Chapter 1011: Conjunction Spell Master (12)
Crimson Star System: Solar Zenith.
A divine technique wielded by a pyromancer as an amplified secret art, processing the acquired Spark into an externalized Heat Core.
Each additional Heat Core exponentially boosts the amplification rate, and its output explosively increases. However, increasing the number of cores and maintaining their stability without repulsion is extremely difficult.
If done incorrectly, it’s a technique where one’s entire body could explode from the repulsion and fusion of the self-constructed cores, and it wouldn’t be unusual.
But—
“Huu…”
Kwoooh…!!!
Seven Heat Cores rotated fiercely behind Lennok, emitting a savage resonating hum. Each time the stars aligned under the Solar Zenith’s orbit pulsed, hellish heat was unleashed.
Kwa-woong!!
With a light step, the floor of the Life Domain was crushed and incinerated, vanishing.
But the magic radiating from the rotating Crimson Star System became real propulsion, lifting Lennok’s body.
Bwaaaang!!
A powerful, eerie vibration, like the roar of an airplane engine.
Without manipulating any spellcraft or magic, merely by emitting power, his body floated.
A divine technique that lifts his body purely through the emission of magic, not even using flight magic, which is known for its poor fuel efficiency.
The Conjunction Spell Master watched Lennok, floating with his stars unfurled, disbelief in his eyes.
“Astounding. Is that the pinnacle of magic you have reached?”
“……”
“A power that forcibly deconstructs and acquires others’ spellcraft, then analyzes and uses it.”
The Conjunction Spell Master, his entire body twisted with black magic, murmured quietly to himself.
“That was the ‘magic’ you pursued, your ideal. The reason for your existence as a wizard, it lies within that, doesn’t it?”
Though he recognized his Conjunction Spellcraft had been analyzed, the Conjunction Spell Master seemed intoxicated rather than enraged. It was proof that the Ouroboros Lennok displayed felt like the ultimate treasure even to him.
But Lennok, unable to respond to the Conjunction Spell Master’s words, simply bowed his head deeply.
‘Trait-type Spellcraft… I knew it wasn’t a power to covet carelessly, but it’s harder than I imagined.’
Ouroboros, the Perpetual Motion Engine that, incomplete, transcends and eternally rotates towards perfection.
As long as it is incomplete, it is infinite; as long as it is imperfect, it is eternal.
If the Kaleidoscope’s Domain is the apex of ‘emission,’ then Ouroboros’s spell formation is the apex of ‘convergence.’
It is a power that forcibly ‘converges’ all laws and spellcraft within Lennok’s being, deconstructing and absorbing them.
One of Lennok’s two origins, which branched out in opposing directions and blossomed through Levels 7 and 8.
Therefore, Ouroboros was one of Lennok’s most potent Authorities, but it also carried the drawback of immense burden.
It was an ability that forcibly deconstructed unacquired spellcraft, relying on Lennok’s transcendent intuition and senses.
A miracle that bypasses the process itself and grasps the result, by specifying a result that Lennok will someday understand and then interpreting it.
But even Lennok had never before deconstructed a Trait-type Spellcraft with Ouroboros.
‘Only usable while Ouroboros is active. Mana consumption and efficiency are abnormally poor.’
Perhaps it was because Trait-type Spellcraft was an ability that fundamentally did not exist within Lennok’s inherent talents or environment.
The consumption of mana and will-thought was truly immense, comparable to Hermes’ Mass Spellcraft.
Even with his increased maximum mana, Lennok could only use the Conjunction Spellcraft while Ouroboros was active.
Without the Crimson Star System’s mana assistance, Lennok’s mana would have been completely depleted long ago.
“But it’s almost at its limit. Have you scraped together all your remaining power to use that ‘magic’?”
The Conjunction Spell Master, instantly discerning the anomaly, regenerated his body in a flash and sneered.
“One could say that ability possesses great power… but conversely, maintaining this current state is likely your best option.”
