Origin Epic(5)
The ax used by Origin Epic’s watchman, Hellyuon, was large and elongated to match his physique.
The ax part of normal ax spears is so small and ugly that it is embarrassing to be called an ax spear, but Helyuon’s was different.
It must be because the user’s strength is at a level that transcends that of humans, so even if the tip of the spear is a bit heavy, it can be easily handled.
Chris calmly looked at his opponent’s weapon and swung his shield to ward off the fast-flying ax spear.
However, as if expecting his shield strike, Helyuon suddenly stopped slashing and retrieved his weapon.
It was to use the ax part of the ax spear like a hook to pull out Chris’s shield.
‘This bastard?’
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My body reacted before my head to the unexpected change.
Chris slightly twists the shield to defeat Helyuon’s attempt, and then dodges the thrust that follows naturally like water flowing.
If it hadn’t been for Gearrick’s rigorous training, the fight might have ended with a single blow.
Hellyuon’s attack was that fast and clever.
“As expected, the man Argal-nim is looking at is different!”
Helyuon was rather pleased with Chris’ skillful response and slammed the ax spear down.
Then, Tyrone, who was sitting in the back, uses his skills in a timely manner and creates a gap for Chris.
“The Onslaught of Darkness!”
A blade emerges from the shadow of the Minotaur and pierces its side.
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My steel-like body wasn’t pierced that much, but… Still, it is unavoidable that the posture is broken.
Chris uses his dash to burrow into the ax spear’s gap in the blink of an eye.
No matter how skilled a spearman is, it will be difficult to deal with it if it clings to it like this.
However, Helyuon boldly let go of his weapon and struck Chris’s shield with repeated blows like a flash war.
“What!”
Embarrassed by the skillful and ferocious counterattack, Chris hurriedly stepped back and straightened up.
The yeonta just before wasn’t random like other monsters.
A fist that is moderately widened, holding the center of gravity firmly and swinging it moderately.
It contained a technique that would have made even a tolerant martial artist stick their tongue out.
After hitting the ax before it even hit the ground and recovering the weapon, Helyuon proudly spreads his chest as if he was very satisfied with his counterattack.
After blocking his fist, Chris felt his left arm holding the shield tremble and bit his molars.
It’s already hard because of the difference in physique, but even punching is a level skill.
Because of this, it is likely that the adventurers who took on the challenge first would die one after another.
‘This bastard, in my experience, is tougher than the King of Fists?’
The defense and survivability side would be overpowered by the Fist King, but the Minotaur, who had mastered martial arts, was not an easy opponent.
Illesis, who had been preparing the spell, tried holding it, but he had considerable magic resistance, so he couldn’t hold it for long.
“The Earth Mother’s Bondage!”
“Hmm!”
The roots of the trees that had been smashing through the stone floor exploded at once with Helyuon’s spirit.
As if he knew well about spells, he kept changing places and creating magical powers.
Seeing that, Chris cautiously activated the armor of absorption.
Although it is a tough opponent, it is good to use the roar of the shield because it is an opponent who can only fire physical attacks.
Having roughly grasped the opponent’s power, Hellyuon finishes the search battle and pushes Chris in earnest.
Thanks to the Shield Knight’s skills, it was possible to withstand Hellyuon’s attack, but that was the end.
Chris hardened his complexion as he felt the magical energy he had applied to his shield quickly run out.
The king of singers, who had been backing down, seemed to be hesitating because he wanted to help at this point.
But before his troubles were over, Chris’ counterattack was ready.
‘Charging is fast because the opponent is strong.’
When Chris, who had fixed the longsword, tried to deliver the decisive blow, Hellion’s eyes flinched.
Having read the other person’s psychology with a sense unique to beasts, he bends down low and digs right in.
Chris saw it and hesitated to attack, but it was already too late to reap the numbers.
The power that came out of the uneasy trembling sword electrode shattered the stone floor with a roar.
