episode_0030

“Haa, haa… … .”

I almost died.

Leon tried to calm his breathing, which was tense with tension.

My heart did not calm down easily.

Because the crisis had not yet gone away.

Leon sat cross-legged, catching his breath and lost in thought.

Leon currently has 369 hours of jewel time.

Even if you were in the jewel all this time, only 6 hours had passed in real time.

‘I wonder if that woman will disappear in 6 hours… … .’

It didn’t seem like he’d be just sitting there waiting, but I couldn’t be too optimistic.

‘Filling up the golden wings and cloak of stealth waiting time… … .’

First of all, I had to spend at least one day here.

The artifact’s waiting time was filled even within the jewel.

Assuming it was one day, it was one day whether you held it in reality or held it in the jewel.

If you used it once and threw it into the jewel box, you could use it again 24 minutes later.

It’s not like there was no waiting time at all, but it did have some ridiculous advantages.

‘I’m worried about just one day… … Let’s stay here for 10 days.’

Leon ran simulations in his head, just like when he first fought Porn.

‘I can’t just sit still for a while.’

Can you find a way to escape the witch in 10 days?

‘Man-ip is hard to learn right now, and the secret magic of Glorious Lightning is also hard to learn right now.’

It was a magic that had to be slowly worked on over the course of three months.

Even if I used up all the time I had, it wouldn’t be enough.

Learning it wasn’t like things would change much.

What came to mind at that moment was a red-haired warlock.

The shadow fairy tale he wrote.

A magic that allows you to disappear through your own shadow and emerge through another shadow.

However, it was impossible to move through the shadow of another ‘person’.

Of all the magic you can learn in 10 days, this was the one that seemed like it would have some variables.

‘I don’t think it will work on an Insight-level wizard… … but it’s not a bad idea to have another escape device.’

Leon didn’t need to create an artificial core for his heart, nor did he need to use another wizard’s core.

The very idea of black magic was a bit daunting, but Leon’s life was in danger right now, so he wasn’t in a position to be picky.

‘Magic interference… … It’s really scary.’

Leon’s heart raced as he thought about the moment when the teleportation scroll didn’t work.

However, even the most advanced Insight wizard would not be able to interfere with all the magic Leon uses.

‘At best, you can stop a single ray of magic I emit.’

Controlling a single ray of magic in a combat situation would have been a tremendous advantage, but Leon had no intention of fighting the woman.

All I had to do was somehow activate the teleport scroll.

After ten days of learning the art of shadow magic, Leon was ready.

Leon assumed the woman was still outside.

As soon as he came out of the jewel, he blocked the way with his wooden sword and injected magic power into all the scrolls he was holding.

And I found it.

A woman standing in that spot, in that posture.

‘Are you really waiting?’

Leon had assumed the worst, but he couldn’t stop his heart from pounding.

It was a full four hours.

I broke out in a cold sweat when I saw his persistent attitude, bordering on obsession.

‘Still, I can’t find the teleport scroll among all these scrolls… … .’

Unfortunately, the woman far exceeded Leon’s expectations.

Of the numerous scrolls Leon was holding, the woman only controlled the magical power directed towards teleportation magic.

Leon immediately switched to Plan B, holding only the controlled teleportation scroll in his hand and infusing his magic power into the last remaining Blink Scroll.

Leon’s magical power appeared in another place in an instant, along with all the objects he had touched.

And Leon was terrified again.

A black fireball was already flying towards that spot.

‘Did you predict it by the flow of magic power?’

The fireball instantly nullified all magic created by other scrolls, but was blocked by the wooden sword in front of Leon’s body.

Kwaang-

The sturdy wooden sword was not even scratched by the attack.

However, Leon’s basic psychic powers could not handle the aftereffects of that shock.

Leon fell backwards with his wooden sword.

The woman’s eyes widened as she watched the sight.

It seemed as if he hadn’t expected the magic to be stopped.

A woman suddenly appeared in Leon’s place and grabbed the back of his neck and forcibly stood him up.

This was before Leon even tried using shadow magic.

“How did you do it?”

Leon bit his lips tightly at the woman’s question.

I had a strong feeling that I would die the moment I did something stupid.

“… .”

“If you don’t tell me, I’ll kill you.”

Leon pointed to the wooden sword with his finger at the words spoken without any change in expression.

The woman shook her head slightly.

“Not that one. A way for you to disappear without a trace.”

Her speech was halting, as if she had not spoken to anyone for a long time.

“That’s… …because I learned a special magic.”

“I couldn’t feel any flow of magic at all.”

Excuses didn’t work.

In fact, it was a set procedure from the moment when it was impossible to deal with the aftermath after revealing some of the jewel’s strange secrets to the other party.

There was no way to stop the other person from becoming interested in it.

Leon couldn’t open his mouth.

The jewel was a secret that could not be told to anyone, but that did not mean that it could not be told.

It was not easy to tell this woman because it was her only way to escape.

Even if you tell me, I’ll die anyway, and even if you don’t tell me, I’ll die anyway.

