Chapter 297
Chapter 297
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Translator: crow
Chapter Title: EP.63 – No Recklessness in a Knight's Bravery (7)
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...How?
The Great Evil Spirit Inanna felt an untimely confusion.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that a divine being who had lived for tens of thousands of years should never feel confusion, but right now, it was utterly bewildering. No, it was shocking.
What was so bewildering and shocking?
Everything...!
Inanna wanted to scream it out.
This human emitted no divine power, no spiritual power, not even mana or shamanistic energy.
Yet such a human dared to touch a 'god's' spiritual body.
It was impossible.
But—
[Ah, it hurts...! It hurts!!]
Pain. The paltry pain that only lowly humans should feel washed over her, and Inanna rolled on the ground like a whining child, complaining of the agony.
Lacking any resistance to pain, the hurt felt even sharper, and unable to endure it, she screamed wildly.
However, even as she screamed—
"For a god, you're awfully whiny."
Thwack!
[Aaaack!!]
This human didn't care whether she hurt or not and kept landing blow after blow.
Mysterious strikes whose mechanism she couldn't even comprehend.
Clearly, the human was about three meters away, standing still in place, yet the blows kept pummeling her face and body, delivering relentless pain.
Inanna couldn't even fathom how a stationary human could attack her, and the pain was so intense she had no room to ponder.
She could only throw a tantrum and wail.
Yet even amid the wailing and confusion...
[You there! I'll kill you!!]
She didn't forget her hatred and contempt for the insignificant human attacking her spiritual body.
Kikikikik!
Inanna spat out her rage and commanded the Heavenly Bull, which obediently moved to follow its master's order.
Rumble rumble boom!
Just starting to move made the ground quake, and everywhere the Heavenly Bull passed was torn asunder.
Everything it touched was utterly pulverized—a display of overwhelming pressure and destructive power proving this wasn't just some massive skeleton bull.
Poof...
"Pulverize the Ridge-Smashing Fist?"
It seemed like the same mysterious strikes had hit the Heavenly Bull as had hit Inanna, but unlike before, the bull casually pulverized the blows.
Its enormous frame already possessed terrifying mass, but with this pulverizing ability on top, calling the Heavenly Bull cheat-like wasn't an overstatement.
However.
Kaboom!
[!!]
"My Heavy Hand Technique works too? How godlike."
As if proving its pulverizing power wasn't absolute, an explosion erupted from its back in response to his other attack.
Of course, it wasn't enough to truly wound the Heavenly Bull, but what mattered was none other than...
[A scra-scrape on the Heavenly Bull...?!]
A slight scrape. Hardly worthy of being called a wound, but crucially, it had been injured.
In other words, the Heavenly Bull had been successfully targeted—a brutal truth that drained the color from Inanna's face.
[Wh-what are you?! How is that even possible!!]
"......"
[An answer... Aaaaack!]
Crack!
She posed the question, but what returned wasn't an answer—it was an attack.
And one even more powerful than before, at that.
Struck by it, Inanna was flung far away, bouncing off the ground three times like a skipping stone in a pathetic display.
This blow's power was incomparable to the previous ones, and Inanna...
[Kuugh, ah, it hurts! It hurts...!!]
Could only writhe in excruciating agony and whimper.
And the one unilaterally thrashing the god Inanna was, in truth...
"Tough as hell, just like a god, that thing."
All he did was furrow his brow savagely in displeasure.
To be clear, Lee Han had never in his life underestimated or let his guard down against anyone he recognized as an enemy. He had no history of such idiotic behavior.
After all, his life's difficulty was like balancing on a knife's edge.
Far from complacency, he habitually confronted foes with greater caution than most, swinging his fists or blade without hesitation at full force from the outset to kill them outright when the chance arose.
Of course, this habit was still very much in effect.
Thus, Lee Han was slightly shocked.
'Even after slamming it with Intent that hard, all it does is whine a bit about hurting?'
With the intent of bursting its head like a watermelon, he'd unleashed over thirty full-power Ridge-Smashing Fists infused with his Intent.
Yet the Great Evil Spirit endured them all, naturally hardening Lee Han's expression.
As expected of a decayed earth spirit.
Extraordinary durability...
'No, can you even call that durability?'
It's heterogeneous.
He could strike it with Intent, but ordinary methods seemed unlikely to deal significant damage.
