Chapter 289
Episode 289: Understandable (5)
『Anyway. Did you hear number 73? congratulations. Although it was a failure, it was spared disposal and further testing.』
『….』
『Why isn’t your face happy?』
『I’m not a failure.』
『Aha. Has your pride been hurt?』
『I…!』
『You are a failure, number 73. Although he received the blood of an entity called the starting point of magic, his magical talent was at the lowest level, and his output was at the human limit. As a result, the constitution is such that it can be attacked by the same devil… Oh, it’s not the devil itself in the first place, so there’s nothing we can do about it? That doesn’t mean he’s human either.』
『…!』
『It would be good to understand the topic. The person who is your original is definitely a traitor to heaven, but that does not mean you are a traitor to heaven.』
『I am…』
『If you want to aim for heaven, first prepare yourself for it. 』
『….』
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Emerald Gye-myeong quietly raised his sword.
treason. The words that came out of my mouth and that I laughed at were immediately cut off by the blade of the sword. Even if everyone in the world ridicules her, she is a target that should not be ridiculed.
One compliance is not defeat, but one resignation is a signal of submission. And she will never submit to her source.
“…Oh, I see.”
She put strength on her toes as she looked at the other person with a shocked expression. The leather shoes, which were thick enough to prevent damage to the soles of her feet but thin enough not to interfere with her flexibility, were wrinkled.
bang!
With one leap, the surrounding air was crushed and scattered fragments.
visor! The moment sword and sword collide, what scatters around is the remnants of shredded magical power.
It was a phenomenon that could only be achieved when those who could concentrate magical power to a visible degree and maintain it for a long time gathered together and crossed swords.
Green and black light dust was scattered brilliantly like the remains of jewels.
Sigh!
However, she was not satisfied with that.
Keimyung made full use of what he had.
whip. The whip, which was cut approximately 1.5 meters in length, exploded the bodies of bugs that were sprouting up around it and blocked the opponent’s view with the remains.
In return, her white clothes got dirty, but she accepted it. She was too weak to remain high above the clouds until the end. I didn’t want to admit it even if I died, but that was the reality. ‘What is the reason for being attached to the devil despite being treated so poorly?’ The words that she would not have listened to if she were strong proved her situation.
She was not the kind of person who could choose between means and methods right now.
“Huh…!”
The good news is that the opponent’s knowledge is shallow and the sword is vague. This might be enough for the dull or moderately skilled, but not for the commandments.
She took advantage of the blocked view and stabbed straight into the opponent’s upper body. The opponent hurriedly blocked one point of the rapier with the edge of the sword, but she instead used her strength.
In any case, her rapier’s gold chain is unbreakable.
This is the sword that Cain, crawling under the lake, provided the scales, Eve, the featherless bird, forged with cold fire, and Adam, breathing white, quenched, and completed as an offering to Abel.
Hani Kye-myung believed that his sword would not break and pushed his opponent away. The smooth ground called mud began to slide the sword and the entire person.
Similar-colored eyes widened as if embarrassed.
Keying!
In that scene, the commandment gave strength to his feet. Sigh. After crushing the ghoul’s head, his feet dug through the mud and landed firmly on the ground. There was no slippage due to recoil.
She looked at the opponent who had been pushed back a little more than her and saw two swords separated by the opponent being pushed back a little more.
bang!
Once again her entire body leapt. Sigh! The whip swung at her for a moment keeps everything around her in check and explodes again.
Commandment struck the opponent’s sword again under the flying flesh and blood.
The target is the weakest part of the sword body. Kang! Her rapier collided with her opponent’s sword once again. I could clearly see her rolling her eyes, as if she was wary that she would slip the sword and stab herself.
But why would she take such a risky gamble? If you don’t kill it in one go, or if the angle is slightly off, the attack that can easily be counterattacked is the stabbing, right?
A knight’s fight is not about killing the enemy with one blow. In a melee with enemies on all sides, this tendency becomes even more evident.
A knight must always fight and protect himself. Because staying alive allows you to kill more enemies.
“you.”
Also, time was on her side. Even though the other person doesn’t know anything.
“Isn’t it starting to get hard to breathe?”
“…?”
“Doesn’t your stomach hurt somewhere?”
This environment is equally hostile to her and to the other person. However, if I had to choose someone in a more dangerous situation, I would choose him without hesitation.
“As long as you harbor anger, you will not be cursed with hunger and thirst. But plague and bugs are different.”
Because this place was truly full of bugs, and the other person had so many wounds that bugs could easily burrow into. To be exact, she made it that way.
“I wonder whether the disease spreads through your body first or the bugs hatch their eggs first.”
Back, shoulders, sides, stomach, thighs, and forearms. There are so many cuts or punctures that make the muscles visible. Considering the contaminated soil and bugs that went into that place, how long will his life last?
I’m guessing some of them are gnawing on some of the internal organs, such as lungs, by now?
“Cough.”
“also.”
Her prediction was immediately correct. Soon, the other person started spitting blood out of his mouth. Keying! Even at that moment, there is something quite majestic about blocking the sword and kicking her with his legs.
She deflected the attack aimed at her with her sword and swung her whip. The whip, which made a cracking sound due to a clever wrist snap, was about to burst into the opponent’s side.
Paang! The magical energy that burst out of the opponent’s body forcibly pushed away her whip.
“Yuck.”
Afterwards, the opponent spat blood again.
However, his expression was quite different from when he first coughed up blood. As he was embracing the entire devil, a huge demonic energy like Mount Tai was seen rippling within his body.
“Thank you.”
“…?”
“If I hadn’t known the cause, I would have been in big trouble.”
And the wave crushed and killed the small creatures that were moving around inside the body. They killed only the tiny insects without causing any damage to his body.
It was a frightening level of control.
