Time Stop Swordsman With Romantic Concept

17. If you’re going to use a nuke, don’t show it

17. If you’re going to use nukes, don’t show it

Upon entering the virtual realm, I immediately saw Labian’s face.

The distance is about ten steps.

There is something like a cylindrical barrier around it, so it can’t move yet.

Shortly thereafter, a number appeared in the center of the meteor and Labian.

[ 3 ]

I knew it as soon as I saw it.

It’s the countdown to Dalian.

[ 2 ]

[ 1 ]

Pop!

There was an explosion as the numbers disappeared.

It was the beginning of the Dalian.

‘Ten steps are too far.’

It’s not like throwing a sword with your feet, it’s not good to stop time at this distance and run and cut.

Yoosung came up with a strategy.

‘For now, let’s narrow the distance by avoiding them after seeing them use magic. No matter how fast I use magic, it will be slower than the snap of my thumb.’

Chuck!

Labian stretched out his left arm and made a grasping motion.

“Icicle Lash.”

Dozens of thorns surround the meteor with a brief chant.

If you don’t avoid it, you’ll be pierced by those thorns and turn into an ice hedgehog.

Stop time by flicking your thumb while bending down.

After escaping from the range of magic influence, I took a step back and turned back time.

‘Suddenly! Casting isn’t over yet?’

I wanted to bend down, but in the blink of an eye, Labian was startled when he saw meteor trying to close the distance away from the magic.

Recognizing that the distance would suddenly close, Labian stretched out both of his hands and started chanting magic to widen the distance.

“Booming Wind!”

A magic that strongly blasts the air right in front of you.

This tactic was mainly used when changing positions quickly rather than attacking.

Two-kwang!

Labian’s body was blown away by the recoil.

‘It’s fast.’

The distance widened in an instant, but you won’t be able to escape by using that continuously.

Yooseong steadily closed the distance by running while intermixing time stops.

“Circle Flame! Guided Arrow!”

Before his feet touch the ground, Labian chants a restraining spell and blows them away.

Wedge liquid-

Lightly scattering magic to keep in check, but each one was a fatal blow to the meteor.

The combination of multiple fireballs and homing arrows flying irregularly was annoying in many ways.

However, no matter how good the judo performance was, there was no way to catch up if it was avoided by a piece of paper.

Piing-

Guided Arrow lightly brushed Yoosung’s hair.

‘Wow, this is scary.’

To be honest, it wasn’t easy to dodge the homing arrows while moving between the fireballs, but I managed to avoid them all by properly using the time stop somehow.

I was wondering how I had just done it.

‘The opponent’s skills are good, so it’s not easy to dodge just barely… ….’

In fact, if you actively stop time, you can easily avoid it.

In the first place, the duration was 10 seconds, so I just had to stop immediately and go and slash them.

But that would be unwise.

Stopping time is a cheat.

Something that shouldn’t exist in the first place.

It’s like a cosmic horror that breaks the rules of the world.

Unless you have the mindset of getting rid of all witnesses or your life is truly in danger, it is right to refrain from using it in that way.

[Meteor doesn’t know how to stop time, it just avoids it sensoryly and moves very fast and cuts it very quickly]

Because I have to look that way to the people around me.

“Frozen Cage!”

Judging that Meteor was bound by the containment magic, Labian shouted.

Layers of thin ice walls rise from beneath the feet of the meteor.

Frozen Cage is a continuous magic that constantly tries to imprison the opponent.

I hurriedly moved my seat, but the cold air that seemed to turn into a wall at any moment crawled under my feet and followed me.

‘Rather than just avoiding it, it would be nice to try parquet once.’

This is also a magic that does not need to be destroyed.

It’s enough to use time stop to dodge it.

Nevertheless, it is the same logic to try parfait.

To show that he won with ‘skills’ rather than ‘cheats’.

Irregulars, in order not to look like beings outside the rules of the world, you need to organize your fights appropriately.

If you’re going to use nuclear weapons, you’re saying that you have to use them indistinctly to avoid an unexpected stop.

Yooseong stopped for a moment and prepared to draw his sword while facing the walls coming from all sides.

Serung-!

The sword is drawn and time stops.

As in the previous test, I continuously cut the ice wall with all my might.

‘I have to leave 5 seconds of time.’

That’s how the delay ends in around 1 second.

As a result of numerous exercises, Meteor’s ability to measure time was almost as accurate as a metronome.

Now.

With exactly 5 seconds left in the 10 seconds, the time stop was broken by retracting the sword.

Chaeng-Grang!

The wall in front of Meteor was broken.

This was possible because the magic called the Frozen Cage had a structure where thin walls attacked one after another.

Meteor exits the Frozen Cage through a crack in the wall and sprints away during the time stop delay.

The agility and strength stats that you have been working hard on are shining.

“Wow!”

Labian, who was preparing for a powerful destructive magic, thinking that Meteor would be hit by the Frozen Cage, felt pressure from the speed.

Perhaps it was the judgment that it would be better to widen the distance, so I changed the casting.

