291 – Defeat
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—-Fluffy…….
When I pulled out the sword stuck in my neck, my skinny body that had been holding on until the end collapsed. The headless body slowly turned into something resembling black mud and disappeared.
After confirming that there were no more moving objects around, I calmed down for a while. She was so intense that she thought it would be better to have a fight with the World Eater.
While dodging attacks coming from all directions, I had to adjust the angle to induce a team kill.
It was fortunate that they didn’t have the intelligence to change direction or abort an attack when they saw their comrades being swept away by the attack.
“Excellent, human.”
Party, pair, pair.
A leisurely applause came from far away.
“Was the game fun?”
The World Eater, who was watching my death struggle from a distance, was clapping with a face that made people stretch out.
“All right. It was a lot easier because you didn’t come along. If we had attacked together, we would have died without lasting long. It must be a pity, huh?”
“Not at all. I got pleasure from watching your jokes, and you consumed your stamina because you were distracted while playing. Why should I regret that fact?”
Judging from the fact that they were talking like that, it seemed that team killing was also intentional. Could it be that he did such a thing just to reduce my stamina?
‘…… Why?’
“You look curious about why I acted like that. I’ll let you know if you want. Will you listen?”
“Yes. Let me hear it somewhere I will evaluate how good your plan is.”
I was grateful to him for wasting time on his own. But as if he didn’t have the heart to do so, a fishy smile appeared on his face.
“Good. Listen carefully.”
I hurriedly rolled forward and widened the distance at the creepy sensation I felt behind my back. The longsword struck vertically hit the jet-black floor. I turned my head to see who the opponent was.
It was a boss modeled after Iris. He stepped forward with his left foot and brought the scabbard from his left waist to his right side.
Then, as he shifted his center of gravity backward, a whirlwind raged in the scabbard. A gray wind gathered.
Thump, his body rotated half a turn clockwise. While his body rotated, his right foot stepped forward, and the longsword was drawn from its scabbard.
At the same time as the right foot stepped on the floor, a wind-driven slash flew along the vertical trajectory drawn by the long sword.
I deflected the wind that came straight towards me with a wingless nightmare. The wind that had blown in like a curtain turned into a swirling whirlpool. My body was shaking because of it.
Soon after, another wind surged along the path of the slash. As soon as I evaded it by rolling to the side, the guy came running.
‘If it’s one-on-one, it’s worth it.’
I flicked the longsword in his hand and swung his sword aiming for an opening. From behind came the boasting of the World Eater.
“They weren’t summoned to kill you. As much as killing you, I have to do it myself. Shouldn’t we avenge the humiliation?”
“A guy like you thought that? I’m surprised I thought that if I had a twisted personality like you, I would just do all the hard work for the lower ones and hit the last blow!”
I deflected the last four strokes and thrust my sword into the middle-aged knight’s neck. The point of the knife entered the right side of his neck and pierced the bottom of his left ear. Wriggling, seeing the body convulsing, he drew his sword and retreated.
He kept walking even though his neck was pierced.
“Only then can my resentment go away. Even if I try to deal with you, who is dying from being attacked by such lowly things, only an empty heart remains.”
“I guess you forgot the last time you played with us and took a break after playing with us? I’ll do that again, thank you so much! Give me a chance!”
You don’t have to look at the next pattern.
He turned his head towards the World Eater and swung his sword in scorn. I heard exactly four sharp sounds of metal repelling metal, then attacked from my side.
The tip of his knife stabbed deeply into his soft flesh.
“Then let me explain. What chance did I give you? You mean they let them attack each other? They can be recreated by thousands or tens of thousands if desired. Does allowing me to kill about ten of them give me a chance?”
The whirlwind ricocheted off the wrapped longsword, and took advantage of the staggering gap to cut off the wrist holding the sword. And he slammed it right on his head.
The blade cut halfway through his head and he stopped moving. He drew his sword. Unbalanced, his body fell backwards. He brushed off the strange liquid on his wingless nightmare.
“You haven’t done me any harm yet, human. It must be because it is impossible to kill me except for that strange power and dragon words. But both of them would have only failed again and again?”
“… ….”
That was not wrong.
Requiem, the only way to hurt him, was destroyed by the people who used it, and even if he tried to create a new law with the dragon, it was offset by the dragon he used.
Fortunately, it didn’t seem like the dragon I had placed earlier had been released, but I couldn’t create a new rule. It was fortunate that I was able to offset that bastard’s words.
