<Aaron Side Story Episode 35>
4. Those who crave power for themselves (6)
A window with shimmering shadows.
Lydigion slightly twisted his toe.
The spear blade deflected through the air.
“… … !”
Aaron corrects his leaning posture.
The shadows haven’t gone out yet.
He held the end of the pole long and swung it.
As Lydigion tilted his neck back, the tip of the spear brushed past where his face had been.
“Is this the end?”
“… … no.”
countless years.
Aaron has practiced the same action of stabbing a spear over and over again.
Numerous stabs followed in waves.
Papapapang!
The shadows sway.
Just brushing against the tip of the spear would rip off the flesh.
Even if you block it, it will pierce your forearm with the sword.
However, Lidigion did not move even one step.
Standing still, I dodged all stabs.
do not block
Doesn’t even bounce
It doesn’t even strike back.
Without moving a single step, I twisted my waist and upper body to dodge the penetrating thrust and dodged it.
Just as magnets with the same poles repel each other when they try to collide, the spear seems to touch the man, but never touches it.
‘Kuu!’
This time, aim for the lower body, the right thigh.
Lidigion twisted his right foot and rotated his body once.
with him.
Pak!
“Ugh!”
He kicked the ground with his foot and threw dirt into Aaron’s eyes.
Aaron hesitated and stepped back.
“What’s the point if even a fatal blow can’t be reached? Are you trying to catch up to your master’s back just that much?”
“Not yet, yet!”
Aaron brushed the dirt out of his eyes.
Tears stinging.
‘This is not the end.’
slow down
too slow.
With his weak physical abilities, he couldn’t even catch that man’s shadow.
‘It has to be faster.’
faster.
stronger.
It must be spread so much that it cannot be avoided.
If the moon’s shadow touched him even once, it was his victory.
that’s why i remember
Leaving aside their dreams, their memories of the past that had faded away.
In the past, the teacher told me.
As if he knew that Aaron would recall that memory someday.
Whoops!
Shadows gather from all sides.
The gathering place this time is Aaron’s body.
Horrible smoke billowed up.
[Collection]
[solar eclipse]
phut!
Aaron kicks the ground.
The soil spurted violently.
Wedge love!
A loud cracking sound in the air.
The stab fired with several times the output sped like an arrow.
Its speed is unparalleled.
“Hoo.”
Lidigion let out a snort.
Even that stab was a blow that he could dodge with just a slight twist of his upper body.
Japanese.
A technique that increases body output by concentrating shadows on muscles and bones.
If simple, it was a simple body enhancement technique.
phut!
A stab that has become several times faster and stronger flies.
The air cracked violently and screamed.
however.
“town!”
Courage!
Aaron, who had passed Ridigion like an arrow, rolled on the floor.
It is the inability to control one’s enhanced bodily abilities.
Lydigion looked down at Aaron with cold eyes.
“Is it over there?”
“… … no.”
Aaron stood up.
A drop of blood dripping from his cheek.
My cheeks were torn as my face rubbed against the ground.
‘It’s not the end just because it’s fast.’
how?
No matter how fast and strong your body becomes, it is useless if you cannot control it.
I don’t know if Aaron has the motor nerves and reaction speed to handle it.
Of course there is no such thing.
Inability to use one’s own strengthened body.
The current output is too fast and strong for Aaron to handle.
then.
Ugh!
A shadow fell in Aaron’s eyes.
The shadows that entered from the eyes penetrated through Aaron’s body, eroding the nervous system.
[Collection]
[lunar eclipse]
moment.
The world Aaron saw slowed down.
If you can’t handle your body’s output, you can increase your nerve output.
Now, Aaron can even perceive the flapping of the wings of a flying fly.
‘done.’
With this level of cognition, you can control your body.
“going.”
Aaron, who spoke briefly, kicked the ground.
This time the posture is not disturbed.
The piercing, which had sped up dozens of times, aimed at the heart of Lidigion.
