chapter 50
50. bold (2)
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[ Use ‘search plan’. ]
[ Retrieve the information of the target. ]
[ A 24-hour cooldown is applied to the same target. ]
I let out a sigh and activate the skill.
[ Balcasus Allan Armada ]
< Status Info >
[Normal]
[ Strength: C
Agility: C
Duration: C
Luck: F
Power: F ]
[Ability]
[ mana: F
Legal power: F
Divinity: F ]
Balcasus, the key figure in Chapter 2, is actually a person who wants to decorate the title of the chapter just by looking at the specs.
Considering that it’s stat C, which is the baseline for ordinary people, it looks like it’s at a slightly better level than me, who has all stats marked F, except for the divinity stat, which has just begun to cross D.
However, the true value of this human comes from another place.
< Misc. >
-Number of forbidden arts currently applied to the body: 2,134,423
“…”
My head spins when I see the number stamped with heat.
It is a characteristic that is not displayed in the general stat window, but this is the driving force that makes Balkasus an impossible monster to even match.
Forbidden magic is one of the ancient arts now forgotten. It feels like an imprint that is engraved on the body in advance and then taken out when needed.
The upper limit of the power that can be exerted with a single technique is truly overwhelming.
The three great powers, magical power, legal power, and divinity, are to the extent that it is better to say that they can never follow.
Well then, you should think about it carefully.
Regardless of the age, there have always been people who are crazy about power. And that was not a small number.
However, because there were penalties that even those guys couldn’t handle, the forbidden arts were forgotten.
I know what it is.
The ‘price’ required to develop one forbidden skill is to take a person’s life as it is.
“…”
And now.
There is a human being who has more than 2 million such taboos stuck in his body.
Probably enough for a ‘kingdom’.
The boy king who carried the ruined kingdom on his back.
The last ruler of the Kingdom of Armada.
By transforming his people, all of them into gold.
It is a human being who ‘reaped’ into his own body.
“Did you take a good look?”
Balkasus, who was still staring at the sky, said so in a calm voice.
It is a reaction that comes out with a bitter laugh.
It’s like I know everything I’m going to do.
“It must be difficult to use in battle. I don’t think anyone would sit down and let me go through it like I did.”
“…usually I’m sure you won’t even notice me writing this.”
“The Precursors seem to care about you quite a bit. In the future, you may have to deal with all of the ‘revealed ones’.”
“…”
It was something I was prepared for, but hearing it in person is like hell again.
As Balkasus said, those who can evaluate the technology that enables scanning information by just looking at it from a distance as ‘impractical’ are the ones who have been revealed.
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Just a few seconds of staring at them could kill me dozens of times.
Thanks to that, they’re also the guys who have mastered the final boss in most of the chapters.
“…I don’t think there’s much of a level up to your level.”
Even though it was full of such monsters, in terms of simple combat power, there were not many that went higher than Balkasus. There might be quite a few guys that come close.
This man is capable of destroying at least one small country by himself if he puts his mind to it.
“…”
Hearing my words, Valcasus looked me up and down with his distinctive eyes.
“Hey, do you really know anything?”
“Yes?”
“The Seer gave me a hint. They say they already know things like information about us.”
“…”
this one again
That was unexpected.
Hey, how much do you know about me?
As I was thinking about it, Balkasus smiled and continued.
“Even though you already know who I am, it’s from the point of coming up and having a conversation like this. Isn’t it?”
Certainly, as this man said.
He is a person who can stand against any country alone, and he has just declared that he will kill all humans in the academy in three days.
Even knowing all of that, it would be crazy to have a leisurely conversation like this up close.
I’m like this guy said.
“…Because I know.”
He sat down next to Balcasus watching the setting sun and continued his conversation.
“Why are you doing that?”
A person with common sense would probably have a very obvious question at this point.
Why does such a terrifying person appear in the second chapter, which is only the beginning.
And the answer to that question is simple.
This person lacks the most important part of human beings, which should normally be established as an ‘enemy’.
malice.
Balcassus is not a bad person. never.
That’s still valid even now, when I declare that I will commit a massacre in three days.
If you look at the truth, it is definitely so.
“…”
I look at the part of the body that is exposed and ‘flowing down’ in the dark.
