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Chapter 184:
Chapter 184:
Chapter 184:
Chapter 184
Kwon Jia and Kang Hye-rim were engaged in a fierce battle.
A sword imbued with electricity pierced towards Kwon Jia’s forehead with deadly accuracy.
Kwon Jia swung her sword from below to deflect the attack, and at the same time, she tilted her head to the side.
The electric energy on the tip of the sword scorched the air where Kwon Jia’s head had been moments ago.
Then, countless blades flew at her like afterimages.
Kwon Jia bit her lip and had no choice but to retreat.
‘It’s hard.’
She didn’t say it out loud, but she muttered it in her mind with honest feelings.
It was both a self-reproach for her own shortcomings and an admiration for the person she was crossing swords with.
Kwon Jia looked at Kang Hye-rim, who still had unfocused eyes.
Even though she was not in her right mind, she showed no openings at all.
‘That’s the power of someone who always had the same title in the predetermined history.’
Kang Hye-rim was always called Sword Master in every iteration.
As far as Kwon Jia remembered, anyone else would have their titles and actions changed depending on how the future twisted in each iteration.
But Kang Hye-rim was an exception.
Her title was always fixed.
It was because the title of Sword Master was only granted to her, and no one else could claim it.
An overwhelming force that transformed as soon as she held a sword.
And on top of that, in this iteration, she had acquired an incredible ability called Heavenly Thunder Sword thanks to Yu-hyun.
‘I can’t break through.’
Kwon Jia was confident that she could handle Kang Hye-rim if they fought.
Kang Hye-rim had awakened her ability faster than in the original history, but she lacked experience fundamentally.
On the contrary, Kwon Jia had plenty of experience.
She was sure that she would never lose in terms of the amount of experience she had gained from crossing countless timelines.
So she decided to subdue her as quickly as possible and charged at her.
‘But talent is really scary.’
At first, it seemed like she was overpowering her, but the situation changed quickly.
Kang Hye-rim grew rapidly even in her irrational state.
In a very short time of exchanging swords, she read and analyzed Kwon Jia’s techniques with her body, and then countered or replicated them.
She learned in three seconds what this side had learned after dying three times.
The fighting skills that took years to master in a previous life were dismantled in a few moments.
She felt a terrible injustice at that, but Kwon Jia steeled herself.
‘I know I lack talent from the start. I’ve always been lacking and insufficient, and even late to realize things.’
That’s why she repeated hundreds of failed lives. But now it was different.
She could change.
Her heart, which had been shaking insecurely ever since she decided to head for a new frontier that she had never seen before, regained its solidity from a distant past.
The one who made her realize that was a man who she believes.
“For his sake, too, I can’t fall here.”
“…”
Kang Hye-rim glared at Kwon Jia with clenched lips and hollow eyes.
Due to the forced rampage of her emotions, she felt a huge jealousy towards Kwon Jia.
And also a murderous intent to get rid of it.
Kwon Jia realized what emotion Kang Hye-rim was sending her and gave a bitter smile.
“Are you jealous of me? We have more in common than I thought.”
“…”
“I was jealous of you too. I thought your talent was dazzling. You’re incomparable to someone like me.”
“…”
“But we were wrong. We pretended not to be on the outside, but we acknowledged each other.”
Crackle!
Kang Hye-rim didn’t answer.
Instead, she poured all her emotions into the electric energy that ran through her sword.
Her whole body was wrapped in blue currents.
“So let’s end this.”
Kwon Jia knew that something was wrong from far away.
It seemed like Yu-hyun was still alive, but it didn’t look like it would last long.
Dark clouds were gathering in the sky above that distant place, as if something was about to appear.
“Let me finish this as quickly as possible. Don’t blame me if you get hurt.”
Kwon Jia also didn’t back down and released her energy to the maximum.
A purple aura flickered around her body like ripples.
“This is the first time I use this technique. I can only do it once in this state, but that’s why it’s most effective. If you let your guard down, you’ll die.”
Kwon Jia warned her like that because she hoped that Kang Hye-rim wouldn’t die from this attack.
She didn’t care about Kang Hye-rim at first, but now it was different.
Kang Hye-rim was also her comrade.
A reliable comrade who she could trust and rely on.
That’s why she acknowledged her and was jealous of her.
And she felt some consolation from the fact that she was also jealous of her.
“Uaaaaaaah!!”
Kang Hye-rim charged at her with lightning wrapped around her.
She screamed like a beast and her figure split into several.
Electric afterimages spread in all directions, dazzling her eyes.
