Chapter 74 – 21. Demon (4)
That day was a day like no other.
The sky was gloomy and the wind was cool, though it didn’t match the sunny image of spring. I thought it would be cold, so I didn’t take it seriously.
How is it? Unless it’s heavy rain, hail, or heavy snow, there’s no problem with sightseeing.
It is the first time since being summoned to another world outside the ecliptic.
The majestic tower standing in front of his eyes and the unusual scenery of the streets he looked around on the way to here are making Park Min-ho’s heart flutter.
New knowledge, new places, new encounters.
‘I’m really glad I came here.’
He reflected on his past self, who hesitated to participate in the trip because he did not want to interfere with his training routine.
But his friend seems to have a different idea.
“Eww, what is this…”
“What’s the matter?”
“What is this!!
Park Min-ho took his eyes off the majestic tower and turned his head to the side. There, his friend Isaac, whom he met at the club, was grumbling with a gloomy face like the sky.
Their club, ‘Chivalry’, as the name suggests, is a place where swordsmanship is trained to become a decent knight, and it was a representative male primary club.
I don’t know why there aren’t many women. In another world, the difference between the existence of attributes and grades is overwhelming rather than the physical difference between men and women, so the number of female students who aspire to be knights is not particularly less than that of male students. In fact, there is a swordsmanship club for female students called ‘Flower of Swords’.
Park Min-ho guessed that most of them seemed to keep the tacit agreement that ‘men are “Chivalry” And women are “Flowers of swords” Just by following their seniors.
However, that does not mean that there are no female members in his club. It is said that sometimes there are female students who do not go to the Flower of the Sword because ‘Chival’ is slightly better in terms of the condition of the furnishings and poor facilities.
His other friend, Jack, pointed this out to Isaac.
“Then you shouldn’t have asked the other girls to go out with you.”
“I did it!! I said it… But he said he had a prior appointment and left.”
“Who did you talk to?”
“······Min Hye-rin···.”
Jack laughs at Isaac’s hesitant answer.
“Big, puhe, puhahaha! I really have a big dream. How can you think of asking him?”
“My, what am I!”
“What about you. Didn’t you see him at the banquet yesterday? Even the handsome and popular Crown asked him to dance and got rejected.”
Park Min-ho vividly recalled the scene from yesterday that Jack brought out.
While talking with the summoned patients at a table, a man suddenly intervened and handed Hyerin her right hand. Her expression wasn’t very good at that time.
“Hyerin seemed to be in a bad mood yesterday. Shouldn’t such a proposal be made carefully while examining the situation and the other person’s feelings?”
“Heuk, Park Min-ho, you bastard!! He has a girlfriend, right? You don’t know the loneliness of being alone in your room on weekends!”
Isaac rejected the righteous heart and heartfelt advice with a teary-eyed look on his face.
But Park Min-ho knew his friend’s heart well. This is because the number of times he dated Seong Ah-yeong in this world is so small that it can be counted on one hand.
‘It’s a place where you don’t know what will happen in another world.’
In order to protect your precious lover, friends, and even other people, you have to become strong, and it is negligent to stop the growth of the epic attribute that you have luckily acquired even for a day.
Thankfully, Seong Ah-yeong understood his values. So, Park Min-ho is overworking his body to the point where he has very few moments of rest.
So, this trip is his first vacation.
“Come to think of it, I’ve never seen Minho’s girlfriend before.”
“I see. She must have said her name was Seong Ah-young?”
“That’s right. Well, like me, my hair is black and very long…”
Ah-yeong must be here somewhere too, but since the site of the witchcraft tower is so large, she can’t be seen nearby.
Ah, I just thought of an appropriate explanation.
“Do you remember the last couple dancing yesterday? A couple with black hair and the woman looking slightly drunk.”
“Yeah. Both of them are so respectable that I remember them.”
“Do you look like that girl?”
“Yeah. That woman is my lover.”
“”?!””
Park Min-ho left the two dumbfounded and raised his head back to the sky. His gaze was directed to the top of that high tower, but what he was looking at was the dance of Jihoo and Ayoung last night.
After stop. A goal that he will surely catch up to and surpass someday, and a grateful friend who helps him in various ways.
But this time, his friends seem to have other ideas.
“No… Are you okay? Your girlfriend goes with another guy, that…?”
“What? I don’t care.”
“Hey, are you crazy?! Then what if the two of you are having an affair!”
“Oh no way, it can’t be.”
Jack’s cautious question and Isaac’s scolding did not move Park Min-ho’s heart. The trust between Jung Ji-hoo and Seong Ah-young, which had been built up over the years, was solid.
Furthermore, words such as ‘betrayal’, ‘cheating on’, and ‘infidelity’ do not exist in Park Min-ho’s ideal dictionary, so his friends’ worries were as absurd as worrying about heavy rain in the desert.
So, as he mercilessly cuts off the bullshit on either side of him,
An oddity has occurred.
Looking back, the omen had appeared dimly.
The fact that the weather, which was originally perfectly managed by the magic tower, is cloudy at the moment when it should be clearer than any other time, especially when sightseeing.
Even though countless prospective nobles roam the territory, the Cursreal relatives are nowhere to be seen except at yesterday’s banquet.
