Chapter 65

I Am Not a Reincarnator Chapter 65

Heavy Rain (7)

‘What the fuck.’

A magic power so intense it made his skin tingle.

A chilling shiver ran down his spine.

‘How does this guy have a second phase?’

He was clearly a mid-level civil servant, wasn’t he?

From the feel of it, he seemed like a mid-boss, but why are these endless attacks coming?

‘Time… is running out.’

At this moment, the pain that felt like it was crushing his entire body was getting worse.

He had already confirmed through the previous battle that he couldn’t maintain the ‘overload’ state for long.

‘I have to end this as quickly as possible.’

Oh Jin clenched his lips tightly.

The tip of the spear, engulfed in brain inflammation, was directed at Ashad Khan.

“Huff!!”

Bang!

The ground crumbled as if a bomb had exploded.

A bolt of blue lightning cut through the abandoned factory, now shrouded in darkness.

“It’s useless.”

Ashad Khan declared in a cold voice, slowly swinging his curved sword.

The same slow, almost lethargic sword strike as before.

But the power contained in the sword strike was on a different level from before.

-Clang Clang Clang!!!

A storm of black wings swirled around, following the sword strike.

Like a fierce downpour.

Thousands, tens of thousands of feathers rained down on Oh Jin’s head.

“Gah!”

He stopped his charge.

Desperately extending his right arm to the side.

Clang!

Before he could even confirm if the wire had attached to the rebar, he poured magic power into the shooter with all his might.

His body, attached to the wire, moved to the side like a fish caught on a fishing hook.

But.

‘This is too much, even if I react quickly!’

Despite his quick reaction, he couldn’t completely escape the range of the black feathers.

The black feathers that rained down caused a fierce explosion.

He instinctively created a wall of lightning.

Although the power of the explosion was significantly reduced compared to before,

the sheer number was overwhelming.

No, it was excessively large.

-Boom!!!

“Cough!”

He was thrown back by the explosion.

His skin peeled off, revealing red flesh.

“Gahhh!”

Biting his lip, he barely managed to maintain his stance.

He managed to reduce the damage by escaping from the center of the explosion.

But that was all.

Ashad Khan, blessed by the Black Star, was so strong that he couldn’t think of a way to counter him.

“You’re still good at running, aren’t you?”

A lethargic voice came from behind him.

“……!”

He quickly turned his body and raised his spear.

From the groin to the top of the head.

The spear, engulfed in brain inflammation, split Ashad Khan’s body in half.

Intestines and blood gushed out from the split body.

‘No, this can’t be it.’

It couldn’t end this easily.

“Sharp.”

As expected.

The body of Ashad Khan, split in half, turned into black feathers and disappeared.

-Swoosh!

The curved sword aimed at his right thigh swung low.

He blocked the curved sword by slamming the spear into the ground.

Clang Clang Clang!!!

The curved sword, enveloped in a black light, fiercely pushed back the spear shaft.

The impact was so intense, it felt like he had been hit by a battering ram.

“Gah!!”

He squeezed out all the magic power he could and created brain inflammation.

Blue flames of lightning enveloped the entire spear and burned fiercely.

‘Crazy… magic consumption!’

He had mentioned that his magic consumption was extremely high due to his physical level not being sufficient yet.

With the penalty on a skill that already consumed a lot of magic power, his magic power was depleting at an alarming rate.

He had been confident that in terms of pure magic power, he wouldn’t be outmatched anywhere.

But even with that massive amount of magic power, maintaining brain inflammation was not easy.

“Huh. I didn’t expect you to block this.”

Ashad Khan looked at Oh Jin in surprise.

For a moment.

He smiled at Oh Jin, whose legs were trembling.

“But, how long can you keep this up?”

Rumble!!

Black light exploded.

The blue flames that enveloped the spear shaft began to fade under the pressure of the black light.

“Gah!”

Oh Jin clenched his teeth and barely managed to withstand the attack.

He gathered all the depleting magic power and desperately pushed back the curved sword.

Or rather, he tried to push it back.

“It’s futile.”

Once more.

The black light intensified.

A cold sneer appeared at the corner of Ashad Khan’s mouth.

“No matter how much you struggle.”

Crack! Crack!

Like a crack in glass.

The silver spear, enveloped in blue flames, split.

