26. Joseph (3)
Maybe that’s why you killed him…?
Oliver asked, raising Andrew’s torso slightly.
Maggots squirmed and squirmed between the cut back sections.
Joseph was silent for a moment, then opened his mouth.
“. Are you curious about that?”
“Well·····. Yes. If the master doesn’t want to say anything, that’s fine.”
At Oliver’s outrageous words, Joseph laughed silently. even said
“Half right and half wrong. It’s true that you killed Andrew to get the devil’s blessing, but it’s not just for that. The guy is… It offended me.”
“Are you offended?”
“Yeah, unpleasant. Even though I was there, I thought of my organization as my own, and that was not enough, so I made my own person and dared to challenge my authority. It is very unpleasant.”
Oliver nodded. Well, Oliver knew to some extent that Andrew had those feelings.
“Well, that’s right.”
Oliver placed Andrew’s body on the road altar. The maggots squirmed even more from the shock.
“uh····. If it’s okay with you, can I say something?”
Joseph took out a pilgarette and put it in his mouth.
“good night····. Try it.”
“Did I offend you too?”
“·····. no. I was teaching Marie at will, but, well, it was to learn letters. I understand. Above all, you are not that kind.”
“ha···. I’m glad you understand.”
“But I can’t save you.”
“I don’t understand. Why?”
“I have no personal feelings. Just for a bigger goal… Answer me. What is my goal?”
Oliver remembered the first time he had met Joseph.
“···. You said that your goal is to train an excellent warlock… To be strong to survive. Ahh·····.”
Oliver shouted. Because I understood the true meaning of Joseph.
“That’s literally it. My goal is to be strong, and to do that I have to make a bigger sacrifice to the devil. Exactly, just like you.”
Oliver raised his hand.
“Personally, I’m curious, but I happened to meet the devil.”
Joseph looked at Oliver and said, looking at the half-full pilgaret.
“When I wasn’t even a third-rate warlock yet. The devil whispered to me I will give strength to my lack of talent, so do what you tell me to do. I built this altar as the devil told me to, and dedicated my master and alumni.”
Ahh. Oliver looked around again.
He seemed to know a lot about this place, but this was the dark magic organization that Joseph belonged to in the past.
Oliver wanted to ask what he was doing here and who Joseph’s teacher was, but he suppressed his curiosity and focused on the situation in front of him.
“Can you give me one more word?”
“Don’t let me just say one word. It’s all smoked now.”
“thank you. Could you possibly save me? There are things I want to do personally, and I am grateful to the owner. You have taught me many things. If you spare me, I will serve you for the rest of my life.”
Joseph threw the exhausted pilgaret on the floor and trampled it out.
“I’m serious, that’s a good suggestion. But don’t refuse. I can’t even imagine what kind of reward there would be if I made an outstanding sacrifice like you, and above all…”
“What?”
“·····. If it isn’t now, I don’t think I can defeat you any more.”
With those words, Oliver could see a flash of murderous intent for a moment.
I rolled to the side as my instinct told me to dodge it, but a shadowy tentacle jumped out from where Oliver was.
Fluttering-!
Even if the reaction was a little late, he would have been caught.
“Even if you hide your emotions, you see through them. Also, nice eyes. More than anyone I’ve ever seen.”
With him, Joseph extracted emotions from the test tube and shot them with a hat bullet.
Oliver also took out a test tube and deployed a black shield to block the attack.
However, it’s just a waste of time.
While Oliver paused, Joseph took out a test tube of vitality from his bosom and sang aloud.
[Revive]
According to the spell, the life force contained in the test tube was torn into dozens and entered into the corpses and skeletons scattered everywhere.
Oliver observed the scene silently.
One by one, murky light came into the eyes of the corpses, and they began to stagger from their seats.
The joints and muscles that had been hardened for so many years moved again, but a terrible rumble echoed through the room, and Oliver asked in the bizarre and terrifying sight.
“This····.”
“Manipulation series black magic. reviver. You can revive a corpse for a moment and move it. It’s not my specialty, but I can do it to some extent.”
“Not at all…. Doesn’t it look threatening?”
Oliver said, looking at the corpse that had just been resurrected without any hostility.
“right. Not yet.”
With those words, Joseph opened the test tube filled with emotions and cast a new black magic.
[Object Hat]
The feelings of hatred in the test tube, like life force, were torn into dozens in the air and entered the resurrected corpses.
