Chapter 88
Episode 18 – A Reader’s Fight (2)
As I felt the refreshing wind wrap around my body, I recalled the sentences that appeared in Ways of Survival .
Han Sooyoung was summoning avatars when she noticed the skill I was going to use .
“What? I thought you didn’t learn this?”
“Step back . ”
Way of the Wind .
「 There is a gale in the right hand and a storm in the left hand . The Way of the Wind will be opened when the straight lines and the curves meet . 」
The sentence that I couldn’t understand became a reality the moment I felt wind at my toes .
Myung Ilsang’s fist suddenly approached my nose .
The attack that should’ve hit was meaningless . The overwhelming power of this skill filled in my lacking stats . This was the secret technique of the Imyuntar .
Myung Ilsang’s eyes shone .
“…Huh? You sped up?”
I didn’t answer as I focused on enlightenment . From now on, it was a fight against time . The remaining time for Bookmark was 30 minutes .
“Aha, I understand . Is it the skill of those wolves?” Myung Ilsang laughed at me . “Did you receive a great enlightenment that allowed you to use this shitty skill?”
“…”
“Do you know? I killed the king of those guys with my own hands . ”
Of course I knew . I remembered the creatures of Chronos who died .
Prince Lycaon of the Imyuntar, Parasite Queen Antinus…
The fate of those who survived their destroyed world was to be used in the scenarios unfolding on another planet . I would be in the same situation as them if Earth was destroyed .
A Medium Black Fire Cannon shot from Myung Ilsang’s right hand .
「 One wind will meet another wind to form ying and yang . Once again, one wind will meet another wind to form the principles of negative and positive . 」
I used all my imagination to put these words into images .
Hot and cold wind swirled in front of me and the direction of the wind started to twist .
The black fire was deflected once it hit the wind and energy spread in every directions .
All ether attacks were propagated through a medium . If the root of the medium was dispersed, the attack would have no choice but to go back .
Myung Ilsang looked surprised . “…Pretty good . You must have some talent?”
Myung Ilsang once against started to flee .
[The character ‘Myung Ilsang’ has used Blink Lv . 4 . ]
It was another Blink . However, it wasn’t hard for me to pursue him . Once I closed my eyes and concentrated on the wind, I could read everything near me .
I ran along the street at a speed that matched Yoo Jonghyuk’s Red Phoenix Shunpo and found Myung Ilsang . He was grabbing people randomly and asking them questions .
I kicked off the steel frame of a building and flew towards Myung Ilsang . It was a blow that would crush bone but he stood up .
[The twenty-fourth seal of the returnee ‘Myung Ilsang’ has been released . ]
His next seal was released by a hair’s breadth .
“…It was ticklish?”
Myung Ilsang spoke in a playful manner . He believed that he would win anyway . His wounds were healed by the seal being released and as time went by, more of my magic power was being consumed .
“Hahaha, try to stop me!”
In fact, I couldn’t kill him if I used Way of the Wind as a buff skill . If this alone could defeat the Disaster of Questions, Chronos wouldn’t have perished in the first place .
I had to do ‘it . ’ The problem was… someone needed to buy time for me to use this technique .
…Huh? Something suddenly fell from the sky diagonal to me . It looked like a descending hawk as it pierced through the air towards Myung Ilsang .
There was a terrible explosion and a small crater appeared . A familiar person was seen where Myung Ilsang was lying on the ground . I looked at the man with a wide mouth and muttered, “…Yoo Jonghyuk?”
Didn’t this bastard say he would take two days to recover? I looked at the approaching Yoo Jonghyuk and reflexively stepped back . Surely he wasn’t planning to hit me right now?
However, Yoo Jonghyuk stopped a few steps in front of me and turned around .
“Get started . ” Yoo Jonghyuk stood before me as if he knew what I was trying to do . “I’ll block him . ”
Han Sooyoung muttered on my behalf from where she was lying nearby . “Ha, shit . As expected from the protagonist…”
But unlike her words, Yoo Jonghyuk appeared to be in a dangerous state . His body was still unsteady and the blood vessels on his body were still bulging .
Meanwhile, Myung Ilsang stood up from the crater, laughing while coughing up blood .
