The Academy’s Weapon Replicator - Chapter 228

Chapter 74 The demon

man held the seething aura in one hand and lifted it up.

Even if you just look at the mana concentrated there, it was twice as much as the aura that Ajie had just raised.

“die!”

The man fired the aura straight at Ajie.

When Ajie extended his blade once again, the man’s auror lost strength and fell as soon as it touched him.

Quang!

However, this time, it did not calm down completely and only spilled, and the ground behind Ajie broke with a loud noise.

‘You shoot out auras without any special skills or weapons.’

Ajie’s cold eyes observed the scene.

For humans, it usually takes a lot of training just to learn Auror skills. Among them, there are very few people who go beyond mastering Auras and can use them.

And even those people use weapons or require very unique skills.

But that man uses Aurors like his own limbs. There seemed to be no difficulty in releasing the aura within the body.

They are clearly much more familiar with Aurors and Mana than humans.

‘A monster from the abyss outside the realm… or is it a devil?’

While Ajie deduces the identity of the enemy.

“You’re using strange techniques.”

The man was both displeased and curious when all of his attacks missed.

There are many techniques to deflect an opponent’s attack. However, all of them require quite complex movements.

Since most applications involve rotation, movements that involve twisting the sword or the entire body are required. There are many people who are so focused on letting go that they are unable to prepare for the next attack, leaving gaps open.

However, Ajie’s technique is not like that. To the opponent, he simply extended his blade, but the Auror lost his strength and twisted his direction to avoid Ajie. Probably the same goes for other attacks.

“Nothing to worry about.”

Ajie said.

“To me, this is the only thing that can be called ‘technology.’”

“…joy. “Are you saying you have nothing but this?”

“Yes.”

Atjie calmly admitted.

“Everything else is just ‘basic.’”

Azier does not have any special secrets like Ampere or Frondier. Like Ampere, he doesn’t know how to do arcane things like cutting down enemies from a distance without an aura.

You can’t wield a huge weapon like the Frontier and unleash firepower.

All of Ajie’s strength starts from thoroughly skilled basic skills, and that is why he is not flashy, but calm and serene.

A season that seems to embody his character and beliefs all in one.

‘fall’.

Other than that, Atzier said himself, there was nothing special about it.

“Then I’ll make it so you can’t use techniques like that!”

fault!

The man rushed. Since it was impossible to inflict damage by shooting the aurors from a wide distance, the intention was to gain the upper hand in close combat.

As the man’s right hand stretched out and Ajie raised his sword accordingly, the man moved his feet at high speed and moved laterally.

The rush was acceleration using aura, and the sideways movement was pure leg strength of the body. Because they are not human, such unreasonable movements are possible.

However.

Phew!

“?!”

At the moment of moving sideways, the man was stabbed in the abdomen. The man hurriedly stepped back from the sudden pain. Blood flowed from the wound in his abdomen and soaked his clothes.

“How did you…”

The man grabbed his stomach. He seemed more shocked by the fact that he had been stabbed than by the damage.

“How did you do it?”

“I don’t know what the question means.”

“How did you stab me when I turned around at a dead angle!”

“It’s a square…?”

Atjie tilted his head.

“You moved backwards, so I just followed your movements and stabbed you with the sword.”

A tone of voice that seems to take something for granted.

Atjie looked at the man and made a strange face, as if he really thought that.

“I’m rather curious about why you didn’t stop it.”

“…Why didn’t you stop it…?”

You didn’t stop it?

No, that’s not it. The man had no idea that Ajie would attack in that situation. That’s why I didn’t even think about stopping it. Because there was no reason to stop an attack that wasn’t coming.

But Ajie knew the man would turn back. I knew it, so I stabbed the sword accordingly. That’s it.

‘Is this the basics?’

It’s clear that Atjie didn’t use any special techniques. I just aimed my sword at the opponent’s body and stabbed him.

However, the man saw this one number and guessed the level of basics that Ajie was talking about.

‘…good.’

The man smiled to himself.

‘There is no material like this.’

The battle between Atjie and the man is now being watched by the monster inside the prison.

The monster that still has Pascal’s face continues to learn by watching their battle. You must have also witnessed the ‘fall’ that Ajie showed a while ago.

‘If Calamity can fully master this technique, there will be no one in this imperial palace that can rival it!’

After finishing his thought, the man asked.

“What is your name?”

Until now, he didn’t even answer when asked about his identity, but now that he knows the other person’s skills, it’s different.

The man decided that he needed to hear Ajie’s name.

“Azier de Roachda.”

“…Right.”

The man paused for a moment as if trying to remember the name, then spoke.

“My name is Mizonas. He is the successor to Wrath and the first demon in the hierarchy of Wrath. Remember! The will of Almighty Satan will be unfolded on this earth!”

