Chapter 125 : Chapter 125
Chapter 125: The Blue Dragon Guild and the Rare Awakened (10)
Seoul.
Above the ruins of the Blue Dragon Guild main building.
The burning flames reflected on the shattered glass windows.
In the center, dyed entirely in red, there were two existences.
One was a man with flames wrapped around his body.
Ignis Guild Master Cho Sang-geun.
The other was the one looking down at the flames while wearing a mask, the leader of the Revolutionary Army, Rossi.
“It’s magnificent.”
The corners of Rossi’s mouth slowly went up.
“Flames always dazzle people. But in the end, all that remains after burning is ash.”
“At least ash remains.”
Cho Sang-geun’s two eyes emitted a red glow.
“You won’t even leave a trace after you burn.”
With those words, flames burst out from Cho Sang-geun’s body as if exploding.
Momentarily, the air in the area rippled.
Boom!!!!
The building debris twisted, and the drones in the sky fell, unable to withstand the heat.
What filled Rossi’s vision was flames like a red sun.
“I like it, that passion. But there is a saying. Flames eventually burn themselves.”
Rossi raised his hand.
Zap!
The air split.
The moment Rossi’s fingertips tore the empty air, Cho Sang-geun’s flames changed direction.
The flames that were attacking the enemy returned to Cho Sang-geun.
“What?”
Bam!!!!
Cho Sang-geun’s body flew backward along with the flames.
The concrete floor tore apart as he crashed into the ground.
Rossi smiled at him as he stood up coughing blood.
“This is the authority of a god. The power that strengthens my Unique Skill up to a thousand times. No matter how strong your unquenchable fire is, I can return it.”
“How…….”
Basically, Natural-type Awakened are immune to their own Unique Skills.
Fire-type Awakened who handle fire do not get burned by the fire they emit, nor do they feel the heat.
Conversely, the same goes for ice.
It should definitely be so.
Cho Sang-geun’s gaze headed toward his body.
The fire he thought was a part of him was swallowing him.
It was unbelievable that he took a hit and was sent flying, but the fire he created was burning his own body.
Cho Sang-geun quickly took off his outer garment and threw it.
The unquenchable flame was burning the entire garment and was not going out.
“What is the skill…… Is it Reflect……?”
“My skill is not something that can be described with such simple words.”
Cho Sang-geun’s gaze moved to Rossi floating in the sky.
It was as he said.
There were one or two strange points.
Rossi was comfortably settled in the empty air as if there were invisible ground.
He even walked.
Basically, there is one Unique Skill.
According to reports, there are cases where they illegally increase it to two, but.
It didn’t seem like that.
“What is it? What is your Unique Skill?”
“Hmm, well, I don’t know if you’ll understand even if I tell you, but I will tell you. My Unique Skill is Reversal.”
Reversal.
That name implies too many things.
If thought of only as a word, it is limited, but if thought about again, it was a word that brought too many things to mind.
Rossi took a step.
Steps treading on empty air.
“Is the sky necessarily all the same sky? Why can’t humans walk in the sky? Is it because there is gravity? Or is it because they think they can’t walk? Does fire have thoughts? Why does fire only burn?”
Incomprehensible words flowed from Rossi’s mouth.
“What are you saying, you.”
“It is like that. A skill that a foolish human like you, who relies only on one violent power, cannot understand. Reversal is such… a skill. It just became a thousand times stronger…… so it really reached the level of a god.”
Cho Sang-geun raised his body.
The man wearing a mask walking leisurely in the sky.
He couldn’t understand all of Rossi’s words, but he had to admit that the skill called Reversal was not limited to just physical things.
However.
“Even if you bring up such noble words. In my view, you are just a psychopath. A psychopath who holds onto a crying child and feels no emotion.”
In Cho Sang-geun’s vision, Yang Min-seon bound to one of Rossi’s arms was visible.
Such a young boy, only an elementary school student, was crying endlessly.
“It doesn’t matter what you babble. And speak correctly. This is not a crying child but…… the seed of revolution. Just a tool of revolution.”
“Trash bastard.”
Unlike Cho Sang-geun clicking his tongue, Rossi was smiling, which was revealed even under the mask.
