Chapter 167 - The Approaching Second Processing
The underground of Dusk Citadel.
The fight against the unidentifiable sli monster in its abyss continued for over half a day.
Edwin, still wearing the Twilight helt, was still confronting the monster's consciousness.
The clone Young Master and Cailin were engrossed in defending him, who could not move.
“Why are these things so tough? No matter how many tis I hit them, they don't die!”
“Only the one wearing the Twilight helt can kill it.”
I answered while swatting away a clinging sli monster.
The main body had explained it that way and even told its na.
“This creature, called Hunger, has an organ like a heart sowhere in its body, and it moves it at will to avoid fatal blows.”
“So it won't die unless that heart is destroyed.”
“That’s about right. It’s not easy to specify without the ability of the Twilight helt.”
“I see how it survived to the end among the monsters that flocked to the underground!”
She kicked Hunger with an annoyed voice.
Its body shattered into fragnts from the formidable force, but it soon squird and reassembled, regaining its shape.
It was a truly annoying recovery ability.
Cailin, with her brow deeply furrowed, extended both her fists forward.
“O, wolf that chases the moon. Scatter your cold spirit.”
Ice fragnts, spreading like a gale from both fists, piled up on the ground.
It soon took the form of a wolf and played around the underground, leaving a trail of coldness as its afterimage.
Crack─
Crack─
Frost ford on footprints the size of a human face, affecting the surroundings.
I knew it from the fact that Hunger’s fragnts had noticeably slowed down.
The creatures flinched at the sudden change in environnt and were reluctant to attack.
“Thanks to you, I’ve caught my breath. Thank you.”
“I just tried it, thinking whatever happens, happens! I’m glad it worked!”
What would have happened if it had failed?
The question rose to the tip of my throat, but I didn’t bother to ask. It worked, so that’s what mattered.
The ice wolf, shaped by the werewolf shaman, ran through the abyss, pushing back Hunger’s fragnts.
I could feel the main body’s admiration even from here.
“Still, that’s impressive. It can’t have been long since you started studying werewolf shamanism. You can already infuse an attribute.”
“That’s true, but my dad says it's a reckless spell that relies solely on a young body.”
I could tell why he said that from Cailin’s carefully hidden hands.
Her two hands, which had turned deathly pale from the shamanic spell just now, had lost their warmth.
Since she was a young werewolf, she would recover with ti, but it was impossible to use it consecutively.
“Rest for a bit. At least until that wolf disappears.”
A blood-colored magic circle floated above my hand.
Fortunately, the main body’s battle had ended without any problems. The main body also didn't use much magic power, thinking of this side.
Right now, both were either in the middle of a battle or on the verge of one.
I had to refrain from using big techniques and instead display finesse.
“I’m fine! I can provide support as much as I want.”
“Don’t exert yourself and wait for your hands to heal. If I borrow a daughter and return her with her hands in that state, I won’t be able to face Remus.”
Ssk─
I grabbed a thread from the magic circle and pulled it out.
And yet, the thread didn't break and ca out as I pulled.
A thread can’t go without a needle, so I made one with magic power and hardened it with Samche to create a long needle.
“Your wolf has slowed them down a lot, so I can lend a hand too. You’ve done your part.”
Shwaaaaaaaaaaa─
The needle with the thread attached moved.
It moved swiftly through the air, piercing and sewing the divided fragnts of Hunger.
Even when the needle passed through its body, the thread remained, and on the thread, a curse remained.
“These things…. Why aren’t they moving?”
“They are under the curse of slowing.”
To conserve as much magic power as possible, I bound Hunger’s movents with a single thread and needle.
However, there were still so left, and I repeated this process several tis.
“Wow….”
Cailin, who watched from behind, was quietly amazed.
With a few of his hand gestures, the fragnts were sewn onto the thread, as many as they were divided, and couldn't move an inch.
The thread, which glowed faintly with a red light, soon illuminated the dark floor of the underground.
