Mission No.6 Greed (20)
Maybe I should have gone quietly instead of using lighting magic. Confused as to whether he was acting for no reason, Balt raised his sword and let his shoulders hang down.
The dark red giant, which seemed to be 20 meters tall even if it was small, was turning towards Ewald very slowly.
The giant, whose humanoid bodies were piled up from the tips of his feet to the tips of his head, bent over with his unusually long arms hanging limp.
However, Ebalt, who thought that with magic and a sword, he could defeat him somehow, briefly compressed his mana.
At that moment, Tosaf’s voice resonated in Ewald’s brain.
‘We mustn’t fight!’
Ebalt disturbed the mana he was holding in his hand.
“… Are you telling me to look away now?”
‘No. Isn’t that what the giant sees the light you created? If we attack that giant now, we’ll have to fight all the creatures around it.’
That’s the specification
Turning his head quickly, Ewald lowered his stance and observed the giant.
The giant, who had no features at all and was roughly human in shape, looked very dull, and his head was turned into the air.
It doesn’t look like he’s looking at Ewald like Tosaf said.
However, Ewald did not let go of his tension and slowly moved away from the giant.
Ewald, who kept conjuring the image that if that big guy attacked like this, would block it like this and hit it back like this, for a moment, Ewald breathed in the air full of the smell of blood.
The bright yellow eyes that filled the giant’s body opened countless times.
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All the eyes in the giant’s body, made of corpses, were open.
‘Roll!’
“Where are you talking?”
‘Floor! Floor!’
Floor?
Ebalt looked down at the flowing blood with his ankles submerged, then spat out harsh curse words and rolled on the floor.
Thick, hardened blood smeared on Ewald’s body.
However, without a chance to get upset, he spread the blood with his hand and applied it to his face, and Balt frowned at the smell of blood oozing from his whole body.
Ebalt, who had blood all over his body, felt an indescribable displeasure.
He could feel the taste of rotten blood between his lips, and an unbearable stench and fishy smell penetrated his nostrils.
However, Ewald, who was completely covered in blood, could confirm that the giant meekly closed all eyes.
‘You did well.’
“… They do everything, really.”
‘There’s nothing free in this world, right?’
It was such a hateful voice that I would want to tear it apart if I was really next to it.
With blood staining everywhere except his eyes, Balt put on a stern expression at the filthy feeling that invaded his whole body.
However, if this can prevent a catastrophe, he must put up with it.
‘Move to the place where the darkness is concentrated.’
Ewald turned his head and he looked where he was heading.
The darkness, barely hanging on the edge of the light he had created, was wriggling in the distance.
It’s dark even when the light shines on it.
Ewald moved cautiously among the fragments of corpses crawling around him, step by step toward the great darkness.
He was towering over a plain with nothing to compare with, so it was unpredictable how far away he was. It seems like they’ve already walked a long way, but seeing that they’re not getting any closer, it looks like they’re grossly far away.
‘There will be one pillar. The pillar is rising toward Benadium.’
“So you were preventing me from going up to Benadium?”
Ewald moved his steps through the stream of blood that ran uneasily across his ankles.
‘That’s right. There’s no way to stop them from coming up here other than Benyadium, which is full of mana.’
He hears the sound of blood being trampled under his feet.
‘But it’s a bit strange.’
“… Is there anything more strange about this situation?”
The type of stench changed moment by moment. Ewald’s head throbbed as the new stench invaded his nostrils as he adapted.
‘There are too many corpses.’
“There are many, many.”
It’s a forest that’s been devouring intelligent life for over 500 years, and it’s probably full of corpses.
However, Tosaf, who was speaking directly into Ewald’s head, quickly continued.
‘It is believed that the creatures that died in the Great Forest of Kswice will not be half of the corpses that Ewald-sama is seeing. But there are too many corpses there right now.’
Ewald tilted his head and moved his leg.
“Are you sure?”
‘I’m not sure. I feel like there are at least 10 million corpses there now.’
“… You feel everything very carefully.”
Ewald, who was not particularly impressed by Tosaf’s story, just walked diligently.
“But does having a lot of corpses matter?”
‘I’m not sure, but…’
Tosaf was speechless.
I wanted to say that if it is not certain, do not bring it up and create anxiety.
However, Ewald, who thought that he would not go crazy if he had a conversation like this, quietly waited for Tosaf’s words.
‘Where did all those corpses come from?’
Ewald was dumbfounded.
“… Boy, are you asking me that now?”
‘I just happened to do it. Do mortals know what I don’t know? I’m just trying to get a clue, so don’t be too pressured and listen.’
Ewald, who knew very well that he was not a great person to give advice to God, played with his whistling feet while suppressing the irritation that stretched to the tip of his head.
Too much blood here.
‘Until recently, there was a constant accumulation of bodies there. But I grew up in a short time.’
“A short time?”
Ewald tilted his head.
“How short is it?”
‘On the basis of Middle-earth.’
Middle-earth standards?
’27 years and 6 months ago?’
“… It’s embarrassing.”
It was the point at which Ewald sealed Beelzedeus.
Ewald scratched his head at that convoluted hour.
However, Ebalt felt the muddy blood between his fingernails and felt dirty for nothing.
“Do you have any guesses?”
‘I don’t have any guesses, but…’
Then something stepped on Ewald’s foot.
It feels like stepping on someone.
Ewald raised his leg, but the creature that had already been stepped on by Ebalt sharply opened its mouth and thrust a ferocious face at Ebalt.
