181. Geomwang (劍皇)
It is Do-yoon who has been researching golem construction without skipping a single round during the return. He had considerable proficiency in alchemy, especially in the arts of ministry.
Because of this, he could immediately understand Busker’s words, ‘Unlike Goul, I have no medium to gather strength.’ Busker needed a ‘nucleus’.
“that?”
When Doyoon took out a jewel from the subspace, the blue flames in the eye sockets of the skull glowed as if staring at it.
The object that Doyoon took out was also familiar to Busker.
“Did you kill Satan?”
It was Satan’s right eyeball.
“No, I missed it. Something unbelievable happened.”
The coming of the demon king was absolutely absurd even for him who had lived through the 18th episode.
However, Busker clicked his skull, as if he was curious that such a modifier was used in the mouth of Enoch and not anyone else.
“Have you met the Demon King?”
Doyoon smiled. Like that, Busker would sometimes throw silly jokes at Enoch and Hecleus. Just like the nickname Skeleton, it was always a boring joke.
But this time I got it right. Of course, Busker himself did not know that he had guessed, and only Do-yoon was fooled by himself.
‘There are so many stories to tell.’
Doyoon grinned at the thought of telling Busker the story of his heroism with the Demon King.
“It’s very shabby here to solve 100 years of regrets.”
After saying that, Doyoon threw Satan’s eyes at him.
After accepting this, Busker looked back and forth between eyes and Doyoon.
“Perhaps Brudette has as many things he wants to say to you as I do.”
“What do you mean?”
Doyoon chined out of the hall door.
“Let’s go out.”
Do-yoon had no intention of tearing the two rich apart like this.
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Reaching the intermediate destination, the allied forces established three forts, one for each of the three corps. The fortress was built very quickly using magic and various abilities.
In the middle of the demonic landscape, a fortress like an iron fortress was built in just seven days.
While building the fortress, Do-yoon ordered surplus troops to wipe out the monsters in the area.
It was in the name of stabilizing the fortress, but the real reason was different.
“So, who the hell is that?”
On the top of the completed fortress, a knight pointed to the distance and asked my senior, who was serving as a general.
The place he pointed to was the Magic View near the fortress. There, Enoch, the commander-in-chief, and a mysterious man sat face to face with a fire.
“Who are you talking to the Commander-in-Chief alone? And on this dangerous night, outside the fort.”
“danger? Who is dangerous?”
“No… I mean, do you really need to sit on the dirt floor?”
The general shrugged.
“From what Dokgo Moo-yeong said, you are Enoch-nim’s friend.”
“You mean friend?”
At those words, the knight raised the telescope he was holding and looked toward the campfire.
Enoch stirs the campfire with a long stick. And in front of him, a man wearing an old robe with holes in it was mending his sword.
He had his back to me, so I couldn’t see his face or his face. However, the skeleton seemed to be very thin.
“friend…”
A man who suddenly appeared from a demonic world like this is Enoch-sama’s friend?
But for sure, the atmosphere between the two seemed very comfortable without the slightest semblance. It was very different from Enoch-nim until he commanded the advance.
The knight asked with only his mouth moving while still focusing on the telescope.
“If it’s a friend, would it be Enoch’s friend before reincarnation or after reincarnation?”
“Not Nandle. But seeing that you were so special, wouldn’t it be before reincarnation?”
“Wow… So you’re a warrior who belonged to the first guild?”
The general, who had been leaning against the wall, grabbed the telescope that the knight was holding in his eyes as if it was fine.
“ah.”
“I don’t know, man, take care of the circumstances of the superiors. It’s rude to watch for a long time, so go and do some maintenance. Tomorrow is the retreat.”
“yep…”
The general and the knight moved down the fort.
However, the knight looked at the two of them with envious eyes for a while, as if he had no regrets, and then turned his back.
Meanwhile, the two men the knight was looking at were sitting around a bonfire in the middle of a dark demonic landscape, ignoring the passage of time and chatting.
Busker, a man wearing an old robe. He rubbed between his ribs and moved his lower jaw.
“Amazing.”
In the place of the heart inside it, a single purple jewel was embedded as if it were fixed in the air.
It was Satan’s eyeball that Doyoon implanted into a nucleus through alchemy.
“what?”
Doyoon threw firewood into the bonfire and asked.
Even in the old days, they would venture into the Devil’s Land and camp with a bonfire. The bonfire lit up in the middle of the demon scene was enough to remind the two of them of that time 100 years ago.
The bonfire dyed the skull of the white busker’s face amber. In that appearance, Doyoon’s face was overlapped with Busker’s face. The light that reminded them of their memories seemed to have attached warm flesh and skin to Busker.
Busker said while fiddling with the jewel inside me.
“Everything used to be this easy once you stepped in. no matter how impossible it may seem. It’s been decades, but it’s still amazing.”
Do-yoon solved his problem by putting a nuke into Busker. He compared the busker, which moves even though it has no life, to the concept of a familiar horse.
