Chapter 1065: Magic's Bane
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Kujaku knew many people had developed the ability to fly within New Eden, but she would have never imagined some of them had already copied this ability on Earth. From what she kept reading in her reports, it required an enormous amount of mana and wasn't something to be looked at with a discarding gaze.
And then, seeing Kary light up in flames, seemingly without an ounce of pain, made her eyes widen.
Looking past her, she saw Alex grow wings from his back, blood spurting as they did, and she gasped.
"Nantekotta?!" she exclaimed.
Jin-Sil looked at her wide-eyed gaze and laughed to herself.
"Would you mind sliding the roof further back so I can get out, too?" she asked, tapping the Japanese woman's shoulder.
Kujaku looked at her, snapping herself out of her stupor, and nodded. She hurriedly pushed the button again, getting the sunroof to part an extra foot back.
This gave Jin-Sil enough room to climb onto the roof, but with the rapid pace of the car, and the swerving Sakura was performing in the growing morning traffic, it was impossible for her to stand.
"Let me help!" Rì-Chū shouted from inside, slamming his hands on the vehicle's roof.
Roots grew out of his hands, reaching for the railing on both sides of the roof, before forming a harness around Jin-Sil's hips and getting her upright.
Shaking herself a little, to see how stable it was, she smiled and winked at Ri-Chū.
"Thanks, nae sarang," she lovingly called to him.
Ri-Chū immediately turned beet red. He had been studying Korean in his off time, so he could communicate better with Jin-Sil, but also to understand all the little nicknames she gave him.
He pulled back into the vehicle, too shy to respond to her endearing term, but Jin-Sil didn't fault him. She knew he was a shy guy and loved that part of him.
But she couldn't focus on him for the moment. She had more pressing issues.
In the distance, Alex had already reached a point where he could feel the mana blotch in the sky, and his grin grew.
"Got you, you sneaky little bastard," he chuckled.
Alex instantly conjured a barrier to deflect it and closed his wings to dip under the attack, just in case.
And it was a smart call.
The moment the ball of light crashed into his hastily conjured barrier, the latter collapsed on the ball of light like a cloth over a baseball before shattering.
Alex's eyes widened at the sight.
"That energy cancels out mana!" he shouted.
He had seen it clear as day with his perfect mana vision. The moment the two energies interacted, the mana was dispersed like dust in the wind.
"Don't let that shit hit you!" he shouted to Kary, opening his wings again.
Kary saw the barrier break and came to the same conclusion as Alex, although not for the same
reasons.
She knew Alex could conjure sturdy barriers, even if they were thrown hastily like that one. There shouldn't be anything magically powerful enough on Earth to shatter them, at least not
yet.
To see it fold like wet paper at that single ball of energy, she surmised whatever energy that was; it was magic's bane, and she knew better than to let it hit her.
Since she was coming in the same direction as Alex, she swerved to the left, avoiding the ball of light, and relayed the message behind her, boosting her voice with magic.
"Avoid the blast!"
Sakura was too focused on driving away from the threat behind her to hear the shout, but Kujaku reacted for her.
Yanking on the steering wheel, she forced the car into the highway's shoulder as the ball of blue light crashed into an unexpecting car.
The back part of the car suddenly vanished, the seams of the minor explosion shining bright red from the heat, as it lost control and crashed into the middle embankment.
"What the fuck?! That is lethal force! Are they trying to kill us?!"