episode_0243

Each time the Great Wind Saint’s staff is swung, gusts of yokai power pour out like blades.

In response, I swing my holy sword, cutting down the pouring wind blades in one stroke, then swing again, slamming sword energy into him.

He nimbly avoids my attacks like a monkey, then launches a counterattack, kicking me.

I block the Great Wind Saint’s kick with my left arm and immediately grab his ankle.

“!!”

“Got you.”

I swing the Great Wind Saint with all my might and slam him into the ground.

However, even as he’s being held and smashed down, the Great Wind Saint manages to move his body and stab his staff as if to pierce my head.

To avoid the staff, I moved my head, but the stabbing staff soon changed direction and swung to target my head.

“Tch!!”

To avoid the swung staff, I had no choice but to release the Great Wind Saint’s ankle.

Free from my grasp, he did a huge backflip, putting distance between us.

A really short exchange.

I think I know after clashing blows in a single breath.

‘He’s damn strong.’

I might have been pushed back if not for Levia’s『Sanctuary』.

Just as he said, ‘his original power + the power of all the yokai Tamamo made his subordinates + the power of the Black Tortoise and the Great Leveling Saint’ combined into one, and I can’t handle it alone. It’s a power that’s far beyond the realm of an ‘individual’.

I understand why he was so relaxed.

Nevertheless, it’s annoying that he was trying to induce a situation where he could only win.

‘I can’t let him get away. I must finish him here.’

If I let this guy go here, he might make some weird guys his subordinates and grow his power.

If that happens, it’s really over.

So….

“Sword King Secret Art – Modified”

“!”

“Rampage!!”

I will never let him go.

So I cut, cut, and cut again.

I cut so meticulously that there’s no space left, so that not even dust remains.

Endlessly, endlessly, endlessly, so that he can’t afford to escape.

“Huuup!! Great Wind!!!”

But the opponent is not easy either.

The Great Wind Saint, who had been dragged around by my offensive since my first effective hit, gradually began to regain his pace.

And in the end, he creates a huge, rough wind of yokai power, pushing me away.

“Winter Freeze Wind Come!”

In addition, the Great Wind Saint unleashes a cold and chilling wind of yokai power.

The wind of yokai power coils around the staff, and the staff itself begins to glow with a faint blue light.

“Strike!!!”

A naturally connected stab.

The blue wind of light wrapped around the staff spreads and pours out like streams of water.

The range and speed are no joke.

‘I can’t dodge this.’

[system : Activates Samadhi Fire.]

I draw out magic power from my body, create flames, and wrap the created flames around my body to withstand the cold wind.

“Such a thing won’t be able to withstand my coldness?”

Whooooosh!!! Fi-bi-bi-bibit!!!

“!!!”

Tremendous coldness, beyond what the Samadhi Fire can handle, relentlessly assaults my body.

And at the same time, incredibly sharp blades of yokai power ride the wind and lacerate my body.

Whirlick!!

“?!”

Moreover, the opponent is more skilled than anyone else in handling the wind.

Naturally, he effortlessly rides the rough flow of the wind he created without being injured by it, and instantly approaches me.

“Mihou Shining Chaos Strike”

“!”

It wasn’t a simple movement.

It was a form of martial arts containing a clear meaning and significance.

Like a monkey freely running through trees, the Great Wind Saint’s fists, feet, and staff, freely running through a rough storm, move chaotically.

“Mihou Lotus!”

Pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-pu-puck!!!

My whole body is instantly battered.

My stamina is rapidly depleted by the opponent’s relentless attacks.

How long has it been since I took this much damage?

Now that I realize it again, don’t I fight harder when I fight other guys than when I fight ‘fragments of the demon king’?….

I almost died fighting the Great Subduing Tiger Saint before fighting the Heavenly Demon….

After fighting the Heavenly Demon, I got beaten up by the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

Before fighting the demon, I got caught by the Great Leveling Saint and suffered a lot….

…What. Now that I think about it again, didn’t all of this happen while fighting the Great Saints?

“You are dead.”

“?”

Hwa-reu-reu-reuk!!!

I pour in more magic power and burn the flames of Samadhi Fire.

As a result, even my body burns, and I begin to feel a strong burning pain, but I don’t care.

Thanks to my own recovery ability and the effect of Levia’s『Sanctuary』, I can ignore the injuries caused by Samadhi Fire.

Thanks to the strengthened Samadhi Fire, I can move through the strong coldness created by the Great Wind Saint.

“Sword King Secret Art – Modified : Chaos Rampage”

I pour out dozens of sword energies.

The sword energy that blooms like a single flower surrounds the Great Wind Saint.

