Chapter 290
"Ngh…."
Landschi pressed a palm hard against one eye, as if in real pain, and gave his head a rough shake.
He was aware that cases where damage carried past a doppelganger and reached the original body — though vanishingly rare — did exist. But the idea that Choi Hyun-woo, of all people, might possess such a means hadn't crossed his mind for a second.
"To take a wound like this from somewhere I never expected…."
The right eye Choi Hyun-woo had pierced couldn't see a thing. And that was just the start of it.
Damage had ripped through his mana circulation pathways and various points throughout his body.
A young human like Choi Hyun-woo possessed no such power on his own, which meant it had to be the sword he'd been wielding.
The moment he saw an unfamiliar weapon and watched it split his skin so effortlessly, he should have registered the threat and braced for it. Landschi readily acknowledged his own foolishness.
He also accepted that the price for that foolishness was crushingly steep, and he hacked up a thick mouthful of clotted, jelly-like blood.