The Traveling Hero Won’t Let the Innkeeper’s Son Escape

Suddenly, countless devices suddenly appear.Instruments laid on high ceilings or walls are not the ratio of machines on the side of the sealing device.Witchcraft civilization is supposed to flourish.It seemed like the only place where science and technology had developed.

"No, no!"

Hearing Karen's screaming, Ruth saw her gaze.

Hii-no, no?

Such a voice leaked unexpectedly.

There was a human brain there.The brain that would have hidden inside the skull is floating in a huge, clear glass case.

But that's not the only thing...

"... what's this number?"

It was only natural that Maxim shouted upset.

Kia is squeezing her face and holding her nose down, and Ed is pure white enough to fall now. Even Yuan has wrinkles between his eyebrows, and Cyrus has lost his words.

(Countless brains?)

The big glass case in front of Ruth and the others had a lot of brains and was stupid.The number may be three digits instead of ten or twenty.Moreover, each one does not exist separately, but rather is attached by a small magic cube.

You can see that the glass case is filled with liquid, that the brain is slightly stupid as it becomes a mass, and occasionally emits small light to convey it around you.

"... this is who Zagres is."

"This is it!? Zagres!? So, what was that!?"

"The figure just now is a virtual prosthesis created by his spiritual magic to make it appear to the outside world.It's not a real body. So you can change your appearance depending on who you see.--This is the body of the brain, the body of Zagres. "

Alec approached the glass case.

Underneath the glass case, a human body without a head was laid on a bed-like device and connected by many tubes.

"Alec... are you okay getting close?"

"Don't worry, I'm fine. Looks like the assault was pretty effective up there, and he was attacked by me earlier, so he can't get up any easier."

Ruth couldn't believe it.Until now, Wonok, Geo, and even Alec had held Zagres in hand, but I didn't think that this kind of movement seemed like a decent one.

"What do you mean, Zagres?Inside this glass case... is the brain. "

"That's right. … How did Ruth and Jiji… tell them about Zagreth?"

"Eh, sure...."

[Zagres is the ultimate artificial life form created by combining the various forces of humans, dragons, demons, spirits, undersea, wings - and many others]

The undersea queen Hildegardo told me about Zagres that way.

Alec laughed a little ironically at Ruth's words.

"You mean the Queen didn't lie at all...."

But there was a big difference between the Zagres that Hildegardo had told me to imagine and the Zagres that I was seeing right now.

"I guess so. Probably thought Zagres was born of a normal, human form of life.If they say “the ultimate life form," that's what they usually think.But what they did was even more cruel. "

Alec stares at the body of Zagres lying down.There was more pity there than the anger we had just had.

"Literally, they created as many species as they could identify.”Connect the brain to the brain. "

It is said that the amount and quality of magic differ depending on the performance of individual species' brains.Therefore, it was believed that the easiest way to increase magic and combine the abilities of different species was not to connect life at the genetic level - directly to the brain and to survive as one organism.

"I mean, to do that, Zagres..."

"Yes, I connected the brains of species all over the world to make one life form.It seems that some of these species are now extinct, but at that time, it seems that they succeeded in directly connecting more than 90 species of brain.- To end the war, that's all. "

Spiritual magic that can only be dealt with by the Spirit Clan, spells that can only be dealt with by the Demon Clan, magic that can only be dealt with by the Dragon Clan, and so on have existed for a long time.Special manipulations of each race cannot be used beyond the walls of the race.Even if Alec could make magic similar to Geo's healing magic, the magic is not the same as Dragon magic.Mostly a degraded version.

But Zagres had all sorts of magical talents.It had a level of power that transcended the race.It is thanks to the brain connection.

"However, if you have such a big brain, your body doesn't have one.I don't have enough vitality to support my brain.However, if you have more than one body, it will no longer function as a single organism, and your power will be dispersed.Then they can't do what they wanted to do.- That's why I built this ark. "

"Ark?"

"Oh, I tend to think it was created from naming to survive the catastrophe of a thousand years ago, but this ark was originally built to aid Zagres' body."

Eh!?

"So... this is the brain?"

