Chapter 261 – #58_All Darkness Comes From the East (7)
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One.
Siu ran to the nearest white knight without hesitation.
Just because your body is covered in hard armor, and your heart is protected by a thick shield, doesn’t mean your fear disappears.
The enemy is strong and numerous.
No matter how much Eloah is watching, you might taste the spicy taste with a moment’s carelessness.
Jumping in fearlessly is not just reckless.
Siu has learned.
The pathology that Eloah always emphasized during the last fight.
Preemptive, simultaneous and subsequent.
You must always have the initiative in battle.
Don’t give the flow to the opponent, and don’t be swayed by the opponent’s movements.
It is possible to seize victory by controlling the situation.
This is preemption.
You can’t always get an overwhelming preemption during battle.
The enemy is not a scarecrow and will likewise launch a counterattack to seize the initiative.
If you back down at this time, you will eventually lose the initiative completely.
To not turn it over with an attack before the tide turns in your opponent’s direction.
This is simultaneous.
When you have no choice but to receive an attack due to the opponent’s fierce offensive.
Not just receiving it, but pouring it out and preparing for a follow-up attack.
This is the follow up.
As you may have heard, these three pathologies have something in common.
In battle, you must seize the initiative, and for that, even a moment of shrinkage or fear is not allowed.
Therefore, Siwoo rushed at the most protruding enemy before running into difficulties surrounded by 5 fighters.
Contrary to its appearance, the speed of the armor, which weighs more than 200 kg only by simple weight, crushes the ground with just a leap.
-Shuuuuuk!
A spear that stretched out to meet Siwoo who rushed at him.
The spear that was reaching towards Siu bent strangely in a very fleeting moment.
What was clearly aiming for the middle and lower end springs up like a water-filled swallow and aims for the heart.
-Bang!
However, Siwoo received the attack without difficulty.
Heheld down the spearhead so that he could not perform any tricks by holding the sword forward, and then let it flow with the shield in his left hand.
He was so bewildered that he could not even compare the smooth movements like flowing water.
Siu was surprised for two reasons.
One is that the speed is much faster and more brutal than in memory.
The other was that it could nonetheless be easily drained through the sword.
However, just because the attack was leaked, it was not something I would just be idly by.
Siu relaxed the strength of his whole body.
Relax muscles that were unnecessarily tense and plant firmly on the ground.
It is not the arms that wield the sword, but the legs and waist.
The arm just holds the sword.
You can even forget that you are holding it.
“Huh… !”
With a handful of breaths, strength dwells in the relaxed body.
Bring out all the potential that is dormant in each muscle at the tip of the body.
If a single sword can contain the energy of the whole body, the blade can cut even a mountain range.
The white knight belatedly retrieved the attack and turned the spear to slash Siu’s head.
I’ve experienced it before.
A blow with a spear pole that pushed Siwoo back when he had to close the distance with great difficulty.
Just before the tip of the spear, spinning like a windmill, struck the helmet.
Siwoo’s sword is swung first.
– Quaang!
From the right shoulder blade to the left waist.
The longsword swung in a clean trajectory cut the white knight’s body in two.
The longsword bent flexibly and drew a trajectory that seemed to melt.
That feeling remained in her fingertips.
Siu quickly tilted her head back as she finished her sword strike.
At the close timing, the spear grazed the pitcher, but it seemed to have escaped from his weak hands soon after, and it flew around and smashed the parked car.
It’s a success.
He took the initiative in what would become a 5-to-1 battle and eliminated one person early, turning it into a 4-to-1 battle.
He cut down the white knight who had no idea how to attack so easily.
I am dumbfounded.
“It’s not over yet. Stay focused.”
“Whoa!”
With Eloah’s sharp point.
Siwoo’s body spins in the air.
-Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
At the same time, four spears were sharply driven into the ground where Siu was originally standing.
Force is directly proportional to mass and velocity.
Just as Siwoo added mass to the Shadow Arms by applying earth elemental magic to add strength.
The spear wielded by the White Knight is too heavy to be considered an ordinary cold weapon.
The four white knights, who broke the asphalt and pulled out spears deeply embedded in the floor, lined up and aimed their spears at Siwoo.
Certainly, when facing one versus four, the pressure is different from the moment you face each other.
Siu observed the enemy while feeling the sweat running down his back.
Can I win
Can I do it
His doubts about himself well up.
It is not that he has never experienced one-to-many.
I already have experience up to 50 to 1 against black dogs that run at department stores.
However, only in battle, if an enemy with intellect systematically attacks.
Will I be able to stand it?
Siwoo took out four ribbons and held them up.
Through training with Eloah and personal magic research, the number of usable ribbons has increased.
If this is the case, I won’t be pushed back in a number fight.
A white knight clad in armor that glows white to the point of being eerie.
The two of them quickly close the distance and run forward.
The other two turned to both sides to occupy both sides of Siwoo at the same time.
Siu splits the ribbon in two to prevent it from being completely encircled.
On the other hand, with a sword and shield, he dealt with the frontal enemy.
-Humming! Hung! Hung!
The white knight’s stab with a sense of heaviness.
Did Siwoo’s discernment improve as he continued training with Eloah?
Before, I just thought of it as a “Squiggling attack.”
However, seeing him at this point where he has encountered and learned various techniques, it feels different again.
Diary of the White Knight Diary’s spearmanship was excellent.
The steps that are integrated with the movement of the upper body, the timing of stabbing and withdrawing, and the painting that confuses the snap and rotation of the wrist.
Systematic and tactical.
The optimal number to pierce the heart of the enemy was being carried out ideally.
-Bang! Bang!
The two white knights take turns harassing Siwoo.
When it was one person, it was enough to shed attacks and dig into gaps, but when there were two, those gaps almost disappeared.
