Episode 21 The eye of the storm. (3)
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Trinity Academy in the shape of a triangular pyramid has four doors.
The alumni are full of facilities related to the training of cadets.
A preface with the appearance of a downtown area with a lot of convenient facilities.
front door, south door.
Finally, except for the fact that there is a plaza, the North Gate has no special features.
If there is a large plaza, it might be possible to hold an event, but since most events are held in the auditorium, the North Gate has practically no meaning.
If I had to pick a feature of the North Gate, it was the only natural space in Trinity Academy, which had a futuristic city vibe.
Naturally, there are trees and grass, and there are only a few small animals inhabiting it.
This is not because the Great Plaza of the North Gate is decorated like an ecological park.
It’s just that it’s a space that is barely touched by human hands.
Students who want to feel the peaceful atmosphere sometimes stop by the North Gate, but basically, the North Gate is not a place that people go through often.
So, a suspicious figure, sitting on a pile of stones with a hood on, easily catches the eye.
“Hey, that’s it. that.”
“Yes.”
Jade pointed his finger at someone with the hood pressed down.
“how will we do it?”
“wait.”
James takes the electric guitar out of the guitar bag on his back and starts playing it.
The distorted, harsh and intense guitar sound echoes in the North Gate Square.
Then, James’s first ability, ‘Resounding Destiny’ is activated.
The echo of delusion is to show hallucinations to the person who hears it.
As it is a thought power that uses the medium of sound, which is effective for most living things, it exerts overwhelming power only when dealing with a lot of junkies or when dealing with enemies for the first time.
In addition, the consumption of thinking power is very small, and it can be said that it is the strongest in the S-class in terms of cost-effectiveness.
“What are you going to show me this time?”
“Show me someone who looks like a decent professor.”
The person wearing the hood starts talking into the air.
Jade and James watch the situation closely.
About five minutes after he started talking to himself, he jumped up from his seat and swung his fists.
“It’s as if this has been confirmed.”
“how will we do it. Shall we attack first?”
“Still, looking at it, it seems that there is no doubt that it is the ideological power of the body strengthening system.”
“Then aren’t we at a disadvantage?”
“Not bad. only for you.”
The moment Jade tries to refute that statement, James uses his second ability, Split Soul.
James is one of those people who is relatively free from the shackles of serial cards.
The second ability, Soul Separation, is because the soul is separated from the body as soon as it is used, and no pain is felt even at the moment of lightning discharge.
Well, it’s just that she doesn’t feel any pain, it doesn’t mean she’s not immune from lightning, and the body that was left alone was convulsing from the electricity flowing through her body.
James in a spirit state approaches him as he makes fists in the air.
And he imitates the attack of the fictional character he is fighting.
This is to give him the illusion that he is actually fighting.
Only in the hallucinations would he think he was attacking this fictional subject, but no physical damage was done to James in the spirit state.
In addition, since the attack inflicted in the spirit separation state is an attack that directly damages the soul, not physical damage, it may inflict more lethal damage depending on the opponent.
Just when he thinks he’s accumulated enough damage, James dispels Split Soul.
While James was in the state of separation of souls, he would escape from the serial card’s lock, but in reality, James’ body was constantly being electrocuted by the serial cards, so he could not keep the separation of souls for a long time.
And, in fact, the burn marks on his body from the electric shock were warning him not to abuse his thinking power.
“Oh, I’ve been writing too long. You take care of the rest.”
He sits down, emphasizing the word ‘do it’.
“I didn’t really do anything f*cking, so I had to take care of everything.”
“Shut up, do it.”
Having said that, James also cancels his first ability, the ring of delusion.
The villain flinches and stops moving.
Was it because his opponent suddenly disappeared from his sight?
Jade cautiously approaches him, who is bewildered.
The distance was about ten steps left.
Take it one step at a time, one step at a time.
Now, with one more step, it was within the effective range of Jade.
The moment he takes the last step, Jade’s body flies away as if it were thrown out.
James was watching the situation carefully.
It was enough to blow away a strong man with just the wind pressure of his fist.
The physical shock was all negligible at the point of fighting with the separation of souls, so I had no idea how strong he was, but seeing that, I could see why Park Seong-jin said he was strong in close combat.
If the attack was allowed, it was strong enough to crush bones.
Fortunately, Jade was unharmed.
It didn’t look like he was hit directly with his fist.
Jade, who was full of pride, must have felt threatened by the attack, so he adjusted his posture with a serious face.
In a situation where they were wary of each other, it was the villain who moved first.
The damage that James inflicted while in split soul must have been quite painful, but he moves well.
Its fists rush straight at Jade.
Jade keeps his distance and skillfully avoids it.
Judging from his striking form, it seemed that he did not learn martial arts professionally.
However, the significant difference in force more than offset it.
When his fist hits a tree, the tree splits, and the blocks on the floor that his feet touch are all shattered into shards.
Suddenly, James closes his eyes tightly.
When he saw the villain momentarily rushing to Jade, James thought that this was really the end.
However, Jade responded to it and succeeded in receiving it invincible and feeding the counter.
‘One reaction rate is crazy.’
Conversely, the one who got hit with a single shot took the offensive and distanced himself from Jade.
However, Jade didn’t see it as a positive sign.
Rather, it felt like falling into a pit.