But Ewald knew exactly what that creature was.
Two horns on his head, black jaws and yellow eyes.
Is a demon
As I waited quietly, balancing on one leg, the corpse of the demon, annoyed by being trampled on by Ebalt, pressed its head to the ground and began crawling somewhere.
Ewald then carefully put down the raised leg.
“… Hey, Mr. Tosaf.”
‘Please speak.’
This is really weird, but it’s just too weird.
“Did you see what I just saw?”
‘I saw it.’
“It’s a demon, right?”
‘I’m a demon right?’
It’s a demon who got caught up in the Great Forest of Kswice and died…
That’s bullsh*t
“Does Kswice put creatures from other planes into nightmares?”
‘If living beings from another world are demons…’
Tosaf, who paused once, spoke quickly.
‘Impossible, right? In the first place, demons don’t have nightmares, right?’
“… I asked.”
‘You talk dirty with that tone. Is it so. Demons are a race that doesn’t know what a nightmare is, so they won’t fall under Kswice’s influence.’
“But why is the dead demon here?”
‘How do I know that?’
Tosaf, digging his nostrils with his face asking what to do, Ewald revealed his teeth to the illusion that he would see it in his eyes.
What does this little guy know? Ewald grumbled badly.
‘… I can hear everything you say.’
“Cut it down and listen.”
Ewald glanced at the demon crawling ahead with a smile on his face.
“Have you lost your way in the underworld? Why is that thing crawling around here?”
Water.
“Ah-oh! Sorry! I’ll take a good look…”
“Kyaaagh!”
Ebalt hurriedly lifted his foot and apologized.
Another creature stepped on by Ewald’s feet exhaled heavily and turned to Ewald, and Ewald had to freeze on the spot.
The part of his neck was cut off, leaving his tattered head shaking and opening his mouth to Ewald,
“Why are you here…”
Uwe Schröter.
It was the fat Marquis Sahib who had been badly beaten by Ewald while hunting foxes.
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Obviously Uwe Schröter. Seeing that he has such a big head with this body type, he definitely fits.
Besides, there were not many injuries on the body, so Ewald recognized at once that this corpse was Uve.
Is he dead?
I remember beating him until he died, but I don’t remember killing him.
‘Do you know someone?’
“… I saw it once.”
Thick.
‘Did that friend also die in Kswice?’
“… I didn’t even know you were dead.”
‘Then let’s just move on. If you keep paying attention to trivial things, blood vessels in the brain are cut off.’
The blood vessels in my brain will be cut off because of you.
He didn’t say the words out of his mouth, but Ebalt felt a little queasy at the thought that Tosaf would have understood.
However, it was really unexpected that Uwe Schröter had died and came down here.
Did he really die in Kswice?
As he walked carefully to avoid stepping on his corpse while recalling those thoughts, Balt felt a huge pillar of darkness rising high into the sky.
Now, it seems that they have come close enough to feel the distance.
It’s still a long way off, but at this point, it’s incredibly close.
Ewald nodded at the thought and bent his knees.
‘Hey, please…’
Ewald took Tosaf’s concerns straight and jumped from his seat.
Having jumped forward at a 45-degree angle with great leaping power, Ebalt spurred the ground a few more times and galloped toward his column.
‘Are you going to advertise that you’re invading enemy camps?’
“Let’s not ignore that human too much.”
Ewald was running towards the tower at that terrifying speed, but he was moving without making a single sound of stepping on the water. Tossaf seems to have given up, too, as he no longer whispers in his ear.
However, having fully learned his tricks, Balt quickly approached the pillar created by the gathering of darkness.
Only then did Tosaf’s words ring in Ewald’s head.
‘Climb up through the darkness.’
“I guess so!”
Balt landed right in front of his pillar enough to hold it in his hand, and Balt stretched out his bent knee vigorously and wrapped it around Mana.
Ebalt, who soared up dozens of meters with a single leap, expressed his gratitude for this abundant mana and grabbed hold of the pillar made of darkness.
“… I’m going crazy, this.”
Ebalt finally realized that the pillar he thought was made of darkness was made of corpses like a giant.
Ewald, holding on to the upper body of the corpse that was about to be pulled out, climbed higher and higher with a completely crumpled expression.
‘From there, you have to be careful going up. Go up as quietly as possible.’
Feeling goosebumps at the sight of the corpse clinging to the wall, Ebalt climbed up the pillar without a murmur.
Ebalt, who was climbing up the pillar in an instant, grabbed one of his corpses with his right hand.
It is poised to leap forward.
However, he must have pulled it a bit too hard, and the body was pulled out and the upper body was bent down.
Ewald let go of the corpse he had caught and clung to the post with his left hand.
“Ayu, I’m sorry for sleeping.”
However, the corpse, half pulled out, raised its upper body in a terrifying manner and turned its dead eyes to Ewald.
When he came face to face with the corpse, everything in Ewald hardened.
And the only thing that didn’t harden, a stupid voice came out of Ewald’s mouth.
“… Drop only?”
It was not a loud voice. However, as soon as a voice much louder than the conversation he had had with Tossaf came out of Ewald’s mouth, Tossaf’s voice boomed through his head.
‘Mi, are you crazy!’
Oops! But Ewald couldn’t take his eyes off the corpse’s face despite Tosaf’s cries.
“Why are you here…”
At that moment, as many pupils as the stars in the night sky opened their eyes and covered the entire pillar.