A Stuffed Cheonma in my Head - Chapter 38



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Episode 038. The Mad Magician Who Drinks Potion

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Clang… Clang!

The sound of the barrier breaking was so refreshing.

I checked his expression to see if the sound was refreshing to him.

Just then, the wind I had wrapped around blew his fucking hood away, revealing his face in plain sight.

What came to mind when he saw his wrinkled, pale face revealed like that was shock.

The old man with white eyebrows glared in disbelief.

A look of supreme satisfaction came over my face.

I smiled and immediately thrust my sword into the broken shield.

“Get out of there, old man.”

Just before the sword made contact, the old man’s mouth moved quickly and his staff flashed blue.

A blue light from the staff enveloped the area for a moment, and then the old man disappeared.

As soon as I confirmed that the old man was gone, I instinctively looked back.

From quite a distance away, an old man was looking at me with a puzzled expression.

“This crazy guy! Break that? What the heck… …!”

“The barrier is there to be broken.”

I said nothing and picked up a few rocks from the floor.

I looked at the old man, crunching the stones in my hands.

He was an old man with wrinkles all over his face, but who looked somewhat worn out.

It was a new and ugly sight. It was like seeing a stubborn old man with a bad temper who would never listen to anyone even if he died.

When I saw the face of the mad wizard, my fighting spirit slightly subsided.

That was because I thought that if I ran away and just wasted time, it would probably die on its own.

Although I couldn’t kill him, I was able to get the information I was looking for.

That transparent shield can be broken by starlight focused at one point.

However, you have to get close and hit it directly.

I shouted at the mad wizard.

“Old man! Just accept it humbly! Why are you making a fuss and making a fuss? Even if you die fighting, it should be considered a natural death!”

A vein bulged out on the old man’s forehead.

“You son of a bitch! Won’t you shut up?”

As the barrier broke, his previously polite tone of speech suddenly became harsh.

I thought maybe that was the real thing.

I screamed.

“How insolent! Shut your worn-out mouth!”

“A guy with no blood on his head.”

“If the blood on your head dries up, you’ll die. You’re already at an age where you’ll dry up anyway.”

“Horo Sang’s baby.”

“Old man, stop talking and come here and stick your neck out! I will personally make you die a natural death.”

“… … .”

The old man closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and returned to the way he had spoken before the barrier was broken.

“… … He wasn’t the type of person who could be handled moderately.”

He lifted his cane slightly and then slammed it down on the floor with a thud.

Then the jewel on the staff glowed yellow, and suddenly lightning struck from the sky.

“crazy!”

Zzz!

I immediately jumped to the side and barely managed to avoid the lightning.

But that wasn’t the end.

The old man continued to tap the ground with his cane.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Every time my staff struck the ground, lightning struck down straight above my head, accompanied by an ominous crackling of static electricity.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Lightning kept falling from the clear sky and chasing me.

“This is foul play!”

[Wow… … Is this magic? How amazing.]

“Are you in awe?”

I ran around frantically trying to avoid the lightning.

‘How can you abuse magic so madly? Is this the last spark before death?’

I don’t know much about magic, but this was truly an unusual sight. Lightning falling like rain.

As I was running away from the falling lightning, I caught a glimpse of the mad wizard.

He continued to strike his cane without taking his eyes off me, while with his other hand he took a small glass vial out of his robe and drank from it in gulps.

‘There is a secret in the staff and that potion.’

I guessed instinctively.

Even in the midst of all this, lightning continued to strike.

The old man looked as if he could summon lightning indefinitely.

Let’s try to avoid lightning first.

If this continues, you will end up just dodging rather than attacking.

I threw the night bomb I was holding onto the floor.

pop!

Darkness rose like a cloud.

The rest of the bombs were also scattered around it one by one.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The wilderness spread out widely.

This created a smoke screen that would hide the body for a while.

The lightning struck the fog a few times and then stopped.

The mad wizard said, throwing the empty bottle of potion on the floor.

