Sword Master Licen.
Dignity flowed from the man who looked close to sixty.
Under Licen’s house, dozens of sword houses stood together.
In the Kingdom of Goyard, the land of swords, the footing he held was extrely solid.
They said so of the swordsmanship currently used by the royal family had been created by his house, which showed just how thick his footing was.
[ Sword Master Licen Lv.401 ]
Seeing that level, it was so high I almost shrank back.
It showed that his fa was by no ans low.
If it had been before the skill Fla was created, Hyunsoo wouldn’t have been able to welco him with open arms.
Demonization.
That power Hyunsoo had made through a hologram, and whose na had been forcibly decided, had been like this.
(Demonization)
Active Skill
Grade: Calamity
Level: 1
Penalty: None
Mana Cost: 1,000
Effects:
·You draw out the demon power latent inside your body and beco as strong as a demon, if only for a short ti.
·All stats beco stronger by 15~31% depending on probability.
·The level of all skills increases by 3.
·However, while Demonization is applied, your HP decreases.
·The application ti will vary depending on probability, and it applies for 3~20 seconds.
·There is a probability the activation will fail.
15~31% stronger.
Hyunsoo made this Demonization with inspiration from Raging Sword.
‘Power that can transcend , if only for a mont.’
If we assu it becos 20% stronger, Hyunsoo could instantly beco stronger by more than 60 levels.
‘Maybe I could beco even stronger.’
Because Hyunsoo’s stat volu was overwhelmingly higher than users of the sa level.
But there was a fatal drawback.
It could only be activated by burning HP.
‘And it might only activate for a re 3 seconds.’
But the newly obtained Fla was better than this.
(Fla)
Grade: Calamity
Level: 1
Penalty: None
Mana Cost: 1,500
Effects:
·You will burn the fla latent inside your body and beco a gigantic blazing fire.
·All stats beco stronger by 10~23% depending on probability.
·The level of all skills increases by 2~3.
·However, while Fla is applied, your HP decreases.
·If your HP falls below 20%, there is a 5% probability true fla activates, burning at its hottest, and your HP will no longer decrease.
·The application ti will vary depending on probability, and it applies for 3~20 seconds.
·There is a probability the activation will fail.
The single reason this Fla surpassed Demonization was that active and passive coexisted inside one skill.
Even though the amount of stats that increased had been lowered compared to Demonization.
In addition, this was written for the fla that activated as a passive.
True fla activates and burns at its hottest.
‘And the penalty of my HP dropping is lighter, too.’
And if you think about it, after hunting Helenya, Hyunsoo achieved explosive growth.
He obtained two calamity artifacts and gained the effects of a set artifact.
‘I want to test Fla quickly.’
Fla was power that let Hyunsoo surpass his current self, if only for a mont.
Because of that, it was hard to confirm that power against most opponents.
So when Sword Master Licen appeared, how could Hyunsoo not welco him with a smile?
“Welco, Sir Licen. I’ve heard a lot about you.”
‘This isn’t it......?’
Licen was flustered.
He quickly recovered his expression, then spoke while hiding what he really felt.
“I heard of Count Hyunsoo, who will one day lead this country, so how could I sit still? I brought too many people with , but all of them are here so they can learn the face of the one who will beco king, so I ask for your understanding.”
“I understand.”
Licen, too, was a person who held the title of count.
But in terms of influence inside the kingdom, he overwhelmingly surpassed Hyunsoo.
“And I was also curious. The power of the hero who executed the First Calamity, Helenya, and saved the kingdom.”
Back then, Licen had been beyond the barrier, too.
Licen saw every situation.
‘Was it called the Twin Dragon Sword?’
That sword was an exceptional sword.
Because of it, Bella beca a legend for a mont, and a certain archer displayed transcendent montum.
But that was all.
To Licen, whose level was over 400, Hyunsoo was soone he could trample sufficiently.
“Are you asking for a spar?”
“Yes. By sparring with the one who will inherit the Sword King’s seat, I wish to find my lacking parts.”
“Alright.”
Hyunsoo and Licen each stepped back.
‘He’s too excellent an opponent.’
And Hyunsoo was happy at the fact he could use Fla.
But he didn’t forget Licen’s essence.
Even with Fla, he was a strong opponent Hyunsoo could lose to.
