CHAPTER 293: GABRIEL’S OVERWHELMING STRENGTH

Yumi’s focus shattered for a second, her heart pounding against her chest and sweat rolling down her temples.

"Kill the body," Andrew said sharply. "It doesn’t matter how many illusions he—"

One of the Gabriels appeared right in front of him.

Andrew’s blade moved instantly. The Deletion Edge cut straight through its neck.

The head separated cleanly, then shattered into smoke and disappeared.

"Wrong one," Yumi said, pupils shrinking. "That one was pure disturbance."

The Gabriel at Andrew’s rear kicked.

Andrew barely got his arm up to block.

The impact numbed his fingers again. He slid forward instead of back, boots carving another groove.

A third Gabriel appeared on his right, driving a punch toward his ribs.

He twisted; the blow grazed his side—enough to bruise.

Another slash—the Deletion Edge carved through two more illusions. They broke apart like black mist.

Andrew’s head started to pound.

’Visual disturbance. Spatial disturbance,’ he calculated quickly. ’He’s not teleporting. He’s simply moving too fast, making my senses register multiple threats at once. But how is that even possible? He’s not even clearly a Hero Rank yet!’

He’d seen something similar before in Tianlan—high-level martial techniques that messed with perception—but those usually relied on skill-based effects, which made sense.

Here?

There was almost nothing.

Yumi bit her lip. Her suppression field kept squeezing down on the room, canceling every bit of mana it could touch, but this technique was slipping through like smoke through a net.

"I can’t... I can’t isolate it!" she cried out. "Whatever he’s doing isn’t running on normal mana!"

’Because it’s not a spell,’ Gabriel thought.

Devil Mirage was one of the Elven Kingdoms’ top techniques—something Edgar Darkmore had taken a huge gamble to teach him.

It was old.

It was wrong.

And it didn’t care about neat spell formulas.

Gabriel’s figures kept shifting, each one using slightly different rhythms, different angles, different breathing patterns. It created a storm of tiny, deceptive details.

Andrew’s eyes tracked one.

Then another.

Then another.

A fist crashed into his jaw from a fourth direction.

His head snapped to the side. He tasted iron.

"...Tch."

He swung blindly, deleting two more clones. They vanished, but there was no satisfaction—only growing frustration.

Garth roared from the rubble and burst out, debris flying everywhere.

"YOU THINK—"

Six heads turned his way at once.

Every Gabriel looked at him.

Even Garth, who thought he was fearless, felt a cold prick in his chest.

"One at a time," one of the Gabriels said—or maybe all of them. Their voices layered together. "I’m not done with him."

Garth charged anyway, both gauntlets glowing with pale runes.

He slammed his fist into the nearest Gabriel.

There was a heavy impact.

The Gabriel he hit shattered like a broken mirror.

For half a second, Garth grinned. "Got—"

The real Gabriel came from above.

He dropped like a hammer.

Both knees crashed into Garth’s shoulders at full speed.

BOOOM!

The floor caved in.

Garth’s legs buckled as his knees struck stone. His shoulders screamed; something in his bones gave way with a sickening crack.

"GUH—!"

Gabriel didn’t let him breathe.

He grabbed Garth’s hair with one hand and smashed his face into the cracked floor. Once. Twice. Three times.

"Stop—" Garth tried to speak.

BANG!

"Stop what?" Gabriel asked quietly, almost bored. "Breathing?"

He lifted Garth’s head by the back of the neck and drove a ruthless punch straight into his liver.

BANG!

Garth’s body spasmed like he’d been electrocuted. His eyes rolled white.

"Garth!" Yumi shouted, her legs wobbly now.

Gabriel tossed the Deleter aside like trash.

Garth slid across the floor, leaving a smear.

He didn’t get back up.

Silence.

Even Ragnarok gulped.

"This guy..." he muttered. "Is our leader seriously still Level 50-something?"

"One thing’s certain—he’s much stronger than we thought!" Bunny whispered with admiration in her heart.

Samantha’s fingers trembled. Not from fear—but from excitement. ’He just... he just bullied that monster like he was a random mob. This is what a main character should look like!’

Andrew spat blood and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.

The Deletion Edge buzzed faintly, like it was reacting to his frustration.

"Okay," he said slowly. "I admit—you hit harder than the last iteration. But you’re still within range."

His eyes sharpened to razor points. His body relaxed into a stance completely different from his lazy posture earlier.

No more pretending to be bored.

CLANG!

Gabriel’s knuckles crashed into the Deletion Edge.

He didn’t dodge—he intercepted the blade directly with his fist, skin scraping against the white light.

A thin line of erased flesh appeared on his knuckles.

He ignored it and drove his other fist into Andrew’s ribs.

BANG!

Andrew’s breath hitched, as if the air was knocked out of his lungs.

Two more Gabriels appeared out of the movement, attacking from different angles. Andrew swung, erasing them—but each time he struck one, the real Gabriel got in another hit.

Ribs. Stomach. Shoulder. Jaw.

It was like fighting a swarm that kept using his own reactions against him.

"Stop hiding behind tricks!" Andrew snapped.

"Then stop using that weapon," Gabriel replied calmly—and then went in for a violent kick toward his opponent’s knees.

POP.

Andrew’s leg buckled. Pain lanced up his thigh. He dropped to one knee.

"Enough." His eye twitched in anger—he had never been humiliated like this before.

He gathered the Deletion Edge close to his body.

The sword lit up, brighter than before.

White light washed out everything else. He swung fiercely, horizontal.

SWOOOSH!

A powerful shockwave exploded out, obliterating all the afterimages.

For one second, there was only one Gabriel.

’There you are,’ Andrew thought with a smirk. Gathering every last bit of strength, he thrust.

The tip of the Deletion Edge shot straight for Gabriel’s heart.

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