Chapter 175 (2/2)
The stone door closed quietly again afterward.
Seo Jin-Wook created an opening, shot a beam of light, and sealed the entrance once more.
However, when the observer was about to relay what just happened-
Swoosh!
The next phenomenon that took place brought them all back to reality.
The attack just then wasn’t intended to kill an Adgon, and its power definitely didn’t end there.
The blazing heat began to fill the spot where the Adgon died and disappeared.
At the same time, it drew in the air around it and created a strong suction wind.
The atmosphere shook violently around the burnt ankle.
“!”
In an instant, the flaming sphere expanded its area and consumed its surroundings.
The light indwelled with extreme heat burned through every inch it could reach.
The Awakened beings protected their bodies with superhuman reflexes, unfolding Mana Barrier instinctively.
The commissioner, who wasn’t an outstanding warrior, avoided immediate death due to the activation of the plastered artifact on his body. At the same time, many of their troops rushed to protect him.
Boosh!
A small sun seemed to have bloomed within the planet.
Shock waves and tidal-wave-like flames stormed in, seemingly pulverizing everything in its path.
The surrounding was dyed with scarlet and blood.
“K-aaargh!”
“Hold on! Hold on!”
Everything the fire swallowed melted, the earth boiled up, and the ruins surrounding the Grave of Incarnations turned into pebbles and broke down into sands before finally evaporating into nothingness.
The Awakened Adgons did their best to hold on.
“Damn it, what kind of devil’s magic…”
Soon, even such cries died down.
That was because the storm showed no signs of stopping.
It was different from normal explosions.
Considering the energy it contained, the flames were more than strong enough to consume a much larger area. However, they were kept within a certain radius around the Grave of Incarnations instead.
Its condensed energy was intense, and it allowed for its duration to become longer.
Meanwhile, the Adgons found something wrong with their body.
“!”
They had endured both heat and shock waves separately so far.
That was only natural since they had been to many different dimensions.
At that moment, however, attacks had been attempting to assault their physiques in two different forms.
“K-heup!”
The first ones to fall were those dispatched to hide after the Adgons left for the first time.
Those who escorted the commissioner and the top-tier fighters remained.
However, their skin had melted, and they trembled and vomited blood.
Even their blood clumps and organ fragments were swept away by the heat and evaporated in no time.
“Krrrrrrrrrrr!”
Among the heat and shock waves, an invisible murder weapon hid, invisible to their eyes.
It’s a cruel gamma-ray that even Mana Barrier couldn’t completely block.
From the heart of the incinerating temperature, death waves that could tear the cells of all living things apart were coursing through them.
“No!”
After the camouflage escort had fallen, the top-tier warriors also died on their knees one by one.
Their bodies, after their Mana Barriers had disappeared, were engulfed by the flames hot enough to incinerate them almost instantaneously.
A long duration passed after that.
“Huff… Huff…!”
On the land where most of the enemies had died and disappeared, lava boiled up.
There was one Adgon who was still alive.
He was the most vulnerable in terms of battle force, the commissioner.
– As expected, he’s alive.
Through a cloud of dust covering the sky, Genograche identified the survivor through Perspective.
Seo Jin-Wook, who identified the survivor through his Mana’s movements, informed him that the level of items that the commissioner was equipped with wasn’t normal.
That showed that he was shouldering a heavy responsibility.
Swoosh!
Genograche landed on the ground.
Around the Grave of Incarnations, hell unfolded that would immediately kill any sentient beings through heat and radiation.
But Genograche’s body was technically not alive.
He walked fine even under radiation that destroyed DNA and cellular tissue.
He took one step at a time on the melted earth.
Likewise, despite the devastation, the Grave of Incarnations was still intact.
Shh!
The stone door opened again.
Seo Jin-Wook, Briam, and Rosuelen left the Grave of Incarnations’ walls, which served as a bunker.
The faces of the two behind Seo Jin-Wook were distorted by surprise when they saw the surroundings.
“W-what in the heavens is…”
Seo Jin-Wook performed heat resistance magic, deflecting the harmful waves that stormed them using the power granted by the magic of light.
That magic was based on the principle of refraction of electromagnetic waves.
Genograche spoke bluntly.
– What kind of magic is this? I’ve never seen such magic even when I was alive and even after being sealed in a sword.
It had reached a point that they would be shocked and would question if an actual sun had been newly created just a while ago.
It was fortunate that Seo Jin-Wook told him how to act through telepathy when the door opened for a moment.
If he hadn’t flown high enough, his armor might have melted already since the fierce heat would have caught him at the time of the explosion.
It was a precious body that he worked hard to obtain.
“This?”
Seo Jin-Wook spoke calmly.
“I’ve mixed light-type magic and flame-type magic.”
– … It’s a spell that hadn’t existed before?
“Yes, thanks to the divine power, which doesn’t suffer from the constraining format of skills, I was able to imagine a bunch of things. Honestly, it’s my first time using it like this.”
He had an indifferent expression even though he essentially caused a thermonuclear explosion and limited its range.
Of course, if it weren’t for the Grave of Incarnations, he wouldn’t have attempted such a dangerous experiment.
“Ghhhhh…!”
Seo Jin-wook looked at the commissioner floating on the lava unyieldingly while wrapped with the light of an artifact.
Motioning to him, he floated in the air through psychokinesis.
“Now, evidence is secured.”
And the first action he took was to make sure he didn’t die in vain.
He removed harmful substances from his body, which had already become a radioactive mass, and healed him just enough to prevent his imminent death.
“Khhhhhh!”
The Adgon looked around after regaining his energy and expressed his shock mixed with terrible horror.
Then, he glared at Seo Jin-Wook, who seemed like a villain, as he spoke.
“You, devil!”
Looking into the eyes of the commissioner, Seo Jin-Wook replied apathetically.
“Now, then, tell me. What kind of dirty plot do you have planned?”