Episode 26. three verses (5)
Six months ago, the day Yuri first realized the pain of defeat.
Shaaa-.
Amidst the cool sound of rain echoing in the cave, John’s voice calmed down.
The reason why Yuri had to fight in a losing battle.
The misery of defeat and the desperation that can be gained through it.
Yuri listened to John’s story.
Also, what he wanted to convey to himself was accepted without filtering.
The voice that had been going on for a long time gradually died down.
Seruk-.
John got up from his seat.
“Did you say you never wanted to lose?”
A small resolution that Yuri muttered to herself.
After asking this as a question, John picked up his sword and walked out.
Jerk-jerk-.
The falling rain wet John’s head and shoulders.
Hooded-.
Standing on the wet ground in the rain, John looked back at Yuri.
A bitter smile hung on his lips.
“I did too.”
25 years ago, John was 40 years old.
The sword master of the same age conquered the world.
John, who believed that if the sword master did it, he could do it too, and threw a challenge to the sword master.
A genius challenge that was considered unmatched except for the sword master.
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Many people’s attention was focused on the head-to-head confrontation between the certified number one and the number two.
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Maybe this time, even the owner of the sword seat might change.
The battle of the century that took place with great interest.
The result… It was a crushing defeat for the challenger.
The defeat of the second strongest in the world reaffirmed the existence of the Sword Master, which had been forgotten for a while.
Why is he called the Sword Master?
Also, how the sword master took over the world.
The sword master’s presence, which had faded over time, was revived by the confrontation.
And, more than anyone else, it was Yohan who suffered from the presence of the Sword Master.
“Have you ever faced a wall you couldn’t get over? Even if I cling to it for the rest of my life, I can’t even see any signs of reaching the top… If you accidentally stumble, you will fall from a great height… A cliff like that.”
To John, who fell into despair from his first defeat, the sword master was such an existence.
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Misery, helplessness, frustration.
And the sword master who gave me fear.
After the defeat that day, Yohan had to fight fiercely to overcome the sword in his heart that had become a huge wall.
In order not to break my heart, I struggled alone to get the driving force to rise again.
After a long time, John finally broke the sword of the image and made a resolution.
“I thought defeat was enough. I carved into my bones a heart that I would never, ever lose again.”
After that, he pushed himself fiercely.
He further sharpened his weapons and prepared to fight the Sword Master.
10 years like that.
After completing preparations, Yohan aimed his sword at the sword master once more.
At this, the Sword Master laughed.
[Funny. You were the first to survive sword to sword with me, but you are the only one whose heart hasn’t been broken.]
Sword Master accepted John’s challenge with great joy.
In the second confrontation that finally took place, John burned everything.
Thinking that this would be the last time, he poured everything he could.
As a result… … .
“I lost again. damn miserable. Puhhh.”
10 years of hard work and commitment were colorless, but the defeat came so futile.
Because of pouring out everything, John is unable to lift a hand.
He looked up at the sky and calmly accepted death.
He thought that dying at the hands of the Sword Master would not be a bad end.
However, the sword master took something else instead of Yohan’s life.
Squeak-.
Blood gushed from under John’s right knee.
[Can you really not break your heart this time?]
That day, Yohan lost one of his legs, which was almost life-threatening.
[If you still have the confidence to run faster than now… come find me again don’t give it back then hahahahaha.]
The Sword Master took John’s cut off leg and left with a smile.
A truly humiliating defeat.
It was the worst situation, even losing a leg there.
But for some reason, John wasn’t as frustrated as before.
Rather, I was relieved.
“Even though I poured my all into it, I couldn’t reach the Sword Master. Funny enough, that in turn gave me a path.”
John realized.
That no matter how much he polished what he had now, he would never be able to surpass the Sword Master.
So I was looking for it.
A way to defeat the Sword Master.
“What the monster pursues is destruction based on extreme strength and extreme pleasure. Stronger than the sword master, or faster… I don’t know if there is anyone who has surpassed one or the other… There is categorically no existence beyond both.”
Extreme strength and extreme delight.
With only one of the two, he would end up in the same situation as himself, and it was impossible to overcome both sword masters in the first place.
“Then how do you think you can catch the monster?”
sereung-.
Johan drew his sword and quietly thrust it forward.
tuck tuck -.
He continued his story while looking at the clear drops of water bouncing off the silver blade.
“The incarnation of the sword master is a red dragon that embraces red flames.”
In the legends of the Liment Continent, the red dragon was a monster symbolizing strength and destruction.
Is it truly an incarnation worthy of a sword master?
“Legends say that the red dragon’s fire destroys everything. How can I deal with a fire that is so strong and so fast that it can neither be stopped nor extinguished?”
A little while ago, Yohan had been asking Yuri about how to deal with the Sword Master.
However, this was not a question to ask Yuri.
It’s just reexamining the problems you’ve solved.
“The answer I came up with was simple. as soon as… … .”
The moment he paused slightly, John’s sword began to move.
Shuk-.
Slowly, as if dancing, the sword played in the rain.
At some point, the sword that used to evoke excitement disappeared from its shape.
Sareuk-.
Only silver trails remained around John.
* * *
Like John’s sword, Yuri’s sword also played in the rain.
