Chapter 454 – 454. The Possibility of Another Bifurcation (2)
Kaaang!
The swords of Eunhyeon and the shadows collided, and the fierce offensive did not stop.
The aftermath of a single sword strike scatters powerful shockwaves, shivering and tearing the surrounding air.
The sword strike does not end with the first collision, but continues into the next movement through a fluid movement like flowing water.
Kaaang!
Following the second collision, a series of bloody attacks follow to the third and fourth.
Responding to the movement of the shadow, Eunhyeon continued to swing her sword.
‘I can’t breathe.’
Eun-hyeon, who cut off all the swords of shadow that attacked her vital points in succession, did not even give him a chance to catch his breath.
Siete’s sword, which rushes in while leaving afterimages, is truly sharp and precise.
How many deaths did Eun-hyeon face from the continuous attacks that constantly attacked and did not give the opponent time to spare?
However, now Eun-hyeon has countered all of the shadow’s attacks.
Kaaang!
Eun-hyeon, who had experienced many deaths to catch up with her shadow, the remnant of Siete, and imprinted that movement in her head, swings her sword without hesitation.
‘This… My future?’
She desperately analyzes the movement of her shadow and, like finding her correct answer to a difficult math problem, she is different from herself who responded by finding the right answer to the attack pattern.
Eun-hyeon felt strange about her own future some 400 years behind her.
There was no stream of thought for her to analyze the movements of her opponents and predict incoming attacks.
Just recognize the difference in the opponent’s subtle movements, predict the opponent’s attack by feeling the air flow, and move with your body in the flow.
‘It’s not just thinking and moving with your head.’
Just as there are causes and effects, there are clear problems and correct answers, but the solution process to reach the correct answer is not understandable.
This is what the body, the instinct remembers.
The memory of the battle engraved on his body and instincts while crossing countless lines of fire led his owner, Eun-hyeon’s body, to the correct answer.
She was her own body, and she didn’t feel like she was in control.
In the engagement with her shadow now recreated as the remnants of Shiete, what dominates Eun-hyeon’s body is the memory of the 800-year-old Eun-hyeon, who exists in the future 400 years after her own.
Kaaang!
‘… Amazing.’
I admired her own future memories as she calmly responded to her double attack as Shiete’s shadow unfolded.
Eun-hyeon still couldn’t deny the fact that her own body was being dragged around by the memories of this future.
It’s really embarrassing, but I feel the essence of this technique, which sheds all of Siete’s swords with this clean and elegant movement, is so amazing and wonderful.
‘I want to reach it.’
The desire to reach this level begins to dwell in Eun-hyeon’s mind.
The fact that the existence that achieved that was none other than the future self ignited a fire in Eun-hyeon’s heart.
This is hope
‘I can do it too.’
She has lived close to 400 years and has accumulated a lot of experience, and even though she has lived until now, she is a ray of hope that lifts Eun-hyeon, who has been drowning in a sense of shame that she has not caught up with Siete’s toes at all.
‘I have to learn everything without exception.’
Eun-hyeon concentrated on feeling the flow of her thoughts, the sense that she was forcibly leading her own body and engaging with her shadow.
Even though she did not use Belldandi’s powers of ‘Time Acceleration’ and ‘Thought Acceleration’, her mind of Eun Hyun was incomparably clearer than before, when she was devastated.
[Siete Swordsmanship]
[Cherry blossom dance]
A weak whirlwind that rises around Siete’s shadow begins to envelop the shadow and the shadow’s sword.
Before long, the legs of the shadow pressed Eunhyeon by stepping in a beautiful motion reminiscent of a dance.
However, unlike its beauty, the movement of the sword cutting through the air with the dancing subject is unusual.
Shiete’s cherry blossom dance technique is a super-speedy series of attacks that began with cutting down all the cherry blossom petals that were hit by the spring breeze under a cherry tree.
In less than 5 seconds, he raised his sword speed to the extreme and poured dozens of slashes to pieces the target’s body.
It can’t lose its trajectory, it’s fast, and each slash fiercely pierces a vital point.
Eun-hyeon used the technique herself in line with the movement of the shadow.
[Siete Swordsmanship]
[Dance of Heavenly Flowers]
At the same time that Siete used his technique, Eunhyeon also used his own technique to counter dozens of slashes from Siete’s shadow.
‘This is not my skill.’
It is a technique devised by the 800-year-old Eunhyeon, who spent nearly 400 years more than herself and trained in pursuit of the limit of the sword, taking Siete’s technique as a sample and improving it appropriately for her own use.
‘Cheonhwa (天花)’ is a word referring to the snow that falls in winter with the words ‘flowers falling from the sky’.
Responding to the name of the technique called slashing, which cuts down dozens of cherry blossom petals falling from the air, the 800-year-old Eun-hyeon named the technique she improved.
Kaaang!
The whirlwind that had been driven around the shadows of Eunhyeon and Siete, each of them, began to transform into a wild gust of wind due to the collision of the two beings.
Eventually, from the center of the blast, dozens of slashing collisions manifested by the two techniques gradually filled the surroundings.
Even as the sound trembled, the aftermath of the impact lingered and the space itself began to distort, the two beings continued to exchange slashes.
Even though extreme attacks without looking back and without defense collided with each other, and even though they exchanged close to 30 slashes in 5 seconds, no final blow came out.
Kwaaang!
The sound generated by the collision of the two extremely well-trained technologies is no longer at the level of a sound that can be generated by a metal-to-metal collision.
An intense explosion that made the atmosphere tremble and seemed to shatter the entire space.
That bloodiness was transmitted to the weapon watching the battle between the two beings from a distance.
[… Crazy.]
Brunak trembled at his spear.
I was stunned by the sight of them clashing swords against each other over and over again without even breathing.
