Chapter 163: Death Thusly Comes

Chapter 163: Death Thusly Comes

Chapter 163

Death Thusly Comes

Many lives and many loops went by in a flash. To Sylas, at least, it was a flash. He learned how to only keep the most important information from a run and effectively format the rest of the memories. Some runs he learned a few things, and on some runs he learned nothing, obliterating them from the memories completely.

Bit by bit, though, he was approaching the critical mass of it all--he knew. The window was narrowing and narrowing, and he was growing more and more consistent with each passing loop. He suspected that, within just a few loops, hed be able to achieve his first kill without dying. It would require some luck to go his way, but considering how many times the luck didnt go his way, he was due some reprieve.

You have died.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

It would not be that loop--he mistimed the attack by a fraction of a second, but it was more than enough for the Shadow to bridge the gap and cut off his head. The more he fought with the unkillable, however, the more he realized the intricacies of the fighting. He was a dull boy staring into the wide skyline full of stars, and he couldnt grasp a hundredth of its beauty, but even a dull mind picks up on a thing or two over time.

His strikes slowly looked less flamboyant and less wide; he learned to tighten his posture even more than before, slowly removing all the excess movement. With a straight thrust, for instance, he used to move his entire body--but, over time, he learned to only move the body like a propeller to funnel more power into his thrusting arm. This generated a roughly equal amount of force while not exposing him to a retaliatory strike.

These tiny gaps that did not matter much previously were being exposed one by one by someone of a far higher fighting standard. He was beginning to slip less, to move with more purpose, to always focus on the move next-over. Though at the moment it was merely ersatz fighting he 'borrowed' from the Shadow, in time, he knew, he'd polish it to be his own.

You have died.

Save point Death has been initialized.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!

The world was redolent with the scent of anticipation. It was as though the invisible spirits themselves felt it approaching--the day he would live. The day the Shadow would fall. The snow, in the misguided poetry, seemed to part and form a path for him. The winds seemed to blow into his back. The bare sunlight and moonlight seemed to paint a road toward the village for him. The trees turned into guiding grooves, the forests into labyrinths that led him down the right path on their own.

It was as though the world was exulted at the thought of his victory. Why? He did not know. However, he let himself feel it--the adulation of the living things around him. There where the rejection was, he now felt acceptance. Acceptance from the world that he felt alienated from since the day he came. It was a strange, exotic feeling, one that he had never quite experienced.

Nonetheless, it did little to change the course of time. He left the castle and journeyed south, crossing the vast swaths of the frozen land to arrive at the villages outskirts. There, once again, as many times before, he awaited--the cloaked figure of unknown strength. Just like before, he was shocked into temporary silence at the sight of a topless, barefoot, wild-haired beast that came out of the woods.

Would you like to initialize a new Save Point?

YES/NO

No, Sylas mumbled without much thought.

Are you certain?

If you decline, the Save Point will be permanently deleted!

Would you like to initialize a new Save Point?

No, the new information didnt deter him. Hed already prepared for that possibility. Besides, it didnt matter. It was just a few months.

Save Point Champion of Death has been permanently deleted.

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Recalibrating...

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Adjusting the new Rewards for the feat.

New Reward: We Who Fought the Thunder

We Who Fought the Thunder: experience the most critical memory of the fallen.

You may experience mild discomfort for a moment while being transferred!

Now beginning: We Who Fought the Thunde