With the momentum to devour them in this direction at any moment, the large army of undead, literally rushing in like a wave, stopped like a lie.
While I was thinking about what the hell he was trying to do, an alert popped up in front of me.
At first I thought it was an error. Then I was able to remember that what was written in the notification window was a complex language encoded in the language used by wizards.
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Of course, there was no way I would have learned the language system used only by wizards.
It was only difficult to recall the memories of ‘I chose another future as a wizard’, which I ate in Margo’s dungeon in the past, which, unlike other things, had hardly come to mind.
Even so, I couldn’t read the words that popped up in the notification window.
‘Strong will.’, ‘Inflict harm.’, ‘Undead.’, ‘Choose a target.’ And I could barely recognize that the word ‘Yoo Ji-hyuk’ existed.
And that alone could infer what had happened.
Without realizing it, I shut my mouth.
It was because of the indescribable complex emotions along with embarrassment, surprise, and gratitude.
– what… ?
And what surprised me was that it wasn’t just me, but Milited as well.
Even his voice, which had been blurred by fogging, could not hide his embarrassment.
After that, several notification windows popped up one after another.
[An entity with a strong will carries out its will one after another.]
[As of this time, no undead can maintain their shape in this space.]
[As of this time, in this space, the power of all beings who live ‘a life that goes against the providence’ will be weakened.]
This time, there were only words that could not be recognized.
But I could guess.
As soon as the notification window appeared, the undead began to melt and disappear on the spot, as if they were ghosts.
Then the last notification popped up.
They could be recognized at a glance.
[The poison of the Seven Evil species that filled this space begins to be purified.]
[As of this time, the poison of the ‘Seven evils’ is not used in this space.]
[You can glimpse the fading of your mighty will… .]
“… … .”
Condolences were postponed until later.
I looked around once with the sword in one hand and the spear in the other.
The undead disappeared, but the children of the nine Milited did not disappear.
They remained loyal to him, even to death, with no regard for the extinction of existence.
Randsch, Natalia Milited and Gracius.
And except for the Ice Spirits I saw just before, there were a lot of guys that were hard to see.
A werewolf almost as huge as an ogre.
A hydra with all nine heads of gold.
A kelpie is a monster that combines the lower body of a fish and the upper body of a horse.
A troll wearing a robe and holding a staff.
Finally, even the Hobgoblin with numerous daggers and weapons on his body.
Probably all of them were once famous guys.
Even if it was weakened, it should never be easily overlooked.
I could feel it instinctively.
If it was me after I had just killed Margo, I would have surely died, and even after I killed Sbangali, I would have struggled if I did not use the King of Thorns.
Yes, that would have been the case back then.
In other words, not now.
– Now, I don’t know what it is.
Milited muttered as if in despair.
– Ariman, did you mean this… ? Okay, only now will I know your purpose… .
– In this case, yes… It would be… Unless you’re an idiot, you can figure it out.
– However.
Milited made the first threatening sound he had ever heard, and spit it out in a bloody voice.
I was not the subject of the monologue.
― Is this me going to move according to your target number…? ?
― This Milited, this ruler of many names, this me who once ate half of the world!
― I, who is in charge of all knowledge, and who will eventually conquer everything!
― At the very least, according to the plan of you, a half-penis who can’t properly re-establish one’s own existence, Ariman!
– I’m going to kill him.
―I don’t need a corpse, an essence, or anything anymore, I’ll just kill it and erase its very existence from this world.
―I will erase all traces and traces. I will also kill all those involved, leaving no one who remembers him.
― If that were the case, what would you say when your handsome guy’s plans go awry… ?
Milited showed changes in his attitude and personality from moment to moment, such as crying, angry, muttering obsessively, and smiling like crazy with every word he spoke. At the end, the guy who stopped talking like a smirk let out a deep and long sigh.
– The time has come to fulfill the old oath that you whispered to me.
– Please offer your soul for me.
―Cut off my enemy’s breath.
At his words, the clones began to fall violently as if they had been electrocuted by a high-voltage current.
Afterwards, seeing that their eyes, which were cloudy like lye, were all dyed dark red, I silently fixed the sword and spear I was holding.
He was using the branches of the World Tree and Henir’s shadow for his party, so he had to fight only with pure physical abilities, but there was nothing to worry about.
It was just a matter of how long it would take and how to bring Milited out after defeating these nine.
“Creep… .”
The first thing that hits you is the werewolf in front… Hobgoblin in the back with bait.
Pretending not to notice, he threw the spear at the werewolf who jumped straight ahead.
