Talent-Swallowing Magician - Chapter 49

Episode 49:

Blue Lotus Labyrinth

Tsutsutsu-

Elric could feel the icicles he was holding with his hands melting.

‘Luckily… did it penetrate the airway?’

The plan was to pretend to fall and lead the guy to attack from above, and then stab him through something he had read in his mind’s eye in advance.

If there had been even the slightest mistake, I would have suffered.

Anyway, if you keep getting chased like this, you’re going to die anyway, so it seems like the strategy that was tried at random was effective.

The weakened Dire Wolf buried his head in Elric’s chest.

Seeing it up close like this gave me a greater sense of how big it was.

“Ugh!”

Elric was barely able to get up by forcefully pushing the guy to the side.

“Kaaaaah! “It’s really heavy.”

But the problem was the wound on his hand.

I ended up getting frostbite because I grabbed the rapidly frozen icicles with my hands without any protection.

In addition, the dire wolf’s weight was placed on it, causing a major tear in the grip.

I had been holding on with the thought that if I missed this, I would really die, so my hands were already covered in blood.

The pain in my wrist was throbbing, as if the bone had been strained.

Elric had no time to worry about such things.

Because there was still another one wandering around.

“…driving me crazy.”

Crrrrr!

The guy was probably alert to the fact that one of the animals was already dead, so he didn’t think about attacking it.

However, its red bloodshot eyes and mouth dripping with saliva were ready to pounce at any time.

‘That guy definitely won’t attack me in the same way… so I guess we’ll have to find another way.’

It should never be done by force. Even endurance isn’t enough.

‘shit. If I had known this would happen, I would have exercised hard.’

Gang body art.

I couldn’t have been more desperate for a skill that had already been perfectly restored in theory.

So far, I’ve been imitating the Gangseo technique through the expedient of using magic armament.

As magic power became impossible to operate, he realized that he had been too complacent.

There may be another crisis in the future.

I felt like I needed to prepare a secret to protect my body somehow.

Wow!

At that time, the dire wolf, who had been only watching secretly, moved.

Instead of trying to move reflexively, Elric straightened his back as a thought passed through his mind.

‘for a moment.’

My eyes widened.

‘Anyway, you already know the main points of Gangseojutsu, right? Then shouldn’t I just follow that?’

Strong body techniques had the greatest effect in strengthening the body, but some of them also included fighting methods that utilized them.

A small amount of magical energy can be drawn in through breathing, and the enemy’s weaknesses can be identified with the eyes of the mind.

So wouldn’t it be possible to imitate as much as we want?

Even if my skill level was low, I might be able to somehow deal with at least one dire wolf… I had one thought after another.

and.

Faaah!

Elric also jumped forward in the same way against the dire wolf.

The king of the beast people, the Hojok, is of indescribable bravery, and because of that characteristic, they never shy away from showing off their martial prowess.

In my mind, passages from a paper I once wrote but never published passed through my mind one after another.

They have a world view that the body is ‘a world created very small by God.’ It is believed that the law of all things in nature is contained within it.

The dire wolf was surprised that Elric did not run away but directly confronted him, but he immediately snorted and ignored him.

It has already been confirmed that Elric has no other abilities.

If so, then this kind of rebellion was considered to be nothing more than simple resistance.

Just as the mana stream, the basis of life, flows through Mother Nature, breath flows through the body.

But Elric’s eyes were calm.

My mind was so focused that I wondered if it was the person who had been chased by wolves all this time.

Before he knew it, he was holding an icicle in his right hand.

I thought that the body also changed depending on how I breathed and how I focused my thoughts on it.

Elric’s eyes were clearly fixed on the dire wolf, but his mind was entirely focused on the pointy end of the icicle.

And took a deep breath.

Whoop haha…!

Just one breath.

However, the world depicted in the mind’s eye changed drastically in an instant.

The thoughts that are concentrated on one point end up drawing numerous unconscious thoughts at the base. The noble chooses one of them ‘instinctively’ and moves ‘intuitively’.

The mind’s eye was still drawing many textures, but for a moment, Elric was able to ‘instinctively’ know which one to choose.

widely!

So I followed the grain and stepped on it.

There was no particular sound, but my ankles tightened and my body rotated sharply.

The trajectory of the dire wolf’s attack here was unknown.

You could aim for the legs, bite the side, or draw a large arc backwards.

Nevertheless, Elric just moved ‘intuitively’ without much anticipation.

Then, very strangely, the dire wolf’s snout narrowly passed by the spot where he was.

And the left side of the guy’s neck is clearly visible.

The dire wolf looked quite embarrassed, as he had never thought that Elric would dodge so easily.

‘now!’

As if he didn’t want to miss out on his chance, Elric stuck the icicle he was holding in his right hand onto the side of the dire wolf’s neck.

Breathing and intuition.

The fighting style created on the thin border between the two was the fighting style of the noble family.

Pow!

Kekeken!

‘this!’

However, perhaps because it was not stabbed from the front, the icicle was unable to withstand its weight and broke halfway through.

Blood splattered.

The dire wolf let out a cry of pain, but then turned around and charged again.

All he showed was his will to kill Elric somehow.

‘As expected… intuitively!’

Even though the attack failed, Elric still showed no signs of panic, so he took half a step back and stretched out his left hand forward.

There was no plan or reason.

