NOVEL NEXT Episode 110
Episode 110
‘Fuck, the complexion is nice. Bastard.’
This was my first thought when I saw Jeong Ian. The imaginary figure created from my trauma was implemented exactly like a human, let alone mist. There was not a single awkwardness like a mannequin. This bastard, really…
‘I’ve never had such a hard life, so why are you…’
It was the moment I was about to deny it like a reflex. Some kind of premonition ignited my whole body. As if witnessing the moment a fuse burns and rushes towards an explosive, my mood became strangely narrow-minded. So I entrusted baby Ryuseong to Ryuseong and kicked his stomach. Thump!
Before Ryuseong could even question what I was doing, three lines of nail marks appeared on my thigh.
Swish!
Our eyes met right away. The lunatic who rushed in like a feline beast, showing off his skills, and scratched my thigh. Fuck, why are you scratching with your nails when you’re human? Anyway, that bastard’s breath was close enough to touch me, but the next moment, my neck was grabbed and pulled back.
“Ryu…!”
Everything unfolded so quickly that I couldn’t even spit out Ryuseong’s name. Ryuseong rushed towards Jeong Ian, emitting a blue-green and huge streak of light, and Jeong Ian stood in place, tilted his head, and smiled brightly. And colliding again, an explosion burst out…
Boom!
Kwajik!
Ryuseong bounced off like a mortar shell. He flew in a straight line and was buried in the opposite cliff. Fortunately, he didn’t break the left cliff passage, but it was right above that path. It was felt that the attackers who were attacking the Named
In fact, it was the first time Ryuseong was pushed back in the first clash. I had thought at some point that Ryuseong would never be defeated in this world, but…
…But it seemed there was no room for carelessness. It’s an obvious thing that should be in textbooks, but when the enemy is in front of you, you have to do your best unconditionally. The moment Jeong Ian shot out like a grill, I sprinkled a net made with blood magic on his movement path. It was an elaborate trap that took a whopping 3 seconds to formulate. But…!
“Ah, so underhanded!”
Jeong Ian immediately grasped the structure of the net made of flames and tore the core of the magic with his nails, and was trying to fall towards Ryuseong right away. Damn it! At this rate, it seems like my magical skills are also inferior to that bastard…!
‘…Wouldn’t it be better to just leave it all to Ryuseong?’
That’s right. There’s no need for me to face him…
The moment I thought that, I immediately jumped off the cliff.
‘Fuck my pride!’
Why should I run away? Why should I lose the person I love because of you, who is just a false being made from me? No. I hate you, Jeong Ian…!
As I fell, I felt a soft wind enveloping me like silk. But I didn’t feel relieved at all. My head felt like it was going to explode from endlessly formulating equations. Because I had to stop Jeong Ian in midair!
Jeong Ian was tied to a broken rope of the suspension bridge halfway down the cliff thanks to my magic, and he was grinning as if it was fun. That smile was so familiar that it gave me chills. But Ryuseong seemed to be still unconscious, hanging buried in the cliff, and only baby Ryuseong was restlessly alternating between looking at me and Ryuseong.
I sent a telepathic message to baby Ryuseong to protect Ryuseong, and I kept falling, hoping I wouldn’t be too late, and stepped on the suspension bridge that was on the verge of collapsing. And as soon as I threw my whole body, two bodies entangled like ropes in the air at the right time. Kwaddeuk! As soon as I hugged him, Jeong Ian pierced my stomach with his nails, and I strangled Jeong Ian’s neck.
Kkudeudeuk!
I’m not good at physical fights. Still, I was someone who got A grades even in subjects I wasn’t good at, and a skilled SM play practitioner who knew well where the carotid artery was. When I pressed the spot that should never be pressed with all my strength, Jeong Ian’s pupils started to loosen little by little. Yes, well done! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die, Jeong Ian! You deserve to die, die! Die! Die! Die!
It was that moment. Jeong Ian’s pupils, which were loosening and going up, suddenly regained clear vitality, pulled out the nails buried in my stomach, tore my back with the other hand, and clenched his fist with one hand and hit my stomach hard. Fuck, the feeling of my organs spinning… No, I’m losing strength in my hands. I momentarily coughed up blood and lost consciousness, and my body went limp and poured down below the mist. I thought I heard Ryuseong calling my name from above, but I couldn’t remember anything.
As I was losing consciousness like that…
“Lord Demillang! Please come to your senses!”
“Young Master! Please!”
Familiar voices were heard for a moment. As I clawed around like a convulsion, I felt the ground, the bottom. When liquid presumed to be a potion was forcibly poured into my mouth full of blood, I felt nauseous. Are these bastards trying to wake me up or kill me? But the effect was good. I woke up turning my head to vomit what was inside, and the surroundings started cheering. I quickly got up to escape from the scene of Kirill and Ivan Karpin smiling brightly. There was a bandage wrapped around my stomach over a wound fixed with a stapler. They seemed to have treated it so the organs wouldn’t flow out. And around me, there were people with pathetic and oozing thick soup, looking at me with anxious and joyful eyes. Were there this many survivors?
Looking around roughly, the rescue operation seemed stable. But it wasn’t time to be relieved. It was even more so when thinking about what would be happening above. I bit my lip and tried to get up right away, but clutched my stomach and crouched.
Kirill said to me,
“Don’t move!”
“No, I have to go. If not, ugh…”
“When you’re bleeding like this…”
“If I don’t go, you’ll all die.”
Honestly, I wanted to cry. I didn’t want to fight. I didn’t want to experience my body being torn to shreds and pierced. But this body is Cassice’s, so at least I have to pay the price for living as Cassice’s body. At least I have to protect what he wanted…
‘So, I have to become the head of the Demillang family and be filial to my parents.’
Fuck. It sucks. I didn’t even want to come, but I have to pay the price. But once I saw Cassice Demillang’s past, now that it has become like this, I had no choice. I couldn’t refuse. I had to rush in.
“Something might fall off while fighting. Be careful not to get hit in the head.”
“Are you really going? In that state…?”
“I’m used to it.”
That’s a lie. There’s no way it’s okay to be used to this kind of thing.
But if I’m Cassice Demillang.
Because I think he would have wanted to smile like this.
“It’s okay.”
There was nothing more to say. I jumped up right away. And I started using lightness skill as if kicking the cliff with my feet. When I let mana flow into my meridians, my lower abdomen started trembling again, thump, thump, as if feeling a heartbeat. Unstable mana. Still, this world that I can use if I suppress it… I thought it wasn’t bad.
To keep living, I had to kill Jeong Ian.
Finally emerging from the misty view, I jumped up above it.
I saw Ryuseong fighting Jeong Ian with the rising sun as his halo.
It was overwhelming.
In other words, Jeong Ian was overwhelming.
But it wasn’t impossible to win. If our combined attack matched well, maybe we could face him.
But that’s when it happened.
Jeong Ian smiled sweetly at me, then stretched out his hand like that and shot flames towards somewhere…
But where is that place? Without knowing, I followed with my eyes where the flames were flying. Because it was fired in such an unexpected direction.
Not me, not Ryuseong, not baby Ryuseong, a place without enemies. Then what is there?
I turned my head. Then I saw it.
The Named
“No way…!”
At that moment, Jeong Ian let out a loud laugh.
But I know. If
Mirror’s head began to roll off.
And the dungeon exploded.