Azekiel had hidden the books inside on the way there to give him some free reign since previously he wasn't able to use both his hands because of protecting the books.
Now that he was free, he believed he could do more.
"You hid the books inside? No worries. After killing you, I can get the books back."
The King of Greed dashed to Azekiel with his hammer. Unfortunately, before he could even get to Azekiel, the man slipped on the mud, falling to his head.
Even Azekiel looked at the King of Greed weirdly. Was he really going to fight seriously or just act stupid?
"The Jinx certainly is strong," Lia chuckled. "I should learn a spell to make it happen. It is funny."
"Jinx? That's right. He did get that. I was wondering why he was acting so stupid. So it's just his bad luck." Azekiel scratched the back of his head. He found this entire situation somewhat funny while even feeling bad for Elijah.
He couldn't help but think what would've happened if he was in that guy's place. Fortunately, he had escaped the fate.
Azekiel wondered what more disaster cards were remaining in the last four cards. He needed to use them more carefully in case he didn't want to end up in a situation like this.
"Arghh!" Elijah stood up, roaring in rage. Now he was slipping on the ground as well?
Just to test the Jinx of the young man, Azekiel picked up a small piece of stone and tossed it to Elijah. Even he had stopped taking this man seriously. If his luck was bad, that meant he was fated to be defeated no matter what happened.
The King of Greed felt as if he was being mocked with this act of Azekiel. Did he really think a stone was going to defeat him?
Still, the King of Greed didn't want to take any risk with his luck. He carefully moved to the side to avoid the stone. Unfortunately, as he moved to the side, he ended up right under the balcony.
Since he had smacked the floor of the above floor, a crack had started developing through the balcony, which came to fruition just now. The entire balcony came crashing down.
As the King of Greed was distracted by the piece of stone that was tossed by Azekiel, he didn't notice the direction where he was moving.
Fortunately, he still had his emergency Teleportation that protected him from life-threatening danger. Before the entire balcony could crush him, the man disappeared.
He appeared Twenty meters back only to watch the balcony fall on the place where he was standing.
Thud~
The stone that Azekiel had tossed a moment ago hit right in the man's eyes. He had avoided the stone only to end up teleporting right before the stone which hit his left eye.
"Fuckk!" he held his left eye, groaning in pain as he cursed out loud.
He couldn't believe his luck! Everything was going south for him at this point. Even Azekiel couldn't believe this. He hadn't expected the stone to actually hit the man, and that too in the eye.
A smile spread across the lips of Azekiel, who found it really amusing. Until a few moments ago, everything was going as Elijah wanted. He knew everything that Azekiel was capable of, and he couldn't be hit. He even managed to steal the ability, but now the tides had turned. Nothing went according to Elijah's plan now.
"I think we shouldn't waste time. We don't know how long his bad luck will last. Don't give him an opportunity to regain the momentum," Raphael reminded Azekiel, who was distracted by the antics of Elijah.
Hearing Raphael, Azekiel came to his senses. This wasn't the time to be entertained.
"You're right. This is like a god-sent opportunity. But still, no matter how bad his luck is, his protection Teleportation is still working. He is being protected from every life-threatening danger. We need to find a way to break that. But how?" Lia chimed in. "That ability of the King of Greed is really annoying. What can we even do?"
"I don't think we can make that ability stop working, but we should be able to overwhelm it," Azekiel took a deep breath. "All we need is one mistake. No skill is without a flaw, as I've seen with the Cards of Judgement. Even this Ability of Elijah shouldn't be flawless."
Elijah's eyes had turned blood red because of being hit, but fortunately the pain had gone down. He could still see from his left eye even though the vision was slightly blurry.
"I can't go on like this. This jinx is getting really bad. But if I leave now, Azekiel might leave with the books. I can't let that happen."
Even though the King of Greed was at a disadvantage, his greed didn't allow him to run away. He was still thinking about the two books more than his life!
He held the hammer firmly. "Please just let me land one hit! Then you can jinx me all you want!"
"Talking to yourself?" A calm voice fell in the ears of the King of Greed as Azekiel appeared behind him.
The King of Greed swung his body to smack Azekiel with his hammer. Instead of running away, he wanted to break the face of Azekiel. Since he was so close, the chances of missing were none! He was sure that even his Jinx couldn't protect Azekiel at this point!
Unfortunately, the King of Greed had really underestimated the jinx. Before he could even hit Azekiel, the hammer slipped from his hand and flew in a different direction altogether.
"I really pity your luck, but you did it to yourself by stealing what belonged to me." Azekiel thrust his claw ahead.
The King of Greed once again disappeared right before he could be hit. He appeared far away from Azekiel, but his lousy luck still didn't leave him alone. He didn't just appear far away from Azekiel, but he also appeared far away from his own Hammer of Greed.
In fact, the hammer was even farther than Azekiel himself.
The man wanted to smack his head in frustration. He was going crazy.
"I can't fight with this luck! I need to get the books instead."
Instead of fighting more, the King of Greed entered the castle to look for the place where Azekiel would have hidden the book.
The hammer which was left behind disappeared.