I just thought it was right.

Kwasik!

Of course, the dire wolf could not miss such an opportunity and bit down hard on his left arm.

Elric was clenching his molars in the terrible pain of his flesh and bones being crushed, and before he knew it, he was holding the icicle hard against the guy’s eye.

Wow!

The dire wolf opened its mouth again and tried to fall backwards.

However, Elric pushed his left hand even deeper into the guy’s mouth, immobilizing it, and started cutting icicles at random.

puck!

puck!

Pow!

Icicle took several pictures of the guy’s eyes and face.

Every time, blood poured out and flesh splattered. The icicle broke several times, but soon froze again.

There was a lot of red blood on the sharp end.

Kkeggang kkakeggang!

The dire wolf was unable to offer much resistance and retreated back.

Whoa!

In the final blow Elric swung with all his might, his skull was shattered and he fell to the floor.

“Huh huh huh huh…!”

Elric also sat down on top of him and was breathing heavily.

His left arm was completely tattered below the elbow, and his right arm, which was still healthy, had its grip torn as he was forced to use icicles.

And yet, rather than being in pain, he was smiling heartily…

『You… are the real bastard.』

Mephisto, who was quietly watching what Elric was doing, defined it that way.

I originally thought it wasn’t normal, but it became more and more abnormal as time went by.

『Have you finally realized the image of your true nature? Beastmen are originally wild creatures who have not received the benefits of civilization, so even so… how can they become human?』 Even if

you open your mind’s eye, you must sharpen your senses and go beyond the realm of ‘instinct’ and ‘intuition’. Otherwise, it would be difficult to do that.

Mephisto questioned a situation that he could not understand with his common sense.

『No. That guy might be able to do it.』

I was able to get the answer very easily right away.

Because it’s Elric.

Crazy people shouldn’t be held to average standards. That was the conclusion Mephisto came to right away.

And it seemed like Augustine had the same thought.

[her! haha! It’s different after all. I thought I would just run away. I never thought I could catch them both in one day.]

Mephisto grinned while hearing Augustine’s praise.

『I don’t think that old man is normal either? They drive people into such a dangerous place and then laugh it off. Have you done something wrong to that old man?』

Elric waved his hand in this direction as if he didn’t have the energy to answer.

[But if you continue to leave it like that, it will become really dangerous from the next day. Originally, this is a fact that you had to find out for yourself while exploring the labyrinth… But since you have achieved such a high level of achievement, I will give you a hint as a reward.]

While listening to Augustine.

Elric’s face showed all kinds of irritation.

[If you look at the cliff, you will see a lot of moss growing in the shady area. Let’s take a close look at it.]

Augustine’s words ended there.

“…They won’t say anything about releasing me or lowering the difficulty level.”

Elric gritted his teeth, saying that if he left this place, he would somehow get revenge. He adjusted his left arm and cast a freezing spell.

First of all, the bleeding had to be stopped.

Of course, this wouldn’t make it better, but at least it would provide first aid.

“What an old man.”

Elric cursed Augustine as he forced himself to get up from his seat.

If I didn’t do this, I felt like a fire would break out inside me.

Of course, I didn’t forget to squeal for Augustine to listen.

Perhaps because the canyon was narrow, the echo rang loudly.

“He’s an old man like Mephisto, a fraudster with dementia, a person with a broken personality…!”

『Why is the king going in there?』

Of course, Mephisto’s protest was not listened to.

“Ugh! I’m so pissed, I’m so pissed, I’m really pissed!”

But what really annoys him even more is that he doesn’t want to listen to Augustine at all.

The point was that in order to survive, I had to eat the rice cakes he threw at me.

“What on earth is in moss!”

There was a lot of moss on the bottom of the stone beak that jutted out along the high cliff.

But I couldn’t figure out what to do with them.

Seeing that there was a lot of dew on it, I thought it could be used as a drinking water substitute, but I couldn’t figure out how to treat wounds with this.

Is it even a medicinal herb that works well? Thinking about that, I narrowed my eyebrows.

‘Oh, I don’t know what it is.’

The problem was that none of the classes he had ever taken was on herbalism.

Because the Department of Elemental Studies and the Department of Magical Medicine were completely different departments.

So I wondered if I should try an experiment by pulling out different types of moss one by one.

“hmm? Why is this here?』

Suddenly Mephisto touched the moss with startled eyes.

-why? Do you know?

Elric couldn’t muster up enough magical energy to use a telegraph right away, so he scribbled letters in the air.

『It is called ‘Anaxunaphyllum flower.’』

-Oh what?

『Flowers of the Anaxunam phylum. You probably don’t know. Because it is a demonic creature that grows by eating demonic energy. It must be almost unknown to humans… How can this thing grow so much that it forms a colony like this?』

Mephisto tilted his head in complete incomprehension as he looked at the black moss growing thickly along the shade.

Only one sentence rang in Elric’s ears.

Grow up by eating Maggi!

-If demonic energy is two parts, then it must also contain demonic energy or magic power?

“joy! That can’t be possible.』

-Huh? Then there is nothing?

“no. That’s not true. Rather, the problem is that it contains too much pure magical energy.』

At that moment, Elric forgot the pain and his eyes sparkled.

Those words mean only one thing.

All this moss is elixir!

‘I saw it!’

Wizard who swallowed talent