Talent-Swallowing Magician - Chapter 121

Episode 121

When did

the spring cold start ?

The King of Blood had no recollection of when he had started practicing the Tao.

He simply took this path very naturally because it was Gigi who raised him from being an orphan after losing his parents.

but.

As his power accumulated, a desire for the world began to form in a corner of the King of Blood’s heart.

The desire to think that if only I had this power, I could reign as a ‘king’ somewhere.

For him, who had lived his entire life in the mountains, receiving favors and receiving favors always felt like something from a distant world.

‘I want to live in a big mansion like that.’

‘I want to live happily with that many servants.’

‘I also want to wield such enormous power.’

So he got up. He tried to swallow up the empire by attracting forces that admired his power.

However, he soon admitted that he had become too complacent about the world.

This was because while he was in the middle of a wild ride, a man blocked his path.

-Are you the one who is making noise in the Black Snowfield these days?

He had flaming blonde hair and icy green eyes that were hard to find among humans.

Mervinger.

The human man introduced himself like that.

-I’m sorry, but I have to go back the way I came. Because the wall is a kind of Maginot Line that we created. I want to leave things as quiet as possible down here.

Mervinger was saying something, but the King of Blood was not listening at all.

He is just very angry at the fact that there is an arrogant person blocking his path.

On the other hand, I also wanted to experience a field called ‘magic’ that humans enjoy using. He also had a desire to prove his greatness by defeating him with the martial arts he had accumulated over the years.

And… he lost.

Very miserably.

King Blood had to be frustrated by the fact that the magic he had accumulated over hundreds of years was in vain. Isn’t it unnecessary to lose power to someone like a human who can’t live even a hundred years?

However, there was a separate incident that shocked the Blood King even more.

King Yulho.

The king of the great beast people who ruled the black snowfield appeared and made him kneel.

-Why can’t I do that? why…! Why did he have to be defeated so cruelly by those mortals? good night. Then you will have power. A power that no one else can possess…!

It must have been from then on.

The Blood King abandoned the Taoist arts he had learned so far and began to cling tenaciously to black magic.

Taoism became witchcraft, and Taoist power became magical power. Hoseon walked into the territory of the monster he had been so wary of for some time.

Outside (人外).

In other words, it has become a demon.

However, because his power was not yet complete, he tried to hide himself. That was the reason why I bowed my head and went under the shadow of King Yulho. As the King of Fury, he slowly proceeded with his plan.

And four hundred years passed.

The King of Blood believed that no one would be able to stop him now.

This is not an era where outstanding geniuses like Yulhowang or Mervinger are active like in the past.

but.

-I’m sorry, but please come back.

This time, the King of Blood was blocked in the same way.

It was a person who looked exactly like the man who had brought him to his knees 400 years ago. And… he also called himself Mervinger.

The Blood King thought as he returned to Fury.

okay. This time, I just chose the wrong time. So let’s be more prepared. Let’s not only become stronger, but also strengthen the strength of our subordinates. If necessary, I can even place General Dong under my feet.

It will be possible if you mobilize all the cards you can. Now, let’s consider joining hands with the demons that we rejected last time.

So, I joined hands with Grigori, who was said to be looking for an opportunity among the humans under the Wall, and 40 years passed as I looked for another opportunity. It grew in size just in time for General Dong’s seal to be released.

It was the third uprising that put all his might as the King of Blood, but…

– He’s so ugly.

The third uprising was also blocked.

Because Mervinger has blonde hair and green eyes.

Mervinger Mervinger Mervinger…!

Because of those damn bastards, the King of Blood had to suffer repeatedly.

Are you saying there is nothing you can do?

What’s more, this time it was even more unfair than before.

In the first and second uprisings, I tried to use the power I had learned, but now all I did was destroy General Dong.

And the head had to be crushed with the tail cut off.

That’s true.

I just felt bitter and resentful.

“Is it unfair?”

At that time. Such a voice rang out from within the King of Blood’s fading consciousness.

I couldn’t tell who the voice was speaking from. It felt like it was his own inner voice, or something devilish was whispering in his ear.

No, it was much more fundamental than that.

It was also a familiar voice to him.

When Andrew and Grigori’s demons came to him asking to form an alliance. A voice I heard by chance at that time. It was the insidious voice they said was the voice of the ‘god’ they served.

「If you feel unfair, pile it up.」

「Change it and change it again.」

「Then become a bigger demon.」

「If you do that, a new path will open. What can we do? I’m going to die like this anyway. “Would you like to become a bigger devil?”

The voice was busy flirting, as if it had discovered a fun toy.

The King of Blood knew very well.

What answer will you give here?

Pow!

And just like that, I suddenly lost consciousness.

* * *

[hide and seek? What does that mean?]

The camellia god tilted his head at the enigmatic words Elric threw at General Dong.

It was something she couldn’t understand.

but.

Elric just smiled silently and moved closer to General Dong.

Kieeeeek!

Hwaaah –

The more he cried, the more bizarre General Dong’s cries became, and he only created a harsh snowstorm and cold wave to block Elric’s approach.

It was all absorbed into the ice crystals and the seal of the cold wind, so it didn’t cause much of a hindrance.

