Hermit Wizard

1. 1. 1. 1. Savior or Destroyer (12)

“… Identification number?”

Hwang Soo-rim, who didn’t understand the meaning properly, tilted her head.

[It seems to be a number that replaces the names of these guys.]

When Parvache asked a few more questions with its will, Ramuming cried out and answered. Hwang Soo-rim asked as she saw it.

“They use a number instead of a name?”

[There’s a separate name for each of them, but it doesn’t seem to be official. The identification number I just said is what ‘they’ use to manage the Ramumings. In short, it’s a number to easily identify the birth year and harvest time of livestock.]

“Livestock?”

Hwang Soo-rim opened her eyes wide at the inappropriate word, and when she looked at Ramuming’s outfit, she saw the only different thing that she thought was an accessory.

“So, that metal necklace that this kid wore around his neck…”

Her gaze was fixed on a necklace made of dark metal. It was too big and too thick to the thought of the purpose of being fashionable. Despite that, the circumference was smaller than the size of the head so that it couldn’t be removed from the top, but… no matter how much she looked at it, you couldn’t see any joint part.

She asked herself. How could they take that off? Or did they made it so that it was impossible to be taken off after wearing it once?

Parvache delivered her mental waves to her, who was lost in thought for a while.

[The fact that he was given that identification number… Oh, now I know what Ramuming is mistaken for now.]

“@#[email protected]#%@!”

Ramuming, who grabbed Hwang Soo-rim’s pants, once again appealed with a crying voice, that time for quite a while. Suddenly, Parvache interpreted the meaning. Seeing Tobogai’s condition ahead of its death, Ramuming was completely panicked at first, but currently, his words were much more refined to see if he was gradually regaining his reason.

[Great Dragon, you have transformed your figure into a human being. However, even now, this lowly thing can see that you are strong and safe. I know that you don’t need Ramuming’s body right now. Please listen nonetheless. I’m a young beast that has not yet returned, but I know how to serve you with my body… that what he said. Hmm, you’re getting the wrong idea.]

“W-what kind of service with his body?”

[… Keep listening]

Ramuming’s sad appeal continued.

[Although you don’t have a scratch on your precious body right now, I know that taking the blood and meat of a young Ramuming like me will help you recover from fatigue. I’m going to sacrifice my body in pieces here, so please save a friend of this lowly thing. This is solely due to my free will, and it will be disrespectful, but it will not go against the rules of the great people… it said.]

Hwang Soo-rim’s mouth widened.

“… What fucking bullshit am I hearing right now?”

It was creepy. What? Sacrifice himself to pieces? Was that the sound coming out of that little boy’s mouth now?

Parvache calmly sent a mental wave.

[This guy has mistaken you for the Dragon… As the Dragon of this world who manages and ‘harvests’ himself whenever necessary.]

“… Is Ramuming like a dragon’s stock?”

[It’s a similar concept.]

Parvache briefly explained. The dragons basically had a body that didn’t react to recovery magic well. Although the aspect was different for each dimension, it was told that their shortcomings.

In the dragon civilization, which had developed magical science to the extreme, they somehow developed the magic that worked well to their bodies. However, the dragons of that world hadn’t yet reached that stage, so they had found an alternative. It was a method of improving and breeding the species with the ability of biological recovery, that was Ramumings here, and using them as their ‘inflammatory treatment.’

[Even dragons seem to have rules on how to consume Ramuming. It can only be used when a dragon is injured. It is strictly forbidden to kill and hurt Ramumings for reasons such as ‘recovery of fatigue,’ thereby reducing the inherent resilience. The only exception is when Ramuming voluntarily sacrifices its body, and now, this guy will cut off his body and offer it to you to recover from fatigue. In return, he is begging you to save that Tobogai.]

Garam, who had been listening to the story so far, intervened with a frown.

“Does that race have a reason, no matter how much I look at? Are they raising and slaughtering them like livestock? Those terrible things… it’s really too much. I’m getting angry. Why do all the dragons do that? The viciousness isn’t much different from the Dragon’s actions in our world!”

