novelraw Chapter 117 : Chapter 117
Chapter 117 : Chapter 117
Chapter 117. The Color of the Evil Spirit (2)
It was an obvious matter.
'They made him recognize me as an enemy, then threw him in front of me.'
That they would use such a tactic was something Riman had also expected.
Riman quickly entered a combat stance.
Meanwhile, the stitches that had been sewing up various parts of Kim Eun-tae's body burst all at once.
At the same time, the things trapped inside his body exploded outward.
Multi-colored.
It was a shape where every imaginable color was mixed together.
Colorful, slick hues resembling the sheen of oil floating on a puddle after rain.
Such was the color of the fluid pouring out of Kim Eun-tae's body.
WHOOOOSH!
It scattered like a fountain, rippled, and merged.
An unidentified substance that looked like liquid, like smoke, or perhaps like discolored mercury.
It swelled up to a size that was hard to believe had been contained inside the body of a single adult male.
GURGLE, GURGLE-
The swollen mass blocked the sunlight and cast a massive shadow.
Seeing that, the thugs instinctively began to step backward.
Although they had never seen it in their lives, they could sense it intuitively.
That if they didn't run now, they would die.
"R, run!!"
The thugs scattered in terror and began to flee.
The man who was being lynched by them also scraped together his remaining strength and ran away at full speed.
The useless spectators were thus removed on their own accord.
Now, only Riman, Saya, and Kim Eun-tae remained in this place.
Riman raised his head and looked at what had emerged from Kim Eun-tae's body.
The multi-colored fluid covering his view.
"…Simryugwi."
Riman muttered its name in a low voice.
Meanwhile, there were those watching this battle from a place quite far away.
Chae Hong-gyu, Sven, and Johnny.
They were prison breakers from Mugan.
They were spying on this battlefield with binoculars.
Johnny spoke with an excited voice.
"Wow, he's finally bringing out Simryugwi."
"……."
Beside him, Sven was frowning.
"…It feels nasty."
"What does?"
"Every time I see that evil spirit, I feel chills all over my body."
At this, Chae Hong-gyu spoke.
"It is natural. Simryugwi is not an ordinary evil spirit."
"Hm? Aren't ordinary evil spirits all like that?"
At Johnny's question, Chae Hong-gyu shook his head.
"Simryugwi is one of the pillars of the Yukra. Its class is different from the evil spirits handled by ordinary necromancers."
"Yukra? What is that?"
"Six evil spirits born from the thoughts of monks who repeated erroneous practices while obsessed only with divine powers. That is the Yukra. They are very old and powerful evil spirits. I heard Sanhae is also tracking them."
"Hoh. But how did that guy get his hands on such an evil spirit?"
"I suspect he might have swallowed a cursed object containing the evil spirit or something like that."
RUMBLE-
And Riman quietly watched what had escaped from Kim Eun-tae's body.
"…Evil spirit, Simryugwi."
Riman recalled the earthbound spirit he had faced in the mountain before.
That was also an evil spirit.
However, the evil spirit in front of him right now was of a different dimension, a much higher-ranking evil spirit.
WHIIING!
Riman spread the mana of [Detection] and simultaneously opened all his body's senses to the maximum.
From now on, there could be no mistakes.
The moment he made a mistake, he would be eaten.
The undulating evil spirit finally began to rampage.
SWISH!
Part of the bubbling fluid changed into something like a long thorn and flew toward Riman.
Like a bullet, a gruesome and light thrust flying without any sense of weight.
Just before its tip made contact, Riman's body moved as if bouncing away, dodging the thorn.
Evasion.
However, that was only the start.
Soon, countless thorns poured down like rain over an incredibly wide range.
CRAAAASH!!
The pouring thorns pierced through the ground and concrete walls like pudding.
Utilizing the fluid's characteristics, the penetrating power of the thorns, sharpened to the limit, was transcendental.
The moment one was pierced, they would die.
However, Riman dodged that entire baptism of thorns in an instant.
He moved by pinpointing the empty spaces between the thorns with his toes.
A collaboration of the
Johnny, watching the spectacle through binoculars, muttered unconsciously.
"…Did that bastard dodge all of that?"
The evil spirit also knew.
That all the sharp killing intent it had thrust out had missed.
So, in the next moment, it changed the method of attack.
WHOOSH-
A massive chunk of concrete pounced toward Riman.
Simryugwi had wrapped around a discarded concrete block nearby and thrown it.
A shift from a point-based attack to an area-based attack.
The moment the mass of impact, combining mass and acceleration, fell above his head.
Riman reached out his hand toward the concrete block.
Seeing that, a scoff burst out from Johnny's mouth.
"Puhat! That bastard, finally giving u……."
However, at that moment.
THUD.
The heavily falling concrete block stopped the moment it touched Riman's hand.
Like an iron ball thrown onto a cushion, the amount of impact it carried disappeared somewhere.
No, to be exact, the impact did not disappear.
It was absorbed.
Currently, Riman was wearing the
And the gloves were magically linked with the
The shock lodged in the gloves was absorbed directly into the boots.
CLANG!
Riman dropped the stopped concrete block to the ground.
BOOM!
The block, which had stopped softly, stuck into the ground with a heavy sound.
With this, it became certain.
That average mass attacks could not inflict damage on Riman.
Seeing this from afar, Johnny was flustered.
"Eh… What did that bastard just do?!"
"It is a peculiar technique. But I don't think there is any need to worry so much."
"What do you mean?"
"Because that boulder was for blinding him."
"……?"
It was as Chae Hong-gyu said.
The concrete block thrown at Riman was merely intended to obstruct Riman's vision.
While Riman's view was blocked by the concrete, Simryugwi had been preparing a massive attack behind it.
A wave.
