The Magician’s Memorial - Chapter 39



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Episode 39

The pressure is gone.

Quilbian rolled on the floor and looked around. Geron’s tail, which had been squeezing his body, was neatly cut off and lying around.

Boom!

The wall came crashing down. Geron had thrown himself out of the house.

What the hell is going on?

A cold light fell through the ceiling, and Geron’s tail was cut off. Quilbian raised his head.

The sky was bright blue. There was a huge hole in the ceiling.

I turned my gaze to the gurgling sound. Drich was coughing repeatedly as if he had come to his senses.

Quilbian braced his arms. He couldn’t feel the Nak wrapped around the rope.

If it’s now.

As I twisted my wrists hard, a gap appeared between the ropes. The magic that bound my body did not activate.

With his free hand, he also untied the rope around his ankle.

“Noble One! I have now come to know the karma!”

Geron’s voice was heard.

Quilbian hurried to Drich.

“Hey, hey!”

He slapped Drich’s cheek several times as he stared at him intently.

“If you don’t want to get hurt, get up quickly.”

Then Drich turned around in horror.

“Father, I’m sorry! I really didn’t want to kill you. I really do. Do you know how much I respect you?”

Here he goes again, talking nonsense.

Did he go completely crazy because his memories came back like Lil said?

He grabbed her by the collar and shook her. Her eyes, which were empty and helpless, showed no intention of coming back. She continued to look only for her father.

Kwaaang!

There was a loud noise outside. It sounded like thunder crashing down from the ground.

He flinched and shrugged. If he stays here, he will surely die.

“You really… … .”

Quillbian was speechless. Drich was peeing.

“It does all sorts of things.”

I made a vow. I came up with a magic spell that could be used without a talisman.

‘A drink that moves fairly heavy objects’

It was a magic spell written in the Sitpin Hwang Hyung magic spell book. I don’t know how heavy it is or if it treats people as objects, but I gave it a try.

The Nak that had escaped from his fingertips wrapped around Drih. Mana could be seen gathering around him.

He grabbed Drich’s wrist, which was lying flat on the ground, and pulled it.

It was so dirty and heavy.

The magic was successfully activated, but it had no effect. Is it because it doesn’t work on humans?

I looked at Drich.

Even if it was a brainwashed life, how could someone you’ve been friends with for years betray you so easily?

He said he understood, but he didn’t forgive.

Can you treat this kind of trash as a human being?

Thinking that way, Drich’s body felt quite light.

“Just do as you please, just like that.”

Altera said that magic was systematic, but it wasn’t at all.

Now that I think about it, the ‘art of hanging pictures in the air’ was also funny. Just scribbling a few doodles on a talisman turned it into a picture.

I learned a little more about what sorcery is.

It wasn’t what I saw that mattered, but how I perceived it.

It was a funny power.

I dragged Drich out of the house.

Neither Geron nor the unidentified thing that had drilled a hole in the ceiling was visible.

Where did it go?

I need to get as far away from them as possible.

Quilbian, who had been wandering around, looked east.

There is something.

There is something ominous there that is hard to describe in words.

There was no need to think long. Quilbian pulled Drich along and headed west.

I have to get away from here.

“Eww! Don’t come! Father, please!”

Drich struggled.

It’s already a hassle to drag him around, and now you’re making him sick, Quilbian grabbed Drih’s head with both hands.

“Look me in the eye and tell me. Do you want to live? Or do you just want to die? I’ll give you what you want.”

Drich’s eyes, which had been wandering without focus, were fixed on the center.

“Yes, I want to live.”

“Then walk.”

“But there, father is holding a knife and… … .”

“You idiot! You stabbed me first? Let’s just hit each other in a friendly manner.”

He untied the tightly wound rope and told Drich, who was sitting, to stand up quickly.

“I don’t have any strength in my legs.”

“This is fucking crazy, really.”

“Quil! Don’t leave me. You really shouldn’t leave me. Over there, Father is staring at me. If you leave, he’ll stab me right away.”

Drich grabbed Quilbian’s ankle and pleaded.

A long sigh came out.

“I’ll support you, so walk as far as you can.”

I lent him my shoulder. Drich, who had leaned against me, groaned as he walked. Thanks to the magic, he had no trouble moving.

Drich flinched and looked back every few steps, as if he could still see his father.

“If you’re shaking so much, why did you stab me?”

A light flashed in the distance. At the same time, a sharp wind blew and scratched my back.

My body swayed and I fell forward. A typhoon swept through the space where there had been no wind.

“Save me, save me!”

Drich, who was lying face down, flailed his arms and legs and shouted. Drich’s body was gradually rising.

Quilbian grabbed the tree roots with his left hand and grabbed Drich’s collar with his right.

“Quil! Don’t let go, don’t ever let go!”

“I won’t let you go, so shut your mouth!”

Swish!

It was a wind that spread across the ground. The strength gradually drained from the hand that was holding the root.

My body is shaking.

This was not a wind that could be endured.

“Catch anything!”

“There’s nothing to catch!”

There was a bitter taste in my mouth. My gums felt like they were crushed.

The tree roots rose upward with an ominous sound.

Quilbian looked back and forth between Drich and Root. If he let go of Drich, he could hold on.

