6. Proof of Existence (12)
Unrefined magical power is dangerous. This power that went against the providence of nature contaminated living things and turned them into monsters.
The existence that was born that way was the ‘Magic Beast’.
Most of them end up being moderately larger in size than the original, but some species have undergone dramatic changes in response to magic. And these monsters are given a new classification.
The monsters lined up in front of me were representative.
The wriggling straight mass of flesh, the mouth grew as it grew, making it impossible to distinguish from the face. Acidic saliva flowed along its rim and between the jagged teeth.
It was an entity called a ‘hell hole’.
It was a monster that even the original could not have guessed at the time when the ecology of the monster was not well known. I had only guessed that the mysterious creature that lived deep underground had been altered by magical powers.
That’s why even the name was called ‘hell hole’. No one thought that the original would be an ‘earthworm’.
It was natural. Who would imagine an earthworm in front of this overwhelming gigantic body?
Even the wrinkled skin and meat-eating appetite were the exact opposite of the original. It is not known why only a few species, including earthworms, exhibit such unusual mutations.
But one thing was clear.
Individuals that cause unusual mutations like ‘hell holes’ are stronger than other monsters. To the extent that the ratio of named monsters is significantly high.
Kieee
Unpleasant screams break the silence of the night and resound. The sound was so high that it pierced my eardrums, and cold sweat was dripping from my forehead.
To be honest, the hell hole wasn’t particularly scary.
I had a record of defeating the family of evil gods. Unless it was a monster with a name, no matter how many there were, it didn’t give me much inspiration. Or if it was a demon, I wouldn’t know.
There was only one reason I was nervous.
The existence of a woman with black hair, whoever it was, was probably behind the incident.
That was the problem.
As much as we don’t know his true identity, we can’t measure his power. To make matters worse, it was already night. It was more difficult to identify colors with low brightness.
Especially if you’re in the middle of a battle with a demon.
I lowered my stance and put strength into the hand holding the sword.
For now, it was best to organize the war situation. The silvery aura on the sword started to burn like wildfire.
And Ilseom (一閃).
The pure white sword light drew a sharp solid line and tore through the air. The flesh that crossed the silver horizon exploded without even a sound.
With a scream, several Hellholes were cut in half and shot up into the air.
Blood drips down the back. I shouted at Mr. Reynolds while spraying the unpleasant smell of blood.
“Mr. Reynolds, how much more do you need!”
“Wait a little!”
The voice mixed with a light moan meant that he was going through a painful calculation process.
I gritted my teeth and looked ahead. It was a sight that had already been repeated many times.
With one knife cut, several Hell Holes become corpses and collapse.
It was an extremely effective battle. At this rate, it was normal to predict my landslide victory.
Even so, the game has not been decided yet.
The number of hellholes was too many. Even the endlessly rising hellholes were moving intelligently.
While the vision was blocked by a bloodstorm, something wriggling began to accelerate rapidly.
I raised my sword horizontally and blocked the jaws of the hell hole. In the meantime, several hellholes were shooting toward Mr. Reynolds in an exquisite trajectory.
It wasn’t the magic beast’s intelligence. Are you intentionally creating gaps?
Pak, a bolt of lightning exploded from his hand. It was a hatchet hung from his waist.
A flying hatchet cut off the head of one of the hellholes that Mr. Reynolds was charging at. The hum of the screams broke out again.
Kyaaagh!
The blood flowing out in succession testified to the death of the hole in hell. Taking advantage of that gap, I blew enough magic power into the sword body to hum.
Then, a silver aura that gradually grew.
As the pure white flame burned, the acidic liquid burned with a crackling sound. The hole in hell tried to push me away with all its might, but it was a failure.
I gritted my teeth and pulled out the sword with all my might.
The resistance was only momentary. After a short pause, the auror began a steep run. The flesh of the hell hole, split in half, floated in the air.
A scream erupted from my mouth.
“Is it yet!”
No answer came back. Instead, Mr. Reynolds devoted himself entirely to chanting.
It meant that it was the end.
“The star of truth that sentences life and death… The seeker’s guide, heavenly law and natural law, eternal order commands light and fire!”
A calm wind began to blow in a world entangled in flesh and blood.
And the breeze soon turned into a gust, and a gust into a storm. Crackling charges were bursting out of the violently vibrating atmosphere.
the sky is crying
Even the hellholes felt a strange sign and stopped for a moment. At the center of the rushing gale, Mr. Reynolds’ brown hair flew randomly.
Still, he remained calm. The man’s attention was only on his fist.
A bright blue light leaked in and out between her clenched fingers.
“Get out.”
With the starter word, Mr. Reynolds’ fingers stretched out. A small orb of light was visible on the palm. And then, as soon as Mr. Reynolds and Mr.
It was right after it was located in the center of the whirlwind.
“Get down!”
I faithfully followed Mr. Reynolds’ instructions. Blue bolts of lightning shot out randomly over my body lying on the ground.
It was like a shredder.
The thunderbolts that exploded endlessly from the whirlwind rotated and wiped out everything around them. The hellholes screamed, and the highnesses scratching and brushing the ground like stubble gave off an acrid smell.
The shredded pieces of flesh act as the middlemen of the thunderbolt, further spreading the charge.
It was ruthless magic. After a short chant, the scene staged was so horrific.
