Chapter 201: Cruel Touch (1)
The vortex of magma surrounding Kamio’s Flesh Wolf grew fiercer.
The dismbered corpses that had remained nearby were not rely charred black by the heat—they were reduced to the point where only bones were left.
It was heat of that magnitude.
Huuuuuuuu! Kwa-jik!
Raion clenched his left hand into a fist in midair.
At the sa ti, he used ‘Magma Storm Break’ together with ‘Gravity Boom,’ forcing them to compress into one.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
At that mont, Raion swung his sword backward. A trajectory laden with the aura of White Lightning Flash tore through the air, spewing terrifying lightning.
Pajijijijik!
Just like before, a crack ford in the empty air and shattered.
From within it, Kamio revealed himself and dropped down as if fleeing to the rear.
“You already knew?”
Kamio’s figure still remained exactly where he had originally been standing.
There were now two Kamios.
“Who do you take
for…….”
Raion flicked his finger, firing a ki projectile.
Puk! Kwa-jik—!
The Kamio who had been standing blankly shattered like broken glass and scattered into the air.
It was a fake made through the authority of ice.
“You’re sharper than I thought. Then let’s see if you can stop this too!”
His voice was filled with amusent.
At the sa ti as those words, Kamio’s form split into dozens, then hundreds.
Papapapapak!
There were countless figures whose left and right were reversed, like mirrors reflecting mirrors.
“This ti it’s a kaleidoscope?”
Raion was reminded of a mirrored toy he had seen when he attended elentary school in the Republic of Korea.
At the sa ti, he quickly searched for Kamio’s location through Perception.
‘Is he continuously moving from ice to ice?’
The presence kept shifting.
anwhile, the gazes of the hundreds of Kamios remained fixed on Raion.
Papak! Papapak! Papak!
‘Since the orthodox thod doesn’t work, is he resorting to tricks? For a marquis of the demon realm, that feels rather petty.’
The Flesh Wolf created by Kamio was, in its own right, a powerful existence.
If his opponent hadn’t been Raion, even a kingdom stepping in wouldn’t have been able to stop it…….
Yet compared to that level of power, this attack felt sohow ambiguous.
“……Hm?”
As Raion followed Kamio’s position with Perception, he was startled.
Kamio’s presence was marked in every single reflected image within the ice.
“Did he use so kind of clone technique?”
At that mont, Kamio, who had been standing still with only a smile, moved his lips.
“Ignis glacies, qui tenebras sedat, scatebra tactus, qui aestum urit undam(???? that calms darkness, pitch-black touch that burns scorching heat).”
From the ground, strands of ice surged upward, branching out and surrounding Raion like a flower garden.
Of course, Raion wasn’t about to quietly watch that happen.
“Fire Wall.”
Though it was only a 3rd-circle wall of fla, the mana infused within it was terrifying.
Along with blistering heat, the flas roared and devoured the ice strands.
“They’re not lting?”
“Did you really think my authority would lt that easily?”
“Then……. Decomposition.”
Because it was pronounced in Korean, Kamio couldn’t understand the incantation that followed.
Kamio tilted his head slightly in confusion.
[Do you wish to Decompose the designated target?]
The target was, naturally, the ice strands that had spread and risen in all directions.
“Of course.”
Honestly, since they were inorganic constructs created through demonic authority, he thought it wouldn’t work.
However, the results he had tested after examining the traces left behind by Valam and Agares had been surprising.
“It’s all the sa in the end.”
With Raion’s reply echoing his earlier words, the ice strands shattered and scattered into the air.
At that sight, Kamio—who had been wearing a aningful smile—was taken aback.
“What did you do, and how?”
“What else would I do? I just returned it to nature.”
Ice was water, and water was composed of oxygen and hydrogen. If you decomposed it, nothing visible remained.
Hwaaaaaak!
Only empty air spread outward.
Not understanding what had happened, Kamio’s face twisted slightly.
“Ignis glacies, qui tenebras sedat, scatebra tactus, qui aestum urit undam(???? that calms darkness, pitch-black touch that burns scorching heat).”
The sa incantation as before flowed out.
Before the strands could properly rise, Raion acted.
“Decomposition.”
An ability that could return anything to nothingness.
Of course, its targets were limited to inorganic matter, but even so, it was unquestionably a trendous power.
And this ti as well, Kamio’s authority was decomposed into oxygen and hydrogen and vanished.
“What in the world did you do?!”
There was no sign that he had used ‘Anti Restriction,’ a 5th-circle spell that nullified magic.
Moreover, it was impossible to dispel demonic magic with that spell.
It simply…… disappeared, as if it had never existed in the first place.
Naturally, from Kamio’s perspective, it was impossible to understand.
“Let’s stop with the pointless nonsense here.”
Already, countless people had died.
Raion didn’t want to keep facing such a situation.
That was why, while heading toward the Dior Empire atop Grapheos, he hadn’t been able to just pass by after seeing the battlefield.
“Do you think that’s all I have?”
“Then what else do you have?”
“Gradus ad refrigerandum orientem solem, frigus in tenebris halitum(?????? that cools the rising sun, cold breath that arrives in darkness).”
A dense, cold breath poured out from Kamio’s mouth.
