NOVEL NEXT chapter 28
28 – … I, how many etc… ?
I glanced at the system message that just popped up, fixing my gaze on the Fiat beyond the deflagration.
[Gift: You have successfully copied [Chemicalization (B)].]
Gift: [Hardened]
Rating: B
Proficiency: 08.63%
– Temporarily increases the strength of the body by consuming mana.
– If the durability is below a certain level (C). Durability increases considerably. (Maximum C+)
With my current body, I can’t use the observation eye to directly see mana. It took time to copy Fiat’s gift. It took me over 5 minutes to copy even though the battle was right in front of me.
Even if someone other than me has the [Cheongbyeon] Gift. You wouldn’t have been able to copy other gifts as easily as I did.
Kwaak-
I firmly gripped the Fiat’s right hand with my black left hand. With the sword in his right hand, he fired a swift stab at the arm of Fiat, who had not fully grasped the situation yet.
“…Quit!”
Pushuk-
Different from before, where even if I concentrated my sword skill, only scratches came out. It’s about 2-3CM, but it’s shallow, but the Fiat’s body is scratched.
Although it was because I was too focused on copying gifts before, so I wasn’t able to focus that much on my sword skills. More than that, it was more about adapting to mana handling with the current body.
“…You bastard!!!”
How much did you regain consciousness after seeing your own blood? Fiat wields magical power in the knuckle of his left hand.
But I had already read Fiat’s behavior. I pierced the sword into the trajectory of the blow and bounced off my fist.
Boom!
The magic of knuckles exploding in the air. My right hand was caught and I cut the fiat that couldn’t even get far away with my sword.
Push-! Spike-!
“…Aagh!!!”
Blood lines engraved all over the Fiat except for the arms. Although it was shallow, there were countless wounds that could not be ignored.
“…Take it!”
Reflexively read the action of pulling your arm off, pushing it and pulling it. Like pulling and pushing. While keeping the Fiat off center, I continued to stab the sword with my other hand.
“…This, Run, Mr. Baaal!!!”
Perhaps it was impossible to keep going like this, Fiat didn’t avoid being stabbed deeply by the sword and got closer.
Fiat, who had closed the distance to the point where he couldn’t swing his sword, threw a punch at my torso.
… That action was already expected!
Kang-! Blasphemy!
“……What?”
A sound too foreign to be said to have hit a body made of flesh. Rather, the knuckles of the Fiat that had been hit began to crack.
At an unexpected situation, Fiat, whose actions stopped, was hit with his right hand, which had released his sword before he knew it.
Kwajak-!
“…Gagging!”
With the sound of iron grinding. Fiat’s silver-gray face slightly sunk.
With his right hand, which had been dyed black before he knew it, he continued to hit the faltering Fiat with chasing blows.
“…Sii baaal!!! Jill, kabonyaaa!!!”
After being hit by a chase, Fiat, who had lost his senses, clenched his teeth and swung his fists.
“Huck! Whoop! Haap!”
“Keuuk! Uguk! Kwaaa!!”
Kaang-! Kwajak-!
Kakang-! Kwagak-!
A nonsensical no-guard fight in which one hand is sealed and the other hand is used to attack the opponent, neither avoiding nor defending.
But only Fiat is hurt. It was a very strange sight to say that it had the same level of [Hardening]. Lee Seon-woo’s talent made it possible.
‘When attacking, concentrate the gift on the part of the attack. After hitting, focus on the area where your senses warn you, reducing the blow. If you can do that…. Fiat, which can only be used evenly throughout the body, can be overwhelmed with a small amount of mana.’
Fiat is forced to suffer unilaterally due to Lee Seon-woo’s extremely efficient gift management ability.
Those who lived arrogantly with their innate talents were only eaten by those with greater talents.
Wack-
“…This, run!”
“…! NOW!!!”
“Damn it…!!! Kahaaa!!!”
Pueruk-!!!
In an instant, Fiat’s attack wavered due to the accumulated damage. Fiat’s fist cut through the air. Lee Seon-woo’s fist pierced the gap.
Deguru-!
