EP.227 Trial of the Holy Grail (1)
The path to becoming a superman is long and difficult.
Although the history of war that lasted for a long time created many superhumans, their number was never large. Especially after the Sword Sanctuary collapsed.
It is inevitable.
Those who have gained the power to reach Providence without receiving help from the stars, just as human beings. Those who have sharpened their lives and stepped into areas that no one else can reach.
Only such people can become superhuman.
So, it is natural that the road to becoming a superman is difficult. Kalt, who is now approaching the realm of superhumans, also feels the same way when he looks back on his past.
“I think we’re almost there.”
“Of course.”
In a forest a little far from Aplia.
While preparing to use the Holy Grail, Raniel and Kalt talked briefly.
“I have gained a little extra sense, and I have enough experience, so I am almost there. “If you think about it, there is no one who has survived as much chaos as you.”
Raniel nodded.
She also knows well what Kalt has done. She took on the challenge of a feat that even superhumans had to risk their lives for, and achieved it in a subject that could not reach the realm of superhumans.
“I thought it was a bit strange to see you?”
“Amazing?”
“When I first saw it, I thought it was just Gaeko, but the more I looked at it, the more ridiculous things he was doing…”
Raniel laughed bitterly.
“Honestly, it doesn’t make sense.”
“What do you mean?”
“That you blocked Ganicalt’s sword once.”
Raniel remembers it clearly.
The appearance of Ganikalt changing his sword and holding it, paying respect to Kalt. That was the respect Ganicalt showed as a swordsman to someone who blocked his sword even once.
‘···How on earth did they block the monster’s sword that split the huge castle wall horizontally?’
This is even more unconvincing when I think of the traces of the shattered castle walls I saw in Arcadia.
“How did you do that?”
“A lot of people misunderstand it.”
Kalt shrugged his shoulders.
“To be honest, I didn’t stop it at that time.”
“…You didn’t stop it?”
“Rather than blocking it, I avoided it. “It’s really ugly.”
I didn’t block it, I avoided it.
Kalt said and smoothed the hilt of his sword.
“How can I take the sword that destroys the gorge? I thought differently from the beginning. “I can’t take it anyway, so let’s try to avoid it.”
In the first place, what I was aiming for at that time was not victory. What Kalt was aiming for at the time was to buy time, and there was one piece of information Kalt knew about Gany Kalt.
“One way or another, if you survive one attack, Ganicalt will switch swords. “I show respect to the prosecutor.”
I took advantage of that.
From the beginning, Kalt risked everything he had to avoid a ‘just once’ attack.
“So I threw it away.”
“Tuk-tuk,” Kalt pointed to his right shoulder.
“Arms, shoulders, joints… and even the heart. “I threw away everything I could.”
One arm was cut off.
My whole body was torn apart by the wind pressure. The heart, scratched by the rotten wind, has lost the means to purify its demonic energy.
“I gave up half my body to avoid it. And I held on with the thought that all I had to do was stand still.”
A sword being swung.
A bursting slash.
Kalt imitated Kuntel’s sword, which he had seen once, with the feeling of passing rather than blocking. Even if it was impossible to completely let go, it seemed somehow possible to throw away half of the body.
“It’s always been my specialty, hasn’t it?”
Kalt laughed bitterly.
“Throw away what you will throw away, and gain what you will gain. “I have a good head for that kind of thing, I guess.”
“······.”
“I did some reckless things because I assumed I would survive. Didn’t you live as a result?”
It was a consequential story.
Raniel remembers ‘what kind of state’ Kalt was in at that time. If Sarah hadn’t exerted all her holy power, Kalt would have died on the spot.
‘Sarah, even that bitch’s miracle couldn’t completely cure it.’
Even with the blessings of the saint, which was called a miracle, Kalt’s body could not be completely restored. Therefore, Kalt had to retire from the battlefield.
“Anyway.”
Raniel exhaled briefly.
“It looks like you have some taste too.”
“Would it be just you, senior?”
