Chapter 44 Part7 (2/2)
”Hoo. It's better than I expected.”
Darkness's ability of a.s.similation. They had developed this ability into an overlapping ability. He could see the wall gathering all of the Evil Eye ores' strength into one place so that it could crush the sword.
'What a tremendous flow. The energy being overlapped into this s.p.a.ce could even hurt the Garuda. Even if they're rotten, they're still the Empire, huh...!'
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo saw as the darkness that comprised the wall move around and smiled automatically. There was so much he learned from seeing that. He'd reached the peak of the darkness element, but it didn't mean he'd mastered every facet of using it. Overlap. What a good idea.
”Now!”
”I'm going! Huaaaaahp!”
While Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was experiencing the thorn wall's ability first hand and a.n.a.lyzing it, Kratia had burst a portion of the wall with her ice magic.
She cast a small blizzard with her violently rotating orb and temporarily halted the wall's overlapping function. Then, Retadane's flail exploded with light. She let out a battle cry and a portion of the wall collapsed!
”s.h.i.+n Woo, you can stop now! We have to go in now!”
”Lee s.h.i.+n Woo, will you really be ok!?”
”I have someone working with me. On the contrary, I'm more worried about you.”
”That nonchalant expression... Very good. Leave the inside to us!”
”s.h.i.+n Woo, you have to tell me everything later.”
”Good luck, Junior! If you die, I'll kill you!”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo watched as his party, aside from him and Jin rushed through the opening, and then withdrew his sword. The area he pulled the sword out of seemed to emit an unbecoming scream and caused an uproar in the entire area.
At the same time, darkness thorns were formed in the damaged area, which attempted to punish the intruder, but the moment they touched his body, the thorns completely fell apart.
”What do you think you're doing?”
”It almost seems harder hiding that ability than using it.”
”Still... it's like I've stopped being human.”
”You stopped being human a while ago.”
Once the party was gone, Jin spoke. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo just grinned and replied. And he picked up the remains of the thorn wall.
Its name was indeed 'Evil Eye'. Each piece was only a level 6 piece of ore, so he couldn't believe that altogether it formed such a tremendous artifact.
”So the more pieces that are gathered, the more powerful it gets. But instead of overlapping the properties in emergencies only, why not overlap matter itself?”
”What a crazy idea! What happened to the conversation of ma.s.s!?”
”When I first came here, he [1] died, along with my body.”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo tried to apply the technique he'd just learned with his own darkness magic, applying it to the thorn wall's debris.
He thought it'd be really tough to do, but he was able to condense the debris into the size of a bean with ease, perhaps because he, who'd mastered the darkness element, had seen the ability first hand and understood its fundamental principles.
”Aha. So this is the real way of using this ore. You don't overlap the magic together, you overlap the matter itself together instead. You're not supposed to make this stupid wall with it.”
”...”
Of course, in the process of overlapping matter, it became heavier as well, but it was still lighter than combining the weight of all the debris. The conservation truly was dead.
What was so special about this ability? Well, if he were to gather all the Evil Eye in one place, then he would be able to create the world's heaviest and most durable artifact with the highest magic concentration.
”Does the Undead Emperor know this too? I'm excited.”
”So are you going to break this whole thing down...?”
”Are you crazy? This thing will become the last bastion that stops the others from entering. I'll do it after it's done its job.”
He wondered what he would have to do if the hole wasn't mended, but it had completely regenerated, though he didn't know where the additional material had come from. He tapped on the once collapsed area and found that it was as tough as ever.
”Good. Then we're all good to go.”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo placed the level 6 (+7) Evil Eye bean into his chest, grinned and turned around. The Chi Pauls had already lined up in front of him. Including the original Chi Paul, there were five level 7 elites. They feared nothing.
[You called for us, so we came. What shall we do?]
”What do you mean? We do we what we do best.”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo checked the location of all the forces one last time. He'd already memorized where all the traps were, as well as where the monsters and spirits were.
”Our goal is to confuse our enemies, cause them to lose their way, cause them to fight against each other, and lose sight of their goals and themselves... Basically, just make a mess of things. Today, we're killing four of the 12 Generals!”
[Understood!]
Chi Paul yelled vigorously. The others needed no explanation. When Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had completely mastered the darkness element, he had become able to directly transmit his thoughts to his subordinates.
His subordinates went everywhere. It was time to raise the curtains for the Heaven Defying General's performance.
[1] T/N: Refers to the conservation of ma.s.s as a 'he'.
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