Chapter 148: Hellfire Peninsula (5)
It was possible to seal a human in a particular place.
The method was not an impossibility.
In many ancient texts, novels, comics, movies, animations, etc., various methods have been suggested to seal a being.
And I knew far more methods than the people of this world knew and had the ability to realize them.
How?
Simply through the Goblin’s Bat?
Correct.
All my supernatural abilities were based on the Goblin’s Bat and were manifested through its power.
Through that power, I created multiple talismans to suppress the demon.
“Krak!”
First, I beat the demon until its magic power ran out.
Every time I swung the Goblin’s Bat, chunks of its magic power were chipped away, and the mana tainted with darkness was purified and burnt up by the flame.
Mixing the power of the magic power of the palace and the power I knew of, I could use a very terrible power against the ability users of this world.
[Turn to ash.]
Mana Burn.
A very simple supernatural ability, the ability to burn the opponent’s mana.
According to the law of equivalent exchange, it was a method of neutralizing my mana with the opponent’s, but I burned the opponent’s mana in a very efficient way, not requiring equivalent exchange.
[Did you think you could kill me with that?]
“Ugh!!”
The demon screamed and shot a magic bullet at me.
I easily stepped aside and prepared for a major attack.
“Die, Goblin!”
The demon reached forward with both hands, having prepared something tremendous.
Crimson magic power unfolded around the demon, and a mana shield shaped like an elliptical shield was precisely targeting me.
“The final twilight!”
Boom!
What I thought was a shield was actually a bombardment by condensing mana.
Pretending to put up a shield to induce the opponent’s carelessness, then shooting a beam of condensed magic power at the speed of light to defeat the opponent.
[Slow.]
“Dodged…?!”
Unfortunately.
It was a technique that already appeared in the original novel.
“Ah, no! You knew it?! You dodged it because you knew!”
[Lack of imagination.]
“What, what?!”
A phrase that would commonly provoke ability users.
Lack of imagination, lack of fanciful thinking.
It was essentially dissing an ability user for not being able to properly utilize their supernatural ability.
[Anyone could think of your technique. Put up a shield, and fire a bombardment from the center of that shield.]
I knew that technique not only because other heroes in this world used such techniques but also because I saw it in a comic when I was young.
[Die.]
I lifted the Goblin’s Bat again, jumped high, and aimed the bat at the demon.
[Demons are executed.]
“Ugh, ugh! I don’t want to die!!”
The demon began to fire magic bullets as a desperate last resort.
Spikes sprouted from the shield and rushed toward me, and I placed the bat to the side while in a jumping state.
[Spray.]
Whoosh!
Gunggi’s magical power sprayed out as flames from the end of the bat, pushing me to the side.
The demon’s desperate attack missed the empty space where I was, and I slowly flipped the bat behind me and advanced towards the demon.
“Aah, don’t come near! There’s still, still a lot I want to do-”
Bang!
I rolled over, turning my body greatly, and using the rotational force, I swung the bat towards the demon’s shield.
“Kuh, kuhk…!”
Purple blood spurted from the demon’s mouth.
The blood had a poison that corroded the mana, making up my body the moment it touched, but before the blood could touch me, Gunggi’s flames burned it up as they brushed in front of me.
Crack!
As soon as I broke the barrier, I landed and struck the demon’s head with the bat.
Crunch.
With the sound of something breaking, the demon’s eyes rolled back as it collapsed to the side.
‘The weakness of an ability user is the brain.’
Like humans, ability users had a special weak point in their brains.
‘If you get a concussion, anyone can temporarily lose the ability to use their powers.’
That was why I was using the bat.
I wanted to learn flashy swordsmanship, and I wanted to do gun-kata action with pistols in both hands, but breaking the demon’s head shield with a bat was the fastest way to ‘neutralize’ a demon.
‘Go to sleep.’
I took out a talisman and attached it to the demon’s forehead, then poked the Goblin’s wand onto the talisman.
Swoosh!
The demon’s body was instantly sucked into the talisman.
To others, it might look like I had sealed the demon in the talisman, but it was actually quite different.
I didn’t have the ability to manipulate pocket dimensions, nor could I jump around in the pictures drawn on rice paper.
