novelraw Chapter 61 : Chapter 61
Chapter 61 : Chapter 61
Chapter 61. Tracker of the Mountain Sea (5)
A cylindrical rock wall rising up.
The Oviparous Humans lunged toward that wall.
Because Riman was inside it.
Hu-uk!
The creatures close to the wall swung their hands at the rock wall.
Hands with claws sprouting from them.
Those thick and sharp claws broke through the surface of the rock wall in an instant.
Kwajib!!
The solid rock wall crumbled like a cookie.
If hit by this blow, a person's head would shatter like a watermelon dropped on the floor.
And 200 Oviparous Humans possessing such muscular and grip strength were rushing in, targeting only Riman.
Pagak!
Kwajib!!
Striking down with claws and pecking with beaks.
The rock wall was torn away, shattered, and soon collapsed.
A rock wall that had withstood even the chain explosion of [Broken Egg].
But it was useless in front of the hacking of 200 Oviparous Humans.
Kururuk!
Collapse.
The rock wall completely crumbled, and its interior was revealed.
Now, all they had to do was crush Riman inside to death.
However—
“…Huh?”
Wong Chen doubted his eyes.
Because there was no one inside the rock wall.
“What……?”
Riman was not there.
He had disappeared without a trace.
“Did he run away……?”
But logically, it didn't make sense.
What surrounded Riman was a cylindrical wall without gaps.
Furthermore, 200 Oviparous Humans surrounded and closed in from all directions.
If he had attempted to escape through all this, he would have inevitably been noticed.
But Riman was not seen, nor could his whereabouts be found.
Wong Chen was flustered.
‘Where on earth……?’
But panic at this point was a fatal mistake.
If he had been just a little less flustered, he would have been able to discover it.
The awkwardly clumped mass of wind in the spot where Riman had been standing.
Kuo-o-o—
Inside the cylindrical wall, the spot where Riman had stood.
A mass of ultra-high pressure wind was clumped there.
An aggregate of air that could absolutely not be created naturally.
But a seasoned Mage could sufficiently detect the mana entangled with that mass of air.
However, Wong Chen failed to do so.
Because the momentary panic clouded even his intuition.
Such an error created a gap, and the trap Riman had arranged was triggered without any hindrance.
The mass of wind clumped to the limit bursts.
Puh-e-e-eong!!
Wind pressure was released, and the area was swept away with a roar.
The blast pressure created by the air compressed to ultra-high pressure was formidable.
And it was the Oviparous Humans who took that damage directly.
Because they had crowded closely around to attack Riman, they were struck squarely by the bursting wind.
Bones were crushed, muscles ruptured, and skin peeled off.
Furthermore, the debris of the collapsed rock wall turned into high-speed shrapnel and scattered in all directions.
Powerful enough to sever bones just by grazing.
Nearly 70 percent of the Oviparous Humans died from this single blow.
The condition of the remaining 30 percent wasn't very sound either.
Wong Chen, in his panic, couldn't even speak properly.
“Wh, wh, what is it……?”
He couldn't grasp what had just happened or what magic was used.
The name of this magic Riman used was [Wind Wave (Pungpa)].
Magic with a simple principle of shooting out air compressed to high pressure.
But Riman had heavily modified this magic using the surrounding environment.
Where Riman was located was the space inside the cylindrical rock wall.
In such a closed space, it is easy to create a mass of high-pressure air.
Because the sucked-in air cannot escape easily.
Utilizing this environmental advantage to the maximum, Riman gathered the wind as much as possible to create a mass of high-pressure air.
On top of that, he forcibly delayed the casting time and poured in as much mana as he could.
It is natural that the output of magic increases as mana is poured in.
Like that, Riman succeeded in creating a mass of ultra-high pressure air exceeding the limit of [Wind Wave].
But he couldn't just detonate this.
Because Riman himself would be swept up in the explosion.
So he had to deal damage to the opponent while escaping the damage himself.
‘Should I use a barrier?’
No, an explosion at this distance is difficult to neutralize even with a barrier.
So what Riman chose was—
[Quicksand (Yusa)]
Riman changed the ground beneath his feet into a sand swamp.
Ssu-uk!
Riman's body disappeared below the ground in an instant.
That was why Riman's figure wasn't visible to Wong Chen's eyes earlier.
While hiding his body underground like that, he left the mass of [Wind Wave] floating as it was above the ground.
At that moment, the Oviparous Humans broke the rock wall and charged in.
The time had come.
‘Wind pressure release.’
Like that, [Wind Wave] exploded.
The result was the current situation.
About 70 percent of the Oviparous Human swarm died instantly, the rest seriously injured.
Once again, the summoned creatures were swept away by Riman's hand.
Wong Chen unwittingly tore at his hair.
“It can't be……!”
Wong Chen fell into a panic.
The summoned creatures were almost annihilated.
Moreover, the magic performed by the opponent in front of him was beyond the category he could understand.
‘Not just Fire lineage and Earth lineage, but handling even Wind Flow lineage magic……?!’
The magic a general Mage can handle is one main lineage magic, and auxiliary lineage magic that can be used regardless of lineage.
‘But that guy… handles three main lineages?!’
This was something whose existence itself completely defied the common sense of magic.
‘Impossible. Unless he established a completely new magic system, it’s an impossible act……!’
But there was no way to deny the phenomenon happening right before his eyes.
And the strong wind blowing in shortly after made Wong Chen stop thinking.
Kwa-a-a-a-a!!
Suddenly, a wind of tremendous speed raged in the front yard.
