The Player Who Stands Above All

Chapter 209

Hwoooong-!!!

He moved continuously without stopping.

He avoids the blades of wind rising from Ziz's body by moving through the air using [Red Cloud Boots].

He teleports away from wide-scale attacks that seem impossible to dodge.

Even while avoiding attacks like that, he doesn't loosen his senses for a moment.

He gathers information using all five senses and swings [Yagong] with the precision of cutting a jewel, slicing Ziz's body.

Simultaneously, he pulls out spears from the subspace and sticks them into various parts of Ziz's body.

It wasn't as strong as Behemoth's hide, which boasted a strength that couldn't be properly cut even with sword qi, but Ziz's hide was also tough enough to be difficult to cut with ordinary sword qi.

Therefore, Lee Shin had to put his all into every single attack.

Woong--!!!

He minimizes the use of his internal energy.

He only surrounds the spearhead with internal energy to save it, while maximizing the spear's sharpness.

And yet, he lacks the strength to make a proper attack, so he thrusts and swings the spear along the grain of the skin, just as he did when cutting down trees in the past.

ZIAAAAAAAA-!!!!

Ziz resists with all its might, shaking its body violently and attacking Lee Shin with the wind.

While avoiding the attacks of a creature with power comparable to a natural disaster, he raises his senses to the extreme and swings his spear.

It is a crazy act, like performing a delicate scalpel operation on a critical patient in an operating room that is shaking violently as if an earthquake has occurred.

Seogeok-

'Ah, I can cut it more easily if I cut it like this here.'

However, the killing intent that was always coiled in Lee Shin's mind made such a crazy act possible.

On top of that, Lee Shin had now completely released the mental power he usually used to block his killing intent and had focused it all on Ziz.

The things that were usually busy attacking each other were now creating synergy in front of the formidable enemy, Ziz, and moving Lee Shin.

More- more- more-

Lee Shin became more and more immersed in the sensation that came from the combination of those two senses.

If you keep swinging a sword, at some point you will naturally feel the sensation of the sword merging with your hand, and you will realize how to swing the sword.

The moment he realizes that, he finally says that the swordsman has learned how to use a sword.

This is not a statement limited to swords, but a statement that applies to all weapons.

Seogeok-

And now, Lee Shin was feeling a similar sensation.

Seogeok-

But it was only similar, not the same.

Seogeok-

Then how should he describe this sensation he was feeling now?

For the first time since he was born, he fully accepted the killing intent in his head.

The accepted killing intent tells him how to kill something.

Lee Shin pours all his mind into making that method his own.

Seogeok-

The spear held in Lee Shin's hand moves freely, and his internal energy surrounds the spearhead more and more thickly.

Ziz's roar becomes rougher, and its attacks on Lee Shin become stronger.

In that, Lee Shin focused only on the sensation that enveloped him.

His head tingled and stung.

It wasn't the feeling of knowing how to swing a spear.

This sensation was not coming from the hand holding the spear.

It was coming from the heart that was continuously pounding roughly.

No, there was no need to distinguish between the heart and the head.

He just focused on swinging the spear.

No, he wasn't focused on swinging the spear.

He was focused not on himself, but on the gradually changing appearance of Ziz.

'Ah, so this is how you do it.'

Watching that, Lee Shin could slowly realize.

'This is how you have to kill it.'

For the first time, he accepted the killing intent and realized how to kill something.

Sreureu-

At that moment, Lee Shin felt the killing intent that had been confined to one part of his body flow through his blood and throughout his entire body.

Wince-!

At that moment, Ziz's attacks and resistance stopped for a moment.

The killing intent endlessly spewing from Lee Shin constricted Ziz's huge body and made it look shabby.

"Hoo…"

Lee Shin smiled and focused on the sensation he was feeling for the first time since he was born.

Creativity on how to kill it welled up in his head like crazy.

The sudden realization moves Lee Shin's body.

If this had happened below, it would have been a boon for Lee Shin, but it would have been a great disaster for others.

The unconscious of the current Lee Shin has released the control of his killing intent.

It moves solely for the purpose of killing something, and there is no distinction in its target.

