Weapon-Eating Bastard [EN]: Chapter 111

Weapon-Eating Bastard – Episode 111

I stood facing Gyeongchangyung in a pure white world.

“We have to break through that! Everyone! Got it!”

I was still in my short human form, while the three goblins were giants.

At Gyeong’s command, who was acting like a leader, fire, water, and wind began to rage in the white world.

And the three baby goblins simultaneously launched all those attacks at me.

Woo-oong!

I opened my eyes and threw a punch.

The fireball that was raging was extinguished by the punch, the tidal wave evaporated, and the storm became as calm as a breeze.

‘Got it.’

This is a space where mental strength is contested.

A place where what you imagine becomes reality.

So, I expected that my thoughts would also affect what the opponent created, and I kept trying it.

And finally, I made it happen.

“Hiek! H-How!”

Yung was startled and shocked.

To think that a human would do something that even the adults in the village couldn’t do.

And in an instant, that human began to wear an ominous smile.

“Gyeong, you’re afraid of bugs, right?”

“I-I’m not afraid of bugs. Eek! Centipedes! Centipedes! Eaaaak!”

Instantly, swarms of bugs appeared where Gyeong was.

“Chang, you’re afraid of lightning.”

“Ugh, euaaaaaa…….”

As thunder and lightning echoed in the white sky, Chang’s face, who had grown huge, turned pale and he crouched down.

“Yung is…….”

“I’m sorry! I lost!”

He raised both hands in the air, admitting defeat without even doing anything.

“Euaaaa! I lost! Me too!”

“Gurgle.”

Chang quickly followed Yung and admitted defeat, and Gyeong resisted until the end before foaming at the mouth and fainting.

I waved my hand.

Then all the phenomena I had created disappeared in an instant.

Creating and eliminating them has now become so natural.

I don’t know if it should be called a way of using my head or a shift in thinking, but now I was too familiar with this wrestling match.

“Heeing. That’s too much…….”

Yung, as always, hadn’t suffered anything, but began to shed tears.

“Still, thank you. I think I’ve figured out how to do it, thanks to you.”

The Gyeongchangyung trio grumbled at my words.

“……Tch, if I were just 10 years older, I would have won.”

“Yes…….”

“Waaah.”

Not long after the three of them admitted defeat, I felt a sense of consciousness floating away with a smile.

* * *

I slowly opened my eyes.

Then Gyeongchangyung was lying exhausted on the training ground.

“Heueo. L-Let’s stop. Hyung [older brother/term of endearment]. I’m really tired…….”

“Yes. C-Can we rest for a bit?”

“Heeheeheeing. Why do we have to do it for 3 hours…….”

Lee Cheol, who couldn’t last even a few seconds against Gyeong at first, was now continuing the goblin wrestling match against the Gyeongchangyung trio simultaneously.

Since the actual time was about 3 times different, Lee Cheol was wrestling against the trio for 9 hours straight.

Yeo, who was watching from the side, looked at Lee Cheol with a face that didn’t know what expression to make.

‘It’s only been about 2 weeks, but he’s winning against the trio…….’

He’s not just winning, but he finishes the wrestling match every 10 minutes, comes out, repeats it, and wins again.

Besides, if you keep winning against an opponent you used to lose to every day, you’d be happy and relax.

“Everyone. Let’s start again right away.”

“Kkyaaaaak!”

He even says things like that.

The Gyeongchangyung trio hid behind Yeo’s back with a fed-up expression.

‘It must be quite difficult, but how can he challenge so persistently?’

It’s something I see every day, but it’s amazing every time I see it.

No matter how much his mental strength is recovered with the elf’s drink, there’s a limit to it, and there’s no one among the goblins who can pour it out like that.

Just how strong is his mental strength…….

Yeo coughed lowly and opened his mouth.

“It seems you’ve gotten completely used to it?”

“Ah, when did you arrive?”

“I came around the time you started.”

