82. Reunion (2)
bum bum.
Oliver, along with Joe and his party, headed to the home of the O’Toole family.
The O’Toole family said that in addition to about a dozen members of the organization, they also included residents (plunderers) living under their protection, even if it was a small town.
Even so, I didn’t feel like I was popular, but it seemed like I was robbed first, as Joe said.
“Like you, we planned to raid the O’Toole family and steal their books and technology. Their skills are pretty good.”
Oliver agreed.
Aside from remodeling zombies, the technology to hand over control to a third party required a significant level of skill.
It was true that he had some pretty good skills.
“okay. So, did you hire these mercenaries?”
“No, officially the mercenaries hired us, and in reality we are collaborating. We’re going to raid warlocks and marauders, and the mercenaries will take the monetary loot, and we’ll get the books and tools.”
Oliver nodded.
It seemed like a pretty good deal if we could trust each other.
Due to the nature of the contaminated area, I needed someone to protect my back. Oliver just had no match for him.
“But there is one thing I don’t understand.”
“What?”
“Mr. Cho specializes in disease, so why do you covet manipulation-based black magic? Oh, do you want to study there too?”
“·····No, not me, but to our crew. Even if you study another series in the first place, the efficiency is not good… Unless you’re an unusual guy, you don’t do that well.”
As Joe finished speaking, he looked at Oliver.
“ah······. Are you serving it to the crew?”
“Yeah, because our crew also has a control warlock. We help each other get stronger.”
like·····. Oliver was amazed.
It was quite impressive for Oliver, who had never experienced anything other than the Joseph family as a black magic organization.
Ironically, the family who gathered to learn black magic and become stronger did not want the same family member to become stronger than a certain amount, but in fact, breaking this became quite dangerous.
But the fighter crew helps each other become stronger.
I don’t know the details, but from what I’ve heard so far, it seems to be a more productive organization than the existing family.
“Thanks for your kind explanation.”
“Don’t thank me. It’s not like I’m just teaching without thinking.”
“Yes?”
“It’s right here.”
Instead of answering the question, Joe pointed forward.
At the end of where he was pointing was a small, destroyed shanty town, and the barricades around the village were mercilessly broken.
Scattered restraints everywhere.
Judging from the damaged form, it could not be seen as simply an attack by a swarm of zombies.
In fact, there were signs of an explosion on the building in the center of the village.
“Who is that guy?”
Those who were encamped in the destroyed village approached and said:
There were twenty mercenaries armed with protective clothing and certain firearms, and a warlock.
Joe said to his colleague.
“Dave… Remember when I stretched out?”
“ah····. Who killed Nico and his big jaw?!”
“Yes, that’s right. That’s me. I’m sorry about that. sorry.”
Whether Oliver’s polite apology worked or not, the unknown warlock began to laugh hahahaha.
Then the other mercenaries began to laugh, and suddenly an unknown warlock drew his gun and fired.
Tang!
A shot was fired right next to Oliver’s head, and the air was frozen as quiet as the sudden gunshot.
The friendly atmosphere suddenly disappeared, leaving only a deep silence.
After a long silence, an unknown warlock opened his mouth.
“Wow····. Do you have good guts? Not even a blink of an eye… Aren’t you afraid to die? So you must have killed our friend?”
“no. Of course dying is scary… I’m sorry about that Nico-san and the big chin. If I didn’t kill Big Jaw, I’d be dead. Nico-san failed to control his power… Anyway, I apologize again.”
The unknown warlock smiled absurdly and put the gun to Oliver’s head.
“Can I also put a bullet in your head and apologize?”
The tension grew, but this time with a bit of sincerity.
Oliver’s polite apology seemed to have scratched his nerves.
He didn’t understand, but Oliver looked around.
The mercenaries who take a fighting stance according to the warlock’s attitude.
I was embarrassed because I didn’t want to have a fight that had no nutritional value in a place like this, but then Joe intervened.
He lowered the gun of the unknown warlock and calmed him down.
“Calm down, Sam. First of all, I brought you as a guest.”
“Guest? This baby killed Nico and a big chin? Thanks to you, me and the other kids are all struggling here together.”
swimming····. Apparently, the Fighter Crew was not a healthy organization.
When I first heard Joe’s explanation, it seemed like my colleagues were working together to grow, but as Sam’s words were added, I didn’t want to come, but I felt like I was forced to come.
I wanted to ask about this, but the conversation between Joe and Sam was so serious that it was difficult to interrupt.
“You have to work with that guy.”
“Ahhh…. why?”
“Because I’m strong enough to take down Nico and my big jaw at the same time. You know there’s something unusual here right now, right?”
Sam hesitated for a moment to see if he had something to point out.
Oliver intervened.
“What the hell is going on over there?”
“······This cleaning is different from usual, something is strange. It’s also very.”
