The Soldier Shouted Save - Chapter 80
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The soldier shouted save (80)
The doppelganger’s words that he will burn Lee Hyun-seong’s soul.
‘… What does that mean?’
I wanted to figure out what it meant, but I didn’t have the luxury of just standing there.
-widely!
The guy who kicked the floor twists and turns his whole body.
-Swish swish swish!
A doppelganger that spins its body like a windmill and unleashes a barrage of attacks.
He quickly attacks with a swordsmanship he sees for the first time.
‘… … This was swung with an ordinary iron sword?’
He overpowers me with his crude weapon.
-Titing! Ting! Ting!
A series of attacks that prevent you from correcting your posture.
‘… Ugh.’
The guy who pushed me away with his shoulder in an instant passes me and heads towards where Hye-rin is.
“Hey, Ignis!”
Hyelin creates a giant fireball in time with the doppelganger’s approaching movements.
The guy stretches out his hand with a blank expression on his face.
“Deletio.”
Strange tentacles extending from the shadow of the creature.
…what kind of black magic is it?
A tentacle made of shadows wraps around Hye-rin’s fireball, then clumps up into a small ball and disappears.
‘… …Both swordsmanship and black magic surpass me.’
A movement that surpasses all.
I couldn’t believe that he was a doppelganger who copied my abilities.
“I’ll go! Go back and cover!”
The leader jumps in and guards Hye-rin.
-Ting!
The bastard moves his mouth as he clashes swords with the chief.
“Misus.”
It was an attack that could not be responded to.
The bastard stretches out his fingers while holding his sword together and shoots a ray of black light at the chieftain.
“Ugh, ugh! What the hell is this guy!”
The leader hurriedly draws up the saint’s divine power.
But the bastard’s black magic pierced through the divine power and created a hole in the leader’s shoulder.
“La, Sister Ranko! Are you okay?”
“… … It hurts so bad. It’s not even healing well.”
A fighting style you’ve never seen before.
He takes out another sword as he sees the doppelganger trying to finish off the group that is cornered.
‘I need to see what his limits are.’
Red mud overflowing from the sword covers his body.
Red armor appears on my body.
‘Even though his mood changed, I’ve never been able to stop this.’
Draw up all the mana in your body and release it all at once.
Red tidal wave.
Explosive mana forms a tidal wave, unleashing a series of nonstop attacks.
-Ting ting ting ting ting ting ting!
The sound of a red sword and an iron sword clashing.
There is no room to exhale.
He swings his arms ceaselessly, cutting down the bastard like a powerful wave.
‘… … You’re saying you’re going to follow all of these movements?’
The doppelganger moves his eyes to follow the sword strike.
Keep up with all those quick movements and strike down all the red swords.
‘… … Even a blacksmith like that would be impossible.’
What he was holding was nothing more than an ordinary iron sword.
A fragile iron sword that shatters when it makes direct contact with the red sword.
But the bastard was making movements that were almost like a trick, deflecting the attack with minimal impact to prevent the iron sword from shattering.
‘……this.’
He couldn’t straighten out the sword that he had deflected.
The guy who saw my posture was messed up aims his finger at my chest.
“Misus.”
A black beam of light gathers on the bastard’s index finger.
As the black beam of light headed towards my heart, I felt a cold death.
‘… … Is this an imitation of me?’
His black beam of light extends towards my heart.
-Jiiiiiiiiiiing.
When it melts the red armor, pierces Drago’s coat, and burns my flesh.
The black light of the bastard suddenly lost all its strength.
“… … .”
A doppelganger with a haggard face, kneeling on one knee.
“… … Not yet.”
The guy raises his body with a face full of anger.
-Thump, thump.
The guy walks with difficulty, using his iron sword as a cane.
-hook.
A sword strike with no strength.
Lightly dodge the slow sword strike and stab the red sword into the bastard’s heart.
“Ugh, ugh… … .”
The doppelganger falls to the floor, his face distorted in pain.