Yeo looked at Lee Cheol, then alternately at the trembling trio and Lee Cheol, who seemed a little tired but didn’t care.

‘Winning consecutive victories against these three.’

In fact, Yeo had provoked him a while ago, but actually winning against these three little ones was never an easy task.

These guys love wrestling so much that even adult goblins can’t handle them sometimes, and when the three of them are together, even I sometimes struggle.

“How did you win?”

“Grandma! He’s using the technique Grandma used to use! He erases what we create, and uses bugs and lightning…….”

“Besides, he doesn’t get tired easily. He clearly got hit by fire, but he doesn’t feel hot…….”

Before Lee Cheol could answer, Gyeong and Yung began to chatter as if they were tattling.

Yeo was a little surprised to hear that story.

Erases what we created? Doesn’t feel hot even when hit by fire?

‘Isn’t that beyond the level of completely controlling one’s mind?’

I expected that he would be able to do those things someday because he adapts quickly, but I thought it would take at least a month or two.

But to think that he would be able to do that in just 2 weeks.

“How did you do it?”

“Ah…… I just thought that if that place is a space where things are realized as you think, wouldn’t it be possible to read the opponent’s thoughts? It was a little difficult at first, but it became possible as I got used to it.”

Yeo was even more dumbfounded.

Even goblins who are familiar with wrestling can’t do it easily unless they learn it, but he just figured it out on his own.

Yeo chuckled and said.

“It seems like it’s meaningless to do it with children anymore.”

“Are you going to do it with other people now?”

Yeo shook his head.

“I’m only saying this now, but these children are weak at wrestling as individuals. But when the three of them are together, they are much stronger than most adult goblins.”

I widened my eyes.

“Does that mean…….”

“It seems like it’s time to do the 100-person wrestling match.”

“Already?”

“Yes, what you can do with just ‘practice’ is over.”

I closed my mouth for a moment and thought.

The decision was easy.

“Okay. I can start anytime.”

I said, shining my eyes.

* * *

I was finally ready to challenge the test, but I didn’t start right away.

“First of all, there are so many guys who wander around that it takes some time to call them. There are currently less than 100 goblins left on this mountain. But if they hear that a human has come to wrestle, they’ll come back on their own.”

Yeo said that and told me to take a rest for now.

I prepared for the test by meditating and using mana techniques.

For two days, I spent most of my time meditating, except when I was eating or helping with small tasks in the village.

And on the third day, when Yeo’s permission was given, I finally faced the test to break the fifth seal of Black Night.

* * *

An unfamiliar scene that had never been seen before was unfolding in the vibrant but not noisy Mireinae Village.

Hundreds of burly men with different appearances were laughing loudly and chattering.

The elves frowned at the bustling scene like a flea market, and the fairies giggled, wondering what was so fun.

“This…… really.”

I felt speechless looking at the bustling village scene.

Men in hiking clothes, suits, leather jackets, or clothes that were torn and tattered like a homeless person, and even men in clothes similar to modified hanboks [traditional Korean clothing].

All these people in front of me were goblins.

“Keuhehehel! Human and goblin wrestling! How long has it been!”

“Oh! Isn’t that Bang! Long time no see!”

“Oh! Gong! Long time no see! Didn’t you say you were working because you got backstabbed by Kim last time?”

“Keuheuhe! Hey, Kim has been dead for over 30 years!”

“Oh oh? Is that true? Aigoo [expression of regret], I should have gone and had a bowl of yukgaejang [spicy beef soup]. Did he go well?”

“Of course. I sent him off well. Where have you been and what have you been doing?”

“I was living around Gyeryongsan [mountain in South Korea]!”

The number of goblins in the village was only about twenty, and almost 80 goblins gathered and made a lot of noise.

Then Yeo came to me, who was feeling overwhelmed, and put his hand on my shoulder.

“These guys don’t gather unless there’s something special, but they gathered like this according to the oath.”

