Future Knight

Chapter 27

Kang Chan didn’t give up and struck the invisible wall frantically.

“Damn it! Break!”

Despite the enormous crash and sparks flying everywhere, the invisible wall showed no sign of crumbling.

The intruder watching him suddenly turned cold.

“Hey, if you keep acting like this…”

As Kang Chan met his icy gaze, he was mercilessly thrown by an unseen force.

Boom!

“Ugh!”

Kang Chan flew over ten meters, crashing into a pillar and sprawling on the floor.

“This old man is in quite a predicament.”

Staggering as he got up, clearly affected by the impact, Kang Chan attempted another attack without even knowing what had thrown him.

The young man with emerald hair, watching him, shook his head and whispered softly.

“Reverse Gravity.”

Though it was a small whisper, the effect was enough to shock Kang Chan.

The area around where Kang Chan stood turned into a zero-gravity zone, causing him and surrounding objects to float as if they were in space.

Reverse Gravity was a magic that reversed gravity, one of the most powerful earth-element spells, capable of crushing enemies with immense weight or flinging them far into space.

The intruder had used such a terrifying spell as gently as possible against Kang Chan.

‘What the! What’s going on?’

Suddenly caught in a zero-gravity field, Kang Chan flailed his arms and legs wildly, struggling to regain balance.

The intruder, seeing this, believed Kang Chan could no longer resist and approached to calm him down.

But that was a big miscalculation.

Kang Chan’s main battleground was not here but in the zero-gravity of space.

Naturally, Kang Chan’s suit was equipped with a small plasma propulsion device necessary for space maneuvering.

In a place with strong gravity like Earth, it wasn’t very useful due to insufficient thrust, but in a zero-gravity environment like space, it provided enough propulsion.

As the plasma propulsion device attached to his back fired up, releasing plasma, Kang Chan regained his balance and shot towards the intruder like a bullet.

“No! How can this be? It’s zero gravity!”

Seeing Kang Chan darting towards him with a blinding light emanating from his back, the intruder’s eyes widened in shock and he couldn’t help but exclaim.

“Oh! Impressive! To think this isn’t magic, it’s unbelievable!”

Even as Kang Chan approached with his high-frequency blade at close range, the intruder, trusting his shield, didn’t think of dodging and was only captivated by Kang Chan’s performance.

However, his expectations were shattered again.

From the high-frequency blade that couldn’t penetrate his shield earlier, an aura sword suddenly emerged, ruthlessly splitting his shield.

And the aura sword, following its momentum, aimed to sever his neck as well.

Startled, he quickly cast Blink to avoid the crisis.

Thanks to that, Kang Chan, who swung in vain, fell into confusion.

“He vanished! How?”

Kang Chan had managed to break through the intruder’s invisible wall, but just as he was about to cut him down, the intruder had vanished without a trace.

This caused Kang Chan, who had swung wildly in the air, to lose his balance and spin twice in the air before crashing to the ground.

“Oh! Can you handle mana as well? The more I see you, the more fascinating you become. How about we stop this meaningless fight and have a chat over tea?”

Seated on the ground, Kang Chan raised his head to look at the owner of the voice that had left him utterly defeated.

He was sitting on Red Rabbit’s shoulder without anyone knowing how he got there.

As Kang Chan looked at him, he felt a different kind of wall, unlike the one he felt when facing Urkanta.

If Urkanta was like an insurmountable mountain, the intruder before him now was like the untouchable air.

Realizing that further resistance was meaningless, Kang Chan dismantled his suit.

Kang Chan decided to calm himself down and try talking to the intruder.

He didn’t sense any particular malice from him.

“Whew, who on earth are you?”

“Are you asking me?”

The suspicious young man who had been sitting on Red Rabbit’s shoulder vanished again and reappeared in front of Kang Chan in an instant.

Kang Chan couldn’t believe his eyes.

Blink wasn’t a particularly rare magic in this world, but Kang Chan had never seen it in person before, so his astonishment was unusual.

“I’m G. Zikyon. And you, young man, what’s your name?”

“My name is Kang Chan.”

“Oh, I see. Kang Chan. What’s your surname?”

“That is my full name.”

He reminded Kang Chan of the time when he first met Arteon.

