75 – 12: Today too
A gigantic lightning strike, the likes of which I have never seen in my life. When the bomb I brought exploded as well, the peach tree was engulfed in bright red flames and collapsed.
Not only did it simply catch fire, but the ground completely caved in, creating a fairly deep hole. A shocking sight where even the roots of the tree were torn away.
Even as someone who is not familiar with magic or barriers, I could see that the tree that had just fallen down after being carbonized played an important role in sealing the demon.
As such an object was immediately engulfed in flames and collapsed, everyone around it was shocked and had faces like corpses.
A place where only the sound of trees burning down to ash can be heard. Although no one dared to make a sound. That too for a while.
“Oh my god!”
“The seal is broken!! Stop it now!!”
“Exorcist Lee Jun! What on earth are you doing?! If you do something like this, not only will the evil spirit be immediately sealed, but the curse that has accumulated over a long period of time…… Uh? “What is that?”
People reacted in various ways and tried to create a barrier while looking at the tree that disappeared with the lightning and the bomb exploding.
Those people also suddenly discovered what was inside the tree and stopped moving.
I was equally embarrassed when I saw what appeared under the burning peach tree.
“What is that? Dead body?”
I expected something to jump out right away, but I didn’t expect there to be a human corpse.
No, in the first place, should I describe that as a corpse? I didn’t know how to express it.
If the person has turned white or has dried up like a mummy and the skin has turned black, anyone will think that the person is dead.
But the person I saw now was not a corpse that was clearly dead, but looked like a patient who had been lying in a hospital bed for a long time.
The person’s bones were all visible beneath the skin, and no muscles were visible at all.
If it weren’t for the ugly stake stuck in its chest, if I didn’t know that it had no eyelids or eyeballs, I would have thought it was really alive.
What’s more, the tree roots are digging under the skin and pulsating like blood vessels, so much so that they even move as if breathing.
Perhaps due to the bombs and lightning that just exploded, almost all of the roots were burned off, but this person’s body was still intact.
I don’t even know if it’s a man or a woman. The hair has turned pure white and the skin is wrinkled, giving the impression that it resembles tree bark, but it is breathing.
Ominous curses and enormous spiritual power felt even in low breathing.
I thought that if I broke the tree, page 1 would be skipped and Mama would pop out right away, didn’t I?
I am not letting down my guard and thinking about what to do next. A quest window suddenly appeared in front of my eyes.
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＜ TIP: Warning. It’s dangerous. The corpse in front of you is the center of the true sealing technique. If it’s okay, it’s okay. Make a wise choice. ＞
＜ TIP: It’s just a corpse. Mama, a divine spirit-level evil spirit designated as her seal, uses her sealing technique created by a female exorcist named ‘Deokbae’ in the past by sacrificing her own body to steal her body and maintain his consciousness.
That corpse continues to pour the spiritual power flowing from the spirit vein into the body of the already dead exorcist to maintain its shape, but in reality, it is a corpse. ＞
＜ ■ ＞
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Yes. Thanks to you, I know what to do.
All you have to do is cut off the life of that poor being. Looking at it roughly, this person was originally used as a fake vessel, and when the exorcists lost their strength, the real Mama appeared.
I, holding a sword, approached the hole created by Woosin’s thunderbolt and the dynamite I bought.
Boom! The tree roots rising from the ground quickly entangled my body.
Damn, couldn’t they completely get rid of the trees?
I clicked my tongue and tried to destroy the tree, thinking that it would be easy to destroy the tree that was half on fire due to Wooshin’s thunderbolt and bomb. It wasn’t broken.
The familiar spiritual power felt in the tree is-
“Chi, dear friend…… ! I tied him up as requested! But it’s scary! It’s really scary! Look at your eyes! He clearly wants to kill me! So, shouldn’t we just let it go? … ?!”
“I’m sorry! But exorcist Lee Joon looks strange! First of all, we need to make sure that conversation is possible…… !”
I looked to the side and saw that these roots were made from tree waste. Unlike Wooshin, the wooden trash wearing a hanbok with a fairy-like design seemed to have stopped me at the request of the protagonist.
There, the wooden waste had tied Wooshin, who had suddenly been hit by lightning, with a tree and prevented him from moving.
Wooshin looked like he could destroy the root right away, but he was blinking as if he was asking me what to do.
“- That’s enough. Wait for a while.”
Now is not the time to grapple with wooden waste.
The main character, a class A exorcist, is nearby. So what about the rest?
I rolled my eyes and saw the exorcists rushing here in a hurry, realizing the sudden incident.
The reason it was revealed so openly in the first place was to gather together the exorcists who are now widely spread out.
However, the problem was that if the seal was broken immediately, Mama, who realized that someone had attacked her, might immediately do something.
I saw the main character looking embarrassed. Of course, I tried to explain the situation properly.
Quest Window There’s no way I could say that I attacked him because he made the bastard look bad, and even if I empty my brain and tell the truth, I won’t be released. I tried to spit out the words as best as I could.
“I know it only seems like I suddenly did something crazy. Calm down and look over there. No matter how you look at it, there’s something strange about it, right?”
“Yes? What is that…… Oh my god. What is that.”
I first showed the body of the poor person over there and tried to say something. Only then did the protagonist check the inside.
Then, before I could say anything, he looked shocked and started muttering something.
