NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 5
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(TN: Xue Ji = Yukime)
‘Something’s not right.’
Bai Luo was a little confused: ‘Why would the people from the East and West Tribes want to kill their own kind?’
But if they weren’t beast people from the East and West Tribes, then who were they?
‘The Sect?’
Bai Luo recalled the Sect that Yue Dan had mentioned earlier: ‘This Sect is something else if they can send out such powerful individuals.’
Despite not having met yet, Bai Luo could confirm through magic power perception that the other party was definitely far stronger than Yue Dan, the black-clothed swordsman, and the beast people.
“Master Bai Luo?”
Xue Ji didn’t have Bai Luo’s powerful perception abilities; seeing Bai Luo stop, she was about to ask.
“Here he comes!”
“What?”
Xue Ji first looked startled, then followed Bai Luo’s gaze.
“BOOM!!”
The next moment, an ear-splitting explosion shot up into the sky.
It appeared that towering flames were cut apart, hundreds of houses shattered completely, countless stone fragments surged towards them like a tsunami.
“This?!”
Xue Ji’s pupils contracted slightly.
Even in such a critical situation, Xue Ji couldn’t react or dodge; she didn’t even know what had happened.
However, what surprised Bai Luo was that at such a critical moment, Xue Ji’s first reaction wasn’t to flee.
Although very slow, through the girl’s muscle reactions, Bai Luo knew that she wanted to block him with her body to withstand the impact of the explosion.
“POOF!”
Bai Luo’s lips curled slightly as silver-white magic power enveloped Xue Ji.
Before the explosion approached, a dazzling silver light instantly shredded everything ahead.
Amidst the sound of metal clashing, a passage running from south to north through the entire Demon Fox Village was forcibly opened by the silver light pressing against purple magic power.
“HA HA HA~~”
An immature yet arrogant laugh came from ahead.
There was a boy wearing a paper bag on his head, with only two holes cut out for the eyes.
Through the gaps, the boy’s sharp gaze was fixed intently on Bai Luo, who had blocked his probing strike.
“Magic Power!”
“What an immense amount of magic power!”
In the boy’s perception, Bai Luo was simply like a dragon emitting overwhelming power.
Just standing there, every cell in the boy’s body began to cheer.
“Interesting!!! “
Cid had originally been hunting thieves to accumulate funds for starting Shadow Skill User activities.
Because of noticing the movements of the beast people in the northern part of the territory, Cid crossed the mountains and successfully wiped out all the bandits in the village.
However, Cid never expected that during this seemingly ordinary stroll, he would encounter such an existence.
“Zzzzizzz!”
In mid-air, Bai Luo’s palm collided with a pitch-black sword.
The clash of magic powers caused sparks to fly instantly.
“Hmm?”
After a brief stalemate, looking at Bai Luo who remained unmoved, Cid was shocked but also filled with endless joy.
“Is this real?”
Xue Ji’s pupils trembled. The instantaneous collision of magic powers just now: “Can humans really possess such magic power?”
Just the magic storm from their collision was terrifying enough.
If Bai Luo hadn’t been here blocking the other’s momentum, Xue Ji had no doubt that Cid could flatten the Demon Fox Village with the scattered magic power alone.
“BANG!”
However, the Slime-formed sword in Cid’s hand shattered suddenly.
“What?”
The next moment, the boy’s pupils shrank sharply.
In his line of sight, Bai Luo’s palm carried thousands of jins of force, breaking through the magic power Cid used to protect himself with unstoppable momentum.
“So strong!”
Cid knew Bai Luo was strong, but he didn’t expect the other to be this powerful.
The quality of the magic power was even above his current level!
“BOOM!”
Bai Luo’s palm fell, an ordinary strike leaving behind a massive pit several dozen meters in radius ahead.
That exaggerated destructive power left even Xue Ji, who was mentally prepared for Bai Luo’s strength, astonished and speechless.
“Not bad.”
Bai Luo waved his hand and said frankly to the boy who appeared at the edge of the crater: “But not much.”
‘So, it’s this world.’
Upon seeing the boy, Bai Luo had already figured out what kind of world he was in.
The boy’s attire was almost identical to the protagonist of a novel called “Wanna Be A Shadow Skill User” that Bai Luo read before coming to this world.
‘Huge magic power, roughly half of mine (one-twentieth), but considering his age…’
‘Ying’s magic power growth rating must be above SR+1.’
Looking at Cid’s appearance, the boy should be between 8 to 10 years old, while Bai Luo was already 20.
A gap of six to seven years, so it was quite normal that Cid’s current magic power was less than his.
On the contrary, Ying’s talent seemed not as exaggerated as Bai Luo thought.
“Magic power control is temporarily unknown, but just regarding magic power growth, it’s probably around SR+4 or +5.”
Strong, but not as strong as Bai Luo imagined.
‘It seems the value of SSR is higher than I thought.’
Bai Luo thought this, preparing to approach for a chat, but Cid asked first: “Are there such strong ones among the thieves?”
