Vol 7 Chapter 60

Lucrecian suddenly swung his arm. Immediately, with an eardrum-splitting scream, a bone-like leg that had sprung from the ground was split in two and began sizzling as it burned.

"It's not as clean as this, is it?"

In Lucrecian's hand was a dagger that he had drawn at some unknown moment. Looking at the milky jewel embedded in the base of that dagger, Kapros could recognize it as something he had seen before.

'It's the Shadow Knight's item.'

"The faster we deal with them, the faster we can go."

"Grr..."

Kion-hyung let out an angry groan after seeing Lucrecian's lightning-fast monster disposal.

"You bastard. You think I can't do something like that?"

"That's good then. Please do it like that from now on. It seems to take longer because you're unnecessarily smashing them."

"You really... have the most outstanding lack of manners among all the crazy people I've met."

"Thank you for the compliment."

'From my perspective, they just have different methods because of their different jobs, but they seem equally remarkable in their development...'

While thinking this and listening to their conversation, Kapros suddenly felt killing intent shooting down from above. Before even looking up, he instinctively started imaging and chanted a spell.

"Magic Shield!"

Pop!!

As he raised his gaze hearing something shattering, he saw something unrecognizably broken dripping down over the magic shield.

"Huh? What's that. Seems like there's something up there?"

"Looks like something's attacking but the trees are too thick to see clearly."

Though Kion-hyung and Lucrecian also looked up belatedly, they apparently couldn't identify the enemy's identity.

'Well, anyway, if the direction is clear then the next part is...'

Wasn't ranged attack child's play for his magic? An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. After roughly confirming the area where the attack had shot down from with his eyes, Kapros raised his hand.

"Flame Strike."

Pop pop pop pop bang!

The dozen or so flames that burst from his hand spiraled upward and scorched the entire area where the attacking monster was expected to be.

"Keeeeek!!"

Hearing the desperate death cry from above, it seemed the attack had hit properly. After seeing the sky revealed through the hole blown through the dense branches by the Flame Strike, Kapros lowered his head to look at Kion-hyung and Lucrecian who had been watching the same thing.

"Let's go."

"...Whew."

Lucrecian whistled lightly while smiling with his eyes.

They were able to enter deep into the mountain range without much difficulty in this way. After turning from a place in his memory and advancing for a while, the cliff above the valley he had seen before appeared again.

"Huh? This is a dead end though?"

"...We need to go down there."

When Kapros answered Kion-hyung who asked dubiously, hyung made a slightly nauseated expression looking at the forest undulating like a sea at the bottom of the dizzying cliff.

"We have to go down here?"

"The height is quite considerable."

Only then did Kapros remember that he hadn't felt any particular problem before because he had easily flown down alone using Fly, and he felt troubled.

'Fly was magic I could only use on myself... I had forgotten. What should we do.'

"Hmm. Hyung, if you can't go down, we could change direction..."

He was about to suggest that there must be a safer way down even if they had to take a detour, but at that moment Kion-hyung brushed past him and jumped off the cliff without hesitation.

"Uriyacha!!"

"..."

Though Kapros usually didn't get surprised by most things, this time he was truly shocked. When he hurriedly approached the cliff and looked down, he could see hyung lightly supporting himself with one hand gripping a crevice in the cliff.

"It's a bit high but I've done this countless times before! Don't worry about me and come down, Kar! Ah, can't you come down, you fraud?"

Hyung looked up and grinned. Though Kapros let out a small sigh of relief, Lucrecian, who had been provoked, narrowed his eyes and slightly curled up the corners of his mouth.

"This kind of thing is actually what someone in my profession specializes in, but it seems he doesn't know that."

Though he looked at Kapros as if seeking agreement with "Right?", Kapros had nothing to say in response. Lucrecian smiled slightly and jumped down the cliff like Kion-hyung while muttering a skill name quietly.

"Shadow Tail."

And Lucrecian's body simply disappeared as if being erased before their eyes.

"W-what?"

Kion-hyung's confused voice could be heard from below.

"Seems like he used a skill."

"That's a skill? Like fraudster like skill, what a cheating..."

While hearing Kion-hyung's rage-filled shout, Kapros smiled slightly and launched his body from the cliff.

"Fly."

Whoosh! His body that was about to be pulled by gravity's force immediately floated up. He flew straight down like that.

"You've arrived."

As soon as Kapros safely touched the ground, Lucrecian silently revealed himself from between the trees.

"Hmm..."

Bang!

"Hey, you fraud. What skill did you just use?"

Just as Kapros was about to open his mouth, Kion-hyung landed with such force that the ground cratered with a huge shockwave, immediately jumped up and shouted.

"Did you learn teleportation or something? How else could you disappear and come down to the bottom of the cliff in an instant?"

"It's just a job-specific skill."

Lucrecian grinned while looking at Kapros.

"That hyung has already seen it."

"...Me?"

As Kapros was about to ask when he had seen that, the memory of when he first met Lucrecian this time came to mind. Lucrecian, who had appeared from within Kapros's shadow, had said he had a skill that allowed him to hide and move between shadows.

'Then is this an application of that too?'

"Ah..."

"What? Kar. What is it? Let hyung know too."

Kion-hyung anxiously asked Kapros who had made an expression of understanding.

"A skill to move between shadows... right?"

"Yes. That's it."

"A skill to move between shadows?"