Ranker’s Return

rd passed. The crescent moon that was dozens of meters in size was shot at the fragments of the veil.

It was defense through offense. 

Hyeonu didn’t even care about the result of Crescent Moon Cut. He was convinced that this attack wouldn’t work anyway.

‘There is no answer if I save magic power.’

The most important thing right now was something else. The amount of magic power. Hyeonu’s magic power was unparalleled among players. It was even more than the rankers of the magician class. It was because his magic power stat was high and he had quite a few magic power-related skills.

However, even Hyeonu’s amount of magic power was insignificant now. It would take a huge amount of magic power to stop the attack of Jeras, the king of the god tribe, or to inflict damage from an attack. If this was the case, Hyeonu would quickly run out of magic power no matter how much he had.

‘I will have to move like I did when dealing with a duke.’

Fortunately, Hyeonu had a way to quickly fill up his magic power. It was several times more efficient than taking magic power recovery potions. It was to beat the army of the god tribe, the living magic power recovery potions.

‘It is hard for me to do.’

However, it was too much for Hyeonu to do himself. He wasn’t sure if Jeras would just watch Hyeonu fly to attack the divine world’s army like Duke Danyu did.

‘I have to call Gom-E back.’

Therefore, he needed Gom-E. During the time when Hyeonu was engaged in a battle with Jeras, Gom-E would gnaw at the army of the divine world from the side, taking on the role of replenishing Hyeonu’s magic power.

‘Gom-E, go back and catch those kids from the divine world.
Only gently scratch the ones on the outside.’

Hyeonu placed a strong order for Gom-E in his heart. In the distance, Gom-E soared high into the air as he was talking to Tang-E. Then he flew straight to where the divine world’s army was located. A white spear shot at the flying Gom-E.

“Who are you aiming for?”

Hyeonu suddenly appeared and struck the white spear. Thanks to Hyeonu’s defense, Gom-E fortunately reached his destination.

“Seal,” Hyeonu muttered softly while looking down at Jeras, who was about to summon the spear again. A purple light flowed from Hyeonu’s waist and flew toward Jeras.

Jeras concentrated his magic power to prevent the thing flowing from Hyeonu’s body. Even so, it lightly passed through his magic power and clung to Jeras’ body.

“This…
what is this?”

Jeras looked a bit flustered by the unobstructed purple light.

[The king of the god tribe, ‘Jeras,’ has been afflicted with the ‘sealed’ abnormal condition.]

Hyeonu smiled at the message that appeared in front of him. This was the second way to deal with Jeras. Seal was a skill built into the belt item that Hyeonu was wearing.
It was a skill that would consistently reduce the stats of a particular target for 30 minutes.

‘Giant’s Valor.’

[Giant's Valor has been used.]

[Your strength stat has increased.]

This was the third trump card that Hyeonu used. The giant skills that had combined into one.

‘For 15 minutes…
I am unconditionally ahead.’

Unlike the previous giant skills, Giant’s Valor increased the strength stat by the sum of all his stats. It was a skill worthy of an epic item. Hyeonu pulled out his trump cards and actively stepped out. No, he had no choice but to do so. Apart from the magic spirit, the Seal skill and Giant’s Valor had a duration. Hyeonu would be at a disadvantage if time was dragged out.

In an instant, he appeared in the vicinity of Jeras and swung the Mysterious Sky Sword. It was the same slash, but it had a different force from before. Such a change was best felt by Jeras, who blocked Hyeonu’s strike. It had become ridiculously strong, but Jeras didn’t look flustered at all. He didn’t expect this human to come out this strong, but it didn’t mean he couldn’t deal with it.

“Even if it is strong, it is fine as long as I'm not hit by it.”

Jeras’ movements changed. He wasn’t standing in place any longer.

‘How do I catch this?’

Hyeonu’s expression changed rapidly when he saw Jeras’ movements. His confident expression disappeared and only confusion was left behind.

‘Is he using Blink without a skill cooldown?’

Jeras’ movements were bizarre. He appeared in various places as if he was cut and pasted frame by frame. There was no moving process in the middle. It was just teleportation. This movement was repeated several times in one second. Then it felt like the empty space was being filled with Jeras.

Jeras threw the white spear at Hyeonu every time he appeared here and there. The white spears flew at Hyeonu like a shower. Hyeonu didn’t hesitate to use Land of Mirrors as a shield. As Land of Mirrors was acting as a shield, Hyeonu prepared a counterattack. He used Mysterious Sky Demonic Strength and squeezed out magic power. Dozens of purple lasers emerged from Hyeonu’s fingers and filled the air.

Jeras’ movements stopped. He floated in the air and held out both hands toward the Mysterious Sky Demonic Strength approaching him. A milky white spear came into existence and was placed in Jeras’ hands. Jeras blocked every single one of the Mysterious Sky Demonic Strength with the milky white spear.

At this moment—

A blond-haired man appeared exactly in the midpoint between Jeras and Hyeonu.

“Hmm… It is noisy and I can’t sleep.”

He had a very annoyed look on his face like he had just woken up from his sleep.

Hyeonu saw the blond-haired man and lowered the Mysterious Sky Sword toward the ground. “Liru…?”

His name was Liru.
It was the very same Liru who blew Hyeonu to the southern part of the divine world—the sun god.