Wind Power Generation

The essence of [Sword Aura] is wind.

I was lifted high by the wind-attributed [Sword Aura].

The wind [Sword Aura], compressed in the underground space, blew away the entire fortress.

Even the debris soared along with it.

[Sword Aura] itself has no offensive power.

Even though it was a strike that destroyed the fortress, the density of the attack was insufficient to exert significant power on a human-sized target.

Like how typhoon winds destroy buildings but don’t crush people.

I was swept away by the wind and soared for a long time.

My body spun around and around.

I applied Magical Power.

Discharged Electrical Ability.

The Magical Power mixed with the wind became a widely dispersed, faint [Sword Aura]. The discharged Electrical Ability contained [Frost] and froze the Magical Power.

Snowflakes bloomed.

The wind stopped.

The density of the [Sword Aura] was too low to create ice, so only small ice crystals formed, and they already bloomed like snow.

As the wind ceased,

Gradually,

I felt gravity.

My body fell.

Amel infused Magical Power into the [Black Sword].

She held the [Black Sword] horizontally to her body.

At that moment, she saw it.

The [Death Knight].

The completely exposed underground bottom of the fortress.

A human figure clad in ominous black armor.

[Death Knight]

Ominous black letters.

I identified the enemy through the information window.

I gathered Magical Power in the [Black Sword].

Released the gathered Magical Power.

[Meteor Sword]

I fell like a meteor.

The [Death Knight] also gathered Magical Power in the [Dark Sword], and a small hurricane enveloped the [Dark Sword].

A small black hurricane.

The [Dark Sword] was wrapped around.

He swung the [Dark Sword].

The wind blew.

The heavily swung [Dark Sword] stirred up a massive wind and threw it upwards.

A whirlwind surged.

It contained black Mana.

The [Black Sword] fell vertically as [Meteor Sword], splitting the wind. Ice crystals sprang up from the split surface.

It split the [Dark Sword]’s storm and fell towards the [Death Knight]’s helmet.

However,

Just before,

It stopped.

The [Meteor Sword], which had been descending, splitting the black wind in a V-shape, ran out of power just before impact.

Just as my whole body was about to be pushed away by the force of the wind,

Bang.

I discharged Electricity in all directions.

[Freeze] the Magical Power.

Ice crystals bloomed.

I erased the black Mana that was creating the wind, and with the [Black Sword] firmly gripped, I put Strength into my legs just before landing.

[Leap]…

…But as I was about to,

The [Dark Sword] slashed upwards.

Even though it wasn’t within striking distance.

The distance was too far for the Blade to reach.

However,

The Whirlwind stirred up by the [Dark Sword] heavily grabbed Amel’s body and surged upwards.

There was no damage.

But I was pushed back.

Amel soared into the air.

I was about to use Electrical Ability but stopped. This Whirlwind wasn’t launched to restrain Amel.

As I flew upwards, my body flipped, and I saw the ground.

I saw the Magic circle Win had inscribed, and the Magic circle still remained etched in the air, even though the fortress had collapsed, and it ignited flames.

The flames were swept up by the hurricane and became a wall enveloping the hurricane’s outer edge.

The space enclosed by those walls.

Inside the eye of the hurricane.

The [Death Knight] had ridden the wind and soared up before Amel.

The [Death Knight], who directly created the wind and entrusted his body to it, soared higher and faster than Amel,

And as he swung the [Dark Sword], enveloped in the black hurricane, upwards once more, he accelerated even further.

‘An aerial battle, huh…!’

Amel, who had been pushed up by the Whirlwind.

Even after losing that force, I remained afloat, receiving the power of the massive hurricane.

Spinning around the periphery of the hurricane, I avoided the fortress debris that was spinning faster than me.

“….”

There was a lot of debris.

I stepped on the debris.

I stuck to it with [Ink Wheel] and [Leap] to another nearby piece of debris.

[Leap]

[Leap]

[Leap]

I ran faster than the [Death Knight] who was soaring up, riding the force of the wind.

Before he turned around.

I discovered a large piece of debris.

It was a spire.

After [Leap] to the spire.

Using the spire as a foothold, I donned Anti-Magic Power on the [Black Sword] and [Leap] even more powerfully.

Gripping the [Black Sword] strongly with both hands, I swung the [Execution Sword] with my entire body.

A missed swing.

I missed.

I stepped on the debris that was right in front of me,

And discovered the [Death Knight].

He was stopped in mid-air.

I saw the [Death Knight], who seemed to be rotating smoothly in a 360-degree arc, stepping on the debris that was moving quickly along with the hurricane.

What is he trying to do?

I knew immediately.

‘Stalling for time.’

The reason he’s not actively fighting and is evading is to buy time.

That [Death Knight]’s specialty was enveloping his Sword in wind,

And considering the nature of wind, it couldn’t become sharp even with Awakened Ability. Even with Awakened Ability, it’s like that, so I doubt [Swordsmanship] would be any different.

