It can’t be.
“… It cannot be.”
It can’t be, it can’t be, and it can’t be.
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Only those words kept repeating in my head.
alter ego.
Milited’s alter ego.
Its strength is less than half of its main body, and above all, it is a technique of a guy with a huge penalty of being able to summon only the clones of people who are not in this world right now.
It can only be used if the person’s genetic material, such as blood and hair, has been ingested.
The important point here was that it was ‘an alter ego of a person who does not exist in this world’.
Not being in this world literally means death, but in extremely rare cases, it includes cases such as being sealed or being trapped in another world.
In fact, even in the original work, there was a scene where Alice Blesssbuck, who had fallen into a trap and was imprisoned in this space, was liberated and disappeared as if her alter ego melted away.
But that wasn’t important.
The important thing was that the child’s alter ego was now in front of my eyes.
Those words will soon pass, saying that my brother has come to this world, and furthermore, that Milited has stolen his blood and hair.
There, he was obviously called the Shadow Walker while creating an clone of Gina.
And he was a person who was active at least 100 to 150 years ago at this point in time.
If, even one in ten million, what he said was true.
If so.
The child is already… .
“No way… .”
Taang!
In a situation where I wanted to grab my head right away, what awakened my mind was the loud noise that seemed to shake the heavens and the earth.
A roar that is closer to the sound of quaang rather than bang.
As soon as I heard it, I knew what it was.
It was a gunshot.
“ah… .”
Gina, my brother was pointing a gun at me.
Right in front of my eyes, I could see the back of Jin Ye-seul’s hand clutching something.
As she opened her gripped hand, a lump of crushed lead from inside fell out.
“… … .”
Normally, she would have shown hostility by growling like a wild beast right away, but for some reason she didn’t say anything. It wasn’t just her. Everyone’s eyes were focused on me.
“Hmm.”
Milited was looking at this side with an expressionless face.
In a way, it was as if he had known it from the beginning, and in a way he seemed to be surprised by an unexpected fact.
But that kind of thing was pretty good.
It’s been a long time since I didn’t know anything about a guy like that who could kill me at any time.
The only thing that mattered to me was the appearance of Gina, who was shaking in front of my eyes and pulling her back again.
“… Wait, Shadow Walker? Wasn’t Shadow Walker a man? ?”
I nodded my head involuntarily at Evangeline’s questioning words.
Yes, even in the original it is mentioned that Shadow Walker was originally a man.
So this is nothing more than a vile means for Milited to play with me… !
That’s when I turned my head thinking about it.
For some reason, Jin Ye-seul was avoiding my eyes without saying a word.
It was a terrifying sight, and something flashed through my mind.
the tongue of a bird.
A Shadow Walker’s legacy that can take on the voices, appearances, and even the form of magical powers.
In fact, using this legacy, it was mentioned that Shadow Walker took on numerous appearances in the original.
If so, please… really… .
“… Pepperbox revolver? Your taste is very old-fashioned.”
Jin Ye-seul muttered quietly as she looked at the pistol Gina was holding, with several barrels attached to each other like a Gatling machine gun. It was as if he was deliberately trying to change the subject.
She bent down, her hands bent like a beast, and black scales began to sprout from her body. Soon it covered her whole body tightly. Starting with that, the others also took a stance so that they could enter the battle at any time.
Choi Hyun-woo silently pulled out the dragon’s sword, and around Han Soo-young, the buckler and the crystal were hovering in the air.
Lee Yu-na looked around while holding the handle without saying a word, and Ivan, too, was in a state of demonstrating a magic bow from her hand wearing an armband.
In Lee Ye-eun’s case, as the headdress was disassembled, it moved as if she had a will of her own and stuck to her like an arrowhead she twisted.
Cass Lyle, Alice Blesbuck, and Evangeline Lohengrin were also aggressively circulating their magic.
“good.”
It was Milited who broke the flyers of the fight.
As he struggled to open his mouth after his body was shattered, the clones that took the form of Landsh roared loudly, and then more than twenty clones rushed at us.
Against him, Jin Ye-seul and Choi Hyeon-woo ran first, and a fierce battle began again.
In the chaos, I was just blankly chasing Gina shooting Jin Ye-seul and scattering daggers.
[Calm down, you idiot!]
For a moment, a headache that felt like hitting my head with a hammer struck my body as short and intense as lightning. Then, as if washed away, the pain disappeared, and Sbangali’s voice resounded in his head.
