The Berserker’s Second Playthrough in the Game - Chapter 38



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Episode 38. Wizard Hunt (4)

Even if it was a monster whose mind was under control, it knew that its life was in danger. It was obvious what would happen if the battle continued like this.

– Kieek, kieeeeek!

– Wow!

The group of monsters all retreated toward the rocky mountain. As soon as the entrance to the fortress opened, he rushed to push his body in. Even though the entrance was restored and closed, there was no sign of it stopping. In the end, one slow-footed goblin got stuck in a rock crevice and was crushed to death.

– Jjii!

“… … .”

Kadim slowly relaxed.

After going on a rampage once, my blood was fading away. He knew the fortress’ password anyway, so there was no need to rush. After retrieving his weapon and recharging his buff again, he decided to enter the underground fortress.

I took out the vial containing the original demon’s blood. I thought it would be corrupted and less effective, but the ‘agility boost’ buff worked just as well as when I first got it. No, maybe my body had grown through the successive battles, and I was able to display this level of ability even with a weak buff.

There was only one piece of original demon blood left. I endured the disgusting fishy smell and rotten taste and chewed it. Feeling my nerves racing again, I approached the entrance of the fortress.

But when I got to the front, I couldn’t help but be embarrassed.

“Orgo, Al, Meserik.”

“Orgo, Al, Meserik.”

“… … Go up, Al, Messeric.”

Even though I said the correct password, the door didn’t open.

Kadim frowned. His memory couldn’t have been wrong. It had been 300 years since he had been here, but Kadim felt like only a few years had passed.

‘What? Did you change the password?’

The group that previously resided here was a group of ignorant bandits, so they couldn’t touch anything. But not now. The opponent was a magician. They might be able to arbitrarily manipulate the magic code at the entrance.

But after thinking about it carefully, it didn’t seem like a big deal. Kadim always knew another password that guaranteed a sure solution to a problem.

‘The troll’s hammer… was there.’

The troll who had his head smashed by an axe and died in battle, dragged the mace that he had used. The mace head alone was a giant that weighed over tens of kilograms, but his brute strength, amplified by the demon’s blood, made it easy to handle even that.

――― Boom! bang! bang!

As I struck the hammer with all my might repeatedly, vibrations and a loud noise erupted… …

――― Boom! bang! bang!

Even without any magical measures, cracks slowly appeared in the rock… …

――― Boom! Quagwa, quarrrrrr!

… … In the end, it was shattered to pieces, revealing the hidden entrance to the fortress.

‘Yes, there is no password as certain as this.’

Kadim smiled crookedly and threw the club on the floor. At the entrance, the remnants of goblins that had died earlier stuck in the cracks were hanging like spider webs. I threw away my sword and entered the dark passage.

All problems can be solved through strength. If there is a problem that cannot be solved through strength, it means that strength is not enough. It was a simple and useful common sense that I learned in the first session.

Now it was time to teach the wizard this common sense.

*

“Damn, damn, damn!! Damn it, what on earth is that bastard!!!”

Ymir Demil, Remtana’s aide, high-ranking mage of the Mage Tower, and master of mind control magic, was running wild with unusual excitement. His pale skin turned red, and his sad eyes behind his glasses were wrinkled with anger.

Through reconnaissance, I found out that the savage was the main culprit in killing the trolls in Twin Canyon. I also found out that he was working with the inspector. I was just waiting for a chance to take him out secretly, and I was delighted to see that he had come here on his own. When I released the monsters I had prepared in advance, I expected that he would die without even being able to pick up a bone.

But the prediction was off by a huge margin.

It wasn’t even a close fight. The monsters sent out could not even inflict a single wound on the barbarians and were mercilessly slaughtered. It was enough to sweep a small city in one night! When I saw that all the candles in the closet had gone out, I couldn’t help but sigh.

The barbarians even broke into the fortress by smashing the rocks with force. He no longer looked like a person in Ymir’s eyes. Rather, he seemed closer to heavenly punishment or natural disaster disguised as a human being.

