Chapter 450 – 450. Master’s Shadow (1)
The background of the earth reproduced based on the memories of the past is distorted, and the reconstructed background is a pure white space where nothing exists.
[… What. Where is it?]
Brunak, who is experiencing a place called the New Territory for the first time, muttered with a look of caution in this empty space.
“The last ordeal has just begun.”
Eun-hyeon explained the voice of Jupiter that had been heard in her soul, and solved Brunak’s doubts.
[… Am I the only one anxious?]
What he faced as an ordeal was the reenactment of his battle with Astaroth.
There is no doubt that the next ordeal will be of the same level or higher level of difficulty.
“Then would it be easy?”
At Brunak’s question, Eun-hyeon smiled and replied.
I didn’t even think from the beginning that the ordeal prepared to acquire godhood would be easy to pass.
There is no room to deny that the first ordeal, a desperate fight against the Demon Beasts in the Imperial Palace, and the second ordeal, the engagement with Astaroth, were insane acts that one would not want to experience again.
“On the contrary, he even cared about the second ordeal just now.”
Jupiter allowed him to use some of his powers and divine powers, which had been forbidden in his first trial.
It was Jupiter’s kind consideration that he was expecting him to summon Brünac and prepare a stepping stone for them to overcome the impossible ending of the past together.
“…”
[What are you thinking, but your expression is so rotten?]
“Just. He’s such an annoying inspiration, thinking he’s just like me, and I’m so annoyed with myself for not being able to refuse this favor.”
[… What are you talking about?]
It was an incomprehensible story to Brunac, who did not know Jupiter’s personality.
[Looks like you’re talking about God, can I be rude in that way?]
“… If you will listen, listen.”
There is no doubt that he was enjoying Eunhyun’s reaction with a smile on top saying he was having fun.
It was an infinitely rude attitude and behavior, but it was like Eunhyeon’s small defiance.
[Did your liver get bigger as you grew up? Well aside from that, do you have any guesses about the next ordeal?]
“… No.”
Eunhyeon stiffened her face at Bryunak’s question, who changed the subject in a serious voice, and shook his head.
Eun-hyeon was certain that the third ordeal would not be easy, but the contents of the ordeal were unknown to Eun-hyeon as well.
Before long, he recalled the first and second trials, and guessed what the third ordeal would be like.
“Perhaps a situation related to me in the past will be produced once again…”
While looking around to find even the smallest information, Eun-hyun was at a loss for words when a black figure appeared without any sign or sign.
A human figure composed entirely of black shadows, with no features such as eyes, nose, or mouth.
A curvy waist and long ponytail hair.
The shadow created a sword and aimed it at Eunhyeon, taking a hostile stance.
A strong sense of déjà vu that evoked the image of someone he missed engulfed Eunhyeon’s mind.
“New year… Mind…”
Eunhyun shivered slightly.
That posture, her long ponytail hair flying and holding a sword, was her posture he had seen for years.
I missed it countless times, and even now, I have not stopped training myself, recalling that posture as a sample.
Seeing the figure of the shadow assuming that posture that he could never forget and could never mistake, Eun-hyeon gripped Brunak tightly and his arms trembled.
“I don’t think the third trial is…”
As if Eun-hyeon was responding to the guesses in her head, Jupiter’s voice immediately rode into Eun-hyeon’s soul.
[Exceed the teacher.]
“… Shit.”
When the unexpected guess was clearly faced, Eun-hyeon crumpled her face.
It is because he guessed the difficulty of this ordeal to surpass the master’s existence, which he had never been able to overcome before his master’s lifetime.
The first and second trials were by no means easy, but I couldn’t help but frown when I thought of the significantly higher level of difficulty than those two trials.
[Hey. Why are you like this?]
Sensing that his hand holding the spear rod was getting stronger and trembling little by little, Brunak checked Eunhyeon’s condition.
Eunhyeon did not answer Brunak’s question.
It is correct to say that he could not answer.
For Eun-hyeon, who was filled with countless thoughts that popped into her head, there was no such thing as leisure.
“I was organizing my thoughts on the contents of the damn ordeal.”
[Hey! Come!]
But without time to organize my thoughts, the third ordeal began too suddenly.
“… Keugh!?”
It is Bruenack’s harsh words that awaken Eun-hyeon’s mind, who was having complicated thoughts.
In an instant, the black shadow of his teacher, Siete, whom he had been staring at, disappeared.
Eunhyun half unconsciously swung the bruenak forward.
It’s because of the intense survival instinct that rings in your head.
Dangerous.
Move now
Have to defend
Numerous warning signals transmitted through her eyes, ears, and skin forced her body to move.
However, despite reacting instinctively and responding quickly, the bruenak swung by Eunhyun cut through the air.
[Siete Swordsmanship]
[Plum Blossom Zen]
Eventually, Eun-hyeon belatedly realized that the sensation in her arm, which was holding the bruenak cutting through the air, was gradually disappearing.
He found his arm falling to the floor in a very empty place, and his face crumpled at the fact that his arm had been severed in an instant.
A counter technique that evades the opponent’s attack and cuts the body by squeezing through the created gap.
It was learned from Siete, and Eunhyeon is also a technique that is often used.
“Jen… Page!”
