Even though the wolf knew he had the upper hand, he was still cautious.
It was not a fight, but a hunt.
Like a wolf stalking behind to avoid getting pierced by the antlers of a deer, thinking of the sharp object I held in my hand as the same as the antlers.
But if I moved recklessly, he would not hesitate to charge.
I opened my eyes wide.
The side effects of the Heavenly Sky Eye, which burned my brain, did not inflict any pain at the crossroads of life and death.
There is nothing more miserable than death.
Living in a ruined world for almost thirty years naturally brings that into my heart.
Life is the most important. When one is cornered, they instinctively learn how to survive.
As I felt the pain of squeezing my head with an iron vice, the guy’s movements seemed slower and slower.
Heavenly Sky Eye provided me with a view that surpassed that of a superhuman.
The wolf wasn’t as agile as the Ranista, swinging his weapon with all his might right in front of me.
But if I could predict it, I could possibly counterattack.
The wolf bent his hind legs. The balance shifted backward.
In a moment, I made a decision. He was already preparing to charge. He was going to rush straight at me to tear into my throat.
I shouldn’t dodge hastily. Even if I managed to avoid the first charge, he would quickly regain balance using his four legs and attack again.
Unlike Ranista, I couldn’t do that.
In the end, I had to be prepared for sacrifice.
Finally, the wolf’s mouth opened.
In an instant, he leaped explosively from a distance and attacked me, but I had already anticipated the movement and extended one thickly wrapped arm with a knife in my right hand.
And at the same time, I struck down with the knife.
I believed in the ‘picture’ that my eyes showed me.
Thunk!
As soon as the guy’s mouth bit into my arm, I precisely stabbed his nose with the knife.
When the ‘horn’ of the prey pierced, the surprised guy quickly turned his head, but I pushed him away with all my strength.
I intentionally let him bite my arm.
The enraged guy fiercely tore into my arm.
According to the wolf’s instinct, he would try to tear off my arm by twisting his head and embedding his teeth. In such a close situation, the wolf’s agility was dulled.
I didn’t miss the opportunity and continued to strike down on his nose and eyes.
Thick blood sprayed onto my face. It was not warm but terribly cold blood.
The wolf scratched with its front paws.
I could feel the flesh tearing and blood soaking through the chest.
Unlike the guy, my blood was warm.
Thunk! Thunk! Thunk!
In the struggle between life and death, the pain was forgotten.
I kept randomly stabbing the guy’s face with the knife.
Thud!
In the end, what showed was the guy’s tail.
He spat out the prey that had clearly entered his mouth and chose to run away.
My tough leather clothes and even the belt were torn to shreds.
Even if I got attacked again, I wasn’t worried that my arm would be torn apart.
Something unseen.
The horror brought by darkness.
The wolf lost both eyes. His ferocious face was shredded.
The bloody nose would also be useless.
The guy lost two senses.
The escaping guy didn’t look directly at me.
He didn’t even realize where I was.
Silently, I chose to hide without being noticed.
The series of events that just happened were not ordinary at all.
Receiving the attack of a large wolf with a human body, I inflicted a big wound.
The miracle happened because the unexpected variable I didn’t consider didn’t occur.
It was different from my past life.
My body was not the fragile human body but that of a trained warrior.
Surviving the guy’s attack with Heavenly Sky Eyes was a second thing,
It was the ‘experiment’ of the Ranista and Wooshas sister that saved my arm from being torn off.
If the opponent had been one of the creepy demons I saw in the Abyss, I would have died without being able to deal with it. It was no different from a wolf.
The first confrontation was my victory.
But the guy didn’t die.
Now was the problem.
Although he lost both eyes and nose, his teeth were still sharp.
How to kill the guy.
Now, the guy’s actions were no longer a hunt but a desperate struggle for survival.
Killing an opponent in a desperate struggle is harder than before.
In the end, the answer was to rely on my two eyes.
More deeply, more things, more certain things.
Seeing things.
To avoid missing even a single strand of the guy’s black fur, I concentrated the power of Heavenly Sky Eye more deeply than ever before.
When the headache became as painful as being stabbed with a needle, I began to see things that I had never seen before.
What is that?
There is something around the wolf’s belly.
It’s shining.
Like swallowing a firefly, a faint light appeared from inside the guy’s belly.
I couldn’t understand it.
Why should I focus so deeply to see it, something that is not visible in ordinary moments?
Kruur!
That was when the wounded wolf began to move.
The guy stood still in that spot, revealing his teeth and growling.
It wasn’t just a simple threat; I realized it when I saw the red fire flowing out from inside his mouth.
A demon.
An unexpected first variable occurred.
Kuo-!
The guy spewed out fire.
Since I didn’t know where I was, he turned his head to burn everywhere with fiery streams.
The heat instantly started to ignite the pit.
There was no place to escape from the fire burning the flesh. But I suddenly remembered the strange power I faced.
Damn, are you the only one who can use it?
I have it too.
An inexplicable power.
I believed and ran towards the fire.