“Uh, that’s that! Zen, my darling!!! Work, I can’t stand…!”
A Fiat flew several meters after being hit in the jaw. I tried to stand up, but I couldn’t get up because my limbs were shaking, probably because my brain was shaking properly.
Judge-
I said, slowly approaching the babbling Fiat.
“…You. From the first time I saw you, you said you wanted to crush me, right? It’s a coincidence, but so am I. Your face resembles the guy who bullied my family…”
Thanks to that, I was surprised when I first saw it. Except for the color of his hair and eyes, it was to the point where I wondered if he was a doppelganger.
“At that time, you don’t know how much I felt sorry for not being able to hit you directly… There was something I wanted to say while hitting you.”
I stood in front of the Fiat and raised my clenched fist. While squirming on the floor, like a mad dog. Fiat glaring with ferocious, murderous eyes.
[I activate !]
[Physical abilities temporarily increase!]
[Replace gift. Hardened (B) ▶ Strong (C+)]
[ Is activated! Target: Strong (C+)]
[Strength (C+) ▶ Dragon Power (B-)]
“‘The hawk makes the man.'”
A fist filled with enormous power that instantly reached the level of a superman. It landed on the Fiat.
Kwaaang——!!!
Kwajik-!!!
With a ground-shaking impact and a feeling of crushing walnuts, several meters of craters were created in the arena.
It goes without saying how Fiat looks.
“Huh…. I feel refreshed inside!’
At the end of the words that leaked out from the depths of my heart without my knowledge, my vision went black.
***
Returning sight. When I opened my eyes, I could see the ceiling of the waiting room.
Diring!
The level of [ Is rising! (LV3 ▶ LV4)]
[Due to the effect of limit release. Gift: [Powerful (C+)] Has been temporarily unavailable! (Current: 6 hours)]
‘[Breaking Limits]’ Is one of its functions, ‘Release Limits’…. I didn’t have a chance to test it, so I tried it, but the penalty is worse than I thought…. I only used it for the last minute, but I thought I wouldn’t be able to use it for 6 hours….’
A tremendous ability to raise the grade. However, it was also an ability that forcibly lifted the limit, which seemed to have unusual side effects just hearing it.
That’s why I tried using it in this test that doesn’t affect the real body. With [Strength], A gift that doesn’t show too much.
“Hmm… My hands still feel a little numb…”
[Strength], No [Dragon Power], Crossed the boundary of C+ level. Although it gave me great power. The condition of the hand after hitting the Fiat was serious, perhaps because it was a force that was difficult to withstand with the durability of D+.
From now on, I’ll have to think about these things carefully and use ‘Limit Release’.
… Now my thoughts have been sorted out to some extent.
‘Let’s go for a ‘defeat’….’
I don’t want to draw more attention than this, because I’ve been ranked in the ranks of the unknown, which is my goal.
And the next opponent…. It’s not an opponent I can beat just because I want to win. Because my next opponent was Su Icicle.
“It’s impossible for Suu Icicle right now. It’s impossible.”
In the state of bondage play like now, you will not be able to resist and become an ice statue.
Still, I just hate losing, so I was thinking about how I couldn’t give it a shot. I noticed something odd.
“…I think it’s already been over 10 minutes? Why didn’t you say anything?”
If things went as they were, Deuce’s voice would have urged the next match. Feeling strange, I left the waiting room.
Waaa!!!!!!
The sound of cheering as I left the waiting room. On a single screen floating in the center of the arena, a duel between a giant with numerous swords and a female knight clad in iron armor was projected.
Kwakwang-! Clink-! Quagga-!
“Ha ha ha ha! What a solid defense! It’s worth breaking!”
A gigantic man who explodes with a light beam and spreads a fierce attack to the extent that it is called a light strike.
A sword that screams with one swing, cracks the blade with two swings, and shatters with three swings.
It was a ruthless swordsmanship that didn’t care about the sword. The power was absolute itself. The level of one blow is equivalent to the mortal blow of the named orc ‘Canerel’ that he met in the 2nd exam.