‘The roar of the shield.’
However, Hellyuon was in an excessively fine state, so that the stone dust flying around was colorless.
Although Chris’ attack grazed his left forearm, it did not interfere with combat.
After dodging the attack with a boxer’s ducking-like movement, he puts a devastating counter into the opponent’s side.
“Ugh!”
Chris, who had been hit by Helyuon’s fist, was pinned to the corner of the Colosseum, feeling a shattering pain in his side.
It was the first time he had allowed such a straight hit since he had mastered Gearrick’s shield technique.
Illesis and Tyrone quickly embraced Chris, but Helyuon smiled leisurely and waited for him to recover.
Its specs aren’t overwhelming like Fist King’s, but it’s so fast and clever that one attack doesn’t even hit it properly.
It was better to push a guy like this with quantity, so he was the worst opponent for Chris and his party, who were a small elite.
“You have an interesting technique. But not twice.”
“Hey, there’s no real answer to this? Would you mind if I told you to leave now?”
“If that were the case, I wouldn’t have closed the door in the first place.”
Chris, who had recovered from his wounds thanks to the vitality of the status window, struggled to get up and scolded Tyrone.
He puts the longsword that was about to break into the scabbard and pulls out the demonic sword he was wearing behind his back.
Originally, I was reluctant to use it, but now I have no choice.
Fortunately, there were enough prey for the demonic sword in the room.
Chris blew all his mana into the guy with a feeling of grabbing a rope.
At the appearance of a weapon that looks terrible at first glance, Hellyuon raises one eye.
“hmm!”
The magic sword, which was provided with Chris’ magical power, trembled with thirst and stretched.
Then, the blood staining the floor of the room rose into the air and gathered toward the demonic sword, didn’t it?
Singer played the lute and laughed at the rare sight.
“As expected, I did well to follow you.”
“Hmm? Is it Argal’s relic!”
Hellyuon shivered slightly, but couldn’t move hastily.
As the watchman of Origin Epic, it seems that he recognizes other Origin Epic.
The demonic sword that absorbed the blood that was soaking the floor trembled as if satisfied and shone brightly.
Chris tightly grips the guy he ate for the first time in a while and injects his magic power into it again.
“Okay, if you’ve eaten, then do some work.”
“Ugh!”
As soon as Chris finished his words, something flew towards Hellyuon, who was very nervous. Soon after, I heard the illusion that his eyes were stained with blood. … No, it doesn’t seem to be an illusion.
His vision suddenly turns red, and his limbs stagger in quick succession of pain.
The blood she thought had been absorbed by the magic sword soon filled the room.
If there was anything that had changed, it was in the form of a very sharp crystal rather than a thick liquid.
“this… this!”
Feeling threatened, Helyuon quickly raised its mana and seemed to increase its defense power.
But even so, it’s a temporary measure.
Crystals made of blood shot out creating red afterimages.
Then, not only is his strong body punctured here and there, but he stumbles so much that it is difficult to stand upright.
Chris opened his mouth wide in amazement at the skill of the demonic sword that was so brutal.
On the other hand, Helyuon showed a detached smile even though his body was already rags and grabbed the ax spear with difficulty.
Even if he killed Chris right away, there were bloody crystals all around him.
You must have ridiculous regenerative or defensive powers to survive this attack.
“As expected, Argal’s relic! I am not ashamed of the name of the bust. But I can’t stand still and die like this.”
No matter how brazen Chris was, he couldn’t just scold him for dying this time.
Chris took a defensive stance, infusing magic into his shield to replenish the buff and prepare for his charge.
Charged with a loud roar, Helyuon wielded the ax coolly, wringing out the last of his strength.
The shield that had protected Chris so far was powerlessly split in his final blow.
Chris pulled back his broken left arm along with the shield.
Then, he stabbed the magic sword in his right hand with all his might.
The magical sword cuts through the steel-like body like tofu and digs into his heart.
