Level up with swords (89)
When he met that gaze, Leon felt a strange sense of déjà vu. Eye movements that change direction several times in an instant.
I know how to move my eyes like that.
Because it is the basics of martial arts that El Cid taught him first.
‘〈An Act〉… ?!’
Leon couldn’t help but be embarrassed when he realized the reason. Even though I knew who the Giant King’s teacher was.
Because he recognized that fact, that is.
“What is your relationship with Roderick? “Are you blood related?”
This meant that the Giant King also realized that they were the same gate.
Even if you make a flimsy excuse, it doesn’t work. The gap between him and Leon was enormous when it came to the law. If he was at the level of a giant king, he could see through the martial arts he had mastered and his habits just by looking at his grip.
Unless he had acquired the natural body like his opponent, he should have assumed that <Bobeop> had already been discovered.
“… “You could say I’m a junior.”
However, Leon tried to save himself by retreating once.
“You’re a junior, that’s nonsense.”
The Giant King chuckled at those words. He must have guessed at a glance that he was prevaricating.
“Rodrigo’s pulse stopped a long time ago. It must be because his martial arts skills were so advanced. He could not teach himself with his mortal understanding. Even in the basics of ‘Anbeop’ and ‘Bobeop’, most people were unable to see results even after devoting several years to it.”
Even those who considered themselves geniuses either despaired of its profundity or became frustrated and devoted themselves to learning other martial arts. I had an intuition that it would not be possible to devote one’s whole life without someone to teach me.
If Roderick was alive, he would have scolded me and said, ‘Why don’t you know that?’, but other than him, these were things that no one else knew.
Is it necessary to understand the structure of the lungs first in order to breathe?
Is there anyone who recognizes each thigh muscle, ligament, and joint and pays attention to their movements while walking?
“It can’t be. “He knew everything from the moment he was born, something he couldn’t help but know unless someone taught him.”
Rodrik was clearly human, but not human.
It wasn’t like he was spewing fire from his mouth or shooting lightning with his hands. He could not do anything that was inherently impossible for humans. He couldn’t produce a third arm or see the back of his head.
But he could handle his body perfectly.
It was possible to control muscle fibers one by one, and accelerate nerve signals to speed up perception. He could stop his own heart at will, secrete gastric juice even if he had not eaten anything, and even hear ultrasound by manipulating his auditory nerve.
“The 〈Anbeop〉 and the 〈Bobeop〉 that we have learned. Everything else was just natural to him. Just as anyone can snap their fingers without learning, for him, ‘natural body’ was something he could just do.”
Moreover, Rodrik’s intellect was as outstanding as his body.
“Do you know? More than half of the Auror training methods that humanity has accumulated so far were discovered by Roderick in just 5 years? Even so, I buried more than 70% of it because it was too bothersome to explain it all?”
“her.”
Leon had nothing to say so he just opened his mouth. If that revelation is true, Roderick was the progenitor of Aurors.
And El Cid did not deny those words.
[You can’t even understand it, so if you say it in detail, it’ll just hurt your mouth, right?]
Even the few geniuses born in one era were frustrated because they could not accept all of his teachings. After repeating this several times, Roderick gave up on bringing in his previous disciples.
Except for the Titan King, who accepted the request of the goddess.
[This lump wasn’t as smart as the others, but he did what I told him without saying anything. There is a saying that if your brain is bad, your body will suffer, right? If he doesn’t understand, he can just roll over with his body. But geniuses can’t do that.]
It was called Ugongyi Mountain (愚公移山).
Wise people spend years discussing why they can’t move a mountain and how to move it, but with no results. However, a foolish person works hard without thinking, and one day he ends up moving the mountain.
Look at the giant king.
300 years have passed since that time, and only he has inherited Rodrik’s martial legacy.
“I’ll ask you again.”
Therefore, he was entitled to demand an answer from Leon.
“Former warrior, what is your relationship with Roderick?”
Leon could not remain silent any longer and chose his words.
‘Can I reveal your existence?’
[Uuuuum, well, I guess it’ll be okay.]
El Cid thought for a long time, which was unusual, but soon agreed.
After hearing the answer, Leon opened his mouth.
