“Shit! Shit…!” Jeong Yoo-Jin cursed.

Wondering how long she had been stuck in this boring battle, Yoo-Jin felt frustrated. She initially planned to quickly kill this meretricious monster and find Chang-Sun, but she soon realized she had greatly misjudged the situation.

Boom, boom, boom―!

Using [Hellfire Song], she created brilliant fireballs and threw them at the Hongsal King, but the Hongsal King immediately cut them down with a single strike and gained on Yoo-Jin. He had not a single trace of soot or a sign of him sustaining any damage. Yoo-Jin used [Dream Hallucination], the phantom magic spell, to distance herself from the Hongsal King again.

Whoomp!

Knowing she was at a disadvantage if she fought the Hongsal King at close range, she used various phantom magic spells to gain some space. She even made mirages to confuse the Hongsal King and disturbed his sense of distance.

If there was one silver lining in this situation, it would be that she was quite skilled at hand-to-hand combat even though she was a marksman-type wizard since Gwak Do-Woon taught her. Even if the Hongsal King nullified her phantom magic spells and approached Yoo-Jin, she could predict the Hongsal King’s next move to some level. If he was too close, Yoo-Jin forcefully increased the distance between them using [Jade Smashing Fist].

Do-Woon was the one who had taught Yoo-Jin every hand-to-hand combat move she was currently using. At the time, she had grumbled and complained about not needing to learn all these, but for the first time, Do-Woon...