Free Web NovelChapter 109: 109 Become Light
"It was bound to happen eventually."
James’s scoffing voice echoed. I sighed and stood up. Did he really think I had collapsed?
"What was bound to happen?"
Whoosh, thwack!
I instantly closed the distance and thrust my sword. He wouldn’t be able to dodge it!
[Vane Severing Sword Style - Nameless Thrust]
"It distorts."
He surprisingly recognized my sword attack. His skin became three-dimensional like polygons, then began to distort.
The moment my sword was about to be absorbed by his transformed appearance.
Thwack!
Thanks to my title, I was able to deal damage to him. James, whose left chest was pierced, frowned.
"Tsk, why?"
"I told you. I came to judge you. The Lord is with me, you fucking son of a gay."
"Hoo..."
I dragged the sword downwards, still piercing his chest. Even he wouldn’t survive this!
Thwack, slice!
James collapsed, spewing blood. The moment he fell, his form changed like a heat haze, then turned into smoke and vanished.
"Huh?"
James reappeared a short distance away. He stretched his arms out to his sides and grinned.
"Behold, isn’t this the Messiah you humans desire?"
"No, it’s pathetic when you say that, given you’re just relying on your gear."
This bastard, despite his words, resurrected. Was it really a resurrection?
I clearly thought I had killed him.
He pointed at me.
"And you yourself aren’t dead. I thought you were."
"You don’t seem very surprised anyway."
"Because I knew."
"Tch, was my acting clumsy?"
"No, it’s just that I feel like I understand the power of what you possess."
Is this bastard evolving like Lao? What does he even know?
"Alright, farewell."
I closed the distance without even revealing a hint of my presence. I swung my sword.
James’s neck was cleanly severed. But he once again turned into smoke and reappeared nearby.
"Behold, I have resurrected like a Messiah."
"I told you not to make those kinds of jokes."
I clicked my tongue and gripped my sword with both hands. Connecting it to last time, I could guess his ability.
"That guy, he’s manipulating reality. Like when he turned people into flower petals last time. And now, he vanished and reappeared by distorting his wounds, didn’t he?"
It was clearly a wound that would have killed him several times over. But now, his appearance was pristine.
As if he had never been wounded.
A sigh escaped me.
"What a convenient power. He even tried to instantly kill me earlier. Annoying."
If I hadn’t been invincible, I would have truly died.
In fact, this was also a matter of compatibility.
If I were a diverse mage, it wouldn’t be difficult to deal with him.
Because it would just be a matter of overwhelming him with output. But for a warrior who prioritizes speed, it was a handicap in itself.
"He distorts reality. How do I deal with him?"
James’s eyes gleamed as if looking down on me.
"Are you already scared? After seeing me resurrect?"
"Resurrection, my ass. You cult bastard."
I caught my breath and ran forward. As I charged, cutting through the wind, he glared at me.
"Bend."
My neck suddenly bent sideways. But it was only to the extent of a neck exercise, so it wasn’t painful or threatening.
"Nope, doesn’t work."
Just as I was about to thrust my sword at him.
"Bend."
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Taaaeng!
Suddenly, a streetlamp bent like taffy and blocked my sword. As I cut through the streetlamp, James shrewdly retreated.
Regardless, I kicked off the ground again, closing the distance. If he blocks once, is that the end of it?
[Vane Severing Sword Style - White Lightning]
I unleashed my fastest attack. James shrugged.
"Rise."
This time, the ground rose up, blocking the space between James and me. James sneered as he saw my sword stuck in the risen ground. As I was about to pull out my sword and move, something struck me from behind.
Thwack!
I tumbled forward. Of course, it didn’t hurt.
I looked back and saw that the streetlamp I had cut down had extended and hit me in the back of the head.
Ha, how absurd. He can do things like that too?
"But it doesn’t hurt. I just fell from the physical force. Is this the power of invincibility?"
