Chapter 180 – Invincibility, Kid!! (2)
Why?
Why can’t I win?
It’s the power I gained by selling my last conviction, but why doesn’t that person eat it?
“Hey, Luke. Like I said before, a joke is only meaningful when the other side reacts to it. Just like you need two hands to clap. But there’s a one-handed clap, you know what that is?”
Fucking jokes that don’t fit at all in this situation and aren’t even funny. It means that there is plenty of room for this fight, and that you are not taking this fight seriously. Are you saying that even though I risk everything and fight desperately, I still can’t reach you?
In the world of the Luminous Goddess, I thought that the reason why I kept losing was because he received so much strength from the Goddess. Magic wielded without any restrictions was no different from wildly wielding a blade with unlimited range in a one-on-one battle with a single weapon, so he wasn’t even a proper opponent except when he tried to defeat himself the last time. I thought it was because it was so strong that there was no limit.
It’s not that he’s strong, it’s that the power he wields is strong.
Such thoughts became stronger when he received a lot of power from the Goddess of Justice. When she received the power given by a goddess stronger than Luminous-sama, she felt a distant sense of omnipotence covering her entire body, and even thought that with this level of power, it was understandable that he could afford such leisure. And although it was difficult to call it a power that I had rightly obtained, I thought that it was not impossible to win against him with this much power.
Until, with a tingling shock, his field of vision was filled with piles of dirt.
“Kuuuuu!!”
I was knocked to the ground with a single blow?
It’s not magic. Because I don’t feel the magic.
Divine power… Here, it’s not even the power that is divided into divine protection and authority. If it was that power borrowed from God, there was no way I, who was using Justia’s power, would not feel it.
“The correct answer is this.”
Aaaaa!!
In the midst of the spinning vision with a terrifying shock, I thought. So… What the hell is that power?
Neither magic nor divine power. Pure physical force makes no sense, and there is no trace of using any special science or technology. So… So what? What the hell is going on?
“How long are you going to sleep? Did you really believe that you could kill me just like that?”
He no longer has the power he borrowed from Goddess Luminous, and I received strong power from Justia, but why did the gap between me and him widen instead of shrinking? Why the hell what’s the problem?
I don’t understand. I can’t even guess where it went wrong. All I can do is…
Wow!
“Whoah, nice shot! It goes very far.”
It’s just that it hurts a little less.
“…Kuck, heck…”
At first, I didn’t want to follow Justia’s words. No matter how right the end may be, if the means are not right, it cannot be said to be just. Because the justice the goddess of justice offered was different from the justice I believed in.
Baron Ragna Armageddon. It was an evil that I must defeat, but the day I became friends with him, I heard from Goddess Luminous. He is a human who came from another distant world as my adversary at the request of the goddess. All the evil deeds he showed me were self-imposed evil in order to grow me. So I thought maybe his nature was a good human being. Because of the request of the goddess, he thought that he only showed unwanted evil in part. He wasn’t really evil, so I thought I wasn’t the one to point the sword at.
Until he heard the news that ‘Ragna Armageddon’ had driven a historic desert kingdom in this world to the brink of destruction and made it a vassal state of the city he lived in.
Accepting Justia’s proposal, which he had repeatedly rejected, was to confirm the rumor.
If the story Goddess Luminus told me wasn’t a lie, he wouldn’t have to do such a thing.
If what Justia said was that he served the god of chaos was not true, then he thought there was no reason for him to take such a step.
But he did the same evil as before in this other world, where it is not necessary to do evil on purpose, and I wanted to see it with my own eyes. I needed reassurance that he wasn’t cheating on me and the goddess Luminus. But everywhere in the world, the news about him was not very good.
Starting with the story of being imprisoned in a prison called a cage in the sky city of Skyron, the violent gangs in Landfill had a gang fight, and the fact that they turned a person into a terrible face in front of many people, which gave me a chance to have doubts about him. ‘Through the seven monsters, the story of destroying the historical kingdom and making it a semi-forced vassal’…
All the rumors about him were dangerous in their content, and unless the whole world conspired to invent lies to isolate him, the point they all pointed to was simple. Ragnar Armageddon said that he was undeniably an obvious villain.
When I contacted him directly for final confirmation, and the moment he mentioned my colleague Hochna, my last patience ran out.
