The Player Who Stands Above All

Chapter 291

Cheon Yuhwa, while neatly organizing her plans for the future in her head, lightly touched her neck with her hand.

A small sound of something catching on Cheon Yuhwa's fingertips was heard as she touched her neck.

It was a choker that she half-forgot she was wearing, despite always having it on, due to its excellent fit.

It was a super high-end artifact that Crowley had painstakingly made using various materials, but from the moment she left Earth, most of its functions had become useless, so now it was an item with only a communication function left.

Even that communication function was only capable of connecting with one person, Lee Shin, who had the same choker.

'I wonder what that guy is doing right now.'

Just as Muel was busy with various things, connecting the gate with Earth, Lee Shin was also staying at the dragon's lair and training to overcome the wall.

But that was all Cheon Yuhwa knew, and she didn't know anything else.

'Well, it's my fault for creating an environment where that guy can fully concentrate on his training... but if I knew this would happen, should I have at least asked Muel to give me a simple heads-up?'

Cheon Yuhwa shook her head, thinking so.

Although she had spoken as if dealing with a jobless person who was just playing at home, Muel was also in charge of the important task of connecting the gate.

As such, she had no desire to put any unnecessary burden on him.

Especially if a powerhouse of Muel's level were to take an interest in Lee Shin, it might interfere with his training.

'Honestly, I'm still not sure... but if the incarnation of the Heavenly Killing Star is that great, then it's right to support him for now in preparation for when we go to hunt the Gold Dragon later.'

Cheon Yuhwa thought, tapping the table with her finger.

'Well, even if that's not the case, a power that has reached the realm of LV. 7 is precious, so it's good to get it when I can before the full-scale battle.'

If it weren't for that, she was confident she could have worked him harder than anyone else, but he was a lucky guy in many ways.

Cheon Yuhwa pouted her lips with such regret and leaned back in her chair.

'If that guy were by my side, things would have been much easier in many ways.'

Although his personality was a bit off, no one could argue that he was competent, because that was Lee Shin.

Cheon Yuhwa, who had been flicking the choker on her neck with her fingertips in regret, soon pulled herself together.

'Well, a guy like him will probably get the hang of it and come out soon, so I just have to wait until then.'

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"Hoo... haa..."

Lee Shin, sitting in the center of the cave with his eyes closed, controlled his breathing and raised his concentration to the maximum.

How long had he been concentrating like that?

Due to his heightened senses, even though he was just sitting quietly with his eyes closed, the detailed form of the cave he was in was naturally drawn in his mind.

"Haa..."

But even after succeeding in a feat that some would never even dream of in their lifetime, what came out of Lee Shin's mouth was a deep sigh.

Lee Shin let out a deep sigh and then lay his back on the floor, sprawling out.

"It's completely hopeless. My mind won't gather at all."

Raising his concentration.

For Lee Shin, who could operate his cultivation method as a passive skill while continuing his daily, trivial bickering with Irhegue, the task of sitting still and raising his concentration was a piece of cake.

But what was needed now was not sitting still and meditating, but something else.

On the contrary. He needed a stimulating sensation, as if his chest were on fire, just like when he fought against the Sword of the Earth and the Sword of the Sea.

Thanks to that, he had been trying the same method for a week, but all had failed.

"Well, it's natural if you think about it. It's not a matter of concentration, but a matter of environment and emotion."

Could there be a person in the world who could become happy just by wanting to be happy?

If that were possible, there would be no such thing as mental illness in the world.

'No, but still, if I've been trying like this for a week, shouldn't I at least get some small feeling? Why is it so difficult?'

If Irhegue were here, he would have said something like 'don't talk nonsense' to Lee Shin, but now Irhegue was busy talking with Muel, who was making the gate.

In the first place, the reason Lee Shin had chosen the dragon's lair as the place for his closed-door training, leaving aside many other places, was the influence of Irhegue nagging him.

Therefore, at the same time as Lee Shin started his training, Irhegue had left him and gone to Muel.

Well, he had been abandoned somehow, but for Lee Shin, it wasn't such a bad situation.

Because Lee Shin also needed time to contemplate how to walk the path in front of him through his own time alone.

