novelraw Chapter 119 : Chapter 119
Chapter 119 : Chapter 119
Chapter 119: Who Said You Could Touch My Stuff!!
‘Hmm…….’
Rauel, who was moving like the wind chasing Victon, hid her body in the shadows on a branch of a large tree upon seeing him once again turn into smoke and infiltrate the village.
The most important thing for an archer to play their role properly in a chaotic battle was the element of surprise.
She planned to play the role of striking when they least expected it, in between Victon and Muno dealing with the enemies.
And soon.
- Aaaargh!
- An intruder!
- A monster……!
Just as screams began to erupt from within the village, no, the evil cult's branch disguised as a village.
As she aimed her bow and focused, her trait ‘The Piercer’ naturally activated, and the situation inside the village, over 300m away, began to be 'heard' in its entirety.
The sound of the smoke man named Victon slaughtering the masked men.
And the sound of the masked men, failing in their counterattacks, screaming and falling.
‘That man is definitely a monster too.’
A ghost-like man who took no damage from the masked men's normal attacks, while all of his own attacks hit their mark.
For now, they were traveling together because their goals were the same, but his identity was unclear.
‘In a different sense from Sir Muno, he could become my natural enemy…….’
Such a worry was inevitable.
It was then.
She heard the sound of something massive swelling up from a house in the center of the village.
‘As expected……. Similar to that one?’
Sure enough.
Kwaaaaaang!
- Kyaaaaaaak! Who are you!
The lizard giant that appeared, blowing up a thatched hut, didn't look much different from the monster seen in the south.
A talking lizard giant. A monster presumed to be of the highest class among the 4-stage beings.
‘We have to capture that thing alive…….’
She focused more on the senses of ‘The Piercer.’
And soon, information about the entire space between the enemy and herself began to be transmitted through her sight and hearing.
Whoooosh.
Even the flow of the faint blowing wind.
She could clearly see how the arrow would fly if she released the bowstring now.
‘First, the eyes…….’
A trajectory of certain hit was drawn clearly in her mind.
And.
Twing.
With a light release of the bowstring.
The arrow that passed through the large leaves obscuring her vision bent along the grain of the wind and flew.
Puk.
“Kyaaaaaaak! Who's the other one……!!”
Just as the lizard giant was about to grab the arrow deeply embedded in its eye.
‘Another one.’
Twing.
Puuuk.
“Kyaaaaaaaaak!!!”
An arrow lodged itself in the creature's other eye.
This was enough.
‘Sir Muno will arrive soon.’
The moment she shifted the sensory range of ‘The Piercer’ to her rear.
- Chwareureuk.
The sound of chains cutting through the sky.
- Paaang!
And the sound of something massive rapidly approaching could be heard clearly.
‘This is right.’
The smoke man named Victon would quickly eliminate the surrounding small fry, and in the meantime, she would target the lizard man's vital spots.
The lizard man with its terrifying regenerative ability wouldn't die from just that.
So, Muno, who had the most powerful destructive force in the group, cutting off its limbs with his greatsword and then capturing it would be the best course of action.
But at that moment.
She felt the lizard giant's eyes, gushing blood, looking at her, and goosebumps rose all over her body.
‘It saw me!?’
Even though arrows were stuck in both its eyes, and there were leaves completely obscuring her.
‘That's impossible…….’
It didn't make sense rationally, but she followed the voice of her instinct.
Paaak.
Just as she naturally kicked off the branch and jumped down.
“Kyaaaaaaak!”
Kwaaaaaaaaang!
With the lizard giant's roar, the branch she had been on exploded.
‘Magic!? A monster?’
It seemed she wasn't the only one surprised.
- Magic!?
Kwaaaaaaang!
With Victon's bewildered voice, an explosion erupted from the village side, and a wave of heat began to be felt.
“Kyaaaaaaak! You insignificant fools, I'll smash you all to pieces!!”
At the same time, a blackish aura surged from the lizard giant's entire body.
It proved that this creature was distinctly different from the lizard that died in the south.
At least, in terms of handling that creepy power, that demonic energy.
“Grrrrrr.”
The lizard giant's eyes, which healed immediately after the arrows were pulled out, also felt eerie.
A pure white smoke man tried to attack such a creature, but.
Chjwajwajak.
“You rat!!!”
Hwaruruk.
Victon didn't seem to be able to completely ignore the attacks of the lizard man, which was clad in shimmering crimson flames, as he had before.
- Damn it……!
He was still dodging everything and inflicting wounds, but compared to just before, he seemed to be struggling.
