I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 183

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 183

Sharper and Stronger

Living room sofa.

Jinhyeok sat with his arms crossed and let out a deep sigh.

A status window was displayed before his eyes.

# Blank Card – True: 2 cards.

It was on a completely different level from regular blank cards where everything was random.

You could choose a hero, and as long as you met the conditions, you could also select the traits or skills you wanted to learn.

In other words, it would give you exactly what the user wanted.

But perhaps because too many choices were given.

True-grade cards inevitably came with deep contemplation every time they were used.

‘Let me think for exactly 1 minute.’

Of course, he didn’t say he’d contemplate for long.

He planned to finish it quickly within a minute and go train.

Wasn’t he being too careless with such an important card?

Absolutely not.

Just because the time was short didn’t mean it was careless.

Total Concentration Breathing that appeared in his favorite anime these days.

It was a breathing technique that allowed one to transcend human limits and unleash extreme power with just short breaths.

He devised it from there.

Total Concentration Contemplation that could produce effects similar to thinking all day, though brief.

“Suuuuuu.”

He sat cross-legged and drew in his breath.

Then he gathered all his currently available concentration.

For the next minute, I am Rodin’s sculpture, The Thinker.

In other words, I’ll become a waiting stone and absolutely won’t move for one minute.

Even if storms rage and fires break out, nothing could disturb my concentration.

That is truly Total Concentration Conte…

“What are you doing! I told you to get close and mark tightly, so why are you going for a back tackle! Another ejection! Because of Momo, we have to play with eight people now!”

“You’re breaking through Momo without permission!”

“Soccer is originally a sport where offense breaks through defense to score goals! Should I ask them to move aside then?!”

“If you ask, I might consider it… Hey! You’re breaking through again! Die! How about Momo’s tackle that’ll send you flying for sure!!!”

“Now it’s seven people! At this rate only the keeper will be left! Eh? It’s a forfeit! I scored all the goals but lost because of Momo!”

“Don’t blame Momo! You badger!”

“I’m not a badger, I’m a racco… no, a yodel!”

Jinhyeok swallowed dryly.

He tried to endure the argument with Total Concentration Contemplation.

But he couldn’t withstand the gamepad that just flew over and smacked the side of his head.

Jinhyeok quietly got up from the sofa and went out to the balcony.

He sat cross-legged again.

Wasn’t the minute already up?

He just recharged for another minute.

And so another minute passed.

“Teacher Seira!”

His contemplation was finished.

He had decided where to use the first card.

Seira stopped swinging her wooden sword and walked over.

She was drenched in sweat from however many times she had swung the wooden sword.

“I’m thinking of learning Black Knight Order Swordsmanship – Intermediate with a blank card. What do you think?”

He turned his gaze to the unique traits window.

# Black Knight Order Swordsmanship – Beginner MAX.

They say the fastest way to get stronger is through real combat.

The swordsmanship level that had been reluctant to rise suddenly maxed out right after defeating the Third Evil Kalik.

“Hmm. Intermediate, is it.”

Seira approached and examined Jinhyeok from various angles.

He swallowed dryly.

Soon his master’s cold evaluation would follow.

Surely she wouldn’t give a harsh command like ‘You’re not qualified to enter intermediate!’?

“It would be better not to learn it.”

What?! Really?!

Jinhyeok lost his ability to speak from the tremendous shock.

Only now had he truly become a waiting stone.

“Using a card here would be inefficient.”

Seira continued speaking while pressing Jinhyeok’s arms and shoulders.

“It’s different from when you went from basic to beginner. Master has already reached a certain level in Black Knight Order swordsmanship. You should be able to overcome the wall without using a card.”

Master Yoo Jin-hyeok had met a proper opponent on the 13th Floor of the Mythic Tower this time.

Only after that fight ended did she realize.

That she had been watching that fight with her fists clenched so tight her palms were sweating.

Because she thought Jinhyeok would lose? No.

It was the opposite.

Throughout the fight, Jinhyeok had overwhelmed Kalik in every aspect – strength, stamina, sense, technique.

To be honest, even training together daily, she hadn’t known.

That Jinhyeok’s achievements had already reached that level.

That he would perform even better in real combat with real swords and lives on the line than during practice.

Practice and real combat are strictly different.

More precisely, they’re on different dimensions.

Unlike practice where defeat only results in something breaking or getting hurt, defeat in real combat leads directly to death.

This is an unbearably heavy weight for those without much real combat experience against strong opponents.

Normally, people get crushed by this weight and make mistakes and wrong judgments they wouldn’t make in practice.

This causes their skills to plummet.

They end up losing even battles they could have won.

But Jinhyeok’s skills didn’t decline.

Rather, they rose vertically as time passed.

This wasn’t referring to Ganjangmakya’s stacking buff effects.

There’s something only a select few who have surpassed a certain level can recognize.

Optimal judgment made through harmony of instinct and reason, and the sense to read the flow of battle in real time.

And the decisiveness to continue the next actions based on this judgment and sense.

The senses considered essential for victory in real combat had been sharply honed throughout the battle.

Master Yoo Jin-hyeok… no, her one and only disciple was a much sharper and stronger sword than the master had thought.

‘Was this how it felt?’

A smile formed on Seira’s lips.

Now she understood a little.

The reason her master had said those words to her long ago.

