Became a Swordsman Genius in a Pretty Girl Game - Chapter 315



315 – 315. White Flower (2)

Receiving periodic heals from Sophia, we walked along the footprints.

It felt a bit strange to keep getting hit by arrows while just walking.

Thwack! Thwack!

‘But why does she keep shooting at my butt?’

I glanced back slightly.

“Hehe, doesn’t it feel like getting a shot?”

Sophia said with an innocent face.

“Um, does it?”

We didn’t really have anything to say, so we kept walking, following the footprints.

And finally, we arrived at the place.

It was a spacious clearing with white statues standing among white trees.

A scene that looked like a sacred temple.

One statue was lying on its side on an altar, resting its head, while six statues holding weapons stood as if guarding it.

“This place…”

The party members, slightly admiring the dreamy scenery,

gasped when they discovered wounded people piled up like heaps of luggage on both sides of the clearing.

“Gasp!”

“Oh no…”

“Did they all get attacked?”

Bright red blood was flowing out, soaking the white dust accumulated on the ground.

“Ugh…”

“Groan…”

Judging by the groans coming from the pile of bodies, it seemed not everyone was dead, but it was probably only a matter of time.

“Where are the demons?”

In response to Kang Dohee’s question, I pointed with my chin to the white statues in the center of the clearing.

“Are those statues the demons?”

Gukbap asked, frowning.

“Yes. The demon is the one in the middle. The surrounding statues are its minions. At first, only those minions will attack.”

The party members seemed a bit confused, as the form of the demon was very different from what they had experienced before.

The demon of deception certainly didn’t have the appearance of a demon.

The demon of sloth.

The figure of Baekhwa lying among the six statues holding various weapons was a statue with three heads and six arms.

How should I put it? It looked more like a finely crafted piece of art.

‘The previous parties must have taken damage from the dust on their way here, not knowing that thing was a demon, and got ambushed…’

Creak─

As we took our defensive stance, its three heads slowly turned towards us.

And its eyes glowed bright red as they focused on us.

Rumble─!!

In an instant, vibrations spread, and the six statues beside us grabbed their weapons and moved, while white dust thickly filled the air.

“We must avoid their attacks at all costs. More certainly than what we see with our eyes. Attacking immediately without confirming no damage is a suicidal act. Attack only when I give the signal. Gukbap, you protect Sophia and Senior Autumn. Kang Dohee, you and I will each take two. And Sophia, you know what to do, right?”

“Yes!”

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Although I had explained this to the party members several times on the way, it couldn’t be emphasized enough.

Due to a previous group training session, Alice, who was facing demons for the first time, gripped her spear with tense hands.

Fortunately, she didn’t seem to be overwhelmed by fear or panic.

‘She trained under the Sword Master and played with those Drake guys, so…’

I turned my head again to look at Baekhwa.

[ The pests that disturb my slumber have crawled in once again. ]

The demon, still lying down, reached out towards us and shouted in a resonant voice.

[ Minions, exterminate all the pests──! ]

And the battle began.

* * *

A mace tearing through the air and crashing down towards him.

Kang Dohee, watching this, quickly tilted his head back to avoid the attack.

And then he felt a strange sensation.

Although it looked incredibly fast and powerful to the eye, there was no sense of wind pressure or impact.

How should I put it?

It felt as if that menacing mace was as hollow as a balloon.

Due to the disparity in sensation, his evasive movement was slightly delayed, and the tip of the mace grazed his forearm.

Swoosh─!

His skin was slightly cut, and blood flowed out.

Seeing this, Kang Dohee clicked his tongue.

Now he understood what Yellow Dog meant by ‘The attack might not feel like an attack.’

Despite being injured, he felt no sensation at all.

According to Yellow Dog, it seemed that they were already taking damage from the white dust that had risen.

Moreover, it seemed that the timing for evasion and attack, which had been ingrained in his body, was slightly off because what he saw with his eyes and what he felt were separate.

‘Ha, there really are all sorts of guys.’

If he hadn’t heard from Yellow beforehand, he probably wouldn’t have felt the wounds or the pain due to his personality. He would have rushed in and counterattacked immediately.

