Chapter 37: Meteor, Kidnapped? (4)

“Sylvia was the one who attacked by surprise, stabbing the chest.

Seyeon had experience hunting demons, so she specialized in aiming for the opponent’s head, while Sylvia, who had performed many missions as a knight commander, preferred a reasonable method of dealing with them.

-Your Majesty.

I think you should go to the right.

Sylvia, to the left!

At that moment, Granil and Karen’s voices rang in their ears.

“Huh?

On the right?”

• Yes.

My disciples, the black magicians, are there.

“No…

I’m not saying anything, but why do I have to go there?”

-I’m sorry, but…

my disciples are also being deceived by the leader!

So if I persuade them, they will definitely change their minds and join our side!

In short, he was saying that it would be a waste to just kill the black magicians that he had raised with all his time and money, so let’s go and persuade them.

Seyeon, who was about to say something out of disbelief for a moment, stopped and thought about something.

“Our country…

does need more magicians.”

-Yes?

I couldn’t hear you well because you spoke softly.

“It’s nothing.

I will cooperate.”

Granil, who was only using telepathy magic, couldn’t see the bald man’s face that was smiling sinisterly.

So Seyeon started searching on the right where the black magicians were gathered, and Sylvia on the left where there were relatively few people inside.

“Ugh.”

And after a few hours had passed since the search began.

“Ugh…”

Yooseong, who had been leaning against the rock, opened his eyes.

Yooseong, who was drooling and grabbing his head, staggered up from his seat.

“Ugh.

Ueeeek!”

He vomited stomach fluid and shook with a miserable expression.

“Huh…?

Yooseong!”

Karen, who had been checking the situation with her magic and had noticed Yooseong’s presence belatedly, tried to run to him.

“Oh…

Don’t.”

“You don’t look good right now…”

“Wait…

Wait!

Don’t come near…

Please.”

The black eyes of Yooseong that shouted like that were trembling as they looked at Karen.

The diluted nightmare memories were revived due to LeaForte’s obsessive actions.

“Eek…

Then Yooseong is dangerous?!

How do we go to save Yooseong…”

Karen, who had forgotten the strategy she had explained in advance and was filled with worry about Yooseong, tried to use teleportation magic right away because of Seyeon’s words.

Chuck.

But Sylvia stood between them.

“But Your Majesty.

Yooseong spoke.

The reason we used this method was to ensure stability and to find and rescue Demon King Claire, who must be somewhere on the first floor.”

She calmed everyone down with a serious light shining in her purple eyes.

“Demon King Claire…

That’s right.

She was captured too.

Oh, so this is why we’re doing this?”

With Sylvia’s short words, Seyeon finally understood Yooseong’s intentions.

With his cloned body, he diverted LeaForte’s attention and used himself and the rest of the party members who had escaped in the meantime to find and rescue Demon King Claire.

“I’m not saying I’m not worried about Yooseong, but…

Our going to save Yooseong might actually be a burden to him.”

“Then I’ll go too.”

“Are you talking about the king?”

At that moment, Sylvia’s gaze turned to Seyeon’s empty arm.

“I know.

I’m half-retired right now.

But my friend is trying to save me by putting me in a crazy woman’s room…

a tiger’s den.

Should I just stay still?

Even though it’s worse than usual, I ate the elixir capsule or something that Yooseong gave me…

and my magic power came back.”

As she said that, Seyeon changed her attitude to seriousness and held out her hand to Sylvia.

“It’s the king’s order.

Provide me with a weapon.

Commander Sylvester.”

“I will obey the order.”

Sylvia respectfully placed a small cube on Seyeon’s hand.

“Cube…?”

“Yooseong asked me to give this to you when His Majesty returns.

He said it was a weapon and equipment.

He said that it would be usable if I gave it a small shock.”

“Hmm…”

Seyeon, who knew to some extent how Yooseong used the compression cube, applied strength to her only remaining left arm and hand.

Crack!

She crushed the cube in her palm.

Crush!

Then, metal lines shot out and the arm that had broken the cube was quickly brushed by holographic particles and…

“…!”

Zing!

Clang!

A prosthetic arm made of metal was created on the empty arm and automatically connected to the cut surface of the arm, connecting the nerves.

Swish.

Swish.

Seyeon turned the newly attached prosthetic arm over and over again and clenched her fist.

“Wow…

It’s better than my arm.

As expected from the latest technology!”

With that one word, she received Sylvia’s auxiliary equipment, a longsword, and prepared for battle.

“I cast telepathy magic and visual sharing magic on each of you.”

“Oh?

Can’t a warlock cast telepathy magic or visual sharing magic?”

“Profit!

The Circle might be higher, but a warlock is also a wizard!

Of course he can!”

So KarenRedleaf cast telepathy and visual sharing magic on Sylvia and the warlock Granil on Seyeon to relay the situation inside the building and the movement of the personnel.

