Chapter 824 – 824. Room for Growth (2)
Two lines drawn in the air.
The lines that collide leaving only a blurry afterimage soon spread intense magical energy around them along with a cheerful metallic sound.
Kaaang!
At the center of the vortex where dust winds rise and sound and air tremble, Eunhyeon and Siete’s swords collide again and again, causing a strange phenomenon that distorts space.
The two swung their swords, focusing on each other, not caring.
Kaaang!
I couldn’t fathom how much time had passed.
Even though they were sweating and gradually fatigued physically and mentally, the two exchanged battles while experiencing and evaluating each other’s techniques and anticipating the next number.
While unrelentingly wielding fierce sword strikes that pierced each other’s vital points, each other, the target of the attack, laughed and blocked the sword strike.
It is a risky and dangerous tightrope that can lead to fatal injuries if done wrong.
But the two people standing on the line didn’t care at all.
Rather, evaluate and explore each other’s capabilities and prepare for the next one.
As a swordsman, it was fun to showcase all the skills he could demonstrate, improve his perfection, and prepare a foothold for growth.
‘The body moves.’
A rushing sword attack drawing the most ideal sword he wanted.
A borderline he knew in his head, but could never catch up with with his physical abilities.
Although she used the power and divine power of her goddess to cover her lack of physical ability and magical power, the present Eunhyeon was able to enter the boundary with her pure abilities alone, excluding those external factors.
Happy.
I was unbearably happy.
That he was able to push his feet into the state he so much wanted with his own power alone.
He was able to realize once again that his time spent honing his swordsmanship was being rewarded.
My efforts were not in vain.
Kaaang!
Faced with such a joyous sword strike, Siete also let out a smile.
The reason why I could feel the heated emotion contained in his sword was because Siete, who was facing Eun-hyeon and sword-to-sword, was also the same swordsman.
How can you not be happy with the growth of a disciple?
That’s why Siete didn’t stop the sword either.
“Let’s get this far.”
“Whoa, thank you for your hard work.”
The time between the two swords was not that long.
But that was enough.
This is because Eun-hyeon fully confirmed his grown-up capabilities and achieved that goal.
As soon as he heard Siete’s words, Eun-hyeon took the gold and silver moons from his hands.
As if waiting for the sparring to end, the two swords glowed brightly and assumed the shape of a human.
The two lights, shining brightly in gold and silver, transformed into little girls and jumped into Eun-hyeon’s arms.
“Dad, great!”
“… It got stronger.”
It was Eunhyeon’s two daughters who were chattering and answering lively.
New daughters born to him and the goddess.
At the same time, he is a half-god and sword spirit dwelling in the two swords created by Eunhyeon.
Hearing the words of the two children laughing broadly and chattering, Eunhyeon laughed.
“Okay?”
“Huh! You’re stronger than before!”
“Dad’s strength has grown more.”
The essence of Geumwol and Eunwol is a weapon connected to Eunhyeon’s soul.
Because of this, I was able to feel how much Eunhyeon’s magic had grown as much as I directly accepted his magical power into the sword body through the metamorphosis.
So, Geum-wol and Eun-wol were delighted and admired Eun-hyeon’s growth.
“Hehe, it’s so good that Dad likes it!”
“I will work harder.”
“Thank you.”
Being supported by her two daughters, Eunhyeon’s mouth naturally relaxed.
At the same time as I felt her growth, her warm feelings rose in her heart, and I felt better for nothing.
“Guys. Move away from her for a moment.”
Belatedly, Belldandi materialized in the underworld and laid down her two daughters who were in Eunhyeon’s arms.
“Yes? Umm…”
“I want to talk to you a little more…”
He hesitated and did not want to fall easily, but Belldandi persuaded the children with a wry smile.
“Can’t we play a little later? We have an important story right now, so let’s step aside for a moment.”
“”Yes.””
The two children looked sad, but listened to their mother, Belldandy.
“Why don’t you go to the store and get something delicious?”
“Oh, good! I want to eat apple pie! Mom!”
