Chapter 22: Act of Purification

  The swing of the medieval knight was instant, the power of the swing could have swallowed and bisected a person right away. If added in effect, the strike must have caused an enormous arc crescent wind radiation. However, probably because of the conditions, that kind of attack couldn’t be performed by both I and him.

  Dodge

  Bending my knees down with arching my back at a ninety degrees angle, I immediately got back up and rushed to him with both katanas in hands ready to execute. The medieval knight stood in a defending posture with his greatsword horizontally. He thought because I was at my top speed, I couldn't stop right away. The medieval knight wasn’t wrong but agility is my greatest physical ability owing to the fact that I’m a soccer player. Therefore, it was a blunder from him, and I could see many openings to attack him if I go around his back or simply attack another spacious area that was exposed in front of him.

  I blew by his waist, I held the sword tightly and slashed down. However, the knight reacted in time and parried the malicious attack. The clash made an echoing sound, ringing throughout the dimension at that time.

  “It seems like that armour of yours has no weight on you.”

  Stating out the fact, the knight didn’t respond but instead he ran toward me just after I exclaimed. I was wondering if I could communicate to him, but taking into account of his utterances, there was a chance that he provoked me or simply he couldn’t communicate. The knight ran with the force adding in to enhance his attack, he swung the greatsword to my face. I bent my knees again and gave an upper kick targeting his chin. The knight stopped the kick with his bare hand, he then held my kicking foot and threw me down to the water surface.

  The knight held the greatsword vertically with the tip of the greatsword aiming at my abdomen. He thrusted down with no mercy, the strike created a large ripple. However, I evaded the attack in the final moment, I quickly got up and slashed his leg that was covered with an armor. However, his leg wasn’t bisected, the iron armor had rescued his leg.

  “How am I supposed to cut down his armor? Could I get a hint from you, Korean girl?”

  The knight gave multi slashes, and I’m either. The clashing sounds created melancholy and aching sounds. The melody of parrying had been played by one who is a bystander and one who is a terminator. Each attack created ripples and the movements created sounds of water splashing. It seemed I and him held no back, both wanted to fight for different wishes, the spirit of fighting increased and the intensity increased along. After consecutive attacks, I vividly recognized his pattern of fighting, and the knight probably had recognized it either. Even if I had such speed, I couldn’t kill him due to his bulky armor. Whilst if I get one hit from his greatsword, that would instantly be a demise for me.

  “Unfortunately, we couldn’t interrupt nor give hints to you. You must find it yourself.”

  “Isn’t this a little too unfair? I cannot injure his armor at all.”

  “If you observe more comprehensively, you’ll find that you have sonic speed while the knight has tremendous strength. Each compensated for each other’s weakness and made it fair. So…it’s not unfair at all.”

  “Jeez, your opinion is such a bullet point. Did you mean that our greatest ability is rival to each other?”

  “That’s what I mean.”

  The girl hid in the darkness, her surroundings enshrouded with dark energy or dark clouds. To avoid counting in the battle, she stood very far and observed two Poins fighting each other for survival. I couldn’t see her but her voice told me of her position and the distance that was very far from us. The Korean girl who’s the examiner couldn’t give me hints, I think she does that to the medieval knight as well.

  I started think about how to pulverize his armor or weaken him. I was thinking of a battle in dueling who has better endurance after multiples hits that had no effect on him. But it could be vague and leave no sensation of victory, so I counted on the contemplates about how to pulverize his armor instead.

  The knight’s armor has no openings to attack. Even his joints for the muscular contractions and movements had been hidden well. Generally, the overall of his body figure was purely made out of steel or iron and yet left any openings. However, the knight’s head had three underlining marks that were passages for him to breathe in the air. I was thinking of going for those three opening marks from his helmet whilst parrying and attacking him.

  However, it was not that easy in the first place. The knight constantly swing at the speed of sonic, he had fast reactions to compensate his turtle speed mostly caused from his iron bulky armor. To even hit at him, my head was ache and felt like I was selling my mental strength for only those attacks. Strong opponents always cause me troubles like this, even in a fast-paced sport like soccer. My head was always stopping me from reaching further, I must be cognizant with that.

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  After multiple occasions of slashes, the knight gave a glittering stance of a powerful attack about to land. He knew that I cannot injure his armor. While I was going up front, left right slashing him, he raised his greatsword with both hands on top of him, and then swung the sword circularly.

  The battle had increased its difficulty due to the knight’s realization. One tackle from him, I could be fatal from strangling to death or die under his greatsword. Of course, I evaded his spinning attack but he knew that I cannot injure his armor, one wrong movement could be death.

  “...”

  Groaning, then he rushed toward me with the same pattern, which was swinging down the greatsword. I easily dodged to the side. Unexpectedly, he loosened his sword and instead grasp me when I let my guard down after relieving from dodging his attack.

  “Got…cha”

  He then performed the act of strangling to death. The experience was quite concurred and painful. Spitting out, my mouth started to form bubbles. Even in this domain, I couldn’t even best this battle, what can I do next? I guessed that was my limitation.

