novelraw Chapter 105 : Chapter 105
Chapter 105 : Chapter 105
Chapter 105 Black Eye (2)
Without the intervention of any symbols or formulas.
From pure yearning, a single magic bloomed.
No, to be precise.
A single demonic eye newly opened.
SHIMMER-
Riman's two eyes began to emit Black Light very faintly, like headlights.
At the same time, Riman's black irises began to bleach white.
The white sclera, on the contrary, began to dye black.
The colors of the iris and sclera began to swap with each other.
Reversal.
The iris became white, and the sclera became black.
Two contradictions manifested in his two eyes.
Of course, Riman did not notice this change in color.
Because it was impossible to see one's own eyes with one's eyes.
However, he could know for sure the fact that some change was happening.
Because his vision was brightening very slowly.
‘Uh...?’
Like a projector struggling to vomit out images in a very old theater.
The view in front of him began to brighten slowly.
‘I can really see...?!’
Currently, Riman's eyes were in a state where they could not perceive ordinary light.
However, he could perceive the Black Light he emitted himself reflecting and returning.
Thanks to that, he became able to see again.
However, it was not the scenery he used to see before.
A scenery where all colors disappeared, and only light and shade remained.
Currently, in Riman's eyes, this world looked only black and white.
Feeling as if he had entered a 20th-century black-and-white movie.
Everything visible in front of him was only white, gray, and black.
A world where saturation evaporated and only light and shade remained.
The color of the eyeballs was reversed, and the vision was dyed black and white.
He recalled when he exploded Black Light at his fingertips a moment ago.
At that time, the target touched by Black Light looked momentarily black and white.
‘...So that’s why my vision looks black and white right now.’
Wait, but...
‘Black Light is a light that inflicts a fatal blow on the opponent just by touching, is it okay to be emitting it from my eyes like this...?’
But now wasn't the time for such questions to be important.
Anyway, he had regained his visual ability.
It was a bit regrettable that he lost his colorful vision.
But now was not the time to be regretting such things.
Setting aside whether it was black and white or color, what was certain now was that he regained the lost visual ability.
That he obtained a new visual ability to replace the visual ability Jensen had fused.
Right now, at this moment, that was the only important thing.
CRACKLE...!
Black lightning flowed from Riman's fingertips.
Jensen, who had been blown away, also began to stand up again.
Riman thought.
‘That guy, he lost a significant part of his regenerative power.’
The front part of Jensen's upper body, which was hit directly by Black Light, was not recovering.
There was at least a minimal reward for exploding Black Light.
So now, there is only one thing to do.
Just exterminate the guy.
‘Until he dies, I kill.’
CRACKLE!
Twenty shots of [Electric Bullet] were fired from Riman's fingertips.
Lumps of black lightning landed around Jensen and exploded.
BOOM BOOM BOOM!!
“...Huh?”
At that moment, Riman was slightly perplexed.
“...Is this right?”
“Kuaaak!”
Jensen, forcibly chewing through the explosions of lightning and rushing toward Riman again.
Riman deployed [Ice Spike] on his path.
CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH!!
Dozens, no, hundreds of spikes soaring in an instant and piercing Jensen.
Riman felt perplexed this time as well.
“What is this...?”
The size of the ice spikes had become twice as large as a moment ago.
And the explosive power of the [Electric Bullet]s fired a moment ago had also increased to more than double the usual.
If this were the result of injecting twice as much mana than usual, it would have been natural.
But Riman didn't do that.
As usual, he just used magic as he had been doing.
But the power and scale had drastically increased to a strange degree.
“Kruk...!”
Of course, Jensen somehow chewed through even these attacks and charged.
But now his left arm had fallen off, and half of his face was gone.
Because of damage exceeding the recovery amount, the recovery mechanism was no longer working properly.
Furthermore, damage began to enter even the parts where the energy of fusion was emitted.
Because damage exceeding the fusion power plugged in, he couldn't completely destroy the attacks.
Super regeneration ability across the whole body, absolute defense ability using fusion power.
Both of these abilities Jensen possessed began to crumble.
Riman intuitively sensed that the time to end it had come.
‘Tentacles of bronze, soaring bamboo, spine of iron pillar.’
[Lightning Spear], 10 consecutive shots.
ZZZRT...-
Ten spears of lightning rising above Riman's head.
As Riman swung his fingertips down once, the spears poured over Jensen's head.
CRASH CRASH CRASH!!
Explosions and shocks incomparable to the [Electric Bullet] earlier swept the front.
And this explosive power was also at a level far exceeding Riman's expectations.
Jensen could no longer withstand this level of explosion.
The guy's body was crushed by the explosion and scattered into pieces.
It was the moment Riman's victory was confirmed.
* * *
After a bout of explosions passed.
Riman began to organize the strange phenomenon happening to him in his head.
‘...[Lightning Spear], just like the preceding magics, its power became drastically stronger.’
No...
‘...It’s not just [Lightning Spear]. The power of all my magics increased.’
Riman thought.
Why did this happen?
He didn't take any measures on the magic itself, so why was the power of magic amplified?
What exactly is the variable that caused this phenomenon?
‘...Vision.’
This was the only variable suspected as the cause of this phenomenon right now.
Black Light emitted from the eyes, and the vision degenerated into black and white due to it.
But simply because the way of seeing the world changed, is it possible to cause such a dramatic change?
‘...It is possible.’
Riman remembered.
The story he heard from the shaman he met when he went to get the Fruit of the Eye-opening Flower.
—Science strives to view the world as it is. But magic is the opposite. Magic is a study discussing how to view the world.
That means—
‘Magic depends on how the mage views the world.’
How one views and perceives the world.
Accordingly, magic is constructed and altered.
