## Chapter 1161 – 1161. Savior Of The Academy
I stood in front of Sung Hari, blocking her path.
Sung Hari didn’t like using her Spirit Devourer trait. I didn’t want to force my woman to do something she hated.
The wind that was blowing brushed past me.
[Are you going to interfere?]
A wind spirit I was seeing for the first time, facing off against Sung Hari. It was obvious whose side I was on. It would be nice if we could talk it out… but the wind spirit had already gone too far. There would be no reasoning with it.
I pointed my sword at the spirit. The spirit’s elephant-like face contorted as if it were hurt.
[So, you’re just a human after all.]
The wind grew fiercer. The tip of my sword swayed left and right, affected by the wind.
“Oppa, I can handle this here…”
“Hari, you don’t like using that skill, right? I’ll take care of it, so just stay put.”
Even as I spoke, the wind was getting stronger. It felt like I was talking in front of a powerful fan.
‘I need to get close and target the core. Let’s finish this in one go.’
I ran towards the spirit.
The direction of the wind changed. It suddenly became an updraft, lifting my body into the sky. At this rate, I’d end up like those three Chinese guys getting toyed with.
‘Stormbreaker!’
Stormbreaker appeared in front of me, disassembled, and attached itself to my body, becoming armor. The added weight pulled my body downwards. The spirit’s trunk moved. The wind grew stronger, lifting my body upwards.
‘Sung Hari… thankfully, she’s out of the wind’s influence. She’s got good instincts, as always.’
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Blades of wind struck the armor. They lacked the power and cutting ability to pierce Stormbreaker. Above all, the armor was dense. The wind couldn’t reach my skin.
That didn’t mean I had the upper hand in the fight against the spirit. If the spirit changed how it controlled the wind, I would be helpless.
‘Machina.’
Machina, in her spirit form, popped up next to me. Machina was unaffected by the wind in her spirit form. At the same time, she couldn’t use any power either.
[Are you calling me already? I thought I was supposed to be watching that bald old man?]
I had assigned Machina the task of tailing and monitoring Yang Zixin. I had a feeling there was something going on.
‘Can’t you see that this is an urgent situation? Possess Stormbreaker.’
[Alright.]
Machina answered readily and possessed Stormbreaker. It was the effect of the spirit stones she had been oiled with recently.
‘If only she were like this all the time.’
As Machina possessed it, the armor’s design changed into a futuristic suit. Especially the right hand, which transformed into a round, cylindrical cannon. The cannon’s muzzle glowed and spun around. It absorbed the surrounding wind and used it as power.
Machina’s abilities were versatile. However, the downside was that it consumed a lot of mana.
[Charging complete! Now all I have to do is shoot!]
The problem was that the wind was so strong that aiming was difficult.
Click.
Steel wings emerged from my back. The wings helped me maintain balance in the swirling wind. With Machina’s support, things were much easier in many ways.
Bang!
A mass of energy was fired from the cannon at the spirit. The spirit quickly twisted its body to avoid my attack. At that moment, the three Chinese people who had appeared behind the spirit swung their swords at it. As befitting A-class heroes, they had escaped the wind on their own and attacked the spirit.
[Aaaaaaah!]
The spirit screamed as its core was hit. I aimed the cannon at the spirit. It wasn’t fully charged yet, but I used my mana to charge it instantly and fired an energy blast.
Just before the energy blast reached the spirit, a huge wind rose up, forming a barrier that soared into the sky. The three Chinese people who had approached the spirit were also pushed back.
[I won’t forgive you! I won’t forgive you! I won’t forgive you!!!]
The spirit went berserk. As if responding to it, the spirit core flashed brightly.
‘Is it trying to use its power by using its very existence? This is… really dangerous.’
The opponent was a high-level spirit. Its berserk power would be enough to obliterate the entire area around here.
I had to finish it before the spirit could use its power.
‘How…’
[That auntie is moving?]
“What?”
I lowered my head and looked at Sung Hari.
Sung Hari was biting her lip and approaching the spirit. Sharp winds blocked her, but she moved forward step by step. Sung Hari wasn’t unscathed either. Every time she approached the spirit, the wind injured her body. Drops of blood were carried upwards by the wind, and her black hair fluttered wildly.
“Sung Hari! Get back!!”
I shouted with all my might. But whether it was buried by the powerful wind, Sung Hari showed no reaction.
‘…If she can’t hear me, I have no choice but to go myself.’
I tilted the center of my body, which had been floating using the wind, downwards. Normally, I should have fallen down, but… the falling speed was very slow due to the strong wind. And the power of the wind was getting stronger.
“Machina! Is there no way?!”
[No. It’s too late. Even if you use the thrusters, the wind is stronger inside! You saw it block the energy blast!]
“……”
Wouldn’t it be possible if I used Heavenly Heart?
[But how is that auntie holding up? Normally, she would have been blown away by the wind like those people earlier.]
I belatedly felt the question. How was Sung Hari moving forward in that wind? Was it because of her superior physical abilities? That couldn’t be. Sung Hari’s physical abilities weren’t that great right now. She was at a similar level to the three Chinese people who had been blown away earlier.
Then was it because her will was strong? There are things in the world that can be done with will, and things that can’t. And there are more things that can’t.
