The Sword Genius of the Magic Empire - Chapter 97



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Kuuuuung!

A loud explosion shook the air inside the room, followed by a tumultuous roar that shook the rocks.

The thorns of the rock, which fiercely pierced the space on all sides, struck around the galloping Enoch.

Faust, who was surrounded by a light of mana that seemed like it would burst out all over his body, drew up mana,

Whee!

In an instant, the controlled corpse lowered two fingers. Two square pillars of rock crashed down from the ceiling.

Kurrururur!!

A pillar of rock crashed down towards Enoch, and the overwhelming force of its mass sent Enoch flying sideways.

Immediately after, the spot where he was was pierced by a rock pillar, collapsing through the floor and splitting the surrounding ground in half.

Enoch, who had just dodged, landed on the ground with his shoes dragging backwards, making a large turn to the side.

And then he immediately kicked the ground hard.

[Explosive Sword]

Kuuuuung!

Enoch’s new form rushed forward like a bullet with a loud noise, closing the distance with the enemy in the blink of an eye.

But as if he wasn’t going to be hit by the same number, Faust immediately swung his arms in the darkness.

Chaaaaah!

The stone floor cracks beneath Faust’s feet, and he quickly moves backwards like a skate.

A barrage of simultaneous rocks crashed down on Enoch. Enoch immediately rolled to the side and took cover behind a pillar.

Enoch’s eyes narrowed for a moment as he leaned back against the wall.

An elementalist close to level 10.

He was a very excellent magician who mainly used elemental battle magic related to rocks during his lifetime.

The body, now dead, began to emit magic more powerful than it had in its lifetime.

Faust folds his arms in front of his eyes.

A dazzling circular magic circle unfolds in front of him.

Enoch’s eyes widened slightly as he ran towards him. A powerful magic spell among the 13th-grade battle magic.

[Column Order]

Immediately the stone walls, pillars and ceiling began to vibrate violently.

You have a gut feeling that the entire huge abandoned building has turned into a giant trap that could fall on Enoch at any moment.

Enoch grabs his sword and runs towards Faust.

And the next moment.

Columns of rock jutted out from the ceiling and floor, and from all directions, crashing down indiscriminately toward Enoch.

Swoosh!!

Enoch quickly tilted his head back and slid. Just as he looked up, a pillar seemed to pass right in front of his eyes.

Narrowly avoids a rock flying straight from the side by rotating your body and sending it flying behind you.

The space is filled with three-dimensional maze-like pillars of rock shot out from all directions. The dust and debris of rocks erupting from all directions vibrate.

Then, a pillar rushes in from behind, targeting Enoch.

Enoch immediately sensed the attack from behind just by the sound, jumped up, and kicked the end of the pillar with his foot.

Taaaaaang!

Enoch ran straight ahead through the gray dust that spread like fog in the darkness.

“Kekekekeke, as expected!!”

Faust, who was swinging his arms with the power of the dead to his heart’s content, shouted with a haunted expression.

“You’re not even deploying a single defensive spell! Is there some special power in that thing that doesn’t even look like a magic item?”

“well.”

Enoch’s dark blue eyes shone as he approached him, holding his two-handed sword behind his waist.

“Is your attack worth it?”

“… … !!”

The moment Faust’s mouth twisted greatly at Enoch’s indifferent tone hidden in the shadow of the hood,

Enoch’s sword pierced the air and surged forward, piercing his collarbone. He then dashed forward and slammed him into the wall.

The room shook violently with a loud noise. Faust’s corpse twisted its mouth in pain.

“Khuuuuuuk!”

With the sword stuck into the enemy’s collarbone, he was pinned to the wall.

“As expected.”

Enoch stared straight into Faust’s rotten, hollow eyes as he screamed in agony, and returned his words expressionlessly.

“It seems like the main body and the sub-body are connected by their sense of pain.”

“Haha, yeah. That’s right! It’s not surprising anymore!”

He looked straight at Enoch, twisted his face into a smile, and spread his arms wide.

“You know so much about forbidden black magic!!”

A dazzling light burst out from his two arms as they touched the wall, and a powerful gravitational force was generated rapidly.

Immediately, a section of the wall was torn off and gathered into the shape of a gauntlet, which was then swung towards Enoch.

Booooooooo!

Enoch immediately kicked the bastard in the chest, retrieved his sword, and landed with a large spin behind him.

“Kekekeke! That reaction speed and that kinetic vision truly seem to far surpass that of a human!!”

The corpse roared and pointed its finger at Enoch.

“You feel it? That sword. Did you get lucky and gain power from it because it’s a relic left behind by ancient wizards?”

Ignoring his blunder, Enoch grabbed his sword expressionlessly and flicked it once, shaking off the blood.