I want to think that I’m lucky, but I can’t think of it as luck.
Jade was attempting this counter as a blow of conversion.
However, it was unable to defeat the opponent with that blow.
Invincible, Jade’s ideological power, the recoil of the serial card was a very large imaginative power, so it was difficult to use it multiple times.
In other words, if you can’t defeat your opponent in the remaining two or three times, you are sure to lose.
Besides, the previous counter was an attack that was as good as revealing all of Jade’s hands.
The rivalry between James and Jade was only getting stronger.
Jade desperately rolled his bad head.
Then, an idea popped into Jade’s head.
‘This is an unconditional way to succeed.’
Jade’s face began to turn red again.
… On the other hand, James is desperate.
James’ fighting skills were not good enough to intervene in that battle, so James was in trouble.
James activates the ring of delusion again in order to be of any help.
It originated from the idea that ‘If you blur your vision, there will be room for Jade to attack even once’.
Sadly, James is not as accustomed to tolerating pain as Aina and Alfred are.
If the scale of hallucinations he could show was a little bigger, or, at least, if he had obstructed his view for a little longer, Jade might have succeeded in attacking the villain.
However, James, who could not stand the shock of the serial card being applied to his already immature body, could not hold on for a while, and the sound of delusion was dispelled.
As a result, James’ attempts had no effect on the fight between Jade and the villain.
On the contrary, he only made himself painful.
‘Park Seong-jin might know how.’
Receiving Park Sung-jin’s help was an unwilling choice, but as the situation turned like this, I had no choice but to ask for his help.
“Hey, how did you send this to win?”
“Anyway, it’s his body strengthening single ability. no other ideas. If you dodge well and hit well, you win.”
“f*ck, that’s easy. If you get hit by one of those, you’ll be behind.”
“Jade will already know how to win. Think carefully. What is that bastard doing?”
Park Seong-jin’s answer was speculative.
Jade, who is so stupid that he can’t be compared with stupidity in the S-Class, knows the answer?
It wasn’t funny.
“Does Jade know the answer?”
“At least in the future I see.”
“hey… Don’t answer irresponsibly like that. If this fails, we could really fall behind.”
“It’s the same for everyone.”
“You mean that you have a backseat called the dean, so what can you be behind?”
“No one is in the dean’s office right now.”
“Okay, are you going to pay attention to Jade’s actions?”
“uh.”
“I’m sorry… cut off.”
James watches Jade’s actions closely.
Upon closer inspection, he was beckoning to come here.
‘Why are you asking me to fight? Who knows that my body use is rat poison?’
Then I noticed something a little strange.
Obviously, Jade’s thinking power is invincible.
Even though he had the ability to receive even the most powerful attacks, he had only used it once.
Even if it was because there were only a few available times left, it was a little strange to use that good thinking power only once.
Why do you have to dodge that attack?
And why are you asking me to fight?
Why? Why?
I could hardly get the hang of it.
The villain’s movements were large and heavy, so there seemed to be nothing invincible to take.
Shouldn’t it be invincible and continue to feed the counter?
Even if there were only a few opportunities left to use his death power, the counter from before seemed to be quite damaging.
Still, why do you need me?
‘… … I get it.’
It didn’t take him long to figure out why he wasn’t using his power of thought and why he needed him.
James started running towards the villain.
And then, kick the guy in the back.
The villain turns his head with an angry expression.
That anger must have meant, ‘Were you the one who bothered you with hallucinations until now?’
James wasn’t even attacking him to injure him anyway.
If he was as strong as Vincent, he knew for sure that his weak body would not be able to inflict a powerful blow to a body that was strengthened with imaginative power.
Still, why did James attack him?
Because that’s not what James was aiming for.
James looked at his shoulder.
Your shoulders begin to shake.
It was a sign that fists would fly towards James.
‘now.’
James activates his third ability.
Then, the positions of James and Jade change.
“f*ck you. It’s too late to notice.”
“sorry.”
This is Jade’s plan.
‘Now that I have confirmed that I have invincibility, I will not be able to attack easily. However, if James, who is invincible, attacks him, he will try to attack him with all his might without hesitation. At the moment of rushing, James’s third ability, Position Shift is activated. And instead of James, who thought he was going to fly, I activate invincibility and receive his attack. Of course he’d be embarrassed, and he feeds him a punch on his dazzling face.’
He was a risky gambler, originating solely in the belief that James would notice his intentions.
And the plan worked brilliantly.
Its fist strikes Jade, who activated invincibility, not James.
In an unexpected situation, the villain raises his eyes wide as if he was wondering what was going on.
Jade puts an uppercut on the villain’s lower jaw, which has hardened on the spot.
‘No matter how strong the body is, it will not be able to withstand the impact on the brain.’
The guy rolls his eyes and falls down.
“It’s really f*cking hard.”
“I want to beat Park Seong-jin. I didn’t know you could do something like this. really.”
“Let’s connect to the channel and watch it.”
When I connected to the channel, it seemed that most of them had sorted out their situation.
It was a little surprising that Park Seong-jin, who had actually placed the order, did not appear.
“Hey, honestly, don’t you think we would have taken on the toughest one?”
“Didn’t you hear Olivia’s voice? I don’t think they would have been too hard.”
James and Jade were unexpected.
The fact that they are the most healthy among the four groups.
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