It doesn’t matter if you swear at me or hit me. But as much as touching my precious comrades, I could never forgive it. Even if it was arranged by the Goddess, they are precious comrades who have accompanied me on a journey to save the world. Of course, it could have been a lie to agitate me, but as far as I know, Rag or Armageddon never lied, if nothing else. And looking back, there were times when Hochna’s behavior was strange. At the time, I thought he was simply out of shape, but if Baron Armageddon is true…
I couldn’t forgive the fact that his demon beast had gone mad on Hochna without my knowledge, and even though he must have been subjected to unimaginable terrible things, Hochna, who smiled firmly in front of us, endured so much pain, it breaks my heart just thinking about it. It seemed that he was about to lose, and his anger soared at his own pitiful ignorance of his colleague’s circumstances. And even for the honor of his comrades, he could never lose this fight.
“Ha, ha, ha, ha…!!”
However, even though he has this powerful authority and blessings that would have easily won him if he had been an opponent of Baron Ragna Armageddon in the past, I am being pushed back by him one-sidedly.
With the power of [Rewinding Good and Punishing], I carve the mark of ’tilted balance’ on the ‘villain’ who violates my correctness. And the [Sword of Judgment] Obtained from the authority [Equipment of Punishment], Which exerts an overwhelming superiority against the marked villain, is a powerful sword that ignores all defenses of the marked person and inflicts irreparable wounds on the body. , Also, my blessing [Shield of Authority] Automatically reflects fatal attacks received directly from those with the mark, and at the same time reduces all damage taken from the target by nearly 80%.
Instead of consuming more power by changing the [Shield of Authority] Into an armor, it reflects and destroys all incoming attacks without blind spots, and in the process minimizes collateral damage caused by debris. And with two [Swords of Judgment], It inflicts a fatal attack that cannot be defended or recovered. It is hard to find a weapon more fraudulent than this, and with this kind of power, Baron Ragnar Armageddon, who defended most of the attacks against him with magical means, and at the same time restored his body in an instant with his terrifying body regeneration ability after receiving any kind of fatal wound. Even with this opponent, I thought I would definitely be able to win.
However, you can’t win.
“What are you doing? Don’t rush into it.”
Even though I have these enormous weapons in my hands, I can’t give him proper damage even once.
The only damage I did to him was a tiny cut to his neck from the first attack. After that, all attacks were intercepted and only one-sidedly beaten.
[Shield of Authority]’S automatic counterattack is only ‘direct damage that can cause loss of life’, so I couldn’t block his fists and kicks, which were very painful but not fatal.
It must be the [Sword of Judgment] That ignores all defenses and inflicts wounds that will never heal if allowed to attack even once, but for some reason, the invisible barrier continues to block attacks.
While thinking about how to overcome this difference, the voice of Ragnar Armageddon was heard again.
“Hmm… Doesn’t the wound on my neck heal? Is that the power of that weapon? I brought something quite troublesome. But… What if I do this?”
Deuk Deuk.
To my surprise, he ripped some of the flesh off his neck himself in front of me. Just when I wondered what the hell he was doing, the flesh was ripped off and at the same time new flesh sprouted and the wound disappeared in an instant. Yes… Even the only wound I inflicted with this [Sword of Judgment].
“Impossible…! The wounds inflicted by the [Sword of Judgment] Cannot be recovered by any means…!”
“Usually, the power of those types of weapons can only be effective in areas directly damaged by the weapon, right? It means that I can recover. I did not recover the part injured by that weapon, but a bigger wound including that part.”
That search ability that quickly grasps the limits of my weapon that even I didn’t realize.
“And seeing how your armor, which shattered all the glass spears I threw, couldn’t do my fists, it seems there are some conditions for that automatic counterattack? Then, if I keep using my bare fists like this, that proud automatic counterattack will be permanent Is it like a seal?”
Situational judgment to recognize and use one’s own strength and the strength of others.
“Why are you making that face? You’re going to kill me? If you kill someone, that means you can be killed by someone else too? In that case, I’ll be the one who kills you, right?”
And above all, that cruelty in which he shows no remorse or remorse in committing the sin, even though he is aware of it.
