Eternally Regressing Knight Chapter 627

627. Difference in skill

The whip is originally faster than a sword. This is because it is a weapon that uses centrifugal force through a wrist snap.
When the whip is properly powered and reaches a certain speed, it makes a tearing sound in the air, but that does not change even if it becomes larger.

Kwaang! Kwarung!

It felt like thunder was rumbled right next to me.
I thought Luagarne would do something similar by swinging her whip, but then I heard a bang, a crack.

‘monster.’

Pel judged it as such, and Luagarne saw that if properly hit by that steel whip, even a heart-shaped armor would not be able to withstand it.
While the two were aware, understanding, and thinking, Encred watched the whip’s movements with accelerated thinking.
If you don’t see it, you’ll get hit, and if you don’t predict it, you’ll have to sacrifice an arm or a leg.

‘Hurry up.’

At one point, Rem’s arm seemed to bend like a whip, and I had felt his axe as a ray of light, but this was even worse.
The giant smiled and pulled the whip, swinging it with great skill.

Kkwarung! Kkwarang! Kkwarjik! Kwaaah!

There were four more loud bangs.
If there had been anything that could have been hit in the space where the whip passed, it would have been shattered.
A human body, for example, would have been easily split into several pieces and scattered in all directions.

“Go into the forest!”

Luagarne shouted. She was telling me to use the environment. She felt blood flowing from her ears along with the shout.

‘My eardrum is ruptured.’

It was the same with Fel. His eardrums couldn’t withstand the whip strike alone.
Fel and Luagarne widened the distance. This was a monster that was not even allowed to approach.
Encred didn’t move while the whip rang four times. After dodging the first blow, he just held his sword still and endured. His eardrums didn’t burst.
Sachsen said that he could dull his senses if he learned the trick, so he trained separately.
After repeating that, he learned how to protect his body with Will, and that naturally led to the knight’s skill, Endure.
A knight can use a skill that can withstand a lot of blows. That’s how he protected his eardrums even now. Encred had been organizing his thoughts.

‘The opponent’s distance is advantageous.’

Now is a good time to use the whip.

‘If you close the distance, the whip will fly.’

What if I pretend to move forward and fool them?

‘That’s not a good way.’

Intuition was telling him. Encred couldn’t find a way to overcome it with any of the methods he knew. He couldn’t be defeated by melee combat. That whip was a weapon that combined offense and defense. Attacks became defenses. In terms of speed alone, the whip could move twice more than the sword could swing once.
What if he sacrificed an arm to hold on?
Could he win after his body was damaged?
Even a knight would lose an arm and lose his balance.
It would take time to adjust, so in the meantime, he had to fight while losing his balance.
Encred instinctively took long, shallow breaths.

‘I can’t see it with my head.’

Then you’ll have to make your way with your body.
The funny thing is, during the training with Saxon before leaving, there was something like this.

“What if I don’t even have time to think about fighting?”

What Saxon had said came to mind.

“Feel and react with your body. You can do it. If you set the day of your senses.”

He said that he should understand and fight not with his head or reason, but with his intuition and sixth sense.
His words had something in common with Rem’s teachings, and judging by his reaction, he intended to help Encred train, but Saxon would never admit that he was helping Rem’s training methods.
That’s why he would only teach her secretly at night.
Rem noticed this and started talking, and the two ended up fighting again.
Coincidentally, this was exactly what he wanted to tell Fel.

‘If you accept the fight with your head, there is no answer. So, you should react with your body in a way that your opponent cannot predict.’

He held his breath as he exhaled thinly and long. Encred did not follow the whip with his eyes. Instead, he sensed it with his senses.
Here again, Encred thought he was lucky.
Thanks to Luagarne, he had plenty of experience dealing with whip weapons.
The whip moved at high speed. In other words, it used wrist snaps and centrifugal force to strike at high speeds. That’s why it created a certain rhythm and flow.
The giant swung the steel whip without saying a word. The great strength from his thick forearms was transmitted to the whip, and a loud Kwaaa! followed.
The weapon made of twisted steel tore and shattered the air, drawing a diagonal line that included Encred’s body. It wouldn’t be easy to dodge.

Ugh!

