Blue lightning struck the ground with a flash. If it wasn't for Oliver’s reflexes and the body that was strengthened with black magic, the attack would have landed on him.
Oliver was able to dodge the attack thanks to a thin streak of magical power that came down first to find the target just before the lightning struck.
As soon as Oliver felt the magic, he instinctively ran forward and was able to dodge the lightning by a hair's breadth.
WURRRR!
The ground shook as a flashing blue spark jolted on the ground. And a few seconds later, with a roar, dust scattered all around the place.
With tremendous power, another lightning landed on the ground.
‘This is magic……’
Oliver continued to run forward while thinking about the Lightning Wizard he fought in the past.
The lightning reminded Oliver about him not because he used the same lightning magic as the wizard right in front of him, but because the way he handled magic and the feeling he gave off was similar to the wizard in front of him.
Oliver thought about the relationship between the two, but he couldn't think for long as the number of lightning that poured down kept increasing.
‘It’s dangerous. I can understand why Mr. Murphy and others were that much afraid of wizards.'
Oliver thought while looking at the ground filled with dents.
An electric shock spread several meters the moment lightning touched the ground. In addition, there was a loud noise every time lightning came to the ground. The noise created great fear in the people around the area. As evidence of that, the people in the warehouse covered their ears while shaking in fear.
Oliver used [Targeting] to climb over the building.
The wizard who stood on top of the building looked down at the approaching Oliver and started attacking him, but Oliver avoided every lightning that came his way and approached closer to the wizard.
He also didn't forget to replenish the emotions while rushing toward the wizard. He absorbed the emotion from minions that he had placed all around in advance.
As the distance between Oliver and the wizard was cut in half, a bolt of silent lightning reached him.
[Targeting]
WSSHSHHH
Oliver pulled himself to the target and once again evaded the lightning.
Oliver could now understand why the Lightning Wizard who he fought in the past didn't use this kind of magic.
The magic was powerful, but it felt it was inappropriate for an individual to use it. It felt more like a magic that could take down a large number of enemies when attacked in a group.
It seemed to consume a lot of stamina and could be avoided if the trajectory of the lightning was known in advance.
As if confirming Oliver’s hypothesis, the power of lightning has decreased a lot compared to the first time. It seemed like the lightning could hit Oliver only if someone grabbed his ankle.
“Huh……? Black Shield.”
Immediately after using [Targeting], Oliver felt a mass of magical energy flying toward him and he opened a black curtain to avoid it.
Three magic missiles collided with the shield.
However, this was not the real thing. The coordinates of a lightning strike stabbed Oliver just before the shield was opened.
It was too late to avoid.
‘I wore three black suits, so I can survive at least once or two lightning.’
After finishing his judgment, Oliver quickly extracted the emotions and created a small minion to disturb the coordinates of the lightning bolt.
He threw the minion to the side in an attempt to create an illusion that it might be him, and shortly after that a blue bolt of lightning struck.
As if the lady luck was with him once again, somehow, the defense method that Oliver thought of on the spur of the moment worked, as the coordinates shifted in an instant, and lightning struck the minion next to him, not Oliver.
Although it did additional damage to the surrounding area, luckily, thanks to the black suit, there was no direct damage to Oliver.
The magic that was hovering in the sky also disappeared, and it felt like an additional bonus.
While Oliver felt like he was at an advantage, a magic missile came in his direction. The magic missile was more powerful than the one before.
“Did he recover his power already? How…Hate Bullet.”
Oliver turned the emotion into a bullet of hate and then hit the magic missile.
It exploded in the air with a loud explosion sound.
From where he was, Oliver couldn’t see properly the wizard's expression, but when he looked at his emotional state, there was a bit of a shock.
Aside from that, there was one more thing that stood out.
The wizard was drinking some kind of blue potion.
‘Um, is that how he recovered…?’
As soon as the wizard drank the potion, Oliver could see the magical power centering around his heart recovering at an unusual speed.
Rather than a miracle drug that helps recover the magical powers, the Potion seemed more like a drug that put a strain on the body of the one who drinks it.
While Oliver was thinking about the Potion, a magic missile that was way stronger than the one before flew toward him.
[Targeting]
[Las Bullet]
Oliver used two black magic spells at the same time.
A black dartboard got formed on the wizard’s body as a bullet containing a bomb of rage collided with the magic missile.
As soon as they collided, the bomb of rage exploded in mid-air and canceled out the magic missile that flew towards Oliver.
Soon, the whole surrounding got engulfed in the sea of smoke.
As the smoke that obscured the vision cleared, the wizards on the top of the building panicked for a second, and at that moment Oliver used his black magic against the pre-set target.
[Hate Bullet]
Several bullets of hate poured out like bullets from a machine gun. The wizards were startled and deployed their shields to defend, but they could not completely block it, and some painful mourns were heard.
The emotions of the wizards were shining with embarrassment and fear.
The leisure they had when they first came was gone, and they couldn’t believe the reality unfolding in front of their eyes.
Oliver concentrated the energy of the black suit on his legs and jumped at once, narrowing the distance with the wizards.
‘With melee battle, I might get a chance to knock them out like the explosion wizard… huh?'
At the moment, in front of Oliver's eyes, lightning-clad hands protruded along with the cracks in the air, similar to what he had seen in the warehouse.
It was a fine hand without calluses. The hand that suddenly appeared covered Oliver's face and slammed him to the ground.
Despite the huge shock felt on Oliver’s body, due to the black suits, there were no broken bones.
"Dare you…! How dare you, a fake wizard…challenge me!! Electric shock!"
At the wizard’s chant, Electricity covered Oliver’s body.
If lightning magic was a good attack against many, Electric Shock was an appropriate attack against one person.
