219. A Hazy Relationship (4)
Swoosh.
The black rose gradually regains its vitality.
I smirked at the sight and shoved it back into my pocket.
There was something more urgent to attend to now.
“Julia. Come to my side quickly. Hold my hand and don’t fall behind.”
“Yes, yes······!”
Oh, this is bad.
I sighed deeply as I watched Julia scurrying behind Yerina.
Thud, thud.
I pounded on the frozen wall, but it was as solid as a mountain.
Even the magic in the area was frozen solid and contained within Yerina’s hands.
It was raging but not rampaging.
What state is that?
I don’t know.
Perhaps it’s something one can master when they’ve achieved the realm beyond the Great Void Heart Method······.
In any case, the magic in this area is completely Yerina’s, even though I can touch it, I can’t get my hands on it.
‘Can I break it with the Crescent Moon?’
The ice wall covering the walls, windows, and doors is not just hard.
If it were an ordinary ice wall, I could have shattered it with a light punch.
But this is the result of Yerina’s magic being condensed to the extreme.
So, to break it, I would have to give her a shock strong enough to hurt her.
Whether the Crescent Moon can do that is unknown.
Guys like Belphegor and Rex were cut down in one blow, but Yerina might be able to withstand it.
No, she might not even get a scratch······.
If I attack once and my location is detected, I’ll be in for a disaster and my life will be over.
As much as the Evil Eye puts a strain on my body, I can’t just keep shooting it indefinitely.
For now, I need to find an opening.
“Are you looking for an opening now? You should give up. You won’t be able to leave here until you kill me.”
“······.”
She read my mind.
Yerina, confident and seemingly defenseless.
It means she’ll allow me to strike first.
And that means she’s confident that she can survive the first strike and counterattack.
No, I might fail to even land the first blow.
Even though I’ve stepped into the realm of the superhuman, Rex, whose physicality is worlds apart from Yerina’s, started reading my intentions after a few sword clashes.
Yerina might notice it right away and block it with her monstrous reflexes.
She’s a mountain in the truest sense of the word.
I felt it when we sparred with just our physical abilities, without magic.
But when we face each other in an all-out battle, using every means at our disposal, there’s no answer.
Back then, I could have won a decisive victory if I had used a trick······.
But this is a complete defeat, even if I use every trick in the book.
That’s when I was armed with all my abilities, but now that they’re all sealed, what chance do I have?
I can’t win.
In fact, I could lose my life if I make a mistake.
Is there a death more futile and heartbreaking than being defeated by Yerina’s blind sword?
I don’t want that.
I want to avoid it.
I have to find an opening and get out of here somehow······.
‘Is this right? Is it right to run away?’
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The moment I came to my senses.
I found myself looking for a way to escape in a panic.
Am I scared because I’m facing an overwhelming opponent for the first time in a long time?
‘This is ridiculous.’
I guess my threshold has lowered a lot since I’ve been playing munchkin in the Demon Realm.
Come to think of it, this was my everyday life.
I’ve encountered more powerful opponents than weaker ones.
Did Rex feel this way when he faced me?The determination to face a life-or-death battle against an invisible opponent that is certainly stronger than oneself.
At that moment, Rex risked his life to overcome his limits.
He did not turn his back on the situation before him.
Then what about me?
What is in front of me now?
There is Yerina, and I have the opportunity to confront her with my will.
Isn’t this the opportunity I have been hoping and waiting for?
There was no reason to hesitate or turn my back.
I smiled in vain and put my hands together as if holding a sword.
There is no more trembling in my hands.
Only a firm will gathers to form the shape of a sword.
Is that why?
This time, the outline of the sword that I carved out with my will is clear and solid.
Even though it is still made up of only two wills.
It is already sharp enough to rival a real sword.
“It’s there after all.”
At that moment, Yerina’s eyes twisted and her tail wagged as she looked straight at me and pointed her sword.
Is she aware of the direction?
A sense of fear seems to flicker from her trembling wolf ears.
Yerina is also prepared to die.
An invisible enemy.
She intends to fight an unrecognizable enemy with her life on the line.
It is the best situation to draw out the will.
I can’t back down here.
If I can’t get Frostflow’s will, everything will be in vain.
“Just once. I’ll only face you once.”
I only have to clash wills once.
Yerina must have already developed her soul-seeing vision.
The moment our wills touch, I will be able to enter Yerina’s inner world.
“Yerina. You know? Just one without hurting you-“
Swish······!
At that moment, a fierce gust of wind swept around Yerina.
I instinctively stepped back with a sudden chill.
“What the heck!”
The ice on the floor seemed to melt for a moment, then instantly froze again, forming sharp spikes that attacked me!
Does she know my location as well as my direction?
A wave of ice spikes that threatens to turn me into a honeycomb.
“Dakia-ryu will.”
I knocked Mischief over and laid her between my legs, then laid the sword horizontally.
It is a posture preparing for a half-moon.
However, this time, since they are attacking from all sides, if I swing the half-moon, I will be stabbed in the back and become a hedgehog.
The answer is simple.
Just extend the half-moon.
I swing the gripped sword all the way to the back, drawing a perfect circle.
“Full Moon!”
Sword energy that emits white light and spreads in all directions.
The ice spikes that were attacking melted and turned into water.
Unlike the ice wall that surrounded the room, it seems that I can break it because it is hastily made ice.
In the place where the ice waves subsided-
“Where is this?”
“Whoa whoa whoa! Wait!!!”
