章節 446: Chapter 605
Jin and Plutonians gathered in front of the chaos that turned into a door. Vahn showed her anger, but Chaos showed no reaction as if it had really become an inanimate object.
"It looked like brother Jin seemed to win... Did he run away?"
"To call it an escape feels wrong; it's more like chaos itself has become the door. Quite a peculiar fellow. It might be the first chaos for all we know."
This time, even Jin hesitated to enter.
'His thoughts are blocked. It's not that he's not talking, it is completely cut off as soon as he turns into a door.'
The last thing he felt inside the chaos was the fact that this door was his trump card.
"Brethren, I have just been able to read the thoughts of chaos. That's why I was able to deal with his attacks with ease."
When Jin explained the situation, a sigh flowed from the Plutonians.
"I thought it would be easily solved thanks to the Battle God Fusion, but it seems we've encountered another challenge."
"Still, since Brother Jin regained his strength much faster than I thought, there must be a way. The battle god fusion has not yet been lifted."
The battle god fusion didn't end even after chaos turned into a door.
Unlike the other brethren, however, Jin and Vahn rather thought it was a problem. It was because Jin did not know when he would lose consciousness, and Vahn continued to forcefully transfer her energy to Jin.
"Brethren, it seems like it's time to think about it, so let's go to another place first and talk about it."
Jin and the Plutonians left two ordinary warriors as guards and left the training ground.
'She is not showing it, but sister Vahn seems a little tired....'
Battle God Vahn, originally her energy was practically infinite.
However, as she expressed herself, she is long past her prime. She lost some of her strength even at the moment when the Plutonians were on the verge of extinction 5000 years ago, and she weakened even after passing her true energy to Jin several times.
Therefore, for current Vahn, the battle god fusion was a kind of forced amplification, and it was a somewhat tiring act.
She could not control the energy as desired, and the efficiency of Jin's acceptance of the power was not good.
Other Plutonians couldn't even imagine that Vahn could get tired just from 'transferring' her power.
Naturally, the eyes of all the Plutonians focused on Boras.
"Brother 5th battle king, can you guess anything this time?"
"Yes, brother 5th battle king is genius. You must have thought of something, right?"
Boras laughed awkwardly and scratched the back of his head.
"Well, I don't have a clear idea either. The Battle God Fusion, brother Jin reading Chaos's thoughts, Chaos turning into that door... It's all unprecedented. Let's observe for a few days and collectively think about what to do."
* * *
It's been a week since chaos transformed into a door.
Meanwhile, Jin spent his days training or participating in various experiments with his brethren to understand how the door worked. However, he only discovered two definite things.
Firstly, only Jin could enter the door of Chaos. Any attempt by someone else was met with strong resistance.
Secondly, even through the Shadow Sword, he couldn't force the door open. Any attempt to attack caused the door to briefly blur like water before quickly regaining its original form.
Most of the power Jin had lost was still bound to Chaos. It wasn't visible to Jin's eyes, unlike when Chaos took the form of a dragon, but he could sense it.
He refrained from attempting to attack Chaos with the combined lightning energy of the Plutonians, fearing it might harm his strength attached to Chaos.
The phoenix Tess, which had always been a solution in such moments, couldn't be summoned. After all, Laprarosa was a dead world.
"In the end, Brother Jin has no choice but to go through the door."
"It seems so, sister battle god. After all, the last thought conveyed to me by him was that I could no longer receive help from my brethren."
Stepping into the unknown trap is not difficult if you strengthen your resolve.
The problem was that after entering the door, if an unbearable event occurred for Jin, there was a high likelihood that his brethren wouldn't be able to help him.
In any case, the Plutonians decided to gather in front of the door and wait. Jin, much like when embarking on a journey, had a backpack filled with provisions.
"Ah, is it really okay to send Brother Jin like this?"
"Brother Jin, it might be hard to accept... but even if you lose some strength, how about traveling with the other brethren?"
"I cannot do that, brethren."
"Ah, I said something stupid. I didn't mean to blurt out something without considering your feelings."
"Why explain all that? I understand. Don't worry too much; maybe things will work out better inside the door than expected. I'll be back."
"Good luck, brother."
"Even when you step inside, I hope that sister battle god's power continues to be with you...…."
The Plutonians felt like sending a child into the sea alone. Jin waved to them as if to reassure them, but he, too, felt uneasy.
Whoosh-!
As soon as he took a step beyond the door, the scenery suddenly changed.
'I expected it to some extent, but it's similar to when I entered Glyek's subspace.'
The surroundings were filled with grotesque darkness, and only Jin's outline was distinct. Now, such subspaces were not particularly new to Jin.
