Genius Corpse-Collecting Warrior - Chapter 196
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Scarlet Spirit (5)
The number of times Dallen encountered evil spirits was greater than expected.
Because there was not only one way to reach the final part of the apocalypse amid hundreds of repetitions and endless branches.
Needless to say, they were characters who achieved great heights, and even if they did not reach that level of achievement, Dallen participated in humanity’s last resistance in various ways.
In any case, as we get closer to the end of the apocalypse, it is a predestined procedure for the five evil gods to directly lead their forces and invade the continent.
As long as I held out until the end in some form, it was entirely possible to observe the arrival and fight of the evil spirit and refine my strategy.
‘Among the five evil gods, Shun was the one who liked attacking from the front the most. Due to its nature, the opportunities to observe it were several times greater than those of other evil spirits.’
As a result, Dallon was the first to learn Xun’s patterns and strategies among the five evil gods.
Although I haven’t faced him directly with my character very often, I have seen him from afar quite often.
As a representative example, in one episode, Edgar, the leader of the Holy Knights, played a prominent role.
A one-armed swordsman who, with unprecedented awakening, single-handedly struck down the incarnation of Sun. That image was vivid enough to be remembered in my mind for a while.
‘There were cases where the transcendentals of the Diamond Palace united and succeeded in taking down the guy as a group. Even if that wasn’t the case, fierce fights often took place.’
In a world approaching its end, there were more people in hiding than expected.
Beings who usually live with their power hidden for various reasons, but only show their power at the last moment when an appropriate environment is created.
Although it is extremely rare, there are also transcendental beings who can predict the odds of victory against the evil incarnation.
However, those who defeated Sun’s incarnation in the final battle all met death in the same way.
Sun offered his dying body as a sacrifice and forcibly summoned the true body that resided in the Great Hell’s Palace of Destruction.
“It is not a devil who is cornered, but a godhead, a symbol of immortality, who descends upon his true form even while reducing his own power… It is a development that is difficult to predict even with the common sense of a transcendental person.”
[How did you do that? No, the last fight like that was thousands of years ago. There wouldn’t have been any records left in history, right?]
“What kind of mess is this with history? “I heard that several characters were lost.”
Basically, in the case of demons or evil spirits with a powerful status, it is natural that their incarnations also have a high level of status.
Therefore, offering the incarnate body as a sacrifice is not theoretically impossible.
However, in order to overcome the gap between the world and bring the true body into reality, a greater price is needed. And there was no devil or evil spirit who risked his existence on a single fight, even at such a high price.
In the first place, it was natural for a demon of a certain level to possess his own hell, and all he had to do was recover his strength from that deep place and invade again, regardless of whether it took decades or hundreds of years.
Sun, who was crazy about fighting, was almost the only exception.
He is a being who gets caught up in a single fight and descends to the continent as a mortal incarnation without hesitation at a huge price.
When faced with a strong man who could bring his incarnation to its knees, there was no way he could resist the temptation to descend into his true form.
“I guess it’s because that’s actually the way you are. Fight and win. And the only way to raise the level through slaughter following victory.”
In fact, in the battle he won and the massacre that followed, Sun often regained more strength than he had lost.
The way of existence that even demons cannot understand is probably the decisive reason why Sun craves fighting more than any other evil god or demon.
“It won’t go your way this time.”
Chijijijijijik……!!
The lightning that has isolated the entire space lets out a strange cry.
Dallen laughed softly as he stared at the body that was becoming increasingly unstable.
Failure in a summoning ritual always carries a heavy price. It was impossible for even an evil spirit to completely avoid it.
Since the ritual to burn the incomplete incarnation and bring back the true body was cancelled, it would not be strange for existence itself to be distorted.
Even if you are the person who built your own world called the Great Hell, you cannot be without flaws once you have entered this world.
In Dallen’s journey of attacking demons and evil spirits beyond the monitor, there was more than just a method of pushing them back with force alone.
“Since this was a ritual you conducted yourself, the reaction of failure will reach not only the incarnate body but also the true body. “How much of a blow have you suffered this time?”
