Obtaining Heavenly Demon Martial Arts in the Magic Era - Chapter 15

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15
[ Episode 15 ]
The fire alarm at Club Babylon shrieked to life.
“Aaaahhhhh!”
“Run!”
From the third floor, people in clothes of every conceivable color streamed down the staircase as though dignity had never existed.
Boom-boom! Crash-boom!
Explosions echoed in their wake.
[Fire detected, fire detected. Please evacuate the building immediately. We repeat…]
From the battle that had erupted in the third-floor room, doors and glass shattered everywhere.
Thump-thump-boom!
Through the flames emerged Cheon Do-hyun with Kim Seung-yeon clinging to his back. Behind him came bloodshot men in hot pursuit.
“You dare ruin the party?”
“Kill him!”
The amount of Mana they radiated, dripping with murderous intent, far exceeded what Cheon Do-hyun had anticipated.
Even for trash thugs soaked in drugs and living recklessly, those with enough wealth to play in a VIP room knew how to channel power.
Ice spikes erupted from the ground without warning, and flames swallowed the space entire with a single gesture.
Unique Techniques that transcended basic formulae.
And at this level of proficiency—
‘They’re all Ignition grade?’
That meant they were on the level of Kim Byung-ju, the action chief of the Golden Wheel. A situation requiring full power even with both hands free. But now he was carrying someone on his back. A direct confrontation was suicide.
‘I’m getting out of here.’
Cheon Do-hyun inhaled one of the spells shooting toward him with the Absorption Technique, then expelled it in a single breath, carving out a precious moment of opening.
Whoooosh—
His own magic had turned back on them, and in their hesitation, confusion bloomed.
“There!”
“Get him!”
Just as the club’s security was closing in from both sides, he spotted it—miraculously, a floor-to-ceiling window at the end of the corridor.
“Hold on tight,”
he muttered, unsure if he was speaking to the unconscious Kim Seung-yeon or to himself. He locked his grip tighter around her legs.
Channeling Internal Energy into both feet, he charged toward the window.
Rata-tat-tat!
Muscle hardened by extreme training combined with the force of Internal Energy—Cheon Do-hyun’s body accelerated in an instant, launching like an arrow.
“Shoot!”
“Shoot him down!”
As urgent voices shouted and spells bore down on his back—
Crash!
Cheon Do-hyun was faster. Both feet kicked through the glass, and their bodies vanished as if sucked through the window.
Whoosh— Boom-boom-boom-boom
Robbed of their target, the spells tangled together, creating brilliant pyrotechnics. Shards of broken glass caught the light as they fell, glittering.
“Kyaaahhhhh!”
Screams erupted from below. Who wouldn’t panic when glass fragments and a person rained down from above?
Thud—
Cheon Do-hyun dropped three stories along with the debris.
He absorbed the impact as he hit the ground, but with Kim Seung-yeon’s weight added to his back, the burden proved too much even for his Internal Energy to handle—searing pain shot through his entire legs.
Without waiting, he forced himself up and ran into the alley. His soles and ankles bore the signs of serious injury.
He tried to push through the pain, but his legs kept limping.
“Huff… huff…”
His breath came rough and ragged. He looked back but sensed no pursuit. As he ducked deeper into the alley and lowered Kim Seung-yeon to the ground, reaching for a moment’s rest—
“Are you Cheon Do-hyun?”
A strange voice cut through the darkness, and Cheon Do-hyun stiffened. The man had appeared without a sound. Only when he extended his Aura Sensing did he feel the presence he’d missed before.
Three figures blocked the alley’s exit completely. Now he understood—he’d walked straight into a trap.
“There’s magic like this?”
“Not ordinary magic.”
The man who emerged from the darkness wore his bangs cut obsessively straight.
His pale skin and striking blue eyes gave him an otherworldly appearance.
Flick—
He snapped his fingers, and a card flew through the air, embedding itself in the ground. It bore a skull motif—the same unique mark used by the contract killers who made their name in back alleys, those called the Cleaners.
Their purpose was singular: to eliminate Cheon Do-hyun on the orders of their client, Jang Gi-han.
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Cheon Do-hyun read the aura wave rising from their bodies in an instant.
It wouldn’t read.
He could normally parse the level of Ignition-stage mages like Kim Byung-ju or the thugs from Club Babylon with ease, so judging from that,
‘This man is stronger than me.’
Cheon Do-hyun gestured toward Kim Seung-yeon, who was sleeping soundly behind him, and spoke.
“…If you came for me, spare her. How about it.”
The Cleaners stood with the moonlight at their backs. Instead of answering, they quietly raised their mana.
It was bait to buy time, but such shallow tactics didn’t work on professionals.
The large man standing furthest back brought his hands together in a heavy clasp.
Clap!
Dark Veil.
Strange darkness spread like ink, consuming the alley. The darkness swallowed even the lamplight and the city’s noise, signaling the completion of the barrier. And with that, combat began.
The shortest of The Cleaners raised his fingers, forming a gun shape.
Then, as if operating an actual pistol, he aimed at Cheon Do-hyun.
‘Coming.’
Cheon Do-hyun’s instinctive aura sensing cranked to maximum the moment before.
Air Bullet.
Whoosh—thunk!
A silent attack came flying.
“Ugh…!”
A wind bullet faster than sound. It had aimed for his head, but he’d managed to react in that split second. Still, he didn’t evade completely.
Rip.
His shoulder was pierced, blood spilling.
Before he could even feel the warm blood, Air Bullets came flying one after another.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Afraid that Kim Seung-yeon might get caught in the crossfire, he frantically grabbed her and rolled her behind a narrow dumpster like he was throwing her.
Still reeling from the impact of landing, his movements were sluggish. As a result, flesh on his back burst open and blood sprayed.
“Ugh!”
Cheon Do-hyun gritted his teeth and stood his ground in front of her, shielding her.
The Cleaner firing wind bullets smiled bitterly, as if he’d been waiting for this.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Air Bullets poured out relentlessly. A barrage with no room to dodge engulfed Cheon Do-hyun.
Absorption Technique.
Cheon Do-hyun raised his hand straight forward and cast the Absorption Technique.
Shhhhwoop—
The magic bullets flying to claim his life lost the very mana that composed the spell and vanished.
“Cough.”
But Cheon Do-hyun wasn’t unharmed either.
Simultaneously draining all mana from the surrounding area was a technique that, even at a proficiency level approaching Stage 6, placed a heavy burden on the caster.
“Tch.”
The Cleaner who’d been firing Air Bullets endlessly clicked his tongue sharply and took time to regroup. It seemed he couldn’t fire indefinitely.
But there was no time to catch his breath.
“Ho.”
The man in the leader’s position, who until now had held back and seemed to be preparing something, let out a gasp of admiration.
“Is it magic that erases mana itself in an instant? Or is it even magic? You wield a most fascinating power.”
His eyes, an unusual color, gleamed as he walked forward with ease.
Crackle—
And simultaneously, as he manifested some magic, blue electricity began to arc from his right hand.
Crackle-crackle-crackle.
A blue serpent made of high-voltage current coiled around his arm.
The casting time was long, but a unique magic that could instantly obliterate an enemy’s insides the moment it made contact—the man’s unique technique.

