Chapter 9: Trickery
“YOU YOU”
“My mana claw became much sharper than before.”
“YOU BASTARD”
“Gollum, take care of the remaining force; the leader is mine.”
“Yes sir”
Gollum begins sprinting toward the group of people while transforming into his stone form. The other tried to shoot him down, but it’s futile; he swung his fist horizontally, sending two people flying away.
“YOU BASTARD” Crimson aimed his gun at Gollum, but before he could say another word, I dropped a kick into his face.
“KUEH-“
Using his face, I do a stunning flip and land to the ground, then activate mana claw, I try to gut him. But he throws the gun in the air and kicks me.
I turn my body sideways, barely about to dodge that attack.
He is much faster than Gollum but not as strong. I try to cut off his leg but feel mana coming from his hand. I ducked
WHOOSH
Blast of wind passed by where my head was, but that was only the beginning of his combo.
Multiple wind blasts were sent to me; each of them is fast and strong enough to break my bones. Observing everything carefully, I begin to avoid each of them.
“WOOO”
He concentrated his mana and sent out a powerful wind blade right where my belly is. I jumped up
Even though I dodged his attack, he still smiled wickedly and shouted
“FIIRED”
BOOM
A red blast of energy coming at me with an intense speed. Channeling my mana, I fixated on the air; demonic wings sprouted out of my arms. Clasping my hands together and lowering my arms, I swung up at the energy like in the human’s sport.
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It was sent upward and dispersed instead of exploding. The recoil knocks me far away, rolling for a bit, I strengthen my legs with mana to regain my footing.
“So it will only explode when it hits something”
That was draining. I looked at my burned hands and began healing them. Fully healed, I asked
“Is that your ability?”
“Summon”
The leader, even though shocked, didn’t lose his guard.
The gun, which is fixated in the air, turns into multiple streams of mana flowing down to his hand and reverts back to the gun form, but with 10 barrels.
“Fired”
Ten bullets fly out of the barrels, all aiming at different parts of my body. I stand still, clasping my hands together again and put my hands right at the center of my chest. A dark dome appeared around me; the bullet flying at me all got deflected by the dome, like throwing a nut at a spinning steel wheel.....Okay, that was a bad metaphor.
“Tch, Merge”
The 10 barrels begin merging, but before it could, I appear right in front of him and throw a sweeping kick at his liver.
“SHI-“
Under immense pain, he tries to curse, but before a word comes out of his mouth, I do a straight punch to his face, grabbing his head with my other hand. I keep punching at him until I get sent flying by his wind attack. Spitting out blood, I glared at him.
“How cute to think you find out about my gun’s weakness.”
Looking down at me, he smirked, then pointed his gun at me.
“I will make you pay for-“
I apply my mana to every fiber from my body and dash forward with the speed of a flying bullet while using a mana claw. But from Crimson Wright POV, he only sees a desperate face trying to kill him while he was speaking.
‘Suffer in hell, fucker.’
He opens his mouth to say something, but nothing comes out.
‘?????’
For a moment, he sees it; from the desperate face, the bastard eye squinted as he began to smile—a devilish smile.
‘I fall for his trick.’
SLASH
Blood squirted out as Crimson Wright's head was sent flying, his face filled with surprise, confusion, and absolute fear.
By fighting him with martial arts, he never expected that I was a dark mage, even though I was using dark mana all this time. Sneaking is the ability to erase all sound from the user. It can also apply to others, which is what I just did.
Looking down at the headless corpse, I pondered
“Curse magic is really useful.”
If mana is something that can be used to summon nature and all of the things it contains, dark mana is something that can be used to control the cause and effect. Both can be switched, but it becomes much harder to use.
A person with mana might summon a fireball to burn the enemy, but a person with mana will burn the enemy without fire. Like how I nullify his voice just now.
Some may say dark mana is cursed, and that is kind of true, but compared to demonic energy, dark mana looks no different than mana.
“Gollum, you done?”
“You madman,” he murmured.
“What”
"Yes, sir, I have done my part.”
Gollum walked out with a few cracks on his body and blood on his hands.
“Good”
Study the shotgun carefully. I throw it to Gollum.
“?”
I put my hand into my pocket and took out the amulet. Inspecting it for a bit, I find out that this thing is absolutely perfect for my next prey.
“Kehkehkehkehkeh”
I turned around and warned Gollum, who is still confused.
“Hold it carefully, for it is essential for our next hunt.