The Time-Limited Leader Makes the Raid a Success - Chapter 491



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Episode 491

#491. I will burn you until you die.

‘The body has already been regenerated. The level seems to have increased somewhat, but the energy itself has actually weakened. It seems like you overdid it while recovering.’

Thomas was determined to finish off Muhammad. In the moment he hadn’t seen him, he had grown back both of his missing arms. If he missed him now, he was terrified just thinking about what he would look like later.

“This time, you can’t escape.”

【Force Field】

The mana floating in the atmosphere sympathized with Thomas. All the mana in this space was with his will.

【Targeting】

He then placed a mark on Muhammad. Muhammad became unable to avoid Thomas’ magic, limited to the space where the force field was deployed.

‘Hmm, it seems like mana doesn’t reach that darkness very well.’

A long, vertically split darkness like a wound torn in the air.

Mana could squeeze in, but it wasn’t very efficient. The deeper the mana went in, the more it would fade and eventually disperse.

Thomas kept pushing his magic to maintain the targeting spell. Only when the mana flowed in faster than it was depleted could he cast the full spell on Muhammad.

“Get out of there first.”

At Thomas’s beckoning, Muhammad was led outside.

“profit!”

Muhammad tried his best to hold on. He held the mouth of the abyss with both hands and resisted tenaciously.

‘Joe, just a little more. Just a little more!’

When Muhammad, unlike his aggressive demeanor during their first clash, seemed to be avoiding a fight, Thomas sensed his intentions.

“You’re trying to buy time.”

“… … .”

“Where did you get your story?”

【Bind Wire】

The rope of Mana flew and tied Muhammad. Muhammad, who was helpless, had no time to break the rope.

Thomas fired his magic at the hand that held the edge of the passage leading to the abyss.

Muhammad was terrified and called forth the abyss. Darkness swallowed up the magic.

“Ugh! Cooleruk!”

As his recovery was not complete, Muhammad vomited green blood.

Thomas, who had been watching the struggle to remain in the abyss, immediately fired the Firebird.

Muhammad again pulled up the abyss to stop the Phoenix.

The Phoenix and the Abyss swirled around and around. As the Phoenix subsided, the Abyss also scattered.

Thomas snapped his fingers at that moment.

“Has your head become a monster too? You don’t have the ability to learn.”

The phoenix is ​​a bird that rises from the ashes.

In the empty space where only the remnants of darkness remained after the abyss was burned, the phoenix spread its wings again.

“no!”

The Phoenix struck the exit of the Abyss before Muhammad could react.

Shock and heat hit Muhammad. His hands, which he had been holding on to with difficulty, broke. Thomas didn’t let go and pulled on Mana’s rope.

“This fucking wizard!”

Muhammad gave up on holding on any longer and took advantage of the pulling force and lunged back at Thomas.

The abyss that covered his entire body was like no other demon. Green blood flowed from his seven holes like a fountain, and parts of his body were strangely distorted, but he endured everything with only one will to end Thomas.

【Abyss Cloud】

“I really didn’t learn anything.”

Thomas kicked the ground as he was being dragged and used a simple magic spell to get under Muhammad’s feet, who was rushing at him even faster.

【Grease】

A magic that coats the target with mana to make the friction coefficient ‘zero’.

Greece was the only magic available to the Great Zhou.

‘You can’t stop the main road with force in close combat.’

In particular, she was a poison to wizards. Elemental damage magic was useless, and although she could hit with physical magic, she could not inflict the important damage.

It’s not like there weren’t any magic among Thomas’s magics that could hit Jusea, but they couldn’t be used in the duel because it would be a real life-or-death situation if it got that far.

Of course, Joo Se Ah couldn’t use her ultimate skill either.

So Thomas studied various magic as a countermeasure against Jusea, and one of them was Greek magic.

‘It may seem like a trivial magic, but it’s effective against melee damage dealers.’

As Thomas had planned, Muhammad slipped and fell in the middle. He tried to get up again, but he couldn’t keep his balance on the floor where there was no friction.

“You failed in the previous fight by trying to fight so clumsily.”

“Such a trick… …!”

Muhammad broke the floor. The Greek magic was broken.

But what greeted him next was once again the magic of the Phoenix. The firebird burned along with the abyss surrounding Muhammad’s body.

“Khaaak!”

Muhammad rolled on the floor again, trying to put out the flames by rolling his body, but the magical flames did not go out easily.

Finally, the Phoenix burned down the abyss and evaporated the green blood covering its upper body before disappearing.

Thomas looked at Muhammad with cold eyes, listening to his enemy’s breathing in agony.

‘It’ll be hard to finish it off with just magic using the Abyss. It might be possible with Golden Phoenix, but I won’t be able to endure it.’

Even now, Thomas was in a state of considerable strain. He pretended to be calm on the outside, but he was in shambles on the inside and felt as if he would bleed a bucket of blood at any moment.

That doesn’t mean there was no way.

Muhammad was not normal either, perhaps because he had been hit by the Golden Phoenix. Just using the Abyss was putting a strain on his body, causing him to bleed and twist.

‘It’s a fight to see who falls first. If I just keep them from going back into that darkness, I’ll eventually run out of strength.’

