Chapter 157 – 26. One Fine Day in October (4)
Whiik-!
Lee Ji-hoo had to roll his body to avoid the sudden attack.
Plants have a high percentage of supporters who specialize in defense or support, but the opponent is a professor after all.
Each of the vines that fluttered without rest contained unusual power.
If you hit even one, it’s sure to be a fatal wound.
‘Why did this suddenly happen?’
Lee Ji-hoo thought as he left Shiana’s lab and ran through the empty hallway.
She herself was just trying to deliver her urgent news to Sianna.
I didn’t even think about fighting or anything like that.
I know what Sanya’s intentions are. If I had to give it a justification, it would be to suddenly find a good opponent and to gain practical experience in order to see the results of training so far.
But isn’t this too much?
How can a student respond to an awakened person who rushes at the professor, even with the ‘really determined to kill’.
Of course, the current situation was like a thunderbolt to him, who knew that Sanya would handle it on his own.
“Are you that kid? Right? The student who informed the professor about the sea dragon incident.”
“Stop chasing and let’s solve it by talking!”
“You don’t like it? You’ve already ruined everything.”
Papabak!
Innumerable bundles of stems stick to the spot where Lee Ji-hoo had just been.
Even if it was a little later, it was a close-knit difference that would almost have said goodbye to the world.
He didn’t even have time to breathe a sigh of relief, and he did his best to dodge the attacks that swept the surroundings one after another.
“If I catch you, it will be a leave of absence. Do you know what I mean? That means Sanya won’t be watching me anymore.”
“So stop and talk!”
“I will not kill you. But you crossed the line too much last time.”
Apart from the calm words, it was a very quick combo.
The overwhelming speed that naturally reminds me of the escape play during the raid. Lee Ji-hoo’s chest began to thump naturally from the pressure, as if several Xians were rushing at him.
Realizing that further conversation is useless, he prepares to enter battle in earnest.
Jihu Lee gradually raised the magic power inherent in his essence.
It was the first time his hard work over the past two months was put to use in practice.
First of all, from the basics. It memorizes the starting word and activates the sonar system tuned accordingly.
Immediately, the blue light magic was arranged in small letters in a corner of the field of view.
[System up… 100%]
‘It takes a lot of preparation to deal with a powerful enemy far beyond your level. You can’t break through with just a simple strategy.’
The teachings of Sanya that I have heard so much.
In order to win, you must have enough strength as well as wisdom.
‘Of course, there is a limit to the capacity of magical power, so it can’t go up beyond a certain level.’
However, all Awoken have limits imposed on their individual essence.
A barrier given by nature that cannot be broken through with ordinary efforts.
In order to somehow increase that limit, Lee Ji-hoo finally devised his own method.
“Self-hypnosis.”
I repeat the words that I have repeated hundreds or thousands of times so far.
At that moment, the mana that was wrapped around his body began to vibrate violently.
The amount of mana, which was not insignificant but just normal, suddenly increased with intense force and radiated to the surroundings.
Self-hypnosis is the power of ‘amplification’.
Just as a pufferfish inflates itself to grow in size, it is the process of artificially heating up the essence by repeatedly spreading one’s own magical power.
It was only after breaking down the wall of limitation that it seemed as if it would never be broken that Jihoo Lee was able to master the technique.
[Apply step 1 of self-suggestion]
[Remaining magic power: 97% → 182%]
[Caution: There is a heavy load on the integer! Please release it quickly!]
[Limit Remaining – 5:59]
As soon as the overflowing mana was captured, a stem flew towards Lee Ji-hoo as if he had been waiting for it.
It was the same fierce speed as before, but now he had enough leeway to escape.
Although it was temporary, it was because the artificially expanded essence greatly increased even the basic physical abilities of the awakened person.
“Ha, did you do some tricks?”
“Now let’s do it properly.”
Lee Ji-hoo turned around and faced Elin.
Being able to maintain the overclocked constant with self-hypnosis is a short time of about 6 minutes, and the game must be decided within that time.
Elin’s face, which was constantly making an annoyed expression, slowly hardened as if she felt something unusual.
And at the same time, Lee Ji-hoo rushed at it like an arrow.
“Goes.”
Take a leap
Kicking the ground, cutting through the air.
The magic power wrapped around her feet is converted into waves and accelerated with the force of reaction.
