I Became the Genius Mage of the Martial Academy

Chapter 124 : Evil Divine Object (2)

How long had we been running? While everyone was running without a word, I led them in the direction of the evil object.

"Where are we going?"

Baek Hasin asked. To ask a question out loud in the enemy's main camp, not even via telepathy. This incident must have been quite a shock to him as well.

I told them via telepathy that I would guide them, and Baek Hasin nodded faintly.

The atmosphere on the way was complete silence. I didn't want their morale to drop this much, so I softly added a telepathic message.

- Cho Min-ha won't die. I gave him something.

The leather pouch I gave to Cho Min-ha. In fact, it was the blood of a demonic beast. And it was blood that had been received in its purest form by applying the Blood River Art.

In fact, a Blood Fiend is like a newborn beast. It craves blood every hour, like a vampire. It is a being specialized for a war machine.

However, if you change your perspective, you can use that instinct in reverse. For example, if Cho Min-ha uses the demonic beast's blood in a crisis, he can flee far away while the Blood Fiends' eyes are turned.

It was one of the strategies to avoid battle when encountering a Blood Fiend.

I had given away all the pouches I had prepared because two of them had appeared, but it didn't matter. As long as I could guarantee Cho Min-ha's survival with it.

'Now I can only hope that I don't encounter any more Blood Fiends.'

In the original story, there were a total of 4 Blood Fiends. But since Yang Ha-eun was gone, there would be about 3 this time. Then, only one remained.

'The first Blood Fiend is probably fighting alongside the Blood Demon right now, so it doesn't matter.'

We bypassed the collapsed passage and ran deeper. As we went, the passage narrowed and the traps and formations became sharper, but that meant we were on the right path.

At the final fork in the road, I chose the place with fewer formations and went inside. At that moment, a flexible sword flew at high speed like a whip.

Kaaaaang!

Baek Hasin, who was standing next to me, deflected it with his sword, and Bong So rushed at the opponent as if to dig in.

Jjeo-eong-!

But it was Bong So who was pushed back. He couldn't withstand the tremendous sword power. A considerable master was blocking our path.

"I didn't expect to see a familiar face here."

I stopped walking for a moment at that voice. To think that woman was here of all places.

Soon, behind the flexible sword that was waving ominously in the air like a snake, Sa Yu-rang revealed her appearance.

'Was she waiting in a narrow place?'

I took out the Daoist Scholar's Fan and gathered my mana. This was a kind of bottleneck area where the passage narrowed. To get past here, I had to deal with Sa Yu-rang.

"It'll be difficult to face three of you."

Sa Yu-rang said so and caressed the blade of her flexible sword with her fingertips, scattering the blood that had formed on both sides. Then, with a small popping sound, I heard the sound of a fuse burning.

'Explosive blood?'

I had heard that there were some Blood Cultists with a peculiar blood constitution, and it seemed Sa Yu-rang was one of them.

- We have to break through!

I shouted to Baek Hasin and Bong So via telepathy. The sound of the fuse burning was gradually getting closer along the inside of the ceiling.

'At this rate, it will explode.'

Since it was spread out in all directions like blood vessels, it couldn't be easily blocked.

It would be faster to break through. As I was preparing the Flame Lightning First Blade Spear.

Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!

With a noise that shook the heavens and the earth, the ceiling collapsed.

"Damn it!"

I immediately activated a shield to maintain the ceiling of the passage where we were. However, to completely block the tons of rocks that were falling, I had to put all my effort into maintaining the shield.

- You guys have to find a way out.

I sent a telepathic message and then reinforced the shield. If I let go of my strength now, everyone would be crushed to death.

'Do I have no choice but to trust them here?'

In front, Baek Hasin and Bong So were pushing Sa Yu-rang.

But she was a super-peak master of a higher class than the Asura Heavy Shield I had killed before. She didn't easily give way.

"How long can you hold that up? I'll crush you all to death like this!"

Of all things, she had taken a narrow path and was flying her long flexible sword, so it was difficult to approach.

'Damn it.'

I gritted my teeth, enduring the increasingly heavy pressure of the ceiling with my shield. Even if I had entered the realm of the 4th circle, there was a clear limit to my mana pool. If this became a long-term battle, this side would be at a disadvantage.

