At the end of the collapsed ruins (1)
“You must be Ban.”
Before replying, Lennok pressed his earphones to send a signal to all allies, including Hina. A signal confirming Craig’s existence.
With this, Cheisha will be able to come inside the cavity and support her allies.
If possible, I’d like to expedite Zaun and come down here to help capture him, but… Lennok decided not to expect much from that.
“Do you know me?”
“I have heard many stories. It’s rumored to be the bug that gets in the way of my work the hardest.”
He slowly started to walk sideways while fluttering his black long cloth engraved with an elaborate magic circle.
Is that attitude the expression of confidence or the scent of arrogance?
Craig muttered as he looked up at the ceiling of the common room with his hands behind his back.
“Shall we talk?”
Aaaaaaaaaaaa!!
Instead of answering, Lennok threw a fireball over his head.
I can clearly see the ploy to attract time, but I wasn’t stupid enough to be punished here.
If you can’t erase the magic circle, shouldn’t you kill the caster yourself?
However, Craig’s voice coming from the other side of the smoke was too clear for a wizard who allowed an attack.
“He’s a hot-tempered guy. But it’s late.”
Woooooo!!
With those words, the magic circle drawn all over Lennok’s cavity vibrated violently and began to rotate slowly.
“Among the magicians who have reached level 6 or higher, only a small percentage of those with innate talent are allowed to enter the ‘Self-Self Realm’… It is the result of artificially implementing it. Until the spell is activated, both the caster and the magic circle are protected by a powerful security spell.”
magnetic area. You got important keywords.
Could it be a clue to the strange pressure that I felt when I faced the cheongyeon or the black magician of pandemonium?
There is almost no information about the combat methods used by high-ranking mages, so I didn’t even have a chance to ask Aris.
Thinking of asking her questions later, Lennok quickly gathered his thoughts.
“Until the spell is activated…”
Conversely, does that mean that there is no protection after the spell begins to activate?
It seems like a tricky condition, but if you were allowed a powerful security technique with only that condition, it would be a surplus business.
Probably, the time and money that went into building such an infrastructure was not easy.
Lennok shook his head as he withdrew the mana he had raised.
‘……Let’s shake it some more.’
There is no need to disclose the fact that he is completely ignorant of the realm.
Here, in a direction where he can move on naturally and turn his nerves—
“Aren’t you relieved that you implemented a space-based security technique? I know that you guys are planning something against the Vulcans. We have prepared a strategy that suits him, too.”
It’s an obvious yet lame fight that makes me laugh out loud even when I say it.
But rather, it is such a statement that makes me want to refute it.
And, as expected, Craig reacted.
“Does that strategy mean something like this?”
Woooooo!!
With those words, something appeared behind Craig’s back.
A bizarrely twisted corpse with its limbs entangled in huge skewers.
His broken glasses and senile face were contorted with terrible pain, and his eyes were strangely sticking out and stiff.
It is a familiar face. An executive agent who disappeared after talking to Lennok right before the operation began.
It was Niro Cohen.
“……..”
“They seemed to think that they would be able to shy away from my eyes, so they tried to peek inside the joint after passing through the workhouse.”
said Craig, patting Niro’s head with his middle finger.
At that light touch, Niro’s head staggered as if it were the pendulum of a clock.
The sticky, hardened blood dripped down in sync with the pendulum movement.
“It seems that he was confident in his stealth skills, but he must have made the mistake of coming into the senses of the wizard who built the realm. It is pitiful.”
He continued to push Niro’s head, then clenched his fists and slammed them.
coo!!
Corpses skewered on skewers lie helplessly on the floor.
The person who had been talking normally until a few hours ago had turned into a piece of meat, but Lennok asked without blinking an eye.
Rather, I couldn’t show him shaking.
“How far do you have to go to be satisfied? Are you going to hold Reisen’s slush fund and race until the city collapses?”
“A race? You talk like a dog.”
Craig glared at him with a heavy gaze.
“It wasn’t our doctor who took the old man’s slush money!!”
“……….”
“I didn’t even know the date of the inspection decided by the senator on the subject who wears the title of the city council bugler. Who was it that left it to us to hide the slush fund and said we didn’t know it? This is not what I wanted!!”
A voice that fills the cavity and resonates resoundingly.
His tone boiled wild enough to clearly feel the amount of anger hidden beneath that heavy expression.
At the same time, black magic that jumped out of the magic circle stirred and instantly covered the entire area in black.
“Whoa whoa…!!”
Craig, who was breathing heavily in the center of the blackened cavity, spoke in a quiet voice.
“It’s acceptable to get messy chasing an unreachable goal. But I can’t disappear, driven by the greed of just one old man.”
Woooooooooo!!
magic power rotates At the same time, the magic circle began to vibrate slowly as it glowed darkly.
“I was just trying to do a little better.”
Lennok responded to that desperate persuasion.
“Even by turning innocent people into sacrifices?”
The two wizards simultaneously turned their heads and faced each other.
Aaaaaaang!!
exploding explosion.
Lennok said in a deafening roar.
“I think I can.”
Even without such grandiose convincing that he was right, Lennok understood Craig.
In order to survive, it is natural to struggle to avoid being victimized by the greed of others.
Regardless of what sacrifices were made and what innocent people were killed in the process.
Lennox took Craig’s actions for granted.
This place is not a solemn judgment hall to execute justice.
