Chapter 958 – 958. Direct Death (1)
“Master. Would you like to cut me down?”
“… What?”
Eunhyeon, who said she would teach him about the mind’s eye, first asked her to attack him.
It was really a random story, but Eunhyun is not the kind of person who would make such a request without any reason.
Siete looked at Eunhyeon, who was just smiling quietly, and tried to understand his intentions.
It was an incomprehensible request, to put all his effort into it.
“Master, you won’t be able to cut it. Me.”
“… “Are you serious?”
Siete frowned, as if she was offended.
I didn’t like the confident smile on his face.
“Want to make a bet? If you cut me down, I will grant you one wish, Master.”
Even the attitude of lightly smiling.
“… “Don’t regret it.”
Xie Te swung his sword towards Eunhyeon.
In fact, a certain level of abrasion could be easily treated with a potion, so Siete threw a sword strike at Eunhyeon with sincerity.
Her sword strike, which was supposed to graze Eunhyeon’s cheek in the nick of time, had not even reached her skin.
Kaaaaang!
Something blocked Siete’s sword strike.
She could no longer move forward and saw the sword strike bouncing back at her, and Shite twitched her eyebrows for a moment.
She never thought that her sword would be blocked.
No one has ever been able to perfectly block her sword, which reached the pinnacle of her skill.
It was a mortal clash in which even the demons who killed Siete cut off each other’s lives by exchanging fatal blows.
This was the first time for Siete to be completely blocked like this.
Eventually, Siete recognized her true identity.
“… That power. “It is not a power that exists in this world.”
“Yes. You’re right.”
Eunhyun agreed.
To be exact, she was a shield that contained the power of the goddess Minerva, which she had been given.
[Arms of God]
[Aegis]
Her strongest shield, which blocks and rejects physical attacks, blocked her sword strikes with ease.
No matter how much you practice your swordsmanship to show a speedy sword that no one can counter, no matter how much you threaten your opponent with cutting power that no one can block.
Even if it was a one-hit killing attack aimed at the opponent’s vital point, it was only a physical attack based on the laws of the underworld.
Aigis’s ‘absolute defense’, which completely blocks the laws of physics, unfortunately completely blocked even Siete’s sword attack, which had reached its peak.
“…”
Siete did not lift his frown, as if he did not like her.
It couldn’t have felt better that her own attack had been completely blocked.
Moreover, the opponent did not block his attack by showing more technically perfect swordsmanship than he did.
It was very surprising that she did not respond with only her own skills and physical abilities, but simply borrowed the power of God to block it.
“How are you?”
“… “I feel dirty.”
“Can you see a way to break through this shield?”
“I feel bad because I can’t see it. “Are you kidding me?”
Siete, who usually did not get angry with Eunhyeon, was unusually sensitive.
It felt like I had been hit hard in the back of the head.
She felt like she had been scammed.
This meant that no matter how much one practiced one’s swordsmanship and grew by looking upward, one’s sword would never reach the opponent.
“Even if I try harder, I probably won’t be able to pierce that invisible, intangible shield with my sword.”
He swung his sword and realized it right away when it blocked.
That is not a shield where physical laws apply.
A shield made from a power that exists in another higher dimension called the Goddess simply ignores the laws of this lower world.
So it was natural that it could not be penetrated by physical attack.
“You’re right.”
Eunhyeon calmly acknowledged Siete’s limitations.
“… Ha.”
Hearing his words, Siete also sighed.
He felt really complicated having his limitations pointed out to him by his student who taught him sword fighting.
Although he felt bitter about facing the reality that he had been ‘overtaken’, what was worse was that he was faced with a clear limit to his swordsmanship, which he had continued to walk while looking ahead.
No matter how much you look up and practice your swordsmanship, the result is that it will be blocked by the power of the goddess.
Is there anything more frustrating than that?
It was the moment when the desire for growth disappeared.
“Master’s sword is so perfect that no one can compare it to it. “It’s not even easy to counter with a quick sword, and its cutting power cuts down everything it touches.”
“Don’t comfort yourself unnecessarily. No matter what, if you can’t cut it…”
“Then what does Master need now?”
“… ?”
Siete looked at Eunhyeon blankly.
He looked as if he had lost his bearings and when he saw his disciple who had an expression on his face that suggested he knew where to go, he wondered if it was possible.
Eunhyeon met her expectant gaze and spoke to Siete with a smile.
“Isn’t it important to know ‘how and where to cut?'”
“… ‘How and where’.”
Siete was lost in thought, pondering Eunhyeon’s words.
To help her understand, Eunhyeon continued speaking.
“Master, your sword is amazing. It’s very fast and scary. The reason is because we are quick to judge when attacking the opponent’s vital points.”
Siete knew how to kill her target with certainty.
“Whether it was cutting a rock bigger than a person, cutting through hard and solid steel, or dealing with demonic beasts that had overwhelming defense power over that steel, Master’s sword cut them down with great ease.”
It was a story I had never been particularly conscious of.
It was just visible, and in order to cut more clearly, the target was cut down with an efficient and precise attack.