“……”
Slowly walking towards Lennok, the Conjunction Spell Master rotated his shoulder.
“Simultaneous manifestation of Domain and amplification-type secret arts. Even analysis magic to acquire my spellcraft. You’ve effectively used all your cards—”
“Quiet.”
Lennok cut off the Conjunction Spell Master and raised his hand sideways.
Wooosh!!
The seven Heat Cores aligned in a row, following Lennok’s gesture. In an instant, they pierced through the Life Domain, casting Crimson Shadows.
As even the Conjunction Spell Master was momentarily speechless at the magnificent sight, Lennok strenuously lifted his head.
“Here I come.”
Kwah-ak!!
The seven Heat Cores spun at an incredible speed around Lennok.
The magic bursting from the cores supported Lennok’s body, changing direction at immense speed in mid-air and accelerating.
High-speed movement performed purely by controlling the direction of rampaging magic, without using any medium or spellcraft.
In the living battlefield spanning hundreds of meters, two dazzling forms clashed.
KWA-AAAAANG!!!!
The Conjunction Spell Master, clad in swelling flesh like wings, leaping through space, and Lennok, rotating stars and flying low within the Domain.
Each time the Conjunction Spell Master and Lennok’s figures intersected, scorching explosions and spatial distortions scattered in all directions.
In mid-air, flesh, bones, and Chimera corpses conjoined and exploded.
Holes tens of meters wide were torn through various parts of the Long-lived Being’s body, exposing its organs and bones.
Lennok and the Conjunction Spell Master crashed at incredible speeds, moving in and out of the Long-lived Being’s body.
Ee-jeee-jik!!
Ribs tens of meters long snapped like reeds with a single gesture.
Firmly woven muscles were crushed and then melted by the scorching explosion that followed.
They raced through the tangled membranes and blood vessels at supersonic speeds. Muscles and nerves were torn asunder, and everything was incinerated by magic.
Kwa-aang!!
“Kugh…!!!”
Even shielding himself with the Heat Cores and ramming at supersonic speed, the impact instantly stifled his breath and blocked his spellcraft construction.
Lennok, who had instantly seized and slammed down the Conjunction Spell Master’s figure as he raced through the Life Domain by Spatial Conjunction, spread his hand.
Crimson Star System: Solar Zenith
Seventh Star: Oak Hwan
[Open Blazing City]
[Bursting Heat]
Fwoosh!!
Black-green Nether-Dimensional Flame erupted from Lennok’s hand. The moment it ignited, pressing down on his shoulder, the Conjunction Spell Master’s shoulder and neck swelled like a balloon and exploded with a pop.
Ppu-uh-eong!!!
“Nether-Dimensional Flame. Hellfire that stimulates will-thought to rampage!!”
The Conjunction Spell Master, instantly regenerating his tattered shoulder, spoke.
“Your intuition to incorporate formless power into pyrokinesis is astonishing, but that alone is woefully insufficient…!!”
Kwa-aang!!
The Conjunction Spell Master’s leg exploded, and at the same time, he kicked Lennok’s abdomen at incredible speed.
The impact was enough to make even Lennok, shielded by Heat Cores, momentarily lose balance.
The Conjunction Spell Master, staggering after losing one leg, instantly regenerated his right leg and bent his knee.
‘His regeneration speed keeps getting faster…!!’
A premonition that the Conjunction Spell Master was rapidly adapting to Zelih’s immortality. The moment Lennok realized this, the Conjunction Spell Master’s body explosively rotated, planting his regenerated right foot.
Without time to react, it precisely pierced Lennok’s side.
Conjunction Spellcraft activated
[Condense and Compress]
Puh-eok!!
“…!!”
Scorching heat surged up his spine. Followed by intense pain.
The flesh on Lennok’s side, where the Conjunction Spell Master’s hand had touched, was crushed, scattering blood.
