I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 74

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Chapter 74
Chapter 74: Scarecrow (2)
Dohyun didn’t need to say anything—Hanalin and Jiyuchan already understood. The moment the Scarecrow tore through the shadows and emerged, the very air had shifted.
Yet even without the use of mana suppression, they felt the air grow heavy and their bodies constricted by an overwhelming presence. Hanalin and Jiyuchan found their hands trembling involuntarily.
Though they were called geniuses and even Dohyun acknowledged their talent, the thick, viscous killing intent and malice radiating from the Scarecrow was not something easily endured.
Dohyun himself felt his body being crushed under that oppressive murderous aura.
Yet conversely, the Scarecrow—Galarkro Headricks—tilted its head ninety degrees in confusion, regarding Dohyun with an odd curiosity.
It was certain the black blade had pierced through and cleanly bisected Dohyun’s upper body, but in that fleeting instant, Dohyun had seen the scythe coming for him and kicked the shaft with his foot, minimizing the force and reducing the damage.
“…? …?”
As Galarkro blinked its hollow, vacant eyes in continued incomprehension, straw fell through the air.
Seeing this, Dohyun was certain.
‘That’s the one from YouTube.’
He recalled the alien villain he’d seen on YouTube before entering the D-rank Zone.
He’d thought it was a similar species since it resembled a scarecrow, but it turned out to be an actual Scarecrow. Regardless, Dohyun checked its stats again.
Three of its abilities exceeded 60, and one of those was even 65.
Seeing that even its lowest stat surpassed 50, he felt fear creeping in beyond mere strangeness.
These stats would be unremarkable even for a C-rank Hunter, so he swallowed hard.
By its stats and skills, it was a monster incarnate, yet it still bore burdens—Dohyun examined them carefully.
‘It’s carrying two burdens.’
With three stats exceeding 60, it bore a total of two burdens: one was Physical Decline, and the other was Skill Restriction.
Physical Decline reduced physical stats as its name suggested, and Skill Restriction similarly sealed away several skills.
To carry two burdens imposed when a being too powerful for a zone remains within it, and still commit villainy here—perhaps it was a dark mage?
He hypothesized it was likely due to the dark magic at the top of its skill list: Aesthetics of Sacrifice.
Under normal circumstances, he would have wanted to flee.
‘…But fleeing will be difficult.’
Judging from how it tore through shadows to emerge, its dark magic mobility skill was still active.
Similarly, Dohyun, Hanalin, and Jiyuchan all possessed teleportation, so he briefly considered whether they could escape by chaining three consecutive teleports to the maximum visible distance. But he abandoned that thought.
‘It traveled here in a single leap from beyond my detection range.’
Dohyun’s current detection radius was approximately 200 meters.
It had doubled from before, but that also meant the Scarecrow standing before the Dohyun Party had detected this location from beyond that 200-meter radius and appeared in a single bound.
The entire Dohyun Party using teleportation once each could travel roughly 300 meters maximum. The moment that Scarecrow’s range exceeded 300 meters, there would be no escape.
He wondered how the South Korean Hunter who nearly fell victim to this creature had managed to escape.
His mind raced, and as Dohyun watched Galarkro still staring down at its scythe, he swallowed and adjusted his grip on his sword.
At this point, fighting was the only option.
And the moment Galarkro continued tilting its head in confusion while gazing at the scythe, a message in a color Dohyun had never seen before appeared before his eyes.
[Analyzing a fatal and threatening attack trajectory.]
Seeing the blood-red ominous message, the attack pattern materialized in his mind.
A massive scythe piercing through his heart, sweeping in an arc that would tear his body apart.
The instant Dohyun saw this image, he moved by pure instinct, and Galarkro—which had made sounds with every movement before—appeared before him in complete silence.
Dohyun recalled the image in his mind and desperately pushed his golden sword technique to its absolute limit, circulating mana through his body as he shifted his footwork to escape, but he couldn’t fully evade.
Gwuaaaack——
A colossal sickle blade pierced through my shoulder blade.
Pain coursed through my entire body and reached my brain, but I kept my eyes wide open, gritted my teeth, and swung my sword.
However, Gallaclro blocked my blade with his other hand and twisted the sickle horizontally, attempting to carve it through my heart.
At this rate, my heart would be torn from my chest and I would surely die, but Hanalin unfurled a magic circle in midair toward Gallaclro and infused it with her will, firing a bullet that cut through the air with a sharp piercing sound.
Siiiiing————
Paaaaaaaa————!!!
Watching the bullet tear through the air with violent force, even Gallaclro couldn’t ignore it. He tried to rip the sickle embedded in my chest, but at that moment, I was faster.
The instant my sword was blocked, I kicked Gallaclro with my foot.
Of course, a mere kick from me wouldn’t damage a body of such magnitude, but rather than dealing damage, I used my foot as a platform to push off from him and retreat backward.
With that, the sickle that had pierced my shoulder came free, allowing me to fall back.
Chuaaaack——!
Glug! Glug!