The wizard concentrated the magical energy used during the lightning strike on one person.
The principle was simple and it was effective. As proof of it, the power of the black suits kept dropping.
“I’ll roast you like this, you IMBECILE!”
As the wizard shouted with rage, Oliver tried to move and counterattack, but the black suit did not move freely due to the power of electricity.
Anyone would panic in a situation that seemed like a crisis, but Oliver calmly looked around and analyzed the situation.
While the lightning Wizard seemed to have rushed in to wage close combat, the other two wizards who were next to him could not be seen anywhere.
It would have been really dangerous if they cooperated and attacked Oliver now.
When Oliver focused the power on his eyes, he tracked, where the other two wizards were.
Just like the Explosion Wizard a while ago, they were moving toward the warehouse through magic.
"Did you see where my friends have gone? They'll sweep away all the gangsters who you’re trying to protect! Die after them in despair!"
“Um……Thank you.”
Oliver thanked the wizard and then turned to the warehouse. As the Lightning Wizard said, the two wizards moved into the warehouse and tried to attack the bewildered gangsters.
At that moment, Oliver gave a signal to the minions he had placed in the warehouse.
“Minions, please.”
At those words, a small explosion was heard from the warehouse, and the condensed magic power of the wizards disappeared without any trace.
The minions placed inside the warehouse exploded and spread the cling spider web all over the warehouse.
It was a black magic that disable the movement of the body.
Except for being weak against external shocks, it was capable of binding the captured targets perfectly, and it seemed to be the case with the two wizards.
"You……!"
The lightning wizard who misunderstood the situation burned with rage and anger.
The intensity of the electricity that was jittering around Oliver kept increasing as the lightning wizard used all the energy he recovered using the potion!
The black suits around Oliver began to melt at a faster rate than before.
Even though the lightning wizard’s anger made him stronger, Oliver just looked at him without clearing the misunderstanding by telling the truth.
There were two reasons for that.
The first was because the minion carrying emotions had almost arrived, and the second was because the wizard’s field of vision got narrowed due to his anger.
TZZZZ!
With a creepy sound, the second black suit got shredded, and the third black suit started taking damage.
Now Oliver indirectly felt the electricity.
“DIEEEEEEE! YOU FU*KING PIECE OF SH*T!”
[Imprison]
As soon as Oliver ordered, the minion who came closer vomited out a huge chunk of emotions.
The black and sticky emotions which got spurted out by the minion tangled with each other and turned into viscous mud.
"This…!"
The lightning Wizard was taken aback by the turn of events.
The bewildered expression of the lightning Wizard reminded Oliver of the lightning wizard he met in the past. He also paid no attention to the surrounding once he felt he had won.
Oliver was intrigued by the really interesting coincidence.
The sea of emotions became a whirlpool and tried to cover the lightning Wizard.
The Lightning Wizard attacked the emotions and resisted, but was unable to exert his power as he used too much power to burn Oliver to death.
Even if he attacked, the siege got lifted only for a moment, and the pressure grew stronger. In the end, the lightning wizard squeezed out his strength and tried to flee with a lightning bolt around his body as before.
However, it was no use. As he tried to jump, the squeaky emotions caught his ankle.
Oliver remembered the battle with the Explosion Wizard before.
He broke free from the Imprison while blowing himself up, and it could be quite dangerous for Oliver if the same thing happened again, so Oliver continued to manipulate the [Imprision] as if his life was depending on it.
He didn’t just activate it, he continuously controlled it.
The Lightning Wizard spurted electricity from his body, consuming all the magical powers left in him and Oliver manipulated the [Imprision] to devour the wizard. In the tug of war, half of the emotions used in [Imprision] got exhausted, and the wizard shouted with joy at the fact that he could win.
“A fake wizard bi*ch like you dare to stand in front of me!”
At that moment, Oliver stretched out one hand in the air.
Soon, the wizard's countless emotions such as the fighting spirit, anger, and embarrassment got pulled out.
“……!!!”
The Wizard got surprised, but, it only added the amount of emotions that could be extracted.
[Imprision] became stronger than before and the wizard felt a wave of shock and fear. He felt like he was sinking into a swamp.
Thanks to the wizard’s emotional state, Oliver extracted his emotions more efficiently and strengthened the [Imprision], and the lightning Wizard lost all the momentum he had a while ago.
Oliver didn't miss the timing and pushed the emotions, which swallowed the lightning Wizard at once.
The lightning wizard was slowly getting exhausted, and at that moment, the magical power concentrated around the captured Lightning Wizard fluttered in all directions trying to break the [Imprison].
The lightning wizard scratched the floor and spit out every bit of his magical energy.
“Your sh*tas* tricks would never! NEVER!”
Oliver extended his quarterstaff and hit the wizard with the [Deep sleep] spell.
The wizard resisted but eventually stumbled and collapsed.
“……Whoa. It’s hard.” Oliver said with a sigh while looking at the unconscious wizard.
⏩ ⏩ ⏩ ⏩ ⏩ ⏩
Carrying the fallen Lightning Wizard on his shoulders, Oliver returned to the warehouse.
As expected, the Cling web was spread throughout the warehouse, and everyone in the warehouse got tangled in it.
The only thing that moved was everyone's rolling eyes.
Oliver saw the wizards who were surprised to see him. Or maybe surprised to see the captured Lightning Wizard.
Among the wizards, one was a woman with short hair and the other was a man with curly hair. Oliver put down the lightning Wizard and stabbed the imprisoned wizards with the quarterstaff cast with [Deep Sleep].
With this, all the wizards were captured.
Oliver sighed, thinking that he had finished his job safely, and released Murphy and the others from the Cling Web.
He then asked the surprised Murphy.
“Is everyone fine?”
(To be Continued)
