There’s Absolutely No Problem With The Magic Cards I Made!-Chapter 210

Cloix stood beside me like a Stand user, while I just watched Fahim calmly.

This gave Fahim a rather unusual sense of pressure.

"Dekan!! Must you be so ruthless?"

Fahim looked extremely nervous.

His abnormally tense body made him look like a stiff block of ice, and his face was incomparably ferocious.

He didn't have Clay's recovery ability.

Clay's desperate attack earlier had already beaten Fahim's body to the point where it was like a candle in the wind.

Now he was holding on purely because he still had some mana left.

But in this state, he couldn't afford to be worn down!

But adding a high-rank mage to me was very troublesome.

What's more, this mage was a healing-type mage, and his healing amount was a mystery.

What Fahim hated the most were these healers who could survive under his damaging magic.

If they were low-rank healers, they were still like ants to Fahim, who could be ignored and easily crushed.

But those extremely high-rank healers could cause him considerable trouble in a direct battle.

From the information known to the Resurrection Church, Cloix's healing amount was not small. At least, he was able to heal Ice Snow Princess, who was bearing the negative effects of suppressing the 【Demon King of Ruin】, and maintain it for a period of time.

But after that battle, Isabel, the main combat force sent by the Resurrection Church, went missing.

It was suspected that she had been killed in action, or possibly defected.

So the details of that battle in Tristine City remained a mystery to this day, and the Resurrection Church could not specifically deduce Cloix's healing amount.

They could only assume his healing amount to be as high as possible.

But the conversion rate of damage and healing, even with a god's blessing, would probably not exceed 20%.

Even for the most devout believer or the most remarkable hero, the gods would not give humans an overly exaggerated blessing.

This was a rule that gods needed to follow.

If they violated common sense, then even gods would have to pay a heavy price.

"Hehe, Fahim, what kind of polite words are you saying."

Hearing Fahim's ridiculous statement, I couldn't help but shake my head with a smile, then stared at Fahim.

The surrounding air seemed to have cooled down a few degrees at this moment.

"You have disturbed my peaceful life. You are an unforgivable enemy. I will get rid of you before you can cause harm to me and those around me."

Although no one could see my expression through the mask, my cold voice had already revealed everything I wanted to express.

"Alright, time to slaughter."

As soon as my voice fell.

Cloix used a spell card.

Under Cloix's spellcasting, the shadows spread out like an explosion, enveloping the vicinity in a pitch-black hemispherical area.

The reinforcements on the periphery couldn't help but become nervous.

It seemed I was going to settle the final score with Fahim.

And now they couldn't see the situation inside.

Because this pitch-black barrier also blocked their view into the barrier.

【Shadow Forbidden Zone】

【Category: Spell Card】

【Grade: Purple Rare】

【Rank: 5】

【Effect: Creates a shadow barrier with a 50-meter radius that blocks all vision. Maintaining the barrier requires a continuous consumption of a large amount of mana. When any unit first touches the boundary of the barrier, it will be briefly imprisoned.】

【Note: A casual work from the Shadow series.】

This was a spell card that I had purchased at a high price from within the Resurrection Church through my special channels.

It was later exchanged by me to Cloix.

I actually quite liked Minos' cards; some of them could complement my tactics quite well.

When I couldn't make high-rank cards for Cloix, purchasing practical Shadow series cards for him was undoubtedly the optimal solution.

The effect of this 【Shadow Forbidden Zone】 was similar to Solar Flare. Although it didn't mess with one's mind as much as 【Solar Flare】, it could counter 【Solar Flare】.

In addition, 【Solar Flare】 focused on instantaneous visual interference, while 【Shadow Forbidden Zone】 could continuously block vision.

As long as one did not leave the range of the barrier, people outside the barrier would not be able to see the situation inside.

Being in the pitch-black barrier could also exert mental pressure on the opponent.

In this situation, whoever was more terrifying, the other party would be more afraid.

"Tap, tap..."

It was very dark, very dim.

Fahim couldn't see anything in this environment where he couldn't see his hand in front of his face. He could only judge that I was getting closer and closer to him by listening to the sound.

And Cloix seemed to have stayed in place, supporting me from the rear.

The reason Fahim could be sure who between me and Cloix was advancing and who was retreating.

Was because the auras of these two people were completely different.

After losing his sight, Fahim could more clearly perceive the dangerous feeling on me that didn't belong to a human!

I obviously wanted to take advantage of the period before Fahim's 【Corrosion and Ruin】 and 【Human Body Destruction】 cooldowns were over to finish him off.

"Dekan...!!"

