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Regardless of the wishes of the person watching, the people who were confronting each other in silence suddenly moved again and clashed their swords before he could react.

Just as the swords trembled and competed for power, their gazes also clashed fiercely with sparkling desire and cool-headed reason behind them.

However, neither side seemed to have any intention of continuing such a power struggle for a long time.

The moment the monster was about to wrench out the swords he was holding in both hands, Yongahyeong first pulled back his sword and lunged forward with his shield at the same time.

As she crossed swords, she quickly realized that the monster’s strength came from swordsmanship and agility rather than simple brute force.

In particular, as a being that has lived with a desire for slaughter for longer than a human lifespan, the way that monster moves its sword was at a level that was difficult for even her, who was born armed and had to fight right away, to recognize.

Due to its smaller body than expected, it was weaker than me in terms of physical strength, but the reason it was able to oppose me while it was clashing swords with me was because it was dispersing the force that it was pressing down with its ridiculous level of swordsmanship.

If you kept clashing your swords against each other, you couldn’t predict how those twin swords would move the moment you let your guard down even a little.

In that case, there would be no need to continue fighting in areas where the opponent was strong.

At the end of the rush, the shield pushed aside the sword and collided with the monster’s body, and the warrior’s strength climbing through the thick tree and the weight of the iron scales surrounding her body struck the monster.

When the monster’s body bent from the impact and briefly floated upward, she adjusted her posture and tightly gripped the sword with both hands.

Then he lunged at the floating monster and swung his sword upward with all his might.

In order to carry out a level of power that can never be received or released with simple techniques, so as to blow away the twin swords in the monster’s hands the moment they collide with them.

As she intended, the monster tried to block the blow by bringing out its twin swords again, but in a situation where its movement was restricted, the moment the two swords collided, it was unable to overcome the sword she swung with all its might and only flew away.

But what happened next clearly wasn’t her intention.

Obviously, the direction in which the two swords flew was impossible due to the angle at which the collision took place, but despite this, the swords flew backwards and fell into the ground again.

The monster twisted its body as if doing acrobatics, turned its body gracefully, slid and landed as if sweeping the ground, and at the same time pulled out the swords stuck in the ground and grabbed them again.

The sight of the monster standing up again and aiming its swords looked very happy.

‘…Did you immediately find a way to respond even in that situation?’

Yong Ah-byeong still analyzed the situation calmly, but the situation was not easy.

If there was anything at stake other than simply the monster’s prowess, it was that the information I had heard was true.

Even though she hit the monster’s fragile-looking body with her shield with the weight of her armor on it, it was intact without a single injury, only briefly waking up from the impact.

‘The impact was enough to break a decent warrior’s bones and distort his internal organs if he was hit by a direct hit.’

She didn’t think it was true that she was cursed with immortality, but this type of immortality was quite foreign even to her, who had a lot of experience dealing with things related to her master’s orders.

Rather than simply regenerating the wounds inflicted, inflicting the wounds in the first place was extremely difficult.

‘…Still, there was a feeling that it made contact the moment I hit it with the shield. As for the contact itself, if possible… for now, we will proceed as planned.’

From the moment they first encountered the relevant information, they had prepared and acted on countermeasures.

Even if the opponent was more difficult than expected, if the countermeasures previously prepared were possible, he would naturally move to honor his master’s orders.

That was why she once again rushed forward with her shield in front of her.

Of course, there was more distance than before, and the monster, which had already been hit by the charge once, did not take the attack so easily this time.

He crossed his arms and draped his dual swords over his shoulders as if he were about to swing them at any moment, and ran towards them as if he was going to hit them head on, but at the last moment he turned his body at an angle.

The monster quickly turned her body sideways with a step that seemed to mesmerize the viewer, and then smoothly let go of her charge, digging into the inside of the shield and stabbing the sword.

And the two swords that stabbed in like that were blocked, unable to pierce the hard scale armor of Yongahyeong, who twisted his body and deliberately gave up his shoulder.

In the meantime, the movement of the blades, which quickly changed direction and tried to dig under the iron scales, was so sharp that if it had been an ordinary scale armor, it could have cut the strings that bound the scales, tearing the flesh, and thirsting for blood.

However, the armor she wears, like that of the dragon, the source of the teeth that gave birth to them, is a single shape from the beginning.

There were no gaps to penetrate or strings connecting the scales, so the blades simply slid over the iron scales and sparks flew.

In response to the sliding twin swords, Yongahbyeong raised his shield upward and attempted to strike the monster’s armament once again.

However, the monster, who had read her intention from the moment she caught the sword with her armor and threw it away, came close to her, surrendering itself to the swords sliding across the iron scales.

At the same time that the body that had been hit by the shield she swung upward was lifted up, the monster stretched out both arms and wrapped around her neck, entwining their bodies as if they were hugging.

‘…what? why?’

Even as the swords held by the monster were intertwined and scraping off the parts of her armor covering her neck with a horrifying sound, Yong Ah-byeong was trying to hold on to the monster and coolly questioned.