However, even in Eunhyeon’s eyes, the technique used by Siete’s shadow was not visible.
The speed, attack power, and completeness of the technique are completely different from the technique he uses.
Eun-hyeon, who crumpled her face with complicated thoughts about it, hurriedly pulled back his body and tried to widen the distance, but Siete’s shadow persistently followed Eun-hyeon.
‘Fast.’
Even Eun-hyun, who shows skillful coping with any situation based on her extraordinary body vision and reflexes, is definitely right about her teacher, Siete, who shows movements that are hard to catch up with properly.
The appearance is completely different, and even if it is just a reproduction of the past existence, the technique and movement shown are clearly remembered by Eun-hyeon’s body and head.
The shadow of Siete, who followed him tenaciously, drove a blade made of shadow into the left chest of Eun-hyeon, who had lost one of his arms and was almost defenseless.
“Big… Omg!”
[Hey… ! Eunhyun!]
Bryunak, who fell to the ground with his severed arm due to Siete’s attack, witnessed the knife stabbed into his heart in his left chest due to Siete’s shadow attack and coughed up blood.
“Nice… Ugh!”
Eun-hyeon, who was bleeding from the corner of her mouth while convulsing her whole body, glared at the shadow of Siete, who had thrust a knife into her heart.
Siete’s shadow, unable to read his facial expression as there were no clear features, pulled out the shadow sword embedded in Eun-hyeon’s heart.
With blood gushing out of his chest, Eun-hyeon knelt on his floor in vain.
[Hey! Wake! Use time reversal!]
“… Cool!”
His upper body slowly leaned forward, and Eun-hyeon fell to the floor, unable to respond to Brunak’s urgent call.
He vomited blood and couldn’t control his body, and laughed bitterly as he felt the thrill of death he hadn’t tasted in a long time.
‘If I could write it, I wrote it right away.’
As soon as she found Siete’s shadow and realized that the third trial had begun, Eun-hyeon, who tried to use her authority, realized that her authority was limited again.
Seeing as being able to retain the bruenak he summoned in his second trial, his own power, the key, was unrestricted.
If so, this time, it means that among her goddesses, only the power of time bestowed by Belldandi was limited.
Unable to use ‘Time Reversal’, ‘Time Acceleration’, and ‘Thought Acceleration’, now Eun-hyeon has lost a lot of advantage in battle.
As soon as the ordeal began, Eun-hyeon, unable to check whether she was using her powers in advance due to Siete’s surprise attack, was defeated in vain.
“Jen… Page! Cool!”
Among his abilities, the one that is used the most and works as a great advantage is the Authority of Belldandi.
In the previous battle with Siete, who had become a Death Knight in the forest of elves, he managed to gain the upper hand and was able to win because he was able to properly use ‘Time Acceleration’, ‘Thought Acceleration’, and God’s Arms.
Being restricted and jumping over Siete is truly an atrocious difficulty itself.
‘What on earth was Jupiter-sama thinking about this level of difficulty…’
But that’s already pointless.
Eunhyeon felt that her breathing was gradually stopping and lamented inwardly.
Will his final ordeal end in vain like this?
Will he eventually become stagnant here?
Eun-hyeon, whose pain gradually faded, eventually closed her eyes on the floor.
[Hey… ! Hey! Come to your senses! It’s this X!]
Eun-hyeon, who heard her partner’s rattling voice calling out to herself anxiously and trembling at the window, resumed her stopped breathing about 5 seconds later.
“Huh!?”
It was none other than Eun-hyeon’s heart that awakened Eun-hyeon from her fainting consciousness.
Due to the blade pierced by Siete’s shadow, Eun-hyeon’s heart, which had been stopped for about 5 seconds, started beating again.
Surprised by the heartbeat that started to beat more wildly than usual, perhaps because of the reaction to being stationary, Eunhyun drew in her breath and stood up.
Eun-hyeon immediately looked around and realized that in this pure white space, the shadows of himself, Bryunak, and Siete still existed.
“… Isn’t the ordeal over?”
Eventually, Eun-hyeon groped for the area around his left chest where her heart, which was supposed to have been stabbed, looked at his condition and hardened his face.
“… Are you all right?”
He is fine as if he hadn’t been attacked in the first place.
I felt a sense of deja vu, as if Eun-hyeon herself reset her body to the state it was in before being attacked through ‘time reversal’.
“I hope this ordeal…”
Realizing what this meant, Eunhyeon stared into space with an expression demanding an explanation.
As if responding to Eun-hyeon’s expression, the voice of the being who gave Eun-hyeon this ordeal resonated in Eun-hyeon’s soul.
[Until you pass the ordeal, I will give you any number of opportunities.]
“…”
Eunhyun frowned at the belated explanation.
If I had told you in advance, I wouldn’t have suffered such a great loss or lamented, but what you did was very nasty.
[If you want to give up, you can always call your goddess and ask her to take you out of there.]
At least Jupiter seemed to have no intention of bringing Eunhyun out of this ordeal.
Rather, she even provoked Eun-hyeon with a frivolous nuance, saying, ‘If you twist it, call your mother.’
Eun-hyeon was confident in her guess that Jupiter was enjoying this ordeal from above.
“… Great. I will go beyond that provocation.”
Eun-hyeon raised her reset body and confronted Siete’s shadow.