Where Siete’s talent shines the most is that he does this sensuously.
Sensibly grasping the gaps and weak points of the target and finding a flow that leads to an efficient and best attack.
Her inner sword is also an inner sword, but the most frightening thing about her is that she keeps the inner sword and pushes the opponent with precise and fierce attacks.
“In some ways, Master uses a similar fighting style to Erin.”
“… “Me with that kid?”
Siete, who had been listening to Eunhyeon’s words, frowned at her moment.
Even if she compares, how can she compare to Erin?
Still, for now, I continued to listen to Eunhyeon’s explanation.
“Yes. It’s similar in that this part is done sensuously in the midst of a fierce battle. However, in Erin’s case, she specializes in ‘threat detection’, which is feeling when she sees an opponent’s attack, but in Master’s case, it is a bit different.”
“How are they different?”
“Master, you can see that all of your senses are specialized in the ability to identify the other person’s weaknesses or critical points.”
“… Hmm.”
It was definitely true.
The idea that his own senses were exceptionally better than others was something that Xie Te himself was aware of.
However, I never imagined that I would be hearing about my own strengths in such a systematic way from another person’s perspective.
When he realized that this also meant that he was watching and observing himself, he felt somewhat embarrassed.
He never thought he would feel this way.
“So, Master’s swordsmanship is truly amazing.”
“… Stop, stop. Done.”
Siete, who felt strange that the swordsmanship he passionately preached was none other than his own swordsmanship, blocked Eunhyeon’s rapid-fire speech.
“I understand that enough. “There’s no need to talk more.”
“Is that so? “There is still a long time left.”
“…”
Siete sighed softly and continued the story.
“So? “What do you want to say?”
“In the future, Master, you will face truly unreasonable enemies. “At that time, he had an enemy who might be more unreasonable than the devil who killed his teacher.”
Just as Eunhyeon had so easily blocked her sword strike with the shield of absolute defense created with the power of her goddess.
“I will teach you. “Teach me, Master, how to explain that irrationality.”
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‘Heart’s eye’
The ability or function to examine and distinguish objects.
Eunhyeon used this ‘mind’s eye’ as ‘insight’ to deepen the ability to see through the essence of an object.
Then, she asked if she also had to go through the same process, but she answered that Eunhyun did not.
[You have to create what the Master wants. Each person has different experiences and thoughts, so how can they be the same? Is that really what Master wants?]
It wasn’t so.
There was one thing that Siete realized after listening to her Eunhyeon’s explanation.
All senses are specialized for the ability to identify the opponent’s weaknesses or critical points.
It was definitely as he said.
And the reason Siete was unable to break down her Eunhyeon’s absolute defense called ‘Aigis’ was because she was unable to identify the weak point or vital point to break down that defense.
It was created by the power of the goddess that cannot be discerned with the five senses that humans have.
It was a natural thing to say, but it was an extremely unreasonable force.
‘I want to cut.’
She wants to destroy the power of the goddess with the swordsmanship she has continuously honed and refined over many years.
She also wanted to put her feet into those areas that cannot be reached by human power.
Like Eun-hyeon, who was his student but has now surpassed himself and entered that realm first.
Following Eunhyeon’s advice, he stepped into the realm of immortals and opened his ‘heart’s eye.’
What is the new world you want to see?
What Siete wants to see is the best flow and weakness to cut down the enemy.
‘See.’
Siete looked at Lexus and Death Knight who were facing him.
The dark energy of death surrounds him.
And certain solid lines moving back and forth along that energy.
It was a curse that revealed itself in defiance of the laws of this world.
Siete swung his sword at Lexus as if possessed by something.
[Siete Swordsmanship]
[Image plum blossom]
[It’s no use!]
Lennie was confident.
No matter how powerful the sword was, it was impossible to damage Laxus, who had swallowed up all the blood of the royal family and was strengthened by the completed curse bond.
It is a cursed armor created by twisting the laws of this world and excludes all physical shock and damage.
In reality, Siete’s sword could not cut through Lexus’ armor.
Lennie was sure that no matter how many times he tried, the result would never change.
“That’s your opinion.”
Siete continued to swing his sword.
A series of countless slashes that Lexus’s skills could not even properly deal with hit the Death Knight’s armor.
Leni immediately noticed the strange thing.
[What… !?]
Surrounded by a curse and boasting extreme defense power, Laxus’s armor and black death energy began to gradually lose its shape and become disheveled.
“They said the curse is the flow.”
A spell that distorts the flow of terrible black energy, directs it to one place, condenses it, and bends the laws.
Cutting through that physically untouchable collection of energy was the same as cutting through formless water, but Siete paid no mind.
“Then I’ll cut you down with that curse intact.”
The curse, which was not a physical force, was no longer an unreasonable force for Siete, who was able to visually confirm the existence of the solid line seen with Siete’s new mind’s eye and the flow that made up the curse.
It was a special boundary that cut through the flow itself, whether it was an object with mass or an unreal being composed of other forces, and made it possible to determine death.
The ‘direct death’ of Siete’s mind’s eye cut through Lenny’s curse, an intangible force that does not exist in form.
