Chapter 153: If You Can’t Use Existing Skills…

Episode 153

Jason’s right arm, as he charged forward at high speed, suddenly glowed blindingly bright.

‘Danger!’

Kim Jinsung sensed danger and leaped back as far as he could.

**Boom!**

“Ugh!”

“Argh…!”

The groans came from the Boko Haram executives watching from afar.

Jason’s attack was so powerful and wide-ranging that everyone in the warehouse was affected.

“You can’t run!”

Jason roared and charged at Kim Jinsung again, through the smoke that hadn’t even cleared yet.

Kim Jinsung, who had just landed, realized as he felt the warehouse wall behind him that

there was nowhere left to run.

‘I have to block it.’

He swung his hand towards Jason, who was charging towards him.

**Crackle!**

The air around Jason froze, and a giant ice pillar formed in an instant, trapping him inside.

But Jason, trapped within the ice pillar,

“It’s useless!”

shouted, seemingly unaffected, and gathered mana in his right arm again, swinging it towards Kim Jinsung.

**Boom!** Another massive explosion erupted, centered around Jason.

Kim Jinsung, who was nearby, was naturally caught in the blast.

The warehouse wall, reinforced with protective magic, barely withstood the explosion.

“Hmph!”

Jason’s scoff came from within the thick smoke that hadn’t cleared yet.

“Of course, the one who defeated Isaac so easily wouldn’t go down this easily.”

Jason’s prosthetic eye was focused on Kim Jinsung, who was standing unharmed in the smoke.

Kim Jinsung could also see Jason clearly through the smoke with his ‘Infrared Vision’ trait.

‘…The freezing magic didn’t work.’

He thought to himself as the ‘Veil of Blessing’ regenerated around his body.

The Veil of Blessing had unintentionally blocked Jason’s explosive attack.

‘Let’s see if it really doesn’t work.’

Kim Jinsung leaped up towards the ceiling.

He then unleashed a firestorm and a lightning attack simultaneously.

A giant fire tornado and flashing lightning bolts bombarded Jason.

But Jason was unharmed. As if nothing had happened.

“I told you it’s useless!”

He shouted and raised his mechanical right hand towards Kim Jinsung.

Kim Jinsung thought he was going to fire some kind of beam again and quickly raised his protective barrier.

But what shot out of the hole in Jason’s palm was a cloud of green smoke.

As the smoke quickly enveloped Kim Jinsung, three notifications appeared before him.

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▶ ‘Veil of Blessing’ has protected the user and disappeared. It will regenerate in 0.25 seconds.

▶ You have been inflicted with the ‘Poison’ status ailment.

▷ Your HP will continuously decrease due to the ‘Poison’ effect.

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‘Damn it!’

Kim Jinsung frowned.

He checked his rapidly decreasing HP bar and had no choice but to use the ‘Invulnerability’ skill, which consumed a massive amount of mana, to negate the poison effect.

“What the hell! How is he immune to poison too…?”

Jason’s voice was filled with disbelief.

He was going crazy. Anyone else would have been incapacitated by now, but Kim Jinsung was somehow blocking or negating every skill he used.

“Hmph! Let’s see if you can dodge this!”

He scoffed and was about to extend his mechanical arm again.

Kim Jinsung instinctively felt that

‘I need to attack first!’

He didn’t know what other unexpected functions Jason’s mechanical right arm had, or how many more he had left.

It was better to attack first and finish him off quickly than to risk getting fatally wounded by one of those skills.

‘I need to end this with the ‘Kill’ skill right now.’

He still had the ‘Kill’ skill, which completely ignored defenses, that he had obtained from Bruce.

He couldn’t use his signature skills, Shapeshifting and Clone, because he couldn’t risk revealing his true identity.

The only skills he could use right now were the ones he had acquired in the New Continent, and the strongest among them was ‘Kill’.

‘The problem is that if he dodges this, I’ll be in danger…’

He had about half of his MP left. Using ‘Kill’, which consumed half of his maximum MP, would leave him with zero MP.

It was a powerful skill, but it also came with a heavy penalty.

‘…I have no choice.’

Kim Jinsung made up his mind and charged towards Jason.

Fortunately, he was so fast that he reached Jason before he could use any skills.

“……!!”

Jason’s eyes widened as he saw Kim Jinsung’s fist, and he tried to dodge by twisting his body.

He must have sensed the immense power behind Kim Jinsung’s punch.

But he couldn’t move.

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▶ The ‘Spiderweb’ skill has been upgraded to the ‘Mana-Infused Spiderweb’ skill through skill enhancement.

▷ Mana-Infused Spiderweb – You can now infuse your mana into the spiderweb to make it stronger and more durable.

– You can continuously infuse mana into spiderwebs connected to you.

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“W-what?!”

Jason shouted in surprise as black spiderwebs suddenly wrapped around his entire body.

He hurriedly ignited his body with flames to burn the spiderwebs, but that brief moment of vulnerability allowed Kim Jinsung to attack.

**Thud!**

Kim Jinsung’s fist, imbued with the ‘Kill’ skill, crushed Jason’s head with a single blow.

“Waaaaaaa!”

“That’s it!”

“Yessss!!”

The Boko Haram executives cheered.

Even Ricardo stood up and applauded Kim Jinsung.

Kim Jinsung, seeing Jason’s headless body collapse limply to the ground amidst the cheers, let out a small sigh and tried to relax.

It was then that,

a blinding light suddenly erupted from the machinery attached to Jason’s body.

“……!!”

Kim Jinsung’s eyes widened as he sensed the immense power contained within the light.

**Booooooooom!**

Jason’s body exploded, unleashing a powerful blast that engulfed Kim Jinsung, who was standing right in front of him.

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