Lord of Training - Chapter 122
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122. Don’t go into the abyss.
‘Was there more distance than I thought?’
Brigadier General Beckenbart still looked like a small dot.
Of the Empire’s named aerial magic knights, the one I’m most comfortable dealing with is probably Brigadier General Becken.
He had only been a named player for five years, and he was known for his fighting style of overwhelming his opponents with speed rather than skill.
What would happen if you were to face a knight with a similar speed to yours?
‘Here we reduce the number of Empire’s named figures!’
He doesn’t know my power right now.
Because I’m not officially a named person.
Then I have the advantage.
Brigadier General Becken came fully into view.
Crunch!
[Use the High-Speed Flight (lv.3) skill.]
[Use the Overlap (lv.3) skill.]
[Uses the skill Dynamic Vision (lv.3).]
Paaaaang!
I also flew towards him.
[Use the Penetration (lv.3) skill.]
[Uses the Fire Explosion (lv.3) skill.]
[Use the Overlap (lv.3) skill.]
Bang! Tata tata tang! Tata tang!
Their bullets intersect each other.
As bullets fly in front of your eyes, you spin around to dodge them.
Paaaaang! Paaaaang!
And they crossed each other.
I evaded the bullets by flying clockwise, in the opposite direction of where the opponent was flying, but Brigadier General Becken dodged the bullets by instantly jumping to the side.
‘As expected, it’s an evasion technique!’
But I have this.
[Use the Back Fly (lv.3) skill.]
I turned around.
Tata tang! Tata tang!
I shot the guy in the back.
Then, Brigadier General Becken ascended, gaining altitude.
Alright! Got the back!
Paaaaang!
I followed the bastard.
[Use the Penetration (lv.3) skill.]
[Use the Penetration (lv.3) skill.]
Tata! Tata!
Wow! You’re really dodging like a ghost!
Becken doesn’t seem to have any defensive skills, but his evasion techniques are amazing.
If a bullet gets close, it moves in an instant.
So, is it reacting to mana?
Paaaaang!
Then the bastard picked up speed.
So I followed him and picked up the pace.
Paaaaang!
Tata tang! Tata tang!
He fired a barrage of bullets at the guy.
‘Normal bullets don’t evade even if they fly nearby!’
At this moment, I knew what my opponent’s evasion skill was.
Magic Evasion (lv.3).
To be exact, mana evasion.
When a bullet containing mana enters a certain range, it automatically evades.
Looking at the distance traveled while evading now, it moves in an instant as if jumping about 10 meters.
This is a huge distance.
It’s like the shooting compensation is off by 10 meters.
Clang! Tata tang! Tata tang!
Even while thinking, the trigger is pulled without stopping.
I also have to use skills to increase the power of my bullets, but if I use skills, the guy evades, so it’s meaningless.
How should I hit it?
Then I saw the guy turn the gun back.
But then a magic circle flashed on the muzzle.
[Uses the Tunnel Vision (lv.2) skill.]
[Uses the skill Dynamic Vision (lv.3).]
The mind becomes highly focused and time passes slowly.
I was curious about the spell or skill he was using, so I immediately used my specialty, tunnel vision skill.
‘Whoa! Time has slowed down!’
As your physical abilities increase, will you be able to split time infinitely?
I also felt that my senses, including sight, hearing, smell, and touch, had become more developed after drinking the unfinished elixir.
Because of that, I use the tunnel vision skill, and time passes twice as slowly as before.
Even the bullets can be seen flying slowly.
‘What the heck? The bullet is curved and flying towards me!’
The enemy’s gun was pointed backwards, not in the direction I should have been hit.
This is a judo technique!
But how did I get targeted?
For a moment, I saw my assault rifle, which had been firing continuously until now.
It’s a heat source induction skill!
In short, it was a heat-seeking bullet, and my gun was generating a lot of heat as it had been firing continuously.
‘So that’s why you waited and then responded!’
He gave me a sly laugh.
I put the Draco assault rifle in the alchemist’s workshop.
And then he pulled another Draco assault rifle out of the workshop.
This will reset the heat source!
Of the five bullets, only the very first one deflected and flew towards me, while the other four bullets lost their direction and continued forward.
I twisted my body slightly to the left as the first bullet flew towards my right arm.
‘Oh! The body’s reaction speed is the same!’
