The Player Who Stands Above All

Chapter 271

As [Dragon Madness] activated, a ferocious predator's aura was added to Lee Shin's body like an overcoat.

New power was added to the power he was stealing from the enemy through [Demonic Ghost], and they mixed.

The Sword of the Earth and the Sword of the Sea, feeling the presence emanating from Lee Shin grow once again, each let out a hollow laugh inwardly.

A moment ago, Lee Shin, as seen by their senses, was a crimson-black fog.

A crimson-black fog so dense that they couldn't tell what was hidden in its depths.

But now, in the center of that crimson-black fog, a pair of brightly shining eyes flashed and revealed themselves.

The two were at a loss for words as something unknown continuously popped out without rest.

'Something is really coming out without rest. I really need to capture this guy out of sheer stubbornness and investigate him.'

'As expected, this is not a guy to be given time. Neutralizing him with all my power from the beginning is the right answer.'

The two, having once again come to a conclusion in their minds while looking at Lee Shin, lowered their stances and launched an attack, aiming at Lee Shin from their respective directions.

As the Sword of the Earth swung his greatsword with both hands, the sword aura coiling around it stretched out toward Lee Shin with a force that seemed to split the earth, revealing its fangs.

As the Sword of the Sea swung his curved sword, a torrent of water like a wave, containing countless swords within it, was created along the trajectory of the sword and engulfed Lee Shin.

Both attacks were too large in power and scale to be considered attacks launched to deal with a single individual.

As such things were approaching him from both sides.

'Those guys seem to have gone quite far now.'

Lee Shin uttered a slightly random thought in his mind, one that didn't fit the current situation.

'Can I concentrate now?'

Normally, Lee Shin's muttering would have been buried in his mind, unheard by anyone.

-Yes, I have been a burden to you.

But in this world, only one being could hear the words spreading in Lee Shin's mind and answer them.

-But thanks to that, I think I can now fight those guys to the death without any hesitation.

Grin-

At Irhegue's words, Lee Shin raised both corners of his mouth and smiled fiercely.

Simultaneously, their two minds clicked into place like gears, and then spun violently, accelerating.

At that moment, [Dragon Madness] broke through its set critical point and granted Lee Shin's body even greater power.

Since the opponents he was stealing from were who they were, the amount of power being added to Lee Shin's body through [Demonic Ghost] was by no means small.

And on top of that, the power of [Dragon Madness], which Lee Shin had activated with all his might, was added?

The body of an ordinary person would not have been able to withstand the sudden increase in power.

Even if they were lucky enough to avoid instant death, the power would have flowed backward from within, and their body would have slowly started to break down.

But the Heavenly Killing Body that Lee Shin possessed was not so soft.

Even after containing both powers, the vessel called the Heavenly Killing Body was so huge and greedy that it revealed its hunger.

Lee Shin, with his color-changed eyes, drew a small crescent moon, stopped his feet, and strongly stepped on the ground.

Flame Thunder Dyeing the World Steps.

The trees of flame and lightning that bloomed between the fragments of the broken earth and the raging torrent of the sword danced and mixed the two.

Then, the two attacks revealed their fangs not at their original target, Lee Shin, but at each other.

Lee Shin, who was in the center, was not harmed in the slightest, as if he were in a separate world isolated from his surroundings, and quietly watched the attacks of the Sword of the Earth and the Sword of the Sea collide.

The earth and the sea collided, and the world was collapsing.

'Tsk, he dodged, as expected.'

'He's a different person now that he's holding a spear.'

But the masterminds who had created that amazing sight felt no particular emotion about it and simply observed Lee Shin and prepared their next attack.

At that, Lee Shin lightly swept back his hair, which was fluttering in the shockwave, and looked at the two who were preparing to swing their swords at him.

At that moment, countless scenes flashed through Lee Shin's mind.

They were all scenes of Lee Shin meeting his death by the attacks of the Sword of the Earth and the Sword of the Sea.

It was a prediction created by Lee Shin's senses detecting the faint killing intent flowing from the two holding their swords and unraveling it one strand at a time.

The amount was so huge that an ordinary person would have been crushed by its weight and unable to move, but.

