Chapter 36
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 36. Was I a Worthy Rival?
The opponents are two.
Seven Wild Monster, Twin Thunder Axes Nagagor.
Seven Wild Monster, Seven Wolves Killer Derac.
Meanwhile, Elise's group is Kalix and Ereka along with Elise.
Numerical superiority was advantageous, but….
“Kuhehe. Elise Blaze…. That amazing stamina also seems to be tiring slowly.”
“Why don't you stop saying words that don't work. Derac. Babbling for nothing to make me think like that.”
“Kuhehe! I only spoke the truth.”
Actually, Elise was indeed tired.
The vitality provided by the heart of the Dragon of Eternity was flowing through Elise's whole body, but.
Even so, she was doing activities that exceeded the recovery power that vitality gave, so need I say more.
It was natural that her stamina wasn't in optimal condition.
At a glance, it looks like numerical superiority, but in reality, the situation was unknown.
The five people were facing each other for a moment.
“Kuhehe—. Killing Jeffrey was quite intense. It's to the point I regret not being there. Elise Blaze.”
“If you were there too, I would have killed you of course. Derac.”
“Oh my. I am someone who wants to live more than anyone else. I have no such intention. Even if I have to roll in the mud and force my life to continue, wouldn't it be enough as long as I live eventually.”
“Keep your strange philosophy up to there.”
Clack—.
Elise's blade is raised harboring a blood color.
“We aren't opponents to converse idly like this, are we.”
Her face, intactly smeared with blood, heads towards Derac and Nagagor.
“I'll say it again. Let's finish this.”
At those words, Derac did not answer.
He only raises the blade of his one-handed sword.
Along with that, Nagagor also lifted his twin axes respectively and emitted an eye light.
A brief silence.
And what broke that silence was exactly.
“Kuhehe—! Let's see you try!”
Along with Derac's voice, at the same time barbarian warriors hidden by Derac popped out.
“You cowardly bastaaaard!!!”
Kalix's voice rang in all directions.
***
Kuhehe—.
“You guys are surrounded. How stupid.”
Derac sneered.
It takes time for the main unit of the Northern warriors to come here.
Because Derac ordered them to drag the time out as much as possible.
As a result, the only people who entered the inside of this forward base right now are the three people in front of his eyes.
“What on earth were you thinking coming here. Elise Blaze.”
Derac could not understand.
Why on earth did she come to this Dead Zone and trap.
Did she want to kill himself and Nagagor that much?
Even if killing them is a profit?
“I guess I won't even need to step up. Since Nagagor had a request too.”
Derac took a step back and looked at Elise fighting Nagagor.
Along with that, he watched the appearance of the two people who came with her fighting the barbarians.
Derac did not doubt that it would end soon.
However, his expression slowly began to rot.
“Goddamn bitch!”
Nagagor who couldn't gain an advantage against Elise.
“Dame Ereka! I leave my back to you!”
“Yes!”
Kalix and Ereka holding out against numerous barbarian warriors.
Along with that.
“Keugh!”
“Keo-eok!”
Even the barbarian warriors dying one by one.
Derac's expression increasingly rotted.
“Nagagor! Must I really step up!”
“Derac! I will finish that bitch! Do not step up!”
“You stupid thing! While saying so, aren't you unable to gain a single advantage right now! The power of stars between you and that bitch differs by a whopping two stages! Are you playing around right now! Nagagor!”
Amidst Derac's concern, Elise.
Hoo—.
Was looking at Nagagor while holding Rina and lightly exhaling.
‘My state is lower-mid. That level.’
Her body condition was not good.
Rather, it would be right to say it's bad.
But even so, Elise didn't care.
Because she had experienced this kind of situation dozens, hundreds of times.
‘I will kill Nagagor too, and I will kill Derac too.’
The moment she vowed so.
Hoo—.
Nagagor in front of her lightly exhaled a breath.
“Where are you thinking of elsewhere. Elise Blaze.”
The moment black mana lingered on Nagagor's twin axes.
“Your opponent is me.”
Nagagor's two eyes saying so were still burning without extinguishing.
At that appearance, Elise also replied by raising her blade.
“Right.”
A brief confrontation.
The moment a brief silence continued.
Bang!
Bang!
The two people jumped in at the same time and began to exchange weapon moves.
Bang—! Bang—!
Between the rupture sounds ringing in succession, Elise's blade and Nagagor's axe blades go back and forth.
In that offense and defense, Elise's eyes are sharply forged.
The goal was simple.
Nagagor's death.
To achieve this.
‘Nagagor's axe technique is characterized by harboring swift movements with light twin axes. Even so, it doesn't mean he lacks power.’
Should I say it's an orthodox path.
It was no exaggeration to call Nagagor's axe swinging standard by now.
So to speak, a full hexagon.
The method to face such a person is exactly.
‘Powerful strength that surpasses it in a specific part.’
That move is exactly the key to kill Nagagor.
And the key Elise chose is exactly.
‘I should try exerting technique to the fullest.’
It was a technique rushing to the extreme.
Bang!
The beginning was trivial.
The moment the twin axes attacked Elise.
‘…Huh?’
Nagagor felt an anomaly.
A strange twist.
Meeting Elise's blade, he felt a strange dissonance.
But the thought did not last long.
Because there was Elise swinging her blade harboring an eerie sharpness in front of his eyes.
“What kind of petty trick is it this time! Do you think such a thing will work!”
The moment Nagagor swung his twin axes harboring a smile on his lips.
Nagagor saw it.
Elise's appearance harboring a subtle smile between the combat path his weapon drew.
