Chapter 1227 – #288_Fable

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1.

I have overcome many hardships so far.

There have been quite a few times when we have led seemingly impossible matches to wonderful come-from-behind wins, and at those times, Heuk Si-woo was always there to help us.

To some extent, I feel grateful.

His methodology was, whether it was helping him in times of crisis or always showing him the way forward, ultimately brought Siwoo to the level of the 23rd hierarchy.

Although he is a creepy bastard who tries to steal the body at will, Black Si-Woo was Si-Woo’s role model, at least in the area of ​​handling magic, and Si-Woo’s methodology for handling magic naturally imitated his his his.

Magic is not ‘magic’ that works miracles just by pressing a button.

It is a study that changes the world under strictly refined rules, and it is also a comprehensive art that captures the artist’s inspiration and imagery.

The Black Knight’s methodology is achieved by breaking away from this general witch’s perspective.

Image? Inspiration? Message? Symbol? Artistry?

I assert that such things are meaningless.

Heuk Siwoo was a mechanical device, and mechanical devices cannot understand aesthetics.

Therefore, there is no intuition or improvisation in his magic.

Only thorough calculations and formulas are substituted.

Split, split, split the magic.

Recognize the ways of the world as patterns, and replace inspiration and imagination with trial and error and algorithms.

Based on cool-headed calculation, the broken pieces are stacked into one melody.

Magic like an orchestra created by a machine using only harmony and mathematics to the extreme.

Wouldn’t it be like this if Laplace’s demon were implemented using steampunk worldview technology? It is a huge computing device.

If Siwoo had the ability to copy Heuk Siwoo, he would have created a magic with a similar structure.

And Siwoo saw.

The scene where the pure light created by Erelim collapses his world.

The origin of magic before it was called magic.

The light, with its ambiguous concepts of ‘wish’, ‘hope’, and ‘prayer’, powerfully achieved what Erelim hoped for.

That must surely be a piece of the ‘Witch of Creation’ that many witches have wanted to catch up to.

Magic must be controllable.

Magic must be able to be calculated.

Magic must have a formula and be performed according to it.

From this perspective, it was difficult to define the light as magic.

That light is not created through calculations.

It is merely a goal pursued by witches who inherited the stigma from apprentice witches before they closed their eyes.

“What?”

She was in a trance, and Siwoo, who was tearing Ain’s structure apart from its core, looked at the scene blankly.

“Is that okay?”

She only became visible after the ideals that had always been her absolute reference point and her collapsed.

Two paths.

One is the path that has been chasing Heuk Si-woo so far and making it her target.

The other is Shin Si-woo’s path, where he must give up everything he has built up and pioneer for the first time.

It goes without saying which one appeals to you.

Although it was a short period of time, it was the former that made Siwoo what it is today.

The road with long steps leading up to the high sky is a road that feels familiar, even though it becomes crooked and precarious the higher you go.

On the other hand, the road on the other side is extremely difficult from the beginning.

Not only can the end not be clearly visible, but there is also no guarantee that it will not be cut off or collapsed in the middle.

Perhaps a poor result that is worse than the challenge awaits.

“…”

Shin Si-woo’s advantage as a witch is her outstanding intuition.

However, Siwoo has only used intuition as a smooth finishing material to fill in the calculations.

For a higher state, for true transcendence, you must completely destroy everything you have built up.

We must give up what we believed to be the truth and look at the world from a new perspective.

Siwoo closed her eyes and raised her feet up the first step.

The dark ceiling of Ain opens.

The darkness that seemed like it would never open was swallowed up and disappeared in pure white light.

2.

“… Cough.”

I can feel the air touching my skin.

Afterwards, a tingling pain rushes through your body, urging you to wake up.

Once again, the fishy smell of metal mixed with the outside air that she thought she might not be able to smell.

The intense pain that felt like her nervous system was burning and the terrible headaches were all stab wounds caused by Black Siwoo overclocking her spiritual body.

“Young… You’re using someone else’s body carelessly…”

Surprisingly, the damage caused by ‘light’ is small.

Although the Titan was completely destroyed and the Seven Color Spear was also shattered, there was no physical damage caused by being hit directly by magic.

Other than that, it would be fine to say there is almost nothing else.

This was not what Erelim specifically intended.

The ‘light’ she embodied is the materialization of the level that the witches who inherited and left wanted to reach.

In other words, it is the brilliance that embodies what the caster wants into reality.

Black Si-woo, covered in light, disappeared as she ‘wished’, but heuk Si-woo and Shin Si-woo were originally divided into two sub-humans.

