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#006. Broken World (1)
“What, what the heck?”
“Absolutely no cars or gunshots.”
Pale was completely asleep.
My whole body tensed up at the sound I had never heard before.
Fortunately, the sound wasn’t that loud and didn’t wake my siblings.
Goo-woong──
As the sound repeated, my heart rate increased.
And then gunshots and screams began to be heard.
“I think the war has started.”
Countless wars fought.
Countless gunshots and screams.
Ironically, Pale was relieved that the war he ‘knew’ had begun.
Unlike Pale, who swallowed his saliva in tension, Ray remained silent and lost in thought.
Something is strange.
Something was going wrong.
The voices of the people I was hearing now were closer to screams from a one-sided massacre rather than the cries of an equal battle.
‘no way.’
The scene he had seen a few hours ago replayed in Ray’s head.
“Squeak─.”
It was near 18th Street.
I saw a man get out of a luxury sedan and walk down the street with Hector.
“This way… please… wait… for me.”
The sound of the words was not audible.
But you could clearly see Hector bowing down to the young man with the monocle.
…and.
A huge amount of mana was surging through the man’s chest.
A blue color close to black.
A sticky, gloomy feeling, like oil spilled in the ocean.
It was similar to the color created by mana gathering when a golem moves.
But that wasn’t the surprising thing.
The man’s vessel containing mana had a completely different shape from others.
It was a wide ring-shaped shape surrounding the heart.
A huge amount of mana flowed through multiple rings, not just one.
There were manas of other colors besides dark blue, but their proportions were not high.
What on earth is it?
Other people’s mana leaves the vessel as their emotions are resolved.
But the man’s mana did not disappear, but simply flowed leisurely through the ring.
It’s as if the mana is trapped in a ring and cannot escape.
A strong curiosity arose.
At the same time, instinct sounded the warning light.
This is dangerous.
I have to tell Niles.
Ray immediately turned around and ran down 17th Street.
“Have you seen Niles?”
“I haven’t seen you at all lately. You seem to be very busy preparing for war.”
I ran several distances, including number 17, but Niles was nowhere to be seen.
Although he spoke to the members of the organization he met along the way, he was not sure if the message was properly conveyed to Niles.
Gooo …
“Oh, the sound is getting louder?”
Pale also noticed that the situation was strange.
Screams and shouts.
And a strange ringing.
A faint, dull noise, a mixture of many sounds, came closer and moved away repeatedly.
Like the shadow of a flickering flame.
As if the bridge would collapse at any moment.
Amplifying the boy’s anxiety.
“…I’ll go out and come back.”
Ray said, taking his raincoat and mask with him.
“Me, I’ll go too.”
“No. You are protecting your younger siblings.”
Pale looked back at his sleeping brothers, oblivious to the world.
“Oh, I understand. Don’t go too far, just assess the situation and come back.”
Ray nodded.
He wore a mask and pulled his head down so that it covered his eyebrows.
Squeak-
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Come outside and close the tent door.
When I turn my head outside the culvert, I see a dark world obscured by heavy rain.
He wrapped his body in a thin film of multi-colored mana and began to climb the riverbank.
Facing the street from where the sound is coming.
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A loud noise of unknown origin.
Shouts. Yelling. Gunshots. Occasionally screams.
It was a strange thing.
Because my heart, which had always been calm no matter what happened, was beating faster and faster.
The boy didn’t know.
A year spent with the Guldari kids.
Several attempts to feel emotions.
At the end, there was a small crack in his own heart.
Damn.
Also, the fact that the gold is gradually cracking due to strong external impact.
Knock. Knock. Knock.
Ray quickened his pace.
The field of vision that had been dark gradually became tinted red.
“… … .”
The streets were on fire.
Acrid smoke rose between the collapsed buildings.
The flames danced and swayed, heedless of the pouring rain.
Sometimes in life, two types of situations come up.
Or I can’t understand.
Or maybe you don’t want to understand.
The situation before his eyes applied to both cases for Ray.
A situation that is simply incomprehensible.
I also didn’t feel like understanding.
Chulbuk! Chulbuk!
Muddy boots skipped busily through the puddles.
Ray approached Inyoung, who was leaning against the wall and collapsed, and lowered his posture.
He created a small flame and illuminated the opponent’s face.
“What the hell is going on right now….”
