episode_0061

61. Confrontation.

Ssssssssss-

Blue shimmering heat haze rises around Johann. While Sarah bought him time, he recovered as much magic power as possible while digging a tunnel to the surface.

Now was finally the time to reap the rewards. Now, digging roughly just one more meter would bring him to the surface. It would be nice to organize his condition a bit more before going out, but if he did that, the enemies might notice.

Puhwaaaack-!

The bright blue sky welcomes Johann. Could it be because so many events had happened in such a short time? It felt like he was seeing the sky for the first time in days. Johann landed on the ground with heavy steps. He quickly turned his head left and right.

‘They’re not here. But they’re nearby.’

Johann was looking for the human presumed to be the enemy team leader. The man who handles the parrots. Johann realized while continuing the battle. If he killed the team leader who possesses animal control abilities, the enemies would quickly fall apart.

‘At least that wind mage would be neutralized.’

Johann glanced back. A murmuring noise reached here. Sarah was probably still fighting. It would be nice if she could hold out for a long time.

Although Sarah usually shows monstrous aspects, she is also human. She must have reached her mental and physical limits.

That’s why Johann’s role was important. He had to quickly cut off the enemy team leader’s breath.

‘When I checked with Oh Tak-hoon’s vision, this place seemed the most suspicious······.’

Johann searched his surroundings with relentless steps. Johann’s magic power took the form of a thin thread. He slowly spread it out.

It was a search method he had been using frequently recently. He doesn’t use it often because it requires extreme mental strength, but the effect was outstanding.

It was also impossible to search a wide area. So Johann kept moving. If he kept searching, he would sense the team leader.

He desperately searched for the team leader, putting his palm on the ground from time to time. He steadily sent magic power through his palm that touched the ground.

Dududu-

‘I said 15 minutes, but she might not even last 10 minutes.’

How long had it been since he started searching like that? According to Johann’s sense of time, about 3 minutes had passed─

‘Found him.’

Magic Missile.

[External Implementation].

A place perceived only with magic power threads. He ‘felt’ a blue sphere being created near it. Immediately after, the team leader’s movements became busy. He must have felt something too.

Johann had secretly prepared the spell with great care, but he was indeed worthy of being the team leader.

Kwakwakwakwakwang!!!

A fierce impact sound was heard from far away. Johann’s steps became hurried. Thanks to Johann’s Magic Missile, the magic power flow around the team leader became unnatural.

It no longer seemed easy to sense him smoothly. It was time to run on foot.

Tadat-!

Of course, the distance between the team leader and Johann was very close. Before long, he could identify the team leader’s location. At that moment, Johann jumped high into the air.

Compared to when he was in the modern era, Johann’s jumping skills had greatly improved. He felt the swaying wind, and the moment he was about to fall─

Shield.

Thud, an intangible shield was created under Johann’s feet. He jumps again. From then on, it was a repetitive task. The shield appeared skillfully the moment his jump reached its peak, and Johann’s height continued to increase.

A dizzying situation where he could fall if there was even a slight mistake in the spell, Johann kept going up like a person who didn’t know fear. No, perhaps it was because his desperation was greater than the emotion of fear.

Eventually, Johann climbed to the top of the tallest tree in the area. The blowing wind was unsettling, but he reinforced stability by deploying shields.

At that moment, numerous parrots flew towards Johann.

Pudedeudeudeuk-!

As if boasting that they were not ordinary parrots, the bird-brains were emitting a blue light from their entire bodies. This seemed to be their battle posture.

A thick, middle-aged man’s voice was heard from below.

“You managed to find this place! You rat-like bastard!”

It was a more excited voice than when he spoke through the parrots. It seemed like he was alarmed that his location had been discovered.

Johann ignored his words and moved his fingers back and forth. Soon, Johann’s entire body was covered in blue.

It wasn’t just because he was raising his magic power. The middle-aged man was startled to see this.

‘No way! Wasn’t his magic power supposed to be insufficient? Is that all Magic Missile?’

Whether he denied reality or not, Johann would only show him the result.

Kwajik! Kwaaaang! Kkeeeeek!

Blue rays were fired in all directions from Johann. However, if someone looked closely, they would realize that they were afterimages of Magic Missiles.