My body continued to glow golden. James pointed at me, making a strange expression.
"That sword is protecting you."
"No, the Goddess is protecting me. Amen!"
"Even better. I’ll finish you off along with that god."
"Why do cult bastards all have such big dreams? Just like politicians lining their own pockets."
I walked lightly. Speed battles or whatever, even if I cut him down, even if I killed him, if he distorted reality, there was no answer.
"Yes, there’s no answer. But what if I make him unable to use his abilities? This tactic is unfamiliar even to me, though."
First, I needed to lay the groundwork. I wouldn’t die to him. And he wouldn’t die to me either.
Then, in the end, I’d have to win with my wits.
I charged again. He waved his hand like a conductor and shouted.
"Bend, and twist!"
He began to distort and use things around me, not me myself.
Streetlamps bent and struck, the ground caved in to obstruct, or even the branches of roadside trees tried to entangle my limbs.
Everything in the world distorted according to James’s will, trying to hinder me.
James, moving all of this, seemed like the embodiment of evil.
Whoosh, thwack!
I stepped on a streetlamp trying to block my path and rose into the air. Then James bared his pearly white teeth.
"Grow and seize!"
The relatively intact roadside trees all simultaneously extended their branches, trying to bind me.
The way they extended their branches like ghosts with their own will was grotesque, like alien creatures.
The moment the branches tried to snatch me like tentacles. I flew using magnetism and swung my sword in all directions.
After cutting down all the branches, I started flying around like crazy, riding on the Dawn. My speed was supreme!
"Full speed ahead!"
As I flew around, James couldn’t track my movements. I shouted, as if teasing him.
"This too is a nerf... No, why don’t you try to catch me? Try to catch me!"
As I flew around frantically, I heard James’s flustered laughter.
"This is just a child’s prank!"
"Scared?"
"Hmph... Stick and block!"
Nearby buildings suddenly grew massive and began to sprout up like mushrooms after rain.
As if predicting where I would pass and trying to block me.
James even forcibly merged the buildings, trying to create a complete barrier.
"He’s trying all sorts of things. Does he think I’ll be stopped by this?"
I clung to the frantically flying Dawn with both hands. And I thrust my sword towards the buildings in sight.
[Vane Severing Sword Style - Pruning]
After smashing all the building walls, I spotted James, who was 1m away.
If I’m going to aim, now’s the only chance!
"No matter how strange the power he wields, his true form is still human! Just one hit, please, just one hit!"
I spun splendidly in the air, batting away all the flying buildings and branches.
And I tried to land towards James and thrust my sword with all my might.
This distance, this time, as I floated in the air and flew towards him.
It was complicated and arduous, like passing through hell.
The closer I got to him, the more everything around me bent and twisted grotesquely.
The whole world seemed to reject me, trying to block my path. Just as everything around me united to become a thick barrier.
"In the Goddess’s name, victory!"
With the descending speed and weight imbued in my sword, I thrust it towards the twisted barrier blocking the space between James and me. Imbuing the sword with ki.
"Dawn Guardiannnnnn!"
The Dawn Guardian, shimmering with a more intense light than ever before. I swung the Dawn Guardian with all my might.
The twisted barrier instantly vanished. James was also split in two, but he calmly returned to normal.
"You’re facing the world now! Not just me! And I am the Messiah. Didn’t I tell you such attacks wouldn’t work on me?!"
"Enough, just go."
The moment I landed, I spun around and swung my sword. The entire upper part of James’s mouth was severed.
As it was being cut, I could see cells regenerating at super high speed and reattaching.
"How regrettable. This is the end. Be severed."
He began to manipulate space, just as he had blocked my first attack earlier. He cut space piece by piece, trying to stop me.
To prevent me from approaching further.
Additionally, he forcibly accelerated the growth of nearby roadside trees, seemingly intending to entangle me.
"If I can’t kill you, I’ll seal you! O Hero of the Devil!"
