The Devil Who Grants Wishes

Hang on

“Hey ah ah ah ah!!”

The centipede’s head is surprisingly slow, unlike its hideous and overbearing appearance. If you run with all your strength, you can barely escape.

However, because of that, Aren felt even more afraid.

If you get caught right away without a moment to run away, you can enjoy the blessing of dying without a moment of fear.

“Keek!!”

“It doesn’t work…!”

“What the hell is that centipede!”

“Uh, come on, shoot the next arrow!!”

It’s not just Aren.

The centipede’s head, which no magic, no arrows work with, made the elves who saw it feel fear.

Elves are born with light emotions, and even those light emotions wear out as they get older, but the centipede-headed beast with a hideous appearance and overwhelming strength was enough to make the elves realize the emotions they had forgotten.

“Come! Come on, let’s defend– Big, big, big…!”

“Aaah!!”

And it wasn’t just the centipede’s head that made him realize his emotions.

Naturally, the monsters and beasts protruding from the hole in the barrier begin to attack the surrounding elves indiscriminately.

The elves, who were distracted by the centipede’s head, became careless about other monsters and beasts, and such carelessness, of course, cost their lives.

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“Ha… ha ha…”

Until now, Aren had not stopped moving her legs while exhaling out of breath, but no matter how much she was, there was nothing she could do about it.

The scene in Aren’s eyes was shocking to the extent that his whole body’s muscles became flabby and stiff.

‘What the hell is this…’

The exact same scene as it was 13 years ago is unfolding before my eyes.

No, strictly speaking, it’s worse than it was 13 years ago.

The entire forest, which is nature itself, withers away.

Even when it snows, the giant trees that have maintained their freshness for thousands of years are dropping their leaves.

There are so many fallen leaves that the soil on the floor cannot be seen.

“Keeaa Kie”

“Hey…”

Aren, who was a little dazed looking at the scene he couldn’t even imagine, at that moment, comes back to his senses at the sound of a centipede piercing his ear.

When I turned my head back, the centipede’s head, which had been chasing me, was standing still.

Just waving their antennae from side to side, screaming, and observing me with empty eyes.

It’s like saying that if you stay so idly you’ll get caught, and tell them to run away.

With me… are you playing?

‘…

Tak Tak Tak Tak

But even if it does, it doesn’t change what I have to do.

Whether the centipede is playing with me or just a coincidence, I just have to move my legs hard to get away.

“Keehee…”

And the centipede sees Aren moving, and only then does it move.

Of course, as he has always done, he doesn’t try to catch Aren, he just follows him leisurely.

………….

“Aren!!”

While running away, he met countless elves.

Since he wasn’t near the barrier, he doesn’t seem to know the details of what happened, but once he could see that the Great Forest was withering, all the elves he met were greatly puzzled.

“What the hell is going on right now- uh-uh!?”

Some of them saw me as if they knew something and asked me questions to try to figure out what was going on, but they all realized what had happened before I could answer.

Even if you don’t want to see the head of a giant centipede that’s so big, with magical energy wrapped around its body, distorting space and bending light, you can’t help but see it.

All the elves I ran into while running saw the centipede’s head following me and turned around and ran away before I could say anything.

Hang on

‘Why…why are you chasing me…’

However, the centipede head ignores all the elves and is chasing only me.

Whether there are old and young elves who can’t run well, or elves with higher purity mana.

No matter how much I run and run, there is no sign of falling.

At first glance, it seems as if you could catch them right now, but they deliberately keep a distance and chase you slowly.

It’s definitely not a normal beast’s behavior.

It is raising the fear of prey to the maximum.

It’s like… yeah, like a demon whose first priority is sucking the victim’s emotions-

“Ahhh!?”

At that moment, the ground suddenly felt like it was going to go out, and then my upper body was thrown to the ground.

Fortunately, there were a lot of leaves on the floor, so the impact on the body was alleviated a lot, but the problem is not the impact, but the twist of the load.

“Ah, ahh…”

The ankle was completely sprained. Even if I try to stand on two legs, I can’t stand properly.

I don’t know for sure because it was so quick, but I think I tripped over the roots that protruded out of the soil.

I couldn’t see my feet properly because I was obscured by leaves and was thinking about miscellaneous thoughts.

I can’t… Come on, I have to run away—

“Kei-“

“-Hibb.”

At that moment, when I lifted my head with a frown on my face, only the centipede’s head, which should have been in the distance, fills my field of vision.

They are so close that you can clearly see the countless corpses of monsters and demons that have become the heads of centipedes, wriggling in their own way.

The centipede’s antennae are tapping my face, saliva is dripping from her mouth, and the place where her eyes should be is empty with nothing, but I feel the intimidating gaze sweeping over me very strongly.

You were right behind my back just a moment ago.

