Chapter 584 – The Baekseom (百閃) and the Projections of the Arm

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The shadow human, born from the fusion of a shadow and a human body, seemed to be mixed with a snake.

The head was abnormally elongated, the back of the head stretched like a camel’s hump, and the mouth opened wide to reveal ferocious fangs and a long forked tongue.

It could be said that the owner of the sacrificed body is already dead.

I don’t know if it’s because of that, but I could see flames burning from the inside of his body.

The ignition device in the heart is activated, and the body is being burned.

As if using it as fuel, the shadow man rages more intensely and fiercely, and runs wild while running wild.

Waving its elongated, soft-bodied arms like a whip, it hit the walls and floors of the alley at random, and Cleon and Layla had to concentrate on avoiding or parrying them.

It is difficult to predict what will happen next when it comes to technology that is not standardized.

The waves of the whip that flew in completely randomly seemed to use the elasticity of the arm itself to accelerate its speed each time it was swung.

More than anything else, the problem was the chronic durability of the Eastern country sword that Cleon used to whip away the whip.

Because it focused too much on cutting power, the weapon with its extremely thin blade was too weak to withstand the increasingly powerful power of the whip, even if its body was reinforced with magical power.

‘If I had known it would be like this, it might have been better to bring Galatea-‘

When Cleon’s accident progressed to that point, he suddenly wondered why he had brought this sword.

It felt more familiar this way—he thought to himself sometime.

“Ugh…!”

In the next moment, my whole body suddenly felt heavy, and my movements seemed to slow down.

“Cleon!?”

Layla tried to ignore the enemy’s attack using incarnation magic, but thanks to Cleon’s strange reaction of her, her concentration of her was temporarily distracted, and the activation of the magic was delayed.

In the end, the moment when both of their bodies slowed down, the shadow man swung his whip stronger and bigger without missing the gap created at that moment.

It’s safe to say that it’s a curved blade that can’t be called a whip anymore, and if it touches the body, it will immediately cut the body.

Urgently, Layla changed the direction of the accumulated magical power and deployed magic for defense rather than incarnation magic.

The moment the barrier of magic burning red wrapped around his and Cleon’s bodies her, the corners of the shadow man’s mouth rose as if tearing, and his mouth his opened.

And, as if it had waited, the tentacles were wrapped in flames.

“──!?”

As for where the flames came from, even Lyla could tell.

The human body used for fusion, that is, the flame of the ignition device emitted by the corpse of the corpse, was raised to the surface and wrapped around the tentacles.

The shadow monster seems to have no sense for such things, and without being affected by the pain and slowing down its movements, it swings its tentacles at the barrier of flame that Layla has spread.

Because it was surrounded by flames, it inversely gained resistance to flames, and penetrated the barrier without incident.

No!

‘, Laila shouted in her head involuntarily.

The moment I thought that the battle of that short time seemed to continue in the sense that it would stretch forever.

And, in the meantime, the moment when the burning tentacles pierce the magic barrier and try to reach them.

Layla, who did not lose her fighting spirit, said that she had to somehow avoid vital points and prepare for a counterattack.

But next moment.

Along with the sharp blue blade, Layla felt that something like a chill was passing through her body, and what she saw was a path of light cutting through space.

At first, it was just one line, but when I thought it had grown to two lines in an instant, the line that cut through the air stretched like a spider’s web several times at a speed that my eyes couldn’t catch up with, covering the barrier of flame and tentacles.

And.

If you hear a clunk, and the sound you hear when the metal is moving as it collides—

As the slowed down time returned to normal, it must have taken some time for Layla and even the shadow monster to realize that each ray of light was a ‘slash’.

Chew! Almost all stems – in other words, if the slashes shine at the same time, the whips of the extended shadows are severed at the same timing to the extent that it feels almost simultaneous without the slightest time difference.

“…!”

Then, realizing that it was Cleon who did it by her side, Layla looked at him with a surprised face, but immediately after that, a jingling sound was heard and the sword Cleon was holding cracked, and soon it was shattered close to powder and disappeared. .

“Haha…”

Then, Cleon felt his arms her screaming and his blood her gushing out, she looked at the handle of the sword he was holding in his hand her, and threw it away.

The shadow man, who aimed at the two and attacked them, is strongly wary of Cleon as he sees that all of his boastful whips his have been cut off at once.

Of course, since that body is made up of sorcery, monsters, and the transformation of the soul, physical destruction should be able to be repaired within a short time.

“Clé-“

“Lyla! Now! Use incarnation magic!”

Worried about Cleon bleeding from her arm, the moment after Layla tried to talk her out of him, Cleon raised her voice and stopped her.

And it was to remind him that what he had to do now was not to worry about Cleon, but to overcome this situation by defeating the shadow man in front of him.

