novelraw Chapter 166 : Chapter 166
Chapter 166 : Chapter 166
Chapter 166 : Spell, Weapon Disassembly
‘How far will this work?’
I smirked as I watched Evan draw his ‘Lightning Sword’ in front of me.
My heart was actually pounding.
Woooong.
I mobilized all my usable mana to enhance my body.
Immediately after, the Red Heart refilled my empty mana.
If I added another layer of external enhancement in this state, ‘Brute Strength’ would manifest, but that also put a considerable strain on my body.
So.
“I will learn a thing or two.”
For now, I would stay like this.
‘He won’t be able to pull any tricks right away.’
Although he was an enemy showing ill intent, for now, I would approach the spar with the resolve to learn.
Kwang.
Clad in gray flames, I ‘accelerated’ and charged towards Evan.
Evan’s smirking face rapidly grew larger.
Paaaaang!
‘Hup!?’
The moment I swung my sword, his body suddenly vanished from before my eyes.
Simultaneously, a chilling sensation washed over my side.
Whoosh.
The ‘Blade’ that had been swinging forward hastily bent to block my side.
Kwang!
Crackle.
“Oh?”
Leaving a tingling of lightning and a short exclamation at the point of impact, Evan’s body quickly disappeared again.
“Cheap tricks…”
Tst-ts.
Soon, a voice mixed with a slight sneer could be heard, and killing intent was felt from all directions again.
I couldn’t tell from which direction the next blow would come.
I had expected it, but in terms of speed, I was no match for him at all.
‘Damn it!’
Whoosh.
The ‘Blade’, which had completely abandoned the form of a greatsword and transformed into a blade whip, wrapped around all directions from which the killing intent was felt.
However.
Kwang!
“Keuk!”
I couldn’t prevent my body from being contorted and sent flying by an attack from the side.
A powerful impact that sent my heavy body airborne.
Gritting my teeth, I watched Evan’s sneering face approach.
‘I was wrong from the start.’
The very thought that I could contend with a 6-Star knight with just my basic skills was a delusion.
Even if I was confident that the enemy wouldn't use deadly techniques from the start.
The moment I realized that fact, chains shot out from my limbs.
Charrrrrk.
Thud.
One of the chains, imbued with the mana of gray flames, supported my airborne body, while the other three shot towards the approaching Evan.
“Hup!”
Tadadang!
The moment Evan, with a slightly surprised expression, swung his greatsword, the chains couldn't withstand his sword strike and scattered in all directions.
And in that gap, my sword strike, having regained balance in mid-air, fell like a lightning bolt onto the crown of Evan’s head.
The face of the Lightning Blade Sword, who wasn’t even wearing a helmet, contorted like a demon.
Crackle.
Kwaaaaaang!
The two sides, which had collided with lightning-like movements, were sent flying in opposite directions.
Whoosh.
Thud.
Kwaduk.
My heavy body, which had rotated a couple of times in the air before landing, was pushed back with thudding sounds.
Evan’s body, which had momentarily shown an illusion of being pressed to the ground, was sent flying back like lightning for nearly several tens of meters.
At that moment, a cheer erupted from the onlookers who had been watching with bated breath.
“Woooaaaah!”
My hardened expression inside the helmet was not exposed to the crowd, but Evan’s contorted face was clearly visible.
Although I had taken a bigger hit, it looked like Evan was at a disadvantage due to the distance he was sent flying and his appearance.
“The Black Knight, on par with the Lightning Blade Sword…”
“Nah, that’s not it.”
“But…”
Murmur, murmur.
The voices from around the training ground made Evan’s expression contort even more.
“To think a knight is only skilled in all sorts of cheap tricks!”
Evan shouted, seemingly having forgotten his formal speech.
I received it with a chuckle.
The chains, which I had once hidden for a while and intended to use as a trump card, I had already given up on hiding after going through so many tough battles in just one year.
Now, it was practically a symbol of the Black Knight.
And yet he was spouting such nonsense.
“I believe my specialty is already famous, were you perhaps unaware?”
At that taunt, Evan’s face hardened even more, and I laughed inwardly.
‘Now, what will he do?’
The Lightning Blade Sword must have realized by now that I was not at a level he could handle with a ‘slip-up’ during a spar.
If so, he probably had two choices.
Either step back after being a practice partner for a proper ‘spar’.
Or…
“My, I must ask for Sir Anthony’s understanding. Sir Muno’s skills are greater than expected, so I too will use my full power. I would appreciate it if you did not interfere even if the spar gets a little rough.”
…Come at me openly and seriously like this.
A chuckle escaped me.
It was what I had hoped for.
- A fierce battle where one actually lays their life on the line is what makes a knight grow the most.
Recalling my father’s words, I nodded towards Anthony.
‘Was I always this reckless?’
The thought briefly crossed my mind, but it was just for a moment.
“Well, since the party in question seems to want it, I will accept.”
As soon as Anthony’s permission was granted, Evan’s gaze, filled with a thick killing intent, poured out.
In contrast, the words that came out were even more polite.
“Now, Sir Muno. This is where it gets real.”
The moment he finished speaking, Evan’s body disappeared from the spot, leaving only a single streak of crackling lightning.
His lightning-like movements were difficult to even follow with the eyes.
‘Block first.’
Chwak.
At that moment, I extended the chains from my limbs.
Whoosh.
I changed the ‘Blade’ into a complete blade whip and guarded all directions.
Then, lightning-like attacks began to pour in from all sides.
Kwaaaaaang!
Kwang. Kwang!
Kwaaang!
The impact pierced through the barrier of chains and the blade whip, sending shockwaves to my armor.
Crack.
The sight of the training ground floor where I stood cracking was clearly visible to the onlookers.
