Chapter 117

Chapter 117

Level 2 Player

Sahyeol Blood Demon Great Law

Jin-su looked at Son Sang-hyeok rushing toward him and gripped the Baekcheon Divine Sword and Blood-Sucking Sword.

‘Would Leo have handled it on his own even if I did not step forward?’

Although such a thought slightly came, because he knew that the skill of the Sahyeolmun branch leader Son Sang-hyeok is not ordinary, he ultimately had no choice but to step forward directly. What if just staying still thinking Leo will do well on his own and he gets injured?

‘Rather than watching anxiously, it is better for me to handle it safely.’

Jin-su had no thought of gambling with Leo’s safety as collateral.

‘He was said to be the strongest of the start city.’

Jin-su collected information while processing the players affiliated with Sahyeolmun. Among them, the one occupying the largest weight was the information about the start city Sahyeolmun branch leader Son Sang-hyeok.

‘Higher than Ak Chanseo.’

If Son Sang-hyeok is a strong person of that degree, it seemed he could skillize all the things he could not skillize so far.

Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa!

The Baekcheon Divine Sword and Blood-Sucking Sword emitted pure white sword force and blood-colored sword force in streams.

‘Whether sword force or aura, only the form and characteristics differ a bit, but in the end, it is only a skill of the form of typifying mana.’

To Jin-su who is Earth origin, whether sword force or aura, it was only a skill newly acquired after coming to the Tower anyway. That is why unlike other dimension players, he did not obsess over one and learned all, and used them evenly according to need.

“Sword force?”

The expression of Son Sang-hyeok who was rushing toward Jin-su hardened like a stone. Using sword force meant that the levels of various skills including the heart method and sword method Jin-su learned were of a level equal to himself.

‘That Earth origin young guy rose to the same realm as me?’

It is a realm not achieved even if striving and craving for a lifetime. It is a realm barely climbed while catching monsters after being dragged to the Tower.

Yet, an Earth origin player who obtained skills with the power of the system after being dragged to the Tower and awakening as a player rose to a realm equal to himself who reached the extreme of first-class even before being dragged to the Tower?

‘He is a guy whose great luck properly burst.’

From the perspective of Son Sang-hyeok who thinks he obtained the current power with his own bloody effort, the existence itself of the Earth origin player who great luck came and rose to a realm equal to himself too easily felt too unreasonable and disgusting.

“Heung! Do you think all peaks are the same just because the same peak!”

Son Sang-hyeok whose pride was hurt raised his voice and forcibly raised mana and emitted blood-colored sword force bundles in streams.

‘I will clearly show you how sharp the sword of a true martial artist is to you who relies on the power of skills.’

Son Sang-hyeok did not worry even a speck that he would lose to an Earth origin player even if each rose to equal realms. He was too naturally convinced that he would overwhelmingly win unconditionally.

And that was the same for Jin-su.

‘Why do these guys like dividing realms so much.’

Even though player level and class level and skill level exist clearly in the system window, Musung origin players had the habit of distinguishing each other’s upper and lower not by level but by realm.

‘On top of that, the habit of ignoring Earth origin players remains intact.’

This was a characteristic of not only Musung origin players but all other dimension players.

‘It is automatically corrected if time flows.’

Since Floor 200 is the place where players of other dimension origins meet for the first time, other dimension origin players whose disregard for Earth origin players is not corrected were far more numerous.

‘Then I will correct them directly.’

Clang!

The Baekcheon Divine Sword bent like a snake and lightly struck away Son Sang-hyeok’s attack flying.

Slash!

At the same time, the Blood-Sucking Sword cut Son Sang-hyeok’s side and passed.

“W-what is this?”

The face of Son Sang-hyeok full of arrogant confidence was dyed with disbelief.

“There is no way this is! What kind of sorcery did you use!”

Son Sang-hyeok fiercely swung the sword with an enraged expression.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Slash!

However, the result did not change.

Jin-su calmly blocked Son Sang-hyeok’s attacks and fed effective hits every time a gap was visible.

‘This guy is demonic path himself, so what sorcery drip.’

If a righteous path affiliated player says sorcery, the guys who were busy mocking with ‘It is the guys who lose in skill who make the excuse of sorcery.’ or sarcastically saying ‘If coming to the Tower, learning skills is natural. You old-fashioned righteous path guys.’ and sneering ‘Whatever means used, if becoming strong, it is the end.’ were precisely the demonic path affiliated players.

‘Is this the case of romance if I do it, adultery if others do it?’