“Do you want to get hit?”
Threatening Kalt with the Holy Grail, Raniel lightly shook his wrist. Preparations for the Holy Grail trials are almost at an end.
“The method of using the Holy Grail is simple.”
“If there is someone nearby who senses a wall, the Holy Grail will react to that person. It resonates.”
The starlight contained in the Holy Grail flashes at regular intervals.
“When the resonance reaches thirty-seven, the Holy Grail is activated simply by tilting it.”
Thirty-six.
And, thirty-seven.
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The chalice, which had been vibrating with a period of about ten seconds, stopped vibrating. Raniel tilted the glass, looking at the platinum-colored starlight contained in the glass.
Took.
Starlight hits the floor.
What it touched was a forest of grass, but the space was distorted around the place where the starlight fell, as if ripples were rippled on the surface of the water.
Wow.
Raniel pointed to the gaping space with his finger.
“That’s it.”
“Can I jump in there?”
“I think so.”
“···Why aren’t you confident in your words?”
Kalt looked at Raniel with suspicious eyes. Ran El shrugged his shoulders and smiled.
“Yeah, it’s my first time using it too.”
“······.”
Kalt glanced at Raniel with wide-open eyes and then let out a long sigh. I have already made up my mind. Kalt took a slow breath and wrapped his fingers around the hilt of his sword.
“···Then, I will go and come back.”
A space where soft starlight leaks out.
Kalt jumped towards that place.
2.
My vision blinked several times in the platinum-colored flash.
After about thirty seconds had passed, Kalt was able to slowly open his eyes.
Flash.
If you struggle to open your eyes and look around, what you see is a wide open grassland. The sky is blue and the grasslands that extend beyond the horizon are shiny green.
And, there is something there.
“···wall?”
It’s a huge wall.
Kalt looked up at the huge wall in the grassland. It was a wall that resembled an inner wall that I once encountered. However, it was not the same as the wall I saw at first.
‘At first it looked like a solid wall…’
Not now.
There are flaws in the walls here and there. The cracked wall looks like it could collapse at any moment. Kalt unconsciously understood that this was the level he had reached.
Also, the way the ordeal progresses.
“······.”
Kalt looked at the wall in silence.
The shape of the huge wall begins to change. The walls gathered at one point eventually take on the shape of a human being.
Tattered clothes.
A shabby sword with all its blades missing.
The arm holding the sword is full of wounds, and the blood-covered human even feels like a ghost.
That is the last appearance of Kuntel, the sword superman, that Kalt remembers. Kalt, who was leaving the battlefield among the knights at the time, looked back and saw Kuntel facing death with his eyes.
A man who challenged death.
A prosecutor who ultimately achieved a feat.
The proud swordsman is standing in front of him. In the same human form as back then.
“Whoa…”
Kalt took a long breath and pulled out his sword.
Kalt aimed his drawn sword at Kuntel.
“Please do me a favor.”
There is no way the trials recalled from memories and records could understand those words. However, Kuntel slowly raised his sword. His eyes were shining through his blood-caked hair.
A gesture to accept a duel.
Kalt swallowed dryly and took his stance. Cold sweat runs down my spine. Just by facing it, Kalt senses his death.
‘You can never win.’
The moment the swords clash, the vision of the head being torn off runs through my mind again and again. Even though I am keeping a distance from her, I feel a numbness in my stomach.
‘but.’
That’s why it’s an ordeal.
Even if you use the miraculous relic and even if you can become a superhuman without losing anything, it’s still the same in the end that you have to face a wall and overcome it.
“Crossing over a wall involves some deserved pain. There is no way that one can reach the state of superhumanity without suffering and trials.”
Kalt raised the corners of his mouth, remembering what Kuntel once said.
“I will go.”
Kalt kicks the ground.
Kicking the ground, he remembers the conditions for overcoming this ordeal. That is what Kalt has always wanted.
‘If it’s okay just once, I’ll reach it.’
Injures Sword Master Kuntel.
