Chapter 593 – Trust and Reciprocation

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“Meteor shower in Changchun…! Ha ha!”

At the same time as the girl’s voice resounded, a hand bounced off the string of the longbow her and the string swayed.

The arrows of light shot up toward the sky soared upwards with the momentum to pierce even the sun, and then, with a flash of light, scattered into countless branches like the raindrops of a shower, and poured down to the ground.

They are arrows that disappear on the spot the moment they sink into the ground without making a sound, but even if they don’t hit you directly, you can understand that the arrows are so threatening that they pierce through the body cleanly.

As soon as he recognized the rain of arrows falling from the sky, the core werewolf who absorbed Ruben’s phantasmagoric wolf seemed to think so, and as soon as he recognized the rain of arrows, he crouched down and his body dispersed like mist.

“Then…!”

As soon as Sasha saw the werewolf’s behavior, she made a surprised expression. It moved between the raindrops like a snake with a body of long fog, leaving only the wolf’s head, floating and moving.

“Is it possible to change the form by adjusting the body’s magic cohesion… What a troublesome guy.”

Standing in front of Sasha, Cleon glared at the werewolf with his sword, ready to swing his sword and cut it down when the werewolf came running towards them.

However, cleverly, he did not recklessly approach such Cleon, and had to stop his concentration from being distracted while kicking his tongue at the behavior of the werewolf who was spinning around and peeping at the gap.

[I don’t think magic attack is a very good choice. That guy is absorbing unconcentrated mana into his own body his.]

At that time, at Galatea’s words that were hanging from Cleon’s waist, Cleon turned on his magic time and looked at the werewolf. As she said, when Sasha’s magic arrows were driven into the ground and disappeared, he received a little bit of magic on his body. I could see that I was absorbing it.

“Sasha! Arrows use real ones! Do you have any silver arrows?”

“…! No, only iron arrows and arrows imprinted with the spell Ruben-sama made…! I’m sorry!”

Silver has the power to cut off the flow of unusual magical power, so it can do great damage to abnormal masses of magical energy such as ghosts and vampires, but it is weaker than iron when dealing with normal enemies, so special requests Or, of course, not carrying it.

“No it’s okay. I just checked it once.”

However, that would be a little annoying.

Since the opponent is a being that is difficult to catch with only a spiritual body or substance, it is necessary to attack using magical power.

In order to get rid of it in one blow, if I try to concentrate my mana as usual and attack with one-point focus, I can easily dodge it with its quick movements.

This is because magic power does not have direct mass, but large movements are required to control it.

Even so, if you try to spread a wide range of attacks, of course the ‘face’ attack has less concentration of magic power than the ‘dot’ attack.

After avoiding the shower of magical arrows Sasha used earlier by transforming her body like that, and then absorbing the magical energy in reverse, it would only result in strengthening the opponent.

It must be the same with restraint-type magic that spreads and catches nets with mana, and barriers.

“The core… The soul… Is it the grudge against the being who defeated him that moves him?”

Naturally, it is his feelings towards Cleon.

After the rain of arrows stopped, the guy roared and raised his mana from the ground, then put that mana together and reconstructed his body that had been scattered by the fog.

That body was certainly bigger than before, and if that happened, the upper limit of the magical power concentration that could be absorbed would have increased.

In other words, if you continue to consume mana clumsily, the damage is that the opponent’s defense continues to rise without giving any damage.

“…Did I do something wrong…?”

When Sasha asked Cleon a question in a trembling voice, Cleon shook her head.

“If I had left the core of my soul as it was, it would have randomly absorbed the magic around me and eventually turned into a monster. Either way, it’s right that we have to deal with it here and now.”

[But what do you want to do? If it’s not mana, against a spiritual body that can’t inflict damage… If the only thing we can do is to continue consuming our mana to make it stronger. There are also ways to go back and think about it.]

“I can’t leave a guy who has already started moving like this. If you leave it as it is, it will attack passers-by. It’s already a great ‘Golden Spirit’.”

At Cleon’s words, Sasha nodded as well.

Even though few people came and went on this road, it was not possible to leave the dangerous elements behind.

“Caliburn. What do you think?”

[Hey, it’s as Cleon decides~ but at least, I agree that a method is necessary~ Our magical powers aren’t unlimited~]

Divine magic is more effective against the spirits than black or attribute magic, so it’s time for Caliburn to land a critical hit on the specter in front of you.