The moment Ray confirmed his opponent’s condition, he swallowed his words.
A member of the Niles organization who is known to me.
Half of my upper body was blown away.
It was only then that I realized that the pool of water around me was not rainwater but blood.
The other person opened his mouth with difficulty, as if he was still breathing.
“Ray… Nya…?”
“What happened?”
“Those bastards… brought… a golem… kulk!”
I can now understand the situation to some extent.
Because you can’t blow away half of a person’s upper body with a gun or a blade or something like that.
“The man with glasses… released the golem… bang!”
The Niles gang member who had vomited blood did not move any further.
Ray closed his opponent’s eyes.
I walked out into the alley, looked around, and moved forward cautiously but quickly.
Huruk! Huruk!
A fierce flame illuminated the corpses strewn about.
All of them had large holes in their bodies or had body parts blown out over a large area.
It was one of two things.
Niles gang members and street people.
It was more than my first or second time seeing a human corpse, but this was the first time I had seen it damaged in such a horrific way.
‘Did the golem destroy all the buildings?’
Ray looked up and saw the buildings in ruins.
The golem was powered by mana.
Although he was only about 2 meters tall, his strength could not have been comparable to that of a human.
… The one-eyed man we saw on 18th Street is probably controlling the golem.
No, that’s for sure.
It will definitely be like that.
Before long, gunshots began to be heard together.
Toodoodoodo─!
Wouldn’t Niles and his crew be fighting the golem?
First of all, I had to help.
Niles has done much for us.
Also, if Niles’ organization collapses, his future life on 17th Street will be in jeopardy.
It was public knowledge that Hector was capturing orphans from the streets and selling them into slavery.
Chulbuk! Chulbuk! Chulbuk!
A knife in one hand.
He ran, clutching the blue current in his other hand.
Then, at one moment, the gunfire stopped.
Ray arrived at the central square, breathing heavily.
Haa─ haa─
It’s too late.
The corpses of Niles’ gang members were everywhere.
Fortunately, Niles’ body was nowhere to be seen.
Gooooo─
A loud noise was heard immediately afterwards.
It was moving away from the culvert.
“… … !”
That was the moment.
The crack that had formed in my heart split open again.
An emotion he had never felt before gripped the boy’s entire body.
Ray, whose heart sank, ran with all his might.
Why are we heading towards Guldari?
There’s only Pale and her siblings there.
Was there a command to find and kill all living things?
My mind went blank.
I ran as fast as my heart could beat, but the distance from the loud noise did not close easily.
With many thoughts running through his head, Ray finally arrived at the riverbank.
The dark moonlight shone through.
The shape of a golem seen inside the tunnel.
The collapsed tent and the blood spilling out underneath it.
“ah.”
The blood in the blood vessels becomes cold.
Something snaps in my head.
It felt like the world, which had been gray until then, was starting to take on its original colors.
It was a moment when Park Chan-ray, who had taken his place, ran down the slope of the riverbank.
Knock! Knock! Knock!
The sharp thorns of the bushes scratched the top of his coat sharply, but he paid no attention.
Ray arrived at the bottom of the riverbank in an instant and rushed towards the golem with his knife in hand.
Wheein―
The golem turned its head towards Ray, its red eyes flashing, and it swung its arms.
So fast that you can’t even react.
I couldn’t believe that it was the usual slow golem.
“… … !
Thud!
Ray was knocked out in the same position he had been charging at and landed on the riverbank.
I vomited blood from my mouth due to the excruciating pain that covered my entire body.
“Pale…! Josephine…! Miles…!”
He clenched his teeth and shouted with a loud voice.
There was no answer, and the puddle of blood under the tent grew darker.
The boy could sense it.
That there was no one alive inside the tent.
The two-meter-tall, malevolent inanimate object no longer paid attention to the tent, as if to prove the fact.
I was just moving my body this way, as if I was looking for the next thing to do.
Thud— thud—
The ground shakes as the golem advances.
The boy’s heart, which had reached a state of extreme excitement, also beat without stopping.
I couldn’t move my body due to the impact of the blow the golem had delivered just a moment ago.
no.
From the beginning, the boy had no intention of avoiding it.
Adew.
Because the only thought in his head was to kill the golem.
The boy who always thought calmly was not there.
Woof─!
All the red mana in the surroundings began to be sucked into the boy’s grasp.