That guy is a [Death Knight] specialized in destruction rather than attack, like a tornado.

After making that judgment, I got the strong impression that his one-on-one combat ability was weaker than [Death Knight]s like Chocolat or Twenty-one.

He’s someone who can fly through the air, devastatingly destroying the fortress rather than cleanly cutting it. That’s probably why he was selected as an infiltration operative.

He was a swordsman like a Magician.

My thoughts became lengthy, but,

In the end, that’s all he’s doing.

Escaping.

‘So that’s how you’re going to play it?’

It was what I wanted.

While I was perched on the debris, spinning around and engaging in a battle of wits with the [Death Knight].

‘Win!’

‘(What!)’

‘Mix water! Dust! Anything that can cause friction into the hurricane!’

‘(Okay?)’

An acceptance mixed with doubt.

Still, as soon as I told her, she cast Magic, and a Magic circle appeared behind Amel.

The Magic circle sprayed out a thick fog. Spinning around the debris, it dyed the hurricane with the thick fog.

A hot furnace on the ground.

A strong hurricane in the middle.

Thick dark clouds in the sky, mixed within the hurricane, creating thunderstorms.

Bang.

Kwakwang.

Lightning.

Amel flew against the wind.

The [Black Sword] cut through the rough wind.

The center of the storm, where dark clouds flowed together.

The [Death Knight] stood proudly in the center, piercing through the dark clouds.

I swung the [Black Sword].

The [Dark Sword] swung.

Each time the [Dark Sword] swung, the dark clouds moved along with the [Dark Sword], like iron filings moving along with a magnet.

The moisture-laden Whirlwind created heavy fists of water and wind.

The [Frost] imbued in the [Black Sword] froze the dark clouds and cut through the Whirlwind, but the Whirlwind continued to flow through the icy gaps.

“…Keuh!”

I couldn’t stop the Whirlwind.

I was swept away by the Whirlwind.

‘I need to cut deeper, at least.’

At least the Whirlwind couldn’t blow as deep as I cut.

The [Death Knight] hid back into the dark clouds,

And Amel, while being swept away by the Whirlwind, froze the dark clouds and withstood the force of the wind even more strongly.

I spewed out ice crystals like evaporating steam and rode the wind like surfing, with the storm at my back.

It’s been dozens of minutes already.

Bang.

Kwakwang.

Lightning struck.

Real lightning flashed through the dark clouds, rupturing the air.

Bang.

An explosion that seemed to tear my eardrums.

But blood was already flowing from Amel’s ears.

As soon as I donned Electrical Ability, bang, lightning struck as if it had been waiting. Amel’s body became a lightning rod, and lightning struck.

Bang.

Kwakwang.

Bang.

Bang.

Kwagwagwang.

Kwageureuk.

An Electrical Ability user. The electric shock from the lightning caused her no harm.

Rather, the high energy of the lightning was stored in her body, and all the stored Electricity was converted into Magical Power and absorbed.

I spewed out Magical Power along the discharge path of the Electrical Ability.

The spewed Magical Power, under her control, hovered around her.

Just as the [Death Knight] stood in the center of the storm,

Amel, within the storm of Magical Power that she herself had spewed out, held onto the Magical Power that exceeded the maximum capacity with control alone.

Each time lightning struck with a bang, Magical Power visibly accumulated.

Cutting through the dark clouds,

Amel headed towards the [Death Knight].

Sparks crackled from the friction with the dark clouds.

Electricity crackled from her hair, cheeks, shoulders, arms, hands, waist, legs, and toes, steadily charging her with Electricity.

And,

Receiving the power of the Electricity charged in the dark clouds, I accelerated.

At the end of the acceleration, I entered a section where the flow velocity of the dark clouds was particularly high.

The ‘center of the dark clouds’ seemed to be sucking in the dark clouds.

The hurricane wrapped around the [Dark Sword] was absorbing the dark clouds.

The closer I got to the [Dark Sword], the faster the flow velocity of the dark clouds became,

And the faster the dark clouds flowed, the faster Amel, who was riding the dark clouds even more strongly with [Freeze], became.

Amel, who was flying in a large shape while standing vertically, faced the [Dark Sword]’s storm right in front of her.

I readjusted my grip on the [Black Sword],

And the ‘center of the dark clouds’ moved.

As if about to perform an upward Slash.

I also raised the [Black Sword] high.

[Execution Sword]

I slashed down with the [Execution Sword] in the exact opposite direction of the trajectory in which the ‘center of the dark clouds’ was being swung.

The [Execution Sword] cut through the Whirlwind, perfectly perpendicular to the trajectory in which the Whirlwind was surging up.

The icy surface of the cut Whirlwind.

I slipped through that gap.