The Conjunction Spell Master, who had ripped open Lennok’s side with a single gesture, clenched his fist and spun around.
“Indeed, it’s impossible to nullify Object-Oriented Spellcraft one by one during combat.”
“……”
“If it’s a spellcraft that conjoins and compresses space itself, not merely targeting an object, even you can’t ignore it…!!”
Kwa-aang!!
Piercing through the burning, shattered membrane, Lennok and the Conjunction Spell Master’s bodies plummeted.
Lennok, flying while wrapped in Heat Cores, simultaneously chanted dozens of pyrokinesis spells.
[Waning Radiance]
[Blaze’s End]
Within the whirlwind of flames, the Conjunction Spell Master conjoined corpses to create a gigantic Chimera.
The Chimera, shaped like a ghoul, devoured all the pouring pyrokinesis and then exploded.
KWA-AAAAANG!!!
Beyond the exploding Chimera’s flesh, the Conjunction Spell Master, who had leaped through space at incredible speed, slammed his hand down in mid-air.
Chee-iiik!!
The Heat Cores wrapped around Lennok’s entire body rotated violently, obstructing the Conjunction Spell Master’s approach.
Ghost Conjunction, Yukseo, Chuckung. The Sparks, specialized in incinerating and killing humans, rotated and burned his body.
Oak Hwan and other Sparks, like Twisted Flame, interfering with properties and will-thought, obstructed his spell usage.
But the Conjunction Spell Master ignored all restraints and activated a spell towards Lennok’s shoulder.
Conjunction Spellcraft activated
[Seize and Annihilate]
Ppu-uh-eong!!
Blood and flesh exploded from Lennok’s left shoulder, soaking his shirt crimson.
Excruciating pain, like his head was on fire. The Conjunction Spell Master’s Trait-type magic tore through and ravaged his entire body.
But Lennok, even sensing the death imminent before him, did not lose his composure.
Instead of shaking off the Conjunction Spell Master’s hand on his shoulder, he gritted his teeth, spun his body, and chanted a spell.
He then thrust the finished spell directly into the Conjunction Spell Master’s solar plexus.
Crimson Star System: Solar Zenith
Third Star: Ghost Conjunction
[Encompassing Star Spring]
Fwooosh…!!
The flames that erupted from within his belly swelled and rotated at an incredible speed.
An eerie, alien sensation, as if a colossal sun had manifested and was burning within Lennok.
The Conjunction Spell Master, realizing this was not an illusion but an actual sign of a sun manifesting, tried to gather his magic.
[Full Crimson]
“…!!!!”
KWA-AAAAANG!!!!
A crimson sun rotated and surged, piercing through the hundreds of meters of the Long-lived Being’s spine.
[OOOOOOOH!!!!]
The Long-lived Being, maddened by the sun’s manifestation burning and searing its back, roared ferociously.
It flailed its limbs, struggling to escape the Celestial Flower’s Myriad-League Fragrance, but could not overcome the heat and burned to ashes.
The colossal body of the Long-lived Being collapsed only after the Full Crimson sun defied gravity, surged upwards, and disappeared beyond the Domain.
It was a gruesome sight, with half of its body burned away and riddled with holes.
Amidst the remnants of internal organs, where the living body had become a battlefield, Lennok lay covered in blood.
“Sun Manifestation Magic. Astonishing.”
Chee-iiik!!!
The Conjunction Spell Master, his entire body turned into black-red ash, stood before Lennok, emitting acrid smoke.
“You chanted a spell of such high hierarchy even amidst the pain of ruptured blood vessels. Remarkable willpower.”
“……”
Kwajik!!
The Conjunction Spell Master, his face gruesome with exposed bones and muscles, grabbed Lennok’s collar and spoke.
“I intended to crush your internal organs with spellcraft, but it didn’t work as well as expected. Your spell resistance is incomprehensibly high.”
The Conjunction Spell Master’s impassive eyes sharply scrutinized Lennok’s fallen body.