Even though I came from another world, to use such powers in this world, you needed a brain that fully understood Einstein’s theory of relativity and could explain it to others.
Unfortunately, I was not that advanced, so I used a very simple method to attach the demon to the talisman.
‘Shrink.’
The demon was sealed in the talisman.
Not inside the talisman but stuck to the back, maintaining its form.
Like a wasp stuck on a sticky mouse trap.
Though the shrunken demon was not visible, those with sharp eyes might notice.
“Stop!”
A hero hurriedly ran over.
“What did you do to the demon, Goblin!”
[Ah, this?]
I pointed to where the demon was with my bat, then folded the talisman in half and placed it between my index and middle fingers.
[I’m collecting demons, thinking maybe I can make use of them.]
“You, you bastard!”
Of course, the side of the talisman with the demon stuck on it was not visible to the hero.
[Don’t worry. I have no intention of using the demons to attack somewhere.]
I carefully folded the talisman so that the spine of the demon, now depleted of magic power, wouldn’t bend and put it in the box attached to the back of my bike.
[I’m just wondering how I can kill demons more easily.]
“That’s a lie…! You’re waiting for something, aren’t you!”
[Waiting?]
“Platinum Sun!”
Wow.
How did he know?
“Goblin! If you’re really a villain, then the demons inside…”
[Killing the demon in here is just the end of it.]
Vroom.
As I got on the bike, the wind blew out from underneath it, lifting it slightly.
“What, what…?! The bike, flying…?!”
[A rider’s bike flying through the air is common sense. Remember that.]
Vrooom!
Having subdued the demon, it’s time to go ‘seal’ the next one.
[Ah, the Secret Society communication here. I’ve almost got it all sorted out. Basically, there’s only one left. The demon in Jindo now.]
[That S-class one?]
[Yes. It’s not intentional, but Snow White is also heading to Jindo.]
[…S-class versus S-class. And it just had to be an A+ class who turned into a demon….]
[He killed all his practice mates from the start, and chased down and killed all the fleeing faculty members. The casualty count is now estimated at 30. What will you do? Do you want to watch what Snow White does?]
[If it were before March, I probably would have.]
Snow White must have asked the same question.
There was a way to save the demon.
But should we offer a chance of salvation for a demon who had killed 30 people and was still killing?
A hero’s dilemma.
Knowing a way to save the demon made it harder to just kill them, but when you saw a demon who killed 30 people indiscriminately slaughtering men, women, and children, there were times you just wanted to kill them.
I didn’t know what decision the government would make, but at least at this moment, there would be complaints and grievances.
[Because of Platinum Sun’s power and existence, all heroes hesitate. Chief, please send people to the heroes as you see fit.]
‘I’ll observe people’s actions and recruit them as needed. There’s nothing easier to recruit than those who have become dissatisfied with the system when the existing order shakes. Oh, right.’
A small video popped up on the bike console.
[Doul is now fighting with Duoexini. It seems he went directly to Ulleungdo, targeting Yumir.]
[Did he recognize Yumir?]
[If he recognized her, wouldn’t he have gone to Ulleungdo? Considering their nature…]
[Even if they recognize Yumir’s identity, they will pretend not to know and wait for her to emerge as Platinum Sun or the GOlden Priestess.]
The thoughts of a psychopath villain didn’t necessarily need to be understood, but understanding them made it easier to deal with.
[He will continue to corner Yumir, creating a situation that forces him to transform into Platinum Sun. Tell Doul. I’ll quickly take care of Jindo and head to Ulleungdo.]
[Okay. Be careful on the way. The demon cunningly destroyed the bridge to the island, so we’re currently dealing with the S-class in Jindo.]
[The bridge was destroyed?]
The demon had intelligence, but did it physically destroy the bridge to make the island a true island?
[Did you get any information on the demon?]
[We’ve just finished hacking. Official name, ‘Skullion of Bone Powder’.]
[…Bone Powder?]
[Yes. Right now, he’s hunting ability users in Jindo.]
The Chief’s voice trembled slightly.
[After killing the ability users, he’s making mana powder on the spot and inhaling it.]
I pressed the bike’s throttle harder.
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