Chapter 224 (1/2)
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Chwa-rarararak—
“Raindrops” fell from the sky. They were actually thin and tiny pieces of the spear, and each of these countless pieces, created by the thrown spear which separated itself, began emitting bright light next.
Flash—!
Rumble—
The spear pieces permeating with the divine Flame descended rapidly on top of the Lichs’ heads.
They now only had two options—to defend or dodge.
Most of the Lichs chose the former. Unfortunately for them, the latter was the correct choice.
Pang, papapapang—!
Pow, powpowpow—
The spear pieces penetrated the Lichs’ heads and burned their bodies with the bellowing flames.
If this was only on the level of being stabbed by a mere spear, they would have thought of it as nothing major. From the get-go, Lichs couldn’t be killed off unless their Life Vessels had been damaged.
However, the situation this time was rather different.
This flame, it—!
Rumble—
The flames burning on every single spear piece seeped into the Lichs’ bodies. As if they wanted to find and burn away their Life Vessels.
That would undeniably be fatal for the Lichs. Thousands, no, tens of thousands of spear pieces went past the Lichs’ defensive magic and turned their bodies into something resembling Swiss cheese.
Rather obviously, the Life Vessels nestling within the Lichs were also pierced through. Even those Lichs who barely managed to block the spear pieces were having a hard time.
I need to escape from here.
Jingkrome was among those in the latter group.
As an apostle himself, he had more breathing room compared to other Lichs, but he too couldn’t keep defending against the continuous downpour of the spear pieces.
It’ll stop soon.
Even if the spear had been separated into countless pieces and even if their attack power had been enhanced by the mysterious flames, the spear simply couldn’t separate infinitely.
Meaning, the barrage of the spears should eventually come to an end.
However, Jingkrome had been overlooking a small detail.
Giii-iiing—
Yet another round of massive magical energy could be sensed from the sky.
There’s…
[Dragon Slaying Spear]
“Another one?!”
The previous attack only ended a couple of moments ago, yet another one of the exact same nature was flying toward them again.
Was it even possible to use such a massive amount of magical energy again so soon? The Lich didn’t even have enough time to dodge before they found themselves in that predicament.
But just then, they found themselves in another situation.
Jiii-iiiing—
Clang, clang-clang-clang-clang—!
Stab, stab—
A huge dome-shaped barrier formed above the heads of the Lichs and began blocking off the downpour of the spear pieces. Jingkrome saw through the identity of that barrier and hurriedly turned his head to look at the indigo-robed Lichs.
As I thought!
No matter how monstrous that human’s powers were, they had several apostle-ranked Lichs on their side. Meaning, they shouldn’t be frightened at all.
“Not bad, you blocking that,” said Su-hyeun.
Rumble—
Su-hyeun’s figure was revealed among the flames spreading over the barrier. He was still riding on Miru’s back while lifting up yet another spear.
“In that case, why don’t you try to stop this one, too?”
Boom—
Su-hyeun leaped up from Miru’s back. At the same time, his body arched like a bow, and then, he powerfully threw that new spear forward. This one looked rather ordinary when compared to the previous Dragon Slaying Spears.
Pow!
Fwoooooosh!
The spear flew quickly and precisely like a fired siege weapon and headed directly toward the apostle-ranked Lich responsible for casting the barrier.
The Lich must have realized that Su-hyeun was targeting him from the very beginning because he had cast an even stronger barrier around himself as if the right time to act had finally arrived and, then, extended his hand toward the incoming spear.
Giii-iiing—
Two opposing forces collided, and the apostle-ranked Lich’s magical power began forcing the spear back. The weapon froze in mid-air for a brief moment.
But only for the briefest moment.
Pow—!
Kwa-jeeek—!
A blink later, the Lich’s skull shattered, and a thousand little bone pieces rained down everywhere.
“…Huh?!”
Rather obviously, Jingkrome was put in a fluster, and almost immediately, his view slowly dropped toward the ground.
Tumble—
Smash—!
Jingkrome’s head rolled onto the ground; then, Su-hyeun’s foot stomped down hard on it.
Splatter—
The Life Vessel hidden in Jingkrome’s head was shattered into powder.
The Lichs belatedly realized that Su-hyeun had already broken into their ranks and tried to mount some kind of a counterattack.
“Too slow, you morons.”
Giii-iiing—
[The Wave Sword – Explosion Style]
A massive amount of magical energy gathered in Su-hyeun’s sword. While holding the weapon with both hands, he twisted his waist as far as he could and took a swing with all his might.
Swooooosh—!
Kwa-aaaaaht—!
A humongous sword aura had spread out in the trajectory of the sword. At the same time, magic attacks from the apostle-ranked Lichs bombarded Su-hyeun’s position.
Ka-boom—!
Chwa-rararararak—
The bodies of the Lichs were ripped into tiny ribbons. Almost none of these undead were capable of surviving the destructive power of the “Explosion Style.”
The attack that unfolded in the middle of the undead caused two apostle-ranked Lichs to get utterly decimated, while about half of the rest were turned into a fine powder.
The Lichs that managed to survive just so happened to be a bit farther away from the action.
“Half of us in one attack…”
The indigo-robed apostle, Markom, took a good look at his surroundings. He had never imagined that two indigo-robed apostles, as well as dozens upon dozens of Lichs, would be killed off by a lone human.
Even if he dove into the middle of his enemies for the purpose of a kamikaze-style attack, what that human had accomplished was a truly stunning feat.
However, this is the end.
Crackle, crackle—
The black flames started burning on the spot where Su-hyeun was standing.
The “Hellfire.”
The name was meant to imply that this flame had been summoned directly from the depths of hell itself. This spell was ranked as the highest grade within the fire-type magic.
This flame would burn away everything—it would never go out until life itself was burned out of its target.
It was simply unimaginable that any swordsmen would be able to survive after getting hit squarely by this deadly magic.
Unfortunately…
“Hellfire, is it…? Well, it’s more lukewarm than I thought.”
Crackle, hiss—
A voice came out from the bellowing black flames. Almost at the same time, dark blue flames suddenly erupted from within.
Rumble—!
Soon, the dark blue flames began swallowing up the black flames. Stunned silly by this development, Markom hurriedly activated teleportation magic and retreated to a far-off distance.
He survived that?!