Chapter 72 – 072. The Growth of a Girl (1)
“Even succubuses know how to use swordsmanship. When I heard about it from Eunhyun, she hadn’t heard of anything other than mind manipulation and the ability to absorb spirit.”
“That’s because it’s a trivial race that only has that. It must have been learned to compensate for one’s weaknesses. They are completely different from humans, but as a species with reason, they resemble humans.”
In the struggle for survival or life, identify one’s weaknesses and prepare means to compensate for them.
It is like a survival instinct that any living being with intelligence can think of.
“Of course, there are demons who are complacently stagnant. That devil is something special. Learning swordsmanship is the same, but hiding your identity and infiltrating the kingdom capital is not enough, collecting information and plotting to extort the spirits of many humans, and the fact that the devil only saw humans as prey, stable self-confidence It is a means that I longed for because of my desire to increase my strength. I’m just being true to my own desire to be strong.”
There are a few races such as the succubus that have the weakest physical ability among demons, but they have the same level of physical ability as ordinary humans.
Because of this, humans with weak bodies and magical powers are regarded as insignificant creatures and regarded only as nutrients to supplement one’s own food or strength.
“But, where the hell did that devil get his sword? Maybe I woke up on my own…”
“Among demons, there are tribes that value and revere martial arts. Maybe I learned from them. It is very rare among demons to teach their skills to other races, but there is no doubt that they are mysterious demons in many ways.”
“By the way… What an amazing growth rate.”
Even Alex admired how Erin was growing little by little in the fight against the succubus, who risked each other’s lives to cut them down.
It was an unbelievable speed for someone who hadn’t held the sword for half a year.
Erin’s level of growth, even faster, is unbelievable to others.
Although she has Illyana’s advice, she is ignorant of physical combat.
Swordsmanship is the result of individual efforts that can only be developed through one’s own training and experience.
No matter how Eunhyeon and Illyana said that she intensively looked after her and took care of her, her level now was at an abnormal speed even if she had a great mentor.
To Alex, who couldn’t even imagine that one of the spirits of the Hundred Ghosts, the souls of fearsome warriors, resided in Erin’s body, the current growth rate of Erin was phenomenal, but it was a part that she did not understand.
‘Now, even if I deal with them, it will be difficult for them to take care of them properly.’
Alex harbored a bitter feeling inside Erin, who was growing at a tremendous speed.
When she compared the time she had devoted to attaining that level with the time she had, the feeling she felt was futility.
‘I envy you.’
It’s not unreasonable to feel that way.
Erin’s desire to be proud of Erwin herself and her ceaseless efforts may have been the driving force behind her growth, but the biggest driving force behind her Erin is the presence of a man who supports her from behind. Girl Alex knew too.
If she asks Eun-hyeon for lessons, will Eun-hyeon accept his request?
The answer that came to mind was ‘I don’t know.’
Alex started to have a doubtful mind, because it was Eun-hyeon’s appearance so far that he would listen to everything without refusing to ask if he asked for it, even though he had a boring expression on the outside.
‘For now, this fight must be over.’
With that thought in mind, Alex watched the fierce battle between the two beings.
Erin’s body moved naturally, as if being guided by someone kind.
The rapier moves at high speed and pierces Lira’s left shoulder.
“Oh… !”
It was Lira who was dealing with her who was startled by Erin’s movement, which was obviously different from before.
In an instant, stabs so fierce that he couldn’t react to her movements rushed towards Lira’s face.
As she managed to avoid it by turning her body to the right, Erin’s rapier pierced her through the air and grazed Lyra’s cheek.
“This!”
She immediately took aim at her opening and threw out her sword, intending to split Erinn’s abdomen in half, but she pierced her through the air and struck her rapier down, killing her. He deflected Lyra’s sword flying to slit his stomach.
“You… What.”
As if he had expected it, Erin’s clean-cutting behavior showed a lot of signs of her wariness and asked.
But Erin didn’t answer.
Only Erin’s burning eyes were staring at Lira while she was muttering something.
“… Leader…”
“What?”
Lira, who couldn’t hear properly because it sounded too small, asked, but Erin answered her question with actions, not words.
[The beginning and end of the swordsmanship is ‘stab’. By concentrating power into one point, it shows extreme penetrating power. What you need for that is fast agility and user experience. The ability to seize opportunities to target the opponent’s vitals at any time and in any situation, and to put them into action.]
Even as she moved her body and poured fierce attacks at Lira without stopping, the attribute lecture of the three swordsmen Baekgwi and Galahad continued.
[There, aim for a chance to counterattack after defending rather than attacking.]
[I was so complacent. Don’t be in a hurry.]
[Keep your body tense. So that you can penetrate the other person’s vitals at any time.]
[Watch the opponent’s movements closely.]
Through her teachings and lectures, Erin ultimately had only one goal.
‘Faster, faster.’
Making a blow so fast that Lira doesn’t recognize it.
However, at the same time that Erin began to grow, changes also occurred in her counterpart, Lira.
“Dare! Something like a human!”
As Erin, whose swordsmanship was not even close to her toes, grew so rapidly that she did not know why in this fight, Lira, who felt more and more strange, began to focus on her strength.
“Keugh!”
As Lira’s sword, which contained her enormous amount of magical power, slammed down on Erinn’s head, Erinn hurriedly raised her rapier and tried to strike her sword, but Erinn’s sword was pushed back due to the difference in her strength. It bounced off
Erin, who lost her rapier as her wrists strained, threw her body aside and managed to dodge Lyra’s sword, but missed her weapon, her rapier.
Erin, who hurriedly checked the position of her own weapon, looked at her weapon as it bounced in the opposite direction to her current position, and had a look of embarrassment for a moment, but she immediately raised her own weapon. I started running to pick it up.