[Are you going to just die without a pulse by standing still stupidly? When fighting this body, all of the past, which he did not want to reveal so much, was exposed, but nevertheless, did he not reveal his murderous intent toward this Sbangali? Even if Milited is right, that’s just an alter ego! Do you mean that you will lose everything you are acting stupidly!]
[Look at the others, they are just fighting for you without saying anything to your ugliness! Even though it was only what you should have done!]
“… … .”
[Calm down, you idiot! If you dare to kill and eat this Sbangali, you’re going to die so absurdly, then I’d rather take over the body of this Sbangali!]
… okay.
It was just as the guy said.
Did I say overweight? Everyone in the party was doing well, but at least one of them had to deal with more than one, so the wounds continued to grow. If we went like this, we would all fall down.
There, Sbangali was right.
Foolishly, he was really right.
At least I shouldn’t have been the one who brought everyone to this situation.
“Kyaa, whoa!?”
Jin Ye-seul’s scream was heard in a moment, and her head turned quickly.
A few daggers stuck on the floor were spewing out lightning as if they had become a lightning tower, and as soon as I saw that Jin Ye-seul, who was trapped in the middle, was unable to move, I immediately flew away.
It was none other than that child’s alter ego that was pushing Jin Ye-seul.
He almost stopped for a moment, but he clenched his teeth and swung his sword at the child.
I was able to rescue Jin Ye-seul from the prison of lightning, taking advantage of the moment when the clone quickly retreated.
“Ji, Jihyuk… sorry. It’s harder to deal with than I thought… .”
… Even in this situation, I tried to smile at her, apologizing to me as if I was indifferent.
“no it’s okay. You don’t seem like a good match, so I’ll deal with you instead.”
“Oh, uh… .”
“and.”
“yes?”
“… Sorry for being pathetic. It made me worry about nothing.”
I turned my head and looked ahead.
It was loading bullets calmly and quickly.
“It’s all right now.”
With those words, I ran straight to it.
While reloading the gun, it quickly pulled the trigger in succession towards my face and chest, but calmly raised my right arm to block it.
As long as I’m covered in Minerva’s blood, any attack won’t work for me.
Nevertheless, the shock delivered was heavier than expected. When I thought that it would be better not to hit a vital point if possible, it suddenly scatters daggers at me.
It wasn’t me that it was aiming for.
The scattered daggers were locked in as if drawing the boundary of the prison that imprisoned me, and without hesitation, the dagger pulled the trigger.
“ね… ?!”
Instantly, I felt a pain as if the muscles all over my body were twisting.
It was the same technique he had just used for Jin Ye-seul.
“… nice.”
And, indeed, coincidentally, I had lightning tolerance.
In the past, Professor Abel Grossman gave each of us a gemstone that increased our resistance to status ailments during class. And then, what I chose was none other than the magic stone of lightning strike. Its attack was nothing more than a tingling sensation.
As I rushed in, it immediately punched me.
I could feel something hitting my face once earlier than I thought while trying to stop it insignificantly, followed by something hitting my body again.
scorpion hooves.
A skill that can inflict additional damage to the opponent over time.
This too was the legacy of the Shadow Walker.
“Ouch, uh… !!!”
I immediately grabbed both of his wrists.
Then, as if performing a stunt, he moved his feet and fired a shot at my stomach in succession. I felt terrible pain in my defenseless stomach.
But even more shocking than that was unfolding before my eyes.
“… ah.”
There is a scar on the neck.
It was also on the wrist.
Gina was right.
It was clear that Milited wasn’t a fantasic made up to shake me, but a clone he had made based on the real child.
Even though my hopes were thoroughly crushed, I clenched my teeth and forced myself to move.
The branches of the World Tree burst out with a terrifying force, as if vomiting air.
It grabbed my ankles and wrists by it and looked at me expressionlessly. At the moment I was about to incapacitate it by wrapping it around like a cocoon, I unknowingly bit my lips and shouted at that gaze.
“That’s it, with your eyes… !”
“… … .”
“Don’t look at me with that child’s face… !!!”
Then, the tightly closed mouth of the boy opened.
“brother.”
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Oh
“Oh, brother… What is it? hurt… I’m sick, brother… .”
Ahhh.
“Brother, I don’t want to die… Save me, brother… .”
It was the child’s voice.
Those voices, those words, began to remind me of a memory I never wanted to recall again.
– Brother, I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die like this… .
– yes? Brother, let’s live… Let’s live together, let’s not die… huh?
― I’m the only brother now, but if he dies like that… And how am I going to live now if I even tell my brother… ? huh? brother… please… .
– yes?
– You know better… Oppa, if you die like that, I will die with you too.
