Chapter 557 – 557. The Master’s Story (2)
The fight between the swordsman and the high-ranking demon was unknown to anyone and started quietly, but it was at a level that can only be described as a disaster.
Every time the sword and fist collided, the sky tore apart and the floor cracked in the aftermath of the impact, shaking the heavens and the earth.
“The demon introduced himself as ‘Gushion’.”
In a sense, Gushion was a very special demon, different from other demons.
All high-ranking demons are characterized by having powerful unique abilities.
As a representative example, like Astaros’s ‘Destruction of Extinction’, which was a powerful power that burned everything, other demons are also absurdly threatening abilities to humans, although there may be differences in superiority or inferiority.
Unlike other high-ranking demons, Gusion did not have any special abilities.
Gushion’s beginning is a humble demon of the lower realm.
The demon, which had no abilities and was not that powerful, accumulated power by killing humans and absorbing their souls, and based on that, it grew by absorbing the ‘technology’ used by humans.
Thus, it is a natural result that Gushion, who has killed more humans, absorbed more technology, and has attained the status of a high-ranking demon, is treated as a different species even among demons of his own kind.
There was no way for Xie Te to know about Gu Shion’s process of growing into a high-ranking demon, but at least in her death-death struggle, she highly praised Gu Shion’s skills.
“Because the demon I defeated was the first.”
Gushion, who first blocked Siete’s technique, which even the monsters and other demons that appeared on Earth could not handle, was the first high-ranking demon Siete met, and the only one that Siete could not defeat. Left as a wall.
“Even with Master’s sword… Couldn’t you win?”
It was, in a sense, very rude, so it was a cautious question to ask.
However, Siete, who knew Eunhyun’s intention to ask the question, replied with a bitter smile.
“If I said that technology was equal, would you believe it?”
“I believe.”
Eunhyun nodded her head without hesitation.
As far as she knew, Siete was the best swordsman no one had ever caught up with, and she was also Eun-hyun’s target swordsman.
She has no doubts about her skill and strength.
At the trust of the disciple who answered without hesitation for a moment, Xie Te smiled at her and sipped her wine.
“The difference in technology was equal. But I lost.”
In the first place, the starting point of the martial arts that Gusion used was the human skill.
Even if he absorbed and imitated those techniques to create his own martial arts, there was no way that Siete’s swordsmanship could be outperformed in the realm of the same technique.
If so, it is correct to think that other factors were at play there.
Eunhyun immediately put that factor into her mouth.
“The difference between races… Are you?”
“Yes.”
Siete nodded her head.
A very simple yet insurmountable difference between the two races.
That is, the gap in physical ability created by the difference between the human and demon races acted as a big factor in determining victory or defeat between Siete and Gusion.
Of course, even among humans, there are humans who are born with a strong and strong body, while there are humans who are not.
Even among demons, such differences existed, but the differences were greater than among humans.
In the case of Gushion, he belonged to the axis that had an overwhelmingly strong body from the beginning.
“In the end, the fight, which was equal, continued, and as the damage accumulated, it gradually led to an unfavorable situation for me.”
Even though she had the skill and ability to use the whistle, the vessel that used it was a human with a pitiful body, so in the end, Siete had no choice but to be defeated.
Siete’s fists, which set the wine glass down on the table, were clenched and trembled slightly.
“Hyunah.”
“… Yes.”
“You brought up this story to avenge the devil who killed me, right?”
“… That’s right.”
Eunhyun nodded heavily.
He felt helpless and pathetic at the time when he could not understand even half of his master’s swordsmanship and teachings.
He blamed himself and resented himself, and had promised himself that if one day the opportunity to kill the demon that killed Xie Te came along, then he would definitely kill that demon.
Although at one time he found peace in accepting his own death when his immortal life and his mind were exhausted by so much time.
Resurrected through the efforts of the goddesses and the restrictions of the goddesses being lifted, now Eun-hyun, who prioritized personal emotions, recalled the feelings of resentment and engraved them in his heart.
“Don’t do that.”
“… Yes?”
However, Siete rejected Eun-hyeon’s heart.
Facing the teacher who shook his head and stopped his plan, Eunhyeon opened his eyes wide and asked in response.
He didn’t expect to be rejected, so an expression of great embarrassment was evident on his face.
Eun-hyun’s expression, which she would never show to others normally, is the only expression that can be shown only to Siete, who taught her in her 20s.
Siete was proud and grateful for the disciple’s heart, but did not want it.
“It is not your role to avenge that demon.”
“…”
“That is my role.”
“Ah.”
Realizing the meaning of Siete’s words belatedly, he sighed lightly.
“That demon was definitely stronger than me.”
It was true that they lost because of the difference in race and superior physical ability, but it was just a cowardly excuse.
“But if my swordsmanship were stronger than that devil’s martial arts, I wouldn’t have lost.”
If Siete had an overwhelming skill gap that was enough to overturn the disadvantageous physical ability gap, then Siete would have won the battle.
“We will definitely win this time.”