“What part are you talking about?”
“The zombies usually ran away as soon as the solver came in, but this time they are running away. No, it’s actually tempting. And I don’t see any looters.”
“Are you talking about looters?”
“Yeah, if you go a little deeper, you can see one or two, but now you can’t even see the proboscis. No, not just predators, but other humans as well. I can’t see anything but zombies. More than anything····.”
Joe took a break.
“In addition to this, I visited two other dark magic organizations, and they were in a similar state to this one.”
“Are you saying you were attacked by someone?”
“right. Now, this isn’t just an increase in zombies. It’s much more dangerous than that… That’s why I brought you here and explained it so kindly… Come join us for a while.”
“Cooperation?”
“Yes, cooperation. The situation is not serious, so why not go with us for now?”
“I am a little embarrassed by this unexpected offer… Would you mind if I go with you?”
“It’s because I have the skills…. It wouldn’t be a bad offer for you either. Isn’t it bad to have someone to look after you when unexpected danger looms? I’m just saying this just in case, but I don’t mean anything.”
It was sincere. For unknown reasons, Joe had no intention of harming Oliver apart from harboring a feeling of displeasure. At least for now.
“I believe…. But would you mind if I go with you, Jo?”
Joe was silent for a moment before replying.
“……Uh, for some reason, it doesn’t seem like you will break your promise.”
This is also sincere. Oliver was in trouble for a moment.
In the original way, he would have refused and moved to another place, but he was even robbed of another warlock organization.
Aside from the fact that the original plan was turned upside down, there was definitely something unusual about it.
“…If, in the process, you get something like a black magic book, how will you share it?”
“Well····. It’s a matter that we have to go back to then, but let’s share it as equally as possible.”
Sincerity.
Then Sam, who was listening quietly, interrupted.
I asked him why he said things like that, but Joe said that the situation is not serious, so strengthening the power is the first priority.
Oliver also shook his head.
First of all, I have a party to look after and share some black magic books… It didn’t sound too bad.
As Oliver opened his mouth to answer, a crackle echoed through the air.
Oliver looked at the telecommunications device, but it wasn’t his.
It was Joe’s communicator.
“what?”
[Chijik…! Chic…! Fuck…. support···! please do it… Tooth…. Zombies appear… Cheek! Grab a weapon and fire a gun…! Fuck you…!]
Zombies, weapons, guns.
Oliver doubted whether he had heard correctly.
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Now the zombies were wielding weapons and shooting guns.***
“Damn…!”
The Magic Tower’s Wizard Colin… No, to be more precise, Colin Mallany of the Mjölnir School of Matoap spit out swear words.
He entered the Mjolnir School without hesitation under the determination to become a powerful wizard.
A traditional school specializing in elemental magic for combat.
The reason was simple.
Because the essence of magic is power.
In recent years, due to the influence of industrialization, fields such as magic engineering, alchemy, life school, and golem technology have been in the spotlight, but this was just a short fad with the flow of the times.
For Colin, the truth of the world was power, and the essence of the wizard was also power.
It was thanks to that power that the wizards who were oppressed in the past were respected and are now in the leadership of society.
According to the teachings of the Mjölnir School, Colin came out of society and lived in a world full of violence and once again confirmed that he was right.
The other side of the world that I couldn’t learn from the tower.
I have seen with my own eyes how much violence rages behind a world that seems to be run by law and order.
Living raw knowledge!
It was an area that was never known to ordinary people who only read books in the tower, but Colin did not stop just learning, but also became a part of that world.
In the first quest, you wiped out a gang, in the second mission you defeated a veteran solver, in the third mission you slaughtered a warlock, and in the fourth, you defeated the street wizards.
Although he suffered a few unexpected events and struggled, he overcame it with his innate talent and the power of education.
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Not bad.being recognized for their abilities.
That customers with money and power approach them with courtesy and caution to get their help.
All of that delighted Colin.
Of course, thanks to that, I was put into the annoying public works of the city, but it was just annoying.
You can finish it whenever you want.
Obviously it was. It would have been…
“What is this?!”
Colin screamed and fired a magic missile with fire magic.
It had to use a complicated technique, but in terms of overall power and efficiency, this was the most effective. As expected, the magic missile that had been enchanted with flame collided with a horde of dozens of zombies and exploded, setting everything on fire.
Kye eek ━━━━!
Kyahahahahak-!
Turn it off ━━━━!
Like zombies weak to flames, the zombie swarms were swept away at once.
Unless the warlock’s proper instructions or enhancements were received, this was only natural. But the problem is…
“Wizard!”
A fixer armed with a reinforced shield came up to Colin and put the shield on him.
There were quite a few explosions with him.
The shield was deployed and the shield prevented the explosion, but surprisingly, the zombie threw a bomb at the gap.
