episode_0269

If your heart wavers in a fight, it’s over.

If your heart wavers, your hands and feet are bound to become clumsy.

Naturally, the tip of your sword will waver. The life you have placed upon it will become precarious, needless to say.

In that sense.

Johannes can be seen as having gotten closer to death.

It was obvious to anyone that Johannes was angry, but he couldn’t rashly approach.

‘Of course.’

The suspicion that I planted has become a seed and is gnawing away at his mind.

His actions also cannot be natural.

Still, it’s not an easy fight.

The wondrous swordsmanship of Cyan.

Gibson’s archery that transcends perception.

Sebastian, who skillfully handles magic.

If I hadn’t stayed by the side of talented people, learning and observing, today’s fight would have been more difficult.

Should I be grateful?

I don’t know.

Jeong Yushin firmly gripped the longsword with one hand.

“Dieeee!!!”

Johannes roared and activated his engraved ability.

Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh.

Daggers flew, transcending space.

Jeong Yushin twisted his body and rolled, dodging the daggers.

Thwack. Thwack.

One pierced each of his thighs.

A fiery pain seared his brain.

‘At this level.’

It’s bearable.

He pulled out the daggers, threw them on the ground, and moved his feet.

Thud. Thud.

With each step closer, Johannes threw daggers like crazy.

He twisted his body minimally, avoiding the carotid artery and major organs.

But.

Johannes created distance with blink each time he got closer.

Jeong Yushin stopped walking and looked around.

Before he knew it, quite a few people had gathered in a circle, watching the fight.

Judging by their luxurious attire, they were not just any commoners.

Guards, who appeared to be soldiers, were strictly controlling the streets from afar.

Jeong Yushin looked straight at Johannes.

“Johannes, what is this you’re doing?”

“…”

“Don’t you have any shame? Being a Senior Lieutenant Explorer, running away from me like a rat?”

“Shut up!!!”

The daggers disappeared from Johannes’s hands.

Whoosh.

He immediately bent his neck.

A dagger appeared where his neck had been a moment ago.

Jeong Yushin smiled wryly as he looked at the dagger that had lost its target and fallen to the ground, then he scoffed.

“Hey buddy, look around you. Look at how they’re looking at you.”

Johannes bit his lip.

He knows.

This place is far from the pleasure district of the Eastern District.

It wasn’t a distance that insignificant people would come to.

Naturally, there were only wealthy people who were well-known in the Eastern District.

Their eyes were.

Full of doubt and faint ridicule.

On the other hand, the eyes looking at Scar flashed with surprise.

He felt like he was going crazy with shame.

He thought he could easily get rid of a Junior Lieutenant Explorer.

Johannes took out two more daggers from his chest.

‘I’ll kill him for real.’

Jeong Yushin noticed that Johannes’s atmosphere had changed.

Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh.

Johannes approached right in front of him through blink.

Jeong Yushin took a stance and swung the longsword with one arm.

Clang!!!

Johannes deflected the longsword by swinging the right dagger and stabbed the chest with the left dagger.

Thwack!!!

Jeong Yushin staggered back two steps, then smiled and took three steps forward.

In an instant.

The two men faced each other closely. A distance where they could feel each other’s breath.

Suddenly, Jeong Yushin opened his mouth. Johannes’s eyes widened.

“Kuaaaack ptooey!!!”

Splatter!

Blood-mixed saliva hit Johannes’s eyeballs. His vision blurred.

“Shit…!”

Cursing burst out of Johannes’s mouth. He was genuinely flustered.

‘This crazy bastard!!!’

To use such a despicable trick that only street thugs would use!

The flustered Johannes staggered backward, but.

Jeong Yushin did not miss the opportunity and delivered a headbutt.

Bam!!!

His hard forehead was slammed on Johannes’s nose bridge.

Johannes’s head snapped back.

His vision flashed and his brain shook.

“Keuheoeok!!!”

Johannes staggered backward, using blink to create distance.

Jeong Yushin stood still and stared blankly at Johannes.

He didn’t bother chasing. Because his broken left arm was slowly recovering due to the Revenger engraving effect.

Blood was flowing down Johannes’s nose.

His expression was twisted like a demon.

“…”

Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh.

Johannes silently repeated blink and charged.

Jeong Yushin laughed inwardly.

‘This tiresome guy. I’ve already figured out all of his techniques…?’

Thwack!!!