Currently, Riman's vision is altered to black and white.
Naturally, the way of viewing and perceiving the world also changed.
So, the way magic manifests changing as well would be natural.
The reason the power of magic was abnormally amplified was probably this.
‘By re-perceiving the world in the form of black and white, the power of my magic, which is only black, increases drastically... Is the mechanism roughly like this?’
For now, it seemed he could understand it to this extent.
He could research the details after returning later.
CRUMBLE...
Jensen's body, which had been torn, now completely crumbled and began to scatter.
And it could not be restored again.
The life reaction was also completely lost.
The battle ended suddenly with Riman's victory like that.
‘Ah wait, my corpse...!’
Looking at Jensen scattering and disappearing, Riman clicked his tongue in regret inwardly.
Because he could claim the bounty only if he had that corpse.
‘...Can’t be helped. Let’s just be grateful for winning first.’
Riman leaned his body against a nearby rock and sat down to catch his breath for a moment.
At that moment.
SHIMMER-
“Hmm?”
The vision dyed black and white began to return to its original form.
To the original vision where all kinds of colors, not just black and white, were mixed.
At the same time, the colors of the iris and sclera also returned to normal.
Riman's original visual ability, which Jensen had fused, had returned.
Seeing the fused function recover as soon as Jensen died...
‘It seems his ability wasn’t perfect either.’
Anyway, the situation was concluded like this.
Although the bounty flew away, he got everything he could get.
The targeted magic stones, the Queen Earth-Burrowing Worm's pineal gland, and even the acquisition of an unexpected demonic eye.
Although the side he got hit earlier stung a bit, the arm that exploded Black Light still hurt, and on top of that, his eyes were also stinging quite a lot.
Well, this was a sufficiently profitable business.
‘By the way, this new demonic eye... what should I call it.’
A demonic eye that re-perceives the world through Black Light and explosively raises the power of magic through this.
While pondering how to name this, something caught Riman's eye.
A tattoo revealed between the torn clothes on his forearm.
The Chinese character ‘Extreme’ was written there.
The character used in words like extreme, ultimate, Taegeuk, paradise, etc.
There was no particular reason, but Riman liked this word.
‘...Extreme Eye.’
Riman gave the name ‘Extreme Eye’ to his newly acquired demonic eye.
“Now then...”
RUMBLE...
There was no time to be relaxed.
Because due to the explosion caused by Riman's magic a moment ago, the instability of the ground in this area was accelerating.
Furthermore, this demonic beast's den was originally a collapse risk area.
He had to get out quickly.
“Saya, let’s go.”
“Shaa!”
TAP!
Riman and Saya escaped the Queen's room and began to run.
And soon they faced the cliff they had crossed earlier.
Normally, it was a place where he had to use quite a bit of effort to cross, but...
‘Someone put a bridge here.’
Between the cliffs, the steel single-log bridge Jensen placed was still there.
Like that, Riman quickly crossed the cliff and began to move toward the exit.
‘...By the way, if I leave here, what happens to this place now?’
The probability that mining would restart was high.
Because the company wouldn't have opened the closed demonic beast's den for no return.
Probably, the company side did the demonic beast's den opening work on the condition of restoring mining rights.
‘...Then miners will be put into this place again.’
Into this place that could collapse at any moment.
RUMBLE...
Even while Riman was running, the vibration of the demonic beast's den did not stop.
Irregular aftershocks constantly swept through the walls and ceiling.
Riman thought.
‘At this rate, there's a high probability it will really collapse not too far in the future.’
However...
‘Even so, the company will push the miners in. Because digging up even one more sack of magic stones is profit regardless of whether miners die or not.’
Simply put, this was a place where people were bound to die in heaps someday.
Furthermore, there was no one to take responsibility for that death.
The company will feign ignorance, the dead miners will be silent, and the media will have no interest.
Riman, whose thoughts reached here, suddenly stopped in his tracks.
The place Riman stopped was next to a huge metal pillar.
It was a pillar supporting the ceiling so that this tunnel would not collapse.
Riman planted something under that pillar.
[Flame Seed]
SIZZLE...
Riman went around the pillars and planted seeds of fire.
Successively to the pillar next to it, and the pillar next to that too.
Like that, he moved while planting mines under every visible pillar.
After going through the process of planting several times like this.
Riman and Saya came out of the demonic beast's den.
“Phew...”
Riman looked back at the tunnel entrance.
The tunnel not yet collapsed.
But Riman could feel that the entire tunnel was still vibrating faintly.
‘...It’s a tunnel bound to collapse in the near future.’
Therefore, it was a tunnel where countless innocent people were bound to die.
Then...
‘Right here, I prevent the advent of that tragedy itself.’
SNAP!
Riman snapped his fingers.
The sound bursting from his fingertips, the wavelength spreading with it.
With a snap sound, Riman's mana wavelength spread into the tunnel.
WHOO... OOM...-
And the wavelength resonates.
With the numerous [Flame Seed]s Riman planted in the tunnel.
With this, the trigger was pulled.
Seeds of fire bloom into explosions all at once.
BOOM BOOM BOOM!!
With a roar, [Flame Seed]s exploded simultaneously.
That explosion caused the ground to sink, and accordingly, the pillars also sank down.
And the ceiling, losing its support, began to collapse.
CRASH CRASH CRASH!!
Crumbling ceiling, collapsing tunnel.
The vast tunnel was completely filled with soil and boulders in an instant.
A tremendous amount of magic stones were buried under the pile of earth.
With this, the company side would lose tens of billions, but that was none of his business.
“...Finished.”
After completely wrapping up the business in the tunnel like that.
Riman turned his back on the tunnel.
And in the distant bush, a man in a suit was quietly taking out a pistol.