Chapter 179 – Invincibility, Kid!! (1)
“Ragna, Baron Armageddon.”
“Ha, he is of no use in my life.”
The first thing that greeted me when I returned to Landfill on the 10-hour airship was the face I didn’t want to see the most.
Luke. A man who plays the main character of the story in Test of God, a play conducted by Luminous. And when he makes plans, he’s a dog who always ruins them in ways I never imagined.
“To Hockna… What have you done to my comrades? Tell me now!”
“If you’re really curious, go back to the original world and ask the person in question.”
“Bitch…”
Whoa, you son of a bitch. Even though he’s cursed at me a lot, the word “Son of a bitch” Came out of Luke’s mouth, who had never said a proper curse word at me. It would have been great if that was a great development.
“A son of a bitch is what you say to a feral mutt who turns a house into a piece of shit while its owner is away. Yeah, you’re the one.”
Looks like Luke made quite a fuss at Landfill while I was returning on the airship. Looking at him from all over the place, from the invisible corners, the fearful and angry eyes pouring down on him.
“Anyway, isn’t your target me? Why are you taking out your anger on the Amon people?”
Sureureung.
As if he didn’t want to listen to me anymore, Luke drew his sword and aimed it at me. The blade’s blade shimmered with scarlet power like flames.
“Do you really have to fight me? Is there really no other way?”
“I have nothing more to say to you.”
“Ha… Ok. Yeah, since we’re going to fight, why don’t we go to a quiet place where there are no people? I don’t want to harm people.”
“It’s not going to fall into your hands anymore.”
“It’s not a trick… Ha, let’s quit.”
Originally, that side was severe, but… You really have become a frustrating bastard from one to ten.
Divine power… A power borrowed from a divine being. In the way of this world, it is divided into ‘authority’ that is invoked by one’s own will and ‘protection’ that affects oneself even if one possesses it. It was her power that Nubis showed her last time in her arena, turning her body into sand in an instant, rendering most physical attacks useless.
As can be seen from the case of Nuvis, not all authority is an offensive ability, but Luke’s power must be 100% offensive. Just as the shape of water changes depending on which vessel it is placed in, if it is applied to a weapon like that, it must be the power related to the attack unconditionally.
Of course, there are various ways to increase the power of the attack itself so that a young boy can smash a rock with a sword to break the aggression power, or to give an additional effect, such as making the part touched by the blade quickly rot and rot. Seeing that Luke’s authority shimmers like a flame, it’s probably the latter, but it’s very likely.
“I wondered how great you’ve become in the meantime, is all you got from the bitch who uses you powers and blessings? Do you think you can beat me with just that much? Seriously?”
Of course, Luke’s force itself would have been stronger than before.
Generally, a divine power user receives that power from one god. It is very rare to be chosen by a god in the first place, but how many cases do more than one god stick to one?
Even if that happens, there is no way for one human to borrow the power of two gods. The gods themselves are also respectful, but it is difficult to use them properly because the fact that a human receiving two completely different powers in itself puts a burden on the body, and with a high probability, the stronger one suppresses the other.
But Luke did it again.
I can use my own power, so I can handle it as I want, but since I didn’t create it myself, there’s no big burden even if I lose it. Where else could there be a better one to take advantage of? Of course, no matter how good the potential is, it’s very frustrating because he can’t use it properly.
From Justia’s point of view, Luke is a loser anyway. It doesn’t matter if you lose, just throw it once with the intention of lightly checking it.
“You don’t know if you can win or not until you try.”
The fingers of Luke’s left hand, not holding the sword, drew something in the air, and before long, along with a tingling sensation, his left wrist was engraved with the sign of a lopsided scale.
“Oh, I’m sorry. What the fuck are you doing tattooing someone else’s body?”
“That’s not a tattoo. The power I’ve been given, [Wounds and Punishes]. When I fight a villain with that mark, my weapons become heavier and more deadly. And…”
Soon after, the scarlet light shimmering from Luke’s left hand spread widely in a circle, and it became a golden round shield engraved with a lion with his mouth open. The sword in his right hand also became a longer, more splendid golden longsword than before.
“Authority, [Equipment of Punishment]. An weapon that demonstrates an overwhelming advantage when dealing with villains who violate my justice, or those marked with a mark. These two powers should be more than enough.”
“After all that shit, are you going to win with a temp? Yes, let’s try it.”
I don’t know if there was still a bit of correctness left in the surprise, or if he just wanted to show off his new powers in front of me, but while Luke was getting ready, I was ready to fight. Luke charged with great momentum, holding his shield forward in preparation for an unexpected interception.