If you lie face down and grab the root with both hands… … .

“Eww! Dad! Don’t come here, don’t come here, damn it!”

It was Drich who was shouting with a grin.

Quilbian cursed inwardly and clenched his right hand.

Tick, one of the nails on my left hand that was holding the root broke off and flew away. A dizzying pain hit my head.

no.

When I was sure I couldn’t hold out any longer, the wind stopped. The fierce gale that had been raging disappeared as if it were a lie.

Drich’s body, fluttering like laundry, fell to the floor.

Thud, Drich groaned as he rolled over.

Quilbian bit his broken fingernail, which was bleeding, into his mouth. When the saliva touched it, he felt a dizzying pain that made his eyes turn white.

He spat out the remaining blood in his mouth.

I wanted to wrap the wound with a cloth, but I didn’t have the luxury of that.

“Get up. If you stay here, you’ll all die.”

Now it was Drich who stood up, wondering if he could stand on his own two feet.

“Your father? Can you still see him?”

“No. It’s gone.”

“That’s fortunate.”

Drich looked at his tattered clothes. That’s where Quilbian had been holding them.

“……Sorry.”

“That’s one of the things I don’t believe. Sorry, I’ve been fooled by that a few times.”

“I’m serious.”

“The truth is, I’m going to freeze to death. Okay, let’s go quickly. You and I both have to live first.”

Drich suddenly burst into tears.

“I’ll really explain everything. Why I did that. I finally understand. How much you mean to me, and what a friend is… .”

Quilbian didn’t hear the end of Drich’s words.

“Drich!”

This is because a dizzying sensation of the ground beneath my feet suddenly disappearing passed through my head.

But faster than the words, a black harpoon flew in.

Phew!

The harpoon pierced Drich’s head exactly. Drich’s body, which was stuck in the ground along with the harpoon, shook miserably.

Drich’s mouth opened halfway and then fell silent.

Quilbian immediately flew away.

A harpoon was stuck right where I was standing.

I couldn’t even tell where it was coming from. I just moved my body to avoid the ominous feeling.

That was when I dodged the third harpoon.

“It was you.”

A crushed face. The mucus flowing from all over his body gathered into a single hand and transformed into a black harpoon.

Dohanna, the ascetic. Like Geron, she was a goblin who acted independently.

“I was wondering if you were here because the smell was fading, but I’m so glad to see you again.”

A line appeared on Dohanna’s flat face. The line curved beautifully. It was a smile.

At the same time, Dohanna’s hand moved.

Phew!

Quillvian looked at the harpoon embedded in his shoulder. He expected an attack, but his body did not move.

A speed that can never be kept up with.

“It’s okay, it won’t hurt.”

As Dohanna said, there was a hole in my shoulder, but there was no pain. Instead, a warm energy came out and the tension was relieved.

“You are a very precious material. Even the smell of Nak is different. Geron, that guy must have stolen you. Hehe, you really are greedy.”

A sticky hand touched my body.

I was overcome with drowsiness. It felt like there was a stone hanging from the tip of my eyelashes. My eyes were slowly closing.

“When you wake up, everything will be sorted out. Don’t worry. I’ll just cut off a little bit of the leg. Oh! I’ll have to cover the mouth too.”

Is this an inescapable hell?

The body fell sideways.

What came into my blurry vision was Drich, dead and bleeding profusely.

Why did you struggle so much?

Lil, who survived by sacrificing humans for four years, died, and Drich, who tried to survive by selling his friend, also died.

I will become like that too.

Wouldn’t it be better to die in an instant like that guy without feeling anything?

“Quil.”

Someone’s voice was heard.

It’s a voice I’ve heard many times.

Maybe it was because my head was dizzy, but I couldn’t remember who the voice was.

“Quil, just wait a minute. It’s almost over.”

ah.

I remembered.

Quillvin lifted his eyelids with difficulty.

Twella was right in front of me.

She was slightly floating off the ground, holding an ugly object in her hand.

It took me quite a while to realize that it was Geron’s head.

“… … Twella.”

“say.”

“Run away.”

It was the answer given by a brain that couldn’t sort out the incident.

After speaking, the world turned black.

I hope Twella runs away.

Quilbian begged and begged.

*

I had a very long dream.

I spent so much time in there that everything became meaningless.

An endless gray landscape.

And, and… … .

Quilbian opened his eyes. He saw leaves rustling. He stared at the leaves for a moment, then took a deep breath and straightened up.

“Twella!”

“why?”

I was rather surprised by the candid answer.

Twella was right next to me. She was leaning against the tree with her eyes closed, looking as peaceful as if she were out on a day trip.

Is this a dream?

The word dream made my head spin.

I feel like I had a long dream, but I can’t remember. No. Can you dream within a dream?

I was completely out of my mind.

“It’s not a dream.”

Twella said as if he had read my mind.

Quilbian looked around, holding his dazed head.

Neither Drich’s body nor the tree that had fallen in the strong winds were visible.

“That goblin… … .”

Twella stood up from her seat with a faint smile on her face.

“Let’s go. I’ll tell you as we go.”

A slender hand approached.

Quilbian stared blankly at his hand and then lightly squeezed it.

(Continued in next episode)