Chapter 908 – 908. The Beginning of the Nightmare (4)
“Ugh… !”
Eun-hyeon woke up with a jolt all over her body.
As soon as he jumped up, he looked around him.
The same empty space as the beginning.
And the figure of himself lying on the floor.
He felt a familiar sense of déjà vu.
He belatedly recalled his memories at the time of his death.
Light falling from the sky.
As soon as it was recognized that it was lightning, Eun-hyeon met death.
No matter how much combat experience one accumulated, it was impossible to anticipate the location of lightning falling faster than light and get out of range.
“Not too bad for a second try.”
“…”
Eunhyun looked at another Eunhyun.
His words of evaluating his skills with a nonchalant gaze somehow made him angry.
Despite his fierce gaze, another Eun-hyeon calmly evaluated Eun-hyeon’s battle with a calm expression.
“But we are still far away. I can see the effort to use that incomparably lacking talent and sense, but with that much, far from surviving the future fight, you will be trampled on like a passing ant.”
It’s just the difference between whether the situation is approaching sooner or later.
Another Eun-hyeon’s evaluation was terribly cold, but perhaps it was because it was another self that said it, Eun-hyeon frowned annoyedly feeling repulsive.
“… Why? Do you pick it?”
“…”
He bit his lip tightly, as if he didn’t like it very much.
Another Eun-hyeon, knowing his psychology, deliberately laughed at Eun-hyeon and continued.
At his point, he was only about that level.
“I know even if you don’t say anything. There’s no way you can’t win against it head-on. You thought so?”
“Kuh…”
Eunhyun groaned involuntarily.
Although he tried hard to hide his agitation, it was impossible to completely conceal it.
Normally, he wouldn’t have thought of an inferiority complex that would cover up his own shortcomings as unreasonable, let alone hide his agitation.
Perhaps it was because the goddess’ protection had disappeared, but Eunhyeon couldn’t refrain from harboring such dissatisfaction.
That kind of gap in his heart was very clearly visible to another Eunhyeon.
It was a dissatisfaction he also had.
Because he knew his feelings very well, another Eun-hyeon smiled and approached him.
He pulled out the sword stuck in the floor and stood where Eunhyeon had been standing before.
Kreur
Facing Behemoth who was glaring at him from the other side, he glanced at Eun-hyeon who was sitting behind him.
“Look Carefully. I don’t know how far you can see, but if you can’t see anything, just live quietly in the mountains with your wives.”
After that, another Eunhyeon started a battle with the Behemoth.
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“… Unbelievable.”
Eunhyeon couldn’t keep her mouth shut as she watched the battle between the monster and the human in front of her.
It was because the battle between the two beings was leaning to one side with an overwhelming difference.
What was absurd was that the overwhelming advantage of the fight was directed toward another Eunhyeon, not the Behemoth.
Another Eun-hyeon collided head-on with the Behemoth.
Aaaaa!
Even in front of an enormous body that differed several times her own, she entered the arms of the most dangerous enemy, confronting head-on with a howl that made the entire body of the target tremble as well as the atmosphere.
The front foot of the Behemoth swung towards the head of another Eun-hyeon who rushed forward without knowing the subject.
Another Eunhyeon also swung his sword against Behemoth’s attack.
[Siete Swordsmanship]
[Flash]
The neat upcut from the bottom to the top is natural and elegant, as if it were flowing on the wind.
On the other hand, the moment when Eun-hyeon’s sword touched another violent front paw of an enormous size.
Squeak
The skin of the monster, which was like steel, was cut off.
It cuts off the skin of the Behemoth, which boasted solid defense because it was not strong enough, and cuts the flesh as if cutting through a piece of paper.
As if the blade of another eunhyeon flying from the front and cutting off his forepaw was blown away by the wind, his attack did not show even a handful of agitation or disorganization.
In fact, Eun-hyeon’s mouth naturally opened at the clean movements that fit the word ‘art’.
No strength, no speed, no physique.
There is only one reason to overwhelm the monster, who is no different from a disaster, in the hopeless gap where nothing can stand out.
It is because the ‘completion of technology’ he accumulated shined.
Aaaaa!
The Behemoth howled ferociously in the agony of having his arm cut off.
It didn’t stop there, and another Eun-hyeon dug further into the arms of the behemoth that was rampaging like crazy.
Eunhyeon, lost for words, blankly looked at another Eunhyeon’s sword dance.
The difference in power that comes from the overwhelmingly different mass.
And the difference in speed that comes from excellent muscle strength and elasticity.
The rampage of the Behemoth running wild with its huge body was a terrible disaster in itself.
However, another Eun-hyeon was playing with the disaster without a single wound at the center of the disaster that ran amok in all directions with ignorance.
The feast of technology that overturned the difference in weight class several times was like a hope that could overturn even an irrational disaster that resulted only in the logic of power.
“That…”
Eunhyeon inadvertently had no choice but to shake his hand.
The completion of the sword he sought was unfolding right in front of his eyes.
That scene, that swordsmanship shown by another self who had reached the end, was the ‘correct answer’ for Eunhyeon.
He is the right answer that very accurately shows what path he should take and what kind of realm he pursues.
But as soon as he realized that, he couldn’t help but despair.
‘It’s impossible for me.’
As of now, he cannot reach the correct answer he has achieved.
I realized that
I was all the more certain because I was Eun-hyeon, who temporarily and indirectly experienced his realm by forcibly possessing the remnants of memories of another Eun-hyeon’s experience in his soul.
That realm could never be reached by the present self.
In order to set foot in that realm, the time of hardship and training that another Eun-hyeon went through must have been a series of high and deep times that dare not compare with her own efforts.
It was impossible for him to build it up in just a few years.
