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Chapter 215
Chapter 215
Chapter 215
[Translator – Kie]
[Proofreader – Kawaii]
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Chapter 215: Helian Tournament (4)
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“You think your threat will work? Not a chance! I’m not afraid of you!”
Everis trembled as she brandished his sword.
At that moment, Everis felt a surge of power in her arm. Damien had quickly read Everis’s movements and the flow of her mana.
‘The neck.’
As soon as he raised the Dawn to block Two-Handed Sword. Damien’s body was pushed back slightly.
“…H-how did you block it?”
Everis asked with a surprised expression.
Damien caressed the hilt of the Dawn. A tingling sensation lingered on his palm.
‘The speed and power are incredible.’
Damien hadn’t even seen the sword. He had been able to block the attack because he had read and predicted Everis’s movements.
‘Is it because of the level of the realm? No, that alone can’t explain this speed.’
Realm was not omnipotent. It needed to be backed up by physical strength and mana to truly show its power.
This meant that Everis, despite pretending to be weak, had a physical body that far surpassed even some Master Classes.
‘If she had trained that much, it wouldn’t be hidden.’
However, Everis’s arms and legs were too thin. Her body was untrained and had never exercised.
There was a technique to transform muscles and bones, but that was a stealth technique. It wasn’t something to be used in the midst of battle.
‘I need more information.’
Damien lunged forward.
He didn’t run in a straight line. He zig-zagged, kicking off the ground left and right.
“This time, you won’t be able to escape!”
Everis swung her sword again. Damien blocked the sword with the Dawn.
At that moment, the back of his neck felt cold. Damien bent his knee slightly.
The second sword strike grazed the spot where Damien’s head had been.
“…H-how did you dodge that too?”
Damien was just as surprised.
He had no idea that Everis could use a sword of this speed in such succession.
What was even more surprising was the accuracy.
Damien had moved erratically to prevent Everis from pinpointing his location.
But Everis had accurately tracked Damien’s movements and swung her sword.
‘She’s too accurate to be blind.’
Damien had met a blind Master Class in his previous life.
He had compensated for his lack of sight by enhancing his other senses.
However, even with these methods, he couldn’t completely make up for his lack of vision. There was a clear difference in his accuracy compared to other knights.
‘Can she actually see? No, that can’t be it. But from my perspective, there are no blind spots on that woman.’
The blind Master Class that Damien had seen had other senses that were extremely sharp to compensate for their lack of sight.
Therefore, they had no blind spots. No assassin could hide from them.
‘A Master Class with high accuracy and no blind spots…’
A hypothesis came to mind.
“Let’s check it out.”
His deliberation was over.
Without hesitation, Damien kicked off the ground.
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‘Who is that guy?’
Everis thought to herself.
‘My Master said that there’s no one in this world who can block my quick sword. But that guy not only blocked it but also dodged it.’
Everis erased the doubts that had risen in her mind and only remembered her Master’s words.
‘My Master’s words are the truth, so failure is impossible.’
But if that guy was right, her Master’s words would become a lie.
There was only one way to make her Master’s words true again.
‘I’ll kill him this time.’
Everis gripped her sword hilt more tightly. Dark mana began to emanate from deep within her body.
At the same time, the scenery Everis saw became even clearer.
In the world filled with darkness, colorful lights flickered to life.
Some were white, and some were blue.
Everis was blind, but not really blind, because she could see people’s mana.
If she could see mana, she could read people’s movements and predict their next actions.
Thanks to that, Everis could wield her sword with accuracy surpassing that of sighted people.
‘Let’s confirm it once.’
Just then, Damien ran forward.
Everis didn’t immediately strike with her sword.
Her sword’s accuracy and speed dropped with distance.
About 10 meters.
The moment Damien entered the optimal range, Everis swung her sword.
No, she had already cut him down by the time she thought she had swung it. Everis’s quick sword was too fast for even her to see.
‘……Did he dodge again?’
There was no feeling of impact. Moreover, Damien’s mana was still visible.
‘I’ll strike him with everything I have.’
Everis decided to strike Damien again.
36 times.
Her countless quick sword strikes colored the world. She swung her sword too quickly to feel any impact.
But Everis could see. She saw Damien’s mana was dispersing.
‘Heh, heh… My Master’s words are indeed the truth…’
At that moment, a chilling sound of cutting through the air was heard.
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Aghhhhhh!
The bandage that had been covering her face, split open as it was cut.
Everis screamed and covered her face with her palm. Blood trickled down between her fingers.
“Wh-what is that?”
“Blood, blood is…the color of the blood…”
The citizens in the stands shouted in astonishment.