Lee Shin's mind, which had always lived while enduring a head-splitting killing intent, looked at the prediction as if this much was not enough.

At that moment, the Sword of the Earth rushed at Lee Shin and swung his sword.

The Sword of the Earth's power, which was beyond common sense, was converted into rushing force and propulsion, creating a speed that generated a shockwave.

That movement alone was enough to be called a finishing blow, but it was just.

A passing motion to swing the greatsword.

The giant's blow, cloaked in sword aura, cut through the empty air, aiming for Lee Shin.

The target was the right side of his waist.

'Can I dodge the attack with the Flame Leaf Circling Steps?'

Lee Shin thought as he faced the Sword of the Earth's attack.

He could come up with an answer quickly without needing to predict it in his head.

'Impossible.'

Through the fight a moment ago, Lee Shin had given a small lesson to Mio and Rwen.

And he had been able to roughly figure out how the Sword of the Earth fought.

But the Sword of the Earth had also noticed the enemy's fighting style.

The irregularity created through the speed of a lightning strike and the change created through a god-like control of pace.

The Sword of the Earth had realized through the exchange a moment ago that those two were Lee Shin's greatest weapons.

Therefore, the Sword of the Earth intended to not give Lee Shin any space to dodge at all.

The target the Sword of the Earth was trying to attack now was not Lee Shin's waist.

It was the space that included Lee Shin's waist.

Lee Shin getting caught in between and meeting his death was just one of the results.

'Evasion is impossible.'

Lee Shin moved his body as he looked at the sword aura that was unraveling like a skein of thread and about to sweep through the surrounding space.

'In that case...'

'I'll clash head-on!'

Lee Shin poured all his power into his two legs and kicked off the ground.

He charged toward the pack of numerous beasts that were baring their countless fangs at him.

At the sight of Lee Shin, the Sword of the Earth was unusually agitated and his eyes widened.

If it had been a moment ago, the Sword of the Earth would not have been fazed at all by Lee Shin's move.

A loser who had given up on this match, or a fool who couldn't notice the power of the sword aura even while looking at it with his own two eyes.

He would have thought it was one of the two.

But now, the Sword of the Earth did not think that at all.

Through the short fight and conversation, he knew well that Lee Shin was not that kind of person.

That was why the Sword of the Earth was agitated.

The absolute blow created by the huge wall between the peak and the transcendent.

Lee Shin stepping forward seemed to be saying that he had a way to deal with that blow.

'What is it? What other trick is he trying to pull?'

At that, the Sword of the Earth raised his guard.

At the same time, he put even more power into the hand gripping the sword to respond quickly to any change.

And at that moment.

Thump-! Thump-! Thump-!

Lee Shin, amidst the pouring crisis of death, felt his body and mind awaken sharply and swung his spear at the Sword of the Earth's sword, which was being swung at him.

'For now, let's just lightly clash our weapons first, shall we?'

The Sword of the Earth, the peerless treasured sword possessed by the holy knight acknowledged as the best of the Earth faction.

To counter it, what Lee Shin extended was the [Yagong], in its basic bident form.

The sensation of swinging the [Yagong] properly for the first time in a long time was transmitted through his hand to his mind.

Despite it being a long time, he didn't feel awkward at all.

No, rather, it felt like it fit his hand even better than when he first held it.

Enjoying that sensation, Lee Shin cloaked the [Yagong] in [Flame] and [Lightning] respectively.

A spear ki with two colors mixed together was cloaked over the [Yagong].

A small smile appeared on Lee Shin's lips as he saw it.

'Let's see how much it has changed.'

In the past, on his way from Earth to Carnia, Lee Shin had met and talked with Gaia, and received her blessing.

The blessing Gaia gave was divided and seeped into Lee Shin, Irhegue, and the [Yagong] respectively.

Although it was not a relationship where they could be called one body like Lee Shin and Irhegue, the 'Blessing of ■■■' could not seep into the [Yagong].

But even just Gaia's blessing was difficult for the [Yagong] to handle.

Unlike the two who had quickly found the answer and made the blessing their own, the [Yagong] had suffered from indigestion for a while, plagued by Gaia's blessing.

