Chapter 920 – 920.Yggdrasil (7)
“First and foremost, win!!”
Midwinter flew towards me at an incredible speed, as if her entire body was dressed as the wind.
Midwinter flew towards me like a wind blowing through me.
It was definitely fast.
It definitely has to be fast.
But her incredible speed…
‘Slow.’
To me, it didn’t feel like it was very fast.
I had even recently experienced the eye-poppingly fast martial arts skills of Namgung Yuha.
Namgung Yuha’s fancy footwork played with my vision.
In comparison, the movement in midwinter…
Shoot!
“Haaaaa!”
It was so honest.
It was an honest straight line that contained only the will to beat me to the punch.
And in that straight line, I easily dodged to the side.
Shoot!
“Keuuuuuck!?”
Because I suddenly dodged to the side, Midwinter’s body, which was receiving a lot of momentum, could not stop and passed the place where I was.
Midwinter, who had flown over approximately 10 meters, twitched the corner of her mouth and opened her mouth.
“Well… “I avoid it.”
I lightly turned the side I was holding, looking at the shivering midwinter scene.
“I was just lucky.”
“…”
Even in the middle of winter, unless you were a fool, you would have understood what I meant.
The fact that I watched…
If I were serious about dealing with it, Midwinter’s body would have been split in half by my side by now.
There is no need to be sincere.
‘Even if I just swung it roughly, it would have ended.’
Rather, I didn’t swing the side because I knew that if I swung roughly, it would be over.
Min Ha-yeon and her group had just experienced a thrilling reunion with midwinter today.
We barely met like that, but I had no intention of breaking the news that Midwinter had died as soon as we met.
That was how reckless the mid-winter rush was.
‘What? Are you going to attack me recklessly, knowing that there will be a big difference in skill anyway?
But such reckless behavior did not end there.
Shoot!
“Haaaaa!”
Midwinter has begun to fly to me again
However, there was something slightly different from before.
“Huh?”
Midwinter’s body suddenly split into two and began flying left and right.
‘Oh, what is it?’
At first, I thought it was a separate body.
But…
‘Okay, one side is fake.’
The one that went to the left was midwinter, but the one that went to the right was a wind spirit that looked like midwinter.
Now I understand my ignorant and reckless behavior earlier.
‘It looks like the wind spirit surrounding the entire body also serves as defense.’
All workshops.
Other than that, there was no explanation for the reckless rush from earlier.
If I had attacked, that spirit would have definitely defended me.
‘That means the spirit has will…’
I looked forward to the spirit magic and saw the midwinter and the spirit flying from both sides.
First of all, if the goal was to fake it, it was a good method.
But…
‘Slow.’
To my eyes, both Midwinter and the Midwinter Spirit seemed slow.
Midwinter threw a kick in my direction.
“Haaaaa!”
The wind spirit swung its fist in my direction.
Shoot!
But I feel attacks coming from both directions…
Quang! Paaaaat!
It was blocked at the same time using only the long side stick.
After blocking it, I started to get worried.
‘Are you okay? Even though I blocked it carefully, I ended up kicking a piece of metal…’
There may be no pain when punched by a spirit, but Midwinter’s leg was, after all, a human body.
I felt like I would feel sorry if I got bruised for no reason.
But fortunately…
Shoot! Bang!
“Haaaaa!”
Perhaps because I used the spirit’s ability, I didn’t get hurt when I struck.
‘Phew… Fortunately, it also serves as defense.’
Midwinter seemed to feel no pain thanks to the wind that enveloped his body.
After that, Midwinter began attacking from both sides along with the spirits.
It’s an onslaught.
It’s definitely an onslaught…
‘… ‘It’s a shame.’
As I experienced such an onslaught, I began to feel regretful.
There was one more reason than elemental magic that made me look forward to a duel with Midwinter.
Just experience.
I was curious about how they would fight if they had a lot of combat experience even if their level was low.
I was hoping that he might embarrass me even at a low level like Namgung Yuha.
But…
‘I guess that was too much.’
Midwinter’s skills were just at the level of running wild on the 4th floor, no more, no less.
