Episode 149
“Kyaah!”
The shikigami suddenly jumped out of my shadow, and he looked at the situation while raising his altitude as if he was quite embarrassed.
“… Burn it?”
“Wait a minute.”
He said all, but he didn’t actually bring out all the shikigami. After all, individuals who do not have a proper means of attack or lack the level of attack will not be able to handle his speed.
Gongsam, Noongsugwi, Black Eum, Sophie, and even Eve, who was active in the battle with Sophia.
I was planning to hunt him thoroughly with only the shikigami here.
‘Fortunately, he is not able to raise the effect of the super-regeneration attribute to the limit.’
It’s not that the opponent is bad. Right now, I couldn’t be sure that I was using all the power of the illusion retardation attribute.
In any case, it was still worth doing for the worst case scenario I had assumed.
‘First of all, he has roughly three patterns.’
A meat-barreled attack that directly charges through the air, aiming for gaps.
A physical change that enhances certain abilities by manipulating one’s own body.
And even the wind chimes that provoke the wind.
Among them, the most dangerous is by far the land attack.
It was easy to guess what the strength of his physical ability would be, since the defensive magic of this place was shattered simply by descending and striking his claws down.
So, first of all, I thoroughly block the attack by land bullets.
“Sorry, can you transform into another form this time?”
[Heh, I haven’t tried it, but it’s probably possible.]
If so, that’s it.
I raised my spiritual power and shouted to Shin So-ra and the exorcists who were by my side.
“I will stop the attack somehow. When you send a signal, everyone, please use the restraint technique you are most confident in.”
“… i get it.”
They were quite surprised to see the shikigami I summoned. Maybe that’s why he followed the instructions without any noise.
“Key gain!”
While giving the instructions, the guy who was paying attention suddenly started moving again.
Nettle juice!
The target is the gnome. Perhaps it was intended to reduce our numbers by looking for individuals that were instinctively weak.
[Cheek!]
Paz!
He was terrified and sent a curse, but there was no way it would work as there was a difference in class.
He sent a rescue signal with a desperate will, but I deliberately ignored it.
Eve, who was trying to block the way in front of the old man, also stopped moving after confirming my intention.
[Kyaah-!]
A desperate moment that came at the same time as the old man spouted a cry full of a sense of betrayal.
I activated the softening technique I had prepared in advance to increase the shadows.
Whoops.
Slurry!
The reason I didn’t deliberately block the attack, it was simple.
In the first place, there was no need to stop it.
Fuwaak!
quagga!
It even blew up the wind and swept over the gully, but it had already been recovered into my shadow.
As a result, the body of the guy who lost his target in an instant began to lose his balance.
“Now!”
At my cry, the exorcists, including Sora Shin and Jeonggil Yoo, fired the redemption procedure they had been preparing for at the same time.
Whoops.
Shuah!
Nettle juice!
Three intermediates, and one advanced restraint technique fired by Yoo Jeong-gil.
Even if he was an A-rank youkai, it was a level that could not be easily ignored.
So the guy draped the wind barrier around his body and hurriedly tried to escape into the sky.
However, the way he fights like that has already been confirmed a while ago.
[…] Everything went as you predicted.]
Nettle juice!
From the sky above the guy who was just about to start gliding, a fierce pounding sound began to be heard.
A tuning fork modeled after Hoyaukamui in front of him began to disturb him.
‘Collaboration of mimicry characteristics and assimilation characteristics.’
Of course, they have the same appearance, and there are differences in abilities, but in the first place, the sound is also quite strong from the beginning.
At least it was enough power to embarrass him.
“Kyaah!”
As the situation continued to flow differently than expected, the guy was startled and blasted the wind, but his power was reduced due to haste.
It’s been a long time since I’ve used nature’s magic to further weaken the wind so that the key can withstand it, and then I immediately started reciting the mantra of the higher curses I had envisioned.
“Intangible Herb Gae (貿荊草芥), Covariant.”
Whoops.
Passe.
In the meantime, Hoyaukamui was finally getting beaten up in a chain of restraints and was struggling to get out, and in the end, my method was completed faster than when he regained control of the body again.
“Cheongseungjubak (儈承呪縛).”
Pasta crispy!
The boy flinched at the reluctant and powerful wave of spiritual power, but surprisingly, there was no visible damage.
The exorcists, who had shot the magic with all their might, spit out a sigh.
“Damn it, is it a failure in the end… … .”
“Captain, the next instructions… … !”
However, unlike the urgent ones, the expression on my face that actually shot the magic was very calm.
It was because he had an intuition that the match had already been decided by this one shot.
‘… … .’
Right now, I’m just staring at the opponent and not taking any action.
To be precise, it wasn’t that he couldn’t move, it was closer to being unable to move.
‘… It works a lot better than expected. Is it because of the correction of the wage level as well?’
To put it simply, what I invoked was the curse of destruction.
An attack that sacrifices itself to inflict damage to the enemy, a death-and-death attack.
And the subject of this spell is the so-called debilitating power that weakens the subject’s physical abilities and leads to exhaustion.
