War of Darkness (7)
All the villains I’ve killed so far have something in common.
Eyes.
The anger and malice at being weeded out despite being a person who manifests traits, the madness that just wants to ruin everything, the belief that one’s own common sense and values that go against social norms are correct, and so on.
I have seen countless times the eyes mixed with distorted emotions bordering on obsession.
But I couldn’t find anything like that in the eyes of that guy who was looking at me right now.
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I don’t know if he’s indifferent or if he’s hiding his emotions, but his eyes… How to say
It was plain and empty.
It was like looking at my eyes in a mirror.
Maybe he’s not a villain.
Maybe just an unlucky non-standard trait exhibitor who didn’t become a hero.
Maybe that’s why he lives alone in a remote place untouched by civilization.
But what do you mean?
No matter what the circumstances of that guy are, the fact that the senior couple died doesn’t change.
It has not changed that I suffered a brain injury and lived under an illusion for several years.
[Yes. It is spherical.]
The supporter who was running away was struck by lightning from the other side and answered as he heard the scream as he fell.
He looked at my face for a moment and then opened his mouth.
“I remember. Maybe a few years ago, three people came? Two died and one fell, so I thought it was dead and left it alone. It was alive.”
[He was alive. And it came back like this.]
“I came to seek revenge…”
He couldn’t finish his words and quickly disappeared.
A rapidly rotating circular shield passed in an oblique line where it had been floating until recently, creating a terrifying rupture sound.
As he looked down at the fragments of the shield that crashed into the floor and exploded, he asked.
“What are you doing, you?”
[The last person you talk to in your life.]
He quickly turned his body at the circular saw blade-like shields that flashed and rushed in from all directions.
The shields that lost sight of him turned and accelerated upward again to pursue him.
Looking back at the shields that were chasing after him, the one who soared rapidly hit another shield he had set up in advance.
As the creature collided with the shield, a new shield was overlapped and confined like a sandwich, and the saw blade shields began to fly indiscriminately and stick.
As his body split in half lengthwise, he shattered the barrier with tremendous force and passed death by a narrow margin.
Like a counterattack, lightning struck me in succession, but all of them were blocked by the shield and deflected to the side.
“You’re doing something. But you’re here to get revenge on me?”
[The two heroes you killed were on my team.]
“I see.”
He thought for a moment and then opened his mouth.
“But I’m not so insensitive and forgiving as to leave those who came to hunt me alone.”
[Hunting? Don’t bullsh*t We were passing by for another mission and got hit by your poison gas. I don’t know any English.]
“Is this a traveler passing by? Well, I can’t say openly that I came to catch and kill the fugitives.”
[Fleeing?]
I glanced up at the sky.
The poison gas sucked up by the tornado spread widely and was slowly descending.
We’ll have to decide before it comes down.
[I don’t know what you’re talking about, but let’s stop our conversation. I’m not here to talk to you.]
“I have no intention of letting you live anyway, an unknown hero. If I do that, I’m afraid this troublesome thing will happen next time.”
[You don’t have to worry about that. Because there will be no next time.]
He smiled lightly and said like a sigh.
“This must be the fate of a traitor who has been weeded out. Not being a hero, being treated as a villain and being chased for the rest of his life.”
[You keep talking nonsense. Do you have a mental illness?]
“You won’t understand if I tell you. You’re not even from the 3rd Training Center.”
[The 3rd Training Center… ? Are you from there?]
“As you said, further conversation is pointless.”
He disappeared again.
Because it disappears and does not appear elsewhere, it is clear that it is invisible.
I quickly responded by using my aura.
As I deliberately scattered fragments of the shattered shield in front of me, I saw the fragments in the air coalesce into a human shape.
As I poured techniques towards that direction, the techniques exploded in the air like an anti-aircraft gun, and the air trembled dully, almost pushing my body backwards.
“You’re creative.”
He reappeared as he shook off the fragments of the shield clinging to his body.
“I don’t think he’s an ordinary guy, but let’s do it properly.”
He flew at me.
However, I had no intention of confronting him head-on because I had seen him break the shield with his bare hands earlier.
I twisted the shield at an angle, let go of my fists, and soared upward, pouring out a sharp form of aura on the guy’s back.
The key to defense technology is to create the desired form of aura.
That’s why I can materialize an aura in any form.
This is the reason why I was able to survive in Secretto for several years by specializing in defensive skills, a non-mainstream skill.
