I Am The Anti-Mage

Chapter 66: Irrational

The flames that engulfed Ji-woo’s body dissipated after a few steps. Next, he dashed again and showed up before Arakhne.

The Queen Mother was shocked. Instead of being scared and retreat, she chose to be offensive. She instinctively used the current cobwebs at this time to stop Ji-woo’s movement. And then jumped and landed with her legs to captivate the immobile Ji-woo. The action was successful so far.

However, Ji-woo just looked nonchalant at Arakhne’s quick exertion.

Arakhne, on the other hand, surprisingly finished wrapping up the very calm Ji-woo. She held Ji-woo with her six legs and pointed her bow at his head.

“I was scared for a moment there. Turn out it’s going to be this easy. You’re running out of luck, human!”

Arakhne grinned. She felt confident in her practical victory over Ji-woo. She concluded Ji-woo past actions of killing Kheilos and the Fire Spirit was just a stroke of luck.

She pulled the bowstring, and an arrow appeared. A great flame also showed up within it.

“Die!”

Suddenly, a hand came through the wrapping web before the fiery arrow was released and grabbed it.

“I told you, magic is futile.”

“Impossible!!!”

Arakhne’s six eyes widened at the sight of her wrapping web got broken so easily. Also, the arrow’s flames dissipated when Ji-woo held onto it.

“This bow is a bit special, isn’t it?”

Ji-woo broke the wrapping web and tried to grab Arakhne’s bow after throwing the arrow.

However, Arakhne resisted and wanted to back away from Ji-woo. Unfortunately, she wasn’t able to do it. She struggled to break free because of Ji-woo’s tight grip. She had no choice but to remove her hands from the bow and use her mouth to grab it. The two available hands managed to force Ji-woo to break away from the bow.

Ji-woo scowled at how frantically Arakhne wanted to separate him from the bow. Arakhne’s two hands were able to rival the pulling force of his one hand. The weapon would end up falling to its original owner if he didn’t do something to it. He then quickly let go of the bow and instead grabbed one of Arakhne’s arms.

Zrret!

Both Ji-woo and Arakhne separated in opposite ways. They stood and faced each other from a distance. Their circumstances were very different.

Ji-woo’s left side clothes look worn and almost completely gone. He looked like a beggar with that half-naked appearance, except his face was still fresh and handsome. Meanwhile, Arakhne didn’t look very well. Her right arm was missing, and purple blood was dripping from it.

“Is it necessary to sacrifice an arm in exchange for that bow?”

Ji-woo didn’t expect Arakhne to go that far only to save the bow. He acknowledged that the weapon was unique since it could summon other things unrelated to the elements. But, it also led him to conclude that hybrid couldn’t do anything without the bow.

Arakhne ignored Ji-woo and clenched her teeth. She then shouted a loud, piercing voice towards the sky. The color of her eyes changed from pitch black to scarlet. Flames began to wrap around her lower body. Furthermore, she emitted an extremely powerful Mana Presence, causing the field around her to vibrate and rubble to levitate with the zephyr.

Ji-woo noticed the Mana fluctuation in the hybrid. It alarmed him a little bit.

Arakhne jumped and spun in the air while releasing her cobwebs. This time the webs were shrouded in flames and enclosed Ji-woo as the center, like making a birdcage. She also made cobwebs as a foothold above the ground. So, she could aim at Ji-woo accurately.

“Geez, you earless creature.”

Arakhne wasn’t discouraged even though she realized magic might really not work with Ji-woo. She continued to increase her Mana Presence until she reached her maximum strength.

“Heh, don’t ever think you can leave this place intact, human!”

Arakhne held the bow with two legs and pulled the string with her left hand. After that, countless arrows cloaked in flames appeared above her head. It was enough to create a giant shadow on the ground with those tiny black dots.

“D*mn it! I might end up being naked later.”