It was time to wield the sword at the Hobgoblin, who was then rushing towards the hip with a dagger.
“Kieek!”
The hobgoblin, engulfed in flames from somewhere, screamed and ran away.
Almost at the same time, everyone’s eyes turned to where the flames were shot.
There, Han Soo-young’s buckler, floating in the air, was spinning round and round, revealing the outer surface of the shield toward this side.
Then something popped out of my shadow and completely crushed the hobgoblin’s head in flames. For a moment I didn’t know what it was. It was because his body was covered with black, smooth and sharp scales.
However, as soon as she saw her long, black hair, as if she had cut the night sky, although it was a really clichéd expression, she could immediately recognize that it was Jin Ye-seul.
She wore my scale-forged armor, which I had given her, all over her body.
— … What else is it?
Milited’s words were exactly what I wanted to say.
Jin Ye-seul, who covered her face, looked at me blankly.
She looked at me while holding the headless goblin’s corpse in one hand, and muttered, avoiding her head.
“I’m sorry, Jihyuk.”
I’ll sweetly accept any punishment later.
Then, not through my shadow, but through Jin Ye-seul’s shadow, everyone in my shadow escaped.
* * *
They could see and hear everything in the shadows.
Not only that, but he was also able to act at his own will.
First of all, Jeong-Jeong Jin, Alice Blesbuck, and Evangeline Lohengrin decided to focus on the treatment of Ivan Hunt, and Belluna was standing next to them and staring at her son with her eyes closed blankly.
In the case of Cass Lyle, he was just sitting and fiddling with something by himself to see if his condition had improved a little.
“… … Something feels very strange.”
Looking at the branch of the world tree stuck on his forearm, Ahn Do-hoon muttered like that.
No, he didn’t understand why he was still here.
However, he had no choice but to pretend that he couldn’t win when he said that other people, including Choi Hyun-woo, might be in danger. Anyway, he thought that some crazy terrorist groups or anti-social groups would come to visit him like he did at the last guild invitation.
It was said that he never dreamed that something like this would happen.
The Seven Evils, the clones of the dead, and the undead were a far cry, at least for him. It was just like that until just a moment ago.
“What the heck… .”
He murmured and looked to the side.
There were the most people.
Choi Hyun-woo, Han Su-young, Jin Ye-seul, Lee Ye-eun, and even Lee Yu-na.
There, there were six people, including a beautiful woman who was instantly startled, and they were talking about something.
“… … .”
Ahn Do-hoon blushed slightly without realizing it, remembering what had just happened.
To look at a person’s face patheticly and be captivated even for a moment… I didn’t even think about it myself.
The reason he was able to quickly wake up was the huge horns and tail that were exposed as if anyone could see that she was not a human, and the strong energy that made her nervous even when she was quietly sinking.
Most of all, it was because of someone coming up from the corner of my head.
“Hmm, hmm.”
Ahn Do-hoon coughed a little.
In my head, I went to the baseball field with my baseball cap on, I was caught talking about it for three hours without knowing it, and I heard the story of the team’s history. was rising
After he came to his senses, he even sat alone, so he slowly moved to the side of his best friend, Choi Hyun-woo. The closer they got, the more clearly they could hear their conversation, and he immediately listened.
“… So it can really stop the poison of the Seven Evils, right?”
“okay. There were a few things she overlooked, but she’s not foolish enough to make the same mistake twice.”
At Han Soo-young’s question, Minerva nodded.
“… The maiden misunderstood many things. Originally, the Seven Evil species emit a small amount of poison just by living and breathing. Minerva’s breath, known for handling poison, was also famous for its poison. But weren’t the other humans, including you, okay at that time? I did a lot of calculations and thought that it would be fine for a while if you were the only one… Frankly, I didn’t expect that he would intentionally spray it and target only the internal organs and major organs with it. It was her fault.”
“… … ?”
What the hell are you talking about so hard?
Ahn Do-hoon thought so, and secretly stood between Choi Hyeon-woo and Lee Ye-eun.
Either way, he was someone he knew.
“But, as I said before, this Minerva is confident that no other Seven Evils can match her, at least in handling poison. I came across it while I was out, so I can make an antibody or a simple amulet to resist Milited’s venom right now.”
Saying so, Minerva wiggled his tail once.
He pretended not to be Ahn Do-hoon at the gentle movement of his tail, but he glanced at her tail as if curiously.
“I don’t know what’s going on there, but the poison outside is gradually being neutralized. I’ll be able to hold out until it’s all purified and disappear.”
