Talent-Swallowing Magician - Chapter 98

Episode 98

King Yulho

Quaaaang!

Rumble, rumble,

rumble!

“Catch that crazy guy!”

“What did you catch? Just fry him alive!”

“You bastard! Don’t you stand there? “It’s like standing!”

An untimely game of tag was taking place in the middle of the black snow field in broad daylight.

Even the West Tribe and the Wild Dog Tribe, which are known to have the quickest feet among the various beast people, were unable to catch a single human!

Because of this, they were going crazy and delirious.

The fact that I was worried because I couldn’t catch a single human being was nothing short of humiliating.

It wasn’t enough that such a person came into the middle of the tribe and laid waste to it, but when they hit it head-on, it was torn apart one after another. It was beyond humiliating and was nothing short of shameful.

Especially when the best fighters in the tribe fell, my mind turned completely white.

The bigger problem is.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwak!

“How on earth…!”

“Why are humans using strong body techniques?!”

The sight of Gangseojutsu, which was said to be mastered only by a very rare bloodline within the beastman race, being performed in the hands of humans was so bizarre to the beastmen’s eyes.

Boom, boom, boom,

boom, boom, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr –

“Queak!”

“Keeek!”

The prisoners swinging their fists were like baseballs hit by a bat and had to bounce off one after another.

The shock wave that spread from there completely destroyed all the shoddy huts that had already been made with piles of rice straw.

In the end, it was almost meaningless to say that the place Elric passed by was five minutes before the disaster.

Some older elders had to endure extreme stress, holding the back of their necks and collapsing.

If it’s magic, it’s magic. If it’s a rigid body technique, it’s a rigid body technique.

That blond-haired person was truly something they couldn’t understand with their common sense.

Most of the humans the Beastmen have encountered so far have been slave hunters who move in groups.

“I will kill you…!”

“Trying to run away! “Block that road!”

Around the time when several prisoners were burning with anger.

Elric, the blond man who could be said to be the culprit of the whole situation, narrowed his brows slightly.

‘Even after doing this, he still hasn’t shown up?’

There are a total of 6 villages that Elric has trampled on so far.

These were places whose locations had been identified in advance based on information obtained through resets over 30 times.

And they were all places that were ‘closely’ related to King Yulho.

Humans had been going through each and every one of those places and had shown off their magic techniques several times, so it was time to show a reaction…

Elric was wondering if the rumor had spread yet and was making up his mind to move on to the next village.

Creepy!

“…!”

Suddenly, something eerie went up my spine.

It was something that was difficult to express in words.

The anglerfish was screaming the loudest since I cooked it!

Instead of instinctively running forward, Elric turned to the side and rolled his body on the ground.

Kwaaaaang!

And something crashed hard into the spot where he was.

‘I almost got reset…!’

Elric looked at him in a cold sweat, realizing that if he had been even a little late, he would have been in big trouble.

“…bell?”

What will happen if King Velence grows up like this?

It’s over 2 meters tall. Exciting impression from someone in their early 30s. However, the face somehow had the facial features of King Velence intact.

so that.

Elric could tell that the other person was the person he had been looking for.

-My name is taken from the great King Yulho. It was a name given to me by my father to revive the collapsing royal family, just as King Yulho did.

King Velence had said something like that to Elric on his way to the Temple of Flowers.

Now that he has met Elric, he has wiped out Fury’s spies and regained absolute kingship.

It was a statement made with the ambition to build a new royal family against Fury’s ambition.

But it seems that the name wasn’t the only thing that was the same.

How can the faces be so similar even though it was 400 years ago?

‘Are blood vessels this scary?’

King Yulho (律虎王).

The great progenitor of the contemporary Tiger family and the first leader of the Beastman Union.

The man who rose from the black snowfields 400 years ago, united the cities of the beast race, wielded monsters to his heart’s content, emerged as the overlord of the North, and became the fear of the empire… was right in front of him!

“Hoo? Are your senses more sensitive than you think? What are you? “Are they really human?”

Sniff!

King Yulho twitched his nose, smelled Elric for a moment, and then tilted his head.