Knowing the future, he thought, was truly a fraudulent ability.

But because of that, he didn’t like how that Yellow guy always acted as if he had ten lives.

At that moment, another guy next to him swung a large sword horizontally.

This time, Kang Dohee calmly ducked his entire upper body and dodged it without panicking.

And then, he heard Jin Yuha’s voice from the artifact in his ear.

[Kang Dohee, attack for the next 3 seconds.]

Siiik─

Okay.

He had been waiting for those words.

‘I haven’t shown that to Jin Yuha yet.’

The achievement he gained while rolling around in Taebaeksan.

He had hidden it even during the return test, intending to use it when sparring separately with Jin Yuha.

Since then, there had been so many events like the entrance ceremony that he hadn’t had a chance to show it.

And even when they caught the demons before, he intended to use it at the decisive moment, but Jin Yuha had done everything by himself, leaving no opportunity.

This skill had a limitation of once a day due to the burden on the blood vessels.

‘Anyway, that demon said he wouldn’t be able to use the skill once he started moving… Now is the perfect time.’

[Incarnation of the Fire God (火神降臨)]

Fwooosh─!

He felt the sensation of mana, resembling flames, swirling through his entire blood vessels, heating them up.

It felt like speeding down a highway without brakes.

The given time was only 3 seconds.

But it didn’t matter.

Now, he would move much faster than that.

All his senses sharpened, and everything he saw on his retina passed by slowly.

It felt like 1 second had stretched to 10 seconds.

The white dust scattering like snowflakes.

The statues reassembling, storing their maces and swords.

Even Jin Yuha’s eyes widened as if surprised to see herself.

‘I wanted to see that surprised look of Jin Yuha separately in the training room…’

Still, I have no choice but to be satisfied with seeing it like this.

Kang Dohee turned her head back to look at the enemies and smacked her lips.

She moved alone at a normal speed in the slowly moving scenery.

In other words, Jin Yuha mentioned an attack timing of 3 seconds.

But she can move alone for 30 seconds.

No, with Im Gaeul’s acceleration, it might be even faster.

1 second.

She kicked off the ground, spun her body, and struck the sword statue’s hand with her foot.

Then, the guy dropped the sword from his hand due to the impact.

And Kang Dohee grabbed his wrist and leaped onto the statue’s head.

Then she grabbed the heads of the two statues with each hand and smashed them together.

Boom─!

The sound of the impact came a beat later.

It feels like she is moving at normal speed, but not to them.

Even a light impact transformed into a ten times stronger shock.

2 seconds.

Kang Dohee, who had learned grappling moves from Jin Yuha, smoothly hung upside down behind the sword statue and twisted its ankle 180 degrees.

Then the sword statue lost its balance and lay down on the floor.

Kang Dohee immediately pressed its back with her knee and also twisted both arms.

Maybe she used too much force.

Crunch─!

Crunch─!

Both arms of the sword statue were torn off.

‘Hmm… Is its durability not that strong? Or is it because I pulled it at ten times the speed?’

Anyway, she succeeded in neutralizing one of them.

Seeing this, the mace statue next to her raised its arm to strike down with the mace.

Perhaps because she had first smashed the heads of the two statues together, there was a crack in the mace statue’s head as well.

Kang Dohee immediately stood up and countered with a punch.

The target was the cracked head of the mace statue.

Three seconds.

Boom!

A beat slower, the sound of impact was heard again, and the mace statue tried to fall backward.

But she grabbed the statue’s head with her left hand and stopped it.

Then, in the same position, she punched again.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Punching with all the strength she could muster.

Unlike the sword statue, this mace statue seemed quite sturdy.

However, after delivering ten consecutive blows to the same spot,

Crack─!

The mace statue couldn’t withstand it, and her fist went through its head and out the other side.

Sss─

At the same time, the rampaging mana’s rotation slowed down, and time began to flow normally again.

“Hoo…”

Kang Dohee felt a languid sense of relief as she turned her head.

Then she saw Jin Yuha cutting off an enemy’s arm with his sword, looking at her with a bewildered expression.

In response, Kang Dohee felt deep satisfaction and brushed her hair back.

“Hoo. Yellowy, do you need any help?”