‘I think I should do something now.’

At that moment, Yooseong noticed that she had a momentary gap in her.

He raised his legs, kicked off the ground, and threw himself.

And as soon as his feet fall, time stops.

After that, after moving to the distance of three steps from Labian, I took a similar posture and turned back the time.

“What!”

She From her point of view, it would appear as if it had spurred her ground and then suddenly shot out of her like a bullet.

She hasn’t prepared all her magic yet.

She seems to have been taken aback by the instant approach, but words burst out with her voice.

In that short time, Yuseong waited for her delay, took her one step further, and prepared for the sword draw in earnest.

“Brandish—!”

Sureung!

Ravi An hurriedly stretched out his arms and chanted melee magic while the sword was pulled out.

Time stopped just like that.

Labian, who was taking back steps with a surprised expression and shooting magic, was within enough distance to be struck by the sword.

“Whoa… ….”

Yooseong sighed in relief in a world where everything had hardened.

Certainly she was outstanding.

Both coping and chanting were very fast, so it felt like it was difficult to make the time stop look like ‘skill’.

Chuck.

But this is the end.

Yoosung took a stance for a slash.

After taking a deep breath, she swung the sword with all her might.

Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-beep!

Cut as much as you can.

Return to the position you were in before stopping time and extend your sword forward.

As if he was in the middle of a slashing action.

Ten seconds with that.

Time moves again.

Chow ah!

“Wow!?”

Fluff!

Feeling the sword slashing at him, Labian let out a short scream and twisted his body before collapsing.

Although the pain is said to be 40%, it also serves as a shooting star’s black stiffness.

Although the damage is negative, there is no damage to the body, but the momentary shock is the same as if it was actually received.

“Haa… ugh… Heo-eok…….”

She gets down on her knees and rests her arms on the floor, breathing heavily.

Whirik! Sreureureung- Arrive!

After performing the ‘coolly brushing off the sword and lead sword’ that Yooseong had practiced several times, she stretched out her arm to Labian.

“… ….”

Ravian didn’t bother holding onto it and stood up alone.

Should I say that the character introduced as a lofty genius in the official version?

This is a face that has not lost its pride even after being beaten one-sidedly.

‘As expected, elemental wizards are poisonous to stopping time.’

Wizards have low defense.

Among them, elemental mages had a low proportion of defense plans unless they were specialized in earth magic.

He’s the type who thinks that when he pours out an attack, it’s a defense.

And since it’s not very efficient to always maintain a shield for that type of mage, it’s only deployed briefly at critical moments.

However, time stop is a means of tying up the opponent and attacking one-sidedly.

If you stop before using the protective shield, you will become defenseless like this.

On the other hand, knights who have trained their bodies are as if they were wearing a protective shield all the time, so it would be difficult to make a single scratch if their attack power was low.

“Are you okay?”

“I was caught off guard. I thought it would be okay if I just didn’t give it away. If I had known there was a way to access it so quickly, I would have cast a shield in advance.”

It is inefficient to prepare a shield in advance, but if the opponent’s attack is too changeable, they give up efficiency and focus on defense.

Surely, if he had done that, Yooseong wouldn’t have done anything.

A protective shield for a wizard skilled enough to rank first in the S class.

There’s no way you can break through the defense of a rival character who only wins in the second half with a beginner’s level of attack power.

But Ravian didn’t notice that.

It is common sense to think that if you have speed, you also have basic skills.

If you get caught in the frame of common sense in front of the unreality of time stop, you lose.

‘The fact that I think like this is itself a deception.’

If a guy who uses hacks prides himself on his skills, it’s bound to feel disgusting.

Even if you are proud of yourself, it is always right to be humble in front of people.

Yoosung kept that fact in mind.

“I was lucky in many ways.”

“Hmm, lucky…….”

Labian secretly glared at the meteor.

“Why didn’t you attack properly? Are you considerate of me? Are you saying that I am seen as a weakling who needs to be taken care of in your eyes?”

“No. You are a strong person I can feel it clearly.”

I can feel it.

Hearing those words, Ravian remembered something he had forgotten for a moment.

‘Right, this man. He said he couldn’t see.’

It’s not seeing, it’s feeling…….

‘I have no idea what it feels like.’

I wanted to talk to him separately later.

Of course that’s it.

She showed that her feelings were hurt by crossing her arms and turning her head away.

“The reason I didn’t take your outstretched hand wasn’t because I couldn’t admit defeat, it was because you were rude. I don’t know what it would be like in the east, but it’s a big disrespect here, so don’t do that next time. You know?”

“That…… It will be a little difficult. Because my sword makes no difference between the weak and the strong. Please think of me as having done my best.”

Do you not differentiate between the weak and the strong?

What does that mean?

Ravian became more and more curious about this man’s true identity.

“I hope next time we can talk privately.”

“Yes, as much as you like.”

Fire!

The virtual area was cleared, and returned to the room connector.

As if nothing had happened, Yoosung and Ravian came out side by side and went back to their respective seats.