NOVEL NEXT Chapter 182 - The Skeleton King's Body (4)
The Black Angel trembled.
“Heuk…!”
Isaac’s eyes had changed.
His human eyes emitted an eerie light and changed to be like a demon’s. In the ruby eyes that seemed to contain a nebula, the pupils of a predator seemed visible.
At the pressure felt from those demon eyes, the Black Angel’s breath was caught for a moment. At the same time, he was dumbfounded.
‘What is this?’
As an 8th-rank magician, he knew better than anyone. This wasn’t just an ordinary demon eye.
Of course, there were occasionally humans who had demon eyes. Like a special ability.
But this was different from ‘those things’. It was purely the pinnacle of evil. The eyes of one who stood at the pinnacle of enlightenment, the eyes of the soul emitted by the soul.
Yes, like the Skeleton King’s gaze that was said to have dominated everything with just his eyes…!
So he couldn’t help but be flustered.
‘Why does this young brat emit such pressure?’
At the same time, the Black Angel had a realization.
‘After eating the Skeleton King’s body, did he gain the ability to use that power?’
The eyebrows of the pure-blooded magician couldn’t help but rise.
‘Arrogant bastard!’
Do you think you’re the same as a real magician?!
The Black Angel shook off Isaac’s hand and activated another magic.
‘If blood sucking doesn’t work… Right. I’ll just use a different attribute magic!’
Don’t underestimate an 8th-rank magician!
He stamped the floor with his hand.
Bang!
Then the ground Isaac was standing on changed like clay and shot up. It was like prison bars.
‘Right, Eshua is traditionally strong against evil.’
They can’t help but be stronger against black magic than other faiths. As such, if it’s dragon’s nature magic rather than black magic, the result should be different.
Yes, that should have been the case, but.
Rustle.
“…?!”
‘It, it crumbled?!’
The earth that had turned into bars didn’t even pierce Isaac and turned to ash. It was as if the earth feared Isaac and avoided him.
The Black Angel couldn’t help but be even more shocked.
‘For the earth element to fear him, what is this?!’
This is absurd!
For nature to fear that guy, this was impossible!
Isaac grinned.
At that moment, the Black Angel screamed.
Sssssss.
The Black Angel’s surroundings began to wither in an instant.
Flying insects, the floor, ceiling, walls. Even non-living things crumbled to ash as if their power was being drained.
Even the air was becoming thin. Even the surrounding atmosphere was having its power drained.
The Black Angel, who was finding it hard to even breathe, trembled in fear.
‘What is this? This ability?’
Similar to blood sucking… No! It’s completely different from blood sucking. It was on a different level from blood sucking that simply drains the blood and vitality of living beings.
‘Everything is being sucked away.’
The soul! No, life itself!
It turned not just living things, but all existence in the world into death. It was a ruthless extortion that even deprived life of the right to live!
Along with Isaac’s smile, the Black Angel grabbed his own throat.
“Huk… Kuhek, kkek…! Kkek!”
He couldn’t breathe. He vividly felt his consciousness becoming hazy and his vitality and magical power draining away.
It was too painful.
It was pain to the extent that death would be better.
“Kkeuk… Kkek… Ukkkh!”
Soon the Black Angel’s body completely dried up and collapsed. Isaac placed his hand on that hideous form that had collapsed, looking worse than a mummy.
Rustle.
“Kuhek!”
The Black Angel’s body, which had been in a mummy state, returned to normal. He had returned the vitality he had taken.
The Black Angel looked at Isaac while panting.
Did he save him just before his breath was cut off?
“Th… Thank… Kkeuheh!”
As Isaac raised the corners of his mouth, he drained the Black Angel’s life and magical power again.
Once again the Black Angel writhed in agony and dried up and collapsed.
“Kuhek!”
Again he returned his vitality and restored him to normal.
“Aaak!!”
“Heuk!”
“Kkuhuak!”
Isaac repeated this hundreds of times.
In such a situation, the Black Angel completely lost his mind. No, it didn’t make sense that he could maintain his sanity at all.
In the end, at Isaac’s gesture, the Black Angel clung to Isaac while shedding tears and snot.
“Please, I beg you, kill me!! No, please just kill me!”
Isaac smiled eerily as if he found it cute.
“Do you understand a bit now? The feeling of having everything taken from you?”
“Ughh…!”
Isaac seemed to be bothered by the Black Angel’s magic that had been placed on the Princess’s body. Sure enough, he patted the Black Angel’s cheek.
“You know, I hate those who use kids the most.”
It’s annoying to see Saintesses who aren’t even adults rushing to their deaths trying to kill the Skeleton King.
Isaac let out a sneer.
“Why do you choose to do things I hate and try to get hurt? Are you a pervert? I never understood masochists the most in the world.”
The Black Angel bit his lip.
‘Damn it, I can’t resist.’
He couldn’t use magic. As if something huge was pressing down. But even this, as if showing mercy, Isaac was smiling.
‘No, this is playing with me.’
“Pl-Please. Have mercy…!”
The Black Angel lowered his head but gritted his teeth as if frustrated.
He couldn’t understand what was going on. What was certain was that this absorption was similar to
So it was even more incomprehensible.
