Chapter 884
“Wow!?”
“If the person who uses the skill is that surprised, it could make people feel uneasy.”
“But it’s amazing, nuna!”
Raphaela looked at the massive eye floating above her head.
It wasn’t precisely formed enough to be called an eyeball. Therefore, even though an eyeball was floating in the air, it didn’t create a sense of disgust.
Rather, its indistinct and blurred boundaries, which naturally blended into the sky, offered a sense of warmth.
“That, that―”
“A buff!? A massive area-of-effect buff!”
“It’s a heal! It includes dot healing too?”
The users were bewildered.
Raphaela had cast the skill at a point in the rear of the battlefront.
Yet, the buffs and heals had reached even the users on the frontline, affecting the entire extended battlefront.
That wasn’t the only surprising aspect.
“Keee―ruuuu―!”
“Grrrr―!”
White sparks were flickering on the surfaces of the chimeras confronting the frontline users.
“Could it be?”
“Does it attack too?”
The light emitted from the eye bestowed positive effects on allies and negative effects on enemies.
And it spanned across the entire battlefront.
“Holy... Raphaela?”
Kijung quietly observed her.
In the rear of the battle line, she was screaming excitedly.
‘Will her image as a Saintess change? It would be better to remain a Saintess than to gain a nickname like ‘God’s Eyeball’.’
Kijung glanced around.
Thanks to Raphaela’s massive area effects, their momentum had significantly diminished.
As the mindless chimeras hesitated, the manticores in the sky began to rampage even more.
―Hyein hyung, Bobae-ssi. How’s the situation?
―The manticores’ command is in turmoil. They’ll have to come closer to the ground, making them easier to target. If one burst from 〈Triple Gravity〉 lands accurately, Bobae’s arrow won’t miss. There are many long-range users also participating.
―Anyway, nothing could compare to my arrow! By the way, who is that Raphaela woman? Kijung, what’s going on with her?
Hyein’s cold analysis and Bobae’s sharp voice came through simultaneously.
Kijung waved his hands frantically.
Although he was quite far from Bobae, he knew that ‘Hawk’s Eye’ wouldn’t miss his actions.
―N, nothing’s going on! Anyway― since the chimeras have been pushed back a bit now...... I’m going to step away for a while.
―Step away? Kay, if you leave―
―Oh! Not logging out...... but stepping away from the battle line.
Kijung conveyed the same message to Tale.
Seeing Hyein’s surprised expression, Tale also looked at Kijung with wide eyes.
They both knew he wouldn’t leave the battle line in such an urgent time if it wasn’t necessary.
“Kay? It might be fine for now, but if you retreat, the morale of the tankers will drop drastically.”
“Ah... I’m not retreating, hyung.”
“Hmm? Then?”
Kijung shifted his gaze from Tale towards the front.
Beyond the central part of the new continent, towards the eastern forest. Kijung stared fiercely in that direction.
“Ghibrid moved back. Suddenly.”
Kijung couldn’t sit back and watch the unusual attack pattern and the precise movement marked on Rubini’s map.
Tale quickly grasped his intention.
“What, what are you thinking―”
Finally, Rubini’s voice began to change.
Without any extra words from her, Kijung reacted immediately. There was only one reason Rubini would suddenly become tense.
―Ghibrid is... spotted on the map. Approximately 800 meters from you, very close.
Around that time, many users had gathered near Rubini in the core of the New Continent.
The sheer size of the holographic map she used caught everyone’s attention.
“Is that... really it?”
“Crazy... How much did you zoom in, dr. Doom?”
“It’s not about the zoom!”
“Then, are you saying that the red dot is practically filling the map?”
More than half of the holographic map was filled with red dots.
What Rubini had found was the beginning of Ghibrid’s power reading; the true center of the dot, Ghibrid’s exact location, wasn’t yet marked on the map.
“Does that mean that’s where Master Kay is?”
“Why is he going there as if it’s a suicide mission?”
From Kijung’s position, what he saw was merely Ghibrid’s “spilling power”.
How much time had passed since he awakened?
Ghibrid, who had regained considerable power, was no longer the feeble Demon King’s Fragment he once was.
“Unni, sister! Can’t you zoom in more? How about moving the map? Focus it here!”
“I can’t do that, Raphaela.”
Rubini couldn’t hide her anxiety while looking at the map. It was something she had already told Kijung.
“What? Why not?”
“The map... is blocking the flow of mana itself. I can’t read any further.”
The map wasn’t updating.
Though she had captured Ghibrid’s “spilling power”, the moment he crossed an unreadable line, even Kijung’s position would no longer be displayed on her map.
All the users, including Rubini, focused on Kijung’s dot.
The dot, moving slowly, finally approached the boundary Rubini couldn’t read beyond.
“He’s going in, he’s going in!”
“Record it!”
“Crazy, if Master Kay dies, those rampaging Chimeras will go wilder!”
As users fussed over it, Kijung’s dot vanished as though it melted away.
Raphaela gnawed at her nails, and Rubini continued to stare at the now unreadable map.
Because of the anxiety that filled her mind.
‘I’m anxious... No, this is strange.’
Why was the flow of mana being blocked? If they could block the flow of mana, why didn’t they do it from the start?
Suddenly, Rubini raised her head.
* * *
―This is strange! If Ghibrid had such an ability, he would have blocked it from the beginning! Chaotically cut off the mana flow on the front lines to hide his position... Agh?!
Her words were cut off mid-whisper.
Kijung’s whisper arrived first.
―That’s right. Because Bluebeard is with them.
Kijung raised his sword. Bluebeard was perched on a rock.
Was it because the sun was still shining? Pyro and Igor weren’t visible. However, in front of Bluebeard stood another man.
“... Holy Knight.”
No longer hiding himself with bandages, the fully revealed Demon King’s Fragment.
“... Ghibrid.”
Kijung locked eyes with Bluebeard and Ghibrid.
Scattered before them were dragon heads of various colors. There were precisely five.
Among them were the heads of a Bronze Dragon, a Silver Dragon, a Steel Dragon, and a Copper Dragon of the Metal clan. Slightly separated from them was a bright red head.
The head of the Ancient red dragon, Kuzgunak’sh.
TL’s Corner:
Is Tiamat going to awaken?