Chapter 285 – Loss

#285.

“Bugs. Didn’t the two of us catch one…”

The guy who had been silently beating my body until just now finally opened his mouth. He didn’t think Kiris would win. To be honest, I didn’t expect Kiris to come this soon.

No matter how much Core Enchantment is a fraudulent technique, it was quite surprising that it dealt with two opponents of the same class in less than 5 minutes.

Feeling like I could finally have a little conversation, I started talking to him in order to heal his wounds and to pass the time.

“Are you from the Church of Destruction?”

The fact that Leonard was a collaborator of the Church of Destruction was actually something I made up. However, looking at the series of situations so far, it can be inferred that it was a lie with a high possibility.

The corners of his mouth were torn as he calmly looked down at me as he clenched and opened his fists at my question. The expression that was grave opens his mouth with an expression that is buried in cruelty.

“I am the third wing of the Wings of the Apocalypse of the Church of Destruction. It is Leviathan.”
“Leviathan…”

Leviathan is one of the great demons in the Old Testament and various myths. Since the predecessor of the Church of Destruction was said to be Apocalypse, it could be said that it was a fitting name.

Of course, he was a human, not a demon. Although the things he has done so far are demons, not humans.

While muttering the name Leviathan, I hurriedly turned my gaze to the side.

Kiris’s face hardened. The body full of numerous cuts here and there tells us that the fight was not easy.

Even when this is not the case, white skin can be seen through the rags of the clothes. The lines of blood drawn through his skin aroused pity.

After grasping the condition of my body, I secretly sent a telephony.

-Leader. I’ll face you from the front, so aim for an opening.

Kiris, who had been glaring at Leviathan without a slight movement, nervously trembled and blinked her eyes. Then, he rolls his eyes, meets her eyes, and frowns.

-Are you okay? I don’t think my physical condition makes sense.-

-Of course. And there is one thing I would like to say-

-What?-

– I am using a special technique now. It’s an effect that temporarily awakens the body, but the duration is short. We must hurry.-

Only then did Kiris scan his entire body and bit his lip as if he had found something wrong. There was a great agitation in the swaying eyes.

He probably noticed that Overdrive is a technique that burns life force to gain power beyond the short time limit.

Kiris, who had been looking at me incomprehensible for a moment, turned her head to the front.

-… Don’t rush.-

At the same time, watching him take his hand to his waist, I grabbed the sword once and rushed straight to Leviathan.

In a state where the speed is raised to the limit by overlapping speed, it shoots a jet-black strong energy to block the line of sight, and then pierces into a blind spot through a space jump.

─Pain!

The air bursts out later, causing an afterstorm. Until then, the guy who had been staring at the front with a defenseless attitude turned his head and met his eyes.

“Suck!”

A creepy aura chills down your spine. My sixth sense alerted me to the fact that if I didn’t avoid it, I would die.

It means that each of his light attacks is threatening enough to take my breath away. I opened my eyes and kept my concentration, and let go of the flying attack.

Kigigigigging!

It flowed obliquely, but even so, the pressure was so strong that it was difficult to withstand. If he hadn’t invested karma, this single blow would have paralyzed his arm, revealing a gap.

No, there is even a possibility that he could not hold out until Kiris came and lost his mind in the first place.

The gap between him and me was huge.

9 stars and 10 stars. It’s only a difference of one level, but the wall that exists between them is so solid that you can’t jump over it even if your whole life goes by.

Even at this moment, the confrontation was very precarious. Far from selling an eye, the moment I relaxed even a little bit, his fist would pierce me.

Bang-!

How much do you want to regenerate with scratches while spilling the attack again and again? Magic bullet passed me by with a loud gunshot and headed towards Leviathan.

Of course, it didn’t happen that the guy was hurt. It’s just a vain wish. The magic bullet bounced off with a light gesture, but it turned purple and circled around him, aiming for an opening.

PABABABABANG—!

Then, dozens of gunshots followed, and that number of magic bullets came out and rotated around the Leviathan like planets wandering around the sun.

“Aaaaa!”

I sighed and pushed him back.

The body, which had been strengthened to the limit due to the overdrive in the power that had exploded by investing karma, radiated mighty power.

If it’s just simple strength, I’m probably better than him.

The magic bullets hovering around him rained down on the bouncing guy. The feast of light that fell from the sky to the ground like a meteor shower created a beautiful scene that did not match the situation.

Of course, the clusters of stars plummeting in the sky are extinguished by wildly burning flames.

The gap in power was overwhelming enough to dispel speculation at once. But we didn’t care at all.

Because I wasn’t expecting it in the first place. I didn’t even think that this attack would hurt him in the slightest.

I was just trying to make a little bit of a gap because of this. If it’s a problem, that even the slightest gap isn’t revealed? It was a bit disappointing.

Here, the weakness of Matan’s shooter is revealed.

Magic bullets exert superior power even compared to Tokyo, but the gap that is revealed after the attack misses is quite large.

Of course, it’s not that lethal level because the opponent isn’t fine enough to poke the gap in the process of blocking or avoiding magic bullets, but he’s different.

The one who lightly knocked out the magic bullet immediately rushed at Kiris.

Sparks exploded with an explosion at the foot he stepped on, and in an instant reached Kiris’s immediate vicinity.

But I wasn’t playing with myself. Having already guessed, I blocked the way through space leap and received the attack instead.

Bang!

“Kuh… !”

One of the weaknesses of space jump. Immediately after jumping over the space, there is a period until the attack occurs. Not being properly positioned for that, I was thrown backwards.

I straightened my body from the strong recoil and once again caught the guy behind me through a space jump. Then, he rotates his body and strikes down a slash.

Kang! Cagan! The Kaga Gaga River!

