Chapter 798 – Kanesh (6)
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The human body is strong yet fragile.
Even if the limbs break and fall and cause infection, they live for days and days, or they die in vain by causing complications to the extent of a slight break.
If it survives falling off a cliff, it dies by falling from a height lower than its height.
There are times when you can live even if a knife is stuck in your head, and there are people who die instantly just because they cut their fingers.
The complicated structure that only you can understand is the reality of the device called the human body.
However, Rahan Crurohi was well versed in the contradiction.
He learned firsthand that human beings are strange creatures that seem to never die, but die very pointlessly, through more experience than most healers.
If you ask Rahan for his opinion, Nord’s injuries were fatal.
─Patter. Blood soaked the dirty ice floor.
Penetration of the heart with a two-cheok blade.
The width of the wound was one and a half inches. The lungs diagonally behind were also pierced at once, and fortunately for Rahan, one of the thick blood vessels connected to the heart was cut and about two were torn.
Excessive bleeding. Shock company. Internal bleeding. Choke. Sepsis.
Symptoms that are expressed differently in words Rahan knows. To be precise, it was an injury more fitting a human cause of death than a disease or symptom.
There is no hope of survival.
“Your wisdom doesn’t match your rude attitude.”
Was it like that? Rahan unfeigned praise for Nord, who escaped instant death.
Considering that the anger he harbored against him was of an unprecedented level, it was the utmost praise.
Pounding… Pounding…
When he realized that the damage to his heart was beyond regeneration, Nord manually stopped breathing through his heart and lungs in an unknown trick.
Is it rune magic, or is it a residual skill that humans made by collecting the crumbs left by Odin?
Nord held his life right in front of the goal line as he was on the brink of death.
“I saw the will to not give up easily. I respect that nonsense.”
However, Rahan was convinced that the effort would also be futile.
It must be so.
When the heart and lungs stop, the brain dies. The only way to avoid death from that injury is to stop the body’s survival activities and push it into a state of suspended animation.
If it is solved with 1 or 2 maneuvers, it is not called a fatal wound.
Nord seemed to have tried to move somehow, but that too must have failed.
The black magic that moved while in suspended animation could not be activated in time.
The stunned Nord was like a vegetative person waiting for the necrosis of the body or the execution of Rahan.
“Because… Concerns also arise.”
Even so, Rahan did not slit his throat.
Anyone can see that he, the winner, has an absolute advantage. Rahan himself thought so too. Because both were lucky, it was the result of the contrast in their skills.
As much as that, it is right to take the supply and demand of the defeated loser right away and retrieve the body.
Scruple? Do you have a chin?
Sympathy? It’s just an insult to a warrior.
There was only one question left to him that he could not ignore.
‘I escaped being beheaded by my authority.’
That fact delayed the completion of Rahan.
His authority awakened at the end of the sword and conviction. Named [Golden Twilight (Gulllanarøkkr)].
It is the power to determine the future where Rahan slashes the throat of his opponent.
At the point of activating the authority, the variables and random numbers that determine victory or defeat disappear, and the shape of the future is fixed with the fate of ‘Rahan winning by cutting off the opponent’s throat’.
Speaking of extreme theory, it was a force that could never be defended from the moment it was used.
As long as Rahan has decided to use it, the only future the enemy will face is the end of decapitation.
An authority that binds together the tens of thousands of possibilities given to the enemy with a death ending.
The inevitable death sentenced by fate.
Rahan himself had no inspiration or pride in this power, but he felt at least about the nature and potential of the power.
Just as the gods cannot go against their fate, a supernatural ability that presents a future of destruction that cannot be resisted to humans who twist fate.
The yoke of fate placed on those who mock fate.
So Rahan named this authority [Golden Twilight].
Truly, it is a power that has devoted everything to murder, assassination, and beheading.
As such, it is costly and cannot be used until a certain odds have occurred. The reason I couldn’t use it against Ernst was because he ran away before creating a ‘100% win future’.
Since it is the power to twist fate, probability is needed for the winning battle.
Even if it’s the flow of fate, it doesn’t make sense for a giant to be trampled to death by an ant.
At least the ant-bitten giant fell and hit his head incorrectly and died. Power without such limits is not permitted to mortals.
But even so, [Golden Twilight] Is a power that is comparable to that of real gods.
There are very few forces with this level of lethality in a single act of murder, including combat.
So, that’s where the problem starts.
‘Wulfhedin is not dead.’
It further twisted the definite future of death by cutting off the head.
A power that transcends the [Golden Twilight] That determines the future.
Rahan knew of the existence of such authority.
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The power of the one who should have inherited the Hittite throne.
The power to twist fate possessed by the strongest human on earth.
“Good.”
Rahan liked the result.