‘Damn it, you wouldn’t have picked up a monster like that off the street… … Looks like the councilor ended up asking the council for help. Those sons of bitches, they boasted to our faces that the only shield that could protect the alliance was the Magic Tower, but behind our backs, they were raising such ridiculous troops… … .’

Kadim’s power was too overwhelming for a single person to belong to any force, so Ymir mistakenly believed that he was a secret weapon hidden by the Delutana Council.

The guess was wrong, but the goal was still right. The monsters were destroyed and her own head was taken. Accordingly, what Ymir had to do became clear.

‘If the existence of this place is revealed, the position of the Magic Tower will be extremely difficult. We must kill that guy and silence him somehow. Even if it means using all the monsters locked underground… … .’

Fortunately, this fortress was a great place to exterminate invaders.

The passages were dark and intricately tangled like ant holes, so a first-timer would never know where to go and what to expect. If you wander aimlessly, you’re likely to end up in a dead end. There were also traps and hidden passages everywhere. If you surrounded, surprised, lured into traps, and launched a barrage of material, no matter how excellent the warriors were, they wouldn’t be able to withstand it.

“[Lerrian, En, Sadien, Gordos… …]”

I concentrated my mind and recited the spell. The candles in the closet flickered, a tightness rose in my chest, and my mind connected with the monsters trapped underground. Ymir called all the remaining monsters here.

– Sizzle, sizzle… … .

– Crrrrr… … .

– Guk, guk… … .

Ratmen with rat heads, blade wolves with glowing blue eyes, and bear owls with their collars erect… … Monsters with sharp night vision and nimble bodies climbed up the steep stairs. It was an army that could easily kill any enemy, no matter how strong or fast they were.

Ymir confidently released the monsters into the fortress.

And once again we were faced with a completely unexpected result.

“… … hmm?”

As soon as they were deployed, the monsters began to be destroyed individually.

The savage wolves that charged in front were cut apart, and the bear owls that dug in to the side were cut to pieces. The Ratmen who tried to ambush them through a secret passage were later ambushed through another secret passage. The connected minds were cut off in bunches, and the candles in the closet were extinguished as if standing in front of a storm.

The barbarian skillfully avoided traps and slaughtered monsters by moving through secret passages. Then he went to each of the fortress’ key strongholds and stirred them up like a beehive.

As if… …there was a map of this fortress in my head.

“Heh, heh heh, heh heh heh… … .”

Yumir let out a blank laugh at the unbelievable reality.

*

The mosquito’s sword body was submerged in the rat man’s abdominal cavity. The vampire sword greedily swallowed blood and healed its owner’s wounds. The pain in the muscles that had been overworked had somewhat subsided. Even minor skin scratches from claws or teeth disappeared.

Kadim silently wiped the blood off his sword and pulled out the axe embedded in the rat’s forehead. Then he entered the room in front of him.

What you see is chunks of rotten meat piled up like manure.

There were some parts that had turned dark and some that still had a bright red tint. There was a familiar smell mixed in with the terrible stench. Kadim furrowed his brows faintly. He approached and examined the pieces of meat.

It was mixed. Between the pieces of meat.

Long hair and fingers, torn clothes and browned facial skin, blunt teeth and bone fragments, distorted ear pins and earrings.

“… … .”

No matter how few people were killed, it seemed like dozens of people were killed. From long ago until not long ago, when the body was rotting away. I thought that the secretary who was said to have disappeared after leaving the letter was probably here somewhere.

‘I thought they only collected monsters, but why did they kill humans? Experiment material? ‘A magic offering?’

When a wizard used powerful magic beyond his or her abilities, he or she would draw a magic circle and offer a sacrifice. However, Kadim has never seen a case of ‘human’ sacrifice until now. Strengthening mana by sacrificing one’s life is never the way of ‘spirits’.

This method of offering a living sacrifice is not a ‘spirit’ but something similar… …

“… … !”

There was no time to lose himself in thought. As soon as he felt movement behind his back, Kadim immediately threw down his axe.

Parararararararack – !

Pur – Wow!

“Huh!”

Ymir Demil was startled and took a deep breath.

