Chapter 607,
Chapter 156. Cleansing Chaos (11)
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[It took a while this time?]
Chaos raised his head and said.
Today is the first day of the month of October, 1801. Jin has passed through the gates of chaos three months after the last confrontation. It was the first time that the battle had been fought only at intervals of a month.
“I was choosing a present for you.”
Jin answered in a low voice.
That calm answer was imbued with a deep hostility toward Chaos. To those with eyes that could see that deep hostility, the current Jin would almost look like a demon.
[A gift?]
A lot has changed for Jin over the past year and three months. Through the long and difficult fights of the past, he regained about 50% of his energy and accumulated new strength through training.
Even so, it has not been an opponent of chaos so far.
The battle of 18 minutes and 27 seconds, the highest record obtained in the last fight, could not be called a proper fight in fact. Most of the time I just evaded and ran away.
But Jin thought it would be different today.
[Did you bring a toy for the boring me?]
Chaos snorted.
‘The ultimate skill of the spirit sword… Did he come after perfecting the technique I used to think about every time he fought?’
In this space, Chaos can read Jin’s thoughts.
That’s why, in each battle, Chaos obtained information about all the martial arts that Jin was learning, including the ultimate skill of the spirit sword, and easily destroyed it.
‘Exactly, I didn’t even have to do anything. Even the skills that seem to be okay have never been fully developed because he lacks the power he possesses.’
The only thing that had bothered the chaos so far was Jin’s pure enemy. Just reading the hostility made me feel uncomfortable.
Chaos stood up and looked down at Jin. As always, in his eyes, Jin looked weak enough that he could be killed by simply squeezing it with his paws.
However, after a while, Chaos felt the hostility Jin harbored suddenly subside.
[Oh what. Now I realize that it’s not working for me… Huh?]
It wasn’t just that.
Along with the disappearance of the hostility, Chaos also realized that Jin’s inner side had become unreadable since then.
This is also the first time.
[What have you done?]
Jin didn’t answer.
Suddenly, in his right hand was Bradamante, dyed black with spiritual energy, and Chaos could not help but be shocked by its appearance.
It was because he was completely unaware of the moment Jin pulled out his sword. Some ominous intuition chilled his spine like a chilly wind, and his scales stood up.
[This!]
Shaak-!
He swung his forepaw quickly, but it didn’t feel like it was being hit heavily. It was the same even if he swung his forepaw again and hurriedly hit it with his tail in all directions.
‘Where did you go!?’
I turned my head around, but I couldn’t see Jin’s figure. I couldn’t find Jin anywhere, as if I hadn’t even entered this space in the first place.
‘There is no trace that he opened the door and escaped.’
So if you release your energy to the entire space, Jin will eventually be defeated.
However, Chaos was worried about one problem that could arise if he did that, but right now wasn’t the time to be so relaxed.
My vision was suddenly blocked.
‘Snow…!’
For a moment, Chaos had no choice but to mistakenly believe that he was blind.
This sub-space is originally composed of chaos, but the color and outline of the bodies of chaos and jin are not covered by the empty darkness.
But not now. Even if you put your front paws and tail in front of your face, even if you turn your head and look at the wings, there is only darkness.
invisible.
Chaos was known only then.
The fact that Jin’s hostility did not disappear, it was just blocked as if his vision had suddenly disappeared.
I didn’t even have to think about what was blocking them.
aura.
In an instant, the aura of chaos that made up the entire subspace was covered with aura.
“It seems to work for you this time too…”
When Jin’s low voice was heard again, Chaos reflexively twisted his body.
I couldn’t tell from which direction it started. At that time, Chaos was exploding energy in all directions with no worries, but even he did not feel the sense of hitting Jin.
Since the beginning of the history of life, darkness has never taken off the symbol of ‘fear’. Thus, for the first time, Chaos had no choice but to be terrified.
The opponent, who seemed so ridiculous just a few seconds ago, was now an unknown fear, pressing on the chaos.
[Hey, wait a minute. How is this possible? This is my domain…!]
“Finally, I see you revealing your shallow inner feelings in a panic like the first time.”
[This bastard!]
“Oh, and you can’t read my thoughts in this state? If you had just kept your mouth shut, I wouldn’t have known that.”
It was a ‘sign’ that the vision of chaos was blocked. When the spirit sword ultimate is unfolding.
The sign naturally colored the subspace from the moment Jin decided to use the ultimate skill of the Spirit Sword, and from then on, all of his senses became dull without his knowledge, and it was at that time that Jin pulled out his sword.
The reason why Chaos didn’t notice Jin’s foot sword wasn’t because he was careless.
“Thanks to that, I can have more confidence.”