- I will create an opening.

Just then, Bong So's telepathic message came through. He blocked the flexible sword that was thrusting at him by tucking it under his armpit, and then he grabbed the sword with both hands and unfolded his Diamond Indestructible Body.

"Danger...!"

"Attack!!"

He shouted with all his might at the surprised Baek Hasin. I know that Bong So is in danger. The powerful qi of a super-master would easily cut through a mediocre Diamond Indestructible Body.

Even now, as the opponent was pulling her sword, blood was flowing from Bong So's side.

But thanks to that, he had barely created an opening. Baek Hasin immediately rushed in and gathered his demonic qi. A ominous black sword qi gathered on his blade and then plunged toward the neck of Sa Yu-rang, who was trying to retrieve her flexible sword.

Seo-geok-!

The sound of flesh being deeply cut. But the location it came from was a little closer.

"Bong So!"

Sa Yu-rang had momentarily pulled her flexible sword with all her might, cutting Bong So, and then slipped back. Bong So, who had a deep gash on his side, staggered on the spot and then collapsed.

"You've worked hard."

I caught him before he hit the floor and then escaped the passage.

Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!

At the same time, the shield shattered, and the cave we had passed through completely collapsed.

Soon, as the dust cloud subsided, my vision cleared.

Outside the narrow passage, a clearing with a large metal door was spread out, and that seemed to be the entrance to the altar where the evil object was hidden.

"...You stubborn damn monk!"

Sa Yu-rang also hadn't completely dodged Baek Hasin's sword, as she had a long sword wound from her chest to her abdomen.

Although the wound was relatively shallow, since it was a wound made with a ferocious demonic qi, her condition would not be intact either.

I leaned Bong So against a corner and then took out the Daoist Scholar's Fan.

Thanks to his sacrifice, we were able to escape the crisis and come out to a wide space that was advantageous for a pincer attack.

Then, I should repay him now.

- Baek Hasin, you go forward, and I'll support from behind.

With the instruction, Baek Hasin scattered his demonic qi and approached Sa Yu-rang.

Since all the passages were blocked anyway, there was no way to escape without going through the altar.

"Good... I'll kill you all at this opportunity. Thanks to you, I'm stuck here without being able to ascend to the rank of Blood Fiend even with this much power."

Sa Yu-rang's two eye sockets are stained with a reddish-black color. And an ominous energy spreads throughout the area. As the saying goes, one of the only 7 Blood Fiend-level beings in the Blood Cult, it was a very powerful force.

Baek Hasin and I. The two of us have to kill a super-master.

We rushed at Sa Yu-rang.

Baek Hasin's demonic qi maintained its form even after clashing with the flexible sword. A movement that had not just reached the peak of the extreme, but had mastered it.

To think he could exchange blows with a super-peak master of that level, he must have gotten incredibly strong during the war.

'I'll decide the victory or defeat in the early stages.'

The problem with the Blood Cult was their phenomenal recovery and rampage. Now, when her movements were restricted due to the wound from the demonic qi, was the chance.

I fired the Flame Lightning First Blade Spear that I had prepared while Baek Hasin was barely deflecting the flexible sword.

Flash-!

A ray of light flew in from Sa Yu-rang's blind spot, and Sa Yu-rang, who had been deflecting Baek Hasin's sword, reacted belatedly.

"Who do you think you're fooling!"

It seemed she had been conscious of this side, but there was one thing she had overlooked.

Kaaaaaaang!

The power of the Flame Lightning First Blade Spear, which contained the mana of the 4th circle, was stronger than she had imagined.

"Th-this... what?!"

In Sa Yu-rang's astonishment, the flying First Blade pierced through everything in its path.

Kwaaaang!

Belatedly, the First Blade dented the metal door of the altar and got stuck, and Sa Yu-rang was thrown back.

'Did the trajectory get twisted?'

As expected of a movement that had been prepared in advance, her skill in deflecting it with her flexible sword was quite good.

If it weren't for the fact that one of her shoulders was gouged out as if pierced by a cannonball.

An unexpectedly powerful blow that she had suffered while being kept in check by Baek Hasin. Even if she was conscious of it, she couldn't block it completely.

A limp arm. With this, she can no longer use one arm.

"You... you insolent things!!"

