Chapter 101: Prove The Strongest (1)
7:00 AM.
At a time when everyone usually prepared for their daily tasks, everyone stood still in front of devices like TVs or tablets where they could watch videos.
“Wow…”
Yumir expressed her admiration as she gulped down her morning coffee.
“They said the Goblin suddenly appeared. After meeting me, he went from Sejong Island to Gangwon-do? He’s busy.”
The Goblin on the TV was in a standoff alongside an S-grade villain known as the Crimson Witch or Gunggi.
She didn’t know the specifics of the situation.
There were confused pieces of information about a gun incident in Gangwon-do and the appearance of a biker gang at dawn, and the Hero Alliance had not made any official response.
-Can you see it?! Two S-grades are about to face off 2:2!
-Oh, I’m going crazy. Shouldn’t we run away from here…? It seems like a battle is about to start on the airport runway…!
-I have to record this! It’s guaranteed to get a million views!
They were just looking around at the live broadcast from Yangyang Airport being shown on multiple monitors.
The broadcast station only reported through the news that there was a disturbance at Yangyang Airport and did not specifically broadcast it live.
“…Maybe he’s stronger than I thought?”
Yumir sipped her coffee while watching the Goblin in the video.
The bitter scent of coffee wrapped around her whole body, and Yumir skewered a grilled frankfurter she had prepared for breakfast on a fork and put it in her mouth.
Swish!
“…….”
As soon as the heroes’ attack began, Yumir’s actions came to a halt.
With a piece of sausage stuck in her mouth, she clearly witnessed Gunggi entering the Goblin’s body.
-Wooooo!!
Whether those who were filming on the scene were trembling with anticipation or whether the entire airport building was really shaking, everyone started getting excited.
-Here comes the big one!!
The Goblin had shown new forms several times.
Starting from the Dodjirider, the Goblin began to constantly show something new.
But this was a first.
An S-rank ability user merging with another S-rank?
-It’s a fusion!!
Crunch.
Yumir bit into the sausage without realizing it.
Juice flowed from the sausage, but Yumir looked at the transformation of the Goblin with settling eyes as if she was chewing on straw.
“Fusion…”
Becoming one with the Goblin.
“……Huh? Wait a minute. Why am I envious of that?”
Yumir suddenly felt her face getting hot.
She tried to cool down by fanning herself hastily, but her heart didn’t calm down as easily as usual.
“…Sigh.”
Yumir lost her appetite and put down her fork.
Looking at the Goblin transforming into a new form on the screen, she kept revealing her regret while fiddling with her fingers.
“I wish I could see it directly….”
Perhaps everyone felt the same.
Seeing that the real-time viewer count of this shaky live-streaming video surpassed 30,000 this early in the morning, the numbers in other rooms were also skyrocketing.
“I can’t believe I can’t see this directly….”
It was regretful to watch it through the screen. She wondered how the people who were asleep would feel.
“…Sigh.”
With a sigh, Yumir just sucked on her sausage, enjoying the new form of the Goblin that transformed while scattering flames through the air.
“…Why not Rider?”
The Goblin had transformed into a new form.
There was no longer a Dodjirider there.
The red light’s embers erupted from his body.
A red cape, similar to a coat, with a pattern resembling flames.
Inside was a black hanbok that seemed to cling to his body and a waistband.
Unlike his usual mask, the mask he wore on his face resembled a black tiger with a slightly haughty look, a Goblin mask.
Flash.
However, those twinkling eyes were still gold.
“…….”
Yumir touched her hair for no reason, crossing her flowing hair left and right to cover her mouth.
“…Hehe.”
Somewhere.
Although his new look had much less gold, it felt similar to the color of Magical Girl Golden Priestess.
The suit made with magic naturally contained the will of the magic user.
[Surprising. Didn’t you dislike hanbok?]
[I didn’t dislike it. I just didn’t like the behavior of those who overly drove me into nationalism.]
[Well, the appearance doesn’t matter. It’s cool in its own way.]
Gunggi showed her surprise at my newly implemented fusion form but quickly calmed herself.
[What will you use for a weapon? Mine? Or a bat as usual?]
[It’s been a while, so I should use yours.]
My usual weapon was obviously the Goblin Bat, but now I could use a slightly different weapon as part of my ‘S-class firepower’.
As such, there was no need to use the same weapon as usual.
[Shall we start with interception first?]