* * *

Just as the devil Mizonas thought, the monster inside the prison watched the fight between the two in silence.

‘…disaster.’

The monster thought.

No, it was more like a tape recorder that just repeated what it heard in my head rather than a thought.

The first question he asked after being born into this world was, “What am I?”

Because I heard the answer was ‘disaster’.

‘I am a disaster.’

Without even knowing the meaning of the disaster, the monster entered that simple algorithm into its head.

‘Then who is the author?’

And now, a high-level fight is unfolding before the monster’s eyes.

Mizonas is strong and abundant, and actively uses the auras that can be used at will. Azier blocks out all attacks and neutralizes them.

This dungeon, which would have collapsed long ago with the power of Mizonas, is still intact thanks to Ajie’s almost miraculous technology.

The monster’s eyes are nailed to Ajie. Excellent brain and excellent learning ability steal Ajie’s power and skills in real time.

Up to that point, it was just as Mizonas had thought.

but.

‘….’

While the monster of disaster watched Ajie’s fight, it gradually changed its body into Ajie. The appearance was already identical to Ajie. During the fight, Ajie checked it but didn’t particularly pay attention to it.

And the monster begins to copy Ajie’s insides. His bones, muscles, nerves, etc.

But at some point, the copying stopped.

‘…What is that?’

The monster checks Ajie’s technical failure. And every time, the copying stops.

‘can not understand.’

The monster has not yet mastered swordsmanship or weapons. Therefore, it is not possible to immediately understand Ajie’s technique, which is close to its peak.

Usually in this case, the monster of disaster copies what it can. Because there is no preference in imitation. Because his imitation is nothing more than a mirror-like copy of what he sees.

Therefore, the monster’s body soon moves its insides to imitate something other than a drop.

‘…no.’

And soon the imitation stops.

An abnormal situation that even the monster itself could not understand.

It’s not that I can’t imitate. The monster himself stopped it.

By my own will, I stopped the blind imitation that I had been doing without any standards or considerations. The copying that was endlessly performed like a machine stopped.

The monster cannot know its own thoughts right now.

Yes. The monster began to insert its thoughts into the copy.

‘This is not it.’

The monster completely stopped the simulation that was trying to restart and used all of its intelligence to simply understand Ajie’s fall.

Originally, copying was not something a monster would choose. Copying exactly what has been seen so far is the shortest path for monsters to become stronger, and that is how the disaster was designed from the beginning.

The act of stopping the copying on its own is nothing more than blocking the monster’s growth.

Nevertheless.

‘They’re not all the same.’

The monster stopped doing what he had to do just to understand the fall.

Although he still doesn’t know his own feelings.

Disaster was now envying Ajie’s fall.

Squeak –

Tiny red eyes crawled across the floor, watching the figure in the darkness.

A black bird at the end of the day and a black rat at the end of the night.

For some people, that was definitely the right answer.

* * *

When Mizonas opened his aura, the Zodiacs and Frondier naturally sensed it.

The location is clearly a dungeon. Wherever the konjac monster resides, something strange has clearly occurred. Some of the Zodiacs have already headed to the dungeon.

However, Frondier’s expression was quite calm.

“…Hey Frontier.”

Monty, who had been watching him silently, opened his mouth.

“yes.”

“Is it true that Ajie is already in the dungeon?”

“Yes that’s right. “I asked you in advance.”

Frondier recalled what Lili had said.

-Even if you expected the attack to fail, wouldn’t you have expected to be caught?

Frondier also made a similar reasoning, so Lily’s words were quite persuasive.

If the enemy doesn’t expect the monster to be captured, it will be essential to their plans.

If so, you’ll show up in jail.

Of course, there was no guarantee that this would happen, but the thing that needed the most protection was the dungeon.

“Then isn’t it rather dangerous?”

This time it was Daisy who asked.

“That monster copies everything it sees. “If you fight in it, you will be copying all of Ajie’s fighting techniques.”

Daisy’s worries were natural. She saw the monster’s incredible ability to replicate before her own eyes.

After learning how to imitate its appearance, the monster was able to successfully do the same in less than 3 seconds. Not only the ability to copy but also the proficiency in repeating it is enormous.

“it’s okay.”

Nevertheless, Frontier said.

“Because I’m waiting for that.”

It was an absurd sound that Daisy had never expected.

“Oh what?”

“From what I heard, he was able to quickly imitate appearances, but he hasn’t mastered speaking yet.”

“…Oh, that’s right. “I just recited a few words.”

“That means that not all imitations can be performed without distinction. “Perhaps the more you have to use your brain to imitate, the longer it will take.”

Of course, even that must be quite fast.

While it takes several years for babies to open their mouths for the first time, it’s amazing that a newborn monster can start chanting words so quickly.