A vein popped on Sa Yu-rang's eye, and her flexible sword danced wildly. I retreated to reduce the impact of blocking the blade with a complex trajectory that was flying toward me.

'It's heavy.'

I thought it would be manageable since I had entered the proficient peak level, but it wasn't at all. It was Baek Hasin, who had endured such blows head-on, who was strange.

In the meantime, Baek Hasin rushed in, scattering his demonic qi. A black current and a red energy wave mixed in the air. If it weren't for the protagonist buff that was getting stronger in real time, he would have been sliced up long ago.

I fired a spear of flame lightning from time to time to keep Sa Yu-rang's movements in check.

And then I loitered around her, distracting her.

"Stop loitering!"

The moment Sa Yu-rang's aggro was drawn to me. I deployed a domain magic. A magic that I had materialized, inspired by Zhuge Hyeonguk's large-scale formation, the Freezing Domain. It endlessly steals the heat of things within its range and slows their movement and vibration.

Jjeo-jeo-jeo-jeok-!

In an instant, ice rose sharply like thorns and surrounded Sa Yu-rang and her flexible sword.

The weakness of a flexible sword is similar to a whip. If the point of force and the timing to apply it are caught, it cannot produce its original explosive and fast power.

Ka-ga-ga-ga-gang-!

So I froze it with ice and reinforced it with a shield to make the flexible sword get caught. In the Freezing Domain, the movement of everything slows down. Even sound.

"Do you think you can block it with something like this?!"

It is soon cut like tofu by the powerful qi, but it doesn't matter. As long as Baek Hasin can get close in that brief moment.

A blackish sword qi rushed in, and blood gushed from Sa Yu-rang's temple, and her ear was split in two.

"Aaaargh!"

Sa Yu-rang had clearly blocked it. But because she had retrieved her flexible sword belatedly, her strength was not properly applied, and she was pushed back. It was the first time in the fight so far that she had been pushed back by Baek Hasin's sword power.

"I'll kill you all!"

As she burst into anger, blocking Baek Hasin's offensive, her eye sockets began to turn completely black.

Blood Explosion. A Blood Fiend-level Blood Explosion gives one the power to match a Hwagyeong-level master for a moment.

Soon, an outrageous energy that was incomparable to before was emitted. At the same time, the flexible sword rushed toward Baek Hasin.

At that overwhelming amount of internal energy, Baek Hasin's sword shatters in an instant. A shockwave spreads, and he is pushed back, coughing up blood, and just as Sa Yu-rang is about to finally start her rampage.

Before I knew it, I had approached behind Sa Yu-rang and slammed the Great Blood Art into her dantian in her lower back.

A thud, and then silence.

"What?"

For a moment, Sa Yu-rang looks back as if she is dumbfounded. In her eyes, my figure, wrapped in shadow and hiding behind the ice, was reflected.

In the moment of Blood Explosion, there is a time when the senses are briefly blurred due to the massive amplification of internal energy. I had aimed for that.

Of course, it was a surprise attack that would have been impossible without the sound-dampening function of the Freezing Domain and the concealment of the shadow.

Although it was just one blow, it was a blow that had my extreme mana operation added to it. Soon, the blood vessels on Sa Yu-rang's entire body began to swell.

The Great Blood Art is a sorcery that forces a Blood Explosion. If you add a rampage to an already initiated rampage, it becomes completely uncontrollable.

"You... you vermin!"

The flexible sword, swung by the opponent with bloodshot eyes, flies crazily. This is unavoidable. I raised the Martial Arts Sword to block the flexible sword and then flew back. In the meantime, I could see Baek Hasin, who had pulled himself together, rushing in.

Sa Yu-rang, who was now staggering, spitting blood from her seven orifices.

Although she was barely blocking Baek Hasin's sword using the difference in their realms, it already seemed to be her limit.

'You should have doped in moderation.'

I floated the Flame Lightning First Blade Spear in the air and gave my final farewell to Sa Yu-rang, who was blocking Baek Hasin's sword.

"You shouldn't have touched it if you couldn't handle it."

"You... this!"

At the same time, a white flash flickered, and all that was left in that spot was a headless corpse.

As silence soon fell, Baek Hasin and I, without anyone having to go first, sat down on the spot.

It was our victory.

(End of Chapter)