Sword Emperor Reincarnated as a Sword Master (113)
This time, Herman forgot what to say and became stupid.
“ok? “Are you serious?”
“okay.”
Leonard’s swordsmanship that he experienced last night was beyond imagination, but he was still in the external force realm.
At that level, being challenged to a duel by the Transcendental Guardian was no different from being sentenced to death. It might be a situation where you can’t refuse, but if there was an option, it was strange to agree.
So even Herman came without much expectation, but Leonard agreed without the slightest hesitation.
“Let’s go to the place where we had a fight last night. “I came here without telling Pablo, so there won’t be any strays following me.”
“Right. “For something that Pablo sent, it was too honest.”
I was planning on giving it a high rating if it was a masterpiece done with the aim of achieving great victory as a warrior, but I guess that wasn’t the case.
“That guy’s face wasn’t very nice. It looks like your employer took a hit somehow, but I don’t know the details. “Pablo doesn’t trust me that much either.”
“Why did you stop fighting last night?”
“well? It might have been annoying that I enjoyed fighting with you. “He knows my personality well, so he must have been concerned about a situation like this that could get out of control.”
Pablo’s judgment itself was correct.
However, the dissatisfaction and opposition that Herman had accumulated over the years was greater than his judgment, and led to the current sudden action.
If Leonard had refused, it would have been in vain, but in the end, the deviation was successful. The two men made a pact between life and death at a moment when no one expected it.
“Herman Melville.”
Leonard, who called the other person’s full name, opened his mouth.
“I would like to place one condition on tonight’s duel.”
“Conditions? What?”
Herman asked back with a puzzled expression.
Leonard nodded and said.
“The reason you were working in Moby Dick was so that you could survive and try again after losing to Pablo.”
“Oh, I did.”
“If I win, give up trying again and join the Moby Dick Adventurers. “That is the condition for accepting a duel.”
Herman’s face became expressionless as he understood what she meant.
A gaze like a knife emanates from a face that has turned into a statue of death, with not a single trace of human emotion left, let alone warmth.
What Leonard said struck a chord.
Herman growled, glaring at him.
“Do you want to manipulate me as you please? Was it so funny to live like a dog on a leash while going through transcendence?”
“hmm.”
“I saw you wrong. “If I had known that you were a different person on the outside and the inside like Pablo, I wouldn’t have come to you like this.”
As Herman tried to get up while saying that, Leonard smiled without realizing it.
“Ha, just passing it on is a serious illness.”
“what?”
“I never asked you to come under me. I just asked you to come out from under Pablo. “If I lost to Pablo and owed him my life, I would make up for it.”
“… “What’s different?”
Leonard explained it with a pitiful expression.
“Perhaps you were not magically bound by Pablo or anything. Rather than suffer something like that, he would have just told me to kill him. But the reason you obediently remain in Moby Dick without any restraints is because you consider that situation to be the price of defeat. is not it?”
“that… yes.”
“So what they are saying is that they will offset that debt. It’s not about Pablo or me, it’s about moving as you please. “You can join one of the two, you can stand by, or you can leave this damn island.”
Herman thought about those words for a moment and then sat down.
“You’re going to release me? why?”
“It’s inevitable to die and kill while fighting, but I don’t want to kill someone who was acting according to the will of others. If you are dissatisfied with that, just fight again after you are free.”
“You are a unique person after all. “The way of thinking is so different.”
However, Herman, who had started the conversation, looked at me with a straight face.
Although the atmosphere was not as passionate as before, it felt like a sword would be pulled out at any moment.
Leonard also noticed this and put his hand on the hilt of his sword.
A voice passes through the suddenly tense air.
“Why are you talking on the premise that you won against me? “I know you didn’t show everything, but I’m the same way, right?”
Then Leonard put down his hand that was on the hilt of his sword and let out a long sigh.
“You just keep talking nonsense.”
“what?”
Leonard looked into Herman’s eyes and declared.
“It’s natural to fight with the intention of winning. If you lose and die, that’s it. “Then there is no need to talk about what happened after that.”
“… … .”
“We’ll talk about the rest again around midnight, in District 4. “As long as we have something left to say to each other.”
“This is the end of what I have to say,” said Leonard, who stood up and disappeared beyond the market.
Herman looked at the back for a moment, but was so dumbfounded that he just laughed. Did you really think that losing to a 16-year-old kid wasn’t enough and that he would be swayed one-sidedly?
“Ha, if someone sees it, they’ll think it’s the Transcendental Mirror.”
It’s not a joke, there was a strange atmosphere surrounding Leonard to the point where he felt that way.
He is older than me and is like a master who is one level above me.
A spirit that feels unrealistic.
In the end, I had no choice but to dismiss it as my own illusion.
* * *
It was that night.
Leonard walked to the vacant lot in District 4 at the appointed time. In the rare dark cloudy night sky, even the round moon could not show its face.
A chilling wind blew across the deserted dockside, and only empty ships were left, swaying in the waves.
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How are Francis and the members moving?
The information received from the communication device Russell gave me was no longer updated from the previous day.
‘Even if it’s something I can anticipate and move, there are limits.’
Tonight’s duel alone would be nothing short of an unfortunate event for Pablo and Francis.
Which side will benefit from this variable will only be known after the winner and loser of the duel are determined.
While Leonard was thinking that, a man appeared on the other side, rattling four cutlasses as always. Herman Melville, unlike last night, it was impressive that his hair and armor were neatly organized.
“Have you given up on beggar fashion?”
Herman, who laughed at Leonard’s words, answered.
“Fashion is some kind of stupid thing, I just left it alone because managing it was a hassle. Still, it feels refreshing to clean it up after a few years.”
“It’s filthy.”
“Did you add anything?”