Instead of enduring, escaping, and buying time like always… it inflicts significant damage.
‘Without resorting to tricks or special tools such as magic tools… using only a sword.’
I’ve been waiting for it for a long time.
Something I have always insisted on in my heart.
To achieve that, Kalt narrows the distance. The sound of kicks hitting the ground echoes throughout the meadow. Taking full advantage of his physical abilities approaching that of a superhuman, Kalt quickly got up to Kuntel’s nose.
Until that moment, Kuntel stands still.
As if he would give up the first move.
Huh!
Kalt closed the gap and swung his sword.
The tip of the sword cuts through the wind, making a loud noise. The trajectory of the sword is clean, and the tip of the sword does not waver at all. It is truly a swordsmanship that can be called the best.
And, Kuntel moves.
The tip of the sword he raised accelerates for a moment. However, acceleration is fleeting. The moment it touches Kalt’s sword, Kuntel’s sword regains its original speed.
Neither slow nor fast.
The tip of the sword moves quietly. The blade, which traces a silver light path, gently passes Kalt’s sword. It doesn’t even hit it. I just let it flow.
Like water flows.
Calm and gentle.
The trajectory of Kalt’s sword is reversed. When I realized it, Kalt’s sword was already stuck in the ground. One attack went back and forth. The flow has completely gone.
Kalt’s sword is stuck in the ground.
Kuntel’s sword is still moving.
“···under.”
Kalt let out a laugh.
Kalt tries to lift the knife from the floor, but he knows that it is already too late.
‘Wow, this isn’t really a joke…’
The thoughts did not continue until the end.
This is because Kuntel’s sword cut off Kalt’s throat.
3.
“Didn’t you just come in?”
“······.”
“Didn’t you say ‘I’ll come back’ with determination in your eyes, as if you had just made up your mind?”
“···That’s right, I did.”
“But it’s been a few minutes.”
I pointed at the pocket watch in my hand.
“Hey, three minutes have passed. trichotomy.”
Of course, I didn’t think I would be able to pass the ordeal in one go. But anyway, isn’t that a bit much for three people?
“···Are you that tough?”
“It was more than I thought.”
Kalt said, rubbing the back of my neck.
“It felt much stronger than the Kuntel I knew. I guess I was subconsciously thinking about Kuntel, whom I met in the city at night…”
Kalt quietly shook his head.
“It’s on a different level.”
“Is it that much?”
“I just blinked and my head flew off. “I think we may have been too complacent.”
“···okay?”
I narrowed my eyes and looked at Kalt.
Kalt was sighing and muttering that it was ridiculously tough, but there was a smile on his face.
“But, do you look happy?”
“It has to be that way.”
Kalt laughed.
“This is the moment I dreamed of. “Aren’t you challenging someone you thought you could never face again to a duel?”
“Really,” Kalt muttered.
“You still have a lot to learn. really.”
Kalt’s eyes were shining as he adjusted the hilt of the sword over and over again, as if ruminating on the remaining sensations in his hands.
“Once or twice may not be enough…”
Kalt looked at me.
“I think I can get it together with just a little more.”
And, it wasn’t groundless bullshit.
It was ten minutes later when Kalt, who jumped into the space for the second time, came back. Kalt, who held out for about three times as long as the first time, took a deep breath and stuck the hilt of his sword into the floor.
The breath I exhaled was rough.
Injuries that occur during trials do not transfer to reality. However, looking at the way he was rotating his arms as if his shoulders were stiff… it seemed like it was lingering like phantom pain.
“Hey, take a little rest…”
This is the moment when I want to say something.
Kalt didn’t even listen to me, left a single word and jumped into the space again.
“Once more.”
After thirty minutes, Kalt returned.
Three minutes in the first.
Ten minutes for the second time.
Thirty minutes for the third time.
This is amazing growth. However, since the three warnings given by Cardi had already been met, I was going to say let’s end it here…
“It’s still okay.”
Kalt jumped into space again.
Instead of being exhausted, he looked like he had a fever.
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