“Ah, not yet… … .”
Did you miss the heart?
The sight of him glaring at me until the end and swinging his sword.
-Thump.
When I put my sword into its head, it stops moving.
“… … Is it over?”
The corpse of a doppelganger with both the head and heart pierced.
The chief, who was quietly examining the body, asked with a puzzled look on his face.
“If this guy dies, the save will be activated?”
It was just as the leader said.
If the doppelganger who perfectly copied my abilities had died, the save would have been triggered and I would have to go back to the past.
‘… … But, why don’t you go back to the past?’
The important question remains unanswered.
Aim the tip of the sword at the chin in an uncertain situation.
“What, what are you going to do?”
“I plan to check again.”
-Boom!
Without hesitation, he stabs the sword under the chin.
– Died from his own attack. [Confirmed]
-Loaded from auto-save. [Confirm]
The darkened field of vision returns with familiar writing.
“… … It’s still the same.”
Three dead doppelgangers.
As I frown at the situation that had returned to just a few dozen seconds ago, Hye-rin looks at my face and says.
“…What did you do?”
“I died to fight again, but I came back just a few dozen seconds later.”
“… Hmm, maybe because this is the most recent save?”
“Can you even know that?”
“Usually when you defeat a boss, it automatically saves.”
There were many places where life was saved, but there was only one place to return to.
“I wish I had heard it in advance.”
Most recent save.
If you can’t go back, there’s nothing you can do.
Go inside, past the dead doppelgangers.
“So, Allen. Did you learn anything from fighting the doppelganger?”
I clearly remember the bastard’s strange appearance.
The guy who was cornered said he would burn Lee Hyeon-seong’s soul.
Suddenly, he displayed swordsmanship and black magic that were almost miraculous.
‘… … Did you use the soul burning technique you learned from Noel’s skill book?’
‘Soul Burning’, developed independently by Noel, was a black magic that gained power in exchange for souls.
It was a black magic that allowed one to use the soul’s abilities while alive for a short time by burning the soul they had.
‘The doppelganger burned Lee Hyun-seong’s soul with Noel’s magic… does that mean it’s one of the two?’
If you already have Lee Hyun-seong’s soul,
Or I am Lee Hyeonseong.
If not for those two cases, it would have been impossible to burn Lee Hyun-seong’s soul.
‘… … Both are ridiculous, but if you think about the one with the highest probability… … .’
I would say that I have Lee Hyun-seong’s soul.
‘… … I don’t know.’
The unusual things that happened to me seemed understandable, yet they were hazy and foggy.
‘Was my explosive growth due to the power I gained by burning Lee Hyun-seong’s soul? … … No, if that was the case, I would have lost my power a long time ago.’
Choi Sang-jin, a wizard from another world who studied and practiced Noel’s secret arts.
Thinking back to when I fought him, I thought that the ‘soul burn’ effect could only last for about 30 minutes.
‘I don’t have much experience fighting, but… … .’
Even if we were to make a generous allowance for error, I don’t think it would last more than a month.
‘It doesn’t make sense that my power was gained by burning Lee Hyun-seong’s soul. I must have gained tremendous power from the moment I burned his soul.’
If you burned Lee Hyun-seong’s soul to get a ‘save’, you would have gained great power even before you realized the first save.
But even after realizing I had saved, I was still just a retired palace soldier who had barely defeated 22 goblins.
‘… … We have no choice but to properly investigate Lee Hyeon-seong.’
Lee Hyeon-seong, whom the palace is chasing with all its might.
If he were alive and well, I would not have his soul.
‘If Lee Hyun-seong is alive, I must have misunderstood the doppelganger’s actions.’
Deepening worries.
It was the chief’s voice that stopped those thoughts.
“Sorry to break your concentration, but isn’t that a statue of a goddess?”
As I turned my gaze to the chief’s words, an elaborately crafted statue came into view.
A long-haired woman praying with her hands clasped together and facing the ceiling.