If you have the power to read the future, you are similar to Odin. There would be no other body that would fit her brother-in-law, Henir, as well as Nord’s.
If that body is taken, Henir will be revived as Rahan desires.
“Very good, but rather unpleasant.”
Even so, no——that’s why Rahan didn’t finish Nord.
The most predictable future is one in which users will be destroyed.
As proof, Nord foresaw the [Golden Twilight]. Unbeknownst to Rahan, there was a history of foreseeing the future where Wooshin and the birth of a certain god would destroy the world.
However, she did not foresee the future where Rahan would stab her own back.
If she had foreknowledge, she couldn’t have pierced her heart.
“Very unpleasant, but be patient and warn me.”
The power to foresee death could not read this ending.
In other words——this ending does not mean Nord’s death.
Rahan swung the twin swords she had fixed in her inverse.
“If you don’t show up, I’ll kill you.”
“Oh, too?”
─Sigh!!
As she cast her phantom magic, her pink-haired girl jumped out with a whoosh.
“Ugh! It’s been so long since I’ve been dodging a knife, so I almost got hit!”
The sly girl threw her thread and snatched the suspended Nord.
“Do not miss.”
Rahan attacked immediately.
Authority is the last resort to him. It is because the principle of authority is to shout one’s ego toward the world and rule the law.
The aftermath of the [Golden Twilight] Left Rahan tired as if he had been crying out for several nights.
Even so, he should be able to lightly chop up the lari lura he saw right before throwing him at Kanesh. There was such a gap between Rahan and her.
The twin swords flashed and aimed at Lalilura’s neck.
“Oh, that’s troublesome.”
But then, Lari Lura blocked her twin swords with a box she took out at some point.
A box that could fit in her hand was manipulated with mana threads.
“You’re quite quick.”
“You can’t perform if your body is dull!”
What’s surprising isn’t the box’s strength. The most shocking thing was that the medallion that had been snatched from Rahan’s arms was in her hand, and her box came out of it.
If he had this skill and cunning, there was no way he would have been pushed back during that surprise attack.
Rahan clicked his tongue as he attacked.
“Fake. Isn’t it only the appearance that was hidden by illusions?”
If it was for that reason, it would make sense for them to watch Nord attack Lalilura.
A fake disguised as his party.
I wondered who it might be. Now, there are many strong people roaming this Kanesh, but originally there was only one being camped in this abandoned capital.
“If you want to take the prey you’ve caught, pay the price.”
So Rahan took his burden and charged.
“You or Wolfheddin. Do not take the body of either one!”
One more time Use [Golden Twilight] Again.
It is not a matter of thinking at this moment whether you can carry that burden and survive.
Entrusting his cold-hearted reason to faith close to madness, Rahan charged like an arrow.
“… Past ties are tenacious.”
Disguised as Lari Lura, she smiled bitterly at her.
The reason she hesitated to intervene until the end was because it would be a handshake whether or not she intervened. Even so, the reason I came to rescue Nord at this moment was because I couldn’t let him die.
Rahan’s power was witnessed. He did not back down and he dies together on this spot.
She hugged Nord and gritted her teeth.
Power manifests itself
“Tell Henir oppa!! Please choose some friends and make friends!!”
The dimensional wall was drawn like a curtain ending the performance, erasing the bodies of the two.
The future where Rahan wins is gone. Since it was the power to fix the future, it was possible to guess the future to some extent based on whether or not it could be activated.
─Shoot aaaaa!!!
The sword cut through the air.
“… Did you miss it?”
Returning her swinging sword, Rahan clicked her tongue. It was an escape using dimension shifting. She crossed Kanesh’s dimensional barrier, and he did not have the ability to pursue them.
If he tried to slash Nord without delay, he could even be counterattacked.
Since she failed to precalculate her existence, this ending was a difficult future to prevent.
Is it Shinseung (辛勝)? Rahan drew his sword.
I dealt with the disappointment with patience. There are still many powerful enemies with their own goals, and Nords are already in a state where it is more appropriate to call them corpses rather than patients.
The heart is also a part of the human body after all. There is nothing that cannot be fixed with magic.
Even so, the reason for vital organs such as the heart and lungs is that the healing speed cannot be faster than bleeding and death. It won’t be easy to fix since it’s been a while since the heart was pierced.
It doesn’t matter if Rahan needs a corpse in the first place, but it’s different for the person who dies.
After a long time after receiving a mortal wound, sleeping in a tank filled with elixir for hundreds of years cannot completely heal the wound.
She, who just escaped, is her living witness.
“Find it and defeat it, and that’s it.”
Two demigods who survived because they could not die. I had no intention of losing.
Rahan shook off the blood and jumped into the maze of twisted spaces.
