170 – redefine
What does cutting mean?
If you ask an ordinary person this question, they will most likely answer that it is the act of breaking, cutting, or slicing a particular object with a knife or something.
It was not wrong. The vast majority of people will not be able to think of the concept of going any further than that, and all they can think about is whether cutting something with a knife is a cut.
That particular object could be many things. It could be a tree, it could be a metal, it could be a person.
Going one step further, if you were talented enough to be a Royal Knights or an S-class adventurer, you could cut things that normal people couldn’t even imagine.
For example, such as cutting water or cutting the sky.
Even there, a person who had reached the pinnacle of that kind could go a step further and combine swordsmanship with magic to cut through space itself.
Serena was such a knight and swordsman, and that skill was dimension cutting. A skill that no one would dare to imitate except for one person.
But Serena now had to go in a different direction. Beyond simply physically cutting something, and beyond. That was a requirement to transcend human nature.
For example, cutting away the concept itself that constitutes the world.
“……Suck!”
Serena let out a short sigh.
He brushed aside his outstretched, half-rotten hand and rammed his body into it with his shoulder. With the sound of his ribs being shattered, his body floated up and flew backwards for a while.
Serena closed her eyes and concentrated her mind as much as she could, taking advantage of the brief moment when the closest one fell apart and other corpses filled in.
I didn’t deliberately put mana on the wind shear, but since I was using body enhancement, it was full of time to think about it.
Instead of moving my body according to my instincts, I tried to check beyond that. Not to physically cut down the rotten corpse reaching out to grab him, but to cut down what follows.
The short time of less than one second in real time increased to hundreds of seconds due to the physical strengthening exerted to the limit. Serena devoted all of that time to concentration.
And just before his hand snatched my forearm, I opened my eyes and swung the wind shear diagonally.
Blood that had festered on the cut surface burst out with a stench. Serena didn’t take her eyes off the neatly dismembered corpse until the very end.
Wriggling, the dismembered corpse moved. It meant failure.
“shit……!”
Serena cursed in nervousness, kicked off the wall, and flung herself backwards. Serena, who escaped from the encirclement in an instant, aimed the wind shear again, gnashing her teeth.
I thought it was perfect, but it failed again this time. The pressure that the longer she delayed, the more she would disappoint her lord, gnawed at Serena’s heart.
After confirming that the tip of the wind shear was shaking slightly, Serena took a deep breath and tried to calm her nerves somehow. However, once the heart was shaken, it was not easily calmed down.
It’s been a week since I came to this mansion.
Serena spent that time slicing through those corpses without a moment’s rest. Not drinking a sip of water, not closing your eyes for less than a second.
If I could only use body strengthening anyway, it wouldn’t matter if I spent about a month like this. The reason Serena was nervous was because of her master’s time, not her own time.
I was anxious because there was not even a single result even though I poured a week or so into re-establishing the concept.
It was Serena who had hardly experienced failure because of her superior talent that made us wonder if that was human beings like us.
From the time she first met her master and learned swordsmanship, she was able to imitate the boy’s movements intact, and even the secrets and rituals of the Royal Knights were followed simply by looking sideways.
I’d rather just follow along. Sometimes it was much cleaner than the original, and it was even used faster, so the knights watching it couldn’t help but be hot.
‘I’m not sure what else I should try.’
Serena, who has such an ignorant talent, but now that she is being blocked by a tall wall and is acutely aware of her limits, it was only natural that she felt more impatient.
I tried everything that could be tried.
Not only did he focus all his consciousness on one point or empty his mind, but he also erased all thoughts leaving only one trail for the sword to pass through.
At the extreme, there was a time when I tried to swing a sword in the realm of unconsciousness. By blocking all thoughts and memories, and moving only as the body reacts.
Of course, they all ended in failure. No matter what method was used, those half-rotten corpses attached their dismembered bodies and pursued Serena.
There was no other way now. He is just concentrating his mind as much as possible and struggling to step into a realm beyond simply cutting.
‘Once again.’
I stepped forward with my left foot a little, and aimed the wind shear at the corpses that were staggering towards me.
Wind Shear’s blade was transparency itself. It didn’t blow mana at all, so it was all that the wind formed the shape of the sword.
Even when I told him that he had a sword in his hand, he snorted and got angry and told me not to lie.
Serena cleared her mind in a familiar way. Empty your mind, shake off your thoughts, and focus on only one action: swinging your sword.
And at the same time as he opened his eyes, he rotated his arms wide and slashed forward.
Three half-rotten corpses rushing towards me were cut to pieces at once. The dismembered upper body and lower body each tumbled on the floor. Blood leaked from the cut surface, but they didn’t care and got up.