A feast of swords that continued like a storm. Hundreds or thousands of afterimages occur, aiming for his whole body blood, but they all return in vain without a single permission.

Although it was the result of being exhausted, I continued to fight with him with persistence.

If I was alone, I would often get hit once again because I was attacked as much as I could, but thanks to Keyless, I was able to safely pass the moment of crisis.

From the moment I realized that Kiris could help with my mistakes to a certain extent, I increased the frequency of attacks rather than defense and divided hands with him in close combat.

A few minutes passed like that.

It may seem very short, but time is relative. One second for ordinary people was a long enough time for us to kill hundreds of times.

Tens of thousands of battles came and went, and the heat of the fight only increased as time passed.

At one point while I was frantically hanging out with him, his fist, which I thought would be blocked, got lodged in my side.

“Keugh!”

Grinding my teeth at the heat that melted my intestines at once, I shook him off and turned my head to Kiris.

And belatedly noticed the condition of Kiris.

‘I’m tired!’

Kiris was breathing heavily as if she was about to pass. His voluptuous chest rises and falls nonstop, and his breath comes out of his mouth.

His hair was also drenched in sweat and clinging to his cheeks. The trembling of his fingertips holding the gun informed him that he had reached the limit of his physical strength.

-Sorry. I missed it.-

She painstakingly shoots magic bullets to keep my Leviathan in check and apologizes. He seems to feel guilty for not being able to live up to me, who believed in himself and rushed to me.

But that wasn’t the point.

Even if I get hit by a single blow, I can quickly recover as an immortal god.

The most serious problem right now was the fact that, at this rate, Kiris’ stamina would run out and I would have to fight alone.

It’s my fault for not thinking about Kiris’ stamina.

I overlooked the fact that I defeated an opponent of the same class in a short-term decisive battle and ran straight away without a break.

Of course, unless you have the ability to regenerate like me, it will inevitably put a strain on your stamina. Even I’m starting to feel short of breath, but Kiris’s lungs are about to burst.

‘What should I do?’

There is no good news for us either.

After all, we have two limitations. Overdrive’s duration runs out, or Keyless’s health runs out. We need to catch him before either situation comes.

I glanced down and stared at Platinum.

Core enchantment. For a week from the day I received it, I injected it whenever I could afford the aura. If I use this, I’ll probably be able to kill anyone in one blow.

The problem is that there’s no way he’ll be able to do this in silence. That is, he has to make a big gap.

As soon as I came to a rough conclusion, I sent a telegram.

– Keyless. It must be finished as quickly as possible. How many rounds of magic bullets are left?-

Of course, the magic bullets referred to here are the number of mana stored in the core, not the normal gangki bullets. After hearing my words, Kiris glanced at the back of her hand and said.

-7 feet. The problem is that the 2 shots are an aura stored in the firearm, so it is impossible to fire continuously. Also, after shooting the magic bullet, I can’t use my right arm for a while.-

It showed tremendous power with just one shot, but it was only natural that the recoil would be tremendous if all the auras of the five jewels embedded in the back of the hand were pulled out.

The body couldn’t handle the aura that reached the limits of Orichalcum.

But enough is enough.

-Then please make a gap. I’ll use the aura saved in Platinum to finish it in one go.-

-… Okay. Then believe me-

At the same time, Kiris opened her eyes and started shooting magic bullets.

A flash of red flashes past the Leviathan’s side, crosses the air, turns purple, bends its trajectory, and hovers around it to keep it in check.

Hundreds of them gathered one by one and drew a circle at breakneck speed.

It looks like a galaxy. Numerous balls of light revolved around the two of us, creating a beautiful scene.

But that’s just what it looks like. The moment you lose your guard even a little, it will mercilessly pierce the fabric and take your life.

“Haaaaap!”

The sword swung once and drew a line. And the sword was swung hundreds of times to form a plane, and eventually it became a prison from which there was no escape.

The prison made of steel is so solid that no one can escape. However, even that has lost its meaning to him.

The fist, which was imbued with terrifying salt that would melt away a prison, shattered all of my slashes.

In the middle of the same series of battles as before, the magic bullets hovering around them poured down all at once.

My senses were mixed up in a mess due to the rain of magic bullets from all directions. The moment your senses are paralyzed and your vision is blocked,

Kwaaaaang—!

A huge pillar of light shot out from the gap in the magic bullet rain.

The two pillars of purple light rotated like a spiral, doubling each other’s power, aiming for Leviathan’s gap.

“Huh!!”

In response to that blow, it struck the pillar of light with a rare cry.

The red flames turned blue, emitting terrible heat, and then collided with the pillar of light.

Kiris’ blow was powerful, but his flame was even more powerful. After a very brief struggle, the trail of the pillar of light broke and passed through the sky.

But that’s not the end.

Without a chance to consume the power of the pillar of light, the pillar of light flew in again. Each one is weaker than the previous one, but as many as five pillars dot the four sides and dig in.

The guy hit the magic bullet with a round of blue flames, but naively avoided the collision and continued to change its trajectory and aim for the blind spot.

While his gaze was focused elsewhere, I drew out the aura stored in Platinum.

A huge amount of aura was released from the sword. A pitch-black blade soars endlessly as if it would cover the sky. The youthful energy in it is left over even if the whole mountain is cut off.

Truly unreasonable violence. The overwhelming energy that a 9-star knight could never imagine descended was enough to harden his face.

He gathers his aura against me right away, but it’s too late.

‘Die, bastard!’

Massive enough to soar into the sky. But incredible speed not commensurate with its mass. It can be seen as the ultimate king of contradictions.

A blow that distorts even the laws of physics. The jet-black sword judges the devil.

… So, I thought.

That is, until white flames shoot out of his fists.