The Magician’s Memorial - Chapter 34



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Episode 34

“I knew it. That’s not a person.”

Drich took the lead with his hammer.

“Quil! Get your mind right. If we don’t kill those two, we’re all dead. You wanted to see Twella, right?”

Quilbian slightly crumpled the talisman he held in his right hand.

It got to the point where it couldn’t be resolved through dialogue. Lil confessed. That she had killed the children she had brought in four years ago.

“Don’t look at me like that. I’m not a maniac who enjoys killing. It was an unavoidable sacrifice.”

It was a cold tone. It was even more chilling because it seemed like he was telling the truth and not making excuses.

“People are not pigs. If you kill them and call it a sacrifice… … .”

“You don’t know anything!”

Lil screamed, his calm face cracking.

“I didn’t kill them because I wanted to kill them. I also wanted to protect them until the end. But look at this situation. Look here!”

It was Reel who scanned the surroundings with twitching eyes.

“There is no way out. It is a completely closed world. Does it mean that it is alive just because it is breathing? No, it is a curse. I have lifted the curse that those children will experience.”

“Quil, if you’re going to keep listening to that fucking nonsense, listen to it alone. I can’t listen to it anymore.”

Even though he said that, Drich took a half step back. The momentum that seemed like he would rush in at any moment had disappeared.

The Drich I knew would have just rushed at me without saying a word, but Quilbian glanced at Drich.

Something changed in me after I remembered that I had been betrayed by my father. It was a subtle change that was hard to explain.

“Drich.”

“why?”

“Calm down.”

The one who rushes in excitedly always ends up losing. At least in alley fights, that’s the case.

Besides, the opponent was a goblin. Even if you learned magic, would you really be able to fight that monster?

The fear that I had tried to ignore spread along my spine. Geron’s tail was spread out stiffly. If I were to be swept by it, my soft flesh would be neatly split in two.

“Then tell me. What are you planning to do?”

Lil stepped forward, gently pressing his shoulder.

“Geron told me. You both have talent. That hammer in your hand, did you create it with magic?”

Lil pointed to the black hammer. Drich glanced at it and then shook Nak’s hand.

The black hammer is gone.

“It could be a strategy to exhaust our Nak.”

Drich whispered. Drich could only keep the hammer for four minutes. Considering the speed of Nak’s recovery, it was a waste to keep the hammer summoned throughout the conversation.

“You aim for the head depending on the situation. I’ll get the attention.”

Even while talking to Drich, Lil kept talking endlessly.

“The power of an individual is weak. You can’t escape this place with that kind of magical power. But even in despair, hope can be born.”

Lil took a step forward. As he got closer, Quilbian took a step back.

“Goblin. Yes, they are horrible and scary creatures. But not all of them are like that. They are just like humans. While some commit crimes against nature, there are also those who sacrifice themselves to save others, right? Right?”

“Geron is different?”

Lil turned his head and looked at Geron. His eyes were filled with trust. Lil seemed to understand and accept everything about Geron.

Well, then you must be turning your back on the goblin.

“Geron is not completely good. But he is close to good. He also wants to get out of here.”

“What about the children?”

“… … I had no choice but to increase and build up my magical power. But listen!”

Lil’s expression gradually brightened. He walked towards her without hesitation, as if he was approaching a friend.

“Hey, don’t come any closer!”

Drich shouted. Lille put her hands out in front of her as if to show understanding and told her to calm down.

“Children. Yes, those children. Children I cherished and cared for. Thinking about them makes me really sad. But, they are gone in peace. They are finally free from this place of despair.”

“When you slaughter a pig outside, you don’t make excuses. You slaughter it because you need the meat. Sister, just tell me this.”

Quilbian continued speaking, looking back and forth between Lil and Geron.

“You killed the kids because you wanted to live, right?”

Lil screamed, almost screaming.

“Dalla! You saw it too? How much the kids followed Geron.”

I saw it. Children laughing brightly while looking at monsters. It wasn’t an intimacy that was formed overnight.

“They escaped hell and found peace here. They have been smiling again for the past two months under the care of me and Geron.”

“Why?”

“what?”

“Why did you do that? After all, you killed the kids. No, before that, let me ask you one more thing. How many people were in that house? Huh?”

As the conversation continued, the stench grew worse.

Lil’s words were smooth, but there was rotten stuff stuck between the words. The words of the owner, who was kicking and spitting out curses, were cleaner.

The owner at least knew what he was doing. He didn’t cry out for justice or say it was for your happiness.

“It won’t work, you guys.”

Lil’s face, which had been turning affectionate, suddenly cooled down.

“Yes. It was my greed to want you to understand. But don’t worry. ‘We’ will definitely survive.”

As soon as Reel’s lips closed.

“damage!”

Quilbian sensed the change in Geron’s Nak.

A dizzying sensation as if an awl is hanging before your eyes.

He pulled back as he shouted.

Kkwaduk!

The tail that had suddenly flown in pierced the ground. I could see the dirt floor being dug deep.

“Haa, haa, haa.”

I turned my head at the sound of heavy breathing.

Drich, holding a hammer in his hand, was looking at Geron with blank eyes.

“Drich!”

It was an opportunity. Now that the four tails were stuck in the ground, it was time to approach.

Nak moved according to his will.

