The Only Enhancer - Chapter 190

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Chapter 190
190 – Combat and Magic (1)
Stabbed in the abdomen, I couldn’t comprehend the situation unfolding before me.
Pushed backward by Decan’s force, I swiftly healed my torso first.
Since I had managed some defense rather than being completely pierced through, the wound was only halfway deep.
Of course, the pain was excruciating, but after healing it quickly, I frowned as I watched Decan rush at me again.
I didn’t know why the Phantom Blade Void hadn’t activated, but it was right to assume it wouldn’t work perfectly and use it accordingly.
To block both of Decan’s arms as he rushed forward, I swung my blade.
At first, I had been careless, thinking Void would land, but now I understood better.
Clang! Clang-clang-clang-clang-clang-clang-clang-clang!
After the first collision and realizing my attacks weren’t connecting, I exchanged blows without hesitation, and Decan’s blade and my Void bared their fangs at each other fiercely in the empty air.
Amid the battlefield where countless attacks and defenses were exchanged, I quickly caught onto something—why Void wasn’t working.
It wasn’t that it hadn’t worked in the first place. It had worked, but he was rapidly recovering and repeatedly blocking it. Yet Decan continued his assault without even a groan.
It was truly a combat style befitting a monster.
But I naturally thought it should be this way and pushed my body further.
Since I felt I was merely struggling to block Decan’s attacks, I reached out and thrust my hand into the subspace, pulling out another weapon.
This time, it was a dagger.
Decan frowned upon seeing the ominous purple aura radiating from the dagger.
Seeing the dagger looked ominous at first glance, Decan moved faster and closed in on me.
The distance narrowed in an instant, making it disadvantageous to use the long blade Void at such close range.
As Decan, who had closed in, extended his sharp hand to pierce my heart, my left hand moved and the dagger deflected his hand.
Ssssshhhhh!
Not only did it lightly wound Decan’s incredibly hard hand, but his hand was melting away as if corroding.
It was already surprising that it wounded him with just a deflection, but corrosion on top of that?
I realized this weapon was also of the same caliber as mine, but its power was still tremendous.
He tried to continue the attack with his other hand, but it was deflected and he was pushed back.
At the same time, I also created distance and blocked his other hand with Void.
With both hands blocked, only his feet remained.
Decan extended his leg toward my shoulder, but I used teleportation to evade it. I then appeared before him, drove the dagger into his chest, and kicked his abdomen.
Boom! Crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-crash-crash!
Struck into the ground by the massive impact, he was pushed back while carving a long, deep line, but Decan rose without major injury.
The arm that had been corroding earlier had returned to normal, and the wound on his chest where I had stabbed him was completely healed.
Rather, I frowned upon seeing it.
I realized I had endured some of his attacks to understand what ability he possessed.
Seeing Decan, who truly knew how to fight, I shook my head lightly.
I had struck with the Cursed Dagger laden with curses and used Curse-attribute mana to strike powerfully.
It seemed the matchup wasn’t particularly favorable.
Seeing how he burned away the curse with magma and stood there unscathed like this.
Just as I expected Decan to rush forward immediately, he stood still and looked up at me floating in the sky, so I looked down at Decan and put the dagger away.
I realized it was of little use, so there was no point in using it further.
Decan spoke to Min-jun as he did so.
-Impressive. Did you learn this separately?
“Unfortunately. If I had, wouldn’t I have already defeated you?”
-Hmm, that’s a fair point.
“…You’re admitting it just like that?”
-Because it’s the truth.
Min-jun found himself slightly flustered by Decan’s composure.
He’d assumed all monsters were stubborn and ill-tempered, or harbored resentment. Uldin could be called a true warrior, but bitterness and grievance lingered within him.
Decan, by contrast, possessed a rounded quality—accepting and acknowledging everything.
Was this what true maturity looked like?
Min-jun found the thought amusing and nodded.
“Phew, it seems ordinary methods won’t work. I’ll give it my all. I hope you’ll do the same.”
-Good. My name is Decan. My people honor me with the title of hero.
“…I like that. I’m Kim Min-jun. I have various titles, but I’m primarily called the Guild Master.”
-Good then. So….
Decan finished his words and prepared to move. Min-jun, watching him, withdrew a new weapon from his subspace.
None other than Min-jun’s greatest weapon and his sole Tier 9 item.
Seven Stars.
The moment he drew it, the atmosphere transformed entirely.
Decan might have flinched, but instead he charged forward without hesitation.
Even knowing what it was, the sight would inspire awe—yet his genuine indifference as he rushed forward forced Min-jun to acknowledge the truth.
Decan was his ultimate adversary.
Min-jun accepted this fact and traced a magic circle in the air.
The first spell unleashed was ice magic.
Countless ice spikes shot forth, exploiting the elemental advantage against Decan’s magma—but they evaporated instantly upon contact.
