Hermit Wizard

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The girl opens the door quietly. The wooden gate, about twice the height of myself, opened without a sound, despite its small power.

I don't think I can hear you inside, but I look at the side of the house just in case. I walk out the door after checking that there is no popularity. If I knew he was gone, I would be in trouble. She's always a novice after she gets here.

I stepped carefully.

Her recent stay was an old-fashioned villa on an island in the middle of a lake. Compared to Hanok who is familiar with the girl's eyes, the style is very different. But the whole feeling is a strange house that doesn't fit into the era, unlike a quad set. I was worried at first about how to live in a place like this.

But after two days of living, the interior was surprisingly pleasant. The temperature was always maintained adequately without electricity coming in, and the operating principle could be controlled as lighted. When the time came, a modest amount of food was served outside the mansion.

Humans are animals of adaptation. The girl could understand this for ten minutes. If she had initially suffered from insomnia because of anxiety and shock, the biggest element that was plaguing her at this point was the extreme intolerance and frivolity.

When I think about it, take out the stuff in my arms and turn on the power.

“· · · ah, burst your phone. Please.”

If I get a signal, I have to call the police or 119, but I won't let my mom do it anyway. Now, what was full of girls' minds was SNS, web surfing, games.

The mind is stable enough to feel bored

“Chet.”

Neither did the signal. If the battery runs out, turn off the phone again because there is no way to recharge it. Then I moved on to the next step.

The girl crosses the bridge between the island and the outside. Blue octopus on the floor and elaborate sculptures of clouds, waves and other animals on wooden railings, but the girl had never seen eye to eye.

Whining

As soon as I crossed the bridge completely, the wind blew and the flowers rained. The eyebrows are itchy and the petals are plucked with rough hands. In the meantime, I touched the red pieces that were hovering around. The moment she realized it, the girl grabbed her fist with a flawed hand. It's like touching something you shouldn't touch.

“I'm following these again. ”

The creatures that fly around the girl look like red butterflies. Things I've been following since the moment I left the house. The girl glances at the insects for a while and turns her attention to them. It seemed like a familiar sight already.

The red butterflies followed, speeding up every step. The girl tried not to look at it in detail.

“· · · Tired. ”

I kept hovering around, and I caught one a few days ago and watched it closely. Their heads depended on something other than ordinary butterfly stumps and convex pockets of snow.

It was too small to notice. On the head was a human ocular object with a silk cord that shrunk to a smaller size than a rice egg.

The moment I encountered it, the girl screamed and shook her hand. Since then, the insects that were following me were just turning off their nerves with mind control called butterflies. Be as careful as you can without touching it.

“Butterflies. These are butterflies. Wake up."

I kept mumbling like that. At last, when I could see nothing around me, I felt popularity coming down from the sky. I think I've been walking to the end of the day.

“Hey, you here again? ”

Kung!

When the opponent steps on the ground, the earth resonates with a loud sound. The girl speaks to herself inside. That giant black dog who was walking on a heretic was also terrified when I first saw him.

“Kid, we can't go any further this way. You know what?”

The black dog's voice roars in the sky. The girl stutters her memory. What did you say your name was?

“What the hell is out there that keeps you from going all the time? ”

A voice mixed with complaints.

“It's nothing. ”

“If it's nothing, why don't you take a look? ”

“You can't do that. It's a set rule.”

He squirms his lips. Seeing such a girl, the black dog says:

“I've only been out there with other residents. With the village.”

“Can't you watch? I'm bored.”

Black dogs scratch their chins.

“Even though I remember, your fellow human beings loved to hang out. But the situation can't help it. What else do human children like? Aha, right! You want something delicious? Can I give you a context? I'm sure the toad was in the warehouse a little while back, but can you get it out? ”

“What's the context? ”

“What humans do well. The taste is sweet, sticky on the mouth and rustic on the nose. A few hundred years ago, it would still be a few days before I brought the spear. ”

I had no idea what the hell he was talking about.

