Chapter 543
Runaan raised his gaze and swallowed dry saliva.
“here is… .”
It is a dark room like a moonless night.
No, this is not a room. It was a space so large that it was difficult to see at a glance, and the whole place was locked in darkness.
In the darkness that rippled like waves, a thick smell of blood flowed down my spine. Her fingertips trembled in her unknown fear.
“eww… .”
Runan bit his lip and turned around. Unlike the darkness that lurked in front of me, I could see a blue space that gave off a clear feeling.
There was a small house that looked like it was made of ice, and inside it were rows of dolls that looked like they were made of ice cream.
can be recognized at a glance. The dolls that embodies Dad, Mom, Raon, and Gwangpungdae all stood there revealing their individuality.
Finally, my sword, Seolhwa, was floating in the air. Unlike when facing the darkness, it was a land that warmed my heart just by looking at it.
“Come on.”
As Runaan stretched out his arm, Seolhwa slowly sank into his grasp.
‘What the hell is this place?’
I had no idea why I was here or where I was.
I just knew instinctively that I shouldn’t approach the darkness.
“Eating with Mom and Dad… Ugh!”
Runaan stroked Seolhwa and let out a low moan. Previous memories came back with a headache as if someone was crushing his head.
‘pitching!’
that’s right. I wore Baphomet’s helmet.
It reminded me of how Syria forced Baphomet’s helmet on. Then there is only one answer. That dark space was clearly the domain of Baphomet inside the helmet.
Wow!
Runaan’s trembling hands gripped the sword bottle of Seolhwa, and there was a harsh echo in the darkness.
Koo-goo-goo-goo!
The black earth cracked, and something rose out of the thick darkness.
Hey hey hey!
It stood on the ground on the hooves of a goat, its waist was as thin and straight as a human’s, and something like a child’s cry flowed from its head with long spiraling horns.
Whoaaaaa!
Baphomet raised his gaze. A black flame burns from the oval pupils that protrude upward.
“Ugh… .”
Runaan pressed his chest with his left hand and his chin trembled. He only made eye contact with Baphomet, and his stomach churned as if he had received an internal wound. It was a tremendous momentum.
Whoa!
Baphomet approaches, suppressing the darkness. Great stride. It seemed that she would arrive here after a short walk.
“iced coffee… .”
Runan’s lips trembled and he took a step back. Baphomet looks bigger and bigger. He seemed unable to win no matter what.
I knew it was a strong monster, but I didn’t know that there would be such an overwhelming difference in rank.
‘What should I do… .’
Woo woo woo!
When Runan’s lips turned blue, Seolhwa raised a clear sword. It was a serious echo that erased fear and raised the spirit.
Gee ying!
Seolhwa trembled the blade as if telling her to enter the ice house behind her.
“You want me to go home?”
Whoa!
As if the words were true, the tale rang out louder.
“okay.”
Runaan nodded and hit his thigh with his fist. Baphomet’s force forced her frozen body into her icy home.
‘It’s warm.’
Although the house was made of ice, the inside was warm and comfortable as if a fire had been lit.
But there was no time to enjoy that comfort.
Whoops!
Baphomet was approaching the ice house, revealing a grotesque air wave.
As his hooves stepped on the green ground, darkness began to seep into my space as if black paint had dripped onto a piece of white paper.
“There is no point in hiding.”
Human language flowed from Baphomet’s mouth. His voice trembled thinly, as if a goat were talking.
“The more you resist, the more you suffer.”
His body grew to the size of the darkness, and eventually swelled to reach the sky.
“good night. I will trample you like a bug.”
Baphomet lifted a leg. He knocked down his ice house with his house-sized foot.
“no. no way!”
Runaan shouted that it should never collapse while holding the tale tightly.
Kwaaaaaaang!
The moment Baphomet’s leg hit the ice house, he felt a strong impact as if he had been hit with a hammer on the inside of his head.
“Ah… .”
He fell to his knees in agony as if his brain had been ripped out.
“If you come out now, I will kill you painlessly.”
Baphomet nodded while holding a red-dark whip.
“Sir, I hate it.”
Runaan shook his head. The moment she leaves this house, Baphomet will eat her and take her body. She must hold out to the end.
“A stupid thing.”
Baphomet wrinkled his brow and struck the whip that had been passed behind his shoulder.
Aaaaaaang!
The whip landed on the ice house, and a shock like a twisting of the earth swept over the son-in-law.
“Aagh!”
Runaan collapsed with a tearing scream.
It wasn’t an ice house, but an immense pain engulfed his brain, as if he had been beaten with a whip himself. It hurt so much that I wanted to tear my flesh off.