But if Lee Shin had realized this realization below, it would have caused a huge loss of life, incomparable to a dungeon break.

And if Lee Shin didn't release his killing intent to his heart's content, this realization would have slipped out of his grasp.

Grin-

But now, there was.

A huge canvas, large enough to fully unfold the vast paint of Lee Shin's killing intent.

ZIAAAAAAA--!!!!!

Hwiooooo--!!!

Ziz, freed from the shackles of killing intent, roars as if to deny Lee Shin, and the wind rises more fiercely than ever before.

The wind was different from before.

Ziz moved the wind with the momentum to cut its own body.

If he were to be swept away even a little, his whole body would be wrung out like a rag in an instant.

And Lee Shin, while looking at that wind,

'Is this the core?'

He quietly cut the center of the swirling wind.

But the wind scattered futilely as if it were dead, and Lee Shin jumped into the wind, whose power had died down in an instant, and raised his spear again.

'It's not about thinking of stabbing the heart in one go.'

Two colors of internal energy cover the spearhead.

'Dividing it a little more finely…'

Feathers are stripped, skin is split, and red blood flows.

'Like a prisoner on death row slowly climbing the stairs.'

He continued to run on Ziz's pure white wings.

And where Lee Shin had passed, feathers fell and skin was split, and the pure white things were dyed red with blood.

Grin-

"I don't know if it's my blood or this one's, but it's not bad."

Saying that, Lee Shin smiled.

He comes out from the end of his realization.

He didn't know how long he had been swinging his spear in the storm, but thanks to that, he was a complete mess.

His whole body was dyed with blood, having been cut here and there by the wind.

Thanks to that, his stamina was now running low, and his internal energy was beginning to bottom out.

Still, Lee Shin was satisfied and received potions and elixirs with [Mask of the Glutton] and somehow managed to swallow them.

"Still, I killed one of the four."

Lee Shin went out of Ziz's body, stepped on a cloud, and looked at his work.

One of Ziz's huge wings was dyed red and hung limply, having lost its strength.

Seeing that, a faint smile appeared.

"Ah, this is going to be tough."

A light look at his physical condition reveals that it is so miserable that the word 'worst' cannot fully express it.

[Mask of the Glutton]

-Unique

-A mask made by a glutton who enjoyed food and traveled around, because it was annoying to have to move his hands every time his mouth was bored.

-[Secret Refrigerator] Always applied, it can store various foods and drinks in a subspace.

-[Fresh Ingredients] Always applied, it always keeps the food and ingredients stored in the subspace in the best condition.

-[Feed Me] Selectively applied, it transports the food in the subspace to the owner's mouth.

Even though he was eating and drinking the potions and elixirs stored in the subspace like water with [Mask of the Glutton], the speed of his recovery was too slow.

'Well, should I be glad that it's not getting any worse than this?'

Lee Shin muttered that and looked at Ziz.

Perhaps because the tendons of the wing that supported one wing were all cut and the feathers were plucked, it was staggering in the air.

'Is it really too difficult for me to catch that one in the sky now? To be in this state even after dealing with just one wing…'

Watching that, Lee Shin obediently admitted that it was his greed to catch it in an aerial battle.

Of course, that didn't mean he had given up on catching Ziz.

He was just trying to change his method a little.

'If it's impossible to catch it in the sky, that means I have to make it go down to the ground again…'

It's not an impossible statement.

As a result of observing so far, Ziz was able to move freely and quickly through the air using the power to control the wind, a huge amount of magic power, and the power of its wings.

And the core of that was the wings.

The proof was its current appearance, staggering after losing just one wing.

Lee Shin looked at Ziz calmly with deeply sunken eyes.

'Is the remaining wing on one side…'

He rolled his eyes again and checked his condition.

Thanks to Ziz not attacking right away, he had managed to recover enough to be able to move his body somehow by pouring everything that had entered his mouth into using [Regeneration].

'With this much, I might be able to push myself once somehow.'

A scale appeared, and on it were placed the weights of 'possible' and 'impossible'.

