Chapter 142. Journey to Annihilation(3)
A Hong Kong street at dawn without a single car.
Riman stood in the middle of the road.
Wearing silk pajamas lightly singed by fire.
However, he was not only wearing pajamas.
Because on both hands he wore the , and on both feet he wore the .
Surviving the fall from 40 floors a mont ago was thanks to these boots.
But it was clearly a bizarre attire.
Since he was wearing pajamas, leather gloves, and boots all at once.
Why was Riman wearing such an outfit?
At the point of being swallowed whole with the room by the giant carp, Riman was sleeping on the bed.
Furthermore, Riman was even Korean.
Regardless of the original Riman Solaris, at least the soul currently inside Riman was Korean.
A race fundantally incapable of the act of sleeping in bed wearing shoes.
Then why was he wearing boots now?
That was entirely thanks to Saya.
Because the mont they were swallowed by the carp, Saya vomited out the boots and gloves he had been keeping inside himself.
Gloves of Byeokjam, Boots of the Pilgrim.
These two items were basically magical tools boasting enormous prices.
So Riman used to entrust them to Saya for safekeeping whenever he had to take them off his body.
Thanks to that, he could wear the gloves and boots even though he was suddenly swallowed.
Anyway, with this, his armant was equipped.
The problem was that he had no clue what this situation was.
Riman muttered in a voice mixed with a sigh.
“...What kind of bastards are they this ti?”
Riman quickly looked around.
Fish flesh and blood were scattered all around.
It was the flesh and blood of the giant carp that swallowed Riman.
Riman looked at the scales attached to the flesh and nodded.
Because he knew whose peculiar orange glow flashing from the scales belonged to.
“Is it Hwari (Fire Carp)? But to use a summoned beast of this level... ans it's a wizard.”
SIZZLE......
At that mont, the scattered flesh and blood began to disappear as if evaporating.
The summon was being dismissed.
Summoning is fundantally magic projecting an otherworld creature onto this world.
Therefore, if the summon is dismissed and maintenance power disappears, the remains of the summoned beast decompose.
On the other hand, in the case of ‘Super-Summoning’ which brings the otherworld creature's main body itself here, remains are left even if the beast dies.
Well, but this isn't what's important right now.
“...Having caused this chaos, they won't end it like this.”
Riman pulled the gloves tight once again to fit them closely to his hands.
Simultaneously, he scattered [Detection] at maximum output.
WHIRRR!
A wave of mana swept through a wide area.
The battle situation amidst this silence flowed into Riman's mind.
A bitter smile rose on Riman's lips.
“...Right, you should co out like this.”
The enemy, is coming.
THUD THUD THUD!
From far away, a giant silhouette rushed towards Riman.
A four-legged beast boasting a size larger than a rhinoceros.
Hot steam puffed from its nose, and rugged but sharp horns aid forward.
Riman knew.
That if ramd by that head, even a boulder would turn to dust.
‘Is it a Mok-u (Wooden Ox)?’
A monster born from the fusion of an old giant tree and an ox's soul.
A summoned beast not to be underestimated just because its material is wood.
Because wood enhanced with mana becos much harder than ordinary wood.
Even more, the Mok-u possessed the ability to repair damaged parts by absorbing surrounding moisture.
Then would responding with fire attacks be the best?
First, it was true that the Mok-u's weakness was fire.
But the mont it catches fire, the Mok-u starts rampaging madly without looking back.
And wood doesn't turn to ash as quickly as thought.
Therefore, if one attacks the Mok-u with fire clumsily, they end up seeing a giant fireball rampaging out of control.
Then what would be the most effective asure against the Mok-u.
Simple.
Force against force.
Riman turned off his barrier.
And reached out his hand towards the Mok-u.
The distance between Riman and the Mok-u narrowing in an instant.
The narrowing distance, soon leads to a collision.
THUD.
However, the collision was quiet.
