Chapter 237 – Sleeping Flame (4)
‘Let’s think about it. What was that bastard afraid of the most?’
It was impossible to read the expression on a face completely different from that of a human. Still, it was a good guess for now. Were there any clues that could lead to victory?
‘Flame? It didn’t work. Chill? Rather than being scared, he must have missed it.’
The most effective hit was a drop kick.
Beating the body to eviscerate seemed to work much better than slicing through the hide.
So, with the lineup of skills I could use, it would have been the smartest way to buff them and physically hit them.
But this method was more likely to just make the motherfucker unnecessarily serious.
Although I couldn’t kill them instantly, I had to cut down on my combat power, so I felt like the giant kid was really going to fall behind, so if I tried to get cold from my body, I could be fucked.
‘I have to ventilate at least the coldness of this space.’
With that in mind, I activated 〈 Lightning Missiles 〉 with the Brimless Spear.
Thanks to the increased proficiency, 11 electric beads came to mind without a spell. The giant was not wary. Maybe you’re happy to waste your mana on non-lethal attacks.
Stupid asshole I twisted the corner of my mouth and fired 〈 arrows 〉.
“Get some fresh air and live! It smells like a widower, you ice age freak!”
─Pajijijik!!
〈 bolts of lightning 〉 hit the target I was aiming for.
──The barrier of illusion on the ceiling that covered this crater.
“──Gqqqqqqqqqqq!!!!”
The giant finally shouted in astonishment.
No, it didn’t seem like a surprise.
It was, to put it mildly, fear. A seizure as if a person with a fear of heights was loaded into a helicopter with the door open! The giant threw a newly made ice shield at me with his flagship.
Also, that guy is an asshole. I chuckled and activated 〈 Lightning Arrows 〉 again.
Pajijijijik-!!
The barrier was fried by lightning and became translucent. It seemed that it would only take one shot from now on, and the idiot over there provided the weapon for the finale.
I grabbed the ice shield and threw it into the sky like a howling wolf.
When the ice block made of water mana collided, the barrier could not withstand and was shattered.
Fragments of the barrier pouring down like windows, probably thanks to the lightning strike! I mercilessly declared
“—From now on, sun drying.”
“Guaaaaa!!!!”
As the sunlight poured in, the giant trembled like a mystic who had been attacked by cockroaches.
─Pushuuuuu!!
A giant who slashes even those who save mana and exudes cold air from his entire body.
It was a much harsher reaction than I expected. Come to think of it, did he hesitate to come out into the sunlight even when he was trying to stop Veronica’s magic?
It doesn’t seem to be damaged by sunlight, but it seemed like it was mentally difficult to endure.
─Thump thump thump!! The giant ran to the exit blocked by Ji. Is he thinking of running away?
“Where are you running away!!”
Immediately chased. There are many reasons not to miss it, but the biggest reason was that the battlefield shouldn’t be a narrow cave. When cold air fills a small space, it freezes in an instant!
Veronica’s brothel is still there. I have to chase
─Wooooo!!!
As I made that decision, I took the first step, and a sudden gust of wind blocked my path. Mixed with the smell of tropical rain forest grass, I noticed a variable I hadn’t thought of.
“Fuck! Is it a downdraft!!”
The cold air in the crater and the hot air of the tropical climate met and the wind blew into this space.
In addition to physical phenomena, the flow of mana was also felt.
I guess so. It was said that the heat of the island was caused by the mana of the flame. It collided with the mana of the water that created the coldness of the giant and offset it, creating such a wild gust of wind.
Like the wind magic Tirsi often used, the wind blocked her way!
Even with the power of a superhuman, you can’t break through!
‘If I keep doing this, I’ll miss it!’
According to the strategy, it was intended to make it easier to work by removing the cold, and to suppress it with Veronica’s gravity.
I figured that if I jumped up and gave him a kick to his spine under gravity, I’d be able to kill him instantly. However, even this makes it difficult to pinpoint the location by sound!
─Wooooo!!
I gritted my teeth at the squall blowing into the crater in the tropics.
Thanks to the cold air, the remaining water vapor from my 〈 Cloud Summon 〉 sparkled like diamond dust and rose into the sky.
“—Ah.”
I stared at it nervously and stupidly, then caught my breath with a sudden, neuronal realization.
The insignificant knowledge seen and heard on Earth gave inspiration to natural phenomena that the human body could not overcome. I clasped my hands as if a painter painting a landscape were watching a natural phenomenon.
