Chapter 691

Chapter 691

Even Leeha himself is resorting to creating baits out of Jellypong and Kojobu’s glasses. Having acquired a polymorph that does not use mana long ago— moreover, as a magic prodigy within the dark elf race that leaves others in awe— it wouldn’t be impossible for Kaztor.

“What’s crucial isn’t that, but rather how we can inflict damage. To suddenly find it—wait, Jellypong! Over there! Just lift me up high once!”

[Myong!]

Leeha pulled on the lever. Clink!

With a sound, a bullet was loaded. At the same moment, he felt his body being lifted.

This wasn’t a Blaugrunn-induced levitation. It was literally just Jellypong tossing him up forcefully. Yet, Leeha kept his composure.

Because he’d spotted Kaztor without even needing to use the scope.

‘Huuuuuh... Guess I should start with a proper greeting?’

Leeha steadied his breath. The stability his body regained in mid-air would last less than half a second.

That moment, just before peaking and beginning the free fall.

“Haaa...”

Leeha didn’t miss that brief moment.

The moment he pulled the trigger, a massive gunshot echoed over the skies of Ezwen.

“Piercing through—!!!”

Kaztor staggered. Yet, that was all.

Black smoke seeped from the hole in his chest.

“Damn it! Let’s chase after him! And-”

[Myong-!]

“[Soul Link] and [Summon: Partner]!”

Leeha simultaneously summoned Koma and Blaugrunn.

Shocked by the sudden gunshot, Ezwen’s skies had players and 148 NPCs shielding their eyes from the sudden burst of turquoise and red lights.

“Crazy, its speed hasn’t decreased. No, rather than slowing down...”

Stumbling, Kaztor tried to flee, but the Ezwen guards couldn’t handle even one injured person. He didn’t wave a staff but merely fluttered their hands in the air, yet the dark arrows shot pierced the guards’ hearts with precision.

“Leeha?”

“Kuoong?”

“Everyone, stop whining and chase after him! Out of the city walls!”

Blaugrunn, along with Koma, no longer hesitated, used levitation magic on everyone to pursue Kaztor.

“Blaugrunn! With magic! We must catch him!”

“Understood!”

“Koma, you too! Seize any chance to strike at his limbs!”

“Kuooong-!”

In the center of Ezwen’s Cathedral, Kaztor, who had started his escape, had already reached near the city walls.

“Before he escapes further—we must catch him before he uses teleportation!”

Although Leeha was fast, the gap between Kaztor and Leeha’s group wasn’t closing. The moment Kaztor stood before the walls, ready to leap, Leeha noticed cloaks fluttering oddly.

There were three of them; Leeha recognized them immediately.

“Those, those are- the ones from back then! Were they not suspicious individuals but Kaztor’s aides!?”

The suspicious ones they had lost while trailing with Kidd! To appear at this moment of all times!

Leeha clenched his teeth.

“The Papacy might handle the firing at Kaztor but—those guys... Ah, forget it! Fire anyways!”

Rules prohibited gunfire within the town, but Leeha couldn’t hesitate. The moment he pulled the trigger, a familiar voice reached his ears.

“So it’s the young marksman from that time. Have you forgotten the coin I gave you?”

Eh? Wha- What??

Flutter...

They threw off their cloaks in one smooth motion.

Two men stood revealed: one with white hair and scar, a shortsword wielder, and the other a middle-aged man wielding two wands, as Leeha had seen before.

Yet, the identity of another, whose cloak fluttered awkwardly—?

“Le- Lepanto! Sir Lepanto!”

“No, that’s not possible. I’ll kill you and solve the secret of Matan’s Shooter.”

“How? Even God couldn’t know that. Ask the Demon King’s Fragments? Those things are merely pieces after all. No one but me... nobody can know.”

“Hm?”

Listening to Kaztor’s story, Leeha tilted their head slightly. God? A Demon King’s Fragment?

These were names that had unexpectedly popped up, ones Leeha hadn’t even considered.

“I should have killed you from the start. You...that filthy gaze. The day we first met at the Royal Archives, I should have killed you then. But, luckily...”

“Luck? What luck are you talking about? Keeping me alive has been quite entertaining, hasn’t it? It’s too late for regrets now. What matters is, Kaztor, you’re finished.”

As Leeha spoke, one corner of Kaztor’s lips twisted into a smirk.

“Luckily, I can kill you in my preferred way. Dea-“

Just as Kaztor was about to complete his sentence, Leeha swiftly raised my hand.

“Gentlemen! Thank you for buying us time! Blaugrunn, Kidd-“

The battle between the heroes who went missing after the Second War of Humans and Demons and Kaztor was over in less than three minutes. The reason Leeha had been exchanging words with Kaztor until now?

Of course, there was a reason.

“-And Lieutenant!”

“Magnificent Six.”

“The Wild Bunch.”

Kidd and Browless simultaneously activated their barrage skills.

How many souls converged into two due to ‘Rapid Shot’? How many bullets were fired by them?

80!

Amid the incessant gunfire, Leeha Black Bass also contributed its roar. Kaztor couldn’t even speak. He was unable to move his hand.

To Kidd, Browless, and Leeha, he was nothing more than a ‘large target’ floating in the air, a difficult one to miss.

“Capture him! Blaugrunn! Hurry and capture him! This is just delaying the inevitable!”

Yet, Leeha did not look pleased. This relentless attack was meant to shatter Kaztor’s spirit so that he couldn’t cast his magic!

The most crucial aspect was about the capture and paralyzing magic that Leeha had mentioned earlier to Blaugrunn. Blaugrunn remained unresponsive to Leeha’s urging.

“The duration is about to end, hurry!”

“The dragon’s response is still-“

“Just a bit more! Even if the skills end, use regular bullets-“

The duration of Kidd and Browless’ skills nearly ended simultaneously. Leeha also reloaded and indiscriminately spewed bullets towards Kaztor.

“Blaugrunn! Please- no more- Kidd, block it! Block it with your body, catch Kaztor!”

“Krrrrr!”

Suddenly, ignited by Ignis’s power, Koma’s thighs swelled as if they were about to burst.

A cyan light that had been gathering in the form of a dragon’s body for two full minutes finally condensed.

“[Electric Jail: Mana Pool Charge]”

That explained why Blaugrunn’s magic took so long. Dragons had long known that ordinary magic could not bind him.

‘Okay, it worked! Although it’s Juvenile-class, Blaugrunn’s mana, which is close to Adult-class-‘

But Kaztor was already staring them down, standing upright. The moment he attempted to swing his arm, the cub, transformed into a bear by Ignis’s power, struck it down. With a single hit, Kaztor’s left arm was completely severed.

“Half-dead, dow-“

Yet, he did not stop. His body, riddled with holes and less than 40% intact, whether it could still be called a “body” I wasn’t sure, but he moved his remaining limb nonetheless.

As space tore apart, Kaztor disappeared. The prison of lightning blazed intensely in the air, but it was a spell already lost its target.

“Ah...crap.”

“Damn.”

Tsstsstssts-...!

Someone cursed loudly, but only the sound of the electric prison burning echoed emptily. In the spot where Kaztor had completely vanished, only Leeha and Kidd’s bodies were glowing faintly.

[Your level has increased.]

However, neither of them smiled.

Kaztor, who had turned the headquarters of the Ezwen Church to ruins and caused the unprecedented incident of the Pope’s death in the history of Middle Earth, just disappeared from their sight like that.