The situation where the Phoenix magic, the only magic that can strike the Abyss, can no longer be used, and the Abyss remaining in Muhammad’s body is drying up.

Which one comes first?

Thomas smiled knowingly as he smelled the pungent smell of blood rising from the nose.

“I will burn you until you die.”

* * *

“Stop Naga from going towards Thomas Hunter!”

“Damn it! How are we going to hold back those guys who outnumber us by more than ten times?!”

“Then, do you want to deal with that monster?”

The hunter who had been complaining about his fellow mercenary’s words shut his mouth.

Thomas was a hunter who had even stopped the legendary giant ‘Kubwa’. Among the mercenaries, he was already suspected of being an S-rank.

How can you fight a monster that keeps nullifying Thomas’ magic?

The hunter simply grumbled and repeated the action of blocking Naga’s attacks with his shield and counterattacking.

The Eagles, who had been watching the battle situation closely, gave orders to the tanks lined up in the attack line.

“Turn slowly to the right! The Federation team will concentrate their attacks on the right and push the Nagas to the left!”

The Eagles’ order was clear: turn the attacking force’s formation counterclockwise to create a gap between Naga and Thomas.

Unlike the groups that attacked Europe, they did not appear to have a single leader and did not act in unison.

Thanks to this, the situation was going the way the Eagles wanted.

‘Fortunately, the Federation Hunters are following my orders. No, is it because of Captain Kang Mu-hyeok’s orders?’

Kang Moo-hyuk appointed Eagles as the leader of the attack force in order to unify the command of the attack force.

The number of mercenaries was greater than that of the Federation Greek team, and the Greek team was a striking force skilled in small-scale operations, so the Eagles, who had experience in numerous large-scale battles with monsters, were considered more suitable.

‘I don’t know why the Federation listens to the Commander’s orders, but I feel relieved that there is no need to fight over the Master’s Order.’

The Eagles thought of Kang Moo-hyuk, who was currently out of the team. Kang Moo-hyuk had left the team before the battle.

It was known that Kang Mu-hyeok, a commoner, was of no help in fighting monsters, but as long as he used a leader, he became a central figure for the mercenaries. The influence he had on their morale was by no means small.

‘This is especially true for mercenaries who hold their leader sacred. But why did the captain suddenly leave? Judging from the fact that he took Alex and Raven, it seems like it’s because of that missing Federation member. It would be better to hunt all of these guys down and then find them.’

There were too many Nagas to deal with. With only one Hunter to spare, Kang Mu-hyeok had disappeared with four high-ranking Hunters, so there was no choice but to fight fiercely.

Of course, the Eagles knew why Kang Moo-hyuk left the attack team.

Because the leader disappeared, leaving behind a message that he was looking for a missing person from the Federation named Ayla.

So I was even more curious. What exactly is the leader’s ability?

Kang Moo-hyuk literally said that it was the ability to lead us, but the scope of the meaning was too vague.

What does it tell us and where does it lead us?

The Eagles were left with these questions, but they could not bring themselves to voice their thoughts.

‘Anyway, it’s the client’s order. We’re mercenaries. We have to follow the contract.’

The Eagles, who returned to their original mercenary stance, did their best to carry out their mission.

“Don’t just jump out and get surrounded! Use the stalactites! Fight the Nagas in the narrow terrain!”

When some formations showed signs of weakness, he himself took up arms and rushed into the battlefield.

“Change the rear ranks! Drink potions and recover!”

* * *

Even though he knew it was impossible, Kang Mu-hyeok separated his party from the raid group and moved.

‘We’re almost there, so don’t complain.’

He looked at the guide he was holding in his hand. The guide kept showing Ayla to his mind.

The leader led the way. Kang Moo-hyuk was simply following the path that was stuck in his head.

Thanks to that, I was able to reach my destination without getting lost even in a maze-like cave.

“Captain, are you sure we’re going here?”

Mr. Cho asked in a dubious tone. Kang Moo-hyuk simply nodded. For the first time in his life, he was overcome by a strange feeling rather than certainty, and he simply moved instinctively.

‘Why does the leader lead me to Ayla?’

That too, urgently.

It was true that Ayla’s life was in danger. No, she wasn’t dying, but she had a feeling like it. This was also a feeling that couldn’t be expressed in words.

‘That’s not all. She has some important key. The guide tells me so. No, I’m not sure about that either.’

Kang Moo-hyuk struggled to organize the complicated examination and led the four hunters into a winding cave.

There were a total of five people in the party.

Iron Will included Kang Moo-hyuk, Mr. Cho, and Hyun Jeong-geon, while Alex and Raven joined the Federation.

There were only four hunters. That was too many people to go and pick up someone whose location was already known.

“I see why you brought four of us, Captain.”

Hyun Jeong-geon raised his hand and stopped the party.

As the group stopped, shadows suddenly appeared between the rocks ahead.

Mr. Joe frowned.

“There’s a Naga here too? It’s a complete Naga field.”

“No, I’m not going out.”

Kang Moo-hyuk corrected Mr. Joe’s words.

“Huh? You’re not going out? What’s that… Huh?!”

Soon, Mr. Cho understood what Kang Mu-hyeok was saying.

The Nagas blocking the way looked different from the other Nagas.

“Why do they have feet?”