In Gospel Country, on Highway 47 toward Azula, a Floating Car crackling with electric light was racing along the ground. Its smoking, sizzling chassis made it abundantly clear that its antigravity module had completely failed, while the two taillights behind it were cycling rapidly through red, orange, and yellow, showing that the car's autopilot module had completely malfunctioned. A crazed driver was flooring the accelerator and tearing down the road far over the speed limit.
A streak of Aura swept across the night sky and landed on the roof, turning into an extremely thin, tiny Goblin. He was only ninety centimeters tall, wore nothing but a strip of rag around his body, yet held a spring-steel spike longer than he was, almost like a long spear to him.
He aimed at the driver's seat inside the car and drove the steel spike viciously through the roof!
The steel spike did not have the feel of piercing flesh. Instead, a straight blade stabbed out from inside the car, then slashed hard, cutting off half the Goblin's foot! Yet the Goblin showed no pain at all from the severed limb.
Before setting out tonight, he had been given the "Pain Blocking" Miracle. As a price, all his reflexes would fail—most melee sorcerers roaming the underworld did not like using Pain Blocking. After all, pain could still be endured somehow, but the weakening of reflexes caused by losing pain could mean the difference between life and death in a lightning-fast clash. But the Goblin was one of the rare melee sorcerers who did not rely on Body Art. That could be seen from his Movement Miracle, "Rainbow Light"—as the most famous and powerful Miracle of the Light Art Faction, Rainbow Light could turn a sorcerer into a beam of light and move at