“I like strawberry juice…”
It was very easy to convince the children who were chattering about their wishes with their eyes wide open at the story of snacking.
Belldandi smiled and held out her hand toward her Eunhyun.
“Hey.”
“Yes.”
Eun-hyeon also burst into laughter at the goddess who is now fulfilling her motherly role by handling her daughters quite well.
She was a goddess and the meaning of her outstretched hand was simple.
She meant to ask for money because she wanted to buy something to eat for her children.
Eunhyun immediately placed her pocket full of silver coins in Belldandi’s hand and looked at the backs of the three mothers and daughters as she walked toward the downtown area of the duchy.
She couldn’t stop laughing when she saw her two daughters holding each other’s hands tightly and energetically following her.
Soon after, Eun-hyeon gulped the bottled water she had brought into her mouth and consumed her moisture.
“Would you like some too, Master?”
“Okay.”
Siete received the new bottled water given to her by Eunhyeon.
The cool water that came into her mouth was more refreshing than I thought.
“Whoa.”
Sie Te let out a small breath at the coolness that ran down her neck and sat down on the flat stone floor, facing her Eun Hyun.
“Your face is dissatisfied.”
“…”
Even though she put on a look of relief, the smile that Eunhyeon was making was not a smile filled with pure joy.
“Well… I do not know.”
“What?”
“I can confirm that I have grown. However… I am at a loss as to what to do now.”
Undoubtedly, due to her metamorphosis, Eunhyeon became stronger.
The amount of magic power in her body increased beyond recognition, and in the process, the ability of the reconstructed body also grew dramatically, so it is an unmistakable fact.
However, it also created new problems.
“My goal as a swordsman was to catch up with Master.”
“…”
As much as she inherited her swordsmanship, she did not have a grandiose reason to perfectly inherit her lineage and leave it to her descendants.
In the first place, her swordsmanship using Eunhyeon is her own swordsmanship using two swords, and the style is completely different from that of Siete, who uses only one sword.
Although the basics and fundamentals learned from Siete are the same, the direction she pursues is completely different.
It was just her simple goal of becoming a strong prosecutor who could stand alongside her.
Siete had already admitted that Eun-hyeon had reached that level.
As a great swordsman who can stand shoulder to shoulder with her non-disciple self.
In the trials made by Jupiter in the divine world.
There, after hundreds of fierce battles with Siete, Eun-hyeon defeated Siete.
It was a one-time victory, but it was definitely a stage that Eunhyeon had achieved, and it was a passing point that confirmed that Siete had stepped into the same territory as herself.
Now, even without borrowing the power of a goddess or divine power, Eunhyeon was able to demonstrate her own inaction.
“You must be wandering.”
Siete understood Eunhyeon’s meaning.
To catch up with her own and stand next to her, which had been her lofty goal, has now become a reality.
But she didn’t seem to know what to do next.
“Okay. You have been like that before.”
“Before?”
“I remembered the first time I taught you a sword.”
“…”
At that time, Eun-hyeon really had no talent to the point of being frustrated.
The reason he wanted to learn the sword was simply because he needed the power to kill monsters other than demons and beasts.
Eunhyeon, who wanted to raise his level and grow through sword training, did not have it.
A man who had no talent, let alone an understanding of the sword, and was just a pitiful and shabby man with unmatched brute force.
So he was an immature man who had no direction on his own.
Even so, he had a certain goal, so Eun-hyeon, who was blindly devoted to the training suggested by Te, to the point of fanaticism, had nothing but hard work.
Siete had a complicated feeling that the goal was not the sword, that the sword was just a simple means to achieve the goal.
Thinking back on it, Siete sighed as she recalled herself in the past, who had made an incomprehensible choice.
“I must have been crazy.”
“Yes?”
“It is nothing. Than that.”
Siete shook his hand and went back to talking.
“You are wandering around like back then.”
At the same time as the sense of accomplishment that Eunhyeon had achieved his grand goal, he lost the direction of how to hone his swordsmanship in the future.
“It’s fine though.”
“Yes?”
However, unlike Eunhyeon’s worries, Siete was smiling.