“That’s because you clearly possess an aptitude for Trait-type Spellcraft at the same time, isn’t it?”
“…Cough!”
He seized Lennok’s neck with one hand, lifted him forcefully, and then threw him aside.
Kwa-aang!!
The Conjunction Spell Master walked towards Lennok, who lay sprawled far away.
“Your Domain still has time to fully bloom, but you no longer have time. If you wanted to use your Domain, you should not have revealed it like this, at least.”
Kwajik!!
The Conjunction Spell Master, kicking Lennok’s shoulder hard, said.
“Did you expect me to falter at the time limit from your Domain’s warm-up? Or have you simply run out of cards, clinging to such an uncertain victory condition?”
Behind the Conjunction Spell Master, dozens of Chimeras surged, forcibly activating internal organ spellcraft.
Sharp blades of wind and ice rain poured down, and waves of curses swept the floor.
[Wind Swift Blade]
[Acquire Wound]
Puh-buh-buh-bang!!
The spells, piercing through the floors, hammered and pressed down on Lennok’s body.
The Conjunction Spell Master, looking at Lennok lying in the burning chemical storage room, spoke.
“To think I would allow you such an opportunity in the first place— what are you doing?”
“Cough!! I… found what I was looking for nearby.”
Amidst the surging flames, Lennok rummaged through a fallen cabinet.
Lennok pulled out a small pill bottle from the cabinet, took a pill from it, and chewed it.
Uh-deu-deuk!!
Swallowing the pill with blood instead of water, Lennok grabbed his knees and stood up.
Lennok, running a hand through his hair, looked at the Conjunction Spell Master and smiled.
“As expected of a surgeon, you have quite a few good painkillers. I feel much better thanks to them.”
“……”
Was falling near the chemical storage room somewhat intentional? Lennok, cracking his neck, walked forward, facing the Conjunction Spell Master, who stared impassively.
“You don’t have to say that. I intend to finish this quickly. All preparations are complete.”
Was it a bluff, or did he still have hidden cards at this point? It might be a ploy for a final psychological battle, but the Conjunction Spell Master did not lower his guard.
This monster could unleash magic like Full Crimson as easily as breathing, even while his muscles were tearing and his body was covered in blood.
“This is the end, Avesta Chapman.”
Fwa-reuk!!!
With each step, the seven stars wrapped around his body rotated, scattering hellish heat.
The Heat Cores, crafted from the Sparks, supplied endless power to Lennok’s staggering body.
As Lennok lifted his head, he simultaneously turned everything into a sea of fire.
Koo-gwa-gwa-gwa!!!
The flames of Celestial Flower’s Myriad-League Fragrance coiled around heaven and earth. The agonizing screams of the convulsing Long-lived Being Chimera.
Innumerable Chimeras and the Conjunction Spell Master’s figure glared at Lennok, surrounding him.
Lennok, raising his numb right hand and extending it towards the Conjunction Spell Master as if offering it, spoke.
“I will burn this entire city today. To turn the Gateway, which has become one with your Domain, that’s the only way.”
“……”
“The first Gateway must still remain at the Central Front. At least until Lapis completes all the Lighthouses…”
Lennok’s gaze left the burning battlefield, momentarily seeming to look further afield.
“Because I believed the reprieve they desired was not wrong, I accepted Lapis’s will.”
“How stubborn. Even here, you still try to share the Lighthouse Keeper’s mission?”
The Conjunction Spell Master responded calmly, drawing forth his magic.
The moment viscous magic surged in his hands, the ground and walls beneath his feet conjoined and tilted.
Koo-gwa-gwa-gwa!!!!
A divine technique that manipulated the entire surrounding terrain, fundamentally altering the environment itself.
Even without using his Domain, he was already manipulating the physical landscape according to his will.
“It doesn’t matter where you left your attachments. The blessings dwelling in your soul and body will now fully bloom without exception within the Great Connection.”
“……”
“I am certain, Evan Martinez.”
