122 – Defense
Petria Checkpoint.
-Pacang!
“…Stop the advance!”
“aaa!!”
To the sudden arrival of human forces,
The guards guarding their hometown were desperately defending the bridge.
Right!
“Now.. Wait!!”
Just before the soldier’s shield, which was blocking the bullet, was pierced and the bullet was stuck in his chest.
Paaah!
-Poo-wook.
My vision was stained black.
“… Reorganize!”
“Ah…Yes! Thanks!”
Pabababak!!
A black circular shield made from a sudden shadow pattern.
After being hit by a bullet containing mana, he did not budge except for a slight shake.
The number of bullets hitting the shield gradually began to decrease.
“… That’s the limit.”
I tried to pass the time by assisting the guards as much as possible,
Not only my throbbing wrists and sides, but even my mana began to show the bottom.
“Now… Really.”
There was no answer but retreat.
The moment he tried to evacuate inside the castle wall with the guards while maintaining the shaded curtain.
Choo!!
With the sound of something being torn apart,
Something with intense energy has been driven into the protective barrier.
The grade could be sensed.
This bullet,
He said it belonged to the number of magic bullets he hadn’t been able to deal with.
An invisible bullet.
But considering the direction the barrier was torn off,
You can predict the path of the bullet to some extent.
No,
Unpredictably, the bullets were flying right in the middle of Grade’s forehead.
“…!!”
This made it clear.
Even in the pouring rain and pitch-black darkness,
It’s a state where you can observe the other person in some way.
-Hoo-wook!
Using the senses sharpened by long training,
The moment the bullet pierced the curtain, Grade’s body was already twisted to the right to avoid the bullet.
But what came into the sight of Grade, who had dodged the bullet,
It was the rear view of a guard who ran into the castle gate to rearrange his equipment.
‘…!’
If you leave it as it is, it will pierce the back of the defenseless guard’s head.
“Damn it…!!”
Inefficient.
It was really inefficient.
For the life of a single guard,
The fact that I take my injuries into account can be of much greater help in my current situation.
But apart from that thought,
Grade’s left arm was already in motion.
‘As long as you twist the trajectory of the bullet…!’
It would be best if you could throw a dagger and hit a bullet,
Since the bullets were invisible, it was unreasonable to get the timing that accurate.
In the end, he reluctantly stretched out his left arm and brought the dagger toward the predicted bullet’s trajectory.
-Kaang!!!!
At the same time as the intense metal friction sound,
Grade’s body floated high in the air.
Quaaang!!!
As the missed bullet hit the outer part of the castle wall and a huge explosion sound belatedly heard,
The startled guards hurriedly looked around.
“Keep…Suck.”
“!!! Are you okay!”
Looking at Grade, who flew a long distance and got stuck in the toolbox in the middle of the bridge,
The guards huddled together.
“..It’s okay…”
– Awesome!
Both hands are no longer usable.
I struggle to get myself up on the muddy stone bridge, but
It was difficult to get up without using your hands on the wet, slippery stone floor.
‘… Kirna.’
I can’t die in a place like this…
The scent of the wood in the wet tool box seemed to indicate that the current situation was not a dream.
Desperate situation.
‘… I want to live.’
Contrary to the wishes of such a grade,
Matansu didn’t miss the opportunity to definitely eliminate the defenseless strongman.
-Clap!
The sound of a specially made cartridge case escaping from a bullet.
And…
Taang!!!!
Not a long time passed,
A death sentence-like plosive roared through the rain.
“…”
There is a saying that time stops for a while when death approaches.
In a slow world,
The thing that came into Grade’s field of vision.
It wasn’t a transparent bullet flying towards his left eye.
Behind the flying bullets,
It was a brilliant group of lights pouring out like an explosion.
-Paaa!!!
‘It’ appears with light.
Kaaang!!!
In an instant, something in front of my eyes was knocked out.
A word uttered by the person who led Grade from the edge of death in such an instant.
“…Sorry. I’m late.”
It gave Grade a sense of relief like sunlight.
– Cheo-eok.
An unknown man suddenly appeared.
With each step Rai took, each step he took,
Hundreds of soldiers rushing to occupy the checkpoint began to backtrack.
-…!
Surely…
It’s okay.
The point where the stone bridge ends.
Let’s swing the sword once towards the mud-filled floor.
– Chow!!
Rain and mud splash in all directions,
A line was drawn in a large semicircle around him.
What this meant was simple.
Warning ‘don’t cross the line’.
But…
– Knock…. Knock.
“… Rye. You…”
A sharper atmosphere somewhere,
Fresh blood dripping down the armor along with the rain everywhere wets the feet.
“…”
And crucially,
The amount of light was so unusual that even Grade, who was looking at him from behind, felt uncomfortable.
“Are you okay? The blood…!!”
“…”
Because of the pouring rain,
I shouted, but there was no answer.
Perhaps…!
“What happened! Answer me! Maybe you can hear me…!!”
Maybe something went wrong in the previous fight?
There is a saying called backlight reflection.
That light pouring out dazzlingly brilliantly,
It feels like the last flame of a rye burning splendidly, and the anxiety in the heart is only amplified.
But.
“Noisy.”
The answer I heard from Rai.
“…Because the goal is ringing.”
It was the usual sullen reply.
**
-Shoot aaa!!!
The pouring rain wets the robe,
It mercilessly knocks on the armor and throbs inside the wound.
If I had to ask why I was describing it like this.
‘…’
Now in my sight,
It was because I couldn’t see the pouring rain.
It wasn’t just rain.
The ground and legs on which I stand now,
I can’t even see Grade screaming behind me.
Only black and white.
A colorless world.