Then hatred rose from the faces of the corpses that had just been blank, and then he turned his head to look at Oliver. He ran with him and screamed.
“Woo much!!!”
“Uhhhh!!!”
“Kyaah!”
A horde of zombies that would be enough, like thirty.
After identifying the approaching zombies, Oliver extracted minimal emotion from the test tube and used it for his shadow.
[Vine Shadow]
The first black magic that Joseph used. Oliver was mimicking it, but it wasn’t just the same thing.
It was made thinner than the shadow of Joseph’s bar and caught the zombies pouring from all directions at the same time.
A horde of zombies that can’t move.
He screamed and groaned to get rid of it, but Oliver pulled his hands together as if strangling him, and the shadow tentacles that were tying the zombies dig into their flesh, and then cut the zombies into pieces like cheese.
After taking a lot of damage, the remaining vitality was scattered in the air, but without missing the timing, Joseph launched an onslaught.
“That’s great too! I’ve picked up something really great!!”
Bullets of hate pouring out. Oliver deployed the Black Shield by expelling minimal emotions.
However, as expected, Joseph fired hat bullets with different emotional densities, forcing them to fight, and even attacking from different angles further amplified Oliver’s emotional consumption.
[Quiet Snake]
Four venomous snakes sprang up at Joseph’s feet, crawling silently toward Oliver.
Oliver stopped Joseph’s attack, but as soon as he caught the snake, he fired one hit bullet to destroy it.
Probably, anyone who saw Oliver would be amazed.
He was stopping Joseph, who was pouring an onslaught with so many test tubes, with just one test tube.
However, that’s all.
While Joseph’s emotions were still overflowing, Oliver’s emotions were half to one-third before they had reached the bottom.
[Black Javelin]
A black javelin, incomparable to the one Andrew was using, flew and pierced Oliver’s black shield.
The Black Shield was broken in the air and the Black Javelin, who had fulfilled its role, disappeared like a mist.
Oliver, who barely escaped the penetrating wound, observed it silently. It’s as if time has stopped.
“It’s over now.”
Joseph said as he looked at Oliver’s test tube with the bottom of it. At best, one hit bullet?
Oliver looked silently at the test tube, then suddenly reached out and tried to extract Joseph’s feelings.
I wanted to be pulled out for a moment, but when Joseph shook his hand strongly, the extraction stopped, and the attack came again.
Even the extraction, the last hope, failed.
But Oliver did not give up. He collected even a drop of emotion to create a bullet of hate, and then shot Joseph’s Hat Bullet in flight.
A bullet of hate that collides in the air and disappears.
At that moment, Oliver reached out and concentrated all his nerves.
It seemed like time had stopped suddenly, but it didn’t matter.
increased concentration.
What was important now was the feeling of disappearing from his hands and in the air.
Surprisingly, when he showed extreme concentration, the emotions that were about to disappear like smoke condensed little by little and entered Oliver’s hand, even in small quantities.
Oliver exclaimed as soon as he got the feeling.
[Black Shield]
A thin black veil.
The veil really barely stopped Joseph’s attack.
Of course, it was broken at the end due to lack of emotion, but there was no denying that Oliver managed to save his life.
And where is that?
After learning the persimmon, Oliver extracted the remaining emotions of the broken Black Shield and the blocked Hat Bullet from the air and stabilized his emotions in his hand.
Joseph looked at it without saying a word.
“····················································································. What the hell are you?”
Oliver pretended to be exhausted and manipulated emotions in his hands.
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Noticing this, Joseph extracted all emotions from the test tube and poured out an attack.Bullets of hate pouring down, black javelins, poisonous snakes, and black flames.
Oliver shoots hat bullets in the order of arrival, deploys a black shield to prevent desperate attacks, and collects emotions by re-extracting emotions that are about to disappear.
A very dangerous and daunting task.
Missing one beat of the sequence was directly fatal, but strangely, Oliver felt pleasure in this moment.
It was weird even thinking about it.
If I die here, I will never see that beautiful light again, nor will I be able to find out the secret.
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Nevertheless, Oliver enjoyed the moment very much, and his head began to spin accordingly.Oliver chanted while blocking the attack.
[Shadow Spike]
A spike of shadows rose from under Joseph’s feet, as he was distracted by the assault.
With black magic reinterpreting Shadow Vine, he inflicted a major wound on one side of Joseph’s face.
Perhaps, if I had been a little faster, I could have pierced from the bottom up.
