Weapon-Eating Bastard [EN]: Chapter 301

Weapon-Eating Bastard – Episode 301

Turzhu saw them.

The enemies.

The darkly stained vision made everything in the world appear black.

Small, black things that seemed like they would burst if stepped on were rushing toward him.

Good. I’ll kill you all.

Turzhu moved his body.

A weapon to be held in his hand… There was no weapon. Instead, there were teeth and claws. He could also use magic.

Something’s strange. Something’s not right….

He didn’t care.

Either way, he just needed to defeat the enemies.

Turzhu dropped lightning.

But the lightning suddenly refracted, bouncing in all directions.

He found out later.

The unidentified man holding that club.

Every time he swung the club, the energies of the world were wielded freely.

It seemed he had to use that after all.

The secret skill left to him.

To blow everything up….

“So, you still have reason left.”

At that moment, a voice was heard.

Turzhu was momentarily stunned.

The enemy was speaking in human language.

And even though it wasn’t the language he used, he could understand the words.

“Are you resisting?”

Words were heard again.

Turzhu paused.

In that instant, everything felt foreign.

His own body, the twisted magic, the world unfolding before his eyes.

──────!

From the darkness, from the depths of his mind, from the depths of his underlying inner self, he heard a cry.

It was like the cry of a beast.

Only then did he remember.

He had been twisted like this by ‘that.’

As his vision cleared, the figures of the ‘humans’ who had only appeared as mere black grains came into view.

And the three weapons surging toward him, imbued with formidable power.

Mind Sword.

All those weapons were emitting the light of Mind Sword.

* * *

The moment they approached Turzhu, lines of tremendous magical power became visible.

All of it was equivalent to the full power attacks unleashed by 3rd-grade monsters.

Kwarururung! Pfit!

He tilted his head to avoid the lightning that fell from the sky.

He slashed away the piles of stones that suddenly shot up from the ground just before.

The shattered pebbles instead served as stepping stones.

With his right foot forward, he stepped on the shattered pebbles, avoiding all the obstacles.

Another streak of light falls, emitting a flash.

Lightning strike. Followed by numerous lightning strikes.

Pajijijijik!

Gyeongcheon shone.

As if a lantern had been suddenly turned on in the darkness, the onrushing lightning strikes bounced off in all directions by the light of Gyeongcheon.

Teodeong!

Black grains filled the air once more.

Each one was a weapon with terrifying explosive power.

Kwang!

I swung my arm wide and threw the weapon in my hand.

The black dots exploded and were swept away.

Then I rotated my body greatly.

With my back exposed, I trusted in Eunhan’s defense and offset the explosive power.

-Keueooooooo!

In that instant, I felt Turzhu’s murky eyes staring straight at me.

I saw the light of reason there.

My eyes gleamed, and I added more power to the three weapons floating in the air.

‘You’re resisting. If so, at least.’

I’ll send you off comfortably.

In that instant, the air distorted.

It was Turzhu’s Mind Sword again.

If I know it, there’s no reason to be hit.

I grabbed one of the three weapons floating in the air.

‘Sister. I’ll borrow it.’

Mind Sword, Formless.

Crushing Form.

A Mind Sword modeled after my second sister’s Mind Sword.

Using the magic power emitted from the soles of my feet as a stepping stone, I slammed the greatsword down.

In that instant, the air shattered into a grid pattern.

The surging distortions were also shattered as they were.

-……!

Turzhu writhed and tried to step back.

I had no intention of letting go.

Releasing the greatsword that used the power of Mind Sword, I picked up another sword on the right again.

Mind Sword, Formless.

Severing Form.

A long line was drawn in the sky by the sword strike swung with a great rotation of the body.

There was no sound, no light, and only the tremendous aftermath of magic power surged around that line.

-Keueooooooo!

Red blood gushed from Turzhu’s body like a fountain.

Turzhu’s eyes flashed, and he stirred up magic power again.

The air vibrated, and beyond that, I sensed the activation of Mind Sword again.

The distorting world.

However, that Mind Sword could not unfold.

The last sword floating in the air.

The last, my own Mind Sword that didn’t imitate anything.

Peoeong!