Well… Maybe that shield will greatly reduce the damage of this strange tattooed man’s attacks. In the first place, I had no intention of shooting anything while running, so it was meaningless.
“Haaaaa!!”
With a strong spirit, Luke’s golden sword swung straight into my throat. Are you going to cut off the head in one blow? You know very well that such a trick can’t work, right?
“…What’s up?! What, what…?”
The golden blade flew with the momentum to separate my neck from the body, but unfortunately it did not achieve its purpose.
Apparently, the blade he wielded reached my throat. However, his blade did not go further from there. Luke gave strength to the hand holding the blade again with a puzzled face, but the blade stopped moving as soon as it touched my body.
“This is, what kind of trick is this… Could it be that this is the authority you received?”
“You sound like authority. Do all the powers you don’t understand look like authority?”
One of the first jailers I made with sim ability when I was imprisoned in Skyron’s cage gained the ability to fixate on a specific target. It was a very simple ability, just fixing things somewhere, but it was very useful. Because it could target a living person. It doesn’t matter how strong either side applies. In a state that has already been ‘fixed’ once, unless I release it, I can’t release that state no matter what I do.
Currently, the blade Luke wielded is ‘fixed’ to my neck.
The principle of how a blade cuts something is that the smaller the cross-sectional area, the more the applied pressure is concentrated. So, in order to cut something, of course the only way is to contact the target.
The moment Luke swung the knife, and the moment the blade touched my throat, I ‘fixed’ his knife to my neck. Since I can’t release this ‘fix’ until I release it, Luke can’t pull the knife back or use more force to cut my throat. In other words, this guy can’t move like this unless he gives up the knife in his hand.
I made a transparent glass sword in my empty hand and held it. This is also an ability awakened by one of Skyron’s jailers, [Glass craft]. Its durability is the worst, so it breaks quickly even with a light impact, but instead, it is very sharp, and at the same time, it is the ability to create transparent and beautiful glass in an instant. I lifted the glass sword I had made in my hand and slammed it on Luke’s shoulder. At that moment, a flash of light flashed from the shield in his left hand, and an invisible shock struck the blade.
Clink!
Its cutting power is brutal enough to cut through the thick and tough hide of a giant troll, famous for its toughness, like a piece of confetti, but its durability is so poor that it can be shattered with just one blow on the side with a fist. The glass blade was destroyed by an invisible counterattack… The power of the shield couldn’t even block the fragments pouring over his head as the glass blade shattered.
Tu-du-du-du-duk, to-duduk!
“Kuu, keuaaak…!!”
The blade that touched my neck stopped moving, and Luke’s arm was sealed in the same way he swung the sword. And he believed in the automatic defense ability hidden in that shield, and did not back down.
Perhaps, the moment my attack missed, he might have planned to take advantage of that opportunity to attack. However, he must have never thought that the falling debris would suddenly accelerate rapidly in the air and pierce his body at the speed of a bullet. Luke hurriedly let go of his sword and threw himself out of the way of the pouring shards of glass.
Just by exchanging attacks once, there was a big difference in their level.
Luke’s body was torn apart in an instant from the sudden attack of fragments, whereas the only scars on my body were a very slight cut on my neck.
It is the power given by the goddess of justice. With one person as a target, you can have a combat advantage in a fight with that person, a skill that specializes in one-on-one person-to-person combat. But while Luke only has a few combat-specific powers, my powers are the skills of all the Sim users I’ve created.
If the guild master or anyone else finds out, they’ll probably freak out. There is a difference between the ability to simply awaken special powers in others and the ability to imitate the awakened ability and use it as a superior version is as big as heaven and earth. Especially if the target is the one prophesied by the goddess of justice that the world will be thrown into chaos. So, unless I was in a situation where I could properly control the information, I left the role to another ally instead of going into battle myself. There’s nothing good about letting others know that the more you give them special powers, the stronger you become.
But Luke, this guy is different.
No matter what plans I have, he always ruins them.
Against this bastard, planning doesn’t help.
Just kill without a plan. That’s the best I will take care of it without sparing the means I have.
“Are you still going to fight?”
I grabbed the handle of the sword that was secured to my neck, released it, and drew the sword back. And Luke looked at it as if he had seen a ghost. Well, from his point of view, he swung the knife with the intention of killing him, but let alone cut his throat, the blade didn’t even budge. Would be a bizarre figure that would never be seen under normal circumstances. It is not strange to doubt one’s own eyes.
