I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 156

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Chapter 156
156: Baeryujin’s Signature Technique (2)
An S-rank martial art—the Eternal Flame Extinguishing Technique.
Baeryujin’s signature technique, and the first ascending martial art I’d ever witnessed. To think I could obtain it through merely five days of Analysis.
Of course, it consumed 100,000 AP, but even after substituting my overflowing points, receiving a whopping 50,000 AP for analyzing it felt like some kind of black Friday sale.
Having unexpectedly acquired Baeryujin’s signature technique, I scratched my head in bewilderment even as I continued running.
The acquisition itself was fine, but I was troubled by how to explain it.
It was genuinely illogical.
‘Can I really understand the verses of a martial art just by watching?’
It bordered on impossible.
Yet I knew this wasn’t entirely unreasonable.
Though Baeryujin hadn’t shown me everything, martial arts contained incantations, and their enlightenment and secrets either lay hidden within or were openly displayed.
The Eternal Flame Extinguishing Technique was the same.
At least, that’s what my Analysis revealed.
Hadn’t I sensed it—a martial art that annihilates with eternal flames that never extinguish anywhere?
So naturally acquiring the verses of the technique shouldn’t be impossible, but what troubled me was that I could replicate it even though Baeryujin had only shown me a portion, not the complete technique.
Still.
‘It’s not something I should worry about.’
Judging from how Baeryujin had conducted himself thus far, he was a man with the magnanimity to readily permit it, signature technique or not.
My Analysis also judged that Baeryujin wouldn’t be angered.
If Analysis said so, then it must be true.
With that thought, I decided to demonstrate the technique when the opportunity arose and continued running.
Without daring to predict what Baeryujin’s reaction would be.
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Running and sparring all day is genuinely exhausting.
Even for the Dohyun Party, that didn’t change. Thus, we often took breaks, and during mealtimes especially, we rested thoroughly without exception.
This time was no different.
Evening had arrived, and in the dimly lit seafloor where light was scarce, the Dohyun Party sat contentedly on a mat, eating their meal.
Baeryujin joined them, eating heartily without reservation.
Consequently, the provisions we’d procured—enough for roughly a month—were depleting at a considerable pace, but the Dohyun Party paid it little mind.
Honestly, eating this much was far too cheap a price for such instruction.
In any case, as we enjoyed our delicious meal, Baeryujin was observing me with a peculiar gaze.
A familiar, intimate aura had begun to emanate from my previously foreign energy.
It seemed to have started during my sparring instruction with Jiyuchan after lunch, though Baeryujin couldn’t quite pinpoint it, his expression growing puzzled.
Jiyuchan and Hanalin, nearly finished with their meal, exchanged glances between Baeryujin and me, wondering what was wrong, but I simply laughed with amusement and spoke.
“Sir, shall we spar after your meal?”
“Hmm, very well.”
Now that I thought about it, I hadn’t sparred with Baeryujin since this morning, so he readily accepted.
Though something had seemed odd, Baeryujin’s acceptance made it seem fortuitous, and I smiled with satisfaction.
Watching me smile that way, Baeryujin thought to himself.
‘There’s definitely something going on.’
Since I couldn’t possibly imagine what that insane monster would do next, Baeryujin scratched his head and gave up thinking altogether.
After all, someone like me could never hope to understand a dragon’s logic no matter how hard I tried.
So I didn’t bother thinking about it.
Baeryujin figured he’d understand once we sparred a bit, so he ate his fill and stood up, and Dohyun likewise rose from his seat as if he’d eaten enough.
The moment both of them stood, Hanalin and Jiyuchan—whether they hadn’t finished eating or simply knew that watching a match required proper sustenance—didn’t move, instead reinforcing their defensive magic while observing the two.
Without paying much attention to those two eating while watching, Dohyun and Baeryujin moved to a spot some distance away from where they’d been sitting, and the moment they faced each other, Baeryujin took his stance.
Since Baeryujin primarily used martial arts centered on fist techniques and leg techniques, he adopted a posture like a seated meditation stance, waiting for Dohyun to draw his weapon.
But then.
Whoosh.
Swooooosh.
Dohyun, like Baeryujin, took a seated meditation stance but spread his legs wide, adopting a horse stance as if performing it from a seated position.