“Within the time of the owl, you cannot escape.”

Crack!!

Shards of the shattered spear embedded themselves in Oh Jin’s body.

Collarbone, shoulder, abdomen, thigh.

Sharp fragments pierced his flesh.

“…Ah.”

“It’s over.”

With a cold declaration.

Swish!!!

The curved sword, enveloped in black light, split his right arm.

Red blood gushed from the smoothly severed right arm below the elbow.

“…In that situation, you managed to avoid the attack?”

Ashad Khan’s eyes widened in surprise.

He had originally aimed for the neck, but due to the short moment when the spear shattered, Oh Jin managed to pull his body back, resulting in only his arm being cut off.

“Well… it just means you’ll take a bit longer to die.”

Whether it was his neck or his arm.

The fact that he had rendered him combat ineffective remained unchanged.

A warrior with a severed arm couldn’t continue a proper battle.

‘It’s over.’

Ashad Khan relaxed his grip on the curved sword.

His lethargic gaze fell on Oh Jin.

A pitiful sight: Oh Jin, pierced by the sharp fragments created from the shattered spear, clutching his severed right arm.

The amount of blood gushing out was so much that it wouldn’t be strange if he went into shock immediately.

If this continued, he would die on his own without the need to cut his neck.

“…It’s over, fuck.”

“……!!”

“Who said you can end it?”

Bang!

Oh Jin, who had been crouching, sprang up.

With his remaining arm, he clenched his fist and charged fiercely.

“Huh.”

Ashad Khan looked at the charging Oh Jin with a look of disbelief.

“A stubborn one.”

He looked at Oh Jin with a look of exasperation.

The momentum was incredibly fierce, but.

‘Too slow.’

His movements were incredibly sluggish, having already lost a near-lethal amount of blood.

Swish.

Ashad Khan turned to the left and lightly swung his sword at Oh Jin’s left arm.

-Slice.

The curved sword smoothly split his left arm in half.

Blood gushed from the arm, split from the fist to the elbow.

Although it wasn’t severed like the right arm,

the pain must have been excruciating.

“If you had just stayed still, you wouldn’t have to suffer this….”

Interrupting Ashad Khan’s bitter sneer,

“Didn’t I tell you not to end it arbitrarily?”

He swung his right arm, now reduced to an elbow, like a club and struck Ashad Khan’s cheek.

-Splat!!

“Cough!”

Ashad Khan, who hadn’t expected to be hit by an elbow, fell backward.

Climbing onto the fallen Ashad Khan, he pounded his forehead into Ashad Khan’s nose like a hammer.

“Now! It’s just the beginning, isn’t it? Huh?!”

-Splat! Splat! Crack!

Once, twice, three times.

With all his might, even as the skin on his forehead tore.

“But! Who! Decides the end like this?!”

“Aaaah!!”

Ashad Khan’s reflexively swung fist struck Oh Jin’s cheek.

Crack! Crack!

His nose shattered.

Broken front teeth pierced his throat, mixed with blood.

His crushed cheekbone tore into his eye.

Still.

He didn’t stop.

He didn’t retreat.

Once more, once more.

He slammed his forehead with all his might.

“Gah! You, you crazy bastard!!!”

“Cough!”

Ashad Khan, in a hurry, kicked Oh Jin’s stomach and got up.

Oh Jin rolled on the ground, spitting blood.

“Gah!”

Ashad Khan, with a scrunched-up face, rubbed his nose.

His hand was soaked with sticky blood.

“Damn!”

A rough curse slipped out.

To think he would be injured in this state, even with the ‘blessing’.

Especially by an opponent whose body was riddled with shattered spear fragments and had one arm severed.

“Didn’t I tell you not to end it arbitrarily…?”

Ashad Khan walked towards the fallen Oh Jin.

He roughly stomped on Oh Jin’s knee.

Crack!!

“Aaaah!!”

The stomped leg bent at an abnormal angle.

“Now! Isn’t this what you wanted? Why are you lying there like an idiot?”

He twisted his foot, pressing down on the knee as if extinguishing a cigarette.

The shattered leg bone pierced through the knee.

“Get up! Get up and fight more!”

“Gah! Aaaah!!”

Ashad Khan thoroughly trampled the fallen Oh Jin.

To make him feel as much pain as possible.