“Obviously, the smell is human. I don’t know what happened. It is said that the magic that humans learn has many branches, just like our magic, and pursues various mysteries. “Human, is that the magic you learned?”

Even though he only uttered a few words, King Yulho showed considerable knowledge about humans.

‘Looking at the current situation, it was still before King Yulho formed the Beast-Man Union… But should the fact that he holds such an opinion mean that he has been on guard under the Wall for a long time?’

Elric didn’t know how King Yulho would react right away, so he prepared to deploy his magic weapons.

At that moment, he smelled a strong scent of magic power following Elric, and King Yulho’s eyes widened.

“Yu Yulho King!”

“Why are you here…!”

Before we knew it, the beastmen surrounding Elric and King Yulho burst into flames.

Even though they were clearly superior in numbers, the beasts’ faces were very tense.

No, there were emotions that went far beyond that.

fear.

“why? “Have I come to a place I shouldn’t have come to?”

King Yulho narrowed his eyes and glanced around.

Then, each of the prisoners whose eyes met had to flinch and take a step back.

The corner of King Yulho’s lip curled up.

As if he knew it would happen.

A smile bordering on ridicule.

For a moment, the faces of the prisoners turned red, but no one could protest.

‘also. ‘Your spirit… is formidable.’

Although Elric also felt pressure from King Yulho, he was able to slightly deflect it to the side instead of straight ahead, so he was able to examine him with his mind’s eye with relative ease.

King Yulho, reflected in his mind, was a tiger.

A tiger the size of a house.

It was wagging its tail as if it had found a fun place to play, but there was something about that leisure that made the viewer’s heart tighten even more.

‘Fortunately, the power doesn’t seem to be at its peak… Well, it was before Antromorph was built. ‘I guess I haven’t really made a name for myself yet.’

I heard that King Yulho in his prime was even at the level of ‘Superior’ of the current 5-chain (Penta-Chain).

But now, it seemed like he was at the level of what is commonly referred to as Quadra-Chain ‘master’.

Or, more accurately, it’s the middle ground between master and superior?

Moreover, in reality, I’m still in my late 20s right now, right? Or early 30s? That was all I could see.

‘But if you hit it from the front, it’ll turn into a blood clot right away. As expected, the correct answer was to go around attacking hostile tribes rather than tribes related to King Yulho.’

Elric never touched the tribes under King Yulho. His purpose was to gain King Yulho’s favor in the short term, not to incur his hostility.

Of course, if I just wandered around, people might not think it was a big deal and think, ‘It looks like the slave hunter has come again,’ so I deliberately showed off my strong body techniques.

It was a plan based on the judgment that if King Yulho’s actions, which had been reported only through records, were true, he would have a curious and adventurous personality.

And fortunately, the goal seemed to have been completely hit.

Before he knew it, King Yulho had turned his back and was facing the beastmen who were chasing Elric head on.

It looks like he is protecting Elric.

‘no. Does this feel more like a neighborhood brother extorting money rather than protection?’

While Elric was thinking that, King Yulho growled.

“If you’re not going to attack me, get out of here.”

The prisoners all hesitated, sweating coldly, but some had the courage to shout. Of course, my voice was shaking slightly.

“Bevelence! Are you trying to protect humans now?”

“Do you think you’ll be safe after doing this?”

“Humans are a tribute to us beastmen! If you support him, you too will be lumped into the same category! And yet you will turn all the beastmen into enemies!”

The booing was almost like a scolding.

but.

“huh.”

King Yulho was very proud.

“I think you’ll be okay?”

“What…?”

“I think I’ll be safe. Otherwise, what are you guys going to do?”

“….”

“….”

The beastmen were unable to say anything with their mouths wide open as they calmly responded that nothing would happen even after turning all the beastmen into enemies.

“So, come at me. huh?”

King Velence waved his hand and said that any time was fine.

at last.

“…I’m going back.”

“Ha but!”

“I’m going back! “This matter will be reported to superiors and you will be placed on probation until further orders are given!”

The beastmen had to curl their tails and slowly retreat.

The warrior-level figures were indignant at the fact that they had lost sight of the man who had been causing trouble to the tribe, but as King Yulho was watching them quietly, they could not react and turned away.

