708 – 8. Will (82)
He who wants to be born must break a world.
The words left by great writers long ago were valid regardless of time and place. In order for something to be born, one had to endure the pain that came with it. Just like a bird cracking an egg or a butterfly tearing open a chrysalis.
But guess what?
If the being I have to destroy is a monster that can destroy the world with just one person.
Cow!
My vision turns upside down with heavy drinking. No, the feeling that the whole world is turning around me.
Seongguk jujitsu, flipping the moon.
It was a technique I had also used several times. However, the workmanship of the man who could be said to be the original was beyond imagination.
The entire earth was crumbling.
The fact that the ground, which should be the solid foundation of all things, could collapse so easily caused a moment of cognitive dissonance. The thrown body digs into the ground and reaches another boundary.
It is a power that can literally destroy a world.
Soon, a plosive sound, a fall, and a blackout.
I repeated the process again for an unknown number of times, and staggered to my feet. Before I knew it, I could no longer feel my hands and feet. Vision is blurry and thoughts do not occur.
When I coughed up blood, my mind finally became a little clearer.
“How many people died?”
The sound of footsteps pounding through the thick dust hits my eardrums.
No, I grit my teeth and point to the ground. However, even if the unconsciousness was faked, the psychological damage could not be faked. The reason why my limbs don’t listen and why I’m vomiting blood.
This was because the unconscious was imitating the laws of the real world. Because I accepted this as common sense.
But there were also differences.
“How many more memories will it take before you are satisfied?”
The man swings his hand slightly, and a gust of wind blows. The dust flies away, and the golden light shines down on me.
The light was quite intense.
Only then did I have time to look around. It was like looking at a taxidermy in a museum, a cross section of memories without even the slightest movement in frozen time.
Because the ground in the area collapsed as a result of the fall, there were limitations to vision. However, I was a high expert, and along with my eyes, my body’s energy was awakened and the scenery was captured by my senses.
In front of a burning city, a devastated woman sits down, and a man pushes her knife into her uvula.
Disgusting sculptures made up of pieces of flesh and internal organs were proudly lined up. If that’s the case from the entrance to the city, how terrible must it be inside?
I couldn’t help but feel dumbfounded as I witnessed the devastation of war firsthand. When she was a couple of steps away, her man asked me.
“Do you know who it is?”
Who are you?
My brain was exhausted due to the series of attacks and defenses. It’s just that since I also need time to recover, I didn’t think it would be a bad idea to have a Q&A with the man.
As I was panting with my eyes unfocused, the man’s hand grabbed the back of my head.
Even though he was a little far away from me, there was no hesitation in his touch. And the man trudging up through her empty air, where have I seen this vision before?
Probably a ‘saint’ or a ‘dragon king.’
Or maybe it’s a technology that even I haven’t seen before.
At a height overlooking the entrance to the city, the man threw me onto a platform in the air.
Cluck, cough. It was the moment when a proper view finally came into my eyes as I stumbled and coughed up blood.
Blood-soaked brown hair, empty dark green eyes, how could you not know?
He was Neris’ senior from the Imperial Intelligence Department.
I gasped, coughing up blood once more.
Her eyes filled with doubt turn to her man. His golden pupils were burning with subtle regret and anger.
“Neris Findleston, the woman I was paired with for a while when I joined Imperial Intelligence.”
“But why…” … ?”
If my vision wasn’t distorted, her man was now aiming the knife at Senior Neris’s uvula. Senior Neris couldn’t even resist at all, and her eyes were empty.
“I was mistaken.”
As if spitting out words, the man expressed his old regrets.
“Imperial Intelligence prepares a means to remotely kill paired comrades just in case. If the mission fails, prevent the information from leaking out… But one moment of hesitation ruined everything.”
The sight of her man’s back, aiming at Senior Neris’s uvula, was particularly lonely. Perhaps, it is because of such circumstances.
“Neris failed in her mission. “She was captured, and she didn’t have the courage to kill herself in a split second, and she couldn’t survive the torture.”
“So?”
“The information was misused. A city fell into the hands of the Seven Sins ‘Gluttony’… “Her parents ate the flesh of their children and made wine with her virgin body and soul.”
In that case, that Neris senior must have just witnessed that tragedy.
When I look again, I see faint traces of tears. She thinks of the woman who sat silently and cried.
“Tens of thousands of people died. Because of that brief hesitation… “Because of the vain hope that we might be able to rescue her in time!”
“So what happened?”