Convection phenomenon. It is a convection phenomenon.
Molecules flow from dense to less dense and from hot to cold.
So did Mana. Conflicting mana collides and cancels out. In untouched nature, it was a daily occurrence.
I recalled my 21st century knowledge.
The collision of high heat and cold air is canceled by plus or minus zero.
But sometimes it doesn’t just end there. Isn’t a typhoon a natural phenomenon that occurs when factors such as high pressure, low pressure, turbulence, heat and cold are combined?
‘──Can I do it?’
While I was skeptical of the possibility, I operated my mana according to my intuition.
It would be very difficult to realize the idea that popped into my head now. It’s like a child who only knows the four arithmetic operations is challenging high school mathematics.
‘No, I can.’
Crush the negative doubts in your grasp and crush them.
In theory, anything is possible. Because magic is originally created by combining spells and spells. Couldn’t a person with really excellent skills be able to handle opposite attributes together!
The unicorn warlock I saw was like that, and the underground ruins of the ghost city were like that.
If the hypothesis is proven, the only thing left is to challenge it!
I let go of the window and consciously cast a spell.
“〈 Burning Touch〉.”
– Hwareuk! A flame bloomed in his right hand.
“〈 Freezing Touch〉.”
─Bad! A chill settled in his left hand.
I applied the mana of both hands to the output of Beast Return. The doubled output warmed up and cooled the raging wind. Close his eyes and concentrate, continuing to add to his magic.
“〈 Summon Cloud 〉.”
As the pressure of the steam increased, the hot air finally began to rotate.
As the red hot steam and the blue cold steam circulated, the small wind started to blow by itself, picking up speed without me adding any force.
It’s a success.
Could it be because of the power of nature? I was able to succeed even with my lack of skills until I made a whirlwind.
I wasn’t happy at all and only broke out in a cold sweat.
‘Mr. Feet… !! It’s fucking difficult… !!’
The wind could be caught and kept under control.
However, the difference in proficiency in my magic became a problem. I whirled around and held back the wind that was trying to get away from me.
Compared to 〈 Blazing Touch 〉, which is capable of casting spells, 〈 Freezing Touch 〉 lacked proficiency. 〈 Cloud Summoning 〉 wasn’t a high-output magic, so when the centrifugal force of rotation increased, the steam pressure couldn’t contain the wind.
‘If I give up here, it’ll just become a skill inferior to wind magic!’
My wind would be eaten by the squall blowing in this crater,
You can’t just give the giant time to bounce!
That’s when I clenched my fist until it bled.
【Star Wind (Stjǫrnunnar Skjötari).】
Gravity trapped the wind.
“This is another interesting idea. He is indeed my master.”
Familiar mana. There is dignity in a free subject, and the wind seems to be shackled somewhere! When the shackles were released, the wind that seemed to blow as far as I wanted to go embraced my mana.
“The rune of ᛏ (Teiwaz) that leads the stars is also the rune of wishing for victory.”
As I said that, I felt Veronica’s hand on my back.
“Do whatever you like. As your attendant, I will also lend a hand.”
Veronica laughs heartily. It was a wonderful help. What you can’t do alone, you can do together.
─Kiiiiing!!
I posted the magic output.
After passing through the spell, my mana turned into mana of fire and water and drew a Taegeuk pattern.
The Confucian dragon inside me roared. Gushin’s mana, which is not useful for magic, was delighted by the wind blowing through the sky like a puppy out for a walk in a month.
When the spinning wind turned into a storm, I muttered as if opening a closed door.
It felt as if someone from far away had given a name to magic.
“——The Absolute Sky Area.”
-Hoo-wook.
The wind blew and the air became heavy.
Around us, a space about 10 meters in diameter became solemn like a heavenly temple. It was a majestic space where even uttering a word seemed to be qualified.
Outside such areas, waves of clouds blew majestically.
It’s like a hurricane bent from the sky.
There was no mistake in such sentiment. This area is literally the eye of a small typhoon. The magic I used was to reproduce a natural phenomenon called a typhoon.
I stretched out my hand and called out to the window.
– Whirik.
Chang, who had fallen on the floor, faithfully followed the master’s call. The spear resting in the palm of my hand was hung in the sky like a flag. Are you watching, you ghost of Deutsch’s supernatural power?
“House.”
Gathered a typhoon in the window.
Like the threads of a cotton candy machine, the wind gathered around the blade, and the rune of ᚨ (Ansuz) engraved on it turned the wind into gold.