Only the contact between Riman's palm and the Mok-u's forehead existed.
The impact created by the Mok-u ramming with full power was entirely absorbed by Riman's glove.
“Wha......?!”
“What is that......!”
The wizards looking down at the scene were flustered.
And Riman swung his opposite hand and drove the absorbed shock entirely into the Mok-u.
CRUNCH!
The Mok-u's foreleg broke, and a deep crack crossed its body diagonally.
The body splitting open with a crack and revealing the inside.
The core embedded deepest inside the Mok-u's body was revealed.
Riman rcilessly shot a [Fla Bullet] at the core.
POOF!!
As the core was hit directly and burned away, the Mok-u's body crumbled just like that.
With this, the enemy side's preemptive strike was nullified.
However, the offensive couldn't end here.
SWISH!
Sothing rushed in, seizing Riman's back at high speed.
A humanoid summoned beast clad entirely in armor, holding a sword in one hand.
Ironclad Soldier.
Of course, the guy's sword couldn't even graze Riman.
[Incision]
SLASH!
The Ironclad Soldier's whole body was chopped up and scattered.
But there was no body inside the revealed armor.
It wasn't a summoned beast wearing armor, but the living moving armor itself was the summoned beast.
But it wasn't completely empty.
PFSSSH.......
Fine powder burst out from within the broken armor.
It spread in all directions in an instant and filled the surroundings.
‘What is this?’
Fine powder with no scent.
Even when the powder touched the nasal mucosa, no sneeze ca out.
Watching the powder spread from afar, the wizards muttered.
“It's scentless gunpowder. Even a slight fla or spark will lead directly to a chain explosion.”
“If he uses fire magic or lightning magic inside there... it would be practically suicidal.”
“Right. And even if he knows the identity of that powder, it doesn't matter. Because he'll have no choice but to fight with any magic that generates even a little heat or spark sealed.”
Use magic and die.
Or fight without using magic.
They were forcing a choice of death on the wizard Riman.
Simultaneously-
THUD THUD THUD!
Nurous dolls and summoned beasts rushed towards Riman.
Dolls swinging spears and swords.
Beast-type summoned beasts digging into space like daggers.
And even amorphous evil spirits belonging to neither of these two categories.
Enemies numbering close to 200 began to surround Riman densely.
But due to the scentless gunpowder scattered everywhere, fire and lightning magic useful for mass slaughter were sealed.
Like that, just at the mont the curtain of battle was about to rise again.
DASH-
Riman disappeared.
“Huh?!”
“That bastard......!”
But Riman hadn't disappeared.
He just moved quickly out of everyone's view.
Two o'clock direction, behind the four-ard giant doll.
The place the disappeared Riman appeared was right there.
Riman drove a palm strike into the doll's back.
“Hup.”
CRUNCH!
Shock exploded from Riman's palm.
Simultaneously, the doll's hard armor crumpled instantly and shattered.
Parts and drops of fluid splashing in all directions.
With this, the most annoying doll was handled for now.
“Next.”
ZIP!
Riman disappeared out of the dolls' view again.
And the mont he appeared again-
BAM BAM BAM!
About ten humanoid dolls were smashed and collapsed in an instant.
“Wha.......”
“What the......?!”
The wizards couldn't understand this scene for a mont.
Because it looked as if Riman hadn't used any magic.
And that was correct.
Riman was currently smashing dolls and summoned beasts with only bare-handed combat.
BAM BAM BAM BAM!
In the middle of the place where dozens of spears and swords crossed dizzily, Riman chewed over all those attacks with evasion.
Simultaneously, he dug precisely into their weaknesses and drove strikes sharply.
And-
WHAM!
Even shockwaves bursting at every point of impact.
One guy per hit, Riman organized the enemies in an instant.
The wizards were dumbfounded.
“What is that bastard doing......?”
“A wizard... why martial arts......?!”
“How......?”