Again this was a failure.
“This… you tough bitch! Just die gracefully!”
Lyla, standing on the other side of the aisle, jumped in her own way. It was only after being sliced hundreds of times by Serena, who rushed at her to gain enlightenment.
“I don’t die.”
Serena calmly retorted the words and opened the distance once again.
“Until I save my lord, I cannot die.”
The experience of being deprived of the master was enough. He had no intention of becoming a knight who had lost his master and rotted miserably for the rest of his life.
I had no intention of becoming a tragic heroine who lost her loved one. I will do whatever it takes to fulfill my lord’s command and reclaim my lifelong companion.
So, it had to be done. No matter how many failures he suffered, no matter how many attempts he had to make, it was no greater than the frustration and grief he felt when his master was taken away.
Serena never gave up on her master.
‘Border between life and death. I aim for it.’
I changed my mind. I completely pulled out the stereotypes stuck in my head by the root and inserted a new concept.
They said that the magic on their bodies made them unable to live or die. If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be possible to cut off the magic hanging from the body?
It was nothing difficult. Haven’t you already cut down a lot of magic? Didn’t he cut through the magic circle that hadn’t been activated yet, and pierce through the highest level of defense?
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Just replace it with the magic that has already been activated.
Although they do not have a physical substance, they are intangible magic that certainly holds their souls in this world.
Serena blew mana into her wind shear. The Wind Shear, which had received an enormous amount of mana, turned into a glass work handcrafted by a top-notch artisan.
Yes, maybe the prerequisites are wrong. It may be that he has misinterpreted and distorted the master’s words at will, and accepted them in a completely different way.
I closed my eyes.
Breathing in and out deeply, I felt the flow of mana. I expanded my senses so as not to miss even a small change. My skin was pricked by a sensation beyond my tolerance.
The world began to revolve around Serena. Even with her eyes closed, she could understand all the mana spread around her. It is a completely different sense from accepting it visually.
Mana mixed with the exhaled breath. Serena’s body was covered in a blue glow. It was a different form of light than when mana was wrapped around the body or body enhancement was used.
I felt as if I was floating in a calm and huge lake where not a single fish lived in a deep forest, submerged to the top of my head.
Tok, fine cracks appeared on the surface of the lake. The waves overlapped each other and turned into a series of waves. A trembling vibration touched Serena’s skin.
I opened my eyes.
The corpses, with their mouths wide open and stunned as they charged, were moving at a speed that was beyond slow and gave the illusion that time had stopped.
The blurry eyes no longer focused on the corpse in front of them. Instead, all eyes were focused on the world beyond.
Serena carried the wind shear around her waist as if possessed by something. And, as he had done countless times so far, his feet took a stance.
Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and place your right foot slightly in front of your left, with your knees slightly bent. After finishing the preparation to pull out the sword while shrinking his upper body, he inhaled.
It was a skill that I used quite a lot when using World Eater, but it was a movement that was not necessary after being gifted with a wind shear that had no separate scabbard.
But now it was different.
A completely different world melted into the blue walls containing thick fog. It was a world that could not normally be seen and should not be seen.
‘It is possible.’
Serena straightened her bent knee again, stepped forward with her left foot, grabbed the handle of the wind shear, and pulled out her right hand as hard as she could.
notions have been eroded.
In the very brief interval of time that even Serena would not have noticed, she felt that something small had brushed past Wind Shear’s blade.
Tuduk.
A half-rotten corpse that was about to touch Serena’s body, with its severed head, rolled on the carpet. The distorted orb-shaped head could not overcome the inertia and rolled onto the wall.
The guy didn’t move anymore.
“Uh… uh…?”
Leila, who watched the scene, blinked her eyes and shed embarrassment filled with futility. Layla had no idea what had happened just before her eyes.
“Was this?”
Serena, who had caused such an absurd miracle, calmly prepared for her next move. There was no hint of joy or joy at having accomplished something in that expression.
By Serena’s standards, this was never a good move. Although he should have done it because he was ordered by his lord, he only managed to succeed in what he had failed to do so far.
In other words, it meant that after a week had passed, they had at least an assortment of items to follow the master’s words, so it was natural that they couldn’t be happy.
“Is this… the feeling of cutting something that cannot be cut, my lord?”
Serena murmured. As he expanded his senses to the limit and read the flow of mana, he was able to realize, albeit vaguely, what he had just cut.
But once was not enough.
took a stance Fortunately, Serena had plenty of subjects to test this realization she had just acquired. There were still a lot of stupid things in life that I couldn’t let go of.
Fog settled once again within the blue walls.
