Chapter 168 – Mind

I forced myself to stand up, but the war situation was still against me. Fearing that the building would collapse, he could not properly use large-scale magic. Now one eye couldn’t see properly because of the medicine, and there was quite a bit of blood coming out because I forcibly pulled out the scalpel earlier. Shit I should have pulled the guy stuck in my shoulder, I’d pulled the guy stuck in my thigh for no reason…

“Oh, don’t worry. Even if you collapse, we’ll do the suture surgery before we leave. We’ve brought the thread.”

“Yeah, that’s really…”

I threw the scalpel that had missed and threw it right into the guy’s eyeball.

“Thank you to tears!”

From what I’ve just observed, complex areas like the eye or the heart take very little longer to regenerate. Of course, it’s just a way to earn time. It wasn’t too impossible, though. Because I also had a number of goals of my own.

“I can’t even feel pain anymore from such a shallow move. Why don’t you use magic instead? If you keep using that magic… Do you know? Maybe one of your magic can kill me…”

Damn, I left Enoch alone. I didn’t come here to fight in the first place, so I thought it wasn’t necessary… I didn’t know if it would be possible to seal them inside Enoch even if I get seriously injured if I release the ones sealed there.

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No, I’m not going to seal that guy.

It can neither save nor punish. Even if I had brought Enoch, I would have made the same choice.

“Did you already run out of residual talent like this? If so, it must be our turn again.”

“No, now your chariot is not at all.”

I guess I should say thank you to that Uncle Tristan. Shadowless magic, this was definitely a great guy. The dream that three generations had accumulated was certainly a formidable feat.

“Is it bondage… is it…?”

Substituting the body’s mana into a specific attribute and using it was not a miracle that was possible only for the earth attribute and the steel attribute. Although it was a bit difficult for highly fluid attributes such as lightning, water, darkness, fire, and light, it was still possible to imitate similarly with other attributes.

“Because it’s bound by the tree’s roots… Besides, it doesn’t absorb nutrients like the tree-attribute magic you just used… There’s no way to escape through regeneration. Besides, since it’s the tree-attribute of another life itself, even trivial things won’t work. That’s why the spirit king of trees is called the strongest… hey, he really got hit by a single shot.”

Good thing you like hero movies. It was the moment when Teacher Groot’s insight really shined.

“Okay, so please surrender quickly. Killing someone who is not guilty of murder is an understatement. Even if I don’t sympathize with your pain, I can understand. Do your best…”

“If it were me in the past, I might have been fascinated by that story. But no matter what I do, I will not die. As long as it’s not Lancelot’s sword… No, there may be other options. But he who may or may not exist toward death. To walk a long way… don’t you think it’s too cruel?”

“Even if you say that, you have already been captured. It means that there is no point in saying anything or resisting any more. If you don’t want to rot in a dungeon for the rest of your life, you’d better surrender.”

“You’re naive, Sir Werner. Did you really think I wouldn’t have thought of a case like this?”

“What?”

He suddenly took out a black orb from his pocket. At first, I thought it was some kind of rice ball… This subtle smell… Is it gunpowder or a bomb?

“Werner-sama, you’ve seen gunpowder bombs, right?”

“It’s impossible to blow that magic with a palm-sized bomb like that. It’s even worse to blow up this building. Will it burn your hands or hurt you? You’ll regenerate in no time…”

“This is a masterpiece that has increased its power to the limit and reduced its size to the maximum. It is a masterpiece developed by Lord Galahad. The magic itself is solid, so it does not cause damage… but two people can do enough damage.”

Bedivere pulled out what appeared to be a safety pin from the bomb, and swallowed it whole.

“Hey, fuck this crazy…”

His body exploded with an indescribable roar.

—–

One thing was certain, from the tinnitus ringing in his ears, that things had gotten worse. Its power is twice that of modern hand grenades… or more.

Burning fragments were also embedded in my body, and I even suffered burns.

He was stillborn in an explosion and transformed into a burning piece of meat, but he began to regenerate and return to his original form. This one suffered from burns, paralysis, sleeping pills, and all the status ailments that could cause bleeding, so he was dying enough, but that guy still had no wounds.

