Episode 120 Week 7 Mentoring, In-person Battle (5)
It was already a public fact that Kim Ho mainly used wind magic.
I’ve watched them with my own eyes, meeting them as enemies or allies all the time, and even in the last sticker battle, the contribution of wind magic was quite significant.
It was a versatile skill that properly assisted Hong Yeon-hwa at dangerous moments and interfered with Dang Gyu-yeong’s movements.
However, since the wind is not visible, it is difficult to gauge its actual power.
Rather than saying that the skill itself is powerful, I felt that Kim Ho used the control well and used it in the right place at the right time.
So I thought I could somehow endure it even if I used wind magic,
-Whew—
“Eww—”
Too strong!
Hong Yeon-hwa was once again pushed to the side, unable to withstand the strong wind blowing.
No matter how hard I tried to stand in place, I just couldn’t.
Kim Ho approaches after shaking Hong Yeon-hwa a couple of times.
Hong Yeon-hwa activated the magic circle by snapping her fingers even though she was absent-minded.
– Kwaaaaah—!
Kim Ho retreated to avoid the rising pillar of fire.
He dodges the large fireballs that fly in one after another, and then lightly slashes with the short spear he’s holding.
-Whew—
“Ugh—”
If you keep getting dragged around like this, you will get further and further away from the place where the magic circle was placed.
There is no point in holding a sit-in.
Hong Yeon-hwa, who was thinking that she had to hold on somehow, looked around and something suddenly came to mind when she saw a nearby tree.
‘Tree! Root!’
A tree with deep roots in the ground will not be shaken even by strong winds!
Using his enhanced physical abilities from overheating, he dug one foot deep into the ground.
-Whew—
The hastily-conceived idea surprisingly worked, and although Hong Yeon-hwa’s body shook back and forth, she was not pushed away.
As she was trying to balance her tottering body and shoot out fireballs and arrows,
-Whew!
The wind blew even harder.
Then, Hong Yeon-hwa’s body, which had been shaking back and forth, tilted greatly to one side and fell to the floor with a thud.
“… … .”
“… … .”
Hong Yeon-hwa thought while lying face down.
‘Someone put some dirt on top… … .’
I want to use this place as my grave.
And wouldn’t the tombstone read something like this?
Hong Yeon-hwa, sleeps here as a nun.
But unfortunately, her wish did not come true.
Kim Ho also seemed to wait quietly without attacking any further.
That doubled Hong Yeon-hwa’s shame.
‘You might as well come and get some crystals… … .’
But it was equally embarrassing to just keep lying down like that, so Hong Yeon-hwa eventually got up, staggering.
Kim Ho was looking at him with an indifferent expression as always, but now his eyes seemed to be filled with sympathy.
There is only one way to escape this awkward atmosphere.
‘Pah, Fire! Arrow!!’
– Whoosh whoosh!
The goal is to resume combat as soon as possible.
Only after Hong Yeon-hwa fired her fire arrow did Kim Ho-do begin to move.
When Hong Yeon-hwa checked her location, she found that she was already quite far from where she had first settled down.
No matter how many magic circles you set up, she won’t be protected unless she stands in the center of them.
If you are outside the fortress, there is no point in building the fortress in the first place.
So Hong Yeon-hwa continued to shoot fire arrows and tried to return to her original position,
-Whew—
“Ugh.”
The wind blew against her as if it was out of the blue, making her take a step back.
It was already too late to go back, so Hong Yeon-hwa activated the magic circles nearby to restrain Kim Ho.
– Kwaaaaah—!
Every time the pillar of fire rose, the magic circle continued to shrink until it was eventually completely consumed.
Now, when Kim Ho approaches, we have no choice but to engage in close combat.
‘But this… … .’
[Crystal 73%]
I suddenly checked the scoreboard and saw that the charging was almost finished.
Although it was not intentional, even as Hong Yeon-hwa collapsed and writhe in shame, Crystal continued to recharge.
‘If I just hold on a little longer like this… … ?’
And if you charge just 27% more, isn’t that your victory?
It seemed as if the dying spark of hope was rekindled.
Meanwhile, Kim Ho also glanced at the scoreboard and seemed to realize that he didn’t have much time left.
Within a short while, he began to close the distance with a slithering movement, as if he was sliding across the floor.
‘Don’t come!’
– Whoosh whoosh!
Hong Yeon-hwa threw fireballs and swung her lava whip, but Kim Ho dodged them by a hair’s breadth.
Then, he closed the distance right in front of her nose and lightly grabbed her arm.
