02. A visitor from the future (18)

Yoon Seo-hee raised her golden thunderbolt and opened her mouth.

“Any more helpful information?”

“That boss monster can move by riding on its shadow. You have to make light.”

“This is information I already know. And?”

“I’m a half-spirited half-horse type. Only anti-demon properties can deal meaningful damage.”

“Half spirit half horse?”

“Half-soul, half-demon.”

That’s why you need an aura that is effective for the spiritual body, and you need an anti-demon attribute that works well for demons.

The representative anti-horse attributes are holy, fire, and thunder.

It doesn’t reach the holy attribute, but even the thunder attribute aura is close to the level of the anti-horse chin-up.

So even if the death knell sword was broken, I thought she would be fine if Yoon Seo-hee was there.

“Bitter, it seems that there is less damage than I thought?”

The boss monster emerges from the other side of the darkness.

Even if they were hit by a miss, they were fed even white lightning, but when they saw the enemy moving normally, Seohee Yoon clicked her tongue and aimed her sword at her.

“Not really. It’s just that it’s tougher than you think.”

As Baek Ji-soo lightly swung his staff, several light orbs were created and erased the shadows of the four people.

In a library, there are many landmarks such as bookshelves, so even if you make light, it is unreasonable to completely remove the darkness.

In that case, in order to erase the fear of being attacked, it was best to erase at least the shadows under your feet and preserve your magic power.

“Don’t move from this spot. Understand?”

If you get out of the light orb, a shadow will be formed, and then the enemy can aim at your back.

At Baek Ji-soo’s stern voice, Lee Byung-jun only nodded.

“Oh, okay.”

At that moment, several daggers suddenly flew out of the darkness and aimed at Lee Byung-jun’s neck.

Tingting! The golden trail bounced off the dagger, and red sparks flew.

Yoon Seo-hee brought out her words with a displeased look, furrowing her beautiful brow.

“That’s sloppy… Baek Ji-soo, don’t you have any offensive means?”

“… I can’t use anti-demon magic yet.”

“Anyway, there is no way, right?”

Baek Ji-soo couldn’t deny it and bit his lower lip.

If only the deep roots of the World Tree were intact without losing skills and stats, a boss monster like that would have been enough alone.

With her current physical condition, which has become even weaker than she was 10 years ago, as well as 10 years later, she could do nothing but assist Yoon Seo-hee in her battle.

“Baek Ji-soo. Can you protect these two without me?”

“As for defense… Yoon Seo-hee, can you?”

“If you stay like this, nothing will change.”

In the first place, concentrating only on her defense did not suit Yoon Seo-hee’s personality.

As the saying goes, the best defense is offense, now is the time to bet.

“I’ll ask for help!”

Leaving her words behind, Yoon Seo-hee ran in front of her holding her golden ribbon.

A stabbing wrapped in an aura was fired at the boss monster.

Slowly – But the boss disappeared into the darkness as if he had waited, and only Yoon Seo-hee was left alone in the dark.

She didn’t have to be afraid. If it’s her own feeling, she can sense her guy wherever it pops up.

“Whoa….”

Concentrate your consciousness.

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Just like when Yoon Seo-hee sparred with Lee Hyeon-woo, she pushed herself to the realm of the object that her body reacts to before she thought.

In the darkness, a dagger painted black flew in to pierce his throat.

But the attack had already been caught in her senses from the first time it flew.

Chaeeng! The clear sound of metal clashing echoes. The sword wrapped in aura perfectly cut the dagger of the boss monster, and Yoon Seo-hee thrust her sword into her open chest.

Booung-! The boss monster narrowly avoided that fatal blow with acrobatic movements that bent its waist up to 90 degrees.

‘Avoid this?’

A boss monster that back tumbles and tries to disappear into the darkness again.

However, it was a bit faster for the blank flashbangs to fly.

“Close your eyes!”

Puff, puff! A bright cluster of lights exploded like a firecracker, dispelling the surrounding darkness.

