Soul Devourer Chapter 4 Episode 55 — Simultaneous Transfers
In my battle against Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Dragon, my ability to cast magic had been completely sealed by the effects of Mythical-grade items.
But once their users died, that effect seemed to vanish.
That was why I had been able to counter Haoran’s【Lightning Magic】ambush using the combination of【Water Magic】and【Ripple Aegis】.
This time, however, it wasn’t an item suppressing my magic.
It was Haoran himself.
His mysterious Unique Skill had reversed the spell I cast.
And he still hadn’t taken a single step.
With my magic attacks nullified, testing from long range was over.
Close combat.
Observe his reactions up close and determine the nature of his Unique Skill.
I reversed my grip on《Sea Dragon's Naval Aglyphs》and kicked off the ground.
An explosive shockwave trailed behind me.
In less than a breath, I closed the distance and sent a sliding blade toward Haoran’s throat-!
But my killing strike sliced through empty air.
Haoran vanished in an instant.
The next moment, killing intent flared behind me.
Before I could even turn, the tip of a longsword thrust toward my neck.
“-!?”
But it was Haoran’s blade that cut nothing.
A sharp breath escaped him.
Of course it did.
I, too, had vanished from his sight in that instant.
【Warp】.
A limited-distance instantaneous movement skill I obtained after defeating Psyche, the butterfly monster that had been the boss of a B-rank dungeon.
Using it, I avoided Haoran’s attack and took his back.
Yet my blade also struck only air.
Haoran stood roughly ten meters away, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
As we reset our positions, Haoran asked in a low voice,
“…Why can you use that power?”
That power? He must mean【Warp】.
But the way he asked was strange.
It was the reaction of someone seeing another wield the same ability.
Which meant-!
Haoran’s Unique Skill is teleportation-type…?
If so, that would explain the instant relocations.
Relocating the position of magic. Instant movement.
If that were his Unique Skill, then it wouldn’t matter whether the target was a living being or an object.
No distance limitation.
It made sense.
Even among Unique Skills, that was absurdly broken power.
No wonder he was called〘Hunting King • Regalia〙.
I’m ridiculous too… but Haoran’s basically cheating.
Perhaps taking my silence as refusal to answer, Haoran shrugged.
“…Very well. It changes nothing. I will kill you.”
The next instant, he invoked【Lightning Magic】«Raiyu • Thunder Rain».
Countless bolts of lightning were meant to pour down like a storm.
All of them vanished at once.
In the blink of an eye, every bolt reappeared surrounding me at zero distance.
There should have been no escape.
But I had【Warp】.
Just before the lightning struck, I vanished from that spot and closed in on Haoran instead.
With my dagger reversed in my grip, I slashed for his neck again-!
The next moment, I was in the sky.
“…What!?”
I was floating against my will.
No sensation of landing.
My mind couldn’t catch up.
Before I could process it, I sensed presence above me.
I looked up…
Haoran’s longsword flashed like lightning.
My body plummeted toward the ground.
I crashed into the earth, dirt exploding outward.
No pain.
With Haoran’s base stats alone, he couldn’t inflict damage on me.
That wasn’t the issue.
The problem was…
“…Why am I in the sky?”
Haoran had not moved.
Which meant-!
My position itself had been swapped by Haoran’s Unique Skill?
A chill ran down my spine.
Is something like that even possible…?
“…It really is an absurdly broken ability.”
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E/N:
It is a Unique Skill after all, as helpful as it is… If Yuito gets it, he'll dominate every battlefield.
Stay tuned!
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