City ​​of Witches 1205

Chapter 1205 – #284_The Witch Of Proverbs (4)

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1.
Orselia’s tactics were very simple.

She didn’t utilize various artifacts and mystic codes in a timely manner like Bianca.
Nor did she enforce bizarre rules through spatial control using a position board like Rosie.
She didn’t create distortions that transcended space like Urshula.
She didn’t handle unpredictable lightning strikes using ‘Tu-ro’ as a magic circle, like Heria, which seemed simple at first glance.
She didn’t use special coins to wield a variety of colorful magic like Lydia.

Physical attacks by rapidly swinging Erysichthon.
Attacks and defenses using Erysichthon’s powerful predation ability.

As far as we’ve confirmed, that’s it.

However, there’s something you shouldn’t misunderstand.

Just because her attack pattern is simple doesn’t mean she’s weak.
Was my teacher’s fame as a martial god due to the complexity and unpredictability of his magic?

Her strength came from honing the one-pattern victory principle of ‘approach and cut’ to its extreme.

Orselia was similar.

Although her pattern was simple, her pure raw power was higher than any witch she had faced so far.

Based on that high power, she posed a vicious question.

‘Try to dodge this. Can’t dodge? Then block it. Can’t block?’

And she even predetermined the answer.

‘Then you should die,’

she would say.

On top of that, she, who was known to be in the 23rd tier, was actually in the 24th tier.
There was still bound to be a gap between her and Siwoo, who was in the 23+1 tier.

To use a game analogy, it was the difference between a 4-star and a 5-star character.

But fighting strong opponents was a familiar thing.
Siwoo tried to break through step by step.

-Krrrrrrrrrr!

As if heaven and earth were being overturned, Erysichthon’s tentacles surged like a tidal wave.

Siwoo, who had seen one of those seemingly insignificant tentacles easily devour a Titan’s arm, couldn’t help but think that this barrage was too much.

“You’re dodging like a rat, aren’t you?”

Orselia’s mocking sneer could be heard through the sound of the air being torn, but Siwoo didn’t care.
Instead, he began to find ways to respond within the irregular offensive.

-Whoosh!

A tentacle that had been swaying kilometers away became blurry.
By the time he had decided ‘it’s coming,’ destruction was already right in front of him.

It was her fastest attack, the ‘whip’.

-Kwagwagwagwang!

The tip of the whip, which had accelerated while drawing a flowing curve, barely missed him. Even though it had only grazed the air, the shockwave that followed made the surface of his armor vibrate sharply.

The problem was that this swing didn’t end with just one.

Using the initial strike as a signal, dozens of tentacles flew in, leaving blurry afterimages as if folding space.

The explosions from the tips of the tentacles that detonated in succession were not singular.
Like the sound of a minigun, it was closer to ‘bwaaaak’ than ‘bang bang bang’ when actually heard.

-Giiiiing!

However, Siwoo wasn’t showing everything either.

The biggest limitation of mobility through black armor and physical enhancement was that damage and fatigue accumulated when performing transcendent movements.
In the end, the durability of the spirit body had its limits.

That’s why he always ended up in a tattered, battered state after a battle and had to be hospitalized.

However, the Titan was the ultimate weapon that achieved both output and stability.
Special coolant and neutralizer were injected from the cylinders built into each joint of the armor ‘Titan’.

-Tsssh!

Steam leaked out through the gaps in the armor, along with a sound like water being poured onto a hot griddle.

The Titan, which had absorbed the burden that Siwoo should have taken, moved nimbly with faster, transcendent mobility than before, despite its bulk.

At first, it was a barrage that couldn’t even be properly identified with dynamic vision, but Siwoo had written countless underdog comeback stories.

After being hit a few times, he quickly got the hang of it.

Erysichthon’s own speed was not to be underestimated, but the reason it could reach such speeds was ultimately due to its characteristic of being ‘wielded like a whip’.

It moved according to the same physical laws as a regular whip, such as wave nature, centrifugal force, and elastic waves.
It was just that the numbers applied to those laws were unrealistically large.

Therefore, compared to the tip, which reached hundreds of times the speed of sound, the movement of the end part was at a level that could be identified with the eyes.

To put it simply, like clearing a rhythm game where the notes disappear in the middle, you could predict the movement of the whip’s tip by looking at the movement of the end part.

-Whack! Whack!

He slashed through the relentless barrage with two differently colored spears in both hands.

Sometimes they were swung alternately left and right, and sometimes they were slashed in a flashy windmill-like motion.

Although Erysichthon’s digestive and predatory abilities were formidable, the Red Branch and the Poisonous Thorn were also extraordinary weapons.
As he observed, the digestive power weakened the further away from Orselia, and it couldn’t devour the distortion field and neurotoxins in time.

-Kwagwagwagwang!

The ends of Erysichthon’s body, which had been cut off like vines, flew off as if launched by inertia, burying themselves deep into the ground, leaving craters, or shooting into the sky until they disappeared from sight.

“Haaah!!!”

Siwoo, who was cutting down the merciless barrage that even a supersonic camera couldn’t properly capture, was rapidly closing the distance with Orselia.

Rather than testing Erysichthon’s digestive power with mid-to-long-range combat and feeding it, he decided to directly stab the main body with his spear.

He disrupted the enemy’s striking points with deceleration and rapid acceleration, and he reacted to the tentacles that occasionally stretched out like a chameleon’s tongue and stabbed directly, by looking at them.

