I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 122

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Chapter 122
122: Do You Understand Type Matchup? (1)
After separating from Jiyuchan, Hanalin sensed something hurtling toward her just as it had toward him. When she examined her opponent, the sight of an otherworldly being shaped more like a wooden puppet than a human brought back memories of before arriving here.
After recalling all the information Dohyun had provided, Hanalin halted mid-flight and watched the wooden puppet pursuing her.
Whoooosh.
The violent currents—rarely seen in nature—suddenly subsided as Hanalin came to an elegant stop. The wooden puppet Baridus appeared before her, naturally taking his position across from her.
His mana control was precise; the fierce currents dissipated instantly just as they had for Hanalin, and the ocean currents he’d created on the way here vanished as if erased. Watching Baridus, Hanalin leveled her staff at him.
Meanwhile, Baridus tilted his head at an unsettling angle, making a creaking sound as if unable to comprehend why Hanalin would point her staff at him.
Did he think her foolish for showing no surprise at his appearance and willingly coming here to face him despite already knowing about him?
His puppet-like expressionless face should have been chilling, but Hanalin paid it no mind.
Instead, as if asking what there was to discuss, Hanalin began radiating mana, and Baridus extended his hand without a word.
Thin threads of mana stretched from Baridus, connecting back into his body. Just as I wondered if he meant to control himself, Baridus’s chest—shaped like a wooden puppet—opened, and countless sharks suddenly erupted from within.
Shwoooosh——
Crackle crackle crackle——
The sharks swarmed in a circle, swimming around and enclosing the area. Their formation resembled a dome constructed from sharks. Hanalin paid no attention and fired mana from her staff directly at Baridus.
Rather than magic-formed mana, she compressed pure mana into a laser-like beam capable of exerting physical force—a mana cannon.
Though it could be called basic magic, it was more akin to a fundamental attack. At this assault, Baridus grotesquely split his wooden puppet mouth into a grin.
“Ha. Ha. Ha. How pathetic.”
With those words, Baridus wielded his mana threads, and one of the sharks forming the dome opened its jaws and swallowed the incoming mana cannon.
Gulp.
For a shark living and swimming in the mana sea, that mana cannon made of pure mana was merely food, so Baridus had the shark consume it. But afterward, the shark’s condition was far from normal.
The shark’s belly glowed red and swelled. Soon, the shark’s body burst apart in all directions with a crimson flash.
KABOOOOM———!!!
The shark fragments erupting from the explosion each carried mana, unleashing formidable force. The moment Baridus saw this, he extended mana threads from his other hand, severing stone to create a wall before him and block the explosion.
Crackle crackle crackle——!!
The stone wall struck by fragments couldn’t withstand the explosion and crumbled. Baridus quickly spread his mana threads, then compressed them again to form a mana wall, blocking even the subsequent shockwave.
Though Baridus had completely defended against the explosion, his wooden puppet expression twisted into one of utter bewilderment as he stared at Hanalin.
The attack he’d fired at him was clearly just a basic mana cannon, yet the shark that swallowed it had exploded—he couldn’t comprehend this.
Meanwhile, another mana cannon was fired at Baridus.
Shwoooosh———!
Seeing the mana cannon cutting through the water, Baridus didn’t underestimate it this time. He focused intently on blocking Hanalin’s attack, manipulating the sharks with his mana threads to open their jaws toward the cannon.
This time, instead of swallowing, ten sharks opened their mouths simultaneously, and fierce water jets erupted from them, firing a water cannon. The moment it collided with the mana cannon, just as he was about to observe what effect it would have, the mana cannon transformed into a blindingly white beam.
The water jets that touched the brilliant white beam began freezing instantly.
Crackle crackle crackle——!!
The sharks firing the water jets had no time to sever the freezing streams before their entire bodies froze along with them.
Unable to swim, the sharks suspended in the water plummeted to the seafloor, shattering into fragments as they fell.
Though it was incomprehensible that they sank rather than floated despite becoming ice, no one present was thinking about such things now.
This was the World of the Black Gate, where certain physical laws were strangely inverted.
More pressingly, Baridus couldn’t fathom what Hanalin was doing.
‘What exactly is that?’
On the chance that it might work, I continued to manipulate numerous sharks in an attempt to attack Hanalin, but she fired mana bolts toward every shark approaching her.
And those mana bolts, without a single overlapping spell, transformed into magic at some point—either before the sharks or within them—systematically slaughtering the creatures.
Boom boom boom boom boom——!!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh——!!
I continued the barrage of numbers, manipulating countless sharks to pressure Hanalin, but her mana bolts grew progressively faster, firing in patterns that embroidered the entire surrounding area.
Faced with the overwhelming speed and quantity of mana bolts that filled the space like a laser show, Baridus could only stare at Hanalin in disbelief.