That’s how fast and precise his magic power operation was. The parrots that were approaching Johann were mostly dead before he knew it. The birds that barely survived were not normal. They could never fly again, or suffered from one or two disabilities.

Nevertheless, the birds continued to advance. It was quite a bizarre sight. It was a sight where the most primitive desire of beasts, the instinct for survival, had been castrated.

Of course, Johann didn’t care. He kept killing the birds. Then, suddenly, Johann frowned.

“······Huh.”

The team leader with a black eyepatch was running away as fast as he could. Leaving his parrots behind.

“With just this much······.”

Johann was dumbfounded. Did he think he could stop a wizard by releasing a few dozen birds? His Magic Missile struck the middle-aged man again······

Jjeoooooooong!

A sound like knocking on bulletproof glass echoed in the forest. Johann thought. Which wizard deployed the shield? But it wasn’t.

‘······Already?’

It was a shield that was a little different from Johann’s, a much more active form of protection. Yes, for example─

‘Wind Attribute Shield.’

The shape of the person reflected in his retina is quite familiar. A young man in his mid-20s, leaning against a pure white tree branch. The difference from before was that he looked a little more sickly. The young man was not alone. There were a total of 4 humans around him.

There was the middle-aged man Johann was chasing, a woman in archer attire, a male martial artist, and an old man in his 60s holding a spear. Johann was able to realize one fact from this scene.

At that time, the young man said. It was quite a sharp tone. He didn’t seem to like Johann.

“What is it, you. Weren’t you supposed to be in that cave?”

“······.”

“If

so, the one in the cave must be your lover. I wondered why I couldn’t see her. So you were planning to stab us in the back like this.”

Johann let out a hollow laugh. A stab in the back, wasn’t he being too brazen?

“The stab in the back would be you guys, not me. Were you trying to bury the humans who entered the cave here altogether? Is that why you were widening the entrance so diligently?”

“······.”

The young man was silent. He was hit right on the mark by Johann’s words.

Kyotosajugupeong (狡兔死走狗烹).

It meant that when a cunning rabbit dies, the hunting dog that caught the rabbit is cooked. Here, the rabbit was Johann himself. He felt disgusted.

“I thought your joining was too fast, I didn’t know you had such circumstances.”

The young man shouted as if he was having a seizure at Johann’s sarcasm. His face was flushed. That was because he was also feeling ashamed.

“Sh, shut up! After all, the tower is such a world! The one who gets screwed is an idiot!”

“Don’t get excited. I’m not exactly scolding you guys.”

Johann looked down at them from the tall tree and said. This composition made the young man even more displeased.

“I agree that the one who gets screwed is at fault. So don’t complain either.”

Johann moved his fingers back and forth, raising his magic power. Their behavior had so many disgusting aspects that even Johann, who had no interest in other people’s behavior, was bothered.

Wheeeeeeeing─

Suddenly, a gust of wind swept past them. A fallen leaf that fell from somewhere fluttered and fell in front of the old man holding the spear. At that moment─

Jjeoooooooong!!!

The old man’s spear, which had already climbed the tree, accurately changed direction three times and rushed towards Johann. Johann quickly deployed hexagonal shields in all directions.

The old man gathered the strength of his entire body and exploded it. He had carefully examined the strength of the shield Johann was using and proved that it could not be easily broken. That’s why he did his best. But that was a bad move.

Jjaenggeurang-!

“······Heok!”

The old man was horrified. He broke the shield much more easily than he thought. Thanks to this, the old man’s center of gravity was significantly tilted forward.

‘I’ve been tricked!’

The old man’s eyes trembled. Johann was already soaring upwards. From the beginning, the shield was a discarded card. Soon, Johann’s mouth turned blue and his chest swelled.

The old man hurriedly retrieved the spear and blocked it with the shaft area. It was a reaction speed that was good enough to be in the upper ranks of players. The old man seemed to have been granted a characteristic related to speed.

Dew.

[Shape Transformation]

Puhwaaaaa, strangely, it was not in the form of water droplets. The stream of water that poured out of his mouth wrapped around the old man’s spear.

Freeze.

Johann instantly deployed the next spell. The spear froze white in the blink of an eye. Now is the last one.

Magic Missile.

Ppagaek-!

His spear was destroyed as easily as it was worthless, and was embedded in the old man’s chest.