The Conjunction Spell Master, standing on the slowly rising ground, said.
“You, more than anything this Alliance has ever faced, are a turning point towards a distant future…!!”
“…Haha.”
Was it a misconception that the Conjunction Spell Master’s confident murmur shallowly exposed Lennok’s origin? Perhaps the Conjunction Spell Master’s transcendent empathic ability had glimpsed the answer without him even realizing it.
KWA-AAAAANG!!!
The ground where the Long-lived Being lay was ripped apart, and Lennok, with a low chuckle, and the Conjunction Spell Master’s figures explosively increased their speed.
Seven stars rotated, flying just above the ground, and flames erupted, following Lennok’s shadow.
Each time the Conjunction Spell Master stepped into the air after Lennok, Chimeras and flesh conjoined beneath his feet, forming footholds.
Instantly, platforms and legs of flesh were created, and Lennok and the Conjunction Spell Master clashed.
[Linked Fire]
[Cartwheel of Grinding Fire]
Surging hellfire rotated, forming a colossal wheel of fire.
[Flame-Forged Refinement]
[Sky-Piercing Rain of Fire]
A rain of flames, made by burning the Domain’s flowing blood, bombed the ground.
[Crimson Link]
[Forged Fire]
Rotating the Heat Cores of the Crimson Star System, they unleashed point-blank bombardments dozens of times.
High-level magic, executed through multiple processes, was unleashed as easily as breathing, without seeming limitation.
“Ku, ah…!!!”
The pyromancer’s full power, after a complete warm-up, incinerated the battlefield.
KWA-AAAAANG!!”
The Conjunction Spell Master, engulfed in flames, was flung in all directions, crashing through the surgical ward corridor and between patient rooms.
Staggering after piercing through patient room doors and ceilings like paper, the Conjunction Spell Master spun in mid-air and chanted a spell.
“Uweeegh…!!”
He conjoined the blood he profusely vomited with both hands. Simultaneously, he emitted and detonated it.
Conjunction Spellcraft activated
[Blood Flower Harvest]
Chwa-aaaak!!
After a black-red curtain of blood enveloped the Conjunction Spell Master, he rapidly regenerated his body and thought.
‘I can’t match the timing for the Domain’s warm-up. Cheonbeon isn’t aiming for that.’
Since Celestial Flower’s Myriad-League Fragrance was trapping the Conjunction Spell Master’s entire Life Domain, the Conjunction Spell Master also knew.
That this colossal flame flower would bloom much later. Both of them knew that deciding the battle with the Domain’s power was impossible.
‘Aside from the Domain, is he preparing a high-firepower spellcraft to burn down the entire city? If so, then it must be…!’
The Conjunction Spell Master quickly finished his assessment and was about to form hand seals with both hands.
At that moment, a pale white flame, shining brilliantly, pierced the Conjunction Spell Master from beyond the blood-stained curtain.
Crimson Star System: Solar Zenith
Sixth Star: Shifting Color
[Flame Gathering and Assembly]
[White Scales]
White flames spread like a trumpet, engulfing and incinerating the Conjunction Spell Master’s entire body.
Kwa-hak!!
Excruciating pain, burning his nerves. A laugh escaped through the hole in his neck and vocal cords.
But even amidst this, the Conjunction Spell Master did not stop his hand seals, gathering his magic.
Each time his hands crossed, black-stained magic clung viscously and rotated, and the space around the Conjunction Spell Master shimmered like a heat haze. The Conjunction Spell Master clapped his hands together, as if in prayer, and laughed maniacally, raising his gaze.
“Spellcraft, activate…!!!”
[Spatial Conjunction]
Pa-aaaaang!!!!
At that moment, the landscape above Lennok and the Conjunction Spell Master’s heads dramatically shifted.
Cool air brushed their cheeks. The clouds in the sky seemed much closer.