Even so, there was a reason he approved the spar.
‘Because I wouldn’t have been able to avoid it anyway.’
Soon, Licen kicked off the ground.
In that mont, Hyunsoo’s eyes widened.
‘Fast.......’
Helenya’s strength lay in primal defense.
Licen, too, had an irrational body.
The part Hyunsoo didn’t know was that as far as skill went, Licen was second only to the Sword King.
To the point that if Licen had been young, he would have sat in Bella’s seat.
TWEAANG-!
Licen burrowed in toward Hyunsoo, who held Supre Saber, and the two exchanged fierce blows.
‘Slow, crude, lacking!’
At this level, it was even worse than the sons of ordinary sword houses.
Maybe that was only natural.
Even if Hyunsoo had learned from many people, the period had been far too short.
By contrast, Sword Master was a figure who climbed to that seat with skill alone.
SKA-GA-AK-
‘It’s too easy, dragging you down from your seat!’
Catching an opening, his sword stabbed Hyunsoo’s solar plexus, a vital spot.
Anyway, outsiders were immortals who revived even if they died.
‘After I kill him and he’s reborn, he’ll be condemned by the people here.’
But then.......
KKAANG-
[Calamity Armor shines.]
[Triple defense is applied.]
“......?”
Licen was flustered.
His sword stabbed the armor.
He clearly poured aura into it and thrust powerfully, but rather than piercing the armor, the tip wouldn’t go any farther, as if blocked by rock.
TREM-BLE-
The tip of his sword trembled.
What was more astonishing was this.
[Anything That Cleaves]
[It montarily increases cutting power by 4 tis.]
The grotesque power of the Calamity Gauntlets activated.
Watching the black current flow get sucked into the sword through the gauntlets, Licen was shocked.
‘If I get cut by that, even I get cut.’
Power that utterly ignored a superhuman body.
Licen barely avoided it, then admitted it.
‘You really do have only strange things.’
But there was sothing those alone couldn’t do anything about.
SKA-GA-GA-GA-GAK-!
From all directions, Licen pressed in, and Hyunsoo got cut like crazy.
[HP falls below 80%.]
[HP falls below 70%.]
Hyunsoo was surprised at Sword Master’s power.
The reason he didn’t activate Fla right away was to find out how much skill he had.
Know the enemy and know yourself.
At this ti, Hyunsoo was learning how lacking he was.
That beca Hyunsoo’s power.
Because he knew he was lacking, he would improve in order to go further.
Licen, who had been pressing him, grew flustered.
[Pull]
HWA-AAAK-!
His body was suddenly sucked in.
And the mont he got cut once, he was horrified.
[Ninefold Slash]
KOO-KWA-KWA-GWA-GWA-GWA-GWAK-!
Allowing a single attack gave nine shocks.
KWA-JA-JA-JA-JAK-
What was even more shocking was Hyunsoo disappearing in an instant.
“Ghost Step.”
Licen admired it.
Because he knew.
The gap between his level and Hyunsoo’s was the difference between sky and earth.
Licen chased the Hyunsoo who vanished before his eyes using only sensing.
KANG, KA-KA-KANG, KKA-RA-RA-RANG- PUWUK-!
Out of more than fourteen attacks in a row, he allowed only three and deflected everything else.
“Sword Master, you’re truly incredible!”
“Count Hyunsoo, you’re no pushover either!”
And Hyunsoo’s HP plunged below 40%.
The power of Licen burrowing in like crazy was trendous.
Hyunsoo was about to activate Fla because of that.
Because he realized the difference in skill between them was too wide.
Then his eyes t one person among the group of talents standing behind Licen.
They were shaking their head.
Through them, Hyunsoo could learn one fact.
‘Even if I win, it becos as if I didn’t win?’
He understood the essence of this country and the worldview of this world.
‘They’re like aristocrats.’
Like the old Joseon era, they had their own fra and pointless stubbornness.
‘If I use power that looks like mysterious ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ power, I can’t capture them?’
Even though Hyunsoo wasn’t being pushed back by Licen that badly right now.
Hyunsoo realized.
‘Even if I win, it becos a half victory.’
And Licen seed to know it.
SKA-AK-
After striking Hyunsoo away, Licen surged forward quickly.
