Talent-Swallowing Magician - Chapter 19

Episode 19

First Arrangement

“As I said, I never told you to take him down. “I just told you to swallow it.”

Otto Hahn’s words whose meaning you can’t possibly guess.

It was ridiculous because it seemed like a play on words.

‘Still… I’ll give it a try first.’

Elric took the first step.

First of all, it seemed like the key was to approach where the Snow Mountain King was.

* * *

“【Opening of arms】.”

Faaaa!

Elric deployed the magical weapon he had memorized.

Even though this was an image world, all physical laws were the same as in reality, and the phenomena and effects were all the same.

“【Rise】.”

Elric hovered about 1 centimeter above the snow field and walked slowly while maintaining a hovering state.

It was easy to lose stamina if your feet kept getting stuck in the snow.

And I tried to never make eye contact.

It seemed like a significant curse that even mental protection magic could not prevent fear.

‘If we hit each other like this, I will definitely lose. ‘Isn’t there another good move?’

Elric very calmly assessed the difference in level between himself and the Snow Mountain King.

Just by looking at the mana scan, the power of the Snow Mountain King was very impressive.

In fact, it would be right to say that it was difficult to make the decision.

‘If I had infinite magical power, I would confine it with fire attribute magic and melt it… but that doesn’t work either. I can’t do it with the weapons I have right now. Even with rudimentary strong body techniques, it’s just as easy.’

Environmental constraints were too great.

‘The seal of original sin. ‘Couldn’t I use this?’

Elric stroked the wolf’s emblem with his hand.

It is said that the reason he did not want to learn black magic from Mephisto in the first place was to maintain the minimum good as the head of the Mervinger family.

On the contrary, his ancestors were also said to have extorted the power of such demons and used it, so his thoughts were gradually changing.

However, contrary to Otto Han’s explanation that holding the seal would allow him to use the demon’s abilities and talents, the problem was that Elric had no idea how to use the seal.

Clearly, each stroke of the Seal of Original Sin contained enormous magical power.

It has completely different properties from magic stones.

Perhaps this is the evil thought that is the basis of the demons mentioned by Otto Han.

But the thought never showed any sign of coming out.

‘There must be a separate trigger. ‘What is it?’

If I could use Mephisto’s abilities, it would be easier to catch the Snow Mountain King.

That’s when I had that thought.

Tsutsutsu –

Suddenly, a pure white haze rose from all over the snow cover.

“…what is this?”

Elric stopped walking because he felt something was strange.

The moment I quickly filled my fingertips with magical power so that I could deploy magic right away, the haze shook and slowly took shape.

They all had the appearance of yetis.

However, his temperament was completely different from the typical yeti he had encountered outside.

Dark and dull skin, as if covered in shadow.

Sharp fangs symbolizing the demon race.

Eyes shining sinisterly.

Solid armament consisting of thick armor and pointed spears.

More than anything.

These guys were radiating a lot of demonic energy with a vicious nature.

“I think they are guardians…”

They seemed to be soldiers guarding the tomb of the Snow Mountain King.

The souls of warriors who pledge loyalty to the Snow Mountain King while alive and remain by his side even after death.

It was clear that he had fully realized the temperament of the demons.

Kaaaa!

The warriors rushed in all at once, making sharp noises as if they would not tolerate unauthorized use of balls.

“【Explode】!”

Elric quickly waved his hand forward.

Then, fire mines exploded one after another under the feet of the warriors who were running this way.

Because a lot of magical energy was poured into it, the firepower was strong enough to reach their heads.

Kiaaak!

Only one or two people in the lead collapsed, but the others broke through the fire without any fear.

Even those who fell got up again and ran towards us.

“Shit! [Drill through] and [Build]!”

Elric, thinking that he should not give them close range, quickly pulled back and deployed ‘Magic Missile’ and ‘Ice Wall’ one after another with his right hand.

At the same time, I spread the magic field widely with my left hand to further burn the embers on the tips of their fur.

Both hands are activating different magic.

Double Spell.