‘I know now… .’
This house is my spirit, and the dolls in it are the people I cherish.
Right now, I was fighting a war with Baphomet over my body and values that should never be taken away.
“Come out.”
“Ugh… .”
Runaan stood up, relying on the story.
‘Absolutely not.’
I have work to do.
He has to cut Syria’s throat, save his mother and father, and pay off the debt he owed to Raon.
Lastly, I couldn’t collapse here because I wanted to spend more time with Gwangpungdae.
With the mindset that she would endure even if she died, she raised her body that was consumed by pain.
“You’re so stupid.”
Baphomet sneers and strikes a whip in succession. The whip stems, falling like a shower, hit the ice house mercilessly.
Kwagwagwagwagwang!
Every time the whip hit the ice house, I felt pain as if my bones and flesh were bursting.
“Turn it off!”
The pain is so severe that my hands and feet twitch and my head goes blank. He even thought he wanted to go out and die.
“Even if I regret it, it is too late. Because I just got excited.”
As if enjoying Runan’s screams, Baphomet struck down a whip entwined with deeper fighting spirit and even used magic.
Koo-goo-goo-goo!
The whip felt like cutting flesh with a knife warmed up by fire, and the magic felt like stabbing a vital point with a cold awl.
As the pain piled up, the current body, the spirit body, split, and blood began to flow.
“ah… .”
Runaan looked up at the ceiling of the ice house with a pale face. Big and small cracks were sprouting in the firm house.
‘It’s because of me.’
It was clear that there were cracks in the ice house as his mind was collapsing with pain.
‘I have to endure… .’
I knew I had to endure it, but I didn’t know how long I had to endure it or how to defeat that monster.
Runan closed his mouth and raised his head. All space was stained with the darkness of Baphomet, and even this ice house was on the verge of breaking. I thought everything was over.
‘Still hold on… ah!’
When I made up my mind to hold out once again, Baphomet’s severely honed whip was thrust into the center of the ice house.
Aaaaaang!
The ice with deep cracks cracked and the ceiling collapsed.
“Now you can see it.”
Baphomet poked his eyeballs through the hole in the ceiling and let out a ghastly laugh. He reached his finger into the ice house.
“It is over.”
“ah… .”
Runaan knelt as he watched Baphomet’s fingers approaching.
I wanted to endure it until the end, but since the ice house collapsed, it was impossible. My mind collapsed and the ice that kept the house melted.
Koo-goo-goo-goo!
Baphomet’s gigantic fingers approached, completely knocking down the ceiling of the ice house.
“Sorry.”
Runan turned around. He hugged the little dolls and closed his eyes.
“I have nothing to be sorry about.”
As she remembered death and bit her lip, Raon’s sonorous voice came from the doll’s side.
“You held up well. Runan.”
“uh?”
When I opened my eyes, the Raon doll I was holding jumped into the sky.
Chaaaaaaaaaaaagh!
Raon’s doll pulled out a toy-like sword and cut off Baphomet’s finger as it penetrated the ice house.
“Quaaaaaagh!”
Baphomet’s fingers, thicker than the pillars of the castle, parted and he stepped back.
“let’s fight.”
Raon’s doll landed on the floor and turned around. He nodded his head with confident eyes like the real Raon.
“I can win.”
* * *
Raon turned his gaze away from the embarrassed Runan and looked at his hand.
He had two fingers like mittens, and his arms and legs were short. It was literally a doll made of ice cream.
‘It’s probably because I entered Runan’s image.’
Since this was Runan’s spiritual world, it seemed that she had changed into the image she had implanted here.
-Uhehehehe!
Lars looked this way and pointed a round finger.
-It’s a look that suits you very well! It would be great if it was like that in real life!
The guy burst into laughter, ignoring the serious situation as if he was genuinely happy.
‘Look at your appearance and smile.’
Raon shook his head. Lars didn’t even exist in Runan’s image, so he was floating in the air as a pea-sized piece of cotton candy.
To be honest, it wasn’t strange to see it as dust.
– What?
Lars looked at his body and blinked his eyes.
– Eh, what is this! Why did the original king become so small!
It jumped up and told me not to disrespect the Lord of Wrath, but it wasn’t as good as a flea.
– No, this is not important right now! It’s Ice Cream Girl!
Lars flew to Runan and waggled his tail.
– Don’t worry! From now on, the main king will help!
“Am I really Raon?”
Runan ignored Lars and approached Raon.
“okay.”
Raon nodded in a calm tone.