Kwung!
As expected.
The fire struck me, but the red light enveloping my body instantly extinguished all the fire.
I had swallowed a relic from the Azhibita Church, the power of emptiness (Void).
It possessed the ability of emptiness, negating magic and the power of demons.
Although this power could be used only two or three times, it was limited to the extent of Melissa’s explosive magic that could destroy the room.
The demon’s fire were at a warm level compared to that.
I approached the black wolf. Perhaps because of the fire, or maybe because he lost his eyes, the guy didn’t notice me at all.
Finally, I grabbed the knife behind him.
Only then could I speak.
“It’s over, little puppy.”
Thunk! Thunk! Thunk!
After stabbing his neck several times, the black wolf collapsed.
* * *
The wolf is dead.
I observed the creature quietly.
It looked terrible. Up close, it was unmistakable.
The creature was evil. A demon emitting dark and cold blood.
As I pulled the knife deeply embedded in its neck, I noticed something like ‘writing’ on the creature’s forehead.
It was hidden in its black fur, something I hadn’t seen before. Inscriptions carved into the demon’s body.
“Fenrir?”
I don’t know how, why, or for what reason I could read these characters.
I just saw the inscription ‘Fenrir’ on the demon’s forehead and inferred that this demon was named Penrill. It was surprising but not shocking. Probably another effect of the Heavenly Sky Eyes.
Damn, this guy’s eyes don’t miss anything.
It wasn’t the most frightening moment.
The scariest moment was when I first learned the identity of the twins.
But undoubtedly, the fight just now was the most intense and fierce moment of my 14 years in this life.
I may not have the same level of determination as the twins, but there is such a thing as a past life advantage.
It was achieved not by the 14-year-old Cantavia, but by Kim Changsik, who died at the age of twenty-nine. If you think about it, I couldn’t have done it without this body.
“Phew.”
A subtle sense of loss crept in.
Before getting out of this messed-up pit, I took a moment to rest my tired body.
Daa-!
I thought I heard wrong.
I swallowed my saliva and looked at the wolf’s corpse.
Light.
A bright blue light gradually emanating from the abdomen.
Daa! Daa!
Sound.
Sound coming from the light.
Hastily getting up, I stabbed the creature’s abdomen with my knife.
It was that moment.
A light so blinding that even with these wolf-like eyes, it couldn’t withstand it, burst out from the demon’s abdomen.
This was something I never expected. Faced with a variable beyond imagination, I screamed.
“Ah! Ah?”
Daa?
I stared stupidly at the creature.
The blue light emanating from the wolf’s abdomen gathered and formed into one shape.
At the same time, the demon’s body turned into dust.
I understand that it was a Spirit.
But why was he inside a demon’s abdomen?
Why…
“What are you?”
Why are you looking at me with such an innocent face?
***
He was like a young deer.
A young deer bathed in a blue light with a transparent body.
His was a Spirit.
But he was different from the others.
He was too distinct.
A leather adorned with a blue light, a crescent-shaped pattern on his body.
A cute young deer with fresh-looking small antlers, eyes that sparkled like moonlight.
He vigorously shook his head, looking around, and our eyes met.
Cute little guy.
He looked like… he resembled ‘Bambi.’
Wow!
The whiteness was not just one or two things.
Normally, Spirit doesn’t make much ‘noise’ in a natural state.
But he clearly made a strange cry that was not the cry of a deer.
“Bambi?”
Moreover, unlike other Spirits, he didn’t hate me or run away.
Instead, he stared at me intently and suddenly started running towards me.
He lightly rubbed his adorable antlers on my leg.
Surprisingly, he didn’t run away or hate me like other Spirits. Instead, he stared at me intently and suddenly started running towards me.
He lightly rubbed his adorable antlers on my leg.
I rescued him on a whim, after all.
Is that why he’s pretending to be grateful and acting friendly?
“Spirit…”
I reached out my hand.
“Do you want to be friends with me?”
The tiny squirrel Spirit panicked and ran away.
But he hopped around with his four legs, then slapped his cheek against my extended hand.
The sensation was peculiar. It felt as if Spirit, like a living creature, had a warm body temperature.
“Even though you’re not on fire….”
I patted Spirit’s head.
“You’re mine, Dalbi.”
Ah?
A tattoo in the shape of the moon, an appearance resembling Bambi.
So, I decided to call him Dalbi.
It’s a series of incomprehensible situations.
But well, good things are good things.
***
Record Journal #56
Demenia Kynakhan Investigation, Record, Distribution
The Legend of Artemis:
It is said that Artemis, one of the star deities, fell from the heavens during the cataclysm that birthed the world atop the abyss. She plunged into the abyss and engaged the great demon Fenrir in battle.
Over thousands of years of furious combat, Fenrir’s strength waned, but Artemis’ body was also shattered and scattered across the world.
Though this is merely legend, it is worth noting that no trace of Fenrir, the “King of Beasts” as recorded in the Book of Demons, can be found anywhere in the abyss.
This is the most intriguing…
