What Happens When The Second Male Lead Powers Up [EN]: Chapter 532

Cadenza! (1)

-KWA-KOOOM!

“Kugh, damn it!”

‘Thwack!’ Jibril Diop was thrown back once again by the tremendous impact.

As if it wasn’t bad enough that dusk was falling and he could barely see, slamming his back against a boulder the size of a carriage again was enough to knock him unconscious.

His limbs were numb, and his back felt like it was about to break.

The man spat out the blood pooling in his mouth, then staggered to his feet and grabbed his staff.

The red-blond hair blurring his vision was roughly swept back by a large hand.

He was sure he had just seen a massive explosion of blue light, but the area right in front of him was as dark as before, as if it had been a lie.

Only the sound of rocks crumbling and mud collapsing occasionally stimulated his ears.

-Kugugugung······!

This doesn’t feel good.

“Hey! Princess!”

-Rustle, rustle······

“Are you dead? Well, too bad, nothing I can do!”

Jibril was not a paladin, so he had no way of knowing what had happened to the water attributes that seemed to be blinded by destruction.

He was confident in his ability to read the flow of mana, but aether [a hypothetical medium formerly believed to fill the universe and transmit light waves] was completely beyond him.

He dusted off his robe, which was soaked in dirt and water, and began to move.

His lumbar region felt stiff and unpleasant from being thrown around so much.

“Haa, my back is my lifeline······. The Imperial social scene will be shocked.”

Should I get the Princess to take a look later?

-Zhiiiiiing!

Along with his pointless muttering, a huge defensive magic circle unfolded beneath the man’s feet.

The eight squares emitting sharp light were a realm that most magicians could not reach even with a lifetime of training.

Jibril narrowed his crimson eyes and slowly took a step back, gripping his staff.

Bloody lips and bruised arms were commonplace on the battlefield.

And he was a combat mage.

-Gooooooo······

As the man slowly drew mana from his entire body, his golden hair and amethyst earrings began to sway slowly―

“Whoa, crap! Awesome! I almost logged out for good!”

“What?”

‘Cough, cough! Khlak, khlak!’ With a noisy coughing fit, a familiar figure emerged from the other side.

Jibril’s eyes widened in surprise.

His stiff legs instantly went limp.

The noble of the Divine Kingdom, who had been so imposing just a few minutes ago, ready to freeze the whole world, was gone, and only the knight, who still had the face of a teenager, stood alone.

Beneath her feet was a swamp so vast that its circumference could not be estimated.

“······Pink Princess?”

“I won! I finished her in one shot. She’s gone without a trace now!”

Christel Rombauet, who had been shouting as she trudged heavily through the swamp, suddenly collapsed to the ground.

The magician, uncharacteristically, cried out and rushed towards her. There was no one in the world stupid enough to hope that the person involved would be unharmed after seeing that explosion a moment ago.

All four paladins were valuable assets to the Liester Empire, and among them, this one was once almost the Crown Prince’s fiancée.

Jibril’s mind raced as he quickly calculated the situation.

In the meantime, he did not forget to pick up her luggage and whip that had fallen to the ground.

“Hey, aren’t you already dead?!”

“Ughhh······.”

More than anything, if this one gets hurt, that nasty Princess won’t leave me alone!

“If you’re alive, snap out of it! Looks like you’re not even bleeding······.”

Wait. Jibril, who was checking Christel’s condition, froze.

Her arms, legs, and torso······.

“What is it? Don’t tell me it’s that technique I saw last time?”

And both cheeks and her neck were all covered in blue crystals.

Looking closely in the dark, faint water scales shimmered beneath the jewels.

A mysterious blue light flowed from her entire body, and blue gems grew at the ends of her pink hair, giving it two colors.

She didn’t have a single scratch, let alone an injury.

Something that His Majesty Frederick had whispered to me suddenly flashed through my mind.

‘I heard from Princess Juliette that it’s one of the divine powers of the divine object dwelling within that girl. It’s called ‘Gemification’.’

‘······.’

‘Nothing in the world can pierce the Waterdrop Kid, and conversely, the Kid can pierce everything in the world.’

‘······Is there a reason why you’re telling me this?’

‘You need to know, even if the other youngsters don’t. You’re going to be involved in state affairs someday, aren’t you? Even though you’re getting your shins kicked these days.’

‘I keep telling you I’m never going to do that.’

Damn it. I was going to forget this conversation.

“The power of a divine object. It’s damn hard.”

“Where are you groping, you bastard? I still have all my senses even if I’ve become a jewel bar, you know?”

“Anyone who hears that will misunderstand. Just poking your arm a little―”

At that moment.

-Kwaaaang!

The mire beneath their feet poured into the sky all at once!

-Swaaaaa······!

“Kht!”

-Papat! Papat!

“Agh! You’ve got a long lifeline, really!”

The two men’s bodies soared into the air this time.

The feeling of sticky mud and gravel sticking to their bodies was very unpleasant.

The moment Jibril’s defensive magic dyed the dark black with a bright red, the eyes of a madman gleamed beyond the thick crescent moonlight.

From the fingertips of the mud-covered woman, rake-like streams of water were rising and falling.

A sweetly melting whisper reached his ears.

“······Ah, I’m so happy. So pretty.”

For a moment, he felt a chill run down his spine.

Jibril almost instinctively unleashed lightning.

-Thud!

“Cough!”

He would have done so if that woman hadn’t grabbed Rombauet’s neck!

“Gack! Let go, you leech, you psycho!”

‘Thwack, thwack, thwack!’ Gain planted exactly three kicks into the enemy’s body, and the last one was so intense that even her ally, Jibril, frowned. ‘Kugung!’

