Chapter 375:

Chapter 375:

The fight between Kang Yu-hyun and Choi Do-yoon was enough to cause a natural disaster in the surrounding area with its aftermath.

A huge storm raged around them, sweeping the nearby land with tremendous force.

As their swords clashed, the earth turned upside down and the sky split apart with dazzling flashes of light.

After exchanging a blow, Choi Do-yoon clicked his tongue and backed away.

“Are you running away?”

“I’m just creating some distance.”

Yu-hyun didn’t let him go and caught up with him in an instant. The two landed in a desolate wasteland far away from Lindel and collided again.

Yu-hyun stabbed his sword, Baekryeon, into him.

Choi Do-yoon didn’t try to dodge or block.

He fought with a stronger attack.

That was his way of fighting.

In a split second, Choi Do-yoon’s sword split into five and dazzled Yu-hyun’s eyes. Illusion?

No. It was not an illusion.

The five swords that were aiming at Yu-hyun right now were all real.

The blessing of the sword.

Before returning to Earth, Choi Do-yoon was called a sword god in the world where he was trapped by Vanishing.

He never compromised with anyone about his sword.

The four swords that floated around him were also a blessing he obtained by reaching the peak of the sword.

The one he wielded himself and the four that freely flew in the air moved brilliantly from all directions and aimed at Yu-hyun’s neck.

Yu-hyun, who was about to attack, had to focus on defense.

This was dangerous.

Yu-hyun put on the mask of Aporia on his face. Black characters rose around his body like ripples.

The four eyes engraved on the mask glowed red and then drew a line in the air.

Yu-hyun’s body disappeared with a black shadow.

Choi Do-yoon guarded his surroundings with his guardian sword and rolled his eyes.

‘He’s fast.’

He didn’t know what kind of power that mask had, but as soon as he put it on, his movement changed.

It was only a moment, but he lost track of his movement. It was not an exaggerated rumor that the Black Thunder Lord had been defeated.

Choi Do-yoon quickly expanded his aura.

A huge dome that was invisible to the eye covered him and the area around him.

Even if he couldn’t see him, he could catch how his opponent moved if he was inside the dome.

Clang!

He blocked a surprise attack from behind and asked with an expressionless face.

“Is that all you got from wearing that mask?”

“See for yourself.”

Yu-hyun pushed his arm forward and Choi Do-yoon’s body started to slide back.

The balance of power that had been even until a while ago collapsed completely.

It would be hard to compete with him in strength now.

Then he just had to change his style. Choi Do-yoon swiftly swung his sword sideways.

His honest sword trajectory that swung wildly became more graceful and curved, and soon it became so brilliant that it dazzled his eyes.

As if he was testing if he could block this properly, the blade filled with will aimed at Yu-hyun’s vital points.

One of Yu-hyun’s eyes shone.

Laplace’s eye, which could see the future, read the future that would come to him. But it was not complete.

His opponent was an executor of the alliance.

Even among Divine Spirits, he was a strong one who couldn’t be challenged by rank alone.

He filled in the missing part with intuition.

Shushushuk.

In an instant, he had scratches all over his body.

He didn’t manage to defend or evade properly, but he didn’t care.

The wounds healed in an instant.

He avoided all direct hits.

Choi Do-yoon admired Yu-hyun’s movement.

“You’ve gained a strange power.”

“It’s the power to take you down.”

Yu-hyun didn’t back down from Choi Do-yoon’s provocation and changed his sword into a harpoon shape.

He pulled his arm to the limit and threw the harpoon forward. Then [Leviathan] unfolded.

In an instant, the expanding energy turned into a giant sea snake and opened its mouth toward Choi Do-yoon.

Crack!

Leviathan swallowed Choi Do-yoon’s body.

Immediately after, countless blades sprouted from Leviathan’s body and tore it apart.

The tomb of swords.

The skill that tore up enemies with countless swords was a sight he often saw in his previous life.

How many despair came down under the name of trial and were swept away miserably under that tomb of swords?

A cheat-like skill that could attack and defend as he pleased.

Yu-hyun clenched his teeth and summoned Nautilus.

A huge submarine floated in the air and fired countless missiles.

The missiles trailed in the air and aimed at Choi Do-yoon. Choi Do-yoon immediately stabbed his sword into the ground.

The tomb of swords unfolded again.

Chajajajak!

Large and small sword blades pierced the ground and sprang up, surrounding Choi Do-yoon’s body as if to protect him.

Nautilus’s missiles couldn’t penetrate the swords.

“Break it.”

As Choi Do-yoon’s command fell, the blades soared into the sky.

Countless swords pierced and cut the Nautilus submarine, turning it into a pile of scrap metal.

Nautilus, engulfed in the smoke of the explosion, turned into characters and disappeared.

Hundreds of swords that pierced through the Nautilus hung in the air like a curtain, glaring at Yu-hyun.

[Yu-hyun, he’s very strong!]

Baekryeon, who had hardly said anything when fighting Kang Hye-rim, the Black Thunder Lord, admired the opponent’s martial prowess for the first time.

He was glad that his mythical weapon had the property of being indestructible, because he had received several blows from Choi Do-yoon’s swordsmanship and felt that he might break if this continued.

