The Magician’s Memorial - Chapter 75



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Episode 75

“How many?”

Winte furrowed his eyebrows and said.

“There were five of them that I met a long time ago. One of them would be Cheryl.”

“There are five of those monsters? This is driving me crazy.”

“We still don’t know if there are five of them. They may have eaten them to increase their status. Also, goblins born in other realms may have realized their karma, formed a form, and reached the same position as them. There are many variables.”

“You’re at peace. If those damn things come over, it’ll all be over.”

“Change is not the end. I told you. Their karma is to be incorporated into the world. To sneak in and take over. After you are replaced, the world will go back to normal. Maybe it won’t be much different from now. The top predator will just change.”

“Once we’re all dead, it’ll be Winte’s turn. He’ll even chew on your fingernails. Is that okay?”

“Death. That’s not so bad either.”

It didn’t seem like a joke. When the time came for Winte to die, he would really give up his body.

Maybe he’ll just sit back and watch what death is like, and then chuckle as it enters Cheryl’s mouth.

It was foolish to discuss human history with a being that viewed humans as insects.

“But you’re not going to just let it go, are you?”

“If you need my help, I will help you. Of course, only indirectly. Passing on my knowledge to you now is part of that. I like things to be fair.”

“How about you try it yourself? That would be more exciting.”

“Do you really want that? I can do it if you want. If I, who is down there, move, something very interesting will happen to you.”

As soon as Winte finished speaking, his sixth sense screamed. It was a sense of crisis and alertness he had never experienced before.

I felt like all the moisture in my body was drying up. It was incomparable to the despair I felt when I first met Cheryl.

That’s literally the end.

An overwhelming end that you can’t imagine what will happen next.

Quillbian said with a rotten smile.

“Never, ever move. We’ll figure it out on our own.”

“It’s a wise choice.”

“Winte, you are truly a monster beyond imagination.”

“That’s right. That’s how I was designed. If you want to blame someone, blame God.”

“The designer is really thoughtless. He gives you such ridiculous power and just sits there and carries the burden.”

“It’s not that there is no restraint. There is a power to control me. And even if I turn the world upside down, the ability to reset it is also given to that friend.”

friend?

Oh, by the way, you said there was one person.

“You said dragons are unique, right?”

“Existing alone. As far as I know.”

“Then that guy isn’t a dragon.”

“yes.”

“You’re not even human. You’re treated like an insect.”

“I didn’t look down on you guys that much, I just used the analogy of a bug. We can communicate, after all.”

“Well, let’s say that’s true. Who is that friend?”

Winte shrugged as if he already knew everything.

“If you’re thinking of asking that guy for help, you’d better give up. He’s even more boring than me. Of course… … he might change if he meets someone.”

Asking him more about ‘friend’ didn’t seem like it would answer his question.

Quillvin scratched his head.

“As for me, I don’t have many wishes.”

“I know, your personality. If you were greedy, you wouldn’t have been so quiet when you were sold.”

“Yes. I’m the type that adapts well. I’m good at pleasing others. Smiling cowardly? I’m better at it than anyone else. That’s why I still only think about one thing.”

Quillvian looked up at the darkened sky.

“When will those monsters, including Cheryl, invade?”

“I don’t know.”

“Not right now, of course. If it were possible, those lunatics would have run wild outside the realm of the two-faced. You can tell by the look in their eyes. They’re hungry.”

As Winte said, erosion will occur.

A spell that draws humans into the realm of the two-faced. A terrifying nak that is buried deep in the sky wall.

They would one day create a perfect passage between the realm of illusion and reality, and burst out and slaughter everything.

You will become the new master of the land filled with corpses, and in that world, at least humans will not be able to survive.

A future that will come someday.

“Twella, take that poor fellow out and throw him outside… … If the goblins stay quiet until that kid lives a rough life and dies.”

“Isn’t the rest your concern?”

Quillvian chuckled.

“I’m not human either. I’m just like you. If it doesn’t harm me, why bother trying so hard?”

“It’s a reasonable thought. I don’t know when you’ll die, but Twella, that kid, will live a decent life and die when he gets out. He sacrificed everything to save you. And Nak, and the eyes that peeked at fate.”

“… … Who asked you to save them?”

“I did. I remember you asking me to save you.”

Winte said.

Quillbian bit his molar. With a crack, the tooth sank and dug into his gums.

“I can’t live in debt. So I’m going to save that poor girl. With that, I’ll pay off my debt, go out, live out my life, and die clean.”

“You have already deviated from God’s design. The Naq, which is supposed to exist only within the realm of the two, can survive outside and lead you to eternal life.”

“Don’t say such horrible things. My goal is to live moderately and then die.”

“Goals usually don’t get achieved and tend to go in strange directions. If I live forever, make me some coffee.”

Winte was smiling happily and rocking the chair he had left floating in the air back and forth.

Eternal life.

It was a really shocking sentence.

A life with only meetings and no partings was hell in itself.

Quilbian had no intention of living in hell.

When the time comes, everything must end.

That’s good for your mental health.

“Tell me more about magic. How to use it, what I can do to use it more effectively. Ah!”

He looked up at Winte and asked.

“Isn’t there a powerful magic spell? Something that kills them all at once.”

“Powerful magic. Powerful means holding a strong spirit. And only goblins of a higher level than Green can create such a thing.”

