novelraw Chapter 71 : Chapter 71
Chapter 71 : Chapter 71
Chapter 71. The Intangible Killer (5)
Gong Jae-byeok.
Although he was imprisoned once for being caught peeping into a women's restroom, that wasn't the reason he went to Mugan.
The crime that sent him to Mugan.
It was none other than mass murder.
Gong Jae-byeok had a record of devastating an entire city solely with his own power.
The development pattern of that massacre was similar to now.
That morning, Gong Jae-byeok felt somewhat sluggish.
But just in time, a strong smell of cigarettes wafted from a man passing by him.
It wasn't even that the man smoked while walking.
It was just that the smell of cigarettes smoked earlier permeated his body.
But just that lingering scent made Gong Jae-byeok lose his temper.
In his opinion, this was justified anger.
An unforgivable evil act causing the harm of secondhand smoke to others.
To punish this evil deed, Gong Jae-byeok drew his knife and started running wild.
Invisibility, and indiscriminate killing began.
People died in droves without even being able to respond.
Fear spread citywide, and as people fled, the city headed towards a vacuum state.
Furthermore, the troops deployed to handle the situation also fell like autumn leaves.
This disaster continued for three days.
The city became paralyzed, corpses piled up into mountains, and blood flowed into the sewers instead of rainwater.
Eventually, the city government declared a state of emergency and started pouring in military resources, but it was meaningless.
There was nothing they could do against an enemy whose number, ability, and even appearance were unknown.
When one huge district was becoming a ghost town entirely like that.
Support troops from the World Federation Government Army arrived at the request of the city government.
A single agent.
The city government was dumbfounded.
But it didn't take long to realize that even this one person was excessively too much force.
Because that agent was Lancelot.
His sword left its sheath, and three buildings were sliced apart.
With that as the end, Gong Jae-byeok's suppression was completed.
The moment the living hell that lasted for three days ended.
Lancelot, who finished the mission in an instant like that, left the scene immediately without leaving a single word.
He is the only Sword Saint on Earth.
The fact that he, who already had much to do, came here to catch a single criminal was actually close to a miracle.
Anyway, what was important in this anecdote wasn't Lancelot.
What Gong Jae-byeok gained in the process of dealing with the monster named Lancelot was important.
Gong Jae-byeok struggled with all his might during the battle.
At first, to land even one hit, later to escape somehow.
But once targeted by the Sword Saint, even attempting escape with ordinary skills was impossible.
However, Gong Jae-byeok managed to find it somehow.
A new technique applying his ‘invisibility.’
He created a new technique purely for escape.
Of course, he was subdued and imprisoned in Mugan immediately after that.
An ironic result occurred where the criminal's level rose in the process of suppressing the criminal.
And currently.
Gong Jae-byeok was completely frozen, caught in Riman's strategy.
A situation completely cornered.
He was not in a situation to be picky now.
A situation where he had to unconditionally bring out any card he could use.
‘…It can't be helped.’
Gong Jae-byeok recalled.
That new technique he awakened on the day he fought Lancelot.
A mode of extreme destruction orientation, turning all ability resources used to drive the invisibility ability entirely to attack.
Gong Jae-byeok pulled out that last card.
Jjeo-jeok.
Cracks began to appear on the ice covering him.
Tz-tz-tz……!
Bright light began to pour out from the cracks.
Seeing that, joy and bewilderment crossed Riman's face simultaneously.
“…Finally.”
And a moment later.
Beon-jjeok!
With a fierce brilliance, the ice covering Gong Jae-byeok shattered.
Furthermore, the thick ice covering the ground, and the road surface beneath it too.
Everything touched by the bursting brilliance broke and shattered.
Though called brilliance, it was practically no different from an explosion of light.
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa!
A blast pressure swept the surrounding area.
Fragments flew in all directions, and dust rose thickly.
And in the middle of it stood Riman.
In a state without a single scratch.
Because the automatic defense formula activated and blocked all shocks and fragments.
‘A thicker barrier is created for stronger shocks.’
He also confirmed that the thickness of the barrier is automatically adjusted in proportion to the level of danger.
And that without Riman's conscious intervention.
Magic with performance beyond expectations.
But performance is performance…….
‘The bastard is not subdued yet.’
Riman looked at where Gong Jae-byeok was.
Riman saw Gong Jae-byeok's figure.
Even though the ice revealing the guy's silhouette shattered, the guy's figure was seen accurately.
Because bright light was emanating from the guy's entire body.
Jeu-jeu-jeu-jeu……
It was a bizarre appearance.
Although the guy's body was still transparent like glass, a lump of light gathered near his dantian was revealing the silhouette of that transparent body intact.
That is exactly Gong Jae-byeok's final form.
A form concentrating all his ability resources solely on attack.
‘Photobody (Gwangchehwa)……!’
Gong Jae-byeok extended his fingertips toward Riman.
Light extending from the lump of light gathered in the guy's dantian traverses inside the body and rushes quickly to the fingertips.
The light reaching the fingertips like that is emitted as a beam.
Beon-jjeok!
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa!
A destruction beam was fired from the guy's fingertips.
The surrounding temperature of the extending beam soared sharply, and a huge explosion occurred at the impact point.
The power was enough to punch a huge hole in a thick building's outer wall.
This was exactly the power of ‘Photobody.’
Adjusting the transparency and refractive index of particles composing the body, trapping light entering from outside inside the body.
After amplifying destructive power by mixing mana into that light, emitting it from various places of the body through refraction and reflection.
This was the principle of ‘Photobody.’