“You should have realized it too?”
The moment Elise's mouth opened.
Bang!
This time Nagagor's axe blade deflected and split the empty air.
That moment, Nagagor realized.
What on earth this bitch in front of his eyes was doing.
“…My senses?”
“It's a simple principle. Nagagor.”
She sneered and spoke just like when she first met Nagagor.
“I'm disturbing the trajectory of the attack. To be exact, making the combat path waver.”
The trajectory of a weapon any martial artist unfolds.
The action Elise took was simple.
She intervenes in that trajectory and distorts the path.
“This goddamn thing. Does that mean…!”
“Oh. Did you notice?”
Elise sneered to the fullest and spoke to Nagagor.
“It's been half a year since I saw you. Did you think I wouldn't grasp a single axe technique of yours in the meantime?”
“How…!”
At those words, Elise parried Nagagor's axe blade and tapped around her eyes with her remaining hand.
“Because my eyes have seen quite a lot. I can know about the level of technique an relatively inexperienced Seven Wild Monster unfolds.”
“This goddamn bitch—————!!!”
At those words, Nagagor could not hold back anymore.
Doesn't it mean he is lacking compared to the other Seven Wild Monsters.
Furthermore, doesn't it mean even his own skill is lacking!
This was Nagagor's reverse scale.
Along with Nagagor's muscles bulging to the fullest, the power of stars he possessed began to run wild to the fullest.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Elise's sword body continuously blocked Nagagor's axe blades.
“Do you!”
Bang!
“Know my effort!”
Bang!
“The Seven Wild Monsters of the tribe!”
Bang!
“My effort trying to beat them!”
Bang!
“I ask if you know!!!”
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Storm-like attacks continuing in succession.
At that time when Elise momentarily frowned at that whipping combo attack.
Hup—!
A single blade suddenly flew towards Elise.
Stab—!
The attack accurately aiming for the heart fortunately grazed Elise's flank.
A situation where it would have been a big problem if her reaction was even slightly late.
Tsk—.
The culprit who clicked his tongue lowly.
Derac shook off the blood flowing on his one-handed sword and spoke.
“I will humor your circumstances up to here. Nagagor. We must kill her now. The main unit of the Northern army is approaching.”
“….”
“What are you doing. Nagagor.”
Clack—.
“We must kill this bitch now….”
It was then.
Suddenly Nagagor grabbed the back of Derac's neck and threw him far away.
Bang!
Derac, who landed straight on the ground, could not hold back his anger and yelled at Nagagor.
“Stupid thing! Are you perhaps planning to kill that bitch alone now? When you couldn't even do it properly until now!”
“Shut your trap. Derac.”
Ptoo—.
Nagagor spat out dead blood and spoke.
“I will finish the ill-fated relationship with that bitch. So shut your trap.”
“How stupid!”
While Derac seethed with rage and spat out curses, Nagagor looked at Elise holding his twin axes.
“I didn't like a single thing about you from the beginning. Let's see the real end today.”
At those words, Elise merely sneered.
“That's my line?”
“Goddamn bitch.”
The fight between the two was not over.
***
In the fight continuing to the fullest.
Nagagor could not shake off one thought.
Borderline of Death.
Nagagor eventually acknowledged his condition.
Right now, he is crossing the borderline of death.
The woman he could call a monster in front of his eyes shines a fierce eye light and thrusts her blade at him.
He faces her holding twin axes and receives her attacks.
But Nagagor also knew.
The fact that he currently has more sword wounds.
That even though Derac injured her a little while ago, he is at a disadvantage right now.
However.
Still. But…!
‘I have to win.’
I win. I can win. No, I must win.
Somehow. Even if I have to sell my soul to the devil, I had to overcome the monster in front of my eyes.
“Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaap!!!”
Once again the axe swing heads towards Elise and.
The moment he swung with all his might.
Slice—!
Nagagor realized.
His left ear was cut off.
It's fine.
He can fight.
“You goddamn bastaaaard!!!”
In the offense and defense that followed.
The moment dozens of exchanges went back and forth, Nagagor's twin axes head for Elise's neck but.
Slice—!
This time a few fingers of his left hand were cut off.
It's a fatal wound.
But Nagagor didn't care.
He forcefully gripped the axe and swung it towards Elise.
Slice—!
His left hand was cut off.
He immediately changed his stance and started facing Elise with his one remaining hand.
The moment rupture sounds and roars erupted, and furthermore the fight between the two people silenced even the nearby fights.
“…Ah. Ah. Ah….”
Nagagor realized.
“God…. damn it….”
The fact that Elise's sword was embedded in his heart.
“Go peacefully. Nagagor.”
Elise muttered and shoved the sword in a bit deeper.
But Nagagor's life had not extinguished yet.
No, to be exact, it couldn't extinguish.
A final question.
A final question still remained.
“Eli…se. Blaze….”
“What is it. Nagagor.”
“Was I…. a sufficient…. worthy rival to you…?”
At the fading warrior's question.
The swordswoman of Mount Hua was silent.
Just lowly.
She only looked at his two eyes and nodded.
“Ah. Ah…. Ah…….”
That answer.
Soothed a bit the heart of a warrior who once dreamed of the sky and longed for it.
The heart of a warrior who eventually felt his limits but still longed for the sky.
The heart of a warrior who vowed to definitely reach the sky someday.
The one who once dreamed of the sky.
Was acknowledged by the one ruling the sky above the sky.
Just.
Just that was enough.
It was the moment a corner of the Seven Wild Monsters, Twin Thunder Axes Nagagor, died.