Episode 10: Calculations of Revenge / Chapter 173: Eachâs Calculations (6)
TL: emptycube / ED: Obelisk
As the clash between Choi Hyuk and the head wolf became increasingly serious, the universe began to squirm. It was a fight between transcendent warriors that was rare even throughout the history of the universe.
To the point where powerful warriors even felt nauseous, space-time, as well as all order and laws, shook violently.
âDamn it! Gather! Maintain our formation!!â
{What? What are you saying?!}
Due to the completely erased Net of Fate, the species couldnât communicate with each other.
It was a pandemonium of pandemoniums.
Stars and planets that couldnât endure the constant clash of power and changes in laws exploded.
Boooom-!
An enormous explosion. Their surroundings vibrated, and a sun, which hadnât been there, appeared. Day suddenly arrived for this dark space, and all sorts of fragments and gas formed a tidal wave that swallowed the space whole.
Baaang!!
Like lightning, day and night switched, and the warriors cursed as they were hit by the broken fragments and died one after another.
Under the torrential rain of fragments, Baek Seoin felt an unease crawl down his spine.
âHieh!â
With a strange shout, Baek Seoin flung his body away, and the silver âMeteor-Chasing Wolfâ dropped down on his previous spot.
{Grrrrr⊠How did you dodge?}
âWhat are you saying? All I hear is you barking.â
Baek Seoin grumbled while awakening his senses to their limits.
Vring! His Sword of Sentiment âBaek Seoinâs Premonitionâ rang out as he held it up. When Premonition rang, the part of his body that his enemy would attack would ache.
This was the reason why Baek Seoin, who was only a high-ranked warrior, could endure against a highest-ranked wolf. With his innate skill âIntuitionâ and his Sword of Sentiment âBaek Seoinâs Premonitionâ, he could narrowly avoid his enemyâs attacks due to the unease and pain he felt beforehand.
However, this also meant that all of Meteor-Chasing Wolfâs attacks were savage enough to put his life in danger. Baek Seoin could die at any moment because of a slight misjudgment.
The angle he held his sword, the distribution of karma in his body, his gaze⊠nothing was easy. Every trivial decision was followed by a life-threatening unease, and Baek Seoin had to analyze them all in detail before moving. He needed to find a place where he didnât feel uneasy or ache.
{I can help you.}
Though Naro showed his intent in helping him, Baek Seoin refused.
âNo, Naro. If youâre exposed now, your life might be in danger. Hold your breath until we at least set up a defensive line.â
While Naro had awakened as a highest-ranked warrior, his body was still that of the enormous spaceship. Because he would be at an absolute disadvantage in a close combat fight against the wolves that excelled in maneuverability, Baek Seoin decided not to expose Naro at the risk of his own life.
{Youâll die! Itâs not even certain if youâll be able to set up a defensive line or not!}
âIf you act now, youâll die immediately! Hieh! I have to concentrate so donât talk to me! Look after Lee Jinhee and Ryu Hyunsung instead of me!â
The silver wolf followed after Baek Seoin like a meteor. Narrowly, as though he could die at any moment, Baek Seoin dodged his attacks and survived.
Everyone was in a similar situation. While they endured for now, they would soon collapse. The formation where they were scattered and killed off one by one changed again. The warriors were pushed into groups and crushed. Due to the lack of space, it was common for allies to be wounded by other allies. While they did their best to push their enemies back and regain some space, what returned was death. The corpses of warriors mixed together with the fragments of smashed stars and drifted away.
The fear of âdefeatâ and âdeathâ permeated them.
Everyone was clearly fighting desperately.
Choi Hyuk, who had only been a highest-ranked warrior, fought evenly against the head wolf, and the seven highest-ranked warriors and five Berserker executives had yet to die whilst facing opponents stronger than them. However, they didnât have the strength to reverse the situation because the Blue Manes had become stronger than they had imagined after cooperating with the monsters. All Choi Hyuk could do was not be one-sidedly pushed back by the head wolf. The rest couldnât even do that.
âWe were too rashâŠâ
âWhat was I entranced by to come hereâŠâ
The young warriors of the top four tribes let out sighs. Flames dimmed dangerously, and metal creaked. Darkness paled, and the light became faint.
Ryu Hyunsung endured the planet wreckage that was powerlessly falling on him as he looked at the situation.
Lee Jinhee was wounded all over her body as she took on two high-ranked wolves, and Lee Jinheeâs unit, which went to save her, was surrounded by other wolves and couldnât move. Ryu Hyunsung couldnât even see his own troop members.
