Sung Shihyun enters a fight (343)

It was then.

—Hmm?

Roselle, who was devoting all her energy to maintain the barrier, suddenly turned her head.

Seol Jihu also threw a glance in the same direction.

A white line was drawn vertically in the middle of the huge ice barrier Roselle erected.

Crack!

Before they knew it, the barrier shattered into pieces and a hole was formed in the middle.

Seol Jihu flinched.

He might have been mistaken, but something seemed to have entered through that hole.

But he couldn’t see anything unusual.

As Seol Jihu tried to make sense of the situation, color drained from Baek Haeju’s face.

She suddenly withdrew her spear and turned away. Wide-eyed, she threw the spear straight at the hole.

However…

“Ah!”

Boom. With a small explosion, her spear pierced through the empty air.

—What!?

The phoenix must have seen the same thing Baek Haeju did as it also spewed out flames toward the ice barrier.

However, the flames, which were flying with tremendous momentum, were divided into pieces as if they had been cut by a sword.

Seeing this, Seol Jihu’s doubt turned into certainty. He immediately ran without hesitation.

He was planning to aim for the point where the flames split, but then— Boom! He heard another explosion.

The flames merged into one again.

‘It disappeared?’

Seol Jihu flinched with a frown on his face.

Philip Muller, absent-mindedly blinking his eyes instead of chanting spells, came into his sight.

Suddenly, for some unknown reason, an alarm bell rang inside Seol Jihu’s head.

There was no time to hesitate. Although he still couldn’t see anything with his eyes—

Whoosh!

Seol Jihu followed his ‘intuition’ and darted towards Philip Muller. As soon as he raised the Spear of Purity, a white sword appeared, cutting through the air.

Clang!

A metallic clanging rang out.

Seol Jihu held his breath at the unbelievable weight felt through his hands.

As he barely raised his head, he saw his spear blocking a white sword and the face of a young man holding the sword.

He could have sworn that this man wasn’t here a second ago. Everything felt surreal.

“…Huh?”

But the young man seemed just as surprised as Seol Jihu.

“You read Ethereal Shift? And you blocked my White Fang?”

Dazed, Sung Shihyun looked down.

Seol Jihu clenched his teeth and looked up.

The former’s sharp, arrogant eyes met the latter’s burning, dignified eyes.

And so….

“You’re…?”

“…!”

The two young men’s gazes clashed violently in the air.