At minimum.
'Sword Aura, or force matching that mass is essential.'
Kikikikik!
Bang!
...And of course, essential for eliminating this massive skeletal bull too.
[Aaaaaack!!]
The skeletal bull reacted to the vengeful spirit's fury, and with every reckless rampage, its absurd pulverizing force reduced everything around to dust.
A bit more rampaging, and the whole area turning into a desert wouldn't be surprising.
And gradually...
Rumble rumble boom!
As the pulverizing power rampaged, it no longer just wrecked the surroundings—it shook the entire cavern.
What's more, the force seemed to extend beyond the cavern, and seeing this, Lee Han...
"You bone-only beast bastard...!"
Kaboom!
Grimacing, he charged straight in.
The moment that power spread outward, some horrific phenomenon was sure to follow.
Full-power Divine Arrow Flight activated, and Lee Han's body collided with the bull at terrifying speed.
[Stupid human scum! Do you have any idea what happens if a puny human like you clashes head-on with the 'Mystery of Pulverization'? You'll be ground to bits, how could you do something so foolish—]
Crack!
[...?]
Kikikik!?
The relentlessly rampaging Heavenly Bull suddenly seemed flustered.
To that degree, what had just happened was unbelievable.
No less than...
Krunch...!
"Raaaaaaaagh!!"
A human roaring louder than thunder, barbarically seizing the Heavenly Bull's body.
Where did he grab?
The bones were too massive to fit in his hands, so his ten fingers dug into the bone, forcibly creating a grip—and this halted the Heavenly Bull's movements.
A bull rivaling a castle in size and mass was now utterly immobilized by human strength—an unbelievable sight.
Was this even possible with human power!?
Even the ancient hero said to have lifted castle walls with raw strength—could he have managed this?
But what was even harder to believe...
Rumble rumble boom!
Kikikik!!?
Was that the Heavenly Bull's body was being lifted.
Slowly, no—definitely.
Vwooom!
Power surged forth.
The power from the Intent-forged realm that only Lee Han had reached, even searching the entire continent from the southern regions...!
As long as his Intent didn't yield, the Indestructible Endurance and Adamantine Aura of Diamond could overcome even the Mystery of Pulverization.
However, this feat was merely a part of what he was demonstrating now; the true essence was the sheer volume of [Vigor] he emitted.
Whooooosh...!
A terrifying physical might incomparable to his past self, combined with a technique that hijacked the earth's own force—no one else could imitate this pinnacle art.
Only he, the creator of Vigor and with unmatched understanding of his own flesh, could achieve it, enabling him to unleash conventionally impossible power.
Yes, if it had a name...
"Instructor, by the way, I saw a new trait appeared in your status?" "It's not even been two days since I told you the world isn't a game, you punk. Live in reality, man." "Ah, no, how can you see it..." "That guy's got no listening skills. ...Anyway, what is it?" "......" "......You're curious too." "What?" "Just something good popped up... Ahem!"
[Mountain-Uprooting, World-Dominating Force (力拔山氣蓋世)] Lv. 8
The Herculean strength to uproot mountains.
The name of the realm Lee Han had attained.
Whoosh!
The bull—the one pompously named the Heavenly Bull—floated high into the air.
Crunch!
Kikiki!!
The Heavenly Bull thrashed to escape Lee Han's grasp right away, but it wasn't easy.
Because the terrifying Vigor pouring from Lee Han spread like a net, enveloping the bull's body.
And in that state, soon.
Whish, whoooosh! Whooooooosh—!!
The Heavenly Bull's body began to spin.
Using centrifugal force to rotate his own body dragged the bull along, and terrifying pressure battered its frame.
—Super Giant Swing.
The only issue was that the target was castle-sized and bull-shaped, and the aftermath of this...
Vreeeeeeeem!!!
[Grrrrrr...!!]
[Keeeeeek!!?!!]
[Grgrgrgrk?!]
Drew in the surrounding monsters with the enormous attractive force from the spin.
They couldn't flee and got swept up, getting crushed or bursting apart in the process.
And the next moment.
"Raaaaaaaagh!!"
With another mighty kiai, he hurled the Heavenly Bull away, and the instant after,
Kaboom boom boom boom boom!!!
...The Heavenly Bull smashed into the ceiling.
