Chapter 70: ga Corp Agent (1)
Elental spirits.
Spirits that resided in the material world.
Ford of will and emotion, the higher their rank beca, the more outstanding their intelligence and abilities were.
From Type-4, called mid-tier spirits, they were able to exchange simple conversations with one another.
Once they surpassed Type-7, the upper tier, they possessed a level of intelligence high enough for rational and emotional interaction.
‘So if they reached Type-10 or higher…….’
When a spirit reached Type-10, called the ‘Alpha’ class, its intelligence far surpassed that of an average human.
But what if it were one rank above even that Alpha class?
‘That thing right now is Type-15, at the very end of the Beta class.’
So-called High Beta-class spirit.
Pajijijik……!
Such a spirit began to take form.
‘Huh…….’
A dense wave of mana spread outward in all directions.
Inexperienced mages would have rolled their eyes back and fainted just from being touched by that.
Just by manifesting in the world, it was already at the level of a natural disaster.
Bolts of lightning thicker than an arm scread in every direction, leaving pitch-black scorch marks around them.
‘To deal with that spirit…….’
He brushed away the bleak scenario that suddenly ca to mind.
That spirit was a monster capable of taking on an entire mid-sized corporate group alone.
It wasn’t that there was absolutely no way, but the situation was far too unfavorable right now.
Besides, Diesel had no intention of fighting that thing from the start.
〈Is it you? The human called Diesel.〉
The human-shaped spirit floating in the air looked down at Diesel.
A solid male body without a single thread of clothing.
A perfect physique that made admiration spill out.
At a glance, it seed to have bluish skin, but upon closer inspection, it was all made of violently surging sparks.
〈What a pity.〉
The statue-like face spoke expressionlessly.
Of course, its lips did not move.
〈The insolent one who summoned asked that I kill you.〉
Then, as if waiting for Diesel’s reply, it gave him a brief mont.
‘Do high-ranking spirits even know how to be polite.’
If it were only upper-tier, it would have attacked without a word.
Diesel calmly spoke the line he had prepared.
“No need to feel pity.”
〈Hm……?〉
“There’s no need for you to fight .”
At that answer, the spirit looked down at him with apparent interest.
〈Are you trying to buy ti.〉
“…….”
〈But you don’t have ti, do you.〉
It even accurately grasped the situation its opponent was in.
As expected, dealing with sothing like this was extrely troubleso.
Even more so now, when ti was scarce, just as it said.
“Yeah. Just like you said, I don’t have ti, so I’ll get straight to the point.”
Diesel drew up his power.
The power he had just newly obtained.
〈…….〉
Pajijijik……!
Lightning of a completely different color from the spirit before him blood like thorns.
Diesel overlaid a high-grade Lightning-type reinforcent art with attribute-awakened mana.
And thus.
The form of the one called the god of pure white lightning.
‘White Thunder Duke.’
Took its place.
〈……It’s been a while since I’ve seen this.〉
The lightning spirit before him was Type-15.
But the spirit core Diesel had absorbed was a staggering Type-19.
A ‘Delta-class’ spirit, the highest rank among spirits.
‘Attribute awakening that can only be obtained by fully assimilating the power of a Delta-class spirit…….’
〈White Thunder.〉
White lightning, White Thunder.
Among Lightning-type attribute awakenings, a transformation that pushed destructive power to the extre.
It was also the color symbolizing the highest rank among lightning spirits.
〈Can you handle it.〉
The spirit’s montum subtly changed.
A hint of emotion began to seep into its once-expressionless face.
〈I know the original owner of that mana.〉
Specifically, the emotion called ‘anger.’
“Was he a comrade?”
〈…….〉
At Diesel’s words, the spirit’s expression wavered a little more.
“Or a friend?”
〈You’d do well to watch your words, human.〉
At the softly murmured warning, Diesel honestly expressed his feelings.
“What a pity.”
This was genuine.
A heartfelt pity toward the spirit that he had devoured, one that had once possessed a great rank.
“I know that death is never a light matter for a spirit.”
Spirits that were believed to have been born together when this world was created.
As rare as their births were, their deaths were just as precious.
Spirits that lost their power while fighting in the material world usually only lost their form and returned to their original dwelling, rather than eting true death.
Especially the death of a Type-19 spirit would have been a great loss to them.
〈You are…… quite unusual.〉
Had it read Diesel’s sincerity?
Or was it because of Diesel’s high spirit affinity?
The lightning spirit’s expression softened sowhat.
〈Per, and then Kunos.〉
“……?”
〈The mana flowing through your body belongs to Lord Per.〉
The spirit, which spoke the na with a tone thick with longing, continued in a slightly different voice.
〈And the power that forcibly summoned here belongs to Lord Kunos.〉
Pajijik, sparks of electricity laced with anger flew.
“Do you know who hard those two?”
Diesel’s question made the spirit regain its composure as it spoke again.
〈I see what sche you are plotting.〉
“Do you?”
