Book 2: 265

Book 2: Chapter 265

Translator: Seven

Editors: Ana_Banana, Yahiko

Min Ha-rin struggled to hold her breath under the pressure that was crushing her entire body.

“If I wanted to keep playing around, I wouldn’t have submerged this area.”

After capturing the two who had been annoying him the most, Nodiesop looked around one more time before he finished them off once and for all.

Lukas’ presence... He still couldn’t feel it. This caused him to be increasingly more certain about his suspicions.

Was he no longer on this island? Maybe he’d thrown these pieces of trash out to distract him so that he could quietly leave the island. Right. That was a judgment that was worthy of an Absolute. After all, it was extremely foolish for a being like an Absolute to risk their life just to save a few mortals when they could save dozens of universes in the future.

Arid was a bit further away.

He was also underwater, and he was currently glaring at Nodiesop with wide eyes.

That was all he could do. Unfortunately for Arid, there was nothing someone like him, who specialised in support, could do to reverse the current situation.

‘The Priestess... is over there.’

He couldn’t see her, but he could sense her.

But in the next moment, Nodiesop’s expression became stiff.

‘Where’s Sedi?’

Clang!

Just as he had this thought, he felt a tremendous impact and pain at the same time.

In an instant, Nodiesop’s body shot through the water before soaring into the sky.

“Cough...!”

He spat out a mouthful of blood.

With wide eyes, he looked beneath him. There, he found the missing Sedi.

He couldn’t understand. His vigilance towards her... while it couldn’t be compared to Lukas and the Priestess, he had still been paying close attention to her.

Enough that he should have been able to immediately notice if she tried to do anything funny.

‘This much power...’

She would have needed to build up for at least a few minutes in order to unleash such an attack. Right. It was possible that he’d missed that.

However, was it possible for him to miss Sedi’s approach with the intent to attack? In water no less?

‘...was it the Priestess? Or Arid?’

He wasn’t sure. But he knew that it was one or even both of them.

Whoosh!

At the very least, as long as they were able to kill his body, they would be able to defeat him, regardless of whether they managed to kill him or not. (Note: Just in case anyone is confused, killing Nodiesop and killing his body are separate)

“My demonic energy is currently interfering with his body. So he will have to use his external force to deal with it first. This should decrease the amount of external force he can use from now on, even if it’s only a little.”

Rumble-

Suddenly the water around them began to surge again and the water level gradually began to rise. Then, in the blink of an eye, a huge wall of water that seemed to cover their field of vision appeared.

It became dark.

The wall of water, which was at least a few tens of meters tall, was created in an instant.

“...what did you just say?”

“...at least it didn’t reach the sky like last time...”

Sedi muttered in a sheepish tone and Min Ha-rin had to suppress the urge to roll her eyes. Right. In a sense, it was clear that his power was much weaker.

But as Nodiesop said, although his power had been restricted several times, he was still not an opponent they could easily deal with.

Min Ha-rin once again realised just how ridiculous the beings known as Absolutes were.

The good news was that despite coming to this realisation, her will to fight didn’t disappear.

“But how will we attack him while he’s in the sky?”

There was still a limit to what she could do with magic. Min Ha-rin didn’t think Nodiesop would stay in place and wait for her to come to him.

Leo was also incapable of flying or even attacking from a distance, which made the situation even more frustrating.

However, Sedi responded in a nonchalant manner.

“Ah- That’s fine. He’ll be coming down soon.”

“What?”

Paht-

Suddenly, a red beam of light shot from somewhere on the ground and instantly pierced Nodiesop’s stomach.

The beam had moved so quickly and with such force that it seemed to tear apart space itself.

“...!”

Min Ha-rin’s eyes went wide. She’d heard about something like this from Lukas not long ago.

Was it a similar technique? No. That wasn’t it. Min Ha-rin was currently 7 stars and it seemed that she wasn’t very far from reaching 8-stars.

The point was that her perception was completely different from before.

That beam of light that pierced through Nodiesop was a skill that every Wizard wanted to obtain.

A power that could only be used by those who had reached the very end of the path of magic.

Absolute Power. (1)

“Ma...ster...?”

(Note:

1.If you guys can remember, Absolute Power was what separated 9-star Wizards from 8-star Wizards. In Korean, the ‘Absolute’ for Absolute Power is Konglish (????), while the ‘Absolute’ for Absolutes(like Lukas) is ‘???’ which is closer in meaning to ‘Absolute Person/Being’. I just shortened it to Absolute cause I felt saying Absolute Person/Being was too clunky.)