NOVEL NEXT chapter 56
56. Priest Aztuk 3
That old man said so, but it was ridiculous
The destructive power was as if it could gouge out space itself
I exaggeratedly dodged the incandescent right hand
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And I observe carefully
The high heat and surging lightning, that’s probably the effect of the ritual tools. Have they reversed my lightning using those tools?
“Tch!”
I keep retreating, but I can’t tell what’s happening in the meantime.
This won’t do; that technique won’t last long, but their victory condition is to buy time. Those two alone can’t stop the Saintess.
If the Great Sage’s memories return, could we have a chance?
But that can easily be overturned by the divine artifact, so that’s impossible.
“Your concentration is scattered!”
“Gah!”
A light graze around my side.
Ziiiiii
I convert my legs into lightning to create distance, but
blood is flowing from my side.
“Hah, hah.”
Damn it! What the hell was that? That’s cheating!
Think… what can I do to break through that?
Gather information, forget the pain, concentrate!
“You can’t do it. With this right hand, I will surely kill you.”
Heat, intensity, armor, the floor.
Process the information in my sight.
“Hah? I see it, old man. Your body temperature is dropping, isn’t it?”
“What of it? As long as I have this right hand, I can kill you. It doesn’t matter.”
That absolute confidence in his right hand.
He’s probably concentrating all the heat in his body, gathering it to the limit his right hand can withstand.
I convert my entire body into lightning.
Bachi! Bariririri! Gororororoo
“Now’s my chance! Old man! I’ll burn you alive!!”
I thrust my right hand forward and lower my left foot.
“You think you can burn me alive? Don’t underestimate me, you brat!”
Gooon
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The white-hot right hand seemed to have intensified even further.
In response, Rainer transformed his entire body into lightning, and the sparks born from the surging electricity scorched the walls and floor.
“〈Thunder God〉”
Gooo!
The thunderclap surged toward Atsuku,
but he countered with his white right hand.
Plasma that could incinerate everything,
and thunder that could reach even the gods clashed violently.
Gooo!
Baririri! Bachichichichichichi!
A standoff!
“Gaaah! Burn to ashes!”
Atsuku, scorched by the surging lightning, continued to stretch out his right hand.
A sound echoed as if it had burst from the overwhelming heat.
And there stood Atsuku,
while Rainer lay prostrate on the ground.
“It’s over, huh… young pup.”
The right hand that had been there was now nothing but a memory.
Yet heat still lingered in the left hand.
A current sufficient to kill a person.
“Die already.”
With a staggering gait like a specter, he approached Rainer.
“Old man! …Die! Yaaah!”
A jolt of electricity from just a fingertip
pierced straight through Atsuku.
“Such a thing can’t possibly work on me!?”
The ceremonial tool of enjoyment had broken due to exceeding its capacity in the earlier fierce battle.
“Buuut! This little bit!?”
Atsuku drew closer, even while being struck by the lightning.
“You fool… you’ve fallen right into my trap.”
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Towards the heat, electric shocks come flying from all around.
“Gaahhh!”
Atsuku, overwhelmed by the electric shock beyond his limits, loses consciousness.
“The needle I threw first was a magical tool, one that stores electricity of a nature opposite to what I use. I tossed it around you, and that’s how
you, receiving the electricity, ended up taking the hit.”
Rynel stands up on trembling knees.
“I win.”
And then, dragging his battered body, he moves deeper inside.