Rebirth Just Before The 10th Circle

“Lord, I thought I was going to die.”

Kay answered Merlin’s question.

It wasn’t harsh.

In fact, Kay passed the hurdle of death over and over again.

“Come on, my hands keep getting twisted, so…”

“Ts. Did I? Practice until your hands and brain remember it. If you think you won’t be able to keep your reason in the real world, prepare yourself so that you can move instinctively.”

“Oh, I see.”

“Sasha, you…”

“It’s hard… yes.”

“It will be difficult. Do you think there will be many places where such a large-scale battle of monsters will be held in this day and age? If you cross the slash line, someday your level will rise.”

“···Thank you.”

Merlin’s eyes glanced at the disciples like that, and turned to Zeppelin and Winston.

As they faithfully fulfilled their duties as promised with Merlin, their wounds were far greater than that of Kay.

Merlin watched this and stretched out his hand.

“Reservation.”

A pure white light spread from Merlin’s hand and wrapped around Avalon and the others.

Chii-

The moment the light hit, the wounded bodies healed quickly.

“Huh…?”

“Wow… crazy… this is real…”

An era when magic disappeared and even potions disappeared.

In those days, the 7th circle healing magic seemed like a miracle.

Merlin, who had healed his wounds with magic, looked around and asked.

“Winston, Zeppelin.”

“Yeah?”

“Yes?”

“How was it when you cut down the monster?”

“Ah, it was very tight. If it was a sword that did not contain mana, I thought it would not be possible to cut it.”

“Well, even the sword you borrowed cut it very well. So that’s what I mean…”

Winston is desperate to get the borrowed sword as quickly as possible.

He murmured, but Merlin wasn’t listening.

He was watching the other dwarfs approaching the dwarf corpses.

“Oh my, you bastard, what did I say? I always told you to train hard! Heh heh heh!”

A corpse with limbs torn from being bitten by a foreign object.

And the dwarf soldier who hugged such a corpse and cried bitter tears.

At first glance, it was a deep comradeship that can be easily seen in the horrors of the battlefield.

Merlin’s face wrinkled as he watched this closely.

He approached the dwarf holding the corpse.

“Hey.”

“Ugh…”

A dwarf soldier who still embraced the corpse despite Merlin’s call.

Merlin called to him again in a loud voice.

“Hey!”

“Ahhhh…?”

At that moment, seeing the dwarf soldier who turned his head, Merlin’s expression wrinkled again.

A low voice came out of his mouth.

“Now… what are you doing?”

“Hehehe… Ro Ji-moon was a friend. He was in the same training camp…. When I told you to practice your axe skills a little more like that… you’re just going to come here.

“no···.”

Merlin’s face turned cold at the story of the dwarf soldier.

It was then that Avalon and the party sensed something strange.

They approached Merlin’s back.

And.

“Ugh?!”

Astonished, they took a step back and looked at the corpse the dwarf soldier was holding with disbelief.

“I, what is that?”

Its appearance was obviously a dwarf.

However, what was seen through the severed cross-sections of arms and legs, and long split armor, was not that of a living creature.

“Gee, machine?”

Metal parts that replaced the blood and flesh of dead dwarf soldiers.

Inside the dead dwarf’s body were what appeared to be various mechanical devices.

A strange feeling crawled up Merlin’s spine.

‘Come to think of it···.’

It was creepy

The appearance of the Dwarf soldiers raising their axes without a single error when they saw the offensive of foreign objects.

At first I thought it was just good training.

But it wasn’t.

‘The training wasn’t good. It was just moving the same!’(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

The moment I thought about it, a puzzle that had been subtly misaligned and circling over the past week was put together.

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Merlin opened her eyes.

His new one flew away.

“Ta, Top Lord?”

“Where are you going?”

Avalon and his party called for Merlin, but he was already flying over the Dwarf city.

Merlin soon flew near the farmland of the dwarf city.

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He got down to the ground and looked at the dwarves who were farming.

Again, they didn’t even look at Merlin.

Merlin, with a hard face, turned again and headed for the market.

A bustling market.

