The Magic Of Skill

Chapter 9's

I don't want to call what happened just now a murder. These thugs are the ones who started the trouble in the city, of course I can't just let it go.

But the fact that I have killed people is undeniable, it is too late. My hands are bloodless, I feel no sorrow, I feel no sin. Does it really feel this normal when taking someone's life?

“Destiny is very scary yes, who would have thought there would be a crime after we were still laughing together.” Florinas.

Together, right, I was looking at Hile's happy face.

Hile? Hile is not next to me. Wait, where's Hile?

“Florinas, where's Hile?!” panicking because the little boy was not standing next to me, I looked here and there among the crowd preparing for the festival. Hile was wearing a bright yellow dress, but I didn't see her around me at all.

Florinas also realizes that Hile is missing, he flies up and begins to search. I from below could see that the Fairy Queen was panicking as well. His head turned back and forth, until it stopped in one direction. Florinas pointed to a street while hinting that he saw Hile.

I immediately ran towards the place Florinas pointed at, he kept flying over to guide me. With the Booster skill, I sped up my run. As much as possible I avoid collisions with people who are moving in the opposite direction.

Florinas stopped driving, he took me to a street very crowded with people. Really, as soon as I turned that road, I was really surprised because as far as I could see it was just people and people. How am I supposed to find Hile in this crowd?

I looked at Florinas, it seems he lost Hile in his search. Of course, anyone would have trouble paying attention to someone among the hundreds of people walking randomly.

Want not..

“Super Skill, All of Freeze.”

It froze, and everything stopped moving. My vision turned blue like a world submerged in water. The world is dead because I am the only one who moves. Both time, destiny, concepts, and the flow where everything stopped frozen.

In this world that is no longer moving, I can find Hile easily. I flew using the Fly Up magic towards Florinas to ask him, but it seems that the original owner of this Super Skill also felt the freezing effect.

Yeah, I'm looking for Hile alone. It should be easy to look for him in a silent position like this.

From above I could see how vast this street was, its length even stretched from end to end. These people must be from outside the capital who purposely visited here to celebrate the festival, most of them wealthy people wearing expensive clothes.

What I thought would be easy turned out to be the opposite, from end to end, I paced around to see if Hile was among them. Whether it was how many times I flew from over and over to the starting point, the results remained the same. Hile's not here.

“But Florinas led me here, why?” it seemed impossible that Hile was truly absent, considering that Florinas was so confident that he wanted to lead me down this path.

If only I had search magic..

Oh yes, this magic named Long Sense seems like something similar. It can improve the senses, which means it increases the viewing power.

I bet on this magic, come on.

Unwilling to bother, I instantly activated Long Sense magic using as much as 1,000,000 mana, hoping that this magic could reach a level where I could find Hile immediately. The results were surprising. My head feels like it's about to break, seeing things that are far beyond reason.

The whole world is as if it were shown before my eyes, all things, all living things, I see everything. Hiles.. Where is hile?

I focused my vision on the Hile I knew. It is difficult to handle Long Sense when using excessive mana. But that doesn't mean I'm having a hard time finding Hile. According to my vision, he shouldn't be far from here.

It was in the horse-drawn carriage. In bonded condition and cloth-wrapped head. What the fuck?!

Hile is not in good shape. In addition, he was not lost or strayed, but kidnapped. I immediately deactivated all abilities and flew towards the horse carriage it was in.

It seemed that the horse-drawn carriage was walking away from this crowded street, just as Florinas had trouble finding it. The right choice to use time-freezing, otherwise the horse-drawn carriage might no longer be able to find.

I left Florinas who had just slipped out of the freeze. Time goes on, and so does destiny. I'm after the horse-drawn carriage that kidnapped Hile as quickly as possible.

Until I flew over the horse-drawn carriage, and peeked out of their open roof. Hile was not alone in there, there were two people in neatly-coated clothes sitting next to him, and it was seen that the person riding the horse carriage was also wearing the same suit.

“Fire Ball!”

I fired a fireball right in front of the horse. The ball exploded on the ground and knocked the horse down. This explosion is certainly controlled, not to the extent of injuring residents who pass by nearby.

Because the horse fell, the train became unbalanced until finally rolled over. I activated Protection magic on Hile right before his train crashed, he should not have been hurt in the least.

I went downstairs and checked on Hile. The horse carriage made of wood was really fragile so that it slipped a little already made all the skeletons damaged. All that was left were the traces of the wooden shards and some people who were lying weakly. I raised Hile's head then removed his headgear.

“Hile? You all right? You're not hurt? Sorry for saving you that way.”

When I opened the cover, Hile was in tears. His body trembled in fear, his tears falling flooding his face. He did not even dare to open his eyes. But after hearing my voice, “Walter..was that you?” Hile asked in a soft voice.

“Yes, it's me. Relax, you're safe now.”

Hile's tears were flowing more and more as he opened his eyes and looked at my face. While crying, the little girl hugged me very tightly. “I was scared, I thought something bad was going on. I thought I lost you. I.. I..”.

“Sorry, I shouldn't have blown it up. But you shouldn't have been hurt, I'm really grateful you're okay. All right, we're home now.”

I can't bear to let Hile continue crying like this, however I was the one who made the explosion. When I go home I will apologize to him as much as possible, even if he is angry I will accept it.

Immediately before I activated the teleportation skill, a knife was thrown out of nowhere towards Hile's head. Lucky Hile is still in my Protection effect, the knife just bounced and didn't scratch Hile in the least.

Because it was too dangerous, I teleported to the palace, leaving Hile in his room. Then teleport back to the place where the accident took place. How could I have let the kidnapper wander through the city.

