Explosion (4)
The wall that Tae-do had dug into collapsed inward, and a horrified voice echoed from the person standing there.
“Insanity! What kind of power is this!”
“Be careful! One hit and it’s over!”
Despite Jina’s belated effort to join the fight, she couldn’t land a proper effective hit on the man in front of her.
“Kuha, kuhahaha!!”
Watching him laugh with eyes rolling back from the power, Jina wiped the sweat from her forehead and said.
“It’s too narrow. There’s no space to move, so it’s hard to dodge.”
“I know, so even if I try to tie him up… after you appeared, the wrestling match… ugh!!”
Kuang!
Er dodged Tae-do’s heavy downward strike.
At that moment, Jina kicked off the ground and jumped to attempt a kick, but
“It’s not ticklish at all!!”
“Uwaat!”
The bandit leader who didn’t have a sword raised his other hand without a sword to block her kick and then swung his sword in succession.
There was no time for light conversation.
Because of the fast speed that didn’t match his size and weight, swinging Tae-do’s sword, to avoid or block it one had to concentrate fully.
“Strange! Is this what a drop-out is supposed to be?!”
Jina dodged a sword that cut off a few strands of her hair and screamed in frustration.
Similarly to Jina’s thoughts, Er who raised her sword with a stiff expression couldn’t hide her bewilderment.
It was absurd that an adventurer who barely did banditry had such power.
If they had the ability to face both Er and Jina at the same time, it would be harder to get kicked out of the adventurer guild in a normal state.
Even if they killed someone like before, it wouldn’t end with just expulsion.
Since we don’t know what would happen if we released someone with such ability, we had to at least disable their arms or legs.
If the person with such ability was a vicious criminal who killed people, the city’s knights would have cut their tendons, and Er wouldn’t have known the person’s face to begin with.
Then the person shouldn’t be showing such strong appearances.
Why then—
“Er, snap out of it!!”
“…Huh?!”
Kakakak!
In a very short moment of being lost in thought.
Er, who barely blocked Tae-do’s strike that would have cut her waist if it weren’t for Jina’s shout, said with a look of shock.
“Speed…!”
“I will keep getting stronger!!”
Thud, thud, thud!
Consecutive three-hit strikes.
She blocked the first two, but from the third, realizing she couldn’t handle the power, Er urgently threw her body to the side.
At the same time, Jina jumped off the ground with mana filled into her fist,
“[Smasher]!”
Kwaduk!
It was an attack aimed precisely at the head.
Jina, who hit the boss’s face with her fist, also slightly curled her lips, thinking it was an effective hit.
It was powerful enough to burst the head or break the neck bone so it couldn’t withstand the shock and die instantly.
Her fist immediately trapped the boss’s face, the bones completely sinking in, and whether the neck bone broke, the jaw twisted in an unnatural direction.
But.
“Kuha, kuhahaha!!”
Spitting out broken teeth and bursting into laughter, he swung his sword largely.
Jina, who couldn’t find a way to avoid it while floating in the air, crossed her arms protected by the gauntlets in front of her body.
Kkaduduk!!!
“Uwaak!!”
With the sound of metal being shaved off, Jina who was blown back hit the wall and spat out a pained groan.
“That’s it!!! Come on, kill me, adventurer!!!”
The man speaking while spewing blood from his broken teeth.
Noticing something strange from the appearance of such a man, Er frowned.
The thin wound she had initially cut when facing this man had disappeared.
In addition, despite spitting out quite a few broken teeth, she stopped spitting saliva as if the blood was stopping.
Er, who noticed that the blood he spat was unusually black, scrunched her face and shouted.
“Jina, that might be…!”
Was that their words the trigger?
The dark aura began to gather on his body, which had no content just a moment ago.
It was something that even a mage sensitive to mana could recognize.
As one of the ones who had clashed and fought several times.
“Here… a dark mage?! Is this possible?”
Starting to become strange rapidly after being hit in the head by Jina’s fist, he no longer found reason as a human, flashing red eyes.
“Gulp it all, adventurers!!!!”
Kakakakak!!!!
The ground where Jina and Er were standing exploded like it burst.
