Chapter 199
Chapter 199: At the End of the Land (5)
“Wait, just a moment!”
“Hold still!”
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
Yoo Ji-han pounded the captain’s body with his fists.
He targeted only the opponent’s weaknesses—jaw, neck, heart, and groin—with dazzling punches!
“Disappear! Just vanish!”
Clap! Clap! Clap!
As the captain managed to block the lethal blows, he felt that things were going horribly wrong.
Finally unable to endure the beating, he exploded with magic and created some distance from Yoo Ji-han.
As a magician by nature, he was extremely vulnerable in close combat.
‘Too close!’
But the space was too confined.
Even when he pushed Yoo Ji-han back to the maximum, they were still too close.
Seeing Yoo Ji-han rush at him again, the captain spread out his palm.
“Don’t move!”
Crack!
He closed his palm, binding Yoo Ji-han’s body with magic.
At that moment, Yoo Ji-han, who had been rampaging like a wild horse, finally stopped in place.
However, his gaze was still fixed on the captain.
“Let me go.”
“If I do, you’ll hit me!”
“No. I’ll kill you.”
“You’re quite the savage!”
“That’s not something you should say to me.”
“Shut up!”
The captain spat out blood and carefully clasped his side with his palm.
His cheekbone seemed to have sunk in, and he felt as if his ribs were broken.
Since arriving in Ajesia from Earth, he had received the worst injury.
Even while biting back the throbbing pain, the captain didn’t stop thinking.
‘Why doesn’t dimensional magic work on that guy?’
From the homeless who suddenly disappeared without a trace to the Rank 1 Hero running a large guild.
Dimensional teleportation magic had been honed through various experiments on humans from Earth.
Now, it was puzzling that it had failed.
‘……!’
At that moment, a thought flashed through the captain’s mind.
“Of course! That must be it.”
“What are you talking about?”
“You’re not a human from Earth.”
“What? Do I look like a different race to you?”
“Not a different race, but perhaps a child of humans belonging to different dimensions.”
Going to another dimension, or what is called an isekai from Earth, had always been targeted at humans with bodies that were almost identical to Ajesia and Earth.
Though there may have been cases where beings outside this criterion were brought into Earth.
Never had anyone been sent to another dimension.
“Bullshit.”
Yoo Ji-han shook his head.
His two parents, who had gone missing in the MA, were undeniably humans born in Korea.
Although interactions were scarce, there were indeed relatives connected by blood.
Thus, the captain’s argument was absurd.
“Alright then. I never expected you to understand anyway. Just stay quiet until you’re forcibly ejected from here.”
“……How long until I get kicked out?”
“Unless someone comes in, it will take at least an hour. That’s how I set it up.”
“That’s quite a long time.”
“If you had just quietly disappeared, you would have been out in no time.”
As they entered the boundary of dimensions, it took a bit of time to return to the original location.
Hearing that, Yoo Ji-han smiled instead.
“Perfect timing.”
“Huh?”
“Hmph!”
Yoo Ji-han resisted the binding magic and tried to move his body forcefully.
The captain clicked his tongue and said, “Don’t do anything stupid. Binding with magic is my specialty.”
“Are you not going to attack?”
“To be honest, offensive magic isn’t well-developed in Ajesia.”
Unlike Earth, where it was common to control natural monsters for labor, Ajesia had no opportunities for war or fierce battles against monsters, so offensive magic was slow in research.
The development of mind-related magic was primarily for education and training of monsters that didn’t communicate well.
It was a world entirely different from Earth, which built barriers due to rampant monsters.
“Well, that’s fortunate.”
“What do you mean fortunate?”
“Because I can hit you without major interruptions!”
“Wow! I can’t believe you’re this foolish!”
“Keep laughing from there.”
Crack!
Yoo Ji-han’s arms and legs trembled violently.
His reddening skin indicated just how much strength he was exerting.
‘How foolish.’
The more strength Yoo Ji-han put into his body, the more relaxed the captain became.
That was pure binding formed without using magic—it wasn’t something that could simply be broken with physical strength.
“By the way, it’s quite fascinating that illusions don’t affect you. Perhaps it’s related to your origin? Ah, but then again, it seems too wasteful just to kill you…”
If he had enough time, the captain would have wanted to investigate this interesting human personally.
However, he felt a twinge of regret at the fact that he had no choice but to kill Yoo Ji-han.
“Ugh!”
“It’s useless, you know?”
“Ugh!”
“Stop being foolish….”
Just then, as the captain was giving advice to Yoo Ji-han.
Crack!
The magic that had tightly bound Yoo Ji-han’s left leg began to crack.
“Huh!”
Not only did it crack, but his leg started to move bit by bit.
The captain was startled and quickly bound his leg with new magic.
Sizzle!
Following that, large cracks formed in the magic that wrapped around Yoo Ji-han’s right leg too.
Faced with the odd occurrences, the captain’s expression hardened, and he steadied himself to control his magic.
“Uwaaaah!”
“Ughhh!!”
Just when it seemed the bindings would shatter, new magic pressed against Yoo Ji-han’s body.
One trying to block, the other trying to break through.
A battle of spear and shield unfolded in the confined space between the two.
Thud.
The captain’s cherished red top hat fell to the ground.
He was so focused that he couldn’t care less about his beloved hat.
If he let his guard down for even a moment, the sharp spear that was Yoo Ji-han would pierce through everything.
“Please stop, just halt!!”
“Would you stop if you were me?!”