[…….]
“Even if we don’t do it, we won’t be able to go to this continent for decades, even a hundred years. But you won’t have to wait that long.”
Jerk.
Dallen stood in the empty air, raised his sword upright, and bared his fangs.
“The next time I see you, I will personally plunge a sword into your heart from the throne of the Palace of Destruction.”
***
The incarnation rushed forward with blood-covered fingernails and teeth.
[Kaaaaaa!!]
Rather than being indignant at Dallan’s words, it was a scream that was closer to the anger of a child who had had his beloved toy taken away in front of his eyes.
Ugh!!
Of course, the scale of power distorted at the fingertips was nothing compared to a child’s whining.
The compressed space bursts from the tips of the toes, transforming into a ray of blood-red flash, and the incarnated body flies away.
“Whoa.”
Dallen also did not back down. He walked forward with the tip of his sword raised above his shoulder.
While the scarlet spirit was used to isolate the nearby area, the power of the Thunder Sea could not be used. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed that I couldn’t use the sharpest sword directly on my enemy.
However, no matter how sharply it is forged, relying on just one sword is an unavoidable defeat in the fight against the apocalypse.
To prevent that, wasn’t it possible to learn and absorb numerous possibilities and increase the types of blades that can be used appropriately?
It was enough to raise the odds of winning by this much with the power of the freshly learned Brain Sea.
The rest will be up to the possibilities we have accumulated along the way.
Tuung─
Kicks the air and flies up. He stabs the tip of his flashing sword towards the rushing incarnation.
A flashing white flash and a blood-red flash.
Inside the huge prison imprisoned by the red thunderbolt, two beams of light began to intersect countless times, biting each other’s tail.
Fight against each other──!!
An evil spirit who easily shed the holy sword that struck down. The guy’s toes reach out aiming for Dallon’s neck.
He dodges by flipping his back and head, and with the rotation, he spins around in the air, scattering the axes around his waist.
Pararae rack!
It is not a simple throwing of blades.
The current ax is not a relic ax that was broken during the fight with Daeltarion beyond the imagery, but an object rebuilt with power of unknown origin.
Did Lucia and Xun call that power ‘divine’? The identity of the unknown warrior who appeared before my eyes several times may be related to that word.
Let go of your thoughts and focus on the axe. The moment when a gray shadow flutters from the tip of the finger that threw the axe.
「回冥(回冥): Ignition(發火)」
The bright red heat of the flame rising from the blade of the ax met the hellfire surrounding Sun’s incarnate body, causing a huge explosion.
Kwaaaaaaaa!
A spectacular heat wave. Gray shadows break through the heat.
「Twelve Streams」
The grey-white seal split into twelve is proof that Dallen’s ability has finally completely surpassed the potential of the gray-white fighter.
Each one is a vessel and an illusion containing physical abilities that are not much different from the original body.
While Dallen’s main body retreated, the remaining eleven spirits each stretched out their hands and feet and began to beat on the evil spirit.
Doo doo doo doo!!
The only things being wielded are bare hands and bare feet. However, the power contained in a single blow is enough to easily collapse a building.
The essence of martial arts like a storm that strikes the evil god’s armor hundreds of times. In the aftermath, even the spectacular heat wave was caught up and dispersed in an instant.
Three of the gray seals stepped back and began to make hand seals. Immediately, the magic power fluctuated and two conflicting techniques were unleashed.
The gray human spirit went beyond simply imitating physical abilities and was now able to use its own skills to a certain degree of proficiency.
「Ice Crystal: Flowering」
「Blue Blue Lap」
The snow flower blooming overhead scatters into hundreds of petals, pouring down a storm of ice.
「Red Flame Spell」
「Three Powers Against Three Powers」
Three pillars of fire bursting out from under the feet are intertwined into one, drawing a triple spiral, turning the atmosphere upside down and shaking it off.
Kugwagwagwagwa…!
The two colors collide around the evil spirit. An enormous explosion bursting out with heat and cold engulfing the incarnated body.
