Ifrit: Could No One Guess the Other Side of Deception Magic If I Never Said It?

His experience playing jungle in games in his previous life told him that he had to secure a profit before going for a gank. If he failed, he could just farm the jungle instead; he could not gamble on probability. Otherwise, he would never reach Gold!

"Wade!" Reed shouted.

Wade instinctively raised his hand and slashed with his claws!

This child possessed an extraordinary intuition. He had already saved him several times at critical moments.

Ifrit had already retreated beyond his attack range.

He shifted positions several times and affected Wade's five senses, making it impossible for him to pursue.

Then he looked at Reed and smiled. "So you finally made your move. I see—it's a magnetic field."

Gade and Wade had both been deceived by him and were now entirely at his mercy.

The one who had inflicted weakness on Ifrit had to be Reed, who had never openly acted.

Ifrit had been thinking about it before.

Reed was also affected by Deception Magic, so how could he ignore those "deceptions" and keep locking onto his position?

The answer was a magnetic field!

Everything possessed a magnetic field.

The five senses could not "observe" weak magnetic fields.

But this Reed probably possessed magic related to magnetic fields.

It allowed him to directly sense magnetic fields!

Therefore—

Even though he was continuously affected by Ifrit's magic, if he could observe or sense magnetic fields, then Ifrit was like a red dot on a radar screen in his eyes. Naturally, his location could not be concealed!

And just now, Reed had perhaps manipulated the earth's magnetic field, disrupting the natural magic around Ifrit and greatly interfering with his movements.

This was a full-spectrum suppression.

It was probably similar to inflicting weakness.

"!!!"

Upon hearing Ifrit's words, Reed's body stiffened, and he even forgot to breathe for a moment!

As expected of the world's strongest deception mage!

This enemy was far too smart!

He had only acted once, yet the other side had already seen through him!

If possible, he truly did not want to fight an enemy this powerful and intelligent!

But there was no turning back now!

"..."

Courage.

Mm.

Commendable.

But there was even more regret, worry, and fear.

Ifrit savored Reed's emotions.

He was like a chef looking at the food in a large pot and seeing that it was nearly done.

So he picked up a bite with his chopsticks and tasted it.

After tasting it, he suddenly poured in a bag of salt and a bottle of vinegar, then burned it black over high heat.

Turning the dish ugly and inedible.

Its final fate was—

To be thrown away.

"..."

Reed clenched his fists. He did not know why, but endless regret suddenly surged from the depths of his heart.

Why had he provoked this powerful man?!

He was impossible to defeat!

Gade was already finished!

With Wade alone, they would—

"Hm?" Ifrit was slightly surprised.

Something had placed a lock deep within Reed's heart.

"Puff, puff, puff, puff—" Reed suddenly woke up and gasped for air.

What had just happened?

He had suddenly fallen into overwhelming regret and despair. Those emotions had nearly driven him into depression on the spot. He had even thought that, rather than being tortured to death, he might as well kill himself and die quickly!

Fortunately, he thought of Wade and then associated him with that final possibility, allowing him to escape that emotion in a miserable state.

Reed could not make sense of his emotional state, and this was not the time to sort through it slowly.

He forcibly suppressed those thoughts!

He used loud shouts to divert his attention.

"He's using magic to create illusions! They won't change the terrain! They can't hurt you at all!"

"He only knows that kind of scammer magic!"

"Don't be afraid of any attacks!"

"You just need to fight according to my instructions!"

Oh?

They only needed to follow your instructions?

A smile appeared on Ifrit's face.

"You damned liar!" Gade roared, ignoring the magma dripping from his body as he charged straight at Ifrit.

Ifrit had made a complete fool of him. Since the day he had been created, he had never suffered such a humiliating loss!

Watching the crazed Gade, Ifrit frowned slightly.

This kind of lunatic looked rather scary.

While he was thinking, Gade had already drawn close.

"Since you have some strength..."

"A fire-playing brute. Stupid, fragile, laughable."

Ifrit took a step to the side, raised Hani, his long blade, and spoke calmly.

"This is my—final remark on your life."

Gade had already rushed right up to him.

"Ifrit" was still standing there, seeming not to have reacted.

"Right!"

"Right!"

"Damn it! To the right!"

Reed shouted until his throat was nearly torn apart!

But this time, Gade ignored him completely and threw a punch at "Ifrit"!

Slash.

The sound of flesh being cut open.

Blood sprayed from the upper body toward the lower body, and from the lower body toward the upper body.

Severed at the waist.

Thud.

Gade collapsed onto the ground in confusion.

Why?

How had he lost?

Why?

Why had Reed told him that was the real enemy?

Why had he lied to him?

"He can't hear you," Ifrit said as he looked at Reed.

After saying that, Ifrit lowered his head and looked at the clothes and pants before him, all dyed red with blood.

Therefore—

If a gun could solve it, he would never draw his blade.

He was someone with just a little bit of a cleanliness obsession.

He really disliked having an enemy's blood splatter onto him like this.

But Gade's body was tough enough to withstand Bombardment and Void Flash. Even bullets could not pierce his muscles.

Only Hani could harm him.

"Why?" Reed asked in disbelief. "How did you do that?!"

His common sense could no longer make sense of this situation.

Gade was dead, and he had died for no apparent reason.

He had clearly been shouting warnings the whole time!

Why had Gade not listened?!

No matter how angry Gade was, he should have known that he could only attack the enemy by following Reed's instructions!

Wait.

Where was Wade?!

Reed's heart suddenly lurched as he looked toward Wade.

Wade had run in another direction and was now continuously striking at empty air.

He was being toyed with too, yet he had not noticed even the slightest trace of the truth!

"Inhale—exhale—"

Reed shuddered as he took a deep breath. It was as though he had been thrown naked into the wilderness at thirty degrees below zero. A bone-deep chill made everything from his limbs to his lips tremble, then passed through his mouth and throat all the way to his heart and lungs!

"Probably because my Illusion Magic is very strong," Ifrit answered with a smile.

Regarding him—

Reed had guessed two out of four parts correctly.

One of those mistakes was—

Reed still believed that his Deception Magic created illusions.

After all, that was the most common and obvious answer.

This proved that Reed was definitely not observing him through "vision."

Ifrit had not known before exactly what kind of observation method Reed possessed.

Nor could he be certain that, since Reed could observe him, he had no way of bypassing the five senses to notify his companions.

A mage's battle was like playing cards. You could not throw down four twos right away—what if the other side had both jokers?

Naturally, it was safer to probe step by step.

Therefore—

He had kept several trump cards in reserve.

One of them was the other side of Deception Magic, which he had never displayed.

No, actually, he had always been displaying it. It was just that this other side was always overlooked.

Ifrit could create scenes of "deception" that everyone could see and hear.

They either believed them completely and were led Round and Round.

But would people like Reed, who believed they had seen through the essence of the magic, truly avoid being led Round and Round?

Deception Magic could deceive a person's five senses and thereby guide their emotions.

Ifrit could make people see and hear.

He could also make people unable to see or hear!

The method of a magician's performance—

Guide the audience toward an incorrect line of thought. The more confident the audience was, the easier they were to guide. Then, when the answer was revealed, the performance reached its peak!

At that moment—

The audience was bewildered and shocked.

The magician was thrilled and proud.

"Now..."

Ifrit smiled and said, "It's over."