Runan bit his lip and clenched his fists trembling. Transparent water like dew rose above her hazy eyes.
“It held up really well.”
Raon tapped Runan’s shoe and smiled. It’s not just a sound.
It is a great thing that Runan, who has not yet opened a proper image, has endured so far. I sincerely admired it.
-As expected, he is the king’s subordinate! Confront you!
Lars said good job and patted Runan on the shoulder.
“But what is he?”
Runaan raised a finger and pointed at Lars. She tilted her head as if she couldn’t hear Lars.
“… … .”
Raon looked blankly at Lars and shook his head.
“I don’t know either. I think it’s the dust that came with it?”
– Yaaaaaa! explain it properly!
Lars struggled with his hands and screamed.
“Anyway, what’s important now isn’t that dust.”
Raon pushed away the screaming Lars and looked at Runan. The height difference was so great that it took me a while to look up.
“I can’t get out of here unless I kill Baphomet.”
“huh. Then together… .”
“No, you have to catch it.”
Raon shook his head.
“Me, me?”
“This is your mental world. You are the host and I am the guest. You are the only one who can reliably kill that monster.”
“ah… .”
Runan’s lips trembled as he watched Baphomet slowly rise. An expression of fear. It seemed to have been badly beaten until I arrived.
“I-I don’t know how to overcome that… .”
“are you okay.”
Raon kicked off the ground and stood on Runan’s shoulder. She smiled as she gave her the energy of her cartoon ball.
“As I said, this is your world. It’s a place where mental strength is more important than aura, body, and martial arts.”
“huh… .”
“If you overcame Syrian brainwashing yourself, you can win.”
It’s not a lie. That Baphomet was obviously a strong individual, but Runan’s mental strength was no less than that.
If I pushed my back and helped a little, I could have won.
“really?”
– That’s right! It’s big, but it’s empty inside! Mint chocolate ice cream without mint!
“It’s big, but it’s empty inside. It’s mint chocolate ice cream without the mint.”
Raon recited Lars’ words and encouraged Runan.
“after.”
Runan’s mouth went up. She gave a small smile and squeezed her tongue tightly.
“okay. I will believe you.”
“Then let’s go.”
“huh.”
Runaan nodded and opened the door of the broken ice house and went outside.
-Yaaaaaa!
Lars approached Raon and screamed loudly.
-Isn’t that what the king said! Think copyright!
‘It doesn’t matter who did it. It’s important that Runaan gained courage.’
-Turn it off… .
The guy was furious, but he only bit his lip as if he had nothing to say.
“dare!”
After Baphomet regenerated his hands, he swelled up even more. It seemed that this world itself had been eaten by Baphomet.
“eww… .”
Runan let out a low moan as if he was weighed down by Baphomet’s dominion of darkness.
-Originally insignificant things just inflate their bodies. Think of it as cookie-n-cookies!
“Runan. It’s just people who don’t have anything special to inflate their bodies like that. It’s cookie-free cookie-n-cookie.”
-Don’t follow me!
Lars screamed like he was going to kill him and grabbed him by the collar.
“okay.”
Runaan nodded his head with his eyes widened as if he had overcome fear at those words.
“Don’t trample on me!”
Baphomet lifted his giant foot and slashed Runan down.
“Runan!”
“huh.”
Runaan kicked the blackened ground. Light and clever footsteps pushed away her sticky darkness and attached wings to her back.
Kwaaaaaaang!
Baphomet’s huge feet broke only the empty ground.
TOO!
Runaan stepped on the cracked ground and moved to the left side of Baphomet.
“Think of the strongest warrior you’ve ever seen. Or you can think of a future where you become stronger.”
Raon comforted Runan’s mind by giving him advice on the imagery he realized.
“It is fixed.”
Runan replied firmly and stepped forward with his left foot. He folded the ground and approached Baphomet in an instant, as if running, and struck down a fierce sword strike.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaagh!
The energy of frost that bloomed from the blade of the snow flower gushed endlessly and cut Baphomet’s ankle.
“Quaaaaaaaa!”
Baphomet’s ankles were torn apart, and darkness, not blood, flowed from within.
‘Moving now… .’
His footsteps were like Taehwabo, and his swordsmanship was like that of cartoonist Jeokseom.
‘Is it me?’
Right now, Runan seemed to paint me with the image of a strong warrior.
‘why… .’
There are countless warriors stronger than me, so I don’t know why they thought of me.
I wanted to ask why, but I didn’t want to take away Runan’s concentration, so I just cheered him on.
“You’re doing great! A little faster, a little stronger!”
“huh.”
