I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 123

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Chapter 123
123: Do You Understand What Matchups Are? (2)
Dohyun had already gathered all the intelligence on his enemies before arriving here. He had learned the details through Analysis and even shared the information with Jiyuchan and Hanalin, so he left the Safe Zone with a grimmer expression than usual.
Not long after, I sensed the two I’d been monitoring moving toward my position, and I came to a halt.
Rachel Lagariell and Krol Rak.
To be honest, if I only had to face Krol Rak alone, I was confident I could win overwhelmingly easily, but Rachel Lagariell was different.
She was undoubtedly the strongest among the four party members, and even I couldn’t guarantee victory in a one-on-one confrontation. I waited in considerable tension. Before long, a snake Birdman appeared—a creature that blended the form of a serpent and a human in an exquisite balance.
“Hm~?”
Watching Rachel Lagariell walk slowly, her black scales gleaming, I furrowed my brow.
A Black Mamba Birdman, indeed. Those black scales certainly absorbed light. Her movements were so subtle and refined that without absolute concentration, even a moment of carelessness would cause me to lose track of her. I fixed her with an intensely focused gaze, watching her every motion.
And Rachel Lagariell regarded me in kind.
I had suspected she wouldn’t be ordinary, but I hadn’t expected her to be quite this formidable. Rachel’s alluring smile deepened at the realization.
Unaware of this exchange, Krol observed the standoff between us with a hint of curiosity, but he didn’t step forward recklessly.
He had agreed to act alongside Rachel, and if he acted on his own whim, he might have to face Rachel before me. So he remained still and cautious.
Then.
“You’re stronger than I expected.”
“Am I? Still, from your perspective, aren’t we an inferior species?”
“You’ve got an edge to you~.”
“I simply have no interest in being courteous to someone who has slaughtered humans.”
“Hm.”
As I spoke and began to gradually draw up my mana, Krol’s complexion finally stiffened.
Following my words, he had been somewhat dismissive, thinking of us as an inferior species regardless, but he couldn’t help but be shocked by the vast mana I had concealed through the subtleties of concealment until now. Though my mana was lower than his, its purity was on an entirely different level.
Most of all, it wasn’t the purity one would expect from a Mage, so as Krol naturally tensed and his expression grew rigid, Rachel laughed upon seeing him like that.
“Now you’re starting to feel it?”
“….”
Krol didn’t answer Rachel’s words, but immediately drew up his black flames, and I likewise completed my battle preparations upon seeing him. Black flames rising from the seafloor, and beyond my field of vision as I watched Rachel alongside them, something vanished.
Rachel’s form, which had clearly been within my sight just moments before, disappeared, and I immediately saw the crimson warning from Analysis.
Faced with the crimson warning indicating that I might have difficulty engaging her, I used Analysis’s trajectory prediction to parry Rachel’s dagger that appeared behind my back in the same manner.
Clang———!!!
A fierce metallic collision rang out.
I couldn’t overcome Rachel’s strength and was sent flying forward. Seeing me bounce back, Krol erected a wall of black flames, and just before I collided with it, my magic unfolded.
Whoosh———!!
Being on the seafloor, water-attribute magic deployed even faster and with far greater power than usual, instantly suppressing the black inferno.
I added my own force to the momentum of being launched, created a foothold in midair, kicked off from it, and flew forward like a projectile, extending my dagger toward Krol.
My dagger, hurtling forward, was imbued with a dark ripple, and upon realizing that power was the force of death, Krol panicked and deployed a shadow wall.
However.
Crack——!!
The moment my dagger, infused with the power of death, touched it, the shadow wall shattered, and my dagger, maintaining its momentum unimpeded, swung toward Krol’s throat.
Like the scythe of Sashin coming to judge his neck, Krol’s mind couldn’t keep pace with the movement as it approached. But in that instant, an explosion erupted from behind me.
Boom———!!
A deafening boom——————!!!
A sharp sonic crack pierced through the water, following in the wake of the massive explosion.
Before the sound even reached them, Dohyun moved to swing his dagger faster, as if guided by a precognitive vision through Analysis, but Rachel materialized across space itself, seizing Krol by the nape of his neck and hurling him far away, pulling him clear of Dohyun’s blade.
Whoosh——!
A violent sonic crack——!!
After the sound of Krol being thrown and the sharp whistle of Dohyun’s dagger cutting through empty air, Rachel extended her leg toward Dohyun’s abdomen, defying inertia entirely from where she stood.
Even as she shot forward, her kick carried devastating force. Dohyun, as if he’d foreseen it, had already sheathed his dagger in his hand and drawn a small round shield to block the strike.
But.
A violent sonic crack——!!
Despite being merely a kick, the impact against the round shield generated such tremendous force that the friction heat from the seafloor water erupted, sending Dohyun flying upward.
Propelled hundreds of meters above the seafloor in an instant with a sonic boom, I stared down at the hand gripping the round shield in disbelief.
