novelraw Chapter 104 : Chapter 104
Chapter 104 : Chapter 104
Chapter 104 Black Eye (1)
Two hands possessing the power of fusion.
The power exerted from those hands began to dig into Jensen's face.
“Kuaaa...!”
SIZZLE...!
His facial skin swelled up, squirming.
Self-harm, a sight that seemed nothing more and nothing less.
But strictly speaking, it was not self-harm.
Self-harm is the act of abusing oneself.
However, this was not abuse.
This was an act of tearing down.
A desperate struggle to intuit one's limits, fuse those limits, tear them down, and move beyond.
Progress, or evolution, or revolution.
The desperate struggle finally began to show its efficacy.
“...Kill.”
CREAK...!
With a bizarre sound, Jensen began to raise his body.
In fact, the action of raising his body was impossible for him.
Because his upper body was pierced by a large ice spike.
But nevertheless, he raised his body.
Without caring that his body was being torn by the spike, he forcibly raised his body.
“Kill...!”
SQUELCH!
And finally, Jensen pulled his body out of the spike.
A long hole was made in his body due to forcibly pulling it out of the spike, but Jensen didn't care.
SIZZLE...
The wound healed in an instant, and the hole was filled.
High-speed regeneration.
That was not an ability the guy possessed.
In front of this bizarre sight, Riman's pupils trembled faintly.
“...What is that?”
Jensen's body was altered.
Except for his pupils having gone crazy, there was no big difference in appearance, but his nature had completely changed.
Of course, the direction of that change couldn't be known for sure right now.
So there was only one thing certain for Riman.
That he had to deal with the guy.
When the opponent's power is unknown, it was best to overwhelm and crush them with power first.
[Ice Spike], Chain Strike.
CRACKLE!
THUD THUD THUD!
Numerous ice spikes rose from beneath Jensen's feet.
They randomly rummaged and pierced Jensen's body.
Jensen neither dodged nor melted those spikes.
Just standing still and getting hit.
But still, Jensen did not die.
STOMP—
Jensen walked out of the bundle of spikes nonchalantly.
In the process, his body was torn to pieces, but at the same time, it was restored in an instant.
Jensen muttered as if entranced.
“Fu... sion...”
“...?”
“My limit... the limit of my body... has fused and crumbled...”
“...?!”
“My body... has transcended... the body...”
“You...!”
“Leman... you, cannot beat, me.”
Jensen had fused even the limits of his own body.
As a result, the limit that the body possessed was released.
That abnormal regeneration ability was also the result.
He fused the limit of the natural healing power inherent in the human body and released that limit.
The area where the limit was released was not just that.
The information transmission speed of the neural network.
The contraction and relaxation cycle of muscles.
The strength and density of skin and skeleton.
And even the ‘Fusion’ ability itself.
All functions of the body that were limited by the laws of nature were released at once.
A human body beyond a human body.
That began to move with murderous intent toward Riman.
SWISH!
Jensen disappeared from view.
High-speed movement using only pure physical ability.
However, Riman's sharpened senses somehow tracked the trajectory of that movement.
And tracking transitions to capture.
[Ice White Double Palm]
CRACKLE!
Two giant ice hands appear in the air.
Those hands grab Jensen as if catching a mosquito.
Jensen was sucked exactly between the two hands.
CLAP!!
Applause bursts out.
However, there was no effect.
WHOOOOSH...!
The ice hands melted and scattered in an instant.
They melted the moment they touched Jensen's body.
‘That bastard Jensen, he spread the ability of fusion to his whole body...!’
Originally, the activation area of Jensen's fusion ability was limited to both hands.
However, Jensen fused even this limitation.
As a result, a crazy body emitting the energy of fusion from the whole body was completed.
“This crazy...!”
A power-up event on the villain side that was not expected.
It was bewildering, but maintaining bewilderment was just an act of shortening one's life.
Riman instantly built up images in his head and unleashed a large amount of magic.