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No, is that good enough?“Magician. okay-”
– Tang!
In the distance, a zombie with a sniper rifle shot and hit the fixer who helped Colin in the head.
As if he had just died, he was still fresh, and even though he was a zombie with no intelligence, he succeeded in sniping it. I even loaded it up to shoot again now.
[Magic Missile]
Colin fired a magic missile at a zombie that was loading a gun on top of a building and knocked it down.
Kyahahahaha
ㅡ━━━Tung!
“Magician…! Looks like I’ll have to step back.”
One of the solvers, exhausted from the nearly two-hour battle, said.
Colin agreed.
zombie····. None of that was obviously a big deal.
Obviously not a big deal, but the problem was that there were too many.
“Bear’s forearm!”
The druid David borrowed the power of nature and blew up a horde of zombies armed with clubs and guns with tremendous strength.
A zombie armed with a stick and a gun… What a wicked joke this is.
“Everyone this way! Zombies are coming again!”
At David’s call, they all ran towards it at once.
It was really weird.
Obviously, up to the outskirts, there were only enough zombie swarms, but where did the zombie swarm suddenly come from?
It was like waiting.
“Shit····! I’ve already been following you. Zombies!”
“Hold on! A safe zone that I soon found… It’s here!”
The safe zone that Druid David found was a building inside the contaminated area, with high walls hanging around it, and there was only one way to enter, the only way Colin and the others had come.
Colin, who secured the safety of the sides and rear, refined the magic with breathing and gathered the magic into the air.
Then, I gave the will to the magic and entered the formula to create a magic circle, and at that moment, a swarm of zombies chasing along a single road appeared.
Almost hundreds.
There was even a corpse golem that was remodeled by weaving several zombies together.
[Flame Thrower]
A powerful flame was sprayed from the magic circle in the air along with the chant.
The red flames mercilessly burned the zombie hordes in front of them and turned them into ashes in an instant, and not only that, but the fire spread to all the zombies it came in contact with even for a moment.
like an epidemic.
A swarm of zombies, likely hundreds of them, was crumbled to ashes.
After barely escaping from the chase of a horde of zombies armed with knives and guns, Colin sighed and then came to his senses and approached someone.
They were none other than fake wizards who brought them to this place of death.
“Hey, you… How the hell did this happen? How did this happen!”
A warlock named Chevy mumbled with a frightened expression on his face.
Thanks to that, the shabby appearance looked more shabby.
“Ugh… Me, I don’t know either. I’ve been here more than ten times, but this is the first time… sorry! sorry! sorry! uhhhh
Surprisingly, he shed tears. Seeing that pathetic state, I didn’t get angry anymore.
A solver cleared his mind and intervened.
“there···. Wizard. I agree that this is a strange case. I have participated in the cleaning three times, but this is the first time for me.”
“Are you talking about zombies that shoot and throw bombs?”
“Yes····. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen something like this. There are too many numbers. no···. So I had a lot to say, but it wasn’t very organized.”
Colin tacitly agreed.
Zombies, naturally occurring, were nothing more than evil, inferior beings greedy for life.
It made no sense for them to use such an organized movement.
There was only one thing that could explain this case.
black magician.
It seemed that not only Colin, but also the solver and the druid did, Colin felt absurd and angry.
Doesn’t that mean that the wizard himself is being hunted down by fakes?
“… it’s probably a manipulation class.”
“Yes?”
“If there is a person behind this, it must be a manipulation class. If you can control zombies like that, you have no choice but to have a special skill set. They are annoying people.”
Indeed it was Control-type warlocks were one-sided, hiding themselves in a safe place and sending only zombies to target their opponents.
cowardly bastards.
“This, this, it’s not just about cleaning. If you can systematically move that level of zombies, it’s not an individual, but a group, and it’s probably not an ordinary bet. Maybe it’s a group of demon worshipers… For now, we need to go back and report this to the city and move with the city forces.”
“You are right, but the question is how to get there. Zombies are swarming everywhere. Already, some solvers seem to have been hit.”
“If you take a breather here and move—”
“No, there is no time for that.”
Druid David said with his hand on the ground.
He was listening to the earth’s voice to detect who was around, but his expression suddenly darkened.
“The zombies are coming back here again, and that’s a lot…. Not only zombies, but also corpse golems and polluting creatures… Damn, this looks like we were lured. A mouse in a poison.”
At that word, the solvers who were suffering from fatigue and fear were agitated.
Colin, too, was annoyed.
Mana also needs time to recover, but if this is the case, it will run out of mana and stamina first.
Where will the lifesaving escape…
······Quick profit.
Everyone’s eyes were fixed on the sound of the door. Chevy, who was on one side of the building, looked at him and opened an old secret door.
“…for now, why don’t you run down here?”