181. Believers (5)
[Cheer up]
With Youngchang, Oliver put his palms together.
When they were put together, greed and fire in each hand became one with him.
It wasn’t that difficult.
The basic mechanics of combining magic and life are the same.
It was actually much easier than creating an artificial soul.
“aah!!”
Unlike before, Marie screamed and stepped back. Emotions and facial expressions were noticeably agitated.
It wasn’t that strange.
This black fire, which burns with the emotions of greed, was no ordinary fire.
Like the flames of a war wizard who burns with magic, flame, and explosive power as firewood, this black fire ‘Tamhwa’ devoured the emotional particles around it and continued to grow in size and firepower.
“Hey, what is this…!”
Her eyes widened in shock and astonishment, and her voice was trembling.
Marie was shocked, and it wasn’t that strange. Marie, who has a link with an emotion particle, knew the ferocity of that black fire more than anyone else.
A magic that could not be believed to have been created on the spot.
Perhaps, Oliver would not have thought of it without the battle with the war wizard.
magic and black magic. People kept thinking of these two separately, but maybe they didn’t know that they were meant to be used together rather than separately.
“by the way·····.”
Oliver looked around the burning black flames, concentrating on the reality in front of him.
Maybe because of the added emotion, it was much more difficult to control than the flames I dealt with when fighting war wizards.
He ran like crazy, trying to somehow get out of Oliver’s control, while at the same time inflating and burning everything around him to feed himself.
Is it because the nature of the flame that swallows and expands and the emotion of greed meet?
‘Maybe this is also worth studying….’
Oliver clenched his fist slightly.
The black flame, which was swinging like a tornado and trying to spread freely around it, waned and slowly shrunk in size.
At first glance, it looked like his strength had been lost, but that wasn’t the case.
Rather, it was more like crouching down to hit the target accurately.
“go.”
Oliver pointed his finger at Marie, and flames that had curled up like a trained hound rushed towards Marie like a hurricane.
A gigantic monster that greedily inflates and boosts firepower while swallowing up all those threatening emotional particles, and devours a swarm of tiny fish.
Kwahwahwahwahwahwahwahahahahang Port ━━━━!!!!
Black flames chased after Marie in the shape of a natural disaster, like the magic of a war wizard, and Marie desperately fled like a wild animal escaping a typhoon.
It seemed that he couldn’t move the whole emotional particle.
Thanks to this, Oliver’s black flames consumed emotion particles without hesitation, and the flame’s greed, will, and power grew stronger.
‘This magic? black magic? It’s tricky anyway.’
As Oliver walked loftily, he thought, carefully controlling the flames.
Just as controlling flames is not immune to flames, this powerful flame was a powerful weapon for Oliver and a danger that could eat him at any time.
Magic like a double-edged sword.
There was no reason for the war mage to keep moving his hands to control the flames and surround them with stone pillars.
In particular, the black flame was emotional, so he kept trying to get out of Oliver’s control and fill his desires.
Rather than flames, it was closer to the realization of emotions.
So Oliver slowly walked forward.
To control the flame not to harm itself, and to prevent the flame from spreading too much.
Perhaps that’s why Oliver’s walking speed slowed as the flames grew stronger by eating Marie’s emotional particles.
“yes?”
Black flames are also flames. A lot of smoke was spewing out the surroundings, and Oliver stopped walking without inhaling the smell.
When he couldn’t go any further because of Oliver who stood tall, the flames tried to drag him away like a dog pulling his master.
In fact, he was dissatisfied with the appearance of irregular mouths and eyes all over the huge flames.
But instead of obeying the will of the flame, Oliver clenched his fist with the hand that held control and only suppressed the flame.
The flames let out an indescribable scream as if it were painful, and its momentum subsided.
Then, the aftermath of the black flame that filled Oliver’s vision also diminished, and the surroundings came into view.
Just like the war wizards… No, more than that, the ruined forest.
There was only black ashes left, and even that amount was small. It felt like it was burned without leaving even ashes.
At least Oliver was in control. If I had lost control of the flame in the middle, I wondered how much this greedy fire would have consumed.
The whole forest, not just a part of it? Maybe the forest wasn’t enough, so it might have spread to the outskirts of Landa, or maybe even the center of Landa.
It seemed too exaggerated for Oliver to even think of himself, but strangely, the image was vividly drawn in his mind.
‘I can’t use this rudely.’
As Oliver clenched his fists once more, concluding in his mind, the flames spit out dozens of moans, decreasing in size little by little.
“Hey, what the hell is this…”
Marie, who was being chased by the black flames, looked at Oliver even though she was tired and disorganized, and she lit up emotions such as astonishment, fear, and awe.
Taken from n̲o̲b̲l̲e̲m̲t̲l̲.̲c̲o̲m̲
Not to mention Marie’s men.At that moment, when no one could speak hastily, Oliver stepped forward, leaving the flame behind.
The distance from the flames widened, and now was the right time to attack, but whether it was because of the fear of the previous flame attack or because of Oliver’s pressure, Marie could not do anything and just looked at Oliver approaching.
Shuhaah
Oliver re-extracted some of Marie’s emotional particles, took them and held them in his hands.
Everyone, including Marie, looked at him as if frozen, but did nothing.
thump. thump. thump.
Oliver turned back again.
“number of animals.”
“yes? yes! master.”
“Is this feeling the pure faith of Marie and others?”
“…Yes, Master.”
Oliver nodded twice, compressed the emotions in his hands, then extracted the magic from his hands and set off a small fire.