‘As I thought…….’
She thought she knew the weakness of Victon's ability, but for now, he was an ally.
Rauel bit her lip and drew her bow again.
And.
“You gnat-like bastard!!!!”
Chwaak. Chwaaak.
“Kyaak!!!”
Towards the lizard giant, who was being unilaterally wounded while trying to catch Victon, she released the bowstring again.
Puuuk.
The moment the newly fired arrow accurately pierced the lizard man's groin.
“Kyaaaaiiiiak!”
Rauel, feeling goosebumps on her skin once again, immediately left her spot.
And sure enough.
“You mongrel!!”
Kwang. Kwaaang!
Kwaaaaaang!
Once again, with a strange sound wave, the place she had been standing exploded, and the lizard man's rampage began.
From then on.
“Gnat in the forest!”
Kwaaaang!
Skak.
“I'll rip you to shreds first!!”
Skak.
Kwaaaaaang!
Even while bleeding from all over his body from Victon's attacks, the lizard man relentlessly poured explosive magic(?) towards her location.
How on earth, how did it know?
‘Don't tell me……. The ground?’
The moment she felt the lizard giant's flickering tongue brush against the ground she was standing on.
Pabak.
Rauel began to move by stepping on tree branches instead of the ground.
But it seemed her realization was a little too late.
“The rat is……!”
She felt an unpleasant wave cover the entire space where she was about to land.
“……all of you, dieeeee……!!!”
Woooong.
A creepy energy that wrapped around her entire body, even slowing her movements.
‘Am I going to die……?’
The moment she felt her life was threatened, a panorama of her life flashed through Rauel's mind.
A life that began in the slums, born as a mixed-race black person.
The obstacles blocking her path were too numerous to count.
That's why she dreamed of a future where she would pierce through everything and seize her freedom.
It was ironic that, as a result, she ended up on the path of an assassin, brainwashed and controlled.
But that earnest goal soon became her strength, causing the trait ‘The Piercer’ to blossom.
- It's a pretty rare secondary trait. And this talent…….
- A genius I've never heard of or seen before. A precious talent.
Just as the instructor had praised, she grew at an unstoppable pace.
Her firm ego, wanting to shake off all the fates that bound her, allowed her to overcome the wall of the fourth evolution at the young age of twenty.
However, three years later, a trial she had never experienced before came upon her.
She was frustrated by meeting a wall called the Black Knight, against whom her power was completely useless, and was abandoned by her family.
She realized that her life, lived blindly, had been nothing but used.
The experience of the world she believed in crumbling down.
She had forcibly closed off that pain and sought to repay her grudge by following the Black Knight, her family's enemy.
But.
- Why does a perfectly fine person keep talking about being disposed of or being a tool? It’s creepy.
- After that, live your own life. Whether you get revenge or forget and move on. Don't say nonsense like entrusting your life to me or asking me to keep you by my side and use you.
The enemy of her family had presented her with a new direction in life that she had never expected.
And yet, it was entirely her choice to follow the Black Knight.
- Damn……. Beautiful.
Words that made her face flush just thinking about them.
The person who had said something she had never heard in her entire life.
She had wanted to try living a new life again, by his side.
That day, when the world she knew had crumbled in an instant and was re-established.
……Not much time had passed since that day.
And yet.
‘Just here?’
That couldn't be.
Pajijik.
“Keuk……!”
Her mind snapping back to reality, she forcibly squeezed out her strength to shake off the waves binding her and kicked off to escape their range.
Of course, she knew her timing was already too late.
Fortunately.
Kwajijik.
“Where do you think you’re going!!”
Soon, a familiar voice was heard, and she felt the waves surrounding her quickly subside.
The feeling of the creepy energy surrounding her being sucked away somewhere.
‘Sir Muno…….’
The person who had become the reference point for her new world.
That person had appeared.
Only then did she feel relieved, and a small laugh escaped her.
Then, her confused senses expanded, and she began to read the entire situation on the battlefield.
‘No……?’
For some reason, a sense of reassurance filled her, and strangely, her senses seemed to be amplified even more.
As if a wall had suddenly been shattered in an instant.
‘No, that's not it…….’
‘The Piercer’ was a trait that allowed one to precisely grasp the environment between a specified target and oneself.
But now, in addition to that, everything on the battlefield began to enter her senses at once.
“Kyaaa……!”
The lizard giant, which suddenly seemed to be moving incredibly slowly.
Muno, brandishing chains in all directions, nullifying its magic and confronting it.