“Then let’s hurry.”

“Yes.

Your Majesty.”

Sylvia and Seyeon jumped into his body and began to explore the first floor of the castle.

“They said there was an explosion on the top floor…”

“What on earth is going on.”

Two warlocks were walking down the hallway, talking while holding torches.

“They’re even shushing upstairs…”

Boom!

In an instant, a sword blade pierced through his chest, and the warlock’s mouth, who had been speaking, was covered by a hand in a blue gauntlet.

Thud.

“Why did you stop talking?”

When he couldn’t hear his comrade’s voice, the warlock looked to the side and saw his comrade with his eyes rolled back and a sword blade sticking out from his chest.

“Huh?!”

He was shocked and turned his head away, trying to run away, but.

Crunch–

The golden sword stroke grazed the warlock’s nape, separating his neck and body.

Thud.

The black magician who died late, unlike his comrades who were able to salvage their corpses, died with a surprised expression on his face.

“Why bother grabbing him and cutting off his vital points when you can just cut off his neck?”

“If you do that, the blood will splatter and leave a mark, Your Majesty.”

“What…

I’m going to wipe them all out anyway, so what does it matter?”

Seyeon was the one who cut off his neck.

“I created a clone body for you, HanYooseong, who is lying over there.”

“Clone body..?”

“Yes.”

Granil addressed Seyeon as the King of Griffin and explained in a respectful tone about creating a clone body with Yooseong.

“So you’re saying that Yooseong in the castle right now is a clone body and the body here is the real one?”

“Yes.

The reason he can’t wake up right now is because his consciousness is in the clone body.”

“Hmm..”

After Granil finished explaining, Seyeon thought for a moment and then opened her mouth wide.

“Oh my god..

Does that mean Yooseong is with that crazy b*tch over there?”

“.?”

“We have to go get Yooseong right now!”

Seyeon shouted.

“But Yooseong told me never to come rescue him..?”

Karen answered hesitantly.

“Maybe he thought that since I’m a clone body, he would use himself as bait to get me out.

But there’s something Yooseong didn’t think of!

That LeaForte over there is no ordinary crazy b*tch!

I thought KarenRedleaf and SylviaSylvester, you two were no joke, but this one has really gone crazy!”

There was tension between the three remaining people.

Granil, the Black Tower Lord, was worried that the operation might go wrong and LeaForte might mistreat him.

Karen and Sylvia were purely worried that he might harm Yooseong.

Even though he left his real body here and went to save him in a cloned form, the consciousness implanted in the cloned body was clearly Yooseong’s.

Even if there was no physical damage, there was a possibility of mental shock, as he didn’t know what LeaForte would do to him.

When he was staring at the top floor of the castle like that.

Kwaaang!

Suddenly, a golden explosion occurred right next to the room on the top floor of the castle, and a figure jumped out.

“I came out!

That golden magic…

It must be the warrior…

the Griffin King!”

“Wizard!”

As Granil shouted, Sylvia looked at Karen and shouted.

“I’m already ready…

Blink!”

Swish!

Karen disappeared using the rapid movement magic Blink.

A moment later, KarenRedleaf appeared from the empty space of the castle in the distance, knocking back all the black-robed warlocks who were swarming around her, and using magic, caught Seyeon, who was presumed to be the one who had broken through the wall and jumped out.

Swish!

“Success!”

She returned in an instant.

“Really!

A 10th circle Archmage is an Archmage?

No matter how low the level of her disciples, how could she block all the magic cast by 5 people!

And even subdue them with reverse magic power control?”

“Hehe!”

Karen smiled proudly at the admiration of Granil, who was a warlock but also a practitioner of the same magic field.

“Hey, Mage?”

However, Sylvia looked at Karen and made an expression as if she had something to say.

“Huh?

Why?”

“Is the person you brought…

Your Majesty the King?”

“?”

At Sylvia’s question, Karen finally looked at Seyeon(?) who she had floating next to her using levitation magic.

“Huh.”

In that place where he was sighing softly, it wasn’t the JinSeyeon with the golden beard and hair from his memories…

“Bald?”

“Oh!

I can tell just by looking at you!

Don’t say it out loud!”

“No…

why are you bald?”

Karen emphasized the word “bald” once again as Seyeon struggled in the air and shouted in anger.

“Looking closely…

it seems to be your Majesty.”

“No.

I told you it was me!”

Only after Sylvia’s proof could the shiny bald head with hair, beard, and hair be acknowledged as JinSeyeon.

“Well…

it seems more suitable for a warrior…

your Majesty than when it was bushy before?”

“You look neat, your Majesty.”

“From now on, even if you mention my hair one more time, I’ll throw you all in the royal dungeon for disrespect!”

Only after Seyeon’s threatening words erupted was the topic of hair able to be moved.

“Whew…

So what happened to Yooseong..

What is it?”

