Future Knight [EN]: Chapter 27

Kang Chan didn’t give up and frantically pounded on the invisible wall.

“Damn it! Break!”

Enormous impacts and sparks flew everywhere, but the invisible wall still wouldn’t collapse.

The intruder’s expression, who had been watching him, turned icy cold in an instant.

“Hey, you. If you keep acting like this…….”

The moment Kang Chan met his cold gaze, he was mercilessly thrown away by an invisible, enormous force.

Thud!

“Keuk!”

Kang Chan, who had flown over ten meters, crashed into a pillar and sprawled on the floor.

“This old man is in a lot of trouble.”

Staggering as if the impact had been quite significant, Kang Chan tried to attack again, not even knowing what had blown him away.

The young man with emerald hair, watching him, shook his head and whispered softly.

“Reverse Gravity.”

Although it was a small whisper, its impact was enough to surprise Kang Chan.

The area around Kang Chan turned into a zero-gravity state, and surrounding objects, including himself, floated in the air as if they were in space.

Reverse Gravity was a magic that reversed gravity, one of the strongest earth-attribute magics that could crush an enemy with tremendous weight or, conversely, send them flying far into space.

The intruder had used such a terrifying magic as weakly as possible against Kang Chan.

‘Huh! What is this? What’s going on?’

Suddenly caught in a zero-gravity state, Kang Chan was startled and flailed his arms and legs wildly, struggling to regain his balance.

Seeing this, the intruder approached to calm him down, believing that he would no longer be able to resist.

But that was a big miscalculation on his part.

The main stage where Kang Chan had been active was not here but in space, which was in a zero-gravity state.

Therefore, Kang Chan’s suit was naturally equipped with small plasma thrusters needed for space maneuvering.

It didn’t provide much thrust in places with high gravity like Earth, but it was a small plasma thruster that provided sufficient thrust in zero-gravity conditions like space.

As the plasma thruster attached to his back soon discharged and emitted plasma, Kang Chan, who had regained his balance, flew towards the intruder like an arrow.

“No! How? It should be zero gravity!”

The intruder, seeing Kang Chan suddenly flying towards him, emitting a dazzling light from his back, widened his eyes in surprise and exclaimed.

“Ooh! Awesome! This isn’t magic either; I really can’t believe it!”

Kang Chan approached to point-blank range with his high-frequency blade, but he didn’t even think about dodging, believing firmly in his shield, and was completely absorbed in Kang Chan’s fantastic performance.

However, his expectations were shattered once again.

Suddenly, an aura sword emerged from the human’s high-frequency blade, which had failed to penetrate his shield a moment ago, and mercilessly split his shield.

And his aura sword, which had split the shield in an instant, flew with the momentum to cut off his neck as well.

Surprised, he quickly cast Blink [a short-range teleportation spell] to escape the crisis.

Thanks to that, Kang Chan, who had made a futile gesture, fell into confusion.

“Disappeared! How?”

He had succeeded in breaking through the intruder’s invisible wall, but just as he was about to cut him down, the intruder had vanished from sight.

Thanks to that, Kang Chan, who had made a big futile gesture in the air, lost his center of gravity, spun twice in the air in the direction he had swung his blade, and ended up crashing to the floor.

“Oh! You can also handle mana [magical energy]? You, the more I see you, the more mysterious you are. Why don’t we stop this meaningless fight and have a cup of tea together and talk?”

Kang Chan, who was sitting down, raised his head and looked at the owner of the voice that had made him feel so empty.

He was sitting on Red Rabbit’s shoulder, not knowing when he had climbed up.

Looking at him, Kang Chan felt another wall, different from when he faced Urukanta.

If Urukanta was like an insurmountable mountain, the intruder in front of him was like an uncatchable air.

Realizing that further resistance was meaningless, Kang Chan deactivated his suit.

Kang Chan decided to calm himself down and talk to the intruder.

Because he couldn’t feel any particular animosity from him.

“Hoo, who the hell are you?”

“Me?”

The body of the suspicious young man sitting on Red Rabbit’s shoulder disappeared again and appeared in front of Kang Chan in an instant.

Kang Chan couldn’t believe what he was seeing with his own eyes.

Blink wasn’t that rare of magic in this world, but Kang Chan had never seen Blink in person before, so his surprise was extraordinary.

“I’m G. Jikyon. What’s your name, young man?”

“My name is Kang Chan.”

“Oh, really? Kang Chan. What’s your surname?”