And the smoke man Victon, relentlessly inflicting wounds and sticking to the lizard giant's back.
All of it.
“Kyaaa……!”
Was felt clearly in the slowed time.
Only at that moment did Rauel seem to understand her own state for certain.
‘……Yes. That's what it was.’
That day, when her world had collapsed and been re-established, her soul had been greatly stimulated.
She was already prepared to overcome the wall back then, but only now, when her life was in danger, did she recognize that fact.
No, it would be more accurate to say that the remnants of the past that had bound her soul were completely shed only after receiving extreme stimulation.
Evolution.
That extreme joy of being reborn as a higher being as a human had come again.
Her gaze soon turned to the black knight standing in front of her.
A smile naturally formed upon seeing him, but this was not the time to just be smiling.
First.
‘Catch the enemy.’
Just then, as if realizing that randomly firing magic in all directions was useless.
The lizard giant began to compress black flames onto its skin, wrapping its body like a shield.
Chwaaaaak.
Pababak.
Kwang!
Victon's attack slid right over it.
“Kyaak!”
Kwang!
She saw Muno's subsequent attack also get blocked after digging halfway into its arm and bouncing off.
Naturally, her arrow would be no match for it, but.
For some reason, strangely.
‘I think I can do it.’
She felt it was possible.
With that feeling, she naturally drew the bowstring.
At that moment, the senses of ‘The Piercer’ began to amplify far more than before.
Simultaneously, everything around her began to slow down even more.
Woong.
‘As expected…….’
Even her own movements became exceptionally slow, but that wasn't the only strange thing.
She began to feel a strange wave of energy, something she had never thought of before, from her body and everything around her.
At that moment, she could understand instinctively.
‘Yes…….’
The mechanism of her ability, which she had only vaguely guessed at until now.
She could feel in detail the process of the unknown energy that naturally seeped into her body, amplifying her senses and even minutely strengthening her physique.
Moreover, she now felt she could even handle that power at will.
‘A power that rapidly amplifies the body's strength.’
She had heard of such a power sometime before.
Although no one had explained it to her, Rauel naturally realized.
What power she had come to possess after experiencing her fifth evolution.
‘This is, mana.’
At the same time, a faint, haze-like mana began to form at the tip of her arrow.
The natural mana that had only flocked to her when she used her trait had, for the first time, gathered at the tip of her arrowhead according to her will.
And a natural conviction came to her.
‘I can do it.’
Her slowly moving body released the bowstring.
Paaaaaaaang.
The slowly fired arrow shot through the air.
And that arrow, bent according to her will.
Pak.
Pababak.
Paaaaak.
Even the sight of it digging into the eye of the lizard giant, surrounded by a crimson shield.
Came into her eyes vividly.
“Kyaaaaaaaaaak!”
An arrow that was embedded so deeply that it might have even reached the brain.
‘I did it!’
The moment she cheered inwardly.
“Dieeee……!”
Rauel saw the rampaging lizard giant suddenly leap over Muno and swing its fist right in front of her face.
She tried to dodge reflexively, but.
Udeudeuk.
‘Ah…….’
Her body, having already squeezed out all its energy, didn't listen and twisted, making a cracking sound.
The path to the fifth evolution. She had clearly set foot on that path.
‘No…….’
With only her soul having crossed the wall without a supply of energy, a discrepancy had occurred between her body and mind.
That created a fatal error at the most crucial moment.
Paaaaaaaang.
At the moment the giant fist was right before her eyes.
Pushuk.
Suddenly, a smoke-like longsword sprouted from around its elbow.
Victon's longsword, shimmering like a hazy smoke, had finally pierced the lizard giant's arm.
But it was too late.
‘Unlucky white-hair.’
As expected, that man had been hiding his power.
‘If you had a trick like that, you should have used it sooner.’
It was probably because he too had been wary of them.
The moment a bitter smile formed on Rauel's face.
Chwareureuk.
Suddenly, chains appeared from somewhere and pulled the lizard giant's fist back.
And soon, the knight in the large black armor stood in front of her.
“Who said you could touch……!”
Kwaaaaaang!
“My stuff!!”
A dependable back, which didn't step aside even as it was pushed back, touched her hand.
‘My stuff…….’
As she felt her face flush.
“You son of a bitch……!”
The lizard giant roared right in Muno's face.
The moment she instinctively frowned at the fishy smell coming from its long snout.
She suddenly felt Muno's body, which was blocking her, tremble.
“This fucking son of a……!”
Woooooong.
She saw numerous pieces of metal simultaneously shoot up from all directions.