As Ryu Hyunsung didnât have a special skill like Baek Seoin, he couldnât face off against the highest-ranked wolf, âCrushing Maneâ, with his strangely increased ability. The wolf had turned Ryu Hyunsungâs body into tatters in 20 passes.
The reason why Ryu Hyunsung was still alive was because the wolf considered him already dead and was slaughtering others around him.
Ryu Hyunsungâs head, which had surged with rage and curses, finally cooled.
âIâm really going to die now.â
As he thought this, the madness that filled his mind disappeared, and like a kaleidoscope, his surroundings clearly entered his vision.
âSo this was my final battle.â
As soon as he thought this, a lofty feeling and a wronged emotion surged within him.
Baang!
Somewhere, another planet exploded, and his vision brightened like it was daytime. As though he had suddenly awakened from his sleep, everything looked clear.
It was a strange feeling. His mind was cool, yet his heart was sharper than ever. Ryu Hyunsung clearly felt this situation.
An encircled situation.
The enemies blocked the front and they didnât have anywhere to retreat to.
The fear-stricken rookies of the alliance kept being pushed back when there was nowhere to retreat to.
Ryu Hyunsung ridiculed them.
If there was a path, it was in front of them. Even if it was as small as the eye of a needle, they had to find it. Without madness or fear, with all their concentration and strength, they had to defeat enemies stronger than them.
His reasoning and emotions became one as they proposed a path. To push past the enemies in front of them.
âHowever⊠I canât even move the tips of my fingers.â
Suddenly, he felt like he knew what to do and could succeed, yet he couldnât even move his own fingers.
âIs this really the end?â
While he had always inwardly hoped to die, he didnât want this sort of death.
He didnât hope for a death so vain and weak.
The moment he thought this-
âDirector Ryu Hyunsung!! Run!!â
He heard Guardian Bae Jinmanâs voice. He had approached under Zeroâs covert escort and was squeezing his karma to heal Ryu Hyunsung.
When Bae Jinmanâs golden karma permeated his body, his body, which had been ripped to shreds to the point of being unrecoverable, began to regenerate like a miracle. That moment, what Ryu Hyunsung felt wasnât relief like âIâm aliveâŠâ
âAh, I can fight again.â
He held expectations that he could fight properly this time.
A mysterious phenomenon. Ryu Hyunsungâs body didnât simply stop at being healed.
The karma that made up his body was redistributed and was being replaced with different properties.
His eyes shined blue.
A genius. While this word was most suitable for Choi Hyuk, Ryu Hyunsung had, in fact, grown up while hearing he was a genius.
A genius swordsman. Since he was young, he received attention as a rising sabre star of Korea and was selected as the youngest national representative ever. There were even big talks of him defeating the top-ranked swordsman in the world during his practice games. Yet, that was all. Ryu Hyunsung didnât win a single medal throughout his four years at Korea National Sport University. âTraining-purposeâ was the label given to him. During friendly matches and practice, he was a genius swordsman stronger than anyone, yet he lost powerlessly in real matches.
The length of two finger joints. That distance was always the problem. He lacked the determination to pierce through his opponentâs malice that wanted to kill him and stretch his sword out first.
He believed that he had overcome this weak point after the recruit training began and he joined the Berserkers, killing people and monsters.
âThat wasnât it.â
Ryu Hyunsung finally realized that he was still running away. He was in an ambiguous state where it was too painful to live yet he couldnât die. Perhaps this was why he couldnât leave the Berserkers since, if he stayed with Choi Hyuk, they would always have a goal. Whether it was right or wrong, whether he liked it or not.
He had always been in this ambiguous state. It was no different from his past days as a âtraining-purpose swordsmanâ.
âAdvance.â
Ryu Hyunsung finally realized the true meaning of the fate given to him when he became a high-ranked warrior.
At first, he was confused. âAdvanceâ? To be honest, how he clung to his life while living and fighting was closer to âevasionâ than âadvancingâ. He constantly evaded to his past. He also evaded his past. He fought to forget about his memories and fought while thinking of his memories. To call that âadvanceâ?
However, now that he thought about it, it was a desperate manifestation of his subconscious. A warning that he was fated to disappear if he didnât âadvanceâ.
Ryu Hyunsung finally realized this meaning and wholly accepted it.
My path is in front of me.
Now was the time to move forward.
