章節 442: Chapter 601

'Did it just laugh?'

Jin definitely saw it. Despite having a face completely different from a human, the expression distinctly gave off a sinister vibe.

However, there was no time to think about such things. Because in an instant, all the strength he had trained all his life disappeared.

Jin couldn't even feel a trace of the aura and mana that were close to 10-star. It was as if it had never existed in the first place.

"You must be feeling a sense of loss, brother Jin. But you just have to reclaim it from chaos."

Naturally, it was not as easy as it sounded.

But instead of despairing, Jin raised his head and glared at Chaos.

'There is no choice anyway.'

Come to think of it, it wasn't such a bad situation. If Jin had arrived at Laprarosa a little late, he would have been attacked by that chaos monster without knowing why.

Although he lost his aura and mana, most of the many formidable enemies that Jin had fought so far had much stronger power than him.

Fighting against stronger opponents and winning somehow was one of the things Jin did best.

The entity of chaos was looking at Vahn with a smiling face.

'It is very afraid of sister battle god. It is revealing it all by rolling eyes without thinking about it.'

Fear is a weakness. In that sense, Chaos looked very immature in Jin's eyes. Chaos isn't the only one who recognizes Jin as Vahn's weakness.

"Sister battle god. This situation is definitely purification, not training, right?"

"Yes. I'm not lying to train my brother. Indeed, that's something neither I nor the other brethren can do for you."

"Yes, I didn't ask because I thought sister battle god might have deceived me for training."

"Then?"

"Since it wasn't training, I was wondering if I could get help from my brethren in case of an emergency."

Vahn nodded.

"Of course it is possible."

Sss...

The straps of the extraction aid device tied to Jin's head were released. Jin, who slowly got up, picked up Sigmund.

Habits are scary.

He naturally tried to imbue the sword with lightning energy, but there was no response at all. Even Sigmund felt heavy without the power of the aura that always supported the body.

Chaos once again laughed at that part.

"That means I will never die fighting it."

The Plutonians could not directly hit Chaos, and if Jin was in danger, they could always save him.

"Of course you will not be crippled."

"Also, if it harms me beyond recovery. The brethren will definitely take revenge."

"I will always personally witness the fight between Brother Jin and chaos, so there will be no such incidents. However, if that thing kills you through a method we can't get involved with. At that time, I will definitely take revenge."

The corners of Chaos's mouth, which had been subtly sneering, stiffened.

'It has the intelligence to understand words, but does it have the ability to think only one step ahead? It keeps revealing superficial intentions.'

Jin doesn't know exactly how much power chaos possessed, but even the energy it took away from him was at a level close to 10-star. Besides, it has chaos energy, so it is highly likely that it was a formidable opponent even before Jin lost his strength.

It was fortunate for Jin that its intelligence was low.

"Are you going to fight right now?"

"Yes, sister battle god."

As Jin slowly began to approach, Chaos also spread its wings and got up. Its shadow covered Jin and Vahn.

'The feeling of intimidation... is no joke.'

Jin felt even more so because he had lost his strength. Jin was even convinced that he would die if chaos just lifted its front paw and pressed down as if it was killing a bug.

A nervous laughter escaped Jin due to the trembling helplessness. Jin's battle prowess, who had been engaged in sleepless sparring with the battle kings of the Plutonian tribe until just 30 minutes ago, had truly disappeared.

However, the confrontation between Jin and the chaos was progressing somewhat strangely.

The closer Jin got, the more it stepped back. Of course, it's not because Chaos is afraid to fight Jin.

It was because Vahn is about five steps behind Jin, preparing for any unforeseen circumstances.

'Is this what it felt like to fight with someone behind you?'

The two eyes of the Vahn were emitting blazing bloodlust towards the chaos. It was a look that quietly said, "Sit still and let brother Jin take his strength, then die quietly."

Jin was frustrated by the chaos that only widened the distance, and it's a worthy death for chaos.

"Hmm."

In the end, Jin started charging first. Chaos also tried to increase the distance faster, but when it met the blazing eyes of Vahn, chaos was unable to move as it wished.

And Jin was shocked by the fact that he was so 'slow'. A body that is not assisted by an aura is almost nothing more than a low-level martial artist.

Anyway, Jin vigorously thrust out his sword.

He couldn't leap all the way to Chaos's head, so his striking point was chaos's front feet. With full force in his abdomen and a powerful swing, the downward slash produced a quaint little impact sound— not a slash, not a clang, not a thud, but a cute little 'pong'! It once again shattered Jin's posture.

Even that wasn't the end.