The Executor of the Alliance was an honorable title given only to the strongest among the lords affiliated with the Alliance.

Choi Do-yoon’s name as a lord had been on everyone’s lips even before he was called an Executor.

The Lord of Swords.

The only being loved and praised by all swords.

Choi Do-yoon widened his eyes as he saw Yu-hyun.

He didn’t expect him to break through the explosion with his bare body, and Choi Do-yoon’s reaction was delayed.

Yu-hyun’s shoulder hit Choi Do-yoon’s body. Their bodies tangled together and fell to the ground.

Boom!

A cloudy dust cloud rose and a crater was created. In the center of it, Yu-hyun pushed Choi Do-yoon’s neck with one elbow and glared at him.

“Where are you babbling more? Is this not enough for you!”

With a furious scream, he put strength into his arm.

Eek!

Choi Do-yoon frowned in pain and recovered some swords that were left around him.

“Descartes.”

[Yes. My lord.]

As Yu-hyun gave the order, Descartes appeared and tied the swords in midair.

With this, Choi Do-yoon’s last resort was completely blocked.

“Why. Are you speechless when you lose to someone you’ve ignored until now?”

“You...”

With his eyes filled with killing intent and anger, Choi Do-yoon tried to say something but closed his lips tightly.

That fueled Yu-hyun’s anger even more.

“Answer me. How do you feel right now?”

Yu-hyun’s emotions that he had suppressed until now collapsed and exploded.

What did I come here for?

What kind of determination did I have to come here?

How much have I been through?

“Huh? Answer me!”

But you, how dare you talk about my value and qualifications?

You don’t know. You don’t know anything. How much pain I’ve suffered to get here, what I’ve sacrificed.

“Answer me!!!”

Yu-hyun shouted and lifted up Baekryeon with his reverse hand.

Choi Do-yoon closed his eyes as he saw him.

Clang!

But he didn’t feel the pain he was waiting for. Choi Do-yoon opened his eyes that he had closed.

The Baekryeon that he thought would pierce his forehead was stuck in the ground right next to his head.

At the last moment, Yu-hyun twisted the direction of the sword and didn’t kill him.

Choi Do-yoon looked at him with surprise as he received his gaze.

Yu-hyun staggered up from his seat and looked up at Choi Do-yoon.

“Why didn’t you kill me?”

“Because I’m not you.”

With that one word that implied many things, Choi Do-yoon sighed.

“I see.”

It was a perfect defeat for him, so much so that they had no words to argue.

They had not used all the skills that they had squeezed out of their souls.

They had not shown what they could really do.

But even if they had fought with all their sincerity, he felt a certainty that the result would have been the same.

At that moment, he sensed a few presences approaching quickly from afar towards them.

“Doyun!”

Along with a familiar voice, someone flew over on a hawk, her red hair fluttering in the wind.

She landed right next to Choi Do-yoon and checked his condition.

At the same time, a brown-skinned woman who came with her on the hawk glared at Yu-hyun with a twisted face after seeing Choi Do-yoon’s state.

“How dare you...!”

“Stop! Jamila!”

It was Gu Seoyun who stopped Jamila.

She looked at Yu-hyun with a somewhat awkward gaze.

“You’re Kang Yu-hyun Teller, right?”

“Yeah.”

Yu-hyun nodded and removed the mask of Aporia.

Jamila’s eyes widened as she recognized him. It was surprising to see Yu-hyun alive and well in front of her, who was said to have gone missing five years ago.

“The Book Pile Lord, you...?”

“Do you know each other?”

Choi Do-yoon asked as he got up with Gu Seoyun’s help.

Gu Seoyun nodded with a heavy face. She briefly explained that they had met before. She was an academy student five years ago, but now she looked exactly like the Gu Seoyun from Yu-hyun’s previous life.

Yu-hyun was slightly surprised to see Jamila and Gu Seoyun moving together with Choi Do-yoon again. He had lost Huang Se-eun, the Black Iron Knight, to them, but was this fate?

“You were alive? No, where have you been all this time?”

“It just happened.”

He gestured for her not to ask any more questions and changed the topic.

“That... What about Collector Kang Hye-rim?”

Gu Seoyun clamped her mouth shut as she tried to say something.

She realized what Yu-hyun had gone through before coming here when she found out that he was the Book Pile Lord.

“...Yura and Sumin have been waiting for you anxiously. And the people from White Flower Management too.”

“Do you know where they are?”

“They’re in one of the union’s major cities, Old Town. You might not find them all there, but you should be able to get some news if you go there.”

“...I see. Thanks for telling me.”

“I...”

Yu-hyun did not listen to what Gu Seoyun had to say next.

Jamila tried to call out to him, but Choi Do-yoon stopped her.

“Let it go. Let him go.”

“But...”

“Just let him go.”

Maybe he sensed something in his voice, but Gu Seoyun nodded with a nervous expression and said okay.

Yu-hyun moved away to a far place right away.

There, Kang Hye-rim was waiting for him after completing the evacuation.

No, she was not alone.

She was holding a child much smaller than herself and rubbing her cheek.

It was Yudarin, the lord of Lindel.