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Hiding the Logistics Center in the Apocalypse Episode 228
Headquarters (8)
Just after Julio escaped subspace.
I followed the guy out straight away with Kim Sol and Lee Yong-su.
The first thing that caught my eye were the pale faces of the wizards.
Their gaze was focused on one place.
'That······?'
Knock knock!
It was definitely Julio.
A guy who suddenly grew up to be like an adult.
“······.”
The man lifted the count's body.
Movement using telekinesis rather than both hands.
Perhaps that was why the dead count's body felt unusually light.
and······.
“Huk!”
Knock knock! Knock knock!
I swallowed it as is.
The corpse melted into Julio's body.
The wizards of the Franco family screamed in horror.
That wasn't all.
Portals appeared from all directions and began to cover the surrounding area.
Buendia was the first to realize what it meant.
Kugugugugu······!
“He’s going to swallow us whole! We have to get out of here!”
"this!"
He immediately pulled the group towards <Product Recovery>.
I felt an unidentified force, but fortunately, the power of my subspace portal was still stronger.
but······.
“Heeeeek!”
“Hey, save me!”
The situation was different for the wizards of the Franco family.
Before they could resist, Gradiva's blue body swallowed them up.
one side······.
'Who dares to eat whom?'
I, too, started to pull Julio in reverse.
“You came in once, right?”
As it was, Gradiva could not be accommodated in the subspace.
According to the error message, it is because it was 'not a target' in the first place.
However, the guy was a 'registered' being who had entered my subspace, and thanks to that, I was able to pull him in with <Product Recovery>.
Shuhwaaaaaaaah!
-Grrrrrrrr!
The bastard twisted his body roughly.
Julio shows his displeasure as if he doesn't want to be dragged away.
But at the time, my <Product Recovery> power was still stronger.
The guy used his psychic powers to grab my body, but······.
Knock knock······.
Little by little, I couldn't help but be drawn towards my portal.
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.
The place we returned to was the forest in the subspace sector.
The place where Julio was dealt the final blow with <Rocket>.
Dalgrak! Bang!
Yongsu Lee's bone dragon burned me as if it had been waiting for me.
Kim Sol and Buendia were also riding together, and the winged blood dragon flew and moved on its own.
-Keeeeeek!
-Kaaaah!
There were still monsters summoned by Julio within the sector.
Thanks to the elves, druids, and vampires, many of them have been eradicated.
Collaborating with the elves was certainly effective, but I had no intention of repeating the same fight.
'That won't kill you.'
Even among the Gradivas, this guy was particularly special.
It was clear that the <Rocket> had taken damage, but it never lost its breath.
Moreover, the problem was not limited to that.
“I’m sure he’ll try to escape again.”
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Buendia had the same concerns.
A guy who had successfully escaped once before.
Since you can open and close portals, you can't just confine yourself to subspace.
One way occurred to me, so I posed a question to Pax.
“What if······. the object inside this were to be accepted once more using subspace powers?”
At first, it was a simple idea.
An endless abyss connecting subspace and subspace.
The idea is that we might be able to lock up that Gradiva.
Before long, Pax's answer came.
Tiring!
[Accepted in a new subspace.]
“The new subspace······. Is it a different concept from sector?”
Tiring!
[Yes.]
[Unlike sectors that can be connected to the outside at any time, new subspaces can only be accessed from the subspace they are currently in.]
[Therefore, caution is required when using it.]
Fortunately, the expected effect was achieved.
The ability to create an endless prison, one room after another.
However, unlike <Shopaholic> or <Product Recovery>, subspace acceptance was not an ability that could be used indefinitely.
Because it was an ability that was given only once per level up.
“Level up now.”
Tiring!
[All right.]
[Achieved level 14.]
It was a number that had no meaning anymore.
It was as if the balance of a dimensional account was close to infinite.
The plan was simple.
Level up indefinitely, accepting Julio indefinitely.
The idea was to create the deepest part of subspace and bury the guy there.
Swoosh!
Just then, Julio arrived.
I was eventually dragged inside due to <product recall>.
The guy had absorbed all the wizards of the Franco family, and his giant body was covered in the skin, clothes, and ties of the wizards like a shell.
The guy screamed······.
-Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
“Pax, put it in.”
I hummed softly.
but,
Tiring!
[Targeting failed.]
[Try again.]
Tiring!
[Targeting failed.]
[Try again.]
[Target designation······]
'······What is this?'
A red error message appeared.
The content was different from before.
At that time, I had clearly stated that it was 'not the target'.
As if to prove this, Pax was also making repeated attempts to accept Julio.
-Ghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Julio cried.
Now a giant stood tall above the forest.
Then this time it started sucking up the monsters in the forest.
Swoosh!
-Keeeeeek!
-Squeak! Squeak!
It did not discriminate between living and dead.
Buendia asked me with a worried expression as he watched the creature grow in size in real time.
“Isn’t it going to be put in?”
“Yes, it says it cannot be targeted.”
“It’s because of the impurities. They’re covering up my existence with the things I’ve eaten.”
The flesh Julio wore was unique.
A shell where the living and the dead are entangled in a jumble.
The purpose was to use the shell as an impurity to prevent it from being accepted into the subspace.
The priority was to remove impurities.
As if reading my thoughts, Buendia shouted at me in a loud voice.
“If you have something on your mind, just tell me and I’ll convey it to you!”
