Talent-Swallowing Magician - Chapter 192

Chapter 192:

Power Interpretation

[This is…?]

『Isn’t it heavy?』

The ghost filled with Elric’s thoughts could not help but shake his head up and down.

The magical wind was so strong that I thought that if I made a mistake, I would not just be swept away, but ripped apart.

The good news is that I don’t feel any demonic energy inside it.

Although it felt insignificant, it was really only a small amount.

This means that Grigori has only explored this place and has not yet pioneered it in earnest.

However, Elric hesitated to send the ghost inside.

This is because if you enter by mistake and the ghost is damaged, it will also deal a fatal blow to your ego, which is maximizing the tuning rate.

『Aren’t you going to go?』

But the worries are short-lived.

I couldn’t help but come forward as I watched Mephisto grinning like ‘Are you scared?’

Of course, you can’t just push the ghost in just because he provokes you.

‘I don’t know if it will work out, but…’

Elric maximized the synchronization rate with all his might.

‘Mind’s eye!’

At that moment, the world was covered in black and white colors.

While numerous flaws are revealed. I could see thread-like textures wandering here and there following the magical wind.

The ghost avoided the flow of determination and went inside.

Mephisto followed behind, laughing lightly, and began to take the lead again.

He didn’t seem to be affected much by the magical wind’s feast, perhaps because the physical interference wasn’t that severe yet.

『If you just look at the entrance and passage, it is not much different from a typical dragon’s nest.』

Elric nodded in agreement.

Certainly, as Mephisto said, the characteristics of the cave may be different, but the overall atmosphere and the remaining magic circle system are not much different from those of the Jewel Dragon’s Nest.

‘I need to be careful because I don’t know when the Dragon Soldier will appear.’

Perhaps because he remembered having suffered so much in the fight against the dragon soldiers, Elric was cautious in many ways throughout the move.

But it seemed like there was no need to worry as much as I thought.

‘The magic circle… is all broken. The expression is not working properly.’

Even though a thousand years had passed in the Jewel Dragon’s Nest, a significant number of magic circles survived and were functioning like organisms.

Many of the magic circles here were damaged.

Only about 10% survived?

However, many of the functions were lost, making it difficult to infer what the original magic was.

The cause of the powerful magical wind was its side effects.

『Probably the owner of this place is not that old. The magic system is not that deep.』

[How long would it have been?]

『Well. About 3,000 years? It seems he was a relatively young guy.』

[…?]

Elric looked fed up.

A dragon that is that old is young?

『You have to stay for about 5,000 years to hear the sound of an ancient dragon. Still, I can’t avoid being the youngest among the elder dragons. It’s just funny that he left behind only a guard system that will break down from time to time over the course of a thousand years.』 A

3,000-year-old dragon is described as ‘young’. So how old is Mephisto?

‘but. So, much of ancient and prehistoric times is shrouded in mystery.’

Evolutionary estimates say that modern humans began appearing on the continent about 40,000 years ago.

However, the era that could truly be called ‘history’ was not that long ago.

Maybe everything was funny from the perspective of the dragons and demons who had been the masters of the continent before then.

『That’s why humans are amazing. Things that live less than a hundred years and have a history of less than two thousand years are this close to magic.』

Mephisot’s words to himself seemed somehow bitter.

* * *

The dragon’s nest was a maze itself.

The narrow, small hallway was twisted around like an anthill, making my head hurt.

[If I do this wrong, I’ll be lost forever, right?]

『Huh. If you go deeper inside, you can see traces of many of the Grigori being trapped and starving to death.』

Elric expressed his disgust.

Even if you are a low-level demon, you can use magic to some extent, but if you are trapped, how complicated is the path?

[You seem to be in a very good mood?]

『Isn’t it obvious? How could you not be happy that the number of enemies of this King has decreased by just one?』 [I

don’t think it’s just that?]

『I don’t know what you mean. Pahaha!』

‘Gulp. I swallowed it.’

For some reason, it seems like the radius of autonomous action is getting bigger.

I never thought you would pick up seals and eat them in a place like this.

He seemed happy that he was steadily regaining his strength.

『Rather than that, this place is very complicated. How do you plan to find the way?』

Mephisto crossed his arms and raised his chin arrogantly.

It means to at least try a test.

Elric snorted lightly.

[Am I like the idiots who starved to death here?]

After all, hadn’t I experienced enough to get sick of the labyrinth of Cheongyeon?

So it wasn’t that difficult to find the way.

All you had to do was move in the direction your mind’s eye had drawn, or if that wasn’t enough, you could gather your magic power and throw it in the middle of the crossroads.

Then, in the magical wind circulating along the passage, the magical energy will be dispersed in the direction from which the wind escapes. All I had to do was move in the opposite direction.

『Now, even if I don’t have to teach him, he’s doing well.』

Mephisto chattered as if he were a master who looked upon his fully grown student with admiration.

