Chapter 411 – 411. The Hero and the Hero’s Disciple (2)
Recognizing her fist flying towards her own face, Erin gave her blank look.
‘It’s a big deal.’
Her fist in front of her eyes was approaching her own face every 0.01 second, but her own body was not reacting at all.
Her mind in her head is fine, but her own body is not following the orders of her head.
If you hit her directly with that fist like this, you can imagine what would happen to her head, like a magical storm that tore through the air and exploded her.
But even so.
‘In action. In action!’
Erin’s body didn’t listen to her.
It was as if time had stopped and she was bound in that time, her entire existence, including her own body, was firmly fixed and she did not think to move.
-There is a word called a kaleidoscope.
– A kaleidoscope?
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Why?
Of course, what makes her think of what her lover, her own teacher, said to her now?
Regardless of the question, Eun-hyeon’s words slowly rose in Erin’s mind and began to become clearer.
-What is that?
-Hmm. Well. What should I explain? Should I say that in the moment right before her death, it feels as if time is moving very slowly? It’s a very strange experience.
-What. That is? It’s an experience you feel right before you die, how do you know?
-That’s what the analogy is. Even if it’s not the moment of death, there are many situations similar to him.
The moment a knife goes through his shoulder, the moment of a car accident about to collide with a carriage running on the road, and the brief moments when an arrow passes through his ear.
Even though the danger signal is sent endlessly in the head, clearly sensing the danger with the eyes, ears, and skin, the body that receives the signal is bound by the time of reality and cannot move.
It is such a bizarre experience that probably everyone has experienced at least once.
– And I’ve already died once.
-… Teach your child good things. Yes?
– Hey. No matter how joking, such words are not meant lightly.
While watching Erin’s training at her underground training ground, Illyana, who was watching her as a hobby, and Belldandi, who had manifested in the underworld, each pulled both of Eunhyun’s cheeks and frowned at her.
– Oh, sorry, sorry.
Even though they had already been resurrected once, the witches and goddesses who hated Eun-hyeon neglecting her body, even as a joke, looked at Eun-hyeon with their eyes narrowed as if they were trying to weave.
Looking at Eunhyun listening to her scolding, Erin smiled bitterly at her.
-… Huh. Come to think of it, I think there was a time like that.
As Erin went through a lot of training and battles, she had a few experiences where it seemed like the time around her was passing much slower than in reality.
-But why?
-From now on, the training you need to do is training to deal with that moment freely.
-… Really?
In the most dangerous moment, if only we could accept the danger we face and respond appropriately, escaping from the yoke of time that binds us.
It might really be of great help in the adventurer’s life and future fights.
-How can I learn?
-Fortunately, as I continued to use ‘sensation’, my thinking ability continued to grow. Now let’s keep practicing so that we can handle the moment freely as we continue to experience the kaleidoscope.
-… How?
-You explained the conditions a while ago, right?
From Eunhyun’s smiling face, Erin intuited that it was ominous.
-Ah…
Eventually she realized the condition and her complexion turned blue.
That condition is to face the most dangerous moment.
It is already decided what Eun-hyeon will do, intending to bring it out.
-Should we start?
-… Huh.
Erin began her training with tears in her eyes.
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‘… It really sucks.’
She couldn’t understand why that memory came to her now, at this moment.
What husband in the world would raise his fist to train his beloved wife?
She said with a bitter smile that she was a ‘love hawk’, but it was a truly irrational experience from Erin’s point of view.
‘I hate the fact that I’m actually helping!’
But even so, Erin understood and practiced the teachings of her Eunhyeon with her body.
Anytime, anywhere, what saved Erin herself was the results of this training she nurtured through training with Eun-hyeon, and her real sense of combat, which she nurtured during her life-and-death struggle.
Through ‘sensing’, she analyzes the identity of the crisis she is facing, accepts it as her information, and twists her head to the side to avoid the iron fist of the man in front of her.
Pew!
“Eww… !”