“Then…… let’s advance the second ritual a little. If even you fall, the government will move quickly. Just as I thought.”
Rossi’s hand was raised.
He didn’t do anything.
He just seemed to be waiting.
For Cho Sang-geun’s attack.
Cho Sang-geun knew that well too.
How that skill called Reversal worked.
Not everything, but he could guess roughly.
But.
Flare!
Nevertheless, Cho Sang-geun burst all the mana in his body and prepared an attack.
Because that was the only thing he could do.
Like that, the flames he put his heart and soul into swallowed his whole body.
Those flames were shot toward Rossi.
And that became the last attack to decide this match.
***
Scorching flames.
The flames that would devour everything into nothingness were filling Cho Sang-geun’s vision.
And Cho Sang-geun was lying spread eagle on the floor looking at the sky.
Breathing becomes disordered.
Like that, Cho Sang-geun’s consciousness was fading away.
“No matter how much I think about it…… it seems the stronger the power S-Ranks possess, the stupider they are. Because they are drunk on their own power and can only do that. Since it has been like that until now, they must have thought it would be the same this time too. With power. With skills. With rank. They must have thought they could win. Like fools.”
Rossi, floating in the air, looked down at the dying Cho Sang-geun.
“…….”
Cho Sang-geun was silent.
No, he couldn’t speak.
Just breathing was a struggle.
“You look very difficult.”
Rossi, who paused his words, looked down at Cho Sang-geun wrapped in flames with blue eyes and opened his mouth again.
“I will show you mercy. Thanks to you, I can create Utopia one day earlier. I will reduce the time of pain.”
Rossi’s hand was raised once again.
His palm became aligned with Cho Sang-geun.
A smile spread on Rossi’s lips.
“Then, find Utopia even in heaven…….”
Rossi’s words could not finish.
Because of an abnormal phenomenon that entered his vision.
“Ha… Ha…….”
The dying.
Cho Sang-geun, who was suffering with death right in front of his nose, had a smile on his face.
Insanity?
Did he go crazy facing death?
It was a smile that didn't match the current situation enough to make one think that.
“What is it, that laugh. Did you go crazy because death is in front of you?”
“I told you the crazy one isn’t me but you…… Anyway…… now I can… rest a bit. Then…… I beg of you…….”
Cho Sang-geun’s eyes were shining more than ever.
And unlike until now.
Not death but…….
He was looking at life.
Rossi clearly felt that emotion.
He just didn’t understand.
Until now, it was a look prepared for death.
Why suddenly.
Did it change like that in an instant?
Rossi, who was silent, looked at Cho Sang-geun.
He realized something and raised his head upward.
The sky where he was standing.
More than that….
The sky at a higher place.
Whoosh!
Something was falling from a place higher than the empty air where he was standing.
At a fast speed….
“What is that…….”
It was.
A small cloud.
***
Boom!!!!
The cloud landed.
To be precise, the cloud stopped exactly above the ground.
And a man fell to the ground beneath it with a tremendous roar.
A groan flowed from the mouth of the man lying spread eagle.
“Ah…… seriously…….”
Republic of Korea A-Rank No. 1.
It was Lee Si-wang.
And the man who just threw, no, let go of him, hopped down from the cloud.
“Thanks. Go rest for now.”
The small cloud wagging its tail flew back into the sky.
Lee Si-wang, who was stuck in the ground, got up and stood by Yoo jin’s side.
“Ah, what do you mean throwing me?”
“I didn’t throw you. I just let go.”
“That’s the same thing.”
“It’s different.”
“It’s the same. Can’t you see my face.”
“You originally looked like that.”
Bickering continued.
And silence continued in that large area.
There were countless people.
Revolutionary Army leader Rossi.
And the executives and members of the Revolutionary Army.
Lastly, Cho Sang-geun.
Lee Si-wang, who discovered Cho Sang-geun wrapped in fire, quickly moved to where Cho Sang-geun was.
“Guild Master!”
Lee Si-wang moved his hands here and there and tried to extinguish the fire wrapping Cho Sang-geun.
He took off the clothes.
Fortunately, he could put out the fire just by taking off the top.
