Episode 132. Chaos Mixer (3)
“I’m not going to make a face like that. I remember what it felt like.”
Quinn said that with a tired look and went into her private tent while taking the elixir that Samsik gave her.
As I recalled his grueling battle today, my insides came out of my mouth without realizing it.
“Would you like to?”
As it has been so far, Balparok will fight with someone else’s body tomorrow.
He’s getting stronger every day. Combining the words shed during the battle, it seemed that each time they possessed the power that corresponds to the characteristic based on this standard, they would bring one more.
Looking at the words and actions of Balparok, it is clear that he is a fairly high-ranking warrior among Green.
“Then the power to bring is still a long way off, right?”
This means that future battles will become drastically more difficult. The Queen you dealt with will know that better than anyone.
‘It’s no use.’
I ran the simulation with the assumption that it would bounce, but it was concluded that it was impossible for him to completely escape as long as he had a way to track his samsik.
Oooh!
“Did you see it? It’s a win for Queen!”
“Today’s player Balparok did a great job!”
As I watched the moderators and spectators rage over Queen’s victory, I constantly pondered how to deal with Balparok.
“Written, there is no answer like this.”
All the tactics that could be devised were useless in the face of the overwhelming power of the guy we saw today.
The only way to create a variable here is to grow rapidly in a short period of time.
‘In the end, I know one way.’
After making up his own determination, he moved to the tent made for material storage and synthesis.
-now!
“yes?”
– Qua says he’s in a good mood! Let’s synthesize the material quickly.
As soon as I open the tent, Nebla launches the Chaos Mixer and points it to me.
‘This guy is also suspicious.’
Since there was no other way right away anyway, I immediately took out the horns and mana stones that I had treasured in my arms.
【Evil Devouring Origins, Replica of Greblos Horn (S)】
[Jurato’s Mana Stone (S) that absorbs mana]
I looked at the two materials with oddly similar titles for a while, then slowly put them into the chaos mixer with earnestness.
moon, moon.
As soon as I put the two materials on the floor and was afraid to remove my hand, the jar shook in place, and a thin pillar of light flowed out.
Even though the colors were different, I couldn’t help but be disappointed with the similarity to the failure effect.
‘Is it a failure again?’
That moment when your pulse goes numb.
【notice!】
【Congratulations. The special item, Chaos Mixer, has ‘Mutation: Immolate’.]
[Mutation: Chaos Mixer is destroyed by the sacrificial effect.]
[Mutation: The curse accumulated in the Chaos Mixer due to the sacrificial effect is absorbed by the material being synthesized.]
Wrath!
Immediately after a close-to-black orange color exploded from the jar.
fast.
Chaos Mixer was shattered. And in the center of the wreckage, there were horns with dark orange flickering softly.
As soon as you see it, you feel it. That’s curse material.
After a moment’s hesitation, Nebla sneaks up behind me and sneaks up to me.
“Ugh!”
As I was about to reach out my arm to stop Nevlar from approaching, a watermill slammed into me from the side.
Scared of being pushed to the side, Nevlar snatches the black and blue horns by telekinesis.
-Hey, I’ve been waiting for this moment!
“You idiot.”
-Heh, it’s no use pretending to be cool. Do you dare to pamper this body? How does it feel to have lost a treasure right before your eyes? hehehehe!
Nevlar’s weakness was identified on the first day, so instead of approaching him, he tried to take the watermill hostage.
-Ugh? No, no!
Thousands of mana threads came out of the horns and wrapped around Nevlar, and in the blink of an eye, the fog that formed them disappeared without a trace, as if absorbed by something.
degul.
Two marbles that lost their light fell to the floor and soon crumbled.
I knew right away that Nevlar was a sneaky bastard. To some extent, I expected to hit the back of the head.
Unprepared and helpless, these few days of observation must have comprehended.
By the way, Queen is also on a break because she is tired, and it is almost midnight. A perfect situation to grab and go.
“Don’t be too embarrassed. than your work.”
After blowing away the powder that was a red gem, he looked at the orange horns that were rolling on the floor of the tent and grabbed them.
The threads of mana that had engulfed Nevlar wrapped around me, but it wasn’t a threat at all.
【notice】
【The target is a cursed material. Be careful.]
This is the notification you see every time you draw. Because 10% of the items from the box were cursed materials.
【notice】
【Your constitution reverses the curse.】
As you can see, I was born with a constitution that reverses the effects of curses. Even in the Necroma Tower, because of this, I couldn’t properly learn the curse magic.
So, except for being surprised, there is no damage from the curse, and it is possible to return the curse applied to me as it is.
‘Curse reversal.’
As I firmly established my will to reverse the curse, the threads surrounding my body were blown away in an instant.
Threads of mana wandering in the air, unable to find a way out.
“Is it my turn now?”
I tried to bind the horns and those threads by developing a realm filled with sonic mana, but the threads of the horns, which were struggling in the air, this time, instead of my body, stretch out to the whole realm.
‘eating?’
As if every single thread of that mana was a mouth, I was wastingly sucking the mana that made up my realm.
‘Isn’t that just a curse.’
Until now, if you feed the curse inversion, the curse in the material has disappeared. But being in good health means that other powers are working more powerfully than the curse.
“I can’t help it.”
I don’t have much time.
So, I swiped a string of mana back and memorized the starting words while supplying mana to the magic circle I had drawn on the tent floor in advance.
“Summon demon horns.”