Death Touch.
‘Dangerous.’
It felt like tangible death was walking toward him.
Crackle—
As the man closed the distance between them without any guard,
he drew out a hidden trump card.
The Air Bullet spell he’d absorbed with the Absorption Technique was temporarily reassembled in Cheon Do-hyun’s hand and shot out.
Absorption Technique – Reflection.
Whoosh!
The compressed wind bullet pierced the man’s forehead with perfect accuracy. The impact snapped his head backward.
“…!”
The wind mage’s eyes went wide with shock.
A stroke of inspiration—a decisive blow. She’d succeeded in boring a hole clean through his skull. She’d killed out of pure survival instinct, and guilt was about to overwhelm her—
Slick—
The man before her lifted his arm and touched the pierced forehead.
“One trick left in the chamber. Impressive. But it won’t work.”
The wound site warped like mud, then knitted itself whole again.
Instead, a groan erupted from the lips of the one maintaining the Dark Veil at the barrier’s far edge, hands clasped in prayer.
‘A technique that distributes damage and takes it on someone else’s behalf.’
Tank, DPS, and close-range executioner.
A professional coordination that perfectly covered every weakness.
“This is bad.”
Cheon Do-hyun muttered, taking stock of his condition. His legs were in rough shape. The wound through his shoulder meant his arm wouldn’t rise properly, and he’d lost enough blood that his vision swam. If he were alone, he’d bolt—but Kim Seung-yeon lay collapsed behind him.
Everything seemed to be converging toward a single, final moment.
“That’s right. This is your grave.”
The man crackled blue electricity before his eyes. Death was at the threshold.
Behind Cheon Do-hyun, Kim Seung-yeon—pinned motionless to the ground—stirred her lips.
“…Close your eyes.”
With a trembling hand, she flicked her fingers at the empty air.
Shimmer—
A tiny light, like a firefly. The glow—seeming ready to die at any moment—drifted through the void with carefree grace, utterly at odds with the present nightmare. At this unrealistic sight, everyone’s gaze snapped toward the floating spark.
The instant that small light settled between the two of them, Mana congealed without warning.
Crackle-crackle-crackle—
Her own irregular magic, transcending the boundary of the 2nd Circle to touch the 3rd.
[Flash]
Blinding—!!
An overwhelming brilliance that seemed to tear through the absolute Dark Veil flooded the alley in white.

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