Perhaps they mistake the sword for a powerful wizard’s artifact found in an ancient ruin or something like that.

Well, if you just look at the word ‘relic’, it might not be so wrong.

But I completely missed the point where it really mattered.

Meanwhile, Faust said sarcastically.

“The luck of obtaining such an old relic is meaningless in the face of overwhelming combat experience!”

He immediately stamped his feet hard on the ground with one leg and spread his arms wide to the side.

“I guess I have a better battle sense in magic warfare!!”

Kurrurur.

Around his body, huge rocks began to break off into pieces and quickly attach to each other.

Not only the rock gauntlet, but also the full body armor. Magic boasting extremely strong defensive power enveloped his body.

[Petra: Full Plate Armor]

At the same time, Enoch approached the bastard straight away, grabbed his two-handed sword, and slashed at the rock armor.

Kaaaaaaang!

But the next moment, the blade returned, bouncing off the rock’s surface with sparks flying.

The teeth of the laughing creature were visible from within the rock armor that had been covering the corners of its mouth like a helmet.

“Kuuuu, as expected, it’s impossible to break through this defense with a sword or something!! After all, it’s the highest level magic at 11th rank!!”

The bastard kicked Enoch, who was approaching him. His physical abilities, freed from their limits, surged forward.

Enoch defends himself by deflecting a kick from his armored opponent at close range with his sword.

However, Enoch’s entire body was thrown backwards with the impact on his arm.

Tear tear tear!!

A sharp pain shot straight through Enoch’s back, causing the iron railing to snap violently.

Enoch exhaled the breath that had burst from his lungs in a poisonous manner and immediately rolled his body to the side.

A moment too late, a thunderous noise erupted as the rock spear smashed through the iron railing, piercing the eardrums.

He immediately shifted his sword to the side and began to run towards the side of the darkened abandoned building.

Enoch accelerated his pace as he swept past the pillars of the abandoned building shrouded in darkness, aiming to catch his opponent off guard.

‘The essence of rock-type battle magic is to crush the opponent with its overwhelming mass and destructive power.’

It is also a sect that boasts extremely strong defensive capabilities and has a large number of solid and stable battle magic spells.

In particular, the modern magic of the [Petra] series is a defensive magic that temporarily changes the structural components of the magician.

And its strong defensive power, which even surpasses special alloys, is often replaced by physical attack power, so it is also a magic that gives a strong advantage, especially in one-on-one close combat.

But it doesn’t end there.

“It doesn’t seem like it’ll work out, so why don’t you just run away without turning your back?!”

Bullwht!!

A volley of rock shells passed behind Enoch as he ran, destroying several pillars with one blow.

A sorcerer who relies on defensive abilities to engage in close combat, as well as long-range combat with multiple castings.

He laughed viciously and shouted.

“As expected, you are no match for my fighting sense!”

But Enoch ran straight ahead and, without even looking away, grabbed a piece of debris flying through the air.

Then he immediately turns his body and throws it to the side.

The fragments flew through the darkness and struck the opposite wall, making a loud noise as they reached Faust’s ears.

“There you are!!”

At that moment, Faust ambitiously reached out his hand towards it, and Enoch began bombarding the rock with the debris he had thrown.

But the next moment, Enoch approached with a burst of blue light, piercing through the darkness on the other side.

It was then that Faust turned his head and saw Enoch’s two feet standing right in front of him.

“What─?!”

At that moment, Enoch looked down at him and spoke quietly.

“You are no match for my fighting sense.”

[Explosive Sword]

A drop kick containing the full force of the explosive sword hits the chest of the armor and explodes.

“Kekekekekekekeke!!”

He was sent flying backwards with his armor on, but he managed to stop himself by burying one of his arms in the ground.

And then he smiled confidently.

“Kuhaa, since you can’t pierce this armor with a sword anyway, you won’t be able to do anything!!”

Enoch suddenly realized that his arms were shaking slightly.

I thought about applying [Fire Wheel] to the armor, but soon a negative answer came out of my head.

Even the powerful firepower of the Hwarin will have difficulty in landing an effective blow if it is blocked by the armor of that rock.

Even if we went into a hand-to-hand combat with bare hands, this side would be at a disadvantage. We needed a means to deliver a decisive, fatal blow.

And it seems that the same goes for Faust.

He tilted his head forward and glared at me, his eyes gleaming through the gaps in his helmet.

“… Well, that’s the same thing.”

He seemed to have made up his mind about something. A twisted smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he raised one arm toward the sky.

“Then I guess I need to finish you off?”

In his raised palm, a dazzling light shines that can dispel the darkness of the abandoned building.

