Solo Swordmaster

#860. I have reached

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Growing old is ugly.

Being sick is terrible.

Being weak is a sin in itself.

That’s why humans who can grow old, get sick, and become weak are imperfect beings.

He never doubted that the only thing worth existing in the world was the perfect sword master, and he worked hard to realize that ideal.

“…under.”

So this moment.

with the chest pierced.

coughing up blood

Adolf couldn’t help but laugh.

“It’s not even funny…”

The yam dragon blade, which was made so that non-sword masters can kill sword masters, is definitely phenomenal swordsmanship.

This was the biggest reason Limon had always been able to gain the upper hand in the fight against the Sword Master.

But Adolf knew.

The sword for killing a yam is contradictory.

No matter how deep the reason is.

Even if the swordsmanship is perfect.

It means that it is impossible for ordinary human beings to complete it.

Even if you can make a big number if you keep doing 1 plus 1, in fact, a simple worker who repeats only 1+1 can never earn more than 1 trillion.

Ten million years were not enough for an ordinary person to perfectly master the yam dragon blade, which is difficult even for a sword master.

Even beyond that wall, it is difficult to reach the Sword Master.

He was a superman who reached a realm that humans could not reach when it comes to swords.

It was so obvious that only the same sword master could defeat such a sword master with only a sword was an absolute truth.

…at least a while ago.

Until Lee Chun-gi’s sword pierced him.

“To a guy who is no different from a monkey like this…”

If only Lee Chun-gi cut time or cause and effect.

Or, if he had realized a more unimaginable swordsmanship and cut himself with that power, he would have been able to accept it even if it was divided.

But now I was just dumbfounded.

This is because Lee Chun-gi’s sword did not contain any sword intentions.

A sword that only imitates the sword that unfolds its swordsmanship as precisely as possible according to the most accurate understanding of swordsmanship.

Nevertheless, the reason Adolf couldn’t block the sword wasn’t just because he was unreasonably widening the unfamiliar sword.

It was because of Lee Chun-gi’s swordsmanship.

Poem of Heaven and Hell (Poesie von Himmel und Hölle).

give up the attack.

Even without defense.

Because it only aims to penetrate the gaps smaller than the needles created at the moment the opponent attacks.

If successful, will it be a perfect counterattack?

Death by a speck of dust.

That’s why Limon also evaluated it as insane swordsmanship, the extreme limit of a counter that tolerates only death other than perfect victory.

The swordsmanship that Adolf himself invented and perfected by becoming a sword master was making him die.

Of course, any sword master could steal someone else’s swordsmanship after seeing it once.

Geniuses who did not even get a swordsman’s degree, but did similar things with pure talent, were widely spread in the sword tower.

The problem is twofold.

Even though he may have missed the swordsmanship, Lee Chun-gi perfectly imitated the poems of Heaven and Hell only in swordsmanship.

And another one….

‘Did the sword for the yam be designed this far?’

It doesn’t matter if you’re not a sword master who has mastered swordsmanship.

It’s okay if you don’t have a genius talent that you can see and realize at once.

no matter how dangerous

even if it is difficult and exhausting.

If you take an honest step forward.

So, if only I could learn something little by little even against the sword masters I fight.

To get a chance to reverse the sword master who destroys the yam dragon flesh sword, even with a very faint possibility.

In the shadow of Limon, who thoroughly calculated everything from beginning to end.

eventually fed up

Adolf laughed.

“…As expected, it’s amazing, Rin.”

No matter what abilities they have, humans who fail to become sword masters are, in the end, just imperfect people.

Admiring the greatness of the teacher who made such a writer to slash the sword master.

Adolf realized again.

The immortal Sword Master too.

After all, it wasn’t perfect.

Well, it was natural.

Even beings who are beyond birth, old age, sickness and death can sometimes fail and make mistakes if they succeed in something.

It was only because he knew such a noble, strong, and perfect sword master that he was mistaken.

Even though I hated, hated, and feared him so much, I had no choice but to throw away all those feelings and admire him.

“Ah…”

Deep regret.

A regret that cannot be erased.

And in bitter nostalgia.

The dazzlingly beautiful blonde haired boy muttered.

“I wanted to see you again.”

Passeuk.

Like that…

I respected him so much.

eventually fell in love

no, I couldn’t help but do that.

Thinking of a white-haired beauty who was more ideal than any other type, with a smile on his face.

never compromise.

Because I only pursued the ideal.

A sword master who was called a madman.

Adolf, the swordsman, turned into a handful of ashes and quietly collapsed.

* * *

Lee Chun-gi was listening.

The self-talk left by Adolf.

And I was watching.

watching him die.

without saying anything and without doing anything.

It was so quiet and serene that he seemed indifferent.

But it wasn’t that he wasn’t really interested.

To put it bluntly, the opposite.

Rather, there was a deep interest in Adolf that I couldn’t take my eyes off of Adolf until the end.

Nevertheless, there was only one reason why Lee Chun-gi remained silent.

Even if I wanted to do something, I couldn’t.