The spirit that had been trapped by Heuk Si-woo came to reside in a body that should have been an empty shell.

However, Siwoo, who was given a miraculous new opportunity, could not afford to worry about such cause and effect.

The process of giving up everything and building again from the beginning.

The current Siwoo was thrown into the world as a fable of an imperfect state of only 20th rank.

Just as a butterfly that has just emerged from a chrysalis cannot fly because its wings are wet, Siwoo’s current state is incomplete in itself.

And the enemy in front of her is the strongest witch who cruelly destroyed the ‘perfect’ Black Knight.

First of all, you have to survive.

“Be in awe.”

Erelim is not an omnipotent god.

I don’t know why Shin Si-woo woke up in the light, and why a different ‘Shin Si-woo’ other than ‘Shin Si-woo’ appeared again.

However, through the flow of magic fields around her, it was clear that she had reappeared with the magic of a 20th-rank witch.

The difference in hierarchy between the two is as many as 5 levels.

He completely digested the stigma left behind by Keter and obtained ‘light’, which was more powerful than all the magic he had ever possessed.

The original light that existed before magic was called magic and surpasses all other types.

If things continue like this, the difference is good enough to predict an easy win.

However, Erelim did not easily guarantee victory.

Erelim’s physical condition cannot be considered better than Siu’s, as she has not been able to use magic beyond her own limitations and has not optimized anything.

Even though there was a possibility that she would suffer terrible stab wounds if she continued to use this ‘light’, Erelim used the strongest move she could.

-!

The pure white light created by Erelim’s chant extends like a ray of light.

There is no significant destructive power there.

There is no tremendous impact of a catastrophe of heaven and earth, no ear-splitting noise, no aftereffects reminiscent of a natural disaster.

From the shape to the form, it was not much different from the ‘mapo’, the basic equipment of witches.

However, an ordinary witch would give up resistance as soon as she encountered that cutting edge.

A light that is sure to hit the mark and pierce the enemy, realizing Erelim’s wishes.

If it’s a fighting game, it’s a cheat that guarantees victory by just pressing a button.

A light containing the intention of ‘fall down’ flies to illuminate Shin Si-woo.

-Wow!

The light containing such hostile will narrowly missed Shin Si-woo.

To be precise, the moment the light emitted, Shin Si-woo twisted her body and barely escaped it.

This cannot happen.

No matter how fast a witch is, she cannot outrun or avoid the light.

But it is quite possible.

If you watch the fingertips of Erelim, the light source, and react to the magic wave that lasts less than 0.0001 seconds, a dramatic evasion may be possible.

This is a possible response because Erelim’s skill in handling the ‘light’ that she has just acquired has decreased.

“Remaining talented until the end…”

Biting her lip, Lelim suggested a simple solution.

She stretches out her hand and emits a beam of light.

A bundle of colorfully differentiated lights swept across the front, as if a laser had been fired straight toward a prism.

And.

-Hwiik!

Between the colorful beams of light that narrowly split with barely any space between them.

Black armor runs.

Sometimes straight lines. Sometimes with sharp turning angles. Even the caster, Erelim, escapes the path of light that cannot be completely controlled.

It is not a conscious avoidance.

Now, Shin Si-woo was so busy running towards her new enlightenment that she had little time to devote to her battle.

Instinctive avoidance,

Unless you are very, very lucky, it approaches Erelim with repeated evasions that can only be described as such.

That rush was extremely reckless.

Even when he was at his best, Erelim overwhelmed Shin Si-woo in close combat.

Currently, he does not have special armor or colorful spears.

Not only that, even the red tree that gave Shin Si-woo a huge amount of ‘distortion’ has disappeared.

Then what on earth do you believe? .

“… No way…”

The accident stopped.

Shin Si-woo, who reappeared, had a magic field that was only at the 20th rank level.

But suddenly the prayers surrounding him changed.

In Erelim’s opinion, the long gap may have narrowed slightly, but it seems like a gap in the hierarchy has been surpassed.

In that brief moment, his presence swells as if he has gained new enlightenment.

With each step you take, the gap that seemed like it would never be narrowed becomes smaller.

“…”

Erelim felt the shadow of Kether again as she saw Shin Si-woo appear as an enemy again despite being defeated twice.

The shadow of Kether that Erelim always looked up to.

Erelim took in the pure white light.

The sharpest sword is not the best sword.

Now is the time to deal with Erelim in the most familiar way.

“Be in awe.”

The ‘Wings of Akasha’ spread out as the light disperses and covers half of the world again.

“Bloom.”

The back of the black armor charging towards Erelim was scattered in a dazzling light.