“Who taught you sothing like this?”
“I didn’t really learn it from anyone. I just tried it, like you.”
“For sothing you just tried, it was incredibly neat! I thought you would fight by laying out the undead like the first ti we t.”
“The enemies I’ll face from now on can’t be dealt with by such a simple thod. I’m making a change.”
And to make another change, the clone was here, and the main body was at the border.
It seed it would take so ti for the main body to achieve results, but the clone was just around the corner.
How much ti had passed?
The ice wolf disappeared, and the fragnts bound by the curse of slowing began to tremble.
“It seems the results are starting to show.”
I removed the red threads.
Ssk─
The fragnts of Hunger that were scattered around gathered towards the largest fragnt in front of Edwin.
Jumping and kicking off the floor as if to attack, they eventually rged into one.
“It’s surprisingly big, huh?”
“Indeed.”
The clone Young Master also calmly acknowledged it.
The vampire and werewolf, with their good night vision, witnessed the unified Hunger.
Its height was so great that if it stretched straight up, it could easily reach the bridge over there.
Ssk─
However, its massive body soon shrank and compressed to the size of a single person.
It transford into the sa size, height, and appearance as Edwin.
Even so, it was just a slimy body that had taken on a human form, but Hunger reached out its hand.
Edwin did the sa, and the two could touch.
“…It’s done.”
A relieved voice flowed from the Twilight helt.
“The power of the helt is truly amazing. From the mont I put it on and faced the creature until the possession began, I even felt a sense of becoming one with it.”
That feeling still tingled at his fingertips.
“Its na is Hunger. You’ll be managing it, so you should know.”
“Hunger…. I understand.”
Edwin, who answered, was still wearing the helt and looking down at his own hands.
He was still drunk on the sense of unity and omnipotence he had tasted upon succeeding in the mind control.
There was a solution for such tis.
“Cailin.”
“Yeah!”
Answering brightly, she stealthily approached Edwin from behind.
“Chairman-nim~. How about taking off the helt now?”
He pondered for a mont before shaking his head.
“No. I think it’s right to keep wearing it. To use this power even outside the citadel─”
Thwack─!!
“…!!”
A kick that struck his thigh like a thunderbolt.
The superior genetics that had fought on par with a vampire with physical ability alone exploded on his leg.
His body collapsed with a gasp, unable to even scream from the shock.
The helt naturally ca off and rolled on the floor a couple of tis.
“Dante! Here you go!”
“Well done.”
The clone Young Master, who had received the Twilight helt, approached Edwin.
“Are you alright?”
“Ye-Yes. Thank you for saving .”
“It seems that wearing it for more than a day would result in complete domination.”
“…Yes. At that point, it would be difficult to wake up even with a kick of this magnitude.”
“It’s alright! If that ti cos, I’ll kick you with a force that can’t be compared to now!”
Cailin promised, clenching both her fists.
Edwin couldn’t help but think for a mont.
He wondered if he would die if it was stronger than this, but it was better than being dominated by so helt.
“Thank you.”
“Get up.”
“Ye-Yes.”
Edwin took the hand offered by the clone Young Master and barely managed to stand up.
“Does the control seem to be working well?”
“Fortunately, yes.”
Hunger still stood blankly in human form.
Edwin looked at it and moved his arms.
It was a simple motion of just raising and lowering them, with no particular aning.
Hunger followed his movents like a baby bird imitating its mother.
“This seems stable enough. I can bring the items now.”
“Where are you going?”
“There are items I entrusted to the Forest Witch. I’m going to place them here.”
“Should I wait here?”
“Yes. It won’t take long.”
He climbed the blood stream like stairs and reached the bridge where he had first fallen.
Now he had to go to the first processing site where the Forest Witch was.
Fortunately, Edwin’s control was established in a short ti, shortening the ti until the next stage.
Likewise, the end of the second processing was approaching even faster.
***
ssenger Ransis stood behind the Family Head today as well.