“…Yes!”

And Lila, who immediately came to her senses from Cleon’s actions her, completed her magic her in an instant by putting Cleon’s figure into her field of vision her, turning her own body into a flame composed of magical power .

“Cleon, don’t move from there…! I’ll turn that guy to ashes right now!”

When she, who had become the embodiment of a beautiful flame burning all over her body her, spoke to her her Cleon her, Cleon nodded her head as if believing her.

The next moment, the shadow monster’s whip, which had completed her regeneration her, swung towards Lila, but her body her had already been thrown out of its material limits.

The whip passed through Laila’s body her and hit the ground.

In addition, the whip was not wrapped in flames, so as it passed through Layla’s body her, it burned as if it were covered in the intense cursed flames she had accumulated inside her.

A flame of obsession that never goes out, consuming all enemies and reducing them to ashes.

Understanding her true nature her, the shadow cut off her own whip before the fire spread all over her body her.

“…”

The shadow monster is more intense than the fire that burns the person inside her, and she involuntarily backed away as she looked at Layla, who was burning viciously.

——Then, as expected, it was only natural for the defeat of the mind to lead to the defeat of the “Body”.

As before, just like that.

“Come, Purgatory! Purgatri!”

When Layla’s outstretched hand points toward the Shadow Man, a fire roars from her body in a form close to spontaneous combustion! And a fire broke out.

Even more so, the high-temperature ‘blue’ flames, even higher than the ‘red’ flames, envelope the body of darkness at high speed, interfering with regeneration and destroying it at the same time.

It is faster to destroy than to rebuild the body.

And, it seemed that the flame needed to maintain the body had reached its limit.

It was burned, and instead of turning to ashes, it collapsed on the spot, cracking like a pillar of salt as if it had lost moisture-

It was changed to ash with particles so small that she couldn’t even hold it with her hand and scattered.

The wind blew, making the ashes invisible, but Layla purred her lips with a pet-pet.

“Uh, it seems to have flown this way a little… Ha ha.”

Lila sighs as she thinks she managed to do it somehow.

At that time, thinking that she heard a ‘thump’sound from behind, she quickly turned her body to her and approached Cleon, who had fallen there.

“Cleon!? What’s wrong! Are you hurt somewhere?”

Cleon does n’t lose her mind, but she feels strange that her arms her are n’t moving properly.

Although blood was seeping through his sleeve her, Cleon does n’t think he remembers his arm her being damaged in the attack.

“…This bleeding, after all it’s strange…! Cleon! Are these clothes precious!?”

“…What, what?”

When she suddenly asked something strange, if Cleon could n’t answer properly and shook her head, maybe it was taken as a ‘denial’ meaning, Layla concentrated her high heat on the tips of her fingers her, and Cleon’s her of Burns the cloth on his right arm of hers.

Of course, she delicately controlled her mana so that his body would not be adversely affected.

It’s a shame because the sleeves of her were a bit wide, but if the blood that flowed from her arm her had stuck to it sticky, how would she have checked the wound underneath it?

And, when Lyla’s flame-severed sleeve fell to the ground, Cleon’s right arm her was-

“…What is this…!”

“…!”

On her arm her, there was a bump that looked like an abnormal growth of bone.

It was still small, but on his right arm her just below the shoulder her and then at the elbow her.

Because it had grown through the skin of the arm of her, the arm was bleeding.

Lila looked in disbelief as she examined his arm her, then put her hand on the bump.

Then I could see that it was closer to ‘tree’ than ‘bone’.

However, it was only white.

“A tree…? Is it a special parasitic monster? But if you burn it…”

When Layla approaches to burn the protuberance as usual, she shakes her head and talks to Cleon.

“Anyway, I think I’ll have to show this to an expert… Let’s go back to the mansion. I think it’s appropriate to call Mr. Quartz and the priestess to check.”

“Ahhh…”

Cleon nodded at Layla’s words, but the pain in his arm her was slowly waning.

It was thanks to the fact that he was able to see the current situation with his own eyes.

However, since the amount of blood flowing out did not decrease, the slowly receding consciousness was apparently immersed in darkness.

“Wait a minute? Cleon? If you fall asleep here, how will I get you…! Cleon!”

Layla raised her voice as she said that.

Eventually, when Cleon loses consciousness completely on the spot, her entire body drained of power, Layla shakes her body and lets out a sigh.

“Who should I call…”

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Cleon opened his eyes involuntarily at the soft feeling covering his whole body her and stood up.

The pain in her arm was almost gone, but this time she remembered what had happened to her more clearly than the last time.

At the same time, when she turned her gaze to her right arm her, there were bandages wrapped around it, so I couldn’t tell exactly what was going on underneath it-

She could see that the bumps she had seen before fainting were abnormally swollen despite the white bandage.