But obviously that takes longer than imitating an appearance. Unlike copying what you see, words must be able to be inferred through dialogue and context, and the information the monster currently has about words is still extremely small.

“From that perspective, my brother’s skills are close to the highest level of difficulty he can imitate.”

“…What are you bragging about as your older brother?”

“I’m just stating the hard facts.”

Frondier knows well what kind of person Azier is.

Ajie is a person who has reached an incredible level just by swinging a weapon once.

While most strong players are outstanding in their main specialty and relatively weak in other areas, Ajie is equally excellent in all areas.

‘It would have been helpful to the monster to watch Renzo fight.’

Renzo often swings randomly, and even that has an effect on his opponent. When seen through the eyes of a monster, it is much easier to follow and more effective.

However, Aji never performs any movement in vain. All of this is the result of a perfect combination of his theory, practice, and thoroughly infused experience.

It would be impossible for the current monster to understand everything.

“…Showing Ajie’s battle scenes to that monster is actually a way to block its copying ability?”

“That’s right. “It’s just speculation.”

“What if that inference is wrong?”

“The monster will perfectly copy Ajie and absorb its fighting skills.”

“…hey.”

Since Frondier does not know the current situation in the battle prison, there is no way to know what state the monster is currently in.

I asked Gregory to find out the situation in the dungeon, but the report is not yet available.

“But even if he somehow manages to imitate Ajie, there are some things he will never be able to imitate.”

“what is that?”

“It’s a disaster.”

At those words, Daisy’s head tilted once again. In the first place, I don’t know what a ‘fall’ is.

Monty, who was next to me, spoke for me.

“It’s one of Ajie’s techniques. “They say that if you touch Ajie’s weapon, you will lose your weapon.”

“…Anyone can do that, right? “Knocking off the opponent’s weapon with my own weapon, etc.”

“It’s not about cutting it out. No use of force or speed at all. According to people who have experienced it, if their weapons touch each other in any way, they will let go of their swords. Moreover, it is said that unless you are a skilled person, you will not even know that you have put down a weapon.”

“…What is that?”

While the two were talking, Frontier remembered something.

When Constell’s teacher, Vinkis, created the golem, he created an algorithm to protect against falls. However, due to the failure of Frontier, the algorithm collapsed at once.

Later, after listening to an explanation of the algorithm that Vinkiss had designed, I realized that the algorithm that Vinkiss used to defend against falling pieces was designed to respond to the movement of several falling pieces.

In other words, if the contents entered by Vinkis and the actual fall are exactly the same, the golem will be able to defend against the fall.

But Frontier knows. That way, you can never prevent a fall.

‘I know because I tried it.’

Each time the nakjang is unfolded, it shows a completely different movement.

This is natural because the opponent’s weapon is different every time, and what kind of attack the opponent will use is also different every time.

Most technologies, even if there are some changes, have a unity that ultimately results in a certain way, but there is no such thing in Nakjang.

If ordinary techniques produce results through a process, falling creates countless ways to achieve the result of forcing the opponent to let go of his weapon.

Because of this, you can’t just watch and follow Nakjang.

Because every time I see it, it moves differently.

‘The enemy sent the monster to assassinate the emperor without training it sufficiently.’

Even though a sufficiently learned monster would have a higher probability of assassination.

‘Maybe that’s because learning stops at some point.’

Whether it’s the difficulty level or the monster’s own choices.

Even if it is a monster that can imitate everything, it cannot imitate everything ‘at the same time’.

The fact that something strange happened in the dungeon means that the monster’s imprisonment, as Frondier thought, was an unexpected situation for the enemies.

And if a ‘second’ abnormality occurs where the monster does not grow sufficiently.

An enemy who is already in a difficult situation will not be able to control his impatience and will show his face.

Caw –

At that time, a crow croaked outside the bedroom window.

“What?”

“Ah, this is the crow I tamed. “Can I open the window?”

“be careful. Another enemy may be targeting this direction.”

Frondier nodded and opened the window. A crow flew in and sat on his shoulder.

The training went well. After the Zodiacs thought that, they turned their heads in their respective directions again and then

[Reporting.]

Everyone suddenly turned their heads at the sound of a chattering voice and looked at the crow again.

[The identity of the enemy confronting Ajie is determined to be the devil.]

Everyone opened their mouths in surprise at the beautiful tone of voice.

A crow that can talk that well? What kind of training did they give you?

“What is the devil’s name?”

Of course, Frontier asked the next question as if it were obvious.

[This is Mizonas. [He seems to be a servant of the devil called Satan.]

Frondier’s eyes twitched at those words.

Satan Satan. I never thought I would hear that ridiculously famous name here.

[Also]

And the crow gave Frondier the report he had been waiting for.

[The monster has stopped changing.]