96 – Dark Magic Workshop – 5
“Wherever, move even a little. The magic circle that restrained your mouth will rip your body apart. Whether you fear death or not, it doesn’t matter. I have no intention of killing you.”
After giving Catherine a cold warning, Charlotte’s gaze turned to me.
“My dear, I should have warned you a little while ago to be careful not to be consumed by your emotions.
I looked back and forth between Charlotte, whose eyes were full of hate, and Catherine, who was snarling ferociously. My head didn’t follow the situation well.
Catherine was the woman who had just been begging for help in a dying voice. But now, it was as if the person had completely changed.
There was not even a hint of hesitation in his eyes that were welling up with tears. Rather, he rolled his eyes back and forth as if regretting not being able to bite my face.
The magic circle covering Catherine’s mouth continued to glow. I tried to keep my mouth shut, but the muscles around my mouth twitched as if it was impossible because of the magic circle.
The moment I was about to ask Charlotte what the hell was going on, my vision went black with the sound of a puck.
My eyes didn’t blink. The whole world was silent. A sense in which all five senses are blocked. He moved his arms and whipped them around his neck, but he didn’t touch anything.
It meant the head exploded.
As I tried to recall a very familiar sensation, my headless body fell to the floor and the feeling of a cold wooden plank carved into my back.
When the super-regeneration ability activated, the body that fell on the ground raised its upper body again. The skull and flesh scattered in all directions took on a human form again.
Katherine’s eyes were filled with questions as she looked at me after the regeneration was over. Judging from that reaction, it seemed that Catherine wasn’t the one who exploded my head.
If the human who did that was that woman, Charlotte would literally go berserk the moment my head exploded.
Furthermore, there was no way that Charlotte would just stand by and watch Catherine use magic.
Even the slightest hint of that would have pulled out his tongue or dismantled the magic he was trying to activate on the spot.
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Just because it wasn’t Katherine who blew my head off means, of course, that it was someone else here.
I turned my head. Charlotte’s expression did not change.
“Why this time?”
Charlotte answered my question calmly.
“I meant to cool off for a while.”
“I thought you acted rationally, didn’t you?”
“Not at all, dear. If you’re trying to tell a meaningless lie in front of me, I’d advise you to stop it right away. If I hadn’t stopped you, you’d have been bitten in the face by that bitch.”
“Well, it will recover anyway. I don’t care.”
“You’re still the same even though I’ve been saying it for a long time. But, if you want, I’ll tell you a thousand and ten thousand times. I, Charlotte de Gargantua, would not dare to see you hurt in front of my eyes.”
“Isn’t the reason why my head just exploded?”
“It goes without saying that what I touch directly is an exception. Don’t put me and the other bastards on the same line, my dear.”
Saying that, Charlotte laughed softly, and her silver hair fluttered behind her. Even though it was a bold statement, I decided to just let it go because I was originally like that.
After all, the other two must have the same thoughts as Charlotte. I can do it, others can’t.
“I don’t know why you react so strongly to black magic. It’s because you didn’t tell me. However, I do know that your condition is not normal right now. So calm down and face reality, dear. Time to think. If you need more, I’ll explode your head any number of times.”
I wiped my eyes for a moment at Charlotte’s words. Did I look so nervous?
My head definitely exploded and I had time to think for a while while I was recovering, and it felt like my emotions had subsided to some extent.
It’s an expression that would scare others if they heard it.
I took a few deep breaths. Yes, you need to calm down and act as rationally as possible.
If he unnecessarily provoked Catherine and suddenly exploded black magic, saying that you will die and I will die, at least one entire city would evaporate.
Before that, there was a possibility that Charlotte would block the magic chant, but it was literally a possibility. I didn’t want to gamble with black magic.
While I tried to calm myself down, Charlotte moved towards Catherine.
“Were those teeth the ones who tried to harm the person who would become my father?”
“ㅡ!!!!!”
As the blue light of the magic circle grew stronger, Katherine’s front teeth were pulled out. It was pulled out so easily that I wondered if it was a rotten tooth.
Looking at Catherine’s reaction, as if she was barely suppressing the pain with her eyes wide open, it seemed like she had a healthy tooth pulled out.
Charlotte did not stop. It wasn’t until after the front teeth, fangs, molars, and finally the tongue was pulled out that the blue light of the magic circle faded a little.
Even though everything in her mouth had been pulled out, Catherine’s ferocious gaze showed no sign of fading.