"That's right. The room I'm in is the brain, assuming the whole ark is Zagreth's body.That's all that matters. "

That's why Alec described this room as a ”brain,” or why Geo captured the ark and explained it to the human body during Alec's rescue.

"We didn't even know we were in there...."

The fact that the boulders were in a single life form, not in a building, made the party feel confused.

"But this ark itself is approaching its lifespan."

Life expectancy?

"You've seen the exterior of this building.Do you think the Ark (here) will last for hundreds of years? "

The appearance of the ark that Ruth and the others saw was obviously old, taking into account the fact that it was buried in the ground.I don't think I can stay on the ground for a long time to come.I mean, it's degraded.

"... wasn't it too early to destroy this room in the first place?"

"I wanted to.The life-sustaining Magic Cube was too powerful to seal from above. "

"So many life-sustaining magic cubes...?"

"I was trying to make sure Zagres wasn't killed before he was sealed.Because of that, if you try to come to this place, you'll be thrown into another space.Even the demon king couldn't get here.That's why I was twisting my hand. "

Now that the magic of Zagres is being sharpened upstairs, the Zabin version is jammed to the point where it does not move, but there should have been more intense interference.

"But thanks to the seal, the magic of Zagres was suppressed - at least Jijii believed it was.It was right after the seal. "

Too anxious to seal it completely, Zagres didn't realize that it was gradually increasing public interference.

"Everyone knows the rest."

From there, Ruth and the others will know the worst.

"Does stopping Zagres mean...?"

"completely shut down the brain here."

"Why don't you get psycho and run away?"

"Some people seem to be able to do that, but Zagres can't.This thing is quite unstable because of its massive brain connections.If you lose your body, you can't live by your spirit alone.We can't be one group, we're scattered. "

Ruth remembers what Natasha said.After losing her body, she felt her presence diminished gradually.Even her brain was one, so I could reasonably understand that if life in such a complicated form lost its flesh, it would lose sight of itself and disappear.

"How do we stop them completely?"

"Unlock the magic cube connecting the brain.That way Zagres will stop - he will die. "

As soon as the word "die” was murmured, Zagres's appearance twinkled in front of her.

"Please, don't kill me...."

Once again, a young boy appears in front of Ruth and the others.

It was such a big attitude that I could not imagine provoking Ruth and the others earlier.

"No, I don't want to die... I was just doing what everyone told me to do."

A young boy in a shady figure.I know Zagres chose it deliberately.

Don't kill me......

"Hey, don't... you know what you did."

The boy ran to Karen's side.She looked up as if she was stuck, and Karen's expression was strong.But he clearly refused, so he gave up, and now he turns his gaze to Ruth.

Zagres rushed over.

But his hand was blocked by Alec's before it reached Ruth.

"Wow...!"

By Alec's magic, Zagres rolled down the floor.

"Ruth, don't be fooled."

Alec grabbed Ruth's hand and gripped him hard.

"... he tried to kill you for his resurrection.I will never forgive you. "

I know, Alec.

I can't forget that Ruth was almost killed by a boulder.And I also know that Alec feels so angry that he can't express it.

I really...

"How much do you think you killed people who couldn't even beg for their lives?"

I found Alec's voice filled with anger.

"More than half of your brain-linked species are extinct from the melting magic disease you created a thousand years ago!Still innocent! "

In Alec's words, I found that more people than I imagined had died as a result of a pandemic a thousand years ago.Understand why Geo isolated the survivors and sealed Zagres at the expense of many.

In the first place, I'm not allowed to do anything without malice.

"I think the situation is unhappy, that's why it's not forgiven."

Zagres killed a lot of people.Thousands of years ago and still today, countless people are suffering and grieving.

Yet he does not raise his hand on his own and makes a big hole in the sky to attack other creatures.

"Alec...."

Everyone's heart came together.There was no sympathy for Zagres anymore.

"I see... no one will be on my side.- Well then, there's no choice. "

Zagres pretended to be a big boy, but when he changed his voice tone, he stared at him with his bloody eyes.

At that moment, the figure disappeared in front of Ruth and the others.Chilly runs behind you.