“How many times have I not told you? Time is not on your side The reason you are still alive is only to kill me with my own hands.”
“Okay. I think you might change your mind after being beaten by me a few more times.”
Those who are obsessed with killing me directly are bound to suffer the opposite. Later, after the fight, I felt I should at least give the corpse some advice.
After hearing my words, the expression on the face of the world eater, who was about to open his mouth with a mocking face, changed to a look of interest.
“Ah, the goddess has come. It seems to have come to help you, human.”
“…… What?”
The fact that Eclipse came this far means that it somehow managed to deal with the immortal centipede. I don’t know how he handled it.
“Since I have a bunch of humans, are all the ones I sent dead? They are simply made for the purpose of being used and thrown away anyway, so it doesn’t matter. You can be happy, human. None of the women by your side died.”
“Why are you telling me that?”
“Because I came up with a good idea. The idea is to kill you, then I’ll go back pretending to be you and kill them all. How is it?”
He giggled.
“After a long bloody battle, he succeeded in killing me, but it would be enough to set the mental trap that I planted as a last resort to work. Isn’t that an interesting plan? Those women die trying to bring you back to your senses. Until the moment of death, without noticing the truth.”
“Wouldn’t it be embarrassing if I said such petty things?”
I suppressed the bubbling inside. That’s nothing more than bullsh*t deliberately babbling to provoke me. It’s not going to happen anyway.
“Or, I might leave you here and go out alone, kill everyone and come back. Don’t worry. I’ll cut off your neck Shouldn’t I see you die?”
“… ….”
“Hmm, I’m suddenly curious. What would you do if the severed head was thrown at the same time as the attack? Are you going to hold my head while getting hit? Are you going to dodge the attack and let your head hit the ground and explode?”
“… ….”
“What are you doing? It doesn’t matter if you intend to let me go to solve your questions. That side won’t be bad either.”
“…… I will do exactly the opposite of what you said.”
I walked slowly, holding on to the nightmare that had lost my wings. I know the purpose is to provoke me and erode my patience, but it has reached the level where I can’t listen to you.
It wasn’t to the point where I didn’t stop working because of my anger, so it was okay. There’s no such thing as rolling your eyes and running.
“Try it somewhere.”
A sneer hung over his mouth.
After that, the workshop continued. Swords, daggers, greatswords, spears, maces, maces, axes, etc. Dozens of familiar weapons appeared and disappeared in his hands.
While the battle continued, I was the one who gradually began to gain the upper hand. For some reason, he didn’t lay a floor or use ranged attacks, only sticking to close combat.
Now that the most difficult point is gone, of course I had no choice but to overwhelm it.
The weapon in the hand of the World Eater has changed its appearance. It was a sword similar in length and size to a wingless nightmare. I flicked the sword lightly and aimed at the neck.
Perhaps realizing that the blade contained a requiem, he summoned his weapon with his left hand instead of avoiding it. A false essence appeared behind his back, and the wingless nightmare was blocked by a suddenly appearing greatsword.
The soul twisted 180 degrees and cut through the fake. Kagaga, the blade slid down, scratching the surface of the greatsword. He drew his sword and continued his attack.
ㅡ Kkaang!
The ax was in his hand. He ricocheted off the ax and aimed for his neck. The gnome reflexively creates fake essence, twisting his body to avoid being hit.
The blade dug into the false essence created at the last minute. The unbalanced World Eater hesitated. Taking advantage of that gap, he lowered his sword.
He blocked the attack by crossing the weapons in both hands. The blade containing the requiem vibrated lightly near the World Eater’s head.
“You don’t have much to say about grandiose declarations, right?”
I wouldn’t know if the swinging style was different, but this guy’s attack method was almost the same as the motion used by the player character in Brunet 4. So he couldn’t miss it.
When I was sarcastic like that, he giggled and put a sneer on his face.
“I never imagined that a mere human would possess such a mighty talent. Did that goddess have her own discernment?”
‘What is it, man? Why is this all of a sudden?’
I’m not happy at all to be acknowledged by a guy like this. It’s just that I’m thinking of doing something else. I wondered if he had any other ulterior motives.
I’m already worried about not using the 2nd and 3rd weapons and only using the 4th weapon.
“I tried to destroy your pride by breaking what you do best from the front…… I have to admit, human. No matter how I am, it is impossible for me to defeat you in this way. She is a feat that even that goddess has not accomplished, so let her rejoice.”