「Heuuu!!」

The boss monster covers his face with his hands in the violence of pure white light that makes it hard to even open his eyes.

Leaving behind the group of bright lights, Yoon Seo-hee closed her eyes, raised her sword and charged.

“Haaa!”

The thrust shot like a thunderbolt accurately aims at the boss monster’s heart.

Sweet love! A golden trail cutting through the atmosphere. The boss monster held her dual daggers in reverse and clashed head-on with Yoon Seo-hee.

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Jjaeng-! A violent crash that is different from the previous ones. Swords collided with swords, magic with magic, and objects around them were shattered and scattered.

Although his hair was blown and messed up by the aftermath of his magical powers, Lee Byung-joon didn’t even think to tidy it up and just stared blankly at the fight in front of him.

An epic battle between Yoon Seo-hee, who she vaguely thought was her classmate, and her boss monster.

There seemed to be nothing he could do here.

“Hugh… !!”

「Quaaa!!」

Yoon Seo-hee battled her boss monster with all her might and drew out her full strength.

Honestly, it was more tolerable than I thought.

I was very nervous because it was a boss monster that even an A-class hunter couldn’t catch alone, but maybe it was because he was so shrewd that he only made surprise attacks, so I felt like I could do it in a head-to-head battle.

Perhaps the fact that I hit the white lightning in the first place unexpectedly caused him to accumulate damage.

“Huh, hahahaha… !”

The problem was that Yoon Seo-hee’s physical strength was gradually reaching its limit.

She’s a style that hits her explosive magic instantly, so it’s not suitable for her long-term battle, much less a monster that eats up Aura.

From the very beginning, she started using her unique ceremonies to cut her magical powers in half, and even then, her limbs’ muscles trembled while maintaining her aura throughout the battle.

Awakened people are only human. It’s not wise for her to bet her stamina against a boss monster.

If she repeats giving and receiving one sum like now, her own magic power will be exhausted first.

The moment when you have to throw a betting number, even if it’s a little too much.

Yoon Seo-hee hardened her heart.

“Baek Ji Soo! Earn me just three seconds!”

Without waiting for an answer, she took a giant leap behind her, retrieving her sword.

Baek Ji-soo also followed her instructions straight away without saying anything.

A high level magic formula.

Bongmajin (封魔陣).

A magic circle formed under the boss monster’s feet and a white chain stretched out.

Charleureureuk! The extended chain tightly wrapped around the boss monster’s arms, legs, neck and waist.

「Heuuu!!」

When the boss monster struggles and tries to break her chain.

“… ….”

Yoon Seo-hee slowly lowered her body and put her left foot forward and her right foot behind her.

Her left hand was placed near her chest as if to help, and the right hand holding her sword was pulled straight from her waist, like a taut bowstring.

The tiles on the floor cracked as he exerted a lot of strength on his heels.

A suffocating silence ensued just before the power of the whole body exploded.

“Sup, ha….”

Inhale deeply, exhale again.

And a flash of light.

“Haaa!!”

For the second time today, the thunderbolt.

Yoon Seo-hee shoots in front of her with her lightning speed and throws her golden ribbon.

The thunderbolts that split into a hundred forks came together again at the tip of the sword, forming a vivid golden flash.

「Kuhhhhh!!」

At that moment, the boss monster responded to the speed of the white lightning, cutting off the chains that wrapped around her body.

Kwajik! Clink! The chain breaks and twists her whole body at the same time.

Like the first time he was hit by a white lightning, he was trying to avoid the trajectory of the thrust.

‘I expected it!’

She knew it would. Yoon Seo-hee threw her sword and twisted her waist in the air as it was being shot.

Kwaduk! As she tries to rotate her body while maintaining her acceleration, her tremendous centrifugal force is applied to her entire body.

Under the pressure that made it difficult for her to breathe properly, Yoon Seo-hee tightly gripped the handle of her sword and continued her white lightning thrust into a spinning slash.

Yoon Seo-hee focuses on stabbing, but she can’t just stab.

