A trembling voice, as if about to cry, escaped from him.

“…I understand the reason for my existence. I was deliberately created.”

[Throne, the Staff of Purification urgently clarifies that it’s not like that!]

“No. It’s okay. Even if it’s true, just say it like that.”

Kang Ihyun removed his hands from his face. He was laughing in disarray. His blue eyes gradually sank without radiance.

“I’d rather be connected like that…”

His bright golden hair slowly lost its luster, turning into a dull yellow.

The golden aura emanating from his body was also gradually transforming into the sinister yellow magic, a symbol of wickedness.
Using the last remaining mana, Kang Ihyun created an everlasting flame around him, looking at Jung Sooho, who seemed clueless. He spoke.

“Mr. Sooho, I can find the ‘real Lady Nari.'”

“Are you… are you okay over there? That.”

Though it seemed like he might cry, Kang Ihyun, simultaneously laughing, handed something to Jung Sooho with an ecstatic expression.

“To achieve that, I just need a little help from you.”

Bang! Blue bullets of energy rained down.

While Kang Ihyun, kneeling behind, muttered something continuously, Jung Sooho, with a determined expression, faced Nari’s unconsciousness.

When Nari’s unconsciousness raised a black half-scissor-like object, as if conducting a conductor’s gesture, the ground began to crack as if an earthquake had occurred.

Suddenly, Jung Sooho, who turned his head to check if Kang Ihyun, who had been muttering on the ground, was unharmed, faced a floor covered with yellow magic.

‘…Was that possible?’

Energy forms are born with only one shape. While there may be changes in the middle, no one has ever used multiple forms of energy simultaneously.

Of course, it could have been a change in Kang Ihyun’s energy form. However, it was too familiar for that.

“Oh!”

Snap! Startled by the slap on his cheek, Jung Sooho realized it wasn’t the time for distractions and looked back down at the ground.
Jung Sooho’s skill as a Ranger makes entering the territory of a Wizard and Ranger at the same time almost suicidal, but unfortunately, this is not his domain here.

Even if he uses the ‘Territory Declaration’ skill, spreading his magical power with his mind, the advantages of being a Ranger are tied up.

‘In that case.’

[Ranger Exclusive Basic Skill: ‘Territory Declaration’ is activated!]

Instead of the floor, making the ‘ceiling’ his territory was the solution.

Slowly, blue magic flowed from under his feet and covered the ceiling. Jung Sooho looked at the giant scissor-like object.

[Sniper Exclusive Basic Skill: ‘Bullet Creation’ is activated!]

Thud ! Jung Sooho’s bullet hit the giant scissor. The unconscious Nari, with a piercing gaze, took a few steps back.

“Where are you…!”

Snap! Concentrating magic quickly on his eyes and legs, Jung Sooho leaped down using the ceiling as a foothold, narrowing the distance with Nari’s unconsciousness.

Taking a deep breath, Jung Sooho swung the dagger a few more times.

Even though the giant scissor and the short dagger clashed, the scissor’s blade seemed unable to overcome the strength, and Nari’s wrist was trembling.

‘I don’t have much strength.’

Judging that he could push forward like this, Jung Sooho moved the dagger even more vigorously.

The vacant-eyed Shining Nari took a few more steps backward.

“Nari!”
Blocking the scissor’s movements with his dagger, Jung Sooho looked at Shining Nari’s vacant eyes and instinctively spoke.

“N-Nari. It’s me! Snap out of it…!”

Squirming, the unconscious Nari’s eyebrows, which had shown no expression at Jung Sooho’s words, moved for the first time.

She’s responding to his words. In the brief pause of movement, while Jung Sooho was still processing this thought.

“Ugh…!”

Kwakwakwak! Nari, who had the scissor pulled back by Jung Sooho’s dagger, shot her psychic power embedded in the scissor as if launching an artillery.

Thud ! The ceiling, directly hit by Nari’s psychic power, collapsed.

A direct hit would be fatal. Barely turning his body in mid-air to avoid it, Jung Sooho, with a disappointed smile, jumped up from the falling ceiling.

“C-Can psychic power be used like this…?”

Originally, the advantage of psychic power lies in its extreme delicacy and control according to the user’s will.

Moreover, Nari’s psychic power was in the form of powder, allowing it to take any shape.

Releasing any form of energy in large quantities at high speed would make an excellent weapon, but Jung Sooho never imagined that psychic power would be shot like this.

Ranked 1st in the world, S-rank. Shining Nari. Jung Sooho realized anew that his childhood friend had awakened as an incredible hunter.

Thud ! Before he could entertain other thoughts, another psychic bombardment struck the area where Jung Sooho was.

Seems like he noticed that the ceiling had become his territory, and it looked like he was trying to destroy it.
Amidst the shaking cave, Jung Sooho, leaping onto falling boulders, barely avoided the bombardment trajectory and looked at Nari.

“H-How can I win against that…”

Absolutely impossible to win. Never before had he heard of a being, not even a Sniper class, using such a vast amount of energy so casually.

No, even for a Sniper class, it seemed impossible.

“B-But I was told I don’t have to win.”

With a disappointed smile, Jung Sooho retrieved a rusty silver dagger with a sophisticated design from his cloak.

“2 of them… No, around 3…”

[Sniper Exclusive Advanced Skill: ‘Dead Shot’ is activated!]

Thunk! Three silver daggers were shot towards Nari’s unconsciousness.

Although Nari’s unconsciousness attempted to block them, for some reason, the daggers were promptly absorbed into Nari’s unconsciousness.

“…?”

As Nari’s unconsciousness looked puzzled, Jung Sooho threw two more daggers from behind.

A total of five. Jung Sooho silently counted the number of daggers inside his cloak. The remaining 25.

“If I hit 30, the rest will take care of itself.”

Remembering Kang Ihyun’s request, Jung Sooho retrieved the remaining three daggers from his cloak and used the falling boulders as a foothold to leap up.