Requiem Of A Failed Hero

Wham!

The wyvern soared into the sky, with its gaze deadlocked on Mok Jae-Hwa. It rose high, flapping its wings and its long neck as stretched down towards where Mok Jae-Hwa was standing alone, gallant and majestic.

Mok Jae-Hwa turned his head to Raith who was standing where he was, he looked at Raith’s companions who were also on standby.

‘…did he order them to stay back for me?’ Mok Jae-Hwa naturally came to that conclusion seeing that Raith’s companion did not dash at the wyvern as it rose to the sky.

Raith didn’t need to give the command, Mok Jae-Hwa did not know that these weren’t some brainless death soldiers that only know fighting. Just like Raith wanted– they also wanted to see what that fancy Armour and strange aura was truly capable of.

He lastly looked at Raith.

‘Hunter Raven, I will show you… my strength.” He nodded his head at Raith who didn’t even get why he is doing that.

Without warning, the wyvern swooped down, the massive claws of its hind limbs and forelimbs which were connected to its wing aimed at Mok Jae-Hwa and its jae wide opened– Mok Jae-Hwa easily leaped out of the way, he landed on the ground faraway from the wyvern and immediately activated his armor’s thrusters, launching himself into the air to meet the wyvern head-on.

As the two collided, the wyvern released an explosive blast of blue energy intended to send Mok Jae-Hwa back with some damages to his suit but with his arms stretched out and pivoted for a guard, a small shield mechanized out of the forearm and quickly dispelled a sonic shockwave that blasted both the energy and the wyvern away. The Wyvern was sent reeling away and tumbling on the ground with its massive body causing tremors and shockwaves.

But it recovered quickly and charged toward Mok Jae-Hwa again. This time as it approached, it came to a sudden stop and spun– Mok Jae-Hwa wasn’t expecting the sudden change in attack patterns, the wyvern’s strong tail smashed him from the side sending him away tumbling like bounce-able material.

With a slam of his fist on the ground during the tumbling he blasted himself into the air and landed on his fist, he dashed at the wyvern and it did the same. From far distance the two lunged at each other at great speed– as though he had learned from the wyvern.

Mok Jae-Hwa suddenly came to a stop midway and released a barrage of energy blasts from his forearms that was slammed into the wyvern’s side, continually tearing the wing on that side.

The wyvern let out a deafening screech, it didn’t stop and was so loud and hurting that Mok Jae-Hwa’s team members that were afar off had to close their ears with blood dripping down from it. But Raith and his death soldiers were totally fine.

Mok Jae-Hwa slowly approached the wyvern whose mouth was filled with flames, and its heavy breathing was exuding steams, its eyes were blood red and locked on Mok Jae-Hwa, forgetting the foes it had been brawling with before now.

As Mok Jae-Hwa walked closer to it, Sung Min landed beside him‐ he threw him a look and nodded, Sung Min also returned the gesture, and as the two walked forward together, Sung Min’s body began to grow larger and more muscular with each step that he took.

His body finally exploded with red energy turning him into a red-skinned hulk with cracks like volcano cracks all over his body, his eyes were fiery like fire and his hair became spiky. This form seemed to be more advanced than before.

The wyvern spread its wing straight into the air, but on the left wing, holes had been carved into its wings, however, that didn’t affect its flight ability.

Mok Jae-Hwa launched himself into the air using his armor thrusters to propel himself to be able to collide with the wyvern as it rose into the sky with speed. Swinging both arms to the back, blue-colored energy exploded out of his arms and was like nitro. Thanks to the sudden energy released Mok Jae-Hwa tore through the air with a double-fold speed and as he reached the wyvern as he calculated he slapped both arms to the front, blasting the energy into the wyvern’s chest and sending it crashing back to the ground.

Sung Min charged towards the fallen wyvern, leaping into the air and landing on its chest, carving a supersonic webbed crack into the ground as wide as fifty meters around him.

He continually slammed his fist into the wyvern’s head, causing it to let a series of painful roars. Blood expunged out the wyvern’s face as Sung Min persistently smashed its face, despite being hit several times with the wyvern’s tail, he didn’t bulge and he kept hitting.

Until he was surrounded by several ice cones that straightway embedded themselves into him, he stumbled back, carrying several ice cones from all sides of his body, and his blood dripping out from all sides.

“SUNG MIN!!” Mok Jae-Hwa screamed and darted at the wyvern having just landed from the sky but before he could move, he saw that he couldn’t move anymore.

His eyes slowly went down to his feet, it was embedded in a ground of ice. Mok Jae-Hwa raised his eyes to look around to see that the wyvern had turned the whole ground to ice, the utterly destroyed plain grounds were now frozen and with an equally leveled ground, smooth that one would enjoy ice skating or even play ice hockey without having to worry about any contours.

“How?” Mok Jae-Hwa’s mouth slowly shook as he questioned this phenomenon.

The wyvern stood up, with a face full of purple blood.

“Causing me to use my power… how commendable. No human has pushed me this far.” The Wyvern said as it got up to its feet. ｏｖ𝚕．ｃｏ𝚖

No matter how Mok Jae-Hwa pulled his legs wouldn’t bulge instead the ice seemed to be spreading up his legs. He looked at Sung Min with narrowed tearing eyes.

“Ha… I get it now…” Raith who was seated cross-legged like some shifu, slowly opened his eyes.

He raised one finger.

‘Using magic perception, gather the mana all around you… and thanks to this wyvern using this level of magic, I can feel mana brimming from everywhere. Now, if I take advantage of that… using Magic Operation, let’s see…’

[YOU HAVE UNLOCKED UNIQUE GRADE MAGIC]

[ABYSSAL FLAME(SSS)]