“I heard you can use black magic… … It’s strange. I can’t feel any mana at all.”

My mouth was itchy, but I held it in.

I wanted to shout, ‘It’s not black magic, it’s martial arts, you idiot!’, but I kept my mouth shut because lightning would strike me the moment I opened it.

Instead, I picked up a rock from the ground and threw it into a corner of the field to test it out.

Zzz!

Lightning struck without warning.

“… … .”

I stared blankly at the broken stones.

It was a powerful weapon that could score a goal in one hit if hit wrong.

If it was the wizard who played the flute, Shushuruta’s warning to run away without looking back flashed through my mind.

‘What the hell is that old man doing?’

The first one was a reclusive master, this time it was a crazy potion-drinking wizard.

“Phew… … .”

It’s operation time.

I took a moment to catch my breath in the wilderness and thought about how to catch that crazy wizard.

When dealing with a wizard, you should never give him any distance.

We must somehow get inside and deal with it quickly and in one fell swoop.

But… …I already tried it once, and almost succeeded… but failed.

I expected that I would use teleportation at least once, but I couldn’t think of a way to deal with it.

Still… there is no other way than to approach.

What I broke was part of the shield, and it’s possible that even that has already been repaired.

Long-range attacks like meteors or swords cannot penetrate its shield.

The shield can only be broken by directly striking it with starlight from close range.

So how should we approach it?

Use night bombs?

If you partially scatter night bombs on your way to him, you will definitely be able to avoid his magic with ease.

However, the night sky bomb consumes too much internal energy.

In the worst case scenario, you won’t even be able to create starlight to hit that guy.

If that happens, the shield will never be able to be penetrated, which will lead to immediate defeat.

Therefore, the night bomb was rejected.

In the end, there is only one way.

Running very well, dodging very well.

Sometimes simple ignorance is the best.

I pulled up my inner energy and ran through the path of the wind.

Soon, a whooshing sound of wind reached my ears. I felt the wind enveloping my whole body.

I picked up a rock, threw it to the side, and at the same time concentrated my energy on the tips of my feet, kicking the ground like lightning.

Zzz!

A lightning strike nearby signaled the start.

Support… … .

As soon as I left the field, I heard the sound of static electricity right above my head.

I dodged the lightning by dodging it without even looking and flying diagonally to the right.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

The lightning struck just short of where my heels had been. It gave my heels a tingling sensation.

I ran in a zigzag pattern to avoid the lightning.

Suddenly, I heard the sound of wind cutting through the air in front of me.

The ice arrows I had seen earlier were flying in a swarm.

At the same time, a static-electricity crackling sound was heard again from above my head.

I doubted my ears.

‘You’re using both at the same time?’

I screamed.

“Isn’t this too much!”

Then, his gaze turned towards the flying arrows.

As the arrows entered my senses, I could clearly feel the direction of their movement.

I read the paths of the arrows pouring down like rain in a split second, then captured the empty space.

fault!

I kicked the ground, then swung my body like a sharp spear towards the empty space.

For a moment, time slowed down.

Wow!

I saw lightning strike the ground.

Wedge!

A couple of arrows passed by, grazing my shoulder.

A sharp pain and a biting cold were felt where the ice arrow had passed.

I chewed my lip.

‘A perfect victory is bullshit.’

Time has returned to normal.

I spun around like a whirlwind, passed through the wall of arrows, then landed back on the ground and charged at the thing without slowing down.

Even the old man seemed to have not expected to overcome this, as he opened his eyes wide in surprise.

But still, somehow, his relaxed appearance bothered me.

It’s true that I’m nervous, but I can’t just back out now that I’ve come this far.

I used the Night Sky Moonlight Strike to gather starlight at the tip of my sword.

‘Break it one more time.’

I also know the general idea by listening over your shoulder.

Teleportation magic is a high-level magic that is not easily used even among wizards.

I guess that’s all I could write about.

No, it has to be all.

I don’t have much internal energy left either.