"So what on earth should I do..."

Lee Shin muttered the thoughts in his head and recalled the words Muel had said.

Thanks to the conversation with Muel, Lee Shin had learned that he was an incarnation connected to the core of the Heavenly Killing Star, and that it was the source within him.

Thanks to that, he was able to solve the curiosity he had had since he was young and at the same time, get a feel for how to climb higher, but he couldn't actually test that method.

Simply ruminating on the battle at that time was not enough.

He couldn't bring out his own killing intent that he had brought out against the Sword of the Sea and the Sword of the Earth.

'I never thought taking the first step would be this hard.'

Lee Shin thought with a sigh.

As expected, just thinking in his head was not enough.

He really needed to enter a situation like that time.

Into the sensation of the moment of selflessness, where life burns and the mind melts.

"So what's needed for that is a life-and-death environment and a clear target of killing intent."

Lee Shin said, summarizing simply.

How could he satisfy those two conditions?

The first one seemed manageable.

If he went to some place in the church and caused a ruckus again, he could easily create a life-threatening situation.

But strangely, as if that wasn't the answer, his heart didn't move that way.

Therefore, Lee Shin decided to put the first problem aside and ponder the second problem first.

So he kept pondering whether there was a target that annoyed him, but no matter how much he thought, there was no such target.

Because Lee Shin had lived a life of dealing with any guy who annoyed him beyond a certain level on the same day.

"I never thought that living a life honest to my desires would hold me back like this. Is this what they call karma?"

Lee Shin muttered so and continued to think, staring blankly at the ceiling.

Honestly, Lee Shin had no reason to struggle to overcome the wall like this.

Because if he kept fighting in his current state, he would be able to overcome the wall someday.

In fact, he had overcome walls in that way until now.

But this time, he didn't want to do that for some reason, and strangely, his heart was overflowing with motivation.

So much so that even Lee Shin himself found it difficult to know the reason.

'I don't know why I'm like this.'

Lee Shin thought for a moment, but nothing came to mind.

So Lee Shin gave up thinking about the reason for this and stared blankly at the ceiling.

'Being like this feels like I've gone back to the old days.'

Because before monsters appeared on Earth, it was Lee Shin's daily routine to kill time by looking at the ceiling like this.

Is that why? A familiar impulse dug into his mind.

The impulse of killing intent, telling him not to stay still and to kill something, had stimulated him once again.

"Tsk."

At that, Lee Shin frowned.

Because many things had happened since then, there was no severe headache.

But the sensation of the killing intent tapping his head was not something that didn't bother him.

"Haa, I can't fight the guys in my head... huh?"

Lee Shin, who had heard the words he had uttered without realizing it, stopped what he was saying and wore a blank expression.

Come to think of it, there was one.

A target so desperate that he really wanted to kill it, a target whose killing intent would flare up just by thinking about it, there was still one left.

Grin-

Moreover, that guy was a guy who welled up endlessly, so it could be said that he was a perfect material to make a path.

'Then the remaining problem is creating a life-and-death environment... this is simple.'

Having thus organized his thoughts, Lee Shin smiled, cloaked his hand in ki, and.

Stabbed his own chest without hesitation.

"Cough!"

He didn't stab his heart, but it was clearly a life-threatening serious injury.

A thrilling pain ran up his spine and made his head tingle.

But a faint smile lingered on Lee Shin's lips.

It was a smile of joy from the feeling that he could finally overcome the wall that had been blocking his path.

At that moment, Lee Shin realized why he had been so obsessed with overcoming this wall this time.

His instincts were telling him.

That if he overcame this wall, the relationship between the killing intent sent by the Heavenly Killing Star and himself would be completely different from before.

Flinch-

Did it notice his thoughts?

Lee Shin felt the killing intent in his head squirm.

At that, Lee Shin spat out a word, even as he felt the blood flowing from his mouth.

"Let's see if you win or I win."

To make the killing intent of the Heavenly Killing Star submit and create a path of blood in front of him.

That was the task given to Lee Shin now.

Feeling that, Lee Shin closed his two eyes and laid his body on the floor.

As if in response to his will, the presence of the Heavenly Killing Star came to meet his mind.

(End of Chapter)