Dark Fantasy: Magical Eye Knight – Chapter 136

Chapter 136: Ulterior Motive

TL: Potato-tan

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Kuaaaaang!

 

As soon as Deckers finished speaking, an explosion erupted from the ruins, engulfing Russell and Irrucil. Russell, whose eyes had been shining brightly, raised his hand to block the front and at the same time, wrapped his arms around the two of them, shielding them from the blazing inferno that swept over them.

 

The explosive flames’ magic power and emotions were certainly not friendly. However, the heat that could melt even rocks was subsided by Russell’s hand’s magic power and vibration.

 

Russell dissipated the scorching heat with a gesture.

 

Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump.

 

A steady beat echoed. And from the underground, where the scorching heat had burst out, eyeless golems with glowing red eyes walked out in a row.

 

Unlike the undecorated ones they had seen in the inner castle, the ones coming out now were wearing armor. There were also golems with spears, bows, shields, or wizards wearing robes floating in the air, wondering if they were classified by their functions.

 

Flames flared up from the tip of a black-glossy staff, just like the body. It seemed that the wizard golem was pouring scorching heat on Russell and Irrucil.

 

Russell got off the horse and whispered to Kry.

 

“Stay back.”

 

Kry nodded and left the entrance of the ruins with the horse Irrucil was riding.

 

Irrucil blinked and asked while watching the black horse assist her horse away.

 

“Can you speak the horse’s language?”

 

“I don’t know.”

 

“But just now. . .”

 

“He’s just smart.”

 

Russell didn’t hesitate. He immediately took out Final Frost from inside his coat and threw it. Russell’s movements were so fast that they became blurry.

 

Claaang!

 

The golem wizard, whose chest had been pierced by the axe blade, struggled in the air. He tried to pull out the axe using his staff and arm, but as Russell opened his left hand, he was drawn to him and became a nonentity.

 

Russell held the axe handle with his left hand, grabbed the golem’s neck with his right hand, and looked at the eyeless head. Instead of the pupils that should have been there if he were a human, only a red glow shone. The magic power emanating from the glow followed a pattern and flow he had previously encountered.

 

“A stone made by sacrificing people. It’s the Stone of Life.”

 

“. . .How do you know that?”

 

Deckers, appearing from behind the golem legion, received unwavering protection and asked with a tone of inquiry.

 

Deckers closely observed him as he held the wizard golem’s neck and clapped his hands.

 

“It’s you. You are the one who is disrupting our plans from beginning to end.

 

“Our?”

 

“Oops, was I not supposed to say that?”

 

A playful smile and gesture. However, the eyes glaring at Russell were filled with murderous intent, and it was clear that even the words he had just uttered were intentional.

 

“How dare you keep appearing and interfering every time we try to put together a piece of the puzzle. But it doesn’t matter. You’ll die here.”

 

“Are you saying you’re stronger than a devil or a vampire?”

 

“No, no. That goes without saying.”

 

Deckers shook his head with a chuckle.

 

“These ancient golems will do it for me.”

 

As his words ended, five wizard-dressed golem figures floated up. A crimson magic glow flickered at the tips of each of their staffs, then shot out in an instant.

 

“Russell!”

 

Irrucil, who had been watching from behind, rushed forward and unleashed her magic power.

 

Chakachachakacha!

 

The magic power emanated from the ground she was stepping on, rapidly taking shape in her hands, as dozens of chains turned their heads toward the flashing light that was flying in.

 

The flashes and chains that were fired at Russell and Irrucil from the air collided immediately afterwards. The crimson magic light and the white light intertwined and exploded, mixing together.

 

The solid walls, outposts, and buildings surrounding the entrance to the ruins collapsed and crumbled as a result of the explosion.

 

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-!

 

The flashes shot from the staff did not stop, and Irrucil did not stop pulling out the chains. Russell pulled the axe out of the chest of the wizard golem he was holding.

 

The wizard golem, which had already been frozen and unable to move, shattered all over its body from the impact and rolled on the floor. Russell was able to find a red crystal among the wreckage.