Because the Guardian’s body was activating, blood spurted out in rhythmic pulses. Otherwise, I would have sprayed blood everywhere like a fountain.
As I retreated while bleeding profusely onto the ground, Jiyuchan rushed forward with his golden-tinted blade and body, swinging his sword at Gallaclro.
Gallaclro was evading the incoming bullets, so he had no choice but to raise his sickle to block Jiyuchan’s attack that exploited the momentary opening.
The golden blade’s strike traced through midair, and a long golden arc descended over his sickle. In that instant, a violent sound erupted.
Chaaaaaang———
Deeeeng———
The colossal day’s sickle rang out fiercely.
It resonated around like a bell, but after dodging even the bullets, Gallaclro raised his sickle high to strike down Jiyuchan who stood before him.
Rather than take that blow head-on, Jiyuchan moved away, but I sensed something ominous and used Ground Upper before I could even speak, causing stone pillars to erupt from the ground and strike Jiyuchan.
Pueock——!
Jiyuchan frowned at the sudden impact, but as the Ground Upper erupted and struck him, the pillar was sliced diagonally and fell to the ground.
An invisible sickle strike was unleashed, and Gallaclro tore through the shadow and emerged from behind where Jiyuchan had been.
Seeing that, Jiyuchan felt a chill run down his spine, forgetting even the pain from where the Ground Upper had struck him moments before.
I spoke as I watched them.
“Don’t let your guard down.”
And seeing how I had pushed back from Hanalin all the way to striking Jiyuchan with the Ground Upper, both Hanalin and Jiyuchan could dimly sense my intention.
‘The teleportation….’
‘…he’s telling us to conserve it?’
While Hanalin and Jiyuchan thought the same thing simultaneously, I recovered my wounds as much as possible and rushed toward Gallaclro.
When Gallaclro uses his movement, Analysis momentarily cuts off.
And seeing how it cuts off and then tells me where he reappears, I could dimly understand the effect of his shadow transference.
‘His body disappears first, then he decides where to move.’
I thought, what kind of broken technique is this?
But it wasn’t my place to complain when I could perceive it.
Did Gallaclro perhaps notice my absurdity?
He tilted his head 90 degrees again to look at me, and when my eyes met those empty voids—that pile of straw—I felt a horrifying illusion bloom.
But.
[「Advanced Dark Magic – Cruel Phantom [C]」 is being analyzed.]
[「Advanced Dark Magic – Cruel Phantom [C]」 is being neutralized.]
The moment Dohyun saw it, I read the trajectory that Analysis revealed, and this time, seeing the scythe’s form aimed at my neck, I quickly drew the Golden Blade while ducking my body low.
Whoooosh——
If not for Analysis, my neck would have been severed just now.
Realizing this, the instant I crouched down, I cast magic and sparks began erupting above Gallaclro’s head, then with the intent to pierce through, lightning descended.
Crackle————
A powerful bolt of lightning became a thunderstrike falling toward Gallaclro’s head, attempting to pierce through his body, but Gallaclro swiftly raised the scythe he’d been swinging at my neck above his head and rotated it rapidly. Black energy infused the scythe, shattering the descending lightning.
Sizzzzzzz———
The lightning’s current flowed along the scythe and scattered in all directions, shattered, but in that moment, I straightened my crouched body and raised the golden blade. The sword rising from below shimmered with golden light like an ascending dragon, attempting to cleave through Gallaclro’s chest.
However, Gallaclro vanished, hiding in shadow once more, and in that instant, I detected the creature that had moved behind Hanalin and tried to use Ground Upper beneath her feet, but it was already too late.
The creature’s scythe was already emerging, and if I let Hanalin be exposed like this, she would certainly be split in half and killed by that scythe.
Within my accelerated thoughts where the scythe’s piercing through midair appeared extraordinarily slow, I made my decision and activated Ground Upper beneath my own feet.
Magic cast near the caster forms far faster than magic cast from a distance, so I added intent here and used Ground Upper even faster, timing my leap perfectly as it launched from that platform.
Boom———!!!
Despite the short distance, a sonic boom erupted as I spun through midair toward the scythe emerging through the void, gripping the faintly golden blade and extending it toward the scythe. Hanalin, caught in my charge, nearly flew backward, but I wrapped my arms around her and twisted my body, barely deflecting the scythe.
Crash———!
As if caught in an explosion, the scythe rebounded and his arm bent back. Gallaclro stared at me with an expression of incomprehension and empty, straw-like eyes. I spun my body and pushed Hanalin away, then in a flash, launched myself forward and swung a newly drawn longsword through the void toward Gallaclro’s hollow chest, leaving a golden trajectory in the air.
A descending current formed as a golden storm swept toward the creature’s body, and I kicked him again, using him as a foothold to launch myself off.
In that moment as I made contact with him, I recalled that sensation I’d faintly felt before, and my eyes gleamed with light.
And the instant my foot touched Gallaclro, I used Analysis to perceive all of his mana, and after grasping the flow of all mana in his body, I reversed every single flow.
Backflow.
In that moment when he temporarily froze, Hanalin’s frigid ray of light was unleashed.

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