Even though Jin himself attacked, he even bounced back because of the repulsive force of the protective shield that chaos reflexively deployed.

"Cough!"

* * *

Surprisingly or unfortunately.

It was only a full day later that Jin opened his eyes. To him, it felt like he had merely blinked once.

"Ha...."

As soon as Jin woke up, he sighed involuntarily.

Jin could quickly grasp the situation from the worried faces of his brethren looking down at him.

"Brother Jin! You woke up. Are you okay?"

"Hey, don't try to get up right away. Your bones are not fully healed yet."

"Bones? Did my bones break?"

"About seventeen... Normally, if it were your sturdy body, they would heal quickly, but it'll take some time now."

Only bones and organs were damaged thanks to training his blessed muscles to the limit. If he had been another low-level martial artist, he would have died instantly from the recoil of chaos.

For Jin, it was a series of shocks.

'Even so... I couldn't even perceive the moment I lost consciousness? Me?'

It was frustrating, but the memories of countless battles he had endured to the end passed through Jin's mind.

Jin has memories of enduring with will strength in any situation, but such an unsightly defeat!

"What happened to that guy?"

"Well...."

"No, it's fine. I asked the obvious."

Chaos was sleeping in the middle of the training ground. If compared to a person, it seemed to have received a shock equivalent to not losing a single hair.

'It's not a situation where mental strength or willpower can make a difference.'

Even if an ant exerted its utmost effort, it couldn't defeat a tiger. The gap between Jin and Chaos was almost of that magnitude.

While lying down, Jin opened and closed his fists, checking his body condition once again.

It seemed that he could feel an extremely weak aura and mana. The control that allowed even a single piece of cotton to move as he pleased was gone. It took a considerable amount of time just to become aware of this.

'Should I build up my strength from the beginning and deal with it? No, that would be hopeless within three years.'

Once he walks that path, he can reach the destination faster than before. However, three years would still be far from enough.

As Jin pondered, the door opened, and Vahn entered.

"Sister battle god."

Unlike the gloomy and serious Jin, she had a faint smile on her face.

"I didn't know that brother Jin would have such a foolish look."

"I did make a fool of myself. It's embarrassing."

"That's not what I meant."

As if she couldn't hold it, Vahn burst into laughter.

Jin didn't hate it even if she made fun of him. Instead, he felt relieved to see a humble side that was rarely seen among the absolute beings.

'Well, sister Vahn is immune to demonicization, so even when she reaches extremes, doesn't she become desolate on the inside like my father or Sir Ron?'

Vahn looked at Bradamante, which was lying next to Jin.

"It was a little odd since brother Jin naturally chose Sigmund over Bradamante before you ran into chaos. It seemed like the clever Brother Jin was missing something so simple."

"What do you mean... Oh, don't tell me?"

"Yes, brother Jin, you only lost your aura and mana. It means that your shadow force still remains."

In an instant, Jin's face reddened. The other Plutonians couldn't hold back their laughter, making Jin even more embarrassed.

Jin didn't think about shadow force because he felt a sense of loss of having lost all of his aura and mana.

"How stupid I was to forget this!?"

"I thought you were pretending to lose your shadow force just to catch the chaos off guard, like always."

A lump of shadow force formed in Jin's grip as he lay down. Jin let out a disheartened laugh as he saw it.

"If I dealt with it with the shadow sword...."

"The result would have been the same, but the process would have been different."

"I will face the chaos as soon as I feel better. In this fight, I couldn't even figure out its approximate power at all."

"Right. And even though it's invisible to my eyes and the eyes of other brethren, you should be able to feel the power it took from you, brother Jin."

The key was to fight and recover the strength. The more Jin regains his original strength, the naturally weaker chaos will become.

The recovery was over after five days. Jin, along with his brethren, once again found Chaos lying on the training ground and raised his sword.

Chaos reluctantly lifted its head, as if expressing exhaustion.

There were two reasons why chaos was so relaxed.

First, because Jin was unbelievably weak, and second, because even after unintentionally harming Jin, the Plutonians did not retaliate.

Therefore, Chaos planned to continue postponing its death by making Jin faint every time he attacked.

[Haaaaam.]

After yawning profusely, Chaos took a nap again with the protective shield on.

'Does it not know that I have shadow force, or does shadow force not pose a threat even if it knows?'

Either way Jin should check it out.

Jin approached Chaos confidently, and with Bradamante enveloped in shadow force, he struck the protective shield with all his might.

[Kyaaak!]

As soon as the shadow force touched the protective shield, chaos jumped up and blinked its eyes.