〈I was one of the spirits who watched from the side as the bodies of those two were dismantled.〉
“…….”
〈So how could I ever forget the na of the man called ‘Lucien Gale’.〉
Lucien Gale.
The na the spirit spat out as if it were an archenemy.
And the na of the heir to the ‘Gale Consortium’, the highest-ranking entity among the top ten ga corporations.
Growling lightning wrapped around its body, then gradually subsided once more.
〈I understand your intention, but I cannot let you live and leave this place.〉
Of course.
That spirit was currently bound by a forced contract.
〈A contract is an inviolable law of the realm. 〉
But the one existence that could perhaps interfere with such a law.
Spoke up boldly.
“I’ll rewrite that contract.”
At Diesel’s words, the spirit frowned.
As if it had just heard a vile joke.
〈What are you talking about?〉
“I an exactly what I said. I’ll fix your contract.”
〈…….〉
“So make a new contract with .”
The spirit continued, sounding dumbfounded.
〈You must be one of those mages who think themselves extraordinarily special.〉
Despite the sneer, Diesel spoke seriously.
“How does it look to your eyes?”
〈……?〉
“You’ve been checking it yourself this whole ti. The mana of the spirit called Per flowing through my body.”
〈…….〉
“What do you think?”
It couldn’t deny it.
Just as he said, the spirit couldn’t take its eyes off the man’s mana.
Because it was perfectly identical to the mana of Lord Per that it knew.
‘No matter how much one absorbs a core, it can’t be this perfectly identical…….’
The reason it hadn’t imdiately attacked the target as ordered by the contractor, instead dragging things out like this, was in truth because of the strange aura it felt from this man.
‘And that’s not the only strange thing.’
At first, it thought it was simply because he was a mage who had obtained Lord Per’s mana.
But the more closely it looked, the more it sensed so unknown power within him.
An unknown power that strangely drew one in.
“Bring out the contract text. Spirit.”
Rewriting a contract.
Was it really possible for this man to do such a thing?
There were only two possibilities.
Either he was one of the many mages who had gone mad, too imrsed in their own world.
Or.
“I’ll help you get your revenge.”
He was a human capable of making such an absurd thing reality.
Just as Diesel extended his hand.
Suddenly, an ominous surge of mana rippled through the surroundings.
The wave emitted as the magic Heavyskull was constructing, the Electric Field, was completed.
‘Already finished…….’
It was a little earlier than Diesel had anticipated.
“I don’t know what kind of trick you pulled…….”
A voice ca from above.
“But it’s all over now.”
With that single line.
Lightning energy swirled throughout the entire space.
“…….”
A gigantic bolt of lightning streaked through the air.
If he moved even a little wrong, that lightning would strike down imdiately.
Even more problematic was the fla slowly approaching Diesel.
A fire that seed to scream, Blazing Soul.
It was a vicious spell that would not extinguish until everything it touched was burned away.
Its only weakness was its extrely slow projection speed, but against an opponent whose feet were bound by the Electric Field, that posed no problem at all.
‘A perfect combination.’
“I never imagined it would co to this.”
Heavyskull looked down at Diesel, his tone having regained its composure.
With a high-powered spell combination and even a Type-15 lightning spirit, he must truly think it was all over.
“Were you two having a pleasant chat?”
“…….”
“Spirit, your contractor issues the command once more. Finish the enemy before you. If possible, take out the two Ghostcatchers hiding back there as well.”
The skull snickered as it muttered.
“Ah, is there only one left now?”
At the contractor’s order, the spirit extended its hand as if it had no choice.
‘So persuasion alone isn’t enough after all.’
Diesel could feel a certain emotion from the spirit.
The emotion of doubt, that it still couldn’t trust the mage called Diesel.
‘Then I’ll have to show you clearly.’
The spirit finished preparing to unleash lightning from its hand.
But before that.
‘It’s certainly a fairly convincing magic circle, but…….’
Diesel, bearing the form of Leigong, moved.
‘Compared to the one I deployed, it’s extrely crude.’
“Ha! So you chose such a death in the end.”
Heavyskull’s voice rang out, as if he were certain of victory.
“I trust you don’t need to be told what kind of spell this is.”
No one knew better than he did.
Because Diesel himself had used that spell once before.
And for that very reason, he also knew its counterasure well.
“I’ll engrave it clearly into these two eyes.”
One step.
He stepped forward.
At the sa ti, a sneer rose on Heavyskull’s face.
“Your glorious death.”
But.
Contrary to his expectations,
nothing happened.
“……?”
Diesel walked forward step by step and ford magic in his hand.
Kururung…….
The power of white lightning gathered roundly in one hand growled.
“How……?”
The bastard muttered as if he couldn’t understand.
‘Normally, it would be impossible.’
The Electro Field was a formation-type spell that spread mana like a spiderweb and unleashed lightning on anyone who touched its strands.
However, with Diesel’s special awakening and the newly obtained Mana Star, he could see the entire flow of that mana.
A spider does not get caught in its own web.