“I couldn’t kill her in the end. “Because I was a coward until the end.”
The golden eyes of the man who said that deepened slightly and then stopped. Before he knew it, he had regained his cold, dry face.
“Instead, Neris chose her suicide… According to eyewitnesses, she entered the city alone, unarmed and in a daze. “She would have been torn to pieces by monsters.”
The gaze of the man who was looking down at her feet returned to me. Those sharp gazes seemed to be speaking to me.
Even after this?
Are you still going to say I was wrong?
Instead of answering, I tried to get up with my trembling limbs. As I exhale, “Huh, huh,” Cold sweat falls down.
When the man saw me doing that, he frowned slightly instead of answering.
When I hit the ground with a thud, the stairs that were supporting me suddenly broke. Finally, the shock of the fall hit my entire body.
For me now, this was fatal enough.
I groaned instead of screaming and instinctively twisted my body. It was fortunate that I was able to force my muscles to contract and have a chance to stand up.
In front of me, who managed to get up, the man who landed lightly pulls out his sword.
“You won’t lose anything?”
I also pulled out the sword from my waist and immediately met golden eyes.
The sword and sword intersect.
The sword that falls to the bottom left leaves five rows of teeth marks. However, the opponent’s teeth marks were more numerous than that, as many as twelve.
Seven scars are engraved on my chest.
Regurgitated blood is leaking out from the lips. Without even a scream or moan, I just hesitated and stepped back.
If it were real, I would have just died one more time.
The secret of the Yurdina family, the golden sword.
It is said that if you perfect this mysterious sword technique, you will be able to unleash twelve sword strikes at once. In other words, the art that the man showed was the true ‘Golden Blade’.
Huh, the man swallows a laugh.
“What do you know?”
My body, which had stumbled, barely managed to stand up again. I held the sword once again.
“Have you ever taken proper responsibility?”
And the sword light explodes.
Light meets light and explodes. However, her man’s blow was so powerful that it was hard to believe that it had been struck without any preparation.
Following the trajectory of the sword, a world of vacuum opens.
A flash of lightning speed cuts not only my sword but also my body. The air howls as the air is torn apart by its terrifying speed, and gusts of wind blow randomly throughout the area.
A skill previously shown by Sir Ceria and Irene.
Yes, that’s right. You said this man taught you.
“The whole world, no… “Have you ever taken responsibility for tens of thousands of people?”
Wow, I wanted to answer what her man shouted, but I couldn’t.
My body was falling in half.
Patter, dripping blood and flesh.
And blackout.
When I opened my eyes and gasped, my body was glued together again. Although there was still pain in my abdomen.
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My vision is blurry again. The only thing that appears above my hazy vision is the golden pupils of the man looking down at me.
“You still haven’t learned it.”
“hehehehe… Cough! Who… Because they didn’t teach me…….”
“When have you ever asked me to learn from you?”
I focused all my attention on getting up, regardless of whether he hurled harsh words at me or not. The sound of a man taking steps pounded in my ears.
“This is your limit… ….”
As soon as I stand up like an Ottogi, a scorching knife slash hits my chest.
My body, unable to even draw the sword, takes a step back again. Accordingly, one step at a time.
Like the dance moves at a prom, the steps of the man and I go hand in hand.
“You talk about not losing anything, but what have you achieved with just your strength?”
Right after using the foot that had been walking backwards as a stepping stone.
My hand leaps forward and flashes, firing the sword. The pure white trace continues like light.
The man simply twisted her body slightly to avoid my blade.
No, it was more than that. My body, which had been swaying precariously as I passed him, ended up falling to the ground.
“Stolen technology, borrowed power!”
He vomited out a bowl of blood, saying, “Wooweek!”
Before I knew it, a sword wound had been added to my abdomen.
“Have you tried to boast like you’re already a hero after all that? No, you just got lucky…… !”
“Well, can’t we do that?”
Spitting out blood, I finally uttered one word.
There was not a single corner of my body that was healthy. Naturally, the vocal cords were not free from this influence, so the tone was strangely trembling.
But it’s enough to silence her man.
“…… What?”
“Then, huh… “Why not?”
Tap.
The strength in my arms that were touching the ground is lost and I collapse. It seemed that the accumulated damage to his mind was considerable.
Nevertheless.
I have to touch the ground. I had to get up again. So I gritted my teeth.
“Because it’s not enough, because it’s not enough… Or maybe I’m weak…….”
The second attempt failed.
My arms were fine, but I didn’t have enough strength in my legs. So, third.