The distorting air burst as it was.

Eunhan and my hair fluttered madly in the onrushing gust of wind.

Turzhu looked at me.

The light of breath, the exclusive property of the Dragon race, lingered in his slightly open mouth as if he was flustered.

But that was the end.

Turzhu did not release it.

As if accepting the approaching death, he remained still, staring straight at me.

‘…….’

Recalling the thought of letting him go comfortably, I created a sword honed most sharply with Black ki [internal energy or life force].

Seogeok!

A cutting sound was heard.

Turzhu’s neck is cut off.

That dragon’s head, mixed with human form, stared straight at me.

-Thank you.

It seemed like those words were heard on the Black ki.

In Turzhu’s collapsing body, I found a huge key made of stone held in one of his four legs.

Thus, Turzhu met his death.

* * *

Turzhu’s corpse remained in the form of a monster.

The moment I saw it, I was reminded of a certain organization.

Behemoth.

That bizarre cult that draws on the power of monsters.

“Hua, this is crazy. You, you! Even if I’m your errand boy, this is overtime. You know?”

The Mountain God trudged towards me, covered in soot all over his body.

I chuckled.

I knew it without being told.

I was able to focus solely on wielding the sword because the Mountain God helped.

“Don’t worry, I’ll buy you all the alcohol you want when we get out of here later.”

“Hmm, really? I looked it up and… there are monks in the West who brew….”

Leaving the Mountain God, who was muttering about alcohol again, I watched the battlefield that was slowly being finished.

‘I was able to focus solely on the fight with Turzhu because of them.’

Facing the monster’s army alone, fighting Turzhu, and doing everything alone would have required considerable preparation and time.

With the help of the Mountain God and the help of the troops under his command.

Thanks to that, no special preparation was needed.

Anyway, I finally did it.

In the meantime, my eyes widened.

In the appearance of the battlefield that was being finished, the realm of the warriors came into my sight.

Especially Serena. Her power was considerable.

‘Could it be.’

She is handling the mana circuit.

Not only her.

All the warriors were using the mana circuit, even if only a little.

It was as if the flow of fate that had continued from ancient times was continuing into the modern era.

They will go out and spread magic using mana circuits.

And humans will gain greater power.

“……Not good.”

The Mountain God, who could read the heavens, muttered as he watched it, seemingly pleased or worried.

If this exists, that exists.

If there is a cause, there is a result.

If the power of humans grows, the power that exists on the opposite side will also grow.

“…….”

I also watched the scene quietly and felt it.

The threat of the coming era.

* * *

The battle was over.

There were many injured, but no deaths.

We seized the key from Turzhu.

It was a stone key.

In fact, it was closer to a stone tablet than the bumpy iron key we commonly know.

Turzhu was holding the key as if he was holding a wish-fulfilling jewel.

And.

Kureureureureung!

Like the world was vibrating, I saw the approaching poisonous fog rapidly in the distance.

It was approaching faster and faster.

This meant that the time allowed for this test was approaching.

“We will move quickly!”

It was right after the battle.

I felt the need for maintenance, but we had to kick off the ground without resting for a moment.

While kicking off the ground, I glanced back at Turzhu, who was lying down.

The one in human form was closing his eyes as if he was comfortable.

Kwaaaaaang!

Soon, we were able to reach the huge ruins in the center.

In the ruins, huge stone gates stood tall in the east, west, north, and south.

No, rather than gates, they looked like the walls of a building.

“You just need to put that in the hole in the center.”

“There. It looks similar to our key!”

The two older brothers reached out quickly.

I quickly approached and pushed the key in.

No, it was the moment I was about to push it in.

I discovered a number of presences running towards these ruins, and we soon had to prepare for battle.

Teodeodeong!

Kwang!

As if it had been planned, a number of groups reached the ruins from all directions.

On the left, the one who landed slowly from the sky was none other than Michael Garrel of Kabbalah [a mystical Jewish tradition].

The one who landed on the ground at a fierce speed, breaking through the bushes, was Henry and Ron Russell of the Russell family.

What landed on the ground with a loud noise along with an explosion was Gu Ryongchae and Jang Han.

“……!”

“……!”

