Chapter 12 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Horse
As proof of this, the gatekeeper casually moved his left arm to block the large sword swung by Eugene, even though he was injured and would not have been able to move his arm properly if he were an ordinary person.
Gigikigeek! Huh!
No, it didn’t stop there. The gatekeeper didn’t even care that the great sword had slightly dug into his forearm, and his eyes were shining with a sinister glow inside the helmet that was fixed to his head in a shattered state.
He then immediately rotated his body, stood up from the fallen position, and swung his right arm behind his back. Directly towards Eugene, who was standing behind him.
“Tsk… !”
In response, Eugene immediately lowered his body significantly to avoid the gatekeeper’s right arm.
The gatekeeper’s right arm moves as if nothing had happened after the great sword was taken away, even though the joint had clearly been broken with an absolutely perfect joint.
As Living Armor is also classified as undead, are there any cases where movement is restricted due to damage to the armor? Thinking about this, Eugene rotated his body once on the floor as if he was b-boying.
And through the inertia he forcibly created, Eugene retrieved the great sword stuck in the gatekeeper’s arm and immediately deflected the gatekeeper’s subsequent fist towards him by swinging the retrieved great sword.
Kaang! Puck!
Eugene, who parried the guard’s attack with an exquisite deflection, threw a kick toward the guard’s exposed chest.
Of course, there was no way that the gatekeeper, who could not be completely cut by a great sword, would be damaged by Eugene’s kick.
In the first place, Eugene did not throw a kick with the intention of causing damage.
Rather, it was a kick intended to fly into the air using the recoil of the kick after picking up the floor with the hand at perfect timing.
In addition, Eugene, who used the weight of the great sword to launch himself into the air, rotated once in the air, took a stance, and landed with the great sword he was holding lightly hitting the ground.
“Whoa… , Phew… , Phew… It’s harder than I thought… !”
Eugene, who suddenly faced the gatekeeper with a distance between him and the gatekeeper, could not help but distort his complexion even though he had not suffered any injuries, unlike the gatekeeper, who had suffered considerable injuries in a moment of attack and defense.
This was because in the process of forcibly swinging a greatsword whose weight was not suitable for his strength using inertia, he was also quickly reaching his limit as a result of squeezing all the muscles in his body.
… No, his body had already reached its limit in the first place.
Despite this, the battle is able to continue only because Eugene’s overwhelming mental power forces his body to lead.
Therefore, if we were to enter a long-term war like this, Eugene had no chance of winning.
No matter how much his will and thoughts are moving his body, it only makes sense if his body is at a level capable of moving.
A body that is completely broken and physically unable to move will not be able to move no matter how much will and determination you put into it.
Therefore, it was necessary to end this battle in a short war. Eugene, having decided so, gritted his teeth and focused on his sixth sense to scan the inside of his opponent’s body.
‘Damn… , Do I still need to cut more?’
According to what Eugene knows, Living Armor must have a core that makes the armor move.
However, the essence that filled this dungeon and the essence that filled the inside of Living Armor’s body were preventing the detection of the core’s existence.
Therefore, Eugene had no choice but to blow up the part of the head where the core was most likely to be located, but unfortunately, there was no core there, so they were fighting a defensive battle like this.
‘If only I hadn’t lost my reputation, I would have been able to find the nuke in an instant…’
No, if you didn’t lose your level in the first place, it wasn’t worth going through the trouble of dealing with boss enemies like this. Because it would have been possible to press down with force as easily as breathing.
However, since that was impossible, Eugene engaged in attacks and defenses like this, wounding the Living Armor and leaking the essence filled inside the opponent’s armor.
Through this, the essence inside the armor gradually faded, which meant that the durability of the armor decreased, and at the same time, it meant that even Eugene’s essence sense, which had become insensitive to the situation, would be able to find the core.
“… Okay, let’s go all the way to the end!”
In other words, for a short-term decisive battle, he must inflict more wounds on the gatekeeper in front of him than he does now, and through this, exhaust the opponent so that he can find the opponent’s core with his own senses.
… If it doesn’t work out, wouldn’t it be enough to cut down the gatekeeper in front of you in a short period of time with the mindset that you will get caught?
Armed with that mindset, Eugene soon rushed towards the gatekeeper, swinging his huge sword in a short and bold motion.
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Kang! Kaang! Kachang! Kwasik!
About three minutes had passed since Eugene and the gatekeeper of the Demon Cult Library began fighting fiercely again.
Every time Eugene’s great sword and the gatekeeper’s armor collided, sparks created as iron collided filled the air.
And as the number of sparks decorating the air increased, it proved that the battle between the two beings was becoming more intense.
Eugene’s great sword exquisitely deflected the opponent’s attack in a way that did not match its huge size, creating a gap in the guard.
And whenever a gap is created, multiple slashes are struck in the same place as if they had been waiting.
However, even though the gatekeeper’s strong armor was wounded, it was not completely cut and maintained its form, allowing Eugene’s attack as it was, while swinging his fist at him and counterattacking him.
Boss Enemy’s pure murderous intent to kill the intruder Eugene by all means while burning his own life through this tactic of hitting while hitting.