“This is why the lack of pain is a problem…”
“…How?”
However, she had never seen a human control energy so naturally. The same goes for tracing memories not only of herself but also of the source she shares.
“…Did you get help from anger?”
The only way to exercise such control over demonic energy or magic power is through pride and anger. Gye-myung’s lips were momentarily pursed.
“yes?”
“I was suspicious because I couldn’t see the effect of strengthening the body with magical power… I guess that was it.”
“yes??”
When you inject magic power into your body, some of the magic power used to strengthen it tends to flow out. The more magical energy is used, the more uncontrollable energy rises from the body like a haze.
Just like she did, and just like the former knight commander she had only heard about.
However, I wondered if even that could not happen in the face of incredible dominance. Keimyung laughed at that fact.
“It’s truly miserable.”
There is no way humans could have reached that level, and anger must have helped. That made her even more miserable.
This is because the goal that was only vaguely predictable has become a reality and is painfully approaching.
“Are you saying I truly can’t reach the sky…!”
I wanted to reach the sky, but I wanted to somehow break the root and stand in that place by following the longing that her root cried out for.
Can she, who can’t even do that, reach that pinnacle? Can she stand in the sky?
“I am…!!”
She gripped her sword even more tightly out of jealousy and envy.
『I keep feeling the energy of anger nearby… Maybe it senses my plan and is coming to ruin it.』 I knew that
this jealousy and jealousy were increasing the distance between me and the source, so I couldn’t bear it.
『It turned out better. You won’t have much time to do damage to the city if you leave more cards. It might be a good idea to shake it off now. If anger gets involved, it will be a ruined plan anyway. If it causes even a little more damage, there will be no loss on this side.』 I
hated and envied the existence that made her original use her as a discard just by existing. She needed that kind of strength. The power to resolve the longing caused by her source that will make her stand on her own!
“Why are you suddenly having a seizure?”
bang!
She quickly cornered the other person who expressed embarrassment.
It wasn’t that easy.
Even though it would clean up the surrounding demons, the sword sword, which was difficult to deal with, if you blocked the sword sword, the demons that would fill in the empty space in an instant and prey on you were also quite threatening if you were not careful.
Chae chaeng chaeng!
However, in the end, she was the one who won the chief knight, and her opponent was the one who did not.
She raised her arms in response to the incoming attack.
Sigh!
The opponent’s sword pierced the empty space between her side and arm. However, as the other person stepped forward and she also did so, it was not the blade that was trapped between her side and arm, but the arm holding the sword.
She restrained the opponent’s arm by pressing her forearm to her side. It was a restraint that would only be released if the opponent tried to pull his arm out with concentrated force, but it was not a big problem.
At that point, her rapier will stab the opponent first.
Sreuk!
However, just as her sword was about to move, a new sword – presumed to be a two-hender based on its shape and length – was summoned in the opponent’s empty hand.
It wasn’t an unexpected incident, as he had summoned and holstered a sword out of thin air earlier.
However, that will definitely be the opponent’s mistake.
She took a picture of Rapier’s sword face with her pommel. The sword pressed against the pommel tilted and struck the opponent’s head. It was as if the sword was stuck in the middle and the head was stuck in the metal.
“Tsk.”
The other person reflexively narrowed his eyes and pulled out his arm. Pow! Before the longsword reappeared in her arm, her foot kicked the opponent’s abdomen as if pushing it away.
“Sigh.”
Her rapier rushed at high speed towards the pushed opponent. The opponent, who had barely summoned a longsword, managed to fit it into the rapier’s charging path.
Clang!
At that moment, the longsword that had been pierced by one point of the rapier suddenly broke with a high metallic sound. The repulsive force pushed Kyemyung back and his wrists became sore, but there was no damage.
There was no better prey than a knight who had lost his weapon.
“Now—”
Of course, as the opponent showed, there would still be a two-hender left. However, would a person who cannot even master the long sword, which is one of the basic swords, use the two-hender well? If he had been good at handling the two-hender in the first place, would he have tried to deal with her with a long sword from the beginning?
“—It’s the end.”
That can’t be possible. That can’t be the case, so her judgment is correct.
Whether or not the struggle continues, she will be the one who wins.
Her sword extended towards the opponent’s heart.
‘Oh, I have to hear the truth and go. yes?’
Suddenly, the other person’s eyes became red like rubies.
“Attaya!!”
Coincidentally, what was thrown here from far away on the castle wall was a scarlet sword that shined beautifully like a flame. Magi, who was wandering in the air, caught it like a fishing line.
‘congratulations. ‘There are not many people who have received my help without compensation.’
At the same time, powerful magical energy poured out from the opponent and held her feet. It burns. A fleeting fantasy shook her instincts and gave her a gap of one second.
‘Have I done everything I could?’
Suddenly, the scarlet sword was held in the opponent’s hand. I guess I’ll lose. He gained the enlightenment that the commandment is like his name. She will be defeated.
“you.”
She will die without being able to eat the vessel of anger and inherit its power or plot rebellion through it.
“May you perish with anger.”
That’s so miserable.
Gye-myung accepted the black and yellow flame without closing his eyes.
A blade plunged into my heart.
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『Just wait and see, it will definitely return as heaven!』
He turned the glass tube containing the green gem from various angles as he reflected on the past. The jewel is becoming more and more broken, and all that remains is for it to fall out of shape.
“I wanted to know the power of the homunculus made by mixing the blood of the great devil and humans…”
This green gemstone only confirms the status of the homunculus and does not reveal its location or situation. That is truly unfortunate. If I were to die, I would like to know how I would react and how I would die.
“Are you dying with arrogant eyes? Or are you dying struggling?”
Maybe its death resembles the death of the person who provided the blood.
Bye!
The jewel was completely shattered.