‘Damn it, he’s definitely faster than Karina.’
Even though I had evolved once more since then, he felt much faster than Karina had at that time.
It seemed like he was swinging a greatsword as tall as himself with all his might, but his movements were so fast that I couldn’t even aim for the gaps in his large motions.
On top of that.
Zzzzzzt.
Crackle.
‘This is worse than I thought.’
The pain from the electric shock that resonated throughout my body.
The pain that touched my nerves every time I came into contact with Evan’s greatsword was accumulating, dealing damage to my entire body.
My complexion hardened, but Evan’s face, which I could see for a brief moment each time he attacked, seemed even more contorted than mine.
‘It’s not easy, is it?’
Seeing his face, I gathered my fighting spirit even more.
However.
Kuuuuung.
Soon, a heavy blow, different from the previous ones, pierced through the defensive barrier of the blade whip and chains and struck my side.
And just as quickly, an intense pain erupted from the opposite side.
‘Keuk.’
This time, the impact was strong enough to dent the armor on my side.
The first effective hit I had taken.
For him, a dent in his armor was the same as a slightly broken bone, and a significant shock was transmitted internally.
The pain, like electricity coursing through my entire body, jolted me to my senses.
‘Daaamn it!’
However, with that, I could reconfirm Evan’s objective.
‘He wants to prove that we’re on different levels.’
Kuuuuung.
Crack, crack.
A bidirectional impact that continued to bind my body to one spot.
He probably wanted to create a picture of me being pinned to the spot, taking a one-sided assault, and collapsing.
‘You’ve dug your own grave.’
Kuuuuung.
Another impact on my staggering side.
Grit.
Gritting my teeth and enduring the attack, I immediately swung my sword towards the opposite side.
“Ha!”
Flash.
The blow of the ‘Space Slicer’, executed in the ‘Accelerated’ state I had maintained since the start of the spar, collided directly with Evan’s sword, which was rushing towards my other side.
Kwaaaaaaaaaang!
The Space Slicer wasn’t properly powered due to the impact I had taken, but it was enough to send Evan’s volleying sword flying.
‘Now!’
The moment I saw Evan’s contorting expression, I attempted to accelerate once more in the midst of acceleration.
Kuuuuung.
‘Keuu…’
I felt as if a giant hammer was striking my entire body, and the time around me began to slow down dramatically.
Crack.
The immense pressure on my entire body made me instinctively aware that there would be massive aftereffects, but I had no choice.
‘This is my last chance.’
A critical opening created by Evan’s pride.
If I didn’t seize it now, I might never get another chance.
Woooong.
Crack.
Enduring the immense physical load in a time that was accelerated only for me, I forced my body to move again.
No, to be precise, the ‘Blade’.
Whirrrrrr.
Even the Spirit Arts, which responded instantly to my will, felt incredibly slow in this time.
Soon, I saw my transformed blade slowly wrap around Evan’s lightning sword, which was being sent flying by the impact.
Crackle.
In that gap, despite the slowed time, I could still feel the electric shock that was putting a load on my body.
At that moment, the vivid pain that shot up to my brain stimulated my vague anger.
And that, twisted the plan.
Originally, I had intended to throw Evan’s lightning sword away after wrapping it with my blade.
‘Break it.’
The bravado born of anger spurred his impulse.
But that wasn’t all.
For some reason, I felt like I could do it, a tingling sensation in my mind continued to stimulate his instincts.
The electric shock running through my entire body was just a key to awakening those instincts.
‘Break!’
At that earnest desire, imbued with my will, my first spell, ‘Blade’, responded.
Wooooong.
Psssssssss.
Even in the seemingly stopped time, a fiercely vibrating flow stimulated the opponent’s weapon.
The will that governed metal accepted that desire and wove a new pattern.
And based on that, a new spell was created.
Perhaps the spell most necessary for him, a knight.
The sixth spell, Weapon Disassembly.
Kwaduk.
The light of the lightning sword wrapped in the ‘Blade’ visibly dimmed, and a fine crack appeared on the blade. Time began to flow quickly again.
‘It’s weaker than I thought. Right, it’s a named artifact after all?’
But it didn’t matter.
I could feel that I had crossed another wall by mastering the Weapon Disassembly spell.
Woong.
My whole body was overflowing with vitality.
The soul that had reached the 3-Class level stimulated the body, causing a surge in its life force and senses.
The aftereffects of the reckless double acceleration and Space Slicer were much less severe than I had thought, thanks to that.
“No…!”
The moment I registered Evan’s panicked face.
I took another step forward.
Kuuuuung.
‘I think I can do it now.’
A growth achieved through a stroke of luck. Based on that spare capacity, I took another reckless gamble.
Wooooong.
I added acceleration to acceleration, and the powerful armor forcibly supported my strained body.
The Red Heart rapidly refilled my depleted mana.
And my will overlaid another armor of mana on top of that armor.
‘Brute Strength.’
My physical abilities and senses, which had momentarily risen upon reaching 3-Class.
The moment my original limits were broken thanks to that.
‘I can do it!!’
Recalling the technique of which I had only roughly learned the form and mana pattern, I moved my sword.
A technique I learned while being brutally rolled by the Dragon Sword Duke.
Kuuuuung.
An attack imbued with all my strength, all my mana, and all my weight was swung as if to split Evan in two.
An illusion of another body, seemingly split from my own, appeared, swinging an identical blow from below.
A destructive blow that assaulted the opponent from above and below simultaneously.
Woooong.
- Kyaaaaaah!
The moment the gray mana created an illusion of a giant dragon directly biting the opponent, the technique was complete.
Dragon Fang Slash .
The jaws of the gray dragon bit down on the knight clad in lightning.
Kwaaaaaaaaaang!