After all… he was just playing with me.

blah blah

“town…”

As the centipede’s jaw slowly opens from side to side, a cave deep enough to see the end of it appears. A cave obviously longer than a centipede’s head.

And in that cave… there are countless corpses of monsters and beasts all over the place.

Whoa

“Hey, hey hey… hey hey…”

The cave is approaching me.

The centipede’s jaws, which are wide open to the left and right, are holding me in all directions so I can’t escape, so I can’t even move.

No, the result would not have been much different without the chin.

Because the muscles that were forced to move even though they were pickled in fear could not stand the limit and stopped.

No screams, no moans. Only tears are flowing.

No… Please… Please help me.

I don’t want to die like this, so terribly, please someone live-

Woodduck

At that moment, the centipede’s head is crumpled into an impossible shape. It’s like a crumpled piece of paper in your hand.

Blood spurted from between the crumpled and torn centipede’s shell is sprayed all over my body. It’s like cutting a lemon and squeezing it out to extract the juice.

Normally I would have been startled and horrified to see this blood, but now I can’t at all.

Literally, dead and alive.

“Ah, ah ah…”

“…tt.”

When I turned my head in the direction where I could barely feel the popularity, there was… a demon from 13 years ago.

As if the centipede’s blood on his body is more cumbersome than the centipede, he frowns and kicks his tongue to shake off the blood on his body.

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Obviously, in theory, the full natural mana of the Great Forest could neutralize my magic.

If I had continued to stay and deliberately released the Magi, of course, the Great Forest would not have been able to withstand it, but I was hoping that only a small amount of the Magi would be able to withstand it.

‘I’m going to hit the barrier.’

However, the barrier the elves made completely shattered those expectations.

Because the elves concentrated all the magic that had spread in the Great Forest through the barrier, the neutralized magic has regained its power.

Up to that point, it would have been fine to some extent, but the problem was that the natural mana of the great forest was also sealed.

Condensed Magi absorbed the natural mana that was not enough to neutralize itself and became stronger.

It doesn’t even end here.

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Magi was constantly concentrated and matured within the barrier, and it grew to a level that the elves could not handle, and the result, as we just saw, led to the creation of a myriad of hideous and powerful monsters and beasts.

If the barrier is released as it is and the Magi trapped within the barrier are completely liberated, the entire forest will be eaten by that demon and disappear, and the Magi that ate the Great Forest will eventually spread out and try to swallow the world.

‘…don’t think that Daesoo-rim will take care of it, and should have collected the magi one by one.’

Of course, you can’t blame the elves for the barrier.

From their point of view, it must have been an unavoidable choice to strike a barrier in order to subdue the monsters and beasts that are difficult to even scratch properly.

In other words, it is clearly my fault that this kind of thing has happened now.

At this point, I’m the only one who can solve this problem, so I’ll have to do whatever I can to solve it.

[Uh, why the devil… help us…?]

[Don’t come too close!]

[Don’t be fooled, stay on the offensive!]

Once inside the barrier, all the monsters and monsters were wiped out, and most of the monsters and beasts that went out of the barrier were also killed.

Of course, it seems like it will be revived soon after seeing the guinea pig, but it will be a temporary solution until I come back.

As the beasts and demons were dying, it seemed that the master did something to me, but I did not need such loyalty, so there was no hesitation in killing me.

Then, now only the centipede head, which looked like these guys’ big bread, is left.

‘But is that really a beast?’

Although it is said that those made of only magic and mana are monsters, and those that have been transformed by inhabiting an object are called magical beasts, that centipede head has both the characteristics of a monster and a demon.

If you look at the fact that it has a body made of monsters and corpse fragments of demons, it can be seen as a demon, but the corpse fragments are just being used to maintain the shape of a centipede head. Even without corpse fragments, the probability that it will not be destroyed is quite high.

Even more unusual, that centipede head is playing with the victim’s emotions. Not like a beast or a monster, but like a demon.

Uh… If you do something sloppy, you’ll end up with troublesome things. This time I have to make sure.

Woodduck

After opening a barrier to block the spread of mana and magic, he used space distortion to crumple the centipede head like a piece of paper.

The centipede head seems to have some resistance to space magic, as there was a feeling of being caught in the middle.

Hey… That centipede, what space magic are you trying to withstand?

It’s the first time I’ve seen something like this since I became Faust, but I did it carefully.

tremble

At that moment, the skin suddenly wobbles. The discomfort is no joke, like an insect sitting on the skin.

The centipede’s head is still alive despite being crushed to pieces.

That was, of course, what I expected well enough… But even so, I didn’t know it would end up like this.

[Give me… Give me your body!]

“…tt.”

The centipede head uses his own blood splashed on my body as a medium, and this time, he’s trying to use my body instead of a body made by weaving the corpses of demons and demons.

Surely this guy must have been born from my magic… Isn’t he spoiled?