The two bowls on which the weights were placed were in a tense balance.

So Lee Shin brought out a new question.

Which one would be more fun?

Grin-

The scale instantly tilted to one side.

Seueup-

Hoo-

He lightly inhales and exhales.

Because he had been continuously creating and stepping on clouds with [Red Cloud Boots], a considerable amount of red clouds were wrapping around Lee Shin's body, adding strength to it.

Thump-! Thump-!

Lee Shin felt the beating of his heart and used [Mad Dragon] again, which he had stopped for a moment.

No, he didn't just use it, he drew out more power.

As if continuously placing stones on a stone tower that might collapse at any moment, a load that seemed about to break his whole body was applied.

But at the same time, he felt a level of power he had never felt before, growling as if it were about to leap out at any moment.

Woong--!!!

The internal energy in his dantian began to run wild, and the qi and blood of his whole body boiled.

He moves the vast internal energy he received through the elixir, passes it through his dantian, and then transfers it to his spear.

The two types of internal energy, classified in Lee Shin's dantian, bite at each other as if to devour each other, and then merge into one on the spear.

Lee Shin ignores his body slowly breaking down and focuses on only one thing.

Can I kill it?

No, it's not enough.

Lee Shin's current physical condition is the worst.

It's impossible to attack multiple times like before.

So he had to make an attack strong enough to neutralize one of Ziz's wings in one go.

Swoong-

[Yagong], held in Lee Shin's hand, rings softly.

With [Black Night], he changes the spearhead into a shape solely for the purpose of cutting Ziz's hide.

He adds extreme sharpness to the spearhead that has been transformed by [White Moon Full Night].

Internal energy flows from his precarious body, and strength continues to build on top of it.

In his hand was a weapon that cried out for hunger and bared its fangs.

The rest is technique.

Therefore, Lee Shin smiled brightly.

Because the technique of killing something was the field Lee Shin was most confident in.

ZIAAAAAAAAAAA-!!!

Ziz, who had noticed that Lee Shin was gathering strength for something, roared fiercely and attacked him with a storm, clad in an armor of wind.

Lee Shin, looking at the storm raging towards him, lifted one foot.

And just before the sole of his foot hit the cloud.

He entered the center of the storm through his choker.

It was a crazy act of directly entering the inside of a furiously moving mixer.

But Lee Shin, simultaneously with teleporting, stepped on Ziz's body with the floor and unfolded his footwork.

'Flame Lightning Dyeing World Step.'

The wind, which had been rampaging as if to grind Lee Shin's whole body and tear his neck, was distorted along with the space.

It is torn by the lightning that bloomed from the tip of Lee Shin's foot and eaten by the flame.

The flow of the wind is shaken, and the blades of wind collide with each other, creating a small windless zone around Lee Shin.

In that, Lee Shin quietly refined his killing intent and swung his spear.

-Flame Lightning Tree Spear Art

-Flame Lightning

-Greedy Heaven

[Yagong] pierces Ziz's back.

It cuts Ziz's hide as if cutting paper, cuts its muscles, and passes through the gap between the bones.

Seogeok-

It cuts off one of Ziz's wings.

Ziz screamed and lost its balance.

As Ziz lost its balance, Lee Shin was thrown out by its force.

Watching that, Lee Shin smiled with a body on the verge of death.

'Ah, but I can't even move my fingertips now, so if I fall like this, I'll definitely die. What should I do?'

While having such thoughts and feeling the falling wind, Lee Shin felt a sudden shock and saw someone's face.

Long, flowing pure white hair and round, puppy-like eyes that were lowered as if tired.

Cheon Yuhwa, who was holding Lee Shin in a princess carry, moved her wings of light and said.

"You were so full of yourself, saying you'd eat it all alone, but you got what you deserved."

"Who's the real cheapskate?"

At that, Lee Shin said with a wide smile.

"You, who appeared to eat only the delicious parts of the one I've prepared."

"So I told you. First come, first served."

Cheon Yuhwa said, sprinkling a potion on Lee Shin's body.

"If you have a complaint, get up quickly and eat the rest yourself.”

(End of Chapter)