If he didnât, he would die. He didnât have the energy to think about victory or defeat, only to find the path. It was time to open a path with his cold reasoning and wild nature.
At some point, his tattered body had completely recovered.
Ryu Hyunsung turned his back on Bae Jinman, who held his hand out towards him, and Zero and shouted towards all the fear-stricken warriors,
âOpen your eyes properly, you dimwits! Break through them!â
Unlike his ragged beast-like voice before, his voice rang out clearly this time. His voice, containing his enlightenment, was clearly transmitted to the warriors who couldnât understand Korean.
Everyoneâs gaze momentarily fell on Ryu Hyunsung.
Ryu Hyunsung stretched his leg out. He turned his waist like a top and flung his arm forward like a fishing pole. His karma, which explosively surged in his body, was pushed forward like a river without any hesitation. He passed through the length of the two finger joints that he had always lacked.
Crash!
Slash!
âCrushing Maneâ charged at him like a cannonball as soon as he heard Ryu Hyunsungâs voice. His body passed by Ryu Hyunsungâs chest, and Ryu Hyunsungâs sword slashed his mouth.
{Kyaah!}
The first attack Ryu Hyunsung landed on âCrushing Maneâ was a fatal blow. While three streams of blood flowed from Ryu Hyunsungâs chest after the wolf passed by him, he didnât bat an eye.
He only saw a clear sword path to kill the unpleasant wolves. A thread-like path. Nonetheless, a clearly existing path.
A beautiful sword path was drawn with his hand.
Ryu Hyunsung easily caught up to the wolf that was shaking his head and retreating from him. He pushed his claws down and slashed his neck before the wolf could dodge it.
Slash-
The highest-ranked wolf, âCrushing Wolfâ, couldnât even yip before his deeply slashed head was thrown into space.
Slash!
Ryu Hyunsungâs sword slash left a trailing afterimage as it slashed through a corner of the battlefield. The wolves in its path were simultaneously split in two, and a canyon was drawn on a small natural satellite that was in its path.
His sword slash seemed like the work of a sword god.
âRyu hyung? Wh- what is this?â
Despite being pushed towards the defensive, Lee Jinhee was at a loss for words. It was the same for the two wolves that had attacked her. While their mouths were agape, Ryu Hyunsung passed through the wolves and sliced the heads of the two wolves off their bodies.
âDid you reach the highest rankâŠ?â
Lee Jinhee said blankly.
Yet, Ryu Hyunsung didnât reply, only shooting out after patting her head. This time, to help the seven highest-ranked warriors who were struggling.
**
Due to Ryu Hyunsung, the mood of the battlefield changed. With his help, the strongest warriors of the alliance could defeat the wolves that were holding them back, and the freed highest-ranked warriors went out to help others. It was now time for the deeply infiltrated wolves to be pushed back.
The front lines were formed, and their defensive line stabilized.
Seeing this, Baek Seoin shouted in an almost singing voice,
âNowâs the time! Naro! Restrict them!â
{Iâve been waiting for this!}
The wave of karma that spread from Naroâs spaceship snared the wolf that targeted Baek Seoin and the wolves that infiltrated around them. âMeteor-Chasing Maneâs highest-ranked karma was instantly degraded to that of a high-ranked warrior. The wolves that noticed this change targeted Naro, but the flow had already been reversed. A threefold defensive line had already been set up in front of Naro.
âThatâs it! Itâs working! We can fight!â
The fight between âMeteor-Chasing Maneâ and Baek Seoin, in which Baek Seoin was one-sidedly on the defensive, had turned into a close fight. Recovering his composure, Baek Seoin glanced in Choi Hyukâs direction.
âNow⊠If the leader winsâŠ!â
While the situation had improved, that didnât mean they were winning. If Choi Hyuk quickly won, then, no matter how large the losses were, it would be the allianceâs victory. However, if Choi Hyuk couldnât in time, then the inferior punitive force would face the chance of being annihilated.
For some reason, it currently seemed like Choi Hyuk was being pushed back.
Just then, Baek Seoin saw Ryu Hyunsung.
He, who had created balance in the battlefield, was charging towards Choi Hyuk and the head wolf, who were fighting over there.
âHey! Ryu Hyunsung! Are you crazy?! Where do you think youâre going?!â
Baek Seoin heard her scream.
Bang, bang, bang!
Another star exploded brilliantly. His surroundings brightened as though it was daytime.
Note: Baek Seoinâs Sword of Sentiment was briefly mentioned as a shield in a previous chapter. This might be changed in the future.
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