Yes, that’s right. It’s not easy to dodge, so I put my sword out and put it against the whip.
I can’t block it completely, but I was able to withstand it a few times. I just instinctively guessed the trajectory of the fall and blocked it.

Zzz! Zzz! Bam!

Encred blocked it three more times. His palms felt faintly numb. Fortunately, the silver sword was strong enough to block the steel whip.

“How long do you think you can stop it?”

The giant shouted. Encred’s eyes widened as he followed the thunderous voice.
And then the whip flew again. It was the moment when the reaper fell with a loud noise. Encred jumped to a place no one would have thought.
So he jumped forward. It seemed as if he was jumping to die.
Even a slight brush would tear his flesh, and it was certain that any armor made of Endure would be shattered.
The giant sensed victory. And soon his intuition betrayed him.
The whip passed over Encred’s head.
Was it luck?
The giant thought so.
Encred dug between the whips. He was within sword range, and immediately swung the sword in his hand.
The giant blocked the sword with the armored gauntlet on his left wrist.

Kaang.

Sparks flew and the silver sword left a fine mark on the inside of the gauntlet. Some of the iron pieces were cut off and flung to the side.

‘Blocked.’

The giant could see that the blow was a stroke of luck.
The giant was twice as large as an average adult male, so his stride was unusual. He used his unusual stride to step back, gain some distance, and then swing his whip in the air again, striking again without giving him a chance to catch his breath.

‘Would you be lucky twice?’

If you keep blocking with your sword, the sword will break and then your arms and legs will be crushed one by one.

‘I have to break them one by one and make them pee on me.’

The giant’s thoughts were like that.
Encrid dove into the giant’s embrace once again.
He avoided the whip’s strike range by crouching down.

Kuwaang!

The wind created by the whip blew his hair. It was so strong that it seemed as if it would tear out his hair. Encred’s forehead and eyes were clearly exposed as his hair was blown by the wind.
The giant saw two blue eyes shining under his clean forehead.

‘It’s not luck.’

Of course not. Encred read the beat of the whip. There was a pure difference in skill between the two.
If it weren’t for the special weapon called the whip, there wouldn’t be a difference that would make them evenly matched.

“That’s different from what you said!”

The giant shouted. The horse was twice the size of a human, but up close, it was an overwhelmingly large giant.
Encred swung his sword, aiming for the neck as before. The light and swift sword stabbed the neck like a swallow.
The giant tried to block with the steel gauntlet on his left hand once more, and Encred’s sword bent and cut the giant’s right upper arm.

Phew.

It was the sound of flesh being cut and torn. Compared to the sound of the whip, it was closer to the whisper of a lover.
However, the size of the sound did not indicate the power of the weapon.
For an ordinary person, a sharp blade would be enough to cut, and even if the opponent was a giant, a swing of the sword with Will would be enough.
The giant’s thick skin was cut and blood gushed out. It was because the blood vessel was cut by bad luck.
No, Encred had cut precisely. He had deliberately aimed for the tendons and blood vessels.

“It goes without saying that the more you know about the human body, the easier it is to deal with it.”

Such was the teaching of Audin. Encrid repeated it countless times every day and learned it.
The experience, the realization, the learning from listening, all of it came together now.
The blue eyes saw the future, and the senses that read the beat of the whip read the trajectory of the weapon.

“It’s not just an article.”

The giant said with a gloomy expression. No one in the world is good at dying.
The giant Hatun was the same. He heard that Encrid was a lucky knight, and he was difficult to deal with because of the people who were around him.
That’s why he was just waiting for him to be alone.
He had heard that the guy had come out alone when he sent assassins to the Border Guard before, and he had lost contact with them, so he came here.

“He is more than a combat apostle.”

The giant continued to speak. In the time between those two words, Encred cut off the bastard’s shin and slit his wrist. Blood gushed out from between the dangling wrists that had been cut in half.
It was only natural that he couldn’t swing his whip with such a wrist.
The Magical Church had combat apostles who were skilled in fighting, but Hatun saw his opponent as something more than that.

“The evil spirit apostle should have stepped forward.”

Hatun spoke again. Was there any intention to pass on information to someone?
I ignored it since I couldn’t find out anything at the moment.

“I don’t know the location of the Magical Castle, so delivery will be difficult.”