Jin-su chuckled and continued to swing the swords. Sword force and sword force collided, and fragments of sword force burst out. However, he lightly blocked by typifying mana. At the moment the matter of typified mana blocking the fragments of sword force continued to repeat.

[The skill Protective Aura is generated.]

[The skill Protective Force is generated.]

Skillization proceeded automatically.

‘Now I made one.’

Jin-su changed the flow of mana and blocked the fragments of sword force.

[The skill Aura Shield is generated.]

[The skill Aura Defense is generated.]

Then not long after, one more skill appeared.

‘It is regrettable if ending with this.’

Jin-su was thinking of finishing as many skillization works as possible against Son Sang-hyeok.

‘It is certainly strong though.’

Honestly speaking, he was not Jin-su’s opponent.

The skills that completed skillization after climbing to Floor 200 were all level 2,222, far transcending the limit level of Floor 200 players. On top of that, since other main skills also reached level 1,122, it was fine to see that there is no matter of Jin-su losing in skill level to Floor 200 players. Along with that, the stats that hit 1,522 were all amplified by 92.2%.

‘It will be about a 2-minute cut.’

That was the limit Son Sang-hyeok can endure when Jin-su does his full power. Of course, that was the power only when Jin-su fought purely as a swordsman.

If using main skills of each class like tanker’s protection, healer’s curse, summoner’s summons, mage’s magic, shaman’s shamanism, archer’s archery, assassin’s stealth, it seemed about a 22-second cut might be possible.

‘Certainly, Musung origin players have solid basics.’

Once Son Sang-hyeok discarded arrogance and began to swing the sword desperately, the number of effective hits entering certainly decreased.

‘Well, even if a demonic path origin player, if the basics were weak, it would be hard to rise to this degree of strong person position.’

Son Sang-hyeok’s sword was sharp and fatal like a living snake. Especially the ability to freely transform sword force bundles and attack was enormously excellent.

Jin-su exchanged offense and defense with Son Sang-hyeok with a leisurely expression and completed skillization works one by one. On the other hand, Son Sang-hyeok’s expression was full of urgency and disbelief.

‘How can an Earth origin player unfold such swordsmanship?’

Son Sang-hyeok continued to only suffer losses after first clashing swords with Jin-su. That is why he discarded arrogance and swung the sword against Jin-su with all his heart and power. However, the more the exchanges of clashing swords increased, Son Sang-hyeok’s sense of frustration grew larger and larger.

Although he denounced it as sorcery, the more he mixed swords, he clearly felt it.

‘This is not a difference in skills but a difference in experience and swordsmanship.’

Stats including mana were similar to each other. Skill levels also seemed similar. But the difference in combat experience and swordsmanship skill was too large.

Clearly, physical ability and internal energy also seemed similar to himself, but there was no sign of winning at all.

‘It seems like reading my thoughts clearly.’

From Son Sang-hyeok’s perspective, it was a feeling of swinging the sword toward a clear sky or wide sea, not a person.

Even though mobilizing all kinds of tricks and attacking with irregular attacks, nothing worked. On the other hand, with one light change of the opponent, Son Sang-hyeok suffered not a little loss.

‘He is an opponent who cannot be won with the orthodox method.’

Tricks or irregularities also did not work.

‘Then there is only that method.’

Son Sang-hyeok activated one skill he had saved so far while accepting permanent stat decrease.

‘Sahyeol Blood Demon Great Law.’

The Sahyeol Blood Demon Great Law was a great law that stimulates the blood points that are dangerous to life if touched wrongly and amplifies internal energy greatly in a short time in the method of detonating innate energy.

Originally, it was a dangerous great law that unconditionally leads to death because all innate true energy is consumed once unfolded, but while converting to a skill, the stability rose greatly.

However, just because stability rose, the risk did not permanently annihilate. Life can be saved, but every time used once, health stats, durability stats, and mana stats are permanently cut in chunks.

‘Now is not the time to distinguish front and back.’

If going like this, his defeat is certain. Since there is no corner to flee, defeat is unconditionally connected to death. So now, he had to win unconditionally even if accepting permanent stat loss.

Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa!

The mana of Son Sang-hyeok who unfolded the Sahyeol Blood Demon Great Law soared like crazy.

The blood-colored sword force bundle condensed on the sword soared like an exploding volcano, and the protective aura wrapped around the whole body transformed into a storm of energy that pulverizes everything around.

“I will make you regret driving me this far! Die!”

Son Sang-hyeok swung the sword with a confident tone. The sense of fullness given by the amplified mana planted enormous confidence in Son Sang-hyeok.