Time passed twice as slowly, but my body movements were similar to when I used the skill before.
That’s proof that my movements have become twice as fast!
I released my skill as soon as the bullet passed me.
[Stops Tunnel Vision (lv.2) skill.]
Tata tang! Tata tang!
The bastard didn’t even realize that his skills were useless and continued to shoot behind them.
But the magazine was quickly empty.
I saw Lieutenant General Becken turn his head towards me.
It was to check if I was hit by a guided bullet or if my gun was destroyed.
‘What should I do with this!’
I’m fine!
Crunch!
Tata tata tang! Tata tang!
Paaaaang!
As I fire my rifle again, the thing picks up speed.
Paaaaang!
I also picked up the speed.
‘Change the magic gun!’
When one 20-round magazine is used up, instead of replacing the magazine, I just replace the gun at the alchemist’s workshop.
Unlike the subspace warehouse, my alchemist’s workshop did not require the use of skills, and I could put things in and take them out from anywhere within arm’s reach.
Then, when the guy occasionally fires his rifle backwards, it goes flying into the air.
‘I have no confidence! I have absolutely no confidence in myself!’
Paaaaang! Paaaaang! Paaaaang!
Lieutenant General Becken suddenly started using his high-speed flight skill repeatedly.
He’s trying to speed up and get away from me.
High-speed flight skills are difficult to use continuously.
This was because continuing to fly at high speeds was hard on the body, could cause loss of concentration, and made it difficult to perceive surrounding objects when the speed was suddenly reduced.
Even knowing that, continuing to use it must mean trying to overcome the current situation in some way.
However, since I have the Body Vision (lv. 3) skill, my concentration doesn’t waver much even during high-speed flight.
I also used high-speed flight continuously to chase after the guy.
Tata tata tang! Tata tang!
Of course, while continuing to fire the magic gun.
The opponent must have had a lot of fun catching up and crushing him at high speed.
Today was the opposite.
But I still haven’t landed the decisive blow.
Then, Lieutenant General Becken suddenly began to lower his altitude.
‘Go down? What are you going to do?’
When I looked down, I saw a dense forest on the ground.
Trying to hide in the forest?
Do you think you can avoid my eyes, which have improved my body vision (lv.3) and night vision by drinking an elixir?
Rather, the bullet with my skill added will explode without hesitation upon hitting the ground, making it more difficult to dodge with his evasion techniques.
‘You are going to die now!’
Tata tang! Tata tang!
Paaaaang!
I kept following him in case he got too far away.
There was a slight difference in speed, but he couldn’t overtake me because I was a little faster.
If it weren’t for the elixir, I might have been caught.
Brigadier General Becken continued to lower his altitude, then entered the forest and flew between the trees.
Crunch!
I’ll blow up everything nearby!
It was time to aim the gun and use the skill.
Brigadier General Becken disappeared from sight.
‘What? There’s also a stealth skill!’
Becken didn’t seem to have any special skills of his own.
But you have all the good skills!
Hiding!
There is a limitation that it can only be used near the ground, but if you use the stealth skill, you will become invisible.
So, in the same situation as now, I couldn’t find it either.
The bigger problem is that I have no mana seeking skills whatsoever.
If the opponent had at least some elven heritage, you could use the dimensional detector, but if they didn’t have any heritage, there was no way to know where they were right now.
As I turned my head to look for Becken, a magic circle sparkled on one side of the forest.
Why, in the opposite direction from my gun!
‘This is me being slow!’
I had to dodge because I couldn’t shoot first.
[Uses the Tunnel Vision (lv.2) skill.]
[Uses the skill Dynamic Vision (lv.3).]
I split time again. And time slows down.
If you use this skill too often, you will have a hard time adapting to the situation when it gets faster, so you should only use it briefly in a moment of crisis.
Just then, a bullet was seen passing through the red magic circle.
That’s a fire skill!
I could block the normal flame skill level 3 with my Air Shield (lv. 3) skill, and I could block the advanced flame skill level 3 with my Halo (lv. 3) skill.
But the next level, the highest level flame skill, could not be blocked by my defensive skills.
If it’s a named level, it’s best to avoid it since it might have the highest level flame skill!
[Use the Back Fly (lv.3) skill.]
[Use the Overlap (lv.3) skill.]
My body moves backwards.
But it’s too slow!
