The Sword Genius of the Magic Empire - Chapter 90



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As the world of nothingness responds to Enoch’s cognition.

Above the knight’s head, a white emblem appeared.

? The Blackness of Waves

Enoch walked forward in silence, extending his arms to the side.

A shadow ripples within his hand, forming a two-handed longsword that is exactly the same as the knight’s.

Language is necessary for communication with each other.

But since the swords of both sides are equal, from now on there is no room for words or language to intervene between the two.

Crunch.

The knight wearing a blue cloak over her silver armor also slowly lowered her posture and aimed her sword.

A complex posture where the sword hilt is raised over the bent left arm as if hugging it, and the tip of the sword is aimed horizontally to the left arm.

In a state of tension so tight it feels like it’s going to break.

Enoch immediately recognized his opponent.

Her swordsmanship is the complete opposite of Jechoi’s. It is not an aggressive swordsmanship that cuts down the enemy first. Enoch stared at the knight with his dark blue eyes.

Just, quiet.

The knight was staring at me with the tip of his sword still.

There is no sign of attacking first.

In that case, this side will move first.

Enoch grabbed his sword and slowly took a step or two forward, then kicked the ground hard.

[Explosive Sword]

Each part of the body concentrated dark blue mana, and it exploded. Enoch charged forward with a feeling of acceleration as if he was being bounced off.

In an instant, the knight’s figure approaches.

In the blink of an eye, Pia entered the sword’s range. Without even slowing down his speed, Enoch launched a vertical sword strike.

The space in front of my eyes was cut off at the speed of a meteor. A trajectory of dark blue light descended towards the enemy’s head.

The silver knight responded by raising his sword.

The moment the two swords clashed, intense blue flames flew and scattered in all directions.

Woohoo!

For a moment, Enoch felt a sense of alienation. It was as if the sword strike had been completely washed away by the gentle current. An indescribably strange feeling ran through his mind.

Blocked? No. It’s impossible. No matter how strong the opponent is, he won’t be able to block the powerful blow of the Exploding Sword.

At least the balance will be broken.

The moment he made that judgment, suddenly, out of nowhere, Enoch’s body, not his opponent’s, tilted sharply.

When Enoch’s eyes widened at the shocking fact, he realized a beat later that the knight’s sword had perfectly ‘deflected’ his own sword.

Enoch, feeling creepy, quickly raises his head to the side, and a sword emitting sky-blue light rapidly stabs in, taking advantage of the opening.

He immediately turns his leaning body around and uses all his might to slam his mana into the sword. Concentration, trigger.

[Fire wheel]

Taaaaang─! A tearing explosion of mana exploded. Relying on the insane acceleration of the sword, I forcibly rotated my body that was collapsing to the side.

A blue-black explosion explodes from the sword, and the blade ejected in reaction slashes towards the enemy, carving a huge circle. Instead of defending, counterattack with the fastest speed.

At that moment, the sword of the knight flying in wavered once.

In an instant, the trajectory of the fire wheel bounced strangely, and the two arms swinging the sword were bent at strange angles. A cracking sound resonated from the joints of Enoch’s shoulders.

Surprise comes before pain.

I was sure of it from the blow just now. This was the damage from the fire wheel that Enoch had just unleashed to counterattack.

‘You took advantage of my power?’

My heart starts pounding loudly as an idea comes to me.

The feeling of holding the sword dominates my body and whispers.

I want to know. No, I absolutely must know.

Enoch immediately reversed his stance and immediately began close combat by slashing into the knight’s arms with his explosive sword.

Kagagagagagak!

The two inspectors’ sharp sword strikes at close range tear through the air, trying to catch each other off guard.

As Enoch advanced, a trail of dark blue light spread out, swirling like a storm into dozens of branches.

The knight’s sword, engraved with a sky-blue light, counters this, and looms calmly like the waves of a lake.

The battle had already entered the realm of a battle of wits, where each side had to read the other’s future dozens of moves ahead.

A chess game played by two knights using the trajectory of their blades and swords. A head-on collision of extreme close combat skills where a momentary mistake can lead to death.

Enoch was the one who threw the first move.

