Possessing Nothing Novel (쥐뿔도 없는 회귀)

Chapter 184 - Mayhem/Riot (8)

One can argue that the talent of martial artists in Eria were stagnant these days, but if you took away age as a factor and looked at all the fighters in Eria, only tens of people would be able to defeat him.

Kim Jonghyun smiled bitterly behind the hood of his robe.

"You can't get past this point.", he spoke stoically, and his voice was distorted by a magic device that made it difficult to identify the gender of the voice speaking.

Kim Jonghyun raised his hand when he saw Lee Sungmin's face twitching slightly with irritation.

There was no need for a head-to-head competition. Kim Jonghyun was said to be borrowing the power of the devil himself through black magic, but even so, Kim Jonghyun is human and had not given up his humanity entirely.

To be honest, Kim Jonghyun was not confident of winning against Lee Sungmin, even if he pulled out all his hidden cards.

So the answer was to avoid having a fight. In the first place, Kim Jonghyun's role here was to block those who tried to interfere with Arbeth's plans, whatever they may be.

However, he had let Envirus go past him because he had something to aim for. But if Lee Sungmin got through somehow, his plans would be for naught.

When the mysterious wizard tried to start chanting a spell in front of him, Lee Sungmin rushed toward Kim Jonghyun without waiting any further.

But Kim Jonghyun aimed for it. The spell chant itself was a fake.

Kim Jonghyun suddenly stopped moving his lips with the fake chant and lightly lifted his left hand casually.

Whoosh!

A black light suddenly flashed across Lee Sungmin's vision.

Lee Sungmin flinched from surprise and raised the window to counter the sudden flash of light blocking his vision.

Lee Sungmin squinted his eyes and suddenly felt his movements and senses become murky. He opened his eyes to see nothing but black, and it felt as if time had been skewed and stretched apart in a weird manner.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

The black world unfolded around Lee Sungmin's surroundings like a sphere.

Lee Sungmin stopped the spear's outstretched movement and looked around at the endless darkness flowing in his surroundings, as all of his senses were completely blocked off.

The discomfort that he was feeling was completely reminiscent of when Lee Sungmin had all of his restrictions placed on him in the Mountain of Mush.

Kim Jonghyun breathed in and out with a heavy breath. The black space he created to encapsulate Lee Sungmin was a seal that he placed beforehand that required immense mental strength to maintain.

Kim Jonghyun pressed down on his temples, feeling a slight dizziness.

Although it was a temporary seal, the level of the seal itself was incredibly high and difficult to maintain as it was meant to seal incredibly powerful beings.

The problem with this seal was that once Lee Sungmin was trapped, he could not interfere with anything Lee Sungmin did inside the seal, and he was rendered temporarily immobile while having to maintain it.

But it didn't really matter as his goal was only to stall Lee Sungmin here.

In addition, Kim Jonghyun did not want to kill Lee Sungmin here even though he currently had the chance, since he had used a dirty trick to trap him.

'Three hours at most.... No, maybe shorter than that.', Kim Jonghyun thought to himself as he estimated the amount of time he could hold Lee Sungmin here with his unexpected amount of strength.