FVN Chapter 366
Chapter 366
the condition to clear the first gate had changed.
he thought defeating night beasts and accumulating darkness would be enough. but it seemed that it had changed to defeating the gatekeeper.
'that thing must be more dangerous than a tiger...'
he hadn't even fought a tiger yet, but he soon would have to face one much bigger...
'for now, it's impossible.'
the culprit seemed to be shin kang’s failure to leave through the designated gate. the five paths fused, and the demonic beasts that ruled over them fought each other and made a mess of things.
'well, even if that were the case, it doesn't change what needs to be done.'
he needed to hunt night beasts, strengthen his abilities, and head to the second gate.
'after all, in the labyrinth, the first gate is where most of your time is spent.'
even if there was a problem with the second gate, the previous fact probably didn't change much.
it was true that shin hyun's words shook seol, but since it wouldn't be an immediate problem for him, he managed to compose himself and continue hunting.
three days had passed like that when...
boom...
boom...
that guy appeared.
'this sensation...'
he was approaching with rough breaths, seemingly trying to make his presence noticeable on purpose.
'is it asking me to respond if i can...?'
it was shin yu.
paanng—!
shin yu appeared after a long time and presented him with an unexpected test.
although he was simply charging forward, the pressure he was exuding was considerable.
'did you think i'd fall for the same thing again?'
clap—!
seol commanded the darkness dweller to prepare for the incoming attack.
whir—!
clang—!
the darkness dweller folded its arms and defended its neck and head.
although the dust obscured his vision, the darkness dweller seemed to haven't fallen in one blow because their battle continued.
clang—!
clang—!
clang—!
'it resisted!'nôv(el)b\\jnn
it was a bit embarrassing to call it a fight of ‘attack and defense’ since the wolf shin yu controlled was relentlessly attacking while the darkness dweller could do nothing but defend.
however, the important thing was...
"you won't be able to break through easily..."
it was the result of seol’s blood and sweat.
the darkness dweller’s defense couldn't be underestimated now that it had become an exceptional skill.
whir...
feeling that the darkness dweller’s defense was stronger than he expected, shin yu stepped on its legs to destabilize it.
seol chuckled.
the darkness dweller had learned—its strength was its hardness and vitality, and it needed to use them.
as soon as its leg came in, shin yu plunged into his embrace.
it seemed like he was trying to knock it down and attack its weak points.
at first glance, it looked like an opportunity.
'hold on... not yet.'
following seol's signal, the darkness dweller stepped back, turned its back to a tree, and protected its body.
it felt as if he were watching a fight between giants.
seol focused on the fight without realizing the sweat dripping from his hands.
this was very valuable data.
the darkness dweller had excellent learning abilities, so fighting strong opponents was beneficial for him.
the viewers thought of shin yu as a mischievous kid who had come to crush the sandcastle seol had painstakingly built. however, to seol, he felt like a guest who had come to help him.
slash—!
paanng—!
whir...
paanng—!
'did he change his style? the sound changed.'
shin yu shook the defense of the darkness dweller, whose body was tightly curled like a turtle.
no matter how strong shin yu was, he still possessed the body of an ordinary wolf.
unlike the darkness dweller, he couldn't restore his body using blood of origin, protect himself using bones of origin, or harden his body with skin of origin.
'it's overwhelming...'
even so, shin yu was overwhelming the darkness dweller. he was attacking it so relentlessly that it couldn't even lay a hand on him.
paanng—!
paanng—!
regardless...
'it resisted!'
opportunities would come.
seol and the darkness dweller waited for the right moment.
surely, an opportunity to attack would arise.
and eventually...
shin yu’s fist shot upward—a move that could break through the darkness dweller’s defense if it connected.
however, such a move had many gaps.
'now! dive in!'
paaf—!
at seol’s signal, the darkness dweller dove into shin yu's embrace.
paf—!
'we got him...'
it looked as if shin yu had been grabbed with both arms. seol thought he had been caught, but...
paanng—!
shin yu kicked off the darkness dweller, distancing himself while his feet were lifted in the air.
'tsk...'
could a sword like that be born if you combined the advantages of shin hyun's swift sword and shin rip's heavy sword?
'stronger? faster?'
the problem was that he wasn't sure if the problem could be solved like that.
'no... this method has reached its limit. i just made a strong and sturdy giant.'
that was the current situation seol was in.
a figure that was solid and fast but that didn't have any remarkable features besides that—that was the darkness dweller.
and that was himself.
'if it was jamad...'
would jamad have been defeated by shin yu?
no, if it were karen.
or ur.
he couldn't easily imagine them being defeated.
although shin yu had an unrivaled strength, seol's summons were also heroes.
perhaps they would have had a good fight.
he was now back to square one.
how could he reach shin yu?
'what should i do?'
seol wasn't someone who got frustrated by failures. he was someone who found a way through amidst frustration.
'defeating him is impossible. and i don't necessarily have to defeat him.'
after all, the bet wasn't beating him. it was whether to see if he could escape the labyrinth.
regardless, seol pondered different ways.
he wanted to see shin yu frustrated.
he wanted to prove himself.
the gap with shin yu was huge.
rather than defeating him, hoping for a natural disaster to happen would be more realistic.
"oof..."
seol sighed and thought of retrieving the darkness dweller's body when suddenly...
"good job, darkness dweller... huh?"
there was something strange in the way it was struggling.
whoosh...
whoosh...
as if it were glitched, it was repeating the same strangely regular movements over and over again.
"..."
seol thought for a moment and gave up on retrieving the darkness dweller. he then reconnected the lower and upper half of the bodies that had been cut.
crack...
as he did, the darkness dweller stood up while supporting itself.
seol closely looked at the darkness dweller's movements. there had to be a reason why it was showing such abnormalities.
whoosh...
whoosh...
was it broken?
it kept making a diagonal motion with its arm.
it was too clumsy to call it an attack and too serious to dismiss it as a joke.
it even made him think that it had lost its mind.
agony giggled at the creature's clumsy movements.
【hahaha! funny! it's buzzing!】
"..."
【ah... was agony not supposed to laugh? then i won't laugh.】
"no. that's not it..."
even though seol had good eyesight, he hadn't been able to see shin yu's slash properly.
it was only natural. after all, he hadn't faced the sword but just watched it from the side.
his sword also had momentum—a destructive one sent only to those it was facing.
that's why it was hard to make an evaluation.
however, someone had seen it.
whoosh...
whoosh...
the moment shin yu's sword was swung. the immense energy that flowed out from his movement that looked like a star twinkling.
"don't tell me..."
【what's wrong?】
"i must check this..."
seol mimicked the dark transformation that shin yu had performed.
whir...
it wasn't difficult compared to making a night beast. however, since this was his first time making a sword, it looked more like a log.
paaf—!
whir...
the crude and oversized sword seol had made was now being held by the darkness dweller.
whoosh...
whoosh...
"huh...?
agony rubbed its eyes.
the clumsy movements of the darkness dwellwer finally became natural.
the darkness dweller wasn't broken.
whoosh...
whoosh...
grin...
seol smiled.
"so you've seen it..."
the darkness dweller collapsed multiple times.
but through that, it managed to imitate the light.
"it has seen it..."
it seemed that just like its master, it had a knack for thieving.
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