Survival Story of a Sword King in a Fantasy World

Queen of Blood Circer (2)

The Queen shot forward again.

Her long fingernails were equipped with Blade Rays to increase her damage output.

“Huh!”

With a focused shout, Ryu Han-bin raised his greatsword and slashed it against her.

Her fingernails and his blade confronted in the air.

‘Huh?’

The greatsword slipped and broke its balance.

Ryu Han-bin was surprised.

‘What’s this?’

Han-bin had understood the flow of power properly.

He properly delivered a powerful shock using a Maxbrid Martial Arts technique.

The blade wasn’t swung at a slipping angle.

However, as soon as it touched the red light, the blade was thrown off its trajectory, causing it to slip.

“Huh!”

Scoffing, the Queen continued her offensive.

Without backing down, Han-bin retaliated nonstop as well.

He attacked the Queen’s vital points from every angle possible.

And, as expected, he wasted his power.

‘The direction of the sword was strangely twisted again.’

The Queen’s lips twisted upwards as she looked at Han-bin, who became stern.

“I doubted it at first, but it’s true after all.”

She gave a cold laugh.

“You don’t know anything about Aura.”

* * *

“Hohohoho!”

Along with the laughter, a red Blade Aura embroidered the air.

Ryu Han-bin was continuously pushed back.

“Argh!”

He wasn’t being forced away because he was weaker than her.

He was faster than the Queen.

Han-bin could swing and retrieve his sword swifter than the Queen.

Nevertheless, every time his blade touched that red light, its direction was distorted.

The sword kept following the wrong trajectory, causing his balance to be broken.

Eventually, the Queen’s fingernails scratched Ryu Han-bin’s shoulder.

Even though he defended with force, she still tore through his skin, and blood still splattered on the floor.

Thud!

The Queen tasted the drops of blood with her fingernails.

“Well, your blood isn’t that delicious. It’s just human blood.”

But it wasn’t bad.

Being so big, he must’ve had a lot more blood than other humans had.

“Quantity over quality.”

Looking at the relaxed Queen, Han-bin clicked his tongue.

His imagination of Aura strengthened his physical ability and made it possible to cut what he could not cut.

That was how he understood it.

However, it was not a simple ability to deal with it.

“That’s truly unfortunate. I can’t believe you can’t acquire Aura even though you’ve trained your body so hard.”

The Queen walked confidently with her fingernails hanging down.

“The difference between a regular warrior and an Aura user is like night and day.”

Spreading her wings, she disappeared from Ryu Han-bin’s view in an instant.

“No matter how strong and fast you are!”

She took control of his back and pushed out her palm.

A red blood cell formed and shot Han-bin on the back.

Bam!

Han-bin, who was hit by a blood cell without countermeasures, stumbled and turned around.

He clenched his teeth and fought back.

“Huh!”

But the Queen wasn’t there.

Before he knew it, the Queen had moved to the blind spot of Han-bin and attacked him with her fingernails.

“How can you fight against a person who can see invisible things?”

Her fingernails scratched Han-bin’s whole body.

His steel-like skin got torn, and blood splattered everywhere.

A faint groan came out of Ryu Han-bin’s mouth.

“Ugh!”

The Queen continued to attack cheerfully.

“Hohohoho!”

Han-bin kept being pushed back.

Suddenly, Ryu Han-bin did something strange.

He did not defend himself even when a Blade Aura hit over his head but instead assumed a basic swordsmanship stance.

“What are you doing?”

The Queen hit her nails to break his head.

-Horizontal cut!

A flash of light separated the world.

* * *

Horizontal cut, a swordsman skill, could be acquired from the Guideline.

It was a basic skill that could be acquired at level 3.

However, Ryu Han-bin had practiced the horizontal cut for 22 years.

With hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of swings, the ultimate blow had already surpassed the Guideline and itself!

The devastation of cutting between moments was beyond human knowledge.

The Queen’s right arm was completely sliced off.

“Argh!”

With a scream, she stepped away.

She looked at her wounds and Ryu Han-bin alternately as if she couldn’t believe it.

‘What have you done?’

It wasn’t an Aura skill.

It was just a simple slash.

But she didn’t detect the simple cut at all?

‘That… That’s a coincidence, right?’

The Queen broke out in cold sweat and reconnected her cut arm back with Blood Control skills.

Blood clumped into the air and connected her arm and torso.

Han-bin clicked his tongue as he watched the Queen recovering her wounds in an instant.

“Oh, my God, do you have the skill to regenerate your body?”

The Guideline, which had been quiet for a while, sent a message.

[Queen of Blood Circer: She can recover her body using Blood Control skills. Use the Aura skill to break the Blood Control.]

‘Does it pop out only when it’s not much help?’

Han-bin attacked with his sword again.

That time, however, the Queen avoided it skillfully.

A general sword technique was sufficiently predictable by using Aura.

‘It was a coincidence as expected!’

