Fire Mage (Web Novel)
chapter-162

Chapter 162: Wise Sight

Divine Order Organization's hideout, Curse Woods.

Two men in black outfits stood inside the wooden outpost and constantly observed the woods to see anything abnormal. They also covered their faces in black masks and appeared vigilant even though it was a safer location. A goat skull's symbol tattoed with ancient runal words appeared on their wrists.

The ancient runal words read, "Death is Permanent." To the Divine Order members, achieving immortality was considered a crime against nature.

Anyone who chose to increase their lifespan by choosing Mystic Classes was considered heathens in these organization members' eyes.

Because of that, there were only [Shadow Killer] class mystics appear in this organization.

The [Shadow Killer] Mystics had a very short lifespan similar to that of ordinary mortals!

Even so, they were considered monsters because of their abnormal ranking up by killing others.

The more they kill, the faster they rank up!

As the two outpost guards were in the middle of discussing something, they suddenly saw a reddish fire from the sky.

"It's coming from the first moon." One guard stared at the red fire and soon shouted.

"Bird? Sound the alarm!"

At that moment, the other guard took out a long blowing horn from the nearby shelf and started blowing it with full force!

Errnnnnn!

In a few seconds, a single shadowy figure flew from the opposite direction, appeared a few meters above the outpost, and looked up at the sky!

That figure was a blue-robed man in his late twenties and had curly long blonde hair.

He had a pale face, unshaven chin, and elongated eyebrows. He also wore black armor, which seemed to be created two silvery wings for flying.

"Not a bird; it's an intruder. You guys go back to the hideout and inform our 'Lord' about the intruder's arrival. Tell him that I need some backup sooner."

Saying so, he opened his arms outward and flew up once again.

Upon hearing the blonde-haired man's words, both guards breathed out a sigh of relief, nodded their heads, and climbed down from the wooden outpost.

Then, they turned around and started running deep into the direction of the mountain range.

On the other hand, the blonde-haired man flapped the silvery wings using his thought from time to time to maintain balance and soon appeared 200 meters above the ground.

In a few seconds, the reddish bird descended from the sky faster and faster and soon opened its wings wide.

Meanwhile, the blonde-haired man finally got an opportunity, saw the intruder's appearance, and became stunned.

The intruder wore a crimson fire mask, had deep-blue hair, and appeared to be a young adult.

"Who are you?" The blonde-haired man stared at the masked figure for a second and asked in a vigilant expression on his face.

At that moment, the crimson mask on the intruder's face suddenly made a smirking expression.

"Ghost." A single word came out from the intruder.

Then, the intruder raised his hand, conjured tens of crimson rays, and attacked the blonde-haired man!

"You-" The blonde-haired man got stunned for a moment before he waved his hand and locked his gaze on the intruder.

Simultaneously, his eyes turned silver and appeared sacred.

His eyes seemed to have a similar function like [Analysis] and constantly moved to and forth while helping him evade those crimson rays.

Not only that, but a monstrous six-legged spider's phantom appeared behind him and separated into ten black shadows.

Each shadow started to turn more real before resembling more like the blonde-haired man and held different kinds of weapons in their hands.

The blonde-haired man also mingled among those shadows and became the eleventh one.

At that moment, Charles also glanced at the opponent's status and became surprised for a second.

'Phantom Stringer Class, huh. Hmm, his class skills are [Shadow Teleport], [Shadow Puppet], and [Phantom's Rage]…A unique [Wise Sight] skill… I should take this fight more seriously.'

While he was in muse, one of the ten shadows suddenly started to chant in a weird language.

Narrowing his eyes, Charles cast the [Needle of Ember] spell and then made it move towards the chanting blonde-haired man.

But to his surprise, the needle directly passed through the man and appeared on the other side!

'These are illusions… No, these shadows seemed to be made of pure dark essence and appeared more like liquid.' Charles made a swift analysis and started controlling the Needle of Ember with his thoughts.

Like a sharp ray, the needle flew towards another blonde-haired man, pierced into his head, and appeared on the other side.

But the result was the same, which caused Charles to click his tongue in annoyance.

On the other hand, the other blonde-haired men started flying towards Charles while holding different weapons.

Each of them attacked him with perfect coordination, leaving no room for flaws!

But he did found a single flaw during the battle, though.

Whenever Charles tried to kill a particular blonde-haired man using the Needle of Ember spell, other men acted aggressively and blocked the needle.

At that moment, Charles's [Cryptic Analysis] skill also identified him as the real one.

Grasping the opportunity, Charles took out the long sword from his space ring, cast [Fast Blink] spell, and directly appeared behind the particular blonde-haired man!

But as he was about to slash the sword at the opponent's neck, the blonde-haired man suddenly let out a cold snort and disappeared!

It was as if he had already expected such an outcome!

A moment later, the blonde-haired man appeared twenty meters away from Charles, turned his silvery gaze towards him, and conjured a sword entirely made of shadow.

But as the blonde-haired man was about to dash towards Charles, he suddenly forgot how to move!

No, he also forgot how to control the other shadow puppets!

At that moment, Charles cast [False Blink] spell and once again appeared behind the blonde-haired man.

Then, he suddenly thought of something and cast [Knowledge Absorber] spell on the opponent.

The next second, an arc of purplish flame appeared inside the blonde-haired man's Inner World and released an invisible ripple in every direction.

Unlike Charles's one, the opponent's Inner World was filled with eerie black clouds and appeared more like a vast night sky.

The purplish fire arc slithered in the cloudy Inner World and suddenly found a unique golden cloud deep in a large black cloud.

Without any delay, the purplish fire dashed towards the cloud like a bolt of lightning and directly burned it before disappearing!

'Information about Wise Eye skill?' Charles was taken aback and soon received countless pieces of information about this strange [Wise Sight] skill!

Simultaneously, he noticed a few notifications popped up in front of his eyes and got even more stunned.

…

[Wise Sight skill obtained!]

[Due to some similarity between Wise Sight skill and Cryptic Analysis skill, this new skill is currently merged into the Cryptic Analysis skill!]

[Cryptic Analysis skill's proficiency has been increased from 107 to 180!]

[+1 Wisdom Obtained!]

…

'What the hell? This spell even increased the unique skill's level?' Charles was utterly dazed for a moment.

Soon, he regained his calm and glanced at the confused blonde-haired man.

Then, he raised his long sword, aimed at his heart area, and thrust it from the backside.

Before the blonde-haired man could shout in pain, he retracted his long sword and neatly beheaded him!

The headless figure danced in the air as the artifact loses its function and soon fell from the sky.

Simultaneously, other blonde-haired men also suddenly turned into black-colored liquid-like things and then disappeared from there.

'He is indeed a powerful Rank-3 Mystic. Unfortunately, he didn't have any skill or artifacts against mind-related attacks.' Charles nodded his head and then glanced at the notification.

[Target Eliminated! Due to Target's special identity, the Host will get double Exp! 7,744 Exp obtained!]

…

'Wow! So much Exp.' Charles smiled lightly and then glanced at the game interface.

'8,920 Exp, and 7,744 Exp points, I currently have a total of 16,664 Exp points.' He muttered inwardly, flapped his red wings, and flew towards the mountain range.