Immediately, the feeling of the magic sword sucking blood was transmitted to Chris’ hand.
While he was forcibly holding on to the demonic sword, Hellyuon greeted him with a painful smile.
“Thanks to you, I am relieved of my duty. Now, take your reward.”
“thanks.”
Chris’s broken left arm was soon restored, and he was able to close Hellyuon’s eyes.
And before his body dried up, he took out the magic sword.
Then, the demonic sword that had not finished eating trembled defiantly, but he tried to ignore it.
If left alone like this, it seemed that he would become stronger than himself and become uncontrollable.
“and… Isn’t this a really ridiculous scam?”
Admiring the magic sword’s performance, Tyrone said with greedy eyes, but as soon as the magic sword dropped his body toward him, he lowered his eyes.
Is it because I ate it for the first time in a while? The guy quietly enters the scabbard even though he still has magic power.
Chris took off his shattered shield and cleared his throaty breathing.
It’s been a long time since I bought it at a store I entered without much expectation, but it seemed like that was the end.
The king of singers mutters the lyrics in a rhyming voice, as if he is already making a song about this fight.
“You’re not really going to sing that in front of others, are you?”
“don’t worry. Just like it happened hundreds of years ago, I’ll change it appropriately and call it.”
The moment the singer with a visibly satisfied expression reassured Chris.
A message he had forgotten appeared before his eyes.
[Epic experience gained from bloody battles with high-level enemies… … .]
“Oh right.”
Chris hurriedly checked the status window without reading the message to the end.
Contrary to expectations, however, the epic experience did not increase that much.
If the original experience bar was about 1/4 left, now it’s about 1/5 left.
I didn’t win with pure skill, so it seemed to go up less than usual.
‘Still, there’s not much left.’
I don’t know what this is, but seeing people suffer so much, I don’t think they’ll give you a trivial reward.
With such expectations, Chris headed for the passage guarded by Hellyuon.
In the center of the stone chamber, barely fit for five people, a silvery iron shield was placed on top of the altar.
“Oh, the shield of faith! this is the real… … .”
“No.”
Tyrone instinctively tried to reach for the shield, but Illesis blocked him with his staff.
Then he looks at Chris with an expression that seems to be looking for praise.
Chris smiled lightly at her action and picked up the shield on the altar.
The feeling of the cold metal tickled my fingers pleasantly.
Tyrone, who was next to him, made a fuss so as not to hate him.
“Hey, put it on quickly. Shall I hit you once?”
“Let’s get out of here. You never know when other adventurers will come.”
Chris said anxiously, hiding the shield of faith under his cloak.
It bothered me that the priestess’ corpse had been left in front of Nakboros’ room earlier.
Of course, there is no evidence and no witnesses, so it is enough to catch them, but human affairs do not flow rationally.
just as expected.
By the time the four of them came out of the stone chamber, faces they hadn’t seen before were filling Hellyuon’s room.
Even if they catch a few, dozens of adventurers stare at Chris and his party with obvious hostility.
“uh… What are all these?”
“You bastards, did you dare to kill the priest of Khadral and safely cross over!”
“To walk calmly into our trap. Indeed, it is true that they are evil cultists who are blinded by greed.”
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Most of the adventurers were wearing sacred symbols of the gods belonging to the religious union around their necks.
I wondered if it was, but it seems like it was a trap.
It was an opponent that would have been easily defeated in normal times, but it was a fatal blow to Chris and his party, who consumed their strength in the fight against Hellyuon.
No, it should have been.
With dozens of enemies in front of him, Chris angrily pulled out his magic sword.
“I was going to seal it for a while, but these guys aren’t helping me… … .”
“That black!”
“Everyone get out of here!”
Before the clerics could even finish their shouts, the magic sword scattered a magical sword light.
Illesis, who was clutching the wand tightly, closed her eyes at the tragedy that would soon follow.