-Papapapap―!

Isenia was once again plunged into the mire.

Unable to withstand the force and speed of a cannonball, her body bounced back several times, smashing rocks and earth. ‘Bang, kuung, kwaaang!’

Of course, not even a scream or groan came from her.

The magician immediately raised his staff and raised his voice. He knew as soon as he heard the name.

The opponent was that infamous cardinal-class paladin.

From now on, he couldn’t afford to give her even a second of leeway!

“Princess, now!”

“Watch closely, it’s a fight between sisters!”

Gain swung her whip with all her might. ‘Whirlick, thud!’

-Kwarururung!

At the same time, a waterfall of water poured down from the air.

A thick, fierce water bomb exploded in a straight line towards the cardinal stuck in the mud floor!

-Swaaaaa!

-Gurgle, gurgle······!

Under the protection of the crescent moon, Jibril gritted his teeth and swung his staff towards the sky.

Coordinate calculations and advanced mana operation principles, accurate to the slightest error, instantly filled his mind.

And the voice of a certain priest.

‘Please, concentrate the most powerful electric current that the Young Master can draw out, and attack with the feeling of thoroughly shattering each and every tiny water droplet.’

The man would explode that person, ‘water,’ as it was.

‘Each and every water droplet?’

‘Yes, it’s different from ordinary electric shock. I swear you’ll be able to confirm a destructive power you’ve never seen before.’

Just like breathing, like instinct, without any difficulty―

-Wuuuung!

“Let’s go.”

The moment light permeated the sky at his call,

“Shibaal! Swallow, stop for a second!”

Gain screamed, veins popping out, sensing something,

“No······!”

-Kukukwakwa―!

Suddenly, a disaster struck, turning the sky and sea upside down.

It was an unexpected event that occurred without any warning or premonition.

‘Gurgle······!’ Jibril dropped his staff as a surge of water suddenly rushed into his throat.

His eyes were filled with blue water, enough to make anyone believe it was the sea, and his boots floundered awkwardly as if he had fallen into the deep sea.

What suddenly came to mind were the words of Tae Sa Johan Haines.

‘It was an ordinary forest where the source of the Winite River flows.’

······That damn cardinal must have exploded the stream in the spruce forest that led to the sea.

If so, this outrageous disaster was now irreversible.

His waterlogged body drooped and was being dragged down.

To be precise, it looked like the sea, with a clear and malicious intent, was forcibly pulling him down.

Moss and shrubs that had lost their homes brushed past his nose like seaweed. The world, turned blue, was moving very slowly.

His mouth was salty. At least, that’s how Jibril felt.

-Kurururung, kwagagang······!

At the moment when he was caught by the claws of a sea monster boasting terrifying grip, and was exposed to his own ‘specialty’ that struck down like divine punishment.

Black lightning poured into the black water.

The man belatedly realized.

-Gurgle······

That the cardinal had known all along that he was an electric-attribute magician, and had been waiting to exploit this situation.

Damn it.

-Guruluk, gururululuk―!

He could see Rombauet struggling in the distance.

Now that her whole body had turned into a jewel, she looked like a sapphire mermaid.

If so, she would probably be safe.

Watching the lightning stretching its sharp fingertips towards the surface of the water, Jibril thought for the last time.

-Guruk······

This body has perfect immunity to electricity, but it has never experienced ‘multiple explosions’ caused by electricity.

Of course, he had never even entertained the foolish idea of blocking it with his own defensive magic.

Was such a thing even possible? It was a reckless act that had never been tested.

Now his life was entirely up to luck.

“······.”

It was just as the man’s long eyelashes were about to fall.

-Swaaaaa!

Suddenly, his body soared above the sea surface!

“Keuhup! Cough cough! Cough cough, cough!”

Damn it, how many times is the world being turned upside down in one day―!

-Kwagwang, kwagagagagang!

As soon as he got out of the water, the continent’s time flowed at its normal speed again.

No, maybe it was 1.5 times faster than normal.

The lightning that struck straight down spread like an epidemic throughout the sea, and the electric-attribute mana caught in the powerful 8th-level explosion magic immediately obeyed its master’s command!

-Kwakwakwang! Kwakwakwakwaang―!

“Gerk!”

Jibril, who had been thrown out like a shooting star by the impact, which he didn’t even know how many times it was, gritted his teeth and prepared for unconsciousness.

But what touched his back was squishy!

“······Squishy?”

‘Thud!’ The magician flipped his body over in surprise and examined the floor.

The water droplets at the end of his soaking wet hair were falling towards another stream.

The surface of the water reflecting his face was peaceful as if it had been a lie. ‘Splash, splash splash······.’

“Cough, is this water? Rombauet?”

Jibril frowned and turned his head.

There was no one else who could have saved him from the situation a moment ago except for her.

So, she took me out of the water at the last moment when I was drowning in the sea, and even prepared a stream mat so far away so that I wouldn’t get hurt by the falling force, and she herself remained in the water with Isenia······?

“No way.”

Suddenly, the answer flowed out from above his crown, not his lips.

Jibril felt a tingling electricity rising from his lumbar region and creaked his head up.

Due to the explosion that shook the whole earth, a hazy steam filled his vision.

A twilight that seemed to be alive flowed out from the opponent’s thick hair and ridiculed him.

“Haa······.”

No, that’s wrong. It was her cigarette smoke.

“Was the Emperor’s support army you?”

‘Cough!’ Jibril laughed after spitting out the last of the seawater.

Emma Corleone, with a cigar in her mouth, raised one corner of her lips and gave him a bitter smile.