* * *
“… Well, something like that.”
It wasn’t a very long story, but Leon let out a long sigh as soon as he revealed El Cid’s existence.
This was because the burden of facing the Giant King at close range put pressure on him. I couldn’t sense a single trace of hostility, let alone his murderous intent, but even that insensitivity was terrifying because I recognized the difference in class.
He would have felt at ease if at least Balkan had been by his side, but when the two started talking, he went back to the village.
“Right. understood.”
The Giant King, Cassim, nodded with his eyes closed.
The appearance was as grave as the first time.
Even if you look at it with 〈Anbeop〉, you cannot read the change. Is it because there is a big difference in level, or is it because I truly feel nothing?
Leon thought for a moment.
“–uh?”
It hit exactly that gap.
When Leon opened his once closed eyelids, his eyes were already covered by Cassim’s palms.
If you just grab it like this, your head will explode.
Instant death.
There was no time to react or anything. Can’t even fight. He barely understood why El Cid said that. Even if you respond with 〈Seven-Star Sword〉, it is impossible to deal with a single attack from Cassim.
Sreung.
Still, the body responded.
Comma Even though I would die in less than a second, my body became accustomed to the feeling as I crossed the firing line and pulled out the holy sword.
Cut with a sharp sword.
Even though it was the fastest sword strike of my life, it was several beats late.
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The sword so swung extends towards Cassim,
“I’m sorry. “Let’s borrow it for a moment.”
Before Leon knew it, he was in Cassim’s hands.
It was the pinnacle of bare-handed martial arts that started with ‘grasping the blade’, a technique to steal the opponent’s weapons.
Leon, struck by this misconception, retreated with a puzzled look on his face.
This was my first time being suppressed in this way.
‘I was pushed out of the realm of martial arts.’
If he had taken the sword by force, his fingers and wrist would not have been unharmed. However, Leon’s hands were in good condition, without any signs of swelling.
Only after seeing it with my own eyes did I realize that the sword had been taken away.
As a swordsman, there can be no greater defeat.
While he was feeling defeated, Cassim glared fiercely at the holy sword in his grasp.
“Come out, Roderick!”
It was a low voice, but its resonance was fierce.
The emotionless expression was a mask to hide this passion. This may be an opportunity to avenge the crushing defeat of hundreds of years ago.
As a Titan, my blood cannot help but boil.
However, Holy Sword El Cid did not answer.
No, the answer was more definite than no response.
Cheeeeeeeek… !
The holy sword glows white-hot. As if it was rejecting the grasp of someone who was not its master, it was engulfed in white flames from its sword body to its hilt.
A power that is equivalent to divine punishment for those who are corrupted by the devil.
A light that could melt steel like butter with its pure heat began to burn Cassim’s palms.
“I shouldn’t say it in words.”
However, Kassim did not even lift an eyebrow, but flexed his arm muscles and tightened his grip. Aura flows through her veins, and crimson Aura fire surrounds her palms.
In some ways, it was a really funny thing.
Because the Giant King, a legendary being who could defeat even dragons, was drawing out all his strength to deal with a single sword!
… Tuk… Fighting… Tuk…
It has the power to crush even mithril.
It is a power that can even fold Orichalkon.
He was twisting Drake’s head with enough force to pull it out alive, but the Holy Sword’s beautiful body didn’t even budge.
Instead, Kasim’s muscle fibers ruptured and blood flowed out.
Even with the might of the Giant King, El Cid did not lose a single tooth.
“Kaaaaaaaa—!”
Kasim roared loudly and concentrated his entire body’s strength. In the aftermath, all monsters within a 20km radius fled, spraying urine, turning the deep ecosystem of the mountain range into chaos.
Either way, he focused on wrestling with El Cid.
The momentum of the Aurorfire flowing over his forearm was so brutal that Leon immediately retreated 20 meters away.
‘It’s scary.’
Not only the density but also the amount itself is enormous. The Giant King himself was showing the extent of the aura filled in the Titan’s vessel and its destructive power.
Will he be able to respond even if all 7 types of ‘Seven Star Sword’ are poured out?
Even if I do it well, it just feels like an offset.