 

A stone is forcibly extracted by sucking out life force. As it was made on the basis of sacrifice, a deep sense of resentment and regret was felt, and the resentment and regret absorbed the magic power of the surroundings and transformed it into negative magic power.

 

A structure that sends away the soul of a human and circulates and charges magic power using the soul. The terrible result created by the forbidden spell using human sacrifice was a more advanced form than the Stone of Life using Geliotos’s spell, which he had seen before.

 

And the golems, which used the Stone of Life as their core and moved with its power, were able to move with greater speed and power.

 

Bang!

 

As Russell blocked the spear thrust with his axe, the ground he was standing on cracked and crumbled. Russell instinctively looked at the knight golem that had launched the surprise attack.

 

The golem was wearing an old-fashioned suit of armor. A faint red light shone from the T-shaped slot in its helmet, staring straight at Russell.

 

Russell, who had deflected the spearhead, stretched out his leg and kicked it sideways. Then, the golem recovered the spearhead that had bounced back with amazing reflexes, raised it vertically, and blocked his kick.

 

Russell’s kick and spearhead hit it, but it did not resist and flew backward, reducing the impact. These were martial arts movements that were clearly different from the golems he had faced before.

 

Swoosh!

 

Other golems ran toward Russell, who was standing with his legs stretched out to the side. The axe blade struck the lower body forcefully, while the large sword targeted the upper body.

 

Russell’s new form blurred for a moment in front of an attack flying at a speed and angle that, in common sense, could never be avoided.

 

Clack!

 

Russell blocked the two attacks. He drove his extended leg down to the ground, stabbed the blade into the floor, and then used his own hand to hold the sword handle as it flew toward his upper body.

 

Not only did he have amazing reflexes, but the fact that he could perform the ridiculous feat of directly holding the bearing point of a weapon that was already swinging with great force was even more surprising.

 

The two knight-armored golems swung through the air before they could retrieve their weapons.

 

Bam! Bang!

 

The golems that flew together collided with the others approaching and collapsed like bowling pins. Russell, who had blown away the two golems, stood tall in place, exhaling quietly.

 

Kuaaaaang!

 

In the meantime, Irrucil’s chains successfully pierced through the baptism of flashes, knocked down, and dropped five wizard golems.

 

Irrucil’s face, on the other hand, was not very bright. This was because she felt that there was no real damage compared to the loud noise she heard.

 

Sure enough, the wizard golems holding staffs appeared unharmed, rising from their fall as if nothing had happened. The T-shaped slot in their faces, which were covered by helmets like the other knight golems, glowed with a red light.

 

“The durability is tougher than I imagined.”

 

Russell nodded at Irrucil’s words.

 

Kugugugugung!

 

The vibration that had started since the Golem army and Deckers began to emerge continued to resonate through the city.

 

A crack shattered with a sudden snap. An unknown sense of buoyancy. Russell clicked his tongue.

 

“It’s coming sooner than I thought.”

 

Buildings continued to collapse, one after another. Even structures with solid supports were unable to withstand the vibration of the shaking ground, being uprooted, tilting, and falling.

 

“Behold! This is the power that the ancient magic city had! Hahahaha!”

 

Deckers, who was laughing like crazy, slammed the staff he was holding on the floor. Then, the wave of magic power spread from the staff, expanding in a certain line and pattern beyond the ruins.

 

The scale was a circular diameter of 1 kilometer. The massive ground began to float, shattering and crushing everything outside that diameter.

 

“Lu-Bakumniora! The name of the floating city that everyone has forgotten, and lost.”

 

Russell remembered the words Aellasis had muttered out of nowhere in the audience room of the Lord. Something ancient was happening. Russell looked down.

 

An object called Lu-Bakumniola is floating, and a being sitting deep in the center of it can be seen. It was curled up and asleep in the thick darkness.

 

However, the ongoing commotion and vibration stimulated the being’s skin. trembling, heavy body. Gradually, a massive heartbeat started to pulse. The heart, which had been beating for a long time (almost once every 10 years), began to beat and circulate blood throughout the body.