The colossal body of the Long-lived Being, trapped within Celestial Flower’s Myriad-League Fragrance, had instantly moved above the Domain of Celestial Flower’s Myriad-League Fragrance.
Only then did Lennok, realizing the Conjunction Spell Master’s true intention, turn his gaze towards him.
“You used Spatial Conjunction to entirely escape the Life Domain, taking it with you to the outside space…!!”
“That’s not all.”
The Conjunction Spell Master, his hands clasped together, smiled and said.
“Look down, Evan Martinez.”
[WOOOOOH!!!!]
The colossal body of the Long-lived Being, having escaped through Spatial Conjunction, flailed and plummeted hundreds of meters above Gateway City.
Beneath the Long-lived Being’s colossal body, the Domain of Celestial Flower’s Myriad-League Fragrance was still unfurled, not yet fully bloomed.
“If my Domain crashes like this, your incomplete Domain won’t withstand the impact and will vanish. Can you imagine how severe the recoil will be?”
[Uh-keh-keh-kek!!!]
[Kill!! Kill!! Kill me!!!]
Chimeras burst out from all sides of the plummeting Domain, surrounding Lennok.
The colossal body of the Long-lived Being falling from above. Chimeras rushing forward, screaming frantically.
Lennok and the Conjunction Spell Master stood facing each other on its back.
Kwa-aang!!
The Conjunction Spell Master, leaning in with his forearms pressed against Lennok’s, smiled.
“We’ll meet the beginning and the end together. You will die here from the recoil of the Domain you deployed…!!”
Each place where their fists met, bruises appeared on their skin, and flesh burst.
Each time a hand missed, each time a spell wavered, the recoil grazed and scattered their bodies.
Puh-buh-buh-buh-bang!!
On the back of the plummeting Long-lived Being, pillars of flame and spatial distortions radiated and exploded hundreds of times.
Each time, the bodies of the Conjunction Spell Master and Lennok also staggered and collapsed from the ravaging shockwaves.
Kwajik!!
The Conjunction Spell Master, covered in countless Chimeras, broke through the Crimson Star System and grabbed Lennok’s collar.
Even as his entire body was burned and shredded by the rotating stars, he stubbornly slammed down on Lennok’s shoulder.
Puh-hwa-ak!!
Simultaneously with the Conjunction Spellcraft’s activation, a cluster of Chimeras exploded from the Conjunction Spell Master’s hand, ejecting. Blood sprayed from Lennok’s back, and his wounds burst open.
It was a technique of conjoining the skin and muscles around the shoulder, then excising and exploding the flesh itself.
But even at this point, the wizard’s spell resistance did not permit the complete destruction of Lennok’s body.
The Conjunction Spell Master did not stop there, holding Lennok’s shoulder, he frantically punched his abdomen and chest.
Kwajijijik!!!
Pyrokinesis and Conjunction Spellcraft intersected hundreds of times in an instant. In mid-air, cracks distorted by spatial conjunction and distortion exploded.
Relentlessly surging Chimeras became spears and shields, absorbing the flames, then turning into a handful of dust and vanishing.
Having poured out everything he had, in the end, it was a desperate punching match, crushing his body with clenched fists.
But unlike the Conjunction Spell Master, who continuously regenerated his body, Lennok gradually began to accumulate damage.
A violent and painful melee, so intense that he couldn’t even use the healing flames he had taken from the Tower Lord.
It was Lennok who first lost his breath and coughed.
“Cough…!!”
“Got you.”
Puh-eok!!
He slammed down on his shoulder, kicked his shin to unbalance him.
The Conjunction Spell Master’s close-quarters combat, using Spatial Conjunction to close the distance without even needing speed.
Through exploding flesh, he rummaged through organs, prodded blood vessels and muscles, targeting vital organs.
The staggering Lennok finally revealed an opening, and the moment the Conjunction Spell Master unhesitatingly gripped Lennok’s neck—
Black-green flames exploded from Lennok’s hand.