The afterimages enveloped Kwon Jia like petals flying around her.
Before long, Kang Hye-rim’s figure disappeared, and a huge ring of electricity surrounded Kwon Jia.
Crackle!
Sharp blades sprouted from the ring of electricity.
More than twenty thunder swords stabbed at Kwon Jia from all directions.
They were fast and sharp.
Kwon Jia stood still in her place.
[The spirits watch the fight nervously.]
Some of the spirits who were watching the situation anxiously felt sorry for Kwon Jia’s actions.
They saw her defeat clearly in their eyes.
“Is that all you can do right now?”
Kwon Jia smiled as she saw them.
“Lucky me.”
It seems like I’m still stronger.
At the same time, the purple aura that surrounded her whole body began to change.
Crunch! Crunch!
The aura turned into mouths of beasts.
Not one, but dozens of them.
It looked like mouths had sprouted all over Kwon Jia’s body.
The sharp teeth opened and closed endlessly, as if craving for something.
The mouths swallowed the thunder swords that stabbed at Kwon Jia.
The mouths of beasts tore the thunder swords apart.
They cut off the thunder energy with their steel-like teeth, chewed and swallowed them whole.
The thunder swords that struggled with the mouths that bit them broke into pieces one by one.
“It’s still incomplete, the third form.”
Clang!
The thunder wheel shattered like a mirror along with the thunder swords.
The clones that Kang Hye-rim had spread out all disappeared, and the real her showed herself.
Kang Hye-rim, whose attack was thwarted, was pushed back by the shock. Kwon Jia did not miss that gap.
“It’s enough for now.”
The purple aura that surrounded her body disappeared along with the thunder wheel. But it didn’t matter.
Kwon Jia rushed toward Kang Hye-rim. Kang Hye-rim instinctively thrust her sword.
It was a fast and sharp strike that came from a collapsing posture, unbelievable as it was.
Kwon Jia blocked it with her sword.
Clash!
“Ugh!”
She couldn’t block it completely and got a wound on her shoulder, but she could bear it.
Their weapons collided, and at the same time, they both exposed their perfect flaws.
That moment was exactly what Kwon Jia had been aiming for.
“Snap out of it!”
Bang!
Kwon Jia headbutted Kang Hye-rim’s forehead.
Kang Hye-rim couldn’t overcome the shock and fell back on her butt.
Kwon Jia breathed heavily and checked her condition.
If she didn’t come to her senses even after doing this much…
“Ow, ow. My head.”
“Phew.”
Fortunately, it didn’t seem like that would happen.
Kwon Jia relaxed a little and let go of her shoulder.
“Are you awake now?”
“Huh, huh? Huh?”
Kang Hye-rim touched her swollen forehead and then realized the situation late.
She was startled and jumped up from her seat.
“Ji, Jia! Your shoulder wound…”
“…No. It’s fine.”
Kwon Jia tried to say something but decided to let it go.
She didn’t have any intention of saying anything about her not remembering right now.
That wasn’t what was important right now.
“Go to Yu-hyun quickly. I don’t know what’s going on over there, but he seems to be in danger.”
“What about you?”
“I’m… I guess I’m out of energy.”
Kwon Jia smiled bitterly.
She had used an incomplete third form earlier, and a feeling of exhaustion swept over her whole body.
She didn’t expect to collapse here because she couldn’t distribute her power properly. She laughed at herself.
Kwon Jia decided that it would be better to send Kang Hye-rim to Yu-hyun anyway.
At that moment, Kang Hye-rim supported her by lending her shoulder.
“Let’s go.”
“Huh, huh?”
“You said Yu-hyun is in danger. We have to hurry.”
“No. I’m fine, so you go by yourself…”
“No. You have to come with me too. I can’t leave you behind as a senior who works with me.”
Kwon Jia looked at Kang Hye-rim’s determined voice and eyes that had no hesitation anymore, and made a blank expression before nodding her head.
“…Okay. Let me borrow your back for a moment, senior.”
“Of course!”
Kang Hye-rim couldn’t hide her joy at being called senior.
Kwon Jia, who was carried on her back, asked.
“Are you sure? It might be hard to get there in time.”
“Don’t worry about that. I’m in a great condition right now.”
Pash.
Kang Hye-rim wrapped her whole body with lightning as she carried Kwon Jia on her back.
“I feel like I can do anything right now.”
[Thunder Step]
A technique derived from the Thunder Sword, but much more advanced than the Lightning Flash.
Kang Hye-rim’s legs unleashed it.
