Regressor, Possessor, Reincarnator

Episode 46

After three days in the canyon, Allen arrived in front of the forest where the witch was located.

“Well, it has arrived.”

The coachman did not stop at a single village, and he showed signs of exhaustion from driving the carriage without a break.

The carriage had a slightly curved frame, and there were scratches everywhere.

“I go here alone. If I don’t come out after waiting a day, I’ll go back to the city first.”

The coachman seemed to have intuition that the witch was here, and with a frightened face he hid behind a distant rock.

“Oh, I see.”

Allen smiled briefly when he saw that, then looked at the dim forest in front of him.

[Did you say that there is no other name for the forest?]

[Yes, there are no herbs or mushrooms… , just cross the forest together with the surrounding forest… .]

Allen thought as he recalled a few words about the forest in the wagon.

No one will ever enter this forest in the future.

‘It is not that there are no other forests nearby, so no more people will come here.’

The name of a witch alone was an ominous existence, so it was natural.

Was it dissatisfying that he was looking at the forest so quietly, Vestla, who was sitting on Allen’s waist, murmured.

“Didn’t you say you didn’t have time? Aren’t you coming soon?”

“No, I have something to check.”

Allen narrowed her eyes and looked into the forest.

Sensing was radiating out, and he proceeded towards the depths of the forest. But Allen couldn’t feel anything in the woods.

It’s like a lie that there are witches.

‘Is it a barrier?’

Immediately after coming out of the carriage, his senses were extended to the forest, but as if the witch had prepared something, he was blocked by a barrier and could not find out anything.

‘This is my first time fighting a real witch.’

My heart raced a little because I had never fought a witch in my previous life.

“why? Are you scared? A while ago, he took the form saying, ‘Witch, I’m coming!’”

“Who said that?”

Allen grinned and grabbed Bestla’s handle.

It was just a little bit of a new feeling. Chasing after witches and destroying the source of the curse that corrodes the territory. This is what Julius in his previous life did.

I just had a strange feeling about myself doing this kind of thing.

Allen narrowed the detection range extremely around him and stepped forward. The old leaves rustled and shattered at neither slow nor fast pace.

The moment I took a step like that.

-Job

“Five.”

The visible environment has changed.

Allen was not embarrassed.

The moment the view changed, he spread the skein in all directions and lowered his posture.

“… No welcome, you must have come in.”

“Who knows if they’re preparing unexpectedly while secretly watching?”

“It sounds funny.”

Allen moved forward without losing sight of his vigilance.

It was quiet in the forest.

The forest immersed in silence without a single insect crowing was reminiscent of entering the fountain of spirits.

However, unlike at the time when there was life in the forest, the whole place was gloomy as if it had lost its vitality.

Dark winds and dry roads.

There were no more living creatures in the dead forest.

‘Even after the witch died, this land was wrong.’

Allen opened his mouth as he proceeded to the center of the forest where the witch was supposed to be.

“Do you know about witches?”

“Well… , I do not know? I don’t know because I haven’t seen it in person.”

“They are sassy, ​​savage bastards. It charms people and spreads curses like it is now. Don’t you know?”

“Is that one or two?”

Allen deliberately acted as if he was showing a break while talking to Bestla, but no one attacked him.

Nothing happened until they crossed the middle of the woods, and Allen noticed something strange.

“Why is no one attacking?”

“… Uh, okay? Did you run away?”

I thought monsters, undead, or even minions would attack.

Allen speeded up.

Something was strange. Did she make any preparations? weird. Strange. It doesn’t even make sense to come and run away now. I’d rather dig a trap… .

“… Was the forest this wide in the first place?”

For a moment, Allen stopped walking.

“… Uh, I didn’t mean to shoot seconds. Were you in a bad mood?”

“No, that’s not it. What did you say before?”

“Were the forests this wide in the first place?”

“It was a good catch.”

Allen bit his lip and punched the ground hard, as if realizing something.

Trees and rocks are smashed in violent strides, and dust is blown away. Bestla shouted puzzled at his sudden action.

“What are you doing all of a sudden? What if someone attacks you?”