  The sword in my hand swung down his helmet multiple times and consecutively, unfortunately, all of them were parried and slapped the reality to my face. Once again, I had been defeated.

  Ringgggggg

  The sound came from the silhouette of the item I had thrown to the surface. The rectangular shape confirmed its appearance, it was unmistakably a four-hundred pages book. The glowing yellow light shone from the pages up, a figure of a mandatory man gouging out from it.

  “Ahh! What a hard-looking way to get out.”

  Who was he? The man wore a white cloak similar to angelic characters from [__]. There are lines and decorations on his cloak, and an orange color crystal in rhombus shape was placed in the middle of his chests. The outfit hid most of his body well, except his bare veiny hands.

  The Korean girl saw that and raised her voice at him, unexpected at the situation, she started to refine the situation by notching out herself to him. She was hid in shadow, now she appeared with dark clouds trails fading away after the ability she used was invisibility.

  “What are you? You’re not welcome in this place.”

  The man was giving a casual look and responded.

  “I knew right.”

  A casual attitude and a casual response, so chill and nonchalant, did he not feel the intensity and the atmosphere?

  “Don’t you dare to get in the examination, the boss won’t be happy.”

  The guy sighed and shrugged his shoulders, showing he didn’t give a shit about it.

  “What if I like to interrupt? You’re nothing but a woman who obeys your boss blindly.”

  “Motherfucker! You dare to…”

  She raised out her arm, casting dark trails of energy.

  “Shadowy thorns!”

  The thorns of the dark energy formed and it started to travel in the air to reach him and then to kill him.

  “Yeah, yeah, yeah, I knew this would happen.”

  The attack was unmistakably aiming at him, when it closely reached to him, looking from another side, the attack had been predispositioned, just like that, the attack was missed. The trajectory had been influenced by the guy’s authority.

  “What!? You can’t use magic and authority in this domain! How could you?”

  As the girl was in bewilderment, the guy started to explain.

  “It’s surely blocking people to authorities and magical abilities when I first got into this place. I was lucky that the book wasn’t counted as the same category of holiness. Haha, but…”

  As he stopped to emphasize and interrupted his speaking line, the purpose was to cause the girl whom was in front of him to probably feel anxiety.

  “This place isn’t worth a penny to my authority. The presence myself is enough to debunk this thickly configurating place. I must present to you to let you know who I am. I am an agent from hell and a friend of the slim guy here whose name is Kinter.”

  “Hell? That the non logical place where I heard a guy who doesn’t have any worth watching abilities is in charge of an army himself? The authority he himself got to be one of the most broken abilities, his ability was to neutralize the malicious intent and killing spirit of the attacker…neutralization, huh…huh…It can’t be you!”

  Who was that guy? He is well-known, and he’s also a friend of mine? Hell? Did I get in here? Those were new mysteries that could be lost from when I got teleported to this world with my memories mostly taken. Hearing that, I rather stayed quiet and eavesdropped on their conversation to know more details.

  “It’s good of you to know this damn well, now what are you going to do? Surely one thing you need to do right now…”

  The girl was frustrated, her facial expression started to nimble, her eyebrows furrowed. A face of her true nature was revealed.

  “If this happens, my boss told me to release the curse inside my body.”

  Dark energy was starting to engulf the dimension. Her dark power was flowing back to the originality, which was her. The room was now painted with pure white. The Korean girl’s form didn’t change a bit, it was just dark energy flowing around her immensely, her dark eyes implied an embodiment of her true color.

  Why was her face so serious? She didn’t look like to be like this, but was forced to.

  “That charisma and that yourself are not yours.”

  Enshrouded with dark energy flowing around her center, the girl impaled her eyes sharply on the intruder.

  “Obey. Obey. Obey. Kill. KIll. Only kill those who're against him…him!”

  The girl was confessing to someone as she was forceful or volunteered, it was more like she loved someone and confessed to him right at that moment. It was more like she was implanted with darkness and control all over her, and a branch of a bad personality was taken control from her.

  Multiple dark trails from her started to travel to the guy as she raised her right arm to navigate them. The guy stood still, he didn’t intend to dodge the attacks. Miraculously, the attacks were again settled to spin out of the trajectory. The girl saw that but still, she kept on attacking him and repeating.

  “Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill for him. Kill for his existence. Kill for his stature.”

  The guy kept silent, seeing those attacks came constantly at him. He started to trudge to the girl whom also stood still like him.

  “Kill.”

  Each attack was strong and heavy enough to wash a person.

  “Kill.”

  The girl had no other words but emphasized her depth of love to the person she loves.

  As the dude approached closer and closer, the effect started to be more efficient. A white angelic aura emitted from him, as he was like an angel himself. The girl was intense and terrified in her speeches, at that point, started to drool down and loosen herself.

  Her attacks had been stopped because of his authority. The darkness in herself gradually disappeared and faded away.

  She knelt down on her knees, she was just like a person who had lost her soul. The girl was penetrated by the emotion that’s frustration, revelation and sorrow. A pupil got control over someone else for a bad purpose.

  The purification had been done.