I Became the Final Boss in the Game

Chapter 144 : Chapter 144

Chapter 144. Journey to Annihilation (5)

The wizard looked at Riman with fierce eyes.

That was the best attack he could muster right now.

Because his body's mana was almost depleted, and the link with his puppet Asura had been severed.

Riman walked toward the wizard.

This man was the only survivor among the wizards who had ambushed Riman.

Therefore, Riman had a lot to ask him.

THUD.

Riman stopped about 5 meters away from him.

And asked the man.

"Why did you do it?"

"What are you talking about?"

ZZZT!

A thin bolt of electricity extending from Riman's fingertip pierced the man's abdomen.

The man collapsed, feeling pain as if the skin all over his body was shriveling up.

"Gasp...!"

Riman slowly approached the man and asked again.

"I am asking why you tried to kill me."

"That is... I cannot say...!"

ZZZT!

"Aaaagh...!"

"Wizards have strong convictions. I admit that much. So..."

CRACKLE...

The man's two legs, which were folded beneath him, slowly began to freeze pitch black.

"...I also know very well just what needs to be done to break those convictions."

"You bastard...!"

ZZZT!

"Aaack! Stop, stop it!!"

"I will stop if you just answer properly."

"......."

"Silence is not the answer I wanted."

ZZZ-ZZZT!

This time, he scorched him for a little longer.

Not enough to faint, not enough to die.

Extremely delicately adjusted voltage began to ruthlessly sweep down the man's entire body.

It felt like a tongue covered in sharp needles was licking his whole body.

The man eventually could not endure it.

"S-Stop... I'll tell you everything, so please...!"

Riman withdrew the magic.

The man spoke.

"...You asked why we attacked you, right?"

"Yes."

"It's simple. You tried to uncover our Biwon. That is why."

"Biwon? Uncover? Me?"

Riman thought about what on earth he had come here to uncover.

The thought did not last long.

The answer came out.

Because there was exactly one thing Riman had set his mind to uncover after coming here.

"Kowloon Walled City?"

The man nodded heavily.

Riman asked.

"So... that sounds like you are saying you guys are involved in the mass disappearance incident that occurred in the Walled City and the creation of the extinction zone."

"Correct."

"Are you the ones who made that place like that?"

"If so, what are you going to do?"

"Ha......."

I thought it wasn't an ordinary situation, and as expected, magic was involved.

The man suddenly put on an expression of injustice and began to pour out words.

"Humans are stupid. They have absolutely no eye for the greater cause and the future. Caught up in trivial things like morality, ethics, law, and humanity, they cannot see what is truly important at all...!"

"You speak as if you aren't human?"

"We are wizards."

"Good grief."

A sense of elitism that flowed out as naturally as breathing.

Well, I was used to this kind of attitude from wizards, having seen it countless times in the game.

"By the way. You did speak at length, but it seems the information I want didn't come out at all?"

"What?"

"I get that you guys are the main culprits behind the Kowloon Walled City incident. And I get that you tried to kill me because I tried to uncover that case. But you see..."

Riman took one more step toward the man and spoke.

"The reason why you made Kowloon Walled City like that and the Biwon you pursue there. You didn't say anything about these most important things."

When a wizard commits an act, grasping the reason and intention is important.

Because what forms the basis of a magic structure is ultimately the caster's intention.

In other words, if you grasp the caster's intention, it becomes easier to reverse-engineer and break their magic.

Riman wasn't asking for the reason simply out of curiosity.

"That is......."

"Do I have to tell you to speak again for you to understand?"

ZZZZT.......

Black sparks rose again from Riman's fingertips.

As the means of conversation flickered before his eyes once more, the man began to pour out words again.

"To... to tear down the world! It is for that!"

"Tear down the world...?"

Words that sounded like nothing other than destroying the world.

But one must not carelessly judge the words spat out by a wizard by only hearing the surface level.

Riman asked again.

"Are you saying right now that you want to destroy the world? And that is your Biwon?"

"No, it is not something that simple!"

"Then?"

"To tear down the world means, in other words......."

At that moment.

CRUNCH.

The sound of bones snapping.

At the same time, the man's head disappeared.

It happened truly in an instant.

It was an event that occurred at a speed that even Riman could not perceive.

"Wha...?"

ZIP!

Riman first quickly widened the distance.

Only after widening the distance and securing his vision could he understand what had happened.

"...Snake?"

A large grey snake.

That snake was holding the man's severed head in its mouth.

And-

THUD.

The body of the man who lost his head collapsed just like that.

Riman looked at the snake.

A snake much larger than an anaconda.

The snake was munching on the freshly harvested human head.

Blood dripped like fruit juice from the bastard's mouth, and the expression on the face was being crushed.

It was an impossible occurrence.

Because snakes do not chew and swallow their prey.

Snakes swallow their prey whole, then crush and digest it in their stomach.

In other words, that thing in front of Riman's eyes was.......

'Not a real snake.'

Riman looked at the grey scales covering that snake's body.

The glistening of the scale surface was unusually alien.

It also felt like it was shimmering and distorting like heat haze.

Only then could Riman understand.

That was not a snake.

To be precise, it was not a snake of this world.

And among the people Riman knew, there was only one summoner who handled a snake of that appearance.

'Don't tell me...!'

Riman felt a chill running up his spine for the first time.

THUD, THUD, THUD.

He is coming.

Cutting through the dawn air, the master of that grey snake is coming.

And finally, his face was revealed under the streetlight.

It was a face Riman knew too.

A face he didn't want to run into here.