‘It’s the Spirit Devourer (S) trait.’
It was certain that the Spirit Devourer (S) reduced the damage received from spirits.
[Yujin, are you just going to stand there?]
“……”
I looked at Sung Hari. Sung Hari was moving forward with her own will. Was it okay for me to stop her? Was that what Sung Hari really wanted?
“…I respect Sung Hari’s choice.”
Still, I kept an eye on Sung Hari. If anything happened, I would rush to her.
[That auntie looks like she’s in so much pain! What should we do!]
Machina’s worried voice echoed in my head. Sung Hari’s condition was so serious that she was worried. Her clothes were tattered by the wind, and every time she walked, bloody footprints were left on the ground.
And Sung Hari finally reached the spirit.
[G-Get away!!]
The spirit’s shout was filled with fear. Sung Hari silently moved forward.
The spirit didn’t back down even though it was feeling fear. Instead, it attacked Sung Hari. A powerful whirlwind, strong enough to instantly devastate the surrounding area, engulfed Sung Hari.
Sung Hari swung her spear.
The wind was cut and disappeared. Sung Hari then approached the spirit. Her spear pierced the spirit core accurately.
[A… Aaaaaaah! Aaaaaaaaaaah!]
The spirit let out a desperate scream. I could see the spirit moving the wind as its last struggle. Looking at the wind gathering at one point in the air, it was going to explode it like a bomb. But the wind stopped gathering and disappeared.
To be precise, the spirit’s power had been absorbed by Sung Hari.
[…That auntie ate the spirit.]
Machina said in a serious tone. It was understandable. From Machina’s point of view, it was a scene of her own kind being eaten.
‘It doesn’t look as grotesque as I thought it would.’
The wind disappeared.
My body fell downwards. Thanks to Machina using the thrusters in the middle, I landed safely on the ground.
I approached Sung Hari, who was standing there with a dazed look.
“Hari, are you okay?”
Sung Hari nodded weakly.
“I’m okay.”
Looking at her up close, her body was a mess. Torn clothes and a body soaked in blood. Fortunately, there were no fatal injuries. I took out a potion and poured it on her head.
The blood on her body was washed away by the potion. Her scarred skin was also restored to smoothness by the top-grade potion.
“Is it okay to use such expensive potions like that?”
She said playfully, as if to change the somber mood.
“You’re more important than any potion.”
“…Thank you, Oppa.”
I also summoned new clothes and gave them to her. Sung Hari was about to change her clothes right away, but then stopped. Three Chinese people were approaching from afar. They were covered in wounds.
“You had a potion.”
“I wish you would give us a potion too.”
“We will repay you for the potion later.”
They were demanding a potion with confidence.
‘Machina.’
[Okay!]
Weeeeeeeng.
A drone appeared in the sky and flew towards the Chinese people. The Chinese people’s eyes widened. They hadn’t seen a drone before, so they didn’t immediately recognize it. Soon, they tried to avoid the drone, but the magnetic field emitted from the drone restricted their movements.
[Hahaha! It’s a self-destruct!]
Machina shouted cheerfully.
The result was not so cheerful. A huge explosion occurred, blowing away the entire surrounding area. It was a natural result that a crater was formed on the ground as if a meteorite had fallen.
The three Chinese people were annihilated without a trace.
“Hahaha! This is my power! You humans!”
Machina, who had materialized, laughed with her arms crossed.
It was originally difficult for Machina to exert this much power on her own, but the spirit stones she had consumed over the past time and the special environment that had been transformed into the spirit realm had given Machina power.
Machina slowly flew towards us.
Sung Hari’s expression wasn’t good. It wasn’t because the three Chinese people had died, but because she seemed to be afraid of Machina’s reaction.
Machina was a spirit, and Sung Hari had literally eaten a spirit in front of Machina. She was probably afraid that Machina would fear or hate her.
“Hari, you’re not going to die, are you?”
“I-I’m okay.”
“That’s a relief!”
Machina nestled into Sung Hari’s arms as she always did. Sung Hari’s eyes widened. She then smiled faintly as if relieved and hugged Machina.
“Thank you for worrying, Machina.”
It was a relief that Machina wasn’t an ordinary spirit. Compared to Mocha, a high-level spirit who was unknowingly wary of Sung Hari, Machina didn’t shy away from Sung Hari at all.
Afterwards, Sung Hari went to the trees, changed her clothes, and came out.
I secretly peeked. I didn’t know if there were any injuries on the unseen parts.
I was tempted to pounce on her because my lust was surging, but I decided to hold back because Sung Hari had a serious expression.
“Hari, why don’t we just run away? In my opinion, this situation stinks too much.”
I smashed the radio provided by the Chinese Hero Association. That alone was enough to make the Chinese Hero Association an enemy, but I had even killed three Chinese heroes. The relationship with the Chinese Hero Association was already as bad as it could get. It was advantageous to run away.
“If we run away, millions of people on this island will die.”
“You’re more important to me than millions of people I don’t even know.”
“Oppa…”
Sung Hari’s face turned red.
A pink atmosphere enveloped us.
It might not be so bad to spend some happy time like this.
Kwang!
An explosion rang out, and Sung Hari quickly composed herself.
“Let’s go, Oppa.”