“It’s, it’s purple!”
Human blood is usually reddish-black. In the case of dead blood, it sometimes turns black.
However, there was no one in the world with purple blood.
“My, my face…h-how dare you attack the face that my master created for me…!
Everis removed her hand from her face and spat out her anger. At that moment, the audience could not help but be shocked once more.
“Wh-what are those eyes…”
“T-those aren’t eyes, are they?”
Everis’s eyes were different from those of ordinary people. There were several small pupils attached. It was like looking at the compound eyes of an insect.
Damien wasn’t particularly surprised. After all, he had already expected it.
‘So you were wearing the Eye of the Night.’
The Eye of the Night.
The Eye of the Night had the ability to sense and visualize mana.
Being able to see the opponent’s mana was a tremendous advantage.
Whether it was a knight or a mage, they had no choice but to use mana to use their skills.
In other words, the Eye of the Night was an eye that allowed the user to fully grasp the opponent’s movements.
Damien had noticed the Eye of the Night early on and manipulated the flow of mana. As a result, Everis was unable to properly cut Damien.
‘I never thought I’d see that thing here.’
The reason why Damien was able to recognize the eye was simple.
In this world, only Dorugo could create that eye.
The monster that possessed the Eye of the Night had become extinct in ancient times for some reason. As a result, the Eye of the Night could only be confirmed to exist through records.
Dorugo had thoroughly researched the cause of the extinction and, after a long time, succeeded in restoring the Eye of the Night.
‘And there’s the purple blood.’
Humans cannot have purple blood. That meant that Everis had been modified by Dorugo.
Only now could Damien understand how Everis could use such a fine sword with that body.
It was possible if she had been modified by Dorugo. After all, Dorugo had unparalleled skills in undead creation that no one could surpass.
Of course, no matter how great Dorugo was, he couldn’t create a monster like this from scratch.
He probably captured a Master Class somewhere and then modified it.
A Master Class knight received a modification from Dorugo and even had an eye transplanted?
No wonder the Master Classes who participated in the competition were defeated so easily.
“DAMIEN HAKSEN!!!!”
Everis gritted her teeth and shouted.
“You dodged my sword again! And you even wounded the body my master gave me!”
Everis no longer pretended to be weak.
She raised the Two-Handed Sword that she had been dragging just a moment ago with one hand.
“I’m going to kill you right now! I’m going to tear your whole body into hundreds of pieces!”
“You run your mouth so much, it’s as if your lips have hemorrhoids.”
Unlike the excited Everis, Damien was somewhat deflated.
The thought of Dorugo made his blood boil. He wanted to rip Everis’s limbs off right now and then interrogate her about Dorugo.
But it was pointless. Dorugo was a person who was very good at hiding himself.
He would have put all sorts of taboos in place to prevent Everis from divulging anything about him during the modification process.
In addition, Dorugo never revealed his precious undead until the War of Annihilation.
Everis was probably just a failed test subject.
In other words, Damien would gain nothing from interrogating Everis.
‘But there’s always a chance… let’s try it once.’
“What are you talking about, you fucking bastard!”
Everis spat out insults. The murderous aura she exuded grew even stronger.
“I’m going to kill you right now!”
Everis swung her sword. The speed was even faster as her body had grown larger.
“Die! Die!”
Everis swung her sword relentlessly. Countless sword strikes completely covered the arena.
“Why, why aren’t you dying!”
However, Everis’s sword strikes couldn’t even touch the hem of Damien’s clothes.
The Eye of the Night was a fearsome thing, but it also had a glaring weakness.
It could be easily deceived by simply manipulating the mana in one’s body.
He put the Dawn into the scabbard while dodging Everis’s sword strikes. And he grabbed both the scabbard and the hilt at the same time.
“I know everything I need to know. There’s no need to stretch this fight anymore.”
Damien drew the Dawn and swung it.
In that instant, a flash of light erupted. The released Aurablade cut the arena in half.
At the same time, Everis’s shoulder was sliced off. The arm that had been holding the sword fell to the ground whole.
“……Huh?”
Everis muttered blankly and looked at her shoulder.
The dark mana was cut off from her shoulder. She could no longer feel the weight of the two-handed sword.
“H-how… Ugh!”
Damien, who had approached unnoticed ruthlessly grabbed Everis’s face.
At the same time, he manipulated the dark mana within Everis’s body.
Everis’s dark mana broke free from her control. Moving under Damien’s orders, it captured her soul.
“Ha, don’t do it…!”
Without hesitation, Damien tore Everis’s soul apart and searched through it for memories, absorbing them.
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[Translator – Kie]
[Proofreader – Kawaii]