Baeryujin’s eyes trembled finely at the sight.
“Snow… horse…?”
Even as Baeryujin thought it couldn’t be, a desire to confirm welled up within him, and he moved to take the first strike—something he’d never done during their matches until now.
Booooom———!!!
Massive water surged as Baeryujin shot forward like a cannonball, closing the distance to Dohyun in an instant.
Fast, yes, but not overwhelmingly so—Baeryujin approached at a speed comparable to Dohyun’s maximum velocity.
Dohyun watched Baeryujin approach, clenched his fist, and pulled it back.
Baeryujin likewise pulled his fist back toward Dohyun, ignited Hongryeom in his knuckles, and unleashed the First Technique of the Eternal Flame Extinguishing Technique.
Though this was Baeryujin’s first time unleashing a full technique, Dohyun’s eyes gleamed as he watched.
Eternal Flame Extinguishing Technique
First Technique: Eternal Flame
An eternal flame blooms, dwelling within Baeryujin’s fist.
An eternal flame that nothing could extinguish, transcending the ages, bloomed within his fist, and that fist, cradling the eternal flame, blazed with Hongryeom as it surged toward Dohyun.
Shwoooooosh———!!!
A fist that incinerated the mana around it as it flew.
Yet Dohyun’s eyes gleamed as well, and instead of Hongryeom’s flames, he infused his fist with a brighter, white and crimson flame intertwined, and unleashed it.
Similarly, an eternal flame dwelt within the fist blazing with white-crimson fire, and in that instant, Baeryujin’s eyes trembled finely.
The exact same technique as Baeryujin’s blocked his fist.
Eternal Flame Extinguishing Technique
First Technique: Eternal Flame
Crackle crackle crackle————!!!
Boom boom boom boom———!!!
The eternal flames that would annihilate the world collided, incinerating each other, and the two eternal flames mutually destroyed themselves, vanishing into the midair.
Baeryujin stared at Dohyun in disbelief.
One could mimic the surface of a martial technique if talented enough.
I myself had often observed and referenced the appearances of various martial arts.
But to read the incantations embedded within and manifest an eternal flame—that was impossible.
So Baeryujin swallowed hard, shot forward toward Dohyun once more, and unleashed the Second Technique.
The eternal flame ignited once more.
But this time, it wasn’t merely confined to his two fists.
The Eternal Flame clinging to both arms and both legs became Baeryujin’s weapon in itself, unleashed toward Dohyun.
As the Eternal Flame bloomed across every limb capable of striking, countless fists and kicks poured forth toward one another.
Dohyun toward Baeryujin, Baeryujin toward Dohyun.
The Eternal Flame shot between them filled the midair completely.
Eternal Flame Extinguishing Technique
Second Technique: Heart of Flames
As those scorching attacks—fierce as the very heart of fire—continued relentlessly, Baeryujin tested Dohyun again and again, utterly bewildered.
Eternal Flame Extinguishing Technique
Third Technique: Extinguishing Flame Shatter
A technique that concentrates powerful flames at a single point, stamps the ground with force, and spreads the Eternal Flame outward to create waves of inferno.
Yet Dohyun replicated it identically, creating waves of flame that annihilated each other.
Still unsatisfied, the next technique coated his entire body with the Eternal Flame, spinning with his whole form to attack in what could only be called indiscriminate barrage.
Eternal Flame Extinguishing Technique
Fourth Technique: Flame Wheel Strike
He spun fiercely like a top, unleashing torrents of attacks, yet Dohyun reproduced that assault with equal mastery.
Confronted with this sight beyond belief, Hanalin and Jiyuchan stood slack-jawed, forgetting even to eat as they watched Dohyun’s martial prowess spectacle.
Was such a thing even possible?
By their understanding, it defied all logic.
“…Is, is that actually possible???”
“…It’s the same as seeing magic and decomposing every magical formation within it piece by piece.”
“…Huh.”
“…Insane bastard.”
Hanalin had already known, but asked just in case; at Jiyuchan’s answer, both fell silent.
Dohyun’s current display transcended the merely alien—he appeared less like a human and more like something genuinely extraordinary.
It was only natural.
Just how far did that man intend to go?
They watched the sparring between Baeryujin and Dohyun with such thoughts in mind.

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