Chapter 728 – 728. Another Shinsoo (3)
Gerard, who serves as a servant to a nine-tailed fox in the living room of the shrine, was spending a day as usual today.
“Hmm.”
Wearing an apron in the kitchen, he was currently in serious trouble.
“What should I do for dinner tonight?”
The biggest challenge is what to prepare for the dinner menu so that it can gain favorable reviews from the nine-tailed fox.
This is a challenge that comes every morning, noon, and evening that always haunts Gerard.
It may sound like a complaint, but nine-tailed foxes are really picky eaters.
If the seasoning is too weak, chopsticks won’t even hold, but if it’s too salty or sweet, they will complain that the seasoning is too strong.
As for the menu, the proportions of meat, fish, shellfish, and vegetarian food must be well matched, as well as every meal, as well as every day, so that you do not get bored, the gumiho is really difficult to wait on.
However, it was very difficult in the beginning to match her capricious and picky personality, but it became very easy after she finished understanding her disposition and personality.
However, since he knew the nine-tailed fox very well, the meal menu was a difficult problem that made Gerard think even more.
“Hmm?”
As Gerard pondered over the menu for tonight, he heard the voice of a nine-tailed fox from the living room.
“Miho?”
The gumiho, who was lying on the sofa trying to sleep, stood up and looked at the ceiling.
What was strange was that the nine-tailed fox’s expression was stiff as if he had seen something he couldn’t see.
“What are you doing?”
“Something… Something similar to me appeared before the immature.”
“Yes?”
Gerard made a puzzled expression.
It was such an amazing word that it simply erased the worries about the dinner menu that had filled my head so far.
The ‘something similar to herself’ that Gumiho said probably refers to a divine beast with special powers like her.
And by ‘immature’, I’m sure you’re referring to Erin.
“… Miss Erin?”
Immediately thinking of Erin’s face, Gerard immediately thought.
Is the divine beast that has newly appeared in front of Erinn an ally or an enemy?
She didn’t think that Erin, Eunhyeon’s disciple, would be defeated so easily, but the nine-tailed fox’s expression was too unusual for her to be optimistic.
“… Are you worried about Miss Erin?”
“… I? That immature thing?”
The nine-tailed fox frowned at Gerard’s question as if it were absurd.
“Where is that immature person who can be easily defeated?”
“Haha. Is that so?”
In this part, Gerard and Gumiho had the same thoughts.
“But you look like you’re worried about something.”
“… That’s strange. The divine beast I met with that immature one has the same powers as mine.”
“That word…”
“They are of my own kind.”
“…”
It is said that it came out of Erin’s body, but the power that Erin now possesses originated from the magic of the divine beast, the nine-tailed fox.
That connection is still maintained.
The reason why the gumiho was able to immediately feel Erin’s situation right now was because that connection was maintained.
“It’s strange to say…”
“Okay. My people were all wiped out hundreds of years ago. In a fight against demons and other divine beasts.”
There might have been a Shinsoo who lived well in hiding until now, but that possibility would be slim, so the phenomenon that happened to Erinn was very strange.
“What that immature thing is facing now is… I don’t even know who you are.”
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Heading towards the nine-tailed fox, Erin sprinted once again.
She spurred the ground vigorously and quickly reached the top speed. It was truly an instant for Erin to reach the nine-tailed fox.
Just like the first time, Erin, who had been reached by the nine-tailed fox in an instant, swung the Levante in a calm yet sharp way, but as expected, she did not receive the blade.
[Barbarian Witchcraft (狐族姚術)]
[Changing balance]
Once again, the fierce stab aimed at the head of the gumiho was neatly avoided by the gumiho once again turning its body into a fox fire.
‘Ah, that’s for real!’
Erin felt her annoyance at this absurd phenomenon, in which her own attack passed through black flames so vainly.
The reason a nine-tailed fox can dodge her own attacks isn’t because she can read her own movements.
The speed at which she senses the flow of her life force and magical energy sent by Erin, and receives it into her body, easily exceeds the speed at which she can comprehend the movements of her Erin.
That instinctive sense that can only be described as literally a sense of the wild is the source that makes her avoid Erinn’s attacks.
