Weapon-Eating Bastard [EN]: Chapter 116

Weapon-Eating Bastard – Episode 116

Seop swung his club.

Like the goblin club said to create all things, each swing summoned flames, overturned the earth, and called forth winds.

-Guh, uh, uh, uh…

The serpent, rising from the lava, writhed and groaned under the assault, its screams echoing like tormented moans.

The magic it emitted warped the space around it, triggering explosions both large and small.

Seop couldn’t control those explosions.

Instantly, Seop used his magic to soar into the air.

Even as he fought, Seop had to fight against the auditory hallucinations assaulting his mind.

-Why are you going so far? You said there’s no need to protect them. The goblins can escape. There’s no need for this.

-You always say you hate humans, but weren’t you ultimately trying to protect them when you drove them away? To keep humans out of this!

“Shut up, you devilish fiend!”

Several hundred years in outside time had passed.

Even after an even longer time sealed inside, the demon’s wicked power remained potent.

No intelligent being could easily resist this mental assault.

Seop was only able to resist because this demon had been sealed for so long, weakening its influence.

Krrrrrr!

In an instant, the great demon’s massive shadow darkened the cavern.

As if absorbing the lava, its size steadily increased.

‘To think it’s this powerful even without a physical body!’

Kwarararararng!

Gripping his club, Seop swung it with all his might.

A violent sound erupted as if the sky had split, and the already unstable cavern finally began to collapse.

Kwaaaaaaaang!

The attack caused the ceiling to cave in.

The great demon, struck by the falling debris from the Hallasan crater [a dormant volcano in South Korea] and the goblin’s magic, writhed in pain.

-Kuaaaaaaa!

It recovered its energy in the blink of an eye.

Seop urgently reached out and pulled in the unfinished lumps of metal scattered on the ground.

Even if they were failures, they were objects imbued with the power to exorcise evil.

The lumps of metal, tempered in lava infused with the demon’s energy and refined by the goblin’s magic, flew towards the great demon in an instant.

Kwaang! Kwaaaang!

Echoes like earthquakes erupted in succession.

The great demon’s spiritual body rapidly dispersed the magic at its extremities and sank back into the lava.

It was the first meaningful blow.

But Seop knew.

This was just buying time.

-Kuaaaaa!

The sunken magic began to fill the cavern like a hazy mist.

In the end, there was no way to truly defeat that demon.

Seop, though possessing great power, was just a single goblin and was not a good match for ‘that.’

‘In the end, there’s only one way.’

Sealing.

He had no choice but to seal the demon, even at the cost of his own annihilation.

-Why go so far? You know it won’t work. Do you think it will be sealed if you do that? No, even if it is sealed, do you really think it will end like this?

“It’s no use tempting me. I’ll do it even if it doesn’t work.”

Seop rejected the demon’s voice.

-I told you, you have to protect the children here.

-If you do that, who will remember us? Are you saying you’ll forget us?

Before Seop’s eyes appeared the figures of his beloved brothers.

Was it now showing illusions beyond auditory hallucinations?

Even knowing it was an illusion, Seop couldn’t easily turn away.

-Is it really necessary to go that far for the humans?

-The goblins don’t want you to be annihilated…

Upon hearing those words, Seop once again erupted in anger.

“Fiend. More than anyone else, I know they would never say such things. Don’t confuse me any further!”

His brother, who never lost his smile even while sacrificing himself for humans, would never say such things!

-I know you wouldn’t do that. We are doing this for you. Why would you misinterpret our intentions?

-That’s right. How do you know we wouldn’t say such things? We were betrayed by humans.

“What do you know?”

Seop swung his club again.

The club, imbued with the power of earth, fire, and mist, intertwined and began to emit a unified, bright light.

-You failed last time even with three of you. How do you think you can do it alone?

-That’s right. Aren’t you just a small goblin? If the heavens had intended it, they wouldn’t have given you such a heavy burden.

“No matter what you say, I will do it. Do you think I will change my mind no matter how you tempt me?”

Suddenly.

All the demon’s auditory hallucinations ceased.

-Is that so?

And that voice was heard.

Why did that voice sound so ominous?

Seop’s gaze slowly turned downward.

And his eyes widened as if they would tear.

“……!”

The lava lake, noticeably reduced.

The seal had shrunk to the point where it was now practically a puddle rather than a lake.

Only then did Seop snap to his senses.

Why had he been denying the demon’s temptations until now, when he should have been focusing on sealing it?

Why was he swinging his club when he should have been sealing it?

Why? Since when?

The realization that there was something wrong with his thinking belatedly struck him, and Seop urgently looked at the demon’s spiritual body.

Heh heh!

The black, formless entity seemed to be smirking for some reason.

“Ah, ah…….”

Seop let out a sigh of exhaustion.

From the beginning, that demon wasn’t trying to tempt him to prevent the sealing.

It was a mistake to answer the auditory hallucinations in the first place.

That cunning demon had simply been talking to him to buy time.

-Guaaaaaaa!

Finally, all the lava erupted.

Black magic soared above the collapsed ceiling.

-Tas, ty…

The demon, gliding through the space like a snake, looked somewhere.

The spiritual bloodline.
A crucial point in the spiritual veins where the spiritual energy of Hallasan Mountain converged and flowed.

It was a disaster.

This was no time to give up.

He had to move now, but it seemed too late.

It was at that moment.

Kwarararararng!

A huge lightning bolt, echoing through the air, struck the demon.

-Kieeeeeek!

The demon, rising towards the sky, was once again slammed into the ground.

Seop’s eyes widened as he looked at the sky.

