The Game of a Legendary Genius Dark Mage - Chapter 362

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Episode 362
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A single clash.
From that exchange, Sung-hyun could precisely gauge the Demon Lord’s power.
‘So this is what 80% looks like?’
Mirror Blade Arts.
A swordsmanship of reflection, one might call it.
The level he could manifest using the power replicated from Reindel was exactly this much.
He considered whether he should continue maintaining the Demon Lord’s power while facing him.
But instead, he shook his head.
Mirror swordsmanship.
Just how far could it reflect?
Sung-hyun unfolded his swordsmanship with that anticipation in mind.
As darkness swirled around his blade—a technique he hadn’t wielded in ages—Reindel’s eyes narrowed as he charged forward.
A natural reaction, seeing a swordsmanship for the first time and bewildered that the Overlord would even use a sword.
Yet Reindel’s movements neither slowed nor hesitated.
Pababababa—.
Reindel accelerated further, pushing off the ground and air with increasing velocity.
A swordsmanship I’ve never seen?
All enemies are like that.
A swordsmanship used by the Overlord?
It matters only if they fall.
Reindel charged at Sung-hyun, gripping a blade that shimmered with iridescent light, reflecting another world like a mirror.
Having accelerated rapidly, Reindel arrived with a tempestuous gale and swung his sword at Sung-hyun, who first countered with his darkness-stained blade.
In that instant, darkness seemed to engulf the world as it surged forth, yet the light-infused blade created an equally perfect pitch-black darkness, and the two clashed with bared fangs.
Kagagagagaga———!!!
As a fierce torrent of darkness collided and spread outward.
Everything touched by that darkness lost its light or was consumed by shadow, severed from perception.
Had Reindel been caught in it, he would have surely lost one of his five senses without recourse.
Feeling this, Reindel gazed with evident interest.
And Sung-hyun, deploying Helena’s ridiculously powerful swordsmanship for the first time in ages, sensed something peculiar.
‘This is….’
Helena’s ridiculously powerful swordsmanship.
A ridiculous name, but its power was anything but ridiculous.
So far, Sung-hyun had only unlocked two of Helena’s ridiculously powerful techniques, yet both were formidable skills, and he was satisfied. But something felt strange.
And indeed.
The moment Sung-hyun thought this.
A message appeared before his eyes.
[The proficiency of the Almighty Skill, ‘Helena’s Ridiculously Powerful Swordsmanship,’ has increased.]
[You have awakened the secret of the Almighty Skill, ‘Helena’s Ridiculously Powerful Swordsmanship – Darkness.’]
[Almighty Skill, ‘Helena’s Formidable Dark Swordsmanship’ is compatible with the Lord of Darkness.]
[Almighty Skill, the secret techniques of ‘Helena’s Formidable Dark Swordsmanship’ have been awakened.]
The moment those messages appeared before Sung-hyun, the dark techniques of Helena’s formidable swordsmanship were imprinted directly into his mind.
Ordinary players might have felt some discomfort or unease from this forced knowledge injection, but for Sung-hyun, who naturally absorbed the memories of Ghosts, it was an entirely familiar sensation.
Through this, Sung-hyun was able to awaken the dark swordsmanship and obtain several techniques such as the Galaxy Sword Dance.
While it felt considerably powerful for a skill gained from increased proficiency, that was all the better.
Sung-hyun smiled as he grasped the sword wrapped in darkness with this thought.
It seemed his proficiency had risen because he’d nearly fully awakened the power of the Lord of Darkness, so he swung his blade toward Reindel, who came rushing at him with his sword enveloped in darkness just like the Lord of Darkness.
Whoooooosh———!
The darkness scattered like mist, engulfing the entire surrounding area.
Rather than crashing in like waves, the darkness spread like mist that appeared the moment one blinked, swallowing the surroundings, and in that instant Reindel swung his sword attempting to cut through the darkness.
However.
“…?!”
It didn’t cut.
The darkness simply spread around him, devouring the light and consuming all color and luminescence from the surroundings.
A pitch-black darkness where not a single inch of vision penetrated.
Reindel couldn’t help but be flustered by a situation where all senses and all sensation seemed blocked, yet despite this, he calmly assessed the situation.
And he quickly verified whether his sword was still functioning.
Only then could he feel somewhat reassured.
‘It’s reflecting.’
One of the greatest characteristics of Reindel’s Mirror Blade Arts was that it reflected all negative debuffs and curses the opponent placed on him back to the opponent, and all buffs including blessings the opponent cast upon himself could be duplicated through the Mirror Blade Arts to produce the same effects on himself.
If the Lord’s power was a versatile effect capable of transmitting strength to the vast majority,
then the Mirror Blade Arts possessed an effect that equalized all conditions in a one-on-one situation.
Because of this, Reindel understood that if all his senses and sensations were being blocked, then the opponent’s were as well.
With both of them consumed by the pitch-black darkness, neither could see nor sense the other.
Yet somehow, Reindel swung his blade toward where Sung-hyun was, launching an attack.
Trusting only the bodily memory of wielding the sword for so long, he sent his blade strike toward Sung-hyun’s last confirmed position, and Sung-hyun, sensing all the darkness, parried the attack and clashed fiercely with him, both swinging their blades intensely at one another.
From a distance, it was as if one were watching a meticulously choreographed play.
Reindel’s blade swung toward the upper right, and Sung-hyun deflected the strike diagonally, retreated, and counterattacked by cutting from left to right.