– brother… I don’t want to die… .
– So, please put it down… .
– please… .
Suddenly, an indescribable sound came out of my throat.
The words that came out of his mouth took my breath and words from my throat.
The sound of breathing that just flowed out of my body was the last effort of the one who was crushed by a sense of guilt that would not be diluted no matter how much time passed.
“brother… .”
[Hey, Yoo Ji-hyuk! Hey!]
I felt Sbangali yelling at me, but I couldn’t respond.
There was a creaking sound.
When he lifted his head and looked at the front wet with tears, a black gun was placed right in front of his eyes.
“… die.”
With those words, there was a quaang and gunshots sounded again.
But the lead bullet did not pierce my head.
It was because Minerva’s arm, which had protruded out of the shadow that had climbed up on my body, was clenched and clutching lead bullets.
Then her arms and tail came out and grabbed the child’s clone tightly.
Almost half insane, I moved the branches of the World Tree, wrapped them around like a cocoon, and gripped it tightly.
“Huh… Huh… .”
It was when I was struggling to somehow support my half-collapsed body, breathing heavily. A notification popped up in front of me.
[The Seven Devils ‘Milited’ has completed the body reconstruction.]
[The Seven Evils ‘Milited’ has acquired resistance to all the evils that have hurt him so far.]
[The Seven Devils ‘Milited’ will continue to evolve and adapt.]
During the delay, the first adaptation of the gnome was over.
Immediately, a roar rang out, and I could see Choi Hyeon-woo spitting blood and falling backwards.
After that, Milited, who rushed at him, was barely able to stop Lee Yuna by rushing in.
“Well? what… .”
And Milited frowned at Yuuna who was still hurting him, as if in doubt. Soon after, the guy slowly fluttered in the air, and at his gesture, more than five or six clones rushed at her almost at the same time, aiming for her.
“Yuna, get out of the way! They are being targeted!”
Ivan shouted that, and supported her by shooting a huge arrow of magical power.
Afterwards, Evangeline and Han Soo-young helped him by throwing ice and fire, respectively.
“Come on, drink this, Hyeonu. Milited consists of extremely dangerous poison and acid poison… !”
“eww… .”
Meanwhile, Alice was feeding Choi Hyun-woo a potion.
Ye-eun Lee was not in the mood to bless everyone or to keep her in check by shooting arrows.
Because Milited had made the battlefield a completely isolated place to prevent her from doing stupid things, ironically, she was also unable to use her most powerful abilities, Call of Nature and Call of Spirits.
“You lost.”
Milited took a deep breath and looked directly at me.
“It’s because of the difference in the military. Well, there are other reasons, but it’s not that important.”
… As the guy just said, we were outnumbered right now.
It was time to put on the king of thorns to turn the situation around.
“However… .”
For some reason, the boy’s voice was trembling helplessly.
“Hey, uh… Now tuck and tuck… I’m tired of dealing with you… .”
Soon after, the boy suddenly snapped and burst into tears.
Tears began to flow from his eyes, like a waterfall.
I got goosebumps at the sight.
It wasn’t just that he was surprised or surprised at how he cried.
It was because Milited’s preferred attack method when he did anything he did was to spit out corrosive smoke that melted everything around him.
No matter how much it was Choi Hyun-woo or Jin Ye-seul, it was clear that as long as they ‘adapted’ to everyone’s magic to some extent, fatal injuries would be inevitable.
I had to stop him right now.
Literally at any cost.
[I use the skill ‘Forgiveness’.]
[Your heart begins to spurt dragon blood… .]
[You feel a part of your body changing.]
Although it was ignorant, it was definitely time to run towards him with the intention of literally pushing himself with his whole body.
“… what?”
A large lance was pierced through Milited’s chest.
Although the lance was faint, it certainly had divine power.
“Hey, this is… !?”
Milited’s upper body exploded in embarrassment with the sound of a popping sound.
It must have been that the divine power and the poison of the Seven Evils caused a repulsion.
“Hey hoo hoo!!!”
Then, a lively voice that seemed more excited than necessary rang out.
A strange wind blew as if following it, and it soon began to hatch Milited’s clones without mercy.
“Is no one dead yet?”
Belluna Hunt, who had something like a large box in her hand, smirked and asked in contrast to Milited, who was sobbing.
“What the hell is this… !”
And Ahn Do-hoon with a terrified expression as if he was half drawn to her.
Finally, Jin Jeong-jeong, who looked at Jin Ye-seul with an urgent expression, broke through the barrier of the isolated space and appeared.
It was an unexpected appearance of a supporter.