#249
Helmut
Episode 249
“hey.”
At Helmut’s brief call, the guy’s movements stopped.
The sound of the corpse being chewed and swallowed has completely disappeared.
silence.
It was eerily quiet.
Helmut quietly watched him. The guy slowly turned around. The time passed slowly, like a snail crawling.
And the next moment,
bang! It felt like my grip was falling away. A film formed of vis spread around the sword.
Nothing reached Helmut’s body, but the collision caused blood and flesh to fly in all directions.
The guy threw the eaten body.
“Kaaaaaaaa!”
As if you dare interfere with my predation.
The eyes of the person losing his temper glowed brightly. The sound of rough breathing rang out.
Helmut frowned. To test how powerful it was, he blocked it instead of dodging it.
But it was more powerful than I imagined.
It was not for nothing that he was able to break through the array of Black Wing Knights and harm the Archduke.
If it was an attack of this speed, you would only be able to recognize it after it attacked.
‘This is an opponent where you have to give your all from the beginning.’
Tension rises. Helmut observed him keenly.
Dark, cracked skin and bulging muscles. Blood red eyes. The appearance of something resembling clothing hanging on one’s waist.
The shape cannot be said to be human, but it resembles a human more than one might think.
Monsters usually take the form of some kind of beast. Because animals imbued with demon energy become monsters.
So what was its original form?
Naturally, my heart aches at the early question. An answer that I don’t want to think of comes to mind within me.
As if to confirm his answer, he looked at Helmut, shrugged his shoulders and cracked his neck. As if a gangster were threatening his opponent.
That gesture… … .
‘Nonsense.’
The blood all over my body cooled.
Helmut had seen a monster similar to a human being. The monkey monster I faced before was like that.
But that wasn’t that type of monster.
The size of the body, the movements, the clothes on the body. All of them spoke of its original form.
‘human.’
Those words coldly pierced my heart like a blade.
bang! The guy didn’t give me time to think. The stone that flew in immediately struck Helmut’s sword like a meteorite.
Even though I pulled the vis higher than before, my arm was tingling beyond my grasp.
It is undoubtedly a powerful monster. Something that only exists in the Forest of Pahe.
‘But I survived in the Forest of Pahe.’
There is nothing to think about again. Just because it’s a powerful monster doesn’t mean it can’t be defeated.
If he was strong, Helmut was also strong. Helmut raised his sword towards the bastard.
The basic posture for practicing swordsmanship.
Now I know how much power it can attack.
Okay, just avoid it next time. Blocking his blows in itself consumed a lot of vis.
When he saw Helmut’s posture, the corners of his mouth were torn apart.
The guy looked around and broke a branch from a tree next to him.
The thick tree branch was shaped into a sword through his hands.
He aimed it at Helmut. That posture was familiar to me.
‘Continental common swordsmanship.’
A nightmare-like reality has arrived before my eyes.
In an instant, his figure disappeared from sight.
Movement so fast that it’s blurry. Boom, kwagwang! bang! It absolutely didn’t sound like a tree branch clashing with a sword.
Helmut received half of the attacks and dodged half of them.
I tried to avoid them all, but I just couldn’t avoid them all. It was force majeure.
The guy’s attack was fast, as if it didn’t meet air resistance.
If a magic machine of that size were to have a body the size of a human, its speed would be explosively fast.
And one more thing.
Monsters cannot use swordsmanship. But what he was doing was swordsmanship!
A very high level of thoroughly ingrained swordsmanship!
‘I guess so.’
The attack stopped for a moment. But Helmut could not relax his nerves.
Helmut had to admit it as he tightened his numb grip.
That was a human being. He wasn’t an ordinary human.
Judging by his swordsmanship, he is a swordsman of a considerable standard. A strong person who would not have been easy to deal with even as a human.
I’m not even sure if my reason has completely disappeared.
If it is a monster with reason combined with vicious instincts, it is more of a problem.
Because it will have both the strengths of a human swordsman and the strengths of a monster!
The magic energy it emits causes a sprout of darkness to stir in my heart. As if responding to demon energy.
No, not a demon, but a being like yourself. As if he recognized that it was the monster in front of him.
Yeah, he had the same thing as Helmut.
‘Sprout of darkness.’
It is a tingling yet cold realization.
Before my eyes was a human dominated by the sprouts of darkness, possibly Helmut’s future.
It was eerie, like looking into a mirror of the future.
Veins stand out on my white hands. She was a crushing enemy, both physically and mentally.
The guy looked at Helmut and raised the corners of his mouth as if mocking him.
The smile on his ferocious face was enough to arouse the fear of quite a few people.
