Chapter 160
Chapter 160
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 160
Chapter Title: Centipede of Defiance
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Under the blood-red moon.
The hair centipede bowed its head.
At the center of that hair centipede's head, off to one side.
A foreign hair sorceress with strands stuck in there glared with wide eyes.
She was a woman named Carmen Aurora.
"Ahaha!"
Beneath hair as dark as night, Carmen's fluorescent eyes flashed.
"You lot are the idiots sent from that stupid parasite nation, right?"
She let out a pale, eerie laugh.
"Looks like that bastard sent you to catch me."
Rrrrrumble!
At that moment, the hair centipede endured the pressure and stubbornly began lifting its head.
"No you don't!"
The instant it raised its head to the limit of the pressure.
The hair centipede instead snapped its head downward.
Pressure bore down on its head, slamming it into the ground at tremendous speed.
Boom!
The hair centipede used the force against it, burrowing into the earth.
Then it began swimming through the soil.
This was a remarkably clever decision.
The Blood Moon Queen [SSS] only affects places touched by moonlight.
It had figured that out and fled underground.
The hair centipede madly tore through the earth.
Above the utterly ravaged ground.
Leyzon quietly watched the scene from his bone broom.
Leyzon's brow furrowed slightly.
'Just now, for sure.'
That woman had said with her own mouth that they were idiots sent from the stupid parasite nation.
He could immediately tell what she meant by parasite nation.
'She's referring to the Niflheim Empire.'
And that included the imperial necromancer as well.
'So she's not on the same side as that guy?'
He had vaguely assumed they were allies since they came from beyond the walls.
But apparently, not all the foreign invaders were united.
If sides were divided, it would actually be easier.
'Know your enemy.'
He wouldn't hesitate to extract information.
More than that, Leyzon had experience with a foreign bug sorceress.
That foreign bug sorceress had died under a compulsion right before he could wring info out of her.
'In contrast, there's a good chance that woman isn't under the imperial necromancer's compulsion.'
Back then, he hadn't even gotten a chance to act before losing the bug sorceress.
But this time, extracting info should be much smoother.
Leyzon quickly shifted his thinking positively.
Positive thinking was the basic premise for everything.
Leyzon spun his staff around in his grip.
"Fierce Poison Emanation."
At once, black poison began spreading around him.
"Syria."
"Yes."
"When I give the signal, force that centipede out entirely."
"That's too easy."
Syria's red bat wings unfurled with a whoosh.
At the same time, thick shadows poured out beneath her feet.
Rumble rumble rumble!
The shadows surged violently into the hole the hair centipede had made.
The hair centipede accelerated even more underground.
Thanks to it, the surface turned into a complete wasteland.
In the meantime, Leyzon began scaling up his fusion magic even further.
"Attribute Fusion, Darkness Descent, Demonic Aura Emanation."
Mana churned around Leyzon.
The violet sky gradually began to be devoured by the black sun.
The black sun was overlaid with countless types of fusion magic.
At the same time, various fierce poisons were embedded into Leyzon's body.
Poisons from insects created by Insect Undead Production [C].
Poisons from plants created by [Undying Life].
These two were refined once more through Fierce Poison Mixture Aura [SS].
Poison Recovery [B] converted the poison into mana.
Leyzon felt the pathways of his mana burning.
But by now, even that was familiar.
"Attribute Fusion Fierce Poison Emanation, Attribute Fusion Blood Crystal."
The [Ring of Harmony], which amplified mana with use, blazed with blue fire.
The fierce poison became Leyzon's mana, and the mana perfected the abyss.
Leyzon's ascension level was 13.
Before he knew it, Leyzon had reached mid-tier among top pioneers.
And his growth was directly proven by his magic.
A spell's power was ultimately proportional to stats.
Leyzon's spells had steadily amplified in power with each ascension.
This was the main reason Leyzon ascended.
A glass cannon build was for ending everything in one shot.
This was the result of what Leyzon had steadily built up for that one shot.
The overwhelming concentration of mana shook the atmosphere.
Stones on the ground began floating into the air due to the massive energy flow.
Leyzon's black-and-blue streaked hair whipped in the wind.
