Chapter 235 – 235. Inheritance of Swordsmanship (3)
At first glance, the aspect of the battle Eunhyeon and Siete were fighting seemed to be that Eunhyeon had the upper hand, but in reality it was not at all.
Kaaang!
Siete was blocking all of Eunhyeon’s fierce sword attacks, which made full use of the advantages of her dual swordsmanship.
When an attack is over, the next attack is over, and when that attack is over, another next attack.
Eun-hyeon, who had been pouring out an onslaught with a series of continuous attacks, did not intend to give Siete even the slightest opportunity to counterattack.
Damn
“… Tsk!”
The blades of Eunhyeon’s two swords, which had been pouring fierce attacks, quickly corroded and cracked.
The one-sided onslaught linkage caused Eunhyeon’s actions to stop as the blade of the sword broke, and Siete did not miss the minute gap.
[Siete Swordsmanship]
[Plum Blossom Zen]
A bloody horizontal slash for slashing both arms and lower chest while slashing the entire broken blade.
Through many fights, she recalled the memories engraved on her body, and Eun-hyeon’s body began to react on its own.
Skills that had names given in Spanish, but were renamed by translating meanings.
Through ‘sensing’ and ‘thought acceleration’, Siete’s movement itself is sensed, and through the flow of thought that is twice as fast as others, Eun-hyeon makes a judgment.
A slash that was so terrifying that even the word sharp was insufficient to cut down the huge plum tree that existed in my memory in the blink of an eye.
‘If it’s even a little late, the whole torso will be cut cleanly.’
By bending his legs and leaning back at the same time, he avoided Siete’s side slash.
The overwhelming sense of intimidation brought about by the bloody metal noise generated by splitting the wind.
Seeing Te’s sword blade cutting through the air horizontally from directly below, Eunhyeon rotated his body using his left leg as an axis.
He turned to her side to get out of Ayeshi Te’s sword path, and at the same time took possession of her back.
She tried to slash her armor of Siete diagonally across her with a corroded and broken blade.
While watching her, Te’s upper body leaned in front of her, and using her left leg, she kicked her backwards toward Eun-hyeon’s temple.
Perok
“… Keugh!”
His one arm was raised and Eun-hyeon protected his temple, avoiding damage, but the attack also failed as his body was pushed aside.
Eun-hyeon threw away the two swords that had served as her weapons because her blades were broken, and summoned her new sword to attack Xie-te again.
Kaaang!
Again, an onslaught of attacks to not show even the slightest gap in her was poured into Siete.
‘Shit…’
Then, due to the effect of her cursed magic sword, Eun-hyeon’s sword broke again, and Eun-hyeon threw away her broken sword and summoned another sword to attack her.
Eunhyeon gnashed her teeth as she hurriedly dealt with Siete’s counterattack.
‘Shit!’
Even though he had not neglected steady training for a long time of 400 years and had numerous battle experiences, Eunhyeon could not overwhelm Siete.
The situation is almost a whistle.
However, there is a gap between Eun-hyeon and Siete’s seed and the quality of her talent.
The level of perfection of the accumulated technology is wrong.
The more I share the sword, the more I realize it.
Eun-hyeon, who was aware of and acknowledged this, was now feeling an inferiority complex towards a strong man who was more talented than herself.
‘Like this…’
There was only one factor that allowed Eunhyun to gain an edge over Siete.
Experiences that crossed countless lines of death and the powers bestowed by the goddess.
If it wasn’t for this, Eun-hyeon thought, she would have lost right away.
‘Even though I tried so hard. Am I incapable of surpassing you?’
Even though she mobilized all the means that she could not utilize, the fact that she could not surpass her teacher meant that her teacher was a great being.
However, it also conveyed a different meaning to Eunhyun.
-Do not forget. Because you’re the only hope I’ve found in this crazy world.
‘How the hell am I supposed to be Master’s hope?’
He had said that he was putting his hopes on Eun-hyeon, that it was his hope.
Contrary to his expectations, he blamed himself for not being able to surpass his mentor, who had become a specter after time stopped 400 years ago, even though he was given many benefits and time.
[Hey…]
Hearing the silent screams in his heart, Belldandy looked at Eun-hyeon, who was engrossed in the fight, with a pitiful face.
It would be nice if he could offer something comforting, but since he couldn’t interfere with Eun-hyeon, who was risking her life in a bloody battle with her master who had become an undead, Belldandi couldn’t help but feel more anxious.
[Huh… ?]
Soon after, feeling the vast and clean energy of magic covering the land that was gradually decaying due to the curse, Belldandy moved his gaze.
[No way… ?]
“This energy… ?”
Following Belldandy, Eun-hyeon, who was absorbed in the fight, felt it and stopped moving.
The power to purify the dry land that had been scattering dark energy of death and to transform the entire diseased forest into a healthy and clear power was something Eunhyeon was familiar with.
“World tree? I can’t believe Regina is on the battlefield right now… No, rather than that, why now…”
Did the power of the World Tree return at this timing?