Johannes suddenly grabbed both of Jeong Yushin’s arms.

Snap.

The radius and ulna bones shattered, and a bizarre sound spread.

Johannes wore a grim smile.

“Hehehe.”

Whoosh.

His vision blurred for a moment, and the location changed.

Jeong Yushin’s eyes widened.

‘What?’

The place he moved to with Johannes was.

The sky.

As he slowly began to fall.

Johannes teleported up into the sky several times again.

Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh.

The buildings and people became small.

He rose so high that even the massive walls surrounding the city looked like planks.

A chilling gale swept past the two men.

Johannes burst into laughter.

“Hahahahaha!!!!! Scar, it’s over now!!!”

A shout filled with madness and malice.

That’s right.

If he fell from here, he wouldn’t even be able to recover his bones.

Jeong Yushin clenched his teeth and raised his broken arm to punch Johannes’s face.

Bam!!!

Johannes did not back down and swung his fist.

Pow!!!

Jeong Yushin’s face turned.

The two men, who had begun to fall slowly, threw punches at each other.

Bam!!!

Pow!!!

The faces of the two men quickly became battered, but they silently threw punches without a single groan.

The gravitational acceleration gradually increased, and the two men began to fall rapidly.

But.

Neither of them was panicked.

Johannes believed in his ability.

And Jeong Yushin was prepared to die.

They just glared at each other and threw punches.

At that moment when the falling speed became so fast that they couldn’t even breathe.

Johannes, whose face was swollen, grinned.

“Farewell.”

“Where do you think you’re going, you bastard.”

He saw that he was about to use teleportation to leave only himself and move to a safe place.

Jeong Yushin immediately noticed and grabbed Johannes’s arm.

“Ugh!!! You bastard!!!”

Johannes grabbed the last remaining dagger and stabbed Jeong Yushin.

Thwack!!! Thwack!!! Thwack!!! Thwack!!!

Abdomen, chest, arm, neck.

Johannes crazily stabbed with the dagger without distinguishing the spot.

Jeong Yushin didn’t even twitch an eyebrow and swung his fist.

While grappling and fighting, the ground was getting closer and closer.

“Shit!!!”

Eventually, Johannes had no choice but to move with Jeong Yushin.

Whoosh.

“Damn it!!! Let go!!! You bastard!!!”

Johannes finally grabbed Jeong Yushin’s arm, twisted it to break free, and used blink again.

“Ah, damn it.”

Jeong Yushin looked down at the ground rapidly approaching and spat out a curse.

He used Johannes to reduce the falling speed.

Still, it was an ambiguous height. His life would be in danger if he fell wrong.

‘Even if I land well, both legs will be wrecked.’

It seemed that fighting without engravings was limited to this point.

He wondered if he had been too greedy.

But still, he had gained something.

He found out how far he could teleport at most in one go.

Since it was the most important information to win this fight, it was worth grappling with that guy up close.

Jeong Yushin raised his fist.

A man should fall stylishly even when falling.

He wouldn’t be smashed into the ground like a frog.

It’s a hero landing.

Johannes, who had landed on the ground, looked up at the sky.

“What…?!”

That mixed-race Barbaroi bastard was falling in a bizarre posture.

With his fist raised.

His torn coat fluttering.

The sight of him falling like a meteor was like a scene from a painting.

The spectators stared blankly at Jeong Yushin falling.

Some beautiful young ladies covered their mouths and blushed.

And the landing.

Boom!!!

The ground was shattered, and the pedestrian bricks and snowstorm rose like dust.

Jeong Yushin slowly got up from his spot.

Standing with his shin broken, the excruciating pain burned his nerves.

But he couldn’t afford to be idle here. Now that his vision was obscured, it was an opportunity.

In the cold dust.

Jeong Yushin raised his hand, which was relatively intact.

[Sacred Weapon]

Kiiiiing!!!

A magnificent flow of magic whirled through his body and gathered in his grip.

The sword that he had racked his brain to study until now.

The trajectory of the sword that Cyan wielded.

Combining it with the snowflakes falling from the sky.

A technique meticulously refined in his mind’s eye.

Now, at this moment, there was no turning back.

‘Hundreds of small blades swirl in the wind and instantly cut everything down.’

[Trait Imbue]

‘Give it a name.’

Suddenly, the words of the dwarf blacksmith came to mind.

[Snow Bringer]

Flash!!!