Neither Caliburn’s power to cut through space nor the blade of light created by condensing mana seemed very effective to that guy now.

‘If I don’t come up with something else.’

Of course, the other person didn’t wait for Cleon to get into an accident like that.

When the rain of arrows stopped, the ghost that reconstructed her body spread her claws and rushed towards Cleon.

“Kuk!”

My body has grown, but on the contrary, I have no choice but to feel that my speed has increased.

After all, is it like a set rule for this type of enemy that the more magic power the stronger the body is?

As the ghost swung a powerful forepaw at Cleon in a move that became more threatening thanks to the absorption of Sasha’s mana, Cleon immediately pulled out his Caliburn and swung it.

An island imbued with divine magic.

The holy magic power that filled the blade was swung to block the cored guy’s hand.

But-

His hand disappeared in the middle of being swung, no, it would be better to say that it was scattered.

‘This guy—again!’

Perhaps he had caught the trick with the fog from earlier, the guy who instantly dispersed his body and passed through Cleon’s body as if it were passing through, and approached Sasha, who was aiming for an opening from behind Cleon.

“What!?”

Sasha, too, is agitated by the approach of the guy who suddenly jumped out of Cleon’s back her, but can’t shoot an arrow. Because, if you do, the arrow will be stuck in Cleon’s back her.

Conflicts and troubles clung to her judgment her and became fetters on her legs her.

“Sasha! Move her feet without stopping!”

Bang! When Cleon’s loud voice thundered along with the sound of her feet her stomping, Sasha accepted the meaning of the words with her body her rather than her head her, and barely moved her heavy feet her.

Booung! And when I heard the sound of her claws her, I knew that the attack had cut through the air, but Sasha managed to escape the attack by rolling her body her while eating her dust her.

However, perhaps her evasion was not complete, and a shallow cut was left on Sasha’s cheek her, from which her blood her began to flow.

“Sasha…!”

The werewolf dripped Sasha’s blood from her, which caught on the tips of her fingernails from her, and then, again, dispersed like mist on her, away from Sasha and Cleon.

As if looking through a gap, the appearance of only the face floating around was bizarre as expected, but the fact that it was completely unpredictable as to when and how it would move, perhaps because it had no body, raised the difficulty of the battle .

“It’s okay, Mr. Cleon! And this specter, once it moves, it seems to be gathering strength to accelerate and move every time it moves! Ah, it’s hard to attack because it’s scattered with fog, but…”

[However, the opponent is almost unattacked… It’s annoying~ An enemy you can’t catch.]

Cleon sighed and nodded as if he could not help but strongly sympathize with Caliburn’s words.

However, as if the voices of the two could be heard, Sasha shut her mouth for a moment before she turns to Cleon and talks.

“I-I… I’ll try it. If it’s this way, maybe… Maybe it’s possible.”

[What? It’s Sasha. You help Cleon-sama from behind-]

Ruben says something inside, but Sasha suppresses even that voice and raises her head to look at Cleon.

“If it were me, no matter how fast that limb moves and disperses into fog. I have a way to respond.”

“…”

In Sasha’s words, Cleon said, should he say “Confidence” Or “Reason”?

Feeling that, he couldn’t help but nod.

“Okay, the time when you seem to be explaining the strategy is—”

When Cleon said that, the cries of the Earth Spirit Yin Lang resonated.

Again, it was a sound that signaled that the guy had reconstructed his body his and finished building his power his.

“Sir, I’m sorry I didn’t have time to explain!”

And the next moment, Ji Park-ryeong, who has finished accumulating power, reappears and this time turns her head toward Sasha and jumps in.

The attacker is given a ‘choice’.

To be honest, attack the side you were aiming for from the beginning and break down the defense.

Did you fake it, pretending to be aiming for A, then aiming for B to poke a gap?

It was the earlier latter, and I don’t know what will happen this time.

That’s why Sasha is nervous, and she makes her senses even sharper by burning the fire of imprinting in her own eyes.

If her own attack her did n’t reach her ghost her, she could n’t grab Cleon’s leg at least from being attacked.

‘I won’t lose… Because Mr. Cleon said he believes in me…!’

Those words give Sasha the basis to believe in herself.

Even if she doesn’t believe in herself, if Cleon believes in her, she believes in Cleon’s words that she believes in.

During the battle, she knows she shouldn’t be like this.

As if confirming her own trust her in her, Sasha shifted her gaze towards Cleon.