Even after more than ten minutes of standoff, the speed hadn’t diminished—it had only accelerated, and the mana bolts continued their transformation into magic.
Not a single mana bolt continued its trajectory unchanged; all of them transformed into spells, piercing through and detonating the sharks, gradually reducing their numbers.
Hanalin’s mana scattered in all directions, gradually saturating the surrounding space, yet Baridus remained oblivious to this, able only to gaze at her with eyes wide in astonishment.
‘I… I don’t understand.’
I still couldn’t fathom Hanalin’s technique.
They were clearly mana bolts—compressed mana fired without magic—yet at some point they transformed into spells, and those spells manifested.
It defied all logic.
Those like me who wielded manipulation-type magic struggled with basic spellcasting, but as a Mage myself, I understood perfectly how impossible this was.
Simply firing mana couldn’t possibly manifest magic.
Magic, ultimately, was the process of twisting the world’s principles—using mana as a medium to distort the laws and create phenomena.
To accomplish this, processes must exist to briefly deceive the world: incantations, magical circles, or hand seals.
Yet in what Hanalin displayed, there was no such process whatsoever.
‘Mana bolts cannot become hand seals, incantations, or magical circles.’
Mana bolts were merely compressed mana, nothing more.
They were close to mana manipulation—something even swordsmen could use, not just Mages—so magical circles couldn’t be inscribed upon them.
It was impossible.
Yet somehow, this woman had made it possible.
Baridus’s eyes darted rapidly as these thoughts consumed him.
Regardless of the manipulation principle, keeping Hanalin here any longer would only become troublesome, so I opened my chest once more and withdrew countless deep-sea monsters.
Even after deploying my trump cards—creatures like octopi and swordfish—Hanalin’s gaze remained utterly unmoved.
‘So this is how it goes?’
Baridus bristled at what seemed like contempt and attempted to pressure Hanalin using all the deep-sea monsters at his command.
But in that instant, Hanalin’s eyes flooded with a piercing white light that blazed forth.
As Baridus moved to position his most defensively superior giant octopus in front to block any attack, Hanalin’s aura—her mana—erupted outward in all directions.
Whoooosh——
Like a wave spreading outward, that mana rippled across the space, and Baridus manipulated the giant octopus to extend all its tentacles, transforming it into an enormous dome to envelop Hanalin, but her mana had already permeated the surroundings.
The moment Baridus sensed his dread and perceived that mana, a soft voice emerged from within the octopus’s embrace.
“Our compatibility is quite poor.”
With those words, Hanalin’s mana that filled this entire area began to transform simultaneously.
Baridus understood what he witnessed.
“This… this is!?”
Each particle of mana was itself a magical circle, an incantation, a hand seal—no, each mana particle was magic itself. And as those particles clustered together, spreading through the air, they unleashed the magic contained within them.
When the sharks had sprayed water jets, freezing ten sharks at once in that pristine white light, now that same searing radiance engulfed the entire area, and as that brilliant white flash spread, everything it touched froze solid.
Even this Seafloor, which as the Mana Sea should never freeze, now lay crystallized.
Craaaaaack———
As the entire battlefield froze solid, a sound echoed from its center.
Snap.
At that finger-flick-like sound, fine cracks began spreading across the frozen expanse, and then—
SHATTEEEEEER———!!!
All the ice that had encased the surroundings shattered into fragments, and every seafloor monster nearby was pulverized, their remains tumbling across the ground.
As ice shards scattered through the midair, refracting light into glittering dust that swirled in all directions, Hanalin’s azure hair billowed in the current, and simultaneously, she leveled her staff at Baridus—now nothing but a torso.
Watching Hanalin aim her staff at him as he lay on the ground like refuse, his limbs frozen and shattered, Baridus spoke.
“You….”
But those words never reached completion. Hanalin’s mana blast pierced through Baridus’s skull, and his corpse rolled across the seafloor.
Hanalin murmured as she gazed at Baridus’s lifeless body.
“Just as Dohyun said it would be.”
He was weaker than the Sequeran that Jiyuchan faced, and the matchup favored her—exactly as predicted.
How far did Dohyun’s foresight truly extend? Hanalin smiled faintly at the thought and began searching Baridus’s belongings.
From Baridus’s exposed chest cavity, she discovered a small pouch similar to the one Sequeran had carried, and Hanalin’s eyes—which had remained expressionless and detached since the battle’s end—widened.
“Dohyun will be pleased with this.”
With that thought, Hanalin smiled and took to the air once more.
Since she had found nothing worth taking from the monsters, she departed the area and flew toward where Dohyun awaited.
Upon spotting the Poison Domain, now thick with violet toxic mist that melted everything around it, her faint smile faded as she flew toward it.
‘I need to hurry.’
Hanalin flew swiftly, her concern for Dohyun evident in her speed.
Confident that less than twenty minutes had passed and Dohyun still lived, she surged forward toward that place.

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