Offer a Tribute and Become an Archmage - Chapter 167



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Offering Tribute to the Archmage Chapter 167

Nightmare [3]

Episode 167.

Hit the button!

‘I don’t feel good.’

A loud explosion was heard earlier.

There is no way the enemy would not know this.

If we look at it positively, we can say that this is a situation where Ronobe has defeated all the enemies.

Benny is the one who has seen Ronobe up close. He knows better than anyone else the power of magic he possesses. He knows that Ronobe may be secretly passive and cautious, but he is capable of destroying an army.

‘Still, the article is dangerous.’

The same goes for other wizards.

There is no guarantee that Ronobe will win by fighting them.

Kugu-kung-!! Benny is the one who has to move for that unforeseen situation.

That is his role. However, he cannot see. No matter how good his eyesight is, he does not have the ability to see through the forest, so he cannot see far into the distance.

That’s why he was running ahead of Gradas’ army. Hopper’s private soldiers were following behind him, but they were already out of sight, and only Hana was barely able to keep up with Benny.

It was Liam.

“Liam! Throw me!”

“Yes? Okay!!”

Liam was full of doubts, but he did as he was told. When Benny suddenly rushed towards him, Liam clasped his hands together and placed them on his waist.

Benny immediately stepped on Liam’s palm.

Immediately Liam threw Benny high into the air, and only then did she gain a wider view.

“!!”

A view that can only be seen then.

Even though it was night, Benny saw it.

Near the crater where the explosions had occurred, there was a huge demon with pitch-black horns. It was like a demon straight out of a nightmare.

The devil just crouched.

An impossible sight.

However, that was why he knew it was the work of a wizard, and Benny knew it wasn’t Ronobe. She was also a knight who had faced a wizard before.

For magic of that scale, it should be so.

‘Wizard.’

It is clear that Ronobe has fallen for the wizard’s tricks.

Chin! It was only for a moment that I stood up high.

Liam stretched out his arms to catch Benny, who had fallen again. Benny landed lightly on Liam’s shoulder.

“…”

“why?”

“No. Did you see anything?”

“Wizard. I don’t have a good feeling about this.”

Liam was shocked when he heard the general situation.

“then…”

“Ronobe’s fighting style isn’t that long. He’s a strong magician.”

Yet the fact that this magic still exists suggests several circumstances.

“Caught or trapped.”

It means that even Ronobe’s magic can’t do anything about the situation.

There is a black thing in the shape of a demon that just sits there doing nothing.

Without any sound or movement.

When Benny saw this, he couldn’t help but feel that it was meant to exclude others from interference. If he was dead, he figured there would be no need to maintain that magic. So he would either be captured or trapped in the belly of that demon. One of the two.

“Then what should we do?”

“I have to break it.”

It didn’t look very good.

But there was something strange about it.

“There was something strange where it touched the ground. I’m going to break it first.”

Benny strung the iron bow on his back. He planted it in the ground and stepped on the bow with his foot, bending it and strung it.

“What was that?”

Benny answered, stepping on Liam’s palm as he prepared to throw again.

“A person, a person who seems to be dreaming….”

There are people around the devil.

Strange people crouching like devils.

“Throw it!!”

It’s still far even if you run.

It was a place a long way away.

Benny is not a ronobe. The knight cannot keep up with the speed of the bird’s flight. So the place where the devil is is also a few hours away. There is no time to run comfortably, not knowing what the situation will be. No matter how far away, Benny’s eyes can see the distant place, and her arrows never miss their target.

-I will have more things I like than I do now.

As Ronobe said, so did Benny.

But Benny was a little different.

“I will protect what Ronobe loves.”

Of course, even Ronobe himself.

Benny wants to protect.

Thud-!

A drawn bow shoots an arrow.

The arrow, which advances while making a sharp cracking sound, swims and rotates like a fish.

Within the devil’s feet. He turns his head towards the kneeling man with a blank expression.

puck-!

“!!”

The sky is swept by strong winds.

Benny’s eyes shot open.

The devil, who had been crouching all along, suddenly moved his hand and protected the dreamer.

The devil’s eyes turned towards Benny.

“Ugh!”

Benny took out two more arrows.

The fact that the devil protected the weirdos below definitely means that they are important people.

Now before it falls.

There was plenty of time.

“You can do it.”

Benny’s hand twists as he simultaneously puts two arrows into the bow.

Crunch.

The arrow was twisted and tangled with the bow. The bow of the iron bow was a special product specially made by the Iron family.

Even the protests have become ironclad.

Gulp. Blood seeped into the wound that had dug into Benny’s hand and dripped down. Benny’s world, which had stopped breathing, flowed slowly.

The void that no feet touch.

The strong wind blowing in the sky.

The control of twisting the arrows and strings simultaneously to steer the arrows’ path, and the pain of the strings digging into the flesh.

As soon as Benny, who had overcome all of this, released his arrow, tears of blood flowed down his face.

puck-!

Two arrows shot sharply through the air and flew towards their target in an instant, but were blocked.