Do I just move forward blindly…
The moment Jin thought that far, he heard a low, gloomy breathing sound from somewhere.
[You come....]
It was within the first ten seconds of Jin entering the subspace.
Jin, who was trying to find the direction of the voice, instinctively looked up and was immediately stunned.
'Crazy!'
It was because he met eyes with Chaos.
Even when Chaos was in the training ground, it was already huge, but now it was different. One eye alone was large enough to overwhelm Jin.
For an instant, every fiber of Jin's being tensed up, but he quickly swung the Bradamante, slashing the enormous eye of Chaos that seemed about to engulf him.
Crack-!
It felt like being struck by an ancient everlasting steel, but the one who received the impact was Jin himself.
With just that one blow, he could clearly discern one fact: at this moment, he had no chance of defeating Chaos.
'Even the battle god fusion has not been cut off, but there are not even scars left...…!?'
Jin can't be sure even before he loses his power. The best course of action was to retreat. Far from things working out better than expected, the situation was even more dire than when Jin first extracted Chaos.
[Battle god fusion, that's what you call it, right? That monster's power resonates with the remnants of me left in you, so I had quite a hard time.]
It was an even more despair-inducing turn of events. In the training ground, Jin unilaterally read Chaos's thoughts, but here, it was the opposite. Chaos was peering deeply into Jin's innermost thoughts.
He turned around hastily, but there was no sign of the door. It was absurd to think he hadn't even taken five steps beyond the door.
'This is the worst. Even after considering all the scenarios with my brethren, there's nothing worse than this.'
Bang-!
Jin felt dizzy at the blow that seemed to make his body disappear. It was the result of the enormous foreleg of Chaos sweeping him aside.
[Last time, you didn't get to taste my powerful foreleg swing! Bang, bam.]
The bones and organs of his whole body were shaken with that one blow, and blood burst from every hole in his face. If Jin hadn't been protected by his shadow force armor, he would have died instantly.
There was no surge of anger, no pain.
It was simply bewildering.
'This kind of deception doesn't even exist in scams.'
[Exactly! I felt the same way. It was great when I was the one getting beaten up by that monster, right? How does it feel when it happens to you?]
"I don't think I want to hear that from someone who stole all my strength."
Jin said calmly, but inwardly, he rolled his head as if going insane.
[Are you thinking about why the door disappeared and how to get out?]
Once again, a powerful swing of the foreleg, the area was too vast to avoid. Even if it were smaller, the speed was not one that could be avoided.
The bounced Jin barely held his consciousness.
Jin never thought he would feel this sense of helplessness as he regained nearly 30% of his strength and even Battle God Fusion!
There was no door. If so, he should make it. Fortunately, Jin had experienced something similar in the past a few times.
Whoa-!
Shadow force wrapped around Bradamante.
[Here, that power doesn't pose much of a threat to me either.]
"Is that so?"
Jin swung Bradamante not at Chaos, but into the empty space ahead by a step.
Like a lie, the space was torn apart and a way out was formed. Through the gap, he could see Laprarosa's training ground and even his brethren waiting.
'Didn't you read that I used the shadow sword to escape from a subspace like this?'
Did he not read it, or did he intentionally leave an opening even though he knew it? It wasn't something to worry about right now. After escaping, he could think about the aftermath.
Jin, who suddenly threw himself into the crack made by the shadow sword, was burning with more intense fighting spirit than ever, apart from his urgency.
'I'll become stronger and put an end to you, for sure.'
Swoosh-!
Right before Jin could escape the crack, hundreds of black awls suddenly formed in the air and pierced him like arrows. Chaos had created these awls in the brief opening, wildly attacking Jin, but they couldn't penetrate the shadow force armor.
"Ugh, ah!"
"B-Brother Jin!?"
"You are back already, no! Brother Jin, you are bleeding!"
"Brother Boras! Hurry up and treat brother Jin...…!"
Thud!
As Jin collapsed to the floor of the training ground, the Plutonians rushed over, shouting.
Jin could barely hear their voices.
Instead, Jin stared at the opening where he escaped as he lay face down until he was about to lose consciousness.
With a fanatical gaze promising retaliation, no matter what.
'I will kill you... no matter what it takes.'
And Chaos, unlike its previous demeanor, stared at Jin beyond the crack with a stern expression. As the crack closed rapidly when Jin escaped, it gazed into the now empty space and Chaos muttered to itself.
[Heh, come again. You stupid bastard!]
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章節 447: Chapter 606
* * *
'How many days have passed since I fainted?'
As soon as Jin opened his eyes, he could see his brethren looking down at him with worried faces as always.
"You're awake, Brother Jin."