“That…” … After processing the body alive so that it doesn’t die, the spirit vein is passed on and turned into a doll, huh? They did something terrible by twisting the person who was sacrificed as a living sacrifice for sealing…… ? How- How could you curse like that?
No, no, that’s not important. If that seal had been completely released, a divine-level evil spirit could have continued to receive power through the spirit vein. If so…… “It would all have been over.”
ㅡHow does he know everything at once? If you go to the academy, you learn everything?
My lips twitched reflexively at the question, but I automatically closed my mouth when I saw that the protagonist was so nervous that he couldn’t even take his eyes off his hole.
“- What on earth happened? This thunder-naked guy has finally gotten the hang of it…….”
It didn’t stop there, but an old woman appeared, falling from the sky. The old woman’s face hardened when she saw the body of a horrible person inside her pit.
It didn’t just harden, but it distorted like a ghost and shed tears of blood from its eyes.
“I’m sorry. I did something stupid. “I shouldn’t have left you here.”
As if she had to, she wiped away the bloody tears from her eyes and rushed into the pit, holding an unknown fetish in both hands and attacking the pit.
Even though there were no unexploded bombs or anything left, a loud roar rang out again, as if a bomb had exploded.
The corpse, which had maintained its shape due to the attack by Gaeddong Grandma, eventually disappeared without leaving a trace. At the same time, the stake in her corpse’s chest disappeared.
Knock! The sound of something breaking that hits my ears extends far beyond the physical limitations of air resonance.
Grandma Gaedongi stepped behind her and spoke calmly but firmly to the still dazed shamans.
“Things have changed. I will awaken the evil spirit immediately and deal with it. Let the Gangshinmu step down and let the hereditary dancers prepare their bodies. Only those who are over 50 years old are left with musicians and students, and the Aedong disciples are going to leave immediately.
Manshin and Hwarangi will die here. The first priority is to prevent evil and curses from flowing out through exorcism. The rain spirit and the tree spirit are water and trees, so at least they can be tied up here. -What are you talking about? “Move!”
“Yes, four!!”
“Get the little ones out first! “The old ones will lie here and die today!”
At one word from her grandmother, the shaman regains her composure in an instant. Admiration came out naturally.
The shamans who had been disturbed by my sudden behavior regained their calm. Not only was his charisma impressive, but his ability to recognize the situation in an instant was also surprising.
If you had seen the terrible sight of a colleague in the past, you might have been embarrassed. There was no way her grandmother could not understand the situation that Ei understood, so she was even more amazing.
If it were me, I think it would have been difficult for me to move right away, even if I was overheated.
I looked ahead again. Curses begin to flow out of the pit like pitch black smoke. Slowly chunks of flesh began to crawl out through the hole.
An evil spirit that bursts out like sewage flowing back when it rains heavily.
In the gap where I thought it was just an evil spirit pouring out, its voice was heard.
“[ Mae…. Hwaaa!!!!! ]”
The moment I saw it crawling out of the pit with a scream, the thought that came to mind was that it was disgusting.
All the spirits I had seen so far had beautiful appearances, but the one in front of me was an exception.
The moment I saw it, my instincts showed disgust and rejection. Like seeing a cockroach. An unpleasant feeling runs through my whole body, like seeing a rotting corpse.
Half of my face is melting. All you can tell is that its eyes are a dull purple color, and it is unable to properly maintain its human form.
The face on the good side could have looked good if it weren’t for the green hair covered in rotten pus.
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When I saw the scars all over my body, not just my face, those thoughts disappeared in an instant.
Blood and pus were continuously flowing from the wounds carved all over its body.
The bow point, broken sword, rotted spear, etc. That seem to have caused the wound are attached to its body along with amulets as if they were shackles.
Poison begins to spread in the air. It becomes painful to breathe.
In fact, my nose is bleeding and blood is starting to flow from my eyes. I can hear curses crying in my ears, and it feels like I can’t hear anymore.
If the sensations I felt before when I was trapped in solitude were strengthened hundreds of times, this would be what it would feel like.
Some of the shamans who were doing something around the tree collapsed, bleeding out. The protagonist also coughed up blood from his mouth. A situation where even her grandmother is bleeding from the nose.
I just broke the seal and came out, but this kind of damage. I tried to stiffen up from the tension, but I couldn’t.
It was because the damn tree scum wouldn’t let me go.
“If you understand the situation, let me go. Why won’t you let me go? Is that what you like?”
“Oh. Sorry… ….”
I freed my body from the restraints of the wood waste and at the same time confirmed the condition of Wooshin.
Woo-shin also broke free from the tree that tied his body and waved his hands to show off his health.
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＜ Notification: Mama, a sealed spirit-level evil spirit, has awakened. ＞
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I glanced at the quest window for a moment. Something caught me talking loudly and then suddenly becoming quiet, but…
I’m not sure if I said this before or not. I am a person who thinks about regretting it later in the grave rather than hesitating and worrying about regrets.
To put it another way, he is a person who has a bad head and just sees things first.
So, I spat out the blood that had accumulated in my mouth and said a simple greeting to Mama, who was glaring at me as she whipped her strangely heavy body.
“Nice to meet you. “You’re so f*cking ugly.”
Now that I’ve finished saying hello, I’ll have to do some business. I rushed in before anyone else and swung my great sword at the evil spirit’s neck.