chapter 372
372 – Successful Build-Up
“How dare you use dirty things!!”
After dodging a stone that suddenly fell, Hyun Woo-seok roared and used a skill as if he couldn’t dodge it a second time.
[Heaven and Earth Six Swords]
Hyun Woo-seok’s sword left an afterimage as he spat out a grandiose technique.
Then, small sword energy swirls like a storm in all directions.
My minions, who entered on their own feet into the terrible waves of swords, were torn like paper and scattered in all directions.
‘Oh my… That kind of technique is against the rules!’
I dug into the ground and let out a silent cry.
But then.
When the minions were cut to pieces and the blood flowed and a thick haze was created, the ‘rings’ that pierced the dense net of sword energy rushed in.
‘Gori, go!’
Fishit─!
“Huh?!”
I don’t know how the ring with the two wings cut off flew to Hyun Woo-seok, but it tore off the tip of Hyun Woo-seok’s right earlobe with its claws and rolled around on the floor several times.
“Bleep…!”
‘Gori’, which was left with only its body, shook Hyun Woo-seok’s earlobe, and with difficulty let me know that the order had been completed.
I could sense it clearly with my senses, and I wanted to stroke that special ring right away.
Push-!
Hyun Woo-seok’s quick stab created a fist-sized hole in Gori’s body, and he had to wait for the next time.
“I-I-I-IK…! How dare you let a bug’s attack touch my body!!”
He took out a wet tissue from his space, soaked it in potion, and wiped his ear repeatedly, as if he had caught a terrible virus.
.
Despite his crumpled expression, people were enthusiastic.
The injuries he suffered were minor, and the skills he used were clearly special abilities.
– Wow!! This is the swordsmanship that was taught to me by my great instructor a few months ago!
– It’s amazing… It almost feels like the world is covered only with swords.
Unlike the Ilseom side, which cheered, our side showed an anxious reaction.
– Rice, not so much. Even Lady Hayun can block that kind of skill, right?
– If you miss a bat, it’s a skill with a gap. There is no need to worry…
But in my opinion, that technology was very useful and had extraordinary destructive power.
‘…It’s amazing, though. Can I use a cow knife to kill a chicken?’
If you think about it the other way around, it would be proof that the ‘Gori’ unit felt that much of a threat.
I was already digging into the ground and moving around during the time the ring gave me.
After using great technology, loopholes inevitably appear.
He clearly missed paying attention to me.
He jumped out to where he was standing and activated his skill.
[Chain of Flame]
“!!”
– Did it pop out of the ground?!
– What!!
People did not hide their surprise when they saw me suddenly bursting through the ground in a bloody dance.
Hyun Woo-seok instinctively fought back just as he was about to be restrained.
[Tunnel Destroyer Lv.Max]
– When attacking an enemy outside the den, defense increases by 250.
Not only was it an unprepared attack, but my defense had increased significantly with the skill.
Physical strength only slightly decreased.
I then jabbed [Thunder Horn] At him.
It’s so sad─!
“Off…!”
However, even though Hyunwoo-seok suffered from the flames for a moment, he opened his arms with all his strength and easily burst the chain.
The thunderbolts pouring down along with the flames were visible all the way to the pulpit, which was held up with only its bare body, and judging by the expression on its face, it seemed to feel a little stinging.
Is it because the attribute resistance is high due to [Lightning Walk]? [Thunderhorn] Was not effective.
‘I made sure to train my body. Still, it’s checkmate soon!’
I thought he would soon break free of his restraints, so I exploded the movement technique again to narrow the distance.
I reached right in front of my nose and calmly lowered my sword down.
Chaeeng──!
‘Of course you will block this too.’
Hyun Woo-seok, who had cut down all of his minions, easily blocked my attack, which went right through the gap, but this was also within the expected range.
Ppajik-
Did he really feel it?
That an extremely fine crack appeared in his sword as he just blocked my attack?
‘The sword won’t explode right away, but it will take a while to repair it. ‘You bastard.’
[Gongcham], Which cuts through space, was very effective in this type of workshop.
“Did you dare to fool Dae Ilseom with such crude swordsmanship?”
“Tick, tick, tick.”
This guy won’t know for the rest of his life that this swordsmanship was taught to him by someone so great that even Hyeon Jung-gil could defeat him.
Ga Ga Ga Gag-!
After crossing swords for a moment, we realized that the struggle was taking longer than expected.
“Iike…! This is ridiculous. I’m wasting my time on this trash!!”
Hyun Woo-seok was trying to follow the existing formula of villains that had a lot of talk.
I launched my next attack right away, hoping that he wouldn’t become a villain.
‘Eat this while you’re playing with your snout!’
The moves I made earlier were prepared for this attack when I was close from the beginning.
[Special strong acid]
[Skull Bomb]
“Ugh?!”
A hundred [Skull Bombs] Exploded at close range.
Five of them were special bombs made from ogre bones.
Kkwagwagwagwagwagwang──!!
A huge explosion rang out, accompanied by a tremor that felt as if the sparring hall was about to explode.
A shock wave erupted that was enough to push many people who were watching to the back.
‘It’s the last time-‘
Now that I was used to the feeling of cutting a certain amount of space, I continued the next movement in a flowing manner.
[Gongcham (空斬) fire slash]
Thinking back to all the hard training I had done so far, I poured everything I had into one swing and swung it towards him.
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Suddenly—!
After the swing of my entire body passed, in the smoke-filled space from the explosion, I clearly saw how he blocked my attack.