His speed far exceeded that of an ordinary 6-star hero.
‘It’s fun every time I see it.’
Ridigion prepares to face the attack.
Soon, a storm of stabs swept through the space.
Conjunction, solar eclipse.
A body and nerve enhancement technique with absurdly high performance that is only allowed for up users.
Among Pick Me Up’s skill database, there are many body strengthening skills.
Berserk is the most representative, and it was a technique that greatly increased the output of the body instead of losing reason.
There are countless other similar skills, but they have one thing in common.
Instead of becoming stronger, you have to take that much risk.
Body strengthening skills are not free.
It is necessarily accompanied by the disintegration of the body and mind.
However, there is nothing like that in a solar eclipse.
Be strong.
It just becomes incredibly strong.
It becomes stronger than if you increased berserk several times, and there is no loss of sanity and no further loss.
In addition, it even has nerve-enhancing properties that are more valuable and stronger than physical enhancement.
Its very existence was disrupting the balance of the game.
Papapapang!
A raging storm of stabbing.
Finally, Ridigion moved from the spot.
Stepping on the ground as if passing by, it moves away tens of meters.
It looks like it’s not moving, but somehow it’s far away.
It was a strange method.
“… … !”
phut!
Aaron follows.
They move at a similar speed, but the wind blows hard and the sound of breaking the air is loud.
It was proof that Aaron couldn’t contain his power.
It doesn’t matter anyway.
“Maybe we can start.”
Lydigion murmured while dodging the ensuing spear.
The longsword in his right hand drew a semicircle.
“… … ?!”
The blade cut through Aaron’s throat.
From the beginning, Aaron is only firing high-speed thrusts.
It was as simple as taking something out of a pocket to find a gap between movements and slit his throat.
“Ouch!”
Aaron takes a few steps back.
He clutched his neck and let out a heavy breath.
‘just now.’
The blade cut through his throat.
then it is death
Even if the head is cut off, there is no human being alive.
“what?”
Aaron hung himself.
The blade just went through my throat.
definitely felt it.
But he is alive
Under normal circumstances, Aaron standing here should have his neck and body separated, and he should be lying on his back, bleeding.
There’s no way that man named Lidigion could ever make a mistake.
A strange thing happened.
“An eternal dream is something that cannot be cut.”
Lydegion laughed and murmured.
“Isn’t it?”
“Bear… … don’t.”
“Can’t cut, can’t break, can’t burn.”
“It’s just a bubble, just a shadow.”
said Aaron.
At that moment, the blade of the Lidigion cut Aaron’s upper body at an angle.
It doesn’t end there.
The sword blades intersected and pulverized Aaron’s body.
If it was a human made of flesh and bones, the whole body would have been torn pieces of meat.
‘Bubbles and fantasies.’
Aaron remembered his teacher’s words.
The dream never ends.
[Collection]
[Dream embracing]
Shuk.
A blade passes through the abdomen.
At first glance, the blade seems to cut through meat, bones, and organs, but it is not at all.
just pass by
The blade passes through it like cutting through flowing water.
It has been so far.
Although Ridigion hacked up Aaron’s body enough to kill him dozens of times, he never directly cut the body.
It is not meat and bones that make up the present Aaron.
Just dreams and shadows, bubbles and fantasies.
Physical attacks cannot reach him.
The same goes for magical attacks.
You can’t kill something that doesn’t exist.
Absolute defense.
As long as the dream did not end, the body was immortal.
“So, will you stay?”
Startled, Aaron jumped backwards.
The body, which had been cut dozens of times, is still intact, but it is not without damage.
“Wouldn’t it be fine if I killed you until I killed you?”
Ridigion smiled bitterly.
If the dream doesn’t end, kill until it ends.
Karma is a flame that burns with Aaron’s dream as firewood.
When the firewood runs out, the magic ends.