Amel, who had evaded the Whirlwind, spread her body out in a large shape again and accelerated,

And soon, the dark clouds cleared.

Like the eye of a typhoon.

A tranquil space.

Right in the middle of it.

The [Death Knight]. He held the [Dark Sword], which was absorbing and discharging dark clouds within the donut-shaped empty space, in one hand.

While heavily moving the [Dark Sword].

Once again.

I raised the [Execution Sword].

Amel, who had emerged from the dark clouds like a fish leaping out of the sea, brought down the massive Blade of the [Execution Sword] onto the [Death Knight]’s crown.

Realizing that, he swung the [Dark Sword],

Pajik.

Pajijik.

Her will was connected to the Electricity contained in the dark clouds.

Following her will, electric wires connected from her body to the dark clouds, and Electricity raced through the dark clouds towards the [Dark Sword].

‘Freeze.’

Electricity containing [Frost]. In an instant, it created a donut-shaped ice space.

I [Freeze] it.

The [Dark Sword], where the dark clouds were gathering, was also frozen solid within the ice. It was trapped in an ice pillar within the donut-shaped ice space.

The [Death Knight] was about to break it immediately,

But,

He was about to let go of the [Dark Sword] right away.

However,

‘Too late!’

Die.

The [Execution Sword] from top to bottom,

Bisected the [Death Knight].

Leaving an icy surface,

I [Execution] the [Death Knight].

After cutting,

As I brushed past, following the momentum.

I snatched the [Dark Sword].

I directly inherited the Magical Power that was flowing along with the momentum remaining in the [Dark Sword].

The fluid flow of the storm carved the ice, and the heart of the massive hurricane began to beat again.

Kwajik.

Kwajijik.

The heart of the hurricane.

Kwajik.

Kwajijik.

As the flow velocity of the dark clouds increased, the frequency of lightning gradually increased.

I lifted the [Dark Sword].

The heart of the hurricane.

Feeling the flow of Magical Power, I understood the principle of how the hurricane was created.

Amel, who had been intuitively proceeding, gained one conviction.

This will do.

‘Thanks, I’ll put it to good use.’

I manipulated the flow and narrowed the radius of the hurricane.

The hurricane’s radius was shrinking.

I compressed it more and more.

The hurricane, which had swallowed the fortress and was swallowing an even wider area, had a radius that widened like an inverted pyramid as it reached the clouds in the sky.

I narrowed that radius,

And the more I narrowed it,

The faster the flow velocity became.

Like how, if you tie a weight to a string and spin it quickly, and then put your finger on the string, the weight rotates faster as the string winds around your finger,

The hurricane’s rotation speeds up.

The dark clouds gathered in that flow,

And Electricity became easier to generate according to the will of Amel, an Electrical Ability user.

Kwareureung.

Lightning raged around her.

Bang.

Bang.

Kwakwang.

Kwagwagwareureureureuk.

The lightning didn’t disappear and clung to her body, crackling.

I stored the lightning and converted it into Magical Power.

I released the converted Magical Power and stored it.

The stored Magical Power was…

I offered it as a sacrifice to the [Sword God].

As soon as I broke through the minimum threshold, I concentrated to use [Sword God], and at the end of the concentration, I shattered the shell of my flesh.

It shattered.

Jjaenggeurang.

The sound of breaking glass came from my body, which had only been soft.

[Sword God].

I shed my physical body made of matter and gained a physical body made of Magical Power.

However, unlike the completed form of [Sword God], I failed to materialize a massive body.

Because I lacked Magical Power.

The amount of Electricity generated was insufficient compared to the nuclear fusion using Hong Joo-ah’s firepower, but I couldn’t delay any longer and used it as is.

Only the size was different.

This was also [Sword God].

The size was the same as a human, but I had materialized [Sword God].

My affinity for Magical Power was maximized, and the subtle flows of Magical Power that I couldn’t normally see became visible.

Even the Magical Power in nature came into my grasp like a part of myself.

While feeling the sensation of Magical Power at my fingertips.

Due to the recoil from the shell breaking,

The hurricane had burst.

I realized that.

But the hurricane was still intact.

As her will to compress the hurricane to make it thinner disappeared, the hurricane returned to its original grand size.

The hurricane was maintained even without focusing her consciousness on maintaining the hurricane,

The hurricane, which was already drawing on the power of nature, would maintain the hurricane for a long time regardless of her will.

Amel,

“….”

Stood serenely in the center of it.

A body dyed blue.

A silhouette-like figure.

Long hair dyed blue defied gravity like flames.

As she descended leisurely under the force of gravity, new guests greeted her, looking up at her.

[Death Knight1]

Ominous black letters.

[Death Knight2]

Ominous black letters.

[Death Knight3]

Ominous black letters.

[Death Knight]s who hadn’t been able to infiltrate yet because the hurricane had grown too large.

Among them was a welcome guest who had carved a curse into my heart.