Chapter 53 (2/2)

– Tsk!

It must have been hard to withstand the power amplified by the sword. It ran away quickly, making distance. I intercepted before there was more space.

[Lightning Buster!]

The Lightning type rune stone sparkled, and a whirlpool that housed lightning poured out from my hand. Heavy current, pouring like a waterfall, hits the opponent.

Paht!

The immortal clustered the Mana together to defend itself. I kicked the ground and followed.

I continuously activated several skills while I was in motion.

Even if it was impossible to cast several simultaneously as Hibiki, I could cast them continuously.

[Overture for the resentment]

[Gravity Compression]

[Magma Field]

Dozens of opaque hands appeared in the air, wrapping the immortal’s body, and the rapidly strengthened gravity in a certain area weighed it down. Then the land in the direction of its escape suddenly melts into magma, boiling and blocking its retreat.

– This…!

He used a counterspell without a rune stone to get rid of the hand that held him. Risking her bones being crushed, it turned direction in the compressional force and leaped to a high altitude in a place where there is lava. No, to be exact, it flew by using magic to the middle of the fog.

‘Levitation without a rune stone! The Mana consumption will be enormous.’

The sight of its back as it flew in the air as if it was going to get away…

It’s too slow to miss.

Immediately, I spread the [Stardust Wing] and flew to catch up.

Whip!

This would not have been expected.

The distance that she ran away with all her might returned to zero in an instant.

I see Angelica’s face distorted by embarrassment in front of me.

What… Is this!

I didn’t miss the flow.

I kept swinging the sword without giving it the leeway to run further away.

I then guided it in the direction so that it could not go down to the ground. To let it consume Mana without being able to stop.

Also, it needed several times more Mana than I had used to prevent my amplified attack through the devil’s sword.

Every time the sword cuts through the air, the purple sword energy pushes out space, creating a shock wave, and blares out the air with heat. I shuffled a series of attacks. Every time I sliced the air, some of the arcs of light left behind following the trajectory stayed still, while others fiercely attacked Angelica with varying speed. Others were shot forward like a remote-controlled missile.

– What the hell!

It is gradually being pushed back as if it was unbelievable.

I blocked its path when it tried to get down to the ground.

‘It’s the heart.’

I was looking at the embedded core in its heart, what was once Nicole’s, waving in a strange form.

A sight not seen in Angelica in my previous life. Has it not been fully established because of the short time it was used as a host?

At first glance, it is no different from the normal human core, but whenever a shock was applied, it scattered like light smoke and gathered again.

‘It was said that it was a parasite.’

I presumed that’s the real source.

Poof!

A storm created by several layers of sword strikes intertwined with each other and cornered Angelica.

Magic followed.

[Titanium imprisonment!]

Dozens of titanium metal bars intersect in the air, horizontally and vertically, covering the immortal.

Then they tightened towards Angelica, who was located in the center.

Paht!

And another counterspell.

In an instant, the prison of metal rods disappeared.

Angelica’s Mana disappears in chunks.

Stumble!

It began to affect Levitation.

‘Now, it’s enough!’

It was enough to de-energize the prey.

Now it was time to pierce the neck.

Wooong!

On the blade of the devil’s sword, a mountain of sword energy was clustered together.

High-density energy is drawn to the limit and concentrated at a point. Along with the sword, the light and atmosphere are distorted and effervesce. The hands holding the hilt felt numb.

Angelica’s face is ruined as it directly faces it.

This was the critical shot.

The opponent no longer has the power to escape.

I struck it without hesitation!

Goooong!

The shockwave spread in all directions.

Angelica, who barely managed to block it with her hand, was thrown away without withstanding the force’s weight and shock waves on the sword.

-Aghhh!

This time, as I intended, to the ground!

Bang!

Angelica fell to the ground at a dreadful speed.

The crash site created a crater of enormous size.

Between the clouds of dust, there was a shadow wriggling in the cracks of the Earth.

‘It’s over.’

Quietly, I got off next to it.

It was pathetic to see how a being, which had been avoiding all risks by relying on its skill of mental control, was responding when it met an enemy that was immune to it.

The secret of living long enough to be named immortal was not because it was strong, but because it was only against enemies whose minds could be controlled, and when it was impossible, it was evident that it ran away and saved itself.

Angelica’s body, which is stuck on the ground in a bizarre form, as if all the bones in her body had shattered.

‘Its regeneration is slower than before.’

It moves slowly as if it fitted a broken bone.

Mana was also needed for physical manipulation.

W-wait!

Just before saving the Earth, the faces of my colleagues, who had died because of Angelica’s betrayal, flashed in front of my eyes.

‘The bad luck of my past life ···.’

I took a step closer.

‘Sees its end, here.’

Wait, wait! Don’t kill me! I’ve lived a long time that you can’t even imagine! Knowledge and secrets such as treasure acquired throughout many dimensions must be useful to you, too! I swear my loyalty, please! If you’re with me, you can read the memories of all the humans in your world and control them as you please!

It was the last struggle for its life.

– I can’t die like this. To think of how long. How long I have ········!

It was a physical injury to the level that even if one’s a Hunter, it is natural that one must die, but Angelica is still alive.

Still, whether the ragged state affected it, the core is the heart was not maintaining its shape and was shaking as if it was about to collapse.

Instead of human cores that look like crystals, it tries to change into smoke-like forms.

‘In the words of the devil’s sword, immortals are beings that are at the border between matter and non-materials.’

The human-like species held Mana cores in the heart, but the body of the immortal that I see now is almost integrated with the Mana core.

The Mana core itself is part of the body, not the Mana core inside the body.

“If I leave it like this, it may find another body and move on.’

A way to completely extinguish this body that is neither material nor nonmaterial.

There was a much simpler way.

‘Mana Drain.’

Crush!

My hand that broke the rib stopped right in front of Angelica’s heart.

In that state, I didn’t use my skills just yet.

There was one question that was not answered yet. From a being called immortal, I found something too exquisite in common to be a coincidence between ‘brainwashing’ and ‘parasitism.’

“I don’t want to let this kind of alien roam around Earth anyway.’

Every man, every hunter, was like a weapon in the hands of the immortal. It was impossible to neglect such a monster and let it free in the human world.

Such an ulterior motive is kept only in the heart.

As I felt my finger touching the heart wall, I asked it.

“Tell me everything you know about [Mercadius’ Seeds].”