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Happy New Year !
This year, I hope that corona will end quickly and only happy things will happen to the readers.
＜ 12. Into the cracks (12) ＞
Bagratu’s momentum has changed. Andrea had a hunch. It was clear that he was determined to kill himself from now on. It was something I was prepared for, but the pressure was not small .
But Bagratu was also in a difficult situation. The choice to raise one’s abilities by harming oneself was now impossible. That dagger that I carry only for self-harm has been taken away .
If you hurt yourself as an apocalyptic demon, you will receive a fatal curse that you cannot handle, and if you directly break somewhere in your body, it will interfere with the battle. I wish I could bite my wrists myself, but then I had to take off my helmet so the set effect wouldn’t activate .
The remaining choice is to fight using the cards of a strong deck .
The two spread their distance and drew cards almost simultaneously. Bagratu thought it somewhat surprising .
‘ I thought that guy would do tricks to prevent me from drawing cards …’
I had doubts, but I had to save time even to think. Bagratu used 4 of the 8 cards drawn. On the other hand, Andrea used 2 of the 4 cards drawn .
Shadow Imprint and Shadow Concealment, the strongest combination of cards currently available to Andrea. In addition, there was no concern about losing the effect to the evil spirits that call the apocalypse of Jira, a ‘sacred card’ that is treated as a special buff .
Watching Andrea disappear as if melting into thin air, Bagratu was not at all taken aback. It was a technique he had already seen while fighting Arachnid, and he was able to completely destroy it with the card he just used .
“ La Kramaq Rowle Kasalamic !”
Bagratu slams the floor with his hands with a loud roar. Blood gathered around him in a circle, and soon began to spin violently. A storm of blood raged, drawing a bigger and bigger circle .
After some time, the storm no longer widened. Instead, the overlapping of the blood created a thicker, more powerful shield. The moment when the whole cave was shaken so badly that it collapsed .
“ Tartem !”
Bagratu raised his hand and slammed it hard on the floor .
Quaguagua – !
The circumference of the storm expanded exponentially. With the momentum to swallow the entire cave. grinding the floor A red wind that collapses the ceiling and tears the air .
Frenzied Blood Wind, one of the blood warrior’s most powerful AoE skills .
With this skill, it didn’t matter where the enemy was hiding. Unless you run away from the cave, you won’t be able to get out of the overwhelming range after all. In addition, Bagratu deliberately cast a technique on the exit side to completely block the escape route .
Bagratu repeated to himself the meaning of the shout he had just shouted .
‘ To be torn apart by the wind… and die .’
Bagratu predicted that Andrea would run away miserably, terrified. However, contrary to his prediction, Andrea was standing there watching the bloody wind approaching .
As they approached right in front of their noses, Andrea put her hand into the bloody wind .
A look that can only be said that if someone saw it, it was out of their mind .
‘It has to be delicately controlled .’
It was a wind that was no different from a crusher, mixing pebbles and blood. Andrea focused her senses as much as possible with the shadow imprint, and slowly brought her finger in, adjusting only the tip to touch the blood wind .
There was a constant stinging pain in the fingertips as blood grazed. But nothing more. By exquisitely adjusting the speed of withdrawal, the blood continued to grazed Andrea’s fingertips .
‘ The frantic blood wind inflicts damage with countless consecutive hits. That means …’
If there is a skill or equipment that receives an effect when attacked, it means that the effect can be maximized .
Bagratu’s vision gradually darkened, and soon it turned into darkness where nothing could be seen. Blindness status abnormality .
At the same time as embarrassment, the blood flow was disturbed and the storm subsided .
‘ Nonsense! The resistance is high, so you won’t be able to cast blindness on me with tolerable skills …?’
That was Bagratu’s arrogance. Of course, a single drop of water cannot moisten the desert. But what if those drops of water coalesce and coalesce to create a huge downpour ?
What Andrea had just done was similar to that. Bagratu’s resistance made the probability of occurrence of all status abnormalities extremely low. However, if that is repeated dozens or hundreds of times, one day it will inevitably be affected by abnormal conditions .
All of this was possible thanks to the ring on my hand .
‘[ Unique] Ring of the Blind (Equipment Card): A ring made for a blind servant by the Archbishop of the Shadow God. (When hit, 20% chance to blind the enemy )’
‘ There will come a moment when I use this like this .’
Due to the condition of being hit and the subtle probability of 20%, it has been a ring that has been a nuisance for a while, but this time it was worth it .
The barbarian’s composure was disturbed. Blindness wasn’t really a big obstacle. As already said, he is a seasoned fighter. Because they polished their persimmons swiftly, they were able to detect and deal with the enemy’s movements without having to look .
However, the problem was the flow that kept getting involved in Andrea’s plan. With every attack that was attempted, Andrea came up with an unexpected response, so now I was reluctant to even try anything .
Suspicion that bites tail after tail. It seemed like something was passing behind me, but did it really pass? Or did he play some other trick? If I swing the ax in that direction, wouldn’t it be like waiting and counterattacking ?
Whoo-huh, Kwa Gwa Kwang !
An ax that splits the air and shatters only the prettiest rocks. I tried to concentrate again, but the sign was gone. In the suffocating silence, no footsteps could be heard, only the sound of dripping water .
Talk, talk, talk .
Bagratu heard the regular sound and felt a sudden, lava-like rage .
‘ What the hell is this… ?’