And a figure he never thought he would encounter like this.

Riman muttered his name in a low voice.

"...Cheonjan."

The President of the Sanhae Magic Tower, the strongest summoner in China.

A chilling question flowed from his mouth.

"Why on earth did you do it, Riman."

"What do you mean?"

"If you had just died quietly when I tried to kill you, things wouldn't have grown this big, would they?"

A coldness that felt like it would suffocate the listener seeped out from the end of his words.

He could feel with his whole body that the title of was never given in vain.

"...Where in the world is there a living creature that dies quietly just because you kill it?"

"Don't you possess something called reason? Couldn't you do the calculation that dying here would be a greater benefit for the world?"

"Is he crazy?"

"Is that how you're going to be? Disappointing."

"Just what are you thinking, you? Wasn't solving the secret of Kowloon Walled City your group's objective?"

"Did you really think so? If so, that's a success. Because we hoped it would look like that externally."

"......!"

"Well, no more talk is needed. The sun will rise soon, and I have to go to work. The position of President is a job with more work to do than one might think, you see."

SLITHER.......

At that moment, long, squirming things began to crawl out from around Cheonjan.

Grey snakes.

Otherworld snakes beginning to manifest in this world in response to Cheonjan's call.

Of course, due to the nature of summoning magic, they were not real snakes from the otherworld.

They were projections of the otherworld snakes, in short, copies.

However, that did not mean the fearsomeness of these snakes was diminished.

This was the reason why the alias 'Hyungsa (Ominous Snake)' was attached to Cheonjan.

The summoned snake-shaped summoned beasts began to rush toward Riman.

ROAR!

A wave of snakes poured toward Riman at a terrifying speed.

Riman quickly pulled his body backward.

CRASH CRASH CRASH!!

The asphalt shell of the road surface was ground away too easily.

Of course, Riman was not swept up in that attack.

But it was a close call.

One wrong move and he would have drowned in that wave of snakes.

However, just because he dodged didn't mean the offensive was over.

Between the surging snakes, thinner snakes shot out like arrows.

ZIP ZIP ZIP!

Snakes shooting out at speeds exceeding bullets.

They were all aiming precisely for Riman.

'Kugh...!'

The connection between techniques was meticulous beyond compare.

Intervals of offensive so dense that even Riman was bewildered.

Riman raised his barrier to the maximum at the same time as he dodged.

However-

CLANG!

It shattered.

The barrier made of multiple layers was punctured by the attack of a single thin snake.

'This crazy...!'

To think a barrier of this thickness would be pierced in a single blow.

Something Riman had never experienced before was happening right before his eyes right now.

'The density of the magic is different...!'

Cheonjan's summoning arts, Cheonjan's magic, had a level of perfection different from Riman's dimensionally.

In fact, looking at it, it was natural.

Sanhae Magic Tower, one of the three peaks of the magic world.

And the peak of that Sanhae was none other than Cheonjan.

The peak above peaks.

If such a person fell behind Riman in the perfection of magic, that would be absurd in its own way.

TSK!

Fortunately, the snake that pierced through the barrier only grazed Riman's cheek as it passed.

This was only because it was Riman that he avoided it this much.

If it were anyone else, it was an attack that would have left a hole where the bridge of the nose should be.

"Tch...!"

RATTLE...

Riman shook off the tattered barrier that was torn and cracked.

Because the barrier was useless in battle now.

WHOOSH!

The very next moment, thousands of snakes poured in toward Riman.

Front, back, left, right, columns of snakes closing in from all directions.

A wave where innumerable eyes flashed was rushing in.

There was no place to dodge.

He couldn't block it either.

So Riman chose.

'Silent sea, white coffin, broken tin.'

Constructing the chant solidly while pouring in three times the normal amount of mana.

[Frozen Earth Critical Point]

A magic that freezes the entire surroundings.

Pitch-black cold air was emitted from Riman.

CRACKLE!

The snakes rushing from all directions froze all at once.

It was natural that their movements stopped.

But those things were not guys that would be solved just by being frozen.

During this brief time secured, he had to finish them off properly.

Riman drove out the cold air from his body and immediately wove a new attribute of magic.

'Dried twisted branch, rusted needle point.'

The magic Riman used most frequently.

However, a magic into which he poured an excessive amount of mana, more than ever before.

'Deployment direction omnidirectional, activate.'

[Discharge]

A wave of black sparks burst out in all directions.

The place where the cold air had just swept through, this time electricity swept through.

And the frozen snakes had no choice but to take that attack directly.

ZZZ-ZZZT!!

Snakes being fried while trapped inside the ice.

The situation ended in an instant.

This moment when thousands of summoned snakes became electric roast just like that.

However, Cheonjan was nonchalant beyond compare.

"Impressive. As expected, you could have been a magnificent sacrifice with this level."

Cheonjan extended one hand forward.

A hand shape with a fist clenched and only the thumb raised.

The tip of that thumb was pointing to the ground.

But the very next moment.

SWISH-

Cheonjan turned his wrist 180 degrees, making the thumb tip point to the sky.

This was also a form of Su-in (Hand seals).

A gesture refined magically becomes a symbol in itself and makes magic bloom.

[Talpi]

CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG!

The pitch-black ice covering the bodies of the snakes shattered all at once.

As the snake's slough peeled off as if bursting, the ice broke due to that pressure.

And at the same time, the snakes' wounds were also healed at once.

Riman was dumbfounded.

"What...?!"

"Did you think you could catch my snakes that easily?"

WHOOSH!

The wave of snakes rushed over toward Riman again.