Chapter 595 – 595. Snow Woman (3)
Erin ran while glaring at the snow woman floating in the air at the center of the blizzard.
She ran as fast as she could and leaped, but Erinn’s sword did not reach the snow woman.
It is impossible to run and jump to your heart’s content in the terrain where your legs are falling into the snow.
Erin’s biggest strengths, leg strength and speed of her legs, are at a disadvantage here as they do not show their strength at all.
But the same goes for other adventurers who are constrained by physical laws.
The snow woman has thoroughly exploited her superiority to fool her adventurers.
Erin was annoyed at the vicious behavior of the snow woman, who was holding her position where her attack could reach.
“Ah-oh! Aren’t you coming down right away!?”
[Some idiot goes down on his own.]
Snow Woman laughed at Erin, who jumped as she struggled to somehow feed herself the attack.
What fool would give up his advantage in a fight.
[Whoops.]
The snow woman blew her breath again, causing a blizzard towards Erin.
“Ah… !”
Sensing the chill on her skin, her mouth, and her nose, Erin already sensed her danger.
Sensing that a huge gust of wind was about to hit her, Erin hurriedly moved her body to get out of the gust’s line of sight.
The speed of the gust of wind that started from the snow woman’s mouth was very fast, but seeing Erin who avoided it, the snow woman’s eyes twitched.
[… Damage?]
Obviously, her eyes wouldn’t be able to recognize it, but Erin clearly identified the location where the snow woman’s breath was blowing and avoided it.
All the adventurers that Snow Woman played with were hit by her own breath, and her whole body froze to death.
As a snow woman, this phenomenon is completely incomprehensible.
‘As expected, these things are different.’
This woman in front of me, or the man who is her husband.
All of them are lumps of variables that deviate from their expectations.
‘It was dangerous…’
However, Erin is also relieved and tries to maintain her poker face somehow.
The snow woman’s breath was invisible to her eyes, but she was able to identify its location and direction with her sensory instincts, such as the flow of her magical power, the change of climate, and the direction from which the wind was blowing.
This was possible because Erin, as a divine beast, had many times greater senses than humans.
Erin was avoiding the snow woman’s breath with her instincts and senses.
She flung herself quickly to safety, evacuated, and immediately launched a counterattack.
[Barbarian Witchcraft (狐族姚術)]
[Fox fire]
Her impatience made Erin create her fox fire again and throw it at Snow Woman, but even though she threw it as hard as she could, Snow Woman dodged the fox fire because her distance was too far.
[Shit… !]
However, she was able to avoid what she had done by a very narrow margin, and she almost burned a part of her own spiritual body by her fox fire again.
“Ah… ! Such a waste!”
When the fox fire did not reach the snow woman’s spiritual body by a narrow margin, Erin expressed her regret.
‘It’s a big deal… How do I catch it?’
Erin was troubled.
The snow woman still did not forget the intense pain she felt as if her spiritual body was being burned the moment she touched her fox fire thrown by Erin.
She noticed that even she wouldn’t be safe if she got it right.
Perhaps her own spiritual body itself would disappear as it were.
Snow Woman knew her subject very well.
The only thing she can use is to gather the cold air around her with her breath and spray it in one place on her.
However, unless the only attack hit Erin, there was no way for Snow Woman to defeat Erin right away.
Just as Erin contemplates her means to take down the snow woman floating in her air, the snow woman also devises the means to deal with her erin, her fox fire and her breath blow through her air again and again. Crosses and flies towards the opponent.
[Whoops.]
In this battle where each other’s attacks do not work, and the war of attrition continues, it was the snow woman who came up with a way to defeat the opponent first and came to a conclusion.
[Come to think of it, I don’t even need to end you right away?]
The snow woman raised her hands in the air and assumed a superior attitude.
This snowy mountain, whipped by her wild blizzards, is her own home ground.
Erin, on the other hand, continued to lose her stamina and body heat to this blizzard and her climate.
For now, she covers her whole body with her fox fire to keep her warm, but once her magic and stamina run out, it was only a matter of time before she was defeated.
Besides, the more often she uses that fox-fire, the faster her power will drain.
A very simple answer that allows you to reach the end where you win if you don’t have to attack and consume your own strength, if you wait.
[Why didn’t I think of this easy thing until now?]
Snow Woman was simply because Erin was in her eyes.
I was annoyed by that bloody woman who dared to burn a part of her own body that was so precious to her, and who ran all the way to get rid of herself without knowing her subject.
[It wouldn’t hurt to just watch you collapse from exhaustion little by little.]
Hearing the snow woman’s ridiculed words, Erin laughed.
When the snow woman of Erindo, who had been struggling to match her fox fire somehow, didn’t seem to have any intention of attacking, she began to show a composure that she had never had before.
“Even if you’re not me anyway, sooner or later you’ll disappear.”
[… What?]
The snow woman furrowed her eyebrows, not understanding the meaning of what her Erin was saying.
“Because Hyun will come soon. When that happens, you are finished.”
[Ha, that man? It’s impossible.]
Eun-hyeon is currently dealing with the snow man alone, leaving Erin in the care of the snow woman.
