73. Rainbow Reflection x2
“Hello? It’s been a while, hasn’t it?”
The place where Joo-Yeon jumped down was the center of the arena.
In front of her, the furious Savage Chieftain Karassen glared at her.
Soon, he charged at her.
Kreee!
Joo-Yeon instantly grabbed her head.
“Ugh!”
It wasn’t because she was scared of Karassen charging at her.
Memories were mixing into her mind.
‘This time… it’s memories of Karassen.’
It was similar to the times as the Hero or the Paladin King.
-From the moment we shared a fist, we are blood brothers.
-If you wish to kill my brother… you must step over my dead body first!
-Go! I’ll handle the rest!
Moments she had shared with Karassen came to mind.
And the last moment with the Demon King.
-No! Karassen!
-Cough… Go, brother. I entrust my life to you.
The sight of him risking his own life to create an opportunity was vividly imprinted in her mind.
A man who always knew how to sacrifice himself first.
To Joo-Yeon, that kind of comrade, who was like a father and a brother to her, was now charging at her to kill her.
Kreee!
His red eyes were filled with murderous intent.
A fist as fierce as if it would pierce through his heart right away.
It could be easily blocked with a reflex.
‘But if I do that, he might die right away.’
Karasen was more aggressive than any savage warrior at the moment.
He was completely disregarding defense.
‘He must be relying on his enhanced attack power as much as his reduced mental power.’
However, he couldn’t kill the man.
It was partly because he was a former comrade, but it was mostly because he had something he had to tell him.
‘So, I’ll just dodge it for now.’
There was a technique that was perfect for this.
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– Movement Technique
＜Shadow Step＞
It was the technique from which Great Way’s main technique, Shadowless Step, originated.
It was one of the core skills mainly used by thieves.
He hadn’t just learned it by watching.
‘I was the one who recommended Karasen learn Shadow Step from Great Way in the first place.’
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He also knew how he had reached Shadowless Step.
Therefore, he could naturally figure out how to use it.
‘Plus, I learned something when I inherited it from the King of Knights.’
It was reproducing a technique used by his former comrades.
It was difficult to reproduce a high-level technique like Shadowless Step at once.
However, it wasn’t hard to imitate the technique it originated from, thanks to his potential.
[＜Shadow Step＞ has been used.]
[Evasion rate increased!]
[Agility stat increased!]
[Counter probability increased!]
Just then, Karasen’s fist pierced through Joo-in’s heart.
Bam!
Karasen’s fist went straight through Joo-in’s back.
However, he tilted his head.
“Huh?”
It was a genuinely bewildered face.
Soon, a voice came from behind Karasen.
“I’m sorry, but that was just my afterimage.”
The figure of Joo-in, whose heart had been pierced, faded away.
He had dodged it with instantaneous speed.
Swish.
Multiple afterimages appeared as if he were using Great Way’s Shadowless Step.
Karasen wildly swung his fists at the clones with a furious expression.
CRaaaSH!
Of course, Joo-in wasn’t going to be hit by those mindless fists.
Instead, he was dodging them while thinking.
‘How do I subdue him?’
His former colleague had gone half-mad.
It was difficult to subdue an opponent of this level without killing him.
But he couldn’t act recklessly either.
‘If that guy punches me just once right now, it’ll smash the stadium wall.’
Joo-in’s frail body would be shredded if it were just grazed.
‘I wish I had a mystic right now.’
I’m talking about a Grand Master.
Just then, the Grand Warlock showed his face outside the broken window from above.
“How dare you! A mere moneybag! You think you can mess with me?”
Oh, right. That bastard was here too.
A sinister murderous intent spread from the Grand Warlock’s eyes.
“What are you all just watching for! Take everything valuable from that guy! Whether it’s his organs or his subspace pockets, take it all!”
Wow!
At the Grand Warlock’s command, the Barbarians in the VVIP room jumped down.
The Barbarians who had been stationed all over the stadium also began to enter the stadium.
They were swarming in from all sides.
“There sure are a lot of you.”
It made you wonder where they had all been hiding until now.
But maybe that sight had the opposite effect.
Karasena shouted in anger.
“Don’t…… interfere……!”
BOOM!
The Barbarians were sent flying by his fist.
Joo-in also raised his hand towards the Barbarians running at him.
“It won’t be fun if you just rush in like that.”
“Shut up! Outsider!”
“How dare you incur the Grand Warlock’s wrath. We won’t let you die a clean death!”
All sorts of weapons flew towards Joo-in.
But it was useless.
[Reflected]
[Reflected]
All he had to do was reflect them.
The sword that swung down at Joo-in returned to its owner.
“What! My attack!”
“Ack! Not there!”
The Barbarian who had stabbed with a spear had a hole in his stomach.
As the man raised his sword to strike, his body suddenly disappeared, leaving only his torso behind.
Those who had intended to attack the main character instead collapsed to the ground, bleeding profusely.
That was the moment.
Thud!
‘……!’
The savage warriors who had been relentlessly charging forward came to an abrupt halt.
They only surrounded the main character, not daring to approach him.
Their morale plummeted, and their attacks weakened considerably.
