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The Spearmaster and the Black Cat CH 247

Author:free Category:urban Update time:2022-12-03 08:40:57

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Just what is this crescent moon-shaped apparition…

“Yes, I ate him, but what are you Are you different from Hal’Konk” I say to the unknown life-form.

“You might say that I’m different.

In the remote past, in a faraway spirit world, I was called Evil Emperor Ciphot.

Ciphot Opal Iz Pazus.

Though, right now I’m just a broken fragment of what was devoured by Violent Devourer Hal’Konk.”

Evil Emperor Ciphot.

Ciphot Opal Iz Pazus… What a long name.

However, his voice makes me sense a dignity different from Hal’Konk’s voice.

He looks like this, but…I guess I will answer him like a gentleman.

“…Ciphot-san, I’m Shuuya.

Tell me, what is this ink-like world…”

“You ask something odd.

You ate him, didn’t you Hal’Konk, that is.”

“Yes, indeed.

I certainly did…”

When he lowered his voice, whispering as if playing dumb…

A single spider with many legs crawled out of his puffed-up eyeballs.

Among the eight Tarantula-shaped legs, it pointed the two front legs upwards as if doing a banzai pose.

The spider cheers with a hurrah

And then it skilfully rotated those forelegs with a winding motion.

Is it going to pull off some cute spider kung-fu If it’s Yie Ar Kung-Fu, I’m not going to lose, you know

No sooner than I thought this, a sublime light was cast from its compound eyes located at the center of its head.

That sublime light shone upon me.

I didn’t feel any pain, neither any soothing.

It doesn’t seem to be an attack.

As I was basked in the spider’s light, the ink stream flowing at my feet scattered into oblivion, allowing a look at a jet-black ground.

“…A strong warrior who repels the Spider King Judgment Eyes despite looking so aloof from the world,” said the crescent moon-shaped apparition.

I have already heard words resembling that name.

Speaking of spiders…

“Appraisal Eyes, huh”

I recalled the coin-shaped spiders used by the goddess and the wild god.

But, this guy used a living spider.

Is it because he’s old

“Correct.

You’re a strong warrior who has repelled it while also being someone aware of appraisal eyes.

Your strength is no lie.”

Having finished its duty, the spider sunk its leg into the eyeball, and vanished.

However, saying that my strength is no lie means that I was praised by the apparition

“…Thanks.”

Given that it looked to be the case, I bowed my head, just in case.

“However, since you’re here after having eaten Hal’Konk, that might be called only natural.”

“Why did you appraise me then”

“…It’s probably because the world is about to end…I also…seem to have been slightly confused.

Let me apologize for having appraised you without permission.

I’m sorry.”

Ciphot is quite the unusual guy, just like his appearance.

I feel an arrogance similar to that of gods from his words, but for him to go out of his way to expressly apologize for the appraisal…

“Don’t worry about it.

By the way, you say that this world is ending”

“Hal’Konk’s mental world dimension is about to end.”

Hee, so it was that kind of world after all, eh But it’s really been a while…since the last mental world.

Is it since the time when I made the contract with Rozes in the past

“It coming to an end…is it possibly because I have eaten Hal’Konk”

“Correct.

The silver grains are swirling through the air, right”

“Yes.”

“…Those silver grains are the proof that this world is in the process of unifying with your mind, Shuuya.”

In the process of unifying At the present time I don’t really feel anything like me absorbing mana or having my mana absorbed, though…

“Unification…it doesn’t actually feel like it…”

“Unlike the real world or the realm of the dead, it’s a discrepancy between a world with observers and without.”

I didn’t quite get that.

Is it a talk about a Double-slit experiment1 or something like that Even if I take Earth’s quantum theory into consideration, it’s no no help here, is it…

This is a mental world.

Outside is Sela, the real world where my real body is.

A world with countless black rings.

It’s excessively vast and has no end either, but it’s a different world where multiple dimensions overlap, including their universes.

Based on that…

“…Is it a different dimension, or is it about the interstice being thin or thick…”

“It’s close to the first one.

But, the veil is unrelated.”

“I see…”

I give up then.

At that moment, the eyeballs of Ciphot squirmed.

They opened widely while blood veins formed within the ping pong ball-like, white eyeballs.

“…Irregular Shuuya, the one who devoured Violent Devourer Hal’Konk, I have a request to you.”

“Request”

“Indeed.

I will vanish soon.

Everything will vanish.

I will completely disappear, even my mental body that held out to the bitter end…that’s why I want to entrust this to you…”

The instant Ciphot repeatedly blinked with his eyeballs while speaking with a sad voice――

Wait, you serious A crack in the center of his crescent moon shape…don’t tell me, he’s recreating his chin anew

Just when I thought so, the moon split right in half with a crack.

It has divided Each of the eyes was attached to one of the moon parts.

Moreover, a crescent moon-shaped ornate stone appeared from the place where he split apart.

Since it’s connected to a golden chain loop, it’s a necklace

The necklace with the ornate stone floated in the air.