She had been doing so since the past when the Family Head was not yet the Family Head.
Her place was always by the Family Head’s side and behind him, always assisting him.
So she could sense even the smallest changes in the Family Head. Today was just like that.
“You have been going for walks frequently lately.”
“Walking is a hobby for everyone.”
A hobby for everyone? What a ridiculous thing to say.
“Among those everyone, you, Family Head-nim, were not included. Furthermore, you even smile while walking. At least, it’s a sight I’m seeing for the first ti.”
If it was a sight the ssenger was seeing for the first ti, then no one in this world had seen it.
“Lately, the situation with Wisdom has beco increasingly unstable, and there are continuous signs that the West is trying to rise, yet you, Family Head-nim, seem quite happy.”
“It’s because the hobby I picked up recently is quite amusing.”
“…A hobby, you say.”
When she asked again, Family Head Kulsian smiled gently.
Even with age, that smile was still as innocent as ever.
That pure smile, which all his children had inherited, also held the sa aning.
“It looks more like a nefarious sche than a hobby.”
“You’re making assumptions without even hearing what kind of hobby it is.”
“What kind of hobby is it?”
“Raising children.”
“……”
As if she had expected it, Ransis’s expression imdiately wrinkled.
The Family Head, without erasing his smile, unclasped his hands behind his back.
“I realized at the banquet. Seeing the children only through the General Manager of Intelligence’s reports had a considerable discrepancy.”
“To think you realized that at the banquet. It seems you have no talent for hobbies.”
“I t the youngest occasionally and saw the first son yesterday, so I knew as much as I needed to, but the daughters and the fourth son were unexpected.”
The ghost sisters and the little giant.
They were called by grand nas in the world, but the Family Head knew their true nature.
They were still young, burdened by the weight on their shoulders, and bound to their maternal family.
However, after clashing with the youngest, they were freed from that bondage.
Like birds freed from a cage, they soared freely and began to display their talents like crazy.
As the situation with Wisdom had recently beco unstable, all the clan mbers were further honing themselves below the surface.
“The achievent of the first son I saw yesterday was remarkable, but the other children are also worthy of the title of Family Head.”
“Isn’t that why you guided them to grow together by uniting, rather than having the clan mbers fight each other?”
“Yes. That’s why I set myself up as the target, but now it seems Wisdom is stepping up on its own. This, too, is a welco event.”
Of course, the first son had charged at him several tis, as if to kick away the decision made at the banquet.
He had done so yesterday, and he would probably do so again in a few days.
Even though he had been given a Bone Dragon, he had stubbornly appeared with a sword and had achieved results there again.
It was a great talent, but it couldn't keep up with the youngest's steps.
“The youngest is at the foremost border right now, isn’t he?”
“That is correct. He t with the Empress of Blood recently and went up right away.”
“She must have given him so kind of hint. Whether it’s about the youngest’s current state. Or about the Magic Dragon.”
“Therefore, it seems that the Young Master is trying to advance sohow before the situation with Wisdom cos to the surface.”
The Family Head chuckled.
“It’s obvious just by looking at how he reduced the volu of Dark Elixir and increased only the other new potions to buy more ti to advance.”
“Didn’t that strategy actually work? Wisdom has cooled its jets a little.”
“Even so, it’s a heat that will rise again. The youngest, who returns after achieving sothing at the border, will no longer care about Wisdom’s mood.”
The Family Head waited for that mont to co.
Since he was waiting for sothing, his eyes were full of life.
The ssenger also noticed it. She wanted to say that he was like a child even at his age, but she didn’t bother to stop him.
Because the present was much better than the past few years when he had lived as if dead in his room.
“Ransis. Go to the foremost border. He’ll be excited about getting a Magic Dragon, so it’s not a bad opportunity to build his foundation.”
“…As you command.”
At the thought of building her disciple’s, no. Her disciple’s foundation, a smile spread across Ransis’s lips as well.
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