Part 4 Episode 18: Incarnations.
“….!”
When Obscue came to his senses, his body was already shaking from the strong wind.
The increased air pressure blocked his ears, and he instinctively swallowed to push out the air that had blocked his ears.
“…Kyaa..!”
When Wakamo’s thin body, unable to control himself due to the strong wind, fell backwards, Obscure quickly grabbed Wakamo’s waist.
“Ugh..Ugh! Don’t grab it!”
Wakamo tried to shake off his hand, but her slender arms couldn’t shake off Obscure’s arm.
Obscure, who had dragged Wakamo inside, ignored Wakamo’s glare at him and turned his head to the Black Merchant.
“The view is nice. It would be a shame to destroy it.”
The Black Merchant was leaning on the railing and looking down, mumbling something unintelligible.
“You! You damn merchant!”
And Wakamo, who was enraged by the carefree appearance of the Black Merchant, immediately rushed at the Black Merchant.
“I will kill you..!”
As expected, the queen, who was truly a ‘queen’, rushed at lightning speed and tried to swing the bronze sword she had just pulled out at the head of the black merchant.
“Get down.”
“Kwaang?!”
Obscure took the bronze sword out of the hand of Wakamo, who fell down at a single word from Obscue, and said while examining the bronze sword.
“The effect of the contract is clear.”
“This..This..Damn bastard…!”
“Call me master.”
“Shut up! Do you think I should call you that, master! ….?”
“Yes. Call me that.”
“aaah!!!!!!”
Ignoring Wakamo, who was yelling full of anger, Obscure turned to the Black Merchant and asked a question.
“Where am I?”
“Humans call this place Tokyo Tower.”
“…?”
Obs Q asked, tilting his head slightly.
“You’re answering as if you’re not human?”
“That’s actually true, Avatar.”
The Black Merchant smiled slightly and looked down at the city.
Humans who finally succeeded in picking stars from the sky showed off their own stars when darkness fell to show off the stars they had picked.
The Black Merchant was once again surprised by that fact and raised his head to look at Obscure.
Obscure quietly looked at the Black Merchant with an expressionless face.
“Are you finished watching?”
A surprisingly cold voice.
“..I will return the question from before to you incarnate.”
“Bullsh*t. Why did you bring us here?”
In response to Ops Q’s question, Black Merchant shrugged his shoulders and said, as if it was obvious.
“Of course, now is not the time to face the largest fragment of the ‘First Order’. Preparations are not yet complete.”
“…No. I have to ask this first. What on earth is the incarnation? Who is the ‘First Order’?”
Black Merchant, who chose to remain silent this time in response to Obscure’s question, turned his gaze back to the night view on the floor.
“..Okay. Pay the price.”
Obscure turned his head and looked into space.
“Tooltip. Please provide a solution.”
In response to Obscure’s command, the tooltip immediately popped up a window.
[Recommendation, purchase ‘Question Ticket’ from the Black Merchant.]
“Buy the right to ask questions.”
Obscure frowned in displeasure and spoke to the Black Merchant.
“I will purchase a question ticket.”
“…Ha. I understand.”
The Black Merchant sighed and snapped his fingers, and a window appeared before Obs Q’s eyes again.
[Question ticket – 600 gold. (3 Times)]
Obscure, who was staring at the window, soon took his gaze away from the window and opened his mouth.
“The first question is: What is the incarnation body?”
“…That’s surprising. I thought you’d start by asking who I am.”
“Your identity will be known naturally once you find out what the incarnation is.”
“..Ehyo. Good.”
The Black Merchant raised his body leaning against the railing, looked at the Obscure, and answered the question.
“The incarnation is a vessel. It is a literal being that receives the spirit of the two great beings.”
“…?”
When Obscure frowned and asked another question, Black Merchant burst into laughter and said.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t explain this any further. You’re not allowed yet.”
Ops Q glared at the Black Merchant, but the Black Merchant avoided answering by shrugging his shoulders.
“…Okay. But you’ll have to answer the second question in detail.”
“Fine. I swear.”
Obscure pondered for a moment and then asked a question.
“Perhaps there are more than one or two incarnations. If so, who are they and where are they currently?”
“…..You hit the nail on the head. Well, if you think about it, it’s two questions, but in return for question number 1, I’ll make it one.”
The Black Merchant shook his head as if he was troubled and closed his eyes.
As if trying to feel some kind of energy.
“Three people in Japan.”
“…Two of them are me and Wakamo. The other one…Is probably her.”
The Black Merchant, who had remained silent as if Obscure’s guess was correct, spoke again.
“One in China.”
“…China?”
The Black Merchant nodded his head and said.
“Emperor of Heaven and Earth.”
“….!”
Obscure’s eyes widened and he expressed confusion.
“..Damn, Cheon Oecheon is involved?”