“A guy who only considered the sword as a tool, now that he can seriously think about his sword, it doesn’t seem like he’s completely out of touch with the past.”
“… Ah.”
Eunhyeon belatedly understood the meaning of what Siete was trying to say.
It was a horse with bones.
“It took more than 400 years to realize that. This shameful fellow.”
“…”
Eunhyun turned her head with a face that showed no respect for Siete’s cold words.
“Whoa, I’m glad though. The fact that you started to realize and think about the problem even now means that you yourself have become that serious about the sword.”
“… Yes.”
“Actually, the problem is not that big of a problem for you. It’s not something I can solve.”
“Yes?”
Eunhyun made a puzzled expression at Siete’s words.
Looking at him with a puzzled face, Siete continued.
“Before, you said you had seen the future, right? No. To be precise, another you from another world line.”
“… Yes.”
Eunhyun nodded her head.
When she competed with Siete in the ordeal presented by Jupiter, Eun-hyeon possessed her own future, which was in another world line, into her body.
In the eons of time of 800 years, another possibility of himself, who sold only his sword and pioneered his own path.
She used her guilt for not being able to help Siete and prevent her death in the midst of an unreasonable catastrophe as the driving force to grow her sword, which she had learned from her.
Eun-hyeon did not transform into a complete transformation like she does now, nor did she use her divine powers, let alone become a half-god, and only took the position of the best swordsman through her own efforts.
Even so, that world line was destroyed.
Now, Eun-hyeon’s swordsmanship was influenced to a great extent by another Eunhyeon’s swordsmanship that he possessed at the time.
“…”
Why hadn’t I thought of it until now?
It was undoubtedly his new direction.
“I have said it before. It’s not me you have to catch up to, it’s him.”
Siete gave her advice to Eun-hyeon, who was feeling joy and wandering at the same time through the experience of her growth.
“… Thank you.”
Through something that came to his mind, Eun-hyeon seemed to have figured out what to do next.
Enlightened by her conversation with Siete, Eun-hyeon bowed her head to thank her and returned home.
“Berdandy.”
Leaving the yard of her house where she sparred with Siete, Eun-hyeon called for Belldandi as she returned home.
As if waiting for his call, Belldandy appeared in front of him in a state of spiritualization.
[Are you done?]
“Yes.”
[The problem seems to have been resolved.]
Belldandy, who was able to read Eunhyeon’s inner self, recognized his troubles from the beginning.
“Yes. Thanks.”
However, it was a problem that he could not solve, so he arranged the self-reliance to be with Siete.
Thank you for being so considerate, Eunhyeon smiled.
“Did Geumwol and Eunwol play well?”
[I played very well… Phew…]
Belldandi sighed and replied.
[The body of the lower world must not have been so used to it, but how lively it is… I was tired even if I just followed him.]
It is said that Geum-wol and Eun-wol seemed to find the food stalls sold on the streets of the square very interesting, so they wandered around constantly snacking on snacks.
Perhaps it was the influence of the snacking I had done when I went out with Erin before, but following the energetic movement of Geumwol and Eunwol to the point where my stamina was exhausted.
“Is it?”
Eunhyun smiled and listened to Belldandy’s complaint.
Come to think of it, Erin really got along well with Geumwol and Eunwol.
Erin, who had a very active and direct personality, treated her two daughters as human girls, not as demigods, but as daughters.
“You worked hard.”
[… I hope you will spend time with me later.]
At the words of the goddess who directly demanded compensation, Eun-hyeon smiled wryly and nodded her head.
“I am getting hungry. Shall we go home?”
[Hmm. It should be If you get home by now… The preparations must be over.]
“Are you ready?”
[…]
In addition to Eunhyun, Belldandi’s soul is indirectly connected to his wives.
Because of this, Belldandi was able to get a glimpse of what Eunhyeon’s wives were preparing at home.
[Hey.]
“Yes?”
[You must have missed it tonight.]
“… Yes?”
[It will be my turn next time, so you have to be mindful. Got it?]
It was only after Eunhyeon returned home that she understood Belldandi’s meaningful words.
