Episode 154 The road that continues, the road that continues. (2)
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“Before teaching, let me ask you one question. Do you know why Sir Nihilis is one-armed? Don’t think simply, think deeply.”
… When I heard it, something strange happened.
This world is a world with a very advanced civilization.
Even if an amputation accident occurs, it can be spliced at an early time, and if it is in a state where the shape is unrecognizable, it is enough to culture the arm tissue using stem cells. It was a world with technology that could create anything like a prosthetic arm that could be connected to neural circuits.
It’s not that hard to find a new arm that was lost in the past or recently lost.
Above all else, the stories of his youthful days told by Nihilis were many things he couldn’t believe were the achievements of the one-armed man, so it must not have been that he had lived without arms from the beginning.
But, why is Nihilis still living as an arm-assistant prosecutor?
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with an answer.
“I do not know.”
“Don’t be too discouraged. It seems like you’ve been thinking enough about it if you stop. It wasn’t a question I asked you to have an answer anyway.”
“So, why is one arm missing from Nihilis? The eye is such a delicate organ, so even if it had to be done, a prosthetic arm would have been enough.”
“The red sword cuts through the soul. Have you ever heard of it?”
“of course.”
“It’s a soul. I don’t know if it was when I was younger, but it’s a superstitious word that doesn’t suit today’s times. Why do you think the bizarre rumors are still circulating?”
‘Cut the soul.’
At least, if we scientifically explain the existence of the soul, it would be ‘consciousness that is maintained during the time of life activity, generated by neurotransmitters and electrical signals from the brain’. does not interpret
Things like the afterlife, reincarnation, and other kinds of superstitious stories.
Therefore, the use of the expression ‘cutting off the soul’ must have been used in the sense of blocking such additional elements at the source.
However, things like the afterlife cannot be confirmed right now.
But to think of it as an attack that simply inflicts psychological damage, it was strange as it is.
“I don’t even know.”
“Is it too complicated? It’s simple. To mutilate a soul means to literally cut out a part of the mind. For example, think of a person who has become paraplegic. The body may exist completely, but the lower half of the body is cut out from the mind.”
‘Is that plausible?’
Of course, this was also a false story from the point of view of science, but at least logically, there was no major deviation.
It was also a theory that could explain how Nihilis came to live as a swordsman with a good eye (?)
“Then it would be a story of another swordsman or one of his disciples severing his left upper body spiritually. If it had been an ordinary wound, I would have been able to fully heal it. It would not have left a permanent scar that way.”
“That is the country. The technology I am trying to tell you now is also the technology that left that scar.”
He spoke in a calm, yet confident tone.
As if it was something only you could do.
Of course, if true, it was a great task, but its authenticity was a bit questionable.
Because ‘the other prominent swordsmen did not even leave any scars on Nihilis, how did this man, who was only one of his disciples, leave such a fatal wound’.
“It’s a story that is hard to believe is true. I know it’s rude, but Gong was just one of the disciples. How can I do something that even other swordsmen couldn’t do… ”
“They cost their lives, and I just didn’t. It was a skill that was created after death.”
“Then you mean it was a technology prepared for destruction from the beginning?”
“Yes. As you said, there are only a few people who can fight and win a duel with Lord Nihilis purely with skill and strength, even if you search the entire history of the Knights Templar. To face such a person, I must risk my everything.”
“It must have been a difficult decision.”
“It wasn’t a difficult decision. Some may regard it as an act of blaspheming the noble battlefield, but at least the Purple Knights weren’t those who were immersed in obsolete chivalry and pursued only romance. I thought anything was acceptable in a bloody battle that risked my life. me too Wouldn’t it be better to try even the last effort?”
Well, Nihilis also said that the Purple Knights were the only ones like that.
Even if he had even brought a self-detonator as a custom strategy, no one would have said anything.
“I understand.”
“In the end, I lost.”
“no. It will be the ball that makes you laugh at the end.”
“Well? What does that mean?”
He asked with a look of incomprehension.
“If what Gong said is true, the reason why the Gong remains as a fragment of his soul is because of the thoughts that Nihilis could not completely cut off. A person has appeared who will continue to maintain the ball, so it is the ball that ultimately wins.”
“is it.”
He nodded slightly and suddenly started looking at me.
“You seem to know.”
“What do you mean?”
“You must have made fun of that three-inch tongue. My granddaughter must have roasted it that way. Goyan guy.”
Boiled?
you’re talking too much
Even though I robbed a lot of Yaburi, I never said anything with that intention.
“It’s a joke. He was such a shy kid, so he had a lot of trouble deciding who would take him. It’s not a bad thing to go through hardship once you get to know him properly.”
