Chapter 195: Black Lightning (1/2)
Only one episode today. Genshin’s mini-games took up most of my time today, hahaha. Anyway, the next two episodes will be the conclusion of the other characters’ battles. So I’ll try to release at least one episode tomorrow even if it’s supposed to be my break day (because I’m so excited to reach episode 200).
Baaaang!
The roar filled the entire room.
Sound was erased, and lightning struck again in the area that had become silent.
Black.
Just like lightning that split the night sky, it drew a line at once. It stretched out at a fearsome speed.
Bang!
At the time of the second thunder, the Lord Protector was unable to properly see the attack.
He managed to avoid the attacks due to his strong obsession with life and his long combat experience, but he didn’t even know himself what or how he avoided it.
But he was the Lord Protector.
He was one of the Ten Great Swordmasters.
He launched a counterattack before even realizing that he had avoided the attack.
His rushing left hand was filled with a dark blue aura.
Shwaaaak!
It was cut.
The dark blue aura cut Jude’s chest. And it was only at that time that the Lord Protector became fully aware of the surrounding situation.
He realized almost simultaneously of the fact that he had evaded Jude’s punch by twisting his upper body, and that Jude had likewise twisted his upper body to avoid the counterattack.
And black lightning burst again.
Black energy exploded from Jude’s body and filled the sight of the Lord Protector, and Jude’s beastly onslaught soon unfolded.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The Black Sun in the middle of Jude’s heart let out an immense energy.
The Thunder God Invokes Lightning created lightning, and Jude’s fist was covered with black lightning as his Lightning Strike Fist tore the air apart.
It was fast and strong.
At the same time, it was extremely rough.
Because it was too much for him.
He didn’t have the time.
It had only been a month or so after he had opened the fifth door.
He had yet to fully adapt to it.
Moreover, he didn’t experience any massive growth at that time.
It was impossible for him to open the sixth door.
If his physical and spiritual body had not enlarged due to the metamorphosis, he would not have been able to open the sixth door without the variable that was the divine sword, Claíomh Solais.
A runaway.
A state in which normal functions were rendered impossible.
His heart was beating too fast and irregular. It felt like his heart, where the Black Sun was located, was about to burst.
The black lightning emitted from his whole body not only burned the air but also cut and tore Jude’s skin without stopping.
The attack was fast and strong enough, but it was too rough. There was no trace of the precision Jude usually showed.
Self-destruction.
His fate would be his destruction if he was overwhelmed by that destructive force.
A fated catastrophe that he brought on to himself.
He would be destroyed.
If he used his fist attack again.
If he pushed it a little further.
It would cause a runaway.
It would become completely uncontrollable.
The Black Sun’s energy would destroy Jude!
Bang!
Another thunder roared. Jude’s fist was filled with black lightning that exploded.
But Jude did not collapse.
His heart still pounded as if it was going to burst, and the raging lightning continued to add new wounds to Jude’s arms and legs, but he remained unbroken.
He managed to control the power he couldn’t handle.
Cheonmujiche.
The incarnation of martial arts from the heavens.
Add to that was Jude’s concentration and calculation skills that were beyond common sense. His whole body that was going berserk finally confined the power that he couldn’t control himself.
“Uooooo!”
Jude roared like a beast and struck the Lord Protector.
Instead of his usual way of calculating the attack direction, he entrusted himself to the berserk power. He literally became a beast and launched an onslaught.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The Lord Protector could not completely avoid the attacks.
He couldn’t even attack Jude with his sword. He was in a hurry to protect himself from the wild beast.
But when Jude’s attacks reached the seventh number, the Lord Protector slightly adapted to Jude’s attacks. When the twelfth attack unfolded, he finally found a gap where he could counterattack.
“Uoooo!”
The Lord Protector clenched his teeth as Jude roared. He swung his sword at Jude despite the pain of his injured left shoulder.
His unmatched sword attack tried to bite the neck of Jude.
Baaaaang!
His sword was like the teeth of a beast.
A peculiar sword style that left very rough scars.
