Chapter 167.
My little sister looked at me anxiously. "But are you really going to do that kind of great magic? I’m not confident I could pull it off."
I smiled at my little sister’s concern. Oh, right, she couldn’t see it because of the helmet. I said, "Do you think you can kill that monster without something like great magic? The one that survived after getting hit in the brain with a spell I cast with all my strength, to the point it made me vomit?”
My little sister looked fed up as she looked at the turtle. It was screaming ferociously as it went on a rampage. She replied, "Uh, yes, but. It’s supposed to be a spell cast by thirty people."
She was referring to great magicians who were just below the level of medusa, too. It was absolutely impossible for any ordinary person to participate in such magic.
"Eh, well, you’re the one who picked this spell, noona," I remarked.
"Hey! The other option was a spell designed for a hundred people!” she exclaimed.
"It’s okay, it’s okay. I’m going to handle the mana and formula formation. You can just play the role of triggering it," I said. In short, I meant I would be acting in place of twenty-nine great magicians.
My little sister nodded when she saw the enormous mana coming out of my wand. If it weren’t for the magic stone from the ruins, I wouldn’t even have thought of attempting it, either.
My sister began chanting her part of the incantation. I recited my own as I calculated the complicated magic formula.
"It is the darkness before dawn."
"The sky is embroidered with countless stars."
"The traveler who walks along the river sings."
"He sings the stories of the many constellations."
"Today’s song is-"
“The story of falling stars.”
“The story of ancient times.”
"Beauty at the end of a myth,"
"Bravery at the end of a legend,"
[Symphony of Starfall! Stardust of the Falling Star!]
Dozens of magic circles arose as many runes were carved in the air.
I briefly lowered my magic wand and drank another magic recovery potion from my pocket space. Ugh, I was short on mana again.
"Hey! Wait! You’re telling me to control all of this?! Help me!" my sister cried.
My fully recovered mana had been drained again in an instant by just the initial preparations. I was glad my little sister was here. If not for her, I would have had to run away without even being able to think of casting this kind of great magic.
If it survived after getting hit by this, I’d really have to run away...
"If you only ever ask for help like that, your skills won’t improve. Fire when I give the signal. Then, fighting!" [1]
I flew over to the turtle, shouting cheerfully, "Hey!"
My little sister called out to me urgently, so I waved my hand. After firing that magic, her mana would be fully depleted and she probably wouldn’t be able to do anything... So I’d run away quietly at that time.
William’s magic circles seemed to be off their cooldown as well. I charged my magic wand again. "Magic Circles 7, 8, 9, open!" I cried. Magic chains stretched out again from all sides and tied down the turtle.
At the same time, I used the magic chains to pick up all the Black Water Buffalo Knights on the turtle’s shell and send them far away. The knights were flustered, but honestly, they had been in the way.
"What are you doing?!" William, who had been continuously attacking the turtle with magic, asked in surprise. I pointed to the sky instead of answering.
William was shocked when he saw my little sister on standby high up in the sky. "No, what?! You should have needed at least thirty great magicians for something on that scale!"
As expected of a madosa with outstanding skills, he had recognized it at a glance.
"I had a hard time preparing that. I had to go all in with my mana a few times," I remarked.
"Who are you?" William asked with a serious expression.
As I saw his face, I stretched my hands high into the sky. “I am a warrior of the great sun-!”
“It’s not a joke,” he muttered.
I shrugged at William’s burning gaze. "You can find out from the person waiting up there later, so just tie down the feet of that monster for now."
William didn’t like it, but he nodded. "I don’t know who you are for now, but I’ll trust you, since you don’t seem to be evil."
"Hahaha, you won’t suffer a loss."
“All troops! Back away!" William yelled.
The knights and magicians who had been intercepting the turtle were confused by the mana-filled order. Still, they loyally obeyed the command and quickly began to withdraw.
William and I simultaneously hovered into the air, circling around the turtle and casting magic.
"This is the land ruled by the king of ice! Army of the frost, rage like a storm! Ice Storm!"
"Spirit of thunder, bind the foe with chains! Thunder Shackles!”
William’s magic froze the turtle’s legs; my magic layered atop it, paralyzing the turtle.
At the turtle’s head, Mac and Uncle Bloody were drawing its attention.
Still, perhaps because my magic had struck it directly in the head, its movements were sluggish and it looked exhausted.
Now, if we could tie its feet down completely, we could withdraw everyone and launch the ‘Stardust of the Falling Star’, which was on standby in the sky.
Considering the range and power of the magic that my little sister was waiting to trigger, we needed to leave the turtle completely immobile to be safe. If we were a little off, Warrant could end up in the spell’s attack range, so we had to be cautious.
"Isn’t this enough?" William asked, looking at the turtle whose legs were completely frozen and unable to move.
I nodded. "Yes, I think this is enough."
But right when I was about to give a signal to my little sister...
The turtle’s head drew inward, retreating into its shell. At the same time, a long snake-like tail came out of its rear end, spitting fire and melting the ice on its legs.
"What? Why does it have two heads?"
Everyone engaging the turtle was shocked. The tail that had come out from the turtle’s rear wasn’t really a tail; it was another head!
No wonder it hadn’t died even after a direct hit from my magic at maximum output. Even if one head died, there was another head to replace it, so it wouldn’t die completely.
After the snake head melted the ice, it continued to breathe out mana, cutting the magic chains.
