Episode 285 Episode
89. Temar’s first tomb (6)
“Who is Silderrey?”
Even when he received family history education during his cadet days in Storm Castle, Jin had never heard of his name. It was because Ziple erased all records related to Silder Ray.
Silder Ray has yet to be seen. Just beyond the dim space, I can only feel a huge energy that doesn’t know the depth.
It was as if I had witnessed a deep-sea monster rising from the depths of the sea. I knew it before we met. how strong the enemy is.
There was a slight euphoria with the sensation of the hair standing upright. Sigmund’s pale blade, which had escaped from the scabbard, glistened in the darkness.
“One of Temar’s teenage knights. It can be seen as the predecessor of the Runcandel Dark Knight. My original surname was Žižek, but later I changed my surname to Runcandel, following Temar.”
“It’s an interesting story because it’s the predecessor of the Black Knight.”
Murakan hated Jin’s answer.
“Are you interested in this situation? You guys are going crazy too. I am now unable to fight. If that guardian reproduced the heyday of Silderray as it is, then I can’t handle it. The odds of winning are infinitely low.”
“It’s something you don’t know until you try it. And there’s no law saying you’re bound to fight, right? I asked if he came to comfort Temar, so he must be more friendly than I thought…”
“That can’t be the case. That’s not a real Silder Ray, but a guardian modeled after him. And the Guardians exist to defeat all intruders.”
The Guardian’s energy was slowly approaching.
Murakan was right. That aura clearly harbored speculation.
Fierce and gigantic fighting, like burning skin.
“How much?”
“what?”
“The fighting power of Silderray you remember.”
“Ten stars. An outstanding level among them. Fortunately, I wasn’t a magic swordsman like pureblood Runkandel.”
“I hope it’s not a reenactment of its heyday. Doesn’t it seem like there’s no way to escape from this subspace?”
“Infuse the key with the same amount of aura or have a guardian guide you. It must be one of the two.”
“Okay, it’s an unavoidable fight anyway. Let’s think about it after we have a fight.”
Jin stood up.
Murakan thought of this while looking at Jin.
‘How come you crazy kid… He seems to be having fun.’
To some extent it was.
Jin was feeling the satisfaction of being able to compete with a person who was no different from the beginning of the Dark Knight called Silder Ray.
It wasn’t just the sense of satisfaction that comes from being a martial artist or fighting.
‘Solderett’s Arrangement All the tests he left me were trials that I could eventually overcome. Besides, the opportunity to mix swords with a 10-star knight doesn’t come at any time.’
The mission to assassinate another 10-star knight, the Black Knight spy, ‘Barton Vichena’, was just a few days away.
There was no opponent more suitable than a guardian to raise a sense of what it was like to ‘fight against a 10-star knight’.
More than anything.
Contrary to Murakan’s opinion, Jin did not judge that the odds were very low.
‘Even if the worst happens, you can summon Lapla Rosa’s brothers. I don’t really like it.’
Finally, on the other side of the dark space, the figure of the guardian was revealed.
He was wearing armor similar to those of Runcandel Guardian Knights. His eyes were heavy and sharp, as if they could pierce even explosive muscular steel that could not be hidden even with massive musculoskeletal armor.
And the greatsword, which seemed to be bigger than the body, was impressive.
That greatsword, heavier than Luna’s axe and sword, was making fun of the fact that the unknown martial name of Silder Ray was not left behind at all.
If anyone could wield a greatsword like that at will, his name would go down in history.
The guardian stopped with two people and about 20 paces left.
He was a guardian embodied in the same format as Jin’s ‘calling the black light’.
When certain conditions are met, Solderlet molds Silderray’s soul and will into spirit so that the dead can temporarily appear in the human world.
Jin and Murakan realized that as soon as they saw the Guardian.
[I am Silderray Runcandel, the guardian of this tomb.]
“Hey Silderray! Can’t you recognize me?”
Murakan shouted, stepping forward.
The Guardian completely ignored the voice and fixed his gaze on Jin.
“Why didn’t you answer, Silderray? this child That is Murakan. Black dragon Murakan.”
[I don’t know such a bastard.]
“What a bastard…!?”
[Go away, you bastard.]
“Ha! see what that says No matter how much this body has lost its former strength, it is now that the aura has run out! Is it okay for you to talk to me like that? Silder Ray. I was the guardian dragon of your lord Temar.”
[…If you mention Temar’s name one more time, I’ll cut your throat without warning.]
The Guardian seemed to have some kind of resentment toward Murakan.
As he was a perfect clone created with aura, he had the old memories of Silderray intact.
Murakan opened his eyes and glared at the Guardian.
I want to jump right in and beat him, but that was not an easy task even for Murakan in his heyday.
Even now, I have to endure it because I have exhausted my spirit energy.
[Clarify your name. Solderlet’s last contractor.]
“This is Gene Runcandel.”
Silder Ray’s eyes deepened.
[…Solderett kept his promise. Now it’s my turn to keep my promise.]
Huung…!
Silderrey gently swung his greatsword. With that alone, a heavy sword wind flowed out and tousled Jin and Murakan’s hair.