“Elder!”

It was Ryeo.

Seop was shocked.

How could she come to a place like this?

Ryeo, though she had lived a long time, was just an ordinary goblin and couldn’t resist that demon.

But that wasn’t the end of it.

Hooong! Kwakwakwakwang!

Numerous attacks flew from an unknown distant place and battered the demon.

Seop could tell.

Those were attacks wielded by goblins from far away.

Perhaps to avoid being affected by the great demon, the attacks were weak and largely ineffective.

The goblins probably knew that too.

But why were they attacking like this?

Thud.

Ryeo didn’t answer.

Instead, unfamiliar footsteps were heard from behind.

Seop turned his head sharply.

An existence that shouldn’t be there was standing there.

Black hair, eyes flowing with sunset light, and in his right hand, the black longsword he had personally forged.

Seop’s eyes trembled and widened.

“You… how…?”

Lee Hyulhyun.

Lee Hyulhyun was standing there.

A friend from long ago.
A monster that had even made the goblins kneel.

No.

Seop shook his head.

That wasn’t Lee Hyulhyun.

“I’ve come to help.”

Lee Cheol.

The new master of the Black Night, who had appeared after countless years.

* * *

Resisting the illusions that shook my head, I stared at the amorphous black demon enveloped in lava below the crater.

‘I’ve never seen anything like that before.’

I wondered if classifying that being by monster level would even be meaningful.

-Guaaaaaaa!

Black magic surged.

That demon was merely a collection of spiritual bodies and power, yet it maintained its form and influenced reality.

Was a great demon such a being that transcended common sense?

‘……I expected it.’

Grasping Black Night, I swallowed hard.

The mention of the Three Gods in the Black Night Records, and even the essence of the Elder Goblin, which I saw with my Mystic Eyes, intertwined with fire, earth, and mist.

Moreover, the goblins living as if trapped, the monsters and demonkin that invaded the Spirit Mountain, and the goblins’ reluctance to touch them.

It wasn’t difficult to guess that something related to the demonkin was deep within this mountain.

‘In my past life, it was probably sealed before it got to this point, or the capture team hid it even if they found it.’

And I could be sure.

That I couldn’t handle it with my power.

Just me standing here was an act of recklessness.

I stood before the Elder Goblin, whose extremities were scattering into fragments of light.

And slowly raised Black Night.

“Why on earth are you here…….”

“Didn’t I say? I’ve come to help.”

Seop distorted his face.

“……I don’t need human help.”

“Then can you do it without help?”

The demon began to move again.

Seop’s pupils trembled greatly for a moment.

But he soon staggered to his feet and said.

“How can I believe that your mind, as just a mere human, hasn’t been tainted by the illusions that demon is showing you?”

“You don’t have to worry about that.”

Whether it was due to the influence of the Goblin Wrestling, the Mystic Eyes, or some other factor, I only felt an unknown discomfort and was perfectly normal.

‘That gaze is really… how can a mere human resist that?’

Seop saw that Lee Cheol’s eyes were shining brightly.

Those eyes were definitely not trapped in an illusion.

He, who had experienced it firsthand, could be more certain than anyone else.

“It’s meaningless anyway. How are you going to help?”

I nodded.

I admit it.

Even Ryeo was writhing in pain, so there was no way I could do anything to that demon.

But.

Swish-.

I drew Black Night in my hand.

Seop’s pupils shook for a moment.

“But Black Night can cut that, right?”

That’s right. That was there.

If it was Black Night, it could cut that being that didn’t have a physical form.

“I don’t know to what extent I can do it. So…….”

I looked into the trembling eyes of this old goblin.

“Give me a chance.”

* * *

-Guh, uh, euaaaaa……!

A bizarre wail.

All sorts of auditory hallucinations and illusions came and went.

Now that he had been subjected to an illusion once, Seop thought he wouldn’t be subjected to it again.

‘There’s only one chance…….’

He knew because he had tempered that sword and knew Lee Hyulhyun, the original owner of that sword.

The boy was still lacking in training.

He was infinitely lacking in completely cutting down that being or inflicting meaningful damage.

But it was true that that sword could cut what couldn’t be cut.

‘What I have to do is clear.’

He had to clear the path that the sword could reach.

Seop gave up on life.

He abandoned his attachment to death and life, prepared to fall into a distant nothingness, and focused all his existence on sealing that bizarre being.

Whoosh!

Just like his brothers had done in the not-so-distant past.

Seop’s presence began to grow.

He became earth, became mist, and became fire.

All of Seop’s energy began to bind the demon’s magic.

Seop thought in his fading consciousness.

‘It’s not enough.’

He should have poured all his power into sealing that demon before it escaped from the seal.

It was a close call, really close.

If he was alone, that would have been it.

Woooooooong!

The figure of a human can be seen in the distance.

Can he trust that human?

Will that human really do it?

‘No.’

In a situation where he was prepared even for death, such worries were meaningless.

Therefore, Seop uttered his last words to the human beyond his fading consciousness.

-Now.

And.

“I understand.”

I answered quietly and gripped Black Night.

Kiiiiiiing!

Black Night let out a rough wail.

I poured everything I had into Black Night.

‘That’s the place.’

The center of the demon.
A huge mass of black magic was gathered.

I aim for that place.

I poured all my power into Black Night.

Internal injuries and aftereffects were not something to worry about.

But I knew it wasn’t enough.

No matter how much I gained, it was still not enough.

Therefore.

I unleashed one newly acquired power with all my might.

Moo Jin Style, Form 2.

Numerous powers began to gather on the blade of Black Night.