Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
61. Rival (2)
Legends of king Arthur that were set in the Celtic myths in background.
If one was to point out the most powerful druid among the people, who appeared in those legends, anyone would pick Merlin’s name.
Merlin, the legendary druid, the king’s advisor, the great prophet of British Isles.
There was a lot of content and interpretation attached together with the legends of king Arthur passed down, but his final moments were always unclear.
There were three major theories related to his last moments.
‘The first theory is that after seeing horrible scenes of the Battle of Arfderydd, he went crazy and entered the astronomical observatory and continued to observe the stars. Second theory is that after losing his brother and close friend, he was depressed and lived in seclusion in the castle built by his dongsaeng. And the last one…’
Was the theory that Merlin’s disciple, Lady of the Lake Nimue became a druid more powerful than Merlin, and sealed him under a rock.
It was said that Merlin, who was a powerful prophet, knew that one day his disciple, Lady of the Lake Nimue would seal him.
Even so, it was said that Merlin didn’t refuse his fate and accepted it.
There existed several theories like this about Merlin’s final moments, but the Merlin of this world followed the third theory.
He existed to this day after being sealed by the Lady of the Lake Nimue.
‘Because based on this world’s laws, Merlin is a ‘descendant’.’
Merlin was born from the relationship between a Dream Demon and a human.
In other words, Merlin was a descendant of Demons, and in this world the descendants were eternally youthful, though not immortal existences.
Merlin survived past the era of legends, and though he kept being sealed, he took up a new disciple.
Though he was imprisoned, Merlin, who was born with blood ties to a Dream Demon more powerful than a common Demon, taught his disciple though dreams after the Clash of Different Worlds.
And that Merlin’s disciple was my Playable Character.
The Merlin’s disciple was a person who liked to grab people’s attention no less than the Phantom Thief Neon.
To the point that she would put up with a lot of annoyance, trouble and unnecessary danger to get that attention.
“Tsk…!”
“I can’t fail!”
As if angry at their overlapping entrance lines, the two didn’t hide their rage, glaring at each other, and then suddenly raised the output of their superpower waves.
The light of the neon-like superpower weave shining behind the Phantom Thief Neon grew even stronger, and the shadows of the animals behind Merlin’s disciple grew bigger and increased in number.
The scene showed amazing superpower wave power and control ability of the two people, but I couldn’t understand why they had to do such things in this situation.
‘… What the hell is your intention?’
The party participants, caught between the sudden competition of two prideful attention seekers, looked between the windows broken at both sides, with their mouths agape.
In the meantime, the two used all their strength to gather their gazes more on themselves.
I saw Seong Gukeon, who observed the two with eyes filled with a superpower wave, grin.
I guess he realized that both of them were humans.
The two people didn’t talk long, but as they spouted so much superpower wave, it seemed that Seong Gukeon’s ability saw through the two.
“It doesn’t seem like an entertainment prepared by Fomori Demons, huh? The two are serious. It reminds me of my school days.”
Perhaps because Seong Gukeon was indeed a class 0’s graduate and a re-enacted assemblyman, he experienced all kinds of mayhem, so he didn’t show any signs of being flustered.
In addition, those words revealed Seong Gukeon’s insight.
‘That Merlin’s disciple is in a class 0, so it’s not strange that it reminds him of the school days.’
Unlike the Phantom Thief Neon, who only committed unidentified phantom thief acts before leaving the stage in PMH, the scenes of Merlin’s disciple living her daily life also appeared.
As a student of Eungwang School’s class 0.
‘It was said that entering the Eungwang School was a task given by Merlin…’
But because she said ‘My master-nim, who appears in my dreams to teach and instruct me, told me to enter Eungwang School’, her assignment to class 0 was decided.
Anyway, the Merlin’s disciple wandered the whole world to solve the tasks given by her master, so she started to attend school only in the 2nd year.
The details of those tasks didn’t appear, but seeing the animals brought by Merlin’s disciple right now, I had a guess about the identity of those tasks.
‘Looking at the silhouettes, those aren’t forms of quite ordinary animals. There is a high chance that all of them are rare animals or animals that are thought to be already extinct.’
In this world where the Clash of Different Worlds occurred, many strange and difficult to explain with common sense incidents occurred, and among them some were written about in articles.
The start of it was sightings of rare animals that were known to be extinct and ‘turtle migration’, that the 2nd year class 0 and Newspaper Club experienced at the summer break news-gathering trip.
After giving the eyewitness account of what occurred before they arrived in Russia’s Yekaterinburg, Mun Saeron continued to read a certain article.
That article was released by Danish press, and it seemed that the movement of rare animals continued to the Northern sea between Denmark Jutland and Britain.
And after I arrived in the United Kingdom, those rare animals were seen at the Celtic sea.
‘There were a lot of inexplicable things about the rare animals’ movement route. They would suddenly appear and disappear.’
If the one guiding those rare animals movements was the Merlin’s disciple, and her goal was to ride and block this auction, it was understandable.
Merlin was sealed, but just like before, he was a descendant of a powerful Dream Demon, and if the journey was to retrieve the treasure of Danu gods tribe, the higher beings would also lend strength to Merlin and his disciple.
If one could borrow the power of Merlin and higher beings at the same time, other people would be able to hide in dreams, though it would be very limited.
If there were people, who dreamed of the appearance of a large number of rare animals, in the areas they were moving through, their interference could be proven.
But of course there was a high chance that it was left alone, because people thought about them as an effect of seeing news about a large migration of rare animals.
‘As I don’t dream, it would be difficult for me to borrow the power of that Playable Character.’