Still, Leon wasn’t worried about El Cid at all.
‘I heard that even Roderick couldn’t break it when he was alive, so he’s probably fine.’
It’s not that it wasn’t, it was just as I thought.
“… Hehehe, I guess this isn’t enough!”
Cassim also seemed to have realized that suppressing him with physical force was meaningless, so he threw the holy sword high into the sky and clenched his fists.
At that moment, Leon’s eyes turned golden.
You can’t miss it.
The level he has not reached and the level he should aim for unfolds. 〈Anbeop〉 sensed that moment and surpassed its own limitations.
Fit.
Blood vessels burst from the outside of the eyeball and flowed down like bloody tears, but Leon’s consciousness was already focused on Cassim.
It was right after that.
– Be scorching hot.
Cassim’s will interfered with the material world, creating a pair of fists as a large number of auras burned the air.
A special move on par with 〈Auror Blade〉. A power that can materialize the aurors themselves and even break some of the laws of this world. High temperature and high pressure, which cannot exist according to the laws of physics, are materialized into the shape of a fist.
This is the strike that the Giant King Kasim put his whole heart into.
“Lo―――de―――Rick!”
With a loud roar, the two fists advanced like beams of light and collided as if crossing the holy swords floating in the air.
At the same time, the whole world was covered in flashes of light.
There wasn’t even a sound.
This was because the atmosphere evaporated from the point of impact to hundreds of meters in the air, obliterating the sound. If this explosion had occurred on the ground, Leon would have died without even a single bone fragment remaining.
If it hits, even a fully grown dragon dies in one hit.
In terms of destructive power alone, the power exceeding that of ultimate magic was aimed solely at a single sword and exploded.
and.
Kang!
The sword fell from the sky and stuck in the ground.
Cheeeeeeeek… !
El Cid, heated by the heat of the holy sword itself and Cassim’s attack, melts the ground around him like magma. So much heat had accumulated that the heated air was distorted, creating an untimely gust of wind.
Nevertheless, rather than cracking or melting, the holy sword remained intact without a single scratch.
As soon as Kasim confirmed the results, he let out a roar.
“Kaaaa! Rodrik, you son of a bitch! You can’t get out of that sword right now! “Let’s not hide like cowards and compete once again!”
El Cid also did not remain silent this time.
The white-hot sword body hummed, and then, as if it had figured out the trick, it reproduced a human voice.
“haha! I want to do that too, but I can’t come out! If you’re dissatisfied with that, goddess, you should blame that penny-pincher directly!》
“It’s blasphemous, you fallen warrior!”
《Buddhist scriptures are memorized by people in the East, kyahahahaha!》
Quang!
Cassim, unable to withstand El Cid’s taunts, eventually used the momentum to kick the holy sword once, but there was no way the sword’s body, which he could not destroy even with a special move, would break at his feet.
El Cid, who had rolled to Leon’s feet due to Cassim’s kick, deliberately raised his voice and laughed.
《Kyahahaha, how hard is this piece of scrap metal, so why would it break by someone like you? It has increased a lot, but not by that much!》
“Ugh, I’ve been training diligently for 300 years just to give you a punch in the face… !”
《Go ahead for a thousand more years, child!》
“Kaaaaaaak!”
As Cassim, in a fit of rage, struggled and devastated the area, Leon hurriedly retreated.
What kind of shame would it be if I got beaten to death for venting my anger?
Above all, the exchange between Kassim and El Cid was truly familiar.
It was a scene I felt like I had seen many times before.
‘Ah, so did I… .’
Leon, who felt a sense of kinship in a useless place, smiled bitterly.
Humans and Titans.
A generation gap of 300 years.
But at this moment, he felt the affection of a death penalty for Kassim. He also had respect. Training for 300 years just to punch this damn guy in the face is so tenacious that even Leon, who would be sad to be the second-best, is scared to follow in his footsteps.
“It’s like a damn magic sword.”
El Cid suddenly felt aggrieved after being scolded.
[Why are you doing that again?!]
“Because you don’t know that, you call it a magic sword.”
Giant King Cassim.
It was the first time in 300 years that he met his comrades.