Soon, Hong Yeon-hwa felt a floating sensation as if her body was floating, and she saw Kim Ho quickly moving away.
As it turned out, it wasn’t Kim Ho who was moving away, but himself who was flying backwards.
What about holding on a little longer?
‘That can’t be happening aaaaaaa—’
Hong Yeon-hwa flew back for a while, then gradually slowed down on her own and landed lightly on the spot.
It seemed that Kim Ho was considerate enough to use wind magic to avoid rolling around.
The problem was that the light from the sanctuary no longer shined on him.
Because it went out of range, the connection between the sanctuary and the crystal was severed.
The energy stored in the crystal began to leak out, and the light it held quickly faded away.
[Crystal 65%]
[Crystal 61%]
[Crystal 56%]
The charging level drops in real time.
The discharge rate is several times faster than the charging rate.
Hong Yeon-hwa tried to return to the sanctuary in a hurry, but Kim Ho, who had followed her, blocked her path.
“… … .”
Kim Ho was speaking with his eyes.
If you want to get through, try to get through me.
Hong Yeon-hwa became sad.
‘You want me to go through that?’
Somehow, I felt like the conversation was becoming more and more frustrating.
But anyway, the conclusion was already decided from the beginning.
Even if you lose, you gain something more and learn something.
If he had been thinking of giving up, he would have done so before the duel even began, when Dang Gyu-yeong paired the two together.
Hong Yeon-hwa steeled her resolve once again.
‘… …Let’s think of it as a sticker battle.’
Even though Dang Gyu-yeong was an opponent that he could never defeat, didn’t he exploit a tiny opening and remove the sticker?
This time, you never know.
Could such a small gap arise?
– Hururuk!
Hong Yeon-hwa held a wand that had turned into a lava whip in one hand, and raised a fireball in the other hand.
And at the same time as he threw the fireball, he swung his whip and kicked the ground.
The plan was to draw Kim Ho’s attention twice and then escape through the weak defense.
“… … .”
Kim Ho easily dodged the flying flame magic spells and then kicked the ground to block her path.
Hong Yeon-hwa immediately stopped and changed direction, but continued attacking.
– Whoosh whoosh!
With both hands, he casts spells,
Both feet move quickly left and right, diagonally,
With both eyes fixed on Kim Ho, he tries to find a way out somehow.
As a result,
‘That’s… … .’
Hong Yeon-hwa could see Kim Ho’s weaknesses growing bigger little by little.
The movements also feel strangely unnatural.
As the attack continued, the area gradually became engulfed in flames, and Kim Ho moved to avoid the flames.
This is in line with the implicit condition he had set when accepting Hong Yeon-hwa’s hand-to-hand fight, which was to take damage from fire magic.
A gap that is growing bigger and bigger.
After continuing to watch it and continue the attack, Hong Yeon-hwa finally found the best timing.
‘now!’
He kicks the ground hard and it shoots out diagonally towards Kim Ho.
Then, as if he had been waiting, Kim Ho began to sing.
-Whew—
‘Oh, wait. No way.’
So you intentionally exposed a loophole this time too?
Looking back, there was no way that monstrous human being would have shown any weakness just because there was a small fire nearby.
Hong Yeon-hwa was so impatient that she fell into a simple trap.
A gust of wind containing physical force quickly shot out, shaking the red lotus flower violently.
She stumbled and followed the momentum of the movement, and ended up hitting her head on a large tree.
“… … .”
Hong Yeon-hwa crouched down, holding the part she had hit.
Kim Ho asked as he approached.
“Sorry, are you okay?”
“Dog, what are you doing… … .”
In fact, nothing was okay.
Although her eyes were slightly teary, Hong Yeon-hwa tried to pretend like nothing happened.
“What the hell is going on here?”
Dang Gyu-yeong emerged from hiding.
I had no intention of intervening until the two of them finished their duel, but I had to show up in this absurd situation.
Dang Gyu-yeong crouched down next to Hong Yeon-hwa and examined the place where she had been hit.
“Look at the head… … . Oh my, it’s big.”
And then he narrows his eyes and glares at Kim Ho.
In fact, this was an accident, and it was more Hong Yeon-hwa’s fault for moving too violently and hitting her head.
But in Dang Gyu-yeong’s view, that malicious wind magic was absolutely wrong.
Therefore, Kim Ho’s fault was 100 to 0.
Dang Gyu-yeong made a decision while looking at the swelling lump.
“This won’t work. Get out for now. Go out and go to the infirmary, and have Song Cheon-hye and Gwak Ji-cheol come in.”
