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Chapter 16: Witch of Massacre (6)

Chapter 16: Witch of Massacre (6)

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“Wait! You don’t even have a sword!”

“I have one more.”

Jaehwan pulled out a sword from his dimensional backpack. It was the Dragon Sword that he got from the 88th floor of the Tower of Nightmares.

Mino shouted, “That’s not going to be enough…!”

The fight erupted before she could finish. Adapters quickly lunged at once all together. There were attacks from various weapons in a continuous strike. Some even had special skills that Mino recognized.

‘Fire King’s Fourteen Strike…!’

It was the main attack skill of the Fire King Clan of the Ten-Clan of Chaos. If trained to the extreme, it allowed the weapon to wield fire and burn the area.

‘So, the Fire King clan really was selling skills to lower clans..!’

The forest was burning. The fire of the Fire King burned everything in its path and the mad fox ran rampant from within. Jaehwan readied himself.

Mino knew what he was trying to do. She needed to stop Jaehwan.

A mere [Stab] was not enough to defeat the Fire King’s Fourteen Strike.

But Mino could not believe what she saw. She could not believe her five senses. The law of time was being distorted in front of her eyes.

[Void]

Mino, who was right next to Jaehwan, was able to see it for just a slight moment. The swords rushing to Jaehwan were slowing down, and Jaehwan moved through them effortlessly.

‘…Am I dreaming?’

None of the attacks could land on Jaehwan’s seemingly frail body. It seemed as if Jaehwan did not exist.

[Suspicion]

Among the weapons, there was a way that was only shown to Jaehwan. The one line that was only visible to the one who is suspicious of the world. Jaehwan’s sword moved.

It was a stab, a mere stab.

It wasn’t anything grand, but with accurate, rhythmic movement, the blade slashed the enemy’s bodies. Lightning flashed and brightened the darkness. Six of the Red Fox members disappeared to dust.

“DAMMIT! KILL HIM!”

The rest of them became frantic and began pairing up to attack. Fire King’s Fourteen Strike attacked from all four sides, a prison cell made from the fire. It was an attack that none would stand a chance against.

Yet, Jaehwan came out from it unharmed.

“…How?”

There was much more to it than him remaining unharmed from the fire.

[Understanding]

The fire was now gathering at the end of his blade, as if it actually originated from his blade. Something bad was going to happen. Klant, the Black Fox, shouted as he felt an attack incoming.

“Everyone! Get to cover!”

Then Jaehwan thrusted. But it wasn’t just a simple stab.

The air was extracted and grew silent. In that short silence, Klant and the other Adapters felt their breath stop and their lungs getting struck. Klant had felt this feeling a few times during his lifetime.

It was when he stood upon a Leader of the Ten-Clan, the strongest of the Chaos.

As the air exploded, the flame shot out. The forest and humans alike burned as they were swept away by the storm of fire. Screams were covered by the explosions and broken trees and were scattered away.