The Blood Circer Queen tried to scratch him with her nails again.

-Horizontal cut!

A sword-shaped light shot like a cannonball, and the Queen’s fingernails were shattered.

It was such a short moment that the Queen couldn’t even defend herself with Aura.

The speed of the attack was much faster than her reaction.

“Argh!”

The Queen gritted her teeth hard, revealing her fangs.

“How is it so strong?”

Nevertheless, Han-bin’s expression wasn’t good.

Again, she recovered her broken nails by simply tapping her hands.

The Guideline was right.

If he didn’t break the Blood Control, it was no use pushing it with force.

“Damn, I’m so sad that I can’t use Aura.”

Meanwhile, the Blood Circer Queen was embarrassed.

He must be a foolish man.

He was using his physical strength without knowing anything about Aura.

But the simple devastation that sometimes came out of him was the essence of real power!

The Queen had a chill on her back.

‘He had already found enlightenment!’

In a hurry, the Blood Circer Queen flew into the air.

‘I can’t prolong this battle!’

There was no time to play with him.

He had a body beyond human limitations.

If such a guy enlightened Aura, her life would be over.

A monster that could never be confronted would be born.

She had to make sure to kill him with the strongest blow she could muster!

“Ahhh!”

The Queen raised both hands above her head, pulling up all the Aura in her body.

Huge blood cells clumped into the air and formed a formidable ball of energy.

Han-bin turned pale.

‘Oh, my God!’

The energy was so tremendous that he could feel it clearly with his poor senses.

The concentration of power was completely different.

‘What should I do? Should I avoid it? Or do I hit back?’

There was no time to make a decision.

The Queen threw the blood cells at him.

– Aura Skill: Blood Essence!

A huge sphere of destruction flew towards him, destroying all the cocoons around.

In a hurry, Han-bin stabbed the greatsword on the floor.

At the most critical moment, he performed the defensive move he was most familiar with.

He wrapped his head with both arms, applied as much force as he could to his whole body, inflated his muscles, and stood on the ground with both legs!

“Taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Blood cells ran over Ryu Han-bin’s whole body.

A huge explosion shook the entire tower.

Boom!

Cracks and dust sprang up all over the building.

Even an earthquake would not shake that much.

A huge mark of destruction was visible around Han-bin, making a hole in one side of the tower.

Cuckoo Cuckoo…

In a subdued roar, the Queen looked nervously at her opponent.

After using her strongest ability, she had also lost a lot of energy.

‘Did that kill that monstrous human?’

A moment later, a figure was seen standing in the middle of the huge destruction.

“Oh, damn, it hurts so bad…”

His whole body was covered in blood, but he didn’t fall.

His limbs were fine, and his eyes were still vivid.

“You endured that?”

Despite being dumbfounded, the Queen raised her hands again.

She was tired, but she still managed to conjure another shot.

‘You can’t stand it twice!’

Again, blood cells clumped into the air and formed a ball of destruction.

Ryu Han-bin breathed in.

‘Are you throwing that thing again?’

Blocking once was already too much for him.

If he got hit again, he would die no matter how strong he was.

But he couldn’t avoid it.

It was too fast and had a wide area-of-effect.

Han-bin quickly grabbed the black greatsword.

‘Just breakthrough!’

The Queen burst into a crock with her hands stretched out.

“Die!”

-Aura Skill: Blood Essence!

Whooong!

The atmosphere fluctuated, and blood cells flew in.

Taking a stance, Ryu Han-bin prepared his strongest skill.

-Horizontal cut!

The world’s dividing flash collided with the blood cells.

Huge forces confronted each other in the air, creating a tremendous shock wave.

Boom!

The goddess of victory raised her hand for the Blood Circer Queen.

The greatsword began to be pushed back by the blood cells.

“Argh! Ugh!”

When the Queen was about to smile as if she had just won, Han-bin’s eyes began to glow.

He abandoned all misconceptions and wielded his word with only one thought: ‘cut’!

“Taaaat!”

At that moment, something awakened inside him.

It rose, exploded, and became a huge stream of power.

The air trembled and became light, concentrating on becoming destruction itself.

The blade of the black greatsword roared.

Boom!

A brilliant red light swept up the blade.

The light of destruction that cut everything smashed through the blood cells and headed straight for the Queen’s heart.

“Huh? Uh?”

In front of the crimson flash of light, the monster burst into a painful scream.

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

* * *

The dust settled.

Amid the heavy smoke, Ryu Han-bin breathed raggedly.

“Huh, hah, hah, hah, hah…….”

Catching his breath, he looked at the weapon in his hand.

The blade was still glowing red.

“This is…”

He couldn’t understand what just happened.

‘I just swung my sword…’

At the same time, ironically, everything became understandable.

He could feel it desperately even though no one had taught him.

That was it.

It was the essence of true power.

The light was the essence of his soul and his will to destroy!

‘This is Aura!’