“Do you know how to easily let them do what they want?!”
“Oops!”
Quaang!
As Lyra’s sword flew towards Erin’s head again, Erin groaned and twisted her body to avoid it, just as she managed to avoid having her own head split in two.
‘Uh… ?’
In response to her unknown sense of deja vu, Erin moved her body reflexively in a familiarity she herself could not understand.
Recalling a situation she had seen somewhere, she twisted her body to her side to narrowly avoid her sword flying towards her own head, and in an instant burrowed into her opponent’s arms.
She then naturally turned one side of her body and pulled her clenched fists behind her.
“That…”
Alex also saw Erin’s movements and hardened her expression.
Because she knew at once whose movements she was copying.
Her posture and arm movements were sloppy unlike Eunhyun’s movements, but there was no hesitation in the actions themselves.
Without giving Lira a chance to properly defend herself, Erinn’s punch, her magical power condensed, entered Lira’s left flank exactly.
“Kyaaak!”
Lyra’s body, hit by Erin’s blow, began to stagger as it was thrown, and her gastric juices began pouring out on her floor in excruciating pain in her stomach.
“Ooh, ooh!”
Unlike Eunhyun’s attack, which boasted her enormous explosion sound and power, it was a very normal attack, but even such an attack, Erinn’s attack, which entered cleanly, could do considerable damage to Lira.
[Good job!]
Suddenly, Galahad’s cheery praise came into Erin’s mind.
Erin, who didn’t know why she was so excited, was surprised and she just shrugged her shoulders.
[You were talented not only in swordsmanship, but also in martial arts! Bane must love it!]
‘No, this is just imitating Hyun-i…’
[Rather than that, now is an opportunity. Hurry up and grab the missing weapon again.]
As soon as Erin hurriedly heard her words, she reflexively bounced off her body, clutching her own weapon in her hand, which had dropped to the floor.
[Take your posture.]
[Concentrate all the strength in your body on your legs. So that I can run at any time and pierce the enemy’s throat.]
[Pull back her hand holding the sword, and with the other hand, place the tip of the blade held horizontally between your thumb and index finger.]
It is like a bow aiming at a target by hooking an arrow and pulling the string.
As possessed by her ghost, Erin assumes her pose, as Galahad explains and leads.
The moment when the magic powers that circulated in her body moved faster and gathered strength to the limit and endured.
[Go!]
With Galahad’s command, Erin’s body rushes toward the demon branded as her only target, like a rapid-fire arrow shot by an archer.
[Galahad Raise Sword]
[Gale Knight]
The ‘shot’ that creates a strong wind flies towards the devil.
It raises a wind of dust on the floor that has become a wasteland, and the power of leg power, which has been pulled to the limit through the circulation of magical power, creates speed like a runaway racehorse.
“Uweak!”
It took only a few seconds for Lyra, the demon, to stumble from her Erin’s punch and spill gastric juices in her stomach, but she regained her sword, which Erin had dropped her, and took her stance to counter her attack. It was plenty of time for it to come.
“… !”
Lira sat down on her floor and poured out her gastric juices once, reflexively locating Erin’s location, startled.
Erin’s figure was not a fragile girl, but a falcon with sharp claws, as she rushed to pierce her throat, reaching her rapier at herself, raising her gusts of wind.
She hastily raised herself up, grabbed her sword, and tried to position herself to block her Erin’s attack.
Fu-wook
Erin’s rapier had already pierced Lyra’s throat.
“Cool!”
Lira spewed dark red blood from her mouth and glared at Erin with a ferocious expression with a sword pierced through her throat.
“My… Go! Human… For something!”
[Pull out your sword and hold on to that devil’s body!]
She didn’t know why, but Erin didn’t question Galahad’s orders.
She doesn’t even question why she did it.
Just as she shouted and was guided by her words, she pulled out her sword that had pierced her throat and held out her hand.
And the moment Erin grabbed Lira’s neck tightly with one hand.
Miho, who was inside Erin’s body, activated the ability of a nine-tailed fox.
[Nine-tailed fox’s unique ability]
[Energy Drain]
As soon as Erin grabbed her arm of her lira, her complexion began to turn blue from the strange changes that lira was making to her own body.
“What… Hey. How do you… This ability… !”
“Uh… ?”
As soon as Erin grabbed Lira’s body, she felt a surge of power coming into her body, and she panicked.
[Don’t panic. Dealing with that demon right now is the fastest way.]
Miho, who was inside Erin’s body, activated her energy drain ability and began to suck all the magical energy from the succubus into Erin’s body.
“No… No! I… For how many hours… I can’t die here like this!”
Lyra’s expression begins to distort, and she begins to despair as she realizes that the power within her body is being taken away.
“Help me… Please save me! I can’t die like this!”
Even begging her Erin, who is draining all of her own energy.
But Erin shook her head.
“I can’t forgive you for making my brother like that.”
“No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No, no, no!”
People in this world do not have physical bodies in reality.
Only the mental body can exist in the ‘dream world’ to which only the spirit has been drawn.
In other words, the devil in front of you is also a mental body composed only of magical energy and soul.
If so, there was no reason why Gumiho’s unique ability, Energy Drain, could not be absorbed.
The soul of the succubus, which had been screaming without leaving even a single remnant, was disintegrated into magic and absorbed into Erinn’s body.
Erin looked up at her head, blankly looking at the sky in her dream world.
Then she let out a small sigh.
“Ha…”
It was an unexpected and unexpected event.
Her sense of fulfillment welling up deep in her heart was lifting Erin’s mood.
“You have finally taken the first step, brother…”