Wooooowoong──!
Huruk! Huruk!
Mana that spins madly, forming a whirlpool.
Bright red sparks began to appear above it.
The flow of mana became increasingly intense.
The boy stretched out his arm towards the golem.
I’ve never shot flames at anyone before.
But I instinctively knew that this would work.
The golem stopped in its tracks.
He stared at the gathering red mana and raised his arm as well.
The dark blue mana sucked into the golem’s palm began to swirl.
Gooooooooo──!
It was the source of the loud noise heard in the street.
The large holes in the people’s bodies were traces of magic fired by the golem.
Woof─!
Gooooooooo──!
A sound that feels like your ears are going to burst.
The vortex created by the two colors of mana accelerated its rotation and rushed towards the completion of the magic.
And the moment the golem’s was about to be completed first.
BAM──!
A vehicle appeared outside the culvert and rammed the golem into its side.
The vehicle didn’t stop there, but continued to push the golem away with its dented bumper.
Ki-ki-ki-ki-ki!
The golem flailed his arms toward the inside of the driver’s seat, but was unable to reach it.
The golem’s back, pushed to the end of the passage, reached the railing.
Thump thump!
The railing was torn off, and the golem’s body, unable to keep its center of gravity, fell into the river.
And it never came up again.
Silence fell on the riverbank.
All I could hear was the sound of the overheated engine cooling down and the crackling of metal expanded by the heat.
The red mana that had been gathering in Ray’s grasp also dispersed into the air.
Squeak─
A few seconds later.
A man opened the car door and got out.
It was Niles.
His whole body was covered in blood, as if he had already fought a golem once on the street, and one of his shoulders was slumped.
“… … !”
While Ray was unable to continue speaking.
Niles staggered toward Ray.
He examined Ray’s body with a gesture that was on the verge of exhaustion and then made a diagnosis.
“It’s okay. It’s not a broken bone. If you rest for a few days, the gold will quickly heal.”
Ray couldn’t say anything.
I really didn’t know how to react.
All the emotions that had been held back for 16 years.
Because an unfathomable number of different types and concentrations of emotions were washing over my body and mind like a tidal wave.
Niles looked confused as he looked at the collapsed tent inside the culvert and the pool of blood beneath it.
“I’m sorry. I wish I had come a little sooner.”
Ray struggled to get the words out.
“Why is that your fault, sir?”
A faint sob mixed in the voice.
“… … !”
Niles looked surprised when he noticed that Ray’s condition was different than usual.
As if he had gathered his thoughts, he quietly hugged Ray and patted his back.
Ray’s shoulders and rough breathing, which had been shaking with anger and sadness, gradually became stable.
A few seconds passed.
Ray, who had pulled away, asked quietly.
“What about the people? What about the subordinates?”
“All the guys who were moving together are dead. I don’t know about the ones who were scattered.”
Niles’ expression distorted.
“I don’t know how to tear.”
It was a gaze that made me think that it would be possible to kill a person with just a look.
“What are you going to do?”
“We have to go back to the streets first. Pursue the survivors. Put out the fire. And then… .”
Niles’ words were not continued.
Dismissed!
By a fist-sized beam of light flying in from behind.
“uh…?”
Niles looked down at the hole in his chest with a surprised expression.
“Coolook!”
The moment I saw the collapsing Niles and the golem crawling out of the river.
Ray felt as if time was passing very slowly.
What on earth is going on?
If this is a dream, I wish I could wake up soon.
I feel like I’m telling the world a huge lie.
Tears and sweat.
Black rainwater and blood.
The liquid flowing inside and the liquid dripping outside mix and flow stickily all over the body.
A golem with a bruised side crawls across the floor.
Slowly raise your palms.
Absorbs surrounding mana and rotates it.
The colors gradually mix and turn into dark blue.
Woof.
Mana starts crying.
Ray, who was watching the scene, raised his hand as if he was possessed.
Woohoo──!
The bloody mana sucked into the palm of my hand began to rotate.
It was a speed so fast that it couldn’t even be compared to before.
Knock! Knock!
Bright red sparks trace a path.
A ring of flame is created, emitting sticky heat.
Soon the vortex of mana stopped spinning.
When the wild flames that appeared before him were fired.
Kwakwakwa──!
The boy’s time began to pass quickly again.