As if responding to the name, the antique golden longsword radiated a brilliant glow, brightly illuminating the night streets.

Jeong Yushin raised the golden longsword he was holding.

“Scatter.”

At that moment.

Tsu tsu tsu tsu.

The golden sword body transformed into hundreds of pieces and spread out widely.

‘Slow.’

[Telekinesis]

He used telekinesis to speed up the movement of the blades.

Fwoooosh!!!

The golden sword pieces, which had been fluttering like snow, scattered in all directions like fireworks.

“Ugh!!!”

Johannes widened his eyes and immediately used blink.

Too late.

Johannes repeated blink a few times, then stopped in his spot and trembled.

“Keuheoeoeok!!!”

Because the sword blades, which had already spread widely due to the rash space movement, had penetrated deep into his body.

Jeong Yushin murmured indifferently.

“It’s over.”

Hundreds of golden sword blades rushed in all at once, surrounding Johannes and spinning.

Clang clang clang clang!!!

“Kuaaaaaaack!!!”

Along with screams, blood splattered like fireworks amidst the whirling sword blades.

Blood flowed from Jeong Yushin’s nose.

His brain felt like it was melting because he had used too much mental power.

‘Stop.’

He stopped the acceleration of the sword blades.

Just in time, the sword blades, which had reached the end of their summoning time, scattered into a stream of light.

Thud!

Johannes, covered in blood all over his body, knelt down.

Jeong Yushin stood for a while, looking up at the sky.

He couldn’t move. He had to wait until his broken shinbone healed.

But.

The people watching the scene were left speechless with their mouths open.

“…!”

Some people were thrilled.

An impossibly steep growth.

Surely, he wasn’t at this level even when he fought the Siege Breaker Rex.

He got this strong in the short time he turned away?

Besides, what was with that relaxed expression?

Jeong Yushin, who had finished healing with the Revenger engraving, finally moved his feet.

“…”

The crowd, overwhelmed by Jeong Yushin’s presence, couldn’t bring themselves to speak and only followed his footsteps with their eyes.

“Wh-What on earth is that technique?!”

At that moment.

As soon as one person who had regained consciousness opened his mouth, everyone started talking.

“Could it be Sacred Weapon?”

“Crazy!!!”

“It’s a technique that can’t be implemented with a low-level Aura Blade! It’s impossible!”

Jeong Yushin ignored the people chattering like sparrows and continued walking.

The Snow Bringer he had created this time was.

It was a terribly extravagant technique.

He consumed not only the magic power that Vivian had distributed, but also all the magic power in his body.

He used all his mental power to the extreme by using telekinesis, and he bit his tongue several times because he felt like he was about to lose consciousness right away.

Jeong Yushin finally approached and stood in front of the kneeling Johannes.

He looked around and picked up a dagger.

“If, If you kkill me, thhere wwill bee pro, problems? Iis Yyou rreally ggoing tto sttart aa wwar wiith thhe Vaisius Clan?!!!”

As if trying to make a last-ditch effort, Johannes uttered a slurred voice.

“…”

Jeong Yushin grabbed Johannes’s hair without answering and held the dagger to his neck.

“Johannes.”

“…”

“Johannes, answer me.”

“···Why?”

Jeong Yushin made eye contact with Johannes and smiled gently.

“Rumor has it, you lost your composure in front of a lower-middle Explorer, struggled like a bug, and died miserably. People will talk about your ugly figure once or twice and wash it down with alcohol. The Vaisius Clan will be the same. This is your life. A sloppy, ugly life that no one remembers or mentions.”

Johannes glared with bloodshot eyes.

“You… bastard… Keuheoeok!!!”

He stuck the dagger deep into his neck and twisted it.

Johannes trembled and slumped.

Jeong Yushin stared into Johannes’s eyes until the moment he died.

When he lowered his gaze, a silver badge was dangling on Johannes’s neck.

He always wears it around his neck because he’s an Explorer.

Showing off a little because his score is a bit high in Silver, only to be publicly executed.

‘He’s in quite the state.’

Jeong Yushin slowly moved his feet and picked up the longsword.

Then, he looked around and opened his mouth indifferently.

“Next.”

The crowd fell silent at Jeong Yushin’s bold declaration.

“…”

“Come out, next.”

Evening.

In front of the bathhouse in the Eastern District.

In a strange silence.

Only the voice of the Barbaroi echoed widely.