Ssssshhhhh! Ssssshhhhhhhhh!
Countless ice spikes fell like hail from the sky, only to vanish in vapor.
Yet Min-jun paid it no mind. As if executing a predetermined strategy, he continued summoning ice spikes, and Decan’s brow furrowed slightly as they accumulated.
Charging forward without concern, he leaped toward Min-jun—but when Min-jun swung Seven Stars, a colossal gravitational field erupted, slamming Decan to the ground.
The immense gravitational field caught even Decan off guard; overwhelmed by the tremendous pull, he couldn’t regain his footing as Min-jun rushed in.
Descending like a meteor, his entire body ablaze, Min-jun unleashed his blade in a sweeping arc.
The sword strike, empowered by both the gravitational field and Min-jun’s strength, was art itself.
The blade drove straight toward Decan’s chest in a perfect line. Decan attempted to raise both hands to block, but chains of gravity erupted, binding his body.
Crackle! Clang!
-Grrrrgh!
He unleashed mana and power violently, succeeding in shattering the chains. But there wasn’t enough time to defend.
A long, piercing sound——————!
Whoooooosh!
A long gash opened across Decan’s chest from Min-jun’s blade, and blood sprayed into the air.
Yet Decan seized the moment, his eyes blazing as he roared.
—Magma Burst!
One of my skills, a technique that manipulates magma by converting my own blood into magma and shaping it into sharp spikes to pierce my opponent.
Soon after, Decan’s blood, transformed into a sea urchin-like form, scattered into countless spikes that rained down upon me.
Thud, thud, thud!
I managed to block several spikes using my gravity field, but it wasn’t enough to stop them all—some pierced through my body.
The spikes embedded in my flesh transformed into magma, engulfing my entire body in flames.
As the small spikes transformed into massive flames, my gravity field, created with characteristic mana and skills, instantly shattered, and Decan rose to his feet, charging toward me.
His sharp arms spread like blades as his left hand swung toward me, but it was blocked by my void.
It happened in an instant—I sliced through Decan’s left arm as cleanly as cutting tofu.
His left arm was severed.
Yet Decan paid it no mind and twisted his waist, swinging his right arm instead.
Seeing this, I wielded seven stars to unfold my gravity field, and simultaneously granted gravity to the ice spikes still pouring down, causing them to fall at an even faster speed.
Countless ice spikes descended upon Decan’s right arm, frozen in place by the gravity field, and in that moment, the spikes that didn’t evaporate upon contact froze his entire body solid.
As I burned and Decan froze in stark contrast, we both retreated backward, brushing away the ice and flames.
Then we rapidly regenerated—Decan even regrew his severed left arm.
Just moments before, my entire body had been engulfed in flames, half-melted away, but I recovered and returned to normal.
‘This isn’t easy.’
—’That gravity is troublesome, but so is his magic.’
In pure martial combat alone, Decan held a slight advantage.
But now I was wielding both gravity field and magic simultaneously. No matter how I looked at it, I was at a disadvantage.
Despite breaking through that disadvantage to land an attack, watching me recover immediately made him wonder if I was truly human—but there was nothing he could do about it.
Now I appeared to be on par with the Fairy King, or perhaps even greater.
Decan took a shallow breath while observing me, then prepared to activate his second transcendence skill. It would take time to cast, so he’d have to wait a moment, but with this, he could gain more advantage.
And I, too, observed Decan and bit my lip, lost in thought.
His movements and martial techniques were all extraordinary.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call them art—his skill was so refined that I was searching for alternative approaches.
Though I wielded martial arts, magic, and skills simultaneously, using all three at once while mastering each like an expert was difficult.
But what if I couldn’t manage it?
I could die right here.
Realizing this, I took a shallow breath and contemplated.
‘Still, I’m growing more accustomed to it.’
As Mik and Hik had pointed out initially, my hands and feet weren’t moving freely.
My experience was still shallow, so my limbs were bound to tangle—yet even using only seventy percent of my usual full power, I was producing this much force.
But if I could pour everything into martial arts, magic, and skills all at once?
No matter how great a hero Decan was, I could defeat him.
Thinking of this, I tried to move, drawing up my energy to perfect my technique in every way.
Then suddenly, I recalled the training my guild members had undergone.
That training I had only watched from afar.
Honestly, I could manipulate mana in water just as I did normally.
Skills were the same.
But there was something slightly different about it.
They couldn’t manipulate mana as freely underwater as they normally could, and their bodies responded sluggishly as they failed to adapt to the unfamiliar environment.
And now I was experiencing the same thing.
‘Then I’ll minimize that as much as possible and make these three work in perfect synchronization with each other. Yes, like interweaving magical circles to create one massive magical formation.’
As that thought crystallized, my eyes began to gleam with intensity.
Decan frowned as he witnessed it.

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