[Ice Bullet]
[Lightning Claw]
[Electric Bullet]
[Ice Spike]
[Earth Wall]
CRASH CRASH CRASH!!
Pitch-black magics sprint through the air.
Chill scatters, electric shock is sprayed, explosions burst from all directions, and the shape of the ground changes rapidly.
And all these destructive phenomena rushed toward one target, Jensen.
A destructive offensive that would not be strange even if an ordinary person had already been torn into hundreds of pieces of meat.
In fact, all these attacks interlocked organically and hit Jensen at a fierce speed.
The attacks reached him.
But nothing could inflict damage.
WHOOOOSH...
Because all those magics melted, crumbled, and scattered the moment they touched Jensen's body.
Jensen was wrapped in the energy of fusion all over his body.
Therefore, everything that touched his body melted and crumbled.
No object, no magic could affect Jensen.
The moment it touches the guy, ice becomes water vapor, rock becomes mud, and electric shock becomes static electricity and scatters.
This is truly the ultimate defense technique.
Usually, most defense techniques focus on blocking and enduring the opponent's attack.
But Jensen's method was different.
A method of annihilating the attack itself, not blocking the opponent's attack.
A technique close to divine skill, touching the ideal of defense.
It was a ruthless defense technique at a level where one wouldn't even have a clue where to start breaking it
.
And Jensen didn't use this only for defense.
If it touches, it melts.
This simple principle applied to obstacles without exception.
Thanks to that, Jensen could pierce through all sorts of obstacles deployed by Riman at once and sprint.
Melting away stone walls and ice pillars in an instant.
In short, there was no means to stop his rampage itself.
CRASH CRASH!
Jensen sprinted toward Riman like a truck with broken brakes.
In the process, he melted away everything blocking him, so there was no deceleration or detour.
Even Riman's defensive barrier was useless.
‘What kind of thing is that...?!’
Now Riman had no way to stop Jensen.
There was one remaining choice.
Only to dodge.
SWISH!
Just before Jensen touched him, Riman dodged the guy's charge with high-speed movement.
‘...Scary speed.’
It was fortunate that there was still quite a bit of impact amount stored in the [Boots of the Pilgrim].
Because without the function of these boots, he wouldn't have been able to avoid that high-speed rampage with just his bare body.
SWISH!
WHOOSH!
SKID!!
Even after that, Riman focused only on dodging Jensen's attacks first.
It was natural since it was an attack that caused instant death just by touching.
But he couldn't keep dodging forever.
Because if the impact stored in the boots runs out, he will die right there.
‘Recall.’
A body that annihilates all attacks it touches.
Is there really no magic to break such a body?
Magic enough to annihilate even an annihilation technique...
‘...There is.’
At that moment, a memory suddenly flashed through Riman's mind.
The time he fought against a mage for the first time in his life.
Riman had fought a battle with Wong Chen, a summoner of the Sanhae Magic Tower.
There were all sorts of tactical battles and clashes of magic, but what decorated the finale was Riman's magic.
The black light of contradiction, Black Light (Heuk-gwang).
The mysterious technique that broke Wong Chen's last ultimate technique from the root and even annihilated Wong Chen himself.
‘...At that moment clearly, Wong Chen who touched that light was annihilated at the level of existence.’
But a technique with severe recoil as much as its power.
However, now was not the time to be picky about such things.
Unless he suffers the same damage as the opponent, the current situation was too urgent to not use this technique simply because of the recoil.
‘...The amount of impact stored in the boots is running out.’
Now there was no retreat, no second-best plan.
Only one best option remained.
Riman stopped on the spot.
And he curled his right middle finger and thumb and put them together.
A posture like flicking a finger.
Riman concentrated mana at the tips of those two fingers and began to carefully form ‘Black Light.’
SIZZLE...
The mana that started from the roots of the two fingers merged at the junction and began to create a sphere of black light.
Outwardly, it looked only like a pitch-black lump smaller than a ping-pong ball.
But inside, a considerable amount of light was increasing in density.
And—
SWISH!
