Genius Engineer in the Labyrinth - Chapter 111
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The wizard grabbed Alan’s shoulders and blasted him with heat. When Taylor and Shiva tried to approach, thick flame tentacles appeared and prevented them from doing so.
Alan remained calm even in difficult situations.
‘I understand why you’re warning me to be careful of wizards. The power suit is still holding up…’
As I looked around, I saw a box. The guy was patting the lower body of a fallen leopard.
The leopard reared up, its parts misaligned from the collision with the tree having been repositioned by the claws. Its blue eyes looked this way.
At the same time, the wizard stabbed the power suit with the hot blade he had created on his hand. The blade melted the armor and slowly dug into it.
“What kind of magical power did you use to last this long? I should have that.”
The momentary greed, the thought that it shouldn’t be ruined, lowered the output. As a gap appeared in the flames that melted all attacks, Alan’s mechanical arm grabbed the wizard’s shoulder.
Even though they were bound by each other, the wizards remained calm.
“This power alone won’t be enough to stop it… It’s an unfair move.”
The heat beam emitted by the leopard struck the wizard’s back. The wizard withstood the attack with his innate fire resistance, and created a shield to push back the heat beam.
The leopard was getting closer. The box pushed the buttocks of the guy who was trying to push back. The shorter the distance, the better the power of the heat ray was transmitted, but now it was blocked by the shield and only spread out in a circle.
The wizard’s arm muscles bulged and he forcibly switched positions with Alan. With his master as his shield, the leopard closed its mouth.
The moment the heat ray was cut off, the wizard threw Alan away and approached the leopard. In his hand was the hot blade that had stabbed the power suit.
Alan anticipated what would happen next.
‘You’re probably thinking of using me to end that kid. I can’t let you do that.’
Even while flying in a supine position, he felt the presence of a leopard approaching him.
Alan overloaded the power circuits in the wings of his powersuit. The power rushing out through the narrow gaps in the armor was like a jet engine.
A strong current shoots towards the ground.
Kwaaaa!
There was a sound of the air being torn apart and the ground being torn apart. The body that was lying down suddenly lifted and spun around, and a wizard was seen running towards me.
The speed was drastically reduced, bringing the distance between me and the wizard much closer.
‘What would you do if you were me?’
Alan recalled the information he had read from the motion sensor attached to him. The gap between thought and action was extremely short.
He raised both his fists and slammed them down. The added force was tremendous, as the magical power still gushed out from his back like a jet engine. His tightly clenched fists struck the wizard’s helmet. He could clearly hear the cracking sound.
The wizard’s body swayed violently. It was the most noticeable effective strike. It felt a bit strange that he, a so-called magic engineer, had struck with his fist instead of a magic bullet or a magic tool.
But the thought didn’t last long. The wizard, who had thought he was going to kneel, slid down long distances beneath Alan.
Now Alan’s posture was such that his head was turned toward the ground, and the scenery was upside down. In the upside-down world, the wizard’s hand swept over the leopard.
The upper and lower bodies separated without a sound. Time, which had slowed down, began to flow normally again, and the separated leopard/tiger collided with Alan’s body and rolled across the floor.
Alan tried to stop the leopard from moving even in that state.
“Be quiet.”
He moved, leaving the leopard as calm as a sleeping baby. Meanwhile, Taylor and Shiva were clinging to him, pressuring the wizard.
‘Can you call that pressure?’
As if to show the true use of Magicware, he properly defended against the two people’s attacks and also used magic intermittently.
Shiva’s shield was pierced and his proud beard was burned.
“Oh, shit… I believe that even Mom will understand my dirty mouth.”
Taylor’s right hand, which had been holding the shotgun, was gone from the elbow down.
“Don’t you know what a lizard is? Eat this!”
There was a gaping hole where the elbow should have been, and a thick piece of mattock poked its head out. Inside was a tough net.
The net stretched out wide and wrapped around the wizard. The runes engraved on the weights at the end of the net flashed. The electricity that paralyzed the opponent’s magic wrapped around the wizard’s body.
Taylor, who had become a one-armed inspector, approached with a Mana Sword, and Shiva followed closely behind while reciting auxiliary spells.
The wizard’s aura was still fierce. He blocked the attack and let out a cold voice from his broken helmet.
[Flame Eruption]
A circular wave was created around the wizard. Taylor and Shiva’s bodies faltered, and then flames pierced the ground in a spiderweb-like pattern.
The scope was very wide. Taylor, who was attached to Shiva, was protected by the law, but Alan was swept away.
Madness. The scorching heat was running wild in all directions, as if it were crazy. All the plants around it were gone, so it was only Allen and his party that were suffering terribly.
It was so hot, maybe the raw flesh was sticking to the power suit.
‘I wonder if the seeds are okay.’
But Alan’s thoughts were far removed from the pain of his body. The part that had held the seed was melted and distorted, so it was obvious without even looking.
How to store eggs in several baskets. As Alan reached out, various boxes approached him and handed him a single seed.
“You take care of the leopard.”
beep-
“Don’t take it apart.”
beep···
The box hid near its owner, resting its head on the leopard’s upper body.
There was a small dot on Alan’s palm. The seed, which was only intended to be obtained by omitting the special treatment of the magic potion, sucked the life force out of the emperor salamander that grew various plants on its back, causing its death.
But now, even that kind of seed was needed. As the body that had become slightly healthier while staying in Maze City began to break down, the magical power that held it together was also thrown away.
