The area was surrounded by silence.
There were no creature voices, no bug squeals, not even the twitching of the trees, and they were unusually quiet.
I lost my words to the sight my eyes were getting accustomed to.
We were stunned in the heart of the "blast zone".
"Ugh...!
Different odors of rotten flora and fauna can enter the surrounding area, inadvertently holding down the mouth. My lungs are going to rot with every breath I take, that smells like it.
The wreckage of an increasingly blackly discoloured organic matter filled a surface on one side, something like a "black column" that I could barely tell was trees collapsed in the corner of my sight spitting guzzle and white smoke.
Centered around where we are, the radius of 100 Merte was transformed into "scorched earth" on one side. No, the expression scorched earth is not correct.
It's a dying land of wreckage alone, where all life forms have rotted out and broken down.
For a moment, I was worried that everything in the world would turn out that way, but Iola and Riola, who were near me, and the carriage, they found me safe, and I stroked my chest down.
Turning his gaze further, he saw the border between the rotten land and the green forest, about a hundred mertes away. From there on ahead, the trees of the lush Kyodettel forest were shaking in the wind, no different from before.
"Iola, Riola... are you okay!
The two were sitting flatly in each other's hands. Green grass still grows around the two wordless people, only in the range of one merte. The green grass remained around the carriage in the same way.
I did my best to tie the line. It was the best because it enclosed the carriage and the twins at a level of junction that would isolate them from each space and protect them from Manuferno's 'curse ban'.
Of the sixteen types of anti-magic junctions I've been constantly rolling out, only the magic defense of the 'anti-corruption' attribute was superimposed on 256 layers at maximum output, rolling out around me, the carriage, and the twins. Still, only ten pieces of junction remained in the end. Thanks to you, I was draining most of my magic.
The carriage is perfectly intact, albeit directly next to the "heart of explosion" called Manuferno.
Lentomia can naturally connect on her own. Almost at the same time as I deployed, he seemed to wrap himself around the carriage in a junction. I mean, you must have been totally protected in your dual bond with me.
"Plum, Hempero, Lentomia! Are you all right?
"Huh...? Gugle, Gugle!
"To the wise man, such a curse...... who the hell is that monk!?
Plum, who is crying, and Hemperoza, a sober former demon cleric. The two were safe in the carriage, but perhaps the dark-elf quarter girl with brown skin is the one who understands this most.
"Curse is forbidden... Manu broke his promise..."
Lentomia turned a bewildered glance at me with an incredible face when she went up on the roof. The elves are deafening.
- The great spell cast by Manuferno, the magic of decay (Pedos).
The magic of death that corrupts all the organic matter around you in exchange for your whole magic power.
Mutates and superactivates bacteria in the body and epidermis of the organism with magic waves. It instantly breaks down the surrounding organic matter. It activates every life, plant, animal, living or dead that exists around it.
The ultimate magic of a special Dark Monk (Dark Priest) with no help to prevent but to defend himself in a strong anti-corruption junction.
I hear that Manuferno is a village of his birthplace, which erupted and devastated this curse.
I or Lentomia don't know what life of adventure I've had since when Manuferno, who was locked up as a cursed blood muscle abominator, met Dicamaran hero there - the brave Ergonaut Rical.
However, only the attributes, effects, and knowledge of the great magic were communicated to us.
And the curse was something that Manu himself took a hard oath to "not use in the future".
"Manu, Manuferno! Where!?
I screamed.
I look around but I don't see him. Just because you mentioned this doesn't mean the sorcerer himself disappears. I gaze across the green forest, which has receded for a long time. And... there he is!
Far away, near the border with the woods, I saw a figure wandering away.
"Everybody get ready to leave here! Full, blurb! Get back in the carriage!
To my command, nub from the black, rotten ground! and two pairs of wine barrel golems showed up. These two are also used organic matter, but it seems fortunate and safe to apply a complicated anti-magic defense to avoid accepting controls other than mine.
"Lentomia, please, I'll bring back the manu."
"Greg! No! Manu is now..."
Lentomia screamed in the back, but with all due respect, she developed a magic reinforcement exterior (Magnetics) to squeeze out little remaining magic.
I kicked the ground and followed Manu. Dressed to jump off the moon, hurry to the manuferno.
When my magic ran out and I failed to land unnecessarily, I finally reached Manuferno, dressed in a white monk costume.
Ha-ha-ha, a rough breath, finally caught up with me, and the silver-haired monk opened his eyes to his surprise when he looked back.
But soon, I tied my lips tight, fastened my legs, and headed towards the woods.
"Come on, Manu!
As soon as I grabbed Manuferno's little hand, I made a burning noise called Juwa and a few of my remaining junctions disappeared.