At some point, Lidigion, who had come in front of me, lowered his sword.
The blade of the sword fell from Aaron’s head and cut his body in two.
Shuk. Shuk. Shuk.
A few days ago, I heard it countless times.
The sound of blades cutting through the air.
Aaron is being torn apart alive.
Although no blood splattered, shadows escaped through the cuts.
“Kuk!”
Aaron jumped backwards several times.
Every time that happened, the man followed like a ghost.
‘I can’t shake it off!’
no matter how fast you move.
Even if you kick off the ground with all your might and jump out, you will be in front of you before you know it.
phut!
A stab with a shadow shot out.
Ridigion evaded the thrust and slashed his entire neck.
can’t shake it off
No matter how much I pierce and swing the spear, I can’t even cut the collar.
It’s not a matter of power or speed.
There was a more fundamental cause.
“You know? Where am I going to attack?”
Aaron said in dismay.
Instead of answering, Ridigion cut Aaron’s upper body horizontally.
Aaron shook it off and swung his spear in all directions, but none of them touched.
Whoops!
The shadow on Aaron’s body deepens.
It increased the output of the solar eclipse.
‘It’s a lot of consumption, but… … .’
There is no chance of winning even if you leave it anyway.
You have to overwhelm that man with force.
bang!
There was the sound of something exploding.
The thrust, approaching the speed of sound, pierced the side of Lidigion’s face.
Suddenly, Aaron’s physical abilities were approaching the limit of a 6-star hero.
‘shit.’
On the other hand, the world that Aaron perceives has slowed infinitely.
looks smart
the man’s movements.
‘What the heck.’
that’s why it’s frustrating
I don’t understand.
Even before he stretched out his spear, the man was predicting its trajectory.
No, it wasn’t a prediction, it was a foreknowledge.
Because there was never anything wrong.
The concentration of the solar eclipse deepened.
Aaron’s physical ability has long surpassed that of Lidigion.
The same goes for cognition.
But I can’t catch up
If so, there is only one possibility.
That man lives in a future farther than himself.
No matter how fast it is, it’s useless.
If you knew where to attack and how to move, responding was as simple as yawning.
“Sight. Breath. movement.”
Lidigion murmured as he lightly dodged the triple stab that went from the head, upper body, and lower body.
“Hide it.”
Aaron bit his lip.
If that happened, you wouldn’t have heard that I had no talent.
“Without any arrangements or calculations, I just stab and wield whatever I see. Your spearmanship is like that of a beast. Of course, I don’t think you can learn by saying this.”
“You know.”
said Aaron.
“If I could learn that, would I be doing this?”
“I guess so.”
Lydigion also smiled.
Just stab and wield at random.
A spearmanship no different from that of a beast.
‘That’s the correct answer.’
decided to admit
Because Aaron’s talent didn’t make it to the next level.
How many times was he himself?
I remembered the question and answer with the master.
It was about martial arts.
“Do you know what the basics of martial arts are?”
the boy said grimly.
“To turn your 1 into 10 and your opponent’s 10 into 1. In other words, the weak against the strong. Oh, that’s not what I said, so don’t argue. That guy did it.”
“Is that so.”
“By the way, will that work for you? Can an idiot like you know the principle?”
Aaron, who was listening, sulked and lowered his head.
You can’t learn martial arts yourself.
So now I was struggling with this.
“How am I going to win? a guy like that.”
“yes?”
“Even if I attack with a power of 100, that bastard changes to 1 to dispel it, and turns his 1 to 100 to knock me out. That’s ridiculous.”
“I see.”
Mathematical analogies like crap.
Still, the truth won’t be much different.
Even if I throw a blow as heavy as a mountain, he makes it light as a feather, and makes his own feather-like blow as heavy as a mountain to knock me down.
In other words, no matter how wide the basic ability is, it is not an opponent.
Even if it is a difference of dozens of times.
“Wouldn’t it be possible to learn a similar level of skill to him and apply the same formula?”