‘What is this? Why is an Eshua priest using this ability?’
At the same time, the Black Angel seemed to notice something and was startled.
‘…Could it be because he ate the Skeleton King’s body? Is that why he can handle that power?’
And since he’s Eshua who fought the Skeleton King, does he also have the Skeleton King’s magic book?
The Black Angel opened his mouth as if he had just realized an even bigger truth.
‘Could it be that Eshua created such a weapon to face the Skeleton King?! Did they go to such lengths?’
When that thought occurred to him, the Black Angel was surprised but rather exuded killing intent.
He couldn’t help it.
‘The Skeleton King is the idol of magicians!’
The world’s reaction to that overwhelming power was usually one of two:
-Either admire or be terrified.
And the Black Angel was different.
Because he admired him, he was rather more jealous.
“Right, it’s frustrating but I’m honestly jealous of you! Just because you ate a bit of the Skeleton King’s body! How dare you think of using the Skeleton King’s power?”
“!”
The Black Angel gritted his teeth and decided to summon a familiar. It might not work with his own power, but this should be different! He touched the floor where he had been writing something.
Flash!
It was a summoning spell written with his own blood, avoiding Isaac’s eyes.
Responding to that magic formula, a huge beast appeared from the Black Angel’s shadow. It was none other than a black-tinged lesser dragon, an under dragon!
The Black Angel shouted resentfully.
“You brat! I’ll split your body! I’ll take the Skeleton King’s body you ate too!”
At the same time, the summoned lesser dragon rushed at Isaac.
[Leave it to me and rest! I’ll take care of that guy!]
Isaac chuckled.
Well, he was curious about what an 8th-rank magician could summon, so he had been pretending not to know and watching, but.
Swish.
Isaac raised his hand for the first time.
Jing!
At Isaac’s gesture, the lesser dragon’s body, which was fiercely flying towards him, stopped in mid-air. As if time had stopped. But as if only the body was frozen while the mind remained the same, the lesser dragon gritted its teeth in mid-air.
Isaac subtly distanced himself from them.
“Come to think of it, did you say you were jealous of me? You’re saying interesting things.”
“…What?”
[…What did you say?]
For some reason, Isaac, who had distanced himself, smiled as if it was detestable.
“You need to be on the same level to be jealous.”
“!”
Isaac lightly flicked his finger.
At that moment, the time control was released and the lesser dragon that had been stopped in mid-air exploded.
Bang!!
The lesser dragon collapsed with a scream. Flesh and blood splattered like fountains all over the room. The Black Angel was covered in the lesser dragon’s blood.
As if aware that the room would be a mess, Isaac, who had moved far away, snickered.
“Well, it’s impressive to handle a black lesser dragon as a familiar.”
At that moment, the lesser dragon writhed and coughed up blood.
[Kuhek, kuluk…!]
The lesser dragon, whose bones were exposed and was almost dying, was looking at Isaac in shock.
[This power…! Could it be! You are the one the Dragon Lords feared…!]
‘The Skeleton King!’
The black lesser dragon couldn’t utter that name.
[With just one finger…! The extremely vicious bastard who tried to annihilate our tribe…!]
Isaac approached the dying lesser dragon.
“The black dragons should remember. I did some cleaning because they climbed up too high without knowing their place.”
[Kughh…!!]
The lesser dragon gritted its teeth.
It was their own karma that they were defeated by the Skeleton King, but they couldn’t forget that shocking power.
But Isaac, as if he had deliberately not killed it instantly, whispered to the lesser dragon.
“Let me ask one thing. There was ‘dragon’ power remaining in the Skeleton King’s body extracted from the Princess’s body.”
[!]
“Is that power’s owner possibly you?”
As Isaac’s eyes grew cold, the lesser dragon widened its eyes as if telling him not to misunderstand.
[Don’t confuse us with those mutant bastards! That was part of the body originally possessed by the sacred dragon!]
“Oh?”
[That sacred dragon for some reason put it in this country’s Princess’s body! We just came to take it back!]
“Aha. So that’s what happened?”
‘Unexpected.’
Sacred dragon? All dragons are ill-tempered and arrogant, but among dragons, they’re relatively human-friendly ones.
‘Why would such a being? In a human body?’
Well, it didn’t matter now.
“You also put the magic formula in the Princess’s body?”
[…!]
The lesser dragon’s eyes trembled at Isaac’s smile.
“I can’t let someone who’s noticed about me live.”
[Damn it… Skeleton K…!]
“Bye.”
As Isaac clenched his fist, the lesser dragon’s body shattered into pieces along with a flame explosion. He had completely cut off its breath.
Bang!!!
At the same time, a fairly large magic core rolled out of the flesh.
Isaac turned around, saying the Black Angel was next.
‘Now, all that’s left is to deal with that guy…’
But Isaac doubted his eyes when he turned around.
The Black Angel, who had been gritting his teeth, was nowhere to be seen. He was kneeling with his head on the ground.
“I have committed rudeness.”
Huh?
“I didn’t know you were really the Skeleton King’s subordinate!!”
…Huh?
“So you infiltrated the enemy country for the Skeleton King’s revival?!”
…What is this bastard saying?