Chapter 452 – 452. Master’s Shadow (3)
197th.
A flash drawn by Siete’s shadow neatly split Eun-hyeon’s right shoulder to her left waist in half.
“…”
There were no more screams or moans.
The only thing Eun-hyeon is thinking about is one thought.
‘When I hit a counter, I open up the distance and then come in, slashing his right shoulder.’
Eun-hyeon, who raised her eyes with an expression of ‘For sure next time’, stared through Siete’s shadow even as she faced his death.
As soon as he killed himself, he did not miss a single moment of the action of retrieving the sword as a finishing touch.
So far, the number of deaths of Eunhyun is a total of 197, which is an astonishing number of 200.
Rather than screaming in pain, he prioritized holding on to his mad mind and organizing the techniques and attack patterns used by Siete’s shadow in his head.
‘Yet again.’
After the time of 5 seconds had passed with precisely measured timing.
Eunhyeon started to engage with Siete’s shadow once again.
‘I’m the first to attack this time.’
As soon as the engagement begins, the number of cases given to Eun-hyeon is two.
Whether he is attacking or defending.
After the two-pronged option, the continuation of countless attack patterns is like a root that has no end in sight.
Kaaang!
As the air trembled from the aftermath of the roar and shock, Eunhyeon and Siete’s attacks continued to collide with each other.
‘The counter is coming.’
[Siete Swordsmanship]
[Plum Blossom Zen]
A savage counter blow aimed at one’s own gap.
However, Eun-hyeon knew that Siete’s shadow would burrow into her arms at this timing.
This counter pierced the heart and neck several times and lost his life.
The experience accumulated through his death has now brought Eunhyeon an ‘understanding of movement’ for Siete’s swordsmanship, and has enabled her to respond by perceiving the technique.
Compared to the beginning, when he died without lasting about 5 seconds, the duration of the engagement has increased significantly.
That meant that Eun-hyeon was beginning to understand and comprehend all of Siete’s techniques and respond accordingly.
Eunhyun was growing up.
Kaaang!
Eun-hyeon immediately retrieved the sword and struck off a piercing blow to pierce the heart.
As the shadow’s black blade bounces into the air due to Eun-hyeon’s ‘parring’, Siete’s shadow suddenly reveals a defenseless figure.
‘Now!’
Eunhyun did not miss that moment.
[Siete Swordsmanship]
[Plum Blossom Zen]
It was a reproduction of the same situation and the same technique, but this time the subject of karate was different.
Just as Siete’s shadow showed her the technique she had suffered numerous times, Eun-hyeon, who had repeated learning through several deaths, reproduced Siete’s technique at the same timing.
However, Eun-hyeon, who was proud of his perfect timing, did not expect that his counter technique would work.
Kaaang!
‘I knew it.’
As expected, Siete’s shadow easily blocked Eunhyun’s counter attack.
There was no way that her shadow, which reproduced Shiete’s inaction, could do this response, which was possible even for herself.
Eunhyeon didn’t feel discouraged or annoyed at all.
You can’t even afford to feel that feeling when your head is full of thoughts of the next pattern right away.
[Siete Swordsmanship]
[Illusion sword dance]
The series of onslaughts that continued to drive without giving a chance to breathe properly showed off a very clean connection of movements and infinitely graceful curves.
About 10 times in the beginning, I couldn’t respond properly to this series of sword attacks, so I had many experiences where my limbs were cut off and my head was cut off.
However, in the continuation of that devastating death, Eun-hyeon reproduced the technology that overwhelmed her.
[Siete Swordsmanship]
[Illusion sword dance]
Kaaang!
Eunhyeon responded by destroying all of the onslaught of shadows.
Numerous afterimages created by the shadows of Eunhyeon and Siete collide with each other and explode.
‘Faster.’
Even with the same technique, in a fight where the faster one, the one with more sophisticated perfection, has the upper hand, Eun-hyeon did not stop the flow of thought in order to catch up with the master’s technique.
Having been banned from using the “Thought Acceleration” Manifested by the power of the goddess, it seemed that my head would explode with overwhelming amounts of information already being accepted and processed.
Even so, Eun-hyeon felt that the technique she showed was lacking.
‘More precisely.’
A series of unified movements, graceful and sophisticated like the sword dance shown by the master.
Without being impatient, he gradually raised the level of perfection of his technology.
‘Amazing.’
Sensing her own growth and reproducing Siete’s techniques, Eun-hyeon admired them.
Every time he steps forward, he follows the back of Xie Te, who should be walking in front of him, the more he realizes what kind of stage she has reached.
‘Thank you. Master.’
He was grateful and grateful inside, and he put this feeling into his technique and unfolded it.
Even if the being fighting with him was an illusion reproduced as a remnant of his past, he was full of desire to do so.
In a series of clashes between the two technologies, of course, the one that broke the technology first was Eun-hyeon, who was relatively less complete.
Squeak
The more the sword strikes collided with each other, the more the gap in perfection widened in the continuous movement of the attack, Eun-hyeon’s sword could not withstand the sword strike of the shadow and bounced off.
Eun-hyeon was killed once more by the shadow’s attack that severely cut off her arm and severed her upper body along with her heart.
‘… It’s a shame.’
In this try, Eunhyun had feelings of regret for the first time in a long time.
This trial, which she really persistently followed to the end, was also a result that clearly revealed that she had grown.
That’s why she also harbored feelings of “Maybe.”
As soon as the moment I had been really looking forward to collapsed, an intense sense of exhaustion swept over my body and mind.
“Jen… Page.”
Distorting his face, Eunhyun spat out disgust.