The other state of grace he experienced was only the tip of the iceberg.
The fight between another Eun-hyeon and the Behemoth ended with another Eun-hyeon’s overwhelming victory.
The body of the Behemoth, slaughtered by his sword, was scattered on the floor.
Another Eunhyeon left the body of the Behemoth behind and looked at Eunhyeon, who had been blankly watching her fight.
“Did you see everything?”
“…”
“All you have to do is do this. How easy is it?”
“Kuh…”
Seeing another Eunhyeon who smiled and shrugged, Eunhyeon groaned involuntarily.
He couldn’t hide his resentment at his sarcastic attitude after showing him a sword dance that he couldn’t possibly match with his current self.
“Hyunseong hyung also said that earlier. You think too much.”
Another Eunhyeon swung her sword at Eunhyeon.
“… !”
Surprised, Eun-hyeon immediately tried to take a defensive stance, but the point of the sword swung by another Eun-hyeon reached Eun-hyeon’s throat faster than that.
Eun-hyeon, feeling resentful at the fact that he had given away his vitals pointlessly without resisting once, glared at another Eun-hyeon.
Perhaps because his eyes were quite alive, another Eun-hyeon smiled as if she was having fun.
“Just now. Why did you try to stop it?”
“… You were going to attack.”
“Okay. But you always take action half a beat slower than the others. Do you know why that is?”
“…”
“Because your reason intervenes in the meantime.”
Those who have a sense specialized in fighting respond immediately by taking a defensive stance the moment they sense the danger of an attack.
He wields his sword to cut his own throat.
Defending or avoiding, you subconsciously choose the more well-accustomed option of the two to respond.
However, in Eunhyeon’s case, it was a little different.
He wields his sword to cut his own throat.
Identify the identity of the attack that harms you.
Defend or evade, choose the more efficient option of the two to act.
Regarding how to deal with danger, there was a huge difference between the sensuous battle method that acts according to instinct and the logical battle method that reason intervenes.
Especially in the case of Eun-hyeon, who has a lot of thoughts, she accelerated the flow of these thoughts with the power of the goddess, covered her shortcomings and sublimated them into strengths.
“As you think, this woman named Erin is really special.”
There was no one who could follow Erin in the part that moved only with senses and instincts.
“There is only one reason why me and Hyeonseong hyung are putting you into a fight with Behemoth and other monsters. Exclude reason as much as possible and develop your senses. That is the first step necessary for your growth.”
While saying that, another Eunhyun smiled.
He was giving advice to Eun-hyeon in words, but his expression was mocking Eun-hyeon.
A contemptuous look, ‘I told you about it, but can you really catch up to me with no talent at all?’
“…”
Eun-hyeon stood up from the floor where she was sitting and snatched the sword from another Eun-hyeon’s hand and held it in her hand.
“Hang in there. I will catch up soon.”
Facing that gaze filled with feelings of contempt and disregard, Eunhyeon raised her body again.
It wasn’t because he was moved by the contempt and disregard of another Eun-hyeon.
Eun-hyeon stood up with her eyes shining and was watching the Behemoth.
“Under.”
Another Eun-hyeon saw that and he laughed involuntarily.
His eyes, which had almost broken his heart until just now, were revived.
It is because he engraved the ‘correct answer’ he had to reach with his own two eyes.
He had no time to weep over what he had neglected and despised.
Because the sword dance that another Eunhyeon had shown was recreating in his head right now, there was no time to think of wandering thoughts.
Eunhyun resumed the battle with the Behemoth.
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Kwajik!
“Cheer, heck… !”
I don’t know how many times he died.
His entire body was burned by being struck by her lightning.
Condensed thunderbolts splattered his horns, getting caught up in its range.
It was slammed down by its huge front paws, crushing all the flesh, bones, and organs of its body from its head to the soles of its feet.
My head exploded.
The horn of the Behemoth pierced the abdomen by the ferocious charge.
Unable to overcome the difference in muscle strength, he was caught and his limbs were torn off.
Guts were torn
In a series of gruesome deaths that could not be properly described, the pain that was like hell was gradually eating away at his mind.
The attempt is repeated to the point that it is impossible to even count how many deaths this time has been, and to the point that counting itself becomes meaningless.
And finally.
Big, aaaaa!
Eunhyun killed the Behemoth.
It was not a victory achieved with a fatal blow by targeting the monster’s vitals, but a victory that proved the growth of technology that overturned the logic of physique, strength, and speed.
It was the victory he so longed for, but after defeating the Behemoth, Eun-hyeon sat down on the floor as if his legs were losing strength.
“It is over. It was a total of 419 times.”
It was the number of times Eunhyun was killed by Behemoth.
“…”
Eunhyeon looked at the other Eunhyeon with blank eyes.
Perhaps because his mind was impoverished, nothing came out.
As if he had been standing in the middle of the desert for a long time, no voice came from his cracked neck.
“It’s still not at a satisfactory level, but I think it’s around 60 points.”
Damn, the score is so damn tight. Really.
He wanted to say it, but he didn’t even have the strength to say it out of his mouth.
Even the part of his mind that remained in the corner of his heart was at risk, like a candle that was about to go out.
However, another Eun-hyeon removed the body of the new Behemoth that was scattered on the floor as if it was just the beginning.
“In 10 minutes, start again.”
“… Nice.”
Another Eunhyeon didn’t have to say anything, but she knew what Eunhyeon was trying to say.
He is himself
Another Eun-hyeon, feeling dissatisfied in his eyes, continued talking nonchalantly.
“I bet you didn’t think this was the end, but did you think you could catch up with me just this far?”
“…”
I didn’t think so.
“I told you. I will watch how far you can endure with that foolish mind.”
Did the word mean this?
Eunhyun realized it belatedly.