The scattered thorns were retrieved and clumped together, igniting into a single flow and transforming into a massive wave.
A multi-colored wave came crashing down.
This time, there was no gap to dodge.
KWAAAAAAH!!
If mercury became a tsunami and poured down, would it feel like this?
The massive flow struck the ground and began to sweep everything away simultaneously.
From mist to thorns, from thorns to a wave.
Because it had no fixed form, the destructive potential to mutate into any monstrous shape.
This was the terror of Simryugwi.
CRASH!!
The spot where Riman was standing was also swept away by the wave of the evil spirit.
It wasn't just Riman.
The abandoned buildings behind Riman were also directly hit by this wave.
Even if they were unfinished abandoned buildings, they were solid structures built up with rebar and concrete.
But before the wave, the buildings crumbled like cookies.
Rebars snapped like toothpicks, and concrete walls shattered into pieces and churned within the wave.
A spectacle where four buildings over seven stories tall were completely erased from the ground.
Sven watched this and muttered.
"…That's substantial."
"The truly scary point is that this level is only a part of the power Simryugwi possesses."
"Anyway, with that much, it seems certain Leman is dead, so what should we do now?"
"What do you mean?"
"Shouldn't we put the released evil spirit back into Kim Eun-tae's body?"
"Sven, have you forgotten what instructions the Red King gave us?"
The Red King.
The actual leader of the secret society
And the main culprit who caused the Great Breakout of Mugan.
Before the Great Breakout, he commanded all the escapees as follows:
"…Spread chaos widely in the world."
"Yes. So we just need to leave Simryugwi alone. Since it will rampage on its own and grind up the entire surrounding area."
"But this is Seoul, isn't it? Will Cha Hak-jun stay still?"
"Cha Hak-jun ordered only one thing from us. To kill Leman White. The collateral damage accompanying that process should naturally be the superior's responsibility."
SPLASH, SPLAAASH-
The place swept by the multi-colored wave had been completely flattened.
And Simryugwi was splashing while spread out widely on the ground like shallowly pooled seawater.
The landscape after a disaster had swept through.
Riman was nowhere to be seen there.
Chae Hong-gyu spoke.
"Then, shall we slowly report that Leman is dead……."
At that moment.
KABOOOOM!!
With a ferocious roar, Simryugwi exploded.
"What?!"
"Wha……?!"
"Fuck, what is it?!"
It didn't end with one shot.
Next, and the next explosions followed in a chain.
BANG!
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!
The pitch-black explosions that suddenly burst swallowed Simryugwi and tore it apart at the same time.
Explosions without any omen.
Johnny muttered.
"What is that? Did it touch a gas pipe or something?!"
"No, it's not that. Look at the color of the flames."
"Uh……?"
FWOOOOSH…….
After the explosions burst, flames created from them were burning from all directions.
However, the color of those flames was strange.
Black flames, not red.
Clearly, it was not a naturally occurring fire.
"W… What is going on……?"
Just then.
CRUNCH!
Far away from Simryugwi, an arm pierced through the ground and came up.
Like that, a man broke through the ground and crawled up.
"Phew! I thought I was going to die of suffocation."
It was Riman.
The escapees who saw that were astonished.
"What the, that guy?!"
"Why is he alive?!"
At that moment when the tsunami of Simryugwi struck.
Riman collapsed the ground beneath his feet with magic and took refuge deep underground.
The tsunami could sweep and destroy everything above ground, but it could not touch the underground.
That was how Riman was able to survive.
However, Riman did not stop at simply hiding his body.
While hiding underground, Riman planted numerous mines beneath the surface.
[Flame Seed]
Magic that plants and detonates seeds of fire.
After burying dozens of [Flame Seed]s underground like that, Riman dug a tunnel and moved far away.
And then detonated them as is.
Because of that, Simryugwi, which was covering the planted spots, was directly hit by those explosions.
FWOOOOSH…….
Riman quickly assessed the situation.
For now, Simryugwi was in a groggy state after taking direct hits from the explosions.
But it wasn't a fatal wound.
Since it would gather its scattered body and restore its spirit form again in a little while.
Eventually, during this briefly secured time, he had to devise a strategy to definitively dispose of Simryugwi.
And naturally, that strategy was already set in Riman's mind.
Furthermore…….
'The board to execute that strategy has also been laid.'
FWOOOOSH…….
Black flames burning from all directions.
They were flames blooming from Riman's mana.
Flames with a higher affinity to Riman than any other fire.
Riman extended his mana toward those black flames.
VWOOM-
It resonates.
Upon touching the mana Riman extended, the flames naturally leaned toward Riman.
Like iron filings contacting a magnet.
Riman flicked the extended mana to seize the black flames and simultaneously activated a single magic spell.
'Draped silk threads, an ink-dipped brush.'
[Coloration]
Magic that manipulates burning fire.
The black flames that were scattered here and there began to clump together in one place according to Riman's will.
FWOOOOOOSH……!
The flames merged and soared, soon swirling around Riman.
Flames of a fierce scale surrounded Riman.
In time with that, Saya rapidly dropped the surrounding humidity, and the fire burned even more intensely.
Flames of a scale that could lightly burn down a building came into Riman's hands.
However.
GURGLE-
Simryugwi began to raise its body.
And its scale reached several times that of the flames Riman had bloomed.
Although the flames Riman bloomed were massive, their scale could not compare to Simryugwi.
"The talent for handling fire is quite impressive, but… you won't be able to change the result."
The escapees, including Chae Hong-gyu, all predicted Riman's defeat.
And even Riman intuitively sensed his own defeat.
'With flames of this scale, I cannot beat that bastard.'
However…….
'Fire isn't the only weapon I have.'
SHING-
The color of Riman's pupils changed.
The iris turned white, and the sclera turned black.
'Extreme Eye, Eye-opening.'