Lee Si-wang, who moved to the side, slowly laid Cho Sang-geun down.
“Guild Master. Are you okay?!”
“Aren’t you too late…….”
“I apologize. First, the treatment…….”
“No. First… that…….”
The place where Cho Sang-geun’s gaze headed after spitting out words with difficulty.
Lee Si-wang’s gaze moved to that place.
The appearance of Rossi in the air.
And the appearance of the Revolutionary Army lined up like an army on the ground below him was visible.
“Don’t worry. It will be okay now.”
Cho Sang-geun nodded with difficulty.
“Why are you always on the verge of death? Are you really an S-Rank? You said you’re the second strongest in the Republic of Korea.”
“I, I know right. Since when did I become the neighborhood drum.”
“Hah…… cleaning up after the kids is hard enough, do I have to take care of you too?”
“Haha…… are you taking care of me?”
“Hey, if you say it with such a dying face, how can I not take care of you? Hah…… how did I end up getting entangled with you guys.”
“I am always grateful.”
“Ah, forget it. It’s cringe, so just close your eyes and sleep. It will be over soon.”
“Be carefu…….”
Cho Sang-geun stopped trying to speak and let out an exhalation.
Because he remembered who he was trying to say what to just now.
“Then, I leave it to you.”
That phrase was enough.
“Yeah, just sleep. You just watch your brother well.”
Lee Si-wang nodded.
Yoo jin, who finished speaking, turned his body.
And at the same time, his expression disappeared.
His expression was explaining everything.
So…….
“Oh, you came. Returnee. You were also on the list, but we met sooner than I thought.”
“…….”
Yoo jin’s head was lifted a little.
Because Rossi was in the sky above.
“As you saw, I have now reached a place of a different level. To the extent that it didn’t take even a few minutes to beat two S-Ranks called Transcendents. I think I have obtained the power to pull down even you Returnees called gods.”
“…….”
Yoo jin did not say a single word.
Then.
The Revolutionary Army and executives at the back started to murmur.
“Since he caught S-Ranks too, it will be possible.”
“It wasn’t just one but two.”
“Even if a Returnee is strong. Rossi's power , which became a thousand times stronger, will be stronger.”
Returnee.
They don’t ignore them.
Because they are those said to be far above S-Ranks.
However, the power Rossi showed just before.
Because they saw that power overwhelming two S-Ranks, they had expectations.
The smiles built on the organization members’ faces.
And Rossi’s eyes watching that curved.
Into a half-moon shape.
Conviction beyond expectation.
They were already convinced of victory.
Because it was that much power.
The authority of god.
The value of this child.
And Rossi’s power.
“If I defeat even you, not only the Republic of Korea but other nations will also declare surrender more quickly. This means the Utopia I hope for will be created faster. Hahaha.”
Rossi, showing laughter, raised his hand.
The palm shown toward the Returnee on the ground.
“Reversal. Why do humans think air always exists?”
As soon as Rossi’s words ended.
Crack!
The space around Yoo jin cracked and started to twist.
The space around Yoo jin.
Changed into a vacuum.
Even from afar, the twisting of space was visible.
Changes occurring in Yoo jin’s outward appearance were visible.
Clothes, hair, the swaying of the wind…….
Everything became unstable.
And a smile spread on the lips of Rossi who confirmed that.
“Even if you are a Returnee. You are nothing but a mere human. Violence. You stood on top of the world with just that small violence, but realize this. You guys were just…… a little lucky.”
Rossi, smiling a smile of victory, slowly savored the end of the Returnee.
Slowly like that.
Slowly…….
“High.”
After a short voice rang out.
Boom!!!!!
Along with a tremendous explosion, an explosion occurred where Yoo Jin was standing.
Tremendous aftermath.
Wind hit the skin.
The Revolutionary Army executives and members screamed and lowered their posture not to be blown away.
Rossi floating in the air also raised his hand to cover his face.
The tremendous explosion subsided little by little.
“What on earth is this…….”
A voice coming out of Rossi’s mouth without him realizing it.
Behind that voice.
“I said it’s high. Stop running your mouth and come down.”
An undeniable command fell.
Rossi’s body began to fall to the ground against his will.