The bastard knocked off hundreds of images pouring down on him, but a few of them managed to get deeply embedded in his body.
I fell straight to the guy who stumbled in panic and crashed into his torso.
As the shield around my body hit the aura shapes embedded in his body like a hammer, poison gas spurted out violently from his body.
However, the poison gas could not penetrate the shield.
Yeah, that’s right….
At that time, if I had put on the shield properly, the senior couple wouldn’t have died in vain.
Crazy with that thought, I was finally able to build up my hatred for myself and my anger toward him.
[Monsters like you must die.]
“A monster?”
His outstretched hand shattered the shield and tried to grab the gas mask, so I quickly backed away and he exploded his aura, confusing my vision and increasing the distance.
“Who is calling someone a monster? Are you referring to those of you brainwashing and experimenting with living beings with the crazy logic that if you don’t become a hero, you will become a villain?”
[That’s none of my business. There’s no point in asking me. I just came to kill you who killed my friends.]
“Standing bystanders is a sin, hero.”
[So you’re asking me to listen to your unfortunate circumstances?]
“No. Of course not.”
He smiled and pulled out the aura image embedded in his arm, crushing it.
Invisibility, Lightning, Monstrous Strength, Poison Gas.
There are four abilities I have identified so far.
He is so powerful that it is difficult to find a match for those who exhibit non-standard characteristics.
However, I can overpower all of them with my own abilities, except for the crazy power that breaks the shield.
If you don’t get involved in close combat, you can still beat it and eventually kill it.
Perhaps he figured it out long ago, and he’ll try to cling to me with all his might.
As expected, he rushed at me with a spirit between his teeth.
Perhaps it was intended to destroy all the shields, it even created a sonic boom and hit dozens of shields at the flying creature.
In the beginning, he broke the barriers with great vigour, but as the barriers were built one after another, he slowed down little by little and eventually stopped with me a few meters in front.
Specifying the coordinates of the stopped guy, I cast the technique I had fed to Goshawk.
He staggered dangerously as if he were about to fall, coughing up blood after being hit properly by the technique.
I didn’t miss the chance and started hitting him consecutively.
He’s only lost his balance once, and he’s completely caught up in my link.
No matter how many characteristics they have, in the end, they are below me in terms of pure Aura power.
When I thought about that, I sighed.
Did the senior couple get hurt like that by that guy?
If I had just set up my shield properly, he would have died then.
I shook my head as I watched the guy whose guard was released from the entire slamming shield.
No, let’s stop regretting and blaming ourselves.
Let’s kill him here and throw them all off.
Now I will live for myself without being bound by anything.
“It was a mistake to kill the others.”
He said as he wiped the blood pouring from his mouth.
“It would have been better to just let the aura keep dispersing.”
[Your mistake was not killing me at the time.]
“I see.”
[Regret is never too late. Die now.]
I restrained his limbs with an aura and raised a shield from the bottom up.
The guy who had already been beaten several times by my complex technique struggled as if he couldn’t escape the aura that imprisoned him.
However, the moment the shield went between the legs, it disappeared along with the sudden fog.
Damn it! Maybe even such a characteristic!?
The fog gathered in front of me at such a speed that it was difficult for the eye to follow it, and it took on its shape again.
“You don’t think you thought all the abilities you’ve shown so far are?”
A huge chunk of lightning fell and engulfed me.
I avoided being electrocuted by deploying a shield at the moment, but the flash was a problem.
I temporarily lost my eyesight from the blazing light, and I stepped back, building my defenses.
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“Die.”
As the strong hand tore off the gas mask, I hurriedly turned off my aura and fell to the ground.
“Creepy!”
The back collided violently, and the pain wrapped around the body made my head ring.
Uhhhhh!!
The mental barrier vibrated as if to defend against the shock coming up to his head.
“A fall. You have great judgment. Otherwise you would have been torn to pieces.”
In my blurred vision, I saw a guy flying at a terrifying speed.
I tried to avoid it, but I couldn’t move my body because it was broken.
“That’s it. Don’t bother me anymore, leave me alone.”
The moment I descended below the standard altitude, the trajectory of the creature, which was flying with the momentum to step on me at any moment, suddenly changed its trajectory.
As if riding on an invisible slide, the one that quickly flew to the side while drawing a curve was thrown into the cube’s shield.