"Stop it!" William shouted, and Orphina and the Red Dragon Knights flew toward the head of the snake. "Can you create more chains?" he asked me.
William’s question made me laugh in vain. "Haha, I have to make more even if I say I can’t...”
My mana had already caused a backlash, even making me vomit blood. Because I had overexerted myself to prepare the great magic in order to kill the turtle completely, my magic circuit was starting to sting.
Despite that, unless I wanted the great magic that I’d put so much effort into to be in vain, I had to create the chains.
William and I headed to the snake’s head to cover Orphina and the Red Dragon Knights. There, Uncle Bloody, Mac hyung, and Lancelot were dealing with the snake head.
"Ahahahaha! You can’t dodge my arrow moving that slowly!” Mac hyung ran around and shot arrows wrapped in aura blades, hitting the right eye of the snake’s head.
"Kiehhhhk!" The head of the snake shed tears of blood and screamed painfully, but it didn’t seem to have sustained a deep wound.
Uncle Bloody ran up the long neck of the snake and ran towards the top of the snake’s head. Then, he shot out an aura blade tens of meters long, striking the head directly.
“Uracha!" [2] A long wound formed on the snake’s head and exposed its red blood.
The snake’s head swung wide and threw off Uncle Bloody just as he was about to leave another large cut.
Uncle Bloody flew through the air, but landed atop one of the Red Dragon Knights’ dragons. He leaped up high again and shot another aura blade.
At the same time, William’s ice spear and my wind awls interrupted the snake’s head.
"Kieeecckk!" The snake’s head was hit once again, and the wound burst open and began to bleed profusely.
While the snake’s head shook wildly, it was hit by Mac hyung’s arrow and its right eye burst.
"Die!" Orphina took out a lance and charged at the snake’s head, embedding it deep into the wound.
"Kieccckk!" The snake’s head became furious at the joint attack, and started spewing flames everywhere.
"Keeuuaak!” A few Black Water Buffalo Knights were caught in the widespread flames and died.
"You bastard!" Uncle Bloody was truly enraged. He cut down the flames with an aura blade and threw another into the snake head’s mouth.
"Now! Open Magic Circle 7!” The mana stones in my magic wand rotated fiercely, and the magic chains that had been broken throughout the demon territory popped out and wound around the neck of the snake head.
Seeing the snake’s head temporarily come to a halt, Uncle Bloody summoned his martial aura with all his strength. "Final Enlightenment! Dance of the Fireflies!"
Golden mana shot out of Uncle Bloody’s body, bathing him completely in aura.
I freaked out when I saw that. "That idiot!"
"Die!" Uncle Bloody threw a blade of his golden aura at the snake’s head.
When the snake’s head saw the golden aura blade moving toward it, it fired mana with all its power to break the chains that blocked its movement, and dodged sideways.
"Kieeeccck!" The snake’s head barely escaped the aura blade, but even the slightest graze made its hard exterior burst open, and it spewed blood like a fountain. Meanwhile, the aura blade instead struck the turtle’s body.
Kwagwagwagwang-!
The huge mountain on the turtle’s back began to collapse as it was cut down. It was a catastrophic scene.
To have turned the great demon’s body into that with a single blow was comparable to the achievements of my great-grandfather, who had killed the Demon King in the past.
Uncle Bloody had already begun preparing another blade of golden aura. But while he was focusing completely on his sword, I mustered all my strength to hit him in the back of the head.
"Wha, what...!" Uncle Bloody exclaimed.
"Take a nap,” I said. Uncle Bloody looked at me as his eyes became hazy. I caught his body as it fell.
"What the hell are you doing?!" William and Orphina pointed their wand and sword at me respectively, unleashing their killing intent. From their perspective, it was understandable, since they didn’t know what kind of skill this was.
Suddenly, Lancelot moved to block them and asked me in a trembling voice, "Wait a minute! Den? Are you Den?"
Upon hearing Lancelot’s words, everyone in the area became flustered. I nodded softly, because I had been caught by my little sister anyway. "Yeah, long time no see, Lan."
When I confirmed my identity, Mac hyung merely nodded at the fact that I’d moved to knock Uncle Bloody out. "Iya, long time no see, Youngest Master.”
“Dance of the Fireflies” was a notorious forbidden technique among martial arts skills. If used, it could boost one’s potential tens of times over, but it was a self-destructive skill that led to one’s body collapsing, even if it was the strong body of a Crow.
"Mac hyung, if you were with him, you should have stopped him before he could use this kind of skill!"
Even with just that single blow, Uncle Bloody would be stuck in bed for half a month unable to move. That was assuming my little sister could nurse him all day long. The great magic I’d prepared, that could kill the turtle in one shot, had almost been in vain.
"Oh, what am I supposed to do when even Youngest Master can’t stop him?" he replied. I just yelled at him while throwing Uncle Bloody at Mac hyung, who was smiling slyly. He remarked, "Aigoo, aren’t you handling him too aggressively?"
I simply gestured for Mac hyung to go away and infused mana into my magic wand. "Everyone withdraw! A big one is coming!" I cried.
Everyone backed away quickly. I bound the snake’s head, which had begun to move again, with magic chains. At the same time, I signaled to my little sister, "Three, two, one! Fire!"
The "Stardust of the Falling Star" rocketed down from high in the sky and directly hit the turtle. It looked as if a huge white column had fallen from the sky.
1. ’Fighting’ is a word Koreans use to cheer, similar to ‘you can do it!’
2. The sound effect of Bloody’s attack.
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