Sangyeom of the Extreme Scythe Faction had been feeling really down lately.
During training, his main weapon, the scythe, had the unfortunate mishap of being sent to another dimension.
Fortunately, he managed to retrieve the weapon, but in the process, an odd woman had destroyed the handle of the scythe.
As a result, he endured scolding from his master, the Elder, and was even looked down upon by the arrogant urgent disciples who had caught up to his level.
“But that’s over now.”
Shugar-gak!!
The repaired green scythe let out a loud noise as it split the air in front of him.
Cutting through the wind with storm-like sharpness, the “Storm’s Fortune.”
The technique capable of playing with the opponent’s soul, the “Killing of the Soul.”
Both techniques had reached a level of perfection.
Not complete mastery, but he had reached the pinnacle of what an urgent disciple could achieve.
“I can send that woman flying in one blow now.”
Despite being the arrogant one who had come all the way here to signal and then vanished, if they met again, he was sure to stomp her down.
“It would have been great if she showed up right now.”
Back then, he had been too busy and focused to move recklessly, but now he had some time to spare.
As long as the gazes of his master and the Elders weren’t on him, he could sneak out for a bit!
“As long as I know where she is, I can deal with her—”
…!
A presence!
Sangyeom immediately swung the green scythe beneath him.
As a result, a storm began to brew from the scythe, lifting Sangyeom up, and on the winds, he took off towards his target at storm-like speed.
He could feel the same energy the woman had unleashed throughout the entire Extreme Scythe Faction that day.
‘She’s back.’
That woman had returned!
“Hahaha! Did you come here on your own?! You’ve lost it!”
He should have challenged her that day.
Back then, the situation was dire, and there might have been a slight chance, but now his techniques had reached perfection.
With his weapon repaired, her chances of winning were slim to none.
How long had he glided through the storm with that conviction?
“There you are!”
At the mid-mountain, where people seldom visited, a woman with blue hair wielding a pure white spear was looking up at Sangyeom.
Her expression was strange; neither tense, angry, nor happy.
Judging her as crazy, Sangyeom immediately unleashed the “Killing of the Soul.”
And then.
“Indeed. It’s just fragments of fragments, isn’t it?”
“…Huh?”
Thousands of storm-like spears pierced through all defenses and blasted Sangyeom away.
A storm of thousands pierced through all protections and sent Sangyeom flying away.
—
[????]
[No, Lily!]
[LOL]
[Isn’t this too intense?]
[Insane]
[What’s this attack? LOL]
[Spear’s Roar multiplied by 5000 LOL]
[Yeah, instant cut~]
“GRAAAAH!!”
The house terrorist, flying like the wind, screams as he crashes down.
I expected it, but the weapon that man wields is definitely no ordinary weapon.
‘A piece of the Dragon Heart.’
A piece of that fragment held by the Children of God is contained in that weapon.
“It’s a weapon made from a fragment of the Dragon Heart, so it must have had protective and amplification functions. That power must have been amplified even more in the Southern Continent where the Children of God reside.”
“Guh…”
“There’s definitely a reason why it was more lethal than ordinary disciples.”
“What… nonsense…”
“It doesn’t seem like that weapon was given only to that man…”
Apart from the weapon, that guy’s skill was only at the level of an Urgent Disciple at best.
Slightly weaker than Minja, who has devoured a lot of the divine pills and herbs.
But just by wielding that one weapon, he’s gained enough strong power to dominate against ten Minjas.
“Are there any others with that weapon in Extreme Scythe?”
“…You. What are you?”
“Come on, tell me. I could go looking for them later, right?”
In the Extreme Defense where the earth resided, there were no weapons containing fragments like that.
At best, there were weapons infused with the ‘spirit of the earth.’
But the axe I saw back then in ‘Extreme Division,’ and now the ‘Extreme Scythe’ I’m encountering, all contained pieces of those fragments in their weapons.
If that’s the case, I might have to go gather the disciples’ weapons one by one.
‘There must be a reason they split the heart to make a weapon.’
The man gasps for breath, then swings his scythe and disappears like the wind.
Using the storm’s power to generate a storm, he obscures his visibility and quickly escapes on that storm.
It’s quite a decent escape method, but…
CRACK!
“Hm.”
‘Roar of Acceleration.’
BOOM!
My body, stacked a thousand times, emitted white lightning and instantly moved in front of the man.
His eyes widened to the point of tearing open.
[“Ossoi”]
[Slow]
[LOL]
[That’s crazy fast, Lily LOL]
[Yena can’t even catch up, huh?]
[Whoa]
[? Didn’t you just teleport?]
“What, what…”
“If you’re not going to tell me, at least pay for the table before you go.”
“Shut up!”
GROWL!!
A sinister sound erupted from the man’s scythe, and green ominous energy burst out.
It was a technique I had initially tried to use, but it was completely obliterated by my thousands of spear roars.