With Kwon Jia on her back, Kang Hye-rim disappeared from the spot in an instant, and ran through the space like a streak of lightning.
***
As he saw the figure of the Holy Spirit descending with the light from the sky, Yu-hyun wanted to curse this damn reality.
‘Just when I barely survived the life-threatening crisis and dealt with the assassins of the White Night Society, and managed to calm down the Heavenly Demon that went berserk because of the Divine Relic, now a Holy Spirit from Paradise comes down personally?’
Things that he thought could never happen were happening one after another in front of his eyes.
Even Yu-hyun, who considered every possibility, thought that this situation was too much.
‘What the hell is that crazy Holy Spirit thinking? If he keeps forcing his power in this lower world, he should know that he will disappear, right?’
The Western White Dragon Oh Heum was severely punished for just entering the library that was forcibly expelled.
The Genesis System clearly separates the upper world where the Holy Spirits live and the lower world where humans live.
The moment it is ignored, the Genesis System condemns the Holy Spirit who broke the rule with a huge force.
The reason why the first-generation Holy Spirits do not intervene in the lower world is not because they can’t.
It’s because they don’t want to incur the wrath of the Genesis System, the gigantic system that encompasses the whole universe of this mixed world.
But, the Holy Spirit in front of him did that crazy thing.
‘He’s trying to kill her by burning his own life?’
He didn’t know what the Holy Spirit was thinking. He only knew that most Holy Spirits were very rational and logical.
‘I was wrong. He’s much crazier than I thought.’
Not all Holy Spirits thought rationally.
Among them, there were Holy Spirits who had firm beliefs and purposes that even the Genesis System could not stop.
Even if it meant their own annihilation.
For their purpose, they were prepared to face the extinction of their existence.
[O evil that will stain the world with black.]
The light gradually faded and revealed the Holy Spirit’s appearance.
A monk was sitting on a lotus with a faint golden glow, sitting cross-legged.
[I, Chulapantaka, declare your doom here.]
‘Chulapantaka!’
Yu-hyun barely suppressed his shock.
He didn’t have time to wonder why the Holy Spirit revealed his own name.
Chulapantaka was one of the disciples of that sage.
He said his talent was dull, but he became an arhat with endless practice.
[Realize your sins and crumble under them.]
The light from Chulapantaka grew stronger.
It was a similar light to when he released the Divine Relic.
Chulapantaka also possessed a relic, and just by existing, he gave a strong mental pressure to the people of the lower world.
“Who are you to say that!”
Yu-hyun immediately put on his black mask.
Black leather gloves appeared on his hands, and Yu-hyun spread his arms and raised his energy.
In an instant, black characters formed a huge barrier to block Chulapantaka’s light.
However.
“Kuk!”
The barrier was destroyed as soon as it touched the light.
Yu-hyun was pushed back with a groan.
He crossed his arms and frowned at his sore arms.
Just by showing his presence, he had this much power.
‘Even with this mask on and being this strong, I’m still pushed back.’
Moreover, Chulapantaka forcibly composed his flesh by breaking down the stories of the experts from the Joint Alliance. It was like making a shabby body out of rags. It was an incomplete manifestation.
If he thought about his original power, Chulapantaka would not even be half of it now.
Yet Yu-hyun was pushed back.
‘That is… a heavenly being with the power of stars.’
Yu-hyun’s right eye with the mask on, Laplace’s eye with the power to see the future, flared up strongly.
[Warning! Warning! Enemy with highest danger level detected!]
[Victory probability 0.00021%. Adjustment initiated.]
[Victory probability 0.0000031%. Adjustment initiated.]
[Victory probability infinitely close to 0.]
The eye that saw the future began to point out impossibilities.
It wasn’t even this bad when he died and resurrected, but the Holy Spirit who manifested incompletely in front of him was much worse.
Yu-hyun activated his left eye, Maxwell’s eye with the power to make possibilities into reality.
[The possibility is too low.]
[Realization is impossible.]
One after another, bad news.
Yu-hyun’s eyes trembled.
Chulapantaka looked at him with a bland gaze.
[Is that so. You are the storyteller. That ominous mask and power. It’s a surprising and regrettable thing.]
Chulapantaka was a punisher of evil, but he also sympathized with evil.
He pitied the imperfection of this world that made them disappear.
[That power is dangerous. I can feel the endless chaos and evil from that mask. All the seeds of evil will disappear from this place today.]
The light from Chulapantaka became even stronger.
[That is my existence, Chulapantaka’s purpose.]