Crimson Star System: Solar Zenith
Seventh Star: Oak Hwan
[Encompassing Star Spring]
[Full Crimson]
KWA-AAAAANG!!!!
A colossal sun, made of hellfire, explosively surged and rotated from Lennok’s hand.
It was a move more than capable of completely ravaging and maddening the Conjunction Spell Master’s will-thought, which was operating his Conjunction Spellcraft at full power.
“That’s all there is to it…!!!!”
But the Conjunction Spell Master, seeing the hellfire erupting from Lennok’s hand, immediately arched his body backward at full strength.
The hellfire sun narrowly missed the Conjunction Spell Master, soaring past the plummeting colossal body of the Long-lived Being.
“Cough!!”
Full Crimson, manifested using hellfire.
Lennok, as if it were his last move, collapsed without even watching the plummeting sun. From beneath his tattered coat, blood dripped from his mangled body.
He was only holding onto his consciousness with the power of drugs; his body had long since surpassed its limits.
Racing towards Lennok at incredible speed, the Conjunction Spell Master stomped and kicked his shoulder.
“That was all, Evan Martinez!!”
Puh-eok!!
Lennok’s body was flung backward as if recoiling, sliding onto the back of the plummeting Long-lived Being.
The Conjunction Spell Master immediately landed in front of him, gripping Lennok’s neck with one hand, and said.
“To unravel my Conjunction Spellcraft and prevent me from using my immortality, that hellfire was your only option!!!”
“……”
“I knew it. I understood everything.”
The Conjunction Spell Master whispered.
“The outcome of this battle was decided from the moment you first showed me hellfire in the operating room…!!!”
It was impossible for Lennok to defeat the Conjunction Spell Master without unraveling his immortality.
Lennok’s only method was to forcibly accelerate the immortality by using hellfire.
But the Conjunction Spell Master also knew that Lennok would choose hellfire at the last moment.
Deu-reu-reuk…!!
Dragging the fallen Lennok, the Conjunction Spell Master, who had reached a spot overlooking the ground, said.
“Watch until the very end. The moment your life ends. The contradiction of you self-destructing from the recoil of the answer you created!!”
Koo-goo-goo-goo!!!
The breathtaking sight of the plummeting colossal body of the Long-lived Being crashing onto the still unbloomed flame flower.
At this rate, the flame flower, colliding with the Long-lived Being, would ultimately fail to complete and vanish, its recoil being entirely transferred back to the caster.
And Lennok’s body, pushed to the brink of death, could never withstand that recoil.
“All the life I lived as a Watcher of the Blue Eyes, as the successor of Jindun—!!!”
“No.”
Teok!!
Lennok raised his blood-soaked hand, catching the Conjunction Spell Master’s hand in mid-air.
Beyond his disheveled hair and blood-stained face, only his eyes gleamed sharply.
“There’s no way… a single hellfire could make your ability rampage…”
“What?”
Lennok, gasping for breath, said.
“What I… truly wanted from the beginning was…”
Bwa-aaaa-aaaaang!!!!
At that moment, an immense light exploded above the Conjunction Spell Master’s head.
The form of a colossal sun, rotating violently next to the plummeting Long-lived Being.
Recognizing the Sun Manifestation Magic, Full Crimson, the Conjunction Spell Master immediately understood why and sharply turned his gaze.
“The sun spellcraft I cast into your body earlier…!!!”
The ultimate secret art of the Crimson Star System, [Full Crimson], which had almost incinerated the Conjunction Spell Master’s entire body during their battle.
The sun that had surged into the sky without killing the Conjunction Spell Master had reappeared, instead of vanishing.
“Wait, if that’s the case…!!”
The other sun Lennok unleashed at the end, made of hellfire, also, instead of disappearing—
Koo-gwa-gwa-gwa!!!!
Two suns, one red and one black-green, plummeted towards the colossal body of the Long-lived Being, closing the distance.
Above Gateway City, two spherical suns rotated on either side, with the Long-lived Being between them.