In an instant, the stone walls surrounding the area exploded and were torn apart. As if they were automatically assembled, they came together at one point and emitted an intense light.

A giant rock snake appeared in the air inside the room.

Kurrurururur!!

A unique magic of the stone that coils like a giant rock snake that rules the sky immersed in darkness.

Under the magic of the rock shaped like a giant snake.

Faust, with both arms outstretched, shouted loudly.

“Let’s see how relaxed you can be!!”

A black rock snake floating in a circular shape, with its back to the faint white moonlight in the darkness of the night.

Kurrurur.

A snake made of black rock, wrapped in shadows in the darkness, slowly absorbed the stone fragments floating into the air into its body.

Then it soared into the sky behind Faust and drew a black circle in the sky.

An incarnation of mass that exudes overwhelming aura.

A unique magic that embodies the essence of rock-type battle magic and is the pinnacle of elemental magic, close to level 10.

“… … !”

Enoch paused for a moment when he saw that.

As if his prestige had been lifted, Faust stretched his mouth wide and shouted with a creepy, sarcastic smile.

“Hahaha!! Although it is imperfect, this body’s owner, who was a 11th-grade, must have developed unique magic after countless efforts!!”

He shouted loudly with a mad expression.

“Just use it for free!!”

Faust, who momentarily manifested dazzling mana in his hand, stretched out his fingers in front of him.

Kurrururur─

An inanimate dragon coiling in the air responds by rising up immediately to Faust’s will.

He charged straight towards Enoch, cutting through the darkness.

Faust cried out loud with a twisted laugh.

“Try to take it with that thin sword!!”

Tsk tsk tsk tsk!!

The roar of the snake, clearly inaudible, rushed forward, emitted as the sound of the rocks rubbing against each other. Enoch calmly grabbed his sword and leaped backward.

First, let’s put some distance between ourselves.

But the serpent immediately wriggled and tore at the ground where Enoch was, then chased after Enoch who had retreated again.

Kuuuuung! Kuuuuung!

It raced forward, destroying all the surrounding outer walls and objects with the new form of a giant rock.

A type of magic that automatically tracks targets.

If you try to block it head-on, your entire body will be crushed by the weight, sword included.

If so, there is only one means of countering that overwhelming mass attack.

Enoch then drew his sword straight at the serpent in the rock.

[Countercurrent]

A flowing sword strike sent a serpent of rock flying towards Enoch’s side. But Faust cried out.

“Kuuuuuuuu, do you think you avoided it with that!!”

The snake of rock that was swerved to the side by Enoch’s sword broke the wall in an instant, broke the pillar, and made a U-turn.

It was shot straight at Enoch.

It was then that he noticed something strange.

‘Bigger and faster?’

The snake of the rock was accelerating and growing larger, absorbing the surrounding rock fragments, like a snake growing in size to become a dragon.

Taaang!

The snakes of rock swooped around Enoch as he turned his sword again and unleashed [Countercurrent], but that was all.

Once again, the giant black snake began to rush towards Enoch at an even faster speed, breaking the floor and ceiling in the darkness.

“Hahahahahahaha!! Go ahead and scream all you want, he’ll chase you until you die!”

A laugh that confirms Faust’s victory.

A fighting style that protects the body with the strongest armor that cannot be pierced by a sword, and continuously pushes the enemy to death with unique magic of overwhelming power.

Clearly, the sorcerer who approached the 10th rank must have reached a great realm during his lifetime.

It is questionable how Faust understood it and used it so perfectly, but that was not what mattered to Enoch at the time.

─Kaaaaaaang!

When the snake of the rock that had just flowed away returned a second time, its foot on the ground slipped greatly.

Enoch glanced at it with his dark blue eyes and quickly confirmed it. The snake swooped down on him again.

Before he could even turn back, he forcibly used [Countercurrent] again and swatted away the snake of the rock.

“… … !”

But this time, sparks appeared on the sword’s blade, and one of the arms that had been spreading the sword was unable to overcome the mass of the rock, so it lost the hilt and was thrown back with a great force.

The snake of rock that had been deflected was once again absorbing the surrounding stones, growing larger and accelerating.

The infinite serpent, which only gets stronger and returns no matter how much you dodge it, is chasing Enoch once again.

‘If things continue like this, it will be disadvantageous.’

We need a way to break the situation.

Even if you try to avoid the snakes of the rocks and approach the enemy, Faust’s rock armor will block it.

Unfortunately, none of the swords currently inherited can deliver effective hits.

Should I just drag him up to the top of the building and drop him from the top? But I’m not one for such obvious tricks.

Besides, since it’s a corpse, you won’t be able to deal any effective damage from a falling object unless you break its head.

In that case, the armor must be removed first.

How?