Then Reindel barely evaded by retreating, advanced forward again, and swung his blade downward from above, while Sung-hyun blocked it once more.
Craaaaaash———!!!
Kugugugugu————!!!
From their collision, the surroundings whirled like a tempest as darkness spread outward, shattering everything around them, yet those two felt nothing at all.
It was a sight that naturally drew admiration from those watching.
Because of this, Sung-hyun’s Retinue also watched their battle with admiration.
Especially Helena wore an expression of great satisfaction.
“Ahahaha! I told you our Sung-hyun was something else, didn’t I?”
Since it was swordsmanship created by her past self, Helena herself didn’t know these techniques.
Yet she could clearly sense the intent behind their creation, so she marveled at Sung-hyun’s swordsmanship.
Sung-hyun not only used the techniques exactly as past Helena had intended, but wielded the swordsmanship at an even higher dimension beyond that.
As Helena gazed in admiration, Baltar, Silvanor, and Leonik—the three swordsmen—were equally captivated.
-Your sword forms are remarkable.
-Truly, you are our lord.
“Your swordsmanship grows ever sharper.”
Yoo Sung-hyun’s fundamentals and foundation appeared more solid than anyone else’s in the world, and within the darkness, Reindel was gradually being pushed back.
When Reindel had seized the Mirror Blade as a lord, it was Yoo Sung-hyun who had been driven back, but now the situation was reversed.
As the darkness dissolved and faded into the surroundings, the two emerged, their bodies covered in wounds and blood.
Though Reindel was being pressed back, he was no trivial opponent, so Yoo Sung-hyun too had inevitably sustained considerable injuries.
After the darkness melted away and vision returned as sensation flooded back.
Reindel, feeling a chill run down his spine as he looked at Yoo Sung-hyun, realized that the members of his Knights Order who had been present moments before had vanished.
‘…Already?’
He had expected his knights to be overwhelmed, but he had not anticipated they would fall so quickly.
Reindel looked at Yoo Sung-hyun again, and Yoo Sung-hyun, seeing this, wrapped darkness around his blade once more.
The darkness clung viscously to the sword, and as Yoo Sung-hyun wielded the darkened blade, he murmured inwardly.
‘I should test that once.’
It was something he had never attempted with the power of darkness, but it would likely be possible.
As Yoo Sung-hyun thought this and gripped his sword.
Reindel, his eyes filled with unease, looked at Yoo Sung-hyun and likewise raised his blade.
‘I must absorb it.’
He possessed all the mechanisms necessary to plunder a lord’s power.
If he could only kill Yoo Sung-hyun, he could absorb and escape.
After all, if Yoo Sung-hyun alone fell, those Retinue members would surely vanish.
With this judgment, Reindel gripped his sword tightly and poured all his power into the blade, ready to counter whatever force Yoo Sung-hyun would unleash.
Thus it became a mirror blade that reflected all things, mirroring the entire world, and as he saw Yoo Sung-hyun swing his sword, he attempted to reflect it.
But then.
“…What?!”
It did not reflect.
The moment Yoo Sung-hyun’s slash failed to reflect, a strange sensation seized him.
Clearly, the dark slash that should have erupted from Yoo Sung-hyun’s blade did not emerge. Because of this, Reindel wondered if that was why it had not reflected, and he tried to close the distance while gripping his sword.
Shhhhrriiip!!!
Something tore a long gash across his chest.
He could neither feel nor see it.
The moment he was cut—no, even after being cut—he could not comprehend what had slashed him.
Reindel stared at Yoo Sung-hyun with an utterly bewildered expression as he beheld the long wound blooming across his upper body along with his armor.
And just as Yoo Sung-hyun gripped his sword again and was about to swing.
Reindel could see it.
Behind Yoo Sung-hyun stood a colossal Grim Reaper, wielding not a scythe but a blade, aimed directly at him.
And as his senses returned.
Shhhhrriiip!!!
Another long wound opened across his upper body.
“Cough!”
As I spewed blood and my chest was slashed, crimson sprayed through the air.
Only then could Reindel comprehend what had occurred.
“…I cannot see it?”
A sword strike that had completely vanished from this world had struck me.
A darkness possessing the power to sever all sensation and perception from an opponent.
In other words, the darkness wielding the power to block all things had erased the sword strike from existence itself.
Because I failed to perceive it, the blade flew through unobstructed, and I was simply cut.
The moment Reindel grasped this truth.
Helena’s supreme sword technique—the secret art『Void Blade』
Realizing there was no way to withstand it, my face drained of color as I immediately tried to leap away.
However.
“Hmm, I still have more to test. It’s unfortunate, but I think I’ll need to continue a bit longer.”
Yoo Sung-hyun spoke thus while conjuring a massive curtain of darkness between Reindel and himself, and despair flickered in Reindel’s eyes upon witnessing it.
I had believed myself to be a formidable warrior as well.
But was there truly a sky above the sky?
The instant Reindel understood this, I gritted my teeth and gripped my blade to charge forward once more, yet.
When had it happened?
Yoo Sung-hyun’s Void Blade, already swung, had severed Reindel’s neck, and as he gazed upon the fallen Reindel, he smiled faintly while regarding the mask containing the Mirror Blade Arts in his opposite hand.
“So this means I absorb it at 100%, then?”
The moment he murmured with satisfaction.
Several lines of text materialized before Yoo Sung-hyun’s eyes.

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