The devil has stopped us again.

Even though he was falling from the sky, Benny didn’t close his eyes until the very end.

One foot flew straight toward the person, but the other foot was bent and headed in a different direction.

One arrow, flying just barely past the tip of a tree, pierced the head of the dreamer kneeling on the other side.

Phew-!

-Grrrrrrrrrr!!

dump!

Liam, who had caught the falling Benny, looked back in relief. The black demon, barely visible, twisted its body as if in pain.

“The way is open.”

Behind Liam are Hopper’s private soldiers.

And then there was the army of Gradas.

Commander Tommy. Wizard Benald.

And one hundred armed men.

The sounds and sights were enough for even those who had no idea what was going on to realize what was happening.

“Is Lord Hopper in danger?”

Liam nodded.

Sir Tommy chuckled and drew his sword.

“I guess I can pay off my debt.”

Tommy ran out without asking.

“There were those beside the devil who were intoxicated with the dream of making this exist. I just took down one. There are three more.”

It sounded like they had to knock them all down. Benny frowned as he pulled away from Liam. He couldn’t see very well because he had been working so hard.

His hand was also injured, so it seemed he couldn’t show off his skills again. From now on, he had no choice but to push through with force.

The best thing would be for Ronobe to escape on his own with the blow just now.

‘You have to assume the worst.’

I can’t just believe that and sit still.

“If he gets hit anyway, we’re as good as dead. I can’t run away since I’ve been ordered by Gradas. I bought a big house in Gradas. So I don’t have any money. I have no choice but to make a quick buck and fill it up.”

Bennold followed Sir Tommy, who had run ahead.

“Are you okay?”

“It’s okay. Let’s go with you, Liam. How far can you go?”

It was not an ordinary question.

Benny ascended higher into the sky than he had ever imagined. A height that even with his strength, he could not ascend unless his powers were similar.

Liam did it.

It also felt like my physical strength had become stronger.

Liam answered Benny’s question by looking at the stars still in the night sky.

“I can do anything.”

It’s not a question of can or can’t.

Benny knew what that meant.

The corners of Benny’s mouth went up.

“let’s go.”

Liam will grow more.

And he, too, had to do so.

*

“Ouch, oh! It hurts, it hurts!”

Ronobe cried.

I cried and cried.

This was because he had accepted Caterpillar’s nightmare as it was and projected it onto himself.

It was even more so because it overlapped with my childhood when I was beaten by Venom. I found myself sobbing and shedding tears without realizing it.

It was also because Caterpillar’s pure emotions had seeped in.

Unintentional murder.

Caterpillar was a poor guy.

I didn’t even know why I was born, and I just lived my life, but I was assaulted and suffered because I couldn’t become a butterfly.

Then, without knowing the reason, he killed his one and only precious being.

I felt so sad for some reason.

I feel like I’m the only one left in this world.

The loneliness and sadness of being cut off from the world seeped into my bones.

His misfortunes did not end there.

After the wizard who raised Caterpillar died, he lived there until he was taken away by the army of a certain kingdom.

There, too, he unintentionally annihilated the army and became the target of the kingdom, only to turn the kingdom into a wasteland with nothing but bubbles and water-soaked thread.

The bubbles were so acidic that people would melt at the mere touch, and with the nutrients from those who melted, the bubbles grew even bigger and spread in all directions.

Caterpillar lived his whole life in fear, crying and repeating his apologies as he took over the kingdom. This was also because he could not control his bubbles properly.

The bubbles that grew regardless of will quickly covered the entire kingdom and attracted various people.

He was a wandering knight who traveled across the continent, and a curious wizard. Most of them died trying to slay Caterpillars and disappeared into history.

A hundred years passed like that.

Caterpillar gradually realized that his growth had reached its end. His huge body had grown to a size where it could no longer grow, and he instinctively knew that in order to change, he had to take a different form.

It was a fable.

It made a pupa and became a chrysalis.

A butterfly that speaks to the person who raised it.

The caterpillar wanted to be a butterfly.

When he spoke of butterflies, the wizard’s expression was very joyful. He also wanted to be a butterfly that spreads its wings and flutters around lightly. He had seen butterflies before.

It was when I was fighting the army.

The butterfly fluttering its blue wings was beautiful even to the caterpillar.

I wanted to be a butterfly.

A long time has passed in Kochi.

It wasn’t long before the bubble that had engulfed the kingdom was dismissed as just another phenomenon, like a jungle or a swamp.

When enough time has passed for it to be recognized as one of nature.

The caterpillar’s tail began to tear.

“iced coffee!”

Caterpillar has changed.

It grew legs and wings.

It also grew long, soft antennae, its eyes got bigger, and it became a cute butterfly with fluffy fur all over its body.

“Hair… why is there so much of it?”

It wasn’t a butterfly.

It was a moth.

Compared to its thick body, its wings were incomparably small. It couldn’t fly. It was half a caterpillar, half a moth, with only fluffy hair.