But he couldn’t reach it. At the time when the Lord Protector aimed for a counterattack, Princess Daphne and Prince Dion could only watch as they couldn’t even intervene in the fight.
And Cordelia did not remove her hand from the sword.
She released the life energy that she had forcibly converted from the enormous power of the divine sword, so the nerves of her entire body felt like it was burning, but she did not close her eyes despite the tremendous pain. She had watched the fight, so she was able to instinctively know what she should do at that moment.
‘.’
The magic spell Cordelia cast in the midst of pain.
A basic magic spell that was so basic that even beginners who had just began to learn magic could easily use it.
But that was why she could use it at the current situation now.
Moreover, Cordelia knew it better than anyone else.
Although she recognized herself as a fan of firepower, she did not forget one thing.
How a wizard fought.
The role of the wizard.
Someone who made miracles through the so-called magic.
He slipped.
At the moment when the Lord Protector tried to avoid Jude’s attack and launch a counterattack himself, her chance to turn the tide finally came.
The sudden slippery floor prevented the Lord Protector from properly stepping on it. He did not completely fall down, but his attack deviated. The attack itself was also delayed.
And Jude did not miss that gap.
Bang!
Lightning Strike Fist.
Jude’s fist struck the Lord Protector’s abdomen. For the first time since the start of the battle, he dealt a perfect blow to the Lord Protector.
“Kaaak!”
The Lord Protector coughed blood. His body slightly rose into the air, and Jude’s second attack aimed at the heart of the Lord Protector.
Bang!
The Lord Protector flew and roughly hit the wall. Jude rushed towards him, and the Lord Protector swung his sword at that moment. As a man who had wielded a sword for most of his life, his body had reacted to the impending attack.
But it was different from before. Jude could see the sword clearly. So he swung his fist towards the sword covered in dark blue aura.
Black Dragon Cross Strike.
His attack aimed at the surface of the sword and not the bladed part, which was normally a reckless attack.
But his Cheonmujiche made it possible. Black lightning and the dark blue sword collided, and the sword of the Lord Protector exploded with a loud sound.
Baaaang!
The blade shattered. It broke into pieces and cut the bodies of Jude and the Lord Protector. Then Jude turned his body around using his right fist. His downward roundhouse kick filled with the energy of the black dragon shot down diagonally like a lightning bolt.
Baaaang!
Lightning burst again. But the Lord Protector did not collapse. He defended Jude’s attack with his left arm. He somehow endured and exploded his dark blue aura.
Shwaaaaa-!
It blinded Jude’s eyes. He somehow used that opportunity to attack and strike a blow into Jude’s chest just before he run away.
He no longer had a sword. It had broken and was unusable.
But something like this frequently happened on the battlefield. The Lord Protector concentrated his dark blue aura on his clenched fist.
“Uoooo!”
The Lord Protector sent his fist. But Jude was not fooled. Even in the midst of the Black Sun going out of control, he read the aura of the Lord Protector with his sharpened senses. He launched his fist at the exact direction of the fist heading towards him.
Bang!
Their fists collided.
The black lightning and dark blue aura canceled each other out with a roar, and the fists of Jude and the Lord Protector broke at the same time.
But there was a stark difference between the two.
The Sphere of Life.
Jude’s regeneration ability amplified by the energy of the Black Sun.
“Uoooooo!”
The Lord Protector had lost both his left arm and right fist. But it wasn’t for Jude. He poured out a one-sided onslaught towards the Lord Protector.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
He destroyed the dark blue aura. He broke the body of the Lord Protector!
Baaaang!
The Black Dragon Cross Strike struck the chest of the Lord Protector. He threw up blood and was greatly pushed back while Jude who was about to deal the last blow also coughed blood.
It was his limit.
Doing one more attack was impossible.
If he continued using the Black Sun, his heart would really burst.
That was why Jude withdrew his energy.
He did that despite knowing that he still had some strength to spare.
Because Jude did not forget.
That there was one more person.
That there was a woman who instead of being satisfied and collapsing after her decisive support, she had clenched her teeth and waited for the chance to deal the last hit.
“Finish him.”