Yerina, her eyes filled with anger, jumped out, lightly receiving the Full Moon with one arm.
An ambush after blocking my vision with an ice wall?
I can’t avoid it because it’s right after I shot the Full Moon.
I didn’t expect this······?
“Die.”
There is no special technique or intention in the swordplay that swings in the meantime.
Just a sword that swings hard.
No, it’s a sword that swings really hard.
It is a sword that accurately splits my brow in half.
“Ugh!”
“······Dangerous.”
Mischief grabbed the back of my neck and pulled me back.
The sword hit the floor and there was a moment of illusion as if an earthquake had occurred, and ice shards flew in all directions.
The view that unfolds after my vision clears is a floor with a huge crater.
If I had been hit by that, I would have been finely chopped up and become ㅇㅠㅈㅣㄴ instead of 유/진.”A club or a mace, not a sharp sword, can do such a blow?”
It wasn’t even a blow that had gathered so much magic power.
It was only a moment of being shocked and out of my mind.
I quickly remembered my original purpose and came to my senses.
I shouldn’t push the yardstick of ordinary people and ordinary swords to Yerina.
I had forgotten that obvious fact for a moment.
Everything changes in a battle with Yerina.
Just as the experience and know-how accumulated in training between humans becomes useless when fighting a bear.
In a fight with Yerina, I have to erase all the habits and tricks that have been ingrained in my body by previous battles.
Even if ordinary people, including Rex, are mistaken, if there is a moment of stiffness.
There is no such thing for Yerina.
If you shoot a mistake and become unable to move for a while, you will become a sacrifice to the sword.
‘I’m going to turn around.’
I thought it would be enough to just face one mistake.
Yerina doesn’t seem to have any intention of showing any mistakes at all.
No. Do you think it’s an opponent that doesn’t need to use mistakes in the first place?
‘It seems right······.’
While blocking my mistake lightly, I am a monster who wields a blow that I can never block as if breathing.
Certainly, from Yerina’s point of view, there is no need to bring out the magnificent mistake that goes beyond the limits of swordsmanship and what.
Because you can swing your sword ten times harder with the time and stamina to shoot one mistake······.
“Gone? It must have been an unavoidable angle? What the hell? Do you have legs on your back? Inhuman? If not······ Are there two, not one?”
“This is crazy.”
In the meantime, even the power was read.
Are you really not recognizing me right now?
Now I’m not just creepy, I’m amazed.
“It doesn’t seem like much skill. Or are you watching?”
Yerina, who wields a sword as if she is disgusted, at the location where we are presumed to be.
From Yerina’s point of view, it might have been just a probing attack to guess my location.
But to me, each of those shots is just a burden.
Bang! Kwabang!
The ice wall, which had not even been scratched by my mistake, cracks.
Every time I fly, I think, can I somehow block it?
However, when it comes to my eyes, the weight of the sword is really felt, and my intuition that I must avoid this unconditionally shakes my body.
There is no skill in Yerina’s sword.
There are no tricks or anything.
It’s not particularly fast either.
It’s just a classic Frost style.
Nevertheless-
‘No doubt. This is full power.’
The problem was that Yerina was now charging at full power.
The eyes glowing with madness are full of bloodshot.
With every flinch I make, Yerina’s ears and tail react sensitively, almost perfectly predicting her position, murderous intent, and so on.
“Is that there?”
“Ugh······!”
In the meantime, as I took a breath, a sharp stab flew straight at my forehead.
Instinct cries out.
Immediately lower your posture to evade, then burrow into Yerina’s arms and counterattack.
“······.”
However, immediately after collapsing my posture like a limbo and evading.
I was horrified to see Yerina’s gaze following me down, not the tip of the sword.
At this point, isn’t it like you’re looking at me?
“Like a rat.”
Kagagak!
The moment I went against my instincts and fell back, Yerina’s sword tip cut the floor.
It was a blow that would have been cut in half if I had burrowed in and tried to counterattack.
‘The reaction speed is not a game at all.’
There is no answer in close combat.
If it’s a guy who fights by taking advantage of something special, I’ll try to figure out how to destroy his weakness.
Yerina has no strengths and no weaknesses.
Just stupidly strong.No matter how sharp or tailored the strategy and tactics are, it means nothing the moment they approach Yerina.
‘This is Yerina’s track record······.’
The power of a single blow is enough to kill a whale.
In addition to that, it’s no exaggeration to say that she has the fastest reaction speed of any living creature in the world.
Yerina is using this solid ice prison as an arena, unleashing her full power that she wouldn’t be able to wield outside.
But was she originally this strong?
No matter how much of an OP character Yerina is, she sometimes gets into danger in the dungeon, doesn’t she?
At this point, she could just go into the dungeon and destroy the ground floor to clear it, couldn’t she?
‘Ah. I strengthened her.’
I realized it just then.
The current Yerina has a body that can control her madness and freely handle her magic rampage.
I wondered who had completed it, but it was me who had handed over the 광할심법.
‘But why doesn’t she use 오의······?’
But something is strange.
Yerina is clearly charging at me with full force right now.
Why hasn’t she taken out 오의 yet?
Why on earth?
Is it the kind of 오의 that paralyzes the whole body after using it once?
Even if that’s the case, from Yerina’s point of view, shouldn’t she be using it now to kill me quickly?
I’m starting to get suspicious.
A reasonable suspicion.
‘Could it be that she hasn’t acquired 오의 yet?’