Veronica’s magic assisted her lack of control. Even without words, we shared images only through the flow of mana.
Like that, the golden wind wrapped around the blade and took the shape of a scythe.
It is said that Odin, the heavenly god, also has an aspect as a death god.
A god who descends from the sky on a shin horse, drives a storm, and harvests life like a god of death.
I reproduced a part of that divine prestige with the power of encounters that I had accumulated.
It’s different from the time when I gained wisdom and ran into rage like a beast. Now neither anger nor madness ate it.
So I proudly brandished my scythe and roared.
“——Odin!!!! Your fake is back!!!!”
He violently swung the scythe that had been forged from the storm.
I didn’t know the direction, but it didn’t matter. I could tell with my eyes closed where the giant living in the shade would run away from the blue sky.
──Suddenly.
The scythe cut through the realm of the solemn sky, cut through the squall, and even cut through the distance that the giants wanted to live in.
The scythe of the storm split my front up and down in less than a second.
“──G, giiiiieeeeeq!!!!!!!!!!.”
Hit by the wind, the giant was cut in half at the waist. As the leather, which was stronger than steel, broke like Styrofoam, the upper body, caught in the wind, spun 720 degrees, pouring blood.
─It’s iron!!
The giant died in the crater where Noise returned.
─Quarrrr!!!
And, the whirlwind, whose power had not been attenuated by half, left huge nail marks on the cliff where the exit was. It was because I forgot and forgot to control the power.
“”Ah.””
We were dumbfounded and opened our mouths. Because I guessed what was going to happen next.
─Rumble!!
The cliffs of the crater collapsed without being able to withstand the marks of the nails. The exit from the cliff was, of course, blocked by the bedrock.
“… …”
“… …”
I froze in the scythe-wielding stance, and Veronica gaped her mouth and became a stone statue.
“… There must be an exit somewhere else, right?”
“… If not, I will pick you up and fly. Well. Maybe.”
That’s how we stood stupidly and ended the fight with the giant with an embarrassing mental victory.
Fuck. You can’t help it.
It’s my first skill, so how do you control your strength?
***
Veronica and I sat casually on the floor to catch our breath.
“Ha, Speel. I am so damn tired.”
As I lay on my sprawl and thought about it, Veronica answered while drinking a canteen.
“Still, you hardly used your own mana, did you?”
“Is that a strange expression? I’ve used 80% of my max mana. It is correct to say that ‘it took less mana compared to the power’.”
Absolute sky realm was a magic that drew mana in the natural state by combining 3-4 magics.
In other words, it is a skill that uses magic using natural mana, which is found in a mass market. Although the level is lower than what I wrote in a state of runaway.
‘Even that I can’t reproduce on my own.’
It was difficult right now because there were several problems piled up.
It would be possible if a wizard like Veronica, who has the same mind and has excellent skills, cooperates, or if my magic skills are several times greater than they are now.
‘But it’s always good to have a goal set.’
Recently, I felt like I had neglected magic because I had only practiced [Guerture], But it was a good experience to feel that I was close to my goal.
The runaway mode is so different that it is difficult to reproduce.
“Grunt.”
After resting for a while, I got up.
Now that the battle was won, it was time to loot an important item. I approached the corpse of a giant lying in the distance. His upper and lower body had been severed and his intestines were rolling on the floor.
Whoops. I pinched my nose at the hoarse smell of blood.
“Your gut. It’s like kimchi in a barrel, it’s very ugly.”
─SuwaaaaaFF
As I approached, the old god’s mana began to rise from the corpse.
You don’t need a kill check. I heard the seal
Shuwaaaaa!!!!
I was thinking of taking off the skin after absorbing all the young mana, but the mana coming out of the giant’s corpse was a little strange.
“… What?”
Steam of blue mana soaring like a pillar in the sky!
It was sucked into me, showing a tremendous amount of mana that was incomparable to anything until now. Fuck, if you take this naked, you’ll be 100% stunned.
I set up the seal like a shield and transferred all my mana into it. The blue mana sucked in almost felt like being hit by a waterfall.
“What a bountiful harvest.”
One, two, three… The Mana of the Old God, well over 10 times the amount needed to acquire the rune, flowed into the seal.
Then, Mana was united as one inside the seal. It was so heavy that it made me feel as if I had increased the weight of the seal! I was able to intuit after absorbing that mana.
If you use this mana, you can realize the true meaning of another rune.