Looking at the wings attached to its back, it definitely looked like a statue of the goddess Freya.
“That’s strange. Usually, the goddess statue is at the entrance to the palace.”
“Look at the bottom. There are signs that it has been moved. Perhaps the palace hid the statue of the goddess here, as we suspected.”
Couldn’t you control your curiosity?
The chief approaches the statue of the goddess with a tense expression on his face.
“… … Will you touch it?”
The power to turn back time and life.
A statue of a goddess that makes saving possible.
The chieftain stretches his hand over the statue of the goddess.
“… … Nothing wrong? I guess it’s no use being a hero from another world.”
The chief shrugs his shoulders and steps back, saying:
“Hye-rin, you touch it.”
Hye-rin’s big eyes widen at the leader’s words.
“…Cow, shall I touch it?”
Hyelin stretches out her hand with a serious expression.
A rough surface that touches the white hand.
“……uh?”
When Hye-rin touches the pillar of the goddess statue, a golden light bursts out.
“Three, save! It says it’s saved!”
Hye-rin looks up at the statue of the goddess and laughs in disbelief.
A look of complex emotions.
“Then, if Hye-rin dies, will she go back to the past?”
“……well?”
At Hye-rin’s bewildered words, the chief holds out the dagger handle.
“Want to try it?”
“… … W, that’s scary.”
Hye-rin swallows hard and takes the dagger.
However, Hye-rin was unable to stab him in the chin with the tip of her sword.
“… … I just don’t want to do it.”
“I thought you couldn’t do it. Stabbing your own chin. Only a crazy person can do that.”
The chief looks at me and laughs mischievously.
“But the experiment to see if it really saved you… … .”
I’m trying to convince Hye-rin to see if she can use the save like me.
-Pfft!
Suddenly the statue of the goddess glowed blue.
“… … waypoint?”
A warrior’s slang I’m hearing for the first time.
However, I couldn’t ask Hye-rin what it meant.
“I had no idea there would really be someone here.”
Two men suddenly appeared next to the statue of the goddess.
The masked man raises his voice as he looks at us with tense faces and closed mouths.
“Fake Professor Matteo. Is it your doing this again?”
Although his lower body was covered by a mask, it was obvious who the man was at a glance.
‘Is that the man who interrogated me with the espionage professor?’
A man who used a privilege called ‘Settings Window’.
As I drew my sword to guard against him, a small man appeared with him and let out a small voice.
“Seo, Seok-Hwan… I don’t have to fight too, right?”
Is the masked man’s name ‘Seok-Hwan’?
A man named Seok-Hwan speaks with his eyes twitching in anger.
“How many more times do I have to explain this? Is it so hard to just keep your mouth shut and use the perk?”
“… I, I’m sorry. I, I just got here… I don’t know…”
Seok-Hwan, with an annoyed expression on his face, pushes the small man back and puts his hand into his bosom.
-Sreung.
A white dagger in Seok-Hwan’s hand.
The chief, who saw that, spoke to the man with a stern face.
“… White Snake Fang. A member of the great warrior party is acting like a professor, isn’t it surprising?”
A member of the warrior party.
It appears that the rumor that you become younger when you overcome your physical limitations is not just a rumor.
‘At most, he looks like he’s in his 30s.’
A person from decades ago who was once considered a hero.
Even though the person was right in front of me, I didn’t feel any joy at all.
“Lanco Masquerid. I see, the two candidates for sainthood were also mixed in with the rebels.”
The guy who was slowly moving his eyes suddenly kicked the floor.
-widely!
Steps towards Hye-rin.
“La, Lapis Catena!”
The man, facing the stone prison rising from the ground, moves his lips behind the mask.
“Change settings, display attack warning.”
The man muttering something incomprehensible suddenly changes direction.
-Kuuuung!
Jump faster and avoid the stone prisons that are extending from all directions.
-Whoosh!
I dodge and retreat with minimal movement as the chief’s sword swings back and forth.
‘Fuck.’