As if it was a lie that they were going to fight for their lives from now on, the two warmed up by exchanging trivial puns.
Transcendental Sutra and External Force Sutra.
Originally, it was a gap where superiority and inferiority should have been clear, but Herman did not let down his guard at all. The betting duel with Konrad was something he also enjoyed watching, and from last night’s match, he realized that his opponent was a talented person who could not rely on artifacts or anything like that.
The same goes for the Lightning Dragon, which burned and killed Conrad, who went berserk in a suspicious manner.
That was a power that even Herman could not take lightly.
‘I’m so f*cking looking forward to this.’
Without realizing it, the corners of his mouth go up, and he greedily looks at the other person’s sword as if he had been starving for several days.
Leonard also noticed his gaze and pulled out two swords.
“Srung,” four blades flashed in the darkness.
“It’s dark.”
On the dockside, where there was not even moonlight, only a few small lanterns hanging around the ship were dimly glowing.
However, it is a good thing for the strong who can see hundreds of meters with just a single firefly. Herman, realizing the meaning of what Leonard said, smiled darkly.
Five elements sword energy
House (輯) Seonggang (成罡)
As blue-white sword cavities protrude from the two swords, at the same time, the two cutlasses emit platinum-colored auror blades.
The light emanating from the sword body, where enormous energy wriggles, burns the darkness of the area. In an open space with a radius of several tens of meters bright as daylight, the two swordsmen’s breathing gradually calmed down.
“Seu——… .”
“after–… .”
There was nothing more to say in words.
As breathing slows, perceived time accelerates, and color drains from the field of vision as if time has stopped.
A vision colored in black and white.
Only the gazes of the two people look into each other’s movements without slowing down in the slightest. Even if it is faster than sound or lightning, it cannot surpass its reaction speed. This is the reason why masters are not easily attacked by surprise attacks, and it is also the reason why the art of kwae (快) is becoming less and less practical.
Five Sangryu (五象流) Isin (Two Gods)
As soon as it started, Leonard, who showed his sword power, struck the player.
East Blue Dragon West White Tiger
Trust in the gale
The quick sword method limits the opponent’s options, and the heavy sword method limits the opponent’s movements.
The blue and white black light swirled dizzyingly.
It is a hell where even the strongest of the transcendent world have no choice but to be shattered if they are trapped within it. Herman, who started moving one step late,’s two cutlasses extend furiously.
Blade Dancing
Chapter of Volcano
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Herman, who was momentarily relieved of the pressure of the White Tiger style, amplified his strength once again and broke through the fence made of the Blue Dragon style.
“Kaaaaaaaaat——!!”
Of course, as he broke through the fence of the slash, there were quite a few knife marks all over his body, but there were no deep wounds.
Herman, who appeared to be in disrepair, counterattacked.
Blade Dancing
Herman, who took control of the sword with one step, put his foot down.
Chapter of Earthquake
Coo! And the ground around it shakes.
Leonard had to open his eyes wide as he sensed a mesmerizing use of internal power in his opponent’s movements.
It was a technique called Jin-gak (震脚) in martial arts.
At a third-rate level, it is nothing more than a movement aimed at intimidating the opponent, but martial artists who have properly mastered the principles were able to amplify the destructive power several times through the repulsive force of the ground and the movement of body weight.
And in Herman’s case, it was more than that.
‘You can’t take it with the Blue Dragon style… !’
It wasn’t just Leonard who got to know his opponent in last night’s match, but Herman as well.
Herman, who had once experienced the ‘Twisted Ice Wall’, understood that the destructive power of a single blow was needed rather than the speed and number of consecutive attacks.
If it defends, it crushes it along with its defense.
Cutlass, dozens of times heavier and stronger than before, asserted its supremacy by flicking Leonard’s sword away.
“Tsk!”
Bleeding out a trickle of blood due to a minor internal wound, Leonard unified the strength he was using in his two sword bodies into the White Tiger Guard.
If you switch to the Hyeonmu style, defense itself is possible, but if you cannot reverse this trend, you will continue to be on the defensive.
If you clumsily try to change your mind at extreme strength, you will die. Leonard knew that well, so he countered in the same way as his opponent.
Quang!
The two swords simply collided, creating a shock wave and a loud noise as if an explosive had exploded.
The arms that each swung bounced back due to repulsion, and the opposing sword shot out as if to fill the gap.
Ihap (two union).
The moment the sword strikes, which were more powerful than the first, intersected, Leonard and Herman felt their eardrums bursting. Even though I was protecting my body with all my energy, I couldn’t endure it.
But neither stops.
——! ——!! ——! ——!!
I move faster than the blood flowing down my ear canal and send out the next sword strike.
The point of being obsessed with just one sense was passed a long time ago.
Above all, by losing their hearing, the two swordsmen’s concentration rose to a higher level, and they began to unravel the principles of ascending martial arts accumulated in their bodies.
In terms of time, in less than three minutes, hundreds of sword strikes, perhaps over a thousand, were exchanged.
Along the way, Leonard’s concentration wavered for just a moment.
‘this.’
Not only was it not enough to inherit Cardenas’ bloodline, Leonard’s physical strength and regenerative power, which were close to the original, had reached a level higher than that of a transcendental powerhouse.
As a result, my eardrums regenerated faster than Herman’s, and my lost hearing returned, breaking the trance.
You don’t need even a second of comma to re-enter, but if you overlook that gap, you are not qualified to become a sword master.
Slurp.
At that moment, a creepy sound rang out from a sword sheath hanging on Herman’s waist.
Let alone a grip, the sword is stabbed without even touching it with a finger.
It is a sword technique.
Leonard sensed this instinctively and the back of his neck shriveled.
Blade Dancing
The sword light that appeared for the fifth time shot out like a lightning bolt.
Chapter of Thunder
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