Jureuk.

from the chest to the abdomen.

And with the sides and back.

Feeling the warm blood slowly flowing down, slowly cooling down.

Lee Chun-gi closed his eyes.

“…was it not enough after all?”

No matter how one-armed he was, Adolf was a sword master.

Even though his time-cutting swordsmanship was still unstable, it was not something that could be stopped with pure swordsmanship.

The result is this.

The moment that pierced Adolf’s heart.

It was the sword that cut through his body by skipping time.

In the end, his yam dragon flesh sword was still too immature and unsatisfactory to overcome the wall of a sword master.

No, even if he had completed the yam dragon killing sword, nothing would have changed.

No matter how great the yam-yong sword was, the sword master who had obtained the sword was not an existence that could be overcome with just that.

In that sense, his act of blocking Adolf’s way was an act of suicide.

It was really stupid.

But even if you turn back time.

He will make the same choice.

Because you can’t let Geomwang kill Ainsha and Yekatrice?

Of course, that was also the reason.

Not because it was his duty as a disciple of Limon, but because he had a debt to pay back.

In the past, after being hostile to Limon, he was dumped by the country and even provided the cause of Yuna-kyung’s death.

Nevertheless, instead of repaying the blood with his life, he was forgiven by cutting off one of his eyes and taught him how to kill a yam.

‘I can’t say I’ve paid it off with this, though.’

blood fatigue.

life is life.

Grace must be repaid with grace.

And when Lee Chun-gi thought of it, the debt he owed to Limon was too great to repay at this level.

But of course.

That’s not all the reasons.

If that was the case, I wouldn’t have bothered to fight Adolf with only my sword.

In the first place, Lee Chun-gi was a player. In particular, like a monarch who reached level 100, he had a trump card.

【Overlord】

Duel with the past ruler.

After experiencing the humiliation of defeat.

A last resort to simultaneously use hundreds of skills completed after painstaking efforts to surpass him.

Of course, the sword master’s wall is not formidable enough to deal with it alone.

If the skill of the slaughter knife was added to that, there was a possibility that it would upset the balance in the fight with Adolf.

But he didn’t.

Because of the pride of a sword master.

And to prove that his conviction that a sword master is a perfect human being is correct.

Just as Adolf realized the principles of swordsmanship, he eventually turned to the defensive and concentrated on the offensive without using his true swordsmanship.

Until the end, he only focused on swinging his sword without using any other skills, let alone [Overlord].

…Unlike Adolf, it wasn’t because of pride or conviction.

So close your eyes

Lee Chun-gi murmured.

“I couldn’t reach it after all.”

I wanted to be strong.

more than anyone in the world.

It doesn’t need power.

Regardless of wealth, power, luxury, or sex.

I simply wanted to become stronger than anyone else.

To that end, he entered into an arranged marriage with his wife, the eldest daughter of a chaebol family, and created an Infinity Guild with that power to collect items and talent.

He took over all guild management and devoted himself to leveling up in dungeons and duplicating skills.

Even so, after losing the duel with the regressive lord, he pursued power all the more.

getting stronger.

That alone is enough.

Because I believed without a doubt.

But the moment I got to fight Limon.

Lee Chun-gi saw it.

Let go of strength and weakness.

so perfect

be more than fantastic

I couldn’t help but look at it as if I was possessed.

―The dazzlingly beautiful sword path.

And when the strength and effort he had accumulated throughout his life collapsed in that sword, Lee Chun-gi abandoned his life up until now.

Instead, he learned the sword from Limon.

I didn’t want to become a sword master.

It didn’t matter if he didn’t gain the power as an absolute among absolutes.

I just wished.

I hope you can unfold that beautiful and perfect sword path yourself.

That’s why he was willing to go through the hard work of fully cooperating with the Seven Dragons while serving as a spy, even though he was the monarch of the World Federation.

Wealth and power too.

The honor of being a monarch.

I didn’t have much interest in it in the first place, but I could have thrown away any amount to get that sword.

Thanks to such dedication to sword training, in less than a year, I was able to learn hundreds of millions of swordsmanships and even learn sword skills to some extent.

“Sorry.”

nevertheless.

no, rather that’s why.

He couldn’t help but feel sorry for him.

If only I had a little more time.

So, if you had learned the swordsmanship over a billion times and understood the swordsmanship of the yam dragon slaughter sword more deeply.

I didn’t even know that Adolf could have even blocked the sword that he unfolded at the end.

“But…”

But that’s just regret.

There was no resentment toward Lee Chun-gi.

To put it bluntly, I was rather against it.

“I got it.”

without even a sword.

Only sword reason.

only with the technology that contains it.

It even reached the sword master.

For just one moment in a lifetime.

more than perfect.

It was beautiful.

Recall your own sword.

With a faint smile on his always calm face.

A foolish man who was one of the 10 monarchs born in the Iron Age, but wanted to eventually become a swordsman rather than an absolute.

Infinite Lord Lee Chun-gi quietly closed his eyes in a corner of the tomb where his spirit was sleeping.