The left side of her face, where her fist swept through, belatedly slashed and bursting with gusts of wind.
The wind was so strong that Erin’s face, which passed by, was swept away by the wind and staggered.
But one thing is certain.
‘I avoided it!’
Erin saw Raynan’s iron fist with her own eyes and dodged it.
In the confined time of less than a second, she analyzed all the fists in front of her eyes, the sound of the wind, and the trembling of the air. The flow of condensed thoughts continued.
In Eunhyeon’s case, she was able to handle this ‘moment’ skillfully by using both time acceleration and thought acceleration, the powers bestowed by Belldandi, but Erin, though inexperienced, was able to handle this moment on her own.
Perhaps, if Eun-hyeon had seen this scene, she might have hugged Erin tightly and danced round and round with pride.
That’s how Erin showed her, her brief moment was amazing.
“… Damage?”
To the extent that even Ray Nann, who carried out her attack, twitched his eyebrows.
She had no time for Erin to be immersed in her joy.
At the same time as avoiding Ray Nann’s fist, Erin burrowed into his arms and condensed her mana into her opposite left hand, which did not hold her rapier.
‘If the slashing doesn’t work, even this… !’
[Juhyeonseong Polar Plain]
[Hwajeopbalgyeong (胡蝶發勁)]
As soon as it touched Ray Nann’s abdomen, she released her magical energy condensed in her palm, and the powerful shockwave generated there hit his abdomen directly.
Perong!
Reynon’s body, which had risen into the air due to the repulsion, was pushed back in an instant, and when his body flew up in a parabolic arc and landed on the wall of the building, Erin released the magical power of the divine beast.
Her indigo hair, covered in blue flames, swayed and lifted slightly, and a pair of fox ears sprouted on top of her head.
“That…”
And the plentiful silvery-white nine tails that appeared near the lower part of her waist caught Cha Han-seong’s attention at once.
“Fox? Nine tailed fox?”
It’s not even Earth, why is there a nine-tailed fox here?
It was a shocking sight to Cha Han-seong, who did not know the details of Erin’s inside story when he saw Erin’s nine-tailed fox for the first time.
Eventually, Erin, who transformed into a nine-tailed fox, created nine fox fires and summoned the knights in blue armor.
[Barbarian Witchcraft (狐族姚術)]
[Hundred Ghost Night Trips]
The blue flames gradually took on human form, and nine hundred demons wearing full plate mail armor appeared, all looking at Erin in unison.
“Hundred Ghosts! Do you know of any beings called vampires!?”
As soon as they were summoned, the white ghosts stared at each other and tilted their heads at the question that fell, but soon nodded and affirmed.
“Please take care of it!”
It was a very sudden order, but the white demons had no reason to reject their master’s simple and clear order to annihilate the enemy.
Leaving behind the white demons who had disappeared to do her master’s bidding, Erin turned her body behind her to examine the condition of her Eira, her Cha Hanseong, and her wounded knight behind her.
“Sister! Are you okay!?”
“Huh… Are you okay. Thank you. Erin.”
Had it not been for Erin’s intrusion, Eira let out a sigh of relief at the thought that she might have died at this moment.
“Should we move the knight to the priest’s side? Move quickly through this gap!”
“You?”
“I am…”
Erin, who was trailing off her words, hardened her face and continued her words, staring at her place where Raynan was engaged with her white demons.
“I have something to see about that person.”
The man who praised himself must have mentioned the names of Eunhyeon and Riod.
In addition, he was subtly agitated when he was struck by his foot in her final moments.
It was a nursery rhyme that Eunhyeon had taught her, because she was aware of the technique called ‘Hawjeobbalgyeong’.
“Hurry up and call Liod and Gerard. Until then, I will buy you some time.”
Erin, who was thinking of finding out what the man had to do with Eun-hyeon, did not dare to say that she would be able to defeat the monstrous man with her own power.
The level difference between the man and himself was clear.
