Chapter 950 – 950. Continental Congress (9)
“Aaaaah!”
Erin’s body flew through the air due to another attack from Eunhyeon.
She managed to get into her falling position and landed on her floor and tried to straighten her stance.
Another Eunhyeon suddenly narrowed the distance and appeared in front of Erin.
“Huff!?”
Without even having time to correct her posture, the other Eunhyeon swung her sword at Erin.
“Ugh!”
Erin instinctively swung her Levante down.
Kaaaaang!
It happened in an instant, but Erin’s Levantein blocked another of Eunhyeon’s sword strikes.
“…”
Another Eunhyun’s expression slightly distorted.
Before she could reach the peak of her speed and strength, Erin struck down her own sword.
Did he know this?
At first I had doubts.
Erin may not have been able to perfectly block another of Eunhyeon’s sword strikes, but her posture was disturbed and she was pushed back.
Due to the repulsion caused by the collision of sword and sword, it bounced on top of her and completely opened the guard.
The other Eunhyun had no intention of looking after Erin.
I kicked my completely open abdomen with all my might.
“Big!?”
Erin, who was completely disheveled, was unable to react and allowed her to kick.
Her body rose into the air once again and fell to the floor in a parabola.
In the end, the fatal blow she allowed sent Erin tumbling across the floor.
“Eup, cough!”
She was hit so hard that she couldn’t get up right away as her stomach fluids were pouring out.
“…”
Another Eunhyeon closely observed Erin’s suffering state.
Eventually she muttered to herself.
“This is shocking. “I can’t believe a guy like this existed.”
She looked at Erin in an absurd tone.
As she was slowly closing the distance between herself and Erin, someone came between Erin and her other friend, Eunhyeon.
“Stop.”
It was Eunhyeon who was immersed in training.
“Just stop here.”
“You knew. “The talent that woman has.”
“…”
Eunhyeon pursed her lips.
It was a silent statement without any answer, but it was as if his facial expression and attitude were the answer instead of those words.
“Are you an asshole?”
Another Eunhyun criticized her Eunhyun.
“… Erin doesn’t care. “She didn’t have to learn.”
If she had realized it herself and sharpened it, she wouldn’t have been stopped.
However, she realized this, and if the process of realizing it led to such a difficult path, Eunhyeon thought that it was better not to know.
“That’s your problem right now. You are neither afraid nor hesitant to embark on the path of asceticism. “But people around you are afraid and don’t like to go down that path of asceticism.”
It’s okay for me, but it shouldn’t be for other people.
He is the ultimate in naeronambul, showing extreme and serious duplicity, but it is not a selfishness that only he should pursue happiness and profit, but a twisted way of thinking that it is enough for him to suffer alone.
A ridiculously twisted way of self-sacrifice.
“How stupid is this?”
“…”
In this, the only person who could criticize and ridicule Eunhyeon’s way of thinking was Eunhyeon herself.
Eunhyun did not respond to Eunhyun’s other criticism.
Now, I knew very well that there was no need for such twisted thoughts and ideas.
She was worried as she held Erin’s fallen body and checked her condition.
However, it is not easy to change this way of thinking that has been entrenched for a long time.
Moreover, her own mortification and suffering aside, is it really right to force it on Erin?
“… “Hyuna.”
Erin came to her senses late, looked up at Eunhyeon who was holding her, and called out to him.
“Hehe, I’m fine.”
Although the pain was not completely gone yet, Erin tried to smile and get up.
“Erin. “There is no need for you to go through such hardships to become strong.”
“Hyuna.”
“Huh.”
“Remember the old days? When you first taught me how to fight. “You learned it by actually hitting a dog with your fist.”
Eunhyeon smiled bitterly.
She was just an unfortunate girl who had a very thin and thin body.
When Erin was a minor and didn’t even realize she was a woman, she was a cherished student who looked up and longed for her to come up.
“… “I remember.”
“Do you know how sad it was back then? Why did I really have to do this, was there really no other way than this? .”
Erin followed his expression and smiled bitterly as she hugged Eunhyeon tightly.
“But… “It’s the same now as it was then, but it’s also different.”
“… “It’s different?”
