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Chapter 69 'Saving' A Dwarf
Chapter 69 'Saving' A Dwarf
While I was hunting and training for the last month, I finally managed to figure out a thing about my lightning magic.
I can now imbue it on my sword and my body, although not that much.
However, there is a trick there.
Now, of course, there is body enhancement magic in this world for magicians to cope with knights' speed and strength.
However, that is normally used by mana generated by a person's own core since the mana you are generating on your own wouldn't damage you.
But, in the case of my lightning magic. Since I am basically manipulating the lightning particles around the environment, directly applying them on my sword and body is a lot harder because of the risk of me taking damage.
But I was still able to pull it off after training with my sword for all this time.
Now, grabbing my sword with one hand, I condensed lightning particles on my other hand, dashing to the people inside the store with my body imbued with aura.
The formation of the five people inside was pretty simple.
The two three-star knights were busy beating the blacksmith while the other two were smashing the things inside the store, damaging the goods.
'They are pretty comfortable; it seems this is not the first time they are doing that. Well, that was obvious from those marks.'
/DASH/
Thinking that, I dashed to the first two-star one.
/PIERCE/ /STAB/
With my aura imbued, my speed increased. Immediately reaching his front, I pierced the chest of the first one with my rapier engraving a deep wound.
"Kurgh-"
Seeing the blood spurting from the chest of their friends, they were surprised.
"Huh?" "Wha-"
/CRACKLE/ /CRACKLE/
Before they could even understand what happened, I threw the condensed lightning ball I was holding in my hand to the 3-stars.
/CLANK/
And then blocked the sword of the 2-star I left for a second.
"Who are you?"
"…"
/CLANK/ /CLANK/ /STAB/ /STAB/
Without answering, with a rapid chain of strikes, I attacked the man in front of me. In four blows, he was stabbed two times, one from his right shoulder and one from his right navel.
"Cough, cough…"
"JAMES! YOU BASTARD!"
Finally getting rid of the effects of my lightning sphere, the three-star one rushed me with his ax raised.
'Direct confrontation is impossible.'
'Should evade or redirect the attack. But, the latter will be risky.'
/CRACKLE/ /CRACKLE/
Imbuing lightning mana into my foot with slight pain, I felt the increase in my speed.
"TAKE THIS, YOU BASTARD!"
With a loud scream, he jumped into the air.
'He is using a skill!'
Sensing the mana changing in the environment, I immediately got ready to evade.
/SWOOSH/ /CRASH/ /BOOM/
With a loud crashing sound, he crashed into the ground, sticking his axe to the ground.
'Tremors? It is an earth-attribute skill, [Ground Raise].'
Remembering the pattern from the game, I instantly increased the distance between the man and myself.
/CLANK/
Or at least tried.
With a sword blocking my path, the other one was standing in front of me.
/SWOOSH/ /SWOOSH/ /SWOOSH/
However, it wasn't his only sword.
With dual swords in his hands, he started slashing, pressuring me.
'This smell, those blades are poisonous.'
/CLANK/ /SWOOSH/ /CLANK/
With our swords locked, it was a lot harder for me to move.
'Now.'
Immediately sensing the strong tremor coming from the ground, I increased the lightning mana on my feet.
Although the pain increased, it was nothing much, so I dashed to the side.
/BOOM/ /BOOM/
And with two sounds of explosions, the ground was blown up, a pillar rising from the place where I was standing.
/SWOOSH/ /STAB/
Taking advantage of that fact, I immediately dashed to the dual swordsman.
/STAB/ /STAB/ /STAB/
With a rapid speed, I stabbed him three times in a row.
/THUD/ /CRASH/
And kicked him on his chest, making him fly to the wall.
"Hey, take this, you bastard."
Hearing a low whisper coming from my back, I turned my head there.
And there was a person I left while dealing with those 4.
A dwarf with a weird-looking gun is holding it in his hand.
It looked like a shotgun from the earth, but it was bigger.
'His resistances are low. The willpower to resist the pain is not that high, either.'
/FLICK/
With a flick of my fingers, I immediately condensed lightning particles into his ganglion, giving him intense pain for a second and making him drop the magic gun.
"HIK!" /THUD/
Then, bolting towards him, I kicked him in his face with a roundhouse kick, making him fly.