For a moment, Enoch’s dark blue eyes identified the snake of rock chasing him as he galloped through the darkness.

An idea crossed my mind.

The [Counterflow] he continues to use is not limited to simply countering the opponent’s attacks.

The armored swordsman from the last article.

The original master of this swordsmanship, known as the Blue Sword Saint, also did not simply use [Counterflow] to deflect attacks.

Memories of that time of succession flashed through my mind.

I fired my fire wheel to attack the knight, but I was the one who was hit by its power instead.

‘The damage from the fire wheel on this side was definitely returned.’

The essence of reflux is one.

Rather than blocking the opponent’s attack with a sword, you simply deflect it to the side without taking damage.

If so, then it means that it is also possible to ‘control’ the opponent’s power itself according to one’s will.

If only we could apply it?

The moment he felt certain, Enoch leaped forward.

He charged straight at Faust, who was standing tall in his armor, his sword raised, cutting through the air.

“Kuuuuuu, I told you, a sword is useless!!”

In that split second, a serpent made of rock was closing in on Enoch, slicing through the air behind him.

Faust smiled with confidence in his victory.

A rock armor boasting the strongest defense of the 11th grade. Its strength has already been further enhanced by his own unique magic.

A sword or something like that can never pierce that.

So, if you block the attack from the hooded inspector in front of you with your armor, the rock snake that chases you from behind will swallow the enemy whole.

That was the moment Faust thought about it.

Suddenly his expression became distorted.

Whirik─

The prosecutor who had been running in front of his eyes with the hem of his black robe fluttering, made a sharp turn with his sword in the air.

In the darkness, Enoch’s dark blue sword makes a large rotation like a stream of water.

For a moment, a bright light shone in the darkness.

Woooo …

[Countercurrent]

Enoch then turned his sword to the side and began to swipe the blade of his sword again at the snake of rock rushing from behind him.

But this time, it’s different.

The flow of swordsmanship that passed by Enoch’s dark blue eyes began to perform elaborate manipulations according to his will.

In that moment, a low groan escaped from between my lips.

“Huh─.”

Even though it wasn’t a frontal defense, and I was just trying to deflect it, a huge load was placed on my arm.

A strange tapping sound on my shoulder brushes my ears.

The sword brushing against the snake’s scales on the rock shakes violently, spitting out flames as if it might go out of control.

The moment you handle the sword, you realize it intuitively.

──If you make a mistake, you die.

[Countercurrent], which has withstood the overwhelmingly large mass with great difficulty. At this very moment, what if there is even a small gap to spread the sword?

Immediately the serpent of the rock will turn its jaws and devour Enoch whole with its heavy body.

Just the coldness of the sword he was holding cut off his thoughts. Enoch gripped the sword hilt tightly and unleashed the sword with all his might.

Just so I don’t die here,

Achieve your ideal with the sword you hold.

Overcome death and grow to the next level.

For a moment, their teeth clenched together so tightly that they almost broke.

I have to. I can’t give up here.

The ideal that must be achieved with the sword now is not simply to deflect the enemy’s powerful magic, but to ‘counter-use’ that overwhelming magical power.

Ping─

For a moment, Enoch narrowed his eyes and calmly moved his sword, precisely adjusting the blade that was unfolding [Countercurrent].

The sharp tip of the sword that had been spreading out like flowing water was pointed straight at Faust.

“─What, what?”

And when Faust, who realized Enoch’s plan that went beyond common sense a beat too late, let out a blank voice at what was happening before his eyes.

“I don’t need this.”

Enoch opened his mouth as if whispering from the front.

“I’ll give it back.”

“Nenoooooom─!”

The path of the rock snake, which had transformed into a mass that could not be stopped in an instant, flowed along the path created by the sword’s magic, drawing a large semicircle─

Taaaaang!

The rock snake that had been accelerating while endlessly devouring all directions was caught in Enoch’s sword and shot straight back towards the master who had shot it.

And then, in the blink of an eye, it blew away Faust’s upper body, completely eating him.

Paaaaah!

“Ugh, ugh… …!!”

Even the rock armor that had been deployed all over his body was destroyed, and blood and rock fragments were flying everywhere.

Through the broken rock helmet, Faust’s empty eyes filled with a look of astonishment.

The overwhelming speed and mass of the rock serpent that Enoch had been continuously pushing back and strengthening.

The upper half of the sorcerer’s body, which had been completely torn off by the snake’s attack that had accumulated all of that, was then blown backwards and slammed into the wall.

And with my back to the faint white moonlight.

Enoch, holding a two-handed sword, rushes straight at the guy.

A dark blue sword strikes in a straight, fatal line between the fragments of the shattered rock armor,

Phew!

It pierced straight through the bastard’s neck.