Hwang Soo-rim, who heard the rough story but didn’t know the details, asked again.

“Do you mean the Earth’s Dragon also did similar things?”

“Yeah. People like us have also suffered damage, but in fact, it was you humans who have suffered the most damage. I can’t even guess how many humans the Dragon’s minions caught because they have the talent to use magic. Would those humans really survive?”

Garam shook his head and continued.

“No, in the first place, it was terrible to do something that suppressed the talent of magic on the entire human beings. You, humans, have lost tremendous opportunities over the past thousands of years. There are hundreds of millions of beings who have no reason to cross the wall, and your people who have evolved to the highest level have not crossed the wall since the Dragon appeared!”

Maek’s voice was mixed in anger.

“For example, a transcendental being of human origin in White Deer Village is only elder Mago who survived a long war. After the Great Agreement, no single human could cross the wall to join us. This is really…”

[Ah, wait! Stop that kid!]

Parvache interrupted in a hurry, spitting out its will. Only then did Garam and Hwang Soo-rim turned their heads and looked at Ramuming, and wild words jumped out from Hwang Soo-rim’s mouth, who was frightened by the sight in front of her.

“Hey! You bastard! Dude!”

Ramuming was on the verge of striking his forearm with his trembling hand. He was holding a one-handed ax-like tool in one hand while clenching his teeth with his eyes closed.

“You crazy kid!”

Hwang Soo-rim ran in and took the ax from his hand. Whether it was a trait of the species itself or since he was still young, Ramuming’s strength wasn’t strong, and he was easily taken away by Hwang Soo-rim.

The young boy with blue hair, who had been blocked from his attempt, looked up at the party in front of him and begged again.

-Khiiiiiiiiing!

Tobogai, who fell on the floor, once again raised its head and cried sadly.

“Hoaaaaaaaa, huooooooong!”

Ramuming, who was restrained from self-cutting, also added to the song.

Hwang Soo-rim, who was watching it, asked Parvache with a weak voice.

“… Parvache. I’m begging you this much, but can’t we save that Tobogai?”

Garam nodded and agreed with Hwang Soo-rim.

“Elder, seeing those different races cling to each other, they seem to be very close to each other. Is there any way to save that big beast?”

Parvache felt a little awkward listening to them.

The cause of the mood was quickly understood. In the meantime, it was since Parvache himself had become so familiar with Yoon Min-joon’s mindset and behavior.

If it were Yoon Min-joon, before that Ramuming cried and begged, he would’ve heard the story of the Ramuming after burning that Tobogai on fire.

Parvache thought one after another. If it were before Yoon Min-joon lost his childhood memories, he would’ve followed its instructions and burned Tobogai without question, even because of its suggestion. Since he had lost his memory, he would’ve killed Tobogai to protect himself, rationally, under the judgment that it was justifiable even without suggestion. There would’ve been no hesitation in the action due to the loss of his memory.

However, Hwang Soo-rim and Garam next to Parvache weren’t Yoon Min-joon. They sympathized with even the aliens they had first met in their life and felt sorry for him.

Parvache muttered inwardly.

‘The way they think is different from Min-joon.’

Yes, they were different. Parvache thought. Since it wasn’t Yoon Min-joon, in the end, it threw itself in the danger that it could avoid.

At that moment, the danger had just started to vibrate the surrounding earth!

-Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

The party was confused by the sudden shaking from underneath. It was like an earthquake.

“What… what?!”

Hwang Soo-rim shouted sharply. Parvache urgently sent a mental wave.

[We can’t use this place as a battlefield! All the Mana patterns we have made will be destroyed!]

It was the will that cut out the whole process, but Hwang Soo-rim quickly understood the meaning. The opponent approaching that place was a creature that could dig up all the ground in a mess. If they fought there, the magic circle that she prepared hard would be destroyed irreparably.

