Chapter 575

Chapter 575

“Ah...” Siegfried muttered while staring blankly at the mana weapons created from aura blades. He had grossly miscalculated. He thought he could isolate the Weapon Seeker from his weapons by using Grand Duel, but he was mistaken.

The Weapon Seeker hadn't been using his full power until now. Unfortunately, the Weapon Seeker was on a whole different level compared to the other Level 300 opponents Siegfried had ever faced so far. Those opponents were nothing but empty shells who had failed to live up to their levels.

However, the Weapon Seeker was a true expert who had shattered the Level 300 wall after being enlightened.

Siegfried had bulldozed his way against his opponents, thanks to his overpowered class and stats, but that was not going to work against his opponent this time. This was the gap between someone who had managed to overcome the wall through enlightenment and someone who had yet to even touch that wall.

“You can’t stop me,” the Weapon Seeker said.

“I will stop you,” Siegfried replied, showing his resolve.

“Do you think that will be possible when even I can't stop myself?”

“Yes, it is.”

“Really?”

“I will stop you.”

“You will...?”

The mana weapons around the Weapon Seeker orbited him.

Badump! Badump!

Siegfried’s heart started beating wildly, and it felt as if all of his senses were getting heightened.

‘The moment I make a mistake... I’m dead,’ Siegfried thought. Deus was the only person who had made Siegfried fear for his life with just his presence.

The Weapon Seeker was the second person who had made him feel the same.

The Weapon Seeker's Heart of Swords made every hair in Siegfried’s body stand up, causing him to feel fear down to his core.

‘Then I’ll have to go all out, too...!’ Siegfried gnashed his teeth.

Bzzzt! Bzzzzzt!

A surge of mana burst forth from Siegfried’s body.

He activated the third stage of the Debuff Master’s self-buff skill, Overclocking.

[Alert: You have activated the third stage of Overclocking!]

[Alert: All stats have increased by 500%!]

[Alert: Your HP is depleting drastically!]

[Alert: Your Mana is depleting drastically!]

[Alert: Your Stamina is depleting drastically!]

[Alert: 30 seconds left before Overclocking ends!]

[Alert: 29 seconds!]

[Alert: 28 seconds!]

This was his first time using the third stage of Overclocking on his own, and the burden it placed on himself could only be described as immense.

Bzzt! Bzzt!

His muscles twitched as if they were screaming at him to cancel the skill, and his senses were so sensitive that it amplified the pain he was feeling, making him feel dizzy.

To make matters worse, he felt like a powerful current of electricity was coursing through him; every single cell within him—from the top of his head to the tip of his toes—was screaming at him in agony.

However, his suffering was rewarded with power. He could only maintain the skill for thirty seconds; his HP, Mana, and Stamina were depleting at a rate visible to the naked eye, but the five hundred percent stats buff gave him a massive power spike.

‘I’m going to destroy all of those,’ Siegfried growled inwardly and gripped his +13 Vanquisher’s Grasp.

Wham! Bam!

An ear-splitting sound echoed as the +13 Vanquisher’s Grasp struck the mana weapons, causing them to explode as if they had been struck by a missile.

The mana weapons were made up of mana, so it was only normal for them to explode when destroyed.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Siegfried swung his +13 Vanquisher’s Grasp and destroyed all of the mana weapons coming at him. He marched forward while destroying the weapons, closing the gap between him and the Weapon Seeker.

Whoosh!

The Weapon Seeker swung Demon Sword: Papiyas at Siegfried.

Clang!

When +13 Vanquisher’s Grasp and Demon Sword: Papiyas clashed...

“...!”

The Weapon Seeker staggered from the impact and was forced to retreat a few steps.

Cranking up Overclocking to its third stage had given Siegfried enough strength to push back a Master.

‘Now’s my chance!’ Siegfried seized the momentum and relentlessly attacked. Then, he even used the new skill he had obtained recently.

He squeezed his remaining strength to resume attacking but—

“Ah...”

—He let out a gasp after seeing that he had already been surrounded by more than one hundred mana weapons.

It was too late.

He had destroyed most of the Weapon Seeker's mana weapons, but he didn't expect that the latter could actually create so many of them in the proverbial blink of an eye.

Swoosh!

He braced himself for his impending doom the moment the mana weapons started revolving around him. The mana weapons revolved faster and faster until they turned into a storm and became a flower rain of death that closed in on him.

Shwaaaaak!

Torrential Flower Rain!

Weapon Master Shakiro's ultimate technique was unleashed at full power on Siegfried!

‘Is this how they felt...?’ Siegfried wondered while recalling the countless victims of his Torrential Flower Rain.

Was this how they felt? For some reason, Siegfried could feel his victim's powerlessness while staring at their impending doom, and he also felt what they felt at the realization that resistance was futile and would only delay the inevitable.

He also felt what they felt at the terrifying thought that they'd be ground up by the flower rain of death into a bloody paste.

‘No, I can do it too! An eye for an eye! A tooth for a tooth! I’ll unleash my own Torrential Flower Rain!’ Siegfried composed himself and decided to face the flower rain of death with his own flower rain of death.

Shwak!

He spread his Black Crow Wingsuit and unleashed the projectiles, activating his own flower rain of death.

Shwaaaaak!

Torrential Flower Rain versus Torrential Flower Rain!

The two ultimate techniques clashed head-on.

***

The collision of the two Torrential Flower Rain created a scene that was far from beautiful. Siegfried’s Torrential Flower Rain and the Weapon Seeker’s Torrential Flower Rain collided fiercely with each other, triggering a chain of explosions.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Siegfried’s projectiles and the Weapon Seeker’s mana weapons clashed one after the other, and the sound of them clashing was like hundreds of hand grenades detonating inside a tightly sealed bunker.

“Argh!”

“Ah!”

Both Siegfried and the Weapon Seeker were in absolute tatters after suffering hundreds—no, thousands of explosions.

However, the Weapon Seeker proved that he was a class above Siegfried. He extended his right hand and closed it as if grabbing something.

Kwachik!

The mana weapons split, causing them to balloon in numbers in the blink of an eye.

“I-Impossible!” Siegfried exclaimed, shocked by what he had witnessed.

Shwaaaaak!

The flower rain of death ensued once again, but this time, the multiplied mana weapons easily overpowered Siegfried’s projectiles.

The Weapon Seeker’s skill proficiency was simply too high that his Torrential Flower Rain devoured Siegfried’s Torrential Flower Rain.

[Alert: 5 seconds!]

[Alert: 4 seconds!]

[Alert: 3 seconds!]

Then, a string of messages popped up in front of Siegfried’s eyes. The system was informing him that the third stage of Overclocking was about to end.

However, that was not the only bad news.

[Alert: The Barrier of Victory will disappear in 8 seconds!]

Even the Grand Duel was coming to an end...

‘Ah...’ Siegfried instinctively knew that he had lost. He never expected that the combination of Overclocking’s third stage and Grand Duel would still not be enough to defeat his opponent.

However, he refused to give up.

‘This is my last resort...!’

He decided to throw his +13 Vanquisher’s Grasp at the Weapon Seeker as a last-ditch effort.

Whoosh!

He infused his most powerful and lethal skill, Touch of Death, into his +13 Vanquisher’s Grasp.

Rumble!

Siegfried hurled his +13 Vanquisher’s Grasp using Flying Sword, and the +13 Vanquisher's Grasp made a beeline for the Weapon Seeker as it radiated the light of Siegfried's Touch of Death.