Runaan dodged Baphomet’s whip with blind eyes as if he had returned to normal, and cut off Baphomet’s shin.
Coo-goo-goo-goo!
Baphomet fell back, unable to withstand the impact.
“Now.”
Runaan nodded and unleashed a sword of frost at Baphomet’s heart. The blade of cold air rose like a spire and fell in a semicircle.
“go away!”
When Baphomet exploded his speculation, a mighty wave spread and Runaan was pushed away.
Woo woo woo!
Baphomet rapidly shrinks in size. It returned to its original form and created wrinkles all over its face. He seemed to be very angry.
“I will kill you!”
Baphomet gnashed his teeth and struck with a whip. Although the power of the whip was reduced, its speed was incomparably faster than before, and it was imbued with the fierce martial art.
“It contains descriptions of pleasure, change, and fantasy. If you look closely at the tip of the whip, you will be able to avoid it.”
“okay.”
Runaan nodded and dug into the jealous whip. He approached Baphomet, pouring down the rain-like tracks of his whip.
“I won’t get hit anymore!”
Baphomet stepped back as if he thought Runaan’s sword was in danger. He unleashed a barrage of whips and spells, rendering him completely inaccessible.
Koo-goo-goo-goo!
Raon narrowed his eyes as he watched the space where magic and speculation fluctuated.
‘At this rate, Runan is at a disadvantage.’
Runaan used up most of his mental strength protecting the ice house. If time dragged on, her concentration would drop first.
‘Then it would be right to help in a different way.’
Raon covered his mouth with his open hand and tightened his stomach.
“There’s no use trying to get out like that! Because your partner is already dead!”
Raon raised his voice, saying that Syria outside was already dead.
If you think about the case of the dragonian you met before, the monster inside the helmet and the ghost of Eden outside were able to communicate to some extent. It will definitely work.
“Don’t lie!”
Baphomet struck the whip more fiercely, as if to stop talking nonsense. The snake-like speculation mercilessly tore through the floor.
“eww… .”
Runaan was doing her best to walk, but the gap was disappearing more and more.
“Think carefully. If your partner had been outside, how could I, a stranger, have entered this place?”
Raon laughed and said the truth.
“There are no lies. Your partner is dead to me.”
“Everyone, shut up!”
Baphomet’s movement grew, and the scale of his magic expanded. It was an offensive of terrifying power, but on the contrary, an invisible gap appeared.
Whoa!
Runan didn’t miss the moment and kicked the ground. He slashed through the darkness with the blade of the tale held in both hands and plunged the sword into Baphomet’s throat.
“Correouk… .”
Baphomet drew his sword and tried to back away, but Runan never let go until he bit his arm with his teeth.
Kwagwagwagwa!
The cold air from the tale spread down Baphomet’s neck and his entire body began to freeze.
“I, I, to humans… .”
Baphomet’s eyes trembled as he watched his body harden from the cold.
‘It worked well.’
Baphomet’s mental strength was stronger than Runan’s, but he couldn’t take advantage of it, perhaps because he was shocked to hear that Syrian was dead.
It was fortunate that the psychological warfare worked.
Chow ah!
Runaan bit his lip and completely slit Baphomet’s throat. It disappeared into dust as if it had never existed from the beginning.
Whoa!
The darkness of Baphomet, which had colored the entire world, also melted into particles.
“good job.”
Raon came down from Runan’s shoulder and patted her ankle.
“… … .”
Runan didn’t answer. As her Baphomet died, the remaining energy of hers descended upon her, imparting her new powers.
It reminded me of the time when I caught the dragonian Lokta and gained enlightenment.
“Good.”
Raon smiled at Runan, who was in a trance. He wanted to give her the gift of overcoming her pain, which was fortunate that it worked out as she planned.
– Ki, it’s wonderful.
Lars sniffed at Runan.
– Seeing that little boy grow up so well and overcome hardships, the king is all proud… huh?
“hmm?”
Raon looked at his hands and blinked. The energy left by Baphomet was not only for Runan, but also came down to me and gave me strength.
-Why do you eat that!
‘I think it came from me that Runan couldn’t accept everything?’
It seemed that the energy that Runaan had not digested was seeping into me. She felt the world of images grow larger and stronger.
“After all, people have to do good things… .”
-This is the king!
Lars groaned.
– Didn’t the original king do a good job too! All the words you comforted the ice cream girl belonged to the king, so why are you the only one eating them!
‘You’re not human.’
-That’s racism!
‘Now you speak properly. that’s right. It’s not racism, it’s race… .’
-shut up!