If the golden magic, forged at the cost of more than 2 million human lives, dwells in a person’s body, the target becomes virtually immortal.
Of course, as a reward for accepting the immense power, the body would get soggy and rot, and the mind would surely be subjected to unimaginable loads. It wouldn’t be strange for an ordinary person to collapse as it is in a matter of seconds.
But, nonetheless.
This man has endured it so far. for eons of time. without even showing off.
for just one goal.
and that goal.
As far as I know, it is a very human goal.
Enough to call it humble.
“Would you like to make a bet?”
“betting? What bet?”
Seeing Balkasus smiling and replying to my words, I let out a sigh.
“I’m suggesting it as someone who knows everything like that.”
I bounce the abacus in my head.
Balcasus’ ‘goal’ is ultimately to save himself and his kingdom.
Talking about turning the humans in the academy into dead people and then ruling them over is just a harsh word.
so.
I’m going to throw this guy an offer he can’t refuse.
“You do what you want to do. Attacking the academy in 3 days. I have no intention of stopping it.”
“…What?”
“Is there any reason why you shouldn’t? That’s why you’re cooperating with the Precursors.”
uh. really.
Even though this person is said to have done such a terrible thing, the fact that I am not a bad person has a lot of weight.
“Once you do it. I’ll figure out how to stop that.”
As soon as he said that, Valcasus’ smile changed to a puzzled one.
“You mean you know who I am, and you won’t avoid confronting me?”
“Yes, but not in the direction you think.”
I have neither the means nor the reason to fight to the death with you.
What I’m trying to do is more than that.
A little more, an action tailored to this person.
“I will rescue you, Valcassus. You and your kingdom. in three days.”
Well, as always.
What I am about to do is not highly recommended for a sane person.
However, the pioneers have already acted beyond my expectations. I’ll have to take a little rain to get there.
“Instead, if I keep my word.”
Surviving the Possession Chapter 1.
Move unpredictably.
“Please be my subordinate. for life.”
its beginning.
It is to embrace a human whose existence itself is at the level of a cheat key.
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“…umm.”
Lucien Greyhounder groaned and pushed his eyes up.
smell of medicine. A bandage wrapped around the body. A soft bed.
At the same time that such information was recognized one after another, a new piece of information came to her mind.
‘…Is this a convenience provided by the Empire?’
Seonghwangguk’s side would never do something like this to her.
Since she was born with enormous divine power anyway, she must have snorted and told her to recover on her own.
“…”
To be precise, it’s a creature that was ‘manipulated’ from the beginning to be born that way.
Homunculus. artificial organisms.
A human who was not born from the same human body, but was created by combining materials.
The position of ‘human chosen by God’ is not something she was born with. it’s made
Lucien Greyhounder is a girl who was raised from birth for that ‘purpose’.
The only thing that can be called her family is her younger sister, who was born around the same time.
A homunculus who was born with the role of an ‘exorcism’ to assist the saintess.
Thanks to.
‘It’s not even human’. been treated like that. their sisters.
‘…Yuria.’
She thought so as she involuntarily gave strength to the hand holding the blanket.
The younger brother who stole the national treasure of the Holy Kingdom, which was originally used to ‘synthesize’ her and further amplify her divine power, and escaped.
The last place where the whereabouts were found was this Elfante Academy.
Looking back on my memory, I think I saw it once before passing out.
I couldn’t react properly because of the excruciating pain that seemed to cut my whole body.
‘It’s okay, did you see it…?’
Desperately, I think of such thoughts.
It was because from the first time she came to this academy, she had only thought of Yuria.
‘…By now, the curse must have spread a lot.’
Yuria and her are basically living beings created as a pair. Without the other one, the other obviously has a ‘fault’ somewhere.
It is said that she can’t show all of her ‘original performance’ and ends, but Yuria is in a situation where she has been neglected for a long time after holding the cursed object. If you can’t resist it…
“…”
And, her vision as she turned around with an uneasy gaze.
I went to YuRia who was sleeping near the bed and got stuck.
“ah.”
Unknowingly, such a sigh came out.
I don’t know why you’re here, and there’s a mountain of things that need explanations.
Right away, her sister was right next to her.
Lucien, who was about to get up from her seat and approach it, suddenly stopped moving when she caught something.