Fahim wanted to run away. He didn't want to engage in this unfair fight with me at all.

A feeling that made him extremely uncomfortable was that, although he had done nothing wrong, and had been in an absolute advantage most of the time.

But Fahim's true feeling was—he had been struggling all along.

Whether it looked like an advantage or a disadvantage, he felt like he was being played with!

This hellish, imprisoning combat experience, he didn't want to continue for another second.

But at this moment, Fahim couldn't run even if he wanted to.

Because after the bishop's duel was initiated, if one side chose to actively flee and escaped beyond a certain distance from the other party.

They would be considered to have deserted, and would also be judged as having lost and suffer the backlash punishment.

Even if he had to bite the bullet, he could only fight me to the death!

He could still make a final struggle.

This was also his only chance of winning—

Using the mana he had left, relying on the forbidden magic he had mastered himself, to fight me to the death!

Even if I had an extra support mage to help me, I had still forgotten one thing!

No matter how bad Fahim's condition was, and his key cards were on cooldown.

He himself was still the 8th-rank mage with the strongest lethality against humans!

I simply couldn't withstand his damage!

His only weakness against me was that his range was shorter than mine.

But, I had been approaching him recklessly just now!

As long as I got a little closer, Fahim could use the spells he had mastered to inflict a status similar to 【Corrosion】 on me!

Making me suffer from abnormal statuses all over my body as I was corroded and gradually died!

Now, Cloix's 【Forced Dispel】 was on cooldown.

It was impossible for him to immediately help me remove his abnormal status again!

A few seconds later.

Confirming that I had entered the range where his spell could hit.

Fahim did not hesitate to cast the corrosion magic on me!

Casting successful and hit successful!

However, Fahim also knew that it wouldn't be so easy to succeed.

Fahim could only feel the fluctuation of magic power. Cloix began to continuously attack me with magic to heal me!

I finally stopped my steps and did not get closer, seeming to be in a very bad state.

I had already applied 【Pain Shielding】 to myself, enduring Cloix's healing.

In this state, I couldn't feel any pain myself, nor could I see my own condition.

Whether I could be healed back to life depended entirely on my trust in Cloix!

"Let's see how long you can last! Dekan!! Do you have that much faith in your companion's healing amount?!"

Fahim was sure that I had smoothly entered into a tug-of-war with him. He started to use all his remaining strength to drag his broken body and actively charged towards me, and began to look forward to me foolishly sending myself to my doom in a state where I couldn't feel pain!

Because, at this closer distance, Fahim could also inflict the healing reduction spells and human body destruction spells that he had mastered on me!

Even if I survived for now.

As long as I took on the healing reduction status, the balance between healing and corrosion would be broken!

If he added another human body destruction spell that could cause fatal burst damage, I would surely die!

The situation changed again in an instant.

As if a magical vitality was injected into Fahim's heart, shattering the shackles in his mind that had been resisting the battle!

His eyes regained their brilliance, and the light of victory burned in his pupils again.

In just a second or two, Fahim successfully added the additional spells on me.

Confirming that both the healing reduction and body destruction magic had hit me, Fahim couldn't help but look forward to it!

This was the moment he would truly achieve his comeback.

"Hahaha!! Dekan, you're still too weak yourself!"

Rank and basic attributes were hard-to-fix flaws of mine!!

I seemed to have been in control of the situation all along, but in reality, I could only make one mistake!

However.

"Hehe."

My teasing laughter once again drifted to Fahim's ears, making Fahim feel for a moment that he had fallen into a nightmare from which he could not escape.

"Fahim, do you think you're about to win again?"

"Wh-why?!"

Fahim roared unwillingly.

Time and time again, incomprehensible changes had occurred!!

This time, Fahim felt his heart was about to turn completely cold.

It seemed that just now, I was still deliberately toying with him.

Although I didn't need to get close to him, I deliberately gave him a little hope of victory, making him think he could win and struggle a bit, and then making him feel despair even more thoroughly!

Fahim now, didn't even believe he could win.

Even if he could see that little bit of hope of victory again, he himself was unwilling to believe it anymore!

All of this was just my means of torture!!

Fahim also gradually began to understand one thing.

Since I could stand there like nothing was wrong while under the effects of 【Corrosion】 and 【Healing Reduction】, it only meant that Cloix's damage-to-healing conversion ratio was very likely the limit of the world's rules, one-to-one!

This level of divine blessing was as if the gods did not want Cloix to die no matter what, which was why they would grant such grace to a human!

If the conversion ratio was so exaggerated, Fahim could also understand why Cloix could protect me.