He was looking at the gray vis blooming on Helmut’s sword.
As if he had finally realized what kind of being Helmut was.
Even the sprouts of darkness in him will feel alive.
That Helmut has a being like himself.
But fortunately, the sprouts of darkness did not seem to regard each other as colleagues.
Magi is a cruel and ferocious force. In the forest of Pahe, monsters ate each other and fought.
Even if peace was achieved due to ranking, the monsters were always planning to bite each other.
The sprout of darkness is the instinct to kill, a power of its own. Even if they are the same being, they are destroyed.
Helmut’s sprout of darkness stopped writhing. As if asking when was the last time he was always uncooperative. Helmut was very fortunate.
‘Thank goodness. There is no need to fight while suppressing the sprouts of darkness.’
Even the sprouts of darkness are known. If Helmut loses life, the sprout of darkness also loses existence.
It was the fate of parasites that could not exist without a host.
After a while, the attack resumed. The guy who lightly hit the floor flew like an arrow.
He clearly showed Helmut what kind of person the sprouts of darkness were.
Why does the temple define them as enemies and try to kill them as babies? How vicious and dangerous they are!
A powerful body, abundant combat experience, tremendous recovery, and enormous magical energy radiating from the entire body.
Helmut was an opponent that could not be said to have the upper hand in any way.
If Helmut’s swordsmanship had not been superior to that guy’s, even fighting back would have been impossible.
‘It was worth learning from Darian harshly.’
My whole body was tense. An opponent who should not be given even an inch of space.
Just one moment of negligence could take Helmut’s life.
On the other hand, he had an absolute advantage because he had the body of a monster.
Helmut’s blow would probably be insignificant to him.
His magic energy will protect his body from Helmut’s sword strikes, and even if he gets injured, he will recover quickly.
‘It has to be a fatal blow.’
Neck, head, heart. You have to aim for that place to defeat him.
Since humans are the original form, the vital points will be the same as humans.
The only question was whether it would be possible to pierce the dark demonic energy wrapped around its entire body, overcome its quick movements, and pierce it with a sword.
There was no opportunity or opportunity to do so. The guy looked perfect.
Plus, there was one problem. Helmut’s sword was a sword purchased from Latona.
Helmut has never tried Darian’s swordsmanship with that sword.
Of course. The sword was originally obtained for camouflage, and Helmut did not assume that he would use the sword as a swordsman.
The guy saw right through it. Helmut’s crack.
Boom, boom, boom!
The sword broke apart in Helmut’s hands.
Debris containing vis bounced in all directions. Although he avoided it, some of it grazed and a blood line was drawn on Helmut’s cheek.
It was the result of him not being able to withstand the shock because he hit one spot.
This is a sword purchased from Latona. It was a decent sword, but not a great sword.
I should have distributed the vis evenly and absorbed the impact with the entire sword, but I was too busy practicing my swordsmanship to pay attention to it.
‘No, it’s no use.’
Helmut soon thought differently. Even if it was late, it would have been broken.
It was a sword that had limitations in handling Helmut’s Vis.
“Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
The guy who broke the sword looked down at Helmut leisurely.
As if you were wondering how you could fight without even a sword anymore.
The moment the sword broke, it was able to fatally wound Helmut. In that moment, Helmut lost his weapon and became completely helpless.
But he didn’t do that. And now, I watch Helmut’s reaction like a cat playing with a struggling mouse.
As if he wanted me to fall to my knees in fear.
It was a humiliating moment, but Helmut was rather relieved and composed himself.
‘This is taking it easy.’
I have already experienced the risk of death countless times in the forest of Pahe from encountering enemies stronger than myself.
There will come a chance to make him pay for his leisure and arrogance. If only he were alive.
There is nothing more important than that.
Although he did not have the strength to replace the sword, Helmut did not miss the opportunity the bastard gave him and pulled out the sword from within his cloak.
This time it was Darian’s sword. Compared to before, it fit so well that it seemed to melt in the hand.
Somehow, I felt like I was ready to deal with him. If it were Darian’s sword, combined with Helmut’s Vis, it would be able to inflict fatal wounds on that guy.
Since I am more familiar with Darian’s swordsmanship with this sword, there is more possibility.
‘But it might be a bit difficult for me alone.’
This is not the time to show off your pride. Even though it wouldn’t be of much help, I wondered if I should join other humans and fight.
At least they can take this monster’s nerves away.
It was a type of worry that Helmut had never faced before in the human world.
The opponent was strong. It’s so strong that you can almost picture yourself fighting like this and using up all your Vis and collapsing. The picture was surprisingly realistic.
Even if he could be defeated, there was no guarantee that Helmut himself would be intact.
