The Only Enhancer - Chapter 145

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Chapter 145
145 – Within My Grasp (3)
3.
The four-member party was arranged with Woo-jin and Mary at the front, while Andrew and Henry held the rear positions.
Woo-jin and Mary handled virtually all the damage output, while Andrew and Henry provided support and control from behind.
That had been the original plan.
But what was this?
Andrew’s new mana gun proved far more powerful than anticipated.
Unlike Woo-jin and Mary, who had failed to land effective strikes until now, Andrew’s shots were finding their mark.
In that instant, the strategy shifted.
It transformed in a heartbeat—Woo-jin and Mary would draw attention while Andrew finished the enemy.
Without a word spoken, they communicated through nothing but glances.
Of course, Mercury wasn’t about to sit idle and watch.
Whoosh!
Energy surged through his wings as he flapped them, tearing through the air and launching himself forward.
Mercury’s target was none other than Henry’s position.
He’d judged Henry to be the most troublesome at this moment.
Eliminating the healer first was practically common sense.
“Hnn!”
Catching on to his intent, Mary held her breath and transformed her body into lightning.
A skill application utilizing her characteristic mana.
She’d use it exactly as Min-jun had taught her.
Like a flash of lightning, she materialized before Mercury.
His face twisted into a grotesque mask of malice—clearly displeased at being outpaced.
As he threw a punch to swat her aside, Mary thrust her spear directly at his fist.
It wasn’t a wild swing, but a spear shot with singular precision—drawing a perfect vertical line through the air, and as the spear and fist collided—
Light erupted.
Brilliant――――――――――ly!
The two energies clashed, releasing an enormous burst of luminous force.
Everything the light touched was obliterated, and Henry, caught nearby, quickly retreated from the area.
Crash―――――――――――!
As the surrounding earth and trees were torn asunder and crumbled to dust, Mary and Mercury locked eyes and clashed within that blinding radiance.
Or rather, just as two silhouettes were about to collide—
Another shadow appeared.
Wrapped in crimson energy, a small figure wielded claws in both hands like a beast.
It was Woo-jin.
Screech! Screech!
Swinging both claws, he carved through light and energy simultaneously—long bestial talons casting shadows as they raked toward Mercury.
But Mercury blocked the beast-like claws with his left arm and Mary’s lightning strike with his right hand.
Simultaneously twisting his body and seeing Woo-jin rushing at him, he pivoted his waist and delivered a back kick with his right leg, sending Woo-jin flying.
Boom!
Unlike an ordinary kick, Mercury’s attack erupted with the force of an explosion, sending Woo-jin flying backward as blood sprayed from his lips, while Mary seized the opening to strike.
She gripped her spear short and swung it like a sword, but Mercury twisted his body with a sweep of his wings, evading the thrust before spinning and driving his fist toward Mary’s head.
In that instant, Mary twisted her body and blocked the punch with her shoulder, barely avoiding a direct hit to her head, though her shoulder was torn to shreds.
Mary was driven backward by the impact.
At that moment, light descended from the heavens toward both Mary and Woo-jin, and simultaneously their wounds regenerated rapidly.
Seeing this, Mercury rushed toward Mary to finish them once and for all, but—
He sensed something cutting through the air and raised his arm to block it.
Thud! Whoosh!
—Grunt.
The bullet’s velocity was too tremendous, and since it had been aimed precisely at the gap, he had no choice but to block it.
The impact was greater than expected.
His arm didn’t fly off or become shredded, but he distinctly felt the shock of fractures running through his bones.
His right hand would be difficult to use as is, but Mercury immediately channeled energy into his arm to dull the pain and reinforce his defense.
Then he drew power into his body as if consumed by rage.
“A transcendent skill is coming!”
At Mary’s warning, the other three prepared themselves.
They too possessed transcendent skills, but since they were bound to their weapons, they had to use them carefully.
The absence of a tank made it even more critical.
If even one of them fell here, the delicate balance would shatter.
They had to endure no matter what.
With that resolve, Mary shifted to the most advantageous position.
She gripped her spear with both hands, pulling it close to maximize her defensive stance, and Woo-jin stood before her with a roar, his body trembling with power.
Simultaneously, they channeled their energy to its maximum to fortify their bodies, and Woo-jin raised his power to the very brink of unleashing his transcendent skill.
Then, as Mercury’s power took form as a transcendent skill and descended, a monstrous bird engulfed in azure flames shot toward Mary and Woo-jin.
Shriek!
The flame beast released a piercing cry as it was launched, and the azure inferno swept across the surroundings.
In the next moment, as it sought to incinerate everything and consume Woo-jin and Mary—
Woo-jin unleashed a roar.
“Roaaaaaah!”
Though still youthful in tone, the voice carried raw, ferocious power.
Simultaneously, he unleashed a formidable transcendent skill channeled through his claws.
A colossal lion materialized and clashed with the flame beast.
Though the lion’s strength proved insufficient—its body half-melted rather than tearing the flame beast apart—the great beast nonetheless wrenched the creature’s trajectory earthward.
Screech!
With a sharp cry, the flame beast plummeted to the ground, incinerating the entire Mountain Region and melting the earth into a vast lava field.
Mary and Woo-jin grimaced, barely managing to withstand the shockwave’s backlash, while Andrew and Henry had already evacuated and remained unharmed.
Despite unleashing his most powerful attack—his transcendent skill—it had failed to produce meaningful results.
—Damn these wretches!
Consumed by fury, he activated another ability.
