Weapon-Eating Bastard [EN]: Chapter 85

Weapon-Eating Bastard – Chapter 85

Whoosh-.

In an instant, a bright light flickered at the entrance of the dark tomb.

At the same time, the air began to vibrate.

I couldn’t believe my eyes.

‘The Inwang statues……!’

The dynamic bronze statues guarding the entrance of the tomb on both sides.

They were suddenly rising, holding diamond scepters and swords.

Flash-!

The identity of the light that suddenly appeared was none other than the eerie glow rising from their eyes, like a demonic fire.

I leaped back and immediately drew Mujin.

‘I didn’t hear anything about there being guardians!’

Moreover, I didn’t feel any signs until they moved.

If it was a structure made in a magical way, there should have been signs of magic being injected, and if it was made with sorcery, at least the sorcery should have moved.

Even though my magic was greatly depleted, I was on edge, paying attention to all directions.

Rumble!

The Inwang statues moved in front of me with incredibly smooth movements, as if what made up their bodies wasn’t bronze but human flesh.

-Lea.ve.

Flash!

A chilling voice echoed as a blue light flashed in their eyes.

A voice that stuttered.

The pitch rose and fell erratically, and it had a bizarre resonance as if dozens of people were speaking at the same time.

But that wasn’t what surprised me.

‘They’re talking?’

Moreover, it was modern Korean.

As Valerie said, the language of the distant past was different from the language of today.

Even going back just 2 or 300 years, people wouldn’t be able to understand each other, but those Inwang statues were ancient artifacts.

Yet now I was understanding the Inwang statues’ words.

-Hu.man. Lea.ve.

And only after hearing the voice again, like a swarm of bees buzzing around, did I realize that it was a sound that was digging directly into my head, not my ears.

‘Telepathy. The guardians of the tomb are doing what only high-level monsters or spirits do…….’

Thump!

When I didn’t back down, the Inwang statue took a step closer.

Creak!

As if it was a final warning, the diamond scepter in one hand shone sharply.

It was a touch-and-go situation.

I squeezed out the little remaining magic I had and activated the Evil Eye.

‘There’s nothing there?’

There was literally nothing.

No magic, no sorcery, no spells, and no incomprehensible ancient mysteries.

That was just a moving bronze statue.

‘That can’t be!’

I focused on the Evil Eye again.

It was to see these invisible things that I had repeatedly trained with Valerie.

Crack!

A feeling like a membrane covering my eyeballs was tearing.

It was the same feeling I had experienced at the naming ceremony long ago, before I had even awakened the Evil Eye.

And in a fleeting moment, I saw a cluster of unidentified lights deep within the Inwang statue.

But the faint light merged with the Inwang statue in an instant, as if I had seen it wrong.

The moment I tried to concentrate to see it in more detail.

Boom!

The diamond scepter slammed into the ground.

The ground surged and burst open as if waves were crashing.

Throb!

And perhaps because of the magic I had used to its limit, the Evil Eye closed.

‘Damn it. I almost had it.’

-Lea.ve!

A chilling voice echoed as if it had crawled up from the underworld, and the bronze statue lunged at me again.

* * *

Boom!

I gritted my teeth, dodging the attacks of the two Inwang statues that were slamming into the ground like crazy.

I squeezed the magic to its limit and injected it into Mujin.

Boom!

The overwhelming size and mass were powerful weapons in themselves.

‘But all they are is heavy and fast. Their movements are clumsy and simple!’

I efficiently distributed the Evil Eye to its maximum and shined my eyes.

A prolonged battle was naturally impossible.

And to win using the little magic I had left, I had to take a bit of a gamble.

Whoosh!

I deliberately flew to the most secluded corner of the space.

-Lea.ve!

The Inwang statues rushed fiercely at me, who was dodging.

The two Inwang statues slammed their fists down at me, who was cornered.

And.

Thud!

The Inwang statues’ paths twisted, and their fists stopped in mid-air.

The Inwang statues were easily more than three times my size.

As expected, they had no concept of martial arts.

To make matters worse, they didn’t think about each other’s movements and just rushed in mindlessly.

Swish!

I drew up the magic I had been preserving against the tangled Inwang statues.

Thud!

The foot stepping forward becomes the axis.

The sword raised high as if to pierce the sky drew a single sword path.

Cheokma [a sword technique].

It was a technique without a back, so I had to be careful when facing humans, but there was no better technique against beings larger than me.

Clang!

