Chapter 367 – 366. Flagged for Safe Return, Then Disappeared for a Year
Kwajik-
Hariel and my magic rotated at a terrifying speed, making it look like a drill, and hit Diend’s face accurately.
Diend is hit with a “Drill uppercut” As it is, and his body spins round and round, collapsing to the ground.
“How are you, are you sick? It is a collaboration between Hariel and me.”
“…”
The first collaboration between Hariel and I was magic, not a baby.
Watching Dend get up, thinking that it would have been better if he was a baby.
The face is cracked.
It wasn’t ordinary gold, and a line was drawn from the part I hit to the entire face.
If I hit the same blow one more time, Diend’s face would be shattered.
The moment I thought for a moment that I might be able to win more easily than I thought.
“You must kill. Have to kill have to kill have to kill must be killed.”
Kill me just now … The guy who used to talk like this suddenly repeats his words at an incredibly fast pace.
At the same time, the body wriggles and transforms, and the cracked face is inserted into the body.
Just like Dullahan, a knight without a face, there was nothing left of the original neck.
As if the boss had entered Phase 2, Diend’s appearance was vastly different from the first.
Despite having no neck, Diend’s body was looking straight at me.
Doesn’t that mean you were looking at me with your face in the first place?
“Then.”
I got my magic back.
To pierce that muscular mass and even the hidden crack in the head.
Even in the middle of a rampage, different magical powers are mixed, and they exert their concentration to the fullest, creating even sharper magical power.
“I’ll pierce it again and again.”
I ran straight to Diend.
Seeing me approaching him, Diend immediately swung three fists.
Every time my magic power and Diend’s fists collide, a loud thumping sound resonates.
Diend might have strengthened his fists with some kind of trick, but even when he collided with my sharp magical power, there were only a few flaws.
When you’ve been punching each other so many times.
“”Gravity Inversion””
“What?”
Diend has been using the same magic I used.
Whiik-
Before I was properly surprised by Diend’s words, my eyes quickly spun.
I quickly released Diend’s mana and made it stop before the body was pulled in the opposite direction.
Kwaaang-!
“Kuh..!”
I couldn’t avoid Diend’s blow.
Instead, he protected his body by spreading his mana and minimizing the impact.
Are you copying the magic I used?
I thought it was just a musclemon that fights with an insanely hard body and strength to match that hard body, but this is very unexpected.
Diend was more of a monster than I thought.
“Fuck!”
If I use magic to deliver a proper blow to Diend, it will reflect back to me.
It feels like fighting with me in the mirror, but there is one difference.
However, this guy had incredible hardness, perhaps because his muscle fibers were made of diamonds.
Can’t win now
It was not a situation to take care of ego.
The current balance of power is similar enough that if they bump into each other, they will bounce off each other.
However, with my copying and using my magic and my unique hardness, looking at it overall, I could see that I was clearly being pushed behind by Diend.
That said, since we don’t use magic, there’s no way to inflict the same blow that cracked our face.
And unlike that guy who wasn’t a person and didn’t look tired, I was getting tired little by little.
“Hey Diend.”
“Kill, die, the end is not.”
“Stop talking to yourself… Ah! There is a UFO!”
I point at the back of Diend with my hand and say a line like something out of an old gag cartoon.
Of course, Diend didn’t eat it.
He didn’t even turn around when I pointed back, but Diend just kept a close eye on me, as if he thought my gesture of pointing was a new attack.
It’s this time..!!
There is a saying that the thirty-six series of lines are the best, so my choice right now is very correct.
I’m the only one who loses if I’m trying to put an end to a monster like that.
We fought with the idea that we would run away if we thought we couldn’t win in the first place, so if we ran away quickly…
“”Switch Position””
…You’ve never used magic like this before?
Diend used a spell I had never used before and changed his position with me as I fled towards the entrance of the cave.
I can feel the magical power that seems to contain the will to never let them run away.
Coo goong-
Really fucked up.
As soon as I changed my position, Diend quickly approached me.
Standing in front of me, Diend feels as if he’s smiling even though he doesn’t have a face.
Feeling terrified, I created magic and attacked Diend, blowing off one of its arms.
However, he doesn’t care that his arm is gone, as if it doesn’t matter if he loses at least one more arm.
Thud-! Thud-! Thud-!
“Awesome…”
“Kill it. Kill kill kill.”
What are you supposed to kill while you’re trying to kill me..!
Immediately, he terrifyingly swung his arms at me.