[Is that an area that humans can enter?]
Even when I asked myself the question, the answer did not come.
The shadow of Siete was a non-standard existence that transcended humans from the beginning, but it was none other than Eun-hyeon that surprised Brunak even more.
[What the hell did you do?]
Eun-hyeon, who is taking on the 199th ordeal, is completely different from before.
It is also not appropriate to say that the precision of the movement is increased and the elegant movement that takes the opponent’s vital points sharply and quickly is shown.
[That… What is Wu?]
Swords and swordsmanship are a collection of techniques that cut through the flesh and bones of opponents and save their lives.
Brunak was a spear, not a sword, but the fundamentals of weapons existed in common.
It is just a different form, different techniques and methods have been established and trained, but the essence does not change and shares the same fundamentals as swordsmanship.
The root is martial arts.
At this moment, as the shadows of Eunhyeon and Siete were engaged in battle, Brunak received a fresh shock that part of the common sense he had known so far was shattered.
The clash between the two swordsmanships threatening each other’s lives was creating a series of bloody scenes.
The appearance of the two beings constantly clashing swords in the center of that chaos is somewhat heterogeneous.
It seems that they are stimulating each other and raising each other’s martial arts to a higher level.
Rather than wielding a sword to kill each other, it seemed like a process of expressing everything oneself with a sword.
Eun-hyeon explained this ordeal as a process to achieve the task imposed by God and acquire her own godhood.
[… Not really a god that guy?]
It is not unreasonable to have such thoughts.
Kwaaang!
A series of bloody explosions that could not be produced by a sword-to-sword collision began to distort the surroundings of the pure white space where nothing existed.
The two beings poured a series of techniques on each other without hesitation.
In the midst of such a fierce battle, Eun-hyeon felt a certain emotion blooming in her heart.
‘This… Pleasure?’
What filled that empty spot was the competitive spirit of wanting to surpass the opponent, which is a natural trait of a swordsman.
It’s not the emotion that Eunhyun herself is feeling.
These feelings of joy and desire to compete are feelings felt by a part of the future memories that he forcibly descended upon.
‘Thank you.’
It’s only a part of his memory, but the fact that he provided a place where he could wield his sword in this place where a great opponent existed, the memory of the 800-year-old Eun-hyeon, who existed at a different turning point, honestly put his feelings into the sword and swung it.
Even the prepared enemy was Siete, whom Eun-hyeon had been trying to catch up to as a goal, the one who taught her the sword 800 years ago.
Although he was not himself, but a virtual existence made up of her remnants, that fact was not very important to the 800-year-old Eun-hyeon.
Kaaang!
After the storm of technology that devastated the surroundings, which lasted for a few seconds, ended, the shadows of Eunhyeon and Siete pulled back at the same time as if they had made a promise to each other and opened up the distance.
“Nice…”
Eunhyun groaned softly.
The aftermath of the collision of techniques trained to the extreme was not small.
The sword that had exchanged dozens of slashes was already bruised.
The sharp blade had long since lost all its teeth, and her cracked blade broke as soon as she had done her part.
She then threw the broken sword to the ground and summoned a new one to take her stance.
Her arms trembled from the recoil of the sword strikes again and again, and her muscles, which had been squeezed and moved to the limit, screamed madly.
There was no traumatic damage at all, but his body began to creak little by little and create cracks due to excessive movement.
Of course, it is impossible to return the body to its original state through ‘time reversal’.
Both hands holding the sword began to tremble little by little from the fatigue and intense pain that came after the intense movement, but he did not loosen his posture until the end.
‘I was given this opportunity to check my 800 years.’
Eun-hyeon’s future memories assimilated into Eun-hyeon’s body did not want to miss this opportunity.
In the 800 years he spent, he thought over and over again about Te’s swordsmanship and never forgot it.
As the only disciple who inherited her swordsmanship, and as a swordsman who wanted to catch up with her, Eunhyeon trained every single day.
After polishing the swordsmanship without deciding what was the end, Eunhyeon was called the title of Swordsman by the people around her, but it was a useless honor for Eunhyeon.
It was the title of Siete that he wanted to inherit, but what Eunhyeon wanted to be recognized was not the people around him, but Siete, who left his side 800 years ago.
Even though Eun-hyeon’s future memory assimilated into Eun-hyeon’s body was screaming, he couldn’t collapse.
This is your chance.
He wonders if the 800 years of training he has been able to reach Xie Te, whether he can properly catch up with his master, he has a chance to be confirmed that the efforts he has made are meaningful.
Eun-hyeon concentrated all the magic power remaining in his body into the sword.
Siete’s shadow also took a posture in response to Eunhyun’s appearance.
As if they had made a promise, the two beings who condensed their mana and brought them together showed off their skills to each other at the same time without a single second of error.
[Siete Swordsmanship]
[Chilseong Yeoncham]
[Eunhyeon Secret]
[White Night Festival]
Eunhyeon’s technique to counter the seven slashes that pierce from the front at the same time and at close timing is a single slash.
There is only one human body and one sword.
It’s just that the timing is close at the same time, but the seven slashes don’t fly at the same time without an error of 0.1 seconds.
That’s why Eun-hyeon chose to break the first slash that marks the beginning of the seven slashes.
Eunhyeon’s sword cut the shadow’s quicksword that was about to draw diagonally down from his right shoulder.
Squeak
The neatly cutting blade of the shadow was embedded in the floor.
Damn
At the same time, the white space surrounding Eun-hyeon begins to crack and break.
This means that Eunhyeon has cleared the ordeal.
“It’s over…”
“You have grown.”
“… !”
Relieved that her ordeal was finally over, Eun-hyeon hardened her face at the voice of the woman she misses calmly praising her.