The Inwang statue on the right hurriedly reached out its opposite hand, and I extended Mujin towards it.

With a sound like a window breaking, one of the Inwang statue’s right arms fell off from the shoulder on the front.

The mass of one arm caused an imbalance.

I delivered the finishing blow to the tilting Inwang statue.

Thud!

That’s how the Inwang statue’s nape was cut off.

‘One down.’

Haa-.

I let out a hot breath and turned my body again.

-Woo. Er. Ah. Ah!

The remaining Inwang statue let out a strange cry and rushed at me.

‘If I create distance, I’ll be at a disadvantage!’

Instead of flying back, I leaped forward.

Clang!

An attack that passed by the side by a hair’s breadth.

It didn’t even graze me properly, but the wind pressure brushing past my ear made my right ear ring.

The follow-up attack that followed.

I transformed Mujin.

‘Deflect it with the shield. Even if I don’t have magic, my body will endure. Approach as is, squeeze out the last of my magic to bind them with Yeomra [a binding aura skill], and finish them off with Cheokma!’

Mujin instantly took the form of a giant shield.

Clatter!

The attacks flying in like cannonballs were deflected by slightly twisting the shield at the right timing.

At that moment, tremendous pressure crushed my entire body to the point where my bones screamed, but I succeeded in deflecting it.

Tap!

Another leap.

I changed Mujin, which had been a shield, into a giant greatsword.

-……!

The Inwang statue tried to swing its attack again.

But it was already bound by the aura skill I had deployed, Yeomra, so its reaction was bound to be slow.

Clatter!

The greatsword cut through the Inwang statue’s neck.

Soon, the neck fell to the ground due to gravity, and a heavy sound echoed.

“Hoo, hoo…….”

My head spun for a moment.

It was a sign of magic depletion.

I gasped for breath and hurriedly circulated my magic.

I almost suffered internal injuries, but fortunately, I was able to calm the boiling magic circuit.

‘What the hell was here that they even set up such an unidentifiable guardian?’

The epitaph, where the records of the dead should have been written, had a warning to the living.

What kind of structure was it that the bronze statue moved naturally without consuming magic or sorcery?

‘And it’s not even rusted. The fact that I can breathe means that air is flowing through, but it hasn’t rusted for a thousand years.’

Bronze is actually yellowish until it rusts.

Even though air was flowing through, it wasn’t rusted, and the entrance to the tomb was as clean as if it had been made just a few days ago.

“I’m scared of what else might be inside.”

I was worried in many ways because it was right after the battle with the Inwang statues.

I thought I should recover my magic and examine it with the Evil Eye before going in.

Even though the Evil Eye didn’t see anything in the first attempt, something might come out if I kept looking.

‘First, I need to light up the surroundings, fill my stomach a bit, and then…….’

I found the backpack where I had put various supplies and got up.

At that moment.

Creak! Creak!

I had to doubt my eyes.

The Inwang statues that had clearly stopped moving.

The cross-sections of them were moving on their own and starting to stick together.

Flash!

Again, the eerie glow flashed in their two eyes, which were raised menacingly.

-Lea.ve.

Again, the two Inwang statues blocked my path.

* * *

I felt a drop of cold sweat running down my forehead.

I gripped Mujin and swallowed hard.

‘……This is bad.’

I hurriedly replenished my magic and moved away from the Inwang statues.

Magic was still being recovered, but it wasn’t enough to fight again yet.

‘What the hell are those?’

Creak!

A noise like metal grinding.

The broken sections writhed and began to stick together.

It didn’t take long for the Inwang statues to fully recover their appearance.

Thump! Thump!

The fallen Inwang statues staggered and began to rise again.

I stared at them and bit my lip.

‘I have to check. My magic is running low, but…….’

If I didn’t figure out what they were and move, the same thing would definitely happen again.

I focused on the Evil Eye.

I recalled the training with Valerie.

-I haven’t fully figured out your eyes yet, but I expect nothing can hide in front of your eyes.

-You know it too. The Evil Eye is absolute. It’s just that the person who wields it isn’t absolute.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

The Inwang statues are approaching.

My eyes ached, and my magic was reaching its limit.

The image reflected in the Evil Eye was still only the appearance of the Inwang statues.

‘Focus more.’

I gritted my teeth, repeating it as if casting a spell on myself.

And it was at that moment.

A light of unknown origin mixed into the image reflected in my eyes.

‘I saw it!’

I could see that there were clusters of unknown light points gathered inside the Inwang statues.

‘That is, could it be…….’