One of the reasons Lee Shin had put the [Yagong] in the [Black Room] and not used it for a while was precisely that.

There was also the fact that there hadn't been any proper fights during that time, but the biggest reason was to give the [Yagong] time to digest Gaia's blessing.

If it had been an ordinary weapon, it would not have been able to contain Gaia's blessing.

Even if it were forced to, it would have broken, unable to handle the power, or would have required a huge amount of time for the blessing to seep in.

But the [Yagong], a masterpiece created by a dwarf who had poured his soul and wealth into it, had met a ridiculously monstrous master named Lee Shin and had learned greed by continuously drinking the blood of various enemies in numerous battles and growing.

The bottomless hunger it had from birth, and the sticky greed learned through various experiences.

Based on those two things.

The [Yagong], although only a very small part, had succeeded in making Gaia's blessing its own in this short period of time.

And the [Yagong], having grown so, was not inferior to the Sword of the Earth.

Therefore, the one holding the key to solving the problem was Lee Shin.

Sword ki and sword aura.

The difference was so significant that anyone could tell.

At that, Lee Shin used the [Yagong]'s ability, [White Moon Fills the Night], to strengthen the [Yagong] once more.

The cutting power of the spear ki was raised one step further.

Of course, even so, it didn't mean that Lee Shin's spear ki had gained a power comparable to the Sword of the Earth's sword aura.

But.

He was able to generate enough output to somehow hold on for a moment.

And if there was just enough of an opening to interfere with the flow of power, Lee Shin could somehow deflect the attack.

"What!"

The Sword of the Earth's eyes widened in astonishment that he had deflected his attack.

'Success!'

And Lee Shin smiled at him.

Whether the spear ki, strengthened one step further by the [Yagong]'s ability, could withstand the Sword of the Earth's sword aura was purely a gamble.

Therefore, Lee Shin smiled brightly, feeling the thrill of hitting the jackpot in a life-or-death gamble.

Of course, as a price for deflecting the attack, the durability of the [Yagong] and Lee Shin's body were considerably damaged, but that didn't matter.

The damage to the [Yagong]'s durability could just be restored to its original state using another ability, [Black Night].

And the twisting of Lee Shin's arm muscles from the impact of the clash could just be healed through [High-Speed Regeneration].

'It was a godsend that I hunted down all the demonic beasts I could on my way here just in case and put them in the [Guest's Mask].'

Lee Shin thought, lightly moving his tongue at the fishy taste of blood in his mouth.

There was no time to cook, let alone skin them, so it was raw meat in its wildest form, but it didn't matter.

Lee Shin's body, which possessed [Myriad Poison Immunity], would not suffer from food poisoning just from eating raw meat and drinking raw blood.

Lee Shin, having deflected the attack, used all his abilities and all his means to clash with the Sword of the Earth.

A power that had grown by winning a gamble of cutting himself down and down.

But Lee Shin's blow was too easily blocked by the protective aura the Sword of the Earth had wrapped around his body.

"Can you take this too?"

The Sword of the Earth said so and was about to swing his sword, which was coiled with sword aura, again.

But at that moment, the Sword of the Earth heard the alarm bells of his instincts and stopped the attack he was about to make, hastily retreating.

And at that moment.

A huge shark made of water bared its teeth and bit down on the space where the Sword of the Earth had been.

'Oh, he's making the water itself into a living creature and attacking. It's like using a spirit as a weapon.'

Lee Shin's eyes sparkled slightly at the new type of attack he had never experienced before, but.

"What is the meaning of this."

The Sword of the Earth, who had seen that attack countless times, just wore a displeased expression.

The shark a moment ago had been aiming for Lee Shin, but that wasn't all.

The target the shark had to bite down on also included the Sword of the Earth's arm.

"Ah, my mistake."

At the Sword of the Earth's words, the Sword of the Sea, the one who had launched the attack, said so and smiled.

"Hey, don't look at me with such fierce eyes, it's scary."

Wink-

"It's my first time coordinating with someone else, so I can make a few mistakes, can't I?"

(End of Chapter)