The reason Riman chose bare-handed combat was simple.
Because it was the safest combat thod where neither sparks nor flas flew.
High-speed movent with boots, shock release with both hands.
The enemies couldn't catch up with Riman's speed, couldn't touch him, nor could they win in strength.
Like that, Riman rampaged through the battlefield at fierce speed and organized the battle situation in an instant.
However, there were enemies impossible to suppress with only bare-handed combat.
Evil spirits.
Evil spirits controlled by necromancers rushed towards Riman.
HISS!
Spirits wrapped in black rags, wearing roughly stitched skin.
Bare-handed combat couldn't deal proper damage to them.
But bare-handed combat was only an extrely small part of the ans Riman possessed.
Sothing black flowed out from Riman's ring.
WHIRRR......!
Evil spirit against evil spirit.
Eoduksini, that pitch-black whip surged above Riman's hand back.
The deployed whip swayed once, then shot towards the enemies in an instant.
SPLAT!
One evil spirit had its belly pierced.
That was the beginning.
ZIP ZIP ZIP!
Concisely, yet sharply.
Like an arrow possessing will, the whip rampaged through the air piercing evil spirits.
Of course, the evil spirits weren't just taking it lying down either.
While Riman's attention was focused on controlling the black whip.
SWISH!
There was an evil spirit rushing in, digging into Riman's rear, that blind spot.
However, there was sothing that evil spirit overlooked.
That Riman wasn't alone.
CRUNCH!
Saya bit the evil spirit's nape as it was.
Saya is a dragon.
A creature that takes mana as a staple food, with mana overflowing throughout its body.
Saya's teeth, practically coated in mana, were effective even against evil spirits.
CRUNCH!
SPLAT!
Like that, while Saya bit and tore a large evil spirit into rags.
Riman finished off all other evil spirits.
With this, everything that pounced on Riman was shattered to pieces and scattered on the floor.
But the fight wasn't finished yet.
Gunpowder was still scattered in the air.
If the enemies threw even a single spark into this scene, Riman was instant death.
So Riman recited an incantation quickly in his head.
‘Symbol of rotation, refracted convection.’
[Suction]
WHOOSH!
A vortex raged above Riman's palm.
A vortex sucking in the surrounding air extensively.
Soon, the scentless gunpowder scattered everywhere was clumped round on Riman's palm.
“.......”
“.......”
The wizards were lost for words.
Preparing for this battle, they hadn't let their guard down.
Nor did they underestimate Riman.
If they underestimated him, they wouldn't have mobilized a force of this scale.
The problem was that Riman's power and skill far exceeded their ‘rational expectation’.
As their prepared cards ran out, bewildernt began to spread slowly among them.
“What do we do......?”
“How do we catch sothing like that......?”
Those who attacked Riman were people flying high even within Sanhae in terms of combat.
Even though such people carried out the raid according to a ticulous strategy, it was insufficient.
“...Monster.”
From their mouths, an accurate review of Riman flowed out.
At that ti.
“No, retreating here is exactly that bastard's aim.”
With these words, the raid leader raised his mana.
“Yes......?”
“That bastard is human too. Imdiately after fighting a battle of this level, physical consumption must be significant. In a way, now is the opportunity.”
Forming hand seals with both hands, he newly wove mana.
“Connected lines and rising walls, white ash arise.”
Magic constructed through hand seals and incantation began to overlay a new phenonon onto reality.
RUMBLE.......
Broken and scattered parts of dolls.
They began to gather, clump, and rge rapidly.
[Art of Descending Form]
Magic creating a new doll by recombining the remains of broken dolls.
Soon a giant doll reaching 5 ters in height alone raised its body.
Three heads, six arms.
Shape of Three Heads and Six Arms (Sam-du-yuk-bi).
“...It is my secret technique doll, .”
Wild killing intent and confidence glimred at the twitching corners of the wizard's mouth.
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