Chapter 109: The Lifetimes!

One man, two E-rank Awakeners, and ten puppets with swords.

Despite the overwhelming numerical disadvantage, Viktor didn’t feel like he would lose.

Instead, taking a page from Kenjiro’s book, he closed his eyes.

Taking himself as the center, he began to sense the mana in the surrounding environment.

"Old man, have you gone crazy? How dare you close your eyes when you’re fighting us!" Feeling insulted, Marionette acted, sending a nearby puppet to slash Viktor’s chest.

However, it didn’t work.

Bang!

With his eyes closed, Viktor grabbed its neck mid-air, stopping it in its action.

"I see, those threads of yours carry fine strips of mana, which concentrate in each puppet’s core, acting as a core as well as strengthening them."

"This makes sense; otherwise why would ordinary wooden puppets give me so much trouble?"

Boom!

Using the spear in his left hand, he stabbed it through the puppet’s core, destroying it on the spot.

Combining his mana sense with Kenjiro’s meditation technique, he could see it.

The threads were clearer to him, as were the cores, allowing him to react on time.

’Tch... even though I asked that old man to teach me, to think it would come in handy in a place like this.’

’When I get back I’ll probably find a gift for him.’

Muttering under his breath, Viktor sighed.

Even though they were all veterans, ever since they had become Mages, sparring with other veterans had become extremely common, sometimes to establish a hierarchy, sometimes to increase each other’s combat capabilities.

It’s how the top ten among them were chosen, and it’s also why and how he learned this meditation technique.

Even though all the times they had fought against each other he had never won, at times like this, he was glad they did.

"Hey, what are you spacing out for? Do you think you can suddenly become careless just because you got rid of one puppet?"

"Eclipse, join me and kill this person!"

Cursing angrily, Marionette launched an attack. All nine remaining puppets attacked.

Eclipse, at the same time, with two daggers in his hand, leaped into the air, disappearing from time to time into the shadow of the puppets.

Under their combined attack, they decided to end Viktor right here, right now.

Unfortunately, Viktor had no plans to take such an attack lying down.

Still closing his eyes, he focused the mana in his circle.

Rapidly pushing it into his spear, he simultaneously activated his body-strengthening technique.

Not only that, but in a state of extreme focus, his senses had unknowingly entered a type of sage mode.

In front of him, the ten figures launched at him seemed to have appeared in slow motion as they lunged toward him.

’Almost... almost...’

Trying to hold on as his mana rapidly drained, his mind was under so much pressure from this sage mode that blood began to drip from his nose.

He was receiving large amounts of information from his surroundings without being able to process it all.

If he didn’t snap out of this state, then even if he didn’t die from the attack, he would become a vegetable.

Yet despite this, Viktor didn’t stop.

Rather, he couldn’t stop.

Right now, he had entered a state of enlightenment.

In a trance, his life flashed before his eyes.

All his years in the army, meeting Christian and the gang.

His years of using the spear, the day he took his first life, the day he was tortured by the enemy country for hours straight.

When he first laid eyes on Helena, how they laughed, joked, and played together.

Even when they started drifting away from each other.

As these memories ran through his mind, mana in his chest began to flow to his brain; his hand began to move on its own.

At this moment, a move appeared in his mind.

A move combining all his life experiences, all his sorrows, and all his hope.

A move created to work even when you’re unknown.

"The Three Lifetimes Spear," he muttered.

Turning the spear into an extension of his hand, the last of his mana gathered into the tip of the spear.

"The Three Lifetimes Spear."

"First thrust, with this thrust, it shows the world who I was!"

Boom!

As his hand moved, a large wave of mana exploded, destroying the spear in his hand as well as five puppets at the same time.

However, even without the spear, like a zombie, Viktor still continued.

Thrusting his empty arm as if a spear was still there.

"Second thrust, with this thrust, I show the world who I am!"

Boom!

Under this attack, the remaining four puppets and Eclipse died instantly.

Now after two thrusts, it was only Marionette who was still alive; however, witnessing those two attacks, his mind had been overcome with fear.

"No... no... please... spare me!"

"Aren’t you here for Helios’s treasure? I promise I’ll take you there!"

"Please don’t kill me! I only recently became E-rank! I can’t die! I haven’t lived my life to the fullest yet!"

Yelling out with fright, tears and snot oozed out of Marionette as he begged for his life.

Unfortunately, Viktor was currently not himself, as in his sage mode, he couldn’t understand anything that was going on in the outside world.

Even as blood dripped through his nose, his right arm after the first two thrusts was almost completely scrapped.

Muscles had torn, bones had cracked, and even the skin had begun to break, making his right arm bloody.

It still wound up getting ready for the third thrust.

"Third thrust, with this thrust, I make the world the future I want!"

Yes, the Three Lifetimes Spear was a spear dedicated to proving who you are and creating the future you want.

And with the completion of the last thrust, Viktor’s right arm instantly exploded into a bloody mist.

BOOM!

Along with it, an explosion so loud that everyone in the shelter looked up.

Unknowingly, even though he was still the 2nd Circle, even though he had been outmatched and outnumbered, Viktor right now, right here, had surpassed his limits.