This must end here.

Now one step.

There’s only one step between me and the mad wizard.

The moment when he pulls his sword back and prepares to stab with all his might.

The old man dropped the empty bottle he had finished drinking from and hit his cane with a thud.

The jewel flashed brown.

I had a bad feeling.

At that moment, I felt a vibration under my feet, and a large wall of dirt suddenly rose up before my eyes.

“uh?”

Padduk… … !

I could hear the electricity crackling from above.

“hmm?”

Wedge!

From behind, ice arrows were flying, waiting for some time.

-They say that all wizards are clever people.

At that moment, the voice of the great wizard I knew rang in my head.

―Wizards are usually pathologically obsessed with things going according to plan, and they tremble in fear when things don’t go as planned. This tendency is stronger among older wizards… … . To some extent, when we make a plan, we usually think about the possibility that the plan will fail, so we prepare one or two countermeasures in case that happens, right?

Here I nodded.

―But wizards prepare for the case when that preparation doesn’t work out as planned. It’s a preparation of a preparation. And they anticipate that that preparation of a preparation will fail, so they prepare for another preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation. If it goes on like this… … It means that they prepare for a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a preparation of a plan.

She saw that I was losing concentration rapidly and concluded:

―What I’m trying to say is that when you meet a wizard, you have to destroy his entire plan from the beginning. If you fail at that? Then run away without any regrets. Keep my words in mind.

I closed my eyes tightly.

“Oh, Sister. Before we fight, tell me something.”

Kwakwakwakwang!

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Flash.

Shushuruta, who had collapsed at the entrance to the village, opened his eyes.

The sound of a loud fight could be heard from afar.

“Ashvan!”

Shushuruta’s new form immediately rose into the air.

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To conclude, I lived.

My head smells like smoke, and my whole body feels cold as the ice arrows pass over my body.

At least I survived.

With the wind from the rain covering my whole body, I ran up the suddenly rising mud wall at the same speed I was running at, then kicked off the wall and did a somersault to come down, narrowly avoiding them.

The huge earthen wall, struck by several lightning strikes and ice arrows, collapsed with a heavy roar.

The dust rose and the sight that was seen after it settled was… …spectacular in another sense.

“Ah… … This is a bit off.”

At the feet of the mad wizard lay several empty bottles of potions, and near him were several magic spells floating, waiting for me.

Sharp ice arrows, large, hard-looking lumps of dirt, and even fiery red balls of fire that look like they’ll melt your hand if you touch them.

Add to that the occasional lightning strike.

“So… that’s the countermeasure to the countermeasure to the countermeasure to the countermeasure to the plan that was made from the beginning?”

They say that magic is something that cannot be defined by common sense, but… … isn’t this a bit too much?

The mad wizard standing among those overpowering magics didn’t look normal at best.

His pale face, which was probably from an overdose of potion, was covered in black veins, making him look disgusting and ugly. He even had an evil smile on top of that. Who on earth could possibly be the devil?

I called him in a somewhat weak voice.

“gaffer…….”

The mad wizard chuckled.

His face looked even more crazy in the sunset.

“Do you feel like surrendering now? I didn’t intend to go this far… … . This is all your doing. Hand over the dagger of Oposis.”

I answered with a serious expression.

“That won’t work.”

fault!

Then he immediately turned his back and ran away.

I’ve also prepared for the situation to some extent.

I thought as I heard ominous sounds coming from behind me.

So is that a countermeasure to the plan?

What I’m trying to do is a countermeasure to that plan, right?

‘Oh, I feel dizzy.’

My head was spinning. In my mind, the red giant suddenly stood up and walked towards me with brisk strides.

Is this the magic pill I’ve only heard of?

I don’t know anymore.

The red giant walked briskly and stretched his hand toward the ceiling.

He was holding something like a red thread in his hand.

The red giant chuckled and grabbed it.

Stop.

I felt like something was snapping in my head, and my vision turned red.

Ah, it was a bloody world.