Chapter 119 : Chapter 119

Chapter 119 - Blue Heart and Spider's Heart

The Blue Volcano had erupted.

Though it was only a day's difference, the timing was different from the calculated value.

The cause of it lay with the Youngest Son, with the skeleton orb he had dropped a moment ago.

“…It’s truly a great explosive power.”

On the airship Mariella.

Jubel said from its deck.

“How is it, Land General Manager-nim. Is it on the scale you expected?”

“……”

One of the figures on the deck, Land General Manager Felson, had seen the explosion from beginning to end.

From the preparation stage before the beginning, everything had passed through his hands.

Because it was Felson who had chosen the suitable point and time for the drop under the Fifth Son’s command.

He, who had added force to the eruption, shook his head at the question.

“It’s much larger than expected.”

The volcanic eruption he had watched without even blinking was a clear memory.

“The orb entered the crater and exactly 4 seconds later. The Fifth Son-nim activated the sorcery according to my calculations, but the firepower of that sorcery was not in my calculations.”

“The President’s sorcery. What was it?”

The Forest Witch asked.

Even as a family elder, she, a newcomer, could not be well-versed in family sorcery.

Thus, the two who had been in the family for a long time spoke simultaneously.

“It’s Exploding Bone.”

“It’s called Exploding Bone.”

The Forest Witch nodded at that.

“I see it’s a sorcery that explodes the bones that come from Bone Sorcery.”

“That’s what it does, but the process is very complex. Also, the orb the Young Master made is a giant bomb made by weaving only Skeleton Soldiers.”

Felson’s body trembled.

The 4 seconds calculated by the Youngest Son's order in the past had to produce a certain amount of firepower.

He had added that, and the Youngest Son had smiled.

He had patted his shoulder as if to say not to worry and ended the report.

He only knew the reason for that confidence today.

“Even if the Blue Flame Spirit itself had broken through the crater and gone berserk, it wouldn’t have been this much.”

Jubel, Felson, and the Forest Witch on the deck all took in the scene.

Volcanic ash piled up several meters high, and the sky and the ground overlapped in color.

The land, turned inside out like a landslide, had no flat places.

The situation below was not something to be laughed at, even as a joke.

“It’ll take a month. To turn this much land into a forest.”

“It’s a month because it’s you, Forest Witch-nim. For nature to do it on its own would take a dizzying amount of time.”

“This volcanic ash. Could we sell it somewhere? No, a tourism business wouldn’t be bad either.”

Everyone looked down and gave their different impressions.

Felson spoke to that last impression.

“Now that the volcano is gone, the business site the Fifth Son-nim wanted has been created. It’ll be hard to connect other businesses.”

“Yes. I suppose so. But as someone who has worked with the Fifth Son-nim for quite a long time, there is one thing I can say.”

The money-grubber did not take his eyes off the Youngest Son who had gone down.

He couldn't possibly take them off.

His age, his birth, everything was different, but he was a person who was exactly the same, as if looking in a mirror.

That’s why he knew.

“The Young Master will not end with just the one family business he originally aimed for.”

The person who was not the same retorted.

“…Not end? You mean there’s more after this?”

“The Young Master has become the last person to kill the Blue Flame Spirit and monopolize its reward. In the long run, he has caused a loss to the family.”

“But wasn’t that loss covered by the new family business?”

Jubel’s head snapped around.

His eyes, which were very different from the volcanic ash, cold, were a bonus.

“Land General Manager-nim. Currently, the Young Master has been directly entrusted with a family business by the Family Head. But would it be a success if he took out one brick and inserted another?”

“…No, it wouldn’t.”

At those soft words, Jubel nodded.

“For others, it would be a success. But for the Fifth Son-nim, it’s not.”

Jubel understood him.

He, who had become the greatest merchant in the East with pure skill without relying on any powerful person, understood the Fifth Son.

“The Young Master is on a strict scale of evaluation. So he must produce a result that no one can refute.”

“……”

Felson lowered his head.

He now realized how great a burden was on the shoulders of the young man standing on that volcanic ash.

“That’s why he always takes more dangerous risks and walks more dangerous paths than others.”

“Does that path include that as well.”

The Forest Witch’s finger pointed to the crater that had been torn and flown away.

Something was flying to that place where a crater remained as if a meteorite had fallen.

It was hard to see in the murky sky, but the red-feathered wings stood out.

It came out holding something.

“What’s that. To my eyes, it looks like the crystal of a Blue Flame Spirit.”

“You see correctly. It’s the spoil that comes from hunting a Blue Flame Spirit. You can think of that crystal as the spirit’s heart.”

“Oh.”

The Forest Witch let out a short exclamation from under the brim of her hat.

“The power inherent in it is amazing. It’s large for a crystal, too.”

Jubel also agreed with that.

“According to my investigation, when hunting a Blue Flame Spirit, they leave a small amount of the crystal in preparation for next year’s hunt. It must have all fallen in the explosion and gathered on its own.”

“So it’s the volcano’s last gift.”

That last gift was caught by a Griffin and flew to the Youngest Son.

It was something that happened while the spider was disoriented by another explosion.

***

Fssst─

It was an explosion incomparably weaker than the one before.

But still.

“That stings.”

The legs, which were firmly protected by the exoskeleton, lost three in an instant.

“…This damn son of a bitch….”

He stood up with the remaining five legs.

His memory of why he had fallen again was fragmented.

The vermilion bone marrow that had grabbed his ankle.

It was hot and instantly released its heat.

His ears went deaf again, and his body was instantly thrown and slammed into the volcanic ash.

It was a very shitty feeling.

“I’ll melt you right now.”

“Do it right this time. Don’t step in the wrong place and get into trouble again.”

The eight eyes naturally turned to the volcanic ash floor.

