Chapter 122
Chapter 122
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Translator: Ebonarch
Chapter: 122
Chapter Title: Chapter 122
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Translator: Ebonarch
Chapter: 122
Chapter Title: Darius (2)
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Siegfried and Han's eyes widened as the space suddenly changed.
The floor, walls, and ceiling were made of sleek silver metal, all gleaming like new. The area was so vast and tall that it could easily accommodate tens of thousands without issue.
But the most astonishing aspect was the power flowing through the space.
'The mana flow is so free.'
Siegfried, a mage, marveled at the abundant mana surging toward him in a favorable direction.
Spaces this rich in mana were exceedingly rare. At least around the Kelton Mountains, none existed.
Han felt the same. As a martial artist, his body felt lighter. With every breath, mana poured into him, bolstering his aura.
Power brimmed over. His condition had risen to a level incomparable to the norm.
"Is this the Young Master's doing?"
At Siegfried's words, Han shot him a surprised look.
"You didn't make it?"
"I didn't."
"That's right. I did."
Jamie admitted it straightforwardly.
The two men's eyes bulged. They hadn't truly expected it to be him.
Jamie spoke.
"It's the Form Construction Artifact, Gremia."
"Gremia?"
"The relic that housed the Thunder Dragon Sword Gram."
"Ah!"
Han exclaimed as if he knew.
He was aware of the mission Bayril had undertaken a few months prior. The legendary sword said to have slain a dragon, now in Isis's possession. He'd gone to Upton to retrieve it.
"I got lucky."
Everything was fated, but he had no intention of revealing that to Han.
Gremia's previous owner, Armion, had waited centuries to entrust it to him.
Even keeping it secret from Isis, the head of Frontier.
Thus, no reason to tell Frontier affiliates what Armion had concealed.
"More importantly..."
Jamie raised a small hand, pointing ahead.
"No time for chit-chat."
Darius stood motionless, facing Jamie.
To keep Siegfried at bay, he'd expanded the space continuously, but Darius overpowered it with raw physical might.
Monstrous bodily prowess.
'I'm suppressing him, though.'
He could reshape everything in Gremia to his whims.
Teberon once sealing his black mana was merely one facet.
From the abundant mana and advantageous flows Siegfried sensed, to lightening Han's body and amplifying his aura—all manipulated by Gremia.
For Darius, he'd maximized bodily weight, thinned the oxygen, and scrambled mana flows.
Equals in skill would face crippling penalties here.
'Too strong.'
The issue: Darius was overwhelmingly powerful.
Gremia was near-omnipotent, yet flawed.
Its effects faltered against those surpassing the owner.
Allies Siegfried and Han fully benefited from positives, but Darius wouldn't be fully hindered.
One of his caliber could shatter the penalties with effort.
Darius curved his lips faintly at the shifts in his body.
Space altering or not, he'd planned to crush the foes outright.
Yet his body abruptly grew heavy, breathing erratic.
Not enough to impede motion.
'But those two differ from me.'
Siegfried and Han.
The masters' conditions had peaked beyond prior. His authority, Space Perception, revealed all within his reach.
Breath to muscle, joint, temperature, pulse—even cellular stirrings.
Beyond that, the altered space. Blind, yet Space Perception unveiled the invisible.
Mere outlines sufficed for Darius.
"A curious space. No rigid frame. Freely mutable structure?"
Jamie's eyes widened.
Perceived once, and grasped Gremia's essence. Neither Han nor Siegfried could; no master could.
"Kid. You've surprised me."
Darius indicated Jamie.
Jamie flinched; Darius chuckled softly.
"No need for alarm. Just that power."
Darius doffed his sunglasses. Revealed: not standard eyes with dark irises amid whites.
"...No irises."
Han muttered uneasily.
True—Darius's eyes were sclera alone. Unnerving.
Yet eeriness aside: a blind man discerned Gremia's core.
No pondering how.
Darius spoke.
"Childhood accident took my sight. Tragic—a mere sixteen-year-old boy blinded."
Despair's decade.
Lacked will to die, lived as if dead. Then, at twenty-six, fortune struck Darius.
"'Sightless, still possible.' So I was told."
Mundane encounter.
Pity drove the man to teach fists. Blind martial training? Novel fodder, unrealistic.
Yet he persisted desperately; Darius held talent.
Blind remained blind. Sightless, un fightable. High skill reads presence? Hollow to Darius.
Man refused surrender. Dragged Darius up, drilled relentlessly.
"Long era."
Sightless then, still now.
But.
"Succeeded."
Thirty years.
Blind-honed fists.
Darius sightless, yet sighted.
No mere blind man.
"Sees beyond the eyed."
Authority of the Fist Master, senses honed to extremity.