The giant’s strong body advanced as if to break the entire forest, and at some point Allen’s footsteps stopped.

“What are you doing! They say that being a wizard is what a rational person does!”

“Look around.”

“Looking around, what are you looking for? It would all be destroyed anyway… what?”

Bestla’s specimen, which was about to nagging, stopped.

“Originally, at this speed, I would have already left the forest. But what about the surroundings?”

There was no change in the surroundings. Looks like Allen never had a fuss.

The broken tree returned to its original place, and the smashed rock remained as if it had never been like that from the beginning.

“uh? uh? Can’t this be done?”

She got out of Allen’s hands and looked around a few times before speaking in a bewildered tone.

“… is this a hallucination? No, it’s not a hallucination.”

“Exactly, a barrier made of fantasy.”

Allen rarely frowned.

“I should have been suspicious from the moment I passed the barrier, but I was vigilant.”

If it were a forest with witches, it would be ‘of course’ and I just passed it on to the vague conviction that it would be like this.

The fact that he had a similar experience with the Spirit’s Fountain helped Allen not to doubt the appearance of the forest.

‘Would it have been wiser to break the barrier and enter?’

Allen thought soberly.

“… So what are you going to do? Is there any way to break the barrier?”

Bestla asked in a rather serious tone. Allen slowly confirmed the means he had at his disposal.

‘The inverse calculation of the barrier is impossible in the first place.’

Since I only know the basics about the barrier system, it is out of the question from the beginning.

‘Then there is no choice but to destroy the entire space with the barrier?’

Since I was far from the beginning of the forest, I missed the time to go to the end of the barrier and destroy it.

then?

‘It creates a gap.’

There is a direct and indirect contact between the barrier and the space system. Although the efficiency may not be as good as the barrier-type wizard, it is possible to get rid of the body.

It was almost impossible to find the central axis of the barrier, so this method was the most realistic.

Allen immediately gathered the skeins that had been scattered around him and scattered countless small shockwaves.

The shock wave gently shook the space and began to find a gap in the barrier.

‘This huge barrier cannot be perfect.’

If you can find just one small vulnerability, you can open up a gap.

Allen’s hand pounded into the air as if fumbling for something. There may not be one axis of the barrier. If you twist one small fixed shaft… .

According to Allen’s beast, vast mana from the core fluctuated endlessly, and countless threads filled Allen’s surroundings.

Countless skeins of thread poked at a point in the air and began to make a sound like something twisted. It feels like something is being forced open.

The mana consumed was not unusual.

‘… Tug, I thought you should study the barrier as well.’

-Gig Geek

A time when I thought that if only a little time passed, I would be able to escape safely.

“See you over there!”

In order not to disturb Allen’s concentration, Bestla, who had been quiet, shouted abruptly.

Allen’s eyes turned to where Bestla had shouted.

– Whoa-ah-ah-ah!

-Ge-E-E-E-E-E-EYE!

– Crumple rumble!

Skeletons, ghouls, zombies, Durahans, Banshee and other undead.

is that real? or fantasy? In any case, within the barrier, it is no different than the real thing.

Allen smiled and took a stance.

“Vestla, you were right.”

“… Ahaha, right?”

When Allen stared, Bestla quickly shut her mouth and flew to Allen’s hand and landed.

“Next time, don’t make fun of your mouth.”

As Allen swung his hand, skeins were woven and dozens of awls fell on the corpses.

“… I hope to finish it within today.”

A wave of black corpses swept over them.

Allen’s sword slid down the rusty headless armor. With a snapping sound, Durahhan turned into a pile of scrap metal in the middle of the day and was split in half from the neck to the groin.

But that wasn’t the end.

A zombie with rotten skin flowing down as if filling in the cracks of the split Durahhan pushed its face. As soon as she swung her fist, her head exploded, and empty brain water soaked the air.

How many left?

“Bestla!”

“Wait!”

Allen shouted and threw Bestla into the air, and she quickly checked the number of her opponents.

“There are still many! Isn’t the number going to decrease?”

Allen frowned. After all, are these guys a fantasy, not a reality?

