## Chapter 2383 – 2383. Modern Magic War
I know about Bright, the leader of Luminous, and his magic from Im Hyun-ah.
He’s a sorcerer who uses light magic. They say he mainly fights by shooting beams of light. There wasn’t much other information. Bright hasn’t moved directly much so far. Even when he does move, he thoroughly controls the information.
‘Because of the penalty, I can’t recall what his Ars Magna ability is at all.’
One thing is certain, he’s not someone to take lightly.
Bright pointed at me with his index finger. Light gathered in front of his finger and became a beam, flying towards me. I tried to block it with a wind and water shield.
It pierced through. The beam grazed past my shoulder.
‘Fortunately, the speed is similar to a bullet. The power is clearly more than a bullet. But this can’t be all there is.’
I created wind blades and sent them towards Bright. Bright didn’t dodge. He didn’t need to. The light from his halo completely erased the wind blades.
‘Is it like a constant barrier? It seems like it won’t be easy to break through with just any attack.’
I briefly considered taking out the Hwaryeonbi or the Geumgang Shinroe. But I soon shook my head. I can handle him well enough without weapons.
‘I have Azure Flame. If it really comes down to it, I can just burn everything with Azure Flame.’
Azure Flame burns everything. Magic or magical power is no exception. However, its range is short, so I need to get close.
“I think your free-flowing movements are impressive. But there are things that cannot be avoided.”
Dozens of light beams shot out from behind Bright. The dozens of light beams refracted in the air, filling the space around me as they approached.
Evasion is impossible. I have no choice but to block them.
Thunder Sky Style (雷天流) Electromagnetic Barrier (電磁氣幕) Maximum Output.
Crackling.
The electromagnetic barrier blocked the light beams shooting from all directions. The light beams that had been confusing my vision disappeared, revealing Bright’s opening.
‘I won’t miss it.’
[Acceleration is activated. It will last for 10 minutes. Remaining stacks: 11]
I rush towards Bright. Bright held out both palms towards me. Light flashed and gathered in the center of his palms.
“Have you ever been hit by a light wave? You disappear without even leaving dust behind.”
An extremely thick beam of light that could blow away the studio in an instant was shot towards me.
‘I just need to leap.’
Leap.
I teleported 10 meters to the right.
At that moment, the extremely thick beam of light refracted and came back at me.
Thunder Sky Style (雷天流) Electromagnetic Barrier (電磁氣幕) Maximum Output.
It was impossible to cancel it out.
I was pushed back by the extremely thick beam of light, breaking through the wall and falling out of the broadcasting station building.
‘Shit. Even with maximum output, I couldn’t completely block it. It feels like my whole body is burning.’
At least it wasn’t a burn. The anti-magic unit uniform is a special outfit, so it blocked it once. If it weren’t for the uniform, I might have suffered full-body burns.
Just before hitting the ground, I stopped my body with wind and landed on the ground.
Bright came down directly from the broadcasting station. The light flashing in the dark night sky made him stand out. He didn’t land on the ground but stopped in the air. It seems to be the effect of the halo rather than something he did with light.
“That halo, is it an ability to amplify light?”
It must also have a sensing ability. Otherwise, it wouldn’t make sense for him to react so perfectly when I used Leap.
“That’s one of the abilities this halo has.”
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Gunshots rang out from all directions. The snipers from the police special forces who had surrounded the broadcasting station building all pulled their triggers at once.
It was useless. Bullets would simply disappear as soon as they touched the light coming from Bright’s halo.
Bright swept his hands through the air. The light beams generated from his palms stretched out in all directions, piercing the heads of the hidden snipers.
‘I knew the approximate locations of the snipers with electromagnetic waves, but how did he know?’
Bright’s sensing ability must be at least similar to mine.
Bright shot light beams at me again. I sensed the light beams with electromagnetic waves and dodged or blocked them. The beams that suddenly refracted and changed direction were quite annoying.
Even when I tried to close the distance, it didn’t work as I wanted. Bright seemed to have no intention of engaging in close combat and maintained a distance of at least 30 meters.
Boom!
I dropped lightning on him. It was useless. It was blocked by the light and disappeared. Unless it’s an attack with considerable power, it’s impossible to break through that light and harm Bright.
“How long are you going to continue this meaningless war of attrition? The longer you drag this out, the more disadvantageous it is for you. Ars Magna basically consumes a lot of magical power. Can you maintain that state for another 3 minutes?”
“Did you know? There are grimoires that don’t choose their masters. This is one of them.”
What Bright took out of his pocket was a blue glowing crystal ball. I felt the enormous magical power contained in that ball.