Before long, the black flames that the nine-tailed fox had turned into surrounded her on all sides and attacked her Erin.
“Eww… !”
[Barbarian Witchcraft (狐族姚術)]
[Fox fire]
Erin groaned and scattered her fox fire, created with her own magical power, all over her.
The black fox-fires that were slowly approaching to attack her were intercepted by the fox-fires created by Erin, and their intrusion was prevented.
Erin’s defense method, which she instinctively unfolded, was close to the correct answer in a sense.
“It’s a humble level, but you know how to use my power.”
When her attack was intercepted, the nine-tailed fox reappeared and evaluated Erin’s magic with eyes that seemed to see her again.
“Joy.”
However, that is the attitude of superiors looking down on immature inferiors.
Seeing her nine-tailed fox laughing at herself, Erin snorted at her too.
She still couldn’t help thinking that she was at a disadvantage, but neither did she think she would lose easily.
‘Perhaps…’
Recalling that her own fox fire and her nine-tailed fox’s black fox fire collided and blended together, Erin thought of a certain possibility of her.
She and she charged again at her nine-tailed fox.
“Joy! No matter how many times you try, it’s no use!”
The nine-tailed fox was about to turn her own body into black flames once more, but Erin, who reached her speed, reached out her hand toward the nine-tailed fox trying to conceal her own form.
While she was changing into a black flame, she grabbed the translucent collar of a nine-tailed fox.
“Uh… !?”
Originally, she would be unable to touch her own body, which had already changed into her mental body.
Even a rapier attack wouldn’t have worked on her, but she was horrified at what she could touch herself with her bare hands.
The gumiho immediately figured out the cause.
‘I see… ! The power of the divine beast in her own body… !’
Her magical power that strengthens her own body into a body is not ordinary magical power, but the magical power of a divine beast.
Rather than ordinary magical power, the neat and dense scent of magical power simply exceeded the amount and power of the sword energy contained in the sword.
It was a variable that Gumiho had not yet assumed.
Originally, all divine beasts do not come out of their territory, and unless they invade that territory or start a fight, there is almost no battle itself.
That’s why I’ve never experienced a battle between gods and beasts for hundreds of years.
“Keugh… !”
The nine-tailed fox, who had been grabbed by the collar, urgently tried to force her body back to escape from Erin’s hands, but Erin did not follow his intention easily.
“Eight!”
With all her might in her back, she beat her up.
Her light body flew through the air and collided with the floor with Erin’s grip.
Cooong!
“Cuck!”
The reason why her back collided with the floor gave her tremendous shock and physical damage spread throughout her body was because she was attacked by Erin while not fully transforming into her mental body.
“Done!”
It was a fluke, frankly, by chance on her part, but Erin wasn’t happy that her own attack worked.
“This… !”
The nine-tailed fox couldn’t hide his distorted expression, as he was so ashamed and angry that the blue-eyed youngster’s attack had damaged him.
The change in her passionate emotions, seen for the first time, eventually changes into a starting point that makes her determination to trample on Erin even more firm.
The nine-tailed fox immediately got up and leaped behind her, widening his distance from Erin.
“Joy!”
After reading her goal, Erin persistently followed the nine-tailed fox in order not to give her distance.
The difference between the level and depth of the magic manifested by manipulating the magical power of the divine beast is not clear, and the difference is overwhelming.
However, unlike him, the difference in body specifications, which is a physical element, is of course overwhelmingly advantageous to Erinn.
The situation was not at all unfavorable for Erin, who had found a way to attack her.
In front of Erin, who obsessively followed her and refused to give her distance, the nine-tailed fox gnashed her teeth and performed her own magic.
[Barbarian Witchcraft (狐族姚術)]
[Banquet of demon fire]
The magical powers of the nine-tailed fox that had been scattered around were strongly stirred, revealing their presence.
The black fox fires that radiate powerful heat while wandering in the air eventually began to move around following the command of the nine-tailed fox, and the resulting whirlpool turned into a huge storm and swallowed Erin’s body.
“… !”
Erin felt the air flow around her begin to spin rapidly, and the heat began to rise.