‘I can’t even lift a finger right now, so it must have taken considerable damage over there.’
As expected, Hoyaukamui is making an expression of unprecedented embarrassment.
Of course, perhaps due to the difference in basic specifications, he somehow managed to get out of the restraint technique in such a situation, but after that he was completely exhausted, so he could hardly even fly into the air.
Perhaps it was only then that he understood the situation, and Yoo Jeong-gil and other exorcists began to look at me with surprised eyes.
I opened my mouth with difficulty as I looked at them.
“… He won’t be able to use his powers properly for a while. We must catch it now.”
At that, the exorcists nodded their heads as if they knew and raised their spiritual power, and Hoyaukamui quickly rolled her eyes in shock.
And what caught his eye was me, who couldn’t even lift a hand.
“Kiyaak!”
puddle.
soo much
The guy who changed his body again while making a sound that was close to screaming became almost like a demon and was shot out at me as if half-flying.
It was determined that if I dealt with myself, the subject of the rite, I would be able to regain my strength.
‘He’s a good guy.’
That guy’s thoughts were right. If I get hit here, all my plans will go to waste in an instant.
However, he was missing a very important point, perhaps because of his panic.
I raised the corners of my mouth and signaled someone with a chin.
Then, with the sound of cutting the air, the sharp blade pierced through Hoyaukamui’s body.
Phu Kwaak!
Aww-!
“Kieek!”
The guy who was stabbed in the middle of his body from above fell down and was fixed on the ground, and I moved erratically and approached the nose of the guy who was emitting murder.
He even quietly opened his mouth.
“There’s a reason why your mental strength is only C rank.”
“Kyaak!”
Actually, I didn’t really care if I was weakened by a curse.
After all, isn’t that the name of a food psychic?
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My role is to deal with the shikigami, not the role of arguing with the enemy with my own body in front.Also, the fact that my physical abilities are weakened does not mean that my shikigami is weakened.
In other words, it was said that it was a curse of mutual destruction (共滅), but in reality it was just a one-sided exchange.
‘If he had maintained his composure, he might have found something… … .’
At least for Hoyaukamui, who had a poor mental power rank, that was unreasonable. Perhaps the intelligence itself is not very high.
‘For an A-rank, there’s nothing wrong with that.’
Of course, it was dangerous. If my calculations had been messed up even a little, I would have been the one facing death right now.
However, in the original fight against a strong enemy, this kind of tension was just right.
I’ve been through such battles countless times, and I’ve grown up to be where I am now.
That was the guy’s defeat.
“Eve, clean it up.”
“… I will take orders.”
Without even giving him time to think of a revival move, Eve swung the blade and completely slaughtered the body.
In the end, after a while, only traces of destruction remained in the place where he was, and no one could be found.
It was the moment when the festival, which had almost turned into hell, somehow ended.
***
‘… I don’t even know how it turned out.’
Yoo Jeong-gil, a second-class exorcist of the 1st Defense Guard in Namcheon, looked at Han Kang-yoon with a confused face while hurriedly taking care of his wounded colleagues.
To be honest, Han Kang-yun’s battle was an incomprehensible realm for Yoo Jeong-gil.
It is a realm of genius, far away from the right path.
If someone asked Yoo Jeong-gil to do the same thing, Yoo Jeong-gil would shake his head at once.
‘… … .’
Han Kang-yoon was amazing. It was the same with simply dealing with magic, but in other things, Yoo Jeong-gil felt an insurmountable wall.
It was as if I could feel them from the exorcists who were said to have transcended humans.
“So, you’re saying that academy cadet alone defeated a high-level youkai now?”
“exactly.”
“No, huh. Oh yeah… … .”
After Han Kang-yun commanded Hoyaukamui, a number of exorcists appeared at the entrance of the tourist attraction.
They are an exorcist unit belonging to the Chungju Central Defense Guard, whom Yoo Jeong-gil is also familiar with.
It was a group specializing in combat, which initiates action when a high-level youkai appears within its jurisdiction.
“Is it true that he wasn’t a high-ranking person… … . Isn’t that what it is? The possibility of an illusion cannot be ignored.”
“Of course I am, but I am also a second-class exorcist who has been working in the field for 10 years. This isn’t the first time I’ve encountered an A-rank youkai.”
“Zeep. Well, I guess that’s not a mistake.”
Yoo Jeong-gil could understand why the young man asked such tenacious questions.
Doesn’t that make sense?
It’s just that an academy cadet defeated an A-rank level monster on the field.
There is not even a very conspicuous wound to the person involved. That said, it was a win that was easy enough.
“Hey, that’s crazy. How do I post this report? … . Aren’t you being told not to joke around for nothing?”
The young man soon returned to his seat, scratching his head, and Yoo Jeong-gil, after passing all his colleagues to the medical personnel, turned his gaze back to Han Kang-yoon and his party.
‘… The rumors were true.’
Thinking that he may have witnessed the starting point of another divine being that will one day reach the express.