At that moment, Eun-hyeon remembered that the war with the Dark Elves was over and he was planning to restore the power of the World Tree.
The only one who knew about this plan was Illyana, who was planning to help Eunhyun by supporting her.
“This idiot… Why would you do such a reckless thing…”
The method to restore the power of the world tree was none other than Eun-hyeon’s method.
Manipulating the enormous mana of over a thousand elves all at once and continuously injecting a certain amount directly into the World Tree without any load applied.
What was needed there was an arithmetic ability capable of manipulating the mana of a thousand elves who were rampaging simultaneously.
It is a method that can be used because it is Eunhyun, who can demonstrate thinking ability that is several times more efficient than others through ‘thinking acceleration’ using the power of the goddess.
If someone other than Eun-hyeon had executed this method, it would have been a dangerous attempt that might have caused her mind to collapse after not holding out for even a minute, or her head itself might have exploded due to the reverse flow of mana she was manipulating.
As she pulled her body back at the sudden change, Eun-hyeon, who had distanced himself from Siete, frowned at her, worried about the condition of Illyana, who had acted alone and recklessly.
[Doesn’t the witch child know why she did such a reckless thing?]
‘… I know.’
It must have been something he did, convinced that it would help him.
‘But you don’t have to risk it too much…’
[Isn’t that what a child would say?]
Belldandy narrowed her eyes and glanced at Eun-hyeon, who was maintaining a vigilant posture in preparation for Siete’s attack.
Eunhyeon scolding Illiana for her reckless behavior was a remark close to selfishness without thinking about the opposite.
Eunhyeon was also aware of the meaning of Belldandi’s point, so he shivered slightly and closed his mouth firmly.
‘…’
[If a child really wants to cherish those two children, he must continue to cherish his own body as well.]
Eun-hyeon doesn’t place that much value on his own life.
It was his own sense of values that came about because he always kept in his heart the guilt he had formed so far and the word ‘causation and retribution’.
It is Eun-hyeon who has distinguished between the lives of others that need to be saved and those that are not worth saving.
Up until recently, Eun-hyeon’s mindset was that she could even lay down her own life at any time if necessary.
[Now… Isn’t that so?]
‘I know.’
There are two women who have forced themselves into a journey to relate to themselves and walk the path of an apostle.
It wasn’t long before he made another promise to Illyana that he shouldn’t risk his life arbitrarily.
[And… This is what a witch child needed, too. How could she prove her worth in this way and squeeze into her child’s life… Skuld made a really big decision too.]
‘… ? What do you mean? Schoold…’
[Listen directly to the witch child. Now… Let’s focus on dealing with the child’s teacher in front of us.]
‘All right.’
Following Belldandi’s words, Eunhyeon nodded and moved her gaze back to Xiethe.
“… ?”
Eun-hyeon, who felt strange when she saw Xie-te’s attitude, twitched her eyebrows.
Siete’s attitude of lowering the sword he was aiming at Eun-hyeon and staring at the sky showed that he was completely defenseless.
“… What?”
With the power of the World Tree, the aura of death was being purified, and Siete was looking at her surroundings, showing a different and different appearance than before.
Soon, looking at her Eun Hyun again, Xie Te moved her armor covered in her death energy.
In the meantime, it was the first preemptive attack, not the method of counterattacking toward her gap while passively blocking Eun-hyeon’s attack.
“Keugh!?”
Eun-hyeon hurriedly blocked her sword, cut off Siete’s sword and counterattacked.
Kaaang!
Eun-hyun realizes that Siete’s power is gradually weakening as the power supplied by the curse that polluted the earth disappears with the power of the world tree.
As the supply of power was cut off, Siete’s magic sword could not manifest the curse, and the fraudulent ability to corrode and break Eunhyun’s weapon could no longer be used.
It wasn’t that he overcame it with his own strength, but Eun-hyeon didn’t want to lose sight of the fact that he was starting to see a little bit of victory with the power of the world tree.
However, Eun-hyeon, feeling strange about Siete’s swordsmanship, frowned.
Considering that the power of the Death Knight is gradually weakening due to the purification effect of the World Tree, it is not impossible.
If the restraints of Medea’s forced orders are getting weaker, and Siete’s will to act freely is getting stronger.
‘I don’t feel the intent to kill.’
As their weapons collide and exchange sword strikes, they begin to feel a sense of incongruity in the disparate sensations felt by Siete’s sword.
The sense of incongruity materializes little by little, and as it gradually begins to turn into certainty, it brings back memories of the past.
‘This motion and this composition.’
-Don’t break the center of gravity.
The teachings of the teacher who pointed out his movements and swordsmanship through sparring.
Kaaang!
– You have to dig deeper.
The same movements that the past master showed.
Recalling the teachings he had carved into his heart dozens of times, Eunhyeon swung his sword.
-Okay. That’s your spacing
The face of the teacher who smiled as a target of satisfaction at the disciple who taught ten times and then took one step at a time.