With those words, Encred kicked the giant’s thigh, who had been standing until then, and jumped up, swinging his sword.
The silver sword drew a semicircle and passed through the giant’s Adam’s Apple.

puck.

The giant was a step too late and blocked the front of his neck with his left hand, but the sword had already passed. The giant grabbed the wound on his neck with the hand he was trying to block and bit him.

“How did you avoid the whip?”

He was a man who was very curious about many things. It wasn’t that he didn’t understand. When he was about to die, wouldn’t he have many more questions?
His eyes were filled with regret.

“The beat is simple.”
“……crazy.”

Is the beat simple? You crazy kid, do you think you can avoid it just because you see it?
He had a different opponent in mind, no different from when he had faced the paladin who had joined the previous Gray Sacred Army.
This time, the difference in overall training and experience was greater, leaving Will
behind. The dead giant’s body fell backwards. The bastard’s corpse fell to the ground with a thud.
With a loud noise, dust flew up, and the bastard’s blood seemed to form a lake on the ground.
The giant wouldn’t die in that lake, but he couldn’t die twice.
Encred retreated, avoiding the spilled blood.

“It looks like the Demonic Cult sent an assassin.”

The thing that was said after that was that he was an assassin.

“That giant didn’t come here to be my friend, did he?”

Fel answered him.
Well, Encrid was Encrid. Even after killing the giant, he continued walking.

“Let’s go.”
“Aren’t you going to attack again later?”

Pel was worried. This was serious.

“Even if they are the Demonic Realm’s secret friends, they cannot send out a bunch of assassins like this.”

Luagarne spoke while looking at the giant’s corpse. She spoke while carefully examining the whip the creature was wearing.
Yes, no matter how influential the Magical Church was on the entire continent and how powerful it might be, it could not send a bunch of assassins like that.
Luagarne was right. Because of the giant Hatun’s failure, the parishes in the central continent were on the verge of withdrawal.

* * *

‘Hatun failed.’

The archbishop was dismayed when he heard the news. He couldn’t help but sigh at the thought of someone who would stand in his way, someone so insane that he called himself a lunatic.

‘So it’s something that can’t be left alive.’

Hatun’s death allowed him to gauge the bastard’s abilities.
If he were to track his movements one more time.

‘It’s not often that there’s no one around.’

Shouldn’t we aim for a time when we are away from the presence of the Knights?

“I will gather all the remaining power in the parish and go too.”

The archbishop and the apostle declared that he saw one more chance.

‘If you go, you will come back, right?’

Even if the exact purpose is unknown, he will return to the Border Guard, so all that is needed is to guard the path. That was right.
One thing that Il-sado missed here was that he saw Hatun die in the skirmish.
No matter how much information he gathered, he could not know everything.
In fact, another cultist who watched the fight from afar heard Hatun’s words, but to him, it seemed like Hatun had pushed ahead at first. It was a misunderstanding due to poor judgment. It was a tragedy
caused by a lack of available manpower, as so many talented people had died, or to be exact, they had all died while trying to capture Encred.

* * *

Whether or not he was aiming for himself from afar, Encred walked again.
From the fourth day on, he also spent time with Luagarne, teaching her various things and, in turn, recalling his own, and he continued walking and crossed a river.
There was a nobleman’s estate he knew along the way, but he didn’t hear it.
He didn’t care about the boatman’s dream, but it seemed like he showed him Shinar.

‘It doesn’t seem like you’re having a good time.’

If what the boatman showed me was true, then yes.
Following the path that Esther had planted in my head, I crossed the southern river and moved east, climbing several mountains. After the giant Hatun, I encountered monsters and saw a few bandits, but Encred never came forward.

“Stealing? Are you crazy? You guys?”

Fel stepped forward, and Luagarne stepped forward to solve the problem. That’s where they arrived. It was a place called Ghost Forest, as Ester had said.
Seeing the green fog in front of the forest, it seemed as if ghosts would jump out.
There was no trace of people since the forest continued down the deserted mountain path. Encred had just split open the head of a wild boar’s beast.
The moment he took two steps forward while looking at the forest, Encred’s thoughts accelerated.
Sound, smell, even the slightest air touching his skin.
Everything entered the realm of his sensory skills, so Encred could see the incoming projectile.
Sss- The arrow flew through the air.