Chapter 173: Unshackled

Name:Weapons of Mass Destruction Author:
Chapter 173: Unshackled

POV Kim Min-Jae

Nylian and Aias immediately disappear in a blast of golden flames that engulf them entirely. The flames exploded toward where Nat was pointing, right at the trio of warriors sitting to his right.

Golden flames devoured everything in their path. A huge part of the room is gone—walls, ceiling, furniture. The door we entered through. All melted from existence, and the remaining uneven edges where the flames struck still glow red-hot.

Even though Nathaniel's attack was pointed away from us, the heat fills the entire room.

I scream from pain as I feel the heat on my skin to the point where serious burns appear on my skin. I smell burned hair; some clothes catch on fire, and I hear multiple members of our group groaning painfully as well as Biscuit howling, surprised by the side effect of Nathaniel's attack.

Our wounds immediately start healing, and I can see them closing in front of my eyes, yet it hurts so much. When I look around I see Lily breathing heavily as she holds her burned hand, Aaron and Dennis also groan in pain.

Then Nathaniel turns toward us, toward the king and the remaining warrior, Edwal, who was able to escape and now stands by the kings side.

Half of Nathaniel's face is burned to the bone, his skin and flesh gone. Burns cover most of the right side of his body, and his right hand is charred and blackened husk.

Yet he doesn't care. He says something in a casual tone, and I feel my heart beat wildly.

Right now, even terribly wounded, he seems invincible, and even though I got wounded by him, I can't help but feel deep admiration for him.

He is everything I always wanted to be.

No one is moving, and I use this opportunity to let the healing aura heal my wounds. It's not as quick as I would like it to be, but it's enough. I'm still able to fight, and half of the enemy forces are gone.

The king and Edwal both look like they don't know what to do or feel. For the first time, I see genuine confusion on their faces, as if they can't understand what happened. They just stare toward where Aias and Nylian were. The only things remaining after them are the beautiful sword and bracelet; my flames were unable to damage them at all.

Yet, it was enough. I compressed the flames as much as possible, massively reducing the area of the explosion, and burned their bodies faster than they were able to regenerate.

The others got hit by heat I wasn't able to control, but that much is fine; it will regenerate fairly quickly.

"This is really confusing. I don't know how to feel," the king shifts the crown on his head, and the remaining warrior only waits for orders. Edwal has lightning cracking around his body, and his initially shocked face smiles again. He forces himself to do so and even laughs shortly as he looks toward where the bracelet and sword are.

I absorb the heat from the room and turn it into kinetic energy, adding more to it. Then I shoot it at the king in a thin cone.

The king ́s head explodes and his body flails around while the crown falls to the ground.

Before I do anything else, the head is back, regenerated at dizzying speed. The king casually bends down, grabs, and puts the crown back on his head, "I consider this dinner to be ruined already, so why don't you take care of your guests, Edwal?"

Immediately I boost my body, and Edwal appears in front of me; his pale blue eyes are cold. His fist hits my chest while he is barely slowed down by [Redistribution].

I crash against the wall, not wounded because of how much mana I'm using to strengthen it. The armor barely forms around my body, and Edwal hits me again. Golden lightning trails his limbs and strikes my body, burning it.

Everywhere the lightning hits me, the wounds heal slower.

I then see Edwal jumping out of the window and flying far into the distance, golden lightning trailing him. Without any hesitation, Tess jumps in a similar way, and the [Lightning Armor] around her body surrounds her in red and white sparks as she pushes herself far ahead. Min-Jae and the twins follow her quickly.

"It's nice to see that Edwal is having some fun; it's tough for him," the king says as he fixes his clothes, his green eyes piercing, and for the first time, he looks like a ruler. Standing here proudly, surrounded by enemies, yet calm and confident.

"Hadwin, take the others and find where the saint is; Lily can kill her with her skill," I take a step toward the king to block him from getting to the others.

In deep [Focus], I take on multiple of his attacks, ignoring the wounds on my body and slowly releasing my mana more and more. It puts pressure on me; it starts hurting me, but I'm getting healed constantly.

When the king rushes at Lily in a last attempt before they get out, I do not even hesitate for a moment. I charge him, my body breaking and healing under the strengthening and my mana.

Then the king moves immensely quickly, much faster than before, and I feel a slash on my legs. Lily screams, and I see my cut-off legs flying through the air.

With a speed that is faster than I was able to reasonably manage, mana rushes through my body. It tears my circuit and hurts my brain. Then, instead of falling to the ground, I take a step and, instead of my cut-off legs, there is a replica made of translucent blue mana that I move as if I would move my body.

Not missing a moment, I kick the king with a leg made of mana and cough up some blood. My head is spinning and I feel like falling down. The king laughs and even says something, but I do not listen.

He also fires a mana projectile at Lily, who is being pulled away by Hadwin. However, a simple purple tentacle appears and effortlessly deflects it, which even surprises me. Biscuit woofs at me once and then disappears around the corner with the others.

I reach toward the ground and pick up a silver bracelet I was moving toward during the entire fight. The laugh immediately stops and he turns his full attention to me. I put the bracelet on my arm at the same moment the king rushes at me while shooting a few projectiles my way.

My [Resonance] activates, and I use the bracelet; I resonate with its mana and connect myself to the item and subsequently directly to the Saint ́s healing aura.

In a flash, my legs are restored and my wounds healed.

"How dare you!" he screams.

I ignore him and release my passives and constructs that were limiting my mana and the entirety of my mana pool reverberates around me. I use it to boost my body, and my limbs explode under the pressure only to be immediately restored. My brain hurts; my heart is tearing apart. But it's all regenerating instantly.

Ignoring the pain, my kick sends the king flying away, the man unable to see my attack at all.

Then I look at my hand and over my palm, an orb forms. Mana rushes inside of it, blue, light blue, and purple, swirling to the point where it starts to shine. The orb immediately fills to the brim while I disregard the wounds it causes me.

And then I do something I wanted to do for a long time. A thing I wanted to try ever since I realized that I might not use one of my skills the way it was intended to be used.

The orb fights against me, held back only by my mind that is getting healed as all of this pressure keeps wrecking it. I activate [Focus] and consolidate it. But this time I do not use it on myself. I turn it toward the mana over my hand. I grab it, I hold it, and then I [Focus] that mana to a much smaller point.

My body screams and regenerates as I do something I shouldn't be able to do at my current level.

The mana that is about to explode stops and the orb becomes even smaller.

Its color changes.

A small black orb hovers over the palm of my hand, and in that pitch-black darkness, tiny sparks shine like stars in the sky.