But I bowed my head as I blocked the attack.
‘No. It’s because I’ve become so arrogant these days. ‘This is no joke, it’s a skill.’
In fact, Midwinter’s skills were clearly outstanding.
Considering that I have only reached the 4th floor, I thought I would be in the top 2-3% of summoners.
Furthermore, with that level of skill, it seemed like he could aim for the position of ruler on the third floor.
And as I fought against the depths of winter, my thoughts slowly began to change.
‘It’s like a jewel. A jewel that creates its own light.’
And seeing such a jewel in front of me…
‘I want to grow it.’
I wanted to own Midwinter as a summoner, not as a woman.
That’s how much I liked Midwinter’s passion and ability.
‘I like her face and body too.’
[…]
[…]
Ah, I said my true feelings and communication backwards.
Feeling such regret, I focused on the fight against Midwinter again.
At first, Midwinter simply attacked me, but at some point she began to use her unique abilities.
Magic.
Using elemental magic, he began pouring out various wind magics at me.
Magic that creates sharp winds or noise to distract one’s mind, magic that pours out cold, etc…
‘This is amazing.’
In fact, when you think of elementalism, it is easy to think of magic.
Because what we know as elemental magic is summoning an intelligent spirit and using the spirit’s magic.
So, I thought that a long-distance job would be advantageous when using summoning skills such as elemental magic.
A representative example is Min Ha-yeon.
Min Ha-yeon was a priestess of Thanatos, and she was using summoning skills as well as archery as an archer.
However, Midwinter was using her spirit to engage in extremely close combat.
Shoot! Paaaaat! Bang! Wow!
“That’s right!! “Get hit!!”
Like now.
At first, I thought it was very inefficient.
But as I fought, my thoughts began to change.
‘I’m fighting like I’m truly one with the spirit. Rather, the spirit seems to be excited as if it has been assimilated into midwinter.’
At first, I was focusing on midwinter, but I also confirmed the appearance of the spirit.
A wind spirit with an appearance similar to midwinter.
The spirit in the form of midwinter was just as excited as midwinter and attacked me with fighting skills and magic.
Paaaaat! Bang!
“Good! “You’re doing great!”
It was as if one soul had been divided into two and they came together smoothly.
I nodded, looking at Midwinter and the spirit uniting their souls.
‘Good. First of all, I roughly figured out my skills and abilities.’
I had a rough idea of Midwinter’s fighting style and elemental arts.
I began to worry as I continued to block the onslaught.
‘Okay, the analysis is over… What do we do?’
What I was worried about now was not how to end the duel.
The question was how to get a midwinter caught in a net to come up to my boat.
While I was thinking about something else…
Shoot!
“Gap!!”
Midwinter threw a knee kick toward my lower body.
Bang!
“Tsk!”
However, my body took care of blocking the gap that I was told was mid-winter.
It wasn’t even a gap in the first place…
In the middle of winter, when attacks were blocked like that…
“Know! “I’m not excited, so just focus!”
“?”
I suddenly shouted to myself.
At first, I thought I was crazy…
‘Ah, you can also talk to spirits.’
It seemed that her spirit on the other side was speaking to her to calm her down.
So that I don’t hear it…
“I said I wasn’t excited!”
“…”
You’re lying.
Anyone who saw it was excited.
However, from my perspective, seeing such excitement in the middle of winter was just a fun thing to see.
‘Excessive competitive spirit… Good.’
Seeing Midwinter’s excitement, a good plan came to mind without me even realizing it.
A plan is…
‘If you do that for about 20 minutes, will you get tired?’
They fought until midwinter collapsed from exhaustion.
Even if Midwinter receives help from the spirits, her stamina will definitely be depleted.
And her stamina…
“Haaaaa!”
It must be flowing out along with the sweat that is soaking her entire body.
Before she knew it, midwinter sweat began to wet her hair and stick to her face and forehead.
My review of the face of midwinter is…
‘It’s really pretty.’
It was beauty.
Midwinter attacked me like a fancy dance in the air.