Her senses, which were not as sensitive as those of a nine-tailed fox, but unlike those of other humans, were sending a warning to her reason.
Dangerous.
We must quickly get away from the center where this black flame is swirling.
Quickly accepting her warning, Erin’s mind quickly turned.
‘Where?’
Erin is already running towards the nine-tailed fox.
She tried to move her body, guided by her own instinct, which appealed to her to stop her sprint and fall behind her and escape this storm of black flames, but in this crisis situation, Erin rather chose the opposite option. Picked.
‘Even if I can’t eat goya!’
Rather than falling back and choosing her retreat, she chooses to accelerate faster and charge forward.
She focused on accelerating and accelerating all the nerves and muscles in her legs, and while exerting her leg strength as if she was about to explode at any moment, she tried to ignore the accumulated fatigue and only thought about aiming for the enemy in front of her.
Erin’s speed was created like that.
Whoops!
Broke through the speed of sound.
“What… !?”
Just before a proper storm raged, the nine-tailed fox was shocked to see Erin rushing through the curtain of black flame.
It is said that he increased his defense power by enclosing his entire body with the magical power of the fox fire and divine beast, but he had a tired expression at the stage cannon-style advance as he rushed through it without facing his black flame head-on.
Erin, who had not hesitated to commit an insane act that was tantamount to suicide, and broke through while enduring the heat of her black flame, aimed straight at the neck of the nine-tailed fox and narrowed the distance between her.
Its momentum is unbelievable that it is that of a young and immature human woman.
It was enough to make Gumiho’s instincts flinch for a moment.
“What, such an ignorant bitch… !”
“What! It’s a strategy!?”
Erin, who reacted with her anger, swung her rapier at the nine-tailed fox’s neck without hesitation.
“This… !”
Unlike the first attack, the nine-tailed fox hurriedly retreated when he saw the blue sword surrounded by Erin’s rapier.
Erin, who found a way to attack herself by countering with the magical power of her same divine beast, this attack is so threatening that it damages her mental body as well.
Even if she simply turns herself into her mental body, she will definitely take her damage.
Right before Erin’s rapier finally landed on the nine-tailed fox’s neck, Erin was convinced.
‘I got it!’
The moment I was sure.
[Barbarian Witchcraft (狐族姚術)]
[Hundred Ghost Night Trips]
[Stop!]
“Uh… !?”
Her voice restraining her actions is Galahad, one of the Hundred Ghosts that follows her Erin, and who taught her the basics of her three sword arts.
At the urgent voice that warned her own reason directly, Erin instinctively retracted her rapier, which was about to pierce the fox’s neck, and hurriedly backed away.
Eventually, Erin, belatedly aware of the fierce sword attack targeting her own vital point, hurriedly blocked the sword attack.
Kaaang!
“Oh… !?”
A quick, sharp swordsman she would never have noticed had it not been for her sense, which she had maintained over and over again.
Erin, who had blocked her sword attack with her rapier to slash the area around her stomach, was pushed back by the power of the sword and bounced behind her.
The aftermath of her impact spread through her hands through her rapier, making her tremble, and Erin’s body, thrown into the air, fell into a state of momentary rigidity.
Sensing her second sword attack aiming for her gap, Erin hurriedly moved her body in the air to relieve her stiffness.
The black knight holding her sword was barely caught in Erin’s field of vision as she flew through the air.
Kaaang!
When she recognized with her own two eyes the clean sweep of her left and right horizontal lines, an attack had already been made, but before she could recognize it, Erin instinctively saw her own chest, which her black knight was aiming for. Defended the area.
“Kyaaaaagh!?”
Erin screamed as she plummeted to the ground as once again a heavy jolt passed through her rapier and through her body.
Erin, who hurriedly raised herself up as she rolled on the floor two or three times, grabbed her rapier and moved her gaze forward to find the black knight who had attacked her.
“Uh… ?”
Erin, who confirmed the black knight that came into her field of vision, put on a dazed expression for a moment.
“One… No?”
The black knights, no, the black knights were not one.
A total of 100, more than 10, 20, and 30.
All of the white ghosts summoned by the nine-tailed fox were holding their weapons in unison and staring at Erin.