‘You finally understand!’
But Hyunsoo smiled invisibly.
‘If I use that.......’
He felt sorry toward Licen, but there was a way to overwhelm his swordsmanship for a mont.
It was created by the power Arte gave him.
That was Fate.
Fate had this kind of power.
‘You can, for one ti only, unleash the power held by your fates as if you truly beca them.’
Fate was the power of people he had brushed past for a mont.
And it was using the skills of those he possessed like he truly was them.
And Arte, who ca to Vallas Territory, said to Hyunsoo.
‘The current Fate is only one segnt, the true Fate will reveal itself little by little.’
One of those small segnts had revealed itself to Hyunsoo not long ago.
[Fate activates.]
*****
The sons and daughters of prestigious houses.
They were the treasures of the Kingdom of Goyard.
The power of those who had not yet beco adults was bigger than expected.
They were people who could raise soone as king, or bring them down.
And there were also those who didn’t co just because they listened to Licen, but ca to see the true king’s successor.
In any group, there is a ruler.
The future Licen.
And the one who led the sons and daughters of dozens of prestigious houses.
One decision of his changed the children’s thinking, and the children followed one decision of his.
His na was Child.
Child watched the current situation coldly.
He was the most important person here.
Why?
Whether Hyunsoo beca king or Licen beca king.
That was a story for after ti passed.
When that ti flowed, Child would have beco another Sword Saint.
Watching the two here, Child thought.
‘Who is more outstanding?’
Soone gripped by the prejudice of the land of swords down to the bone.
Because it was the land of swords, they believed sword skill had to be outstanding.
And they did not doubt that foundation moved the country and protected it.
‘Even if Count Hyunsoo wins, I will stand with Sir Licen.’
Overwhelming skill had been verified. Of course, that didn’t an he would set Licen as king.
And him standing with Licen ant everyone here stood at Licen’s side.
In that mont, Licen’s grotesque, abnormal sword with its bizarre trajectory aid for Hyunsoo’s back.
‘It’s incredible swordsmanship!’
No one here would be able to stop it.
In that mont.
‘What?’
Hyunsoo’s gaze changed.
Without even turning around, he lifted his sword and blocked the sword coming down.
TWEAANG-
“H-how does he block that?”
“What......!”
And Hyunsoo didn’t forget the essence.
‘I’m a user.’
In this world, how could he beat those who had held swords since birth with skill?
They had their advantage, and he had his advantage.
The power of the awakened Fate was like this.
[For 30 seconds, you move like soone you know.]
[They must be soone who has built a deep bond with you.]
Hyunsoo loosened his body.
Licen’s eyes shook.
‘Why, why......?’
Because he was close, he felt it more vividly than anyone.
‘Do I see His Highness in him!?’
The flustered Licen tried to pour on attacks.
He put strength into the tips of his feet that stepped on the ground and advanced as a storm.
PAA-AHT-!
And Hyunsoo moved as Barad, reciting the words he said while teaching him.
A sword aiming at his waist was stopped by the flat of the blade.
TWEAANG-!
“He said a sword must be flexible rather than rigid.”
Inside the storm, one sword ca in.
Licen once again wrenched his sword with all his strength.
The tip of that sword coming down was blocked and stopped by the tip of Hyunsoo’s sword.
KAANG-!
The sword that entered the storm swung once and stilled all the wind.
A montary silence.
SKA-AAAK-
He dodged the stabbing sword with only a twist of his toe.
Licen’s sword tip, a master of irregularity, moved brilliantly, changing its trajectory as it aid for Hyunsoo.
“And I also learned that with a small force, a sword can create a big force.”
Then he lightly avoided it and struck Licen’s chest with the grip.
PPUHHH-!
Licen, who flew backward, was flustered.
Licen, regaining his balance and charging again, soon was horrified.
“And I also learned that sotis you should steal that sword and aim for the neck.”
CHAE-KAANG-!
It was instantaneous.
Licen’s sword flew away and stabbed into the ground.
PUWUK-
“.......”
Licen’s eyes shook violently.
He ca here to test him and trample him.
But Hyunsoo, who aid a sword at him, said:
“The spar isn’t over yet.”
Licen realized.
‘H-how......!’
That what had climbed onto the test stand right now was him.
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