"I've lost count of how many times I've heard that. I'm tired of losing consciousness now. How much time has passed this time?"
"Two days."
"Ha."
A sense of defeat, or anger. Those emotions were burning hot within Jin's chest.
Splash, splash! No matter how many times he drank the cold water that Nata offered him, there was no sign of the heat going away. The more Jin thought about it, the more he felt like he was going crazy because he hated the chaos.
"What the hell happened inside? I didn't expect you to come back after a minute or two after you went in. Not anyone else, Brother Jin...…."
"Tell us what happened for now."
"I went in and it was his subspace. He was even bigger, right in front of me, and he just knocked me out with one strike. He even read my thoughts, just like I did when he was outside."
There wasn't much to explain. The outcome was decided in a single blow.
"He even said in there that my shadow force wasn't threatening at all. That damn bastard could talk. He even mocked me, asking how it felt to be on the receiving end of a powerful front paw swing... I've never been so helpless before."
"Is this really your first time?"
Vahn spoke as she sat down next to the bed where Jin was lying.
While Jin and the other brethren took the situation seriously, unlike them, Vahn seemed to find it amusing, wearing a subtle smile.
"When you first came here, most of us thought of you as a naive genius. Probably because you hadn't faced many defeats outside, and we assumed your mental strength would be weak."
"Sister battle god."
"But the truth was, brother Jin, you were someone familiar with defeat. When you first came to Laprarosa, you couldn't help but get beaten by the other brethren until you left."
"That's true."
"So, don't attach any special meaning to this defeat."
Jin felt like he was waking up.
As Vahn mentioned, he had already experienced numerous defeats. He had faced greater despair and absurdity than being drained of his strength by chaos countless times.
In particular, compared to the time before his regression, when he fell into the curse, the current situation was somewhat 'manageable.'
"Brother Jin."
"Yes, sister battle god."
"Let me ask you one thing. Do you still want to deal with him on your own, without the help of me and others?"
"Yes, that's right."
"Then, you will train from now on."
Vahn decisively reached a conclusion.
"The time given to you is three years, and within that time, I and the other brethren will personally train you to be able to defeat him. And you will have a rematch with him whenever you reach a certain level."
Unlike Jin, the Plutonians did not experience chaos in subspace. They had no choice but to infer his martial arts based on Jin's explanation, and the gap in progress was so great that they couldn't know exactly.
One thing was certain; at the moment, Jin was considered to be at a level where he could be defeated with ease.
It wasn't a matter of training for a day or two; it meant that Jin had to be prepared for death every time he entered the subspace.
"I don't know if it was luck or if there were other reasons. You came back alive today, brother Jin. Even if you lose in the next fight, you just need to survive and escape."
Of course it was dangerous, but the Plutonians remembered what Vahn had said.
"Um, I'm worried about Brother Jin. As sister battle god said, training is originally something that can lead to death..."
"If Brother Jin wants to fight alone, there really is no other solution."
Jin and the Plutonians seemed to agree with Vahn's opinion in an instant.
"In addition, other brethren also undergo training with Brother Jin."
"So sister Vahn, when do you think my next rematch will be?"
"A month later."
It was an insufficient amount of time to narrow the gap. Even the Plutonians seemed to question whether it was okay to be that fast, but Vahn was firm.
"You will fight again in a month to gather more information about him. Reconnaissance, assessment, combat, escape. Since only brother Jin can do all of these, it will be a long and dangerous battle. Everyone, move to the second training ground."
* * *
That one month became the most hellish time in Jin's life, and it was truly just the 'beginning.'
'I never thought there would come a day when I wish the next day wouldn't come because training is so painful...'
Ugh, as he vomited up his gastric juices, Jin got goosebumps all over his body.
The Plutonian tribe's training was incomparably rough compared to that of humans. However, the standard of 'battle god' was higher than that.
The other members of the Plutonian tribe were also staring at each other in a state of near death. However, they quickly regained their energy after just a few hours of rest, and Jin continued to train with a taste of death lingering.
Vahn relentlessly informed Jin that the scheduled rematch date was imminent.
"Brother Jin, you take a day off and enter the door tomorrow. So, today's training is over."
Jin misinterpreted her words as an instruction to "rest by entering the door."
So Jin left the second training grounds and went to the central training ground (of course, Vahn thought Jin was going to the room to rest) and tried to enter the door, but was stopped by Tantel and Shaku who were standing guard. If those two weren't there, he would have faced Chaos again.
"Brother Jin, are you entering the door to rest? Sister battle god couldn't have said that!"
"It's... part of the training...…."
"We'll check, so wait a moment. Hmm, he fainted."
"Oh, well. Let's move him to his room."
