I Picked Up the Abandoned Hero

124. What is left behind

“Are you okay?”

“It’s okay. “It was just a memory of the past that came to mind.”

“I see, if that is the reaction just by looking at the residue. “It seems like the Demon King was a monster beyond imagination.”

Arsel, who thought back to the past for a moment, felt like he was breaking into a cold sweat for no reason due to the power of the Demon King.

Anyway, he is dead now, and only his remnants are preserved in the magic stone.

“Anyway, this is the repository of magical power you were looking for. Looking at the magic cast, it appears that magic power is being transmitted remotely.”

“It seems like what I’m looking for is right.”

Anyway, I finally found a reservoir that supplies magical power to Morian.

Now, the solution is to overload the magic power in this storage and cause it to run away.

Although there was some sympathy for Morrian, this was also just the result of her unavoidable choice.

“Now your goal is to overload this, right? There doesn’t seem to be any special magic to exclude intruders or for security purposes. “Now you can achieve your goal. Congratulations.”

“Okay, now I just need to overload it…”

Arsel looked into the magic stone in silence and then opened his mouth again.

“…But how do you overload it?”

“Well, you wouldn’t know that if you asked me.”

“Didn’t you plan to overload it?!”

But we ran into an unexpected difficulty, so the problem now was how to overload this magic stone.

It was Alfred who brought up this opinion in the first place.

However, due to a matter of time, Arcel decided to go out and search instead of Alfred, and the subsequent issues have not been discussed in detail with Alfred yet.

Thanks to this, this problem arose.

How do you overload that magic stone?

“Are you saying I’m not me? Actually, I am not myself. So I don’t know what the plan is and I don’t know how to put it into action.”

Little Alfred shrugs his shoulders and stands by, saying he doesn’t know anything.

I wonder if what Arcel said a little while ago was disappointing, and now that it’s come out like that, I’m just embarrassed.

“First, take your time and look for a way, because maybe you can find it somewhere nearby. Are the magic stones scattered around here? “Try various experiments.”

“I guess there won’t be much time.”

I thought there was no time to relax.

“You don’t have to worry, I’ve given you quite a bit of grace time thanks to my guidance. “It came two hours earlier than I expected, so think slowly.”

“I have almost no knowledge of magic. “In particular, I’ve barely even handled magic stones.”

“There is a saying that getting started is half the job, right? Congratulations! You’ve only just started and you’re already halfway through this plan! Now all that’s left is to finish half of the work. “It’s simple, right?”

“Either way, what comes out of your mouth is the same…”

Arsel frowned and sighed.

“I understand. Because I can’t rely on Alfred forever. “Let’s try this ourselves.”

Arsel had no choice but to slowly examine the magic stone here.

Hundreds of magic stones are all here, and they contain what appear to be copies of themselves.

If we assume that the relationship between the things inside the magic stone is the same as the Morrigan, if we succeed in overloading the magic stone, the things inside will also have the same results.

The result is probably…

“Ha, are you hesitating about something like this now?”

Arsel stood in front of the magic stone holding the child and sighed again.

“Why is it so similar to you that it’s hard to deal with it?”

“It’s not like that.”

It doesn’t matter that he looks the same as you.

Rather, it is more familiar and psychologically comfortable to harm oneself than to harm others.

“…I’m just reluctant to implement it because I think what’s inside is just a child.”

It was difficult to implement it because the thing inside this magic stone was a child who knew nothing.

Anyway, the child in the magic stone will have the same relationship as that Morian and the red magic stone, and if it succeeds in overloading the magic power, the same result will occur.

It was a story about a person exploding alive.

“But it would be deception to do that now.”

Arsel opened his eyes again and placed his hand on the magic stone.

“First, I will tell you about the principle of overloading. It just makes the magic fluctuate wildly. Or you put in so much magic power that the magic stone can’t handle it.”

“I understand.”

Do not avoid your eyes or close them.

No matter how terrible the scene is, these two eyes capture it.

I remember that and never forget it.

Maybe it was a sin that I had to live with for the rest of my life, but I thought that was what someone who took an innocent life should do.

†††

“hahahaha, it’s not there, it’s here?”

Alfred standing on the wall and clapping his hands.

“Take a good aim, it’s here! Do you have any idea where it is? Should we at least applaud like this? Or would you mind if I drew a target like this on your face?”

Alfred dodged all of Morrían’s consecutive attacks.

They even applaud.

More than that, Morian’s attacks became more rough and harsh, but Alfred still easily avoided them.

Is that why?

In no time, the place where Alfred and Morian were was devastated beyond a wasteland.

“Do you wear your eyes as decoration? Or is it a continent where the manufacturer has low intelligence and only has a lot of land and people? You didn’t leave it to those black ears, did you? “They just pick fruit from the orchard.”

“I think racially discriminatory remarks are bad.”

Every time Morrían swings his sword once, a storm destroys everything.

If Alfred had not lured Morian to the outskirts of Hermod, only collapsed remains would have remained in the Kingdom of Hermod by now.

“It’s okay, I’m originally a bad demon. “We’ve already killed tens of thousands of people, but that’s nothing.”

“Oh, I see. “I forgot about it for a moment.”

“So you’re not tired? “I’ve been swinging the sword for an hour now, but you’re not holding it in your arms anymore?”

“I think it’s okay if I’m with you. “I don’t know why…”

“Wow, that’s a really creepy statement. I need to keep my distance a little. “Can you please not stay closer than 10 meters to me?”