‘No, it could be the nature of the barrier, just like a tree or a rock has returned to its original state.’

Either way, it was bad news for Allen.

Cr-rek!

The ghouls, exposing their hideous muscles, glistened their serrated nails and fell to their heads. As Allen struck the air, a huge shock wave broke the ghoul’s waist.

When I hit the lowered head with my foot, it collapsed with a thick and terrible touch.

Numerous undead rushed towards Allen like waves. There were so many that I couldn’t see the end even when I looked down through Bestla’s eyes.

Allen made good use of his body.

He used his overwhelming physical ability as a tool to break through the bones of the corpse, and even smashed the attack with his steel skin as a shield.

Allen thought, breaking the waves of the corpse. If you go like this, there is no end.

The witch began to control them, and at some point they began to cleverly form a formation and move to steal Allen’s stamina.

‘Stamina is not a problem.’

I don’t think a body with the characteristics of a giant would be destroyed by something like this.

However, if these attacks continued, there was a high possibility that the mind would get tired before the body.

“Bestla! Giant!”

“I see! yap!”

Allen grabbed her as she fell with a heavy weight and turned around. She screams as if her muscles are about to break. The air squeaked and cast shadows over their heads.

The slow-moving sword strike, with its weight alone, becomes overwhelming violence.

A void of several tens of meters was formed around Allen, and pieces of meat scattered on the floor were crushed and rolled over.

‘Even if this happens, it will come back to normal.’

But it didn’t matter.

It was to take advantage of this gap.

Let go of your hand right away and make a handshake.

If the undead is an opponent’s minion, if it is a subordinate minion.

‘It can be stolen.’

[Agreement] [Area] [Force] [Capture]

The four concepts forged in the image are mixed and turned into a single technique. The skein split into thousands and headed for the corpse that fell to the floor.

The flesh of the corpse began to wriggle and clump together again.

Allen smiled contentedly as he watched the skeins of thread blend into the flesh.

“Compulsory contract.”

As the core of his heart raced like crazy, he moved his hands delicately like a puppeteer controlling a puppet.

“Go, monsters.”

Biting each other like crazy

The undead, who had returned completely, began to face the waves of corpses coming back in the opposite direction.

Allen was assisting each movement with his senses, and a headache that seemed to break his head came rushing in from the movement.

‘I can’t last long with this expedient… .’

I don’t know anything about the summoning system, so I have no choice but to control it myself.

Since they are already dead undead, Cradle’s call doesn’t work either. I need to find a way to escape when I have the time like this… .

As Allen was worried, Bestla, who was floating beside him, opened his mouth with a reluctant voice.

“… There is one way.”

As he turned his head to bear the headache, the unknown characters engraved on Bestla’s sword, which he thought was just a decoration, began to flash and glow.

“Vestla, what is this… .”

“Once I use this once, I never know when I will wake up. It could be a month, it could be a year.”

“Didn’t I say that I don’t have any special abilities?”

When Allen spit out an absurd spit in the midst of a headache, Bestla answered in a bewildered tone.

「I, I also realized this a few days ago! Alright, let’s make a choice quickly!”

Should I get out of this place with her powers or find another way?

The answer came quickly.

‘It is a pity to use her powers now.’

Even if you don’t know what kind of ability it is, if you have to take that level of risk to use it once, it’s much more useful to use it in a more important battlefield, dangerous moment than here.

Even if he stood still, there was no way out.

It wasn’t easy to get out of the prepared barrier unless the opponent went out first.

‘I’d rather attack the entire forest like bombing and break the central axis of the barrier… .’

Most of the undead controlled by Allen also fell out, and time just passed.

“Decision quickly! You said you have work to do!”

‘okay. I have to go.’ The moment Allen opened her closed eyes and made her determination.

The white book suddenly opened, and letters began to be written on the pure white paper.

『■■■■ and the connected book confirms the condition. I am aware of ■■! There are nearby objects associated with ■■! I want to block ■■!」

“The conditions are met. ■■■ ■■ (tentative name) is manifesting!」

“?Three steps to the right. Two steps back. Shockwave over 400 m after 8 seconds.”

A new variable has emerged.