Merlin listened.

After a while, he mumbled something, catching something.

“A dwarf wearing a hood appeared from the corner of the market. And . . . I will tell you.”

Merlin’s mouth twitched.

“Hey, Godrian. Did you sell a lot?”

“Hey, Godrian! Did you sell a lot?”

Merlin’s murmur and the Dwarf’s story were exactly the same.

It didn’t end there.

Merlin moved slowly, comparing what he knew to what was to come.

‘A young dwarf rushes out from the fourth alley of the market.’

Merlin’s eyes turned to the fourth alley.

A small little dwarf was running out from there.

‘Discovering this, the dwarf who was pulling the cart slid and shouted.’

“Hey, you bastard! You don’t have to look straight ahead!”

‘While I was raising the cart that had fallen down, a dwarf ran away with a load on it.

“Hey, you’re a thief!”

‘A passing Dwarf guard is chasing him.’

“Stand up!”

One step, one step.

Everything that Merlin could think of as he walked, the same thing happened after a while.

It wasn’t because Merlin had foresight.

It was just because I saw it.

The same thing happened just a day ago.

“Haha… that was it…”

A smirk escaped Merlin’s lips.

“…it was kind of strange.”

Merlin recalled the information he had found so far in her mind.

A strange feeling I’ve had over the past few days.

Dwarves ignoring themselves.

Compared to the population density of the city, the agricultural land is negligible.

There was even a dwarf soldier full of machinery.

Merlin remembered all this and muttered a little.

“It feels cheap… I feel like I’m trying to get a rent and something is going to be tight.”

And his ominous thoughts did not go beyond expectations.

Merlin’s gaze turned to one side.

He sighed a little and said.

“Fu… stop coming out.”

As soon as Merlin finished speaking, a large dwarf appeared with his back in the dark alley.

He asked with a slight smile.

“Yeah… how do you feel about visiting our city?”

Guffin.

Merlin’s face grew annoyed at his question.

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Merlin answered Guffin’s question sullenly.

“It’s a feeling. Well… it’s not particularly fun. It felt like I was crawling into a giant puppet show.”

huge puppet show.

It was an accurate description of the strange feeling that Merlin had been feeling the past few days.

It turns like something is framed.

repeated every day.

A puppet show made up of identical puppets.

“It’s a puppet show… Yeah, that’s right.”

At Merlin’s words, Guffin looked around with a sad expression on her face.

He pointed to the dwarf in the market, to be more precise, a fake dwarf made of machinery.

“Hey, the friend who opened the stalls and did business was a friend named Lot. He was a good talker, and he was a friend who made those around him happy.”

This time, Guffin pointed to another fake Dwarf.

“He had three children, and her husband died fighting a great worm. Still, he was a hard-working dwarf who worked hard for the sake of his children.”

After that, Guffins explained their stories by pointing to each Dwarf in the market.

It was as if he knew all the fake dwarves in the market.

After talking for a long time, Guffin finally turned to Merlin.

“Do you know how many dwarves are living in this city?”

“I know.”

“A total of 32,738 people.”

“·················ogue.”

“Among them, there are only a thousand real Dwarves, including me.”

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Merlin’s eyes widened in surprise at Guffin’s story.

“Yeah… you’re right. This is one gigantic puppet show we’ve been working on for thousands of years.”

“·················ogue.”

“But… this is all we are…”

Guffin’s face contained a large saliva.

He looked at Merlin and asked.

“Do you have time?”

“What if I say no?”

“You’ll have to wait until you say yes.”

Merlin sighed inwardly at Guffin’s words, who looked desperate for something.

‘Haha… I think this is really a nose stitch?’

Merlin thought so and opened her mouth.

“Let me ask you one thing.”

“However much.”

“Are you waiting for me?”

She was a little skeptical.

It was the attitude of the Dwarves who were particularly favorable to them.

But after today’s work, I started to doubt.

Dwarves may have been waiting for him…

just as expected.

“That’s right. we were waiting The master of this world of confrontation.”

I wondered if it was still the case.

Merlin’s sighs deepened.