 

And Russell’s gaze, which had moved away from that deep center, looked at the golems.

 

“Do you know why those golems were in the ruins?”

 

“What do I care! They were just abandoned underground for hundreds of years, rotting, and no one even bothered to use them!”

 

“Those golems, weren’t they arranged in a specific arrangement and spacing?”

 

“. . . . . .What?”

 

Deckers hesitated at Russell’s question, which caught him off guard.

 

The sunlight, still strong with heat and light after noon, gradually settled on the ground as it approached the sky. Deckers wiped a bead of cold sweat from his forehead and pondered Russell’s question just now.

 

In the deep underground of the ruins, they extracted the life force and blood of the kidnapped people and created the Stone of Life according to the knowledge they had given them. And they implanted the Stone of Life in the chests of the golems that were standing in the middle of a huge space.

 

‘. . .the place where the golems stood at that time.’

 

The arrangement and placement, which he thought was just random. He had been so obsessed with the thought that he could control the ancient artifacts right in front of him that he had overlooked it, a fact that now vividly came back to him.

 

“. . .What does that matter? Do you think you’ll have time to care about something like that?”

 

The golems began to creak and move, encircling Russell and Irrucil in a semicircle in no time. Although they were a considerable distance behind, the buoyancy, which had already started to rise, gave the impression of being blocked.

 

“These ruins are mine now. And so are these hundreds of golem legions!”

 

Deckers’s eyes, spitting out saliva, were filled with strange madness. Russell, gazing at this wizard, sighed softly and adopted a stance.

 

He put Final Frost in his coat, then took out Nahilnir and held it with both hands. The generous handle comfortably encircled his large, robust hand. The dark sword body groaned and absorbed the sunlight.

 

“I guess I have to get rid of you first.”

 

“Who’s talking!”

 

Paaaaahhhhhhhhhh.

 

The golems, holding longbows, pulled the strings wide. The golems pulled their shoulders as far as they could, soaked them, and placed black arrows on them, all aimed at Russell simultaneously.

 

Chirururur.

 

Irrucil, who had extended her chains, slowly approached Russell, who was holding a great sword.

 

“What’s the target?”

 

“Let’s catch that talkative wizard for now.”

 

“Got it.”

 

Pooshushushuk!

 

The golems holding the bowstrings shot arrows at once. They were not just wooden arrows, but something like iron thorns, made of the same material that made up the golem’s body.

 

The arrows, which flew faster than ordinary arrows, were each imbued with magic power and aimed at Russell and Irrucil.

 

However, the arrows did not pierce them. Russell’s magic power, which had been deployed in the meantime, took control of a large area and eliminated kinetic energy.

 

Dozens of arrows were fixed in the air, surrounding Russell and Irrucil. Deckers frowned.

 

“A warrior uses his magic power to control the area instead of strengthening his body. Are you a wizard?”

 

Russell did not answer and changed the arrow’s direction. The arrows that rotated at his gesture turned their heads toward the golems and were shot.

 

Zzzzaaaak!

 

The arrows flying with Russell’s magic power had a completely different momentum than before. The golems with shields stepped forward, risking becoming skewers for the arrows they had shot. The wizard golems raised their hands all at once, shining the grooves in their helmets.

 

At the same time as a translucent barrier formed, the arrows collided. Indeed, the arrows’ extraordinary material caused the magic power barrier to tear like a sheet of paper. It collided with the golem’s shields.

 

Tatatatatang!

 

The sound of roasting beans on an iron plate was loud. In the gaps between the dented shields, the golems glared at Russell and Irrucil with their eyes shining. But they were not there.

 

“Here.”

 

When the golems’ faces turned down, what filled their field of vision was a waterfall of white iron chains. In an instant, the dense formation collapsed, and the knight golems fell.

 

As one side collapsed completely, the formation collapsed, and spells were concentrated toward it. Deckers moved the staff as if he was conducting an orchestra. Even so, his eyes were constantly scanning the surroundings, looking for Russell, who had disappeared.

 

“There you are!”