“Huh. I want to become stronger. I want to be next to Hyun. If that doesn’t work, I want to chase after you. “I want to support Hyeon.”
“Erin, as I said before, Erin is still…”
“No. No. It’s not like that. “Hyuna.”
Erin denied Eunhyeon’s persuasion.
She was no more than she wanted to be.
“Hyeon is still growing and moving forward. “If I’m here doing nothing, it just stagnates.”
Naturally, she had no choice but to distance herself from Eunhyeon.
Next to Eunhyeon, Illyana, Eleanoa, Lily, and Verdandi were laughing together, and she couldn’t be the only one staying away.
Not only Illyana, but Eleanoa, Lily, and Verdandi are also supporting him in their own ways.
So what about yourself?
What on earth is there for you?
All he had was the rapier in his hand and the magic power of the divine beast.
So, he has to follow Eun-hyeon’s footsteps and keep up with him as he moves forward.
“That woman is much better than you, who thinks like an idiot. “I don’t know why I like people like you.”
Another Eun-hyeon belittled Eun-hyeon without fail.
“Hyuna.”
“Huh?”
“I’m going to learn something from that person. “Hyun, please focus on your training.”
“But…”
“Are you okay. I can do it! “Because she’s Hyeon’s wife!”
Erin smiled confidently.
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Blue flames fluttered wildly, caught by the Levantein’s blade and dissipating terrifying heat.
At first glance, the preparation stage seemed similar to ‘Cheongsa (靑射)’, which releases the magic power of a divine beast that has been concentrated to the limit on the blade through a single thrust, but the attack that follows the preparation is different.
Unlike the ‘Cheongsa (靑射)’, which melts and burns everything in the line of fire with its terrifying penetrating power and heat, the ‘Cheonghwageom (靑fire sword)’ does not ‘release’ the condensed magical power of the divine beast, but rather ‘radiates’ the blade. ‘Fixing’ it.
As ‘Cheongsa (靑射)’ was a technology that released terrifying magical power to the outside, it had the disadvantage of being one-time use despite consuming a large amount of magical energy.
The ‘Blue Fire Sword’ was used for slashing by condensing the magic power of the blade and fixing it, thereby making up for the disadvantage of being a one-time sword.
Of course, there was a drawback in that it required an enormous amount of concentration to maintain the blue flame fluttering sword energy.
[Your most fatal weakness is concentration. Even though you have the special power of the magical power of a divine beast, the ability to use it with only one shot and one-time use is due to your mind-blowing concentration.]
Thanks to the nine-tailed fox’s forced practice, his sense of controlling magical power has improved considerably, but the problem is that he cannot control it for a long time, which is a fatal flaw.
[Increase your concentration.]
‘It’s easy…’
When Erin first heard the story from Eunhyeon, she was dumbfounded by how simple and clear the story was.
My concentration is at the lowest level.
So grow it.
It was a very easy story to say, but if it came true quickly, there was no reason for her to go through the trouble of buying it herself.
[Just now, you blocked all my sword strikes. I blocked all critical hits aimed at critical points where I could have died. Was it because he read my attack, recognized it, and blocked it?]
That’s not it.
I just felt it.
The instinctive danger that if you don’t stop this, if you don’t avoid it, you could really die.
So, in trying to block it, he was unable to block Eunhyun’s other, relatively less dangerous, combo attack.
[You know how to see the flow. To be precise, it is particularly sensitive to information received through the senses.]
She sees with her eyes, hears with her ears, and feels with her skin that a terrifying attack threatening her life is approaching.
That is why the body moved first in response to the survival instinct.
[The biggest difference between you and ‘me’ is the way you deal with risk.]
In Eunhyeon’s case, ‘reason’ intervenes as she recognizes the attack, accepts it in her head, and decides how to respond.
In Erin’s case, as soon as she recognizes the attack, her ‘instinct’ moves her body first.
The difference between reason and a person’s thoughts being involved or not can lead to enormous results in a fierce battlefield where a person’s life or death is a matter of judgment in 0.1 seconds.
Erin’s special ‘sense’ and ‘instinct’ were her own special talents that no one could dare to imitate.
This talent was the source of her outrageous reaction speed and agile movements.
