"Gooood!"
Barry shouted with utter sincerity.
Richard frowned slightly when he heard it, but he ignored him, focusing more of his attention on the approaching Noan.
Dark gray matter surged over Noan's body, as though his skin had turned to stone. Howling, he charged forward like a small flying mountain.
Unable to determine what was real for the moment, Richard raised a hand. The surrounding air gathered and compressed in his palm, forming a heavy Air Missile that shot toward Noan.
"Bang!"
With an explosive roar, the Air Missile struck Noan at tremendous speed and violently detonated.
Noan, who had been rushing closer, suddenly halted. Cracks spread across his entire body, and with a crash, he shattered into countless stone fragments. A great deal of grayish-white stone dust scattered outward, obscuring a large area.
This...
"Dead?"
Barry, who had been shouting loudly beside him, froze for a moment and voiced his confusion.
Richard's brows rose slightly. He was somewhat surprised as well and found it hard to believe Noan had died so easily. Earlier, the other man's two subordinates had managed to withstand the Blood-colored Energy spear he had released with the power of a Level 4 Spell. The Air Missile was merely at the level of a One-Ring Spell—there was no way it should have killed him.
Even if it had killed him, the corpse should not have looked like this.
The current situation was more like an illusion spell, or some kind of substitute puppet spell.
The thought flashed through his mind, and in the next instant, a faint blue glow appeared in Richard's eyes. The piercing function of Gaze of the Eye had activated.
The entire world underwent a tremendous change. The stone dust blocking his vision vanished, and everything around him appeared in the form of