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章節 443: Chapter 602

It looked like a startled cat springing up like a bowstring. Although its body was too massive to be compared to a cat.

Kwoong-!

As chaos fell on its back, an earthquake shook the entire training ground. Jin took a backward step with just the slight shock that occurred.

'Certainly, it reacts sensitively to shadow force.'

Yona, Amela, Glyek, etc. Almost every chaos Jin experienced greatly feared or harbored deep resentment towards Solderet's power.

The first chaos derived from Helluram was no different. The creature had widened its eyes as if they would pop out at any moment, breathing steadily.

It couldn't be seen, but it felt like chaos was even breaking out in a cold sweat.

"Oh, this time, it seems like brother Jin is making a move right from the start?"

"Brother! Well done, keep it up, give it a real beating!"

The Plutonians who came to watch the match (with refreshments and alcohol prepared in the audience) clenched their fists and shouted. This time too, Vahn was keeping a distance of five steps.

"Kuh...."

However, it was not easy for Jin to close the distance with chaos again.

Contrary to how chaos had been distracted or looked at Vahn so far, the chaos chaos now exuded clear hostility towards Jin.

Jin's legs did not move, as if he had been facing Tess' heavy pressure.

Either he was terrified, or he lost his will to fight. It wasn't a mental problem.

The reason why Jin's legs stiffened was purely because of the real pressure created by chaos fighting spirit.

"How dare you."

Chaos immediately reaped the fighting spirit as Vahn spoke quietly.

Instead, it complained about unfairness with a tremendously gloomy voice unique to 'chaos of different ranks'.

[Squirm... Nng.]

The voice of chaos, which is different in class, has a certain penetrating power that penetrates the inner side of human beings.

It wasn't just because they were strong beings like Demon God's orb and Glyek that broke the human will to fight with only screams.

The same was true of the first chaos that escaped Jin. Even Jin feels sorry for the whining sound of the guy in the middle of the day.

'Crazy, do I feel sorry for it? What am I thinking?'

Especially, Jin couldn't help but react more sensitively to the creature's voice.

What constituted the creature wasn't just chaos; it had become naturally intertwined with Jin's inner self as it acquired his energy. In other words, there was a kind of inner connection between Jin and the creature, making them feel each other's emotions more vividly.

Therefore, as Jin approached the creature to strike again, he had to constantly steady his emotions. The creature was never to be pitied; it was just a menacing existence that needed to be eradicated.

[Kiiing, Kiiing!]

"What do you mean?"

[Kiii!]

"Noisy. Shut your mouth and receive brother Jin's blade."

On the other hand, the chaos considered this situation absurd. The human was trying to eliminate it, but with Vahn confidently watching its back, the situation felt upside down.

It was all the more so because even if chaos appealed to Vahn, all it got back was a cold and overbearing treatment.

In fact, Chaos had the intention of letting go of Jin as long as he didn't try to harm it.

Originally, it should have become 'one' by devouring Jin, but now that they were divided, it thought they could each lead their own lives.

Chaos didn't even perceive that it had taken Jin's power. It felt it was originally its possession.

The chaos began to distance itself from Jin, and Jin found himself in the position of chasing after the fleeing creature.

And the chaos that ran away was agonizing over why Jin had 'shadow force'.

Jin was thinking about how to get rid of that shallow and nasty guy.

'I'm sure the shadow sword is a threat to it, but my body doesn't respond well enough to open the shadow sword.'

Whoosh!

Jin bites his teeth. He couldn't properly strengthen his body with only shadow force. He released the shadow force armor (Multa's rune could not be used due to lack of mana), but it was impossible to open Bradamante.

'Should I learn to strengthen my body with shadow force? I don't know how long that might take either. If I'm not careful, my aura release might go wrong when I get my aura back after using shadow force mostly.'

Jin never thought the moment would come when he missed the aura that filled every vein so much. It was strange just to imagine filling the empty dantian and aura operating organs with shadow force instead.

"Mmm."

"At first, it looked like Brother Jin had just hit it, but there is no difference. Can this be called a fight?"

"I feel so sorry for Brother Jin. Our powerful brother has become so weak..."

"Hey, don't say such negative things. If you keep saying that, brother Jin might never become strong again."

However, as time passed, Jin and Vahn began to understand this battle on a completely different level than the others at the training ground.

'It is as the sister battle god said. I'm still a long way from closing the distance with it, but I'm starting to feel the strength that sister Vahn said about me little by little.'

Like a light hidden in thick fog, the energy of Jin, which Chaos had taken away, glowed softly all over chaos's body.

It was only visible in Jin's eyes, and it seemed that if he held on to it, it would come crashing into him like a wave.