At that sight, Raion couldn’t determine where to set the target for Decomposition.
The area into which the breath spread continued to widen.
Jjeoeong—!
Frost settled over the once-silent ground.
The northern part of the continent was hot enough to contain desert lands. Yet now, it felt as though winter itself had arrived.
“Is he trying to freeze the entire area?”
Fortunately, the ‘White Castle’ that Raion had set up remained intact.
Instead, the domain of authority manifested by Kamio was spreading even beyond that barrier.
It was power of that overwhelming level.
At the sa ti, Raion checked Kamio’s condition.
[Target Information]
Na : Kamio
Age : 2,431 years
Race : Demon Race (Awakened)
Class : Marquis of the Demon Realm
Life : 9,999 / 9,999
Stamina : 38,100 / 45,000
Mana : 43,200 / 62,000
Judging from the atmosphere he gave off and the ability he had just used, he seed to have awakened.
As expected, his stat values had nearly doubled compared to before his awakening.
“You won’t be able to escape from here either!”
Kamio’s form blended into the pure white frost wind that swept through and vanished.
The frost wind raged outward, creating a blizzard.
It rose up and howled not from the sky, but from the ground.
Hwi iiiiiiiii―!
It was a freezing storm comparable to a natural disaster.
‘Did he figure out the weakness of Decomposition?’
Raion’s ‘Arcane Sorcerer’ ability could only be applied to inorganic matter within a limited target range.
The ice strands from before could exist as a solid form connected to one another.
But a wide-ranging freezing storm like this was practically gaseous. It was difficult to use Decomposition on sothing like that.
“There is another way, though.”
At Raion’s muttering, Kamio’s incredulous laughter rang out.
“Kuhahahaha! A way? Is there any way not to freeze to the bone here!”
The cold crept up from the ground along Raion’s feet, calves, and thighs.
His arms and other parts were also claid by the cold, turning white as the wind wrapped around them.
“If the radius is wide, then I just have to widen mine too.”
“What are you talking abou—.”
“Decomposition–Synthesis, Remote Engraving, Engraving Expansion.”
Nothing was visible to Kamio’s eyes.
The engraved pattern of the ability carved into the ground expanded massively and spread beneath the ‘White Castle.’
Hwaaaaaak―!
The cold that had seed ready to freeze everything solid instantly turned into hot steam and rose into the sky.
“…….”
Kamio still couldn’t understand what had happened.
Then suddenly, an imnse heat surged in from all directions.
It was an explosion.
Kwa-kwang! Kwa-kwa-kwang! Kwa-kwang!
They detonated endlessly, centered precisely on where Kamio was standing.
Kwa-kwa-kwang! Kwa-kwang! Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwang―!
The terrifying noise and vibration were enough to shake the earth itself.
At that sight, Raion looked toward Zelphinia, who might leap out at any mont.
Pajijijijik―!
Zelphinia approached the ‘White Castle’ spread around them and reached out her hand.
The aura of White Lightning Flash extended bolts of lightning toward her hand.
“Ugh—!”
It was an energy imbued with holy power, fatal to the demon race.
Just from getting slightly close, her once-beautiful hand was scorched black.
Of course, once she pulled away, it returned quickly thanks to her rapid regeneration.
“To think such a barrier exists… If I went all out, I could break free, but…….”
The problem was what ca after that.
Judging by the situation, the once-arrogant Kamio was being completely overwheld.
Moreover, she couldn’t even begin to grasp what kind of ability her opponent possessed.
“It can’t be helped.”
Zelphinia’s gaze turned toward Raion, and she raised both hands, beginning to move the wind.
Kugugugugugu!
The air trapped on all sides by the enormous ‘White Castle’ began to tremble.
Their eyes t.
As Raion watched the ground begin to move afterward, he sensed sothing ominous.
“Don’t tell
she plans to flip everything over?”
Suddenly, the ice settled on the ground began to surge, then swept over Kamio, who was caught in the chain explosions.
Kwa-kwa-kwang! Kwa-kwang―!
As the surrounding environnt changed, the explosions stopped.
They were explosions Raion had created by separately combining oxygen and hydrogen.
“Kuaaaaaaah!”
As the ice fell away, Kamio revealed himself.
However, what erged was not human, but a monster with horns and thick fur covering its entire body.
“Did he transform like Malphas?”
He looked like a Bigfoot monster that lived in cold regions.
However, his fur was pitch black, and his size seed more than five tis that of an ogre.
“How dare you turn
into sothing like this!”
“A monster that can talk, huh.”
“Kuaaaah! I’ll crush you to death!”
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
Kamio, now a monster, charged forward, reaching out with his enlarged hands.
That wasn’t the only attack. Cold spread outward, and frozen blood-red frost took the shape of hands and struck at Raion first.
‘Ugh……, in that state, is he controlling the cold even more freely than before?’
In an instant, Raion’s entire body froze.
Through the red ice, he could see Kamio rapidly closing in.
Bang―!
Before he could even move to cut through the ice, he was struck.
Raion was blasted away by the impact as the ice shattered into pieces.
Chwaaaaaak!
His back scraped along the ground as he was sent flying far away.
“Kekekek! Why don’t you try what you did earlier!”
Kamio spoke confidently as he imdiately advanced toward Raion.
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