Currently, all demons have been banished to the Pandemonium through the passage created by Eun-hyeon’s efforts.
Hundreds of years have passed since that fight, Gusion, who should have been in the Pandemonium, wanted to become stronger and accumulate strength, but he would never have weakened.
Even taking that into account, Siete pledged to win in the rematch that will take place once again.
“So it’s not your part to get revenge on that demon. That’s my role There is no place for you.”
The face of Siete, staring at the ceiling with a pleasant expression as if drunk, is not the face of a person swearing revenge on someone with hatred.
Having risen to the highest position as a swordsman with her title as her swordsman, facing the new task given to herself, she is looking forward to her own future where she can grow further from her present. Was a soldier of
She doesn’t harbor any feelings of fear, fear or anger towards her opponent who once killed her, she only thinks of her as a wall she must jump over and her mentality is absurdly strong.
She can still grow more.
She has goals to jump over.
She has a living body to get there.
That alone was enough for Siete.
“… Okay.”
Eunhyeon was relieved and smiled bitterly when she saw her teacher pursuing her own growth as a swordsman and martial artist.
He realized anew that his teacher, whom he hadn’t seen in a very long time, hadn’t changed at all from a simple person who only thought of swordsmanship.
“And help you too.”
“… Yes?”
Eun-hyeon looked back at Siete, who had suddenly made an unknown request to her.
“There is no one worthy of being my swordsman.”
“… Me?”
“Okay.”
“No. Why all of a sudden…”
“How can growth be achieved alone? Or not…”
Siete narrowed her brows slightly and glared at Eunhyun.
“You really don’t like mixing swords with me?”
“Oh, that can’t be!”
Embarrassed, Eun-hyeon waved his hand and hurriedly replied.
“That is… When Master was teaching me, he never sparred with me, right?”
“That’s because your level was so poor.”
“It hurts a bit because you suddenly hit the bone…”
“At that time, you were not only slow to achieve, but also lacked basic preparation to accept something.”
Eun-hyeon, who came to Siete with only the basics of martial arts, was really close to a newbie who didn’t even know the letter ‘ㄱ’ in swordsmanship, so even if Siete taught her something through sparring, she wasn’t at a level that she could understand and accept.
“But it’s different now.”
Eunhyun has grown up.
Siete was able to confirm it through two chances.
The first is through a fight with himself who had become a Death Knight.
Second, through the experience of defeating herself without giving up until the end while facing death hundreds of times in the ordeal to acquire her godhood, in Siete’s mind, she already recognized Eun-hyeon as her disciple and a swordsman. There was.
“But I…”
“Of course I know. The fact that you used a shortcut to defeat me at that time, but isn’t that wrong?”
It was certainly an expedient to defeat Siete by possessing her own body in the distant future, when she would reach the level of a swordsman, but this world is not fair enough to fight with all conditions equal.
The same is true of the gap between himself and Gushion.
“I need someone as strong as I am right now.”
It is for your own growth.
“… All right.”
Eun-hyeon smiled bitterly as she was very happy that she was able to gain the recognition of her teacher, but she had complicated thoughts about her schedule, which seemed to be very busy in the future.
“What are you planning to do in the future? If you need anything…”
“No. Nothing else is needed right now. Everything you need has already been prepared by your wife.”
Eunhyeon immediately thought of Eleanor, who had guided him to the room where Siete was waiting.
“… Are you Eleanor?”
“Okay.”
The first meeting between Siete and Eleanor, who was scolding Erin, was not so good, but when Eleanor learned that the situation was caused by Erin’s slip of the tongue and that Siete was Eun-hyeon’s teacher, Eleanor responded very quickly.
She immediately provided her with a place to stay for a while inside Mo Graf’s territory, and asked her future plans and prepared everything she needed in an instant.
“I planned to stay here and gradually adapt to this resurrected body while subjugating those monsters. So, I was guaranteed a status so that I could work freely, and I received the money I needed to live for a while. And he introduced me to the job of an adventurer.”
It was very easy for Siete, who possessed powerful swordsmanship, to subdue demon beasts and receive rewards while acting as an adventurer.
It seemed that Eleanor’s thoughtfulness, which quickly presented her own wishes and plans in an efficient way, made Shite quite happy.
She said, “Unlike that spoiled little fox, isn’t she quite considerate and resourceful?”
Hearing Eleanor’s compliments, Eunhyeon hesitated for a moment and looked at Siete with a doubtful look on her face.
“… Did Erin do something wrong with her?”
“Ah. Okay. That was the name that kid How on earth did you educate your disciples!?”
In her moment, Siete, recalling her insulting remarks to Erin, frowned at her, blushing with the high spirits of her wine.
“… Ah.”
Eun-hyeon sighed softly, realizing that she had made a mistake.
Her past warned her that her own experience accumulated in serving her now ‘stepped on her landmine’.
“That’s why you called me an ajumma! Your disciple!”
“…”
After that, Eun-hyeon had to suffer for about three hours from Siete’s wrathful drunkenness.