Then, at some point, the shape of the sword disappeared.
Instead, silver lines formed around the overflowing glass.
It was so calm and beautiful that I wondered if someone had drawn a picture in the air with a silver thread.
Quagga Gaga-.
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Muchi’s attack that falls bloodily in a red trajectory, and a fantasy-like silver painting that dominates Yuri’s surroundings.
The two were so contrasted that it felt like a difference.
And finally, the moment when Muchi’s red spear reached over Yuri’s head.
softly-.
The raindrops that fell around the glass stopped.
As if time has stopped.
And for a while, the rain that had stopped went against the millennium.
Shaa-.
A strange phenomenon occurred around the glass, where the raindrops went upside down from the ground to the sky.
Along with him, Muchi’s red spear touched the silver trail.
[The answer I came up with was simple. as soon as… … .]
That day, Yuri recited according to the method of dealing with the ‘monster’s fire’ that Yohan had given him.
[It returns the monster’s fire.]
“It brings back the monster’s fire.”
As soon as the murmur was over, the silver trail that touched the window of Muchi changed into the shape of a sword.
A glass that blocks the spear blade from falling down with the upper block.
Fu Hang!
A strong wind blew between the two, creating concentric waves on the dirt floor centered on the glass.
And that was it.
A huge explosion, a shock wave from the collision of mana, etc.
There was no change whatsoever.
After receiving Muchi’s attack, Yuri looked very comfortable.
A second later, the glass sword began to slowly push away Muchi’s spear.
At the same time, a change occurred in Muchi’s window.
Dereung- Dereung-.
From the point where the sword of glass touched, the spear of Muchi was strangely shaking.
Dereung- Dereung-.
“uh?!”
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Muchi was taken aback by the spear that slithered like a snake.
Unfortunately for Muchi, that was the beginning.
Hard-.
The wriggling intensified, eventually turning into a rough vibration.
“Ugh, uhh?!”
The calluses he trained while holding the spear for 10 years and the vibration became so strong that even his grip could not withstand it.
Seeing this, Yuri smiled and said.
“If you don’t want to break your arm, maybe you should let go?”
Hard-.
I noticed that Yuri’s words, which were shaken by the intensifying vibration, were not a simple warning.
‘This… I have to let go!’
Instinct figured it out.
If you hold on like this, it’s not just about breaking your arm.
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Muchi, pale from the loss of blood, let go of the spear and flung herself to the side.
It was indeed a good judgment.
Giying-.
Even though Muchi let go of her hand, the spear held a red energy and fell frantically in the air.
Then, finally, the red energy that the spear had contained exploded in reverse.
Kwaaang-.
The red energy that flew in the exact direction where Muchi was standing swept through the forest in a straight line.
Stupid – stupid.
It was only after killing 12 giant trees that the red energy dissipated.
* * *
Ralph and John’s eyes were afraid to fall from the scene where the red aura swept through them.
Ralph’s eyes fluttered in the heavy silence.
He would do the same, because what Yuri had shown him a moment ago was the first time he had seen it, even with a lot of experience.
‘The red energy that flew away is definitely the mana of the cold wall splitting… What is that technique that took it back? shedding?’
Among the various techniques of horsemanship, there was a defense technique that minimized damage by shedding the opponent’s power.
At first, I thought what Yuri showed me was a kind of shedding.
But he soon shook his head.
‘No, I can’t shed the Cold Wall Split.’
No matter how Muchi used it and the power was greatly reduced, Cold Wall Splitting was not a skill that could be easily dismissed.
There were only one or two people who were crushed to death while trying to break the cold wall.
Either avoid it or hit it back with more force.
There were only two ways to deal with the Cold Wall Splitter.
In the first place, Ralph expected that Yuri would use his brain wings to strike back with force.
Because that was what Ralph intended, even using a trick.
But what?
Yuri raised his sword to block the cold wall splitting.
Even if Yuri had yielded 100 times and let down the Cold Wall Splitter, the direction of the force shed from that stance had to be toward the ground.
However, the power of splitting the cold wall flew to the wrong place.
‘I definitely turned on the power of the cold wall splitting in the middle.’
Without any preparation, I countered the cold wall splitting force.
changing direction freely.
‘It’s like… Doesn’t it seem like you used the opponent’s power as if it were your own?’
Unable to find an answer from his own common sense, Ralph had no choice but to ask.
To the existence that created that bizarre technology.
“That… What is it?”
To Ralph’s question, Yohan answered with a slightly dejected smile.
“Three verses… … .”
It was the 5th head of the family who founded the Brain Wing that put the Redner family in the ranks of the prestigious.
Since then, there have been only two seasons in the Redner family: Unbo and Thunder Wing.
Weapon skills such as swordsmanship and boxing, which are said to exist in dozens in other prestigious families, were neither made nor collected.
Because it was enough just to apply these two seasons.
In fact, for that alone, the Redner family was praised as the strongest family.
Hundreds of years since the 5th family head.
Another feast was born by the unseen genius of the Redner family.
The third Feast created with the tenacity to deal with the monster’s fire.
John gave the following name to this unfinished technology created for the purpose of controlling all the currents in the world.
“Magic Ryu.”
It’s called the flow of demons.