“Ha…”

“Wake up.”

She let out a sigh and tried to put her hand on her own arm her, but then she heard a voice she had heard from somewhere and turned her gaze towards it. He was looking at himself while holding the

Her expression her looked like a caring old woman, but her eyes her were n’t smiling kindly.

Cleon looked at her own arm once more as she sat up straight, then asked her quartz.

“This…”

“It’s a change that occurs when a foreign substance enters the body. Haven’t you seen it? What happens when that happens. From that girl.”

Quartz asked Cleon’s question as if he knew well.

And when Cleon hears the story, she shuts her mouth for a moment, then nods her head.

What she talks about is Amelia.

Amelia’s worst transformation, the ‘Demon of the Black Crystal Lotus’.

“Did it happen to me too?”

“Not a devil, but a ghost. Congratulations, you can join the ‘Bangwidae’ if you want.”

“…”

Cleon kept his mouth shut for a while at her words her, whether it was a joke or the truth…

Loosening her bandages, she checked her own arm her.

The bumps on her arms of her, which grew out of her deformity of her, really looked like bones because of the color.

However, when she took her hand her and touched it, it was not difficult to see that it was indeed a ‘tree’.

“It really is a tree.”

“Although it’s unusual. If something goes inside like that, most of them change the body itself. Where the hell did such a ghost come from?”

Cleon shut his mouth for a moment at Quartz’s words her.

If it’s a ghost, Ira, if it’s a mask, I put it on.

After thinking about that, the culprit must be the ‘Raccha’ that stuck to his face her even for a moment.

It wasn’t just the change in her arm that Cleon thought so.

“…Can the thought structure be affected by the possessed being…”

Right away, the fact that she was holding a sword instead of Galatea and Caliburn, and that she was able to wield it naturally even though she had never learned it, is also the place of influence of Rakshasa.

It took her half a day to think it strange even to herself, so if she had n’t had a fight, she would n’t have noticed the slow change in her thinking of her.

“How to treat?”

“I have prescribed it.”

Saying so, Quartz points the tip of his chin over the small table next to the bed.

“It’s a pill. Take one pill at a time before going to bed. Then at least the transformation of the body will be able to be tied up for now. The problem is, it’s not stopping the progress anymore, but a fundamental solution is needed.”

“…”

When Cleon nods his head as if agreeing with Quartz’s words, Quartz continues talking to Cleon.

“Don’t worry, no matter who it’s used for, it’s possible to keep your mind and body from being taken by that being by recognizing yourself strongly.”

Cleon calmly nodded at Quartz’s words.

In any case, when you try to get up-

“Ah, let’s rest for the rest of the day. The muscles in my arm were almost harpooned. It seemed like I was overdoing it.”

Cleon nods her head as if something is poked at her words her.

As if satisfied with Cleon’s behavior, Quartz lightly bowed her head and left her room.

“…”

Outside, ‘What about Cleon? Are you okay?!’ ‘Mr. Cleon!’ ‘Papa!’ Cleon!’, A voice calls her own name for her.

That is, quartz will calm you down well.

More than that, I really fell asleep and felt unbearably tired and drowsy.

“…Maybe, they’re calling.”

If someone who does not exist in reality is a place where you can have a ‘talk’ with the present, then there is only a ‘dream’.

Following that instinct, Cleon took one of her pills and passed it down her throat-

As it was, by lying down on the bed again as if collapsing, I was going to meet ‘him’.

To Raksha who wants to say something through this body within her own self.

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“Uh-e. Could you stand up?”

Cleon opened her eyes as her mind sank into darkness, and she felt a strange sensation come up again.

Then, what she sees in front of her eyes is a landscape similar to the town of Tohoku.

However, what I saw at the end of my line of sight was not the same distance as always – it was a distance that felt out of place somewhere.

The divine tree seen from a distance seemed a little smaller than he knew.

“This…”

“I’m finally awake.”

If Cleon wanted to say anything, he could only frown at the voice coming from behind him.

Then, turning toward it, there stood a clan of dark demons wearing masks covering the upper half of their faces, looking at him with a mocking expression.

“Rakshasha…”

When his own name was called, he answered Cleon with a raised corner of his mouth.

“Because I have something I must tell you. Thank you for responding.”

“…What do you want to say?”

Cleon was contemplating what he could do with his powers her alone, wary of what he said about him.

“Ah. Your body. Will you lend it to me? For one month.”

“…Under?”

As expected, the fact that he, a heinous scoundrel who could burn the sacred tree, talking to Cleon with a grin, should be called unexpected or expected.

It was a shameless request that I couldn’t understand the true intention.