NOVEL WEB Chapter 16
Chapter 16
The ancient lich, Momon, gnashed his teeth as he looked at Yan.
He didn’t know what had happened, but he had been lured out of his lair in his sleep and forced to fight with some strange fellows.
After the fierce battle that ensued, he regained some of his sanity and remembered the elixirs and life vessel he had hidden in his lair.
Just then, the alarm magic he had set up went off.
From then on, he focused more on getting out of there and returning to his lair than continuing the fight.
But the enemies clung to him stubbornly, and he had no choice but to escape with some damage.
The wounds he had suffered were so severe that even if his life vessel was intact, he would have to recuperate for at least a year.
And when he arrived after all that trouble!
The elixirs were already in that bastard’s stomach.
And they had been absorbed completely.
“What kind of things are they…!”
The elixirs that the rat bastard had gulped down were the ones that had kept him restless for a thousand years.
They were elixirs for the day he would resurrect as a human.
‘With the determination to avenge Bahamut, who hit me in the back of the head, I prepared and prepared for a thousand years!’
A thousand years ago, Bahamut and Momon had worked together for decades to create a vision that transcended the existing mana manipulation methods.
And after a time of hardship, they finally produced a result.
The bastard killed him and took away the result, doing a despicable deed.
He became an undead that he hated so much and sharpened his blade.
But.
Would he have to wait another thousand years like this?
Momon’s red eyes flashed.
“No.”
He realized there was another way.
The damned thief who had swallowed his thousand years of achievement.
“I’ll resurrect with your body!”
It was taboo to take someone else’s body, but what could he do?
He had already lived for a thousand years in this skull face, and he had to live another thousand years in this body?
He had no intention of doing that.
“You’re going to take my body?”
Yan’s face hardened as he heard that.
“You ruined my wish, so I’ll take your body too. How fair is that?”
“Shut up.”
Yan’s eyes narrowed.
‘I’m sorry for the treasures, but I have to kill him right now.’
He already knew how to break the lich’s life vessel from his previous life.
He had left it alone because he wanted to look at the treasures more and take what he could.
‘I’ll have to be satisfied with what I’ve got so far.’
Yan took out a bottle containing ogre blood that he had prepared.
He had searched all over the Blade Mountains to find this method, and collected the blood from the corpses of ogres.
Ogres had been called ‘Mountain Kings’ since ancient times, because they were powerful monsters.
They were strong, but their innate magic resistance was also remarkable.
In the near future, he would research ogres and find out that their skin had no magic resistance.
Rather, the source of the ogre’s magic resistance was their blood.
‘And if you mix a few more ingredients, the magic resistance will be much stronger.’
Fortunately, the rest of the herbs were all available in the Blade Mountains.
‘I used this enhanced ogre blood in my previous life too.’
In the special squad, where assassination and espionage were the main tasks, ogre blood was often used as a tool to neutralize magic mediums.
The enhanced serum could melt even a life vessel with powerful protection magic.
As he watched Momon tear his body apart, he secretly opened the bottle cap.
‘Wait.’
Suddenly, he wondered if he really needed to break the life vessel.
The life vessel was a vessel that contained the lich’s life force. In other words, it was similar to a magic stone.
He glanced at the life vessel in his hand.
‘And this… it has the same mana heart and innate magic flow system, right?’
The mana heart and the life vessel were similar in that they circulated endlessly.
Whether it was mana or life force.
‘Then, if I eat this, won’t I be able to take all the life force in it?’
He was already sorry for the mana he had lost while making the mana heart.
It was a windfall.
Yan’s lips curled up.
‘Then I’ll eat it.’
With that thought, Yan quickly put the life vessel in his mouth.
“You, you crazy bastard!”
Momon was shocked by Yan’s appearance.
A guy who ate a lich’s life vessel.
“Why are you eating that!”
Momon’s voice became urgent.
There had been no precedent for eating a life vessel before, so he didn’t know what would happen.
If the life vessel were to deteriorate…
“Spit it out right now!”
Momon shouted and swung his scrawny arm.
Swoosh.
Then, seven magic circles of various colors appeared around Momon.
The magic circles that appeared in the air began to cause different phenomena.
Yan also stimulated his sun.
A stream of mana stretched out from the rotating sun.
They went down his legs through his blood vessels.
From his thighs to his calves, his veins popped out and his muscles swelled.
“Dark Dragon Power – Rising Dragon”
Unlike when he crossed the passage, the mana flowed smoothly through his blood vessels, and no more blood-stained phlegm came out.
He savored the feeling and looked at Momon with a smirk.
“Then try to catch me.”
Bang!
Yan kicked the ground and started running.
Crash! Boom!
The mana spikes that had hit where Yan had been standing flipped the floor over.
The fireballs and ice arrows created by the magic circles chased after Yan fiercely.
But Momon gritted his teeth at Yan’s skillful evasion.
“You damned thief bastard! I’ll rip your belly open!”
And so the chase began.
* * *
Momon’s lair was a mess.
The bookshelves in the library were burning fiercely, and the central staircase was frozen solid.
The glass tubes that held the treasures in the treasure room had been broken long ago.
The floor was littered with broken and shattered treasures.
If it were the usual Yan, he would have sighed deeply with regret at the sight.
But not now.
Yan felt his lightened movements and thoughts.
‘This is no joke.’
Yan licked his tongue as he looked at the Divine Dragon’s Breath and the mana heart that showed an amazing synergy effect.
He had performed the special squad’s Vision Enhancement Technique for about thirty minutes, but there was no sign of mana depletion.