‘Basically, equipment and artifacts are the goods, but the skill activated by sticking the sword into the ground is surprising.’
Skill used at the moment of exploding the bomb.
At that moment, it seemed as if the space where Hyun Woo-seok was in was glass and disappeared into another dimension.
Of course, he shouldn’t have suffered any damage, and soon after, Hyun Woo-seok appeared, clearing away the smoke without any problem.
The strong acid he spat out before using the skill slightly melted his shoulder, but at first glance, no other damage was visible.
‘No, it was definitely a taste.’
I knew with a sense of certainty that the slash I attempted at the same time as detonating the bomb definitely worked on him.
“Kkkk- Is this acid on your shoulder? I definitely saw it when I was sparring with Hyuna earlier, but I guess it could have been spit out as fast as a bullet? It really is a monster that gets angrier the more you look at it.”
‘You shouldn’t be that angry.’
After disarming the skill, a small drop of blood began to form on Hyunwoo Seok’s right cheek as he raised one corner of his mouth.
“······.”
Hyeon Woo-seok wiped the blood flowing down his cheek with his index finger and muttered in disbelief.
“…? Huh? What is this? How…?”
There were a lot of things today that he didn’t understand.
It must be a skill that liberates space to be free from any attack, but how was it possible for the skull’s crude slash to reach you?
Fishit─
“Huh?!”
The blood that had been a single drop stretched straight from the left corner of Hyeon Woo-seok’s mouth to above his eyebrows, turning red.
Soon, blood poured out like a fountain from the long stab wound, turning Hyeon Woo-seok’s face red.
Pushuuuuu──
“aah!! aah!”
Hyun Woo-seok, who was hit by my swordsmanship, closes one of his eyes and stumbles greatly.
‘Done! After all, the senses don’t lie!’
– A flame mark is engraved.
– Temporarily tracks the location of an enemy with a single mark.
‘If you apply [Flame Explosion], It will be tracked permanently, but is this the limit with just one mark?’
Instinctively, I could tell that the mark had a tracking function, but one seems not to be enough.
‘To what extent is it temporary?’
When I widened the distance behind me with doubts, Hyun Woo-seok was still muttering something.
‘Something feels strange.’
Feeling a little uncomfortable, I wondered what I might have missed.
“Space…”
Hyun Woo-seok seemed to be more urgent about understanding the phenomenon than maintaining balance.
“I cut into space… Huh?”
It was a level he had not yet reached. I knew something was wrong, but I didn’t want to admit it.
The skull before my eyes was definitely different from other monsters.
I was also annoyed by attacks that were strangely similar to Ilseom’s swordsmanship.
Moreover, that inexplicable liveliness, as if he was dead but still alive, was quite annoying.
If it is a monster that is alive even though it is dead, if the rules of the world are reversed.
Is it possible to step backwards to the level of swordsmanship?
‘Nonsense! Have you gone crazy?’
Shaking his head vigorously to shake off his thoughts, he looked at the skeleton’s shoulder and muttered quietly.
“Maybe it’s because it’s a monster… It takes a long time to separate.”
“Just…?”
‘Separation?’
Only then did I sense something was wrong.
‘Hmm?! Arms?!’
Tutuk-
The weight slowly decreased in both arms, and before I knew it, both arms were falling to the ground and rolling around.
‘Ugh! When did you get cut?! No way, at the moment I was cutting? Did you get countered?’
Even if I expand my senses, if I get distracted somewhere else. There is a very brief moment that cannot be detected. I think he cut off my arm that time.
It couldn’t have been surprising.
Isn’t this only possible in hand-to-hand combat?
Beetle-
I lost both arms.
To be precise, the right arm was cut off up to the shoulder, and the left arm was cut off up to the elbow.
He lost his balance for a moment and almost fell to the floor, but he managed to get his bearings.
– Ilwol!!
– Oh my…! I can’t continue the battle in that state!
– Referee! Stop, stop!
– The referee has already run away.
– Wow…?
Even though Hyun Woo-seok left me incapable of fighting, he still approached me with a dissatisfied face.
Yeonhee hurriedly shouted at me and tried to cancel the summons, but I shook my head.
Going into the dark space now, recovering, and coming back out was because I felt like the system didn’t want me to.
This was a confidence that was close to instinct, having experienced his will many times.
‘We have to end the fight cleanly. One-on-one… It’s a match I started. Whether it’s porridge or rice, it’s finished.’
Hwareuk-
A flame mark appeared on Hyeon Woo-seok’s shoulder. The goal has already been achieved.
The body is literally a complete mess.
Since all his magic power was used up in the last slash, his remaining magic power was not much.
It was difficult to fight normally in this state.
Nevertheless, even thinking about myself, I felt a little sad as I was looking for a small spark to move forward.
Okay, let’s aim to build just one more mark.
I stood up with the great sword that had fallen on the ground in my mouth.
I moved the thorns from my body to my arms and roughly shaped them.
Then, an arm that looked like a giant fang was created.
– Wow… It’s a real monster.
– Did you make an arm?
– I’m not sophisticated enough to make a hand, but…
– That one is scarier. I never want to fight. With a monster like that.
‘That’s too much praise.’
I walked forward without any hesitation.
“Hu-Hu-wook-like a monster like a dog.
‘Next? A crazy person is crossing the line?’
Hyun Woo-seok seemed to have already lost his mind.
I could see that his left eye, which had been hit by my attack, was slightly opened.
‘Couldn’t you take the eye away?’
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