“It’s a grimoire called the Witch’s Orb. The magic of this grimoire is to store magical power. It’s a grimoire that any magician can use. 3 minutes? I can fight for another 30 minutes. How long can you fight?”
30 minutes? With full recovery, I can last that long. But I don’t intend to drag this fight out that long.
I reach out my hand towards him.
Thunder Sky Style (雷天流) Dual Resonance (二重共鳴) Myriad Thunder Spiral (卍雷螺旋).
Red lightning and blue lightning. Two bolts of lightning rotate and resonate, transforming into one force.
A purple laser stretched out towards Bright. Bright’s face instantly hardened, and he quickly moved to the side to dodge.
‘He dodged instead of blocking… That means he knew that if he didn’t dodge, something terrible would happen. It’s a technique he’s seeing for the first time? Did he dodge by instinct? Or…’
While dodging his light beams, I counterattacked with Myriad Thunder. An attack with a similar motion to Myriad Thunder Spiral. But he didn’t dodge.
‘How about this.’
I took out a tungsten bead from my pocket and threw it into the air.
[Moment (刹那) is activated. Remaining stacks: 10]
In the slowed-down world, I focused my concentration for a moment and instantly laid down an electromagnetic rail.
Thunder Sky Style (雷天流) Railgun (電磁砲).
The railgun was fired at him in the air. Seven times the speed of sound. It’s impossible to see and dodge. The best he can do is sense the magical power, feel something is wrong, and dodge.
‘But this bastard… He moved the moment I threw the tungsten bead into the air. Even before I laid down the electromagnetic rail.’
I curled up the corners of my lips.
“Now I see. The real ability of that halo is to see the near future. Am I wrong?”
“That’s right. The halo shows me the near future related to me. But so what? What changes just because you know that? Your attacks will never reach me.”
“It changes. It means I don’t need to waste time anymore. You can see the future, so attacks don’t work? I just need to land an unavoidable attack.”
Jeunryeong.
I held a blue-sided dodecagonal metal plate in my hand. The Jeunryeong, enhanced by the Light Ascension Sword, allows me to control water and wind, but… its essence is to control clouds. In other words, it was about manipulating the weather as I pleased.
A large amount of mana drained away, and dark clouds appeared in the sky. The dark clouds that filled the sky in an instant poured down rain and flickered with lightning. Lightning swam and resonated within the dark clouds.
“You’re crazy. Are you planning to blow up this entire area?”
“Why? Did you see a future where you die?”
“That won’t happen. You’ll die first.”
Bright swung his right arm. A giant pillar of light fell from the sky towards me.
Concentrating on my senses, I felt an unusual flow of magical power and dodged to the side.
Thunder Sky Style (雷天流) Flying Thunder God (飛雷神).
Bright continued to swing his arm. Pillars of light, blades of light, beams of light. One after another, destructive attacks flew in succession.
The pillars of light created sinkholes, and the blades of light cut through buildings, causing them to collapse. The beams of light were simple yet had deadly power.
But with the combination of the Heavenly Eye, electromagnetic waves, and Flying Thunder God, there was nothing I couldn’t dodge.
Large-scale attacks like pillars of light inevitably consume a large amount of magical power, and the Heavenly Eye visualizes and shows it. Pillars of light? Dodging them wasn’t difficult.
Bright bit his lip. He felt impatient. The distance between me and him was getting closer. Bright didn’t dodge. Because the closer the distance, the harder it is to dodge light beam attacks. Conversely, it’s just as dangerous for him.
I stepped on the air and approached Bright at high speed. Light flowed out from Bright’s entire body, covering me.
Ars Magna, Azure Flame (蒼炎).
I approached Bright, burning the light with blue flames. Bright paused, then soon resigned himself.
“If I move from here, a large amount of lightning will fall and erase this entire area, and if I don’t move from here, I’ll burn to death alone… The future is fixed. Did you deliberately lead me here? You’re an absurd one.”
“If it were me, I would have left this place first.”
“Run away abandoning everything? I’ve already accepted death. Running away is not an option for me.”
“Okay. That’s why you’re dying here.”
Whoosh.
Blue flames rose and began to burn Bright.
Instead of screaming, Bright looked straight at me and said.
“Our battle is being broadcast live. People will also know that you tried to destroy this entire area to kill me. You can’t avoid people’s criticism now. You can’t be a hero.”
“So what? I’ve never cared about that from the beginning.”
“I still can’t understand exactly what your purpose is… but at least you’re better than the hypocrites of this rotten country.”
Bright turned to ash and disappeared.
