Chapter 231 – #52_Training
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One.
Thanks to various administrative tricks and magical devices, the darkness has now forgotten its existence.
Underground in Seoul, in an abandoned drainage tunnel, Della laughed.
“If they knew I’ve become this way… There must be a lot of people who would love it…”
Surely it will.
They took everything they wanted in order to get their hands on it, so if they had a grudge, they would be as overflowing as the things they got.
If you see this miserable face, you will laugh out loud.
They say that Della, the greedy witch of embers, groans in her pain, having only lived her life like her worm.
Della’s appearance was truly pitiful.
Red hair, which always boasted a vivid luster, seems to have been covered in ashes with blood and dust.
The limbs are packed with white spears, hanging from the wall like stuffed insects.
Due to the repeated vomiting of blood, a thick smell of blood as well as a stench rose from around her mouth and around the breast of her dress.
Pain?
It’s to the point where I can’t even feel it now.
Della was clearly a high witch of the 20th rank.
Because she had a lot of combat experience, she was confident that she could easily defeat a decent number of guys.
But.
As you can see from her appearance, Della was brutally defeated by the thirty-two white knights Paola had cloned.
The white knight, who cloned the red knight as a matrix, had four ‘eyes’.
If she had that level of ability, even if she was 32 or 100, even if it was more than that, she wouldn’t be a match for Della.
However, the white knight was different from the normal homunculus.
Her movements were much more systematic and sophisticated, and she hunted Della like she had a high intelligence.
The biggest contribution to Della’s inferiority was the white spears she held in the hands of her white knights.
The white spear possessed by the White Knight is linked to the distorting ability of the ‘Red Branch’, and even her own ability has been duplicated.
Because of that, Della had to use an excessive amount of strength to deal with her Chill Chill. She ended up burning 20 White Knights before she was captured.
– Again and again again
A person walks through the wide cavity.
Her three white knights, who stood facing her as if watching her Della, cleared her way and her ‘cowardly witch’ Paola emerged.
In Paola’s hand was a water bottle with her elongated spout.
“Drink.”
“…….”
“If you don’t drink, you’ll die in less than a day.”
Della glared at her Paola with her sharp eyes and opened her mouth.
When I bite the beak of the water bottle pushed into my mouth, a filthy, tasteless liquid flows into my mouth.
It contains various medicines that restore the spiritual body.
Della, who had her whole body pierced by her spear, was able to stay alive for such a long time thanks to this drug that Paola took every day.
Della, knowing that, had no choice but to accept and take the medicine, although she did not know what kind of plan Paola was up to.
“…Paola.”
After taking all of her medicine, she turned around and stopped her Paola.
Paola looks behind her with nonchalant eyes.
The one side of the face that was not distorted was completely expressionless.
Della had her hang on the wall of the joint 24 hours a day, so she could watch everything Paola was doing.
Paola used her cloned ‘Dagon’s Flute’ to slaughter her humans without opening her inner barrier, where she collected a large amount of her mana.
Della is also a high-ranking witch.
It was clear what the magic circles engraved throughout the cavity and the red branch in the center were for.
Therefore, it is advised
“Even now, stop.”
“That’s meaningless. As expected.”
Paola turns her back as if she is not worth listening to.
“Paola!”
Della calls out to Paola again, in a voice cracking with exhaustion.
Paola’s eyelashes fluttered at her desperate call, and once again faced her face with Della.
“You know what you’re about to do?”
“They’re trying to secure a large amount of magic power.”
“It would be genocide.”
Seoul boasts an enormous population density.
What if Paola completes her order of knights and lets them go on a rampage?
Can the witches in Seoul stop them?
There will be unprecedented casualties until her hip-heavy Duke Keter moves.
Even Della, who is extremely witchy and has a good conscience, knows that it is wrong.
The most tragic thing is that the terrible thing will happen at the hands of her friend Paola.
Wasn’t that why she intended to end her Paola’s life with her own hands?