As if having its own consciousness, the ornate stone automatically moved close to my chest with the golden chain loop hanging below it.

For the time being, I guess I will grab it…

The moment I did, the golden chain necklace vanished.

Just the crescent moon-shaped ornate stone remained behind.

“…That’s the proof of my life.

The magic gem of Evil Emperor Ciphot.

Please offer it at the 【Ciphot Shrine】 located in the spirit world…”

“Offering it to a shrine in the spirit world…to be honest, I don’t know whether I will be able to go to the spirit world, you know Is that still okay with you”

“…My karma of having continued to survive and persist up until this point…there’s no way that it will come to nothing.

I believe that it will guide you…to…”

The crescent moon, which had split in two, turned into dust in the middle of its speech as if falling apart without leaving even a lingering memory behind, and vanished.

I guess his last words were his hope.

Once the talking moon vanished, even the illusion of the ink world kept dissipating like a dream.

My room started to manifest.

That’s great.

I’m able to get back to reality.

The happenings just now feel like a vision, but…I can properly feel the touch of the ornate stone remaining in my right palm.

Once I opened my palm…it was there, just as expected.

It wasn’t a dream.

It’s not like mana is overflowing from the magic gem accessory, but it looks like it has some kind of special effect, seeing how it contains a great amount of mana.

Should I get Suloza’s shopkeeper to appraise it for me

…Time to check my body.

Maybe…

I took off my leather clothes, and checked my body after becoming stark naked.

Tsuan was watching, but I ignored him.

I looked at my chest, then my shoulders.

Eh! It was integrated! That’s a surprise.

The dragon head metal plating was clinging to the surface of the skin of my right shoulder.

I lifted my right hand and looked at my right flank, checking the smell meaninglessly.

This part is normal――

I also checked my left shoulder, but…it only affects the right one, huh The dragon head has one blue eye, meaning it has properly adopted the Blue Eye of the Evil Dragon King.

Is this the result of Hal’Konk having entrusted his everything to me

And then, the instant I focused on my right shoulder, I became able to sense a strange connection with the dragon head.

I wanted to test it, but didn’t use the small magic gem entrusted to me by Ciphot, and instead picked up a large copper coin that had been laying on the side table.

I tried to push that coin into the mouth part of the dragon head.

But, there was no reaction…he didn’t eat it.

No Mmhwhee response.

Unexpectedly…even though I had just started to like his Mmhwhee a bit.

I put the coin back on the table.

However…his Mmhwhee voice, I wonder whether he’ll let me hear his voice someday again.

…The Mmhwhee sound…**, it might’ve become an earworm.

Ah! Don’t tell me, the part about it being a second danger degree curse is because of this!

“…Like hell it is.

Hmm, will I be able to hear his voice again in the future”

Alongside those words, I rhythmically tap on the surface of the dragon head’s armor plating with the fingers of my left hand.

“…Strange dragon head Hal’Konk.”

No response even after I addressed him directly.

“…”

For an instant…I had expected a Mmhwhee, but the dragon head remained silent.

It looks like he really unified after devouring various items like the Blue Eye and approving of me as his lord.

At that point, I muttered while focusing on the connection I could sense from the whole coat and imagining Baldok’s armor, “Evil Dragon King’s armor.”

In that moment, a dazzling light was emitted from the dragon head.

It consumed a bit of my mana, but violet scales were spit out of the shining dragon head with a terrifying force.

Those violet scales covered the surface of my body in like no time.

――I fully transformed into a state of wearing a new Evil Dragon King armor.

It looks like the dragon head properly understood my will.

The area around my item box on the right wrist had metal fittings bordered by a material similar to a simple gauntlet.

I could tamper with the wrist and elbow areas by making the scale armoring thinner and thicker.

There were smooth holes at the marks on both wrists.

Moreover, the big scar from being vertically cut by the attack of Evil God Steertop had vanished.

Looking closely at this new Evil Dragon armor…a dark green color has been mixed into its original hue.

And, since the shape is delicately different at some parts, it gives me an impression of it being a combination of Evil Dragon King armor and Hal’Konk coat.

The dragon head’s armor plating having assimilated into my right shoulder didn’t change overly much.

“Boss, just what, is that…” Tsuan, who had been repeatedly talking in his mind with Catiza, was also surprised after seeing my new outfit.

“You could call it a repair, in a certain way Though, I think it fused, forming a new armor coat Apparently I can create an armor according to my imagination.

Anyway, it’s also a part of my body.” I answered while laughing.

Oh, wait a sec…

I sent my mana precisely into the blue eye of Hal’Konk.

Thereupon, the dragon head automatically turned to the right side, as if matching my line of sight, and then, as soon as the blue eye shone, an ice blade flew out of it.

“Hieeeh――” Tsuan jumped up in shock.

The ice blade was stuck at his feet.

“Boss, without warning is a no-no.

For the dragon head to be a projectile weapon…”

Putting that aside, Tsuan, your instantaneous response just now wasn’t half bad.

As might be expected of a former templar No, it might be because he’s a

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