He is demonstrating an ability that even a mage level would find difficult to use properly.

Elric had no time to be surprised or proud of his own genius.

Pew pew pew pew –

As water vapor condensed in the air, a lot of ice arrows were created and rained down on the warriors’ heads.

Puffer Fuck –

The sound of ice breaking continues to spread along the snowy field.

Cuckoo!

As the ground shook, a tall earthen wall rose between them and Elric.

The warriors, whose path was suddenly blocked, tried to bypass the earthen wall and approach Elric, but before they could, they had to endure more ice arrows raining down in this direction.

Moreover, the flames on their fur did not go out easily and instead spread greatly!

Grumble!

Ki-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-k!

Kyaaaaaaa!

The warriors were screaming as their entire limbs were engulfed in flames or had their limbs shattered by ice arrows.

But even so, the guys didn’t run away, but instead tried to somehow come around this way or threw their bodies carelessly in an attempt to break down the wall.

‘…It’s not easy.’

Elric gritted his teeth the entire time he was using magic.

I felt like the double spell would be ruined if I lost my concentration even a little.

The ice wall was full of cracks, as if it would collapse at any moment. It was barely able to maintain its shape with a magic field, and the number of magic missiles being created was continuously decreasing.

So, I had to somehow finish off the guys inside the wall before the double spell was broken, but it wasn’t easy to kill them.

As long as my head didn’t break, I was desperate to get up even if my hands and feet flew off.

At that time, I was thinking about going overboard and raising the magic stone melting rate to 4%.

“Sigh!”

Elric rolled around on the floor, gasping for air as a dark texture momentarily crossed his mind’s vision.

There was no time to worry about whether the double spell was canceled or not.

And a scimitar (a crescent-shaped sword with a large curved blade) narrowly passed by where he had been a moment ago.

Cheer up!

The owner of the scimitar, who had tried to ambush Elric by deceiving his eyes and senses, sneered lightly as if he was disappointed and ran towards Elric again.

‘It looks like they’re the leader…!’

Elric once again cast the double spell against a man whose level was higher than that of the warriors he had faced so far.

“【Bloom】 【Scatter】!”

‘Ice Flower’ and ‘Floating Blades’. Ice, made from condensed water vapor, bloomed like flowers all over the body.

Pieces of flesh that had died from frostbite fell one by one, and the broken pieces of ice revealed their sharp blades again, hacking the wounds indiscriminately.

Cham! Cham!

The guy was instantly covered in wounds. Blood splashed upward, then froze and fell to the floor like hail.

The guy’s feet stepped on it roughly. As expected, like the other guys, he didn’t care at all about the pain the wound caused.

Wedge –

This guy was a born swordsman. He showed swordsmanship skills and movements that were comparable to those of most human knights.

As it was, Elric would have never been able to fight back with his rudimentary skills, no matter how magically armed he was.

“【Defendant】 【bloom】 again!”

The ice flower continued to block the guy’s movements and expanded the area of the wound.

“【Explode】 and 【Explode】 again!”

The wound showed no sign of healing at all and instead became wider.

Thanks to this, Elric quickly read the guy’s strategy with his mind’s eye and dodged and rolled. Each time, the scimitar narrowly passed by the spot where he was.

Kieeeeek!

He kept running away like a rat, and eventually he got so angry that he started screaming.

But even that Elric felt like death.

‘It’s going to be really dangerous if it continues like this.’

The dissolution rate of magic stones has already exceeded 4%.

The Mana Rod was overheating.

It meant that the body had almost reached the critical point of what it could endure.

‘But he’s dangerous too. Because the movement continues to become sluggish. a little bit. Let’s come out a little stronger.’

Elric gritted his teeth and squeezed the magic stone harder.

The moment the dissolution rate reaches 5%.

Pajik Pajijik!

Mana sparks, which only appear when the mana rod overheats beyond its limit, splashed countless times over my skin.

Quaaaang!

Elric kicked the ground violently and fired a double spell one after another.

The grain became more numerous and clear. Then, at some point, a ‘dot’ with a lot of texture is created on the abdomen.

