332 – Gaiden: Darkest Warrior – 4
I succeeded in parring the second time and stepped back. The Darkest Warrior, bursting with battle fatigue, collapsed into his seat and staggered to his feet.
Compared to the beginning, much of the miasma was gone from the bloody red eyes. Of course, he didn’t lose his life, but if he continued like this, he would become a broken-hearted warrior instead of a warrior who wanted death.
The sound of the Knights of the Dark Night swaying could be heard from here. It seemed like it was because a warrior who could make his defensive magic sway with only the aftermath of his movements was unable to use his hands.
The girls I went with didn’t surprise anyone and were calm. I know my skills too well to be surprised by something like this.
‘Maybe I can move on to the next step soon.’
The standard of ‘honorable death’ that Darkest Warrior refers to was related to clear time. For 10 minutes with a broken straight sword, if you kill him with a one-hit kill trainer, he counts that as an honorable death.
I don’t know how it is now.
My daughter and I put down the broken straight sword. At the sound of the rusty sword hitting the floor, the Darkest Warrior looked at the broken straight sword with slightly trembling eyes. Life, which had been fading, rose again.
“You mean it’s not even worth carrying such a crude weapon? How far do you have to insult me to clear your mind—”
“No. It means that I will do my best to deal with it.”
Nyx summoned the wingless Nightmare that was cherished between his legs. The broken straight sword roughly kicked into the corner of the arena.
Even though the declaration came out that he would deal with it with all his might, the expression on the other side was not so bright. I heard the sound of grinding my teeth.
“After you have teased and ridiculed me so terribly, now you are going to deal with me with all your strength?”
“Right.”
“If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be better if you fought properly from the beginning! What the hell did you do that for!”
The future depends on how well I answer. I answered calmly.
“Because I had to test you.”
“…… Test it? Me?”
A feeling of incomprehension appeared on his face.
“Didn’t I tell you before we started? It seems that there are still many things that have not been done to discuss honorable death. To me, you’re just a human being who is so overconfident about your skills that you’re full of bravado.”
“Not so! I really have nowhere else to go!”
“Then what is the me in front of you?”
“… ….”
The Darkest Warrior chewed his lips as if he was desperate for an answer.
Because he was being played with joy because he couldn’t overcome even a single broken straight sword, he himself knew that saying that he had nowhere to go was a lie.
“Well, that’s why I didn’t intend to kill you if you were just floating around like my first impression. I was going to spend it alive after playing around to my heart’s content. Come back stronger. That’s why I said this was a test.”
“…… What were the conditions for passing?”
There can be no such thing.
There was no exam from the beginning, and to pass the time, I was annoyed at talking as if I had lived all over the world when I was born only a week ago, so I was trying to punish you.
Of course, it is impossible to answer this directly.
“You can think of it in moderation.”
I took out a crystal staff in my left hand and held it up. He put an enchantment on the weapon in his right hand that added magic damage, activated a buff that increased attack power, and then launched a small blue orb.
I inserted the staff, took out the divine catalyst, and repeated the same process. Add an enchantment to the weapon in your right hand that adds divine damage, and activate a buff that increases attack power.
Instead, I ended up floating a small sun and moon one by one nearby. The palm-sized sun, moon, and blue spheres floated leisurely around me, emitting soft light.
All three spheres have an attack power amplification effect.
He wore a divine catalyst on his waist and cast black magic. The black flame rising from his left hand was added to the blade of the nightmare that had lost its wings. In addition to blue and gold, jet black dwelled.
Originally, only one enchantment would be activated at a time, and if several enchantments were used in succession, they would overlap rather than overlap, but for me this was an exception.
A colorfully burning wingless nightmare was embedded upside down on the floor. And he took out a bloody sword that had been repaired before.
I stuck it into my stomach, reduced my stamina to the limit, and pulled it out. The sword body was stained bloody, but the core was not the sword but the sheared stamina, so I threw it somewhere.
The last time I checked the rune tattoo on the back of my hand. It was a rune that had the effect of increasing attack power as HP decreased. The other 3 are combinations that have been used for a long time.
This entire process was completed in less than a second. It was thanks to Eclipse’s help with the preparations.
‘The groundwork is over.’
The number of overlapping attack power buffs is also a number, but the real core of the overlapping buffs was the number.