Then, as when making black flames, their palms faced each other.
If there is a difference, it is not that fire and emotions were combined, but that they were burned together.
Emotions burned and smoke rose.
It was like a primitive pilgaret.
Oliver crouched in that state to make a bowl and inhaled the smoke rising from his hands.
Although the shape was different from that of the pilgaret, the basic principle was the same, so the emotions were transmitted through the smoke into Oliver’s lungs, and then spread throughout his body.
At that moment, Oliver could feel it.
The mixed emotions of countless people, fragments of their lives.
It was too fragmentary and too much information to look at all of them, but Oliver could see their lives, at least indirectly, and get a glimpse of what this belief and the value of this belief was for them.
“Whoa….”
Oliver sighed and looked at the black flames.
The black flame, which could no longer swallow its emotions, was waning.
A being that can exist only by swallowing something and burning it.
Oliver looked at the flames for a moment, then flicked and waved his hand.
With him, a flame greater than several houses put together was extinguished with dozens of screams from its mouths.
𝙅𝙖𝙖𝙖𝙖𝙖𝙖𝙞
The black flame, which disappeared while screaming, eventually became as small as a match and then disappeared as a streak of black smoke.
Everyone watched the scene without saying a word.
“number of animals.”
“Yes, Master….”
“I will apologize first. You said that you don’t judge others, but somehow I think I’m judging Marie’s work.”
“Oh, no. no! master.”
“I think I have a rough idea of what Marie has been doing all this time. Very little, though. You’re doing a lot more than me, who only takes care of myself.”
“.
“no. You are really great. More than me… Still, I have no intention of following you.”
As soon as Oliver finished speaking, he raised his hand to control the emotional particles Marie had scattered.
The flames had burned out, but there was still a little left, and Marie, of course, tried to stop it.
Just like I did before.
“uh····?”
Marie was startled and groaned.
Unlike just a few minutes ago, he couldn’t stop Oliver from intervening.
“I think I understood Marie a little bit.”
With those words, Oliver controlled the emote that had taken control.
Only a small amount of emotion particles left, forming an air current, tightening Marie.
Confused Marie. Oliver asked Marie.
“Seeing that I recovered from my previous injuries, Marie doesn’t die very well, right?”
“·················ogue.”
“Then, be patient.”
Oliver snatched it through the air.
The emotional particles that formed the air current with him staggered in multiple directions, moving quickly and strongly like a typhoon.
The things in it were twisted, torn, and broken in accordance with the alternating currents.
Pieces of wood, leaves, and even Marie.
“Kuguguk!”
Marie was lifted up in the air like a person caught in a typhoon and began to twist and bend bizarrely in each direction.
He tried to resist, but the emote under Oliver’s control produced a much higher output each time Marie controlled it, making it difficult to resist.
In response to Marie’s movement, Oliver changed the direction of the airflow to neutralize Marie’s resistance.
All she could do was struggle in vain like a moth caught in a spider’s web.
Whik ━ ━ ━ bang!!
Oliver quickly lowered her hand and Marie fell to the ground.
Marie, whose limbs were terribly broken by the vortex of air currents and a fall.
However, it was soon restored with the power of black magic that had been given to the body.
“aah!”
As soon as Marie had recovered, she jumped up and tried to swing her claws at Oliver.
closely!!
The moment she was about to swing her nails, the emotion particles caught Marie first.
Marie stopped.
Beyond limiting their behavior, they were in control.
[Nail]
Oliver tapped the air with his finger.
With him, emotional particles clung together, and a nail the size of a forearm was nailed to Marie’s body. As if it had been there in the first place without any foreshadowing.
“··········!!”
Marie let out a silent scream at the nail that caused great pain.
“It is more efficient to write this way. Or like this.”
-match!
When Oliver claps, the emotional particles clump together into hand-like shapes, squeezing Marie’s whole body like a mosquito.
Marie collapses in the form of broken bones and broken flesh.
Taken from n̲o̲b̲l̲e̲m̲t̲l̲.̲c̲o̲m̲
Nevertheless, Marie did not die and recovered her body. As if not allowing death.It was as if black magic was controlling Marie, not just Marie controlling black magic.
“stop it! This dog—!”
-[Thorn]
While Marie’s men trembled in fear, they mustered up the courage to stop Oliver, but with a single gesture of Oliver, their bodies were surrounded by thorns, depriving them of their freedom to act.
one-sided bullying.
Oliver looked down at the fallen Marie and her men.
Oliver moved his fingers to raise Marie from the dead.
Obviously, her body was visibly deformed, but her body was slowly recovering.
“Can you hear me?”
“…Yes, Master.”
“I actually wished Marie wouldn’t speak of her master.”
“·················ogue.”
“But now I have changed my mind a bit.”
“····??”
“I am not talking about calling you master. Just keep calling me that if you want.”
“Lord, lord . . .”
“And whether you believe in me as your savior or not, you can do whatever you want.”
Marie looked at Oliver without a word.
“To be honest, I still don’t like it, but I don’t think I have the right to argue. Look at what Marie has done.”
He recalled the fragments of emotion and memories that Oliver had seen when he inhaled the emotional particles.
“So just do what you want. But even if you use my name, please don’t drag me in. I still want to see the world. So please, sincerely. Please don’t come into my daily life. If so… Then you will really hate it.”
Marie shook her head and nodded.
Upon hearing the answer, Oliver snapped his finger! bounced Then the emotional particles scatter in the air like servants and disappear.
“Nice to meet you. number of animals.”