Previous attacks relied only on brute force, but the man now filled his sword with black aura and swung it violently.
It wasn’t just the wall breaking and ground cracking.
The attacks Er and Jina avoided started hitting various places in the cave, and at the same time, an unusual vibration reached their skin.
“It’s not going to collapse again, is it!?”
“It won’t be three times!”
Saying that, the two people rushed at the man.
Since the disaster of being trapped in the cave again was not what they wanted, they had to bring down that man.
Suppression had long been abandoned.
Without hesitation, the sword and fist were driven into the man’s neck and chest toward the vital points.
“Kuhat, kuhahat!!!”
As if he didn’t receive any impact, he spat out an unpleasant breathing sound while turning his sword, and then struck it down strongly again—
“Ugh…?”
“Blade?!”
At that moment, Er and Jina hurriedly raised their weapons to the dark aura flying toward them.
They had wrapped their own mana around their weapons, but the black aura the man spewed ruthlessly tore through their mana.
In addition, it ate away at the mana on the sword and gauntlet, and their eyes filled with bewilderment at the black aura that was rapidly corroding the weapons.
“Wha, what…!”
“Er, take off the gauntlet!”
Saying that, following Er who threw the sword, Jina immediately took off and threw the gauntlet.
In her eyes, the sight of the two people’s weapons rapidly corroding.
It was an eerie sight as if accelerating time.
Just like the weapons that melted and broke in an instant, the man’s sword that was fine until a moment ago began to be covered in red rust.
It didn’t end there.
The black aura climbing the sword began to cover the man’s arms, and before long, his body was enveloped in black aura, even the body’s shape beginning to be obscured.
“This is an unbelievable situation!”
“Is that mana?!”
Unlike Er who spat out a dumbfounded voice upon realizing the identity of the black aura, the bandit boss who had wrapped the black aura around his whole body could no longer make human sounds.
-■Hea■■l■■in■!!
It was the split roar that couldn’t be understood, and even in the dark appearance, only the red-tinged treacherous eyes were shining.
It was impossible not to recognize by then.
“Dark magic again…!”
“Is this possible? How every time…!”
Er venting her frustration at the traces of dark mages she encountered in a row.
But there was no time to complain.
Before she finished speaking, the one wrapped in black mist swung his sword but she couldn’t block it.
The two people who split to both sides and threw their bodies urgently.
The moment they saw the pitch-black mist spewing from the sword that was trapped where they were standing, darkening the surroundings, they tensed up.
“[Heal]!”
The cave that was being dyed black brightened.
Like a warm light reminiscent of sunlight spreading in all directions, it pushed away the black aura that was eating away at the surroundings.
At the same time, the small wounds that had appeared on their tired bodies disappeared as if washed, and the vitality returned to the point where the hands that had been lowering unconsciously found their positions again.
-■Aa■■■light■■■!“
At the same time, the man whose black aura was rising from his body began to burn and roar while swinging his arms and hands wildly.
The two people who moved their bodies to the exit of the cave while avoiding it shouted at the same time.
Since only one person in the world could do such tricks.
“Ain, why are you here!”
“You idiot! Get out!!”
At the moment when they shouted at him who came back without knowing the danger.
“…Ah, I’m pissed off.”
His face with his head bowed down was not visible.
He was scattering fragments of light from his whole body, like sunlight illuminating darkness.
“Step back, go back, get out… Yeah, that makes sense. I’m just a burden.”
“…Ain?”
At the moment Er, surprised by Ain’s unusual appearance, asked that.
“Our mom and dad were taken, step back, go back, you’ll get hurt… I understand with my head, but here it’s not like that, right?”
The man who hit her chest with a heavy sound enough to make a dull sound lifted his head.
“By the way, the opponent is this guy?”
It was a person who was spewing dark aura, recognizable at a glance.
His whole body was in a state of being soaked in mana to the point of causing a painful roar while swinging wildly.
If such an opponent was the culprit who caused all this.
The one who made Ain lose his mind several times today, and the one who prevented him from having even one chance to resolve it.
“You’re dead, you damn bastard.”