“…don’t you feel enough now? Given time, I can deal with and subdue all of the armed forces of one country.”

“Yes, you are very strong…”

“This is such a difference in strength… No, I’m weaker than you, so this would be rude. If you realize that neither of us can withstand my curse… just give up. Can I do it? If you leave it like this, you will really die.”

“Let me ask you one thing. Why don’t you kill people?

“There is no death for me. How can I give to others what I do not have? The rest of death that even I did not have… What I so longed for… How could I give others soberly? Would you give the people you love to others?”

oh i can’t stand that By the way…

“By the way. Since I’m rolling on this side, I can understand such obvious lies.”

“…Yeah?”

“You’re just the type of person who can’t kill on its own. You’re a weak person from birth, and you can’t even think of killing others… Then you deliberately give other reasons and pretend you don’t kill on purpose… In reality, you just can’t kill it…”

“Shut up!”

Then scalpels flew again. Ah, this location is a bit dangerous… If you do it wrong, you’ll get stabbed in the heart or liver. However, if you throw a scalpel at such a position, you should put on a confident expression of victory. He was a nobleman who was really not suited to murder.

By the way… When you face death, every moment really feels slow. Suddenly, the moments I lived through feel fleeting…

Then, the beads started to glow again. And again, the strange woman’s voice was heard.

[Boss, tell me how many times. Magic is drawing freely, regardless of formalities.]

Yes I knew this voice. And she said exactly what she whispered. I don’t even know the principle.

“ᛗᚨᚷᛁᚲ – ᚱᛖᚠᛚᛖᚲᛏᛁᛜ ᛒᛚᚨᛞᛖᛊ (Sword Reflection Magic)”

The flying scalpels did not pierce the body, but bounced off.

“…What is that magic? It’s not Lord Tristan’s chantless magic, it’s not sorcery or blood magic, it’s not even the existing magic that communicates with the spirits…”

“Ahh…”

Did I bleed too much? Damn… Now my head is blank.

[You are so hurt. You have to be careful about that. wait.]

“ᛗᚨᚷᛁᚲ – ᛊᛏᛟᛈ ᛒᛚᛖᛖᛞᛁᛜ (Spell to Stop Bleeding)”

The blood flowing like crazy stopped at the traces of the scalpel being pulled out. However, I still felt numb as if my whole body had cramps because of the numbing drug.

[Did you get a mouse like that? Really, you can’t do anything alone. wait.]

“ᛗᚨᚷᛁᚲ – ᛊᛏᛟᛈ ᛈᚨᚱᚨᛚᛁᛉᛖ (stopping paralysis)”

It was only a temporary measure, but… it was suitable for use in battle.

Yeah, I was trying to vaguely remember. The one who took care of me like a babysitter whenever my mother was too busy and abandoned me… no, the apostles. The Apostle of Dreams and the Apostle of Change.

“Ha… and…”

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Now, even that name is trapped in the fog, but I remembered one thing that he loved me.

“Hey Doctor…”

The blood shed hadn’t returned, and the effects of the sleeping pills were still there, so she wasn’t completely sane.

“Because I thought I was brought up unfortunate? I thought I was the protagonist of an unfortunate tragedy that never met loving parents like you… who could die for their children… I guess I had that too.”

I don’t know my mother, but there were two people who raised me like parents.

“The person who gave his life for me… It seems that the man who has everything in the world couldn’t beat you because he was talking about his stomach…”

“… Stop falling down. You fought hard.”

It couldn’t be.

[Shall I tell you what to do when you encounter an immortal enemy? It’s simple. Magic has no limits.]

“ᛗᚨᚷᛁᚲ – ᛚᛁᚷᚺᛏ ᛟᚠ ᚲᛁᛚᛚᛁᛜ ᛁᛗᛗᛟᚱᛏᚨᛚ (Spell to Kill Undead)”

A ray of light extended from the fingertips and grazed Bedivere’s cheek.

Damn, did I miss it because I was dizzy…

Fortunately, however, the wound did not regenerate as before.

“Now I can kill you…”

Ah, I used too much mana while bleeding too much. Besides, I was circulating sleeping pills, so damn it.