365th episode
Jae-ho, who broke up with Farrow, came up to the forest of Embay.
And the place I headed was a devil plant garden that I made last time and almost neglected.
But the devil's grasses grew thickly, considering that they were left unattended.
"How can these things grow well if left alone?”
I felt like I was a demon for no reason.
But I didn't come here because of the Devil's Candle.
The real purpose is... ....
"Kino!"
It was Kino, the queen of the poisonous snake and the Black Wizard Division.
If she is a man and devil, exactly a half-circubus, she might find something new in this item.
"Kino! Where are you?! Come out!"
Jae-ho shouts out loud because he doesn't know where the sanctuary of the Black Magician Division is located.
I thought I might get help from Gios, but I was a little scared to eat him again with such trivial things, who is still working silently at the construction site.
'Let's look it up for now and call it if it doesn't work.'
And fortunately, the reaction came back quickly.
"You seem to be spreading rumors all over the neighborhood."
Kino appeared with his unique relaxed voice.
Appearing beyond the Devil's Garden, she beckoned Jae-ho.
"You'd better go somewhere quiet. If you come to see me, it's never normal.”
Jae-ho sensibly followed Kino, who led him into the forest first, and Jae-ho moved his steps.
"But a lot must have happened in that short time."
Kino's meaningful look at Jaeho.
"Oh, because of this guy?”
Jae-ho looked down at the front pocket, thinking Kino was talking about Aldrion.
No matter how powerful and powerful she was, her identity was a dragon, so she could not not not know.
Kino, however, stared at Jae-ho without even looking at Aldrion.
"Not the monkey. You are what I say."
"Huh? Me?"
Jae-ho, who was wondering what he was talking about, immediately understood, "Ah."
"The essence of an ogich?"
The power of Ogich that he has completely absorbed.
Thanks to him, he became a completely different being, and Kino saw it straight through.
"That's interesting. It's great that you've had it without being taken away, but you've absorbed it completely. But..."
Only then did Kino look at Aldrion, who had half taken himself out of Jae-ho's pocket.
"As expected, it was too much to fully accept the power of the dragon with the human body. Seems to me that I've shared with the monkey.”
"That's great. How can you even know that at once?”
"Whoo-hoo, if you live a long life, you'll get at least one useful ability."
Aldrion, meanwhile, was also nervous about seeing through Kino's true nature.
"Alsia the Great. How do you get close to such a dangerous being? Besides, there's a lot of maggots around here...….”
"Huh? Do you know Kino?"
"How can you not know? Old-fashioned monster witch. A lunatic arsonist who burns every corner of the continent. I never thought he'd be alive.”
Maybe he's referring to a time when he had a bad relationship with his daughter Snow.
'Well, you don't have to explain the whole story.’
Seeing Kino's attitude toward Aldrion with a mischievous smile, he didn't seem to care much about the statement.
But I had to make one thing clear.
"Kino and I are allies. It wouldn't have been possible if it wasn't for Kino.”
"Huh! I was wondering if Coffey had escaped from the devil's grasp...….”
Aldrion sighed heartily.
But that didn't mean he could do anything.
Whether he liked it or not, it was because he had an obligation to protect Jae-ho, the official successor of Cofei.
"You're a big fusser. Aldrion."
As expected, Kino, who knew him, smiled and said,
"I wish I could kill you when you're as cute as you are now, but I'm putting up with Alsia.”
"Huh! Ogich, are you provoking me with only the experience of dealing with that clumsy fellow?"
"Well? What will it be?”
Jae-ho stopped him in the middle because it seemed like a war of nerves was getting worse.
"I don't want you two fighting and hurting me. I've been having a lot of headaches lately."
"Hoo-hoo, you're lucky."
"That's what I want to say.”
They turned their heads, leaving behind the scenes.
However, Jae-ho thought it was fortunate that there were no other armed conflicts.
* * *
Jae-ho, who came into Kino's Venomous Apple Wizards' sanctuary.
This time, too, was hidden underground, and it was amazing how they could create a facility of this size.
'Maybe the Black Magicians, not the Yellow Pagoda Wizards, are real architectural masters.’
Jaeho sitting opposite Kino thinking like that.
"Yes, let's hear the story now."
Jae-ho immediately took out an unidentified device and put it on the middle table.
"Hmm?"
Kino, who opened his eyes thinly, looked at it.
"I heard from our demon that this thing was made on Roduca's side? But I didn't know anything else, so I brought it."
"Rodukara....... I can see why you came to see me."
She's half-circuited.
And he thought it must have something to do with Rodukaii Circubus, the great man of color.
And the guess was correct.
"It's a device that gives the demons a strong stimulus."
Kino, who recognized it at once, beckoned lightly and floated it up to the nose.
"The magic flowing out of here must belong to the circus. But the concentration of power here isn't that high."
"The concentration of power?"
"Simply put, it's enough to heat up the atmosphere."
"...Hmm?"
Embarrassed Jae-ho raised his doubts with a stupid sound.
"Haha, what are you pretending you don't know? You look like you know everything."
