Chapter 451 – 451. Master’s Shadow (2)
[Surprised! It’s X!]
Brunak, who confirmed that Eun-hyeon was standing up, jumped on the floor and shouted.
Brünak, who had the anxiety that Eun-hyeon might die from being pierced through the heart by a sword, felt both relieved and annoyed at the same time.
[Can you tell me in advance!]
I wouldn’t have been so surprised if I had known in advance the additional effect of being able to start over even if I faced death in the third trial.
“… I didn’t know either.”
Eun-hyeon, who had not properly heard the conditions of the third trial, felt a little unfair and smiled bitterly.
Eun-hyeon stretched out his hand and restored Brunark to his own, and stood up from the floor using Brunark as a support.
“…”
Staring at the shadow of Siete, who stood still, Eun-hyeon was lost in thought.
This ordeal will not end unless he overcomes Siete’s inaction.
There is no time limit because the flow of time also flows in a completely different flow from the summer world.
In that situation, he cannot use the power of the goddess bestowed by Belldandi, who contributed the most to his fighting ability.
‘Time Acceleration’ and ‘Thought Acceleration’ have already been restricted.
Eun-hyeon synthesized the given information and guessed the conditions for clearing the ordeal.
Perhaps the exact conditions for clearing the third ordeal are.
“‘Exceed Master with the specs of a pure body’?…”
Even when she thought about it herself, she couldn’t help but laugh.
With the question of ‘Can I clear this level of difficulty myself?’, I tried pointing the protractor from various directions forward, backward, and sideways to gauge the possibility of success, but I couldn’t find an answer.
To that extent, the restrictions on the ‘power of the goddess’ and the ‘clear conditions’ set by Jupiter are vicious.
But even so.
[What are you splitting?]
Eunhyun just laughed.
“Just. I really wanted to clear this ordeal.”
It was an ordeal that was no different from the level of difficulty, but from Eun-hyeon’s point of view, this ordeal itself was an opportunity.
Another opportunity to experience her master’s inaction once again, and to catch up with her.
There is also no time limit.
Even if you die, you can start over.
In a sense, it was an arrangement made for her own growth.
This was a great opportunity that Eunhyeon really didn’t want to miss.
[… But why is his expression like that?]
Even though the corners of her mouth went up and she maintained a smile, the emotion felt on Eunhyun’s face was not a positive emotion linked to a smile.
From Brunach’s point of view, she was smiling, but she was expressing her annoyance and anger rather than delight.
“I heard such a provocation, how could I stay still?”
-Until you pass the ordeal, I will give you any number of opportunities.
-If you want to give up, you can always call your goddess and ask her to take you out of there.
In other words, Jupiter thought that Eunhyeon would not be able to easily clear this ordeal.
In addition, she presented a humiliating option that she could not choose, saying that she had no intention of taking it out herself, and that if necessary, she could ask Belldandi for help.
How can I stay still despite this provocation?
“I will definitely pass.”
[… Oh yeah.]
Brunak resigned himself to the thought of being pitiful.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can use you this time. This ordeal… I want to use a sword.”
[Okay. I understand.]
Eun-hyeon pierced Brunak’s spear blade into the floor of a pure white space where nothing existed, and asked for forgiveness from her weapon.
Although Brunak felt a little bit disappointed, it wasn’t that he couldn’t understand Eun-hyeon’s heart.
If the remnants of the teacher who taught him the sword exist in front of his eyes, and surpassing those remnants is an ordeal, the weapon to use must be a sword, not a spear.
Eunhyeon summoned a sword in her hand.
Urd’s power to summon things from the underworld that existed in the past reality has not yet been limited.
Eunhyeon did not dare to use the key to summon a sword with a history like Brunak.
In this ordeal, which must be repeated several times, the use of a key that summons enormous divine power does more harm than good.
“This is enough.”
Eunhyeon’s goal is not to clear the third trial.
It is a result that must be finally reached, but in the process of reaching that result, Eun-hyeon can gain a lot.
The first thing to benefit from is the improvement of stagnant technology.
After completing all preparations, Eunhyeon raised her sword while gazing into the shadow of Siete, who was waiting for her.
Contrary to the previous attack where the first attack was stolen, Eunhyeon took the first attack this time.
[Juhyeonseong Polar Plain]
[Lee Hyung-hwan-wi]
Eun-hyeon showed off high-speed movement enough to leave an afterimage and rushed at Siete’s shadow.
He swung his sword across to decapitate the shadow of Siete as it was.
Eun-hyeon did not hesitate at all to attack the shadow of Siete, who was no different from the remnant of the master who taught and nurtured him the basics of swordsmanship.
In this ordeal, the shadow of Siete, which was recreated based on her past, was not herself, and the remnants of today were a mountain that Eun-hyeon had to jump over.
And above all.
Kaaang!
If her inaction was truly a reenactment, there was no way an attack like this would work.
Her fast, clean, and sophisticated swordsmanship boasted a high level of perfection that could be recognized by any swordsman in the underworld, but the master who taught her the basics of this swordsmanship surpassed even that perfection.
Siete’s shadow deflected Eunhyeon’s sword, which made a clean sweep to decapitate her so easily.
‘Parring’ is not just blocking, but switching the attack in a different direction to release power.
The parrying shown by Siete’s shadow was perfect both in terms of timing and induction of power.
The time of stiffness caused by Eunhyeon’s sword, which was bounced off by parrying and struck upward, into the air, was not long at all.
A very short moment, less than one second, measured by the flow of time.
However, she forcibly enters her gap at that moment and threatens the vital point.
“Nice… Eww!”
This time in the center of the abdomen.
The blade of the shadow penetrated the abdomen and cut Eunhyeon’s left waist in half.