“Oh!….”

Perhaps because he didn’t expect a counterattack in that situation, the Great Wind Saint’s expression was filled with bewilderment.

Whether he was flustered or not, the sword energy poured into the Great Wind Saint, and instantly, various scars were engraved on the Great Wind Saint’s body.

“Cha-at!!”

“!?”

Pushing me away greatly, he creates distance.

Then, immediately, the Great Wind Saint began to chant some kind of spell.

Swoosh

“?!”

Like magic, his figure doubles.

And 2 figures become 4, and 4 figures become 8.

In the end, the Great Wind Saint increased to 8 people, surrounding himself.

“Illusion?….”

No, there’s something different about it to call it an illusion.

Clearly, I can feel all the energy and power.

But it doesn’t seem like he’s overlaying his illusion on a specific someone like a demon.

“Clone technique. I didn’t want to use this much.”

“Clone technique…. Is it different from illusion?”

“It’s different. That only creates an illusory body, but the clone technique is a technique that creates the same self as yourself.”

“With simple calculation, the power itself increases by a factor of 2, 3, or 4.”

“Of course, you need a natural talent to reach that level….”

“There are only two people in this world who can perfectly use this technique.”

Each clone adds a word, making it hectic.

Four of them rush towards me at once.

And the other four run towards the other side.

“This bastard!!”

The place they’re heading is where Levia and Tamiel are.

He’s targeting the two people who can’t move because they’re maintaining 『Sanctuary』 and 『Magical Domain』 respectively.

The White Lotus, White Tiger, Vermillion Bird, and Seolrin around her were busy dealing with the Black Tortoise and the traitor Azure Dragon who were being controlled, and didn’t have the time to protect the two.

But….

“Get out of the way!”

“Why would I get out of the way?”

“I admit that your power is strong.”

“But it will be impossible to deal with the four of me at the same time.”

“Moreover, breaking through the four of us to protect those two….”

Wind, wind is coming.

Becoming an absurdly huge storm.

“”””Great Wind””””

Kwa-ga-ga-ga-ga-gak!!!!

Humans cannot withstand the wrath of nature.

No matter how sturdy a building is made, it has no choice but to collapse.

In the same way, the huge storm created by the gathering of four people could not be resisted.

“Keueuk…. Keuaak!!”

But I can’t be pushed back here.

If I’m pushed back here, Levia and Tamiel in an defenseless state will be ambushed.

But how do I break through this rough storm?

‘The wind…. cut it….’

I focused my mind.

What is needed now is caution and accuracy.

[system : Entering the Four Seasons state.]

The flow of time is lengthened.

The sensation of the wind blowing, the sensation of the blades of yokai power contained in the wind lacerating my body,

Everything became longer and further away.

The speed of consciousness far exceeds the general flow, and within the accelerated speed of consciousness, I feel and grasp every single flow of the wind.

Once, the Sword King said.

About a sword that cuts everything but can’t cut anything.

I already have a skill that symbolizes it.

[Breath of All Things]

Only when I reach the extreme situation do I realize the true meaning of the skill, feel the breath of the wind, and look at the gap that clearly exists between them.

[system : Understanding of ‘Sword King Secret Art’ has increased.]

[system : Sufficient ‘Experience’ has been accumulated.]

[system : Level Up!!]

It felt like a lively alarm sound mixed with a runaway sound of bbam-ppa-ba-ram~ was ringing in my head.

[system : All stats increase by 1.]

[system : Status cap has been exceeded. Subsequent status will have ‘weighting’ applied accordingly.]

“Sword King Supreme Art”

My enlightenment is still too shallow to follow the Sword King’s Supreme Art that split the heavens and the earth.

But clearly, there is a sense that I have taken a step closer to that Supreme Art.

“Wind Cut”

I swing my sword according to the gap in the wind.

No, it’s not the feeling that I swung it. Rather, it’s closer to my body following the way the sword moves.

“!!!”

“Wh, what?!”

But the aftermath of that simple movement was not simple.

The blowing wind is overturned.

And the overturned wind becomes a wave of sword energy and pours into the four Great Wind Saints.

“Keuaak!!!”

With a scream of pain, all four clones disappeared.

Confirming that, I swung my sword once more without delay.

“Mountain Cut”

“!!!”

Three Great Wind Saints were cut and disappeared.

Only the Great Wind Saint, who seems to be the main body, barely avoided the slash and was looking at me with a perplexed look.

“…You, what are you.”

“….”

“What…, what happened…. How in that short time….”

It’s a strange feeling.

My body is very light….

“Did your power increase that much!….”

Power overflowed.