‘Still, there’s a way to kill time… … .’

At that point, Leon was in trouble.

The cave shook violently.

It wasn’t just this passage that was shaking, it was as if the entire cave was resonating.

The woman raised her head.

Then, holding Leon’s nape, he rose into the air and flew in one direction.

Leon was dragged around in vain, pulling the wooden sword with his basic psychic skills.

After confirming that the woman didn’t care, Leon packed the teleportation scroll and wooden sword into his bosom.

After a while, the square that Leon had passed by appeared.

The woman seemed to be sure of her direction, so she chose one without hesitation in front of the many stairs and started going back down.

It went down endlessly.

When another passage appeared, he blasted the armor golem blocking the door with one blow and flew away again.

The gargoyle golems and armor golems that had been filling up a passage were all destroyed with a single spell.

So I went down again.

Leon gave up the thought of doing anything foolish.

Although she wasn’t looking at him, he felt that some of the woman’s attention was focused on Leon.

After going down for a while, a square identical to the one we had seen from above appeared.

What was different was that a huge magic circle was carved in the center of the square’s floor, and its inside was hidden by a gray curtain rising from the edge of the magic circle.

And there were countless wizards waiting around him.

The wizards were gathered around a magic circle, each with their own group, discussing something.

Among them, Leon also had a familiar face.

It was Berford and his companions of the Widia school.

The wizards of each school glanced at the new figure that appeared in the square, then their eyes widened.

“Witch of Destruction?”

“Why is that woman here… … .”

Their faces, which had been whispering among themselves, eventually became filled with despair.

The witch didn’t even care about them.

As she raised one hand, one of the wizards came forward in fright.

Although he was a high-level mystic wizard, he trembled in front of the witch.

“If you use strong magic here, the cave will collapse!”

At those words, the witch’s hand stopped.

“We… … are in a very unstable state, perhaps because we touched something wrong while dismantling the magic circle. So please stop the magic… … .”

“… .”

The witch’s expression remained unchanged, but the wizard must have felt something because he immediately opened his mouth.

“We will step aside. Get what you want… … .”

The wizard stepped back and said something to the group, then quickly began to gather his equipment.

Ku-kung-

But the vibrations that shook the cave occurred once again.

Then the ground shook violently, and invisible magic circles began to appear one by one throughout the square.

The magic circle glowed brightly.

The magicians caught in the magic circle began to disappear en masse.

As the witch floated into the air and raised her hand, a black curtain enveloped her.

‘Another moving magic circle… …?’

Leon, who was watching the scene from inside the black curtain, stuck out his tongue.

Even the mystery-level magician was helplessly caught up in the light and transported somewhere, but the witch was only able to block it with a black curtain.

How many times did that light blink?

In the end, only the witch and Leon were left there.

The gray curtain that had risen in the middle of the square had disappeared.

The true form of the magic circle has been revealed.

At first glance, you can see that the engraving is complex and elaborate.

Leon gained some insight just by looking at the technique.

‘This is the essence of the moving magic circle… …?’

However, the magic circle glowed unstably, as if it would use up all its power at any moment.

The witch approached the magic circle, still holding the back of Leon’s neck.

Leon hurriedly put the wooden sword into the subspace.

As the witch stood in the center of the magic circle, the magic circle that had been glowing dangerously began to emit a strong light as if it was straining out its last bit of strength.

A blindingly bright light. And then the lights go out.

As his vision, which had been dark, began to brighten again, Leon realized that he had been transported to a new space.

It was a much wider and taller space than the square in the cave.

There was no sign of anyone else’s presence.

There were only two people in that space: the witch and Leon.

Leon soon discovered something and opened his mouth in a daze.

A single golem that towers so high that it would take a long time for Leon to climb it even if he used levitation magic.

The body resembled a human being and had ivory-colored skin.

Red stripes, like veins, burst out from the skin all over her body, pulsating as if in a throbbing state.

And hundreds of tubes were stuck into each red stripe, like blood vessels.

Even though there were no blood vessels, especially near the heart, there were dozens of tubes inserted.

The long tube led to the back of the golem, hidden in the darkness and not easily visible.

The face that Leon could see only by raising his head high was also similar in shape to a human face.

However, a red, straight line-shaped light blinked where the eyes should be.

There was no hair, and her ivory lips were tightly shut.

“This is Gigantes… … .”

The witch’s soft muttering reached Leon’s ears as well.

She seemed to know something about this golem.

And with the witch’s words, the giant golem’s eyes, which had been blinking, became brightly lit.

Kugu Palace-

As the giant stirred, the entire cave shook.

The tossing and turning did not end with just one time, but became more and more intense.

The pipe falls out – drip drip drip.

The witch reached out towards it without further hesitation.

A fireball much larger than anything Leon had ever seen appeared in the air and struck the giant’s body.

Although there were no scratches on the giant’s body, the black flames that had spread to its body did not subside and continued to burn around the giant’s shoulders.

The giant raised his hand and struck the spot where the witch had been.

The witch, who had been holding Leon by the back of his neck, glanced at him and then threw him to the other side.