/SWOOSH/ /BOOM/
And dodged another jump attack coming from the last one with a spear.
"Who the hell are you? Why are you attacking now?"
"Does it matter?"
"…"
"It doesn't, right?"
/CLANK/ /CLANK/
Answering like that, I dashed to him again, this time not letting him have his momentum.
In the first place, the advantage of heavy weapons comes from the huge strength of their weight. But that is with the condition of momentum build-up.
That case would be important if we were equal in strength. But sadly, we were not.
With his axe raised, he was blocking my strikes.
/SWOOSH/
Then suddenly, swinging his axe, he tried to attack me with a heavy strike.
'I know you would do that.'
But I had already seen through it.
'Those knights' movements. They were a lot better than that.'
/SWOOSH/
With a swift movement, I dodged the attack coming towards me, lowering my center of gravity while dashing his back.
/STAB/ /BLITZ/
Then stabbed his back while also channeling lightning particles from the wound.
"KURGHK!"
With blood spurting from his mouth, while shaking his body, he fell to the ground.
"Now, it is over."
Saying that, I grabbed my sword and pierced his neck, confirming the kill.
However, the fight was far from being over.
Slowly making my way toward the two dwarves, I approached them.
"Please, have mercy; I will give you everything I have. Just spare me, please."
The one I kicked before was lying on the ground.
And the main target of this event was leaning against the wall, with blood all over his face and his dead eyes looking at me.
'This would be the best time to approach him if you want to recruit him under your command, wouldn't it?'
'A broken person, tired of constant abuse for which he did not even know the reason.'
'Then, the appearance of the demon should be close.'
/SWOOSH/
"Huh? What happened here?"
And just to confirm that fact, a portal appeared behind me, with a sound of wind coming from there.
Turning my head, I saw a disgusting thing with horns sprouting from his head.
A humanoid-looking 'monster.'
I am saying a monster because even though it has a face, there are four arms, every one of them having four claws on them and six legs, making him look like a scarab.
"Heeeh? Who are you? Haven't I seen anything like that with my eyes? What is this?"
With a surprised voice coming through his disgusting mouth, he anxiously looked into my eyes.
'All Seeing Eye.'
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Name – Korennes, The Hybrid Demon
Age – 41
Class – Seer
Mage Rank - 4
Knight Rank – 4
Attributes – Time
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The moment I saw his stats, everything made sense.
'I see, so that was the reason why you appeared there. You saw the future and devised a plan for him.'
"I hadn't seen such a thing with my eyes. What is this? What is this? This is wrong. This is wrong. This is wrong. This is wrong. This is wrong. This is wrong. This is wrong."
Repeating the same thing crazily while grabbing his hair with his hands, he turned his head to me.
"It is because of you. You are the one messing things up. Just who are you? Where did you come from?"
Saying that he started approaching me with those disgusting legs.
"Does it matter?"
"What?"
"Does it matter if I answer? You will die here anyways."
Saying that with a smile on my face, I dashed to the monster, starting the fight.
***
For Korennes, life was hard.
Because he was a hybrid born from the relationship between a monster and a demon, he was always bullied in his childhood.
In a realm where strength mattered most, with every one ostracizing him, he was all alone.
At the age of five, he lost his parents over some sort of dispute from the past.
And not long after he lost his parents, the place where he lived, he made memories taken from him.
He had nowhere to go.
And with his strength being low, he was always being bullied.
However, he always had weird dreams with things he had never seen before.
But the more he lived, the more he understood those dreams.
He understood he was special.
He was able to see the future.
So, using the knowledge he got from his visions, he started killing humans or making a contract with high-potential ones.
He developed his body using the experiment results of a human researcher. He modified his body according to his will, with the blood of the monster flowing through his veins.
One day, he saw a future.
A future where he was killed at the hands of a dwarf.
But, if one thing stood out, that would be the things on the hands of that dwarf.
Seeing those materials, he understood that the dwarf was a genius.
So, he devised a plan.
Manipulating the uncle of that dwarf, making him drown in his greed with his whispers, he tormented the dwarf first.
And then, he was going to appear when that dwarf lost all his hope in life, giving him a very good offer.
He confirmed that with his dreams as well.
So he was relaxed.
But he wished he never was.
Since the scene in front of him was a lot different than he thought….