That was because mana was coming in through his breathing at this moment.
‘Now I understand why it’s called the Divine Dragon’s Breath.’
There was always a reason for the name attached to the manipulation method.
The special squad’s vision manipulation method, the Dark Dragon’s Breath, was created to use the Dark Dragon Power, which had many one-hit kill techniques.
As such, the amount of mana that could be poured out at once was overwhelmingly greater than other manipulation methods.
The way he poured out mana looked like the ‘breath’ that the legendary dragon was said to spit out, so the name was the Dark Dragon’s Breath.
Many other manipulation methods were similar. They had hidden meanings, or they were named after their appearance.
‘But this one didn’t have any of those features.’
In his previous life, he had used the Divine Dragon’s Breath with the core as the center, so he couldn’t help but not know.
But now he felt like he knew a little.
As far as Yan knew, all mana manipulation methods could not manipulate mana without consciousness.
‘But this is different.’
Mana flowed in endlessly, like a human breathing unconsciously.
And the mana heartbeat and refined and rotated them.
‘It really feels like breathing.’
It was a mana manipulation that did not fit the common sense that was widely spread on the continent.
‘No wonder the emperor was so crazy about finding it.’
Yan felt something shooting at him from behind and quickly lowered his head.
Whoosh-!
The invisible magic grazed over Yan’s head and collided with the wall.
Crash.
A few strands of Yan’s hair were cut off.
His senses were so sharp that he felt even these things very finely.
‘It’s about time to digest.’
Momon still looked lively.
But Yan was sure that he wouldn’t last long.
The lich would surely perish when the life vessel was gone.
“Stand still, I said!”
Momon shouted and threw magic at him from behind.
But he didn’t seem to catch a glimpse of him.
He jumped over the
He twisted his body and slipped out of the
He dodged other attack magic as if he had eyes on the back of his head.
Momon had no choice but to be impatient.
‘Damn it! At this rate, I’ll really perish first!’
Momon thought that the situation he was in was absurd.
It was unbelievable that he had eaten the life vessel right in front of him, but the problem was.
‘I can’t use proper magic because I’m afraid that my life vessel in his stomach will break!’
At a glance, the damned thief’s level was at best enough to wield a sword.
There was a difference between him, who had reached the level of a grand mage, and the sun and the firefly.
But he couldn’t use high-level magic recklessly, so he couldn’t catch him easily.
In the end, all he could do was pour out low-level magic.
‘He’s a low-level guy, but why is he running away so well!’
As he thought that, a good idea came to Momon’s mind.
‘I can’t do this. I have to corner him!’
If he could corner them in one place, he could easily subdue them with low-level magic.
Momon’s mouth curled up slightly.
Snap!
As he snapped his fingers, hundreds of the lowest-level magic,
‘Of course. In this situation, quantity is more important than quality.’
He could use these low-level magic hundreds or thousands of times.
As he swung his hand, the Mana Tans covered Yan at once.
Seeing that, Yan stomped the ground hard with his thick legs.
And he turned his body back sharply.
The Mana Tans exploded around Yan, limiting his path.
Attacks that revealed his intentions too clearly.
Yan smiled faintly and said.
‘I guess he finally thought of this.’
Yan waited until the lich cornered him.
There was only one place he could drive him to.
A door made of gold.
It was the entrance.
Thud-!
Yan, who had been running away, stopped at the entrance of the lair.
Momon raised his mouth as he saw Yan, who was no longer running away.
“Now, are you ready to give up? This old man will use your body well.”
At that, Yan quietly raised his middle finger.
“…This bastard, until the end!”
Momon was about to explode with rage.
Even in this situation, Yan was too confident.
Yan, who was standing in front of the entrance of the lair, had no way to escape.
He couldn’t even break the door with his skills, let alone open it.
Then, was he expecting someone to help him?
“You, what are you relying on to resist so stubbornly? You’re delusional if you think someone will open that door and help you. I’ve already restored all the magic circles before.”
Yan snorted at that.
He didn’t believe that he had restored the broken magic circles in an instant.
But.
“So, what?”
“What?”
Yan smiled at the eerie feeling behind the door.
“What does it matter if someone who defies common sense comes?”
“What nonsense are you talking about…!”
Just then.
Crash!
The door shattered with a loud noise.
Someone walked in, shining a golden light through the broken door.
Thump, thump-
An overwhelming presence.
It was the crown prince.
Behind him, the special task force leader followed.
“There was a place like this in the Blade Mountain Range…”
“The special task force leader has been neglecting my work.”
The crown prince snapped at the special task force leader and glanced at Yan.
He was leaning against the wall, gasping for breath.
“Are you okay?”
Yan nodded quietly.
The crown prince, who heard a satisfactory answer, turned his gaze to Momon.
“Where are you trying to run, you monster who escaped death? Are you afraid of death?”
“You bastards…! I don’t have time to talk to you right now, so get lost!”
Momon’s red eyes were fixed on Yan, and the crown prince frowned and quietly blocked Yan.
Yan looked at the back of the crown prince and smiled slightly.
‘I knew he would come by now.’
He had smelled the scent of the follower, which he used to use in his previous life, from him as soon as Momon appeared in front of him.
The follower was a tool made to chase criminals or fugitives, and it could be smelled from a very far distance with a special method.
And that meant.
‘The crown prince or the special task force leader had prepared beforehand.’
So he lured Momon to the entrance, which was closer to the outside, so that the crown prince and the special task force leader could come here more easily.
Intense energy waves flowed out and collided between Momon and the crown prince.
Clang, clang, clang, clang!
Yan watched that and laughed softly.