Thus, another spider that could read every strand in detail—Diesel—was able to easily avoid them all.
Especially when the web was this sloppy.
‘Too obvious.’
Entangled strands of mana were laid out in all directions.
But perhaps because it had been made in haste, the gaps between the strands were extrely crude.
Sensing that sothing was wrong, Heavyskull screeched.
“What are you doing! You stupid spirit bastard! Stop him!”
〈…….〉
Reluctantly, the lightning spirit extended its hand.
At the sa ti, high-output lightning burst forth from the spirit.
A bolt impossible to dodge with human reaction speed.
Diesel, too, was a being who still had one foot in the human domain.
Until he clenched his molars hard.
The artifact Kantara’s Sixth Molar infused power into Diesel’s soul.
The power obtained from the realm of selflessness reached by the sage called Kantara.
‘It feels like the performance got better than last ti.’
Was it because he had obtained the new ability called Mana Star?
The expanded interval of ti seed much wider.
That also ant Diesel’s movents had beco even faster than before.
After evading the flashing lightning with the output emitted by the Leigong form, he focused his gaze sowhere.
Toward the skull above, hastily trying to attach Blazing Soul to Diesel.
‘A white version of the Sphere of the Brain Dragon, huh.’
Diesel finished the spells he had been forming since earlier.
What would Betty think if she saw this?
One of the many magic combinations she had taught him burst forth from his hand.
‘A combination of the Sphere of the Brain Dragon and Lightning Radiance Strike.’
A spell that emitted a beam of lightning.
Normally, the beam should have been about as thick as a little finger, but as the Sphere of the Brain Dragon shattered and seeped into the beam, its thickness suddenly grew to about the width of a palm.
“Ugh……!”
That destructive beam struck Heavyskull’s defensive magic.
Lightning mana scattered in all directions like splashing water.
〈That power is…….〉
Crack—fractures began to form in the defensive barrier that had seed impossible to break.
More precisely, it was a phenonon caused by the strength amplifier installed on his wrist overloading.
“Th, that’s impossible…….”
With a face full of shock, Heavyskull hurriedly reinforced the barrier, but in the end, the amplifier couldn’t endure the power and exploded.
Paang……!
The barrier shattered while emitting all kinds of colors.
Along with it, the high-density beam cleanly erased one of his shoulders.
“Kuhk……!”
As the caster lost consciousness and staggered, the growling Electro Field and Blazing Soul were released.
‘He might wake up.’
Just as Diesel was about to erase even the legs so the bastard couldn’t move before his body hit the ground.
At that mont.
[Good thing we hurried.]
Thud……!
A heavy shield dropped from the air and blocked the beam.
‘Damn it…….’
[What? I was wondering why you called us so urgently, but it’s just one guy?]
A red-haired woman with a short bob landed lightly beside the shield and muttered.
[Look at that mana beam. It’s attribute-awakened mana. Not soone we can take lightly.]
From the darkness, a small-frad woman revealed herself and examined Diesel.
[Form up first. We wait until orders co down.]
Lastly, the hulking figure who had blocked Diesel’s magic adjusted his stance with the shield.
‘ga Corp agents…….’
Three in total.
The peculiar thing was that aside from the short-haired woman, the other two were wearing pitch-black masks.
‘The one with the shield looks the strongest, the short-haired one seems like a mage. The small woman is probably a techie.’
They weren’t opponents Diesel could handle alone.
As he calculated how to buy as much ti as possible to escape.
〈Those bastards are…….〉
A violent reaction erupted from the lightning spirit.
Pajijik, bluish lightning filled with emotion spread out around the spirit.
[Hey. That spirit’s on our side, right?]
[According to the report, yes.]
[Then why is it looking at us like that?]
The red-haired woman looked down with an irritated expression.
At that mont, the lightning spirit asked Diesel.
〈Is it true.〉
“……?”
〈I an whether you truly can rewrite the contract.〉
In a way, the only hope of getting out of here.
Was making this lightning spirit his ally.
And so Diesel answered with certainty.
“Yeah.”
At those words, the spirit extended its hand forward.
〈I’ve never trusted humans until now, but…….〉
“You don’t need to trust .”
Diesel firmly grasped the spark-scattering hand.
“I’ll prove it directly.”
At the sa ti.
An impossible phenonon that shattered the laws of the realm unfolded.
〈……!〉
So distant, unfathomable space.
〈This is…….〉
The spirit looked at the one before it with an expression of disbelief.
〈We don’t have ti, so I’ll keep it simple.〉
A mage’s appearance completely different from before.
As if enchanted, the spirit stared at him.
〈Is that your original form?〉
〈Yes.〉
At that answer, the spirit nodded and muttered.
〈Yuter.〉
The na held by the Type-15 lightning spirit.
Yuter quietly waited for the other’s next words.
‘It’s been a long ti since I introduced myself like this.’
Then Diesel spoke his na.
〈Lee Hajin.〉
The true na engraved into his soul.
〈I am now your contractor.〉
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