The atmosphere swirls and collapses as the two powerful unique techniques collide.
Along with the gray-white shades, the gray figures moving between them poured out endless attacks, targeting any gaps in the incarnation.
The incarnation of Sun was not left alone. Despite suffering a significant blow to his very existence due to the failure of his consciousness, he reached out his hand and began to grab the shadows one by one.
[Crrrrr!]
Crack!
The waist of the captured shadow was folded in half. The incarnate body, which was completely destroyed, opened its red eyes and howled like an animal.
It looks like a beast of the apocalypse that crawled up from hell. Its gaze instinctively pursued its next prey.
Kwasik!
Another shadow pierces my chest. The incarnation’s teeth bit into the neck of the shadow.
The head is torn from the body and scattered in gray smoke. Dallen caught his breath as he watched from afar.
Phew.
Although he is the incarnation of an evil god who has become ruined and rags, his personality is still far beyond mortality.
Therefore, there were not many options for Dallen now that the power of Brain Sea, the knife that was originally meant to stab the guy, was tied up.
I could tell just by looking at the scene in front of me.
Although they are attacking the incarnation with numerous spells, there is not a single decisive blow that will end its life.
It is not simply because the power of the magic technique or the martial arts skills are lacking. More fundamentally, this is what happens because even the incarnation of the evil god is a mystery itself.
Only mystery can destroy mystery. The blow that decapitated the fallen Cheongrin a long time ago was also a sword strike that came from the blood of a dark red dragon.
In order to defeat Sun’s incarnation, we will need to draw on one more power of the realm.
However, it was not easy to open another area in a situation where a lot of the power of the Brain Sea was being used.
Phew.
My head is pounding and my stomach is churning.
Despite the depleted physical strength and worn-out mental strength, the will is gathered together and applied to the world.
Phew.
Numerous landscapes scattered in the realm beyond imagination.
Which of them would be called out had already been planned for a long time.
Huh…ugh….
My breathing becomes shaky. Rather than breathing calmly, it is closer to the breath of an animal exhaling harshly without filtering.
A white tattoo that had never been inked slowly revealed its light on his blood-covered body.
A grayish-white shade was cast over the naturally black eyes of five colors.
[Lord?]
[Dallan…are you okay?]
Arbor and Jeokchang expressed their concern at the sight of him, which he had never shown before, but he just passed it off and walked away.
There is only one voice echoing in Dallen’s head right now.
‘Even my last blow, which blew away the mountain peak, only scratched Xun’s armor!’
Reflecting on the regretful cry of a man who failed to prevent the apocalypse a long time ago.
‘How much more do you think you can stop the five evil spirits when you can’t easily defeat even me!’
He pulls up his clenched fist to demonstrate that he has achieved a feat that he could not accomplish.
「Area Open: Gray Sky at the End」
Grayish-white ripples flowing from underfoot.
A gray-white shade spreads across the sky where dozens of magic techniques are splendidly unfolding, as if changing the background.
This was proof and atonement at the same time.
‘I’ll leave it to you…’
It was a tribute to the fighter who gave up his last will, and also a belated tribute to a life that may have been a tragedy of its own making.
Regret in the heart of the martial artist who was crushing and crushing space. He inherits the will of the transcendent who passed away without being able to overcome the wall of hierarchy.
Left foot forward.
Put your right foot back.
The posture is the same. The space twists from the pulled fist, and the surrounding scene bends.
[Kaaaa!]
Kwajik!
The incarnate body of the evil god that killed the last shadow roared. It turned its head and looked this way.
The appearance of a pure white warrior reflected in red eyes.
Before any emotions can be overlaid on the statue, I extend my pulled fist.
「Hoeryukpaju(灰力破柱)」
The gray color that coats the sky becomes waves.
A tsunami tearing through the isolated world with red thunderbolts.
The warrior’s blow that blew away the mountain bud became the blow that blew away the world itself from the hand of the successor.
[This…!]
━━━━━━━━!
Finally, the appearance of the evil spirit was erased.