'Darn it, it's risky to let the sister battle god break that cursed shield for me. Just hitting the shield could cause problems with my strength it has. Sister Vahn must be silent because she's worried about that.'

It was as Jin thought.

However, it's not only that, Vahn also felt a strange sensation while maintaining a five steps distance with Jin.

'Is there some kind of resonance happening between brother Jin and me...?'

The Plutonian's illuminating heart and the power contained within it can be amplified in response to Vahn's power.

That was the reason why the illuminating hearts of the battle kings were particularly bright when Jin first visited the hall of battle gods in Laprarosa. The Plutonian called the phenomenon "battle god resonance."

Jin also has an illuminating heart, so he can resonate in the same way, but not now.

'Right now, Brother Jin's illuminating heart won't even have the least energy left for resonance...… why?'

Suddenly, as if something occurred to her, Vahn grabbed Jin's shoulders.

"Sister battle god?"

"Brother Jin, don't you feel it?"

"What... huh?"

Jin stopped walking. Thanks to Vahn's strengthening him with Battle God Resonance, Jin could now feel the same sensation as her.

'It seems that the power of the sister battle god is somehow connected to me...!'

It was an unfamiliar feeling to Jin as well. However, it wasn't the first time.

32nd island of the Blue Bird Archipelago.

- (My brother, Peitel, whom I want to kill.)

-(Did you dare to think you could descend to my grave...?)

Something similar happened in the Archipelago, where Joshua's clone was first killed.

On that day, the memory of the thunder god 'Gram' remaining in Sigmund resonated with the sword and strengthened his lightning energy.

A feeling similar to that time wrapped around Jin.

"It seems like I can help you after all, brother Jin."

Goooo...!

As if the sky spread out of nowhere, as if it were submerged in a tidal wave.

The entire training ground was filled with blue lightning energy. It was a phenomenon that occurred when Vahn spread her energy.

[Kek, kek!?]

Chaos misunderstood that Vahn changed her mind and thought she was trying to harm itself, whether or not Jin was harmed, but it wasn't. If that were the case, Chaos would have been torn to pieces with just Vahn's energy.

The reason Vahn released her energy was to send it to Jin.

Just like God grants divine power to humans.

She had never lent her energy to others in this way, but she was confident that Jin would be able to accept that energy.

Chaos crouched down in fear, still not grasping the situation.

Jin shuddered at the sensation of being "reborn."

Puzzzz-!

As if sparks were spreading, the light was rising from Jin's chest. The illuminating heart began to flash with blue lighting energy again.

Even on Bradamante's black blade, which was soaked in shadow force, there was a blue energy.

Jin's body, which had been as heavy as a stone, became much lighter, and it seemed that he could cut off the shield of chaos.

'Now, I guess I can fight properly.'

How the hell the two came to resonate, how they will cultivate this new way of 'transmission' in the future, and what problems are there with resonance? It's not too late to think about these questions after this fight is over. After all, there is no way Jin will die or become crippled while fighting chaos.

"I found out recently that I'm on borrowed time. It was quite surprising. Feel that, Chaos. Now, you're on borrowed time."

Shaak-!

Even the seemingly endless protective shield felt much closer, as Jin closed the distance with just two leaps.

Jin swung his sword with eyes almost full of joy, but Vahn kept 5 steps with Jin again.

As for chaos, it was going crazy and jumping.

[Kyaaaaaagh!]

Jin was knocked back once by the roar of chaos, but he didn't faint like before.

'It's pretty bearable. It's not like the last time I'm going to get beaten up like that.'

Of course, the power displayed by the chaos was only a small fraction. However, now the chaos had become a target that Jin could break through, not an impenetrable wall.

Bradamante managed to pierce through a part of the chaos's protective shield. Startled by Jin's sudden increase in strength, the chaos couldn't immediately restore the shield, and Jin, seizing the opportunity, attacked.

Stepping into the protective shield, Jin avoided the reflexively swinging forepaw and aimed for its instep. On the top of its foot, there was a lump of energy that originally belonged to Jin.

Jin quickly jumped onto its instep before he started to struggle in earnest.

Like grabbing a fallen object, Jin extended his hand towards the energy. It felt like savoring the sweetness of a delicious fruit after days of hunger, waking up his entire bloodstream in an instant.

He could feel his lost strength entering the danteon. The power regained from the chaos was about 10% of the aura.

The moment of joy was short-lived. As the energy returned to his body, consciousness was abruptly cut off again, like a thread snapping.

However, the unconscious Jin wore a blissful smile, much like those who recover something precious.

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