Swoosh—
Yoo Ji-han glided forward, sliding his foot without lifting it off the ground.
He closed the distance with minimal movement.
“Oh, no!”
The captain attempted to manipulate Yoo Ji-han’s legs, trying to make him step backward instead of forward.
But Yoo Ji-han resisted even that.
‘How is this possible without a spirit…!’
Even though Sylph hadn’t entered the dimensional boundary with him.
Yoo Ji-han demonstrated an astonishing amount of strength.
He was proof that he was not a hero who solely relied on spirits.
“Phew!”
Yoo Ji-han, who stopped in place, felt frustrated with his body that wouldn’t move as he wished.
However, as he shattered the bindings multiple times, he gradually began to learn how to oppose the magic.
What astonished him the most was…….
‘I can see everything.’
He could see the structure of the magic that was binding him.
The magic forming a pattern like a honeycomb surrounded the skin of his entire body.
And he could see in detail how it twisted based on how much strength he exerted.
‘This must be an ability derived from my sampling!’
He was filled with the overwhelming sensation that he was using his unique skill.
Just how many additional effects were provided by a single unique skill!
Talking to Nirochi would now include a new story.
‘Apply force, release it, apply force again…!’
Yoo Ji-han exerted his strength in the way that caused the captain’s magic to twist the most.
Then, as cracks formed again in the magic covering both of his palms.
Swish!
He quickly emitted an aura from his palms.
This wasn’t the Sylph’s magic he often used, but an aura created with Yoo Ji-han’s intrinsic magic.
‘Spread out!’
The very simple form of the aura spread from his arm to other parts of his body.
Moving much slower and thicker than the green aura.
Still, the aura transition proceeded smoothly.
Crack!
The hexagonal magic was gradually cracking and tearing apart.
Yoo Ji-han’s aura, spreading throughout his body, quickly shattered all constraints.
He had made the right choice to combat the captain’s binding magic.
“……!”
Yoo Ji-han’s movements were stiff like an ungreased machine.
However, they were much faster than when he hadn’t enveloped himself in aura.
The captain hurriedly employed an illusion to dominate Yoo Ji-han’s five senses, but it didn’t work on him.
[Phantom Clone]
Judging that he couldn’t stop him, the captain chose the spell that generated his clones.
Not mere illusions, but tangible clones capable of physical contact.
The clones were refined so subtly that they couldn’t be distinguished from reality, leading Yoo Ji-han to pause.
“Where could the real me be?”
“Where could the real me be?”
“Where could the real me be?”
“Where could the real me be?”
“Wow!”
“Wow!”
“Wow!”
…….
All the clones of the captain, with the same appearance and voice but different movements, exceeded fifty.
Some were lying on the floor, others leaning against the wall, and some floating in the air.
The cubic space filled with the captain’s unsettling laughter grew chaotic.
“……”
Yoo Ji-han scanned all the captains with his eyes.
And approached one that was lying flat on the ground.
“Wow! Sorry, but that one’s fake!”
“Not fake.”
“……!”
Thump!
Caught lying, the captain found himself grabbed by the neck by Yoo Ji-han.
He couldn’t deceive him until the end.
Though other clones rushed at him late.
Buuuuuuum!
Yoo Ji-han swung the captain’s body like a weapon, smashing the clones.
“Uagh! Uwaaaah!!”
“Where do you think you’re trying to cheat?”
“P-please stop!”
“Not a chance!”
Finally, after all the clones disappeared, Yoo Ji-han halted his actions.
He then tightly gripped the captain’s neck and lifted him into the air.
“Cough! Cough!”
“Get ready.”
“What on earth are you getting ready for…!”
“Get ready to be beaten! You bastard!”
Boom!
*
The moment the people from another world took Yoo Ji-han away.
“Your contractor is no longer on Earth. Give up and peacefully surrender.”
—Pooey! Eat shit!
“……How dare that foolish spirit!”
“At times like this, a smart spirit would say that.”
“Shut up.”
Rius was getting annoyed with Lee Mi-a, who was protecting the bound heroes.
It was practically as if fish were laid out and they couldn’t touch them because of just the Wind Spirit and the one hero who had awakened due to her aid.
“Jerry. Are you just going to keep quiet?”
“……”
The only person from the other world able to move freely among the heroes was Jerry.
However, Jerry did not attack the heroes; she merely stood by and watched.
Sylph and even Lee Mi-a didn’t try to stop Jerry.
Even though if she had made her mind up, she could have attacked them long ago, her inaction spoke volumes.
Jerry simply mumbled, “Give us back our self.”
“That crazy girl seems obsessed with that man!”
“Traitor!”
“Useless girl!”
“You’re all done for when the captain returns!”
At someone’s shout, Lee Mi-a bit her lower lip.
She worried because if the guy who abducted Yoo Ji-han came back, she had no confidence in being able to stop him.
‘I can’t run away.’
Lee Mi-a looked at Sylph.
It seemed like the spirit would never run away without leaving its contractor behind.
Since they were barely escaping the illusions thanks to Sylph’s support, abandoning her missing contractor was not an option.
Personally, Lee Mi-a didn’t want to leave Yoo Ji-han behind and flee either.
‘It’s about time he comes back.’
Lee Mi-a checked the wristwatch that Rius had taken from Jung Young-wook.
It was time for the captain to return from the dimensional boundary.
But even after about five minutes passed.
He still hadn’t reappeared in front of the collapsed observation deck.
“……He’s not coming?”
“Why isn’t he coming?”
What on earth could be happening?