Because the Golden Lantern is a double-edged sword, it is possible to change it into a slash by inserting a fake pretending to stab.

So if I had to give this technique a name.

“Baekroe―, Ran (亂)!!”

The trajectory of brilliant gold turns 360 degrees and draws a beautiful circle.

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Jwajwajwajwajwa! A bolt of lightning that stretched out in a hundred directions rushed at the boss monster in an instant.

There seemed to be no way for the boss monster to avoid that big and beautiful flat slash.

「Huh」

So instead of trying to dodge the boss monster’s attack.

Dropping the dagger in her hand, she pointed her empty right hand at Yoon Seo-hee.

‘What… !?’

Yoon Seo-hee felt uneasy about the reason, but it was already too late for her.

A huge explosion of flame occurred around the palm of the boss monster.

–

“Cough, Cough… !”

Baek Ji-soo coughed lightly in the dark smoke and controlled his breath.

‘This smoky acting… carbon monoxide?’

Then it was dangerous to keep breathing in the smoke. Aside from the Awakened girls and Lee Byung-jun, there was a possibility that the civilian librarian would die from carbon monoxide poisoning.

Baek Ji-soo swung her cane and the wind cleared her smoke.

The horrors revealed as the smoke cleared were gruesome.

The library no longer took on the shape of a library due to the strong explosion.

High bookshelves were overturned and shattered or blown away by the explosion, and numerous books were all burnt to the ground on the ground.

Perhaps they were hit by flying debris or the shock of an explosion, Kim Soo-jin and Lee Byung-joon were also lying unconscious.

And the girl who was in the middle of the explosion.

Yoon Seo-hee flew to the corner of the library and hung her head as if she was buried in the wall.

Her body twitching intermittently and her chest quivering with light breathing let her know that she was barely holding her breath.

She looked like she was holding on to the handle of the broken sword, wondering where the half of the sword she had treasured so much had gone.

“Yoon, Seo Hee… !”

Baek Ji-soo tried to reach her after she collapsed, but her tinnitus and dizziness rang in her ears, so she lost her strength in her legs and sat down on her floor.

Because of the shock of the explosion, even the blank index was not safe.

「Huh….」

The boss monster slowly walked out of the wreckage.

The hood and cape, which were already tattered, became even more tattered, and the right upper body was charred, so the opponent was never normal.

There was nothing Baek Ji-soo could do in this situation.

She couldn’t do any damage to that boss on her own.

Did I err in judgment?

Am I losing my life and future adversary like this because I made the wrong choice?

‘… No, no.’

Even so, I couldn’t give up like this.

The time of 10 years that I was able to return because my teacher and sister-in-law gave everything.

I haven’t changed anything yet, but I can’t sit idle in a place like this.

These are teachers and sisters, countless people who resisted destruction.

And it’s an insult to those who are about to die.

‘Spatial Transition… No, I don’t have enough magic power.’

Right before the explosion, most of the mana was lost because Yoon Seo-hee and the others were cast defensive spells.

For magic that can be used with the remaining magic power, there are only a few lower spells.

But if necessary, I had to take my time with it.

Baek Ji-soo trembled and forcibly raised her legs.

I, too, clutched my cane that had been broken in half, pursed my lips and strained my eyes.

“Heh, ugh… !”

Forcing my heart to break with despair, I aimed my staff at the approaching boss monster.

If this moment is truly my death, I will resist to the end.

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Just like my teacher and sister did until they died.

As she made up her resolve and prepared herself to fight, a magical power familiar to Baek Ji-soo touched her senses.

She’s not used to it, so it feels like her own… This was really her own magic.

A cluster of white light forms in the air.

“Ah.”

Baek Ji-soo stopped breathing without realizing it.

As the twinkling lights calmed down, the boy I had seen before fell from the sky.

With one hand clutching a dark ink sword, both eyes were staring straight at the boss monster.

“Caught.”

Kim Yi-jin swung her sword without hesitation.

The stars all over the sky shone brightly as if in response.