A sword wrapped in chains that Yuria hugged while sleeping.
The national treasure of Seonghwangguk. A sword that creates a curse of severance.
Isolator.
“…”
As long as I’m holding that thing, if I get close to her, even she will be cut. Even a saintess is no exception.
Contempt and hatred lingered in Lucien’s eyes for a moment. Considering how that sword became a national treasure, she had no choice but to bring out such a reaction.
‘…More than that now.’
But, right now, it gets my attention. There’s something more important.
Instead, she desperately watches her younger brother with her own eyes.
Are there any places that have been affected too much by the curse and are ‘changed’, or are there any places that have changed compared to before?
Traces of the arduous escape life that has been going on for a long time remain everywhere, but there doesn’t seem to be a place that has been greatly reduced.
‘…thank god.’
Lucien quietly wiped the tears from her eyes and muttered that to herself.
Even though I was treated like a non-verbal in the Holy Empire, there were hopeful observations that things would be a little better in the Empire. Because there was no guarantee that it would actually happen.
Compared to being a little thin, there doesn’t seem to be a big problem with health. There seems to be no sign of harsh treatment anywhere.
‘You haven’t lived too hard. Yuria.’
Lucien’s gaze thought so.
Soon, he found the ‘leash’ hanging on YuRia.
“…”
Her expression hardened.
snood?
Why on earth does this hang on people?
Yuria, you.
How the hell are you treated in the Empire?
“…Daud, please…”
YuRia muttered that in front of her who was thinking that way.
“I’ll serve you as your master, so please, please don’t do anything so cruel…”
So, maybe.
If Daoud had been present, he would probably have explained in a comprehensible way how he had worn the leash, what it meant, and what this ‘heavy thing’ meant was not to leave him alone.
However, the man was not there. Unfortunately.
“…”
Lucien’s face turned to surprise.
‘That Daoud is a human, what the hell…!’
What a beast he is, to let such words flow into his sleep…!
‘…I’ll show you…!’
Anger, like a roaring fire in her head, consumed her.
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the next morning.
Wake up and get ready for the day. In my head, the conversation I had yesterday was playing in full swing.
I didn’t hear any other answer from Balcasus.
All I had to do was give him a smile back, telling me to do whatever I want.
‘…Yeah, what.’
Then do whatever you want.
Well, you didn’t even say don’t bet. So, if we continue this way, it will be fine.
Stop Balcasus, save that side, and enlist them as my slaves… no, subordinates.
‘and…’
The first step is this
When I wake up in the morning, I check the letter lying on my bedside.
[The saintess is said to have come to her senses. He said he wants to talk to you right now, so you better find him as soon as possible.
the rector. ]
okay. good timing once
It fits right into the plan.
Two days later, the start of the second chapter, the academy raid. My goal is to break the curse placed on Yuria’s sword, ‘The Severer’.
‘Originally, it’s only at the end of Chapter 2.’
Originally, it would only be possible after defeating Yuria, who appeared as the final boss of the chapter, and recruiting her as an ally, but I don’t have time for that. It is not at all impossible to deal with now. There are all shortcuts.
And, as long as the sword was freed from the curse of severance in any way.
Yuria is the one who will be the core of my 2nd chapter strategy.
‘…Though that takes some conditions.’
Yuria, who wears a severer with the curse lifted, reigns as the strongest in close-range combat where even Elnor and Elijah have to give up in a ‘special situation’. Even if the two of them rush at the same time, the order can be sorted out.
And in this second chapter, there is always a situation where those conditions are overflowing.
‘Considering the progress…’
In order to use the ‘expedient’ I think, the cooperation of the saintess is absolutely necessary.
I still have to go and consult about it, but the one who called me to see me first is Jaeji Ho.
I thought so.
< System Message >
[Target ‘Lucien”s rage has crossed the critical point! ]
[I am burning with the will to bring you retribution! ]
[ Negative effects are imprinted! ]
[ Receiveable rewards are given! ]
[Skill: Dominion of Evil is activated. You get 1 command right that can be used on the target! ]
Until I checked this window, which must have popped up while I was sleeping.
“…”
weird.
Didn’t I save this person while chatting with the emperor?
But why does this explode…?
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