“Ah, I see. Your name is very short. Ha ha ha, among humans, there are many who think the longer their name, the greater they are. It’s quite funny to see those kinds of people show off, but I like you. Your name is short, and you don’t show off. I like that.”

Seeing him smile warmly, Kang Chan asked more forcefully.

“What I’m curious about is your identity, not your name. This place is doubly protected by the intrusion prevention magic of Arteon, a 9-circle mage. Who are you to enter here so easily?”

“Oh, that? It was a bother, so I just undid it.”

Kang Chan was quite shocked at his words, saying he had undone Arteon’s barrier as if blowing his nose into a tissue.

The young man with emerald hair cautiously asked Kang Chan.

“Was it not supposed to be undone?”

Kang Chan didn’t know much about magic, but he recalled Jaina once proudly saying that Arteon was the greatest mage on the continent.

Yet, this suspicious young man before him had casually undone not just one, but the double-layered intrusion prevention magic that Arteon had meticulously set up, indicating he was at least as powerful as Arteon, if not more so.

“Of course not! It’s set up to prevent intruders like you from entering. How could you just undo it so carelessly?”

“Oh! I see. Then I’ll give you a service much stronger than that shabby thing. Just wait a moment.”

As the intruder quietly closed his eyes and muttered in an incomprehensible language, Kang Chan felt an unbelievable amount of mana gathering beneath him.

Previously, he wouldn’t have sensed it, but now that he was a Sword Expert handling mana, he could feel the enormous amount of mana gathering at his feet.

He couldn’t close his mouth, gaping at the immense amount of mana.

It seemed to be thousands of times greater than the mana inside his own body.

The gathered mana began to spread out on the ground in a specific pattern.

Beautiful geometric symbols began to spread wider and wider in concentric circles.

When the gigantic concentric circle made of geometric symbols was completed, a tremendous storm of mana erupted over it.

The mana that his master and Urkanta had emitted was enormous, but it was nothing compared to the amount of mana radiating from this magic circle.

Kang Chan was dumbfounded at the sight.

The intruder standing before him now was unimaginably powerful.

‘Where on earth did such a monster come from?’

Kang Chan swallowed dryly without realizing it.

In the midst of it all, the fierce whirlpool of mana began to calm down.

The dazzling geometric patterns gradually dimmed, and with one final flash, everything vanished as if it had never been there.

“There! It’s done. Now, unless someone is permitted by you or me, no one can enter this place. Not even a dragon besides myself.”

Kang Chan was puzzled as to why the intruder was included in this restriction, but since he was the one who set it up, Kang Chan decided not to question it.

“Who are you, really?”

Having just witnessed an incredible scene, Kang Chan asked in a trembling voice.

“Me? I already told you. I’m G. Zikyon. Only the Green Dragon race can use the initial G before their name.”

“Green Dragon?”

Zikyon, having revealed himself as a dragon, expected the human before him to react with fear and prostrate himself, saying, ‘Greetings, Great One,’ like all the other humans he had met.

This was what he had experienced for the 8,000 years of his life.

But the human standing in front of him defied all his expectations.

“What is that?”

Zikyon’s eyes widened in disbelief.

“What? You don’t know about dragons? You don’t know about us, the greatest race in the world?”

Zikyon couldn’t believe it.

Even a child who was only three feet tall knew about dragons, yet this man claimed not to.

In the continent of Arkandor, all children grew up knowing that dragons, monster, and wars were the most terrifying disasters, and yet here was someone who claimed ignorance.

Zikyon couldn’t believe it.

But the man genuinely seemed clueless.

Otherwise, how could he dare to make such an outrageous statement in front of a dragon?

To deny the very existence of dragons.

No race would dare to lie about such a thing in front of a dragon.

Unless they had a death wish.

While Zikyon was in shock, Kang Chan was secretly mocking him.

‘To casually claim to be the greatest in the world without any shame, how arrogant.’

Despite the impressive abilities he had shown, the intruder standing before him seemed to have a terrible character.

“Do you really not know about dragons?”

“I’ve never heard of them.”

As Zikyon’s expression grew more serious, Kang Chan began to feel nervous.

The intruder clearly seemed deeply offended.