Solo Swordmaster

#1014. I paid my debt

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Maybe it’s because it’s so high up that even the light of dawn can’t reach it.

Even compared to the heroic spirits that appeared on the ground, it looks particularly blurry.

nevertheless.

He didn’t care.

He just opened his eyes hesitantly.

[Hmm, it’s really fun to see him running around like a bull with its tail on fire.]

Perhaps it was because he felt a sense of crisis as dozens of his comrades were killed just before completing his mission.

Or maybe it was because I realized who he was.

Countless monsters rushing at you like crazy, ignoring everything else.

He twisted his lips as he saw the waves of starlight rushing towards him to close the distance even a little.

Because he could tell at a glance.

It is a tactical action that stems from the judgment that fighting from a distance is at a disadvantage, but fighting up close can have a good chance of victory.

okay.

It wasn’t a wrong decision.

Of all the Sword Masters, he is especially dangerous as the distance increases.

Because it was natural for anyone to try to close the distance with him.

But that’s why.

He laughed.

[Didn’t you underestimate me too much?]

Crash.

It was right after that.

He moved his hand

In his right hand was a short knife.

An old-fashioned pistol in his left hand.

Armed with a weapon that is too short, weak, and simple to be used in a fight between absolutes.

Right after the grumpy cowboy jumped towards the charging monsters.

Taang!

Sigh!

Gunshots ring out.

The knife swings.

The monsters’ heads explode.

The neck and heart were cut off.

The monsters, who were shocked as if shaken by the unexpected situation, instead showed their teeth even more fiercely and rushed at him…

Ride!

moving forward

Shooting guns one after another.

Thus, the bullet that stops in the air becomes a shield that never moves, allowing the attacking monsters to impale themselves.

Wow!

I step back.

swing a knife

Thus, the knife that cut through the air leaps across the distance, decapitates the monster that has not yet reached it, and burrows into its heart.

No matter how many.

No matter how many dozen.

The results did not change.

[I don’t know what you’re misunderstanding, but…]

Load the pistol.

While changing knives.

He grinned as he defeated all the monsters that rushed at him.

[Dominating the streets means dominating the world.]

Yes.

A distance is a distance, whether long or short.

Being able to cut down distant enemies at any time means that nearby enemies can be cut down more easily.

Stops the bullet’s range

Reduce the knife’s trajectory.

Increase the distance between yourself and the enemy.

It’s never too much, just a few steps. Depending on the situation, it only cuts a distance of a sheet of paper.

But with just that, he was able to defeat all the absolute self-sufficient monsters without even getting hurt.

It was truly an amazing result… but his attitude as he achieved the feat was calm.

Because this is natural.

For him, it was virtually a simple task whose results would not change even if repeated not tens but hundreds of times.

[If you want to push me with baktu, you should have at least brought the green dragon lady.]

That’s why he chuckled.

okay.

If you look at it objectively.

They are clearly absolute self-sufficient monsters.

It was a being with enough power and capacity to fight to the death even with the Absolute.

Unfortunately, there was an insurmountable wall between ‘absolute self-sufficiency’ and ‘the absolute’.

1st place in the entire school.

Or 1st place in the country

Or number one in the world.

Even if everyone is in the same 1st place.

It’s the difference between heaven and earth.

Those who have reached the pinnacle in their respective fields have a slim chance of reaching the pinnacle of the world.

But a possibility is just a possibility.

No matter how hard you struggle

It was impossible for a mediocre number one to surpass the world number one unless they pushed through the violence of numbers or borrowed the power of luck that surpassed even a miracle.

Even if you received the power of the stars and gained strength comparable to the Absolute.

It’s like cutting down monsters that don’t have the talent to sense the experience of the Absolute.

It was nothing more than a simple task

Because that was the existence of the Sword Master.

[Is this really the end? At best, there is no reward in giving up on becoming a hero.]

That was why.

After some time has passed.

The reason he had no choice but to grumble amidst the piles of monster corpses.

He was tapping the monster’s corpse with his toe with a bored look on his face, and suddenly his eyes narrowed.

[Hmm, now I guess I’m thinking of doing it properly?]

That feeling is directed outside.

To be exact, it was the ground where a vortex of starlight swirled.

A whirlpool that was blocked by the flower petals pouring down like rain and solidified with cracks in various places.

Some of them began to wriggle and move again, sending starlight toward El Dorado.

Billy chuckled as he felt the starlight, which was more powerful and ominous than all the monsters he had defeated so far in El Dorado combined.

[But I don’t have the loyalty to deal with you properly.]

It was that moment.

The sky where El Dorado floated.

Light began to twinkle in a higher and distant place.

No, it wasn’t light.

They were hundreds of knives that moved so fast that they left trails that glowed like meteors.

And so, after repeated acceleration, the moment when the knife, with its enormous kinetic energy that was unimaginable in its small size, fell from the sky.

『The play of guns and swords, a hit

Game of Guns & Swords

Fall Shot

god’s wand

Rods of God』

Kwagwagwagwagwagwagwagwanggwang!!!

