Chapter 13 – 13. Demon Race Horse Hunting
Before Zuzak took action, he sent a telegram to Swordsman.
[If it’s an attack that simply shoots sparks, I can effectively defend it. So, Master, focus on attack and only focus on defense when taking physical attacks such as claws or beaks. This disciple will take care of the flame.]
[I will leave the flames to you.]
After that, he sent a telegram to Baek Do-jin and repeated the same conversation. He sent an answer that he would know, and the three of us, roughly prepared, rushed. Even though he was beaten so badly, it was judged that the swordsmanship was ineffective against Suzaku who was so fine.
No, it’s not that the light blood flowing through the whole body is ineffective, and it’s full of scars, but more than that, Suzaku’s resilience was extraordinary.
Indeed, befitting the Great Yo-kai, who was called the Phoenix even among you-kai, it seems that this guy has a high resilience instead of a lower physical ability compared to other Four Gods. If it was a perfected Suzaku, it would have been impossible to attack even if there were two fairly decent prefectures.
– Do you want to leave alone!
Perhaps recognizing that he is at a disadvantage in close combat, Jujak uses a huge yogi. A large amount of yogi spewed out at once, and after losing control, fragments of flame began to pour down like a shower in our direction.
However, as I confidently conveyed by telephony that I would be in charge of the flames, I grabbed a sword in each hand and swung it relentlessly. The slash, which was swung like a wild dance, had the momentum to create a sword shield, but it collided with Suzaku’s fire shower and was destroyed, so it was destroyed.
‘It’s offset, la. I wonder if it’s because it’s the energy that burns the ancestral guardians that I accumulated in my previous life but didn’t absorb.’
Originally, I thought that the yang qi of my body, which I pride myself on being one of the best in the upper limbs, would be higher than that of the flames of Suzaku, but it seems that was not the case. I can’t be sure because I’ve never fought him in the future, but I wondered if he’d be more annoying than the other Four Gods if he grew up to the prefecture level.
I told the two masters following me to open a way to approach Suzaku, so I have to complete it. He throws the sword in his left hand to temporarily slow down Suzaku, and in the gap, grabs the sword in his right hand with both hands and strikes it down with a large blade.
Like a fish defying the current, the long blade of the sword bursts into a huge shockwave and creates a path.
The two masters immediately dig into the gap created by the impact and approach the master.
– These bastards!
The guy raised his claws at him, but Baek Do-jin raised his sword as if he was going to block the giant with his old body. With the sound of shells exploding, Baekdojinin was pushed back greatly, but Jujak’s claws were intertwined with Baekdojinin’s sword and blocked. Baekdo Jinin, who had no choice but to block his attack, passed by, and his next claw aimed at Sword Hu, but Baekdo Jinin acted before that.
“Aaaaa!!”
-No?
Perhaps he was showing off his muscles, but his forearms were enlarged, and he pushed the sword with the claws into the sword a little, but slightly broke his posture. Suzaku bursts into embarrassment when a small human briefly overwhelms his giant. As a result, the balance of the center of gravity was disturbed, and the swordsman narrowly avoided the claws of Suzaku and dug deeper, drawing dozens of trajectories with mysterious afterimages with a dazzling swordsmanship once again.
The plum sword method, which boasts a transformative sword, beats the bird’s chest as it is.
– Aaaaagh!
Even as he screamed in pain as his lungs were forced out of his lungs, Ju-jak’s eyes were filled with cold anger. Geonji was looking for a way to break through the current situation with his eyes wide open, but he seemed to be trying to find a gap behind the sword. It was obvious that he would stick out that useless snout as soon as he found an opening, but he had no intention of leaving it unattended.
The guy aimed at the gap behind the sword, bizarrely snapped his neck, and threw a dagger at the moment he held out his beak.
Several daggers were thrown over the sword’s right shoulder, between the legs, and in front of the left foot, which were supposed to be gaps. From his point of view, it would feel like a dagger suddenly appeared in front of him and his beak was slapped. He was on the verge of going crazy and jumping, but to his admiration, Ju-jak, like an old master, did not hesitate to move even though he was slightly injured.
I was about to strike the blade with feather-studded wings that could stick to even a fair amount of steel, but I intervened again in the meantime.
Instead of swinging the sword, he held it out as if holding it against the wings. Immediately after touching it, he gently turned his wrist to make a circle with the sword, and the gum-like wings bent in strange directions and struck the air. When Yu Neungjegang, who connected Yihwa grafting to the shaman’s boastful technique of Taegeuk, canceled the flapping of his wings, the swordsman took advantage of this gap and knocked Suzaku apart.
Chow!
It wasn’t ‘cut’, it was ‘cut’. In other words, it meant that Suzaku’s resilience was starting to catch up with the injuries he received. There was no way the two seasoned masters would not have noticed what the phenomenon meant.
In order not to miss this opportunity, I quickly untied the filthy heavy net that was tied around my waist and wrapped it around the wing of Suzaku. It was a net made of black iron known to be heavy and woven with wire. It’s not just a simple winding, but I’m hanging it myself and blowing it into the strong air, so it’ll buy me a little time.