I got stronger, but he got stronger than that. Only in this way is it no different from the extension of what happened in the world of Goddess Luminus. No, it’s worse At that time, he shouldn’t have killed me, so he partially controlled his strength and kept giving me opportunities, but now he’s really wielding his power with the intention of killing me.
He was the wall that stood in my way, and now he is the wall that slowly approaches to crush me to death.
I can’t kill him with my means, but he can kill me and he’s not yet at full strength.
Was this an unwinnable fight from the start?
No…
“I can’t admit it!!”
Desperately swinging my sword, I kicked the ground vigorously again and charged at him. I didn’t expect to recover from the wounds inflicted by the [Sword of Judgment] In such an unimaginable way, but in the end that way is only possible if you’re alive! If he cuts off his throat and suffocates at once, he won’t be able to use such unconventional recovery methods! Yes, in the end there is only one way from start to finish. All you have to do is face your fear, overcome it, and cut his throat once and for all to put an end to this gigantic evil existence!!
It is clear that his means of defense cannot be called defense in the first place, just as the [Sword of Judgment] Touched his neck for the first time, but stopped without being able to cut it to the end. By applying what is originally used for other purposes, it will be used as a kind of defense method. That’s why the [Sword of Judgment] Couldn’t ignore it. Then…!
“Haaaaa!!!”
Normally, defense is to receive damage caused by an act of attack by placing another object in the path of an attack. So, the ‘defense’ that [Sword of Judgment] Recognizes is probably an attempt to stop the movement of the weapon itself in the path it moves. Then, the working principle of that unknown invisible barrier he uses is…!
“This is the correct answer!!!”
I focused all my attention on the sword, and finally saw it. No, ‘felt’.
As soon as it passes through the invisible barrier, the direction of the [Sword of Judgment]’S power reverses to the opposite direction.
It is not directly reflecting the movement of the sword from the front. The moment it reaches a certain area, it distorts the direction of the force to the opposite side, twisting the sword’s trajectory. To someone who doesn’t know, it just looks like the weapon is bouncing off an invisible barrier. And since this defense method had a different operating principle from normal defense, it could not be ignored with the power of the [Sword of Judgment]. There were no obstacles in the path of the sword itself, it just changed the direction it was moving in the opposite direction. So how do you break through this strange defense? The answer was simple.
When the sword has not yet rebounded and is over that invisible area, the direction of the force is directed forward again by applying a new force to the sword. And I have the power to do so.
“Haaaaa!!!”
The [Sword of Judgment], An armament made with Justia’s authority, was overlaid with the [Blessing of Light], The power of Goddess Luminous.
A repulsive force that pushes each other away, which occurs when the powers of two different gods come together in one place. In the previous world of the Luminous Goddess, he immediately recalled and informed of the powerful spiral attack that occurs by strongly rotating the two forces around the weapon’s reference axis by using the property of pushing each other when two different forces were forcibly attached. Have ever This is a way to use it. The repulsive force of the two different divine powers pushing each other pushes the sword that was trying to move backwards and changes its trajectory forward again.
Before the sword bounces from that realm, add more strength, pierce the invisible barrier that bounces everything in reverse, and deliver a decisive blow to the guy’s body…!
Breaking through the invisible barrier, finally inflicting significant damage on the defenseless body of Ragnar Armageddon…!
“It’s quite right, Luke.”
However…
“You’re the first to break through this defense. And it’s a barrier that can be said to be impenetrable, unless you realize how it works and apply enough force at the right time. Yes, at least you’re better than the cheeky twins I’ve met before. It’s better. I wasn’t a hero for nothing. But… I was so focused on this defense that I forgot one.”
The sword I wielded desperately was caught in his outstretched hand, leaving a very small scratch on the palm of his hand that was not much different from the one I had inflicted on his neck, and at the same time stopped and did not budge.
Adding the power of another god to an armament made with the power of Justia, and using that repulsive force, this blow was not a skill that could be easily used to apply both swords at the same time. And… With a single sword, it was only enough to inflict a small scratch on his body. I want to break through the barrier once again with the sword in my other hand, but I realize that I am too late when I see that the arm on the other side of the sword hand is already being pulled back.
“Ah…”
“Maybe you’ve fought me a few times, so you know how to deal with me a little bit. But what…”
You’ll never have to fight me again anyway.
After his last word with strangely relieved feelings, his fists filled my vision.