A magic that the Demon School’s chieftain changed his life. You cast a spell that forcibly implants demon horns in your body.
Then, from the horns, an incomparable amount of yarns spewed out, encircling the entire tent.
‘Was it something you were adjusting to me?’
to rot.
“Wiz!”
Hang on!
He summoned and fused Wiz, who had been on standby in case something uncontrollable with magic happened like now.
Immediately, it hit with all its power to break through the wall made of mana threads with physical force, but there was no scratch.
That horn also stopped absorbing mana because I didn’t know I could make a shoulder bag against the wall of mana.
A momentary silence that came suddenly.
“I’m tired.”
A space that is rapidly narrowing as if angered by surprise. I muttered quietly as I watched the material that touched the wall of mana disappear without a trace like Nevlar.
“sorry. queen.”
One last apology to the Queen, past and present, lost her mind.
* * *
flutter.
Grace Melon, who came out of a private tent requested by Nam Man-hyuk a week ago, found the participants bitten in one place and approached them.
“Oh, Queen. Did you wake up?”
When one of the hosts pretends to know Queen, the people who were murmuring start looking at them and disperse.
“What’s going on?”
“Well, I guess you have to see for yourself.”
As the giant host stepped aside, a gigantic black and orange cocoon caught Grace’s eyes.
“What about Roman?”
“I do not know. Nebla and Roman Summoner are both invisible. I was the last one to see it, but the two of them never went into the tent and came out.”
Quinn, who knew well that he was a sleepless servant and a moderator who always kept a close eye on Roman’s behavior, clenched his fists and asked again.
“You mean you didn’t come out of me?”
“Yes. Whoa, no!”
When Grace tries to tear off the cocoon by force, the host hurriedly stops it.
“Why?”
Seeing her cold face, the host swallowed his saliva and spoke cautiously.
“The cocoon is a symbol of evolution.”
“Evolution?”
“Yeah, I’ve never heard of cocooning among the lower intelligences, but it’s a normal evolutionary process. If you are interrupted in the middle, the evolution may end in an erratic state or you may die.”
Even after explaining the cocooning process, the moderator had to tease her mouth again when she saw Grace Melon glaring at her.
“A mana density like this would be a great evolution. The fact that the cocoon is several times larger than the body is a positive part.”
after-
After taking a long breath, Grace turned around, and the moderator, who was relieved just then, secretly swung one of her six fists into the air, expressing joy.
‘done!’
In fact, he received a private message shortly after Balfarok’s death the day before.
[Valparok: Let a guy called Roman do everything he can to prevent him from intervening in an honorable duel. If you do that, I will spare your life.]
For the presenter, this was a great opportunity.
‘The queen loses today.’
It was the opinion everyone who watched the match between Queen and Balparok yesterday agreed.
Balparok getting stronger day by day, Queen who is growing but not as much as Balparok.
Today’s victory was clear.
So most of the spectators moved to other areas around midnight, and there are fewer than ten left.
‘A chance to attract viewers!’
That too while ensuring safety.
So, the sudden progress of cocooning did not mention the common sense that it was dangerous, and the remaining spectators were also given points to crack down on their joining.
‘The viewers will see it, but Queen is not a participant.’
Companions, a lower level perk, cannot see the chat window.
The moderator hid his laughter and sat down on a chair near the Pentagon, his reserved seat, and grabbed the microphone.
“It will be noon soon. The time has come for the Balparok to come, isn’t it?”
A black box is created in front of the moderator as soon as the words are finished.
“… uh? town!”
The box opened by itself, and the host who found the worm wriggling inside quickly shut his mouth, but the worm exploded a sonic boom as if sneering and shot into his nose.
“Ouch! It’s a promise, huh, isn’t it different!”
It was the moderator who shouted out loud, but his resistance did not last more than a minute.
“You said you saved your life, when did you say you guaranteed your ego?”
Having said that, Balparok, who got up from the presenter’s seat, looked around and clenched his fists.
phut! Pass… .
The half-melted Pentagon in that one volume disappeared into dust, and the spectators who saw it became contemplative.
They knew that if that fist had turned a little, they would have become like that.
“All the messy things have been removed.”
Balparok shouting into the air and spreading his arms wide.
“No one can hinder our glorious duel.”
Declaring a noble duel in the common center, his gaze turned to Queen who had just emerged from the tent.
“Hey, this is the first tool I’ve ever seen. What?”
Grace Melon tied Soma’s fist with a string and hung it around her waist.
‘… Nam Man-hyuk.’
Grace glanced at the cocoon.
The item that he handed over to me one day, saying that he came and picked it up with an uneven expression. Until now, it was disgusting, so I kept it in the corner of the tent.
‘Because I am a person who does not act without a reason.’
She had no doubt that this fist would help her at the decisive moment.
“Hmm, oh! Wild! My nemesis!”
At that time, a small skeleton walked from behind the cocoon and stood next to Queen.
stone song!
Sam-sik sensed that Nam Man-hyuk’s mana was rapidly disappearing at dawn and rushed to run, but it was already too late.
Samsik was trying to separate the mana of the contractor from the mana that he felt in the cocoon until now.
It eventually failed, but it wasn’t a complete failure.
Go round!
-Because of you!
As Samsik’s powerful discharge of thought spread widely in the cavity, the audience, including Balparok, shuddered.
He instinctively noticed something different from the mana he had felt in Samsik.
“Feel so good. The only adversaries who have not let me down! come! Today, the honor of this body will be carved into my soul!”