“Phew!”

Hannam-dong’s number one coward, who had grasped his master’s deep meaning, let out a sigh of relief.

Then he opened his mouth.

“What if it takes too long to break through?”

“That won’t happen. Though I don’t know how many hours it might take.”

Seira held up one finger.

“One day will be enough. I’ll break it through for you myself.”

A cold sweat trickled down his back.

Seira didn’t say anything about it being difficult or to prepare himself.

Her face was as peaceful as always, no different from usual.

Yet it was still frightening.

That’s just how Seira was – speaking so nonchalantly while beating someone with a wooden sword for 12 straight hours.

“I’ll do my best. Master.”

“You don’t need to do your best. As long as you don’t die, you’ll be able to overcome the wall.”

“Huh? Master? I think I just heard something rather ominous.”

With a playful smile, Seira told him to come when ready and turned around.

He stared at Seira with a slightly dazed expression.

At first, she really never smiled, but now she could smile like that.

“Oh, right.”

Seira stopped walking and turned her head.

Jinhyeok flinched greatly and stepped back a few paces.

Come to think of it, had she decided she needed to beat him up right now?

This was bad. He wasn’t mentally prepared yet.

“Master will judge for himself, but personally, I think the blank card should be used on the dokkaebi.”

“Oh? I was actually planning to use the remaining one on Renia. What’s your reason, Seira?”

“You remember, don’t you? The most important thing is still Master’s survival.”

“Of course. If I die, that’s the end of everything.”

Seira nodded and continued speaking.

“It was a low-level mudslinging fight, but I saw something quite interesting. That dokkaebi was hardly ever hit.”

She smiled.

Jinhyeok had seen the same thing as Seira.

Renia only allowed himself to be hit after his movement was completely sealed by ice.

Even then, after breaking free and regaining his freedom of movement, he truly didn’t get hit even once.

“We don’t know when, where, or what kind of battle might occur in the future. There might be situations where you can’t use weapons. Or you might not have the luxury of drawing a weapon. Currently, Master’s defense and evasion can only be properly utilized when you have a sword or chains. But that dokkaebi’s ability comes purely from his own body. It would be a great help to Master’s survival.”

He desperately held back his lips that were trying to curl up.

To think he had come up with the exact same reasoning as Teacher Seira.

He was holding back because showing it would seem too childish, but he felt very good.

“Okay. Thanks, Seira.”

He gave a thumbs up and opened the balcony door.

His survival ability would rise to another level.

He already felt reassured.

At the top of a mountain near Seoul that no one visited.

Jinhyeok climbed onto a rock and stretched.

It felt very refreshing to go hiking after such a long time.

“Master?”

Renia lightly tapped the rock and turned around.

Crack!

What!?

It shattered to pieces even though he didn’t throw a big punch or anything.

What kind of trick had he pulled?

“What brings you all the way here? You could just summon me with your ability, Master.”

Renia leaped lightly and reached Jinhyeok in an instant.

Truly incredible agility.

“I came in person since I wanted to hike too. The reason I came is because there’s something called a blank card.”

He explained his abilities and what he was about to do in an organized manner.

“That’s rather puzzling.”

“What is?”

“Why are you telling me about such a thing? That’s Master’s prerogative. You could just learn it.”

“You’re the owner of the ability I want to learn. Of course I should tell you first.”

Renia quietly stared at Jinhyeok.

This guy had basic decency.

“I don’t have the authority to allow or forbid Master’s intended action. However, if what Master wants is my approval.”

Renia’s eyes narrowed.

“I refuse.”

“Oh…”

He let out a small exclamation.

So resolute.

Like a winter squash.

“What’s the reason?”

“You are my master. The most important thing to me is Master’s survival. If it would help, then naturally you should take it. However, as a warrior rather than in a master-servant relationship, I’m not inclined to do so. This is my power that I’ve honed for a long time. I’ve refined and polished it while crossing countless lines of death. There exists no warrior in this world who would give such a thing to just anyone.”

“I completely understand.”

He was sincere.

This was exactly why he had sought consent that he didn’t really need to get.

“But Master’s survival is still important.”

Renia pointed to a massive rock placed to one side.

“Break it. But without using any weapons.”

Renia, a dokkaebi who loved and worshipped physical training and martial arts.

Renia had noticed immediately upon seeing Jinhyeok.

That he was a strong person.

However, that was only when he used weapons.

This wasn’t about deploying some childish, garbage logic about how that wasn’t Jinhyeok’s complete power.

Everything Master possessed was Master’s strength.

Regardless of how he learned it or how much effort he put in.

It was simply a matter of preference.

Renia disliked strength that could only be displayed by relying on something.

Since Jinhyeok had given him the decision, he intended to do as he pleased.

“Okay!”

Jinhyeok loosened his fists and walked toward the rock.

Renia quietly watched his retreating figure.

It was impossible for someone who had fought as one with weapons to break such a rock with bare hands.

He would struggle for a while with a rock that wouldn’t budge.

The reason he had given this task despite knowing this was simple.

It was just a bit of spite.

Spite about handing over something he had honed for so long.

Besides, it was a good opportunity.

To confirm Master’s tenacity…!?

Renia’s eyes widened at what he saw.

And shortly after.

BOOOOOOM!!!

A tremendous roar erupted.

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