It seemed as if the embankment of emotions he had been holding back would suddenly break, and the spirit on the verge of going crazy, which he had endured even after experiencing hundreds of deaths, would collapse.
It is clear that he himself is growing step by step, but the more he grows, the more he realizes the gap between himself and what remains of Siete.
As Eun-hyeon grew in his swordsmanship, the more he grew, the more skeptical he was, ‘Can I really catch up with Xie-te?’
The facts he had been trying to ignore while telling himself that he had to do it anyway, that he had to step into that realm, attacked Eun-hyeon and tormented his spirit.
“Big…”
Eunhyun’s upper body, which had been severed and left only above her chest, slowly fell to the floor.
Hundreds of deaths he had endured so far begin to eat away at his mind, imposing excessive stress on him.
“I am… Shouldn’t it…”
Even after making such efforts and repeating such deaths, the gap between himself and Siete has not been narrowed at all.
After becoming an apostle of the Goddess and unable to use the powers given to her, when a fight began in which she had to win only with pure human skills, Eun-hyeon’s individual limitations as a human being were clearly revealed.
“I hate it…”
Eun-hyeon faced her 198th death, once again tasting the bitter taste of reality that the limit of a criminal without talent could not be broken no matter how hard she tried.
As her breath slowly stopped, Eunhyeon, staring blankly into the empty space where nothing existed, recalled for the first time that it was a kaleidoscope.
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Kaaang!
“Keugh!”
Eunhyeon’s sword collided with Siete’s sword and bounced upwards.
As Eun-hyeon lost the sword due to the enormous shock, Eun-hyeon’s sword flew through the air in a parabola.
Siete judged the stamina of Eun-hyun, who was sweating profusely and out of breath, and decided that she could not continue training.
“Today we will end here.”
“Yet… We can do more.”
“Take good care of your own physical condition and say that.”
Siete shook his head and did not accept Eunhyun’s opinion.
It was unreasonable to continue training against Eun-hyeon when she was already pushed to the limit and was on the verge of exhaustion.
“… Yes.”
Seeing the back of Eun-hyeon, who lowered her head and moved her steps to retrieve the sword stuck in the yard, Siete was lost in her thoughts.
‘I don’t have any talent…’
Eunhyeon did not show any talent to speak of with a sword.
He had learned taijutsu from someone, but even taking that into consideration, his understanding of and growth with the sword was very slow.
It was the first time he was raising a student, so he couldn’t compare with anyone, but it is an undeniable fact that Eun-hyeon’s growth is slower than he thought.
‘… It’s a waste.’
Siete sighed inwardly.
Although he had no talent, that tenacity and madness of not stopping self-discipline for a certain goal were real.
Even though he was pouring a lot of time and effort in pursuit of his own growth and powerful martial arts, Eunhyun’s body and talent did not follow her body.
Even so, she does not resent her unblessed talent and perseveres in training.
With a gaze in which various emotions of pity coexist while being admirable and proud, Xie Te observed her Eun-hyeon.
Soon after, she went into Eun-hyeon’s house, washed herself, and while eating dinner Eun-hyeon had prepared, she and Eun-hyeon talked a lot about her training and sword.
“You don’t have to follow my sword perfectly.”
“Yes? What do you mean by that?”
Eun-hyeon listened to Siete’s advice and responded that he couldn’t understand it.
“You and I have different conditions. It differs in many things, from differences in experiences and levels, to gender and physical differences.”
“… Yes.”
Eunhyeon listened to Xie Te’s explanation and nodded her head straight with a serious face.
“Of course, there are bound to be differences in the swordsmanship that can be used. See my sword as a sample, but the most correct way is to find your own sword that is suitable and suitable for you through my appearance.”
Siete did not train Eunhyeon to inherit his swordsmanship.
What she wanted to see and do was to create the ‘end of the most perfect swordsmanship’.
Siete had no desire to hire her disciples and pass on the realm and swordsmanship she had achieved, and the history and history contained in them, to pass them on to future generations.
“Your goal seems to be to catch up with me.”
“That’s it… Master is teaching me the sword.”
It was a really undeserved thought, but Eun-hyeon was always working hard so that she could someday build skills that would reach her toes.
Her effort and attitude are truly commendable, but from Siete’s point of view, the idea was not right.
“I shouldn’t be your target.”
“…”
“Swords and martial arts are not something you hone to catch up with others.”
Eun-hyeon has a clear target, a demon she wants to take revenge on, and she is sharpening her sword as a means to defeat her enemies.
“For me, swordsmanship is a means to break through my own limitations and advance to a higher level.”
So, in order to see the realm that exists at the end of swordsmanship, she seeks the perfection of swordsmanship.
“Then I…”
“Just because your thoughts and goals are different from mine doesn’t mean they are wrong. If that’s a powerful motivator for you to want to grow, then that’s also right. But…”
Xie Te took a moment to organize her thoughts in her head and gave her heartfelt advice to Eun-hyeon.
“If you want to grow, your goal should be to break the limits you have, not follow me.”
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“My limits…”
While facing her death, Eun-hyeon herself could not properly explain why the story of her past and her teacher came to mind.
However, Siete’s advice that suddenly came to mind reminded Eun-hyeon of a certain ‘goal’.
Eun-hyeon unconsciously used her unrestricted power, the ‘God’s Key to Reproduce History’.
What will you reproduce?
After finishing his thoughts, Eun-hyeon immediately put his thoughts into action.
[God’s key to reproduce history]
[Summoning, Sword Saint Eunhyeon]
What is summoned is not the history of the past, but the history of the future.
Eun-hyeon transcended his own limits, found the memories of the future that would be on the same level as Siete, and descended into his body.