Generally speaking, even if a priest's entire deck was filled with healing spells, and they themselves tried their best to learn all the healing magic they could.

But the number of high-rank healing spells was limited.

Healing spells of the same root system would enter cooldown after being used.

PART 2

But Cloix's healing principle was different; it was all converted from damage into healing amount.

There were as many attack spells with non-shared cooldowns as one could want!

If Cloix, besides spell cards, also mastered various spells himself.

Coupled with his extremely high magic power growth potential, it would lead to him having almost no window of vulnerability while pouring out healing, as long as his mana wasn't depleted!

For Fahim to kill me in a short time while I was being protected by Cloix was simply impossible.

Unless he could one-shot me.

"Dekan!! Just die already!!!"

Fahim seemed to be gathering his last breath as he screamed hysterically.

Although he no longer wanted to win.

He still had a final sliver of hope in his heart.

The human body destruction magic he had just cast had not succeeded in killing me. Unsurprisingly, it was because my 【Crown of Thorns】 had triggered its life-saving effect!

As long as he cast the forbidden magic of human body destruction one more time, he could kill me!!

No matter what schemes I used, there should be no way for me to crack his human body destruction magic!

However.

When Fahim used the human body destruction magic again.

Everything was quiet.

For a moment, Fahim couldn't judge whether I was dead or not.

Just like that, after Fahim's heart had been pounding for more than ten seconds.

"Hehe, although I can't see you struggling, I can finally smell the scent of despair."

My cheerful light laughter told Fahim—his comeback was once again hopeless.

I had deliberately remained silent for a while.

It was as if I wouldn't miss any opportunity to mess with Fahim's mind, and as if I was admiring Fahim's ugly posture of fantasizing about victory.

"You... are you... not human?"

Fahim was very sure that his human body destruction spell had hit me, but it couldn't cause any damage to me at all!

【Human Body Destruction】, this forbidden magic that directly caused a huge amount of damage in an instant, had one unique limitation compared to magic that applied abnormal statuses like 【Corrosion and Ruin】—

The target needed to be human.

Of course, after Fahim's long-term improvements, even races like beastmen and elves that he had studied alive would be affected by the improved version of body destruction!

Unless.

The opponent was a creature that he had never understood and could not understand!

"Fahim, guess what race I am right now?"

My faint, eerie voice drifted into Fahim's ears.

That demonic voice, a mixture of male and female voices, was like a cold wind coming from a thousand miles of ice. His speaking speed was not fast, but it made Fahim feel dizzy, as if he had fallen into a dream.

At that moment.

Fahim felt the smell of death beginning to seep into where he was, and couldn't help but let out a sound of despair:

"No, impossible... in this world, there shouldn't be..."

However.

I did not explain anything further to Fahim.

I had already enjoyed it.

Taking the lives of villains was not something worth enjoying for me.

Unless necessary, I hated killing.

What truly made me feel an irresistible great pleasure was to execute the utterly wicked by attacking their hearts, and then savoring their despair.

This feeling, once tasted, was hard to forget.

I felt that I was already intoxicated with torturing the followers of the Resurrection Church and couldn't extricate myself.

"Your forbidden magic is ultimately just some crooked ways. Let me use holy magic to purify your filthy body and soul."

As I spoke, I took out 【Blood Purification】.

"!!!"

While Fahim was shocked and confused, he could feel that although the magic aura coming from me was the holy attribute he hated the most.

But this holy attribute magic was definitely not some blessing or well-intentioned buff!

It was a kind of magic that would make one feel uncomfortable, feel desperate, feel a chill just by being in its presence! It was gloomy and terrifying, making one feel a fear from the depths of their soul.

Fahim instinctively took two steps back.

At this moment, he also clearly realized that he had completely lost his will to fight.

He was really, completely fed up.

From the time he came to the royal capital today.

It was as if he had fallen into a spider's web from which he could not escape.

Everything that had been proceeding smoothly suddenly took a sharp downturn.

After that, he sank deeper and deeper, step by step, into a dead end.

He didn't even know where he had gone wrong!!

Fahim finally realized that every step he had taken so far, not a single one had been according to his own will, but every step seemed to be under my control.

This feeling was called unfathomable despair.

Perhaps it was when he chose to carry out this mission against me that everything he would encounter later was already inescapable.

However.

Fahim had not yet taken his third step back when his body uncontrollably fell to the ground.

Because his feet seemed to have lost their function and were out of his control.

He found that his feet had been pierced by some kind of ground spikes.

And after falling to the ground, Fahim discovered through his sense of touch that his body had been pierced by even more ground spikes!