Although blood and brain matter were splattered on his face, he barely escaped being torn apart by the razor-sharp ax blade. Thanks to setting up a bear owl as a meat shield in advance. Kadim tsk, clicked his tongue. If possible, the magician must be subdued before he opens his mouth.

– Goo, goo, goo… … .

– Goooooong… … .

Beyond the flock of owls that came rushing in again, the figure of a wizard was visible. He was wearing thick glasses, a red robe, and a bundle of chains on his shoulders. He looked ordinary, but he had a strange smell. He was different from the wizards of 300 years ago, but something was definitely different.

It seemed that he had come in person because he couldn’t fight against the monsters alone. The wizard wiped the blood from his face and became angry.

“How rude of you, you punk! You attack me before I’ve even finished speaking!”

“I didn’t intend to kill you. I just wanted to blow off your lower jaw so you couldn’t open your mouth.”

“… … .”

The angry gaze returned. Kadim gently grasped the handle of the dagger and then released it again. Since the ax missed, I thought about throwing the dagger, but when I thought about it, it seemed like it would be difficult to have a productive conversation with someone who was being roasted in hellfire.

The wizard barely managed to control his emotions. He wiped his glasses, straightened his clothes, and continued speaking calmly.

“As you may already know, I am Ymir Demil, Remtana’s aide and a Conjurer of the Tower of Magic. What is your name, Savage?”

“… … .”

“… … You’re not going to tell me? Well, it doesn’t matter. Anyway… … I think you and I both have a lot to say and a lot to ask each other. So how about this? We take turns asking each other one thing and answering one thing. And when we’re asked questions, you swear to Remillion that you’ll tell him the truth.”

“refuse. “Rather than that, it would be better if I cut out your tongue and then ask only me questions.”

The buff given by the demon’s blood was wearing off by the minute. There was no reason to engage in a time-wasting trick. Kadim raised his mosquito and charged fiercely.

“Hey, hey, shit! Stop it!”

– Gooosh!

– Guuuuung!

The owls stood in front, their collars puffed out. They were notorious for their excellent eyesight and brute strength, but they had already proven that they were no match for the savages.

Kwa-jik!

– Guwaek!

Kadim rushed forward and pierced the owl’s eye socket with all his inertia. A single scream broke out, and the ruptured sclera of the eyeball came out through a hole in the back of the head. In the meantime, the guy who was digging into his side raised his chest with his elbow. His stone-like pecs were dented and even his ribs were crushed.

– Gooooosh!

– Guwok, guwok!

He ducked to the lower left to avoid the sharp claws, then swung his sword and pierced the abdomen of the creature before rushing forward. The owls standing behind him also fell down one after another, pushed by the weight. He pushed away the body of the creature in front and swung his blade like a whirlwind, cutting off the necks of the fallen creatures. The thick neck muscles split like tofu and the abundant collar was soaked in red.

“[Mensai, Elpirio, En, Sadion, Gordos… … .]”

A wizard could be seen reciting a spell from afar. Even if it made productive conversation difficult, I had to stop it. Kadim stepped on the bear owl’s shoulder, jumped up acrobatically, and threw the dagger.

However, the chain on the wizard’s shoulder was loosened and the flame projectile was deflected.

Whoosh, whoosh!

Kadim clicked his tongue. Damn, that chain, was it a magic tool? Ymir looked surprised for a moment at the sight of the fire, but soon smiled triumphantly and finished the spell.

“[… … Rondone, Olticiaren!]”

A dark afterglow bloomed along his fingertips. It billowed like smoke rising from a chimney and rushed across the owls toward Kadim.

But Kadim didn’t bother to avoid it. Now that I know what that magic really is. I just let it dwell in the flesh.

Slurp, gurgle, hooray… … .

As expected, it didn’t last long.

The afterimage, which swelled and flowed backwards with a frightening roar, soon disappeared into the air like the morning fog. The magic had no effect on Kadim, not even a little.

Ymir opened her eyes wide and trembled.

“What, why… … ? How can I not hear the mind control magic at all… … .”

“… … .”

Kadim curled the corners of his mouth.

That’s because I now have the ‘mental attack immunity’ buff.

He threw away the empty vial containing the blood of the Ice Demon and ran towards the wizard again.