Dagger.
Dagger.
bang! bang! bang!
Horlu’s Space Sphere. As if to prove that the name was not false, the huge ink-colored fist protruding through the walls and the floor relentlessly aimed at my blind spot.
Rather, it only aimed at the blind spot, to the point where I could guess where it would come from even if I couldn’t see it.
bang!
A metal fist bursting through the floor behind my back. It was the fist I had been waiting for while avoiding his fist. I ignored the pain in my stomach that was already hurting because I had activated the Gate of Corruption, and used the guy’s fist protruding from behind as a stepping stone to kick it up and jump up.
The distance from the ground that goes away in an instant. Originally, jumping into the air without a foothold was an act that should be avoided when dealing with enemies beyond the human category, such as Horlu, but I wanted to try a few things to figure out his abilities.
Can his fist reach me even in this empty space without walls and floors?
Even though I reacted to the fists of those who extended from close range, the metal fists that reached out to me from a distance starting from the walls and the floor were just good footholds for me to step on.
rick rick rick.
Horlu’s sawtooth head rotates incessantly. He seemed to be looking at me leaping into the air to close the distance with him, but unlike other humans, there was nothing that resembled a human expression on his cog hair, so I couldn’t guess what he was thinking while looking at me.
Of course, it doesn’t matter what I was thinking.
thud.
short landing. The distance between him and him has greatly decreased. While flying defenselessly through the air, he didn’t attack at all. didn’t you?
As soon as I landed, Horlu once again threw out his fist from the spot.
Quaang!
As expected, a fist breaks through the wall and protrudes out of my blind spot. Perhaps he noticed that I was trying to shorten the distance with my leap just now, and the giant metal fist attacked me at an angle that made it difficult to step on and jump.
Aaaaang!
With the despair in my grasp, I let go of the guy’s fist. The metal fist scraped the blue blade of despair and produced a brilliant spark.
bang!
A new fist popped out before he could even let go of all his attacks.
Does it activate faster the closer you are to him? The beat is faster than before.
I jumped backwards and narrowly dodged the huge metal fist. Of course, because he attacked at an angle where he had no choice but to jump back, the distance with Horlu, which had been narrowed at best, increased a little again.
One thing is for sure, he doesn’t want to close the distance with me.
That meant that an attack on that jagged-headed body could damage him.
good. Shall I go a little faster too?
The dark green tattoo that covered my skin burned brightly. I exploded with the amplified power of my body and kicked the floor. Once again, the distance from the floor increased in an instant.
Yes, I was able to jump to a high enough height by myself even without his footing.
rick rick rick.
Hearing the strangely regular sound of the cog head turning while his body floated, he quickly sorted out the situation.
First of all, Pearly, whom I pushed away earlier, disappeared from the battle without a sound.
Well, Pearly is a person who is good at taking care of himself, so he probably decided that finding a passage to the space with the ‘bowl’ was more important than dealing with Horlu.
and the realm of space. Is Horlu’s Fist the power he received as a priest? Even Pearly wasn’t sure if Horlu was a priest who worshiped God, or if he was just a fanatic who wasn’t chosen as a priest.
Judging from the lump of dark metal visible through the cracks in the broken floor, it was highly likely that this huge space itself where he and I exist was his body. The space realm would also be named arbitrarily for the fact that he transforms his body to attack.
So, is he just a fanatic, not a priest?
To be certain of that, the divinity that was subtly felt from all sides bothered me from earlier. Although not as intense as when the power was unfolding, a subtle divinity was felt throughout this huge space.
This could also be a phenomenon that occurs because the bowl of God is near this space.
Even as my body strode through the air, my head continued to spin rapidly. However, there is still too little evidence to give a definitive answer.
After all, in order to see the bottom of that cog head, I have no choice but to lay the tiles first?
Having made my decision, I burst into laughter and landed on the floor.
bang!
A metal fist protrudes as if it had been waiting for it. Unlike the persistent targeting of my blind spot, this time he was aiming at me from the front.
His intention not to come near was too obvious. I looked at Horlu’s head for a moment, then stretched out my fist holding the sword and struck the metal block in front of my eyes.
Quaang!!!
A louder roar than when it popped out. The trajectory of the metal fist hit by my fist was cut off. I dug into the gap created by changing the orbit myself.
Now, the distance from Horlu was roughly within ten steps.
bang! bang! bang! bang! bang!
Metal fists came out from various angles at a faster speed than before, but there was no reason to go any further, so I quickly closed the distance with them by punching them one by one.
In an instant, the distance between me and him was reduced to less than three steps.
rick rick rick.
Cogs that mesh and turn faster. As soon as I saw Horlu’s posture, I realized it. Now, instead of punching me in the air as he had done so far, he was trying to face me with his body.
“It’s cheeky.”
He responded in a calm voice to my ridicule.
[My sphere of space is invincible!!!]
Before I could say anything, he approached me for the first time. He didn’t even notice that this interval was his last.
Caang!
The despair I wielded gnawed at Horlu’s fist and turned its trajectory. Horlu quickly retrieved the fist and tried to continue the next series of attacks.
Instead of preparing for the next attack, I let go of the despair that deflected Horlu’s fist. The despair that fell to the floor rolled on the floor with a clear sound, as if resenting me for letting go of it.
I intuitively sensed that Horlu’s gaze had briefly moved away from me at that unexpected sight and turned to the despair of my sword rolling on the floor.
moment. I was aiming for that brief inattention.
