chapter 24
Hahoe Mask (2)
Heinz II was traveling smoothly with his brother and sister.
He hid his energy and did not go out for a while, and hired a mercenary with the excess money to guide and escort him.
“Ugh… monster, monster….”
Of course, some of them turned into thieves in the middle.
It’s unavoidable in this world.
“Ttt, I just lost my appetite.”
I took my mouth off the nape of the last mercenary and threw the skinny corpse to one side.
There were already corpses piled up in the same place.
After wiping the blood around my mouth and arranging my clothes, I turned and went out of the bush.
“oh! mister! Are you done?”
“Okay, let’s go now.”
The brothers and sisters, who were waiting by the carriage, were put inside, and they sat on the coach seats and drove the horses.
After learning from Walter, who first hired him as a coach, he is now able to drive a horse by himself to some extent.
It was a result of practicing whenever I had time.
‘The mercenaries you hired this time were lousy. The security is open, but there is nothing we can do about it.’
Even mercenaries who appear to be in good health do not know when they will turn into thieves when they leave the city.
Rather, it must have been fortunate that nothing had happened during that time.
‘But thanks to that, I was able to vampire blood after a long time. I can hold on to it longer, but my strength is limited, so whenever I get a chance, it’s better to have a vampire.’
In particular, there was no need to take care of those who habitually kill clients and steal their wealth like this one.
‘For now, we are moving eastward, but we can’t stay like this forever. I’ll have to think about what to do next.’
Now, because it was on the western edge of the continent, he could move without being detected, but he never knew what would happen in the future.
As I was driving the horse, I slowly looked back.
In the bush where I was a little while ago.
Suddenly, a black shadow flickered.
***
[Hmm, the blood-sucking corpse is very poor quality.]
It must be because even the energy to become undead and mutate has been extorted.
Hans looked at the four skeletons standing in front of him, then stored it in a subspace and turned around.
It’s inferior, but it’s better than nothing.
[Now that I have bought time by coming to this world, I must explore the secrets of magic in a quiet place.]
No need to eat, no need to sleep.
It does not require any metabolism, so all the time could be devoted to researching magic.
I got up and headed deep into the woods.
In fact, if you consider a place where there are no people, the Forest of Monsters, where you first encountered the Warlocks, might be better.
But there…
‘I think we’re going to clash with vampires and warlocks. I think it would be more quiet to study in seclusion in a distant, nameless mountain.’
I chose a cave located deep inside and settled there.
I politely asked for the consent of the residents who had moved in first, but I had no choice but to make them all undead as I sat down on my stomach.
To the goblins reborn as undead, they sat down and cleaned the inside of the cave, including the filthy urine.
I don’t have a sense of smell, but it’s nice to feel clean though.
[I need to install a barrier. She always wears a cover-up, but it would be better to make it more clear.]
He hid his hideout by mobilizing all his new knowledge, including the concealment barrier that hides black magic.
It won’t be long, but the vampires who have been severely damaged by Hans will be grinding their teeth.
When it was about Jinhyeol, there was a possibility that I could pursue it using a means that I did not know.
[···done. This is enough.]
It meticulously encloses barriers such as detection of outsiders, concealment of black magic, illusions, cognitive impairment, cognitive distortion, and disorientation.
It won’t even come close to any level.
I sat in the middle of the cave and focused.
‘First, let’s analyze the magic.’
So the serious research began.
***
Ajantu.
It was a city that belonged to the power of the vampire clan Brokoslak until recently, but now it was occupied by the Shinju Church.
However, the denomination cannot directly occupy the territory of another kingdom.
He requested the Kingdom of Thalia to station an army and, with their cooperation, conducted an investigation.
In the process, the leaders of the city who were possessed by vampires were arrested one after another.
Of course, the organizations in the back alleys were no exception.
tickle, tickle
The paladin wearing pure white armor went through the passage to the basement.
It was a place where traces of the battle were left everywhere.
“Archbishop Latius.”
When the paladin arrived in the basement, he gently called out a middle-aged man who was standing still inside.
“Welcome, Sir Tuskin. How are things going?”
“Yeah, finding the vampire remnants has now come to a close. Kingdom soldiers have been a great help.”
An unexpected clash with the vampire clan.
They succeeded in killing most of the vampires through the siege, but they also suffered considerable damage and missed some including Jinhyeol.
After investigating the traces, he found out that they were not part of the Immortal King’s descendants, but it didn’t change because vampires were also clearly evil.
If anything, it was their purpose.
“Our goal is to stop the resurrection of the Immortal King. I faced evil in front of my eyes and I couldn’t pretend I didn’t see it, so I went out, but it’s time to move again. He must be gaining strength even at this moment.”
Originally, they were a unit organized to stop the Immortal King.
In the process of investigating the city of Ajantu to follow his footsteps, he discovered traces of vampires and was conducting a search with the Kingdom Army, but he could not devote time to this until when.
“of course. But right now, we can’t figure out where he’s gone and his whereabouts. We have no choice but to wait for the saint to contact us again.”
Suddenly, all traces were cut off.
I had no choice but to wait here.