“Ah, it is a bit annoying…”
He wasn’t badly damaged despite the impact . It was unbelievable that he was on the weak side of the ‘returnees’ who would appear .
Myung Ilsang ran forward and Yoo Jonghyuk met him .
Then I invoked Way of the Wind .
「 Four winds meet and form a defense . Then another four winds are added, making it the Eight Trigrams . Therefore, wind is everywhere yet exists nowhere . ’ 」
It was my turn to use the verse that gave Lycaon enlightenment . The mysterious air wall in the shape of an octagon started to swirl .
It was a small dome of space . The tight seal choked me .
From now on, it was a fight against time . Yoo Jonghyuk flew back from a blow while Myung Ilsang’s expression hardened . He finally realized that this wasn’t a game .
“What…?!”
The next moment, all the air in the dome was removed . My ears became blocked and all sound disappeared . The wind blew terribly but the dome was as calm as the eye of a storm .
Myung Ilsang opened his mouth .
“…!”
“…?”
He moved his mouth several times but his voice wasn’t heard . Sound wasn’t possible because there was no medium .
He was in a complete vacuum . Due to the difference in air pressure, the air in my lungs momentarily escaped . I quickly sucked it back in .
Outside the dome, Han Sooyoung was shouting something .
[Exclusive skill, Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint stage 2 has been activated!]
「 What is this? 」
I could hear Myung Ilsang’s thoughts .
「 Why don’t I have a voice? Magic? 」
Myung Ilsang was shouting with confusion . It was natural . All returnees had a penalty . This was especially true for returnees who could quickly recover their original strength under certain conditions .
[The penalty of the Disaster of Questions is activated . ]
[The power of the returnee ‘Myung Ilsang’ has been weakened . ]
[The twenty-fourth seal of the returnee ‘Myung Ilsang’ has been locked . ]
「 Uwaaah, no! 」
They had the condition of being ‘weakened’ as easily as they were ‘strengthened . ’
[The twenty-third seal of the returnee ‘Myung Ilsang’ has been locked . ]
Why did the Disaster of Questions keep asking questions? It was simple . His abilities would weaken if he didn’t ask questions .
「 Shit! Release this! Quickly release it! 」
His fist hit the wall of air many times but the wall didn’t break easily . In a space without a medium, the black flames didn’t burn .
[The twenty-second seal of the returnee ‘Myung Ilsang’ has been locked . ]
A vacuum prison that could be made using Way of the Wind . This was the optimum strategy against the Disaster of Questions that I knew .
「 Uwaaaaah! 」
Myung Ilsang belatedly rushed towards me . He thought that the vacuum prison would be broken if I died but it wasn’t the case . This was a place that I made .
I used Way of the Wind to avoid his attack and quickly reduced the area of the prison .
Once the wall shrank, I made a narrow passage and escaped outside the dome with Yoo Jonghyuk . Now Myung Ilsang was the only one left inside the dome .
「 …You jerk! 」
A returnee wasn’t a returnee for nothing . The dome cracked a little bit under his power . I raised my hand and the wind filled in the weak spot . Then the size of the dome started to shrink rapidly .
Blood flowed from my nose due to my excessive concentration . My ultimate goal was to limit the vacuum prison to his body .
However, it wasn’t easy to control . Shit, Yoo Jonghyuk had managed it easily . Why was this so difficult?
“Don’t try to control it . You must lead the wind . ” Yoo Jonghyuk’s voice was heard .
At that moment, I received enlightenment . Maybe it was my mistake to make a ‘wall . ’ The important thing was to remove the medium around his body .
「 U-Uwaaah, uwaaaaah! I’m choking! 」
Myung Ilsang frantically scratched at his neck, causing himself to bleed .
“…Pretty good . Although you still aren’t very talented . ” Yoo Jonghyuk’s voice was heard again .
Then Myung Ilsang attempted his last hurrah .
[The character ‘Myung Ilsang’ has used Great Black Fire Cannon Lv . 3 . ]
Myung Ilsang’s right arm was surrounded by dark flames . To my surprise, the great flames shot through the dome of wind .
I fell down while protecting Yoo Jonghyuk’s body . A dull impact filled my head . Myung Ilsang seemed to be squeezing out his remaining magic power as the black fire cannon continued .