“Then there is nothing more to wait, right? Minerva, please. Can you please make one for us?”
“It’s not difficult. But before that, I want to ask you one thing.”
Minerva stared at Han Soo-young.
He was only looking at her, but in fact, it was a question he was asking everyone.
“Why the hell are you going out like that?”
“… yes?”
“Is that so? To be honest, how helpful it would be if you guys went out.”
Without hesitation, Minerva’s words sharply pierced the vital points of everyone present.
She asked them without a sign of ridicule or ridicule.
“Let’s talk openly. If he had moved alone, he must have killed Milited in the past, or was contemplating how to deal with the one who was trembling in the mist and begging for his life. But look at the situation now. How have you been?”
“… … .”
Han Soo-young kept her mouth shut.
So did the others.
It was a question they all had in their minds, but never uttered.
‘Did we really need him?’
In fact, Choi Hyun-woo felt a sense of shame in the fact that the gap with Yoo Ji-hyuk was getting wider and wider no matter how hard he tried, and in Lee Yu-na’s case, he couldn’t do anything in the battle with Milited… I was feeling some kind of guilt.
And it was the same for Han Soo-young, Jin Ye-seul, and Lee Ye-eun.
Although they all had different directions and forms, they all had the same question.
As far as the starting point of the question, everyone was the same.
Really, do we need him?
“… I don’t know either.”
After a while, Han Soo-young quietly opened her mouth.
“No, I know. I know. I know that the only person among us who can fight Jihyuk by his side is Minerva, you are the only one. I am well aware that no matter how hard I try, I will not be of much help to Jihyuk. It’s not just me. We will all know. The difference between him and us has already widened to a point where we can’t help it.”
She said with a bitter laugh.
Everyone present in the room agreed with her.
From the time he fought Minerva in the past, he was already so-called different.
And now he is much stronger than he was then.
As the day passed, I felt it more and more.
“However… You can say it’s selfish, and even if you don’t know the subject, there’s nothing to say.”
She smiled weakly and clapped her hands.
“I mean, it used to be, and it is now… I don’t know what to do because I want to help him somehow in the future.”
“… … .”
At that, Minerva nodded slowly.
Then he slowly opened his eyes and said.
“… Prepare yourself, everyone. It’s easy to make a talisman.”
She said that and looked at Jin Ye-seul.
“If you go in and out of his shadow, there is a risk that even the guy who is recuperating over there will be kicked out. So make a door out of your shadow. They have the same roots, so it shouldn’t matter.”
Jin Ye-seul nodded as if she knew.
Hyun-woo Choi took a deep breath and picked up his sword.
For some reason, he had a relieved expression on his face as if his troubles had been resolved.
“It was always ready.”
“… … .”
At Lee Ye-eun’s words, Lee Yu-na nodded her head.
The two of them, too, seemed to be running away at any time, showing their enthusiasm.
It was when Ahn Do-hoon also picked up a flag and a sword as he thought he should go out too.
“Oh, I can only make for five people, so keep that in mind.”
“… … .”
At those words, Ahn Do-hoon gently lowered the flag and sword he was holding.
* * *
And the situation goes back to a little while ago.
Han Soo-young, Lee Ye-eun, Lee Yu-na, and Choi Hyeon-woo, who came out through Jin Ye-seul’s shadow, naturally took their place as if protecting Yoo Ji-hyuk.
“why… ?”
He looked around as if he could not understand the English language and muttered like that.
“Jihyuk, save your power.”
Saying that to Yoo Ji-hyuk, who was bewildered, Ye-eun Lee smiled brightly.
“You have to face Milited. We’ll take care of the goblet.”
“Yeah, we can do that. So… .”
Choi Hyun-woo said so and pulled out his sword.
Jin Ye-seul also said that and adjusted her posture.
“… Let me do something like this.”
For some reason, Lee Yu-na spoke like a whisper and started turning the handle she was holding.
“I’m sorry for being rude.”
Last but not least, Han Soo-young said so, tapping his body lightly with his fist.
“By the way, have I told you before? I’m here to help you, so what do you care?”
After she had finished speaking, she clapped her hands.
Then the lens and the buckler, which were hovering in the air, flew in and started hovering around her.
“I got these things, but if I can’t even do this, I won’t be able to sleep even if it’s unfair.”
She smiled and turned and looked ahead.
“So, will you let us pay for the meal?”
As she said that, something trembled in her arms.
Han Soo-young carefully fiddled with it.
It was a potion bottle that had not even opened the stopper since that day, containing another of his own blood.
Han Soo-young instinctively knew that he would need it.