His legs couldn't move due to the endlessly heightened sense of caution.

It was a contradictory thing.

That two legs could move more freely than someone with seven legs, including his original ones.

The Youngest Son spoke.

“It’s about time to finish this.”

“…That’s my line.”

“Is that so? Then go ahead. I’ve dragged this out long enough.”

He reached for the sky.

Thwack─

A crystal fell onto his palm as if it had been waiting.

The thing that the beast with hawk’s talons had left behind was as large as a human bust.

Nevertheless, the Youngest Son lifted it without any difficulty and instead offered it forward.

“This is the last spirit crystal that can be salvaged from this volcano. Here. If you covet it, take it.”

Drrrrrrrrrrrk─

The mouth beneath the eight eyes gnashed roughly.

It ground together without a single gap, as if it would break.

“──!!”

The impact, enough to break his own armor, was converted into jumping power.

The fangs that extended from under the helmet, along with the remaining five legs, all aimed for one person.

But of course, he knew that that one person was also aiming for him.

Swoooosh─!

Swoosh─!

The high-heat Skeleton Soldiers grabbed the charging legs.

They had not lost their heat in the volcanic ash and had rushed out in an instant.

The soldiers, who were ready to explode at any moment, were different individuals, but they quickly joined together.

It was a principle similar to welding.

“Kraaaaaak─!!”

The spider shrieked with poison.

The Skeleton Soldiers, stickily bound by a single restraint, blocked the charge.

The spider, stopped at a distance of a crystal and a skull, was clearly full of poison.

It was a creature he rather wanted to raise.

“I’ll show you something interesting.”

While holding the spider in place with the Exploding Bone soldiers, he performed a trick in front of the eight eyes.

Red Bones swirled around the crystal.

It was the harbinger of the Skeleton Soldier sorcery that any sorcerer, not just a Millesdusk, would know.

It wrapped around the spirit crystal.

As if to make it its heart.

“What on earth do you want…!!”

A spirit crystal was not supposed to be used like that.

It was a key ingredient for making an elixir, by refining it to a high purity and melting it again.

This, which gave tremendous defense against the fire attribute.

He had intended to ingest it this time to prevent the fire attribute, the biggest weakness of the Poisonous Spider.

He was sure of it, but a brat had taken that chance.

He was resentful and lamented.

“Twuk!!”

Poison mixed with blood flew at his face.

The Youngest Son didn't dodge.

There was no need to dodge, as something appeared in front of him.

“Uh oh….”

The eight red eyes dilated.

What was once a Skeleton Soldier was reflected in the eyes that had become larger than his face in total.

Fwoooooosh─

A spirit, wrapped in a billowing blue flame like armor, floated like a ghost without a lower body.

The Blue Flame Spirit, which should have been the collateral branches’ prey, raised its huge arms.

That alone seemed to create a hill in front of him.

Should it be called magic, the form that seemed to have condensed high energy made his legs unable to move from the pressure.

“You have to peel it to eat it, right.”

After the incomprehensible words, the raised arms descended.

Kuwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa─

At the same time, blue flames waved forward.

He told him now since he wouldn't be able to hear.

“The Blue Flame Spirit is the only spirit in the East. A few centuries ago, a spirit sorcerer from Wisdom died during a war with Millesdusk, and the spirit assimilated with the land.”

The word ‘only’ is always treated as precious everywhere.

Other large-class monsters were of course precious, but they were not the only ones.

Similar individuals existed, or they didn't live in just one place.

But the Blue Flame Spirit had turned this place into the Blue Volcano, and that’s why this place was the only one.

“No one but the Fifth Son can use the Blue Flame Spirit in this way. This guy will be the fire that boils the Dark Elixir.”

The blue flame was cut off.

The exoskeleton that had covered Elmont, the Exploding Bone soldiers, were cleanly stripped away.

This was the power of a spirit.

Not a red fire that just destroys, but a fire with a cold reason.

The color blue meant that.

“…Still, there’s no such thing as handling something like this without any cost.”

Whatever the cost, Elmont here also wanted that fire.

But there was a competitor, and he had been purely defeated by that competitor.

The competitor, as the victor, took everything from the loser.

Swaaaaaaaaaaaaa─

Gray ash was added on top of the gray ash.

A pale hand picked up what had fallen on the rustling ground.

It was a heart that was the only intense thing in this place full of monotonous colors, a heart that still had vigor.

The spider's heart was the only one dead next to the people who were still breathing.

“Even the Fifth Son, who revives the Blue Flame Spirit with just a crystal, needs many people to get this far. He can’t do it alone.”

So, to not be alone in the future, he placed the spider’s heart between the ribs of a Skeleton Soldier.

***

A Messenger Ghoul sent by the Chief Secretary flew to the Black Giant Castle.

The content was: situation over.

The Fourth Son licked his lips.

“Mother! It seems the work at the volcano is finished!”

“…What does it say. No, there’s no need to say it.”

She could guess right away.

The forty large-class Bone Giants she had sent as a test were shattered to pieces down there.

It was the result of the giant, single-edged greatsword knight in bone armor and the demon legion moving without rest.

The Fourth Son, its master, hadn't lifted a finger in the castle, but it was the same for the Fifth Son.

So there was no need to hear about the situation at the volcano.

“It says the youngest destroyed the Blue Flame Spirit spectacularly!”

“Yes, yes. Of course.”

Moirena felt that the tea was particularly bitter today.

But the story that almost made her spit out what she had in her mouth immediately followed.

“The Blue Volcano, was destroyed with an explosion…?”

The urgent report of that content did not go only to the Black Giant Castle.

It passed through the Pantheon, to the Mind Demon, and within it, to the Demon Head Palace, reaching the Family Head's ears in an instant.

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