Her blood poured out like a fountain and soaked the white floor, and Eun-hyeon, whose organs and one side of her waist were severed, faced her second death helplessly.
“Huh!?”
After about 5 seconds, Eun-hyeon, who had recovered from her abdominal wounds and was reset, quickly checked her own body condition and resumed her engagement with Xie Te’s shadow as if it were natural.
She launched the same attack with the same composition and posture as her previous one, but one thing that was different was her Eun-hyeon’s response.
Kaaang!
Eun-hyeon’s sword bounced into the air as before due to Siete’s parrying, and at the same time, Eun-hyeon rotated her body clockwise, forcing her rigid body to move.
Eventually, Eun-hyeon’s sword, remaining in the air, rotates clockwise, aiming at the shadow’s waist with its power.
Siete’s shadow chose to evade rather than face the powerful rotational blow.
She slightly pulls her body back to evade Eun-hyun’s second consecutive attack with a breathtaking distance, and digs right into Eun-hyun’s arms.
Kaaang!
If you want to get a sharp sword attack, even fly away with an extra blow from an impossible direction.
Even though she was busy coping with the onslaught of Siete, who pushed forward one after another without a chance to counterattack, wounds began to form on Eun-hyeon’s body step by step.
As soon as I blocked the vertical slash from above, I cut his leg, and when I cope with the horizontal slash that cuts through the center to sever his waist, my shoulder is pierced with the blade of a sword before I know it.
In order to cope with all the onslaughts that are busy recognizing with the five senses, the thoughts in the head cannot keep up with the movement of the body.
Soon after, one of his legs was cut off, and at the same time, a blade of shadow pierced Eunhyeon’s neck as she lost her balance and collapsed.
“Heuk!”
As blood poured from his neck, Eun-hyeon faced death once more.
And another 5 seconds later.
Eun-hyeon’s body, which was in a state of disrepair and died, returned to the state before the injury, and the battle began again.
17th.
Eun-hyeon died by having his arm cut off and his chest and heart cut off.
69th.
Eun-hyeon’s upper and lower body was severed, and his internal organs poured out on the floor and died a miserable death.
101st.
When Eun-hyeon’s right arm holding the sword was cut off, he immediately summoned a sword in his opposite left hand to counterattack, but he lost one of his arms and died after being attacked with his right arm, which was close to defenseless.
[… X feet. What the hell is this?]
Brunak, who was watching the battle between Eunhyeon and Siete’s shadow from a distance, was shocked.
The pure white floor, where there was nothing, was painted bright red with the blood spilled from Eun-hyeon’s hundreds of deaths.
This was the same as a one-sided ‘slaughter’ that individuals were punishing each other.
[I heard he was his teacher, so I expected it to be unusual, but…]
Although Brunak was nothing more than a weapon, he was equipped with excellent martial arts to the extent that he taught Eun-hyeon spearmanship.
That’s why I could feel the martial arts contained in that swordsmanship that Shiete’s shadow is showing off now.
The essence of martial arts, created through the combination of talent and time of enormous effort, is not at a level that anyone dares to copy or reproduce.
[He always said he had no talent… Such a deceiver X.]
Upon seeing the sample, Bryenak did not agree with Eun-hyeon’s usual statement, ‘He has no talent himself.’
Just by pursuing him tenaciously and reproducing some of his swordsmanship, he had already risen to the ranks of great swordsmen in the continent of the underworld.
It is said that he used an expedient that is impossible for others, but it did not just fall from the sky, and it is an achievement that Eun-hyeon has made with effort and tenacity over a long period of time.
[… I’m not crazy.]
Brunak felt as if his mind would go crazy just by looking at Eunhyeon and Siete, who continued to wield their swords and engage in battle with the shadows.
Both the remnants of the master reproducing that splendid inaction, and the disciple continuing to wield the sword in order to catch up to that level even a little while facing death hundreds of times, are both insane.
The strong tenacity in Eunhyeon’s eyes is beyond the reach of ordinary people.
It is not strange to say that it is a strong obsession that goes beyond tenacity.
It is only one victory that Eun-hyeon strongly aspires to while enduring the pain of having her arms and legs cut off and her heart, internal organs and throat cut as if she would go crazy.
A desperate struggle to win the victory that exists at the end of hundreds of defeats.
‘I can’t respond like this with that attack.’
Every time he faced death, Eun-hyeon analyzed why he died and sought a solution to it in his head.
She cannot accelerate her body with time acceleration, and the power of the goddess to rapidly rotate the flow of thoughts in her head with thought acceleration is limited, but Eun-hyun knows that she has been relying too much on this so far. There was.
The power of the goddess bestowed upon her is not her own, and in a situation where she cannot use it, seeking a way to find a breakthrough is a good opportunity in another sense.
‘I block this attack by digging a little deeper.’
All the techniques and movements of Siete’s shadow are standardized into a pattern, and a corresponding strategy is created.
If you met death with 100 patterns, with 100 strategies in response.
If there are more than 1000, even if you prepare 1000 raids.
And it will lead to an understanding of the movement in which Siete’s technique is expressed, and it will be a stepping stone to catch up and reproduce Siete’s technique.
In the end, it is the first step to surpass his teacher Siete.
‘You can do it.’
The fact that there is no time limit in this ordeal and that it lasts forever as long as she does not give up was also a terrible penalty for Eun-hyeon to repeat death indefinitely.
However, Eunhyeon was accepting this situation as a really poor and excellent training place.
Rather, while facing hundreds of deaths, he feels proud of himself as he grows step by step.
Eunhyeon swung his sword at the remnants of his master, who would recreate his master’s skills for him again.