『Did you see something?』

Mephisto looked at Elric like he was crazy, wondering why he was like this, but soon guessed the reason and burst into laughter.

Because I had experienced something similar to this before.

Wasn’t it like this when Elric first experienced the arrangement with the Snow Mountain King?

Whenever Mephisto went into an arrangement that he couldn’t see and came out, it was like he ‘saw something’.

I heard later that while ‘understanding’ the Snow Mountain King, you got a glimpse of her achievements?

So Mephisto thought it was something similar this time too.

In the arrangement where I obtained the seal of the wind, I must have seen not only something related to the God of Dongbaek, but also something related to General Dongbaek.

and.

As he expected, Elric had rarely seen the events that occurred after the Camellia God met his end in the Winter Palace.

-Shouldn’t winter just remain winter?

After the demon god breathed life into the skin left behind by the camellia god. General Dong, who had become a mystery full of evil thoughts, went down to 1,000 and started wandering.

From the beginning, General Dong did not harbor anger toward the living. For a child who was just born, the world was a place full of curiosity.

The problem was that such curiosity did not last long.

For General Dong, the world was a place full of only evil.

-What is that monster…?

-cold! It’s too cold. Even the fur was frozen.

-go away! Don’t come here!

General Dong just wanted to play.

I wanted to blend in with the beastman children running around and playing in the black snowy fields. I wanted to eat like them, laughing and talking.

I wanted to hunt with monsters, and sometimes I wanted to run from tree to tree and swim in the water.

But no one wanted to hang out with General Dong.

The beastmen tried to chase away General Dong because their crops suffered cold damage when he approached, and the monsters were busy running away in fear of General Dong. The trees were engulfed in darkness and the water froze.

The monsters that General Dong was dragging around were not something she had intentionally created.

I just wanted to be friends, so I got closer and accidentally froze a lot of them.

As General Dong, who had no parents or colleagues, he did not know how to approach people or how to make friends. Everything was ruined because everything was done poorly.

Therefore, General Dong thought that the world was all malicious towards him. And he just decided that if he treated himself like that, he would treat him like that too.

It was for that reason that General Dong became a winter disaster.

but.

‘There is a part of my heart that regrets me.’

This point was most important.

What General Dong wanted was never something big.

hide and seek.

I just wanted to try out the children’s games I saw in the first beast village I encountered when I came down to 1,000.

Because that sight… looked so interesting.

so.

Elric treated everything that happened while freeing General Dong and bringing him to Fury as ‘hide and seek’.

“You are a tagger. I am a hidden person. But guess what? “Time ran out.”

Kieh?

For a moment, General Dong couldn’t understand Elric’s words and tilted his head hesitantly.

It’s bound to seem strange that a person who has only been making fun of himself all of a sudden suddenly says strange things.

The way the rag doll-like head moved looked a bit bizarre.

However, Elric continued speaking without paying any attention.

“So now I’m the tagger. how is it?”

Kieeek!

General Dong was startled and tilted his head high again.

Paaat-

Elric really ran to catch him.

General Dong turned around and started running.

To avoid getting caught by taggers.

Kieeeeek!

* * *

The hide-and-seek game between Elric and General Dong continued for a long time on the stage of the black snowy field.

They took turns chasing each other.

During this process, cold waves and darkness swept through countless times, but Elric deliberately guided General Dong towards areas without cities or cities related to Fury.

And the more it happened, the more General Dong was diminished.

This was because the ice crystals were continuously rotating and absorbing the cold waves. But General Dong didn’t seem to care about that at all.

No, on the contrary, I felt like he was happy because he could focus more on hide and seek without other distractions.

[…Hide and seek.]

The Camellia God had to mutter in frustration as he watched Elric and General Dong play.

Who would have guessed that the solution to protecting the temple of garden flowers that he had worked so hard to protect for so long would be so simple?

but.

I thought that this might be natural for the camellia god.

‘Because I was lonely too.’

The god of camellia had to guard the winter palace alone after sending away all his people and subjects.

The camellia tree was grown to alleviate that loneliness even a little.

‘But while I had at least a vegetable garden left, there was nothing left for General Dong, who was forcibly torn away from me.’

The faults he left behind were deeply imbued with the thoughts he had during his lifetime. In other words, General Dong suffered from loneliness, just like the god of Dongbaek, who suffered from loneliness.

A loneliness as bitter as winter.

And now.

Elric became a ‘friend’ and personally tried to alleviate the loneliness that General Dong had been building up in his heart.

Tsutsutsu –

General Dong’s lips, which had always been tightly closed in the letter ‘一’, could be seen slightly bending into the letter ‘V’.

And as the loneliness disappeared, General Dong’s cold gradually subsided.

In the end, Elric was able to reach the main body of General Dong, who no longer exhaled the lonely cold but had the warmth of spring.

Tuk!

The tagger’s fingertips casually tapped General Dong’s shoulder.

“Gotcha.”

and.

Tsutsutsu –

The figure of General Dong, now completely smiling, was shattered into pieces and slowly sucked into the ice crystal.

Wizard who swallowed talent