𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟎: 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫
As Siwoo entered the cave, he spread his mana out like a thin, delicate net.
In less than 0.1 seconds, he had fully grasped the internal situation.
The forces were divided into three main groups.
The first was the two closest enemies, Hwang Jeong-gu, and Volk.
The second was four enemies and Chu Ha-min, Red Ear, who were a little further away.
The last was two strong auras that were watching from afar.
As soon as Siwoo finished assessing the situation, he killed the closest enemy. Judging by how he died in one sword strike, he seemed to be the weakest of them.
“W-What the hell?”
A woman with a bowstring pulled back with all her might, condensing her mana before shooting it at Siwoo.
‘𝘼 𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡, 𝙝𝙪𝙝?’
The arrow transformed into hundreds of rays of light, shooting through the air with a fierce gust of wind.
Bam!
Even though the cave was spacious, it wasn’t easy to dodge an attack coming at him from such a close range.
Each step was imbued with powerful mana attacks.
‘𝙄’𝙢 𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙖 𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡.’
【𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖’𝕤 𝕒 𝕝𝕠𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕖𝕒𝕥 𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖! ℍ𝕠𝕨 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕟 𝕞𝕪 𝕝𝕚𝕗𝕖! 𝕀’𝕞 𝕘𝕠𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕠 𝕣𝕚𝕡 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕓𝕠𝕕𝕪 𝕒𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥. 𝔽𝕠𝕠𝕕!】
Siwoo ignored Pre’s words and arranged the magic formulas quickly to form a magic circle.
[𝐈𝐜𝐞 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫: 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞]
Cold air extended from his fingertips like vines.
The surrounding temperature dropped instantly.
The pure white cold mercilessly froze the coordinates that Siwoo had calculated.
Crackle. . .crackle. . .!
The freezing cold solidified even the air and Hawkeye’s mana attacks.
“. . .T-This is impossible. . .”
Hawkeye was speechless as she looked at her mana arrows trapped in the wall of ice.
She had seen ice magic ‘blocking’ other mana, but she had never seen or heard of it ‘freezing’ it.
“How is such magic possible in this world. . .?”
“There’s no such thing as impossible in magic.”
Siwoo appeared next to her.
Hawkeye tried to pull her feet away and retreat far away.
However, her body didn’t move as she intended.
“Ugh!”
Her shoes were frozen to the ice.
“Are you a BESTIA too?”
“Me━━?”
Before she could even answer, Siwoo stabbed her heart with a knife.
Hawkeye looked at her heart and then at Siwoo before collapsing forward.
“Mana doesn’t lie.”
Siwoo approached Volk and Hwang Jeong-gu.
“Gulp! S-Senior. . .”
“Groan. . .”
“You idiots. I told you not to fall behind.”
Siwoo clicked his tongue in disappointment and healed them.
The bleeding stopped, and the torn muscles, blood vessels, and skin regenerated.
If another healer had done it, they would only have been able to stop the bleeding.
At best, the wound area would have been slightly numb.
However, Siwoo’s regeneration ability defied all common sense and restored them to their original healthy state.
Volk and Hwang Jeong-gu were already experienced, but they couldn’t hide their surprise once again.
“You guys rest. I’ll take care of the rest.”
Siwoo started walking without waiting for a reply.
Red Ear and someone else were fighting far away.
‘𝘾𝙝𝙪 𝙃𝙖-𝙢𝙞𝙣. . .𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣.’
Underneath the cracked cave wall, a man in tattered armor was lying unconscious.
Chu Ha-min, who had awakened the Asura skill.
【𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕝𝕖 𝕡𝕦𝕟𝕜 𝕚𝕤 𝕕𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕒𝕘𝕒𝕚𝕟. 𝕀 𝕘𝕦𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕤𝕜𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕞 𝕗𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕥.】
“. . . .”
Siwoo formed a magic circle by gathering his mana first.
This was because Tiger was gathering his mana and tearing through the area before trying to smash Red Ear’s head.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
He stamped the magic circle that had formed on his palm onto the floor.
“Kuaaagh!”
A huge fist of stone sent Tiger flying up to the ceiling.
Boom!
Red Ear looked at Siwoo and collapsed on the spot.
His body was covered in wounds from being torn and cut.
“Whew. If it weren’t for Master’s magic item, I wouldn’t have lasted even a single blow.”
Siwoo silently healed Red Ear’s wounds.
“Oh. . .so this is regeneration?”
“You can rest now, old man.”
He was about to go heal Chu Ha-min’s wounds when Grizzly’s skill came flying towards him.
“You damn bastards!!”
Boom!
A giant, sharply pointed rock.
It was almost the size of a mid-sized car, not just a boulder.
Siwoo looked at the skill shooting towards him and extended his palm.
【ℍ𝕖𝕪, 𝕡𝕦𝕟𝕜! 𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕠𝕨𝕖 𝕞𝕖 𝕒 𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕟, 𝕟𝕠, 𝕥𝕨𝕠 𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕟𝕤 𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕣!】
“As many as you want.”
The mana flowing from his fingertips constructed geometric shapes and characters that formed a magic formula.
A pitch-black magic circle was created according to his will and spun like a top.
The boulder that seemed like it was going to pierce Siwoo collided with the magic circle.
Rumble!
“What the hell is that. . .?”
Grizzly’s eyes were about to pop out of their sockets.
He had thought that his skill would smash that magic circle to pieces.
However, the magic circle didn’t break.
It wasn’t like his skill had been destroyed either.
No, rather. . .
His skill was being swallowed by the pitch-black magic circle, breaking down into particles of mana and scattering into the air.
Grizzly didn’t let his guard down.
It was true that he had underestimated Red Ear when he first confronted him, since he had never fought him before.
He hadn’t expected him to use a magic item that wasn’t often used in actual combat.
However, the rock he had just thrown could be considered his ultimate skill.
An attack that would deeply embed an opponent into the cave wall.
But it had just disappeared into thin air like that.
“Hehe, my oppa is so strong!!”
At that moment, Wolverine swung her war hammer with great force.
Boom!
The hammer, which had deeply dented the floor, sensed the opponent’s evasion and shot straight up.
Whoosh!
Crimson flames blazed along its trajectory.
Siwoo dodged the attack by a hair’s breadth.
His mana was thinly wrapped around his skin in multiple layers, so ordinary attacks couldn’t even scratch him.
“Oppa, play with me!”
Buzzing━
The war hammer turned blue.
‘𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙘 𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙢. . .𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙖 𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙢.’