"Oh, no. I had a rough idea, but I was embarrassed to hear it so plainly."
Once again, I realized that New World was an adult game.
"Anyway... ...doesn't it have any effect other than that?"
Contrary to what Kino said, humans had developed a powerful debugging effect on this device.
And the effect of the debuff did not seem to be on that side at all.
"Well, this is just my guess."
The following story of Kino was quite shocking.
"There is a possibility of that purpose in the first place."
"Do you mean it's a thing that was aimed at people from the start?"”
"I don't mean that. It means a device for absorbing dense energy efficiently. "However, the power of Circubus, which is very small for the devil, is only accepted as a deadly level for humans."
In other words, Kino sees it as a force-absorbing device, not to neutralize the object.
"Sercubuses are creatures that feed on the vitality of others. I guess it's a device made for that."
Come to think of it, so was Kino.
In order to keep her youth alive over the years, she was sucking on the vitality of other creatures.
Even at this moment, a friend of Jae-ho's kindergarten was sucking blood deeper underground.
"Ah......."
Recalling that point, Jae-ho was able to understand the device at once.
Ring
[I got to know]
“?!”
Kino's guess was correct, and the hidden item information was finally updated.
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This is a popular cube for a witch lover or couple.
A new joy for them, who are now calm!
*Your hot vitality absorbed by this cube is used for difficult and difficult circuses.]
Unexpectedly, it was an object of considerable public interest.
'It really doesn't suit you.’
But if you think about it, there must be a lot of circus buses that suffer from alienation.
The more such people there are, the weaker the influence of the Great Devil Roduca, so I thought maybe he came up with this method.
Everyone can win-win...….
"But that's a lot of course. By any chance, what are you trying to use for? You have someone in your mind.….”
"What the hell are you talking about? Why would I use this!"
Jae-ho protested angrily.
It's a demon-related item, so I just brought it, if I had known its purpose from the beginning...….
'...but you must have taken care of it'’
Nothing would be as stupid as leaving such a rare thing behind.
"Oh? Then this means no use to you."
"...uh?"
Somehow I feel like I'm in a trap belatedly.
"Then why don't you give this to me?"
Kino was heartily coveting.
"I think this is pretty good for me to use, too. It's not usually tiring to use up my mana every time."
But I couldn't just ask for it.
Furthermore, Jae-ho had something else to argue with her.
"I have a question before that. You knew that, didn't you?”
"Hmm? What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
"The one Ogich left a curse just before he died! A wizard like you couldn't have known that.”
"...hoot."
Kino's eyes were bent like half a month and began to laugh wickedly.
"That's why. That you have accepted all the power of Ogich.”
Kino, you knew it was Kino!
"Hey, is this going to end with a smile? You should have told me if you had that!"
"Isn't that good as a result? You've become stronger.”
Of course, it didn't work.
"Don't think about just eating raw again this time. You can't just skip over the fact that you let Gios go to us."
Jae-ho made it clear that he had no intention of slipping away.
"Well, that's what I'm saying..... So if you pay enough for it, you mean you'll give it as much as you want."
Kino, who understood correctly, was in agony with his arms folded.
Just like that's perfect!
"That's right! You have a good idea."
Her troubles were not long.
"We'll formally manage the demons. And I will share the findings with you."
"Huh? The devil candles?"
It was an entirely unexpected proposal.
"You don't think it's just that the devil's grass on the ground has grown so big, do you?"
"Then you raised him?"
"Aren't you sure?"
As I said in the last meeting, Kino was working on the Devil's Candle.
"I'm afraid we'll have some decent madogues soon, because we've got good black magic and common sense. We can't show up in public, so I'll leave the sale to you."
“?!”
It was quite an unconventional condition.
Needless to say, the performance goes without saying if the items come from Kino's hands, not anyone else.
I think it's okay.….’
In fact, Jae-ho is not sure, but the proposal was not just unconventional.
The perception of black magic in the New World world view is not good, but it was the opposite for players.
It was very popular because the black wizard class was a hybrid position that could deal, serve, and debugger.
Therefore, the value of an item made by a black sorcerer at the level of a wizard could not be said.
"Hmm...... well, not bad."
Without knowing the details, Jae-ho accepted them as if he couldn't win.
In any case, the Devil's Candle was no better than Gyeruk, but there was no reason to refuse it because Kino was not enough to manage it for him, and he gave him exclusive sales rights for related items.
"Hoo-hoo, I thought well."
[The Serpent Black Wizard Division has been appointed manager of the Devil's Plants.]
When the contract was signed, the roughly built Devil's Grass Garden in the Embay Forest was officially named.
Every month from now, the Poison and Black Wizard Division will provide you with a deal for sale.]
[20% of the sales proceeds come into your possession.]
"It's a little salty. Can't you do 45%?"
"I don't say this very often, but isn't it crazy to take half as a sales agent?"
"That's... that's...….”
Jae-ho, who had been greedy based on reality, came to his senses with Kino's cold-hearted warning.
"Whoo-hoo, anyway, I'll take good care of you."
Kino said, stroking the absorbent cube with a satisfied face.