It is a very brief, virtuous state of empty space that made time even shorter than an instant.

Clearly, at that moment, at that time, at that timing, Cleon and Sasha’s eyes met. And we could convey something to each other with our eyes.

“…!”

Knock! A violent sound like her teeth clashing against each other rose from Sasha’s mouth her.

It was the ‘self-restraint’ within her, or the ‘humanity’.

It sounded like teeth breaking the chains that bound her violent inside her.

Her eyes sharpened, her pupils narrowed, and magical energy seemed to gather around her feet and hands her.

Her bow was tossed high into the air, and she kicked the ground with her foot her, holding an arrow in one hand and a dagger in the other.

Then-the next moment, Sasha’s body her, which was standing there, slipped without leaving even an afterimage, and she came upon a wolf that she thought was targeting her.

She did not evade the attack, but she chose to jump in for one reason.

‘Because I instinctively felt that it was necessary.’

Her body her, thanks to her sharpened senses her, seemed to be moving as if it were the original time alone in the rushing slowdown of time.

It took so long for all the sounds around her to reach her own ears her.

‘First. Fog the body of the Earth Spirit. However, it is not a result of leaving room to evade an attack, but an action for desperate survival.’

Daggers and arrowheads swung as if to slash enemies.

Her magical energy of her was not contained, but the sense of intimidation felt from her movements made of her even her ghost feel something.

The Earth Spirit, who had n’t expected Sasha’s explosive acceleration her at all, seemed to be taken aback by her, and immediately turned her body into mist and scattered her in all directions.

She thought that being able to react even a little to her speed her was obviously amazing, but she could only ‘see’ it, and it was impossible to adjust her body’s speed her to it.

And, the moment her ghost disappeared into the fog, Sasha leaped into the air.

Still moving with lightning-like movements, she caught the bow she threw herself in the air and aimed it at her lower side of her.

‘A specter that has become foggy, originally, must move on the spot. However, if you make her fog, you will not be able to show the same explosive acceleration as before. So, if it’s a simple attack with a large range, you won’t be able to avoid it.’

When she snaps, the string is pulled tight and a full-body shot is fired into her hand —

“A stormy night!”

As her head and tail her emit an intense mana light response, her extra mana flows from her body her and focuses into the arrows that are fired.

In terms of time, it would have been a short time, less than one second.

A huge wolf’s head would appear and devour everything below.

Knowing that it was one of Sasha’s strongest blows her, created by her magical power her, was only possible when she was aware of the same time.

It was to the point that even that Cleon could only see the ‘result’.

Exactly, 2.36 seconds.

With the sound of Sasha’s teeth grinding, her body disappeared beside him, then reappeared in mid-air, and after shooting her bow her.

What came into my eyes was the shape of the wolf ghost spreading through the fog with an intense arrow that dug up a handful of the ground.

Besides, about half of those wolf ghosts disappeared after being eaten by the wolf head created by Sasha’s arrow her.

However, Jibakryeong’s wolf head, which had become foggy, still remained, and he tried to restore his body to her by somehow capturing the remaining magic power.

“Caliburn!”

For a while, along with the voice he heard when he thought that an intense golden light shimmering in the corner of his vision his had hit him.

Only the magic power to maintain the head was left, and all magic power was lost.

A golden slash that stretched in a straight line from the road toward the forest almost completely annihilated his body.

Cleon watches the scene, quickly sticks the Caliburn into the ground, and catches Sasha’s body her as it falls freely from the sky.

It was because she consumed a large amount of her mana and used the acceleration of her senses her with her imprint her too much, but she was showing an appearance close to exhaustion.

Even as she catches her breath, she remembers taking Ruben’s arrowhead out of her pocket.

Then, the phantom wolf that jumped out of her body her ran straight to the Earth Spirit with only her head her left, and this time it ate it up.

“…Well done Sasha. As expected, it is our trump card.”

“Hehe… / She’s really overbearing…”

She smiled a little at Cleon’s praise and sagged as if her body had lost strength.

“Wait, Sasha, Ruben? You can’t sleep here…”

Only Cleon’s voice her remained there.

“…What do we do?”

[Wouldn’t it be nice to rest a bit nearby and wait for it to happen?]

When Galatea, who has changed into a human form in the middle of her speech, says so, Cleon nods her head as if agreeing.

Then, with the sleeping Sasha in her arms her, she walked over and sat down under a nearby tree.