Chapter 487: Copy Magic
Buzz!
Ahn Jun-hyeon stepped out from thin air. His steps were light, completely unaffected by Kaito Shirogane's strike just now.
His white robe fluttered loudly in the wind, and his chopped black hair floated continuously. His eyes took in the two trenches Kaito had plowed on the ground.
He sneered, deliberately opening his mouth to mock.
"Clearly possessing the ability to turn into wind, yet still allowing this kind of force to hit you. Is it arrogance, or because you have high-speed regeneration and immortality, you've developed this careless fighting habit?"
Ahn Jun-hyeon's movement speed grew faster and faster. In the next moment, he took a step. When the words "fighting habit" were spat out, he had already arrived beside Kaito.
Bringing his fingers together like a blade, his right hand as black as ink, he slashed out directly with a palm.
Kaito's eyes were strange. Because of the martial arts ability of [Pre-Initiative], he could completely see through this kind of attack. He raised his left hand, blocking in front of him.
Buzz!
Ahn Jun-hyeon disappeared again and instantly reappeared, as graceful as a gust of wind. The pitch-black hand blade directly appeared in front of Kaito's neck. His arm instantly expanded, explosive one-inch punch force erupted, and the blade light suddenly flashed.
Pfft!
As if a sharp knife slashed into old cowhide, the dull slashing sound lacked any noise of flesh and blood being torn open. Kaito looked down at that arm as black as ink.
His eyes moved. Even without activating the Transcendent Helix, he could detect that there was no Armament Haki present on this arm.
"Interesting, you are very interesting."
Kaito waved his hand casually, and sure enough, Ahn Jun-hyeon turned into wind and disappeared again, opening up a distance, not truly engaging in a physical contest with Kaito.
The muscles on Ahn Jun-hyeon's body changed slightly, seeming to have become a bit tougher as well.
His heterochromatic eyes stared at Mercenary Tao unblinkingly, wanting to see through everything about the other party.
Being able to join the [Throne of Reality and Illusion], even if it was just the most ordinary [Silver Cluster], meant that the potential he possessed surpassed the vast majority of Reincarnators.
He was very strong, he had great potential!
Ahn Jun-hyeon lowered his stance. Mercenary Tao's current actions showed that the other party hadn't taken him as an opponent yet. Mercenary Tao was still playing around like a cat toying with a mouse.
This was a common fault of the strong. The so-called arrogance, the so-called enjoyment, were all built upon their own overwhelmingly powerful strength.
He lowered his stance, the muscles all over his body trembling constantly, as if brewing something.
In the next moment, an intense energy bloomed from his body and instantly merged back into his body again.
"Setsuna, open!"
Ahn Jun-hyeon's figure suddenly disappeared, his speed so fast that even Kaito's eyes couldn't capture it.
Bang!
A punch hit the back of Kaito's head from behind. The intense force penetrated his body. Even with Kaito's defensive ability, this penetrating force shocked his brain, and everything before his eyes began to shake.
Bang!
Another punch appeared in front of Kaito, hitting his chin. His brain vibrated again, and the dizziness further intensified.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang bang bang...
Countless dense fists constantly emerged. Dragon scales appeared on Kaito's body surface again. The instant the Blazing Flame ignited on Ahn Jun-hyeon's body surface, a layer of light lit up on his well-prepared body, and the Blazing Flame was extinguished.
Amidst the constant fist attacks, his eyes were serious, as if undertaking the greatest attempt of his life.
But the object of his seriousness wasn't Mercenary Tao before him, but in his brain, he was striving to imagine!
He had to imagine what exactly was the essence of that pitch-black power enveloped in intense death intent that Mercenary Tao used to instantly kill [Inferior Demon · Jiang Ming]?!
He must imagine the existence of that power, and subsequently, he could visualize the reality of himself using that power to kill Mercenary Tao.
The so-called magic is imagination.
A mage cannot cast magic they cannot imagine.
Ahn Jun-hyeon's greatest talent, and the most fundamental reason he could be absorbed by the Throne of Reality and Illusion, was that he successfully obtained this special magic unique to him in the [Frieren: Beyond Journey's End World]—[Copy Magic].
As long as he could understand the form of the other party's power, he could use this magic to enable himself to cast the same power.
Even without the corresponding strengthening system, magic power could achieve similar effects.
Just like he knew very well that Kaito's ability to turn his whole body pitch-black and hardened was the Armament Haki from the One Piece world. He didn't have Armament Haki, but because he knew the mechanism of this ability, magic power similarly hardened his arm and gained a certain degree of immunity to other energies.