If both of those were not possible, he used the Titan’s own defensive ‘feathers’ to deflect them, making them slide off the armor.

-Crrrrrrk

Every time the densely grown teeth slid over the absolute power shield, making a gruesome sound, a sense of crisis that made his nerves fray tightened his chest, but not a single mistake occurred in the series of movements that were like a performance.

Not many veteran witches had a history of fighting as desperately and putting their lives on the line as Siwoo.
Not many had led matches that were unanimously deemed impossible to a come-from-behind victory.

From the perspective of other witches, Siwoo was quite the monster.

Orselia was also impressed.

“Impressive, aren’t you? You’re really amazing. You can deal with it that way.”
“If you like it so much, why don’t you just die quietly?”
“That’s a problem. I’ve already decided to eat you.”

It was worth a try.
Siwoo thought, pushing back the tentacles that barely grazed his eyes.

He had arrived after tearing through, grabbing, and cutting down the thorny vines that were alive with magic.

The figure of Orselia, who had become the queen of the hive by activating ‘Liberation Stage 3’ and merging with Erysichthon, was visible just 50 meters ahead.

It was much easier to deal with the tentacle whips at this distance.

Even if they cleverly detoured from a distance to strike Siwoo, he could observe the movement of the end part much closer.

Therefore, what he needed to be careful of from this distance was not the attacks that were wielded like whips.

The strange, deformed tentacles that were directly connected to the flesh-made tulips that Orselia was sitting on like a sofa.
Those hideous tentacles, which looked like muscular spoon worms that had been stretched out smoothly and had large mouths attached to them, were the second obstacle.

As Siwoo had confirmed through the bombardment, those had a much more voracious appetite and digestive power than ordinary tentacles.
They had even devoured the distortion field falling from the sky in an instant.

-Hooong!

Siwoo’s concentration, sharpened like a blade, reacted as if he knew even the attacks coming from behind.

“You’re dodging that?”

Siwoo ignored the chorus of surprised voices coming from all directions and focused his concentration.

Then he would reach it.
The convergence point of concentration where all consciousness is focused on one place.

He could feel the movement of each and every grain of magic power, and the roar that was circling in his ears changed into a very slow and heavy bass.
A strange sensation where the signals of all the terminal nerves were directly connected to the brain.
Even the time it took to exhale felt like an eternity.

-Giiiiiiing

In a world that was moving in slow motion.

The angel’s halo slowly rotated and began to emit a pure white glow.

Siwoo’s specialty, the overlapping of magnetic magic.

If he used the angel’s halo three times, he could increase the output of magic power dozens of times in an instant, without considering efficiency.

A huge amount of magic power, as if a dam had collapsed, flowed along the magic circuit that had been reinforced with coating, making him feel like he could do anything.

“Waaaaaaahhhhhh.”

Orselia’s mouth slowly opened in the slowed-down time, and her pupils widened in shock.

However, as expected of a witch who was experienced in battle, the 15 ‘deformed tentacles’ that Siwoo had been keeping an eye on as a target of concern rushed in almost instinctively, without any time lag.

Not yet.

He had come this far with difficulty, so this wasn’t enough.
If he attempted a half-hearted attack and it went to waste, it would turn into the enemy’s power instead.
He had to be sure.

He hadn’t just been busy approaching so far.

While closing the combat distance, he had also diligently analyzed ‘Erysichthon’.

Erysichthon’s speed of devouring magic was very fast, but its speed of devouring things that were ‘difficult to digest,’ such as distortion fields or toxins, was relatively slow.

The point was that he had to unleash a firepower that exceeded Erysichthon’s digestive power in one go.

Of course, it was impossible that the other witches who had been devoured by her so far hadn’t noticed this simple fact.
What made the difference between those victims and him was whether he could put the theory into practice.

-Patsutsutsutsutsu

He poured all of the amplified magic power into the Red Branch.

Siwoo had already understood all the elements of the Red Branch.
He had incorporated it into himself not simply as a mystic code, but as a conceptual magic that dealt with distortion.

The shape of the spear was not a problem at all.
The Red Branch, which had been thrashing about like a seizure, melted, boiled, and reconstructed its shape.

A very small dot appeared where the spear had disappeared.

Around the black dot, which had turned black due to the overlapping of the red color unique to the distortion field, a red storm that had not yet been contained rose, preventing the tentacles from approaching.

The closer to the center of the black dot, the more the space was distorted and torn to pieces.

“That’s… what are you doing?”

As you can see from Orselia’s shocked expression, this was a power that even Siwoo couldn’t control.

Like Periwinkle, he had given up on delicate control and had simply condensed ‘distortion’ in a crude manner.

When the power loaded at the extreme point broke free from Siwoo’s control and exploded all at once.
An uncontrollable storm of distortion would arise here, twisting everything.

However, Siwoo was very close to the distortion field.

How many times had the distortion field torn Siwoo’s body to shreds while he was struggling to survive in this world?

He judged that if he used the Titan’s defensive capabilities, his ability to control the barrier, and neutralized the distortion field by creating waves, he could barely avoid the disaster he had created himself.

But….

“How about you?”
“Eh.”

To catch Orselia, he couldn’t just stay in the safe zone.
Once.
If that wasn’t enough, he would have to play a dice game with his life a few times.

— — — — — — — — — —!!!!

A terrifying explosion and a red flash engulfed Siwoo and Orselia, and even the entire port city.