When Jin opened his eyes again, it was a familiar ceiling.
'Sister battle god told me to enter the door and rest...! No, something is strange. Did I hear it wrong?'
As soon as Jin regained his consciousness, Vahn laughed at his flustered appearance as if it were funny. Then, as soon as Vahn's eyes met Jin's, she erased her expression and said this.
"Let's go, it's time for the second battle."
As always, all the brethren were waiting at the door. Since they had just gone through hellish training, the Plutonians were as sharp as honed swords.
Jin had only slept for a day. Naturally, the fatigue hadn't dissipated, and his body felt heavy, as if submerged in water.
Jin had to fight the 2nd battle in that state.
'At this point, it seems that the sister battle god is determined to kill me.'
The blind faith in the brethren, especially in Battle God Vahn. Without that, Jin would have shouted that this was madness.
"I'll be back."
"Good luck."
"Come back alive, brother Jin!"
When Jin entered the door, it was the same as last time. Darkness spread out of nowhere, and Jin heard his voice.
[Oh, are you here?]
Swoosh!
As soon as Jin faced the chaos, it felt like all the accumulated fatigue was replaced with anger. It was time to confirm the results of the hellish training...
Jin came out of the door exactly 3 minutes later.
[Anyway, you bastard. So when are we going to have a proper fight? Yawn! I'm getting bored. Yawn!]
Once again, Chaos mocked Jin to his heart's content before the crack from the shadow sword closed.
"Brother Jin is back alive!"
"Brother 5th battle king, give him treatment!"
The Plutonians made a fuss, but Vahn only spoke in a calm voice.
"Three minutes, it's much better than last time."
"Sister battle god, but Brother Jin's injuries are more serious than last time. I think he got out of there by luck this time too, but it's better to postpone the 3rd battle...…!"
"No, we will proceed with the third battle as scheduled in a month. Brother 5th battle king, use any means necessary to ensure that brother Jin can train from tonight onwards."
For Jin, it felt like there were two devils. Chaos beyond the door, and Vahn on this side of the door.
Instead, Jin felt a strange feeling along with anger.
'Somehow sister Vahn... is pretty sure that I'll never die. Am I mistaken?'
There was no time to think seriously. Indeed, Boras healed Jin 'to be able to move' from the night, and the hellish training resumed for a month right away.
"I will be back...."
[The idiot came again. Last time, you were lucky to escape, right? Today, you'll die]
Jin came back without dying.
"2 minutes and 34 seconds. It's actually shorter than last time!"
"But the injuries have decreased. Looks like sister battle god's escape training from the past two months is starting to show its effect. Brother Jin, the battle time was shortened because you escaped at the right time, right?"
A similar pattern continued in the 4th battle, which took place after another month.
Each time, Jin was easily defeated, and Chaos seemed to miss Jin by a narrow margin.
"3 minutes and 57 seconds!"
[Hehe, come at me a hundred times!]
"4 minutes and 12 seconds!"
[No, no. That's why you can't even cut one of my scales.]
"12 minutes and 36 seconds! Besides, this time Brother Jin came back with only one broken arm!"
"Just one? You call that just one? Would you like to have a broken arm?"
[You've become quite good at avoiding powerful front paw swings now, haven't you? But what to do, I haven't shown you my ultra-powerful tail swipe yet.]
"18 minutes and 27 seconds...!"
[Tch, you're running away again...…! Next time, I'll make sure to send you to the afterlife!]
The day that recorded 18 minutes and 27 seconds marked the passage of one year.
From that point on, Jin was dealing with chaos with a certain amount of mental composure. It was still very small, but hope had begun to appear.
"You miss me every time. I've been watching you quietly for the past year, and you've only been talking about it. See you in a month, wait with your neck out. Keep my strength well."
[I hate it, I hate it! Ebebebeb!]
Jin burst out laughing for the first time without even realizing it. It was the first time in the past year.
"Oh, Brother Jin has finally returned without major injuries! Any effective hits?"
"Not yet. I managed to dodge a few fatal blows, but haven't delivered significant damage."
"Where is that, Brother Jin? Great job!"
On that day, the Plutonians were in a festive mood as they saw Jin returning unscathed.
Some brethren couldn't help but shed tears, recalling the horrendous training Jin had endured during that time.
Vahn also tousled Jin's hair and praised him for the first time.
"Good job, brother Jin. In your next fight, you will be able to really intimidate him."
"I think so too, sister battle god. I've regained more strength from him, and I believe I'll reach the pinnacle of the shadow sword ultimate technique I'm mastering...."
After answering that, Jin looked at the empty space beyond the door.
Suddenly, Jin wondered what Chaos would be doing there when he wasn't around.
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