165 – Fog-12

It is horrible.

I was expecting When they said they had succeeded in gathering as many corpses as they needed, they already knew it wouldn’t be one or two corpses.

However, I never thought that so many corpses could have been preserved in such a vivid state.

“…”

It’s as if you’re still alive. The dying expression remained vivid. Some corpses seemed like they would come back to life if they were pulled out of the glass tank right away and healed by the priest.

However, the hero’s intuition was ruthlessly telling them about their condition. No, in fact, I would have known it even if I had been alert.

It was foolish to expect someone who would have been locked here for hours, even weeks, to stay alive.

As if a person whose upper body had been cut off could not be alive just because his face and neck were intact.

The anger that had faded a little soared like a waterfall. Whoever my opponent is, I will make them pay this price.

The basement was spacious. The body seemed to be kept submerged in a special solution or something.

There was only one road, so there was no hesitation about which way to go.

I couldn’t see straight ahead. It seemed that the corpses filling the side of the road were staring at me, so I couldn’t take my step easily.

Even so, I couldn’t stop here. Making eye contact with a corpse was not very pleasant.

It has to end.

“…”

Actually, I know. They just bought corpses.

The wizards just waited and gathered. Traces of all the murders and looting that took place in this area.

Even so, it was a terrible and cruel sight to see.

I felt popular. At the end of the road, there was a huge altar.

It wasn’t high, but it was solid and wide. A magic circle was drawn underneath, and evil energy stimulated every angle of my body.

“…After all, you’ve come this far.”

In that empty space, a little wizard was sitting. A little sad, with a slightly bitter face.

Even looking at her face, I couldn’t believe the situation in front of me. It was to the point of doubting that even this was a hallucination, or that she had brought a child who looked like her.

“Farse.”

She wiped the remorse from her eyes. An ominous atmosphere lingered.

“Really… what did you do?”

“If I said no, would you believe me?”

“Well.”

In fact, you might have believed it. Even if I saw a farseer experimenting here, I would have listened to it seriously if he explained the situation in a panic.

“Since you came all the way here, I have no intention of hiding it… Yes, it’s me. This old wizard took a hand.”

“But…how? I don’t think they were collected in a few weeks.”

“There’s no way I’d need my strength for such a trivial matter. Even while I was traveling with you, my plan was in progress.”

It is foolish to give time to a mage. If the mage at this end had been a mage other than a farseer, I would have rushed like lightning and subdued that human.

However, I couldn’t bear to do that to Farseer.

“…why?”

I asked a question that had never been answered. The fundamental question that kept binding me on was that there was no reason for the Farseer to do this.

“Is that important?”

But Farseer smiled a little and denied my worries as if they were useless.

“I’ll let you know if you want. It’s not a very important story… I just needed a corpse. Is this not enough?”

“…why?”

Farseer hesitated for a moment, unable to speak.

“Because it was necessary for magic. When it comes to dealing with evil magic, what material is as good as a corpse?

“But, as I said last time, I don’t need a corpse…”

“Isn’t the value of an item different depending on the need and the situation? To the extent that you picked up a few words from me, are you mistaken for yourself as a master of magic?”

She was right. I didn’t have expert knowledge of magic, and it was just a matter that could be changed according to her thoughts.

But, nonetheless.

“I believed you…”

“It’s funny. Even after all that happened, you still haven’t lost your trust.”

If it was Farseer, I believed that such a thing would not happen. I believed that she had changed on the journey to find materials.

Even if that wasn’t the case, at least he believed in the girl who fought together in the hero’s party. Even if he tolerated a small sacrifice, he believed that there would be a great cause at the end.

“why…”

“Magic requires sacrifice.”

Farseer’s words sounded like they were directed at me.

The countless people she sacrificed during the hero’s party’s journey, and me who had to suffer for the hero’s party.

The statement that values change according to need reminded me of her completely changed attitude after realizing that I was a warrior for the first time.

“On the contrary, it is both funny and pathetic that you doubt me now.”

“…”

There was plenty of room for doubt. In common sense, Laurel and Cristina’s suspicions are reasonable and legitimate.

If you ask for a powerful mage who can secure influence over the mage tower for a long time, everyone will point to Farseer.

Still, I thought she couldn’t be. Even now, when Farseer was admitting his guilt, I still couldn’t believe her words.

“Then why… are you telling me everything so meekly now?”

There was no reason for that. As much as I understood her, at least as much as I thought I understood, she knew me.

Like an idiot, there was no reason to have to tell the truth so meekly.

“Why? Why am I here? How can I tolerate someone who persistently pursued what I was trying to do?”

Farseer raised his hand.

“Because the dead can’t open their mouths. It’s natural.”

“Kuk!”

A demon filled with vicious aura passed by me. A huge magical power that would have torn my body apart if I hadn’t avoided it quickly.

“Really… Really? You’re going to kill me?”

“Why, can’t you believe me? I’m really happy that you trust me like this. But… this is the end of my relationship with you.”

He is a prepared magician. The way she fires her magic casually tells us that Farseer has been preparing for this fight for at least several days.

“You can’t let me disturb you any longer. I’m sorry, but what can I do? We have no choice but to break up at this point.”

Farseer’s eyes looked so sad. At least, as if saying sorry wasn’t a lie.

However, there was no time to leisurely analyze her feelings. Once again, where I was, huge magic bullets rained down.

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“…”

The fight didn’t last long. Since it was a battle between a wizard and a warrior, it was only natural that the winner would be decided in an instant.

I said I was prepared, but it was not enough. Even though it’s only half, I was a warrior, and this fight was a battle where I didn’t have to cut down powerful demons with holy power.

My arms were full of scars, and a black aura shimmered on one side of my stomach. Her clothes, which had been fine until she came here, were torn to pieces, and her legs were shaking.

However, I won.

“Heuk, heuk, heuh…”

Farseer was strangled by my hand, gasping for breath.

“You lost. I don’t know what you were thinking… I still don’t know, but give up.”

“It can’t be… is it?”

“Your words that you want everyone’s eternal life are still valid, right? Instead of doing such a thing, seek my help. I will cooperate with you until I return.”

i am a warrior Although luck followed, the remains of the phoenix and the blood of the unicorn that I and my party members rescued were nothing compared to the corpses of hundreds of ‘those’ humans.

I thought that this would be a convincing enough proposal.

“That… thing. I’m not interested anymore…”

“why!”

She killed people for her own greed. And, it’s an opponent you can’t predict how many more people you’ll kill.

Unlike the clumsy black magician, she was able to escape by any means after recovering her magic very little. As long as I don’t immediately decapitate her, there is no way to suppress the farseer.

For everyone’s sake, it’s right to kill Farseer right now.

“Surrender!”

I don’t want to. I want her to survive somehow. However, if it is like this.

“This me, do you think so?”

I could feel the mana rushing through Farseer’s body. Hold her for a few seconds, a few more seconds, and Farseer will disappear like the wind. And, it will make another death.

It’s to the point of saying ‘I’m not interested in anything like that.’ She was no longer the Farseer I knew.

You have to stop her. Even if you really don’t want to do it, you have to do it.

“Suck!”

A flash of light flashed. I hit her head with the Holy Sword faster than that light.

“…ah.”

At least, if I had to kill her, I wanted to let her go without pain in the end. However, I didn’t want to cut her until the end.

Instead of piercing through her head, the holy sword shattered Farseer’s head with its massive impact. The sense of loss came flooding in.

The corpse increased by one. A very small corpse with only the neck down.