“Why are you talking like I’m hurting you?”
“Let’s look back on the stories you have told us so far. Wouldn’t that be enough of an answer? As a spouse, there will be no other bastard like that.”
I can’t resist
Because it is true that Aina’s lifespan has been cut in half because of the stress caused by me.
“sorry.”
“I have nothing to apologize for. Like I said, that kid was a bummer to me too. I can’t be the only one suffering.”
Having said that, he burst out laughing.
I’m glad that you seem to be someone I get along with better than I thought.
“Anyway, returning to the original agenda, this skill I created is one of the counterattack techniques that counterattack the opponent’s skill. The problem is that it is not a deflecting or countering skill, but a huge drawback that it can only be used after hitting the opponent’s skill intact.”
“Isn’t it a skill that can only be used if it’s right?”
Are you prepared for death or anything like that? It’s not that I was talking about spirituality, but that I was writing in anticipation of my real death.
This yangban wasn’t an ordinary madman either.
“Yes, Sir Nihilis’ main tactic is to drive his opponent into his limbs, then blow away all the mana around him, and inflict a fatal blow with mana that has been replaced by his own life. Awoken who use mana like us are a very difficult strategy to counter.”
“One is the ability to blow away the mana around you at any time, and the other is the ability to restore mana only by yourself. It’s safe to say that he only possesses the great (?) Mana Awakening power. That’s it.”
“That’s correct. So that’s the way I came up with it. ‘The plan is to say, ‘What is the use of only the mana around me?’
“That’s the way, maybe… ”
“It’s just accepting the sword. The mana glaive we are dealing with is also made of mana, isn’t it? Accepting the opponent’s mana glaive, absorbing the mana from there, and feeding it back to the opponent.”
Aina once said to me, ‘Your grandfather is very similar to you’, and this may have been what he meant.
Because a sane person would never have come up with such an idea.
An idea that a person with a taste like me would think of.
“At least in theory, it’s a perfect technique. Except for the worst drawback, that he himself must be prepared to die.”
“No, you are not dead. never.”
“yes? why?”
Obviously, ‘why?’ is a tone that the elderly hate very much.
Still, the reason I used the word ‘why’ unintentionally was because of that person’s very bold attitude.
That attitude, as if wondering, ‘Isn’t it a fool to die?’
“Yeah, the purple sword grants the power to protect the soul.”
Until now, the power that had only been thought of as a power to slightly increase durability, tolerance, and mental power was actually a power to protect the soul.
I felt like I was being fooled by something.
No, more than that, how does this person know that?
I was told that I was the only one who pulled out the purple color.
“By the way, how do you know about that? Did you even reach the purple realm just before you died?”
“no. As soon as I saw you entered this world of imagery, I could tell. Even though this is my perfect space, you walked around here casually. It seems that he does not feel the manaab and energy that permeate from the surroundings. I found out right there. The enemy (赤) brings the power to injure the soul, and the ruler (?) brings the power to protect the soul.”
I felt a little relieved by those words.
I was worried because I knew that someone other than me had broken through the purple realm.
Then there will be one more enemy besides Nihilis.
Still, there was one other reason for the expression ‘a little’ by the old man.
“By the way, if Nihilis blows away all the mana around her with her imaginative power, how do she draw out the purple sword and defend it? The moment the sword enters my body, my soul must already be wounded.”
“It’s up to you to figure it out. I invented the art of defeating the Nihilis, not of surviving the Nihilis.”
I was stunned at the sight of him shrugging his shoulders.
No, Son Seo(?), is it okay to put me up and let me die so irresponsibly?
“Really, you are doing too much.”
“Isn’t that too much for you? After taking everything I left behind while I was alive, they asked me to put a bonus on it. The last thing he left behind was the sense of justice and legitimacy, plus his pretty granddaughter. It’s very sharp, isn’t it?”
I was a little embarrassed because I felt like I had discovered a different side of me in his mischievous smile.
Because when other people called me ‘a vicious and mean child’, I was like that.
Of course, I’m a bad kid in this situation right now, but it’s not like I’m a Mac.
“Let me pull out a knife. I’m going to show you my skills.”
“You mean, are you telling me to attack the ball?”
“Of course. Seriously come It’s an old and worn out spirit, but I still remember how to hold a sword.”
“Then I will go.”
He drew his sword and slowly approached him.
And, with awe, point the sword, cut it
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I’m sure it was touched.
But, why am I being the one being bullied?
Even at the moment of raising the question, the vortex that went against the stem slowly tore my arm apart.
No, not a single piece of flesh was actually cut out.
It was just that those sensations were controlling his body.
“Remember. now, this moment. this feeling.”
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