Despite this, Alfred looks relaxed.

If you even brush against it, it will be like the background around you, but it’s as if you are confident that you won’t get hit even once.

“I’m sorry, but I can’t-“

At that time, Morian momentarily turned his gaze towards the royal castle, as if he had received some signal.

She seemed to sense that there was an intruder underground.

“Where are you going? “You say you like playing with me?”

So she tried to quickly return to the castle, but she couldn’t because Alfred blocked her way.

Alfred blocked the road with the remains of the collapsed building to prevent Morrían from going underground.

“I would appreciate it if you could get out of the way.”

“Then you don’t have to thank me.”

“It’s urgent. The Queen is calling me. “I have to go back quickly.”

“Hey, don’t do that, just play with me some more. “I also have quite a bit of free time today anyway.”

Morian heads straight to another path, but Alfred blocks the path.

So, he swings his sword again and tries to blow away the blocked road and Alfred at the same time, but Alfred still dodges without any problem and blocks the road again.

Anyway, all that was scattered around was debris.

“This is why being strong alone is meaningless. In the end, you cannot protect everything as an individual. “Your queen seems to have revealed her true feelings too quickly. If she were me, she would have revealed her true colors only when the plan was complete and victory was assured.”

Of course, even taking that into account, it is not easy to break into the underground.

There is perfect security in the basement, so if an intruder makes even the slightest mistake, important places are isolated and intrusion is made impossible.

Even if you have a blueprint, the complexity of getting lost is a bonus.

However, heading to that exact place underground is impossible unless there is some guidance from God.

Or did someone make a signpost?

“When people are relaxed, they should do so only when victory is guaranteed. Is not it?”

Alfred’s number increased to dozens and surrounded Morian.

“…It doesn’t matter. “I just follow the queen’s orders.”

“That’s why you’re treated like a doll, Mr. Cursed Doll. Or should I say that my independence is weak?”

“…Please get out of the way. “Please do me a favor.”

“I don’t like it?”

With a bright smile, Alfred did a somersault.

“Even though I am not confident that I will win anything, I am confident that I will not lose, both our hero and the demon lord. “He was stronger than me, but he gave up trying to catch me.”

Invincible defense and incredible attack power are definitely an impossible assumption to defeat.

However, that did not guarantee that he would always win any fight.

†††

“It’s about using the magic power within the magic stone. It’s difficult if it’s someone else’s magic power, but it’s possible if it’s your magic power.”

“For now, I am doing as I am told. But is it really overloading?”

“If you do as you’re told, that’s right, but if you can’t do as you’re told, then it’s wrong. Concentrate. “Overloading magical power is a very dangerous act.”

As little Alfred instructed, Arcel touched the magic stone and began manipulating his magic power.

Originally, magical power in the form of a magic stone explodes or becomes unusable if someone else tries to manipulate it, but in the case of Arcel, it was possible because it was his own magical power.

The blue magic stone begins to shine brightly and slowly disappear.

Boom!

“Oh, it exploded-“

At that time, the light of the magic stone grew brighter and then exploded.

This could also be called an overload, but what Arcel had to do was to ensure that the magical power supplied by the magic stone to Morian was too much to handle.

The magic stone just now was the smallest one in this place, so it was okay, but if it were a larger magic stone, the scale of the explosion would be much larger.

In particular, if the magic stone connected to Morian explodes, it will not just end with Hermod Kingdom being blown away.

“Wait a minute, take a look at that.”

“What is that…”

However, a situation occurred that should be said to be unexpected or natural.

When the magic stone exploded, the child inside it came out into the world.

A child of about 4 to 5 years old who looks much younger than Morrian.

The child opened her eyes and looked at Arcel.

“Something is strange. Even if the magic stone is like that, why does the child become like that?”

However, the child could not hold out for long and dispersed into light and was absorbed into the huge magic stone at the center.

To be exact, the remnants of the Demon King contained within the magic stone.

“…It’s okay, it’s okay. Anyway, what I just did was a method of overloading magical power. “Now, we will control the force of this process to prevent it from exploding.”

Little Alfred stared at the magic stone in the center and then turned his gaze back to Arcel.

Arsel did not see the child scattered by magical power being absorbed into the remnants of the Demon King.

“No. Maybe this will make things easier. Originally, I would have had to suffer even if I overloaded my magical power and destroyed my body, but maybe I can return within today.”

“What does that mean?”

“Let’s destroy all the magic stones here, because except for the magic stone in the center, none of them are that big. “All you have to do is explode the magic stone like you did before.”

“Is it really okay? But the child who came out of the magic stone was absorbed into the core… What if its power increases?”

Little Alfred shook his head, saying that was wrong.

“What we need to do now is to increase our strength. To be exact, it increases the power of the demon lord who has already died. “The queen, it seems she was a crueler person than I thought.”

With a bitter smile, little Alfred reacted with regret.

‘As expected, that child is different from Alfred.’

When Arcel looked at little Alfred, he could tell that he was clearly a different person from Alfred.

I had the same memories and personality as Alfred, but I felt like the nature of my soul was different.

The reason was simple.

‘But then, what on earth is that?’

This is why little Alfred was currently sympathizing with the Demon King.

Alfred, who hated the Demon King more than anything else and even betrayed him, sympathizes with the Demon King and no one else?

This was something the Alfred Arcel knew would never do.