Leon, who was thrown from one side, used levitation magic to stabilize his body before hitting the ground.

Leon, who had become free in an instant, looked at the witch with a bewildered expression.

‘Should I use the teleport scroll right now?’

But that thought quickly subsided.

The witch’s gaze no longer reached Leon, but it was obvious that Judge would come in the moment she was about to use teleportation.

Otherwise, there would have been no reason to bring him all the way here.

‘I couldn’t help it because the magic circle seemed unstable.’

Leon floated in the air with an innocent expression, out of range of the giant and the witch’s exchange of attacks.

If you try to escape recklessly and get caught, you will be under even more strict surveillance afterwards.

‘I should just stay still and wait for my chance.’

The two continued their battle dozens of times.

The giant threw his fist, and the witch dodged the punch and continued to cast her magic.

Every time that happened, the cave shook as if it were going to collapse at any moment.

In fact, rocks started falling from the ceiling.

It was a sign that the cave was collapsing.

The witch’s magic touched the giant’s body several times, but did not cause any significant damage.

But the flames remained and continued to burn.

As time passed, the giant’s skin began to gradually become soft and melt away.

The giant shrank back for a moment, perhaps sensing a sense of crisis.

The red stripes protruding from the skin start beating faster.

After a moment, the giant ducked and swung his fist at the witch in an instant.

The speed was incomparable to anything before.

I just couldn’t understand physically how such a speed could be achieved in that huge body.

The fist struck the black curtain surrounding the witch.

The curtain did not break, but the witch was thrown out, engulfed in the curtain, and disappeared into the darkness beyond.

bang-

The sound of it hitting the wall echoed through the cave.

And soon after, a fireball flies out of the darkness again.

The giant swatted away the fireball with his blade.

bang-

The ground shook as the fireball fell and collapsed.

The two of them didn’t care about that at all.

Instead, the attacks became more intense.

It meant that they were focused on combat.

Dozens of black flames rose from the ground around the giant, wrapping themselves around the giant’s limbs like whips.

The giant’s body stopped for a moment, as if it was filled with physical force.

The flames that wrapped around his limbs spread along the giant’s skin.

The giant opened his mouth without even thinking about taking the whip off.

A huge magic circle formed in front of the mouth, and a white ray of light shot out from the magic circle.

It was in the direction where the witch was.

Kwaaang-

One side of the cave wall, unable to withstand the impact any longer, completely collapsed.

The collapse spread like a chain reaction, like dominoes.

The ceiling caved in and chunks of rock began to rain down.

The lights went out one by one and the darkness deepened.

But the giant did not stop, and created dozens more magic circles around his mouth.

The light did not go out right away.

It seemed like some preparation time was needed.

By then, the giant’s body had already melted considerably.

The skin around the heart melted away, revealing the red core hidden within.

The massive core was clearly engraved with intricate patterns that were immediately apparent.

Leon’s eyes, who had been busy avoiding the rocks, lit up.

At that moment, a strong flow of magical power was felt from the direction where the witch was.

It contained a power of a different dimension than before.

It’s clear that he’s using magic.

Great magic was a magic that was stronger than secret magic and had power comparable to natural disasters.

Even for an insight-level wizard, it took time to cast.

The opportunity Leon had been waiting for had arrived.

Leon, who had slowly landed on the ground nearby, hurriedly used shadow assimilation to disappear into his own shadow, then emerged from the giant’s shadow.

That fleeting moment when a white beam of light shoots out from around the giant’s mouth.

Leon touched the giant’s leg and the orb at the same time.

The flames that were blazing on the giant’s legs quickly spread to one of Leon’s arms, but when he entered the orb and used water magic, the flames quickly died down.

When the witch’s magic was cut off, she lost her power.

Despite this, Leon was left with deep burns on his arms.

Without even feeling any pain, Leon immediately plunged his wooden sword into the giant’s limp leg.

thud-

The giant’s body trembled and he fell to his knees on the dirt floor.

I didn’t even have time to see my whole body collapse.

‘There is no time to delay.’

All I had to do was confirm that it worked.

Leon immediately came back out of the orb.

The time it took for Leon to disappear and reappear was less than a second in reality.

It was just as dozens of rays of light were colliding with the giant meteor summoned by the witch.

Leon was also using the triple acceleration of the Golden Wings to get as far away from the witch as possible, while simultaneously infusing magic into the teleportation scroll.

The brief moment when the scroll was filled with magic felt like decades had passed by slowly.

Kuwaang-

As the two magics clashed, a powerful wave of magical power spread out around.

And the wave never reached Leon.

As Leon disappeared into thin air, the cave completely collapsed at the same time.

The collapse started in the lower levels of the basement and accelerated as it went higher.

The sound of rocks and boulders crashing down and the crash of collapsing rubble mixed together to create a deafening roar.

After a long time had passed.

The dust that had been swirling like a storm has settled.

Rin, a black-haired witch who had popped out from between the rocks, pouted her lips as she looked at the spot where the giant and the boy had disappeared.

“… I’ll find it.”