No, Eugene was able to detect the repeated attacks of the fist, which was even more difficult because it existed only as a phenomenon without even a will, through the five senses strengthened through the essence and the sixth sense that forms a radar network by scattering the essence, and clenched his teeth to avoid it.
Whick! Whick! Whirling! Pop!
The moment he allows it to be a single blow, Eugene’s soft body will fall into a state of inability to fight.
A body that has already exceeded its limits a long time ago would not be surprised if it dies instantly the moment it allows a blow with such enormous kinetic energy.
However, even in such a situation, Eugene calmly avoids the opponent’s attack with a margin of a piece of paper, and if he is unable to dodge it, he instead uses his great sword to deflect the opponent’s attack, thereby creating an opening for the opponent.
Through him, it was proven that there was an insurmountable difference in combat experience between Eugene and the gatekeeper, and soon that difference was leading the extremely intense battle to a single outcome.
Ka-ga-ga-ga-ga-gang!!
“Haaaaa!!!”
-… !!!!
For a short period of time, Eugene and the gatekeeper, who had been firing off all kinds of attacks while exchanging attacks that were difficult for the criminal to keep up with the eye, soon entered into a power struggle.
Eugene once again shook the guard’s balance, forcing him to his knees, and then slashed his huge sword towards the top of the guard’s head with the intention of cutting him to pieces.
A truly honest slash. But more than that, the gatekeeper responded to the vertical slash with the utmost force by crossing his arms to protect his head.
Soon, Eugene’s sword collided with the gatekeeper’s crossed arms, sparking sparks again, and as the result of a struggle of strength, Eugene succeeded in cutting off about half of the gatekeeper’s crossed forearms.
-…
… And to put it another way, it means that the gatekeeper has an opportunity. The sword that Eugene struck got stuck in the gatekeeper’s crossed forearms, making it very difficult to retrieve it right away.
Instead, the gatekeeper’s arms were also tied and corrected by crossing them with a great sword.
But to put it another way, if you apply force to your shoulder and pull both arms with the greatsword outward, you can use that force to fix the greatsword so that it cannot be retrieved.
In other words, by throwing away both of his arms, the gatekeeper binds the huge great sword that was originally his weapon, which is currently the most threatening weapon to Eugene, and of course, if he is good at it, he can retrieve it.
So, naturally, the gatekeeper tried to distance himself from Eugene by preventing him from retrieving the great sword.
“… “I saw it.”
However, Eugene was one step faster than the gatekeeper. He let go of the great sword without hesitation the moment it was caught by the gatekeeper.
Instead, due to the environment of the dungeon, the essence that was in the atmosphere at an absurdly high density was drawn into his body.
As a result, my body, which had not even been properly formed yet, was screaming as the essence was accumulating beyond its limits, but I did not care.
If he misses this moment, he will die. Eugene, who was clearly aware of this fact through his long practical experience, risked his life to accumulate essence and then compressed all the essence accumulated inside his body towards his right arm.
“Haaaaab!!!!”
Kwasik!
And he thrust his fist, which contained all the essence, towards the danjeon part of the gatekeeper.
And the results were surprising. Isn’t Eugene’s bare hand going straight through the gatekeeper’s armor, which was limited to penetrating deeply even with a great sword?!
“Keuuuuu… !”
Of course, such miracles were not performed without any cost. No matter how much he pulled in the essence, Eugene’s body did not have the foundation to contain that much essence.
Therefore, the body that contained more essence than its limit was so damaged internally that it was a miracle that it did not burst immediately.
In addition, Eugene’s right arm, which contained all the essence, was also not healthy. The amount of essence is so small that even a proper aura cannot be formed.
However, if we look at Eugene’s body as a standard, the essence is so overflowing from the bowl that it cannot be contained.
As a result, Eugene’s right arm, the vessel that contained the essence, became even more tattered than his whole body.
It was ridiculous that he was barely able to maintain his shape, and it was so excruciating that Eugene, who was used to pain, groaned at the pain coming from his right arm.
But even so, Eugene’s eyes shine brightly, and he forces his right hand, which is not moving well, to grab an object inside the gatekeeper’s armor, and then pulls it out with his hand!
“Haaa!!!!!”
Wow!
Even as the blood pouring from Eugene’s arm like a fountain decorated the air, his hand, which had escaped from the gate’s danjeon, was holding a transparent stone emitting a faint light.
Giiiiing! Clap!
And the moment the stone is removed from the vicinity of the danjeon by Eugene, the gatekeeper stops moving like a ghost, his armor scatters by part, falls to the floor, and begins to move forward.
… Yes. Eugene eventually succeeded in defeating the gatekeeper by finding the core of the gatekeeper, the magic stone, as the essence filling his insides became lighter after exhaustion, and then extracting it!
“Huh… ! Huh… ! Huh… ! Hmm… ! Phew… .”
Eugene, who had somehow succeeded in defeating the gatekeeper, hung his right arm, which was dripping blood, and held it with his left hand, trying to catch his shaky breath.
This is a situation where the amount of essence that overflows from the bowl is forced into the body.
In that situation, if breathing, which plays a major role in controlling the essence, is disturbed, it is no wonder that the essence overflows and falls into a state of intoxication.