When I came back, the thief was waiting for me. A while ago they were lying weak from the explosion, but now everything looks fine. Their number was three people, this reminded me of the fight that occurred between me and the muscular man earlier.

Florinas also came, he who did not know the situation understood that this was not the right time to ask.

“Kidnapping a little girl is really disrespectful. Is it because she's more easily kidnapped, or is it your bad taste in choosing women?”

Not answering a joke from me, the three of them even put up horses to fight. Their cold faces, their corpse-like gazes. I doubt if they are really human. Besides the exact same position of their horses, but on the other hand also strong, it was unmistakable that they were martial experts.

“Master, their business let me face it.” Florinas though did not know the situation offered him to fight.

“No, it's my business."

Alright, can I defeat the three of them?

The three of them advanced simultaneously, their movements were really fast and almost made my focus crumble. When they were close, I used the Soul Wiper Technique. With my palms, I'm aiming for their chests.

It was surprising, it turned out that the Soul Wiper attack whose speed could not be seen with ordinary eyes could they avoid. I felt like I was hitting a shadow when their bodies suddenly disappeared.

No, it turns out they didn't disappear. They moved behind me, and launched an attack from there. A very hard kick hit me in the face, even hard enough to make me bounce a few meters.

It hurts, I feel pain. The pain is nothing, more or less similar to the pain when scratching. But this signifies that my resilience is still within reach of them. And even worse is the fact that I haven't touched them.

If things start to get worse then I will use the All of Freeze once again. For now, let's see how strong they are.

A sword or some other weapon, if I use it it might be better. In this fight, where they look more dominant, I honestly feel that the long-winded magic becomes very useless.

They advanced, but now did not directly attack me at the same time, but instead formed a triangular formation surrounding me. One of them hit me with his martial technique, I managed to dodge, but another punch came from a different direction.

It happened constantly, I was surrounded in a deadly formation where they could attack continuously. Luckily, my martial abilities might be at their level. Avoiding their blows is not a difficult thing, but a little mistake then my head will be targeted again.

Some time after they showered me with fists, they stopped hitting.

After pausing for a moment to start the new horses, they began to use another style. “Enclosure Engineering, Perfect Chop.” Say them simultaneously.

This time, I felt like I was fighting a panco with death. The moves they put out, as the name implies, are a slashing technique. They used their hands sideways and the effect of the Technique was that their hands could become as sharp as knives. And not just slashing, they can also be piercing.

I was like a rabbit jumping between sword slashes. From their fingertips to their arms, I absolutely cannot touch them. Not to mention they use both hands, with compact movements like a machine. Ducking down, jumping, without fending it off at all, everything I did was to dodge this three-way attack.

Then when I started to get tired and my focus was no longer guaranteed, I used another style. “Dark Repulser!”

I don't know what kind of style it is, because it sounds scary I use it.

Just then, my hand gathered mana with the element of darkness. My right and left hand cast a dense shadow, black in color and looking like fire. The shadow that stuck to my hand was as if it was gnawing at my hand slowly, so I hurriedly released all of his energy on one of the enemies

the one in front of me.

A stream of shadows flew through the air towards the person I shot, the other two people who saw the magic immediately put on a defensive position as they watched their friend get swept away by the black shadow.

When the magic ended, the person who was devoured by the shadow was still there. But strangely, he did not move at all. His eyes were empty, his body did not shake like a human. I immediately guessed that it was magic to cripple.

“Good magic. Dark Repulser!”

I used the Dark Repulser for the second time, and just like before both my hands were gathering shadows. But now, both of my hands I use to shoot two people on my right and left. The black light came back out of my hand, but unfortunately it only managed to hit their arm.

Exactly as I thought, it was indeed paralyzing magic. When their arms were hit by the Dark Repulser, they could no longer use their hands.

But they immediately digested the situation and attacked me with my feet, I dodged to the right and to the left. Thanks to the collapse of one of their friends, their triangular formation was in a mess and I was able to escape the siege easily.

“You know? I have infinite mana, and active skills that make me immortal. You sure you still want to find trouble with me?”

“Meffery Walter..” One of them called my name.

“... You know my name?”

“Meffey Walter is our murder target.”

They both ran towards me and were ready to attack. Unlike the previous one, this time they were really serious. I could feel the incredible killing intent from them.

But it's not just them who can be serious. I took a deep breath, then took a bold step. “Evolver: Lightning Bolt, Fire Ball, Dark Repulser.”

The Evolver skill was successfully activated, the result of the three magic I conjured up was a new magic called Atomic Shot.

Eve killed the two men more and more as they took a long leap, and floated towards me with their fists ready to be launched.

Don't want to think much, it's time to try the expressimen. “Atomic.. Shot!”

Both my hands moved on their own, directed towards those who were ready to kill me. From both of my hands came a green light that dazzled the eyes. The light was very hot, even the heat was felt by me who was the user.

This attack was clearly successful, I shot the three of them at the right angle. The probability of running from magic of this magnitude was zero percent.

I stopped my magic, the green light stopped emitting and everything went back to normal.

Unfortunately, normal in my sense does not mean normal in the general sense. The bodies of the three of them disappeared, neither the body nor the ashes were at all present. I realized that the magic had wiped them out to the point of being unresponsive, and only then did I realize that we had a fight in the middle of the road.

And luck sided with me, Florinas shielded the beam from hitting the building and passers-by.

“Atomic Shot...” I was out of breath from exhaustion, then dropped my butt off on the street and sat there trying to recover my strength.

Florinas came over, “Master..magic just now, has Master ever had it before?” strangely, Florinas was looking at me sharply like never before.

The exhausted me answered honestly that question, “That's the result of my skill, Evolver.”

And it seems like the wrong answer. Florinas created a spear of ice that appeared in his hand, then he pointed it at me. “Already expected, Witch King!”