Chapter 385 (1/2)

Snip, slice—

Screeeeek—

Nahuru’s face got pelted by the countless blade fragments, and he hurriedly retreated from there. His movements were surprisingly agile, and his reflex was quite commendable, too.

Tumble…

The hilt, or what remained of the shortsword, fell to the floor.

As for Su-hyeun, he was staring at the fallen shortsword despite standing in the middle of dozens of participants.

Plop—

Right after that, two other participants collapsed without warning.

“Just when did he—?!”

“Do not shrink back! What can you even do after getting scared by your enemy?!” Nahuru roared and yanked out another shortsword while gritting his teeth.

Although he got flustered just now, he quickly reined in his composure, and after his command jolted the others awake, the dozens of participants simultaneously roused up their magical powers and got into their battle stance.

“Dammit. Just how did he even find out?” Nahuru thought.

The reason why Nahuru agreed to lead this team was that he possessed the ability that specialized in assassination. His ability allowed him to cloak not only his presence and his magical energy emission but also everyone within a certain radius.

But now, his main ability was no longer relevant in the current situation. Su-hyeun had already discovered their position and closed the distance in the blink of an eye. Two of them had been defeated already, and Nahuru’s weapon had been broken.

“However, we’re still in the advantageous position.” Nahuru gritted his teeth and then placed his palm on the floor.

Jiii-iiiiing—

When he did, the surrounding terrain was suddenly blanketed by deep darkness, and the thinly dispersed magical energy began vibrating viciously.

Shu-wu, shu-wuwuwu…

[Ghostly Night – Killing Five Senses]

Su-hyeun’s surroundings had transformed into pure darkness. All presence seemed to have disappeared, and even his vision was blocked now.

“It’s fairly similar to the skill Thomas uses,” Su-hyeun thought to himself.

Having said that, it was certainly inferior to Thomas’s skill, the Dark World.

Compared to the Dark World, which not only blocked off all five senses but also interfered with one’s mind, this ability simply suppressed the target’s five senses.

“Well, it seems like there’s another effect of restricting one’s physical abilities to a degree, but even then…”

Su-hyeun clenched and unfurled his fist a couple of times to experiment with the level of restriction this space exerted on him.

He discovered that its influence extended past interfering with his senses; it even messes with his equilibrium. To exert this level of interference to his perception in such a large area through their abilities, these people would have needed quite a lot of preparation.

“So the trap they had laid out for me was…just this?”

Su-hyeun knew they laid out a trap for him. He knew that they had dispersed magical energy over a wide area, and he was also aware that they prepared some kind of space-type magic. That’s why he was kind of looking forward to this encounter, thinking that he might get to learn something here if all went well.

But this…

“What a letdown.”

Swish—

Pii-pii-piiit—

Su-hyeun slightly tilted his body this way and that to evade the incoming shortsword. The sword swings were surprisingly well-honed without any wasted movements, and the speed was also on the “fast” side.

The shortsword itself was the same as the one Su-hyeun shattered just now.

“Not visible to one’s eye doesn’t mean one can’t dodge it, though.”

A fight wasn’t fought using just one’s eyes, but that also didn’t mean one depended on all five senses all the time, either. No, it would be the sixth sense—the one sense that exceeded all the others.

Only when one was capable of combining extraordinary “instinct” and the necessary experience to merge all the senses together could one legitimately claim to be using the full extent of their abilities.

“Actually…”

Su-hyeun tilted his head to the side before slashing down with his sword.

Swiiiish—

Clang—, slice—

He felt the sensation of something breaking, followed by the tip of his sword cutting through something else, but then Su-hyeun’s lips stretched into a smile as he remained in this world where all five of his senses were restricted.

“It’s far scarier when you can’t evade no matter what, even though you can clearly see it coming.”

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Pant, pant…!

Nahuru was harshly panting at this point.

Driiiip…

The floor beneath his feet was getting soggy, but that’s because of all the blood coming from the scattered corpses on the floor.

Around half of them had been defeated already in less than a few minutes, a proverbial blink of an eye.

And also…

“My…my arm…”

Nahuru’s own arm had been severed as well.

Toss—

Su-hyeun discarded a severed arm in his hand on the floor. The displeasure on his face was like that of someone who just touched a disgusting bug or some such. However, not one trace of suffering from tiredness or anything like that could be seen on him.

“Huh? Did you run away? That was quick,” Su-hyeun muttered quite annoyed, which sent a deathly chill down Nahuru’s spine.

Did he say “quick”?

Nahuru used his team members as distractions and sneak-attacked from behind, but Su-hyeun easily countered that.

That counter couldn’t completely be evaded; in the end, Nahuru had no choice but to give up his arm and quickly create some distance.

“His five senses should definitely be paralyzed by now, so how…?”

For someone suffering from such a restriction, his movements were just too natural. Actually, he was much faster and far more precise than people with perfectly functioning five senses.

Su-hyeun, who was moving around untroubled until then, suddenly furrowed his brow and softly muttered to no one in particular, “Hmm…This is a lot more uncomfortable than I thought.”

Rumble—

When he did, his arm transformed into a flame. More correctly, it wasn’t just his arm, but half of his entire body was instantly enveloped by the fierce flames as the light in Su-hyeun’s eyes sharpened considerably.

[Flame – Transformation]

“Crazy son of a…!” Nahuru cursed inwardly and cried out loudly, “Everyone, duck—!”

Right after that…

KA-BOOM—!

Along with the noise of something blowing up, the darkness blanketing the surroundings was instantly overwhelmed by the bright light.

Ruuuuumbleeeee—

Nahuru flew himself to the side in a hurry, but his legs still caught fire. He thought he managed to evade, but in the end, he couldn’t prevent the flames from reaching him.

“Aaaahk?! Ahhhk!”

Smack, slap—!

Nahuru urgently tried to put out the fire burning his legs by smothering it, but that didn’t work, so he drove his magical energy to his hands and struggled in vain to kill the flames. However, the pain shooting from his burning legs only got worse.

“Aaaaahk?!”

“So, it was you? The one who swung around a shortsword?”

Trudge—

Hiss, sizzle…