“Whatever it is, how do you eat a few hundred years ago? What is it, an artifact? If it's wrong to eat, there's no hospital here. ”

“It's okay to use preserving liquor. ”

“Anyway, I don't like it. ”

“When I'm bored, I'll be there in no time. ”

“I need you to do something about my phone. I can't keep getting the signal. ”

“Oh, you mean that thing you said last time? I asked him about that, and he said no. ”

“Why?”

“I kept saying difficult things, but I didn't understand them all, and the energy that they create can't break the shield of the white book. ”

It was because the shield that disconnected the backlog from the outside faithfully bounced off the cell phone propagation.

“What else do you need besides that? Can I give you a context? ”

“That's enough. ”

I think about it for a while and open my mouth again.

“Oh, I need something. These butterflies, can you stop following me? ”

There are two shameful lights in black eyes.

“· · · Shuffle. You asked me to do that. ”

“Yes?”

“I'm not the one who called them. · · · I can't. I don't know what's gonna happen if I touch those things wrong. It smells unusual. ”

“Oh, what is it. Not all of them. I need you to cancel everything you said later, just take a look out there. ”

“You can't do that. ”

I think there's no way for a girl to stop talking there. In fact, there was a reason to try again today to go beyond that.

“That neighborhood, it's been so quiet, it was so noisy yesterday. Did you get together and fight? ”

It was the first change I went through. I thought there might be clues to the situation now, just vaguely.

Neither were they neglected in this strange space. After anxiety and fear had passed, the girl began to feel restless with frivolity.

“We have nothing to fight for. Yesterday, something unexpected happened, so we all got together and had a little discussion. And by your standards, there are a lot of really good people like me who would have sounded that way. ”

“What's going on? ”

The Black Dog, Kite (), who served as a gatekeeper, thinks.

Was there any mention that we shouldn't even talk about this? I try to stammer my memory, but it is concluded that there was no such party.

The kite murmurs into the air. Then you're welcome to tell me. Technically, it's not a story that has nothing to do with this kid.

“The Anthropologist brought someone else to the backlog. ”

I know very well who he is talking about. That's why the girl's two ears flash.

“Yes? Not us again? Who? Why? ”

Did you have any family to hide from us?

The dog opened his mouth while the girl doubted about the secret of a household he did not know.

“I don't know who that is. ”

The girl growls.

“· · · Ah, really. What the hell are you doing out there? ”

The black dog shakes his head and speaks.

“It's not a bad thing. They're threatened by human populations, so they're trying to protect us. Like all of you who came first. ”

Protection? The girl did not hide her laughter.

“What kind of protection is this? Abduction.”

“Not a bad intention. To protect you, don't give me any grudges that I won't be thankful for. ”

“Sacrifice?”

It was an unfamiliar word.

“He said that life that is not born in the White Book needs a ritual of offering to God to stay here for a certain period of time. To get God's permission. ”

“Why?”

“I don't know. It's one of the rules of the old days. So when we bring the lost humans or the drowned humans into town, Margo quickly erases the memories and kicks them out again. I never let you stay here for long. But now you guys are a little different. Say you need a sacrifice. ”

“What's the offering? ”

The black dog shrugs.

“I know a great varicose vein, a priest. I don't know, maybe a priest or something? ”

“· · · God eats when you set up a priest? ”

The black dog shakes his head.

The sacrament is a silent and secret ritual for the priest, the god and the two of them. Apart from the priests of all time, the people of the White Book did not know the procedure in detail. But there was a conjecture, and there was a story I heard.

“You don't want to do that? I'll just accept that sentiment and wish. I wonder if the act of sacrifice itself is a sacrifice. I will be sacrificing today and tomorrow. ”

The girl lost interest in the story that follows. No matter how important the world was, offering sacrifices to God was seen as futile, with God's permission. Despite the unrealistic circumstances surrounding him now.

So instead of focusing more on those keywords, the girl decided to focus on her original purpose. The conversation between her and Kite continued for a long time afterwards. Then the girl who finally gives up entering beyond this line swoops around with a broken heart. The conversation ended with a black dog laughing at the back.

* * *

I was looking at the back of an eminent man.

He is performing a ritual at an altar located in the mother of the White Book. It was the second time I came into this place. It is a place where no one should enter but the priesthood, but I am here now because God wanted me to.

