Chapter 91. Timur Khan (2)
Ting—
Dong Bong-su's weak self-rotating sword met the tip of Timur Khan's storm-like self-rotating sword.
This time as well, the sound was not loud. Just like when wind touches wind, and nothing happens.
Dong Bong-su checked Timur Khan's rotation cycle with his eyes, and then gave his own rotation so that the very end of that self-rotation would touch the tip of his own sword exactly. Thanks to that, this time as well, it was not the flat of the blade but only the tips of the swords that kept touching. As that repeated, once again Timur Khan could only be pushed back continuously without gaining anything.
In the end, Timur Khan had no choice but to stop rotating again.
"Hoo, hoo .... "
Because of the extreme consumption of cultivation power, rough breaths flowed out of Timur Khan's mouth.
He said nothing, but his expression was extremely stiff. That expression said everything. Just why in the world was the self-rotating sword not working?
But in fact, the self-rotating sword was dealing damage to Dong Bong-su. Even though it was only touching by the tips of the blades, that alone was enough to keep churning up Dong Bong-su's insides. It was just that it was not to the point of killing him.
However, from Timur Khan's point of view, he could not know even that. Dong Bong-su's face was simply 'nothingness'.
Dong Bong-su's face had only become a little paler than before. No change could be read from it.
When Timur Khan's attack stopped, Dong Bong-su turned his head to the side and looked down below the fortress wall.
The battle line that the Northern Expeditionary Army and the nomadic soldiers had formed had already moved almost right up to the front of the fortress gate. Before long, without exception, both the outer wall and the inner fortress would be occupied by Lee Ja-song's army.
Was he smiling? Dong Bong-su's mouth slowly spread into a grin as he watched that.
Then, without even a moment of hesitation, he left Timur Khan behind and jumped down from the fortress wall.
Kwa-gwagwang—!
Dong Bong-su raised [sword energy] and plunged down into the place where allies and enemies were mixed together. With a tremendous explosion, five or six people were shattered.
He did not stop there and began to swing his sword wildly. His wanderer sword, as if it had no eyes, cut down indiscriminately without distinguishing between friend and foe.
"......."
Timur Khan was at a loss for words. This kind of humiliation was a first for him. It was the first time someone had blocked his self-rotating sword, and moreover, to leave in the middle of crossing blades and go do something else.
His blue eye trembled violently with rage.
He too immediately followed Dong Bong-su and jumped down from the fortress wall. Now, it did not matter what happened to victory, defeat, or death.
'No matter what, I'll kill that bastard.'
At that time, Dong Bong-su had already recovered more than 20% of his stamina. He once again slashed his own body. As expected, pus and blood splattered, and his stamina fell below 20% again.
[The player's stamina has fallen below 20%, so all stats increase by 10%.]
Once again, [Survival Instinct Lv.2] was activated.
Uuuung—.
Soon, [Circulating Energy and Performing the Technique], and even [sword energy], were stacked onto the wanderer sword.
He immediately turned his body and swung his sword toward Timur Khan, who was falling from the sky. That 모습 was like a huge dragon loosening its coils and whipping its tail.
"Giant Dragon Sweeping Tail!?"
Puh-buh-buh-bung—!
Timur Khan was sent flying back up into the sky in the same posture he had been falling in. But more than his insides being churned up, he was even more shocked by the fact that Dong Bong-su had used Giant Dragon Sweeping Tail.
Of course, that was not something Dong Bong-su needed to care about.
Dong Bong-su immediately exerted [Lightness Skill] and flew up toward Timur Khan.
Karang—!
Dong Bong-su's sword and Timur Khan's sword violently collided in midair once again.
"Kuh!"
A thin groan flowed from Timur Khan's mouth as he was blown sharply backward. For the first time, Dong Bong-su had suppressed Timur Khan with sheer strength.
Timur Khan had lost almost all of his strength due to continuous consumption of cultivation power, and Dong Bong-su was in his strongest state since the battle had begun. Moreover, although it was only an imitation, he was using a sword technique that even incorporated Mamorota's fierce and violent forms.
Dong Bong-su fell to the ground and once again swung his sword at the surrounding soldiers.
Hudududuk.
Blood and flesh flew, and Dong Bong-su's stamina recovered a bit more.
Riding that momentum, Dong Bong-su rushed at Timur Khan again and pressed him like a storm. This was no longer the quiet sword from before.
Hung-hung—! Puh-buh-buk—!
Dong Bong-su's sword had changed. His sword was powerful, as if it were a fusion of Timur Khan's sword technique and Mamorota's staff technique. Fighting them, he had absorbed the strengths of both. It was not exactly the same martial arts as theirs, but very strangely, those strengths had melted well into Dong Bong-su's sword.
Dong Bong-su had evolved once again.
Kang, ka-kang!
With his internal energy already almost completely depleted, Timur Khan could not possibly handle Dong Bong-su, who had recovered a great deal of stamina. He was continuously pushed back, and in the end, he was driven all the way inside the fortress gate.
