Finals

The cool, pouring rain seemed to be cooling down the heat of the fiercely heated battlefield.

Rainwater falling on my face obscures my vision.

Even if I raise my hand and wipe around my eyes, new rainwater just keeps falling on top of it.

Taktak-

I lightly kick the floor I’m standing on.

I can’t feel the power that always firmly supported my body.

The dirt floor that used to raise cloudy dust had become a muddy swamp.

The soldiers’ movements are unusual.

They were mixed with enemy soldiers and rolling in the mud, and in severe cases, they even fell while running alone.

The smell of wet soil is excessively realistic.

“Blood Demon King-nim…!”

Just in time, I heard Snow Mage’s voice.

The voice, filled with a strong warning, was informing me of the enemy’s approach.

The approaching enemies’ spacing was different from the previous match.

Could it be to prevent them from falling and getting swept away?

I frowned and said to my teammates.

“We also maintain a wide spacing.”

The sound of rain coming from all directions makes my ears feel muffled.

Feeling the heat of my body cooling down, I drew the Nodachi from behind my back.

The enemies, who were approaching at a fast speed, slowed down as they got closer to a certain distance.

However, their gazes were shining sharply as if they had finished preparing to fight at any moment.

Still, is it because it’s the finals?

I felt an unknown tension.

I felt so much pressure that I couldn’t tell whether what was flowing in my palm was sweat or rainwater.

There was no signal to announce the start of the full-scale fight.

A sword suddenly drawn flies, cutting through the rain.

It’s an expected attack.

At the same time as recognizing the opponent’s attack, the surrounding time slows down.

The sound of rain that had been making my ears muffled moved away, and I could see the raindrops that had stopped in mid-air.

Quietly settled silence.

Stopped time.

Feeling the loneliness of being left alone, I looked around.

Starting with Wild’s surprise attack, the others were also wielding their weapons.

It’s an attack that contains the intention to exchange blows with each other to grasp the opponent’s skills, rather than focusing on targeting someone.

A proper attack would surely come after this.

Then what should I do?

It was the moment I was wondering how to deal with it.

My gaze turned to the mud clumped thickly on the floor.

It’s not ordinary dirt, it’s mud.

The soldiers who rolled on the floor and got up had mud on their clothes.

Those tightly clumped things stuck to their bodies and didn’t fall off.

Whether it will work or not is unknown.

However, it was worth trying.

If you’ve made up your mind, you have to move.

The stopped time slowly began to flow, and the lost sound of rain returned.

Shwaaaaaaak-!

The cool, pouring rain beats all over my body.

My body, which had been cooling down, moved in an instant and swung the Nodachi I was holding in both hands towards the floor.

Seogeok-!

It doesn’t need to be much. Just enough to cover the gaps in the opponent’s helmet. That’s all I need.

Aiming for the moment when the Nodachi’s blade touches the floor, I put strength into my wrist and flick it.

With that strange movement, the tip of the Nodachi’s blade slightly popped up, and the mud묻 on the tip of the blade was shot into the air.

The widely spread mud flew faster than the enemies’ approach and successfully stuck to the helmets they were wearing.

“Eut!”

“T, this…!”

Short screams popping out from the enemies sink along with the sound of rain.

Wild, who was running towards me, turned his head to avoid the mud, but the other players who were closest to him couldn’t.

It obscured the vision of two out of five players.

The advantage gained from this one move is not small.

But I had to roll on the floor before I could even use that advantage.

Because Wild’s attack was not interrupted.

Shwiik-!

Letting go of the Nodachi I was holding in my hand and quickly rolling on the floor, a rough tearing sound burst out above me.

If I had been even a little late, a large hole would have been made in the middle of my forehead.

Feeling the eerie sensation behind my back, I quickly get up from my spot.

Wild didn’t chase me anymore after the first strike.

He moved as if protecting his teammates with limited vision, creating distance.

I licked my lips as I watched that figure.

His sense is better than I thought.

I tried to separate Wild from his team, but he didn’t move as I thought.

I even dropped my weapon and rolled in the mud…

I shook my head and moved right away.

My body, running quickly, slipped on the muddy floor and picked up the Nodachi that had fallen to the ground.

There’s no time to spare. I have to pressure the opponent right away.

My teammates seemed to be thinking the same thing as me, and they rushed towards the enemy who was retreating.

Don’t stop. Charge straight ahead.

I kicked off the floor and swung the Nodachi.

But it wasn’t a normal floor.

This battlefield was now a slippery mud pit.

The leg that I stretched out powerfully slightly slipped, and the trajectory of the Nodachi curved.

Ttaang-!

The powerfully unfolded slash successfully knocked away the sword of the knight user who was retreating.

That’s how the enemy’s upper body was revealed.

Snow Mage didn’t miss that gap.

“Heuyaaaat!”