“That’s my full name.”

He reminded him of when he first met Arteon.

“Ah, is that so? Your name is very short. Hehehe, there are quite a few humans who think they are very great if their name is long. It’s ridiculous to see those guys acting haughty, but you have a short name and don’t act haughty, so I like you.”

Looking at him smiling kindly, Kang Chan asked in a stronger tone.

“What I’m curious about is your identity rather than your name. This place has a double layer of intruder prevention magic from the 9-circle magician Arteon, but who the hell are you to enter this place without any problems?”

“Ah, that? It was annoying when I came in, so I just released it.”

Kang Chan was quite surprised by his words that he had easily released the great magician Arteon’s barrier as if blowing his nose on tissue paper.

The young man with emerald hair carefully asked Kang Chan.

“Is it, is it not okay to release that?”

Kang Chan was almost an amateur when it came to magic, but he had once heard Jeina proudly say that Arteon was the greatest magician on the entire continent.

However, the suspicious young man in front of him had easily released the intruder prevention magic that she, who was said to be the best on the continent, had put so much effort into installing, not just once but twice, so he was clearly at least a magician of Arteon’s level or even higher.

“Of course, it’s not okay? It was installed to prevent intruders like you from entering, so how can you release it so carelessly?”

“Ah! I see. Then I’ll give you a service with something much stronger than that shabby thing before. Wait a moment.”

As the intruder quietly closed his eyes and muttered in a language that could not be understood, Kang Chan felt an unbelievable amount of mana gathering under his feet.

He wouldn’t have felt it before, but now that he had become a Sword Expert who could handle mana, he could feel the enormous amount of mana gathering under his feet with his whole body.

And he couldn’t close his mouth at the enormous amount of mana.

It was a vast amount that seemed to be thousands of times more than the mana in his body.

The gathered mana began to spread out on the floor, following a certain flow.

And geometric characters that were so beautiful spread out wider and wider, drawing concentric circles.

When the huge concentric circle made of geometric characters was completed, a huge storm of mana raged over it.

The mana that Master and Urukanta had emitted in the past was also enormous, but it was only a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of mana felt from that magic circle now.

Kang Chan seemed to lose his mind at the sight.

The intruder standing in front of him was such an unimaginable person.

‘Where did such a monster suddenly pop out from?’

Kang Chan swallowed hard without realizing it.

In the meantime, the fierce mana vortex gradually subsided.

The dazzling geometric patterns gradually faded, and then everything disappeared in an instant as if nothing had happened.

“Okay! It’s done. Now, no one can enter this place unless they are allowed by you and me. Even if it’s a dragon other than me.”

Kang Chan was wondering why even the intruder was included, but since the one who made it was him, Kang Chan didn’t bother to argue.

“Who are you really?”

Kang Chan asked in a trembling voice after witnessing the amazing sight just now.

“Me? I’m saying it now and I said it before. G. Jikyon. The only race that can put the initial G in front of their name is the Green Dragon.”

“Green Dragon?”

Jikyon, who revealed that he was a dragon, was now convinced that the human in front of him, like the other humans he had met so far, would tremble with fear and kneel down, saying, ‘I see the Great One.’

That was because it was something he had always experienced in his 8,000 years of life.

But the human standing in front of him continued to shatter those expectations.

“What is that?”

Jikyon, who heard unbelievable words in an instant, widened his eyes.

“Huh? You don’t know dragons? You don’t know our dragons, the greatest race in the world?”

Jikyon couldn’t believe it.

He was saying that he didn’t know the dragon that even a three-foot-tall child knew.

Every child on this Arkanndor continent knows from an early age that dragon sickness, mama [a term for a curse or disease], and war are the most terrible disasters, but he doesn’t know that…….

Jikyon couldn’t believe his words at all.

But he really seemed to not know.

Otherwise, how could he dare to say such nonsense in front of a dragon?

Even denying the very existence of dragons.

No race could dare to lie like that in front of a dragon.

Unless he was a madman who wanted to die.

While Jikyon was in shock, Kang Chan was secretly laughing at him.

‘To mention the words that he is the greatest in the world with his own mouth so casually, doesn’t he feel ashamed?’

Although the ability he showed was great, the intruder standing in front of him didn’t seem to be a good person.

“You, do you really not know dragons?”

“I’m hearing it for the first time.”

As Jikyon’s expression became more and more serious, Kang Chan began to feel nervous.