“Can’t I be a butterfly?”

The caterpillar cried loudly.

He tore off his own wings.

“I don’t need it! Wings that can’t fly!”

Soon he tore off his own leg too.

“I don’t need it! Legs that can’t even walk!”

The caterpillar became a caterpillar again.

I’d rather have this.

The caterpillar was in a good condition, as it was thought that anything could change.

A caterpillar can be anything.

You’re a moth instead of a butterfly? No problem. Just start over as a caterpillar.

There was plenty of time.

It was something that could be done again.

‘This time I’ll be a butterfly.’

The caterpillar ate again to become a butterfly. It was human, it was beast, it was the body fluids of living things.

I lived by chewing and eating even the most tasteless things. And then I repeated the cycle of turning into a pupa again.

Over and over again, over and over again.

To become the ideal you want to be.

To become a butterfly.

And finally.

“Butterfly, you became a butterfly!”

The caterpillar became a butterfly.

Large, colorful wings.

Thin and long legs.

Thin body, long snout and antennae.

Anyone who saw it saw the appearance of a gorgeous and beautiful butterfly.

It was only after dozens of fables that he was completely transformed.

A giant butterfly, more splendid, mysterious and beautiful than anything in the world.

The caterpillar cried even after becoming a butterfly. The long and difficult time lay ahead, and because of that, the tears did not dry.

At the top of the bubble kingdom.

The caterpillar drying its wings spread its brilliance to other countries.

The dazzling wings attracted a variety of human figures, but unlike when it was a larva, the caterpillar’s attack ability was poor and it could not defeat them.

‘I can’t even make bubbles anymore, and I can’t make thread like I used to…’

As much as I wanted to be flashy, I lost all my original power there.

Because of this, the caterpillars were unable to withstand the human army and were unable to run away, so they were defeated and killed by them.

‘If I had known this would happen… I felt more at ease and better when I was a caterpillar. I would have rather known nothing.’

That’s how the caterpillar died.

“Hoooooooooooo!!”

Ronobe started crying again, spitting up blood and snot.

It was so sad.

There were a lot of parts that I could relate to more than other stories. I’m not sure what I could relate to, but it made me sad anyway.

“That was an interesting story. I heard that empires have collapsed and been rebuilt several times, so I think it might have been the era before that…”

Cough, cough. Cough, cough! Cough!! Light’s cough was worse than before. Blood was even coming out in the middle of his cough.

“But fables. Endless fables… A wonderful nightmare. With these, I can fly higher. If only I wasn’t blinded by the glamour like a caterpillar… Ugh!”

Light vomited blood.

He was holding his head and feeling dizzy, and his nose was bleeding profusely, similar to Ronobe.

Thanks to that, the nightmare tentacles that had been binding Ronobe disappeared. However, Ronobe did not leave the tentacles alone.

I pulled it with my hand.

“What… are you doing?”

“Are you overdoing it?”

The tentacles naturally dug into Ronobe’s body. It was painful, but not unbearable. You can tell because the creature’s strength has weakened. It’s having a hard time seeing the nightmares of the gods inside it.

Mental pollution.

It’s probably the same for Light as well as Ronobe.

“Are you at your limit too?”

“…”

Light didn’t answer.

But that was the answer.

Ronobe pulled the tentacle and brought up the next god.

‘I only saw the most recent ones in order. Then the next one is obvious…’

Frozen forest.

A single tree standing straight.

There is a crying girl and her hanged mother.

It was Anna’s nightmare. After seeing Anna’s nightmare again, Ronobe and Light both vomited blood at the same time. They complained of extreme dizziness and pain, and their bodies trembled.

“How! How can the God of Vengeance…!”

“Whew, six more shots left.”

Even though he was bleeding, Ronobe never let go of his tentacles.

A game of chicken where you never know who will be the first to be infected by God’s nightmare and die.

Of course, Ronobe was confident.

“Is the child of tribute easy?!”

Ronobe is a child of tribute.

Unlike Light, who had nightmares about gods whose faces he had never seen before, Ronobe was somewhat familiar with their faces.

From the beginning, it was a fight that Ronobe, who had the god of revenge in his heart, had no choice but to win.

“Nonsense, nonsense!!”

“Karankar!!”

The next nightmare was Karankar.

After seeing Karanqal’s nightmare, Light was truly at his limit.

“Evil God!! How could you be an evil God!!”

“Kya kya kya kya kya!! Do you understand now!? I am Karan Kal!! Kya kya kya kya kya kya kya!”

“I, I am Karankar! No, no! I am! I am Light! Aaaah! Nightmare! I hate nightmares! Nightmares are scary! Euaaaah!!”

Light, who had seen the great nightmare of the evil god, was unable to maintain his sanity and trembled while shouting, “Evil god, evil god!”, but Ronobe drove a wedge into it.

“Bonka! Ageidon! Victor! Yonterion! Urdisa!!”

“Kuaaaah!!”

The light went down.

“Kya kya kya! Eeeeeee…”

Ronobe also fell.