Ji-woo was more worried about his clothes. Rather than what those pieces could do to him after seeing the countless fire arrows. It was annoying for him to have the need to dodge the arrows even though he was actually able to use one hand to erase the magic before damaging his clothes. The problem lay in that strong bolts that he could not destroy. The material was sturdy, and the sharpness was able to graze him. It could even cut his skin if he tanked the arrows too much.

Arakhne released the bowstring. And those fiery arrows shot at Ji-woo, who was inside the fire webs cage.

Boom, Boom!

The fiery arrows caused the ground to quake and got damaged. The debris and cloud of dust were everywhere, covering the nearby area.

Ji-woo sometimes redirected the arrows to the ground or caught them with his bare hands. However, the arrows seemed like never-ending bullets that rained down at him. He then quickly took countermeasures. He lowered his body while blocking his head with his hands amidst the countless arrows were grazing and cutting through his skin.

Raaarrghh!!

Ji-woo straightened his body and roared. It created a powerful shockwave that extinguished the flames in the arrow and was enough to make those arrows stop in midair and fall. The shockwave also blasted Arakhne away even though she had a firm foothold in her cobwebs.

Not only that, even the rest of the trees surrounding Ji-woo and Arakhne were swept away by the shockwave.

The environment became like a barren land in the circle of battles that took place. It was in contrast to some of the other parts of the dungeon that had fresh forest.

The dust cloud finally subsided after a moment. Arakhne was finally able to get to her feet after getting thrown quite a distance while bouncing several times on the ground. She then caught her breath. She tried to find where Ji-woo was. But only to find it was behind her.

“Let’s stop this meaningless fight. I don’t want to let Nullifier mess with me. Right now, I’m almost similar to his rambling fighting style out of habit.”

Zrret!

Arakhne that in confusion from not knowing what Ji-woo meant, suddenly saw her vision spinning before she could turn her head.

Meanwhile, Ji-woo expressionlessly just stared at Arakhne’s head which was spinning in the air at the snap of his hands. The headless Arakhne also just stood up and twitched. Finally, the body fell at the same time as the head fell to the ground.

Ji-woo sighed, but his breathing was heavy. His arms, shoulders, and neck were shaking. It was due to the previous roar taking a toll on his physical strength. It was akin to before when he used the Null Eyes. And when he ran at full speed to the Red Gate. Those two events caused tension throughout his body.

‘It happened again. I need to build some muscle mass and gain True Strength first to see if this can get solved or not.’

Ji-woo speculated about the limitations in some of his abilities. It could have been due to his different circumstances on earth and his time in the Magical world.

He looked at the surroundings as a result of the battle. Next, he needed to search for the remains of the previous hunters. He wanted to find the duffel bag those people were carrying since it had many valuables from the dungeon.

“Huh!?”

Ji-woo looked at the corpse of the Dungeon Owner. Unexpectedly, it left a Mana Core other than a Dungeon Bead. If he combined everything he’d gotten so far, the profit reached almost 100 Million won. It was by far tripling his initial cost.

He then calmed down and caught his breath. The shaking in some parts of his body was gone. He searched at some of the ruins and finally found the duffel bag after a few minutes of looking around.

However, Ji-woo’s movements stopped before he checked the inside of the bag after he felt the edge of a sword on his neck.

“Haha, good. That monster is dead, and now the pile of money has accumulated into one spot. Brat, be a good boy and give it to me. I’ll let you live.”

It was the boss hunter who seemed to be the only survivor. He threatened Ji-woo to let go of the bag and hand over all that was left. Ji-woo tilted his head while the edge of the sword was getting pressed against the skin of his neck.

“Don’t move!!”

“I don’t understand your logic. Have you lost a few screws in your head?”

“What!!?”

Ji-woo quickly turned and hit the hunter’s hand that wielded the sword with his left elbow. The long metal blade detached and turned to point at the hunter’s chest, which he then struck with his right palm.

Srret!

Tugk–

The hunter fell to the ground sideways and spat out blood. He was in pain as he stared intently at Ji-woo, unable to utter any words.

“Has greed clouded your judgment enough to cripple your rational thinking!? That monster died by my hands. And you should know the difference between our strengths from that. What an idiot!”