Episode 15. Protecting the Earthly Spirit (6)
“The joke ends here!”
Peremus gathers strength in his legs and jumps. Jumping nearly 30 meters, he clenched his fists downward.
“I’ll destroy this rotten forest area first!”
A demonic energy fills his entire body after he leaves the forest. Ariel and Maria, who were facing Ferro, also found Peremus floating in the air.
Only Praus, unable to feel mana, was staring at Pero.
“Prause! Peremus!!”
Belatedly, at Ariel’s words, Prause turned his head. The moment Praus saw Peremus, he was taken aback.
‘I’m thinking of destroying this forest itself. But…… It’s not like there’s no way to stop it. The problem is that Tina is holding the key…….’
If you wield both ends of all things, you can cut only what is real. However, if you use it as a skill, you can cut through things that are invisible and non-existent.
I had already tipped her off about it, and thinking that Tina, who was accustomed to both sides of everything, would do it, Prause drove away the worries in her heart.
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“Ariel, we trust the kids over there and deal with Perro first.”
Prause has a vengeance. He immediately possessed his phasma into his body using the ‘Vengeful Ghost’ skill.
“…… I don’t think I can show you any real magic here. I will move.”
As he snaps his fingers, the ground sinks under our feet and a black hat emerges.
“This is…… !”
The ground went out before he could jump, so Prause missed his chance to dodge. It falls like being sucked into a hat. He sees Maria and Ariel gradually drifting apart.
‘Damn it, it would take some time for Orient to come!’
Belatedly, Maria and Ariel followed Prause and entered the hat.
When Praus, who was properly attacked by surprise, came to his senses, he was in the Demon Realm across the border.
It wasn’t that deep, but Prause knew that when demons were in the Demon Realm, their stats greatly increased, making them difficult to deal with.
He knew that, so I couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat as I looked around him.
“This is… ….”
Prause looked around him, but his ears were directed across the border. Fortunately, he noticed that even after time passed, he didn’t feel the shockwave across the border, and noticed that Tina had safely blocked it.
“Master, why didn’t you avoid it?”
‘The ground suddenly went out, how do I avoid it?’
Unable to speak, Prause looked around him instead of answering. He was looking for Pero.
And I could find a man scratching his head nervously above him.
“Ah… It really felt like bugs were crawling all over my body. I don’t understand how you guys use such disgusting mana well.”
Floating in the air, Pero shook his head vigorously.
“I can’t use magic, so I have to absorb and replace it. It’s an experience I don’t want to do again. I want to show my magic to that spirit king of Orient, but…… First of all, it seems there are other spirit kings and heroes, so I will entertain you first.”
Prause, who did not take his eyes off Pero, who talked casually, accelerated the accident.
‘It’s not that important that I’m in the Pandemonium.’
Since there are two people who can use teleport, I judged that it wouldn’t be difficult to escape if I only dealt with Pere.
‘The problem is that it takes time to deal with Pero… ….’
While thinking about how to contact Orient, Prauss looked back at Ariel, remembering that the spirit kings exchanged signals.
“…… Ariel, send a signal to Orient. Find us in the Demon Realm.”
“What? Shall I call Orient?”
“If Iris said, Orient would be looking for me by now.”
“It’s nice to have a leisurely conversation. The land you are stepping on is a realm that I created myself. In other words, it means that it is perfectly suited to use magic.”
The moment he puts his hand inside his suit and pulls it out, countless black playing cards scatter across the sky.
The cards, which gradually grew as they were scattered, were already as strong as Pero’s kidneys. At some point, the cards, which were freely unfolded, are fixed in the air as if defying gravity.
“From now on, I will move the pictures of all these cards. It’s not an ‘optical illusion’ by any means, so you’d better look carefully—”
“Noisy.”
PupperPuffPung!
The cards that were fixed in front of Pero exploded helplessly and disappeared. It was blown up with a fireball created by Maria. Pero, who had been caught off guard, was silent as if embarrassed.
“I am not interested in you, much less in magic. No matter what you do, you can’t get my attention. This idiot.”
Maria took a step ahead of Praus, she said. However, Pero, who grabbed his head in an unexpected pattern, broke his breath.
“You dare… dare! Magic is…… It’s for you to watch. I’m not interfering!!”
Let’s omit the first pattern, the recoil comes.
He emits a tremendous amount of life force, spreading demonic energy and weakening the mana floating around Prause and his party.
Three people covered their mouths and noses as a reflex to the magi encroaching on the surroundings. Maria creates a huge ice spear as if she doesn’t mind Pero’s momentum. It was well over ten meters in size.
“As expected, you are not qualified to understand the mystery and beauty of magic. Please die right here.”
“You are the one who dies. 「Ice Spear」.”
“Wait, Maria!”
“”Facing Mirror”.”
After Perro clapped, he spread his arms, revealing numerous glass mirrors.
An ice spear that even gained momentum from wind magic headed for Pero. It was a speed that didn’t even last for an instant. The ice lance that flew bravely to pierce his torso was blocked by the mirror.
“I’ll pierce you right through!”
But contrary to Maria’s expectations, the spear did not pierce his body. As the window fits snugly into the mirror, the magic activation is nullified.
“Mirrors are very strange. We face each other, but there is no law that says that is the truth.”
Perro laughed happily.
“Take it back.”
Peeing!
Just as Maria frowned and tried to prepare her magic, she switched the casting spell to a black spear pointing at her. However, because of her speed, she was in front of Maria before she could hit her defenses.
“Welcome to Ilseom””
Phasma got in the gap and cut the spear with his sword. The black spear, which had been divided exactly into equal parts, was extinguished.
“It’s quite good. A little, but do you understand magic?”
Magic is crazy.
Prause was irritated inwardly.