Even this was just the beginning.
Mr. Reynolds’ hand pounded the ground. The ground began to swell around that place, and soon a storm of light and heat burst into the ground and devastated the area.
Thunderbolts, blood, dirt.
I filled in the muffled noise between them. And soon, monsters hiding deep in the ground revealed their bodies to the world with screams.
Kiek, Keee
The storm was dying.
The body of the monster, paralyzed by the electric charge, straightened up. I threw the hatchet at the head of the hell hole that was just beginning to soar.
A blood fountain spurted out from the seat where I shut myself up. While the hell hole stiffened, I ran and climbed on its head.
Before that, my eyes met the welling hole of hell. I gave a faint smile.
“What are you looking at, kid?”
The thrown sword pierced the crown of the hole in hell. Leaping on the head of a monster that fell backwards with blood, only then could the leader of the group be seen.
Other hellholes were about 6 to 8 meters in length. But the size of this guy seemed to be twice that. A gaze looking down at me from a place so far away.
Didn’t like it.
The hatchet spun back in my hand as I took another leap. The moment my body bounced up in succession reached its apex, my eye level with the chief hell hole became equal.
It should have been like this.
I held the hatchet high with both hands and set the silver aura on fire.
Silver sparks pierce the world in half.
Kieee … .
Shortly after the screams faded and the ax blade hit the ground.
The monster’s body split into two parts. I calmly took in the pouring blood and held my breath.
My hands are sore. It meant that there was too much power.
As I was clasping and opening my hands, not even paying attention to the smell of blood, Mr. Reynolds came rushing towards me.
His face was covered in blood, just like mine.
“Your aura is stronger than before. Has the trait bloomed?”
“No, not yet… … .”
“Nevertheless, this power.”
Mr. Reynolds’ eyes glanced around. It was only then that I was able to see the horrors we had created.
A land of flesh and blood was created on top of the soil. In addition, most of the dismembered corpses were knocked down by a single blow and were cut in half.
I felt it too. In the end, the fact that my aura burned so fiercely that it overpowered the ax blade.
As evidence of that, didn’t the small hatchet split the gigantic monster in one fell swoop?
I don’t know if I was even more excited. enough to use force.
Mr. Reynolds, who was looking around with a blunt expression, soon shook his head as if he liked it.
“It’s okay to be a witch. What matters is where she went.”
“I don’t feel any presence at all.”
Mr. Reynolds also nodded in agreement. It meant that neither of us could sense the presence.
Does it make sense?
It was a possibility that I did not realize even when I put it in my mouth. The swordsman who reached expert level and the mage who received the title of archmage did not even notice its existence.
“No,” I asked with a moan.
“Mr. Reynolds, you said you’d seen her?”
“right. It’s been a while since, strangely, I kept remembering it.”
“Didn’t you just say something?”
At my words, Mr. Reynolds hesitated for a moment.
When he put on a puzzled expression, I became more impatient with him.
“Didn’t you say that? What about the ‘eyes’… … .”
“Ah, yes. It did.”
The middle-aged eyelids closed again. His expression, where he was immersed somewhere in the past, looked helpless on the one hand.
“It was a dark night. The meadow where no wind blows was quiet… To the point where I couldn’t even feel that the magic beasts were a city. That’s what I saw.”
“You mean the girl?”
“You looked young. Long black hair was fluttering.,, I approached the child and asked.”
Mr. Reynolds, drifting in the storm of the years, showed a distressed expression for a moment.
A one-act play made up of testimonies unfolds before my eyes. A mercenary met a girl staring at the sky in a meadow where darkness fell.
Since he was still on his back, his face could not be seen. The only thing that stood out was the long, jet-black hair.
“What are you doing here? This place is dangerous.”
Then the girl smiles brightly. It’s such an innocent smile, it’s frightening.
“The kid was laughing. He told me he was just waiting. Before we could even ask what we were waiting for, the hellholes attacked us… … ”
“After that? What happened to the girl after that?”
The middle-aged moans gradually deepen. Mr. Reynolds, with a troubled complexion, touched his forehead to refresh his memory.
“Yes, yes! They were watching us and laughing! Hellholes shouldn’t even be our opponents. But, but how… … .”
The man’s face turned pale as he retraced his past.
His pale eyes flashed open. He looked around, stuttering, with bewildered eyes. I was taken aback and had no choice but to ask Mr. Reynolds back.
“Why is that, Mr. Reynolds?”
“… … It wasn’t like this.”
It was a distraught voice. His gaze was directed somewhere.
military side.
Sensing something ominous, I focused my magic on my retinas. His enhanced eyesight pierced the darkness and squeezed the dust rising from afar into his vision.
My expression hardened at once.
“It wasn’t just about this… The main unit is separate.”
“What the fuck.”
I walked around and roughly drew the sword stuck in the corpse of the hell hole.
There was no time to hesitate. My head was already full of worries about one person.
Leah, my little sister.
It was then that my body, which was about to stow the sword and hit the ground, stopped for a second.
My eyes traversed the empty void. As I stared blankly at my back, Mr. Reynolds, who had come to his senses, asked me.
“Why but?”
“No, just… … .”
I thought I heard laughter.
I had no choice but to run toward the military camp while tilting my head.
I hope Leah is safe.
While praying earnestly in my heart.