When Gizal arrived at his destination and tried to look around, he felt a presence behind him.
“Don’t you understand?”
That voice reverberated low in Gizal’s abdomen.
“Tch…”
He instantly activated the Swift Thunder and swung his weapon as he turned around. But Hazen’s figure was gone, already having moved to a different location.
At this point, he no longer knew what was going on.
What he did know was that he had been outmaneuvered from behind. He was being completely mocked. But Gizal refused to accept it.
This was not a battle of speed as Hazen had said. Something was off about him. Telling himself this, he continued the fight.
After that, Gizal activated the Swift Thunder over and over, more than hundreds of times. But he couldn’t capture Hazen even once.
“Pant…pant…why?”
Eventually, Gizal stopped activating the Swift Thunder.
“Don’t you understand? You’re too slow,” Hazen answered from behind.
The distance was unclear, but he was indeed behind him. For a lightning attribute user, being outmaneuvered from behind meant instant defeat. He had already done so three times.
Normally, he would have been killed.
“Too slow? Are you saying My Lightning magic wand is inferior to your magic staff?”
“No, I mean you’re too slow. General Gizal.”
“I…?”
That’s when Gizal realized it.
He realized that
it was not the speed of the Swift Thunder itself that was slow, but the activation speed of the magic.
“Do you understand now?”
Hazen spoke from behind, already in the position of the victor, and Gizal gritted his teeth bitterly.
“…YMy magic staff ability is to move at ultra-high speed beyond a certain distance. And your Magnetic Lightning is the same, right?”
“It’s a bit different, but more or less.”
“How is it different?”
Despite being in the middle of battle, Gizal couldn’t help but ask. Because he still couldn’t comprehend the events unfolding.
“The Magnetic Lightning can imbue two types of magical power at the tip. For convenience, I call them Yin and Yang, and use them selectively.”
“…And?”
“And I can mark various points with this Yin and Yang. I had predicted that you would choose this battlefield, so I had prepared in advance.”
“…”
So he had been dancing in the palm of Hazen’s hand from the beginning. And he had been skillfully trapped. But he felt no unpleasant feelings. Rather, he felt the depth of Hazen’s abilities, realizing that even this situation was not a coincidence.
“Yin and Yang have a mutually attracting property. And by manipulating the Yin and Yang of Magnetic Lightning, I can move at high speed to the marked points.”
“That’s…quite complex.”
“The constraints increase the power. Conversely, if I didn’t have these constraints, I couldn’t achieve that level of speed. After all, it’s a 10th class jewel.”
“…”
Hearing that, his previous self-confidence crumbled. To think that such a low-class jewel could achieve this.
“Hazen Heim, the reason I’m inferior to you is in the speed of thought, isn’t it?”
“Correct.”
“…”
“The speed at which I can move towards my destination after arriving, while imbuing magical power. General Gizal, it’s around 0-3 seconds. That was confirmed in the battle with Lei-Fa. But my thought speed is on average 0-0.04 seconds. By specializing the Magnetic Lightning in simple Yin-Yang manipulation, it became possible.”
“…”
Hearing that, he felt an unfathomable distance between himself and Hazen.
“No matter how fast the Lightning Cutter Sparrow boasts, as a human, the difference with my Magnetic Lightning is only about one-ten-thousandth of a second. Even if there was a tenfold gap, it wouldn’t change the decimal seconds. So the one with faster thoughts would win.”
“…I have one more question. Why can you produce such high-speed thoughts?”
“Training. Anticipating all possible enemies and preparing countermeasures. It’s a natural preparation in battle.”
“I see…”
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He hadn’t been obsessed with the power of the magic staff. But the fact was, he had been confident that he would never lose in a fair one-on-one battle.
However, this man named Hazen was prepared. It was as if a stronger enemy was coming as a matter of course. He considered every possibility, took every countermeasure, and put them into practice.
“Well… will you still not admit defeat?”
“…Ah. The one still standing is the victor. let me flail a bit more.”
Gizal drew his lightning sword and took a fighting stance.
“I see. So it has come to this. Impressive. If there is indeed a way for me to defeat you, that would be it.”
“…With the speed of your lightning sword, a single strike would be enough. Especially for me.”
Gizal abandoned the speed specialization of his lightning sword. He wrapped it around his own body and changed it to a counter-attack type. He focused all his ability on his vision and abandoned the rest. It was the same as when he faced Lei Fa. However, this time, Gizal was on Lei Fa’s side. He assumed that Hazen did not have the instantaneous drawing ability of the lightning sword. Therefore, he would require a certain amount of charging time to release a spell. If he could seize the opportunity, he could win.
And if a moment of vulnerability appeared, he would strike him down with his swift lightning.
“You also have high tactical flexibility. I like it even more. Then, I’ll go all out as well.”
“…Come.”
Hazen began moving. It was a speed that belied the sluggishness he had shown earlier. It was as if he was dancing in flashes of light, leaving afterimages that could barely be seen.
Because of the unused ability, his original visual perception was only about one-hundredth of its normal level. However, even with his weakened lightning sword, he was still able to perceive Hazen to some extent.
If only Hazen would stop for a moment, just a moment…
If only he would stop…
Stop ……
“Ah…ugh…”
Gizal couldn’t keep up. He had already lost sight of Hazen multiple times, and had shown many fatal openings. He tried to resume his visual tracking, but he couldn’t catch up.
Could the difference be this great?
This great, he said.
And…Gizal didn’t know how many times, but in the moment he lost sight of Hazen’s figure, suddenly a large hole opened in the ground, and rocks flew through the air.
“Ugh…where is he!?”
Completely losing sight of Hazen, Gizal scanned the area. But he wasn’t there.
The shadow…
That’s when he found a shadow that shouldn’t have been on the ground. But it was impossible.
“Idiot…no way.”
There was Hazen, upside down in the air, riding on the shattered rocks. The young man with black hair grinned, and swung another magic wand with all his might.
In an instant, Gizal’s body was thrust into the ground, unable to move. And a shock that he had never experienced in his life assaulted his entire body.
“Gaaaaaaah!”
“Haa…haa…haa…”
Hazen, panting, walked towards Gizal on the ground.
“Ugh…gah…”
“Pant…pant…well, I suppose the match is over, isn’t it?”
Next to Gizal, Hazen too laid down on the ground, gazing up at the sky. It was a strange sight, for in the midst of battle, the enemy general had collapsed beside him.
With his bones breaking and his breath fading, Gizal asked:
“In the end…why were you in the air?”
“It’s a magic wand called [Float]. It has the effect of making my own weight zero. I used it to traverse the airborne rocks that I had broken. Of course, on rocks that I had marked.”
“…What was the magic wand you used to attack me?”
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