But he didn’t know. My move. That it was a distance I could reach even by swinging my sword.
Moreover, his spatial cutting was clumsy, so I just slipped through by trusting my invincibility and putting my body through it.
"Is space a separate domain, so you’re clumsy with it?"
[Vane Severing Sword Style Ultimate Skill - Sparrow Drop]
James scoffed again. Believing he would return this time too.
But that had a weakness, didn’t it?
"Brainwash!"
Instantly, I activated the necklace’s effect and brainwashed him. It was only one person, but I could definitely brainwash that one person! I pointed at James and commanded.
"Even for a moment, it’s fine. Forget the power of the ring, and dance the Cocaine Dance!"
At my command, James, as if by magic, began to dance the Cocaine Dance. Although it wasn’t a dance suitable for a man.
It didn’t matter. Simultaneously with his flustered expression, death came for him.
James, torn to death in multiple pieces. His ring no longer glowed. No, it couldn’t glow.
[Enemy defeated!]
[Acquired 25000 Collector Points (CP)!]
Points came in. This means he’s truly dead!
I inhaled, looking down at James, who was vanishing into light. He spoke until his last moment.
"Just as the Lord bestowed Kahlum upon us, just as He made Kahlum through blood! I will not die. I am...!"
And then there was nothing. He simply vanished, leaving only the ring behind.
Clink!
I picked up the ring he left behind. Looking at its specs, it was incredible.
[Last Wish]
Rarity: Masterpiece
*Unique Effect ’Distortion’: The owner is unaffected by enemies below their own level.
*Unique Passive Effect ’Space-Time Discrepancy’: Partially separates time and space.
*Unique Passive Effect ’?’: Requires unlocking!
*Unique Passive Effect ’?’: Requires unlocking!
*Unique Passive Effect ’?’: Requires unlocking!
「A ring that represents an endlessly dreamt dream. -Lord Grant」
"Yes, don’t die. Become light."
[Emergency Quest ’Unclear Showdown’ Cleared!]
[Trust/Affection with all Imperial Family members of the Dharma Empire increased!]
[Your achievements are imprinted upon the people throughout the Dharma Empire!]
[World Influence increased for overcoming hardship! ★★ → ★★★]
[Main Quest ’My Beginner Days, By Chance~’ Cleared!]
[Reward: 100000 CP acquired!]
[Affection with all heroines increased by ♥!]
[Secret Reward Appraisal... Appraisal complete!]
[The power held within the ’Canape’ ring awakens!]
[Congratulations! A new effect has been added to ’Canape’!]
What does this mean? A new effect for Canape? Just in case, I checked it.
[Canape]
Rarity: Unique
*Unique Passive Effect ’Subspace Storage’: Utilizes a subspace storage that can store infinite weight.
*Unique Effect ’Dimensional Travel’: Dimensional travel is possible. If you are still unskilled, it activates in response to conditions.
「A ring that is a family heirloom of the Canape family. Its true form is not the gem, but the ring itself.」
Awesome. The item’s rarity itself changed to Unique, the highest. And Dimensional Travel?
But I don’t know how to dimensional travel? Is it conditional then?
[Conditions met!]
[You have acquired the title ’Moon Conqueror’!]
[Moon Conqueror (Legendary)]
Type: Title
Effect: Unaffected by normal laws in outer space.
For humanity, the first moment imagination became reality was the moon landing. Still, I’ve gotten an incredible title.
How should I make use of this?
As I was pondering inwardly.
A Vice-Captain of the Imperial Knights, or someone similar, came rushing with regular knights, eight glowing rings shimmering on his chest.
"What? Where is James, and who are you?"
"Lucian Vane of Ravenscoft. Son of Reiner Vane, and I’ve just dealt with James Moonshiner of the cult."
"What?! You, you?!"
I nodded.
All the surrounding knights were surprised and whispered, their gazes converging on me.
I became the center of everyone’s attention.