It would be quite embarrassing if Suzaku was forced to fly at the risk of injury. For that reason, Baekdo Jin-in deliberately put the sword in his new paw and held it.
However, when Suzaku couldn’t fly because of me, Baek Do-jinin forcibly let go of the bird foot he was holding on to, and climbed on top of the fallen Suzaku like a swordsman and spread the sword. Correspondingly, the plum blossom method blooms.
Seizing the opportunity, the attack-oriented Cheongunjeokha sword and the Maehwa sword technique harmonize, and the beautiful and majestic plum blossoms fall as they are and strike the Suzaku.
If this is the case, we win.
It was the moment I thought so.
Chew! Wow! Chew!
“…Uh?”
I was bruised for an instant by what had just happened in front of my eyes. I immediately came to my senses that I had done something I shouldn’t have done, but the embarrassing thing was still there.
It was because a large amount of blood splattered to draw a rainbow, and the wings and claws swung like whips along with flames hit the blade and cut Baekdo Jinin.
However, immediately after seeing the state of Suzaku, I was able to understand the sequence of the situation.
“That crazy bastard…”
Zuzak tore off one of his wings tied to the net and attacked the two masters, who were distracted while concentrating on the attack, with the remaining wing and claws. No matter how much he faced the fate of extinction with the collapse of the Demonic Realm, he did not know that Ji would reveal his rational speculation by tearing off even his own wings.
It was not the White Tiger, but the fact that the new monster, Ju-Jak, ripped off his wings was tantamount to losing his combat power by more than half.
From a military standpoint, it would be like cutting off one of his legs.
So usually they don’t do that. For ordinary people, the flickering limbs right in front of them feel more important than the invisible death of the approaching form. I didn’t expect him to be terrifyingly rational enough to immediately act like that, saying that was the answer.
‘No, this is not the time to worry about this.’
The current problem was that even though he had lost one of his wings, the living Suzaku was glaring at us with great aggression. Geomhu passed out after being hit in the chest by a wing, and Baek Do-jin’s left arm was torn off with a big scar on his chest from a claw, and he was bleeding severely. Neither of them were in a state to fight against Suzaku right now.
Then, I was the only one who could fight him right away.
As I blocked the guy who was trying to finish off the Sword Master and Baekdo Jinin, Jujak said while staring at Sura with ferocious eyes.
– Get out of the way, little girl. After I kill them, I will kill you myself. No, if you run away even now, isn’t it because I’m in a good mood after killing those two and might save you?
“No, what kind of bird’s head is lying like this? Is it a bird’s head? It’s a bad head.”
-…
The master was silent. It was as if he did not know that he would hear such abusive language from me, who looked the weakest.
They say that if you’re too absurd, you won’t get angry, but Jujak may have felt that way too, so he just tilted his head instead of getting angry.
-Mimulah. Are you mad with fear?
“Then should I eat more of her mother’s milk because I’m afraid of the bird’s head that has lost its wings?”
-…
Suzaku, who had been pushed and sunk by the horse teeth again, remained silent.
However, unlike before, his eyes were wide open and he was clearly expressing his anger. His killing force oppresses my entire body, but his killing force has no effect on me. I don’t know if I’d rather send momentum with the thought of subduing it.
-Your guy… It’s not an ordinary beauty.
Even with the energy that embodied his own life, when I was fine, Ju-jak’s eyes changed. It was judged that it was not just an insignificant thing, but an existence that might be seen as an enemy.
Is it because he is the weakest among the four gods? So it might be the most rational one.
It’s scary to see a wounded tiger rampaging, but what’s even more terrifying is a rational wounded tiger. So, once I decided that it was necessary to disturb the guy’s composure, I said to Suzaku with an unlucky grin on the corner of my mouth.
“Hey, bird’s head!”
-?
“I heard that you are the weakest of the Four Gods? You are weak against Blue Dragon and Baekho, and Hyeonmu is the weakest among the Four Gods because of their poor compatibility. Is that true?”
-…
This was a true story. Although Ju-jak was on the same level as Blue Dragon and White Tiger, he was narrowly weaker, and despite being stronger than Hyeon-mu, he was only defeated because of their compatibility, because another yokai told him in the future. From the point of view of other monsters or humans, Suzaku was the 3rd among the Four Gods, but was the weakest among the Four Gods, ranking 4th.
Sometimes, a fact simpler than sarcasm could touch the worst of all, so I provoked him with the facts.
“It is said that monsters that are younger than Hyunmu can’t even be treated as monsters, so what are you that loses to Hyunmu? Are you a great monster?”
Suzaku suddenly burst into an angry roar.
-Ahhhhh,
The provocation seems to have worked too well. The guy just started condensing his own fire, burning even the current Seoncheongi. So the dozens of fireballs created in the air were dangerous to me too. Because the physical force that explodes gives me a shock. If it’s a simple flame, I’ll have an advantage, but if it’s an attack that uses physical force in the aftermath like that, it works well for me too.
-I’m going to kill you!!!
Realizing that I was completely targeted by him, I guided him by escaping in the opposite direction so that the two would no longer be caught in the aftermath of the battle.
“Yeah~ Well, at least it’s a job less than Hyunmu.”
– Aaaaagh!
The effect was obvious!