But he anticipates that he will at least be able to pull the time off, and Erin finishes her thinking.
“… Okay.”
Eira, biting her lip hard, couldn’t help but nod her head.
“Senior…”
“Let’s go. We have to go as quickly as possible and ask her father and Gerard for help.”
She saw the powerlessness of Aira, her Cha Han-seong, and Ray Nann firsthand, and realized the gap between them and them.
Realizing the gap, Erin’s determination to stay and buy time was amazing and dazzling.
“I will come soon. Please… Please stay safe.”
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Rey Nunn, struck by her erin’s foot, slowly raised her body, stroking her own stomach with her hand, where she had been struck.
“… I miss you.”
Although the strength of her strength and the degree of perfection of her techniques differed greatly, she was the same as the technique used by her former friend who had beaten her.
I didn’t get hit at all, I was just pushed back, and when I saw the use of that skill that evoked nostalgia for the past, I couldn’t react.
The reason why he was originally in this place, the nest of vampires, was because he thought that his dear friend would not appear in front of him.
However, what appeared in front of her was not that old friend, but a woman using her friend’s skills.
“What is the relationship? Are you a disciple? … No. If you are his disciple…”
As she was lost in her thoughts, she noticed the figure of a woman who appeared belatedly, and Raynan muttered.
“Awesome. Were you originally a prisoner?”
The woman who punched her in the abdomen and sent her away had changed into a silvery white beast with nine tails.
Contrary to her first appearance, Erin’s appearance, which is wrapped in her body with high-density magic that glows blue, is obviously completely different from before.
Erin squinted her eyes and glared at her Raynan.
“You… Who is it?”
“Is that important?”
“It’s important to me! How do you know Hyun-yi’s name!”
“Hmm?”
The moment she heard the name of the man Erin mentioned, Raynan’s eyes filled with her doubts and she tilted her head.
“He was a colleague in the past.”
“Eh, colleague… ?”
Erin was shaken by the fact that the man spoke calmly.
It was because the word that they were colleagues in the past was connected to the meaning that they were colleagues not only with Eunhyeon, but also with Riodna, Gerard, and Illyana.
“Why would such a person do this now…”
“Then who are you? Who is using his skills?”
“I-I’m Hyun-i’s disciple… I am a lover!”
“Being a disciple and being a lover…”
Raynan muttered as he chewed on Erin’s words, then smiled.
“What is funny?”
“I can’t believe it.”
“… I beg your pardon?”
At Raynan’s mocking attitude, Erin clenched her rapier and became furious.
“A lover? I can’t believe that that guy who was like an iron wall made a woman. She’s not even Illyana, she’s just a gore like she’s grown up. Furthermore…”
Seeing her trembling Erin’s hand gripping her rapier, Raynan was sure her own taunt had worked.
‘Let’s take a look at any level.’
A provocation to test how strong a woman who claims to be Eun-hyeon’s disciple is.
This was just entertainment.
“You say you’re his disciple, but can’t you just use such low-quality, crude techniques?”
“You! Those words will surely make me regret it!”
An angry Erin, with her face flushed, aimed her rapier at Ray Nann, and she charged right away.
The gap between her opponent’s and her own strength is overwhelming and clear.
But for some reason, unlike the first time when he tried to hit his head accurately, the man now was smiling.
Ray Nann, who had read the emotions of others with her divine power, did not have the first killing spree she scattered viciously at all, and she was like a warrior from a higher rank who promised to teach her a martial art.
She is full of confidence and assurance that she can easily subdue without killing herself.
Undoubtedly.
The man had now deliberately provoked himself and was enjoying the situation.
“I’ll definitely give you a shot!”
‘Though it’s hard to see him as his apprentice who rushes at me with blood rushing to his head.’
Still, in Erin’s movement as she swung her sword toward herself, somewhere in her, nostalgia for her past lingered, reminiscent of her Eunhyeon.
‘A disciple is a disciple.’
Raynan laughed and clashed with Erin’s rapier.