Ordinary mana stones were not enough to contain morale, not ordinary mana, and to support the tremendous spiritual power of Geomhwang.
However, if it was the highest level mana stone equivalent to a dragon heart, and this eye had the energy of the great devil, it was perfect.
Thanks to this, Busker was able to store the morale of the monsters dying around him, and was able to continue moving like this. I was able to move out of the hall.
Do-yoon snorted at his words, saying it was nonsense.
“Sounds like a new thing… It’s only natural since you enjoyed the privilege of returning.”
“no.”
Busker, who was wiping the cold sword with a cloth, stopped his hand.
“If it were me, no matter how much I returned, I wouldn’t have been able to kill the Demon King. God didn’t choose you as a rouge baller by putting aside all the geniuses you have for nothing.”
“What are you talking about earlier? Does becoming a skeleton make you more sensitive?”
“’The most powerful force is the will.’ That’s what you said.”
“yes?”
Busker raised his head and looked at Doyoon.
Two pairs of blue flames burned shallowly in the shadows inside the robe hat.
“At first I didn’t understand. I thought it was an extension of my mental power. However, the ‘will’ you mentioned is different from the mind.”
Do-yoon put down the branches he had been poking around the bonfire and listened quietly.
“But after 100 years of practice, I felt I had reached a new level. It is the power of will you speak of.”
Busker looked at the bones in his hand.
“What happens when the will touches the world.”
“…Also!”
Doyoon realized the meaning of Busker’s words and fell silent.
“You realized the sword…!”
Busker nodded his skull.
Doyoon felt his heart pounding.
It was also a busker. Although it was possible because Enoch gave him the realization of the Hyeonsword, he too had reached the state of the Hyeonsword anyway.
But Busker’s words did not end there.
“And I felt it. I won’t be able to see the tip of the sword.”
“…what do you mean?”
“I saw the far-off world beyond the wall.”
Doyoon opened his eyes.
‘Beyond the sword.’
A new area that Doyoon was able to glimpse for a while in the duel with the current demon king. Busker was talking about that place.
“For a mortal like me… born with talent just for fun, it was a realm that could not even be dreamed of. I am here.”
“…”
“Roosevolnik. You have a stronger will than anyone else in the world, who can’t even compare to me.”
Busker’s eye sockets stared at Doyoon.
“Only your will can get there.”
Hearing for the first time, someone else’s view of the realm beyond the Hyeonsword.
It was possible because he was a swordsman busker who had trained for over 100 years and was stronger than any other busker in Enoch’s 18th playthrough. Its weight was different.
“I will show you all of me. I’ll show you the path of the sword that I’ve been walking. I will lead you beyond what I have reached.”
Blue flames blazed from Busker’s eye sockets.
“You show me the tip of your sword. Loose Volnik.”
Doyoon swallowed his saliva.
Undoubtedly. Busker stepped into a stage beyond what Doyoon thought.
What was the path of the sword he had walked? What on earth is contained in the sword of Geomhwang, who has been training for 100 years?
What can he show you?
Doyoon felt his mouth dry.
In a moment of silence, only after the sound of the crackling of sparks echoed a few times, Doyoon with difficulty separated his lips.
“then…”
“Not yet.”
“yes?”
However, Busker’s reply was sluggish.
“I don’t have enough strength. It takes a lot more power.”
“…should we stop the seeds of the monsters around here?”
“no. Think Goul.”
The King of Necromancers and the Lich King, Ghoul wielded tremendous power by sacrificing countless lives dying on the battlefield. In order for him to exert his power, he needed a proportionate death.
And when it comes to Busker’s power… At least, it’s expected that a corps commander won’t be able to compare it.
It will surely require a great number of deaths.
“War. I need the death of a war unit to unleash my body’s power.”
“…You’re being very picky.”
Contrary to what he said, however, Doyoon grinned.
“Don’t expect it.”
Busker silently nodded his skull.
“Are you not going to show it to Brudet?”
“It’s too soon for him.”
“That child? Look, your son is already over 100 years old. You wouldn’t want to raise him as a papa boy.”
He clicked his skull as if laughing.
Then, as if reminiscing about someone, he gazed at the bonfire with a vague expression.
“Brudette… is still young. still lacking You will still need your father’s touch.”
“…”
Doyoon didn’t bother to refute.
Brudet grew up to be called a hero, but he wasn’t wrong.
Even from Doyoon’s point of view, Brudet definitely needed a father. Just like Busker needs him.
The two lost each other too early.
“Since he is an underachiever, I have to teach him myself. Starting with the basics, one by one. slowly.”
“…okay.”
It was still only an unpleasant, low voice, as if scraping bones.
However, Doyoon could feel the great anticipation from his friend’s words just now.
The allied forces once achieved their intended purpose. Since the construction of the fortress was successful, it will return and reorganize before marching again.
The night before the retreat faded before Busker went to see his son’s face, which he had longed for.