Vast mana leaked out even through his mask.
His ash-gray eyes gleamed like they held stars.
The essence of magic born from fusion magic.
Leyzon, bearing the abyss, aimed his Staff of Abundance downward.
"Syria."
The moment she heard Leyzon's call, Syria's hand moved.
Shadow Sanctuary [SSS].
Syria Nosferatu · Leyzon
Red, membranous wings sprouted from Leyzon's back.
His eyes gained a red tint over the ash-gray.
Fangs protruded over his smile.
Red blood spread across the black sun in an instant.
Leyzon's eyes met Carmen's.
Eyes filled with certainty in his own spell's power.
Those eyes were just like his own.
They were thinking exactly the same thing.
So what would tell them apart was the power their magic would show from here on.
Whose magic reached the peak.
Now was the time to find out.
"Ripple of Resentment."
Screams leaked from the [Bound Filthy Resentment] in Leyzon's hand.
The screams soaked into the black sun, granting it lethal attack power.
The black sun descended to the ground, pushed by the wind it brought.
"Fierce Poison Fury."
With Leyzon's shout, the black sun opened its maw.
Fusion Magic · Abyss
The black sun devoured the sky and charged to swallow the earth as well.
Beneath that earth.
The beast unable to reach the sky met it with its own hand.
The centipede that believed it would touch the heavens and painted the sky on the ground roared.
Centipede of Defiance
The centipede turned to light and surged toward the sky.
The soaring centipede, evoking a dragon's ascent, collided with the black sun.
A dragon trying to swallow the sun, and a sun trying to swallow the dragon.
The centipede desperately wrapped its body around the sun to reach the heavens.
But it would soon learn how foolish that was.
Flames clinging to the centipede's body ignited all at once.
The centipede couldn't even control its own body.
Before long, it couldn't even scream.
From its legs to its body, flames spread in an instant.
The flames reminded it how idiotic it was to thrust its head into the sun.
The centipede was thus eternally devoured by the sun and vanished.
"Aaaaaaagh!"
Beneath it, someone whose whole body burned screamed.
The foreign hair sorceress.
Carmen Aurora.
She rolled on the ground from the scorching pain consuming her body.
What tormented her was the poison.
All her hair melted away from the poison.
It was a poison Leyzon had specially prepared to melt hair.
For a hair sorceress, hair was like her lifeline.
Even with all of it melted away, Carmen couldn't endure the scorching heat.
"That was intriguing."
At that moment, a voice echoed into the ears of the writhing woman.
Carmen shuddered and lifted her head.
There stood Leyzon, united with Syria as an undead.
"So this is what primitive magic—not a skill—looks like."
Leyzon had been trying to learn primitive magic through manuscripts until now.
He had achieved some results through vampires and poison spiders, but it still felt lacking.
However, today he had witnessed true primitive magic from another world, even if not poison-based.
'The activation of the magic was fundamentally different.'
Skills forcibly moved powers dwelling in the world.
But primitive magic was closer to deceiving the world.
It tricked the world to summon what didn't exist here.
That was primitive magic.
'Realizing this difference means I've gained some magical experience, huh.'
There was reward for constantly blowing things up every day.
"Heh, heh heh heh."
At that instant, Carmen began to laugh.
"You... tricked... me?"
Even with her brain-melted face, she stared at Leyzon.
"Not... parlor tricks... real magic... huh."
Hearing her next words, Leyzon's eyes widened.
Carmen saw Leyzon's skill as real magic.
'Could it be because of the fusion magic?'
Skills were extensions of ancient magic.
And fusion magic maximized and blended those skills— the abyss.
It looked like real magic.
This gave Leyzon many thoughts.
"Kuh heh."
Then, Carmen lost consciousness, unable to withstand the scorching pain.
She'd die like this.
Shadows surged up and enveloped Carmen.
Leyzon's eyes took in the devastated Primate Realm.
Carmen's rampage surely played a big part.
But the real culprit was Leyzon's final abyss blast.
Staying here would definitely get them caught up in it.
"Syria, Hanok."
Leyzon properly adjusted his mask and turned away.
"Let's head back."
Time to escape quick.