Even when the sword is broken, each scattered fragment of the sword contains an aura. It was a heinous technique that could take a person’s life with just one fragment.
“…Huh!”
A beautiful, iron-clad female knight who blocks such vicious techniques from the front.
Holding a seawall large enough to cover her upper body in one hand and a one-handed sword with a slightly thicker blade in the other hand, the female knight used two weapons to block attacks.
Blocks an attack head-on with a shield, cuts off a melee with a sword, and gently spills fragments of an exploding sword. Truly, an invincible iron wall with no gaps.
Looking at such a fierce duel, my face was full of doubts.
“……?”
What’s the situation? The semifinals are starting without me, right? My game? I hurriedly looked at the match schedule.
“I’m going to the finals…?!”
In the match schedule, my name was written on the finals.
“Oh. I came to talk anyway. You were just there, Sunwoo.”
From behind me, who was shaking her head for some reason, the dark spirit, Deuce, came floating around. Spoke casually.
I asked Deuce with a hint of good luck.
“Deuce? What’s the matter? Why am I in the final?”
“I’m here to explain that. What happened is that your next opponent, Miss Su Icicle, withdrew.”
“…? Why…?”
“I was curious too, so I asked. He said that he was not interested in what place he would be in if he could enter the Ungyeong-gwan. It was the first time for me to withdraw for this reason, so it was fresh. I laughed out loud for the first time in a long time.”
“Then…”
“Your next opponent in the finals will be one of those two.”
When I looked at the screen at Deuce’s words, I was approaching the end of a fierce struggle.
“hahahaha! It’s such a fun fight that it’s a pity that it ends! …But! It’s too fun to end like this with a time limit! I’ll pour it all into the next blow! Sylvest, what about you!”
“…Come. The Saiger family’s small sword demon.”
“hahahahaha! I like it!! Sylvest’s iron rose!!!”
A huge amount of magic power was gathered in the sword of the man called the Saiger family’s short sword demon, and a subtle reason began to dwell in the knight’s sword.
“【Destroying one sword 破城一劍】──!!!”
“──[Meteor radius].”
The secret of destroying the castle with a single sword and the secret of counterattacking to reverse even falling meteors collide.
Kwaaang───!!!!!
Patter-!
With a roaring sound as if the eardrums would be torn due to a clash of secrets, the screen is filled with white dust.
“”” …….”””
Everyone in the Colosseum is silent, staring at the screen. As the dust gradually settled, the results of the duel began to show. The scene on the screen…….
“……Cool!”
“…That’s right.”
The sword of a giant that broke through the defense of the iron wall and pierced the heart of the knight, and the sword of the knight that split two-thirds of the giant’s neck.
The knight whose heart was pierced and blood spewed out of his mouth, and the giant man whose head was almost completely cut off, glared at each other….
Push-
Push-
They collapsed at the same time and turned into powder of light.
The result of the duel between the two famous sword masters in Est Continent was total destruction.
“…Hmm? If this happens…. ‘Bee-Bit-‘ Hmm. Did that happen as expected? …Whoops. I never thought this would come out. This year has been really fun.”
As I was admiring the duel between the two, Deuce heard a message from somewhere behind me and muttered something while laughing meaningfully.
Looking at that, Deuce grinned at me and flew to the center of the arena.
And then, amplifying his voice, he began to speak in a voice that resonated throughout the Colosseum.
“Hmm! The results of this test are interesting. Humans. Jager Saiger and Miss Char Silvest, who just had a wonderful duel, lost consciousness… They say it’s hard for them to play the next match. So any more, The upper echelons judged that it would be difficult to spend time on the test. That’s why…”
Dugudugudugu-!
The deuce that draws a long horse and the sound of a drum that raises tension from somewhere.
… Even if I have no sense of it somehow, I think I know what the next situation will be. He sighed and straightened his clothes.
The moment I finished all the clothes, an intense light shone on me.
“Congratulations. The top of the 350th Valhalla entrance exam, Lee Seon-woo. You are.”
‘Haa….’
Watching Deuce’s words end and everyone’s eyes turning to me. I sighed inwardly.