Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 520

At first, it felt a little slow, but then the entire second floor began freezing over at a terrifying speed.

Watching the seawater freeze, Su-ho smiled in satisfaction.

‘Yeah. If even this didn’t work, it’d be a problem.’

Then the balance would collapse, wouldn’t it?

Of course, there were other methods besides this.

For example, using Breath or a Heat Storm to evaporate the entire seawater, or going back to the entrance of the second floor and pumping the water up into the first floor—methods like that.

But out of those, Su-ho chose to partially freeze the second floor.

Because among them, this seemed the easiest.

His prediction hit.

After freezing the entire plane around the exit, Su-ho stood near the exit and used Heat Storm.

[ Heat Storm is activated. ]

Hwa-hwa-hwa-hwa-hwa!

The Heat Storm packed with true demonic power quickly melted the seawater he’d obtained through Eclipse, and the melted water began pooling slowly from beneath his feet—but just as expected, that was all it amounted to.

Slap.

Stepping through the water pooled at his feet, Su-ho succeeded in securing space, and only then did he raise his blood sword again.

Then he swung his sword toward the lone grid-patterned cell that was glowing red.

[ Enhance is activated. ]

[ Diamond Cut is activated. ]

[ Enhance is applied. ]

[ The power of Diamond Cut becomes even stronger. ]

Skrrt! Ku-gwa-gwa-gwa!!

Diamond Cut and the shock wave activated at the same time.

Maybe because of that, the second-floor exit couldn’t hold out for long either—cracks formed, and then with a pa-kang! the entire door collapsed.

Whooooo!

The passage revealed beyond the shattered door was extremely dark inside.

Su-ho immediately called Roynan.

“Hey, mutt.”

“Yes, Master.”

“Go scout.”

“...Yes, Master.”

This time, it was a door found on the side rather than the floor, so there was no water visible.

If nothing else, that was fortunate.

With his lips pressed tight, Roynan began walking into the corridor inside the door.

After waiting a bit, Roynan contacted him through thought.

- Master.

- Yeah?

- I came as far as I can, but... I think you need to come see this yourself.

- Is it safe?

- For now, yes.

- Got it.

What was it?

He went over with the thought that if it turned out to be nothing, he’d go and chew him out. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

The corridor was narrow and deep.

A height where maybe one more human head could fit in?

Following it all the way in, he saw Roynan waiting ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ for him.

“What is it?”

“Would you take a look here?”

When Roynan turned his body, a dead end came into view.

“A wall?”

“It isn’t a wall.”

As he said that and touched it, chulbang!—with that sound, the surface rippled.

What he’d thought was a wall turned out to be water.

“What is this?”

“It seems to be water.”

“I can see that. I’m asking why it suddenly shows up.”

“I’m not sure either....”

“Go in.”

“Pardon?”

“So you thought you’d show me this and I’d go, ‘Ah, there’s water here, guess we can’t,’ and stop?”

“......”

Roynan’s lips jutted out in a sulk.

Then, resigned, he started walking inside.

Splash.

As he stepped into the “wall,” the characteristic sound of entering water rang out.

The corridor was still deep and narrow.

After going in for quite a while, a reply came back from Roynan.

- Master, I think you can come in as you are.

At those words, Su-ho didn’t hesitate and went right in.

Splash.

The thing he’d thought was a wall was, as expected, water.

But it was far denser and colder than what he’d experienced on the second floor.

‘The density just keeps getting tighter... at this rate, is mud going to show up later or something?’

On top of that, the width was so narrow that he couldn’t even bring out Cheolma.

After following the path for a while, a small room appeared, one that looked like it was about five meters across and five meters long.

Of course, that place was filled with water too—and there, another door was waiting for Su-ho together with Roynan.

‘This isn’t even a maze—how many paths and doors are there supposed to be?’

Su-ho frowned and asked.

“A door?”

“Yes, it’s a door. When I checked, mana was converging into it.”

So he had to break this too?

When he used Night Captain’s Eyes, the door in front of him was painted red.

Su-ho looked around.

‘At this scale, I feel like I could evaporate it with Breath or Heat Storm.’

Seeing is believing.

Su-ho immediately unsummoned Roynan and prepared to blow the water away.

He started with Heat Storm.

[ You cannot use Heat Storm. ]

But suddenly, a notice popped up saying it couldn’t be used.

What?

Had he seen it wrong?

No.

He’d seen it right.

It just couldn’t be used.

With confusion, he tried again.

[ You cannot use Heat Storm. ]

No matter how many times he tried, it was the same.

‘What is this now?’

Now even Heat Storm was unusable?

In a sudden wave of unease, he tested other skills one by one.

[ You cannot enter the Subspace House. ]

[ You cannot use Mini Breath. ]

[ You cannot use Eclipse. ]

[ You cannot use Yeolhwageom. ]

[ You cannot use Earthquake tsunami. ]

[ You cannot use Wavebreaker. ]

[ You cannot use Lightning. ]

All skills unusable.

Could it be that only skills that caused external alterations couldn’t be used?

[ Blessing is activated. ]

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