章 140: In The Bowels of Hell

"--Just as I had hoped," Jun-Seo said through heavy breaths, "Your sharpness hasn't been dulled."

He wasn't up for conversation as he immediately tried to follow up with a spinning slash that utilized a blast of light again, but the GOETIA System user leapt back, using a peculiar technique to hasten his movements to leave a stuttering afterimage behind.

"...In more ways than one," Jun-Seo said quietly to himself, wiping the sweat from his chin.

"It seems to me you've improved little," He replied.

Jun-Seo laughed before stabbing his blade into the ground, cracking the bones beneath, "...Perhaps you're right. I'd argue otherwise myself."

"--?"

From seemingly nowhere, a bountiful aura produced itself from Jun-Seo's body; a darkness so prevalent that it felt unmistakably from a hellish entity, yet the one before him was a man, no doubt.