‘Anyway, the developers’ kids came up with a strange concept. This is just magic under the guise of magic…….’
“But a little is not enough!”
Numerous black windows slowly appear in the mirror. It was much larger and sharper than Maria’s.
It wasn’t just reflecting Maria’s skill, it was absorbing and strengthening it.
‘If you let it absorb magic, the difficulty will continue to rise. I can’t win that way.’
However, even if it was absorbed, there was a way to prevent Perro from using the absorbed skill. It was to break the mirror that absorbed the skill.
“Maria, don’t overuse your magic. It just happens in reverse.”
“Then what should I do… ….”
The method of breaking mirrors facing each other was to break them with a ‘physical attack’, not magic. This is what I followed.
“Ariel, place a foothold where I jump with wind magic. Maria, I will break the mirror, so block the spears and cards flying at me.”
“Okay.”
“Okay.”
Prause does not feel anxious in the answers of the two.
“Prepare the highest magic while you break all the mirrors. If you can cast multiple spells, it will be possible.”
“Yes.”
Prause takes a leaping stance. Ariel and Maria also had mana in their hands.
“Come on, Phasma.”
“Yes.”
A total of twenty mirrors are currently floating in the air.
Phasma, who operated Prause’s body, instantly identified the location. I jumped straight up and leaned back in front of the nearest mirror.
Pacan!
Vengeance cut the mirror exactly in half. Seeing Prause who grasped his skill at once, Perro felt his heart race.
“Do you know how to let your operation work?!”
Black spears and cards are pouring towards Prause. When Phasma tried to take a defensive stance, Prause turned away from all attacks directed at him.
“Prause?!”
“Believe in Maria and Ariel.”
As Prause stretches out his foot, something touches the sole of his foot. Ariel had laid the footing with the wind at just the right time. He kicks his leg hard into the floor.
With acceleration, Prauss dug in between more fierce attacks.
“「Lightning」!”
Craft!
Lightning shoots out of Maria’s hand, shattering her spear and cards.
But there were so many attacks on Prause that even Maria couldn’t block them all. Several cards grew larger near Prause, and the figure in the card picture popped out.
‘The card picture…… !’
The Joker wearing a black and white mask was holding a scythe, and Jack wearing knight’s armor was holding a sword.
Soon after, it strikes at Prause.
Kang! Kang!
Phasma quickly reacts and cuts off the scythe and sword, but is pushed back as a reaction. She clicks her tongue as she walks away from the mirror she was approaching.
As I fell, something soft hit my back and soles.
Ariel was continuing to support Prause with wind. Phasma held onto the sword and shouted his skill.
“”Welcome to dance”.”
Leaping again.
Pacan!
Narrowly avoiding the Joker’s scythe, he cuts through the second mirror. Then, step on the wind and go to the next mirror and cut it.
Pacan! Pacan! Pacan! Pacan!
Prause, who cut all the mirrors in an instant, landed on the ground and shouted.
“Maria!”
At his cry, Maria released her magic as soon as she stretched out her hand, which had been gathering her mana, toward her fero.
“[Hell scares]!”
Blue flames rain down towards Pero. He, too, released his demonic energy before it was too late. However, Maria’s magical power penetrated the demon and burned his skin.
“hahahaha! To penetrate my demonic energy!”
He comes down to the ground and lands, gasping for breath. He reveals his murderous intentions by grabbing the mask with a blackened clown.
The hat he was wearing must have been blown off, and his all-back hair was completely pulled back.
“Great… ! The pain won’t go away! It’s as if you’ve brought fire from hell…… !”
Prause runs towards Pero who complains of pain.
“Now that we have descended to the ground, we must attack!”
After hearing Prause’s words, Phasma took a stabbing stance and threw out her sword.
“Welcome to Chung Island!”
The aura moves forward as if it were being shot. Just before hitting him directly, sword energy bounced with a thud.
“Damn… ….”
Seeing that Phasma’s attack did not reach Prause, he realized that he was trapped in Pero’s realm.
“How dare you inflict pain on me. I guess I was too shallow. We will treat you properly.”
Recognizing that it was Pero’s second phase line, Prause chewed his lips.
‘I don’t think he took any damage. What kind of second phase?’
“Ariel, is there any signal from Orient?”
“They are coming!”
At the very least, it’s too late.
As Prauss planned to defeat Pero immediately and join Tina and Iris to defeat Peremus, he couldn’t help but feel impatient.
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Perro rises into the air again, and doors appear everywhere. The number was about fifteen.
And familiar beings emerged from the open door.
It was Prause, Maria, and Ariel.
Of the fifteen, five were Prause, five were Maria, and five were Ariel.
Maria and Ariel are taken aback when they see the number of heads divided equally.
“How are you? To see your own face! Isn’t that much more intuitive than a mirror?!”
“This little trick…… !”
“Do not attack!”
Maria creates a sharp blade from the wind and blows it towards herself as she approaches. Phasma cut it with an aura.
“Why not?”
“When a territory is unlocked, we are hurt as much as they are hurt.”
‘Anyway, it’s not annoying at all.’
In this pattern, you had to deal with five identical people each without escaping until the area of Pero was unlocked. Even with the attack sealed.
But it was not impossible to destroy the pattern.
Plaus knew that instead of five people per person, the one hundred percent power of the original being was divided into twenty percent.
In other words, the individual itself was not that strong. If you focus on defense, you can endure it as long as you can. Of course, that was not something to be reassured about.
It was because if the defense was at the level of civilians like Prause, even Ariel or Maria’s 20% strength would be enough of a threat.
“It’s my turn to watch. Let your screams be heard.”
By the way, this pattern was one of the worst that Prauss died several times while playing the game and cursed dozens of times.
“hahahaha… …. Damn it.”