A huge disaster.

swept the whole world.

Mountains higher than the clouds break.

Part of the continent is completely erased.

Mushroom clouds rise one after another.

It is literally destruction.

It was a catastrophe that changed the topography of the world and would have wiped out most of humanity in the aftermath alone.

The swirl of starlight that was already caught in the fluttering petals was torn apart and shattered.

As much as you can cut all the distance.

The farther away he fights, the stronger he becomes.

And since the world was on the verge of destruction anyway and the flower petals were absorbing any excessive shock, it was an absurd thing to use.

[Hmm.]

However, his expression was actually unappealing.

This is because I felt that the shattered vortex of starlight was being regenerated little by little.

[I guess it won’t work here either.]

He realized it intuitively.

That whirlpool is ultimately an illusion.

It is the embodiment of destruction created by the power of the constellations.

Just as cutting down the moon reflected in a pond is meaningless, no matter how much you cut down or destroy it, it will be regenerated and destroyed again by the power of the constellations.

It’s just best to take your time like this.

However, he was not particularly disappointed by that fact and instead slightly twisted his lips.

[But being treated unilaterally is not my preference.]

okay.

Other sword masters as well.

Even if he can cut down all distances, it is impossible to cut down the constellations that create that whirlpool.

But only one.

There was someone who could do that.

A sword master who wields an absurd swordsmanship that can cut down the real moon by cutting the moon reflected on the surface of the water.

[I would like to borrow your sister-in-law’s sword.]

That was why.

The glass tube he had behind him.

No, to be more precise, he smiled while looking at the small girl sleeping inside.

After loading the pistol with a click, he quietly closed his eyes and concentrated his mind.

From now on, it wasn’t just the streets that he had to cut down.

So, after concentrating his mind to the limit, the moment he pulled the trigger of the pistol.

『The play of guns and swords

Game of Guns & Swords

Dream Shot

A bullet chasing a dream

Bullet Chasing Dreams』

Taang!

The sky turns upside down.

Dreams pierce the world.

The vortex swallowed up the bullets that passed through El Dorado’s numerous bulkheads and armor like ghosts.

No, the vortex did not swallow the bullet. The bullet just entered the vortex.

It’s a dream bullet.

It was a magic bullet that cut the distance between dreams and reality.

Any dream disappears like a mirage after waking up.

In reality, no matter what it hit, it was nothing more than a fleeting illusion that could not harm the target and only left a result of hitting the opponent.

It was natural.

He enjoys drinking and women, pursues fame, and lives a life worthy of being called a fool.

She was raised like an animal by her corrupted spirit and has lived a life further away from humans than anyone else.

Her life too.

Even the way of thinking.

The beliefs and wishes you have.

Although they were the same sword master, they were different in every way and could not be similar.

No matter how much he used her sword skills, he could not do more than imitate her.

[―I found it.]

But that was enough.

The moment when the dream bullet traveled through the swirling starlight and reached the source, transcending time and distance.

It was not until he finally figured out the location of the target through his transcendent intuition and senses.

So, with his eyes flashing, he opened his jacket wide, pulled out a knife stuck inside it, and threw it away.

『The play of guns and swords, mediating

Game of Guns & Swords

Last Shot

Destroyer of Stars

Star Breaker』

The path the bullet took.

A ray of light shot out.

Flying along the path created by cutting down the distance between dreams and reality is truly a killer blow.

An attack that flies from a dream into reality and is sure to hit, ignoring distance and location that no transcendental person can block or avoid.

Thus, even light can instantly traverse a distance that would take hundreds of millions of years to reach.

It contains the Sword Master’s swordsmanship that becomes stronger the longer you fight.

The moment when the knife, which continued to accelerate so tremendously and possessed enormous power, finally reached the source that gave strength to the starlight vortex.

■■■■■■―!

he felt

Beyond the distant void.

A knife filled with enormous power pierced the constellation.

Even then, the power that is not completely exhausted splits the core of that constellation, causing a supernova explosion and completely engulfing other nearby constellations.

Is it because the source was destroyed?

No matter how much it was destroyed so far, the regenerating vortex shook greatly and its regeneration speed slowed down significantly.

[Hmm, it’s not as easy as I thought.]

nevertheless.

He looked regretful.

He blew up more than a dozen constellations.

It was disappointing to him that all he could do was slow down the speed of the vortex’s regeneration.

Are they preparing for additional attacks?

This is especially true in that the flow of power flowing into the vortex of starlight has become strange, and it has become difficult to match the constellations even if the distance between dreams and reality is cut.

[Well, Master will take care of the rest.]

Still, I praise myself that I have done my part by slowing down the erosion rate and making it easier for the petals to block the whirlpool.

He turned around.

And finally, he slightly turned his head towards the glass tube behind him and muttered softly.

[With this, I have paid off my coffee debt, sister.]

like that….

I left behind a somewhat awkward apology.

The grumpy Cowboy quietly disappeared as if melting into the light of dawn.