Ch.275Chapter 11. Resurrection of the Dead (5)

I’ll train Ymir to be the Lord of Radiant Wings.

After teaching Ymir how to fight as the Lord of Radiant Wings, I’m preparing for when she might step up as the Lord of Radiant Wings in the future.

The best option would be for the Lord of Radiant Wings himself to step forward, but the Lord of Radiant Wings died last year.

The Lord of Radiant Wings—whom the world considered an S+ class, the world’s strongest, no, an EX class hero—died last year after killing a demon from Pandemonium.

And now, I’ve called Ymir to teach her the Lord of Radiant Wings’ fighting style separately.

“Haaah!”

With a shout, Ymir soars high into the sky.

Though her altitude is limited by the barrier, she spreads her wings and flies higher, reaching the barrier’s ceiling.

“Here I come!”

Ymir raises one hand high.

Simultaneously, several spheres emerge from the golden angel wings spread behind her back.

Whiiing.

The spheres instantly grow larger, and when the mana has increased sufficiently, Ymir extends her hand downward.

“Fire!”

Paaaaang!

Laser beams shoot out from the spheres and fly toward me.

Literally like light, the golden mana beam flying in a straight line seemed poised to pierce through my spread wings and body.

“Too slow.”

I folded my wings and dropped down.

The golden laser passed through where I had been, and I fell downward, wrapping my folded wings around my body like a protective cloak.

Pa-ang!

I strike the ground hard with one wing to change direction.

Having descended almost to the point of touching the ground, I spread my wings and gradually gain altitude like an airplane.

“The Lord of Radiant Wings isn’t an aerial battery. He’s a Top Gun.”

“Ugh…!”

“It might not feel natural, but think of yourself as a fighter jet!”

Mana bursts from the wings spread behind my back.

Like a jet releasing flames to gain speed, I discharge mana backward to increase my velocity.

“Haaah!!”

Ymir raises her hand again.

This time, she emits larger spheres in greater quantities from her wings while tracking me with her eyes.

“I will definitely shoot you down!!”

Pababang!!

Lasers flood toward me.

Some aim directly at me, while others fire predictively along my flight path.

[Isn’t this dangerous~?]

The voice echoing in my head was full of mischief, but without much tension.

[Need help?]

“No. I’m fine.”

Because I can avoid them sufficiently without her help.

Flutter.

I fold my wings and drop down momentarily.

Simultaneously, I turn my body sideways and spread my wings again, and the golden laser barely grazes my shoulder as it cuts through the empty air.

“Argh, seriously…!”

“You know you haven’t hit me once yet, right?”

“This is cheating! How can a person fly so freely like that?”

“That’s rich coming from Ymir, who’s overflowing with mana.”

I infuse more mana into my wings and fly higher.

Though the color of the mana trailing behind me is closer to jade, the method is clearly that of the Lord of Radiant Wings.

“Got you.”

“Ugh…!”

I dive straight at Ymir from below, then grab her by the waist.

“Earth throw.”

“That’s not a Lord of Radiant Wings technique!”

“True. It’s just that there hasn’t been an occasion to use it until now.”

Then I descend while drawing a large circle with Ymir in my grasp.

“Urgh…!”

Ymir discharged mana to break free from my hold.

But the mana emanating from my entire body subdued her, and Ymir bit her lower lip.

“Tch…!”

She also has restrictions placed on her.

If she fought normally, Ymir would certainly find a way out, but within these limited constraints, she’s cornered.

“How did I say the Lord of Radiant Wings handles close combat?”

“…!”

“Right. It’s too late to counter.”

Normally, this would end with me throwing her to the ground.

“It’s over.”

But instead, I gently landed on the ground while holding Ymir and set her down.

“Take a break for now.”

“Huff, huff, huff.”

Ymir sprawled out on the ground.

Though the ground was a field overgrown with weeds, Ymir didn’t care and lay on the ground, exhaling rough breaths.

“Really, huff, how is that even possible….”

“I learned it. From the Lord of Radiant Wings himself.”

I folded my wings and landed on the ground.

The “green” wings spread behind my back, though different in color from the original, were identical in form to the Lord of Radiant Wings’ signature “golden wings.”

“After the Lord of Radiant Wings died and was resurrected, he gave me a USB containing his fighting methods. He had already taken out insurance by asking me to substitute for him.”

“When was this?”

“Before I entered the Academy.”

While staying in a monthly rental in Busan, I met with the Lord of Radiant Wings separately while watching movies with Baek Seol-hee.

And at that time, I absorbed all of the Lord of Radiant Wings’ fighting methods.

“The Lord of Radiant Wings’ fighting style can be divided into four categories. Long-range, mid-range, and two types of close-range.”

“Isn’t that just distance differences?”