Following behind Dong Bong-su, Lee Ja-song's Northern Expeditionary Army poured into Guisui Fortress like a flood.
Uwaaaa!
At that moment, when the shouts of the soldiers that had not been heard for quite a long time were recognized again by Dong Bong-su's ears.
Puk.
Dong Bong-su's sword was finally driven straight into Timur Khan's heart.
Ppajik, ppajijik.
The sound of the ribs protecting the heart breaking and being cut was heard without any filtering.
Timur Khan, as if feeling deeply wronged about something, opened his eyes wider than at any time since he was born and glared at Dong Bong-su.
"You ... you .... "
But he could not finish his curse toward Dong Bong-su.
Because Dong Bong-su pulled out a new sword with his other hand and rammed it straight into his mouth.
Hwaaak—.
Timur Khan lay on the ground, his limbs spread, looking at the blue sky he loved, and the holy light bursting from Dong Bong-su's entire body brushed past above him.
Soon, that holy light was scattered throughout Guisui Fortress, and it lit a fire in the killing intent of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
"The sky's wrath has reached the barbarians! Slaughter them all!"
"Uwaaaaaa!"
"Kill them! Wipe them all out!"
Seeing the level-up light bursting from Dong Bong-su's body, many soldiers looked up at him, raised their swords high, and then rushed at the enemies, swinging their swords without rest.
Lee Ja-song and the adjutants followed in and saw that scene, but they did not mind. Dong Bong-su deserved that kind of treatment from the soldiers. There was no need to feel jealousy at all.
Dong Bong-su, regardless of what the soldiers did, silently lowered his head and looked down at Timur Khan.
A shadow fell, covering Timur Khan's eyes. As a result, he could no longer see the sky he loved. Even though he was already dead, for Timur Khan, this could not be anything but regretful.
"Didn't they say the reason the sky is blue is because the sky is a river on the road to the afterlife?"
The dead do not speak. That goes without saying.
"The reason the sky is blue is not because of something like that. Light from the sun collides with the gas molecules that make up Earth's atmosphere and is scattered into many colors, and at that time, the short-wavelength blue or violet light spreads much more widely. That's why the sky looks blue."
Dong Bong-su continued.
"When you die, you just die. There is no river or anything like that. If you were expecting something like that after death, then give up on it even now."
" .... "
"And did you ask what I see when I look at that?"
" ....."
"That is not the sky. That is your illusion. That is just 'up'. The sky? That is just something weak humans divided up for convenience. Above that, there is only something even higher. There is no sky like the one you are expecting."
After finishing his words, Dong Bong-su raised the wanderer sword high and drove it straight into Timur Khan's right ear.
Timur Khan's ear was cut off, and the short but intense hunt finally came to an end.
Uwaaaa!
The soldiers' mad cheers shook the entire Guisui Fortress.
Even though not only nomadic soldiers but also quite a few Northern Expeditionary Army soldiers had died by his sword, no one cared. In their eyes, Dong Bong-su was an unprecedented hero whose worth could not be offset by the deaths of a few comrades.
Dong Bong-su, regardless of what the soldiers did, walked toward a corner.
There, Kaiji was all by himself, gnawing on plump, well-fattened lamb.
This was probably also a method of recovering stamina included in the artificial intelligence.
Because Kaiji's status window was open, he could check in real time that the fellow's stamina was recovering.
It was not a real item, but in any case, this lamb was effectively a live recovery item.
Bigger and more well-nourished livestock would give even more recovery. Of course, there was no experience ...!
" ...! "
No one knows when or where a moment of realization will come. Just like Socrates, Jesus, Buddha, and so on ... many saints were like that.
Although Dong Bong-su was a monster far removed from such saints, a moment of realization came to him as well.
'Plump, well-fattened livestock restore stamina.'
Livestock get plump and well-fattened. Livestock are raised by people. Therefore, if you just raise them well, they can become good recovery items.
Dong Bong-su took his gaze away from Kaiji, who was greedily tearing into the lamb, and turned his eyes toward the soldiers who were cheering for him.
They were exhausted from the widespread plague and the continuous fighting, but they were all elite soldiers. They had not been born elite like that. They were made through training.
Therefore.
If you just train them well.
Good ....
The corners of Dong Bong-su's mouth were cruelly pulled upward.
He raised his hand high. Then the soldiers shouted madly.
Kill a lot, and you are treated like a hero. Many people follow you. In this place, it is a natural law, as obvious as a law of nature.
This time, even the opposite corner of Dong Bong-su's mouth rose as well.
For the first time since coming here, Dong Bong-su showed a complete smile. Perhaps it was the first time in his life...
Dong Bong-su climbed onto Kaiji's back, whose stamina had recovered to a suitable level, passed through the soldiers, and walked toward the fortress gate.
Of course, Timur Khan's ear was left lying on the ground.
Because to Dong Bong-su, an ear was nothing more than trash, something that did not matter at all anymore.
Whether it belonged to the Northern Plains' emperor or not made no difference at all.
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