“Thank you.”

“Then I’ll explain the contents of the test from now on. Are you ready?”

Yeo’s voice was calm.

I straightened my posture and focused on Yeo’s voice.

“Yes, please tell me.”

“Win in a wrestling match against a hundred goblins. But it will be a little different from what you’ve done with those three so far. Adult goblins don’t just lose when they lose. It probably won’t end unless they ‘acknowledge’ you.”

Goblins’ acknowledgement.

I chewed on those words and rolled them around in my mouth.

‘I expected there would be something.’

I expected that the Black Night’s test wouldn’t be so kind.

It was a test that taught me what the test was in advance and even gave me time to practice.

In fact, even that practice might have been Yeo’s consideration.

“You can lose, you can win. If you lose, you can challenge again. But getting acknowledged by goblins will be quite difficult.”

“I understand.”

Yeo took a deep breath and continued.

“You remember the deadline for this test that I explained last time, right?”

“Yes, it’s a week.”

One week.

If you calculate that the time flowing in the world of goblin wrestling is three times faster, it was three weeks.

Short if it’s short, long if it’s long.

Yeo frowned, as if he was a little worried.

“I wanted to give you a little more time…….”

Yeo trailed off as if something was bothering him.

I answered confidently and firmly.

“I will do it. That’s why I came to the mountain.”

Yeo nodded with a strange smile.

“We’ll have a pleasant festival when it’s over, so be sure to win.”

“I understand. I can’t lose when you’ve gathered so much.”

Yeo nodded as if it was a satisfactory answer and cleared his throat lowly.

And.

“You guys!! Long time no see!!”

Yeo shouted in a thunderous voice.

The goblins instantly became silent at the voice that sounded like thunder.

“I told you in advance, so let’s start right away! Don’t drag it out unnecessarily! Got it, you guys!”

“Kya! Grandma’s voice is still the same!”

“Okay! Let’s see that amazing human face!”

“Yahoo!”

It was truly a festive atmosphere.

I was preparing myself, but the goblins were giggling and shrugging their shoulders.

And, the wrestling match began.

* * *

The first opponent was, as expected, Gyeongchangyung.

In order to save as much mental strength as possible, I decided to face these three simultaneously, not separately.

“H-Hyung…… I can’t do bugs, ikkyaaaaak!”

“Sorry.”

“P-Please spare me from the lightning!”

“Sorry.”

“Kyaaaak! Euaaaang!”

“Sorry.”

Since they were guys I had faced for over 2 weeks, the wrestling match didn’t last more than 10 seconds.

Soon after, the fourth wrestling match began.

“Hehe, are you the young master Lee that Grandma mentioned? This will be fun.”

I shone my eyes as I faced the goblins who were coming up one by one.

‘I know why the Founder chose this as the test for the fifth seal.’

The fifth test, wrestling with 100 goblins, is to train mental strength.

I easily dealt with ten goblins and then let out a hot sigh.

“Next, please.”

“Hehe…… you’re really an amazing human! I’ll be a little tough!”

When there were more than twenty people, I felt a little tired.

Unfamiliar attacks, unimaginable methods.

True to their free-spirited nature, the goblins’ mental worlds were truly unpredictable.

“Keuheo, that’s really amazing. How many is it already?”

“Is it the fortieth already? I guess I have to step up.”

When there were more than forty people, I finished the wrestling match and briefly lost consciousness.

It felt like I was using the Evil Eye to its limit.

My head didn’t hurt, but I felt like my vision was darkening as if I had stayed up all night for several days in a row.

“……Take a break for a while. You just have to finish it within a week.”

Yeo approached with a slightly worried look.

I shook my head.

I knew my mental state best.

I knew that if I rested now, my mind would be relieved and I wouldn’t be able to move forward.

“It’s okay.”

Already two days had passed.

If I wanted to finish everything within the remaining time, I couldn’t rest now.