“Thieves?”
Bai Luo was surprised for a moment but quickly realized.
He remembered that Ying from the original story hunted bandits and human traffickers everywhere.
Looking at the current situation, the other clearly mistook him for one of the bandits invading Demon Fox Village.
But Bai Luo perceived the disappearance of life energy in the village.
“I’m not a thief, they…”
Bai Luo hesitated for a moment and didn’t say much.
When watching anime, it didn’t feel strange, but upon careful consideration, Ying’s logic was rather neurotic.
Hundreds of beast people invading Demon Fox Village, he killed them all.
Did you even ask who they were?
Bandits?
Directly labeling the beast people of the East and West Tribes as bandits?
‘Isn’t this too brutal?’
Bai Luo had no intention of pleading for these beast people.
Such pillaging and killing made these beast people no different from bandits essentially.
“Them?”
Cid looked at Bai Luo curiously.
“No.”
Bai Luo shook his head: “Nothing important.”
Those beast people were unrelated to Bai Luo, and he didn’t care whether they lived or died.
Not harming the innocent was Bai Luo’s style, but he wouldn’t force others to do the same.
“They saying they are bandits isn’t wrong either.”
Bai Luo had no reason to defend the indiscriminate massacre of villages that spared neither the elderly nor women and children.
Realizing he had crossed over to the Shadow World, Bai Luo immediately associated it with Xue Ji’s identity.
‘Xue Ji, the Snow Woman of the Nine-Tailed White Fox, the future queen of the illegal capital’s White Tower.’
Now that Xue Ji chose to follow him, Bai Luo should thank Ying for the deaths of the enemies of his future companions (the beast people of the East and West Tribes).
“Can this really be done by humans?”
On the other side, Xue Ji stared blankly at the traces left by Bai Luo and Cid’s battle: “It’s like a natural disaster.”
“Thank you for letting me know where I am.”
Bai Luo’s lips curled slightly, and his figure disappeared beside Xue Ji.
The next moment, a large hand blocked Cid’s vision.
Only to see Bai Luo appear in front of the other and cover the boy’s face with incredulity: “Unfortunately, you attacked me…”
The murderous intent just now was unmistakable.
If someone else had been standing here, they would likely have been dead under Cid’s previous sword strike.
“Don’t worry, I’ll spare your life.”
Since he acted, he should prepare to be counterattacked.
How could Cid, the main character, act arrogantly in front of Bai Luo?
“So fast!”
Cid’s pupils contracted sharply. In an instant, all he could do was gather a large amount of magic power and cover his whole body like skin.
Unfortunately, it was useless!
“BANG!”
When Bai Luo’s palm touched Cid, the protective magic power crumbled instantly.
“How could this be?!”
For the first time since crossing over, Cid was so shocked that his magic power felt as fragile as thin paper in front of the other.
“BOOM!!”
The two figures streaked across the sky, carrying a fierce hurricane straight to the distance, even crushing everything along the way.
“So, so powerful.”
Xue Ji’s heart almost stopped. The fox maiden’s tail trembled involuntarily, which was the instinctive admiration and worship of beasts towards the strong.
The favor and the overwhelming strength Bai Luo displayed now combined to make Xue Ji’s beast instincts restless beyond control.
“SWISH SWISH SWISH!”
Before Xue Ji could calm down, the forest outside the village instantly erupted with dazzling purple magic power.
That magic power was like a blade, instantly cutting down all ancient trees within a kilometer radius.
But it wasn’t over yet.
A second purple blade of light, a third, a fourth, hundreds of magic blades swept towards Bai Luo ahead of the boy like a storm.
“TINK TINK TINK~~”
Silver magic power enveloped Bai Luo’s entire body, making it glow with a sacred light.
And that faint light resisted Cid’s storm-like attacks.
None of those hundreds of magic blades left even a trace on Bai Luo.
“Your magic power is strong.”
“But my magic power is even stronger than yours.”
Bai Luo’s casual words made Cid feel inexplicably frustrated.
He was supposed to become a Shadow Skill User, but Bai Luo in front of him seemed more like the ideal form he pursued.
“Magic Power!!!”
Almost instantly, Cid understood the meaning of Bai Luo’s words.
Magic compression!
The battles in this world were fights of magic power.
But the current situation was that Bai Luo’s magic power quantity was still above Cid’s.
If Cid attacked with 100 units of magic power, Bai Luo would compress 1000 units, resisting with ten times the quality.
Similarly, when Bai Luo’s highly concentrated magic power landed, Cid’s surrounding protective magic power naturally collapsed instantly.
“WHAT KIND OF JOKE IS THIS!!”
For the first time, Cid doubted his own magic power quantity.
His parents and sister in this world, their magic power couldn’t even reach a fraction of his.
All along, Cid watched the weaklings fight leisurely while drinking tea.
That lofty attitude was the composure of a Shadow Skill User.
‘Am I being looked down upon?’