The technique consumed in a roar is buried and extinguished.
The green aura aimed sharply at my neck like a grim reaper.
‘Is it a technique that strikes the soul?’
It might not be a complete extinction or a fatal wound, but it could at least incapacitate me for a moment.
Finally, the green aura drew blood from my neck.
Fwoosh!!
“…!”
The saintess’s compassion enveloped my body.
The wound healed in the blink of an eye, and the deadly aura was purified and vanished from this world.
[Haha]
[No way~]
[Lily the Angel Saintess appears lol]
[Can’t even cut]
[Immediate cut]
[Let’s kill it]
[gggggg]
[Lily’s specs are just insane]
[Purely white Lily!]
“Ugh… Damn it!”
As a last desperate act, the man swung his scythe without using any technique.
Since techniques won’t work, it seems he’s trying to hit me with the weapon itself, its fragment.
Clang!
“……”
“Oh my.”
But before the weapon could touch my body, it ricocheted off due to the holy force and rolled on the floor.
Flap.
As the saintess garment fluttered, I looked down at him with a heart full of compassion.
“So. Shall we resolve this through conversation?”
“…Who. Who are you…? Who are you to have this unreasonable power…”
“I’m Lily Elbrite.”
I smiled.
“I’m just an ordinary person.”
■
“I see. 50 upper-ranked disciples and 15 urgent disciples. And divided among seven elders.”
I continued to nod, still wrapped in the compassionate holy aura.
It’s safe to say that, unlike the ‘Earth,’ the ‘Wind’ of the Southern Continent has already undergone about half ‘weaponization.’
The sage’s seal is in place, so it won’t awaken immediately, but if the weaponization continues, who knows what might happen.
Let’s take note of this for later when we progress through the Extreme Scythe Faction episodes.
“…Can I ask you something…?”
“Feel free. Ah, but since you’ve made mistakes, don’t be too casual.”
“…It seems like the person has changed a bit.”
“Hmm?”
I tilted my head.
Changed person?
Using the saintess’s compassion significantly enhances the healing power but tends to make the personality a bit more lenient.
As I said before, it’s like eating sumptuous delicacies and soaking in a luxurious spa; the feeling changes a bit, but the person doesn’t change at all.
I explained that, and the man called Sangyeom seemed puzzled, yet he nodded.
[A lot has changed lol]
[Saintess Lily is Joah]
[Definitely seems a bit relaxed]
[Calm Lily lol]
[Seems the same to me]
[?]
“So, how are you going to compensate me?”
“…Compensate?”
“Yes. Compensation. You broke my house, so you have to pay for it.”
Having shattered all my magically treated furniture and windows, he certainly had to make amends.
Sangyeom hesitated for a moment before handing over a few elixirs and artifacts from his arms.
“…This is all I have right now. They’re pretty expensive, so they should help.”
“Well… there are a lot of elixirs.”
The ‘god-tier’ elixir of Jongsa, boasting the influence of a sect leader, was definitely superior to the mere Urgent Disciple’s elixirs.
Although I had given over half for the development of Extreme Defense, there were still about five left in my space.
I could always hand these out to Yena, Leo, or the Academy’s users.
As my gaze turned toward the artifacts, Sangyeom panicked and quickly pointed at them.
“T-This is! A consumable magic array artifact that we primarily use in Extreme Scythe. It’s imbued with the essence of our ancestors, it’s very useful!”
“Oh.”
I picked up a small stone statue that Sangyeom pointed to.
Was it like a grenade?
After deactivating the safety magic array inside, I tossed it into the air, and kaboom!! With a loud noise, a blast of wind exploded out.
Though it was an explosion, the artifact burst forth as if carving through its surroundings.
[Whoa]
[Grenade ㄷㄷ]
[Pretty useful, huh?]
[Let’s just take the weapons]
“How about that? Not bad, huh? It’s one-time use but if you want, I can give you more. So—”
Whoosh!
I swung my spear.
KABOOM!!! With a thunderous noise, hundreds of blasts of storm erupted, collapsing part of the mountain.
Wooooaaah…!
And as I reached out, the destroyed nature returned to its original form.
“……”
“I think it’d be better to swing the spear than to throw things.”
“…W-Well, that’s true.”
“Is this all you have?”
“Uh… I have treasures in my place too. Don’t you like gold coins? This isn’t even a weapon you can use. It’s just an exclusive weapon under the magic array contract with me. For real.”
“……”
“Weren’t you here to collect money? I’ll give you 10 boxes of gold coins.”
“……”
“You said you were compassionate!!”
“Hmph…”
[HAHAHAHAHA]
[Just hand it over]
[Lol]
[This crazy woman lol]
[Isn’t this not how it usually goes?]
[You’re only being compassionate because you’re not killing me lol]
[“Give it”]
“I don’t want to.”
I gathered my weapons.
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