Guarding the tomb, not using any power, even sending telepathy, and even self-repairing…….

‘Could it be? But that can’t be. No, but there’s no other way to explain it.’

Why were ‘those’ here?

Moreover, there was no reason for them to attack me. They would have spoken to me first before attacking.

-Lea.ve!

The Inwang statues’ voice echoed.

I shined my eyes, looking at the clusters of light inside them.

When people grouped different races and humans together and called them races, and called the dragon race the strongest race, they gave the same race as those the name Mysterious Race.

One of those Mysterious Races.

They liked to play with animals and young children, and they were beings who liked to prank and play mischievous jokes on people.

‘Fairies…….’

It was known that they could etherealize and fly through the sky regardless of obstacles, and they could integrate with objects imbued with human thoughts and move the objects as if they were living beings.

I finally understood why the Evil Eye hadn’t seen anything at first.

It was because the fairies completely merged with the objects.

‘But why fairies?’

Unlike goblins, who were also a Mysterious Race, fairies were known to have unclear egos.

They liked to tease humans, but they weren’t a race that liked to fight, spewing hostility towards humans.

‘I don’t know what’s going on, but…….’

Throb!

I stopped the flow of magic towards the Evil Eye.

‘……It’s enough to know that they’re fairies.’

I also cut off the magic going to Mujin and drew another sword that was stuck in my waist.

The Sword of the Beginning, Hukya.

If it was this sword that extinguished magic, it could even cut down fairies.

‘The problem is cutting through the outside of the Inwang statues and reaching the fairies inside.’

I gritted my teeth and controlled my magic.

I felt a slight dizziness, perhaps because magic depletion was coming.

Now I only had one chance left.

I circulated my magic to charge even a little more magic.

‘……A little closer.’

Thump!

The Inwang statue ran quickly.

I didn’t have the leeway to narrow the distance myself.

Closer, come closer.

‘Just one more step!’

Thump!

But suddenly, the Inwang statue stopped approaching.

It had been rushing in mindlessly until now, so why was it being wary now?

‘……Damn it.’

It was still a bit far, but I had no choice but to move.

At that moment.

From the Inwang statue that had stopped moving as if observing me.

-Uh! Uh! What, what!

A voice like a child’s began to flow out.

-Wait, wait. Wai!t!

-It’s a black sword. It’s a jet-black sword!

-They’re here! They’re our friends!

-Sorry! Sorry!

Flash!

In an instant, a pure white light burst out from the Inwang statue.

As if dandelion seeds were being scattered, countless fairies, wrapped in light, came out of the Inwang statue.

“Huh.”

Whether it was because I had squeezed my magic circuit to its limit, or because I was tired, or because my head wasn’t working, it wasn’t easy to understand the situation.

Why were they suddenly showing their true colors when they were rushing to kill me?

-Sorry, sorry, sorry!

-Hehehe! I’m not sorry!

-He’s hurt! A friend is hurt!

-Sorry! Sorry!

The fairies chattered and gathered around me.

Thump!

The Inwang statue, from which the fairies had escaped, lost its balance and fell to the ground.

Little fluffy balls that emitted light.

Their features were not clear, and they just looked like they had gathered light and made a small winged person.

“Why are you suddenly doing this after fighting?”

I glared at the fairies, raising Hukya with a mixed tone of annoyance.

-Eek! No! That’s not allowed!

-That’s a scary sword…… a black sword…….

-Sorry! We’re sorry!

The fairies seemed scared and fell away, then fluttered back carefully.

-Instead, we’ll heal you.

-Everyone! Everyone!

Then the fairies suddenly went into my body.

“……!”

I was unknowingly startled, but then my eyes widened at the sensation felt in the place where the fairies had entered.

‘It’s recovering?’

A hot heat flashed for a moment in the muscles and joints that had been aching from the battle, and then a cool feeling came, and I noticeably felt refreshed.

Magic hadn’t filled up, but the magic circuit, which had signs of internal injury, was also quickly stabilizing.

-We! Thought! You! Were a bad person!

-Accept our apology! Accept it because we healed you!

-Ac!cept! It! Hehehe!

The fairies, who had fallen away from my body, laughed noisily and flew around me distractedly.

I still didn’t know how things had turned out.

“Haa…….”

Anyway, it seemed to have ended well.

Tension was released, and I slumped down on the spot.

-Hehehe! Heehee!

-Are you tired? Whyyy?

-We healed you!

The fairies were still flying around noisily.