When each other’s bodies were closely intertwined like this, what became more important in the end was strength and weight rather than technique, so if you grabbed that thing like this and crushed it to the ground, you could subdue it as planned.

If it was the skill that the monster showed, it was natural that Yongahyeong would understand that and would rather avoid such a situation.

Is there no other way at the moment? A mistake made when desire and madness became too strong? or not…

‘Is it a trap?’

Rather than rejoicing in her unexpected luck, she began to doubt whether it was truly luck.

However, there was not much time to make a decision.

The murderer, who had been living only by remembering and lusting for blood and death for an unknown amount of time, was busy moving his body to find a way to kill her even when she was doubting and hesitating.

If she hesitated for too long, she might find a way that she didn’t even expect.

‘…We are also the ones who prepared the trap in the first place.’

Even if it was a trap, she had already made up her mind and grabbed the monster in her arms and threw herself together.

To subdue the rampaging monster by crushing it with mass and strength.

And she flipped over.

It took even her a moment to understand what was happening.

The moment he grabbed the monster and tried to force it to the ground in the forest, the monster suddenly leaned back as far as it could, bent its neck and waist, and was slammed head first into the ground.

If you had only seen the movement, it would have looked as if the monster was trying to harm itself or take its own life.

It was a position and impact that would have broken anyone’s head or neck.

However, immortality, which had been its curse and weapon for a long time, did not let the monster go easily this time either, and the monster also knew this very well.

The curse wrapped around its body took the shock that would have shattered its slender neck instead, and the monster just shed it through its own body.

Past the panting chest, along the bent waist, and up to the two legs wrapped around Yong Ah-byeong’s back.

And then, adding its own power to that power, it struck the Yongahbyeong upside down.

“…ugh…”

For the first time since the fight began, Yongahyeong let out a short moan.

Because the shock that shook my body forced me to exhale the air contained in my lungs.

If he had been an ordinary warrior, in that moment of defenselessness, he might have lost sight of the two swords thrusting into the eye sockets of his helmet.

However, even as she let out a groan, she blocked them by raising her sword, which she did not let go of even as it was being pierced into the ground.

“…was it this?”

While the swords were biting each other, the dragon soldier muttered briefly as he understood why the monster jumped into the area of battle that was considered unfavorable, or at least unfavorable, without hesitation.

The monster before my eyes lived with a desire for slaughter for all these years, and did not simply master the sword it held in both hands.

There was no hesitation or awkwardness in using the curse of immortality itself, which turned it into a monster, as a weapon.

What would the god of the barbarians, who was said to have cursed the creature in anger at its atrocities, be thinking when he sees the monster now using his curse as its weapon?

Yong Ah-byeong, who had doubts without even realizing it, which was truly rare, soon shook off his random thoughts.

It was her job to catch the monster, unlock the secret of the god’s curse, and present it to their master.

That’s it.

And that’s it. From the beginning, they had no intention of treating this as some kind of honorable duel.

They probably all had the same thoughts as that monster from the beginning.

The monster’s sensitive ears perk up, and even as they fight with their swords for a while, it catches something unusual from behind.

A sharp sound that flies quickly through the air, and a clanking noise that hangs there with it.

The reason it was barely injured by most attacks, but quickly looked behind it, was because of its hearing and instincts that warned of danger.

The moment he caught the spear that was about to fly into his back with one of the swords he was holding, the net attached to the spear expanded from the impact and attacked the monster.

The monster immediately swung another sword at the net, and when it confirmed that it was a special net made of iron woven together, as expected by the sound of metal clashing as the sword collided with it, it immediately threw the sword and jumped back, trying to pull itself out.

However, at that moment, Yongahbyeong, who was engaged in a fierce battle with it, grabs both the net and the monster at the same time and pulls them down.

Even the strong iron net that quickly became entangled could not tear the monster’s flesh, but it was able to hold it in place.

Yong Ah-byeong pulled the iron net towards himself and woven it together, completely blocking any room for escape.

Her sister, who threw a spear with a net attached, and another dragon soldier quickly approached with his sword drawn.

Nodding towards her sister in the net, the plan they had prepared together since confirming the existence of the monster had worked.

To seize this one opportunity, she waited with bated breath for the exact moment to throw her spear and net while her sisters fought fiercely against the monster.

If it was difficult to capture a monster through simple combat, it was much more advantageous for one person to hide and wait for the opportunity rather than having two people attack at the same time. In reality, that strategy worked perfectly.

However, when she noticed that the net that caught the monster was very quiet and motionless, she carefully looked inside it in more detail.

For some reason, the captured monster stopped all resistance and was just quietly tied up in the net. As if there was no need to get out.

Nevertheless, when she made eye contact with the monster in the net, she could feel the strength in the hand still holding the sword.

Even though it was tied up, it was still smiling, for her warrior instincts and experience warned her that it was no less dangerous.

Seeing her nervous, the monster laughed softly and then hummed a tune I didn’t know where I heard it.

As if I was looking forward to what would happen in the future.