Blood was pooling in his mouth, which was still open and stiff. The inside was all red.
I checked until Charlotte opened her fingers again, then looked at the scroll in my right hand. Charlotte seemed to be less angry.
He unfolded the crumpled scroll. As soon as I saw the faintly glowing black magic circle drawn on the scroll, I forcibly suppressed my stomachache.
‘I need to know what kind of magic circle this is.’
It’s still okay if you simply use black mana instead of normal mana to perform destructive magic.
Even if you amplify the power with black mana, Charlotte will be able to press lightly, and the area around here will be destroyed, but it is not to the extent that it cannot be stopped.
However, if it’s a magic circle that wants to do something beyond that, mana is contaminated and naked, and you have to pull out your memory right away.
For example, using wide-area massacre magic targeting humans. Or a magic circle that summons black blood monsters.
I scanned the surface of the scroll with a trembling hand. I compared the patterns drawn on the paper one by one with the black magic in my memory.
‘This part is still incomplete… … The mana circuit is broken here, so it won’t work… … What is it?’
The more I looked at the magic circle, the bigger the question popped into my head.
This was a magic circle that could never be completed.
I still remember the image of the first time I found this scroll clearly. A scroll that emits black light and me who was shocked to find it.
The part that shines that light was important. The fact that the magic circle started to glow meant that the magic was completed and was about to be activated.
But this wasn’t it. Rather, the light was gradually fading.
Black magic is a magic that has been forgotten even in its existence, but its root is no different from ordinary magic after all.
It was just a difference between using mana as the medium and black mana. Of course, most of the rules that apply to ordinary magic also apply to black magic.
But this was different. The magic circle that could not be completed, the magic circle that could not be operated, was shining as if it had already been completed and was working.
It was impossible.
I got up and looked for Charlotte. Charlotte was still flicking her fingers as she stood with her feet directly in front of Catherine.
“Charlo-“
He was about to call out Charlotte’s name, but hesitated for a moment. It was because he briefly checked Catherine’s face behind him.
There was no sound spot on the body. All the joints were twisted in the opposite direction, and all the holes in the body were widened.
The mouth, which had been torn down to the bottom of the ear, swayed along with the chin to the point where it was barely attached to the body. As if he had burst his pupils, only black holes remained where his eyes were, and blood was shed instead of tears.
There was not even a hint of flesh to be found on his face. Her eyes twitched, revealing how her facial muscles were moving.
It was a pretty grandiose look for being angry.
“You told me to be careful not to be eaten by emotions?”
“I am extremely rational, dear.”
“I don’t think it’s because of his appearance.”
Looking at Katherine’s appearance, it was surprising that she was alive.
To the extent that people who know how to use healing magic often ask not how they are alive, but why they are alive.
“If I regard this as just reckless vengeance in anger, then I will strike the genus. It was done deliberately based on thorough reasoning. If you want, I will let you know, but what about it?”
“Okay. What are you trying to do?”
“Is that so? It’s a pity.”
“Don’t feel sorry for that, put some healing magic on it. I have a question for you. I’ll let you answer it.”
“I’ll ask… do you think this bitch will say the right thing? I’m skeptical. It’d be better to get her memories out.”
I shook my head.
“No. I don’t know if you’ve only studied black blooded monsters, but anything related to black magic is dangerous to you.”
“Then I’ll change the question. Why am I dangerous? What is that dark magic?”
There was determination in Charlotte’s voice. The will to hear the answer from me this time.
In the meantime, I’ve been delaying the answer with various excuses, but it seemed like I couldn’t do it as much as it is now. He let out a deep sigh.
It seemed like Charlotte wouldn’t be able to understand it if I didn’t tell her about black magic.
“……You know that the medium of black magic is black mana, right?”
“I know. Didn’t you tell me that?”
“Then, what is black mana made of? It’s mana that can never be obtained naturally.”
Of course, ‘to some extent’. Even to Charlotte, she had no intention of telling the whole truth.
“Are you saying that the material that makes black mana is dangerous?”
“No. The material that can make black mana is already scattered all over the continent. There are three of them here right now.”
“Is it here too…?”
Charlotte put on a puzzled expression for a moment, but when I insisted on saying the number three, she looked back at me and Catherine as if she realized something.
“…you’re a human.”
“right.”
He nodded.
“Black mana, the medium of black magic, is mana made from humans.”