I clapped my cheeks with my palms and came to my senses.

The sixtieth wrestling match.

Another day passed and it became the third day.

I continued to challenge the wrestling match, except for taking a short meal and taking a breather in between.

And the seventieth.

I was facing blades raining down like rain and a raging storm of flames in the white space.

“Keuk!”

My mind, which was close to its limit, soon experienced defeat and was bounced out of the mental world.

“Are you okay?”

Unlike a goblin, the opponent asked politely.

“Hoo, I’m okay.”

I shook my head and took a very short breath.

“Please start again right away.”

After that, defeat and victory were repeated.

If I lost, I entered the wrestling match again after a very short break, and even if I lost several times in a row, I eventually won.

Not a single one.

Among those many goblins, not a single one had ever said that they couldn’t acknowledge me.

“…….”

“…….”

The goblins also didn’t chatter noisily from some point on.

Rather, they swallowed dry saliva and looked at Lee Cheol, who was sweating profusely.

“H-Hyung! Win!”

“W-Win!”

“U-Uh, ah, th-that, w-win…….”

“Young master Lee! Good luck!”

Gyeongchangyung started cheering loudly in that quiet atmosphere, and the other goblins cheered as well.

Like that, the ninetieth.

It was now the fifth day.

After finishing the 89th wrestling match, blood flowed from one side of my nose.

I fainted as it was.

The Gyeongchangyung trio were startled and tried to wake Lee Cheol.

But Yeo stopped them.

Now, with only two days left.

According to the rules of the test, no one could help Lee Cheol.

“Haa…….”

Half a day later, Lee Cheol woke up.

Lee Cheol, whose eyes were red with blood vessels popping out, staggered and sat down silently.

“Rest a little more.”

Yeo wiped the blood flowing from my nose and gave me a worried look.

I shook my head.

“There’s no time. Please start right away.”

And the ninety-first.

The ninety-second.

The ninety-fifth.

It took almost a day to go from the ninetieth opponent to the ninety-fifth opponent.

There were several moments when I fainted and collapsed in the middle.

Each time, I gritted my teeth and tried not to faint for a long time.

The time in the dream is three times the reality.

The fatigue I was actually feeling was gradually reaching its limit.

Like that, the sixth day.

“I acknowledge you. Good luck! There’s not much left!”

The ninety-ninth goblin clenched his fist and stood up.

It took more than half a day to defeat him.

Now the last day.

One hundredth opponent.

There was almost a day left, but I had no time to spare.

My mental strength had already reached its limit, and I felt like I was going to faint at any moment.

The time I spent fainting in the middle was a waste.

‘No, if I hadn’t taken a break at that time, I would be…….’

I stopped thinking.

Now is the time to concentrate even a single thought only on wrestling.

“Hoo…….”

I looked up at Yeo.

I calmly said, staring at Yeo’s trembling pupils as if in shock.

“Please.”

Yeo slowly sat down in front of me.

And, the last wrestling match began.

* * *

In the white space, I faced Yeo.

No, Yeo was not visible.

Kwaarreureung!

What was there was a huge lightning bolt.

Lightning that burns mountains and carves the sky.

“I respect you.”

It seems like her voice is mixed in with the sound of the falling lightning.

Yeo’s words contained deep respect.

“But, this is a test bound by oath. I can’t make exceptions.”

Flash! Kwareueureureung!

The air echoed loudly with the falling lightning.

It didn’t fall on me, it just flashed in the air, but the mental wave alone made me feel like I was losing consciousness.

But.

‘I don’t know why…….’

I’m so tired.

I’m so tired, but.

My mind is clear.

I felt like I could see the world a little more clearly.

Cough-.

I coughed it up.

Blood came out.

I don’t know if my actual body in reality had hematemesis [vomiting blood].

Maybe Yeo used her mental strength to make me vomit blood.

Either way, it doesn’t matter.

“Please, the last one.”

I opened my eyes wide.