Of course, they were not satisfied with the remnants of vampires.
“However, fortunately, I have had an income of my own. The trail of the gnome started from a small town in the western monster forest. And what happened in this city.”
Latius focused on reading the memories left on the earth through the Holy Law of the Lord in a place where the traces of him were thick.
Over time and under the influence of magic, it was fragmented and blurred, so it was impossible to fully comprehend it.
However, some of them were clearly identifiable.
‘My name is Hans.’
‘Remember that. I am Hans of the oath of reversal!’
A creature that wears a bizarre mask and radiates ominous energy from its entire body.
A gloomy voice resounding from hell.
The majesty of dealing with the undead and spreading black magic.
Descendant of the Immortal King, Hans.
‘It’s not going to go your way. Hans! Even if there is a limit to burning this one body, I will definitely stop it!’
Archbishop Latius clenched his fists and clenched his fists.
woo woo-
At that moment, the church’s holy sign hanging from his neck vibrated.
“This···. Sir Tuskin, excuse me for a moment.”
“Don’t worry, Archbishop.”
As Tooskin grabbed the hilt of his sword and began to watch his surroundings, he immediately knelt on the spot, held the holy symbol in both hands, closed his eyes and prayed.
[Archbishop Latius. Can you hear me?]
[Yes, Saint.]
The voice of the saint who was in the main altar reverberated in my head.
It was an ultra-long-distance communication method using a star sign.
[The energy of the Immortal King has been captured again. It’s blurry, but I think I can figure out the direction.]
[I’m so glad! I also researched this place and had my own harvest.]
The saint and the archbishop exchanged information with each other through communication.
[···okay. Hans. It’s growing faster than expected. As soon as I confirmed the appearance, I formed a subjugation squad, and that’s already it…]
[I don’t think we should delay any longer. I will start tracking again right now.]
[Then please, Archbishop. It may disappear again, so I will keep an eye on it.]
Woo-
After greeting each other, the communication ended.
He got up and looked at Tuskin, who was escorting him beside him.
“Sir Tuskin, prepare your campaign. The saint has identified his whereabouts.”
“···! I’m so glad! She is also a saint.”
“The exact location of what he did is still unknown, but since we know the approximate location, we should investigate the area. The rest is up to us.”
“I will prepare it right away.”
Paladin Tuskin, a paladin, hurriedly left the place to repair the troops.
Latius looked around for a moment.
Where the traces of the bastard remain.
Awkward—
‘This time, for sure!’
He clenched his fists again and vowed.
***
It’s been a week since Hans was locked up.
It wasn’t creating magic that didn’t exist at all, but it was close to the process of disassembling and assembling, so it was showing its own results.
In the interim, he caught wild animals and tested them himself, and devoted himself to research.
tenth day.
I was happy and excited that it was finally completed, but as a result of testing on animals, the confidentiality was too low.
The black magic was leaking, of course, the eyes were red, so it looked like something was wrong with anyone, so I started working on improving it.
this week.
In the process of improvement, the problem was that the amount of activated mana was reduced, so the stability was too low.
However, the contagiousness disappears when stability is achieved, so I had to wrap my head around it for a while.
Third week.
[Paud-duk–duk-duk! Go fast!]
I was grinding my teeth hard.
A black aura erupted from his body.
It spewed out energy to a level that would have been dangerous if a barrier had not been placed in advance, and then forcibly calmed down and finally subsided.
‘I can see why programmers go to debugging.’
If you fix this, you repeat that there will be a problem on the other side, and you are happy that the problem is solved without even touching it, but it bursts out all at once during the finishing work.
It was a really tough time.
In the meantime, Heinz had passed through several towns and cities to reach the heart of the kingdom, often idling as he poured his psyche into Hans.
Each time, the siblings were so worried that Heinz had no choice but to moderately control his share.
‘Anyway, it’s really over now…! It really is the last!’
I went out of the cave to test the formula of the ‘Contagious Ministry Magic Final Version_Modification_Secondary_FINAL(3)_Real Last’.
It was to catch an animal and try it out for yourself.
After enchanting a few flying birds and guiding them to this direction, they cast a spell to test and release them.
‘So far, nothing is wrong, it’s okay. Now I just have to wait and see the results…’
As I waited, I could feel the links connecting one by one due to the contagious effect.
The number of connected entities could be appropriately adjusted here.
It’s useless even if there are several of them in the same place, and it’s just uselessly consuming mana.
It was a time when he was experimenting with maintaining magic at an appropriate interval.
I felt something odd.
‘what? You don’t feel any abnormality in the detection magic, do you?’
The movements of the animals enchanted by ministry are strange.
Except when sending information to me, I would move as usual, but the current movement is like…
‘Are you scared? All the animals sent everywhere? on what?’
For the experiment, the animals were enchanted and the trigger to send information was set to ‘When I met a monster’.
However, the information did not come and the animals were frightened…
‘no way?’
I changed the trigger in a hurry.
‘When I met a human being’.
support support—
Information was transmitted simultaneously from all directions.
‘how? The detection magic didn’t detect anything!’
information transmitted by animals.
A group of invisible groups surrounded them and slowly approached them.