[According to my long-standing promise with the teenage knight Silderay Runcandel sword and the shadow god Solderlet, I will pass on my will to the last contractor.] The transmission
of will.
What it meant was simple.
[Contractor Gene Runcandel, be prepared to fight me.]
“Guardian Sir Silderay Runcandel. Promise me one thing.”
Although the tone was polite, Jin was looking straight into the guardian’s eyes. As if not a request, but a notice.
[Say.]
“Murakan is currently unable to fight. Could you please take care of him so that he does not die?”
[That’s a matter for the idiot to figure out.]
“Thank you.”
That was enough. It can’t be helped that Murakan’s pride is hurt.
[Humblely accept all the consequences that follow.]
Immediately after the words were over.
The Guardian’s Greatsword flashed.
There was literally only a brief flash of light.
However, it was a phenomenon that occurred while the greatsword was moving, and no one would believe that the massive greatsword was moving at such a high speed unless they saw it in person.
Squeak Kwaaang-!
When the sword collided with Sigmund, there was a deafening roar in my head.
The floor, which seemed to be made of hard stone, was crushed, and the broken stones turned into aura and evaporated somewhere.
Shockwaves were clawing all over the place.
Jin gritted his teeth.
If he hadn’t gotten used to the swords of the Tuwangs in Lapra Rosa over the past year, or if he hadn’t faced swords with Vanessa before, he would have been taken aback as soon as he received the match.
‘Awesome…!’
The Guardian’s strike had both the pressure of being crushed by a mountain and the sharpness of a broken obsidian.
Murakan had already flown away. My body was floating on the shockwave of the first agreement and I was rolling around on the floor.
Fortunately, fatal injuries seemed to have been avoided. After barely landing on the floor, Murakan began to leave the battlefield, spitting out all sorts of curse words.
The Guardian did not bother to pursue Murakan.
The second and third sword attacks flew in succession.
Every time they clashed, bones were shattered and skin was torn, followed by terrible pain. However, apart from the pain, Jin’s body was elastically distributing the shock.
‘The training was not in vain.’
The stage right before the 10-star creation.
It is not known whether the Guardian perfectly reproduced the heyday of the Silder Ray, which was said to be ‘excellent’ among them, but it was certain that even a simple attack was imbued with 10-star power.
Destructive power similar to that of Vanessa or the Kings of the Myungwang clan.
Jin is facing the guardian’s attacks with pure swordsmanship.
‘But I don’t see a chance for a counterattack.’
The problem was the counterattack.
The rest of the defense was in a hurry, so there was no chance to attack. The Guardian’s greatsword pressed Jin with flashes of light from all directions five or six times a second.
For example, Guardians were clearly and significantly stronger than Jin.
Fighting against stronger opponents has always been the case.
When meeting a strong enemy, Jin always turned the tide of battle through variables. I always responded calmly based on the mindset that the opponent did not know all the weapons I had.
Flash gun Multa’s rune, the Myeongwang family’s brain power, and so on. A trump card has always yielded great results.
But do those things really work for a 10-star knight?
Jin had already experienced the conclusion that it was ‘impossible’ when taking Vanessa’s test. At that time, she simply destroyed the Flash Grape and the Myeongwang Sword, using only slightly mysterious techniques.
To the warrior who reached the pole of the sword, variables were no different from non-existence. At least, if it wasn’t a skill that was as deep as the area they touched, it was just catching them all.
‘You have to spread the fighting spirit from the beginning. Everything else is useless.’
Of course, it was not a sword that never lacked lightning strikes or oppressors.
However, Jin has not yet been able to unleash them with 10-star power. It was rather a way to run with a square beat to perform clumsy tricks or sell traps with them.
‘First of all, I summoned Tess, bought a minimum amount of time, and secured my territory by spreading the erosion of the flying machine… Damn, the dimensional door doesn’t open! Was this a dead world…!’
Even after the summoning ceremony to open the flame system, the dimension gate did not open.
Jin had already experienced several times that the dimension gates did not open in the ‘dead world’.
This sub-space that Solderlet created by hand was also a dead world.
The same result came out even with the black light call that I had no choice but to open in a hurry. Any form of summoning is impossible in the dead world.
[You seem to have tried something, but it all seems to have failed. Still, it’s worth living for not losing your cool.]
The guardian swung the greatsword even more fiercely.
Around that time, Jin took the first step back. Gradually, the gap started to become noticeable.
experience of brute force accuracy. Naturally, the Guardians were overwhelming Jin in every way.
A trickle of blood flowed from Jin’s mouth.
His mouth was torn from the impact, but no organs were injured.
‘I didn’t think the damn place would be a dead world. In the future, when I arrive in an unfamiliar space, I’ll have to check if I can summon it.’
Jin caught his breath.
Although the worst-case scenario was blocked at the source, it wasn’t over yet.
‘I really didn’t want to write this because I thought about the mission in a few days.’
Pjeek Pjjiek Khajik-!
The cerebral palsy began to fluctuate rapidly in the heartbeat.
If even this went in vain, then the only options left would be flight and prayer.