“It’s about using different attacks at each distance. And from there, it branches into dozens, hundreds of fighting methods. For example….”

I spread my wings again and rose into the sky.

“One of the long-range attacks feels like this.”

I spread my wings.

The wings symbolic of the Lord of Radiant Wings resemble angel wings.

“Area annihilation type.”

And from these wings, I create spheres to launch bombardments.

“Lord of Radiant Wings beam, ready to fire.”

Paaaaaaah!!

“Up to here is just the same, right?”

“Yes. And if I just fire now, that’s it.”

“But I can add one more thing.”

An enormous amount of mana erupts from the light spheres created from my wings.

The mana gathered in each sphere simply bursts out from the wings, but the amount is far beyond what an ordinary ability user could withstand.

“Though we don’t have them here, in urban areas, you could use it like this.”

“Oh, mirrors…?”

“Right.”

I scatter mirror fragments created by the Goblin’s club toward the sky.

And simultaneously, I aim the mana beam at the scattered mirror fragments.

“Fire.”

Paaaaaaah!!

As soon as the beam flies toward the mirrors, it reflects off them and shoots in different directions.

Crackle!

Green lasers burst out in all directions except where Ymir and I were standing, turning the entire field into a wasteland of mana light.

“Wow….”

“You can do it too.”

“No, I could do it, but if you’re asking me to do it exactly like that, it might be a bit difficult.”

Ymir stuck out her tongue at my perfect replication of the Lord of Radiant Wings’ technique.

“Teacher, did you perhaps get private lessons from the Lord of Radiant Wings?”

“No way. I just stole techniques by watching from the corner of my eye. Only after hearing the technical details from him did I make it completely my own.”

“Then teacher….”

“Look.”

I pointed to my hair.

Among my white hair, only a single black bridge peeked out to the side.

“Right now I’m receiving backup from Taowu, but without that backup, my mana bombardment would be weaker than a gunshot.”

“You mean the water stream gets weaker?”

“That’s not exactly what I meant, but you can interpret it similarly. Like how a water tank needs to be full for a strong water stream.”

Right now, I can shoot this powerfully because I’m borrowing mana—water—from elsewhere.

None other than from Taowu, Hyun Se-rin.

In a state of ‘unity.’

“Sigh. Why don’t you just become the next Lord of Radiant Wings, teacher?”

“That won’t work. My mana color isn’t gold.”

If I had to specify, it’s closer to black.

I can display other colors by borrowing others’ mana, but even that isn’t always easy.

“I could feed you mana every day, and you could live with golden mana—”

Smack!

A satisfying sound rang out from the back of Ymir’s head.

“This kid says the darndest things.”

That wasn’t me speaking.

I didn’t hit her either.

It was someone else who struck her.

“Hey. If you keep talking like that, your sisters will punish you severely, understand?”

“Uh, uhhh….”

“No matter how much you want to, you shouldn’t say such things at important moments like this. Shouldn’t you learn seriously when it’s time to learn?”

“Well, that’s true.”

Hyun Se-rin, who had separated from my body, began disciplining Ymir.

“Do you think there are many people out there who teach their techniques in such detail? Was there anyone at the Academy who explained their techniques so thoroughly? No, right? We’re taking our Goblin tutoring seriously, so how can you keep saying such things? Hmm?”

“Ah, ahah, sister, I’m sorry…!”

“What, has patriotism suddenly filled this mana pouch? Should I squeeze it out? Hmm?”

“If someone’s going to squeeze it, I’d rather the teacher do it direc— Kyaah?!”

Hyun Se-rin instantly grabbed Ymir from behind.

Then she seized Ymir’s mana pouch and began shaking it, and I was at a loss for words at the overwhelming sight.

Well.

Impressive is all I can say.

“S-sister…! Let’s form an alliance! Neither of us can win against the teacher anyway!”

“There you go with the patriotism talk again. How is your head filled with nothing but patriotism? Is patriotism everything?”

“It is!”

Ymir started responding with audacity.

“This is all for patriotism, what’s wrong with having my head filled with patriotism! It’s not like I’m talking about patriotism with someone else, I’m talking about patriotism with the teacher!”

“Sigh. This kid is really hopeless. Director Do, say something. You’re the one who turned her into a patriotism parrot.”

“Let’s just go with it.”

Honestly.

“Patriotism might be better than learning the Lord of Radiant Wings’ combat techniques. Maybe… it could lead to developing new techniques.”

Patriotism might be better than honing a man’s combat techniques.

“One thing, I want to test a hypothesis.”

“…What is it?”

“Unity.”

Until just now, I was in unity with Hyun Se-rin.

“I might be able to do it with Ymir.”

“Of course we can do yin-yang unity—”

“Not with me.”

But perhaps.

“You two.”

What if Ymir and Hyun Se-rin united?