[She moves only on instinct without any reason involved, so there really is no such thing as a beast.]
‘… What a cheesy thing to say. Really.’
Erin frowned at Eunhyun’s tone, which didn’t stop there but was another tone that got on her nerves.
Erin and Eunhyeon were like water and oil.
We couldn’t understand each other, we didn’t want to understand each other, and we hated each other.
Erin could never forgive another Eunhyun for pushing her Eunhyun into a terrible nightmare.
I also really hated Eun-hyeon’s wives who defended Verdandi, a goddess whom Eun-hyeon also really hated.
However, despite this, her attitude toward her martial arts and her own level and skills is infinitely serious.
[The reason he didn’t tell you this is because you have to go through a lot of hardships and obstacles in order to realize and hone your talent.]
The senses and survival instinct to detect danger in extremely dangerous situations.
In order to refine and grow it, one must continue to expose oneself to extreme and dangerous environments where those senses and survival instincts can shine.
Eunhyeon knew very well how difficult and dangerous it was, so she did not want Erin to go through that trouble.
[It’s not that difficult to develop your concentration if you utilize the talents you have.]
‘… How?’
[Realize selflessness and surrender to your instincts. As I said before, you know how to see the flow with that special sense that only you have. Catch the flow of magical power, fix and maintain its form.]
‘That explanation isn’t much different from what Miho gave me…’
A strange, incomprehensible sound that comes out of nowhere.
[I probably said it before, just trust your instincts and catch the flow.]
‘No. Even if you say that, I have no idea what you’re talking about!’
Erin seemed frustrated and annoyed, perhaps because she couldn’t understand no matter how many times she explained it to her.
Another Eun-hyeon once again thought that Eun-hyeon was amazing, wondering how on earth she had trained this low-intellectual girl to grow to the level she is now.
At least Eunhyun would be able to understand her concept and theory itself after hearing this explanation.
It may have taken her time because she wasn’t very good at putting things into practice and coming to senses, but she never felt this frustrated.
She had no choice but to explain it again to her level.
[In your opinion, when is your best time to concentrate?]
‘Uhm…’
Erin thought briefly, then smiled broadly and put the moment that came into her mind into her mouth.
‘When you and Hyeon make a lot of love in bed?’
[… Fuck.]
Eunhyun, who was different, gave a completely different answer than she expected and cursed.
As expected, this year was the year of my first birthday.
The moment when I was most focused and faithful to my instincts was the moment full of love between a man and a woman on bed.
She felt pathetic at the lustful and shallow answer, and at the same time, she felt helpless as to what on earth she was doing here.
In fact, the reason why another Eunhyun showed interest in Erin and decided to give her advice was because of her talent.
Realizing her selflessness means that she can master her own ‘heart’ and raise her state to a higher level.
In fact, Erin, who completed ‘energy’ through the special power of the divine beast’s magical power, was also a talent with the potential to grow into the realm of immortals.
However, the moment Eunhyun heard Erin’s lust-filled answer, she gave up on that possibility.
At least she didn’t know how to control herself like Eunhyun, because Erin didn’t seem to have any intention of doing so.
[She really was just an animal.]
“The words were really vulgar words that made me angry, but…”
Erin still couldn’t deny the new skills she had created through Eunhyeon’s advice.
“Hyuna!”
“Erin? That…”
Eunhyeon immediately noticed the changes that had occurred in Levantein.
A sword that emits a deep blue light.
He was surprised for a moment to recognize the density of power concentrated there, and then smiled happily.
“Okay. “You’ve grown.”
“But, I can’t keep this up for long! About 5 minutes!?”
Concentration essentially means gathering around one place or pouring all one’s energy into one task.
In other words, she was able to raise her level to the next level by gathering all of her concentration, which she had originally lacked, but this only meant as long as her concentration was maintained, and it was only temporary.
Even so, how happy it is that her wife’s efforts, after all her troubles and thoughts, made up for her own shortcomings and helped her grow.
“Five minutes is enough.”
With those words, it took less than three minutes for Eunhyeon and Erin to annihilate a large army of about 2,000 demonic beasts and undead with the support of Arcis’ bombardment.
It was an overwhelming victory with not a single casualty or injury.