The cheerful shout that burst out resonates, cutting through the rain.

The halberd held in her hand was swung as if cutting through space, making a huge tearing sound.

Shwiik-!

Kwaaang-!

A strike with tremendous power.

The enemy knight user, whose upper body was empty, flew straight away and was buried in the mud.

The start is better than I thought.

I stopped in my spot and swung the Nodachi towards the floor.

As long as the enemies don’t take off their helmets, I was going to keep scooping up mud and throwing it.

Seugak-!

Just like before, I aim for the moment when the Nodachi’s blade touches the floor and flick my wrist.

The moment that strange movement is transmitted to the tip of the blade, heavy mud is shot towards the enemies.

Hudududuk-!

They seemed to be trying to wash away the sticky parts with rainwater, but I keep spraying mud on top of it.

Eventually, the enemies will have no choice but to take off their helmets.

Because they won’t be able to wipe away the mud that went into the small gaps in the helmet.

“Eueueuk!”

Eventually, the enemies, unable to bear the stuffiness, threw off their helmets.

They are enemies with a combination of three knights and two butchers.

If they took off their helmets, it meant that I also had a chance to attack.

I ran straight forward.

I swing the Nodachi while running.

The leg that stretched out greatly strongly stepped on the ground, but it couldn’t prevent slipping.

The posture of my body slightly shifted, and the trajectory of the sword flew higher than I thought.

Shuaaaak-!

A slash that stretches out long.

Wild reacted to that attack flying, cutting through the rain.

Taang-!

The slash swung with all my might is blocked by Wild’s sword.

He continued his next action before I could even recover the Nodachi.

The strongly stretched out leg stamps on the ground.

Kung-!

How much strength was put into it?

The ground he stepped on was deeply dug, and that leg was submerged up to his ankle.

Wild was firmly fixed.

It meant that a big, powerful attack was about to fly.

As I expected, Wild greatly rotated his waist and swung his longsword greatly.

With a rough tearing sound, the rainwater scatters as if the space itself is splitting, and he shoots out a huge slash.

An attack that I can’t absolutely block in my current state.

I have to avoid it unconditionally.

At the same time as recognizing the opponent’s attack, I kick off the floor.

It was slippery mud, so the power wasn’t properly transmitted, but I was barely able to get out of the range of the attack.

That’s what I thought.

But the following slash eventually grazed my arm and passed by.

Seogeok-!

Along with the stinging pain felt in my shoulder, red blood splatters.

It was definitely a distance that I shouldn’t have been hit at. It was a distance that I shouldn’t have been hit at.

But I was hit.

The moment I recognized Wild’s figure using acceleration of thought.

I could find the figure of the longsword held in his hand.

The start of the attack would have been with both hands.

But now he was holding it with one hand.

Even the end of the sword’s handle.

The upper body greatly stretched out and the sword held with only one hand.

A sword is a weapon that can cut a longer range when swung with one hand than when swung with both hands.

The moment Wild recognized that I was running away, he moved the sword he was holding with both hands to one hand.

His situation judgment is quick, and he doesn’t hesitate in his thoughts.

He’s very sharp. I felt cold sweat running down my back.

Maybe it’s actually flowing.

Feeling the falling raindrops, I calmly took a breath.

He’s not easy.

It’s overwhelming.

It’s hard to win.

I felt frustrated, like when I faced a raid boss that was difficult to攻略.

But it’s okay. It’s rather good.

The pleasure gained when catching a raid boss that was considered impossible to攻略 is considerable.

This won’t be any different either.

I licked my lips and glared at Wild.

His gaze wasn’t directed at me.

Around him.

He was moving as if taking care of his teammates.

I don’t like that gaze.

I wanted his gaze to be solely on me.

One-on-one duel.

Let’s do it.

Bisuz said.

Taunting won’t work.

But is that really the case?

I took a step forward and opened my mouth.

“Wild-nim.”

Was it a more friendly tone than I thought?

Wild, who was wielding his sword, looked at me with a puzzled expression.

“Your skills are still the same.”

“…What?”

A strange silence settles.

Wild’s eyebrows twitch.

“What does that…”

“Are you scared?”

“So what…”

“That you’ll lose like back then.”

He will remember.

That day when he was miserably defeated by a girl much smaller than him.

Bringing out an unbearable truth again had a considerable taunting effect.

There’s even a law called defamation by stating facts, isn’t there?

People have memories they want to forget.

Wild’s gaze trembles.

His lips also started to tremble.

The tip of the sword held in his hand slowly moves towards me.

Wild hasn’t grown.

He just seemed to have grown.

He was just a man in his early 20s living in South Korea.

“You’re still fucking bad at games.”

“You crazy bitch…”

“You’re not calling me ‘nuna’ like back then?”

The taunt is successful.

Wild ignored his teammates and started approaching me with big steps.