Simply put, remodeling the body into a state capable of firing long-range, wide-area photon bombardment recklessly.
Being able to break Riman's ice was also thanks to emitting this destruction beam with the whole body.
Ku-gu-gu-gu……
Fortunately, Riman had dodged.
This time, he didn't rely on the automatic defense formula and dodged directly.
Because……
‘…To deploy a barrier enough to block that, it would only be barely possible if I pour out all my available mana.’
Rather than doing such inefficient things, it was better to see with eyes and dodge.
Of course, it's hard to dodge after firing.
But that destruction beam has a precursor just before firing.
Since refracting and focusing the light stored in the dantian inside the body is clearly visible.
If he followed that with his eyes, predicting where the beam would be fired was possible.
Of course, it was a stunt possible because it was Riman.
“This bastard……!”
Gong Jae-byeok firing a beam from the opposite hand this time.
A more solidly focused beam scratched the road surface violently and passed.
Kwang!
Puh-e-e-eong!!
The asphalt road surface was torn off like paper, and the fire hydrant torn off together spewed water like a fountain.
And Riman dodged this too.
Gong Jae-byeok muttered.
“This rat-like bastard……!”
“The rat is you who sneak into someone else's house and live, you bastard.”
“What?”
At Riman's words, Gong Jae-byeok was speechless for a moment.
Because a fact that no one should know popped out of Riman's mouth again.
Riman started beating Gong Jae-byeok with the tip of his tongue again.
“Ah, you didn't sneak in, you actually killed the landlord and took over the house, right?”
“……!”
It was true.
Since coming out of Mugan, Gong Jae-byeok had lived by killing innocent people and robbing their houses and properties.
The fact that there were almost no clothes fitting him in the closet.
The fact that a resident of the same villa felt strangeness from him.
It was because Gong Jae-byeok wasn't the original owner of that house.
Naturally, he didn't consider this robbery a crime either.
‘How can I, an ex-convict, get a job? This is the only way to survive.’
Furthermore—
‘I didn't form a violent organization like someone, nor did I sell drugs. I am on the very moderate side. This much isn't even a crime.’
Justifying himself like that.
Riman continued speaking.
“You thought you were rehabilitated, right? Rehabilitated my ass. Who calls that rehabilitation? Didn't you study Korean?”
“You son of a bitch!!”
Light was emitted simultaneously from both of Gong Jae-byeok's hands.
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa!
Lumps of light the guy threw exploded like grenades.
Although the power decreased compared to the beam earlier, the range of destruction increased significantly.
He intended to decrease power and widen range to prevent Riman from dodging.
Of course, it was of little use.
Because he dodged strong attacks and deflected weak attacks with a barrier.
Riman concentrated all his mind solely on dodging the guy's attacks.
If the current situation were a game, Riman would have brought out Heuk-gwang (Black Light).
Because canceling bright light with black light was an easily conceivable idea.
But he couldn't do that here.
Heuk-gwang was a power where too many parts were still a mystery.
Furthermore, he knew that if handled incorrectly, it immediately becomes a self-destruct skill.
So he didn't bring it out in this battle.
Instead, he dealt with Gong Jae-byeok with one sure strategy.
The first step of that strategy.
That was dodging diligently with his best effort.
“Dieeeee!!”
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa!!
Gong Jae-byeok started practically spraying fire now.
Explosive light burst from all directions.
Over five small buildings had already collapsed, and the ground was covered with craters as if hit by a meteor shower.
Furthermore, due to the heat of the beams, the atmospheric temperature soared rapidly.
The battlefield of the two was becoming devastated as if it had become an epicenter.
To the extent that people far away from here could feel the aftermath of this battle.
“What is it? The ground is shaking……?”
“What on earth is happening over there……?!”
And meanwhile.
“Heo-eok, heo-eok…….”
Riman was getting exhausted.
A situation where he had been devoted solely to evasion, running here and there without firing a single attack spell.
Therefore, his stamina was slowly reaching its limit.
‘This damn physique……!’
His already weak stamina felt weaker while recuperating from internal injury.
‘When I go back, I must work on my stamina first somehow.’
Thinking so, Riman steadied his trembling legs.
At that time, Gong Jae-byeok's voice was heard from afar.
“Where are you…….”
Gong Jae-byeok's figure wasn't clearly visible.
Of course, Gong Jae-byeok couldn't see Riman properly either.
Thickly risen dust.
Mist created by water spewed from fire hydrants and the heated atmosphere.
Because they mixed together and completely covered the view in all directions.
“Where are you, you bastard……!”
Teong—
Gong Jae-byeok turned on headlights in his palms.
Not the light of destruction like earlier, but harmless searching light.
It was to light up the surroundings because it was too dark around.
But then, one question arose in Gong Jae-byeok's head.
‘Wait, why is it so dark?’
No matter how thick the dust and mist were, the surroundings were too dark beyond that.
Even though it was a time when the sun was still high in the sky.
‘What on earth is it?’
Gong Jae-byeok unwittingly looked up at the sky.
There was something strange there.
Thick dark clouds hanging very low.
It wasn't mist but clearly clouds.
‘Dark clouds……?’
It was strange.
Because according to the forecast, there was no possibility of rain or even clouds today.
But the sky over this entire area was covered with dark clouds.
‘No, why on earth… uh?’
At that moment, Gong Jae-byeok saw.
Something passing over the dark clouds.
A shadow stretching long and moving forward as if rippling.
That was……
“…Snake?”
No, it was a dragon.
Riman also looked up at the dark clouds and muttered.
“Saya.”
Riman sucked in the surrounding mana with all his might and said.
“Freeze it.”