It’s just that the two people who have flowed out of the city of Ammon in pursuit of each other’s gains and losses are now facing each other.
That’s why Lennok understood all of Craig’s cries, but at the same time felt useless.
Even if Lennok deeply sympathized with Craig’s thoughts, it wouldn’t have changed where they stand now.
There is no good or evil here.
There are only honest desires and plausible justifications to cover them up.
Only one person who stands to the end on this magic circle will be able to grasp the end beyond that.
No further questions and answers were necessary.
[Lightning Vortex]
Wieeeeeeing!!
A torrent of blue lightning whirled from Lennok’s left arm while spinning, shooting straight toward the waves of black magic.
woooooong!!
The extreme penetrating power concentrated at one point pierces and widens the waves, nullifying Craig’s advance.
Dig!!
And Craig’s new model that runs beyond the wave of dispersing magical power.
A face painted with anger and graying hair.
But the movement itself is disciplined enough for Lennok to look away.
It was clear that he was a disciplined swordsman apart from being a black magician himself.
A straight fist filled with surging magic power shattered Lennok’s shield in one fell swoop and approached the vital point in an instant.
Kwaji Jik!!
Lennok, too, drew a revolver from his waist without batting an eye.
[Loading acceleration]
[Aim correction]
[High-speed shooting]
Ta-ta-ta-tang!!
Four bullets fired without a chance to breathe after pulling the ball.
At the same time as he pulled it out of his waist, the flames spewed out exactly where Lennok wanted.
They used auxiliary magic, but all of them had nothing to do with the power of shooting.
woooooong!!
However, Craig’s body is helplessly pushed back as if he had been hit in the front by a huge shockwave.
The shock magic given to the bullet in advance bounced Craig backwards faster than the magic.
Quickly loading his next round, Lennok slowly backed away.
“I didn’t know you would come running directly.”
He muttered and quickly shook his head.
There is no way that Craig, a master of black magic, would have known, but why did he take the lead so quickly?
‘It’s probably because I don’t want to tolerate any interruption.’
From the moment you realize the reason, the scenery around you starts to look different little by little.
Craig intends to deal directly with Lennok and keep him from interfering with the process.
“I already know how big your bowl is. Perhaps a mage like me is looking into a faraway place that I can’t even guess.”
Craig said, burning the youthful black mana in his hands.
Roaring!!
The flames of magical power that rose from both hands slowly covered Craig’s whole body and transformed into the flames of living life.
“A unique combat method that offsets close combat with shield magic and injects accurate shots between spells. It is not magical talent that establishes that contradictory strength, but rather a bizarrely calm and calm judgment.”
“……….”
“But if I could nullify the shield at close range, the balance of that fighting style would collapse as well.”
Instead of replying, Lennok raised his revolver in silence.
It should not be shaken. The opponent is an old wizard who has gone through all the battles.
If he really has a way to pierce his shield, it’s much more efficient to wield his hand directly instead of making fun of his mouth right now.
It would be correct to see it as a groundwork for psychological warfare against Lennok if he dared to say it first.
Regardless of whether he said that or not, it was right to judge by looking at the flow of his attack.
‘It’s not too late to judge by looking at it.’
At some point, you start to see more than the battle’s open space.
A new ability completely different from his innate magical talent or mentality, which began to stem from his intellect and experience.
For him, who had balanced the battle only with coolness and boldness, now he has an eye for measuring the gap in the fight.
It is an eye level that ordinary wizards can never have and that even skilled warriors cannot sharpen…. It is an eye level allowed only to those who cross the line of fire at every moment.
The moment Lennok’s strong will and strong judgment combined with the magic in his gaze, his eyes shone blue and scattered a deep light.
As soon as I felt that gaze, Craig’s body shot out as a black flash.
breakthrough.
and clash.
Kwaaaaang!!
Along with the high-density shockwave, the stone dust that had been rolling around the quarry turned into a gray wind and was pushed in all directions.
The distance between the two is reduced in an instant as the shield that can even receive the power of heavy weapons is shattered.
There is plenty of time to react. There are dozens of things I can think of.
That’s why Lennok kept an eye on Craig’s workshop until the very end, and moved the moment his shield completely shattered and his bare body was revealed.
The shield that had been broken up until now was built up again in a single breath.
Kwaaaang!!
While retrieving the mana that was shot overhead, he puts down a flame and kicks it
!!
Stirs the thighs with a twisted spiral of wind and steals the mobility.
It catches the splashing blood with a shield and, conversely, plunges a sphere of condensed mana into the wound.
Compressed air exploded from his ear, creating a shadow, covering his eyes, and casting shock magic.
Doo doo doo!!
“…!!!”
An offensive that pushes forward without even breathing.
It is not enough to take away the five senses, they rob them at will and wield all the senses that feel pain at will.
The moment you try to respond to an attack approaching from one side, it stabs an unexpected blind spot and taps the gap that has been revealed upside down.
A desperate fight to bite each other’s leashes. However, in the process, only Craig’s body is swayed aimlessly like a dancing doll.
Blood is raging in all directions, but only one person is gradually dyeing the body red.
Not vigilant. Not conceited.
Wasn’t it just for this moment that he had toiled out of the city to find the whereabouts of the warlocks and stop the crimes threatening the city?
Even as he freely manipulated the dozens of magical powers extending from his hands as if handling very fragile glassware, Lennok’s concentration did not drop in the slightest.