The shield had failed its purpose entirely, bearing a clear imprint of the kick and punctured clean through, while my left hand that had blocked it was shattered to pieces, as if being torn apart.
Bone pierced through skin, gleaming white, twisted at such grotesque angles that it looked like something other than an arm.
As I activated the Guardian’s body more forcefully, bone and flesh found their places again, accompanied by a sickening sound.
Crack, crack.
Pain spread through my body as I regenerated, but I paid it no mind. I couldn’t afford to.
Below, a massive cloud of sediment erupted from the seafloor as something shot upward rapidly—I had no luxury to dwell on pain.
It was Rachel, bursting through the sediment cloud, and I couldn’t help but smirk at the sight.
It would’ve been better to leave her suspended in midair. As I smiled at that thought, Rachel’s expression stiffened slightly.
With a look of disbelief, she watched as my form vanished completely from that spot.
Secret Teleportation.
Since pure magic teleportation—without special skills or techniques—was known to be usable only by B-Rank Hunters and above, Rachel cried out to Krol in dismay the moment I used it.
“Krol! Hold on!”
Krol reacted to her shout, but it was already too late.
I had already reached Krol before Rachel even called out, and he hadn’t yet perceived me. I forcefully channeled Severing Fate—still difficult to activate—into my spear and thrust it at him, and Krol, hearing Rachel’s warning too late, tried to evade.
But evasion was already impossible, so he used Black Flame simultaneously with shadow dark magic to vanish from that spot. I predicted his movement as if I’d foreseen it, and as I twisted the spear, I used Ran to bend it downward, spiraling outward from the center.
The spear twisted and fell downward. As Severing Fate-infused spear touched Krol’s right shoulder.
A sharp crack!
A tearing sound.
Krol disappeared through the shadows on the ground, but his severed right arm rolled across the floor. The arm that had been rolling was then reduced to dust by Severing Fate and vanished, and I could see Krol emerge from the shadows of where he’d fallen.
At the same time, I furrowed my brow.
‘His judgment is sharp.’
Though Krol was weaker than Rachel, he was still a formidable fighter. He’d severed his right shoulder and arm with shadow magic and escaped, preventing Severing Fate’s effect from reaching his body.
Though it was an opportunity I’d missed, I felt something massive descend from above with a tremendous sonic crack, and I raised my spear to block Rachel’s falling dagger.
A catastrophic impact——————!!!
The force was so intense that cracks spreading from my legs grew larger, and with a shattering sound, the ground collapsed like a massive crater.
Rachel’s dagger, descending with a heavy blow that converted speed into physical force, was blocked by my Cheongmyeong Jichang, which blazed with pale light.
Though I couldn’t block it completely.
Tremor, tremor.
My hands holding the spear trembled, while Rachel’s pair of daggers across from me remained steady, gleaming brilliantly as they pressed toward me without wavering.
In that brief moment of standoff, a magical circle unfolded in Krol’s palm, and countless serpents forged from black flames shot forth, hurtling toward Dohyun.
Seeing this, Rachel desperately held Dohyun back with her dagger, but Dohyun wielded Cheongmyeongjichang using Ran’s subtle technique, swinging the spear from inside outward and using Rachel’s own force to strike her away instead.
After that, Dohyun deployed the first form of Cheongmyeongjichang against the black flame serpents flying toward him.
His spear, rotating violently through the midair, created a mirror of pale gray mystical light, and all the black flame serpents pouring down upon it were torn to shreds.
Cheongmyeongjichang Third Form: Cheongmyeong Shield
As the serpents were completely shredded, Krol’s brow furrowed as he prepared to use black flames merged with dark magic once more, while the rebounded Rachel moved lightly and rushed at Dohyun again.
As Rachel’s twin daggers came flying in swiftly, Dohyun sheathed his spear and drew a longsword instead, deploying the Golden Sword’s form against her incoming blades.
The first form of the Golden Sword, shooting forward with blinding speed.
Golden Sword First Form: Golden Flash
Rachel reacted swiftly to Dohyun’s movement, which shot forward like a flash, crossing her twin daggers into one, and above it, a pale gray blade tinged subtly with gold swung down.
Screeeeeee———!!!
A sharp clash of blades rang out, pushing Rachel back. She smiled, dissipating the impact through rotation, and adding that rotational force, she stood her blade vertically, using herself as a single blade storm to attack Dohyun.
Krol was not idle while Rachel attacked.
As Krol’s black flames spread, a colossal serpent undulated toward Dohyun, its massive jaws opening wide as it attempted to swallow him whole.
This time, Dohyun wielded twin swords—his right hand blocked Rachel’s assault while his left swung powerfully, cleaving through the serpent.
Shwack——!
Clang clang clang clang clang clang clang———!!
Under Rachel’s relentless assault, Dohyun felt blood seeping from various points across his body.
‘This really is intense.’

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