But the wind wasn’t still . Once the black fire cannon was fired through the dome, wind instantly filled up the spot again .
The last hurrah didn’t change anything . The problem was that people were dying from the black flames .
Yoo Jonghyuk saw my face and said, “Kim Dokja, don’t think about it . They wouldn’t care if you died . ”
“There are people like that . ’
But not everyone was like that . I got up and confronted the black flames .
The black flames were scattered and twisted by the power of the strongly rotating dome . A terrible pain followed . It was because I intercepted the majority of the black flames .
The black flames burned mu skin and the sensation in my bones faded little by little .
I could do it . He wasn’t strong right now . At this moment, I reached an area beyond my limits . As my senses became faint, my body was like the wind .
[A constellation who loves effort enjoys your pain . ]
[A touch of talent sleeping in your soul has blossomed . ]
I controlled the vacuum prison with my left hand while moving the wind with my right hand to dissipate the energy of the black flames . In a complete trance, I tasted new heights in Way of the Wind . The wind at my fingertips was creating a landscape I had never known before .
[The thickness of the exclusive skill ‘Fourth Wall’ has temporarily thinned . ]
It was a strange feeling . This was how the ‘characters’ saw the world .
No matter how hard I read the text, I didn’t know what to feel . I felt that a part of the narrative that was felt through the pages touching my fingertip, which I could never full reach, was now completely understood .
Reading was different from understanding . Maybe I still didn’t understand one percentage of this world yet .
Soon afterwards, I felt the power of Myung Ilsang’s black flames weaken .
「 Shit! Scum! Die! Diee!! 」
The momentum of the black flames was rapidly declining . In addition, my magic power was still full .
It was a strange feeling . Even if I was in a trance, how could I have this much magic power left?
Behind me, Yoo Jonghyuk said, “…I will kill you . ”
…Somehow I had absorbed Yoo Jonghyuk’s magic power .
Then after a while, Myung Ilsang’s attacks ceased .
[All seals of the returnee ‘Myung Ilsang’ have been locked . ]
Yoo Jonghyuk and I looked at each other .
[The exclusive skill ‘Way of the Wind Lv . 8’ has been released . ]
The fear-stricken Myung Ilsang stared at us .
“C-Cough, cough…!”
I threw Unbroken Faith towards the man who was gasping for air and trying to run away .
“Kuheeok!”
He fell down with the blade in his back . He wouldn’t be able to escape with Blink anymore . I ran over and grabbed his neck .
“…Hah, it is really frustrating not being able to speak . Have your questions finished?”
“Keeeok…”
“I will kill you if you ask me a question right now . Don’t ask anything . ”
Returnees . The most arrogant and brutal existences in Ways of Survival . Among the returnees, Myung Ilsang was one of the worst .
“Now I don’t want to hear one sound from you . ”
Peeok! Peeeok-!
“Kuaaack!”
Myung Ilsang looked up at me like it was unfair . I hit him again and again until that fear was completely crushed . The beaten up Myung Ilsang barely managed to say, “I-It can’t be like this…”
I looked at this guy and remembered when he was a warrior .
「 “I-I am a warrior? I am a real warrior? Really?” 」
The 17 year old high school student, Myung Ilsang . The innocent boy who was chosen as a warrior to save the world and fell onto Chronos .
He obviously didn’t want to become like this . He didn’t want to be a murderer that wiped out life on a continent . But he did so .
“It is you who chose to become a disaster . ”
Now he couldn’t change that fact .
[Your understanding of the character ‘Myung Ilsang’ has increased . ]
Myung Ilsang’s face distorted . “I, obviously, p-protagonist, this, world…”
The man who wanted to become a protagonist but failed in the end . The real protagonist soon approached and slammed a blade into his head .
I looked into the eyes of the man killed by Yoo Jonghyuk . It was a futile death for the disaster that destroyed a world .
[You have won against a ‘returnee’ for the first time in the scenario!]
[Contributor: Kim Dokja, Yoo Jonghyuk]
[You have earned 40,000 coins as an achievement reward . ]
[A new item will be added to your story . ]
[The narrative ‘Person who Opposes the Miracle’ has been added . ]
[You have obtained the possibility of a new stigma . ]
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