Jensen rushed toward Riman.
The distance narrows rapidly.
20 meters, 10 meters, 5 meters.
Riman waits.
For that golden moment when the decreasing distance becomes exactly his side.
3 meters.
2.5 meters.
2.1 meters.
And.
‘Now.’
He extends his arm toward Jensen.
Flicks his finger.
The sphere of Black Light formed at the tips of the two fingers splits.
And there was light.
The darkest light among all lights that existed in the universe.
It explodes.
FLASH!
Black light scatters forward.
Pitch-black flash swallows Jensen.
At the same time, the forward vision was dyed black and white for a moment.
A feeling as if entering a black-and-white movie for that one moment.
It was because the black light scattered and reflected on surrounding objects.
“Phew...!”
The light soon stopped.
The vision also returned from black and white to the original colors.
Jensen, who was covered in Black Light from the front, suddenly lost strength and rolled on the floor.
And severe pain assaulted Riman's right arm.
“Kugh...!”
Recoil from exploding Black Light.
Pain enough to momentarily lose composure dug into the entire arm.
Still, anyway...
‘Subdued...!’
Riman looked at Jensen sprawled on the floor.
The front part of the body was hideously distorted.
The parts touched by Black Light were rapidly decomposing.
Like that, the guy's body decomposed, broke, and was annihilated.
No.
It should have been annihilated.
However, what happened next overturned that expectation and anticipation.
BOING.
As if a bent spring returns, Jensen's body sprang up as if bouncing.
The guy was alive.
Chewing through the encroachment of Black Light with transcendental regenerative power, the guy raised his body in the end.
It was an act possible because reason had evaporated.
Only murderous intent toward Riman remained in the guy's head.
At the moment reaching the end of life, the guy twisted his body toward that final goal.
“What...?”
WHOOSH!
Jensen rushed toward Riman again.
It was truly the worst timing.
The impact amount remaining in the boots was 0.
Furthermore, due to the severe pain in his right arm, Riman's mind was temporarily in a state of losing composure.
Plus physical exhaustion.
Therefore, Riman had no choice but to allow an attack he could have easily dodged.
SWISH.
Jensen swung his hand toward Riman's head.
A swing of pure murderous intent containing no reason or calculation.
Riman couldn't dodge.
Instead, in that fleeting moment, he exploded compressed air toward Jensen's abdomen.
BOOM!!
The guy's body was blown far away.
It seemed the fusion ability of the whole body had certainly weakened.
The problem was...
“...Huh?”
Riman fumbled his two eyes with both hands.
The eyes were fine without any wounds.
But...
“No, wait...!”
He couldn't see ahead.
‘This crazy...!’
Riman first quickly unfolded [Detection].
But [Detection] didn't work either.
This wasn't that the eyes were damaged.
The ‘visual ability’ itself possessed by the eyes had fused.
Therefore, he became unable to see anything even with [Detection].
‘Damn it...!’
These two eyes could no longer accept light.
Only endless pitch-black darkness was visible.
Light was scattered all around, but Riman could not accept even a single ray of it.
‘Light...’
Boundless darkness.
Riman wished for light.
He desperately yearned for these two eyes to accept light again.
But Riman did not know magic to restore lost vision.
‘This fuck...!’
Breath becomes short and cold sweat flows.
The mind goes blank at the thought that he can never see ahead again.
Even the mage's reason, which always maintained coolness, was helpless in front of this disaster.
‘Dammit...!’
With the feeling of digging out brain wrinkles, Riman rummaged through his head.
It's enough if he can somehow recognize light.
Seeing ahead meant seeing the light reflected on an object, not the object itself.
‘Light...!’
At the moment when yearning was about to turn into thirst.
‘...Wait.’
Riman recalled what he saw a moment ago.
Scattering Black Light, vision momentarily dyed black and white.
‘Right now, my eyes cannot accept ordinary light.’
Then...
‘...But, if it’s Black Light...?’
At that moment.
SHIMMER...
Riman's pupils began to change color.