The higher the magic stat, the higher the buff value, but there was no limit to the increase. So, how would it apply to the current me with at least 500 stats?
“…… Under.”
As soon as I finished the buff work in that short amount of time and showed off my ignorant momentum, Darkest Warrior let out a ridiculous laugh.
“It was an unwinnable fight from the start. Looking at you now, I know I can imitate everything except for stabbing myself in the stomach, but even if I did, I wouldn’t be like you.”
The tone of speech that had been hard has returned softly.
“Even if I attacked normally, I couldn’t stand it for long. Surely it wouldn’t be the honorable death you hoped for if it ended after being properly hit by the weapon wielded appropriately by the opponent?”
“Absolutely not. At that time, I thought of you as the same level as me, so I would have died unfairly, resenting my stupidity for not properly recognizing your strength. As long as I have any regrets left, I can’t see him dying with honor.”
The head bowed slightly.
“Thank you. It still feels bad that you fooled me by using a broken straight sword on your own, but…… If it’s part of the process of being evaluated for strength, I’ll gladly accept it. Because thanks to you, I was able to realize your true power. Just like humans don’t go all out to ants. Were you like that too?”
‘What’s the word choice like?’
Is it power or true power? Could that be because Eclipse injected wrong knowledge?
“You’re the first to fight with stacked buffs like this. And you will be the last How do you like it?”
That was not wrong. If I applied a buff in the middle while fighting the World Eater, my body would have been torn to shreds.
“Because I am the first and the last…… It’s such an honor. It means that I will fight with all my might against me, who is no better than a bug compared to you.”
The Darkest Warrior took his stance.
“For an ant, what could be a more honorable death than this, to make a human expend all their energy to kill just one ant?”
What dwelled in those eyes was no longer anger or powerlessness. He was fighting spirit. A ferocious fighting spirit was burning brightly in the blood red eyes.
I also calmly prepared to swing my sword. You don’t have to do anything grandiose. Just once is enough.
With only 1% health left, one shot might be enough for the other side, but it goes without saying who has the upper hand in this situation.
Darkest Warrior kicked the ground. There was a red aura that signified that the attack power buff had been applied to the body. The red aura surrounding his body grew thicker and thicker.
I also took a slight step forward with his right foot and drew the sword to his left side, bending over at his waist and preparing to swing it. His bodily sensations focused into one.
‘Now.’
I even calculated the time to extend his arm, and at the right timing, I energized his left foot and sprang forward. The staff in the Darkest Warrior’s left hand emitted a blue light.
But I was faster. He stomped the ground with his right foot to shift his center of gravity while extending his arms. The wingless nightmare with three enchantments swung horizontally. A thin solid line locus appeared on the front.
Half of the amphitheater was cut along the trajectory.
First of all, the wall that separates the audience seats from the inside of the stadium began to shift. The cracks along the thin solid line grew larger and larger as the wall collapsed under its own weight.
Next was the audience seats. The empty spectator seats, with no one above them, tilted little by little and picked up speed gradually. The stone that supported the foundation was displaced, and the inclination became severe.
ㅡKurrureung… ….
I wanted to hold on for a while, but that was it. In the end, as soon as one brick completely collapsed, it collapsed with a roar like a butterfly effect.
The aftermath did not end there. The slash, which continued to extend even after cutting the entire arena, cut down even the dense forest and stony mountains behind it.
“… ….”
This took me by surprise too. Who could have imagined that the scale would grow this big?
Surprised were the others as well. Not to mention Caicilia and Minerva, who seldom panicked, even Nyx stood still without saying anything.
While everyone was stunned by the slashing attack that cut off the entire terrain just because the attack power was amplified, Darkest Warrior knelt down with a satisfied smile.
I didn’t seem to have the strength to stand still anyway.
“Finally… ….”
Beads of blood formed between the solid lines on his neck.
“Solar…… Kyle Room…….”
Degur, the severed head rolled down.
“Oh, you came earlier than expected.”
“How are you here…… ?”
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The Darkest Warrior was taken aback when he saw Delta sitting so calmly next to the goddess. How did that man get here? Even the Creator is right next to you.
“I have to check to see if I went to the place I wanted. Isn’t that right, Goddess?”
“I am willing if you will.”
Suddenly, it occurred to me that I might have been killed by a much greater person than I thought.