Buendia can transmit voices through black magic.
You will also be able to deliver messages to the elves scattered throughout the forest.
When I told him the plan, Buenida shared it with the elves.
like that······.
Swoosh!
The bone dragon driven by Lee Yong-soo flew through the air.
The distance between me and Julio has become even closer.
Perhaps because it had absorbed the monsters, its gravitational pull had become incomparably stronger than before.
“Ugh!”
Dalgrak!
Lee Yong-soo barely managed to keep the balance.
Meanwhile, the elves who received the signal loaded their arrows.
and······.
Peeing!
ping!
Pavababak!
From the crown to the groin.
Dozens of arrows were fired in a row into Julio's shell.
Hwaaaaah!
The natural power contained in the arrow has blossomed.
Thousands and tens of thousands of roots, large and small, dug into Julio's bark.
Splash!
Pitter-patter!
It was not possible to make a hole as large as before.
Because Julio's power was stronger than you can imagine.
Fortunately, we were able to create a little bit of a gap.
Oh my.
Julio's shell split open with a sound.
“······!”
It was a fleeting moment.
But I didn't miss the blue light of the moment.
“Pax, put it in.”
and······.
Thud!
Julio's shell fell to the floor.
A ruin that has lost its main body and has lost its strength and fallen down.
We just opened the portal and went in.
Because the guy's acceptance isn't over yet.
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.
.
-Grrrrrr!
Julio's crying was heard.
An empty subspace with an endless white horizon.
Memories of when I first awakened my abilities came flooding back.
'······There's still some left.'
Julio was still wearing his shell.
That there are still impurities remaining.
The only fortunate thing was that the creature's size had been significantly reduced, and the momentum it was emitting had also been significantly weakened.
'Well, it doesn't matter.'
Because I was planning to trap the guy in a much deeper place.
Flutter!
Yongsu Lee lowered the dragon's altitude.
Kim Sol and Buendia exchanged glances and jumped to the ground.
Phew!
While the black magic that Buendia unleashed was binding Julio.
Kim Sol climbed up Julio's body in one stride, holding the barrier on both hands.
Then, he displayed his unique brute strength and snapped the bastard's head back.
Splash!
“Hey, that’s enough!”
The neck wasn't broken.
All I could see was the blue flesh.
But that was enough for me.
I immediately leveled up and then gave instructions to Pax.
“Put it in.”
Tiring!
[All right.]
Thud thud thud!
Julio's figure collapsed.
Buendia used his black magic to catch the staggering Kim Sol.
After seeing that scene with Lee Yong-soo, I immediately went into the new portal.
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.
This time the scenery was the same.
Julio's physique has shrunk to that of an average adult male.
Yet the guy still had his shell, his impurities, wrapped around him.
Flutter!
Dalgrak! Thud!
The bone dragon grabbed Julio with both hands.
The boy twisted his body, but was too weak to resist.
As if he was driving a forklift, Yongsu Lee grabbed Julio's waist with his bone dragon······.
“One, two!”
I shouted without realizing it.
In response, the shell cracked open.
A blue light appeared between them.
I also leveled up.
and······.
“Put it in.”
I put the guy through the ring again.
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.
There was no more shell.
Just Julio shivering naked in the blue light.
The guy was looking at me with wide, terrified eyes.
'Is this it?'
There may still be impurities remaining.
But even though I leveled up, my subspace abilities no longer activated.
Perhaps, as Buendia said, the problem was caused by overusing the ability, which led to problems with the awakening ability itself.
Without thinking too much, I approached Julio.
The very frightened guy flinched at my footsteps.
“······.”
What does impurity mean?
If Gradiva was a great energy, then the impurities were the passions that moved that energy.
In Julio's case, it was Count Franco's intense passion that was the starting point.
'If impurities are emotions or passions······.'
It wasn't something that could be physically kicked out.
I asked a question subtly to the blue being staring at me.
“What are you thinking about?”
Julio, or rather Gradiva, did not answer.
Nevertheless, a vivid emotion was transmitted from the guy.
The first was an inferiority complex.
Gradiva, who opened and closed portals and moved objects with telekinesis.
In fact, the guy had similar abilities to me.
As soon as that thought occurred to me······.
Bam.
A lump suddenly popped out of the guy's body.
A lump of sticky flesh, stained black and brown.
Still, I felt like there was something left.
'······Loneliness.'
That's how I imagine the guy would feel.
The most universal emotion that a being thrown alone into an empty space can feel.
After staring blankly at the guy for a while, I spoke to him again.
“No, you are not lonely.”
“······?”
“Because things don’t feel lonely.”
Gradiva is not a human being.
Gradiva's body is a magic stone, and the magic stone is a condensation of people's imagination.
Because the values that people formed were nothing more than a commodity.
Of course, people can mistakenly believe that things are feeling lonely.
Just like a paper boat floating on a lake looks so lonely.
And this is exactly how Gradiva moved and functioned.
“You see? That’s why you can’t be lonely.”
The guy stared at me intently.
It seemed like he was asking, 'Then what about you?'
“Me? I’m lonely. Everyone is lonely to some extent.”
I picked up the 'inferiority complex' and 'loneliness' that had fallen to the floor.
It was the last passion, the last impurity, that had been kicked out of Gradiva.
“I’ll take this.”
Gradiva nodded.
Then it returned to a sphere of clear blue light.
Without a sound or rumor, I looked again and it had become like that.