Moans escape from clenched teeth.
“I, too, am having a hard time being alone. So borrow, steal… Even if it means adding to someone else’s power in some way.”
Clud.
Step on the ground with your right foot, apply force until you grind your teeth, and touch the ground with your sword.
His staggering body slowly stood up again.
“Can’t you just struggle a little?”
And then he said, “Huh,” And even tried to laugh.
The black face of the man who was silently glaring at me reflects me like a mirror.
“You said that too.”
“I always regretted it.”
It was an immediate answer given in an unwavering voice.
The fire burning in the man’s eyes, yes.
It should be like this.
“I think I entrusted too much burden to them… “I asked myself every night what it would have been like if I had been able to do a better job and make more rational decisions.”
“It was nonsense.”
A word I said with a helpless laugh.
That ignited a full-blown fire in the man’s heart. Look at that distorted eyebrow.
“You women don’t seem to think that way.”
“It’s getting harder and harder to listen.”
The man’s swordplay is aimed at me. Unlike before, it was an attitude full of life.
“What do you say you know? “Are you going to pretend that you know, at most, just a glimpse into your memories?”
I take my stance once again.
My arms were shaking, but I was glad I was able to buy some time. But what posture should I take?
There was one scene that suddenly came to mind.
A woman called ‘ghost sword.’
When I encountered her unconsciously, what kind of posture was she in?
“You don’t understand me.”
Yes, it was.
“Four sales!”
She wasn’t taking any posture.
“Even juniors!”
With a thud, she opened her shoulders and stretched out her arms and legs, feeling her helplessness. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, feeling as if all the pain had disappeared in an instant.
“Both lovers and masters… “Nothing I wanted to protect!”
As her insides became empty, something finally seeped in.
Every time the man’s words resonate in my eardrums, I feel deep regret and longing. Each burn that emerged seemed to reveal a painful wound.
Do not reject the memories that come in. On the contrary, I was determined to continue accepting it.
“You understand my feelings of not being able to properly protect anything?!”
And stop.
The sensation of time freezing is transmitted to the skin. This feeling as if swimming in a dense liquid.
Do not resist. Relax.
“Bullsh*t…” … !”
The next moment.
Kang!
Sparks fly in stopped time. It was the sound of swords clashing between me and the man.
The first unity.
It was a miracle caused by an immediate reaction that even I was surprised by. How many beings on the entire continent can take the sword of this man with all his heart?
But there was no way the man would be embarrassed by just one cut.
Shut up.
The man’s kick goes straight to the solar plexus. Because he relaxed his strength as much as possible, the damage was surprisingly small, but the opponent was a monster that turned the ground upside down with only martial arts.
Even though the sword was driven into the ground at the last moment, the distance it was pushed back was considerable. Even before you can properly adjust your posture, the man will come towards you, erasing space with just one leap.
So there was no time to get lost in thought.
I took a breath, held my sword, and after that moment passed.
I pointed at the man who appeared in front of me as if I had skipped time.
Only then did the man look embarrassed.
Because my sword was faster than his.
The sword strike that tears apart the moment draws a silver half-moon. There is probably only one technology that can achieve this kind of speed that exceeds the limit, literally seconds.
Oh’s ‘extreme lightning’.
The vision of the Sword Circle was finally recreated in my hands.
Inadvertently, I thought.
I couldn’t do it.
Paak, and do it.
After the pause was over, it was the sound of blood exploding from my entire body.
It was not an injury that could be laughed off, like a cut or abrasion. Literally, the result was that my entire body was shattered.
“…Sword soul.”
It wasn’t just my body that was torn apart.
There were sword images engraved all over the world. Without covering the sky, the earth, and the air.
Thousands, tens of thousands, no, hundreds of millions.
All things turn into a handful of powder and flow down. A feeling as if it were sand in an hourglass.
“Are you trying to completely duplicate my technology by maximizing the assimilation rate? It’s not a bad idea, but…”
The man’s golden eyes look down at me. I am flowing endlessly like this.
“Well, it’s just a fake.”
Am I falling into another world?
I was wondering if I truly had the means to defeat that monster. Isn’t the other person no different from the final masterpiece created and created by mankind?
‘Created God’.
It was indeed a force worthy of its mad name, just before I lost consciousness while harboring such sentiments.
“Did I tell you?”
At first glance, the illusion of reddish-brown hair is reflected in the corner of one’s vision.
“I will give you what you need most…”
The vision was being reversed.