If one attack misses, another assists the gap.
However, if Siwoo hesitates, the attack comes at the same time from an angle that is difficult to block.
It seems like you are dealing with a well-trained and experienced soldier.
The feeling that 1+1 becomes 3 instead of 2.
Moreover, dealing with the white knight trying to dig into the side instead of just the two in front with a ribbon at the same time made me lose my mind.
None.
She couldn’t get it to stand still, so she took a sneaky step back.
“…… “
Eloa watched the scene restlessly.
Her hand holding her contract sword kept getting stronger.
She was trying hard to suppress her urge to intervene and slaughter them away.
The Red Knight, as is widely known, is a homunculus with numerous combat experiences and outstanding skills.
Therefore, the minor copy, the white knight, also possessed the combat skills of a white war veteran.
It is no longer the fighting power of a homunculus.
Although only four eyes were exposed, it was only the output of magical power, far exceeding the danger of having five or six eyes.
Passing Sul, who skillfully pushes Siwoo, is also perfectly breathing as if they were one body.
Although he managed to defeat one of them with his first strike, he would be pushed back more and more if he continued on like this.
Was it still too early?
Was the expected value of him too high because he showed rapid growth?
– Kwaaang!
A great roar rang out.
It was the sound of Siwoo’s ribbon, which had been restraining the two white knights, being stabbed into the floor.
The two white knights, who no longer interfered, rushed at Siu from both sides.
They showed a sluggish push in the 2-1 match, but now two players are added.
Also, it’s not the time yet.
When Eloah was about to spur her place to help Siu.
“Uh… ?”
Siwoo’s back is reflected in Eloa’s eyes.
He tossed the shield hanging from his arm cumbersomely.
I firmly gripped the sword I was holding with one hand with both hands.
-Visor! Visor!
Siwoo’s sword drew a single trajectory and gently removed the two stabs.
As before, there was no violent roar that seemed to be pressed with force, or as if force was clashing with force.
It was just that the path of the window was completely reversed with a clear sound like a fork hitting a glass.
“Whoa….”
The battle wasn’t over yet, but the world seemed to be tainted with silence.
Among them, only the sound of Siwoo breathing in clearly resonates, and Siwoo’s sword, holding a single breath, draws a spiral as if dancing.
A beautiful dance that does not have any unnecessary power.
The pure and beautiful sword path that warriors holding swords and those who pursue strength must have died only in their imaginations breaks the moonlight.
His body moves leisurely between the spear blades stabbed in all directions.
The sword that became a part of the dance as if it were flowing and the footwork that struck the floor one after another as if dancing a waltz.
As if he was in a trance, his immersed in sword dance was too relaxed to be in the middle of a bloody battle.
Elroa rubbed her eyes involuntarily.
A familiar figure overlaps on his back.
“Rafi… “
A child who was loved by the sword.
A child who could hear the sword’s voice.
If she had become a witch, she would have far surpassed Eloah.
Her vision overlaps Shiu’s, albeit vaguely.
A stalemate with no end in sight.
Among them, the form that was slowly leaning towards the white knight changed completely.
The two spears, which had been flying freely in the air like an acrobatics, were caught up in the straight blade of the sword and scattered like leaves.
Elroa, who was staring blankly at her, became desperate for an instant.
It was because two more white knights who had finally completely shaken off the ribbon joined the battle.
One stabs the window at the 7 o’clock direction, and the other aims at the perfect square.
The spear wielded by the White Knight shares a similar effect with the original ‘red branch’.
It seems impossible to form a distortion field unique to the red branch, but it cuts off the formation and flow of magical power.
No matter how thick the shadow armor was, if it was hit directly, it would be easily torn like a piece of paper.
At the moment of immediacy, Siwoo’s foot kicked the ground as if he had been waiting for it.
It is different from simply leaping.
A preparation movement to rotate the body as much as possible by demonstrating the magic of fa-kyung.
Asphalt ruptures and gives out a agony.
A shockwave that bursts from the tip of the sword beyond the sound barrier.
The sword, swung at waist height, slashed off the tenacious pursuit from the front, and at the same time, completely cut off the white knight who had attacked from the rear and side.
Those who take a surprise attack, on the contrary, become vulnerable to counterattacks.
Siwoo was deliberately considering the timing to allow a surprise attack and blow the counter.
The white knight’s upper body, which had bravely speared it, rose in the air side by side, but Siu did not kill the momentum of the rotation.
-Pop!
Two pieces of ribbon supported her body during rotation.
A black ribbon digs into the asphalt that has turned into a gravel field due to the fierce battle.
With a crackling sound, Siwoo was able to use another spinning slash thanks to the ribbon that supported his body as if grabbing the ground.
Second turn.
It must have been about the extent that the trail of the sword lightly brushed past the white knight’s helmet.
-Pop!
With that alone, the helmet exploded like an aluminum can hit by a mace.
Only one left.
The white knight has no emotions.
Even if I lose three of my comrades in an instant, I don’t feel any fear or hesitation.
Finally, the white knight takes a picture of Siwoo’s fully exposed side with his uphand.
In this state, evasion, defense, and counterattack would all be impossible.
– Kwajik!
However, two ribbons protruding from the ground sewed the white knight’s body like a rag doll.
Not only was it pierced by that power, but the white knight soared high into the air, pierced in a vital spot, and hung dangly in the air.
It was set up like a trap when the ribbon was driven into the ground and rotated.
The white knight’s upper body, which had risen into the air a moment ago, fell with a thud at Eloa’s feet as he watched Siu defeat the last white knight.
In the blink of an eye, he had dealt with four white knights.
At the same time, time, which seemed to flow slowly, regained its original speed.
There was no doubt.
It was Siwoo’s perfect victory.