One was a technique of steel-blue hardening—wings encased in azure mana as rigid as steel.
The other was a technique of azure armor—mana wrapping around the entire body like a suit of protection against incoming attacks.
I activated both simultaneously, then unleashed my mana in a torrent.
Everyone tensed at the sight of Mercury transformed into an azure-winged knight by activating two ultimate skills at once.
An ominous surge of power swept across the battlefield.
Yet none of this changed the situation.
If anything, my resolve only burned brighter.
Mary glanced at the others first.
‘Everyone ready?’
‘All set!’
‘Just need to finish this!’
‘You got it!’
Most of them flashed affirmative looks.
As if the fundamental purpose for this battle had been fully satisfied, they exchanged knowing glances.
Mary nodded as well.
We hadn’t been holding back until now, but there was no reason to restrain ourselves any further.
Every condition except capturing the monster had been met.
And so.
Crash crash crash crash.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh.
Woo-jin and Mary’s mana erupted outward in a violent explosion, and Mercury could sense the shift immediately.
Their power hadn’t increased.
‘But it’s become far more savage.’
Woo-jin charged forward first, signaling the true battle had begun.
Yet with Mercury airborne, evading proved far easier.
Woo-jin attacked first with his claws.
The pattern was identical to before, yet something felt different.
Mercury’s eyes narrowed as he studied it, and as he leaned back to dodge, a lion-shaped manifestation of mana suddenly materialized, raking its claws through the air.
Riiiiip!
Mercury recoiled at the ferocity of the shredding mana.
This technique hadn’t appeared before.
But Woo-jin didn’t stop there—he wrapped crimson mana around his entire body and kicked off through the air, pursuing Mercury relentlessly.
Mercury furrowed his brow as he adjusted his angle to evade the incoming assault, preparing to extend his azure-white gauntleted fist toward Woo-jin.
If only a bullet hadn’t arrived at that exact moment.
Thud! Boom boom boom!
A magic bullet embedded itself in the armor and detonated.
This time, the armor merely scorched and his hand was knocked back—the impact failed to penetrate.
Yet in that instant, Mercury’s attacking hand twisted, and Woo-jin seized the opening, unleashing his claws with savage force.
Crash crash crash crash crash crash crash!
As armor and claws collided, azure sparks erupted, driving Mercury backward.
The blow wasn’t particularly strong, but as Mercury staggered backward and rushed forward to attack Woo-jin, Mary moved like lightning from a distance and thrust her spear.
Mary moved like lightning from a distance and thrust her spear.
The spear, thrust with the speed of a thunderbolt, extended in a perfectly straight line and pierced directly through Mercury’s chest.
Tuwoaaaaaang!
It should have been a penetrating attack by nature.
However, it struck the solid armor instead, inevitably transforming into a powerful impact, and Mercury lost his balance from that tremendous blow, plummeting from the sky to create a massive crater on the ground.
Kuuuuuuung!
The sunken earth.
As Mercury tried to emerge from it immediately, Mary gripped her spear and released her aura.
Just as Mercury attempted to escape from that formidable aura, a bullet embedded itself in his chest once more.
But this time, it wasn’t a bullet meant for direct attack like before.
Suuuuuuung!
A blade of light fell from the sky and pierced through his body.
Yet the strange blade of light, which left neither wounds nor blood, froze Mercury’s movements.
The skill contained in the magic bullet was none other than the Sealing Blade of Light.
It was one of the skills that temporarily paralyzed movement.
Even a magic bullet couldn’t immobilize him for very long, but it was enough.
Mary unleashed the transcendent skill embedded in her spear toward the immobilized Mercury.
Kurrrrrrr.
Dark clouds gathered thickly across the sky.
And the lightning visible between them carried tremendous power.
Soon, a massive hand grasped the lightning visible between the dark clouds and swung it downward.
Kwarrrrring!
The atmosphere tore apart as the enormous thunderbolt that emerged from the dark clouds wrapped around the spear and descended, striking the ground like divine punishment.
Kugugugu――――!
Kwaaaaaaa―――――!
The earth flipped and overturned, rising up before crumbling to dust and vanishing.
Mercury, caught in the center of it all, could not remain unscathed.
No matter how formidable the technique combining two ultimate skills was, it proved powerless before a transcendent skill.
Mercury, now reduced to tatters, had lost one arm and three of his wings—only a single wing remained.
Having lost one arm and three wings at that.
Yet Mercury glared at Mary without losing any of his ferocity.
All the creature could do now after taking a direct hit from the transcendent skill was to make a final desperate struggle.
He tried to dive down and attack Mary again, but Woo-jin blocked him and swung his claw, which was engulfed in a blood-red aura.
Even as Mercury was battered by Woo-jin’s attack and sprayed blood, he charged at Mary, and just as he was about to strike, a magic bullet embedded itself in his last remaining wing.
Puuuuk!
Pueeeeeeng!
-Kraaaaaak!
With his barrier and aura largely depleted, there was little he could do, and when even Mary, exhausted from the transcendent skill, recovered through Henry’s power, he received the combined assault of all three.
Mercury could no longer endure.
His expression was one of utter incomprehension at the situation unfolding before him.
The fact that he had fallen not to a descendant of the Fairy Elder, but to mere humans—that was what shattered him most.
The shock was so profound that even as death claimed him, he muttered in disbelief.
-I, I was defeated by humans…!
As Mercury breathed his last, light enveloped everyone watching.
It was the moment of leveling up.

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