Chapter 126 – So far
Bang! Bang!
How long did it run? How long has it been outside?
Running at such a high speed, I could feel the flow of time changing with my body.
Perhaps this is a sensation I would not have felt if I had not had a [Sixth sense].
Fortunately, Seria seemed to be running after considering my speed, and the distance between the bandage and the butler didn’t widen.
Maybe if you just keep up the pace, you’ll catch up soon.
Then the final battle will begin.
I don’t know how strong the last erosion, Butler, is, but given that I’m somehow catching up with my speed….
I looked at the back of Seria, who was running at my speed in front of her.
Maybe because she is there, we can win easily.
Seria seems to be aware of that fact as well, so she slightly turned her head and signaled that she would go first, then ran out and disappeared 15m away.
She must be aware that the longer she stays like this, the more dangerous it is.
Even if she can’t overcome it alone, she catches up first and it’s enough to wait until I catch up.
You can feel the presence of Seria, who ran out first, through [Sixth Sense].
She was rapidly getting closer to the bandage and the butler…. At that moment, I felt another faint sign.
Chow ah!
From under her feet, something dark red was shot at my face.
It wasn’t so fast that I couldn’t react, but it wasn’t difficult to duck and dodge.
“… Is it a snake?”
It means that you can’t get a sense of what that eroded body is.
Slender and elongated, it looks like a snake… Is there any reason to make snakes corrosive?
It would be much better to erode the Cyclops or the tree you saw earlier.
Anyway, it was good for us.
You just have to deal with it lightly here and follow it again.
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Fortunately, Seria and her guys seem to have started a confrontation, and I can feel their presence not far away.
With such a light heart, she swung her sword at the snake.
Chwaaagh!
I came to regret my judgment.
It wasn’t like a snake.
In the first place, it wasn’t an erosion body.
I jumped into the air and the [Erosion] Spread like a net all at once and swallowed my whole body.
Yes, it is not an eroded body that has been [Eroded] By something.
It was [Erosion] To [Erosion] Something.
A dark red shadow began to permeate the skin along with the pain that was ignored throughout the body.
The only reason I can keep my spirits up through the pain of having my skin torn and my muscles being torn apart is probably thanks to the purple star.
Instinctively, the purple star that has been spinning ever since is slowing down the rate at which it is being [Eroded].
“Okay… It’s okay.”
I already had the experience of driving away [Erosion] Once.
Moreover, now she has learned a lesson from Celestia and handles purple stars much better than she did back then.
There is no reason for me to be eroded by this [Erosion].
“Keugh….”
However, contrary to my wishes, [Erosion] Started digging deeper into the place, gnawing at even the purple magic that spread throughout the body.
More. More. More.
Go deeper. Like that, to the heart with the purple star.
[Erosion] Pokes at the rotating purple star, burning fiercely like a flame.
The edge of the [Erosion] That touched the purple flame melted away.
I knew instinctively.
If even the purple star is [Eroded], I will become an eroded body.
This [Erosion] Was clearly different from other erosion so far.
Now, I’m holding on somehow… At this rate, it was almost certain that even the purple stars would be [Eroded] Sooner or later.
But what can I do here?
His entire body has already been [Corroded] And is stained dark red, causing excruciating pain whenever he tries to move.
All senses, including the [Sixth sense], Are turned off and nothing is felt.
Seria’s presence, the sound of the wind brushing her body, and the smell of burning mana.
Seria can’t come to help me.
I am the only one here.
It is impossible to overcome this [Erosion] Alone.
Then there was only one thing I could do.
Killing the person behind [Erosion] Before being [Erosion].
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Kagagak!
The blade at the tip of the tentacle ricocheted off the bandaged arm.
Seria, who ‘saw’ that, made a puzzled expression.
“Wasn’t your ability [Erosion]? How can you block my attack?”
Answer her question! Said the bandage with a smile.
“You want to know? Why don’t you get down on your knees and beg? Do you know I’ll let you know.”
“… ….”
Seria frowned.
It wasn’t because of the vulgar provocation of a man wearing a bandage.
Just… It was because of a few questions.
Why does the butler, who looks like an eroded body, stand still without doing anything, and the bandages are fighting against him?
And… Why doesn’t Han Si-woo come?
It was not so far that the flow of time changed drastically.
However, his presence had been fixed somewhere from earlier.
As if caught by something….
Perhaps reading the worry in Seria’s expression, the bandage sneered once more.
“Why? Are you worried about the boy you were chasing with?”
“… ….”
“Don’t worry too much~ He’s just going through the process of getting stronger… , only.”
As if the bandages couldn’t hold back their laughter! And burst into laughter.
“His spirit will die and the spirit of my comrade will take its place!”
At that, the butler next to him ate and laughed.
But that trivial laugh came as a shock to Seria.
All the corrosive creatures I have encountered so far have been unconscious. There was no will.
They were only puppets being controlled by the people behind them.
But that erosion body laughed. Obviously, it was a different existence from the erosive bodies he had encountered so far.
Ha ha. Seria sighed and pointed the tip of her blade at her butler as if realizing it.
“I see… You really were behind the [Erosion].”
The butler grinned as if her guess was correct.
“Yes, that’s right. [Erosion] Is my ability.”
From the moment I first encountered them, Seria was in charge of the smell of rotting corpses.
At first, I thought the smell was from that bandaged guy, but….
“Your body is already dead.”
The real owner of the smell was the butler.
The butler opened his arms wide.
“Right. My body is already dead However, right before I died, I succeeded in turning my body into an erosive body.”
The erosion body moves as the person behind [Erosion] Wants. His body must also be moving according to the same principle.
“… Is that why you are looking for a new body?”
“Right…. The [Erosion] That attacked your comrades just now contained half of my consciousness. And… After I kill you, I will move all my remaining consciousness there.”
Then I will put in a young and new body.
The butler’s heart fluttered just thinking about it, so he embraced himself and trembled.
“It looks like he’s still holding on somehow… It will be completely [Eroded] Before long.”
The bandage next to him grabbed his stomach and said with a smile.
“It would be fun to have you fight that boy who was eroded!”
“What choice will you make? Should I kill the boy? Or will I not be able to do that and die?”
The butler and the bandage held their stomachs and laughed like madmen.
Shockingly.
I felt an eerie sensation and immediately flew to the side.
Paang. A small voice and a purple flash pierced the place where they had been before.
Iron puck.
The dark red arm of the butler, torn off as it was pierced by the flash of light, fell helplessly to the floor.
‘This is nonsense. [Erosion] Hardened arm was pierced so easily?’
More than that, how can you attack yourself while maintaining consciousness when you are being [Eroded]!
Leaving the amputated part intact, the gaze of the butler and the bandage focused on one spot.
The place where the purple flash was shot.
The sound of footsteps could be heard from there, and a man appeared.
Seeing the man’s appearance, Seria could only frown.
His appearance was only seen as an eroded body.
It is also of a different kind from the erosion bodies we have encountered so far.
But it was definitely Han Si-woo.
To be precise, it was still Siwoo Han.
Unlike other corrosive bodies, he was covered in a dark red color all over his body.
The clothes he was wearing, his skin, and even the sword in his hand were completely stained with dark red.
Footprints of the same color appeared in the place where he had walked.
Even in the midst of that, the only thing that maintained a different color was.
There were only purple eyes burning coldly.