“Will that work for you?”
“… … It won’t work.”
It is a theory.
Aaron didn’t have that quality.
‘How should I win?’
Aaron groaned and pondered.
The master smiled and said.
“easy. Very easy.”
“How is it, Master?”
“If you can’t do it with a hundred, then with a thousand. If you can’t do it with the power of a thousand, just do it. can you keep uploading? One hundred thousand, one million, ten million.”
Aaron’s mouth fell open.
It was an outrageous exposé.
“Whoops. Imagine. How long can you last? If you make a mountain like a feather, this time you’re going to hit the entire mountain range. Can I pass that lightly? What next? next time? How long will that be?”
Even if he is the god of nothingness, he can only turn the power of 10 into 1 indefinitely, not return it to 0 at all.
‘Beat and drive.’
with overwhelming violence.
Smash it whole and crush it.
“… … .”
The darkness in Aaron’s eyes deepened.
It’s not over yet.
The output of the solar eclipse increases.
A body beyond its limits.
It didn’t even make a sound anymore.
‘That man lives in the future rather than me.’
let’s accept
No matter what I do, everything is read and caught.
There is only one road.
Destroying that man’s future all at once.
‘It’s a beast.’
That’s right.
An honest beast that only knows how to bump into the power it has.
If that’s the case, just keep raising that power.
Until you know, you can’t stop it.
“… … .”
The spear swung and grazed the place where Lydigion had been.
It’s okay to miss a thousand or ten thousand times.
It should be one last time.
how about that guy
Even if you avoid a thousand times, if you get hit once, that’s it.
He has only one chance.
On the other hand, Aaron has countless opportunities.
Dozens of shadows had already disappeared instead of his body, but he was still standing and brandishing his spear.
‘Faster.’
Aaron recognized the problem.
The reason why that man easily avoids his own attack is because the attack route is easy to read.
‘More difficult.’
Lidigion is dodging all of Aaron’s attacks from the front.
In the meantime, he stabbed a counterattack.
When facing each other, you can see everything about the other person.
So it will be easier to deal with.
‘How about this?’
you suddenly disappear
Then, it appears from behind the opponent.
There should be no foreshadowing.
The man in front of you can tell the next move with a single breath.
‘Just by thinking.’
change body position
Of course, this is more of a delusion.
Absolute teleportation without any trace or delay.
It was a magic impossible even for a great mage.
But in a dream it is possible.
[mountain]
[One thousand miles away (天里一跳)]
Pod!
Aaron’s body disappears.
In the next moment, the body swung the spear behind Lidigion.
The smile on Lidigion’s lips grew thicker.
The man’s model slid to the left leaving an afterimage.
Shuk.
At the same time, the blade aimed at Aaron’s neck.
But Aaron is not there.
This time it was above the head of Lydigion.
Raise the spear blade down and stab it with momentum to penetrate the top of the head.
Lidigion moved a few steps.
A downward spear pierced the floor.
gushing sand and dirt.
In the meantime, Aaron’s new model disappeared again.
Lydigion laughed out loud.
“ha ha ha!”
right this time.
As soon as Lydegion dodges the stab, it appears from the left.
It does not move by moving the body directly.
Aaron was changing the position of his body just by thinking.
Shadows appear and disappear from all sides.
In a dizzying succession of stabs and swings from different places, they swept all over the place.
Papa papapat!
Aaron’s spear, which had moved five times in total, aimed at Ridigion’s back.
Ridigion dodged without looking back.
“It’s fun!”
above the plains.
Dozens of shadows are flashing.
Each of them is a trace of a dream.
“Isn’t it funny?”
“What do you mean?”
“Those untrained heroes often praise their skills, saying that it is a new work or a cessation of learning. According to the classification of martial training, the current four techniques are body methods.”
new law.
Martial arts on how to move the body.