“What is it?”
But Paola didn’t blink one of her eyes.
She is already broken
She was thinking about it, but I didn’t expect her to be like this…
“Even if, as you say, you can use the effects of distortion to resurrect the dead, you will die at the hands of Keter. Your disciple too! Cool! Cool!”
Crying desperately to convince Paola, Della coughed as if her entire body would break.
Blood drips down her mouth.
Paola watched Della and wiped her mouth with the sleeve of her own clothes.
“Della, Della, stupid Della.”
Paola sings.
Sensing it as sarcasm, Della turned her head away with a swish of her hand.
“…….”
“Duke Keter doesn’t move.”
“How do you…”
“The ‘Witch of Whispers’ told me.”
Della’s eyes widen.
“Do you really believe the impostor?”
“Believe me, you’re more believable than Della pretending to be her friend and trying to stab her in the back.”
“She’s a liar. She won’t care what happens to you!”
“Don’t talk too loud. The noise makes my head hurt.”
Paola closed her Della’s mouth with a gloomy expression.
Della gave up deep in her heart as she tried to say something.
If you had a conversation with the female snake, it would be too late.
The poison injected by the ‘Whispering Witch’ is extremely poisonous with no antidote.
It must have infiltrated every nook and cranny of Paola’s broken heart very subtly.
Now, there is no way Della’s persuasion, who once betrayed and was hostile to Paola, will work.
“So… Why am I leaving it like this? If you don’t even believe it, just kill it.”
Her half-resigned mind let the unusual words out of her mouth.
To some extent, it is sincere.
Even if he didn’t want to die, it was hard work being pierced by her spear and hanging from a wall all day.
In the basement where the sun does not shine, it feels like her mind is being torn apart little by little because she doesn’t even know how many days have passed.
“No matter how much I whine, I can’t let you go. You know all about my plans. You’re sure to get in the way.”
“…Please at least clean your body. I’m going to die of displeasure.”
Paola snapped his fingers.
At the same time, all the filth from Della’s body is peeled off.
“You shouldn’t have asked for it sooner. You thought you liked it and left it as it is.”
“…That’s what you mean.”
Paola didn’t listen to Della’s complaints anymore and disappeared among the white knights.
Paola stopped suddenly and said without looking back.
“I won’t kill you.”
Paola’s last words echoed again and again inside the large cavity.
“Because I still consider you a friend.”
2.
‘In the future, you will learn how to deal with the King of All Byeongji’s contract. However, if you fight with the enemy using a sword and a spear, there will inevitably be times when you confront at an ambiguous gap. What is needed at that time is the skill of the fist.’
At the end of the explanation, Elroa did not raise her weapon to Siu.
She wouldn’t even let me make the black armor she always used.
Fighting with bare hands while strengthening the body only with magical power.
However, the goal of recent training was to increase the proficiency of fa-kyung.
Just like Eloah, it was to be able to freely use the foot mirror at any time and in any position.
“Synthesis!”
After exchanging attacks a couple of times, Siu found a gap in Eloa.
Just as she was, he lowered her body to the level of her knees and lunged at her.
It is a technique or tackle that aims to pull the opponent’s lower body off the ground.
Horses are the tackle, but Siwoo is already proficient in strengthening his body through magical powers.
In addition, at the moment when the power reached its peak, he used the balgyeong to control the stress.
It is a tremendous technique that is so fast that ordinary people cannot see it with the naked eye and can even knock down an elephant.
Unfortunately, however, Siwoo’s tackle did not lead Eloah to the grounding.
“Keugh!”
Eloa’s leg, which had slipped aside like a bullfighter, dug in between Siu’s legs.
Siwoo couldn’t keep his balance at all due to the footsteps intervening at the perfect timing.
His center of gravity leaned forward, and Tipperette, who was about to fall, grabbed Siu by the back and pinned him to the floor.
To be precise, the moment the floor was about to touch my back, I lifted it slightly to alleviate the impact…
-Bang!