Elric must have been quite surprised inside.

‘Even though we’re in the middle of enemy territory, no one can think of attacking us. What on earth did he do?…’

At that time, King Yulho turned his gaze back to Elric.

“Thank you…!”

“I said hello. But you.”

Elric straightened his posture and tried to be polite, but at that moment, King Yulho grabbed Elric by the collar and brought his face close to him, grinning with his fangs clearly exposed.

A laugh that is somehow ferocious.

“Do you know me? How do you know my name? And how do you know about Gangseojutsu?”

That smile was like seeing a tiger known as the King of the Mountains.

“Why aren’t you answering? Or is it that I can’t?”

“You… have to let go of this…!”

“hmm!”

Only after Elric pounded King Yulho’s fist and made a hand signal that he was choking, did King Yulho loosen his collar.

But his fierce tiger eyes were still fixed firmly on Elric.

If you try to run away or do anything useless, it seems like they want to smash your head.

“Kekkek! “Wow, I really died and came back to life.”

“I could really die right here. “Why don’t you speak quickly?”

Elric nodded quickly, thinking that if he was really upset, he might have to start the arrangement again.

“I’m from Goa.”

“What kind of bullshit is that…!”

“My parents were slash-and-burn farmers who had to flee to the black snowfields due to heavy taxes from the imperial government. Then, after giving birth to me with great difficulty, she died from a monster, and a young animal saved me when I was on the verge of death.”

Maybe it was because I had already thought about what I would say when I met him, even if by chance, that a series of plausible stories came out.

It’s a lie that Mephisto and Sean would have clearly been sick of if they had seen it.

“He said that in order for my young self to survive in this harsh place, I should have at least one or two means of protecting myself.”

“So what you learned was the martial arts technique you just showed?”

“yes. That’s right.”

“What is the prisoner’s name?”

“Master didn’t tell you until the end, saying he forgot your name a long time ago. In fact, even though he did not acknowledge me as a disciple until the very end, all I can do is call him Master in my heart.”

King Yulho stared at Elric’s pupils for a long time, as if trying to find out whether he was lying or not.

* * *

In the “Monster Encyclopedia,” there was some mention of the beastmen, as well as the death worms.

Although they were not monsters, they were a species that was judged to be ‘harmful’ to humans.

This was the part of the explanation that Elric remembered most.

[Beast Race: A sub-race that has the same appearance as a human in normal times, but is closer in essence to a wild animal.] [

As such, they have much stronger strength and keener senses than ordinary humans. When you reach the level of being called a ‘fighter’, you can not only hear the opponent’s heart rate directly, but also detect muscle tension with your keen eyes.] [

With the habit of combining such various information to understand the opponent’s condition and devise a strategy. [Yes.]

It means detecting the other person’s level of tension with a keen sense.

This meant that artificial lies could be recognized to some extent.

‘Even at the Academy, magic tools like lie detectors are quite difficult to manufacture, but they have been using them for 400 years already…’

So King Yulho, who has much more sensitive senses than ordinary beasts, will be able to make a more detailed judgment. .

However, Elric was confident that he would not be found out.

‘All you have to do is artificially control the blood flow.’

Sean, Carol, etc. said they couldn’t act.

Still, there was a part that even they acknowledged as the best.

Shameless face!

“…I guess it’s true that they are ‘brothers’.”

sibling.

It was a word used by practitioners of Gangchejutsu to refer to each other.

Even though they didn’t share blood, they shared the same vein, meaning they were brothers emotionally.

In other words, it meant that he would acknowledge Elric.

Because I can’t find anything wrong right now.

However, his eyes were still fierce.

It seems like if he shows any suspicious behavior, he will immediately slit his head.

“Thank you for your trust.”

“I didn’t trust you, a human being. “I believe in the heavenly bond created by Gangchejutsu.”

sky.

The concept god known as ‘Tengri’ in their language was the highest god commonly believed in by the beast people.

and.

Soon, as expected, the expected words came out of his mouth.

“Yes, brother, is there a place to lie down on this barren land?”

Wizard who swallowed talent