 

The moment Deckers’s staff pointed, Russell, who had been hiding in the thick dust, appeared. The warrior, with his black coat and hair flowing, plunged into the midst of the rushing knight golems.

 

Teodeodeodeung!

 

The golems floated up with a dull thud. Russell kicked the floor, creating a powerful force strong enough to lift the golems, which were as heavy as they looked, into the air.

 

The golems that had been lifted into the air fell to the ground with a thud, thud. Those knight golems were unable to move easily. The magic power Russell had left behind as he charged forward seeped into the golems’ bodies, overloading their circuits.

 

Russell kept his distance in a straight line. Deckers was eventually escorted by golems. The other knight golems tried to cover Deckers.

 

“Don’t go.”

 

Iron chains, bursting from the ground, grabbed the knight golems’ legs and waists, knocking them down, rendering their attempt futile. As Irrucil assisted Russell’s movement, crumbling the other golems’ formation, deflecting magical spells at the same time.

 

All the golems’ attacks had already cut or stabbed only the empty space behind Russell.

 

Claaaang!

 

Lightning flashed over Russell’s body. At the same time, Russell turned around, retrieved the blade that was stabbing him in the back, and used a greatsword to stab the golem’s torso instead.

 

And a blue lightning flashed, and like connecting the lines of a constellation, lightning ran between the golems.

 

Pajijijijiji!

 

“What. . .!”

 

Ignoring Deckers’s scream of astonishment with one ear, Russell retrieved the greatsword he had stabbed. The golems collapsed, emitting black smoke, and Russell kicked the floor back towards Deckers.

 

“Die!”

 

Deckers, who looked at Russell with fearful eyes, pointed his staff at him without ceasing to chant spells.

 

Giiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-!

 

Shadelloc’s ring, which he had seen only yesterday, contained a spell that sent a green beam of light, condensed with fraud, out from the tip of the staff. The beam flew straight, hitting Russell in the face.

 

“Russell!”

 

“Uhahahaha!”

 

Irrucil’s scream of surprise and Deckers’s conviction of victory burst out.

 

“You took it head-on at close range, so you must. . . huh?”

 

Deckers’ words became blurry. Russell, who should have had his face blown off by the beam, was glaring at him.

 

“H, How?”

 

The skin on his left eye, which had been hit by the green ray, turned black, then returned to its original skin color as if time was being rewound. The regeneration did not stop, and it reached his left eye.

 

In the place where the smoke had cleared, another eye, with its whites turned black and its irises burning completely with purple flames, was looking at Deckers.

 

“W, What the hell?”

 

He flinched at the sight of an unfamiliar creature. Russell put strength into his legs.

 

With a thud, his right foot sank into the ground, crumbling it and creating cracks like spiderwebs in every direction. It was a different kind of vibration from the ground rising, and even the golems lost their balance and rolled over.

 

Deckers couldn’t bear to look at the purple eyes glaring at him for long, and his face turned pale as he shouted.

 

“S, Stop him!”

 

Deckers shouted, and five wizard golems stood in a row and raised both hands. In an instant, five overlapping magic circles and barriers aligned to defend Deckers’ front.

 

As soon as the floor shattered, the reaction surged up Russell’s body and reached his right shoulder.

 

A shock wave, like air being pushed away, occurred, and Nahilnir, held in Russell’s right hand, ripped through the air and flew. It tore through the five overlapping magic circles and shields in one go, impaling the wizard golems.

 

“Uwaaaak!”

 

Deckers, who was floating in the air, hurriedly flew away, and Nahilnir, who had pierced five wizard golems, was stuck in its place.

 

And Russell, who had approached in the meantime, pulled out a greatsword with one hand. Unknowingly, Deckers directed his gaze upwards. With the sunlight above his head as backlighting, Russell, with his face in the dark and two eyes burning purple in the dark, looked down at him.

 

“You.”

 

“Eek!”

 

Russell’s left hand grabbed Deckers’s neck and lifted him up.

 

“Tell me more about those ‘our’ guys. What are you plotting, everything.”

 

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