Immortalium stretched like a spider web from the immortalium bracelet I was wearing on my wrist and covered my right hand. Eventually, as the Immortalium took the form of a perfect metal glove, I prayed the long-awaited prayer.
“mother.”
‘killing!’
In response to my mother’s response, a dark green sword rose from my grasp.
‘The sword of corruption.’
A divine sword that not only corrupts ‘everything it touches’ in an instant, but also corrodes metal. The power was revealed, exuding a terribly ominous divinity.
I grabbed the mighty sword.
As soon as the artifact of Ceylon came into contact with the sword of corruption, it spat out a warning in ancient holographic language from the back of its hand.
– Another 70 seconds to reach an unrecoverable state.
70 seconds? Time was full and overflowing.
Without hesitation, I slashed Horlu with the sword of corruption. Horlu calmly responded to my authority, but the fist he stretched out to block my Corruption Sword instantly shattered and disappeared into the air as soon as it touched the Corruption Sword.
[What is this?!]
Once devouring Horlu, the corruption rode Horlu’s hands and devours even his arms, moving towards the body of Horlu without a moment’s rest.
I didn’t wait for him to be consumed by corruption. As it was, I stretched out the sword of corruption once more and drove the sword of corruption straight into the sawtooth head of the guy who had been bothering me without rest.
[Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!]
Horlu screaming cog head didn’t corrode right away, unlike its body. Seeing that it was holding up quite a bit, there was a high probability that this sawtooth head itself was a whole Immortalium.
Anyway, it’s just a matter of time.
The reason why my gloves can withstand my sword of corruption for about 70 seconds is because it is a Ceylon-processed artifact. If it is an ordinary Immortalium, the time to withstand this power is much shorter than my gloves.
I smiled softly as I waved the sword of corruption stuck in his head.
“Don’t rebel and die quickly.”
[Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! damn rain!!! Dare to be a lowly human subject!!!]
“Yes, yes.”
A completely different tone than before. I gave a rough answer, then shook the sword of corruption more vigorously between the cogs.
Finally, when the dark teeth that touched the sword of corruption are crushed little by little. Horlu moved.
Took.
What fell to the floor was his forearm, which was corroding. Horlu, who removed his arm himself, immediately took the next action. A flow of divinity that is different from before. An intense divinity gathered in the guy’s whole body.
‘killing!’
Warning of possible danger. I had to choose. Are you still sticking the sword of corruption in his head here, or are you going to step back and watch the situation for a while.
There was no need to worry. Of course, the first thing to do is to stop the guy’s breath. I believed in my body’s ability to regenerate.
“Nothing changes. Give up.”
I pushed the sword into the guy’s head even deeper. Horlu’s silent scream echoed with him.
up
At the same time, the cogs on his head split. The teeth on the top of the guy’s head, which had been torn in half, fell to the bottom of the storm water.
[Cheuk.]
The guy who split his own head jumped back and tried to distance himself from me.
“Where?”
I had no intention of letting him go. I followed him to insert the sword of corruption again. Horlu leaned back and held out his remaining hand, snapping his fingers.
Even if he did not know what it was, it was clear that he was trying to complete the authority with the divinity he had created. As I learned from Impetro, in order to minimize the damage caused by the authority, I gathered all the divinity and wrapped it around my body.
Horlu’s voice echoed behind him.
[Foot.]
My blood flowed back.
“Cool.”
‘killing!!!’
The mother’s worried cry followed.
That guy’s authority was completed ‘inside’ my body, not ‘outside’. Despite the fact that it was close to impossible to manifest the authority within the body of another priest.
I realized the identity of this power as I continued to spit out the phlegm of blood that constantly flowed back.
poison. This was a poison created by divinity. In particular, one of the few poisons that can penetrate and affect my body, which is immune to almost all poisons.
But when the heck did you put the medium in my body? I would never have allowed him to attack.
[Hahahahaha! How is it! The taste of this power! As long as you are poisoned by this god’s poison, there is no future where the four of you will win!]
Horlu revealed his true colors as if all of his conversations with him were disguised. I barely suppressed the nausea that seemed unwilling to stop until I vomited up all the blood in my body, then opened my mouth.
“…When did you poison it?”
Horlu staggered for a moment, holding on to the cog that no longer turned, then got back into his stance.
[Ha ha ha! Have you ever wondered why the ink-colored coating on my knuckles peels off so easily? No, you must’ve been in my mood and didn’t even notice! The metal powder, the medium of power, penetrates your body through your respiratory system!!!]
The guy tapped his half-cog head and continued talking.
[Space rights? The moment you got mesmerized by that funny name and mistook me for a guru, your end was already decided! Battles are old, and the smart ones win. Polite tone and imitation of a gwonsa that doesn’t even work. All of that was just the foundation for this move! Got it? Marnak!!!]
“Cool.”
The unbearable blood flowed back up my neck once again. I coughed up a handful of blood and stood up holding my poisoned, dizzy head.
“no. you are wrong Horlu”
I picked up the despair that had fallen on the floor and lowered my body. The gates of corruption that covered my skin burned more brightly than ever before.
It was painful enough to die, but this tenacious body was not dead yet. It was able to move enough.
[How…?]
Suppressing my nausea, I burst out laughing while looking at Horlu.
“Originally, battles are won by the good guys, not the brain.”