These ground spikes were all laced with deadly poison!

Since Fahim was wearing 【Pain Shielding】 and lacked vision, he had not noticed so many ground spikes on the ground at all.

By the time he realized he was in a poisoned state, it was already too late.

And this kind of poison couldn't even be cured with purification magic!

"Hehe, as the first user of my 【Toxic Ground Spikes 4.1】, how was the experience?"

【Toxic Ground Spikes 4.1】

【Category: Spell Card】

【Grade: Purple Rare】

【Rank: 4】

【Effect: Causes continuous weak poison and strong bleeding status. This spell can be triggered from a long distance. The poison cannot be purified.】

【Note: Current version is 4.1, using the latest "Bloodstained Casebook high-durability technology" to enhance the sturdiness and sharpness of the ground spikes! Guaranteed to cause heavy bleeding when stabbed! —Developer's Diary.】

As I asked about the customer experience, 【Blood Purification】 was also finally applied to Fahim.

Although Fahim could not feel the pain.

But he, who had always been obsessed with studying human body magic, could clearly feel his body becoming lighter!

And a bloody smell gradually filled the air, the smell of his own blood that he had never smelled before!

It had always been him destroying the bodies of others!

He never thought that one day his own body would be so ravaged by others!

"One hit won't kill you. We can continue our fair competition later. Whether it's 【Corrosion and Ruin】 or 【Human Body Destruction】, feel free to use them on me once your cooldown is over. It's just that this time, I will no longer let Cloix use 【Forced Dispel】 on me."

I said calmly, as if announcing Fahim's fate.

"No, don't!!!"

Fahim finally screamed.

He understood my words.

The reason I would no longer let Cloix use 【Forced Dispel】 on me was, on the one hand, I was relying on Cloix's healing amount and was not afraid of Fahim's 【Corrosion】.

On the other hand, the target of Cloix's 【Forced Dispel】 would be Fahim!

He would dispel Fahim's protective umbrella, 【Pain Shielding】, and let Fahim truly feel the punishment from me.

Fahim was very sure that he had already lost.

But he couldn't imagine.

In his current state, if Cloix were to dispel his 【Pain Shielding】, and at the same time I summoned the 【Ruined Poet】, what kind of pain he would die in!

"Fahim, are you happy to be able to die in your favorite way?"

I just asked this quietly.

"No!! This is not what I like!!"

"Oh? Is that so? I thought you quite liked it, since you've always treated others this way."

After hearing my words, Fahim was certain.

I still wanted to torture him.

Even though he was low on health and suffering from a poisoned state, I might still need several 【Blood Purifications】 to kill him!

Endless fear and coldness surged in Fahim's heart. All of this was like the end of a nightmare, entwining him, making it difficult for him to breathe, almost suffocating him.

"I choose death!!"

Fahim's eyes were about to pop out of their sockets as he used human body destruction magic on himself!

He absolutely did not want to be tortured by me any longer!

However.

He found that he did not die as he wished.

Because Cloix had started to heal him, helping him hang on to his last breath.

"Hmph? Want to escape to the underworld? Did I say you could die?"

I sneered.

"No!!!"

Fahim finally realized that I had deliberately waited for more than ten seconds and talked so much with him just to wait for the cooldown of Cloix's 【Forced Dispel】 to be over.

And from the very beginning, I had never worried that Fahim's 【Corrosion and Ruin】 and 【Human Body Destruction】 would pose a threat to him.

Just as Fahim was about to use human body destruction magic on himself again.

I summoned the 【Ruined Poet】.

Cloix also used 【Forced Dispel】 on Fahim, removing his 【Pain Shielding】.

Instantly.

Pain washed over Fahim's limbs and bones like a tide. The sharp, intense pain felt like it was going to grind his internal organs and extract his bone marrow. Even his nerves felt as if they were being pulled apart one by one. The pain was so intense that Fahim's screams became deranged.

At this moment, Fahim finally understood how those people he had brutalized felt before they died.

As his screams gradually weakened, he finally lost all signs of life.

...

The crowd outside the shadow barrier, listening to Fahim's shrill and desperate screams from within the barrier, couldn't help but swallow.

Although they didn't know what was happening inside the barrier.

But, not a single person present did not feel a sense of dread.

They had never thought, nor could they imagine, that the final outcome of the duel between me and Fahim would be like this.

It was a hundred times more terrifying than any situation they had originally envisioned.

"Is he... really not the Bishop of Agony?"

"Don't, don't say it. Even if he is, it's best to play dumb if you want to live!"