Of course, it wasn’t just because he was terribly pushed by a weak opponent who he thought would crush him. It wasn’t because he blew the opportunity to trample the enemy and gave him enough time to prepare. A more fundamental and primal rage .
‘ If I can’t even touch my fingertips like this, isn’t it just like when he was in the outside world? ‘
Before Jeong-hyeon entered this world, Bagratu was Jung-hyeon’s ‘toy’ .
A toy that you can play with as much as you want and throw it in the fire whenever you get bitten, or leave it unattended until dust accumulates layer by layer. His will was completely ignored .
But a toy can never harm its owner .
‘ Now I finally managed to get him to crash into this world and kill me …’
Bagratu was still unable to escape from Jung Hyun’s grasp .
In the meantime, Andrea moved very stealthily to a corner of the cave. Without even breathing, the sound of falling water drops buried in the sound of footsteps .
Andrea finally arrived at the destination and attached an amulet to it. Then again, stealthily moved toward the other side of the cave .
In the meantime, Bagratu’s blindness status ailment was lifted. It was short enough to be less than a minute, but it felt like a long time to him .
Bagratu hurriedly looked around. It was much easier to track her location even though she was still in hiding and couldn’t see her directly .
Small footsteps rustling in a corner of the cave and dust flying .
‘ There he is !’
Bagratu drew a card first. Due to the draw order, the core of his deck now, the ‘strongest attack card’, had no choice but to come out .
Bagratu had played the card beforehand. If you have used it, you can activate it whenever you want. With this skill, it was impossible to parry, and it was impossible to ignore damage. No matter how high the resistance is, you won’t be able to withstand it .
If Andrea is really in that position, he can no longer escape death .
But I had to be careful. It might be a ploy to disrupt the location of something. Bagratu lowered his stance and stared straight ahead like a wild beast aiming for prey .
But there was no need to be more careful. At that moment, like a lie, the hiding of the shadows was lifted, and Andrea’s figure was revealed as if taking off a veil .
Bagratu jumped high .
boom !
A large red body arrived in front of Andrea in an instant. Missing an opportunity to attack here and giving them time to react was unacceptable .
The darkness inside the cave suddenly turned dark red. A harbinger of a devastating blow to crush a cornered enemy .
The doomsday demon melted red and became one with the gauntlet. The bloody smell that permeated everywhere was so terrible that I wondered if I could feel the texture when I touched it. Red steam rose from every orifice in Bagratu’s face .
Scattering fresh blood and burning flesh. It was truly a fire burning with blood. Bagratu compressed, compressed, and compressed the blood in his heart. With the feeling that a large amount of blood, enough to fill the sea, is purified with a single drop of thick blood .
Blood concentrated enough to pour out like a waterfall when a single needle was pierced. It took only about 2 seconds to get here. Finally, everything is ready .
“ Kururuaaa !”
Bagratu released all the blood that had accumulated in his heart at once and rushed towards Andrea .
Quagaceae family –
Explosive blood formed a sphere surrounding Bagratu. A red afterimage like the tail of a comet stretched behind Bagratu, a bloody mess that raged like a raging wave around him.
It soon became fragments and scattered, exploding fiercely whenever it touched the floor .
A mortal charge that rips the sun, splits the moon, and shatters everything as a bloody star .
It was the blood warrior’s strongest skill, Bloody Armageddon .
Kwa-ah-ang !
Orbits extending in a straight line. At the same time as it collided with the wall of the cave, a tremendous shock wave occurred. Cracks spread like a spider’s web at the point of impact that had been crushed, and the cave collapsed in an instant .
kurlr –
Quaguagua, quarrr –
Kurreuk, Kugung .
A ruined cave. As the noise subsided, silence came. In some ways, it’s even immoral .
It was Andrea who broke the silence .
” I’ve been waiting for you to use that skill .”
Andrea walking through the wreckage to the point of impact .
“ I thought I would definitely have ‘Bloody Armageddon’. No matter what anyone says, it’s a skill with the most destructive power, no different from the flower of a blood warrior .”
The area around the shattered rock wall was damp and wet. It wasn’t bloody. The rock wall was broken and the groundwater inside it burst out .
Andrea looked inside the rock wall. Beyond the rock wall, beyond the empty space where underground water was stagnant, Bagratu was stuffed in the black void space .
A space that could not be realized in game, the outside beyond the border of cracks .
“ But wasn’t ‘Bloody Armageddon’ a very buggy skill? Because you had to rush to a certain point, if you only used skills, you would bounce off the map and struggle. Almost all bugs have been fixed since patch 0.78, but .”
Looking at the immobilized Bagratu, Andrea calmly continues her conversation .
“ Not as much as in the rift. If you use it at a dangerous boundary, you will be thrown out of the rift and will not be able to return .”
Bagratu was then able to recall. Of the many deletions made in the rift, there was only one time when ‘Bloody Armageddon’ was used and then it got stuck outside the rift and was deleted .
It wasn’t that he didn’t know that if he was thrown out of the rift, he would get stuck and couldn’t come back. It’s not like I didn’t know that this cave spanned the end of the rift. I just couldn’t imagine using a method to ‘deliberately’ trap myself in a bug .
‘ Having no intention of killing… did this mean? ‘
I was completely beaten. He groaned in his heart, but Bagratu, anchored in the void, could not utter a word .
Andrea looked at Bagratu with a mixed gaze .
＜ 12. Into the Rift (12) ＞ End
I banish you to shadow realm!