The magic of "decay" released from the body by the great magic that Manuferno spoke of continues to smoke (dull).
If he were a living person without ties, his arms would have rotted off.
A strong supposed sage junction - a shield that was supposed to be specialized in "anti-corruption" defense, left only five pieces. Now that the magic is running out, I will maintain it rather than regenerate the junction, so I will do my best.
"Petition. Goodbye... Mr. Greg, I can't stay with everyone anymore"
There were tears in his eyes. Rabbit-like red eyes shake in shakes across the glasses.
"Thanks to Manu, I, no, we were saved! Why do you need to leave!?
"I can't. I can't stop feeling overflowing from this body for a while"
Thus, at the foot of his gaze, the grasshopper, which was blooming blue poor flowers, shriveled and collapsed black from the tip.
Manuferno waves my hand away and tries to walk out again.
"That's why you're not going! In that situation, the only thing that could defeat the demons in the ground was the magic of Manu. Until you broke the contraindication...... you helped me! That's why they all saved me...... I appreciate it, that's why!
"Relief. If everyone is safe, that's fine, I want you to continue your journey. Sweet, help her."
Manu turns his gentle gaze toward the carriage. My narrowed eyes were saying goodbye to us.
"No, I can't let you go alone. We... I need a manual."
The wind blew through the rotten earth.
The air that was stopping, as if time, had moved out again.
"I can't. The overflow from me... will kill everyone else"
"I'll take care of that."
"I can't. I can't stop this power from you, Greg. Because it's what my demonic blood flows through my body produces."
"Ku......!
The curse. The activation process unleashes the "temper" that accumulates in Manuferno's body. Qi is like a by-product produced by the blood of the devil clan, so to speak.
The temporarily open mood does not easily subside.
"Regiment. He kept telling me to stay and disappear... of the cursed blood, the sin I bore"
- What's cooking?
I overflowed with anger that rolled from the depths of my heart.
What's the blood muscle, what's the cooking! You're just like me. A buddy, a friend. I want to be with you. So...... help!
Bite your back teeth, hold your fists, strengthen your gaze and scream from there in your belly.
"Let it stop, the power of the wise...... don't underestimate me!
"Sage. Gre...... you? But this temper... cannot be sealed."
"Then, - you can let him get away with it!
I squeezed a soft, little manuferno's hand.
"No. Dangerous...!
Manu screams. But I left behind only one piece of junction, infused with all the remaining magic to create hundreds of magic threads (Magiwires). Then wrap the body of the manuferno like a cocoon and connect its roots directly to the body of the manuferno.
"Whoa, whoa!
Not knowledge gained through search magic (Gogol). Only my own intuition and the experience of witchcraft I have cultivated in my previous adventures depended on it. This is a bet of one or eight.
Magic Yarn (MagiWire) has magic conductivity. The nature of this has been demonstrated by the coordinated attacks that Lentomia and I have shown. Because I even twisted the ballistics of Lentomia's great magic, Circular Magic (Cycloa) energy.
- Then it would be the power of Manu's temper, or dark magic!
"Conduct all of Manu's temper like earth to the MagiWire itself! entanglement, let it haunt and suck!
"Absorption.!? Liar... my temper... is getting sucked away!
Manuferno's eyes opened in amazement.
Suck it up, let it go. I keep stretching the Magic Thread itself.
Using magic conductivity, the magic yarn (magiwire) is accumulated into an impromptu "accumulator" coiled together.
Beyond the invisible space, the yarn circles, eventually becoming a mass, sintering into a single crystal-like shape.
"This...! Sage's... power. Ahhhh!
Put all magic power into the accumulator (capacitor) and drive it super (accelerator)! Accumulate and isolate the manuferno's temper, the magic of decay, everything.
It then crosses dimensional boundaries and manifests itself into the material world. A dazzling glow in the space in front of him, a small "crystal" began to appear.
With the drain of magic, the last defensive junction I was deploying vanished.
A burning pain runs on my fingertips, which are all naked. With the magic of the slightest remaining manu decay, my hand raised smoke and burned.
"Woohoo. Greg... No, that's not it!
"Gu, nooooooooooooo!
But I won't let go. All… breathe out and crystallize!
That's the best way to save Manu now.
When I was completely out of magic, I fell on the spot.
Your palms are completely burnt and you don't feel any pain.
At the same time Karan...... and caught stone-like crystals rolling on the ground in the corners of his lying vision.
"What do you say, Manu, now... you're staying with me..."
"Gre...... yeah!
A tear falling from the monk's eyes wet my cheek.
The wind flowing from the back of the woods is blowing through Manuferno's silver hair as if healing the rotten (just) acquaintance.
So my consciousness was interrupted.
Continued