Book 15 Chapter 6
Episode 52
“What’s wrong all of a sudden, Friede!”
It was the light of the holy sword, Shiru-penn, that scattered the wildly surging flames of karma.
“Get out of the way, Lysta! I’m just delivering the flames of justice to prevent more victims like myself!”
“Justice, executing justice, justice.”
As Lysta tilted her head, unable to understand the situation, Rin stepped forward with an arrogant ‘Heh…’ laugh.
“You just have a lot of excuses, don’t you? You actually want to fight me, right? Good. I’ve wanted to fight the Republic’s top-tier ever since we first met.”
Sval joined him, exhaling as forcefully as possible through his nose.
“Gyung-gyu-gyung!”
If the opponent fully includes the sun parrot, it’s two. We have one dead weight… Hmm, is it 2 Vs 0.5?
“Gyuoong??!!!”
It might be a slight disadvantage, but it doesn’t matter. Overcoming such difficulties is what makes one the strongest mage, after all.
“Representing all the men and women of this world who have lost faith in true love, I, Friede, the Oracle of the Fire Dragon, shall pass judgment! Prepare yourselves!”
As Friede swung her pipe broadly, the power of nature hatched from the thickly scattered particles of tobacco ash.
Its name: elemental spirit.
These beings, with their burning forms and grand, sturdy physiques easily exceeding 2 meters, are Greater Elementals.
“The beings of Hagnis obey the command of the Speaker of the Genesis Psalms.”
The Black Witch Yoru fell silent the moment she witnessed it.
‘She’s summoning three Greater Fire Elementals, Hagnis, without chanting? That girl, when did she reach a level even her master couldn’t achieve!’
As the Hagnis brought their hands together, what fiercely formed in the space between them was scorching flames.
“Cough, damn it, ugh, where, where did you aim? That was my ‘afterimage’ just now…”
That was when Torious, the strongest hunter, returned.
The force in Lysta’s kick was so strong that he was a wreck, having been sent flying, piercing through several carriages and shattering them.
“Eh, that was an afterimage just now?”
Lysta gasped and swallowed dryly. Come to think of it, it was an incautious strike, overly excited.
But why am I spitting blood?
Ah, I see. That’s an attempt to make me drop my guard and lure me in. Don’t fall for it, Lysta. Let’s be more decisive next time.
“Only fire as an usable attribute? Then it’s rather easy. Shall we go, Sval.”
Meanwhile, Rin had spread his palm. Then, a dazzling decree of light unfolded above it, forming a four-layered magic circle.
“Gyung!”
As Sval gathered his spirit and puffed out both his cheeks, the magic circle itself began to glow with a frosty color and emit a chilling aura.
At that moment, the Hagnis finished concentrating their power and extended both hands.
As the flames rampaged and surged towards the boy, Rin shattered the magic circle.
“White Mirror: Halberd Blaze (Baekgyeong: Geukhon).”
As if defying the laws of nature, an ice spear, almost double in size from its emergence, surged towards the wave of flames.
Eventually, extreme powers clashed.
The fierce waves, which even altered the surrounding terrain, not only carved out the ground like a crater but also amicably swept up the approaching magical beasts and bounty hunters from both sides into a vortex of steam, flinging them far into the sky.
“Pee-peet!”
“Gyugyut!”
And in the epicenter of that aftermath, the sun parrot’s talons and the snowflake’s fist clashed, scattering embers and cold!
It was precisely that one moment.
There was a figure who moved through that tempest, which made it difficult for everyone to even perceive their surroundings.
Lysta Alte Shiru-penn.
The moment his hand rested on the hilt of the holy sword Shiru-penn, the moment its blade emitted a sword light beyond the bandages, the concept of time was severed into many pieces.
Originally, ‘ksana’ refers to an extremely short period of time that can no longer be divided or split.
An unrealistic acceleration, as if that ‘ksana’ were divided into dozens of pieces, and ‘impossible’ movements were forcibly carved into each segment of time…
“……?!”
“……?!”
This series of events would be easier to understand by explaining the results rather than the principles of the power involved.
Yoru and Torious, who had been aiming for their backs, taking advantage of Friede and Rin being preoccupied with their internal conflict.
Those two flesh possessors, ‘almost simultaneously,’ had their arms twisted behind them and their heads slammed into the ground side-by-side at Lysta’s feet. Even though they were clearly quite far apart.
“This arrogant brat, you have no intention of obediently paying for your crimes, do you?”
Regardless of what had just happened, Friede, commanding the Greater Elementals Hagnis, irritably crossed her arms.
“I’m not a brat, I’m the strongest. ‘Being the strongest’ and ‘obediently losing’ are incompatible.”
Rin, too, merely shrugged arrogantly, regardless of how the surroundings changed. Lightning sparked in the empty space where their gazes met.
“Both of you, that’s enough playing around.”
At that single remark, an intense chill pierced Friede and Rin’s minds and bodies. A sensation of being coldly swept from toe to head.
“If you do more than that, I’ll get angry, okay?”
An intense chill powerful enough to instantly cool the fervor of both individuals, whose brains were heated by ‘anger born from past experiences’ and ‘a desire for ultimate strength’ respectively, and restore their composure.
“Both of you, attention!”
What met the gaze of the two, who barely managed to turn their heads, was Lysta’s smile, gripping Pipi and Sval in both hands, but it didn't look like a smile at all.
It felt suffocating, like a blade arcing gracefully to aim at their hearts. Pipi and Sval hung limply, more docile than any doll.
The oracle and the mage of the hero’s party immediately snapped their arms to their sides, next to their thighs, and replied.
“Yes, attention!”