Even if I understood it conceptually, as I didn’t have dreams myself, it seemed difficult to use the power of Merlin’s disciple.
While I was thinking that, the situation continued to progress.
“On the subject of phantom thieves, you break the party’s fun without even a notice letter? As a phantom thief, you have to abide your duties and rules!”
“I’m a great and cool druid, who inherited my master-nim’s will. I’m not a phantom thief! On the subject of a petty thief, who pretends to be noble, don’t call me that!”
“What petty thief!? This is the first time in my life I hear such extreme foul language…! The being without elegance can’t speak prettily, eh?”
“You mean you see nothing but what is in front of your eyes. Must be because you have no elegance!”
A lowly word fight ensued.
Caught between my Playable Characters fighting, I worked hard to unfold my fingers that tried to curl up.
If Geun Chansol and Wang Chansol met each other without a center like Jegal Jaegeol, and their attention seeking clashed, would it be better than this?
This was so childish, I automatically thought like this.
And it seemed that the party hosts didn’t have plans to keep watching that childish confrontation.
“Did you expect to be safe even if you came to our nest?”
A superpower wave swayed with a chilly voice.
After the Demon in a blue mask spoke and clapped his hands, the gloves holding weapons in hands appeared everywhere.
Perhaps they finished the encirclement, while they argued, the Phantom Thief Neon and Merlin’s disciple looked outside and clicked their tongues.
Paaaa….!
Moisture and superpower wave stormed through the broken windows.
From the faint fishy smell unique for the sea, it seemed that the sea fog barrier was activated.
As if he predicted such counter-response, the Phantom Thief Neon snapped his fingers, kicked the window frame and jumped high.
Tak! Paat!
Then, the party venue lights turned off.
In the situation where people’s eyes got used to the brilliance of the Phantom Thief Neon’s powerful neon superpower wave, everyone’s vision was completely blocked because the surrounding suddenly turned dark.
Without missing this moment, the Phantom Thief Neon and Merlin’s disciple, run deeper into the party venue.
As the two met for the first time, it probably wasn’t planned, but they cooperated perfectly.
Paat!
The lights in the party venue turned on again.
The sea fog barrier was raging in front of the broken window, and the Demons’ familiars holding their weapons, warily.
But the two intruders already disappeared.
They didn’t steal the auction items yet, but the Fomori Demons’ reputation probably already hit the bottom.
But as those two were still inside the castle, there was a chance recover it.
It seemed that the Demon in a blue mask also thought so.
“Ladies and gentlemen, who came to see the auction, as a host, I deeply apologize for this tragedy. Until we clean up the surrounding, the start of the auction will be postponed for a moment.”
The voice of the Demon in a blue mask, who had climbed the platform, was calm, but his superpower wave revealed the humiliation and anger he couldn’t hide.
The superpower wave shining with dark light around him looked emotional.
“As the auction will be postponed until the intruders are dealt with, I ask for your kind understanding.”
The words were polite, but thanks to the superpower wave I felt the murderous intent behind those words.
My Playable Characters wouldn’t suffer in such a place, but feeling that grim murderous intent, I felt a chill somewhere in my heart.
* * *
The castle’s lounge and entertainment room.
Under the reason of the party venue being unclean, the Demons’ familiars guided the party participants here.
Each lounge and entertainment room was divided into smoking and non-smoking areas, and I and Seong Gukeon moved to the lounge in the non-smoking area.
In the circular lounge, there were individual rooms with indications whether they were occupied or not.
After moving inside the individual room, Seong Gukeon spoke up.
“As you expected, with the appearance of the Phantom Thief Neon, the start of the auction was delayed.”
That’s because considering Phantom Thief Neon’s thought process, he wouldn’t welcome the holding of the auction itself.
Even without seeing it, it was obvious that he would say that the first work of a genius becoming a stolen artwork and being put on a disgraceful auction, didn’t match the phantom thief’s aesthetic and philosophy.
“Are you here?”
When Seong Gukeon asked that, in the space where there was nothing, Jeon Mu-yeong revealed himself.
After the appearance of the Phantom Thief Neon and Merlin’s disciple, Jeon Mu-yeong joined us and continued to stay by our side.
“Did you have a nice time sightseeing?”
“Yes, there are many outstanding artworks.”
“The castle is big, you didn’t lose your way?”
“Of course not.”
At a glance, those words felt like he had this head in the clouds, but Seong Gukeon made a satisfied face.
They phrased it in a roundabout way, because they were wary of wiretapping, but just now Jeon Mu-yeong confirmed that he achieved all objectives of his mission with his conversation.
‘Sightseeing’ meant the search for ‘ Imoogi’s Rise To Heaven’.
It appeared that Jeon Mu-yeong figured out the precise location of ‘Imoogi’s Rise To Heaven’.
Instead of explaining it with words, Jeon Mu-yeong drew a map and the route he took with his superpower wave and showed it to us.
As if Jeon Mu-yeong discovered a secret passage, the movement through the unseen route when returning to the party venue caught my eye.
I committed the map and the movement route to memory and said:
“As You have joined us, can I go sightseeing alone? There is something I want to check for a moment.”
“Check? Are You planning to move alone from now on?”
As Jeon Mu-yeong joined with us, and his infiltration mission was wrapped up, he didn’t have any work to move alone for.
So I would get out for a moment.
“I think I saw a person I know.”
I spoke recalling my Playable Characters, who were doing reckless things.
*~*~*
Translator’s note: *brushes a tear* They’re all so stupid. (affectionate)
I couldn’t find an interesting homonym for entertainment room that could be a reason for it being mentioned, but frankly, if Jo Uisin was to choose his rival, it probably would be ‘having fun’.
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