Bai Luo’s calm gaze made Cid feel uncomfortable: “You guy! Don’t underestimate Shadow Skill Users!!”
“Ah?”
This meaningless statement made Bai Luo frown deeply: ‘Middle School Disorder thinking is indeed hard to understand.’
“Hmm?”
As Bai Luo was pondering, a sharp sword pierced through the daylight, and purple magic power condensed into a single line.
It was Cid; the boy had condensed his magic power into a straight sword.
With both hands tightly gripping the sword tip capable of piercing everything, it was already aimed at Bai Luo’s heart.
“Remarkable magic power control, worthy of praise.”
Yet, Bai Luo maintained his indifferent demeanor, observing Cid’s every move.
He raised his right hand, bent four fingers, and extended only the tip of his index finger forward.
“DING!!”
“Wha…”
Cid felt as if his worldview was brutally trampled.
His sword, his all-out attack, was actually blocked by a single finger!
“This level of magic power?!”
Cid could sense the density of magic power at Bai Luo’s fingertip. If he gathered all his magic power into one sword strike, Bai Luo had compressed ten times that amount into a single point.
“I’ve already told you, my magic power is above yours.”
With a flick of his finger, Cid’s sword, his magic barrier, and even his flesh disintegrated at that moment.
Cid felt an irresistible force surge towards him from ahead, flattening him and the forest behind him.
But it wasn’t over yet!
“BOOM!!”
“This!”
Xue Ji looked at the scene ahead, trembling all over: “The mountain, the mountain has been split.”
At this moment, the forest to the north of Demon Fox Village had collapsed, and that light did not stop there but cleaved the distant mountain in two.
A godlike power.
This was the only description Xue Ji could think of for Bai Luo.
“Cough, cough, cough~”
In the ruins, Cid climbed up from the ground.
He was in a terrible state, his noble clothes torn apart, leaving only scraps hanging, revealing his bloodied body.
“Excellent combat instincts.”
Recalling what had just happened, Bai Luo slowly approached Cid: “Dodging a fatal blow at the last moment.”
Was this the protagonist of this world?
Bai Luo and Cid had no grudges against each other, but the latter attacked him from the start, and every move targeted Bai Luo’s vital points.
As the defending party, Bai Luo didn’t take it lightly.
“Those who kill others will themselves be killed.”
No matter how special the protagonist was, daring to attack him meant being ready to be counterattacked.
“Ha, haha, hahaha!!”
Facing the dire situation, Cid showed no fear, only madness and excitement from the bottom of his heart.
“This is right…”
His dream of becoming a Shadow Skill User hadn’t been realized yet, so how could he fall here: “Training should be interesting like this!!”
Cid’s eyes were fixed on Bai Luo, tears of blood streaming down his cheeks, but he paid no attention.
“HUMM~~”
A large amount of purple magic power surged out of Cid’s body, dissolving his flesh, but Cid didn’t care: “Once, there was a man who challenged a nuclear bomb.”
“He gazed at the sky, experiencing his own insignificance, yearning for power that could rival it.”
“But no matter what he did, he couldn’t surpass it.”
The magic power flowed like a torrent, covering the earth beneath his feet and connecting to the high heavens. A huge magic power barrier enveloped Bai Luo and everything within thousands of meters around.
“This is…”
Bai Luo looked at the flickering magic power circuits and realized that this was Cid’s ultimate technique, “Atomic Collapse,” from the original story.
But witnessing it firsthand, Bai Luo had a different understanding.
“You fool!”
With similar talent in magic power manipulation, Bai Luo saw through the essence of “Atomic Collapse” at a glance.
The principle of this technique was to materialize magic power and then cause it to undergo fission instantly, releasing thousands or even tens of thousands of times the original magic power.
But such primitive magic power was extremely violent, and taming it was unimaginably difficult.
Let alone the fact that this fission occurred inside the body.
To put it bluntly, if there was even a slight loss of control, Cid himself would be the first to explode.
“HA HA HA HA~~”
Seeing Bai Luo’s surprise, Cid experienced a pleasure he hadn’t tasted in a long time.
“Atomic Collapse” was originally just Cid’s idea.
But in the face of life and death, Cid tried it without hesitation, finally succeeding in developing this earth-shattering move!
“In numerous attempts, I came to a conclusion.”
“To surpass a nuclear bomb, the only method is to turn oneself into a nuclear bomb!”
“Now!”
The boy raised his right hand and declared proudly: “Feel the roar of heaven and earth!!”
“I! Am! Atomic!”
As Cid finished speaking, both Xue Ji far away and Hong Ye hiding in the mountains saw the pale purple magic power pillar shooting up into the sky.
A curtain of light with a radius of several kilometers shot straight to the sky. Wherever it passed, mountains collapsed, rocks turned to nothingness, and all living beings and substances vanished instantly.
After an unknown length of time, when the world darkened again and returned to peace, what Xue Ji saw was barren land that was unrecognizable from its original form.
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