[Blow that Tobogai away! It has been chasing after the smell of semen left in that guy’s body anyway, so it’ll follow to the place where Tobogai move. Fight there!]

Hwang Soo-rim responded sharply.

“I don’t know that spell. Please tell me another way!”

[This… such a stupid! In the meantime, what the hell have you learned from Eraser!]

“I just learned to pierce, cut, and burst something like that! Also, the labor work of planting Mana patterns on the ground!”

[… It’s a clear purpose for fostering. No, the human mind can’t use telekinetic power, but the basic force field or vacuum wave magic?]

“If I use such magic right now, I can’t move that elephant at all or bursts its body. I can’t do it now! If I move it and burst it with the wrong force control, its body pieces and the stuff in its stomach will spill around here. What if it’s even worse? That thing will attack us no matter what?”

It was an accurate judgment. The situation would only worsen if Tobogai suffered additional trauma and semen was exposed to the outside and flowed to the nearby ground.

[How about God’s Spell? Are there any Dryflos’ spells? Ah, no. Since it is a spell that requires sacrifice, this is giving me a headache.]

Hwang Soo-rim, who didn’t understand Parvache’s will, was about to scream to ask for another alternative.

-Hweeeeiiiik!

Hwang Soo-rim realized the awkward feeling surrounding her and turned her head. Its source was Garam.

“… What?”

Garam, who had moved in the form of a boy who wasn’t taller than Hwang Soo-rim waist, had now returned to his original body.

The haze-like energy moved and mixed and soon it turned into a wind that lost its shape, then blew. The wind on Tobogai’s collapsed body clumped together to create power.

“What are you doing just now?”

Garam returned to his Maek’s form and answered calmly.

“It’s a dream collected from a human child living around the Han River. It’s a dream that falls off a cliff. If I change that direction a little…”

-Hweeeeiiiiiing!

Hwang Soo-rim opened her eyes wide. The Mana fluctuated in a way that was incomprehensible to her concept. Suddenly, Tobogai’s body and the other parties started moving at high speed like an arrow.

“What… whaaaaaaaat?!”

The surrounding landscape crushed and passed.

“Ugh!”

Their bodies stopped before Hwang Soo-rim’s scream had yet disappeared. She was stumbling. After balancing her body and looking around her, she was amazed. The land where they had just stood before, the container and the magic circle, had been moved far enough to be seen at the end of the horizon.

“… Uh, how? Is this a teleport? Or is it floating in the air?”

Garam shook his head.

“I changed the direction of falling to back and front, not up and down. From where we’ve been until just now, to where we are, we’ve fallen horizontally. Anyway, I think we need to prepare quickly. The direction of the vibration has shifted to this direction.”

Hwang Soo-rim nodded and prepared her magic. The magic she did the best and focused on was the magic of piercing, cutting, and bursting among the magic system that she learned.

As she felt the vibration of the ground intensifying, Hwang Soo-rim clenched her teeth. Frightened, Ramuming hugged Tobogai’s head with his hands. Garam checked the kinds of dreams attached to his body and found something that could be used in that situation.

-Grrrrrrrr!

When the magnitude of the vibration reached the extreme, the ground began to split.

-Crack crack! Whooooong!

A red pillar rose from the crack in the ground. It soared so fast that it was difficult to distinguish the form, and it quickly turned its head and rushed to that side.

-Kraaaaaaaaaaaak!

Along with the roar, the shadow of a giant monster covered the party.

Hwang Soo-rim combined her magic while looking at the enemy in front of her eyes. The opponent was a giant creature that looked like a centipede, whose body size was so large and long that it couldn’t be compared with Tobogai.

Parvache had been calmly delivering the attack method of the monster, the female Red Hiel, and countermeasures in the minds of Garam and Hwang Soo-rim. Reviewing the contents, Hwang Soo-rim completed her spell, and she swore inside.

“Why are the males flying, but the females dig the ground and are the giant monsters with no body in sight?! Something’s wrong!”

Spells flowed out of her mouth.

“The Rage of Quécadios!”