at the fainted Somnium as if he were looking at a dead body.
Because there was no way for Rota and Arphem to heal the scars that even holy water could not heal.
“I wish I could use a swordsmanship that can’t be cured even with magic or holy water. If I had known this would happen, I would have cast the warp magic rather than the barrier magic quickly.”
Felen’s arrogance, who thought that Tigris’ sword attack could be blocked with a reflection barrier, caused this to happen.
If he had cast the space movement magic first, not the barrier magic, he would have saved Somnium and not lost his left arm.
Pelen decided to take the hard part as blood was constantly gushing out of his left arm.
He magically cut off his left shoulder and poured holy water over it.
He recovered quickly with new flesh growing on the cross section, but his left arm did not grow back.
If you do this, you will not be able to use your left arm for the rest of your life, but it was an inevitable choice.
Felen looked away from Tigris and looked at Bastian.
Bastian looked at Pelen as if he were seeing a ghost.
“It was also your brother.”
Tigris was amazed at the word “brother” and looked at Bastian involuntarily.
Pelen is Bastian’s older brother?
This was something I was completely unaware of.
“·······The structure of the magic trap and the security technique seemed familiar somewhere. But I can’t believe it. I hope Harke-nim is still alive.”
“Well, you must have thought I was dead. It is not wrong.”
Felen lifted her jacket up to her chin with her right hand.
There was a scar as if something had pierced the heart.
“But with his help, I survived. Now I can live without a heart.”
Bastian raised the wand.
“When he had a heart, he lived as if he did not have a heart.”
“No. I was just more active than anyone else at what my heart told me to do.”
“How could a person with a heart be able to kill their parents in order to become a California governor as soon as possible!”
The whole building shook at Bastian’s shouts mixed with anger.
Felen said with a smirk.
“There are still a lot of things you don’t know, Bastian. You still know that I killed my parents to become a head of state.”
“What does that mean?”
“Actually, I don’t want to dwell on the complicated history of the past, so I threw the head of state to the youngest youngest, and I’m acting like the headmaster of a fancy Imperial University.”
“You still haven’t given up on that habit. Don’t dare try to judge my thoughts. You don’t know how I felt when I gave up my seat in Gaju!”
Bastian didn’t want to recall the memories of that day, but he opened his mouth as he went through the painful wounds.
“I gave up because I didn’t want to lose the stigma of killing Harke and becoming head of state! If you kill flesh and blood like you and ascend to the throne, the prestige of the Lord Elim family will fall to the ground!”
“As I got older, my tongue became quite smooth. Don’t hide your true intentions. Bastian. You were an ordinary student who did not have a drop of blood on your hands all your life, and devoted your life to research. I didn’t even care about the family’s well-being or honor, so I had no idea what the family was like.”
“Then tell me! Why did you kill your parents!”
Felen said, clenching her throat.
“My handsome father was tricked by the emperor’s tongue and joined the Anti-Mage Association. They said that for the rapid development of the empire and the stability of the people’s livelihood, the opportunity to learn magic skills should be provided to all people like the trivial swordsmanship of knights.”
“So, I had no choice but to deal with the garbage that was trying to bring magic down to a magician-themed subject or a trivial skill to learn.”
Bastian could not stand it, so he sent the 5th circle ‘Fire Serpent Digging’ through a silent chant.
Felen deflected the flame snake with her barrier magic and opened her mouth.
“Beomsaeng is pretty good for the subject. I thought I wouldn’t study attack magic again.”
“Don’t insult my parents anymore.”
“Just one more word. Bastian, aren’t you curious? How could I, who was only a 4th circle wizard at that time, have killed my 6th circle wizard father and mother?”
Felen said with a snake-like expression on her face.
“okay. There were not a few families who thought the same as me. And Emperor Todd knows very well what families have worked with me. But do you know?”
“·················ogue.”
“Well, what would a guy who closed his ears and covered his eyes and only cared about those insignificant creatures know? The emperor you serve like the sun has no power. That is why he seduced the Rod Elim family to plan to strengthen the power of the commoners and weaken the power of the nobles to strengthen their imperial power.”
When Bastian began to shake at Pelen’s words, Tigris took a step forward and opened his mouth.
“Now stop chatting.”
Felen said looking at Tigris.
“You must have been bored with my brother’s long speech. Nari, the hero of the zodiac.”
Felen scanned Tigris’ body.
The more I looked at it, the more wonderful it was.
As if God made it with all his heart, he was maintaining perfect body balance, and the amount of mana was so enormous that it could not be considered a knight with five rings.
“Is that all the will?”
“You are in a hurry. I have no intention of fighting you. And isn’t it obvious what will happen if you fight in the middle of the ecliptic? From what I have analyzed so far, it seems that you are extremely wary of the shedding of innocent blood…”
Pellen said as he tucked through the screaming hallway.
“I don’t know how good your swordsmanship is, but you don’t think you’ll be able to deal with me without taking any damage?”
Pellen was right.
Phelen was a whopping 8th circle archmage and a genius in telekinetic magic.
The Telekinesis Magic did not have a good compatibility with the knights, so it was possible to kill Rakan, Rain Rover, and hundreds of iron-blooded wizards who were magic swordsmen in their previous lives.
“Of course, if time drags on, I will be at a disadvantage. If Bergang and Nadal come, it will be quite dangerous.”
Felen started making two magic circles at the same time.
One was teleport magic and the other was gravity magic, asteroid fall magic.
“Two 7 circle magic…!”
When he performed two 7th circle magic at the same time, Bastian looked at Pelen in disbelief.
When Tigris tried to move, Felen activated the artifact he had prepared in advance.
The ‘Ring of the Millennium Prison’ hanging on Felen’s index finger activated, and the space between Tigris and Felen was twisted.
“Would I have appeared before you without any preparation? If you’re thinking of running through this distorted space, I wouldn’t recommend it.”
Tigris knew very well what that distorted space was.
It was an empty space that could not reach the end no matter how much he ran into the space prison that Felen put so much effort into.
I know this because Tigris had been imprisoned in that prison before.
“So choose. Innocent citizens or me? Of course, I won’t let stupid numbers choose me. The place I go to is my personal lab. You know that even that monster Bergan doesn’t walk into the wizard’s lab on his own feet, right?”
Pelen lifted the corpse of Somnium, who had already died of excessive bleeding, with telekinetic magic, and opened her mouth.
“Next time, there will be no such mistake. Tigris Because I knew you were a very dangerous being.”
Felen disappeared with the teleport.
Bastian immediately opened his mouth.
“Will you follow me? I could barely check the teleport coordinates.”
Tigris shook his head.
“no. It is impossible for me to enter the wizard’s lab without any preparation.”
For now, he should be content with just killing Somnium and cutting off Felen’s left arm.
More immediate than that was an asteroid falling into the ecliptic.
The dark night sky, where the moon had not risen, was dyed red.
The asteroid dropped by Felen came closer to her nose.
Tigris and Bastian looked out the window.
“Is there any way to stop it?”
“If you destroy it prematurely, the asteroid will split apart and ruin the ecliptic. So let’s use another method.”
Bastian quickly unfolded the ceremony.
The magic to prepare was teleport magic.
I was thinking of sending that asteroid itself somewhere else.
And the location has already been decided.
“If that asteroid hits my brother’s lab, it’ll be worth seeing.”
Bastian casts teleport by linking the coordinates where the asteroid is flying and the coordinates where Pelen has disappeared.