“What use are those proud divine laws in front of you? It’s all a joke, and it’s like crappy garbage.”
Lydegion laughed loudly.
Even so, Aaron’s attack does not reach even once.
Whijeokhwijeok, fluttering the sleeves of the long sleeves, he was freely dodging the attacks.
doesn’t even rub
Aaron felt goosebumps run down his skin.
“What is a true Shin Gong? It exists right here.”
Lydigion laughed at them.
How useless is that?
They have been honing certain skills for thousands of years, exalting and extolling them as the skills of the gods.
If you learn this skill, you can surpass even the gods.
That’s why it’s a divine skill.
No martial art can match the subtlety of this technique.
That’s why I quit school (絶學).
What’s new and what’s out of school?
If you have the ability to learn that skill to the end, you are strong enough without them. just like you did
No matter how great the new work and the cutting edge are, can they be compared to the sight in front of them?
Aaron Delkard.
That man is weak.
If it were me, I could kill hundreds of times on the spot with one hand.
It was like a worm.
However, just because they have karma, those who have not attained enlightenment are trying to cross the realm.
That’s what true Shin Gong is.
If you just learn it, you can make any weakling reach the position of a god.
All of the enlightenment and training that has been achieved so far becomes useless and useless in front of karma.
‘okay.’
Ridigion remembered the past.
how savage it was
The person who defeated him was just a guy who didn’t even learn intermediate spearmanship.
Will it be okay?
How could the world be so unreasonable?
How could the universe bestow the blessing of karma on such an incompetent person?
If karma was his share.
If only he could handle that ability.
It just doesn’t end there.
He could surpass even the gods, Ridigion could assure him.
That technology has no weaknesses.
one if any.
Those who use it are too weak.
On the other hand, what can be obtained is eternity and infinite.
New craftsmen who could exist only in imagination and delusion are real in the dream of karma.
‘I wanted to get it. Your strength.’
I longed for it and longed for it.
I thought of strength as a means and thought nothing of it, but the moment I was defeated by that, I became greedy.
I thought it was a pearl necklace around a pig’s neck.
I thought I could write better and better.
But now I know.
‘Even though I can beat that boy with nothingness’ talent.’
Thus, Ridigion cast off his lingering attachments.
‘I couldn’t win with the talent of my heart.’
That power was not allowed to him.
If you do, you have no choice but to sharpen and polish the power that is allowed to you.
‘The reason I was able to realize my strength by being truly humble.’
after the match is over.
The boy said to the kneeling man.
It’s not over yet.
‘Because there was that back.’
Kang!
Aaron staggered back several meters.
The white blade violently ricocheted off the spearhead.
“Are there any more?”
It is impossible to block the moon’s shadow.
Ridigion bounced off the spear shaft instead of the spear blade.
“there is.”
Aaron returned to his stance.
Whoops!
A black shadow eventually wrapped around the entire window.
“You can’t do it twice.”
“Looks like it.”
If it touches that densely compressed shadow, no weapon will be safe.
“I will go.”
No need to dig the ground.
Aaron, who disappeared on the spot, appeared behind Lidigion.
Lydegion glided around Aaron’s side.
Shuk.
An oblique cut grazed Aaron’s body.
Subsequently, Lydigion’s body is scattered into several pieces leaving afterimages. Aaron couldn’t tell which one was real.
‘It’s like a monster.’
Aaron’s body also literally disappeared, catching up with Lidigion.
The two shadows intersect and embroider the plain.
Now it doesn’t even make a sound.
There is only a wild typhoon raging across the plains.
Piles of dirt and gravel lifted from the ground were blown up by the wind.
Ordinary people cannot recognize it and cannot enter it.
This is already the world of demons.
In the meantime, the path of the blade sometimes bends and cuts Aaron’s shadow.
Aaron’s stab against this pierced the air black.
Only the traces left by the two new models and spear swords that appeared and disappeared at a glance showed the direction of the battle.