He twists his body again and extends his sword.
The man with the sharp tip of the sword before his eyes mutters in a leisurely voice.
“No matter how good you are, you’re just an NPC.”
-hook.
It was no accident.
This time too, he dodged my stabs with minimal steps and with great ease.
‘… How did you know the exact sword path? Did you see the future?’
A white dagger extending towards the collapsed torso.
But before the sword could reach the ground, a cloud of dust rose.
“Lapis Procella!”
-Wheww!
A violent storm brewing from the ground.
“There are many ways to commit suicide.”
As the heavy boulders are mixed in with the storm and rotate with the wind, the thing quickly falls back.
-Bang! Bam!
A menacingly spinning boulder crashes into the wall, breaking into sharp fragments that are then mixed into the storm.
“Ugh, ugh… … .”
A chieftain covering his face with both arms, unable to cope with the violent storm mixed with rocks.
“Catch it.”
He grabs the chief’s waist and runs towards where Hye-rin is.
“Hey, this way! Come in here quickly!”
As we jump into the place where the leader is waving, Hye-rin hurriedly covers our bodies with a cloud cloak.
-Thump, thump, thump.
An epic item with full hit resistance.
Upon touching the cloud cloak, the boulder loses its force and rolls along the ground.
“Ugh, ugh… What are we going to do now?”
As the chief heals the swollen wound from being hit by a stone, he speaks of the first problem that needs to be solved.
“To deal with him, you need to figure out how to dodge his attacks.”
A near-magical movement that evades attacks as if seeing the future.
If this problem is not solved, the guy who evaded the attack with the minimum steps could counterattack with a fatal wound.
“Ah! It’s because of the attack warning sign!”
“… … What is that?”
“It’s a system that notifies you of an opponent’s attack with a red light!”
When he frowns, not understanding, Hye-rin rephrases.
“To put it simply, it means that the enemy can know about our attacks in advance!”
Hide in the cloud cloak and listen to Hye-rin’s additional explanation.
‘Foreseeing the future and informing of attack paths in advance… … How absurd.’
Now that I understand what the attack warning sign is, I think I understand why Hye-rin used magic that could sweep away even her allies.
“If you attack such a wide area, you won’t be able to avoid the attack even if you predict it.”
“… … Yes, because attack warning signs will appear at every step.”
Is it hard to maintain magic?
Hye-rin finishes speaking with difficulty, her face turning pale.
“… … Hey, Allen. I think they’re coming this way.”
At the leader’s words, he lifts his cloak and looks outside.
-Clang, clang.
A storm that had died down to the point of strong winds.
He was heading this way, avoiding the rocks rolling on the ground.
‘If we’re going to cut that bastard down, now’s the time.’
Now that some magic still remains.
He runs towards the bastard with a red sword in his hand.
-Ting!
As I swing my sword with all my might, yellow flames fly out.
“… … .”
A guy who didn’t dodge the sword, but rather took it.
I am confident in that appearance.
‘The attack warning sign isn’t working properly.’
It was because of Hye-rin’s magic that attacked in a wide range.
The warning signs of the magic and sword strike overlap, making it difficult to properly predict the attack.
“Ha, is this the first time I’ve encountered an NPC more vicious than a user?”
Perhaps because he thought it was dangerous to truly cross swords with me, he devoted himself to defense.
-Ting! Ting ting!
The skills of a guy with rough dagger skills even without special abilities.
It is true that he is a member of the warrior party, and he easily defends against my pressing attacks with his dagger.
“The metropolitan area is finished?”
A guy who can avoid damage with minimal movement, without clashing swords.
But what I was aiming for wasn’t to cut off the bastard’s body.
-Whew!
Statue of the goddess Freya.
Let’s dodge the attack as if he had foreseen the future,
-Bang!
The blade that passed over him collapsed like an explosion of a statue of a goddess.
“Ugh, ugh!”
Shards of the statue of the goddess rain down on my head.
It was time to foretell death to the bastard.