Similarly, Kaito's martial arts abilities, the ability to turn into wind, various abilities displayed before him, Ahn Jun-hyeon could all imitate.
Mercenary Tao was almost the strongest person below the Supreme level he had ever encountered. The strength of his physical body, the diversity and comprehensiveness of his abilities, were completely incomparable for ordinary Title Level Reincarnators.
Therefore, Ahn Jun-hyeon gave up the plan to imitate those Title Level Reincarnators to fight the other party. Instead, he used the previously imitated concealment ability to hide himself and observed with his own eyes the methods Mercenary Tao used to kill the others.
Now, casting them, Ahn Jun-hyeon felt stronger than any time before. Except for those top-tier opponents he never even had the chance to fight, in this state, he was already one of the strongest Reincarnators!
Every strike of Ahn Jun-hyeon's fists carried terrifyingly immense force. Blazing white smoke clouds constantly roared out. He was very sure that in this state, he could kill Reincarnators of Black Box's or Lingxin's level with a single punch.
But under his bombardment, Mercenary Tao's physical body only began to bleed...
Buzz!
One of his punches missed, and he was instantly alarmed. In the next moment, he turned into wind and disappeared. Having successfully imitated [Setsuna], Ahn Jun-hyeon was extremely fast. After turning into wind, it was like a hurricane passing through. In an instant, he swept up all the rubble, turning it into a tornado, sweeping the ruins he had just blasted into the sky.
And whipped towards Mercenary Tao mid-air.
Mercenary Tao emerged from the wind, and the sand and stone tornado smashed directly in front of him.
Bang!
The sand and stone tornado exploded, and blazing white shockwaves struck towards him like ripples.
Ahn Jun-hyeon merely used Geppo mid-air to open up a distance of hundreds of meters.
The blazing white shockwave smashed onto the ground, and a city block collapsed violently.
Kaito's pupils trembled constantly, and the God's Prosthetic Eye had already lit up.
[You consumed 1 Sin Karma point]
[You activated · Omen of the Evil God]!
Subsequently, bending his knees, [Setsuna · Eighth Stage] activated!
Hum!
Just as the screaming sound of the air being torn apart rang out, sonic boom clouds consecutively appeared and shattered.
"Hahahahaha!"
Laughing wildly, Kaito instantly smashed through the tornado Ahn Jun-hyeon had swept up again. Reaching out his right hand, he had already grabbed a person.
Without even looking, Kaito spun rapidly a full circle mid-air and smashed him out with a bang.
Bang bang bang!
Three rings of shockwaves consecutively appeared. A figure violently tore through the air and smashed onto the roof of a building. In the next moment, the building violently shattered, and the figure pierced through three buildings consecutively before crashing into the dust and smoke.
Kaito's fighting spirit was roused. The muscles in his arms expanded. Across a distance of thousands of meters, his fists bombarded continuously.
The viscous air was instantly dented by the punches. In the next moment, amidst sounds like vibrating bowstrings.
Three white smoke clouds turned into mad dragons, drawing arcs through the air, consecutively bombarding the place where the other party crashed onto the ground.
Kaito's eyebrows stretched open. Previously, those Reincarnators were not enough to fight, or merely relied on bizarre rule-based abilities to fight him. Nothing made him enjoy fighting more than an opponent whose physical arts were almost identical to his own.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Three sounds of breaking air rang out. Three pieces of rubble flew through the air at a speed far exceeding bullets. Kaito's head quickly swayed left and right, dodging the three stones.
He also stepped mid-air, the air exploding, and directly crashed downwards.
Below, Ahn Jun-hyeon's eyes were bright. On his right hand, a pitch-black luster flowed obscurely. He finally imagined an ability that satisfied the criteria of extinguishing all life force with one punch.
An instant-death type ability!
"Die, Mercenary Tao!"
He threw a punch. The power of High-Tier Setsuna was still there, coordinating with the speed at which Mercenary Tao charged over.
In an instant, his fist hit directly on Mercenary Tao's chest. Correspondingly, he was also struck by a vigorous giant force. His chest cavity instantly caved in. The severe pain of ribs piercing into his internal organs made his vision go dark, almost losing consciousness.
Bang!
Kaito staggered two steps. The pitch-black magic spell had already entered his body.
[Special Reincarnator EX051, you have suffered a special ability attack. Now conducting Instant Death check...]
(End of Chapter)
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