“That’s right. How could the Emperor of Tianyuetian have taken control of the vast underworld of China? He is also an incarnation.”
Obscure gritted his teeth and asked Wakamo.
“Did you know?”
“…I came to Japan hundreds of years ago because I was chased by that guy in the first place, master…Damn it!”
“…Wait. What? How many hundreds of years?”
Obscure asked back, surprised by the distant number, and Wakamo nodded.
“Yes. You are probably the last incarnation to come to this world. Master… Damn it!”
“…’Came to this world’?”
Obscue looked at the Black Merchant with eyes filled with complete confusion.
The black merchant smiled and answered.
“Incarnations are not singled out in this world to bear the spirit of the Great One.”
“..You mean you came from another world?”
“Yes.”
Obscure stumbled slightly.
It wasn’t because the wind was strong.
“….This is crazy.”
So much information suddenly came to him, shaking his mind.
“…….”
Black Merchant chose to wait for the observance to temporarily organize information.
“…Continue.”
After finally finishing organizing, Obscure clenched his teeth and gave an order.
Black Merchant willingly complied with the order.
“One in Korea.”
“..Okay. In Korea…What?”
Obscure raised his eyes again.
“…What did you say?”
“I said, ‘There is one in Korea.'”
Obscue’s hands were shaking.
[Humanity recovery: 5%]
The anxiety that flowed from within him due to the restoration of part of his humanity began to shake him.
“Hmm. I guess you didn’t notice. Well… Well.”
The Black Merchant raises his eyes.
I looked at you.
” It was enough to fool even the ‘watchers’. It is an amazing incarnation in many ways.”
“..Who are you?”
Black Merchant, who was playful in response to Obscure’s question, smiled and said.
“Strangely enough, the Obscure incarnation wasn’t that interested in the incarnation’s past. Watchers weren’t even curious about it. It deserved to come up as a comment.”
“…Shut up. Tell me who it is.”
“She is a being related to the master-slave contract made by Master Hwashin. She also mainly used her contract. Wasn’t she strange? She had such great power that a single villain could possess it. That there was one?”
“…This is your final warning. Just answer the questions.”
The Black Merchant grinned and continued his explanation.
“She was an incarnation that was active in Northern Europe. At that time, there were three incarnations in Northern Europe, including her. She was a strong incarnation that could overpower two incarnations alone. But no! She was “In a transaction with me, I purchased the ‘Contract’, an ability that guarantees my life, and headed to Korea as advised by the ‘tooltip’ in order to survive.”
“Shut up!!!”
Obscue rushed forward and grabbed the Black Merchant by the neck.
“Tell me! Who is it?”
Obscue’s shout contained an earnestness that I didn’t know why.
“She was called ‘Odin.'”
Obscue was slightly relieved.
But the Black Merchant is cruel.
He shattered that relief with a smile.
“But now it’s probably called ‘Crow’, after her two crows.”
My sense of relief is shattered.
Cruel reality hit Obscure like a wave.
“…Ah!”
Black Merchant delivered new news to Obscure, who was gradually retreating.
“Currently, the number of incarnation bodies in China has increased by two. The energy has disappeared in Korea.”
“…What?”
From Noble mtl dot com
“Probably.”
The Black Merchant said with a grin.
“This will be the real beginning. Obscure incarnate.”
————
“..Cough.”
The king vomited dark red blood and glared at the woman standing in front of him.
The severed leg could no longer support him, and the torn wrist caused him to lose the will to fight.
“Who the hell are you… Are you…”
In response to his question, the woman looked at him with an expressionless face.
“…Nothing to know.”
The woman swung her spear.
The man’s head flew through the air.
Like wings sprouting.
Spattering red blood.
It flew into the air.
“You have to do it gently, Xiao. There shouldn’t be a corpse left to talk to.”
Behind the woman called Xiao, a woman walked with her two crows on her shoulders.
“No matter how much I want revenge, just be patient for now. I’ll get it done quickly.”
“…Okay.”
As soon as the woman finished speaking.
Thud.
Useojeok.
The corpse with its head cut off suddenly stood up.
“Oh my. You’ve finally arrived.”
He lifted her severed head and placed it back where it had been cut off.
“What brought you to my country?”
I opened my mouth.
“Why are you waiting?”
As always.
Crow said with a leisurely smile.
“Now it’s time to get back to work. The end is almost here.”
Crow pulled out a black staff.
——–
“Ha…hahahaha….hahahaha!!!”
Obscue burst out laughing.
“Yes. This is something that wasn’t shown in the original work. For some reason, Crow’s whereabouts have been unclear since then. He wasn’t dead.”
Obs Q raised his head again.
The eyes looking at the black merchant were full of desire.
“This is the last question.”
To survive.
“Where is the church’s headquarters?”
A very earnest desire.
-Next chapter: The Avatar War.