Right after I ate breakfast at the restaurant today, I felt as if my body’s magic sensitivity had become strangely sensitive.
However, it is extremely difficult to foresee the future situation with only these, unless one is loved by the night sky.
Even if I realized something sinister right before, it would be close to impossible to completely block everything.
Park Min-ho had no choice but to stare blankly at the magic tower that began to glow brightly in purple.
The curse of the demon king strikes the world.
“Hmm? What? An event?”
“Oh, that’s cool.”
To his friends who hadn’t noticed anything, he vomited a question.
“Can’t you guys feel it?”
“?”
“What.”
A despairing cry that would rip your eardrums apart.
The prickly goose bumps that came up from the toes up and down the skin.
A horrible, disgusting smell, like vomiting blood from your lungs.
Don’t you feel it?
However, it was much faster for the black wave to spread from the tower in front of him to the world than for his mouth to warn the surroundings to run away.
Park Min-ho was able to witness and feel the [Light] Property seething in his heart.
A black wave that spreads endlessly and covers the skies above the capital city.
The undead were born when black clouds descended vertically from the sky and united.
And,
“Uh······?”
“Why am I like this…”
His friends and those around him collapse, bleeding from every pore in his body.
At the same time,
“Geuh, uh…”
“Gruu…”
With sounds like monsters would make, people roll their eyes and trudge towards them.
Finally,
“Kiehehehehehehe!”
Even the sky-blue monster that broke down a nearby one-story house and landed on it, crying as if it would rip the sky apart.
It was a total mess.
“Jack! Isaac! Wake up!”
Park Min-ho always took out the sword he was carrying, and while being wary of his surroundings, he first checked the condition of his friends.
My pulse beats, but I can’t come to my senses. Alive, but unconscious. The blood that flows endlessly from all over the place does not know how to stop. You need to move to the hospital urgently.
Hundreds of such personnel, including two of his friends, in his field of vision.
Park Min-ho managed to hold on to his growing spirit.
Yes, panicking and panicking won’t solve anything.
Let’s stay calm.
A magical voice that instantly blows away his mind that has barely settled his mind.
“Kyaaaaa!!!”
Unless he heard it wrong
That was definitely Ahyeong’s scream.
“Ahyeong!!”
Park Min-ho hit everyone at the moment and tried to run towards the place where he heard the sound, but he had no choice but to stop.
Before he knew it, the people who were gradually closing the distance to him formed a human barrier. In order to get to Ah-yeong, you have to break through them.
“Get out of the way!”
Those who salivate out of their mouths are in an abnormal state where no one can understand what they are saying. It’s probably because of some kind of work done by the shaman tower.
Since the black wave spread in all directions, half of the people fell bleeding and the other half turned into zombies. The former are mainly academy students, while the latter are mostly the Cursreal family or private servants.
What would happen if he allowed access to those who lost control of their bodies? You won’t really get infected from being bitten like a zombie, but it won’t necessarily produce positive results.
Fortunately, they only pay attention to themselves, not to those who have fallen.
“·······.”
Ayoung screamed.
I don’t know what situation she was in. She could have just been shocked to see the same scenery as her, or it could have been genuinely dangerous.
If it’s the latter, you should get to her as quickly as possible.
If he uses force, he may be able to carry out his will. But in that case, he should hurt with his hands those who are probably innocent.
In addition, we have to turn away from the numerous people who fall to the floor and die in real time.
“······What do we do······?”
Far away,
Thud. Thud. Thud.
You can feel the earth rumble of the sky-blue monster approaching you.
“·······.”
Park Min-ho is lost.
* * *
A flower garden in the garden located on the opposite side of the magic tower centered on the county castle.
Beside his wife’s tombstone in the depths, Jonathan frowned.
“What the hell is that?”
He must have reviewed the plan until the very end. It was a magic spell that I put my heart and soul into, but it didn’t work properly.
The curse, which uses the helper’s epic-class attributes, directly strikes the souls of people within range and extorts their vitality. The role of the magic tower is to maximize its function and spread it throughout the city.
The effect appears to have occurred normally. Insignificant shamans lost their senses as soon as they came into contact with the curse, and Awakeners below the continental level lost consciousness after being severely hit by spirits.
However, its power and range were significantly reduced than expected. Clearly, the shaman’s camp is set up so that the same spectacle unfolds throughout the city. However, currently only the surroundings of the shaman tower are intact, and the rest is only about to stun the territories.
Furthermore, part of the curse suddenly manifested and created several undead. Is it the price of not fully realizing witchcraft? Yes, I can still understand this much.
If yes, substitute.
“What is that sky blue monster?”
The size of a two-story building, and blue scales claiming to be reptiles.
It resembles a Wyvern in appearance, but is slightly different.
It was obviously a monster he had never seen before, but Jonathan was quite used to it.
The monster that took the life of his son, Jamie. It is very similar to what I heard through the words of the investigator.
“Damn it.”
It appeared with witchcraft, so it’s definitely not a product of chance. That brilliant radiance is far from [Death] Or [Shadow] Attributes.
“Seo! How the hell did this happen?”
Jonathan called the name of the unknown helper, but there was no answer.
In the place where he stood, there was only a gray suit and a white mask.