“【Get stuck】!”

A magic missile that was much larger and thicker than the previously made magic missile was driven hard into the dot.

Peoeook-

kkirik kkirik!

The guy’s movements stopped for a moment, as if the world had stopped.

As the condensation spread rapidly along the wounds covering the entire body, the joints hardened all at once.

and.

‘now!’

Quang!

He struck the tip of the magic missile violently with his fist, as if hitting a nail with a hammer.

Wow!

Like a piece of ice breaking, it broke into dozens of pieces and fell down.

“Huh huh huh huh!”

Elric took a deep breath.

It was truly a fight so dangerous that it crossed the line between life and death at every moment.

Because he couldn’t completely avoid the scimitar every time, he was left with big and small wounds here and there.

I was just now noticing the deep cut on my side.

The pain that I had never felt before came all at once.

It is said that stamina recovery and wound healing are working in real time thanks to the magic armament.

With a dissolution rate exceeding 5%, the body was already in a state of overload, making it difficult to even move.

“Shit…! “I’m really going to die if this continues.”

But there was no time to relax.

Kiek kieeek!

Grumble!

Before he knew it, more Yeti warriors had come and surrounded him.

Even if you just glance at it, you can see that there are dozens of them.

Elric had to forcefully squeeze the magic stone while breaking out in a cold sweat.

The Mana Lord screamed that this could not continue. There was a high risk of magical power backflow, but there was nothing he could do.

“Like fucking Otto Han. “What on earth are you supposed to do by creating such a ridiculous level of difficulty?”

Elric gritted his teeth and thought about what would happen if he ‘died’ here.

It would be fortunate if I could simply escape from the world of images, but if not, my mind would have collapsed.

Usually it will be the former.

I wondered if the ancestors would go to such lengths in arranging for their descendants, but I thought that Elric might be the latter.

‘They are my ancestors. They’re idiots who have absolutely no idea how to proceed!’

Elric raised the dissolution rate to 6%, risking his body collapsing.

First of all, I wanted to kill the guys in front of me all at once.

Squeeze!

That was when the mana sparks bounced even more wildly.

Paaaa –

A black, inky light flashed brilliantly from the corpse of the yeti captain that had been broken into small pieces a moment ago.

The yeti captain’s body crumbled. The pieces and powder gradually permeated the inky light, increasing its brightness, and soon turned into smoke and rushed towards Elric.

Elric was startled for a moment and took a step back, but the smoke was faster than that. It stuck to the back of my right hand and quickly seeped into my pores.

Tsutsutsu –

A new engraving was engraved on the back of Mephisto’s original sin seal.

Although the line was not thick enough to be clearly recognized like the seal of original sin, it vaguely took the shape of a mountain.

And starting with that.

The same silent light was shot in this direction from the Yeti warriors that had been defeated previously.

Each time one was added, a small stroke was added and the line became clearer.

At the same time, the mana spark that seemed to explode at any moment slowly died down.

As the seal is absorbed, the durability of the Mana Rod becomes more solid. The dissolution rate has no choice but to increase accordingly!

That moment.

Elric was able to ‘know’ how to use the seal he had just absorbed, even though no one had told him.

The seal contains the demon’s talent. Talent is rooted in thought, thought is rooted in emotion, and emotion is rooted in something primal.

It cannot be defined as it does not normally take any form, but the moment it gathers and gathers itself, it takes on a clear quality.

It can be said to be an inherent quality, or it can also be called status or position.

However, the demons call it this separately.

True name.

It’s their ‘real name’.

and.

The true name of the Yetis is ‘Relentless.’

It was the true name that their ancestors learned, but could not handle properly, and only realized it when they reached the King of Seolsan, and then was buried again over time.

This is it.

It was the trigger of the seal Elric was looking for.

“【Be cold and harsh】.”

The moment when Elric revealed their true name in the form of a ghost.

Kwakwakwakwa!

A strong snowstorm swirled around Elric, sweeping away all the Yetis surrounding him.

Wizard who swallowed talent