Sand dust soared to the point where it was difficult to open eyes, and thin trees staggered.
‘That bastard used magic again……!’
It wasn't.
Contrary to Wong Chen's thought, this strong wind was not a result of magic.
This was the aftermath.
A moment ago, Riman detonated compressed air, causing an explosion of considerable scale.
Simultaneously with the explosion, the air at the epicenter was quickly pushed outward, and as a result, negative pressure close to a vacuum was formed there.
And air flows from high pressure to low pressure.
Therefore, the surrounding air began to rush toward the suddenly formed negative pressure zone.
This was the identity of this strong wind.
Kwa-a-a-a!
Like that, the wind rushes in.
A strong wind making it difficult even to stand.
Riman did not miss this opportunity.
Puhwak!
Riman crawled out of the sand swamp.
On the ground where the aftermath still raged.
Riman, without even shaking off the sand on his body, immediately sucked in mana.
At the same time, he superimposed images in his mind.
‘Rolling waves, transparent pillar, falling water of clouds.’
After rearranging the sucked-in mana according to his will, he projects it outside the body.
He grabs the raging strong wind with the extended mana.
While preserving the power and speed the strong wind possesses, he gathers the wind.
The strong wind that was rampant everywhere was captured by Riman's control in an instant.
He adds mana to it.
Adding acceleration to wind speed, and rotation to acceleration.
The flow of the strong wind becomes orderly and soon turns into a vortex.
The moment Riman's will is fully projected onto the wind like that.
The magic is completed.
[Crushing Whirlwind (Swaeseonpung)]
Kwa-a-a-a!!
What was created was a giant tornado.
Riman swung his arm with force to give a path to the tornado.
The target is Wong Chen.
The tornado began to rush toward Wong Chen at a fierce speed.
Sucking in and crushing everything around it.
Wong Chen turned pale just like that.
‘Using magic of that scale twice in a row……?!’
Blocking magic of that scale with just a barrier is impossible.
Wong Chen poured mana into his shoes.
Tu-ung!
A shockwave burst out from Wong Chen's shoes.
Using that shockwave as repulsive force, Wong Chen bounced away to the opposite side of Riman.
Escape.
It was the best conclusion he reached after deliberation.
The problem was that the judgment was too late.
The airflow surrounding Wong Chen had already begun to suck him into the vortex.
“Kue-ack……!”
With his collar caught by the wind, Wong Chen was swept into the [Crushing Whirlwind].
The high-speed rotating wind hacked him and threw him in all directions.
Like that, after bouncing around and getting beaten inside the vortex.
Wong Chen was thrown against the warehouse's outer wall.
Kwajib!!
His body was hurled, breaking the concrete wall of the warehouse.
“Oh my.”
Riman unwittingly let out a regrettable exclamation.
Because he unintentionally ruined the landlord's warehouse.
He didn't care about Wong Chen being ruined, but this weighed on his mind a bit.
“Kue-u-uk…….”
And amidst that, Wong Chen survived.
It was tough vitality.
Of course, he only survived; his appearance had already become something akin to a corpse.
The multiple layers of barriers were torn away long ago, and his left arm was bent completely backward.
Furthermore, his skin was dizzily covered with numerous cuts, and half of his ribs were fractured.
It was a wonder he was alive.
‘Damn… it…….’
But no matter how broken, he was a Mage.
Thinking, consideration, research.
Those were the elements that make a Mage a Mage, and the basic virtues of a Mage.
Therefore, even in a mangled state, he could desperately rack his brain.
‘I am a Mage.’
And a Mage who formally graduated from Sanhae Magic Tower.
‘I can't lose to a guy like that who came from god knows where……!’
Even if he died, he couldn't die alone.
Wong Chen recalled.
Numerous reports written during his Magic Tower days, texts poured into his head, formulas woven through sleepless nights.
The answer was there.
No, the answer had to be there.
Otherwise, he would die to that monster-like guy.
No, all the achievements of magic he had built up so far would be denied at once.
‘That can't happen.’
I am a Mage of Sanhae, a graduate of the Magic Tower.
The bloated pride created by the halo he carried made him unable to accept defeat.
The rotation of his brain soon reached its limit, and he finished browsing all viewable memories.
And finally, a method came out.
S-euk.
Wong Chen put his hand into his bosom and took out a small plastic bag.
Contained within was powder of red mineral matter.
It was Red Chips.
Hap—
He poured the entire amount into his mouth in one go.
The lethal dose of Red Chips passed down his esophagus and began to dissolve into his body.
The drug's effect was exerted instantly.
‘Keuk……!’
Senses open, and the wall of thought crumbles.
All conscious obstacles restricting his mind are lifted at once.
‘Ah.’
This distant feeling of the horizon of perception expanding endlessly.
If it's now, it's possible.
His signature spell organized only in theory.
Magic he had never demonstrated due to its too high risk and difficulty.
But if it's now, it's possible.
The desperation of facing death, the freedom of thought gained through Red Chips.
All those elements achieve a chemical reaction at once, and thus finally, the magic was completed in his head.
The final magic of his life.
A line of chanting spilled out from Wong Chen's mouth.
“Burning as an offering to investigate…….”
Tu-deu-deuk—
On the skin of both his forearms, wounds like cuts from a knife began to be carved by themselves.
At the same time, those wounds began to slowly reveal a string of characters in a constant pattern.
“…The abyss with form shall finally descend.”
Tuhwak!
The mana remaining in his body escaped without a trace and scattered in all directions.
At the same time……
Ka-geu-rak……
The fragments of eggshells scattered in the front yard began to flinch.