Whoa!
The yeti’s roaring roar, like that of a lion’s roar, pierced the blizzard and reached here.
The air trembles just by the sound of that sound, and the vibrations of the aftermath of the riots resonate here.
[You said you grabbed that by yourself and came here? I have to say something that makes sense.]
“…”
[Don’t you know how many humans the snow giant has eaten so far?]
Almost 90% of the human corpses that climbed this mountain ended up in the belly of that yeti.
Even a party of seven or eight veteran adventurers who sometimes climbed this mountain range with a fixed income from mining Orichalcum could not penetrate the Yeti’s skin and were mercilessly ripped off their limbs and reduced to meat.
Even though seven or eight adventurers formed a formation and tried to fight using a well-planned strategy and pincer attack, they were no match for the yeti.
The rumor about the ‘Devil of the Kurdel Mountains’ spreading in the lower village was a grotesque rumor that was made up of a collaboration between a yeti and a snow woman, but the really dangerous one was the yeti with overwhelming physical combat power.
[By the way, do you think your husband can deal with that alone?]
Even if something like that came forward, Snow Woman was convinced that there was no way a human male alone could defeat the giant.
However, Erin’s reaction was different from what Snow Woman expected.
“I don’t know. I am not interested.”
[… What?]
“No matter how strong that giant is, in this climate, no matter how unfavorable this place is to us, if Hyun-i said he would do it himself, that’s it.”
Eun-hyun never loses.
Even if he couldn’t get rid of her snow woman, Erin was sure that after finishing her snow woman, Eun-hyeon would come to her side and get rid of her snow woman.
[…]
Erin’s relaxed, smiling face made Snow Woman just annoyed.
That’s not a bluff.
In the first place, the woman named Erin that Snow Woman saw in front of her was a stupid woman who did not think too deeply and showed the extreme of her simplicity.
What lingered in Erin’s eyes was trust and confidence that her own words, ‘Soon, Eun-hyeon will take care of the yeti and come here’ will surely come true.
[… Confidence without any basis is not trust, but blind faith. If you believed that, why did you spend so much effort trying to get rid of me?]
“You were trying to play tricks on my husband.”
Erin again raised her Levante and pointed it at the snow woman in the air.
Even though she said that Eun-hyeon’s act, which almost fell for it, was acting without emotion.
Erin’s mood was already hurt enough.
That’s why Erin wanted to get rid of her snow woman with her own hands before her Eun Hyun came.
“And Hyun-i said he would leave it to me.”
If it’s not right, Eun-hyeon will take care of it, but he was very happy because he felt his will to trust and rely on him now.
At the same time as her bad feelings about her snow woman, Erin, who was happy to have her expectations from Eun-hyeon, poised once again.
“Even though I said this, I have no intention of letting Hyun take care of you. I will finish it with my own hands.”
[Ha, until now your attacks haven’t worked, so how?]
The snow woman laughed at Erin because she knew that Erinn’s attacks had not reached this distant void she was in until now.
But Erin didn’t care at all about the snow woman’s ridicule.
She slightly bent her knees and stretched out one of her hands toward the snow woman above her in the air.
She then pulled her other arm slightly back and ‘aimed’ the tip of her Levantine blade at Snow Woman.
Erin’s posture is like that of an arrow on a bow and pulling her string.
It is a skill that pierces one point of the target with both power and mana from the usual explosive leg power, and boasts extreme penetrating power.
[What tricks…]
Erin’s bizarre posture only seemed very bizarre to Snow Woman, who was unfamiliar with swords and martial arts.
‘I think I did this…’
Erin recalled someone’s technique in her mind.
What came to his mind was the figure of a knight who condensed powerful magical energy into a sword and swung the formed sword at the target after condensing it.
This is the image of Riod, who tore apart Nosferad, the giant vampire bat that was an ancient magic beast, in one blow during the vampire eradication operation.
The sword spirit manifested from the sword vibrated the air and mercilessly tore apart objects in the distant sky and sent them crashing to the ground.
If he can fly the ‘sword ki’ he created like Leo, he might be able to subdue Snow Woman.
‘I can’t put such a large amount of magic into a sword like Leo-sama.’
Erin didn’t yet have the experience or ability to accomplish that.
However, if he was aiming for a very small point, not the huge slash that split the sky.
Erin’s magical power, which had been devouring her without knowing the end, was condensed at the tip of the Levantine’s blade.
The amount of magic power was more than 10 times the amount of fox fire he had ever used.
Erin released her condensed blue mana, and at the same time twisted her waist and swung her Levantine forward toward her snow woman as if stabbing her.
[Erin’s Unique Sword Skill]
[Blue Temple]
[Under… ! What are you doing! Even if she swung her sword there, it wouldn’t touch me… !]
Pew!
The blue flash of light emitted from the tip of Erinn’s rapier penetrated the snow woman’s spiritual body in the blink of an eye.
[Kyaaaaagh!]
Although it was a sword attack, the speed of the attack, which was close to shooting, was unrecognizable.
As her pierced spirit body, the area around her shoulder, was ablaze with her fox fire, the snow woman began to feel her intense pain and let out her screams.