I put my hand into the sleeve of my cape and released my magic power to create sharp, dark spikes.
[Flare Beat.]
I threw a needle, which was at least 20cm long, to the side.
The needle that spread to the left and right flew sideways and then changed direction immediately. It flew like an arrow toward the ice feather that was flying toward me and collided head-on.
“Where do you think you’re going!”
Snow White moved her hand as if conducting an orchestra, trying to avoid my needle by moving the ice feather, but my needle moved faster between the feathers, scattering sparks.
[Too slow.]
The moment the embers trickled along the trajectory of the flying ice feather, the feather shattered into pieces, causing a magic explosion.
[Just spreading many without substance only makes it flashy.]
Each time the spike of flames passed along the path of the flying ice feathers towards me, the feathers shattered.
It was as if a red laser was wrapping around a white pillar. As chain explosions occurred, Snow White’s magic bullets disintegrated in mid-air.
[The essence doesn’t change just by changing the form, Snow White.]
“Ugh…!”
[Even if it’s ice feathers, the root is a magic bullet. Just intercept it, and it’s done.]
“How about this then!”
Thud thud thud!
A noisy sound echoed from behind.
“If it’s not a magic bullet but a real bullet!”
Suddenly, Taejo appeared behind me, riding a Scrap Metal Dragon.
The Scrap Metal Dragon held a neatly gathered rifle in its mouth and held a bike with a rifle in its hands, pointing them both directly at me.
“Physical bullets won’t cause magic cancellation!”
[Hmm, have you noticed?]
Thud thud thud thud!
Bullets from the K2 rifle came rushing towards me.
I dodged the trajectory of the bullet shower and jumped to the side. Taejo followed me, continually pouring out a bullet shower.
“I’m not sure how strong that suit is, but I just have to shoot until the magic runs out!”
[That’s correct, Taejo.]
The most fundamental way to pour bullets into an ability user.
Keep firing bullets until they work, specifically until the mana protecting the body is completely worn out, and the shield is released.
Historically, an endless offensive had been the answer, and Taejo had fired dozens of bullets at me.
[But that’s too weak.]
I stomped heavily on the ground, following the fast track I was running on, and jumped up.
I spurted flames beneath my feet just before jumping and rocketed up. I landed exactly on the Scrap Metal Dragon that Taejo was riding.
“Ugh!”
Taejo promptly jumped off the Scrap Metal Dragon.
[A good decision.]
I raised my hand high and plunged it towards the neck of the dragon.
Kwooooong!!
Red flames burst out from the entire body of the Scrap Metal Dragon, and it slammed into the ground.
The flames burnt the dragon’s body, and I got up from the crumpled Scrap Metal Dragon and lightly shook off my hand.
[There’s no time to rest.]
Just as the shadow started to darken, I raised my head to the sky, where a huge chunk of ice suddenly appeared.
[Thinking of crushing me as is.]
Even if I just dodged it - Snow White had already laid out the groundwork.
Ice crystals spread around the massive glacier.
As if to lay out a net before the union, Snow White didn’t give her opponent a chance to escape.
And there was one reason for such an attack.
[You’re not wrong.]
She was trying to trap me by dropping a massive glacier like a meteorite.
[But even if you can catch other villains using that method…]
The goal was not to kill but to suppress, so her attacks were made mostly not to pierce or slash me but to freeze and deal damage.
[I can’t be caught.]
I extracted the magical power from my ultimate move and formed a flaming crimson flame into one form.
Weaponization of magical power.
The technique called ‘Aura’ in fantasy novels has become an essential skill for ability users in this world. I also created a weapon that suited my current form using that power.
The weapon that suited my ultimate move the most.
The weapon that suited the flame ability the most.
[Release.]
[Blaze Sword!!]
I swung the sword gripped in my hand high into the sky.
[Slash??!!]
Seukkeuk!
The flaming sword slashed through the glacier.
It split the sky, and again, the glacier was split into two.
“Hmph.”
A low sneer came from above the glacier.
“You think I’d use an attack that failed once again?”
Above the glacier, there she was.
[Hiding behind the glacier?]
“Didn’t you notice?”
Snow White, who dodged my slashing attack, wrapped white magical power around her entire body and swung her fist over her shoulder.
[A Freezing Punch?]
“Do you want to die?!”
Her white fist, packed with S-class magical power, charged towards me.
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