It was as if Midwinter himself had become a real wind spirit.
Suddenly, to my eyes, they looked like two dancing spirits instead of two people in the middle of winter.
As I watched the midwinter and the spirits dance…
‘There’s no time to be bored.’
I focused hard on defense.
..
..
I thought about it for about 20 minutes.
Considering the excessive competitive spirit of mid-winter, I thought up to 30 minutes was possible.
But…
“Haaaaa! Haaaaa! Haaaaa!”
“… Are you okay?”
“Haaaaa! Ah, not yet! Haaah! It’s not over! Haaaaa!”
“…”
Midwinter continued to attack without stopping for over three hours before collapsing to the floor.
Of course it wasn’t me who brought her down.
During the onslaught of midwinter, his body could no longer withstand and collapsed.
“Haaaaa! Haaaaa! Haaaaa!”
The pain in my lungs in the middle of winter could be heard in my ears.
I took out the cold water from my inventory and then approached Midwinter.
Let’s try to approach midwinter like that…
Shoot!
“Ah…”
The spirit spread its arms and blocked my path.
They were still in the middle of a confrontation, and they seemed to be defensive because they didn’t know what I might do.
I spoke in a friendly voice so as not to hurt the spirit’s feelings.
“Are you okay. “I’m not trying to attack you.”
“…”
However, the spirit seemed to have no intention of backing down easily.
The moment I confronted the spirit, a hologram window appeared in front of my eyes.
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Duel ends
Winner: Seong Su-ho
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Yggdrasil had handed down the verdict.
I showed the hologram and persuaded the spirit.
“Now, did you see it? Because I’m not trying to do anything particularly strange. “Would you mind getting out of the way now?”
“…”
Only after seeing the duel ending message did the spirit relax his body and move to the side.
It was not a sad or regretful expression.
Rather, he seemed relieved that the battle was over.
‘I don’t know what the spirit feels, but it seems like he’s close to Midwinter.’
I approached Midwinter, satisfied with the spirit’s appearance.
What the current midwinter looks like…
“Haaaaa! Haaaaa!”
I was out of breath as if I had run a marathon.
She handed her her bottled water.
But in the middle of winter…
“Haaaaa! Haaaaa! Oh, it’s not over yet! Haaaaa! “It happened!!”
“…”
It really is an incredible competitive spirit.
But her competitive spirit and passion…
“Take it quickly and drink it.”
“Huhhh!”
He obeyed my orders obediently.
Midwinter didn’t even have time to resist my sudden order, so he just opened the lid and drank it down.
She must have tried to refuse.
However, the reason she could not refuse it was probably because her desire for water was so strong.
Midwinter drank her 500ml bottle of water in one go…
“Khaaaaa…”
She lay down again as if she were drunk.
“Ha… Haaaaa… Haaaaa…”
After drinking water, I started to calm down to some extent.
After Midwinter had somewhat caught her breath, she lay down and opened her mouth, glaring helplessly at me.
“Under… “Play one more round.”
Her current condition was so critical that we were worried.
She’s in that state and she’s trying to fight again…
‘It’s really amazing.’
But even though I felt amazing, I didn’t carelessly say it out loud.
In a situation like this, even if the winner tries to comfort the loser, it only hurts the other person’s feelings.
I rather flatly refused.
“No.”
“Why!!! “Krrrrgh!”
Midwinter shouted in a loud voice and tried to wake up… I couldn’t even raise my upper body as if my body wasn’t listening to me.
I shook my head as I looked at that midwinter.
“First of all, it seems impossible to fight in this current state. Above all, I won.”
“Well, at least fighting again… !”
“Do you want to fight again?”
“?”
Midwinter couldn’t answer when I asked the obvious and just gave me a puzzled look.
I watched her grin like that in the middle of winter and explained to her her method of fighting me again.
“I will accept the duel after the reward time I received a little while ago is over.”
“Now, wait a minute, that means…” .”
I sat comfortably on the floor, twiddling my fingers and humming.
“Thirsty. “Bring some water.”
One summer later, his younger sister also became my slave.