He used the ‘sticky floor liquor’ while tying the knot. It was when the amulet that had left his hand rustled and fell to Geron’s feet.

Chijik.

The amulet burned with a yellow light. The Nak inside it also scattered.

Mana, who was supposed to move with Nak, didn’t even move an inch.

uh?

Quilbian’s head hardened.

It was a magic that had been practiced countless times in Altera’s room.

The way of tying the knot, the way of throwing the talisman, the format of inducing the phenomenon.

It was a magic that could be used so many times that you could do it with your eyes closed… … .

The magic was broken before I could even enter the phenomenon induction. Was there a problem with the mediator’s talisman? Or did Geron do something?

Than that.

Can we win this fight? No, is this fight even worth fighting?

A yellow goblin.

I believed that I could handle it easily. Since I had similar amount of Nak, I thought I would have a chance if I just matched my magic.

It’s out of sync.

It was wrong from the start.

Practicing magic and using magic in combat are two entirely different things.

Altera killed the yellow goblin by snapping the wrist of a child. Seeing that gave me hope.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Altera didn’t teach us to fight… … .

The swirling thoughts suddenly stopped.

I felt Nak move again. A tingling sensation on the back of my neck.

I gave up on seeing things with my eyes and relied on my intuition.

I threw myself to the left.

Charararak!

The tail swept across the spot where I had just stood. The thorns embedded in the tail made a loud noise.

It seemed impossible to see it with my eyes and avoid it. Ah, because the moment I said that, it was already right in front of me.

I had to read the Nak that moved according to the enemy’s intention.

But will miracles happen one after another?

“Drich! Move!”

If we stick together, we’ll be defeated in an instant. Drich moved in the opposite direction.

Geron’s head turned leisurely, and then his face split into two.

The split heads looked at Quilbian and Drich respectively.

“Geron!”

Lil shouted. Geron said, “Okay,” and then moved.

Plague.

Geron’s body moved towards this side. Quilbian grabbed the talisman again and made a seal.

Sitpin Hwang-hyung’s magic.

‘A drink where cats cry everywhere’

As he was throwing the talisman into the air, the talisman caught fire again and the magic was interrupted.

Geron’s third tail. The faint Nak flowing out from there touched the amulet, that’s all.

That alone broke the spell.

The moment he realized that the twenty magic spells that had been piled up in his head were useless, Quilbian pulled out his wooden dagger.

once.

Although he would collapse from exhaustion after using it, the power of the powerful Dharma tool would be enough to kill Geron.

If even this is stopped like a talisman… … .

“Just give up. You can’t die yet. If you overdo it and get hurt, it’ll be a huge loss for us.”

“Reel said from a little distance away.

Only then did Quilbian realize.

If Geron had wanted to, he would have died long ago. He didn’t attack him fatally because there was a reason to keep him alive.

That’s right.

Quilbian looked at Geron’s torn face. Although he was a monster wearing human skin, his eyes spoke volumes as if he were human.

I guess it’s a similar animal.

Geron was calm. His eyes were completely oblivious to any sense of crisis. They were the gazes of a seasoned hunter on a boring hunt.

The monster knew.

How incompetent the two people in front of me are.

That’s why I was completely off guard.

Quilbian aimed his dagger at Geron.

Even after checking the newly taken out weapon, Geron’s steps were unstoppable.

As expected, I believe it.

There’s no way he’d be defeated by a helpless human.

“Now is the time!”

He shouted to Drich from afar.

The promised situation.

If you attack Geron using the Dharma tool, Drich will attack from behind.

Quilbian looked at Drich. Their eyes met. His friend, who was about 6 meters away, was half-turned.

The mouth that had been filled with countless expressions of friendship and loyalty was strangely twisted.

The guy was scared.

That’s why it was chosen.

To run away.

In a short moment, all sorts of thoughts crossed my mind.

A sense of betrayal hit me first, but soon it gave way to a hollow laugh.

“Yeah, fuck. Your life is the most important thing.”

Quilbian looked at Geron and moved the Nak. The dagger mercilessly absorbed the Nak.

Quilbian bared his teeth as he looked at Geron’s expressionless face.

“You can’t read Nak properly, can you?”

Geron stood still.

But it was already within range.

I can feel it. The dagger, full of Nak, is about to vomit everything out.

Clang! Clang!

The tip of the wooden dagger split, creating hundreds of branches.

Done!

The powerful magic that destroyed Altera’s room swept through Geron’s body.

and.

Tick ​​tock, tick tock.

The dagger’s stems flew out with a dull sound. One of the tails wrapped around Geron’s body, but it failed to cut it off.

The strength left my grasp.

Geron slowly approached and thrust his split face into hers.

“Why should I read Nak?”

The split mouth let out a strange sound as Quillvian quickly moved his hands to his waist.

“Ahhhh!”

My palm was pierced. A long thorn was stuck into my palm.

The strength left my body with a burning pain.

I collapse. I wanted to hold on to my senses, but there was no way. Even the pain was fading away.

Bam.

What caught Quilbian’s eye as he lay on the ground was Geron flying up, kicking the ground.

Asrai Drich’s scream was heard.

“… …Why didn’t you just rush in?”

Through the slowly closing vision, Reel’s feet were visible.

“Don’t worry. It won’t be painful. I really care about you and love you… … .”

The sound becomes muffled.

Quillvian slowly closed his eyes.

(Continued in next episode)