Seyeon, who was continuing her speech, shouted in surprise when she saw Yooseong in a suit leaning against the rock next to Sylvia.

Wasn’t he the Yooseong who had come to save her a few minutes ago?

‘I think he must have thought of something after seeing the hand signal, but…

He came out faster than me?’

The codes Yooseong had sent as hand signals were ‘Fake, Run, Acting.’

The moment LeaForte squirmed underneath her and tried to get up again, Seyeon saw Yooseong’s eyes already filled with the meaning that he knew.

That’s why he ran away alone.

Seeing the keywords ‘run away’ and ‘fake,’ Seyeon interpreted that Yooseong in front of her was fake or that there was a way to escape, so she pretended to be surprised by the ‘acting’ and left the place right away.

However, when she came out, Yooseong, who she had left behind, was lying unconscious in this place.

Even his clothes were completely different.

“Your Majesty, King Griffin…

I will explain that part.”

“Who..?

Come on.”

Seyeon asked with a puzzled expression at the sight of the old man with a black beard suddenly approaching and speaking to her.

“I am Granil, the black magic tower master of Machinia.

Your Majesty.”

Seyeon opened her eyes wide in surprise at Granil’s words.

Seyeon, who had already been hit in the back of the head by the necromancer Lissandra, could not help but be wary of Granil.

“Meteor brother..”

LeahForte smiled happily as she looked at Yooseong lying next to her.

“…”

Yooseong lying next to Leah showed no reaction.

He just stared blankly into space.

His unfocused black eyes and white artificial eyes gave off the same vibe as a doll in an exhibition hall.

In fact, the current Yooseong…

To be exact, the cloned body and the doll wouldn’t be that different.

The consciousness that had been in the cloned body had already left it and returned to its original body.

“Can you sleep a little longer in Leah’s arms..?”

“_”

“Hehe, it’s embarrassing!

I just woke up and didn’t even wash up…

Do you want to be stuck to Leah like that?”

Even a normal person would have realized that something was wrong upon seeing the rotten, frozen eyes of the current cloned body.

Even Leah, who was the Demon King’s contractor, would have definitely explained it to Demon King Baal.

“It’s like a dream that I’m in the same bed with you like this, brother.”

Leah continued to speak as if Yooseong was talking to her, looking at the cloned body.

That’s right.

LeahForte did not accept reality.

The Yooseong that she had longed for so much was in her hands.

In reality, she could not accept the fact that the Yooseong in front of her was just a cloned body made of skin.

“Brother..

I love you..

I love you..

I love you..

I love you..”

LeahForte, who loved Yooseong so much that she was close to madness, could not escape from the delusions she had imagined on her own.

If someone had repeatedly pointed out this behavior, Leah might have realized that something was wrong.

However, Demon King Baal only spoke to her once because he thought it was ‘fun’ and just watched Leah’s actions.

The warlocks…

were there, but they were gone.

Those wearing black robes were lying at the entrance to the bedroom where LeahForte and Yooseong were currently together.

-Your Majesty!

Intruders from below right now..!

We need your help, Guide!

The first black armored intruder, the warlock who reported that Yooseong stole Claire, survived.

However, the second and third warlocks who came to report the appearance of intruders were all killed by LeahForte.

“Hehe…

Yooseong, brother..”

So there was no one to get in Leah and HanYooseong’s way (whom he believed was him), and there was also no one to give Leah advice to come to her senses.

Wriggle…

Wriggle…

Black tentacles moving behind Leah, who was pressed against Yooseong.

The tentacles crawled towards the door and soon.

Whew–!

They picked up the corpses and swallowed them.

They swelled up like a boa constrictor swallowing a huge prey, breaking down the prey, and transmitted it to LeahForte.

“Brother.

I’ll make you feel a little more energetic.”

Gulp–

Gulp.

Leah transferred the nutrients refined from her body to the clone body.

Originally, the clone body’s soul should have left it and its life activities should have ceased, but she continued to maintain its vitality by using the nutrient transfer from the tentacles.

“You will be with me forever.”

Just as she said, if Leah wanted, it was also possible to maintain Yooseong’s clone body semi-permanently and spend time with him.

Jiing.

However, Leah’s wish could not be fulfilled because of Yooseong of all people.

[Warning-Danger detected!]

[You are advised to leave your current location! Master.]

For an instant, a ‘danger detected’ warning sign appeared on one of the clone body’s eyes, the artificial eye.

Kwaaaaaaa.

The ceiling of the room glowed white.

Swish!

The room and the entire castle were engulfed in a white plasma beam.

“Ah…”

The ‘happy’ time Leah wanted was over.

After Yooseong transferred his consciousness into the clone body and KarenRedleaf used a teleportation spell to send the clone body to the room where Seyeon was imprisoned.

“This is probably the Demon King’s contractor, so I wonder if he noticed.”

“Yooseong…

Please be safe..”