My flying ability had become much faster, but it wasn’t as fast as I thought to stay still and fly backwards.
The bullet flew in, getting closer and closer, until it was right in front of my nose.
It’s going to be tight!
In an instant, a bullet passed me by, passing my leg, my stomach, and right in front of my nose.
If we had discovered it just a little later, it could have been dangerous.
But looking at the light red mana covering the bullet, this is an advanced fire skill.
He didn’t seem to have any top-tier flame skills.
If I had that skill, I would have used it at a good opportunity like this.
‘Then, it’s my turn now!’
[Use the Body Strengthening (lv.3) skill.]
Definitely a lot faster movement.
I pointed my gun in the direction of Brigadier General Becken.
Stealth is released when you shoot a gun or attack an opponent, and there is a delay before you can use stealth again.
So you’ve revealed your location to me.
‘Oh! There it is!’
A silhouette was seen hiding behind a tree, perhaps thinking that the attack had failed.
[Use the Penetration (lv.3) skill.]
[Uses the Fire Explosion (lv.3) skill.]
[Use the Overlap (lv.3) skill.]
Use your skills again!
Towards the tree!
Taaaaaaaaaaah!
[Stops Tunnel Vision (lv.2) skill.]
Phew!
Hwaaaaaaaaaa!
A huge fire erupted and spread into the surrounding area.
It was also seen that the evasion technique had already been activated and that Brigadier General Becken had moved ten meters to the side.
And then Brigadier General Becken was seen flying away, engulfed in a raging flame that spread.
[Fire Explosion (lv.3) – Adds powerful flame explosion power to bullets.
[Causes a powerful flame explosion with a diameter of 20 meters centered on the point where the flame bullet hits. (Fire type, Mana cost – 1,000, Skill cooldown – 30 seconds)]
My Fire Explosion (lv.3) has a range of 20 meters.
If the Overlap (lv.3) skill is added, the flame range expands to 30 meters in diameter.
So even if the evasion skill is activated like that, you get covered in flames and get blown away!
Boom!
Brigadier General Becken was seen crashing into a tree.
I aimed the gun again.
Paaaaang!
But then the guy started running away again.
You must be badly hurt from the blow you just received. Are you trying to buy time?
Right now his back and the back of his body are in a lot of pain from the effects of the flame explosion. But he still moves desperately to survive.
Paaaaang!
I followed suit.
‘Damn it! It’s gone again!’
Now that he’s hurt, he’ll try to run away rather than come at me.
[Use Halo (l.v3) skill.]
Shhh!
I used a defensive skill just in case.
It would have been easy to catch if I only had the mana seeking skill.
Oh! Me too!
Lieutenant Franco Vidali’s Mana Wind skill!
I was able to see mana even after drinking the elixir.
I concentrated my mind and focused on the flow of mana in the air.
‘see!’
A myriad of manas swaying through the forest!
It repeatedly splits and clumps together in the wind.
Lieutenant Colonel Nicole said that stealth skills consume a lot of mana!
So the surrounding mana will fluctuate!
found!
Dizzying manas connecting the trees!
I was just telling you that I had passed through those places.
And the disrupted mana flow moves into the air and follows behind me.
‘You must be seriously hurt, but you’re not running away, you’re following me!’
The tenacity was commendable.
It was moving very slowly, using low-speed flight to avoid making any flying noise.
I didn’t look back.
Instead, he placed his left hand behind his back, through his right armpit.
[Use the Smoke Screen (lv.3) skill.]
Puffin! Puffinpuffinpuffin!
Fireworks burst into the air and smoke spread everywhere.
And it soared upward.
Paaaaang!
As I spun around in the air, I saw Brigadier General Becken sneaking up behind me, using his high-speed flight skill to escape through the smoke.
When the last method was discovered, they started to run away.
I took out the Peacemaker, a sniper rifle for giant monsters, from the alchemist’s workshop.
And then he fired a sniper bullet.
It’s not a spirit bullet, it’s a regular sniper bullet.
Crunch!
Brigadier General Beckenbart’s speed was greatly reduced despite his high-speed flight skills due to a major injury.
I pointed my gun at him.
‘Please don’t go into the abyss.’
Tuan!
puck!
Brigadier General Becken was shot and fell into the forest.
And from afar, the Imperial Aerial Magic Knights could be seen swarming in.
I hurried south.
Paaaaang!
End