Only the many colorful threads,
The world was made up.
– Chow!!
Numerous threads of fluorescence stretching out from my body,
Threads of various colors tangled here and there before your eyes.
In the meantime,
A purple thread shimmered on the right side.
-Danger!!!
With the warning of the grade,
The threads came together to form a single line and were coming straight towards me.
Taang!!
The sound announcing a belated shot.
But…
-Sueuk.
Just by lightly placing the knife on the expected path,
The spinning thread ephemerally bounces toward the sky.
-Kaang!!!
I can feel a slight vibration in my palm,
It was no big deal.
But the other side didn’t think so,
He kept firing bullets.
Kaang!!
Kaang!! Caan!!
I just brought my sword to the thread that approached each time.
I hear someone gasping behind my back.
‘You’ll soon realize that it’s useless.’
And after a short while,
Again, the purple thread started coming toward me.
If it is different from before,
They must have moved during the quiet time, and the direction they were flying in was different from the one before.
‘… I thought you predicted it in the direction it flew in.’
If so,
It was clearly showing that further sniping would be useless.
-Ugh!
Let’s focus on the eyes,
I could clearly see the purple thread approaching at high speed.
The thread of mana divided into two branches,
They are approaching each other as if they are rotating.
He raised his sword high.
Then let’s strike down at the exact timing when the sword comes within range.
-Jajeok!
Two strands of thread,
It was split exactly in half and split on both sides.
After a while.
Puuong!!!
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-Paaa!!!
Two strands of thread split in half,
As it plunged into the shore of the lake, huge water columns sprang out on both sides.
-Patter!
The water column spreads out,
It poured over the guards on the bridge, pounding hard on the armor and stone bridge.
“…”
With nobody opening their mouth,
I just looked at a man’s back while being hit by the pouring water.
To be honest, I was a little surprised too.
I don’t know what happened,
During the engagement with Fedrica, I was trying to use as much power as I could, and at some point I ended up in this state.
In the first place, it was difficult to say that the current state of using the Holy Sword and the Phantom Eye at the same time was a normal state.
However,
Other people who are unaware of Rai’s impatience see him…
A truly overwhelming inaction.
All eyes on the battlefield were focused on one place.
And that situation started to change.
“Nonsense…”
On the outskirts of the human force,
It was the moment when the magic bullet removed his eyes from the scope and looked down at his hand with an expression of disbelief.
-Whoa!!
The center of the battlefield,
An ominous magic that was unusual for anyone to see began to swirl.
-Giying!!
Soon after, two men appeared.
“Ai-san. What is it? What if I teleport on a muddy floor!”
“It’s noisy. A monkey who doesn’t even know how great it is to be able to use advanced magic like teleport.”
“…What?”
“More than that…”
-Sueuk.
“Is that the ‘variable’?”
“Well. Just looking at it, it looks special when it’s shiny. …Let’s finish it quickly.”
“Yes. As long as we intervene, the guild and academy will not stand still.”
-Sureung!
“Then go first!”
“…Wait!”
-Pavabat!!!
A human man who ran straight towards Rai,
Jinhyeok Lee, a deputy executive at Dimension, has always thought he was on the lucky side.
‘I can’t believe the achievements rolled in like this again…!’
“Hello?!”
– Mr. Ik.
Thanks to entering the A-class gate and annihilating the party,
He learned of the existence of the Dimension that was hiding there.
Sureung!!
‘…What. Actually, I killed them all.’
Let’s go over such trivial things lightly.
After that, it was a series of things that could only be called luck.
A high degree of fitness came out in the process of being baptized by chance,
I succeeded in receiving more power than others.
-Kaang!!
In the course of an accidental mission,
Thanks to stealing high-grade artifacts and putting them to good use, he was able to rise to this position quickly.
“Ahahahahaha!!”
Although he seems a little peculiar in that his body glows,
Those who saw this ‘Hermes Bracelet’ for the first time could never win against me.
The effect of the bracelet was simple.
By injecting mana, it instantly becomes a ‘fluid’ state, impervious to any physical attack.
And if you release mana, you will return to your original body.
I can only use it once every two days because it’s a fraudulent performance, but…
Slashing down the defenseless neck of a person whose eyes were wide open in surprise at the sight of the sword he believed passed through,
It was the greatest joy that Jinhyuk Lee felt.
-Kaaang!!
Now.
If you blow mana into the bracelet when it goes into such a big action…!!
-Suddenly!!
“… Huh?”
Booung-!
With the sound of something being cut,
In Lee Jin-hyeok’s field of vision, something floating in the air caught his eye.
“Uh…?”
That’s none other than
His left arm that used to carry mana.
“Uh… Uh…?!”
Looking over his arm spewing blood in the air and spinning round and round,
The other person’s face was shown.
The half-closed golden eyes seemed indifferent.
He wasn’t looking at his own eyes or at the knife.
As if you have mastered everything in the world,
The eyes of a transcendental being without focus.
‘… Where the hell are you looking at…’
-Fu-wook!!!
Lastly, the cool sensation that penetrates the vicinity of one’s pituitary gland,
Lee Jin-hyeok’s body stretched out.
Chack!
Let’s swing the sword lightly as if shaking off blood.
The chilly corpse landed on the muddy floor and rolled around.
“… Stupid guy.”
It was a guy assigned by the organization to escort himself as a wizard, but
I knew that the one who always flirted with pride would soon lose his life.
“…”
But at least like this,
It wasn’t to the point of dying in an instant, as it was hopeless.
“It’s going to be a hassle.”
Dimension executive.
At the same time as the murmur of ‘Thunder’,
Tension began to linger around the battlefield again.