The great sorcerer shouted at the sight.
“What are you all doing!?”
“B-but, Great Sorcerer, something’s not right!”
“The ones who attacked are the ones getting hurt! Sorcery… It must be sorcery!”
At his exclamation, the main character smiled as if he had been waiting for this moment.
The savage warriors were strong.
But they had one fatal weakness.
‘They’re vulnerable to superstition.’
They feared sorcery and phenomena they couldn’t understand.
The main character’s counterattack just now was proof of that.
The sight of their comrades being injured by their own attacks?
It must have been a spectacle they had never witnessed before.
‘Yes, I could have neutralized their attacks with my Iron Skin.’
But reflecting the damage back at them like this was something they had never seen before.
After all, among the savages, only their chieftain, Karasen, had experienced the Demon King’s reflection firsthand.
There was no way any of the other savages would be brave enough to attack under such circumstances.
Especially not these warriors who had been corrupted by wealth.
The great sorcerer grimaced at the sight and stepped forward.
“To think I’d have to get my own hands dirty with these useless fools. And Karasen, what are you doing!? Why are you attacking your own side!? Stop this instant!”
“Don’t… interfere…”
“You imbecile!”
Karasen was still caught up in the heat of battle.
He ignored the great sorcerer’s orders and continued to attack the savage warriors.
Finally, unable to contain his anger, the sorcerer raised his staff, which was adorned with numerous skulls.
“Ommaerbaenum…”
As the great sorcerer’s eyes turned red, so too did the eyes of the skulls on his staff.
Flash!
At that moment, a spell erupted.
But the spell was not aimed at the main character.
It was aimed at the savage chieftain, Karasen.
“Gaaah!”
The monstrous giant clutched his head in agony.
Stabbed by swords and spears, and unharmed by Drake’s flames, Karacen screamed for the first time.
He looked very painful.
The Grand Warlock’s spell was strangling him.
“You still don’t understand after being treated like that, Karacen! It’s no use resisting! Listen to me now!”
“……No!”
Karacen tried to resist, but it was no use.
Krrr!
The pain of the spell intensified.
The eyes of the guy who was full of madness turned white in an instant.
And he just stopped there.
Thud!
He was like a doll that had lost its will.
No, he was a slave.
The Grand Warlock smiled at the sight.
“Yes! That’s how you should listen to me! How dare you, a slave, rebel!”
The Grand Warlock, who had subdued Karacen, looked at Jooin.
The staff with red-eyed skulls was also pointed at Jooin.
“How dare you… try to interfere with my cause. I will never forgive you.”
Are you going to use another spell?
Jooin’s eyes widened in surprise.
To think that he still had room to cast a new spell while controlling Karacen.
‘It’s not the level of a Grand Warlock that I know.’
It seemed that there was more going on than he knew.
However, he was not very worried.
‘There’s always a price to pay for such great power.’
He might have received power from the god who gave him that blessing.
He was used to such tricks anyway.
So he waited until the Grand Warlock’s spell was completed.
“You will never die a good death!”
With that cry, the skulls on the staff began to wail.
It sounded like a sad song, but in reality, it was a groan close to agony.
But Jooin knew.
‘It’s a trigger for the spell.’
A trigger was a method necessary when using magic or mystery.
It compresses the incantation and gestures of the spell.
In an instant, a huge amount of spells poured down on Jooin.
[Frog Transformation]
[Berserk]
[Divine Punishment]
[Skin Disease]
[Despicable]
[Collaboration]
[f*ck……]
It was on another level compared to ordinary sorcery.
It was a special sorcery that only a Grand Sorcerer could add to.
“Let’s see you block it with that wonderful ability of yours if you can!”
The Grand Sorcerer exclaimed with smug satisfaction.
He was brimming with confidence as if it was absolutely impossible to block.
‘Well, it makes sense.’
In fact, even Joo-yeon could tell that it was no ordinary sorcery.
Dozens of sorceries were flying at him, intertwined in a single spell.
[Grand Mage]-like, it couldn’t inflict massive damage instantaneously, but it was a sorcery that would continue to torment him without end.
‘Is it a way of linking numerous sorceries together to inflict an unavoidable death upon the enemy?’
It was closer to a curse than magic.
It was even more malicious in that it would pursue its target forever.
At that point, even evasion would be useless.
‘Reflecting it will only send it back to me.’
It was impossible to reflect the endlessly approaching sorcery.
It was an endless fetter.
It was bound to come to an end someday.
However, even a single hit from the opponent’s sorcery would be fatal.
‘I have no choice but to be defeated if I just stay still.’
But there was one thing the bastard didn’t know.
‘If it’ll return even if I reflect it… If I don’t just reflect the sorcery, but reflect the target itself, that should do it.’
There was one more thing he had been meaning to test out anyway.
He had only ever used reflection with one hand until now.
But he had two hands.
‘I was curious about it anyway, so this is perfect.’
Joo-yeon’s fingers on both hands overlapped.
“I’m not going to just return it to the bastard who treated my comrade like a doll.”
It wasn’t the ordinary reflection he had used until now.
All the more so because it was double.
“Double Rainbow Reflection!”