‘It’s hotter inside than outside…’
Alan planted the seed on his left shoulder, where the glove and artificial muscles had completely disappeared. He couldn’t tell if it was painful or ticklish, but one thing was certain.
The magic power was sucked out quite violently. If someone were in the same situation, they would have collapsed from the magic power being absorbed, but Allen felt relieved instead.
‘My head is clearer too.’
When Alan lowered his head slightly, he saw blood flowing out from between the gaps in his torn armor. It was thick, as if the moisture had evaporated due to the heat.
I raised my head and looked at the wizard. The wizard was a projector. The small light just before it passed through the lens was the magical structure inside the body, and the image spread out on the screen was magic.
However, Alan had a hard time forming an image on the lens because of his hyper-magic disorder. No, the lens itself was broken, so how could it emit light?
‘Then I guess we can make it outside.’
I once drew runes with blood while dealing with a warlock.
‘It’s similar this time.’
Of course, if the magician had heard, he would have looked up with a few question marks above his head. He would have told me not to talk about making rice bread out of flour.
Alan focused his mind on the blood. Unlike when he had drawn it with his finger, this time the blood moved on its own.
The rain had already stopped long ago, as the spiders had all been burned by the wizard’s area-of-effect magic. Naturally, the ground was like heated stone, but the blood maintained its shape as it crawled over it.
Alan kept trying to remember what he had felt when the wizard was near.
The delicate operation that makes the warrior’s magical power manipulation seem hard and crude, and the powerful imagery contained within it.
‘Fire is destruction. The wizard must have put even the emotion of anger into it.’
So it needed to be cooled down. The blood that gushed out before Alan’s eyes turned into runes. Compared to what he had drawn by hand, it was too crude.
Alan concentrated. Three circles were drawn around his forehead and eyes, and they overlapped between his eyebrows. Light poured out through the broken visor.
[Freeze] [Spiral] [Acceleration] [Tracking]
A much more distinct rune was placed on each side of the square. The wizard was visible through a square hole with nothing in it.
The shape became blurry. It wasn’t something wrong with Alan’s eyes, but ice filling the gaps. Pointed heads rose from the smooth surface.
firing.
A shard of ice flew like a bullet and struck the wizard. The ice shattered against the magic barrier, sending sparkles in all directions.
Even that quickly vaporized, but the ice that Allen shot wasn’t the only one.
Doo doo doo doo!
The ice bullets fired like machine guns and struck the magic barrier. It was faster to freeze than to be consumed by fire.
Now, at this moment, Alan and the wizard had equal control. So the deciding factor was the size of the mana heart.
A fire that is trying to build momentum.
Ice that tries to stop by crushing it.
The two were polar opposites. Rather than one overpowering the other, they pushed each other away and caused damage.
The wizard’s movements became increasingly sluggish. Taylor’s blade tore through the robe reinforced with defensive magic, and Shiva’s regime delivered a heavy blow internally.
The wizard was also human, with blood trickling down his robes. This in itself was good news, but he was still wearing [Fiery Retribution].
Taylor and Shiva’s appearance was also gruesome due to the flames that burst out in response to the attack.
For a moment, the wizard’s figure appeared to swell greatly in Alan’s eyes.
“Come closer.”
Alan picked up the leopard on top of the box.
bang!
A huge explosion of flames took Taylor and Shiva away, leaving only a bright red haze where the wizard had been.
It was clear who the wizard who disappeared with [Flame Walk] was targeting.
Alan put his left hand into the leopard’s upper body and supported its weight with his right. The weight of its upper body alone easily exceeded 100kg, so it was fortunate that the power suit was still working.
Tattered artificial muscles and tangled cables emerged from the leopard’s torso. Alan reached out with his left hand and grabbed the area where the soul stone and the mana channel were located.
I watched the wizard’s movements with my left eye. He was frozen and slower than before. This is only a relative expression, but in reality, all I could see was a blurry afterimage.
That alone was enough to predict the path. Calculation was Alan’s strong suit.
‘You don’t have to move as fast as a wizard.’
He simply extended his left arm towards the place he expected the wizard to reach. The still panther bit the air hard.
Kwajik!
A jaw full of drill fangs bit into the helmet of the wizard who appeared there.
“Ugh!”
It was not easy for the wizard to escape, as the fangs had dug into the broken helmet.
Knock knock!
The drill spun and cut through the magical shield surrounding his head. The wizard maintained his defenses while spewing out hotter flames than ever before.
‘I’m prepared for the damage to come back to me.’
I was thinking of ending it quickly by releasing uncontrollable flames.
But Alan held on. The blood from the ice bullet had already clung to Alan’s body and transformed into new runes.
[Refractoriness] 4 stacks.
Thanks to that, it was more bearable than before. The bloodsucking flower that had grown on his shoulder was also protected, and it bloomed red petals that stood out even in the fire.
“Ugh···.”
The wizard let out a strange groan. Alan knew why.
The leopard was biting the front of the helmet, and the wizard could see the child’s throat. And in the throat was attached the goalkeeper’s heated eye.
‘You will see the light getting stronger in real time.’
Alan fired a ray of heat in that position. As a wizard who controls fire, he should be resistant to heat, but since he added his own magic power, it would break through if he fired for a long time.
In addition, we were able to observe how resistant a wizard of this level of skill was to the attributes he mainly handled.
“···9, 10, 11, 12···.”
“Eww!”
The sound of Alan counting did not reach Taylor and Shiva’s ears because of the loud noise and the wizard’s screams.
End