‘Strength overflows throughout the body.’

The conviction that whoever the opponent is, with only this overwhelming strength, he can lightly press came.

‘No matter how excellent your swordsmanship is, it is only powerless in front of the gap of overwhelming internal energy.’

Kwaaaang!

Son Sang-hyeok’s sword and Jin-su’s sword collided. Jin-su twisted the sword path and minimized the aftermath of the impact.

“You dodge well like a rat! How long do you think you can endure like that!”

He poured the blood-colored sword force bundle condensed on Son Sang-hyeok’s sword toward Jin-su like exploding. Jin-su devoted to defense while reverse-utilizing the opponent’s strength or flowing it away.

Clang! Boom! Shuk!

Son Sang-hyeok threw numerous attacks. However, there was not one effective hit.

‘How does he endure so well. Is it really possible to unfold such enormous skill consecutively with only that small internal energy?’

Son Sang-hyeok was directly seeing Jin-su’s movements with his own two eyes, yet he could not believe at all how such precarious defense is possible.

‘If only succeeding this attack.’

Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa!

He poured more mana, made a more powerful sword force bundle, and swung with full power.

Clang!

However, Jin-su changed the explosion direction of the strength contained in Son Sang-hyeok’s sword with a small movement and leisurely avoided his body.

‘There is no way this is.’

The confidence of Son Sang-hyeok who was convinced of winning unconditionally gradually collapsed. Jin-su too easily unfolded methods of restraining large strength with small strength like transferring flowers to a tree or using softness to control hardness and lightly blocked Son Sang-hyeok’s fierce attacks.

‘If like this, I lose.’

The time the mana amplified by the Sahyeol Blood Demon Great Law is maintained was only about 5 minutes. Since more than 2 minutes of time already flowed, the remaining time was only about 2 minutes and a few tens of seconds.

‘How can I win?’

Son Sang-hyeok rolled his head with a fierce momentum. In such Son Sang-hyeok’s eyes, the appearance of the baby cat with black fur squatting and licking its front paw between the collapsed sect members of Sahyeolmun foaming at the mouth entered.

‘Earlier too, he intervened when I tried to attack that kitten.’

From what Son Sang-hyeok saw, Jin-su flowed away his attacks or avoided his body in advance like a person who knows the future. However, that was a skill that can be unfolded only because the attack target of Son Sang-hyeok is himself to the end.

‘Anyway, even if continuing to attack like this, I absolutely cannot win.’

Tak!

Son Sang-hyeok suddenly changed direction, threw his body, and then extended the blood-colored sword force bundle like a whip and shot it toward the baby cat with black fur.

‘Success.’

A smile bloomed on Son Sang-hyeok’s face. Because Jin-su who always annoyingly avoided his body or flowed away attacks blocked the front of the baby cat with black fur.

‘To throw life for a mere creature, he is really a foolish guy.’

Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa!

In a situation where the blood-colored sword force bundle longly extended like a whip reached right in front of Jin-su’s nose, Son Sang-hyeok was convinced of his victory.

At that time, Jin-su swung the Baekcheon Divine Sword and Blood-Sucking Sword toward the blood-colored sword force bundle.

Splat!

At that moment, the blood-colored sword force bundle longly extended like a whip was cleanly cut, and pure white force and blood-colored force flew toward Son Sang-hyeok.

‘Force? Then not a peak but a super peak master!’

Son Sang-hyeok’s face was dyed with astonishment, and his body hardened like a stone.

Slash! Slash!

The pure white force and blood-colored force lightly cut the sword force condensed on Son Sang-hyeok’s sword and the protective aura wrapped around the whole body.

Puak!

The pure white force and blood-colored force that cut the sword force and protective aura simultaneously flew Son Sang-hyeok’s neck and upper body.

‘He has been toying with me until now.’

At the moment of death, Son Sang-hyeok realized that he was toyed with by the opponent from beginning to end. To begin with, the opponent was a super peak master that Son Sang-hyeok of the early peak level absolutely cannot win even if dying and waking up.

Yet, not knowing that, he struggled while even using the Sahyeol Blood Demon Great Law. How ridiculous would such an appearance of himself have felt from the opponent’s perspective?

‘Unfair.’

If he knew the fact that the opponent is a super peak master, he would not have even had the thought of opposing to begin with.

He would have knelt at once and begged like a dog saying he would do anything if only life is saved.

However, the opponent did not even give Son Sang-hyeok the opportunity itself to do so.