Chapter 18 Part2 (2/2)
Her miraculous artifact absorbed the world's mana, and gradually chilled the area; through her deep study of magic, she could agglomerate mana and change it with frighteningly high efficiency. Finally, using those two as a catalyst, she changed the world's mana and clumped it together, creating a giant ice spear that went beyond a level 6's ability.
”Hoo... Heup!”
After taking a short deep breath, she poured all of her mana into the ice spear and shot it in a straight line towards the wizard. The midair ice spear homed in on the Ghoul Wizard's magic, and sped up like crazy!
[The living being's attack is coming. Move it!]
[As you command!]
[We're protecting the Third Corps Commander! Get to your positions!]
[Don't look down on our defense zone!]
The Elder Knights in Kehebe had looked as though they had run off far away; on the other hand, when these Elder Knights heard the ghoul's command, they really did look like knights of the Empire, as they stepped forward to protect the Corps Commander.
They would eliminate anything that came in close proximity to their defense zone; if one knight couldn't cover an area by himself, another knight would help, creating a tight perimeter around the Corps Commander. That was the reason the Empire's knights were powerful.
'A defense zone... I knew about this since I've roughly absorbed their memories, but I suppose that's how you make it, huh.'
Even Lee s.h.i.+n Woo, who was running straight for the magician, was impressed seeing them. At the same time, he thought that he'd be able to add an element to that to make an even more perfect defense. At the very least, there was some value in trying it out once!
'But not now.'
Finally, the Grand Ice Spear struck their defensive zone. The knights at the forefront died without a trace, without even being given a chance to retaliate. However, the knights on standby behind them shaved a bit of it with their spears and the third row of Elder Knights were able to cut even more of it, managing to slow down the speed of the Grand Ice Spear.
[Knights who pledged their loyalty to the Empire. We will attain victory through your sacrifice! Show that impudent living being how frightening and powerful black magic is!]
The Ghoul Wizard watched as the knights were sacrificed and began casting a spell. He traced the ice spear back to its source, Kratia, and was casting a spell to intercept her.
However, right before he completed the spell, while the knights were busy with the ice spear, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo forcefully shot his lance at the completely wide open Ghoul Wizard's back!
”I see your backkkkkkkkkkk!”
All the conditions for his ambush had been met. From the start, the Ghoul Wizard's target wasn't Lee s.h.i.+n Woo, but the living being, Kratia. His subordinates were busy with the Iron Golems, Bronze Golems, or the Grand Ice Spear, so they couldn't check their surroundings, and the Ghoul Wizard was likewise busy casting a spell to intercept Kratia.
Furthermore, his Shadow Sprint, using a.s.similation as a base, was much too perfect such that even Lee s.h.i.+n Woo lost sight of where he was. However.
[So there was an undead who wasn't loyal to the Empire!]
Despite that, the split second that Lee s.h.i.+n Woo threw his lance, the Ghoul Wizard diverted all of his magic to defense and blocked Lee s.h.i.+n Woo's attack.
To be more exact, the Ghoul Wizard possessed an ability that automatically diverted his mana to defense when it was. .h.i.t. The spell seemed to consume at least 30% of his mana, but he still had an awful lot of mana!
[Critical Hit!]
Dozens of layers of mana s.h.i.+elds formed in the extremely small gap between the Ghoul Wizard's head and the lance; the force behind the lance, as well as Bursting Thunder's lightning was canceled out by the s.h.i.+elds.
The moment they crashed into another, at least half of the s.h.i.+elds instantly broke and the remaining s.h.i.+elds broke one by one. But at this time, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo realized that his ambush had failed. That's because there wasn't enough force remaining in the lance to pierce through the wizard's head and kill him.
'd.a.m.n it...!'
As expected of a level 6 enemy! Lee s.h.i.+n Woo gritted his teeth and prepared to follow through; in the middle of preparing his next attack, the Ghoul Wizard pushed aside the lance before his head and yelled as loud as he could.
[Protect me from that coward who ambushed me from the rear...!]
”How about this!?”
[Kuheok!?]
However, the knights didn't come back in time. The lance broke through all of the s.h.i.+elds and had seemingly lost all of its power, yet somehow forcefully shot forward like a cannonball; the Ghoul Wizard was pushed into the air!
Obviously, this was done through Lee s.h.i.+n Woo's Rule of Bone; this was the result of him controlling the bone.
[You b.a.s.t.a.r.dddddddddddd!]
The Ghoul Wizard had invested all its mana into the s.h.i.+elds, so he couldn't resist properly, and was thrown into the air. In an instant, the lance pushed the ghoul hundreds of meters into the air! That sight was akin to seeing fireworks being shot into the sky.
”Man, that ghoul sure is flying.”
[Rescue the Corps Commander!]
The knights who had survived the Grand Ice Spear didn't think about attacking the ambusher, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo; rather, they each jumped into the air to save the Corps Commander. When they became about level 5, they may not be able to use magic, but they could at least jump hundreds of meters high no problem!
A few of the knights were able to jump high enough to barely touch the Corps Commander with their hands. Obviously, at that time, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo exploded the lance! With all of the mana he had left remaining!
[Critical Hit!]
The explosion was truly magnificent. The lance, tinged in his dark red mana, split into hundreds of thousands of pieces and scattered!
Since the lance had already pierced halfway through him, the ghoul couldn't block at all, and broke into bits and pieces. The nearby Elder Knights were also heavily injured and helplessly fell to the ground. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo looked up at the fancy explosion, seemingly blinded from it, and spoke enthusiastically.
”Man, you really got to look at fireworks from below.”
”It doesn't matter whether you look at it from below or from the side. Remember, that thing ain't a firework.”
Jin, who had focused all his efforts into charging with Lee s.h.i.+n Woo, replied in a discouraged voice.
They'd somehow managed to kill the Corps Commander. All he had to do now was to somehow get through this outrageous number of undead with no mana and get away.
[1] T/N: She actually uses the common Korean idiom of one's liver being outside their belly, which means they're bold/reckless. The next sentence literally talks about how all of one's inner organs would have to out of their body to be like Lee s.h.i.+n Woo, but I already translated the idiom to English.
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