However, Elin did not just watch the scene.
Her specialty is to force the direction the opponent is moving with her vines over and over again, eventually trapping them completely and making them unable to escape.
The plant stem that grew from Elin’s hand flies like a whip.
Damn!
The sound of hitting, which can hardly be called the sound of plants colliding with the floor, fills the hallway.
Even though its durability has been improved, it is still powerful enough to drive you to the brink of death if you get hit even once.
‘If you’re really on the verge of death, you’ll probably be able to draw out hidden concentration that you didn’t even know about. Well, no matter how hard I hit you, you know I won’t kill you, so you won’t feel it now.’
“Now a little… I think I know!”
A tingling sensation in the skin.
The flow of air, the movement of dust from the previous blow.
Little by little it all starts to feel alive.
The process of dodging an attack becomes more evident as you repeat the process.
The more bubbling mana is drawn out, the more precise the five senses become.
‘But in case you don’t know. If that moment comes…’
‘Then what will happen?’
‘Gaps will start to show. The distance between me and my partner. That small gap that I can reach but the other person can’t reach.’
“…See.”
Thick vines are drawn in a fan shape.
Thin branches branch out in a straight line.
It became possible to naturally predict the movement path of an attack and avoid it.
Then, finally, a point of counterattack that had not been grasped until now came into view.
It is a point that would have been impossible to reach originally.
Even if it did touch it, it would have been blocked by the stems extending from Elin’s body.
But now things were different.
The speed at which you can reach loopholes that plants couldn’t block. In addition, even if he was interrupted in the middle, there was a critical shield that could neutralize the enemy’s fatal attack up to 3 times, so Lee Ji-hoo jumped straight toward Elin without hesitation.
“This bastard…!”
Chaeng-Geurang!
The vine was shot at Lee Ji-hoo as if it were going to pierce it, but the vine was blocked with the sound of fragments breaking.
Elin put on a bewildered expression and tried to stop his movement by pulling up more stems.
[Remaining magic attribute: 133%]
[Limit Remaining – 4:28]
With two critical shields left to take all the stems, he had to accelerate his movement a little more to avoid the attack.
Fortunately, there is still room to the limit, and immediately after putting magic on the lower body, it gains momentum from the waves.
It was an application of Xian’s technology that he had witnessed before.
As he moved faster, his vision blurred for a moment.
It was so far away that even the cognitive abilities that had been raised due to the overheated essence were lost for a moment.
But now it is already too late to slow down again.
I just trusted the feel of the air as if tearing my skin, and my instinctive intuition, and sprinted even faster.
“I’ve changed my mind! Just die here!”
A hazy shape flies toward Lee Ji-hoo’s face.
As he momentarily twisted his direction to avoid it, dozens of lumps flew in front of him as if they had been waiting for them.
He said that all you have to do is fight and win, so he won’t say anything even if you kill him.
It could be really dangerous to control her powers any longer, so Elin decided not to let her hold her hands.
“Tsk… You’re bothering me. You bugger.”
She muttered as she felt her thick vines crushing her soft solid.
Originally, I had planned to just tie him up so he couldn’t move, but I got angry at the moment because he was avoiding me like a flying fly.
“I should have been caught like that.”
Contrary to her cold impression, her personality that is easily swayed by even the slightest stimulation was a sore finger even to herself.
Elin couldn’t help but panic the moment he lifted the vine that was crushing her floor to check on Lee Ji-hoo, who had now become her chunks of minced meat.
“What… Where did he go?”
She must have heard the sound of her flesh bursting just now.
In place of what should have been covered in blood and protein fragments, there was just something like flattened jelly lingering.
“Where is it, behind you. You flytrap bastard!”
“What? You… Keugh!”
At the moment she was perplexed by the absurd situation, she suddenly heard a voice behind her and Elin turned around and allowed a fatal blow to her waist.
Hu, who had been crushed by the vines in front of her until just now, was watching her alive and well.
“Kuluk…! Ugh… Okay, let’s stick together…”
In an instant, Elin’s mood suddenly changed.
Not with an expression like chasing away annoying flying flies, but with the look of a murderer who wants to tear the person she grudges to pieces.
[Remaining magic attribute: 101%]
[Limit Time Remaining – 3: 43]
The fight had just begun.