They looked at each other and were wary.

Kabbalah, the Dawn Society, Gu Ryongchae, and the Soongmoo Igawa and the Holy State.

All those who challenged and passed the test.

Completely different competitors with their own goals gathered in one place.

“So you survived, Lee Cheol.”

“You’re the lucky one. I thought you had fallen somewhere.”

Jang Han readjusted the dagger in his hand and made a strange expression.

Michael Garrel of Kabbalah.

Henry Russell of the Dawn Society.

Jang Han of Gu Ryongchae.

They were all looking at me.

I felt like I had become the common enemy.

Kugugugugung!

At that time, the approaching black smoke was seen reaching right in front of us.

The battle took time and it was already midnight, but the black fog was so black that it would dye even the night sky black.

“It doesn’t seem like it’s time to fight now.”

It was Henry Russell who broke the tension and spoke first.

He gave me one last stern look, then turned and opened the door.

“I’ll be waiting in the next test.”

Wiiiiing!

The stone gate vibrated and turned into an opaque barrier, and Henry Russell left meaningful words and disappeared beyond the opaque barrier.

“Hehe.”

Next was Michael Garrel.

He also opened the door and disappeared with a few undead with a smile.

“It’s no fun. The situation is like this.”

Jang Han put the dagger he was holding into its sheath and turned his body.

“It seems like there’s not much time left until we settle things.”

“You’re talking like we haven’t settled things every time? I remember I won every time?”

“You……!”

I chuckled at Jang Han’s annoyed expression and completely inserted the key that I had pushed in halfway.

The door opened.

The aerial fortress, the fourth test, came to an end.

* * *

The dwarves watched the crystal ball quietly.

In the end, Lee Cheol won the test again.

Is it just winning?

Numerous beings influenced by him appeared.

He was truly like a black hole.

Swallowing all the causalities around him and dyeing them in his color.

“How. Again? We couldn’t stop it.”

To one dwarf’s muttering, the first dwarf answered.

“I said it. I did. In the end, there’s nothing we can do. Only watch.”

At those words, all the dwarves fell silent.

Lee Cheol distorted everything.

It wasn’t just the singularities.

Even the absolutely immutable records of the aerial fortress cause errors the moment they come into contact with him, producing completely different results.

Just like in the second and third tests.

Lee Cheol learns knowledge he shouldn’t know and acquires skills he shouldn’t be able to acquire.

The beings in the records were caught up in Lee Cheol’s causality and faced ‘impossible’ endings because of him.

In their eyes, Lee Cheol looked like an error created by the world.

Like the primordial monster. Just like that being.

“Anyway, it’s over. The fourth test.”

From the fifth to the seventh.

The remaining tests are different from the tests so far.

It wasn’t that it was getting harder.

Rather, it will end faster and be easier.

Instead, many will fall off.

Considering Lee Cheol’s appearance so far, it won’t be long before Lee Cheol reaches the seventh test.

“Really, I don’t know. We may have to just watch.”

“Yes, that guy is different. Something.”

“Maybe…….”

“I don’t know. Maybe.”

Even the dwarves who had ostracized Lee Cheol.

Looking at Lee Cheol entering beyond the stone gate, they left incomprehensible words.

Looking at Lee Cheol reflected in the crystal ball, the first dwarf curved his yellow eyes like a crescent moon as if smiling.

* * *

It was that pure white space again.

In the distance, a dwarf fluttered his robe and fell from the sky.

He was a little different from the dwarves so far.

From that dwarf, there was no feeling of disliking me, or even rejecting me.

He just looked at me calmly, as if doing what he had to do, and simply said this.

“Ask, just one. I will give the reward prepared according to causality.”

“Aren’t you going to ask now? Whether you will leave the castle?”

“Will you give it? Leave?”

The dwarf suddenly asked, shining his yellow eyes.

“Of course I’m not going out.”

“……I see. I knew it.”

I chuckled for a moment, then soon became serious and opened my mouth.

“Then I’ll ask.”

The question I had after going through this test.

And, the question I had to know in the end.

“In this era, no, in the future that will come soon…….”

Will the primordial monster be resurrected?

Will he come?

I asked that.