It was obvious that if he mixed up his words for no reason, it would only lead to long puns and break his concentration, so he didn’t bother responding and instead focused on finding his way.

It may seem simple in words, but the work involved was not easy at all.

Then how much did it take?

Elric was able to discover something along the way.

‘This.’

An endlessly long hallway. There were scars all over the walls.

‘A mess…?’

Commonly, when a monster goes crazy and runs wild, it is called a ‘mess’.

Something large, just a few meters across, had left footprints all over the ground, and the walls were littered with claw marks and traces of a tail that had been swept by.

In particular, black soot remained on the ceiling, and there were traces of melted stalactites.

It looked as if some monster had been trapped here and was running amok.

‘Not long ago.’

One month at most? As short as 15 days?

Elric used all his knowledge to try to guess what the monster was that created this mess.

Track the size of the footprints and traces of the tail to estimate the size of the monster.

We gathered clues such as scales scattered all over the floor and predicted the type.

‘This isn’t just a mess caused by mania. It’s a sign of fighting something. The opponents are at least ten… no, fifteen.’

The simulations ran one after another in Elric’s head.

‘It’s a demon. A demon entered here and fought something. And then it was wiped out.’

As if it had always been like that after the chaos was over, the monster calmed down and leisurely went back inside and disappeared.

Even though the size of this hallway is very narrow for him.

As if this was my home.

‘But you look vaguely familiar…?’

Then Elric suddenly felt a sense of discomfort.

[Wait. Mephi.]

『Why?』

Elric’s voice was hard.

however.

On the contrary, Mephisto’s answer was somehow full of laughter.

There, Elric was able to intuitively sense it.

That Mephisto has been waiting this whole time.

I hope you realize something.

[Is this really…?]

『Is there really any need for a long explanation here? You just have to see it with your own eyes.』

Mephisto went back inside without giving a proper answer. Elric also passed through the hallway again, looking very nervous.

In the process, many traces could be seen along the corridor.

The monster didn’t just cause havoc when demons came.

Even when he was left alone, he would go wild for a while and then subside repeatedly.

He slammed his head against the wall, almost collapsing the passage, and hit the floor with his tail countless times to expose his bones, causing blood and flesh to scatter everywhere.

And the more so.

Elric had to feel the sense of discomfort becoming more and more concrete.

‘It’s the same as the jewel dragon’s nest.’

A jewel dragon that was pierced by a spear made by Mephisto.

Didn’t it show similar habits when it became undead again and briefly came back to life?

Then when we reached the final point.

『There it is.』

In the thick darkness without a single ray of light.

Elric could see and hear Mephisto’s laughter.

The vertical pupil glows bright yellow and opens slowly.

dragon.

The real dragon was right there.

Kuuuuuung…!

With a sound that gently trembles in the air.

It opened its mouth.

【Who are you…?】

【Who are you… that you have his… magic power…?】

* * *

“Nothing happened. “I guess?”

Hayes narrowed his brows as he glanced behind him with a face full of concern.

Where her eyes landed.

Along the trail, Sailor was walking side by side with a blind barbarian woman, bursting into laughter.

Although she gave off a mysterious atmosphere, she was an ordinary woman who did not feel anything unusual.

However, it seemed that his status was definitely not like that.

Borfur warriors with hideous tattoos on their faces were standing here and there on the streets with their eyes raised sinisterly.

In particular, when looking at this direction, I could feel the ferocity of being ready to attack at any moment.

Hostility.

In such a situation, Black Skull had no choice but to step forward.

Although the relationship between the Borfur tribe and Sailor is good, we cannot unconditionally trust those people who look at us like that.

So, several of Black Skull’s main forces, including Hayes, were waiting outside the walkway.

If they do something stupid, I can jump in immediately.

but.

Unlike Hayes, who was full of worry, Black Skull’s other mercenaries showed no such signs at all.

Hahaam. Some people yawned, while others took out books from their arms and quietly read.

It’s a sight to behold, wearing eerie dark red heavy armor and looking sloppy. It was to the point where everyone watching felt awkward.

“What happens to your father?”

Black Skull’s leader Karrot laughed.

“I wish I could see something like that at least once in my life.”

All the mercenaries who were listening to the story nodded their heads in unison.

In their eyes, there was absolute faith in their ‘father’, Sailor Holmes.

The belief that no one will be able to betray or defy ‘Father’ as long as they have a relationship with him.

I have faith that even if something like that happens, I will be able to overcome it wisely.

“That’s good, but…”

Hayes nodded in agreement, but still looked at Sailor with anxious eyes.

Because I kept feeling uncomfortable about something.

and.

Right then. Sailor was concentrating on a conversation with the blind woman Sarnai for a long time.

“Batu… I think I got the dragon blood as I wanted. Is that correct?”

Wizard who swallowed talent