The bookshelf containing the magic books reappeared.

“Unfortunately, I don’t have that kind of magic. Vision is hard to obtain. Only a few special goblins realize their karma and devote themselves to something else. Those special ones left behind those books.”

“Are there any goblins who wish for something other than erosion?”

He pulled out a book of magic and asked.

I opened it up and it was full of letters I couldn’t read. How do I read this?

“What Altera told you, especially the part about the goblins, is pretty accurate information.”

“The word ‘human-like’ comes to mind, but that means… … .”

“There are goblins who vent their desires in other directions, just as you imagined. I haven’t seen them yet, but there must be goblins who care for and love you.”

“I wish it didn’t exist.”

“Kill without any remorse?”

“Do I have any conscience left?”

Winte, who had been staring intently, nodded his head vigorously.

“If you really wanted to be a monster, you wouldn’t have cared about things like Twella. You’re clearly one step away from being human. You recognize it yourself and even say with your mouth that you’re not human. But the fact that you keep mentioning it means there’s room for improvement. You say you’re not human, but you want to be.”

“Yes, you know very well. How can someone who knows other people so well not know important things that can solve problems?”

He opened a book of magic with strange writing on it and handed it to Winte.

“What is this letter? Is it a letter that only goblins use?”

“It is not a character used by goblins, but only by the goblin who created it.”

“A goblin created letters?”

“I guess that was his desire. I’ve said this many times, but I don’t know everything. I don’t know the details of the collection.”

“A collectible? You forgot to ask about something important.”

He pulled out three or four more books of magic, held them in his hand, and shook them.

“Where did you get all this?”

“I barely managed to gather them by going back and forth between the two realms. The number of characters I created alone is well over 10,000. Organizing and preserving their memories was hard work for me as well.”

You’ve done the same thing as Altera more than ten thousand times. And you remember it all?

As expected, it was a monster that you couldn’t understand.

“If we had killed all those monsters when we first discovered them, there wouldn’t have been any problems.”

“It was inevitable that this situation would arise. Even if I had killed those I cared for in advance, nothing would have changed. Those who realized their karma on their own would have appeared in other areas.”

“It’s just a hypothesis, after all.”

“Yes, it is a happy family. The world where fate has been broken has now entered an unpredictable world. How exciting and joyful is this? You laugh too.”

He clicked his tongue and picked up another magic book.

It was a series of indecipherable patterns, letters, dots, and lines.

“Why do all these crazy guys play separately? Don’t you think it’s convenient? If you want to become stronger by sharing magic, you need to create a common form. This is something I can’t understand.”

“Leaving it behind is the purpose itself. That’s enough to satisfy me. Who will I tell it to? I don’t think I would have even thought about that.”

I looked through all eighty volumes of magic books. Except for the first book that the fox was sprouting from, they were all a feast of incomprehensible patterns.

“Sitpin Hwang Hyung’s alcohol. That was a proper text.”

“Great Sitpin.”

It was surprising to hear the word great come out of Winte’s mouth.

“Yes, Sitpin is like a spiritual teacher to the goblins.”

“Spiritual master?”

“There were quite a few goblins who were influenced by that goblin and realized other desires. The books that remain there. Most of the goblins who left those can be seen as having been influenced by Sitpin.”

“You must have met Sitpin too, given how much you know?”

“Yes! He was a very cheerful man. He didn’t waver at all even though he realized that he was born in error. His firm convictions. That was the symbol of Sitpin.”

Winte came down from the sky and stood right next to me. As he spoke about Sitpin, Winte was grinning like a child.

“Witchcraft, witchcraft, witchcraft. He understood Nak better than any goblin. He is like a teacher to me.”

A goblin who taught magic to Winte.

He was an extraordinary being.

“Where can I meet that goblin?”

“I don’t know now. By your calculations, we met about 600 years ago.”

600 years.

It was a huge number.

“It means that the world has been in this state for at least 600 years, and during that long time, the designer… … .”

“Time is just a concept to measure change. And time doesn’t mean much to Him. It’s just whether it has the potential to happen or has happened. Once it has happened, the designer can’t do anything about it. That’s what it means to be out of hand.”

I was trying to understand it, but my head would break, so I just listened to it with one ear and let it go. God is dead, I guess it’s easiest to think like that.

“That sky wall, Cheryl made it, right?”

“The five of us, including Cheryl, made it.”

“Is the realm of two sides like a world created by goblins?”

“This is a special place. It was created by dozens of coincidences and inevitabilities. It is possible to create a two-sided realm, but it is never easy. That is why most two-sided realms are created spontaneously at some unobserved point.”

“In the realm of the two sides that is created in this way, there will be a nak, and as you gradually eat that nak, a goblin will naturally appear?”

“yes.”

“There are no baby rats. In the warehouse I used, you can’t see them very well, but the sound of baby rats running around is as loud as thunder. If you leave them alone because you can’t see them, they’ll increase like crazy at some point.”

Quillvian smiled bitterly.

“I want to clean it thoroughly. Really.”

“It must be hard.”

“It’s a wish, a wish. I’m not saying I’ll do it.”

Quilbian sat down with his magic book spread out and asked.

“No matter what, I need to increase my magical power first to see the way, right? Give me a hint. What should I do now?”

(Continued in next episode)