It was reckless swinging of the arms like children swing their arms when they fight, but since the strongest guy in the tower is doing it, it is difficult to endure.
“Cool.”
In the end, Diend’s attack shattered the magic shield I had opened, and I received Diend’s fist with my bare body. I spit out blood from my mouth, probably suffering from severe internal wounds.
It would have been dangerous if it had been hit more like that.
It’s a shame that he quickly pushed back with his magical power and opened the distance. If he properly received Diend’s attack one more time, he would have lost his mind at least.
And if you lose your mind, your limbs will be disintegrated by Diend.
..Gulp.
My heart beats at the thought that I might die without getting out of here.
While I’m trying hard to get out of here alive, Diend, who doesn’t seem to care whether I bleed or not, is trying to kill me properly.
Quaang-!
It ran terribly at me again.
Concentrate…
I have to let that attack somehow and inflict a fatal wound on Diend.
The moment you gather all your mana and prepare for the final blow.
“Hariel…?”
Hariel suddenly jumped out of the ring and hugged me.
The reason why he hugged me like this right before Diend’s terrifying blow was approaching…
Do not do that!
I wondered if he was trying to receive Diend’s attack with his body instead of me.
“Hold tight!”
I reflexively hugged Hariel when he was told to hold on to me as if I were a car preparing for a sudden start.
At the same time as she embraced her, something like black tentacles came out from Hariel and wrapped around her.
Tentacles feel bad..!
The tentacles entwined around every corner of his body made him feel even worse than when he was beaten by Diend.
How the hell do the female protagonists of tentacles do this..?
No, this is not the time to think like this.
The Diend came running towards us just now, but it’s not the power to stop it just by being wrapped in these soft tentacles.
The mana that was prepared for the counterattack was spread and wrapped around Hariel and me.
There was no such thing as Diend’s rush attacking us, despite the magical power surrounding it.
I don’t think Diend hates tentacles either.
It could be that he didn’t want to be touched by these tentacles, so he stopped attacking just before reaching them.
The moment when the tentacles that wrapped around me and Hariel unfolded as if they were being released.
“..Where is this?”
The Diend, which had been charging until just now, was nowhere to be found.
No, Diend didn’t disappear, but Hariel and I seemed to have moved somewhere.
It is a dark space where only minute clusters of light can be seen little by little.
I felt as if I was floating in outer space.
“Now, this place is a dimensional rift.”
“A dimensional rift?”
Hariel nods her head and says.
“It’s a place away from the dimension of the tower where you and Jim were just before. It is literally a place that exists between dimensions. It is also the place where I passed when I came to the tower.”
“But why are you suddenly in a place like this?”
“If you leave it as it is, it seemed like you would die to that monster, but you should be able to just leave it alone.”
Well… I almost died.
If it weren’t for Hariel’s super save, the real she might have died.
I hugged Hariel tightly again.
“The best, Hariel!”
“Huh, heung… It’s only natural for Jim to do this to his precious henchman.”
If you help me like this, I’ll be Hariel’s loyal confidant…!
It is rewarding to have helped me regain my strength so far.
“But didn’t you lose your powers after coming from another dimension? When I go back, I lose my strength again.”
“That was because it flew so far away, but this place is near the top dimension, so don’t worry about that.”
Fortunately, it seemed that there was no need to do useless labor as my strength was torn again.
“Then how are you going now?”
“…”
“Hariel?”
When I asked how things were going, Hariel averted her gaze and couldn’t answer.
“Even if my strength is not perfect, I can escape through the cracks…”
“Can’t you go back?”
“..Yes.”
That’s a bit difficult
“Is there no way to go back?”
“Not so. Jim can teach you the magic to return to the original dimension.”
What is it, then it’s no problem?
If so, he said to Hariel in a way that there was no problem.
“But it’s not that the magic is usually difficult, but how long it will take to master it.”
It seems that even Hariel, who knows my strength, can’t guarantee that I will learn this magic.
But if Hariel did it, of course I can do it too, right?
“Anyway, there’s no way to go back, so tell me quickly.”
“I get it.”
However, as Hariel said, magic to return to the original dimension was really difficult.
It feels like something completely different from the magic I used to use.
However, my learning speed was faster than Hariel expected.
Even so, it was only after I had not slept for about a week and received a magic lecture from Hariel.
“…Was it?”
“All right, all right.”
I was able to return to the tower dimension that was barely in front of me.
The moment I created something like a portal, I jumped in with Hariel without even thinking about it.
As if there were no problems with magic, I was able to return to the tower intact.
The top that went back like that.
A year had passed.