He crushed his limbs.

“Haa, haa!”

How many minutes had passed?

“……”

No more screams came from the fallen Oh Jin.

“…Tsk!”

Ashad Khan spat out the blood in his mouth.

He had become overly excited due to the unexpected counterattack from Oh Jin.

‘Crazy bastard.’

The image of him striking Oh Jin’s head with a crazed cry sent a chill down his spine.

He had faced many enemies, but.

He had never seen such a tenacious monster, even in the Demon Realm.

‘Still.’

Ashad Khan calmed his rough breathing and looked down at the fallen Oh Jin.

Oh Jin’s body, now a bloody mess, was unrecognizable.

‘It’s really over now.’

Thinking that.

“Huh, huh.”

A laugh escaped his lips without him realizing it.

“Hahaha!! Finally, finally!!”

A thrilling sensation.

The relief of not having to fight that crazy bastard anymore surpassed the feeling of victory.

He laughed for a while.

“…Pathetic.”

Sigh.

A deep sigh replaced the laughter.

Ashad Khan clicked his tongue and traced the seven lines carved next to the stigma on his hand.

What was there to laugh about, having barely won against a 4-star Awakened with the blessing of the constellation, as a 7-star Awakened?

If Cheon Do-yoon knew about this, he would have immediately stripped him of his civil servant position.

But.

Even knowing that.

‘Still… it’s over.’

He couldn’t suppress the smile spreading on his lips.

-Drip, drip.

“Hm?”

A cold sensation on his head.

One drop, two drops.

Raindrops seeped into the dry earth.

“Now that I think of it, a typhoon was supposed to come today.”

He frowned, looking up at the sky filled with dark clouds.

-Swoosh!!!

Less than 30 seconds after the rain started, it poured down with incredible force.

“Gah!”

Was it because the rain seeped into his wounds?

A short groan escaped Ashad Khan’s lips.

‘Did I overdo it?’

He slightly lifted his shirt to look at the stigma on his left chest.

From the owl constellation stigma on his chest, grotesque tendril-like veins protruded.

“I should head back soon.”

Thinking of the cost of the blessing that would soon begin.

He needed to leave this place as quickly as possible.

‘I should report to him that the operation was successful.’

The one who informed him about the cooperative relationship between the Valhalla Guild and the Brain Wolf.

The ‘Regent of the King’ who practically led the Black Star Society in place of Cheon Do-yoon, who rarely showed his face.

‘He said he’s at the association now.’

If so, he needed to be careful with the communication.

Ashad Khan sheathed his curved sword at his waist and turned around.

Thud, thud.

He slowly moved his steps, stepping on the dry earth.

“Hm?”

Something.

Was off.

‘Dry…?’

He extended his hand towards the ground.

Dry soil slipped through his fingers.

“…What?”

In the fierce downpour that seemed to tear through the sky.

How could there be ‘dry soil’?

Turning his head to look around, he saw that the ground around him was completely dry.

As if.

The rain was being absorbed somewhere.

“Where, are you, going?”

“……!!!!”

Ashad Khan quickly turned his body.

“What, what is this? How can you…?”

He stared at Oh Jin, who was slowly getting up with wide eyes.

“Hahaha! To be honest, I didn’t plan for this.”

Wobble, wobble.

He got up.

He stepped on the ground with his crushed legs.

Crack, crack!

As if rewinding a video.

The legs, bent at an abnormal angle, returned to their original position.

The leg bones that had pierced through the skin retreated back into the flesh.

“Well, since you received the blessing of the Black Star or something, I should have this level of blessing, right?”

Bubbles rose as new flesh sprouted from the cross-section of the wounds.

The severed arms were restored to their original state as if nothing had happened.

“Haa.”

Oh Jin spread his arms wide to the pouring rain.

The cold raindrops hitting his skin.

He closed his eyes tightly and let the rain pour over his entire body.

[The air around you is full of water.]

[The efficiency of the 《Hydro Affinity Lv MAX》 skill has increased explosively!]

“Didn’t you say something about the time of the owl earlier?”

He smiled, revealing his white teeth.

He slowly opened his eyes.

“Then.”

From now on.

“It’s my time.”

Under the dark sky, shrouded in thick clouds.

A pair of blue eyes flashed fiercely.