“Hey, hey…! dog···!”
Joseph lost his composure in embarrassment. He told me how deadly the attack was, but there was nothing to be sorry about.
Because this wasn’t the real attack.
“yes?”
Joseph looked at the dartboard on his body and shouted.
With him, I watched the black darts curve sideways and fly towards the dartboard.
“B, Black Shield!”
Joseph unfolds the shield in embarrassment.
The black dart, which is an improved version of the Black Javelin, could not penetrate the shield and only got stuck, but that was enough.
“uh?”
Joseph looks at the black dart with a sense of alienation.
As the owner of a family, he immediately recognized the cause of the heterogeneity.
“Oh my gosh…!”
Bang——!
The las boom that was planted in the black dart exploded.
The power itself wasn’t that great, but thanks to the outrageous timing, it wasn’t enough to break the Hat Bullet, so he blew off one of Joseph’s shoulders.
It fell to the floor of the test tube in Joseph’s arms and shattered, and with him Joseph grabbed the blown arm and screamed for the world to go away.
“aah-! Aww-! Chewy teeth—–!”
Red blood running down the floor and the smell of burning meat.
Joseph couldn’t calm his emotions and threw them into the air.
After re-extracting those emotions, Oliver approached Joseph, who, mad with pain and fear, screamed and crawled on the floor, running away from Oliver as he bled.
“Fuck! Fuck!! Fuck haircut-!! Do not come! don’t come!! Do not come!!!”
Oliver observed Joseph.
I could see a feeling of obsession that went beyond simple fear and pain.
It was something more than a simple need for survival, and Oliver didn’t know what to name it right away.
One thing is for sure, the light is getting more and more beautiful.
pounding. pounding. pounding.
Oliver felt his heart beating slightly, and found one of the test tubes that had fallen off the floor.
“master. Wait a minute, wait a minute. please.”
Joseph crawled on the floor, feeling even more afraid of such Oliver.
While the red blood left traces like a snail, Oliver found a healthy test tube.
“ah!”
Oliver approached with a test tube, and Joseph mumbled as he crawled away.
“I···. I’m just going to die here…”
Then, I felt a strange aura from somewhere.
An unusual energy that will surprise even the excited Oliver and the dying Joseph.
When he turned his head, strangely and horribly, he could see the bodies entangled with each other.
The tangled corpse was creating a crude form.
Oliver instinctively sensed that this was similar to black magic, but something higher than that.
“under··. hahaha···. hahaha! Also! There is no way you can leave me like this!!”
Joseph began to laugh frantically, perhaps forgetting that one of his arms had been blown off.
As he was, not as a metaphor, his appearance was that of a madman. Forgetting pain and fear, bursting with madness.
Oliver saw in Joseph like that relief and faith close to faith.
When I turned my head again, the lump of meat woven together had a more plausible appearance, but it was similar…
“On horseback…. old man?”
Oliver tilted his head and mumbled.
The rotten flesh and skull of a zombie were woven together to form a small horse, and arms, legs, and intestines were woven to form the figure of an old man.
In particular, the beard and hair made of intestines looked bushy, not rich.
Under normal circumstances, it was right to attack quickly, but Oliver instinctively realized that this was pointless.
At this bizarre image, Joseph suddenly cried out.
“Help me! Old man on horseback!! Please help me just once! Then my more offerings! To you…!”
Did Joseph’s wind reach him?
A mass of corpses called an old man on horseback approached Tabak-Tabak- Oliver.
Oliver watched the scene silently, and the old man on the horse slowly raised his hand, put it to his chest, and bowed his head toward Oliver.
A polite greeting to anyone who sees it.
Joseph, who was in a greater shock than when his arm flew away, tried to argue, but before he could even speak, the mass of the body collapsed and disappeared.
Intestines and maggots pouring out of his feet stained Oliver’s shoes and one side of Joseph’s face.
Oliver asked Joseph politely.
“master····. What was it just now?”
But Joseph just mumbled hopelessly, as if he had not heard it.
“I can’t do this…. This could be… I can’t admit it…! my life…!! admit·····!!!”
Joseph grows louder and louder as if evil has been struck.
With him his emotions shone beautifully, and Oliver extracted them with excitement.
It wasn’t much, but I was really happy.
As if to prove his joy, Oliver patted his master Joseph’s chest and thanked him.
Even though Joseph was dead.
“Well, this way…. thank you so much. master.”