-Put your left foot on the axis a little further in front.
‘You really…’
Eun-hyeon realized that Siete, who had become a Death Knight, was not restraining her ego and was acting freely.
At this moment, the battle Eunhyeon and Siete are fighting is not a bloody fight in which murderous intentions collide to cut off each other’s lives.
A fight to evaluate the level of achievement of the disciple and to teach the disciple.
Even if they couldn’t communicate verbally, it seemed that her intentions were being transmitted as they clashed their swords.
Belatedly realizing Xie Te’s intentions, Eun-hyeon distorted her face.
Even if she had her soul subordinated by her necromancer and became a Death Knight, what she has in front of her own eyes at this moment is her own master, not her undead.
Kaaang!
Deflecting Eun-hyeon’s sword, Siete stepped behind her and she distanced herself from Eun-hyeon.
Seeing her posture, Eun-hyeon opened her eyes and stared at her, capturing the entire action in her eyes.
A preparation movement for the manifestation of the skills of a swordsman who held the title of the strongest swordsman on Earth.
-I’ll show you only once, so watch and learn.
A swordsman’s skill that he had only seen once in his past life and had never been able to use it until now.
Eun-hyeon imprinted Siete’s preparations with her eyes, threw one of her swords on the ground, and tightly gripped the remaining one of her swords with both of her hands.
Before long she assumes her posture just like hers.
Seeing her silver stance assuming the same posture as her own, Siete’s black armor trembled slightly.
Is that trembling caused by surprise?
Or is it a trembling of joy and cheers?
Eun-hyun can’t tell.
– How are you? Can you follow me?
– It’s more about whether you can follow it or not. Master’s naming sense is too lame.
-… Your level isn’t too bad. This ungrateful disciple.
-It’s okay if I just name it my way, right?
-… Whatever In the first place, this is a skill you made to use.
A technology created only for Eun-hyeon, who was able to use it because she was living in a different time than normal humans using the ‘time acceleration’ power.
Eunhyeon from the past, who was unable to properly use her goddess power, was unable to keep up with the movements even though Siete demonstrated this technique in front of her.
But now, after 400 years of steadily forging and forging Siete’s sword without forgetting a moment, she can follow her movements with both eyes, follow them, and reproduce them.
Making up for her lack of talent with the experience of time accumulated as an immortal and the power of her goddess, Eun-hyeon tries to challenge Si-te once again.
After completing the preparation of the technique, the swords of the two collided as they switched to attack stance.
[Siete Swordsmanship]
[Seven Stars Charm]
Seven slashes that rage by pouring all the muscles and nerves of the body into speed.
Among them, only the first slash hit, but the skills master and disciple simultaneously demonstrated were not over yet.
Before the aftermath of the bloody metal sound and waves of magical power could scatter around, the two swords collided again.
Following the second and third slashes, the chain of swords continued for a short, tense moment that did not even allow for breathing.
‘It feels like time has stopped.’
It was such a short moment that I couldn’t even hear a sound, and even my breathing stopped, giving me the illusion that time had stopped.
In that moment, Eun-hyeon only followed Siete’s movements.
‘Learn.’
Your head screams
‘All those movements.’
Engrave it in both eyes without omission and don’t forget it.
The last teaching that his master is conveying.
The instincts in Eun-hyeon’s head are shouting that she shouldn’t miss even a single moment of this.
‘That’s right, Master’s wish.’
Eun-hyeon realizes why Siete called herself hope.
‘Completion of swordsmanship.’
While holding the title of the strongest swordsman on earth, Siete secluded herself from the world and ran forward only to see the end of the sword, but she had once said that she still hadn’t seen the end.
Therefore, Siete accepted Eunhyeon as his successor and taught him his swordsmanship.
It was a decision I made after noticing the secret of being an ‘Apostle of God’ who could assist with a talent that was almost impossible to crawl on the floor, and seeing the tenacity and sincerity of building one step at a time without giving up.
Shiete hopes that Eunhyun will complete the end of his swordsmanship, which he could not complete, and expects it to happen.
For a short moment, Eunhyeon wasn’t sure if she would be able to fulfill the teacher’s wish entrusted to her.
But even so, he didn’t hesitate.
‘I have to do it.’
The moment the seventh and final slash was about to collide, Eunhyeon twisted the sword and corrected the trajectory so that it would not collide with Siete’s sword.
As they stopped colliding, the moment when Siete’s sword came close enough to cut Eun-hyeon’s throat.
[God’s Arms]
[Aegis]
Caang!
As the god’s shield imprinted in the soul is activated, it defends Siete’s sword from cutting Eunhyeon’s head.
The reason he had never used the Aegis until now was to secure victory with just one gap at this moment.
Eun-hyeon’s last, seventh slash still remains.
Eunhyeon didn’t miss the gap created when Siete’s final blow was blocked by the Aegis.
Squeak
Starting from the side on the left side, through a diagonal up-slash to the right shoulder, the final one-pointed line that cuts the upper body is drawn.