He throws a fake move as if he is going to block the opponent’s sword strike, and then deliberately lays down his sword and rotates his body horizontally.

A low, upward slash, as if sweeping straight across the ground, rushed in, creating a splash on the surface of my inner world.

But the next moment,

Wooooow!

With a low metallic sound, the knight’s sword immediately entangles itself and wraps itself around the sword path in a strange direction.

Immediately afterwards, Enoch’s body was flipped upside down in the air while swinging his sword.

As expected. Again. Once again, the sword’s power ‘flowed out’.

Enoch immediately falls, places one arm on the ground, and twists his body in an acrobatic manner to land. Retreat.

The knight who saw that chased after him while slashing with a blue sword. Enoch also fought back and swung his sword.

The swords, clad in a bright blue light and a sinister dark blue light, clashed, sending blue sparks flying in all directions.

Enoch, who had briefly adjusted his posture, swung his sword around and quickly closed the distance towards his enemy. Once again, the dark blue sword strikes struck like a storm, drawing powerful sword lines.

however.

The knight with his sword wrapped in a sky-blue light simply moved his sword calmly and fluidly in the center of the storm, never allowing even a single attack.

And even at that moment.

Enoch was getting to know his opponent so thoroughly that he was surprised at himself.

‘I have a feeling what kind of sword it is.’

But it’s still not enough. To fully understand the opponent’s logic, you need to be more certain than you are now.

Well then, the first thing to do is to try it out.

At the same time as making that judgment,

Enoch turned his sword back to his side, leaned forward, and swung his right foot forward.

A kick to maximize the rotational power of the body. That moment when a strong splash of water appears on the surface─

[Fire wheel]

Taaaaang!

With the recoil of the sword being pulled back behind the waist, the three consecutive strikes that were fired tear through space and shoot out like a storm towards the enemy.

But once again the knight’s longsword intervenes.

The sword of the fire wheel that had been spinning violently suddenly crashed into the ground, tearing apart the water surface that was the floor of the inner world.

Water sprayed out in all directions.

Taking advantage of the gap in the water curtain before his eyes, Enoch immediately reverses his sword and leaps backwards, putting distance between himself and his opponent.

Enoch’s dark blue eyes glowed coldly.

This makes it certain.

The armored swordsman in front of him was completely dodging the attacks.

Of course. It is not a general category of technology.

Normally, no matter how much posture you take, you’ll be cut in half by the power of the fire wheel.

then?

What kind of swordsmanship does she use? What is her method of wielding the sword? Could this be the ultimate swordsmanship that she possesses, different from the best swordsmanship?

Enoch, who had thought that far, suddenly opened his eyes wide.

Fit─

Immediately after landing while retreating, the blade, emitting a cold, sky-blue light, lightly slices across my cheek.

The knight had already been chasing him up to his eyes.

I barely managed to avoid it by tilting my head back. It was suicidal to lose myself in thought during battle. Enoch was sure he knew that too.

But at the same time, I had no choice but to admit it.

Honestly, I was crazy curious.

What kind of sword will the swordsman obtain this time? What kind of will to live has been infused and completed into the swordsman’s sword, which once held transcendent meaning?

For a moment, a silent smile appeared on Enoch’s lips.

The perfect talent for the sword that was embedded in him had completely surpassed the enjoyment of the battle before his eyes and was now in full effect.

The dance of the sword engraving before one’s eyes is an ideal one wants to grasp.

The sharp metallic sound of two swung swords clashing is a signal flare that accelerates the accident.

The thoughts in his brain raced past his cognitive circuits. Enoch’s dark blue eyes caught up with his opponent’s swordsmanship, his movements, timing, and his intentions and maneuvers as he unleashed his sword.

The moment when the sword master fully understood all the principles of swordsmanship that he had achieved when he reached the realm of the sword master─

Enoch struck with his sword with confidence.

[Explosive Sword]

Kwaaaaaaaang!

The mana arrayed on both arms explodes. Once again, a diagonal upward slash from the ground to the sky explodes.

[─?]

For a split second, I felt a slightly suspicious look between the helmets of the knights I was facing.

Explosive sword. And an upward slash at that. It’s the technique Enoch used earlier. If that’s the case, then I’ll just let it slide again this time.