Lennok’s chant of Full Crimson had never vanished since the battle began.
Before the Conjunction Spell Master could react, instinctively realizing that this itself was part of Lennok’s intended ‘condition,’ Lennok, rotating the golden spell formation, murmured.
“Spellcraft Conjunction.”
Conjunction Spellcraft activated
[Twin Crimson Shadows]
Kiiiii-ing!!!!
The red sun and the black-green sun, with the Long-lived Being at their center, began to [conjoin].
A divine technique that forcibly conjoined two Full Crimsons by appropriating the Conjunction Spell Master’s own Conjunction Spellcraft.
“Forcibly conjoining real flame and Nether-Dimensional Flame…!!!!”
The Conjunction Spell Master, guessing the operating principle, gritted his teeth and pressed Lennok down.
Kwa-aang!!
The Conjunction Spell Master, raising his Conjunction Spellcraft to full power and aiming it at the sky, shouted.
“Do you intend to self-destruct along with Gateway City right here?!”
“If I wanted to self-destruct, I would have made the Full Crimsons collide without conjoining them from the start.”
Lennok smiled, his face pale.
“I conjoined the hellfire not simply to expand the Crimson Star System…”
Lennok, murmuring weakly, looked up at the Conjunction Spell Master amidst the storm of heat and said.
“If two Sparks that fundamentally cannot mix can be conjoined under the harmony of Yin and Yang—”
“…!!!”
Lennok whispered.
“Then finally, even time can be manipulated.”
Spellcraft Conjunction: Full Crimson
Yin-Yang Flow Deployment
Tai Chi Fire Incarnation
Pa-aaaaat!!!
The red sun became the flow of Yang, and the black sun became the flow of Yin, rotating.
Their flames obscured and mixed with each other, drawing a colossal Taegeuk symbol.
The moment the flame flower of Celestial Flower’s Myriad-League Fragrance embraced the plummeting colossal Taegeuk.
Chee-iiiiiik!!!!
With a burning sound, the hundreds-of-meters-wide flame flower began to fully bloom on the spot.
Taegeuk, through the harmony of Yin and Yang, completes the incomplete and harmonizes the discordant.
The Tai Chi Fire Incarnation Lennok created by conjoining Full Crimsons was not a weapon in itself, but a medium to forcibly complete his unfinished Domain.
Lennok’s final move, using the harmony of Yin and Yang to, as a result, touch even time.
And Celestial Flower’s Myriad-League Fragrance, whose power had been pushed to the very limit of the sky through the constraint of ‘warm-up,’ finally bloomed.
“No way, from the very beginning, a full bloom…!!!!!”
Only then did the Conjunction Spell Master realize Lennok’s objective was neither the rampaging immortality nor self-destruction, and he shouted.
The existence of Celestial Flower’s Myriad-League Fragrance was not a bluff to distract the Conjunction Spell Master’s nerves, nor a prison trapping the Long-lived Being.
He understood that everything Lennok had done so far was an attempt to accelerate the blooming of that colossal flame flower.
And that his intention was to plunge the Conjunction Spell Master into firepower that transcended all logic.
“The true ability of Celestial Flower’s Myriad-League Fragrance isn’t simply to boost its output through warm-up.”
“…!!!”
“A Domain deployed with time as a constraint, once fully bloomed, is no longer constrained by ‘time’ and—”
As Lennok whispered, falling onto the blooming petals of Celestial Flower’s Myriad-League Fragrance.
“It becomes an eternal, immortal flame that burns with its target.”
Full bloom.
Celestial Flower’s Myriad-League Fragrance.
The hundreds-of-meters-wide flame flower blossomed fully above Gateway City, taking the form of a lotus.
[Time-Blossom Burn]
[Crimson Apex]
A colossal flame, incinerating heaven and earth, pierced through the entire sky above Gateway City.
KWA-AAAAAAAANG!!!!!!!