For the past year and three months, the spirit sword’s secret intentions, which had driven him into despair countless times, were beginning. The darkness that engulfed the chaos
on the first night of
the Spirited Sword Ultimate Skill 1
deepened. Whether I opened or closed my eyes, only the endless darkness disturbed the mind of chaos.
It seemed like my brain was going crazy.
It just wasn’t a feeling. Chaos was aware that the senses he knew were going out one by one like candlelight.
After the sight is the senses.
The sensation of moving the body, the sensation of the air touching the body, the sensation of sound being transmitted to the ears, and so on, all the senses were disappearing.
as if it had become a thing.
In fear, I wanted to write evil, but even that didn’t work out as I wanted. No sound came out as if his throat had been blocked.
You can’t see, move your body, or make a sound.
I can’t even get the feeling of struggling. Just being dead like a doll with a broken string was all Chaos could do.
‘Thought… even thought!?’
The last thing to be blocked is consciousness.
The darkness that covered all sides was eroding the mind of chaos like water. I tried to hold on to the consciousness that was about to disappear, but it was helpless.
‘no…!’
With that thought, all senses and consciousness of chaos went out.
You couldn’t be more defenseless than that. Chaos can’t be awakened no matter how much it is cut, and it has become a state where it cannot even feel pain from shock.
Then,
in the dark, the image of Jin slowly moving toward chaos stood out.
Unlike Chaos, Jin was able to recognize exactly what he was doing. Chaos remained motionless, clinging to the veil of aura.
‘It’s different from when I used it on the Tushin brothers. It was only because he was a strong monster that he was able to succeed like this.’
Jin looked at the chaos for a moment.
It wasn’t about relaxing. It was because I was so exhausted that I couldn’t do anything else for a moment while unfolding the ultimate skill of the spirit sword.
‘Certainly, as the brothers said, the spirit sword feels closer to power than a sword.’
The first night of Spirited Sword Ultimate Skill Type 1 is based on Spirited Sword Type 1 ‘Soul Slashing’.
-By the way, didn’t I say that soul cutting is the beginning and end of a spiritual sword?
-It did.
-So, does that mean that even if you do a great soul slash, leaving a sword mark of only 100 steps in this training ground is the limit?
-If you only cut the soul, that’s the limit. However, when you reach the end of the martial art of the spirit sword, cutting the soul is not a swordsmanship, but a power.
The conversation I had with Garmund when I first started to receive the spiritual sword in Lapla Rosa.
At the time, Garmund had said that if he reached the extreme of the spirit sword and opened the soul slash, he could reap the life of ‘an opponent weaker than himself’ at any time.
The first night could be said to be an intermediate step before being able to use that level of soul cutting.
If Chaos was higher than Jin and had a strong will, the result would have been completely different from now.
“Whoa…”
Jin took a breath and took a posture. It was time to cut him down and put an end to this long nightmare.
Sgung thaw-!
Jin ran around in the darkness of aura that covered all sides and swung Bradamante, but each time, a sharp black sword like a flash cut through the chaos.
like glass breaking.
The body of chaos was breaking.
He had never hit Chaos before, but as soon as he mastered the ultimate skill of the spirit sword, the fact that he could cut him so easily made Jin feel both hopeless and thrilled at the same time.
It was also the pleasure of finally regaining strength. Every time Chaos’s body was cut into pieces, glowing lumps like ore were revealed one by one, and all of them were Jin’s energy that he had stolen.
Jin snatched them and replenished his energy, increasing the speed of his sword swing.
Before long, Jin was able to regain all his energy from him. My eyes opened wide at the power that filled my whole body, and what I saw right after was a body of chaos disassembled to the point where I couldn’t recognize its original form.
At the end of the first night like that, a strong sense of exhaustion came over me, overshadowing the sense of fullness I had just gained from recovering all my strength.
‘I can’t, if I get tired like this now.’
I’m not sure I’ve put an end to the chaos yet. It almost seemed like that, but there was still a chance he could recover.
And within seconds, the fear became a reality.
[Damn you…!]
The chaos, which had re-formed before anyone knew it, was looking down at Jin from the air.
Fortunately, it was the fact that he was incomparably weaker and smaller than before.
On the other hand, Jin was only temporarily exhausted, so if he got over this crisis, he could win a complete victory unconditionally in the next fight.
[Bad boy!]
Chaos descended and spewed an awl into Jin’s chest. I was able to block up to three, but I couldn’t help the fourth awl.
What the fourth awl was aiming for was that if it got hit in the face, the head would disappear. Jin gritted his teeth and raised his sword, but it was a little late.
‘Did you stop?’
For some reason, the awl stopped moving in front of Jin’s eyes. If he hadn’t stopped, at least half of his face would have been ripped off intact.
If you don’t miss that gap and open the door with the spirit sword and run away, victory in the next battle is certain.
However, Jin suppressed the urge to do so and made eye contact with Chaos.
“You can’t kill me?”