That alone cracked the cement.
This is the 50th down.
Eloa clicked her tongue.
“Will I have to run at it like an angry wild boar to use it? The movements are too big and there are a lot of unnecessary things.”
Haha, isn’t the wild boar too much?”
Siwoo rubbed the back of his head and raised his upper body.
“Looking straight ahead, rushing at you, and falling out on your own. Just like a wild boar, isn’t it?”
When Elroa’s teasing returns, Siu scratches his head.
Did he get that close through training and sparring?
Eloa often spoke as if making fun of Siu.
Thanks to her relaxed attitude, Siwoo also sometimes complained and grumbled.
“Didn’t you just say not to be timid and move big and powerful?”
“That doesn’t mean a rush full of loopholes. Didn’t they also teach you that you don’t need to make big movements to get power?”
“This is so… Difficult.”
“The easiest thing in the world is to lie down during practice. Here, get up.”
Elroa stretched out her hand and Siu took it and stood up.
One month after the start of the training, fall came in full swing.
Compared to the time when he was knocked out by Eloa’s move, there was a great improvement, but no further progress was seen.
Well, she is a veteran warrior who has gone through many real battles, so trying to catch up with these few days of training might be an unconscionable thought.
“Are you still going to do more?”
“Yes, it’s kind of unfortunate that it ends like this.”
Siwoo felt a huge wall against Eloa.
A wall so thick that she couldn’t get over it.
But that didn’t lead directly to despair or giving up.
It doesn’t even fit the mood.
Achievement comes from simply trying to climb a high wall.
Siu knew that if time to despair was replaced with effort and concentration, at least time would not be wasted.
And when the purpose of learning arose, Siwoo’s concentration was never disturbed.
When he goes home after a sparring like this, he spends his time watching UFC fights.
Her technique, which Elroa said was a wild boar tackle, was actually an application of what she saw in yesterday’s game.
“The spirit of improvement is always good. If you don’t be satisfied with your position and work hard, you will surely get results.”
Elroa barely showed it, but she looked at Siu proudly.
She knew even before that she had extraordinary patience.
But she never thought that she was a person full of stubbornness and tenacity to the extent that she would keep running after being beaten for more than 10 hours a day.
It’s extremely prejudiced, but Siwoo’s appearance was close to that of a white student.
“I have something to tell you about the attack the other day.”
“Ah, yes.”
Elroa adjusted the slightly disheveled windshield and put her hands behind her back.
“Do you know when the most dangerous moment in battle is?”
“Are you talking about magic battles or are you referring to the battles we do physically?”
“That includes both.”
After Siu didn’t answer for a long time, Elroa opened her mouth.
“It’s the moment of attack.”
“Attack?”
“Your field of vision narrows, and your head is filled with only one thought. If you only think about the offensive, you will inevitably create gaps. So…”
Eloah put her hand on her waist while she pretended and held out her finger.
“Always keep in mind during battle. Look wide, look deep.”
In fact, training with Duke Tiphareth was a little bit like Seon dialogue.
What she taught me was more like a theory of her mind than a formula for using her body.
“Could you teach me a little more detail? For example, to take this posture.
“It’s not good to make a frame and squeeze it in. What’s most natural is best, like running water. All I can do is help you not turn the water uphill. The rest is up to you.”
“Okay. Let’s do it first.”
It’s like a puzzling riddle.
But she didn’t doubt her.
It was because Siwoo himself knew better than anyone else that her skills were advancing day by day.
“Then I’ll go again.”
“Come.”
Seeing Siwoo ignite his fighting spirit again, Elroa smiled slightly.
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This is Eloah Tiphareth drawn by PCHN.
I really like the way he looks and the colors in his windbreaker and sweatpants!
Personally, I really like the color that looks like it was painted with a color pencil, and it seems to fit my taste perfectly!
In particular, those exhausted eyes are really art….
Thank you so much for the nice fan art!!