“…What is your true identity?”
I felt uncomfortable with that attitude, as if imitating a human, treating something non-human.
“Me? Ragna Armageddon.”
“That’s not what I’m asking!”
“Then what is it? You have to say the object directly, don’t you know?”
Fear lingered in Luke’s eyes, but instead of running away, he gathered the holy power in his empty right hand and created another golden longsword and gripped it.
“Now I’m convinced. Ragna, Baron Armageddon. You…”
“I am no longer a baron.”
“You… Are no longer human. For the sake of the chaos god, you are a monster who wants to disturb the world.”
Luke just muttered his own words, ignoring my tackle. Sometimes you see that guy is absolutely not normal.
“The hero’s job is to cut down the evil that persecutes the good and the weak… You, who are trying to throw this world into chaos that have nothing to do with you, are the evil I must cut down!”
“Just as I am no longer a baron, are you no longer a warrior?”
“Ragna Armageddon! I will stop your conspiracy here!”
I didn’t expect much from the beginning, but as expected, the words don’t work. They speak the same language, but the conversation just doesn’t mesh. After all, just because you speak the same language, you shouldn’t think of them as equals unconditionally. I put the sword I had captured from Luke into the ground, and again created a weapon made of glass in both hands. This time, the goal is not to swing, but to hit, so a spear would be more suitable than a sword. It is thinner and sharper than the glass sword before Jo Geun, and the fragments scatter splendidly in all directions the moment it is broken.
While Luke transformed the shield into armor and wrapped it around himself, making another sword in the other hand, I had already created thirty short spears. Even though it was a short spear, its purpose was to cause damage by spreading fragments when it was destroyed anyway, so it was hollowed out and thin to lighten the weight.
“If I can’t do it with one sword, I’ll wield it with two swords! If I can’t block it with my shield, I’ll withstand it with my armor! Be prepared, Ragna Armageddon!”
“Hey, Luke. Are you sure that’s not it?”
I spoke with a sneer at Luke, who proudly declared himself as if he had become an undefeated general.
“The twin swords are a symbol of defeat.”
“Haaaaa!!”
“…A joke is fun when the other person reacts to it.”
Luke, who seemed to have decided to become deaf himself, chewed up my words and rushed at me. I hurled the glass spears I had created at him as he charged. Weapons made with [Glass Craft] Flew from all directions with unpredictable trajectories and speeds through [Distortion Acrobatics]. Every time an attack flew, Luke’s armor sparkled and intercepted the flying weapons with an invisible counterattack, and the secondary attack of the small and vicious fragments scattered by the destroyed weapon also bounced off all of them. However, in the process, the armor glittered a bit excessively, to the point of causing a polygon shock that was not there.
Oh wow, that’s a bad eyeball.
“That attack doesn’t work anymore!”
Then I wanted to ask if your attacks would work, but unfortunately, things are definitely different this time. The ability to anchor objects can only anchor one pair of objects to each other at a time, so you cannot attach more than one object at the same time, nor can you anchor a new object to an object that has already been anchored once. ‘If one doesn’t work, how about two!’, The tactic that Luke squeezed out of his short hair, was a method that actually worked. While I fasten one knife, the other will decapitate me.
But if you don’t allow the same trick, will I allow the same trick?
The two swords, which had a gorgeous appearance that could only be seen as decoration, but were actually powerful enough to decapitate a person, flew towards me. One was targeting my right arm, the other targeting my left arm.
Kang, Cagan!
“What’s wrong?!”
And that attack bounced off an invisible barrier. That transparent barrier he used when dealing with the twins Emil and Enil.
“Nonsense…! Why!”
The deliberation to use this time, yes. An ability called [Bullet Blow] That one of the members of the organization awakened. When attacking with bare hands, the power and durability of the fist, and the speed of swinging the arms are multiplied several times, so that it is possible to use a rush attack that can only be seen in cartoons. He liked it very much at first, but soon became frustrated by the fact that he could only use it with his bare hands and that it was meaningless to fight someone with a weapon that had a longer range than his arms. Would you be a little more confident if I told you that I beat a (former) warrior to the ground with that ability?
“Why! Why can’t the attack work!!”
Thinking he could win, he attacked, but when his attack didn’t work, he shouted in panic. I answered with a grin.
“It’s invincible, kid!!”
Aaaaang!!!
With a bloody sound like a piece of metal being crushed, Luke’s head slammed into the ground.