‘The land of blood and oil,' he commanded me to offer my own sacrifice twice in a row. It was for this reason that he who prayed was not a resident of the White Book, but a nation.

“· · · is ready. Yoon Seon.”

He stood up and looked at me. I nod and reach for the prepared offering.

“Heh, heh, heh! ”

The shadow of my hand covers the face of the sacrifice. Fearful breathing came out.

A total of three Chinese raiders were captured by the Yellow Forest. The three of them spent the night in an intimate exchange with me, and completed training to answer quickly and unintentionally no matter who asked about their country of origin and the purpose of the raid.

One of the best trained was thrown to the Korean government, and now there are two left in this position.

I catch one of them. As soon as he touches the skin, his mouth opens and the horse pops out.

The agent spits reflexively without knowing exactly what will happen in the future. He translated and communicated his words.

“I am Jinlong Shue from XX Bureau of National Safety of the People's Republic of China! I was instructed by my direct supervisor, XX Director Rimming Guo on XX of XXX, to conduct a secret mission to XXXXX to the area of operations at XX o'clock at the Korean address! The goal of the operation is to kill all of the Korean Yellow Forest's guards who are presumed to be wizards and transfer the Yellow Forest to the National Security Department located at XXXX, Beijing City, People's Republic of China! ”

Just as the water flows, so is training.

After that, words continue to speak. A voice distorted by fear. Quickly list words and sentences like a machine in an unstable tone. In the absence of psychic magic, training through physical stimulation was the limit. It was a matter of a limited amount of time.

I grabbed him without letting go of the hand that grabbed him while he kept spitting.

“After the abduction at XX o'clock, we moved through Route X and then we planned to meet at the XX pier. ”

He noticed something strange. My eyes, my breathing, my face, I could guess the intention. A person's will to survive also draws on this superhuman learning ability.

After all, he stops memorizing what he said.

“After that, by sea to the People's Republic of China! Uh-uh! Argh! Please! Help me! I did it wrong! Please save me!”

I don't care about the reaction, I strengthen him with magic power, and then I throw his body on the ground.

“Khhhhhh!”

Take a few breaths, and it soon turns into a sharp scream. A bowing agent on the ground.

The face is wrinkled. The agent vomits a bubble of blood and clay. The invisible beast then breaks his head and severs his limbs as if biting and chewing. The intestines roll. The bones break. The dirt near the altar is washed with red body fluids.

I throw the other one who was shaking on his knees. A similar phenomenon followed. His brains flutter down the edge of his eyes, turning white and buzzing. The body was instantly shattered. My magic is not an intervention. The moment I thought I'd offer it, it naturally happened.

The screams of the handset stopped. Fragments of the body begin to be absorbed naturally into the ground. After a little while, there was not a drop of blood on the ground. The only proof that the two agents were here was a white kim blooming from the earth, created by the warmth of the exposed viscera.

Oil nods.

“That's it. The two new recruits will be fine for now. ”

The cost of oxygen, the warmth of the artificial sun, the energy that sustains the food chain, and the ability of the world to sustain its existence was accepted by both Huangsoo Forest and Kim Kyung-hwan.

“Dr. Yoon, this is a very special case. I would like to emphasize once again that it is a secret that must never be known to anyone but the priest. ”

The voice of an outstanding man was advanced. I nod. I didn't have to break this promise.

“Yes, I'll keep it a secret. ”

In fact, this was one of the reasons why some facilities in the house had not been completely moved to the backlog. Water tanks were a problem, especially for basements. Thousands of dragons are recovering from injuries caused by one xenophobic race, two traffickers, and insects.

It is a waste to prepare offerings for the long-term residence of all those creatures in the backlog. No, there's a fundamental reason for being insecure before that.

“Oh, really. ”

I feel like I have an idea.

“I heard that today, why don't you visit the lake? ”

If it's a lake · · ·.

I noticed the intent of the leading man. I guess and ask.

“Why all of a sudden? ”

“According to the residents who take care of the consciousness, my brother seems to have adjusted somewhat now, but my mother's mental state is very unsettling. ”

I nod quietly. I have to go.

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