Conquered lawless dark arenas of brutal violence, champion over a decade.
"This space's owner palpable sans sight."
Power linked.
Jamie gulped. Past life held such: god's apostle, eyes divinity-packed.
Like Anna, Riki's sister.
Perceptive ones prove vexing. Past stronger self, no issue; now, disadvantage.
"Tricky foe. Key: your synergy. I'll adjust maximally."
"Novice counsel's a first."
Han grinned, morphing bead-rod to long staff.
Siegfried unleashed staff's mana.
Space-wielding mage, phenomenon-altering master targeting self.
Gremia controller: Jamie.
Darius donned sunglasses anew.
Kwagagagak-!!
Siegfried's space wall crumbled.
Darius blitzed, aura-fisted it asunder.
No pre-wall, and fists would've struck them.
"Begone!"
Han materialized beside, pole-thrusting Darius's dense muscle.
Body shoved aside, not hurled as planned.
"Sturdy brute!"
Han's voice trailed.
Darius startled, wheeled—but Han's pole chest-smote swifter.
Eye twitched faintly. Aura-bound pole assailed ceaselessly.
Heavenly Martial Spear - Hundred Thrusts
Staff → Spear | Air rends asunder
Staff speared.
Secret spear tore void, shredding air.
Tididatadatang!
Darius sensed aura armor scattering wildly.
'1.86. Elevated from prior.'
Not full throttle then.
Sensed spear-whirl, extended hand—gripped blade supplely.
"Where!"
Space warped.
Misjointed puzzle, grotesque.
Puk—flank stung. Aura breached, Han's tip grazed skin.
Irrelevant.
Arm wrenched back, elbow-locked shaft.
Contact seals grip, space unaltered.
Clenched fist arced at Han. Distance yawned.
"Mage."
Kwang!!
Fist-launched arm full-extended; air boomed thunderously. Shockwave colossal.
Single punch tattered atmospheric strata.
"Brute force..."
Siegfried, Han's crisis-saver, tongue-clucked.
"Hurl him afar."
Siegfried's hand chest-touched Darius.
Distant to intimate instant.
Space Siegfried: magical domain 'Spacetime Coordinate Manipulation'.
Incantation grasped, chantless imagined space magic deployed.
"Hup!"
Darius felt innards quake, aura-defying. Recognized instant, body rear-launched ferociously.
'1.80. Identity clear.'
One archmage flashed for such spacecraft.
"Space Siegfried. Unforeseen day clashing famed battle mage."
Kwang!!
Words capped, slammed into Jamie's quintuple-thick wall.
Space twisted anew.
"Chi-do-gon!"
Han, staff to chi-do-gon, overhead-smashed vigorously.
Kwaaang!!
Quintet walls dust-pulverized.
Darius, shock-dazed, consciousness clung. Felt body whimsically displaced.
'Irksome.'
Siegfried space-squeezed.
Darius's locale point-converged.
Omega Impact
Point-compress → Release | Soundless shockwave
Peak-compressed point unleashed—mighty shockwave Darius-centered.
Roarless mute blast!
"Tanks that unscathed?"
Darius endured.
Siegfried gnawed lip, staff hoisted.
Multi Impact
Space contract → Massive expansion
Ambient space contracted, ballooned insanely swift.
"This drags eternally."
Darius's iron aura armor unbreached. Attacks seemingly hardened it further.
"Monstrous..."
Han trailed, absurd.
Apt—'monster' alone fit. Head-on strikes, scant harm.
Sturdier aura chilled all.
Darius uttered.
"No taste for kid-slaying."
Foes struggled matching him; reciprocated.
Arbitrary space-shifts: Space Perception's bane.
Thus, crude shift imperative.
Skin-sheathing aura inward-absorbed. Instant: Siegfried, Han ominous-sensed.
"Young Master!"
"Kid!"
Simultaneous cries for Jamie.
"Kid, resent me freely."
Jamie eyed nose-close Darius.
Gremia flung afar futile—irreactive velocity.
Fist plummeted.
Kwang!!!!!!!
Siegfried's eyes ballooned.
One-fist's force quaked all Gremia.
Such strike fatal universally. Especially eight-year-old Jamie Welton.
"Young Master!!!"
Golden locks rage-surged.
Space multilayers overlapped cyclically. Ujijik—pressure-cracked, Siegfried unrelenting.
Thus pulverize Darius alongside.
So planned.
"...How?"
Darius's voice quavered.
Battle-onset unchanging tone.
Now altered.
Crusher-fist forehead-barred by child. Head-obliterating force met adamant bulwark.
"Flustered, eh."
Jamie lip-curved.
"Guard up, Master."
Welton Style Form 1
Encompassing Slash | Physics nullified
Puhwak!!
Blood geysered from Darius's chest.
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