“What the hell are you talking about instead of fighting?”
“The joy will be short-lived.”
Its pupils turned into distinctive red vertical pupils. It was only for a moment, but I got a creepy feeling when I saw it, and as I was about to hurriedly widen the distance, a shock wave exploded from under his feet.
“Ok?!”
As the shock wave passed through my body, a sharp pain surged through my body. His limbs gave way, and his breath choked. A sticky liquid tried to rise up my throat, probably because my intestines had been damaged.
‘This…… Case…… ?’
A shock wave with a very familiar color and shape, with almost no first-hand deals.
Lucia This was the pattern Lucia used in the boss fight.
It’s a pattern that makes you wonder if you can avoid it in time even if you’re really concentrating to the limit, much less if you didn’t anticipate anything, you can’t even react, let alone avoid it.
While I was staggered by the shock wave, the World Eater moved. I recognized the fact in my head, but my body didn’t move.
ㅡPoo-wook!
Something sharp was stuck in the stomach. A fishy liquid rose up in his throat. When he spat it out, red blood dripped from it.
I looked down with difficulty. A sword resembling a wingless nightmare was stuck in his abdomen. My arm started to lose strength. I felt the hand holding the sword loosen a little.
“It’s been a long, long time.”
Along with the murmur of the world eater, the knife in his stomach moved.
Flesh cracked, ribs and collarbones shattered, intestines and muscles ripped open, and a knife stuck in the stomach escaped through the right shoulder.
The entire area from the pit of the stomach to the right shoulder was cut. The right arm, which had lost its support, drooped from the shoulder down. I could see the amputated side bleeding disgustingly.
It was dizzying in front of my eyes. His vision flipped and he fell backwards. I fell to the floor from the back, but I didn’t feel any pain. A red liquid with a fishy smell flowed back into her throat.
“What…… Cool, it was long, I said…….”
“To give you a misunderstanding. So many doubts, man. It took a really long time to get here.”
When I coughed, blood flowed from my mouth. His right arm, which was barely attached to his body by the flesh of his side, had completely lost all feeling, and the left arm, which had at least some feeling, only trembled.
“Why do you think I protracted my fight with you so much? If it was simply to kill you, there would have been many other options.”
He put his hands behind his back and stepped closer to me. Then, as if he had seen something he couldn’t see, he kicked away the wingless nightmare.
“To seize the perfect opportunity, human. To seize the perfect opportunity to get revenge on you.”
“… ….”
Cool.
“Just when I thought I had almost pushed through, I was injured by an unexpected blow. It must have been a composition I’ve seen many times.”
“…… Heck, you…… This crazy…….”
“With this, the debt that attacked me has been repaid, human. I won’t be satisfied if you don’t repay me for what I’ve done to you.”
Crazy. I couldn’t finish my words and vomited blood again. Because of his posture, blood pooled near his eyes. One side of the eye was stained red.
Whether he did it or not, he kept talking to himself.
“Didn’t that bother you a lot? Why did I only use the weapons from ‘Brightest Darkness 2’ and ‘Brightest Darkness 3’ and not the weapons from ‘Brightest Darkness 4’?”
“…… Hopefully, cool. On purpose…… ?”
“The moment even the slightest doubt begins, your thoughts are inevitably assigned to them. Even if it is a small doubt, when it gathers and gathers, it makes it impossible to confirm beyond that.”
Somehow, after showing that you can make it at first, you die and only use 4 weapons. Was it to make me question in the first place?
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“The series of processes of changing your appearance, thoroughly using only the weapons you have used, and summoning the bosses you have encountered to fight them were all in order to guide your thoughts in one direction.”
Looking back, it was.
From the moment he appeared in my appearance and grabbed the brute 4 weapon, I subconsciously thought that he would only use the weapons and skills I had used.
If you had accepted all my knowledge, you would have probably understood the patterns the boss was using.
“Ah, that was too long. A tough guy like you might have thought of a way to kill me in the middle of this. I almost left the risk unnecessarily.”
The Eater of Worlds, who created a wingless nightmare in his right hand, approached his head. Judging by the fact that he chose that weapon, it seemed that he had some bad feelings left.
The wound no longer hurt. Because the sense of pain itself was fading away. It’s hard to even see where the limbs are attached, but can you feel any pain?
“Now there is nothing to stop me.”
In my increasingly dim vision, the last thing I could see was a wingless nightmare swinging at me.