Immediately after that, only a sure counterattack awaits.

Kaaaaah!

The knight naturally unleashed another flowing sword strike. Then, as if deliberately using the power of the explosive sword against him, he lifted his body high into the air.

She soared into the sky as if she was being bounced, then stopped for a moment at the highest point with a gentle twist of her body.

The next moment, the knight fell with both arms clad in silver gauntlets, his longsword raised high above his head.

A slash of devastating speed descended upon Enoch’s head with a sharp crash.

The knight’s decisive move split the sky in half and came crashing down.

The situation unfolds completely opposite to how Enoch first started the battle and launched his attack, and at that moment, the knight’s fatal blow strikes.

Enoch tilted his sword calmly.

With extreme concentration, all the surrounding sounds and sights suddenly become blank and disappear.

A world where only the sword in hand and the blows of the enemy that are looming before your eyes exist has arrived. The clear and clear realm of a clear mirror and still water is formed at the tip of Enoch’s sword.

And Enoch muttered faintly under his breath.

“I get it.”

He holds his two-handed sword above his head and leans forward to assume a stance. The dark blue light flows like waves, drawing a new sword path that he has never drawn before.

The moment when a gaze filled with faint surprise pierced Enoch’s skin through the silver helmet of the falling knight.

Wooooow!

Enoch swings his longsword sideways in the direction of the opponent’s attack.

The knight’s sword, which had been perfectly deflecting Enoch’s powerful blows up until now,

─This time, a dark blue trajectory unfolded like a mirror image right before the knight’s eyes.

Kagagagagagak!

The trajectory of the knight’s sword as he fell was entangled with Enoch’s sword.

It was as if I had been swept away by the current, twisted strangely, and completely missed the enemy’s path.

A fleeting moment. The knight’s gaze, hidden behind his helmet as they clashed swords, was faintly filled with surprise, even though it was invisible.

Deliberately provoking her into counterattacking with an attack that wouldn’t work, and perfectly reproducing the technique.

Awe for the swordsman who made the sword completely his own through one battle.

The knight’s sword strike, which had been so beautifully deflected, only pierced the air next to Enoch’s cheek.

A white sentence appeared above Enoch’s field of vision as he glanced at it with expressionless eyes.

? Succession completed

? [Countercurrent] (Basic)

In order to overcome deep frustration and despair, he had to go against the flow of life and death with his sword.

? Effect: Deflects the opponent’s attack with your sword.

Enoch slowly turned his head and looked at the knight.

Above the horizon formed by the sky and the ground, where countless stars shine in the night sky.

The knight was raising his sword.

And then, the knight finally got up and slowly raised his longsword in front of his eyes, facing Enoch.

An action of showing respect to an opponent with whom one is engaged in a decisive battle.

It was a beautiful and elegant appearance that would have made others exclaim in admiration if they had seen it. Enoch put down his sword for a moment and stared at it blankly.

With her back to the night sky of the inner world, I could see her sky-blue hair wavy beneath her silver helmet.

The appearance of the knight who would soon succeed him again soon became transparent and disappeared along with his inner world.

Enoch knew instinctively.

[Counterflow] is deflecting an opponent’s attack.

It was a technique that aimed for a desperate counter that could create an opponent’s weak point if used well, not to mention in close combat.

But it doesn’t end there.

The foundation of swordsmanship achieved by Geomseong is not limited to simple sword-to-sword duels, but is the pinnacle of concepts that one person can reach and perfect with just one sword.

It never simply has one meaning.

Naturally, swordsmanship could also be applied and used in irregular ways.

I had already used the application of form when I defeated Tantalus the other day. The form of swordsmanship that Geomseong had achieved was not limited to simple movements.

then?

In this world full of wizards, it was also obvious how this could be utilized.

Enoch already had a clear intuition.

He slowly opened his eyes as he returned to reality.

As I turn my head, my eyes meet the mirror in the training ground.

His eyes, reflected in the glass, were shining dark blue, as if to prove that he had already inherited another level of swordsmanship.

at las.

It seemed that his talents, which could now be called a genius in the sword, were finally opening their eyes one by one.