LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 944
[Chapter 944 – Rolling Oknodie (4)]
Michael was incredibly strong, to the point of being terrifying.
Even the combined effort of the clones was rendered insignificant as he even dodged meteors.
This was a level where even the ‘completed form of a single playthrough’ couldn’t guarantee victory.
“Come out. If you don’t, I might kill you without a second thought because I can’t see you.”
While Oknodie felt the tension, some spectators found the scene amusing.
“Hahaha. To this retired old fool, it seems that the crazy sword-wielding fella has completely lost his mind. Is it fine to leave him like that?”
“It’s fine. Three powerful backers are watching over this place, ready to intervene whenever a line is crossed.”
The trio gods, who were quite invested in Oknodie, were the uncomfortable parties in this situation.
“While it’s understandable that exhibiting strength beyond the curriculum is a preparatory lesson from the foundation, I can’t stand the use of brute force that disregards the student’s level and progress.”
“He may showcase his skills as an adventurer, but he hasn’t used necromancy at all.”
“Haha. You two may be professors at the academy, yet you don’t even know the strengths of my darling daughter.”
The observers had various reasons for their dissatisfaction.
Professor Sadako, the goddess of the undead, was annoyed that despite having many attacks, she wasn’t able to seize control with her necromancy.
Professor Mahabharata, the god of points, was displeased with Michael’s excessive attacks that surpassed the standard curriculum during the unusual preparations.
On top of that, it was quite unsettling to see students dying left and right, even if they were clones.
On the other hand, the only relaxed one was Papa Seonhwang from the First Wahyhiemhai Foundation.
“If we’re talking about the final father-daughter civil war of the Foundation Workshop Battle, the situation is different this time.”
“You closed the possibilities of the Demon King.”
“The Demon King Oknodie? While he was strong, the true strength of Oknodie lies beyond that. It resonates with my true power as well.”
The two professors, displeased, exchanged harsh words.
“An evil mental power that can annihilate humans like livestock.”
“You’ve corrupted your own mind, making the darkness that can’t be tainted by anything stronger not strength, but insanity.”
“Hahaha. I’m flattered by the high praise, but that’s not what I wanted to say. I mean the ability of ‘reading the moves’.”
At one time, the First Wahyhiemhai was a figure that terrified the world through the power of the Foundation, surpassing even the Dark Trading Company.
The countless mind games played against the leaders of various countries and struggles against the hundred-dimensional spirits intending to invade the Middle Realm were battles fought fiercely.
“My child demonstrated the ability to neutralize or counter all my various weapons and attacks in the Foundation Workshop Battle. If even one had been prepared inadequately, she wouldn’t have been able to surpass me.”
That part was undeniably commendable.
As a director, he showcased immense foresight and charisma, orchestrating even the abandoned professors of the academy as his subordinates.
That competition illustrated why the director reigned as the strongest, immediately following Seonhwang.
In fact, that day, he faced Seonhwang and, after sealing part of his power, was defeated by Oknodie.
This meant that if he had faced the battle solo without Oknodie, the director’s strength would have exceeded even Seonhwang’s.
The most infamous great evil of humanity.
His child, the Dark Princess Oknodie, inherited such lineage.
Though she could never grow into a Demon King due to her stunted height, she certainly retained an ability to read moves that exceeded her father’s.
“Didn’t you see or feel anything from the current skirmish?”
Mahabharata reluctantly conceded with a displeased expression.
“The doppelganger technique is most adept at gathering information and assessing the opponent’s response capabilities, as well as identifying effective counts. The fact that Michael couldn’t capture the main body while using doppelganger technique indicates he was outmaneuvered by Oknodie.”
Sadako remained unfazed, maintaining her expressionless stance.
“The conclusion has been the same from the start. Oknodie is a ‘Magic Swordsman’. There isn’t another technique with as high of a magic power that can be applied to the sword as the necromancy that cannot be evaded.”
Acceleration Shadow Sword and necromancy.
Sadako believed these to be the pinnacle techniques of Oknodie’s magical swordsmanship.
However, that conclusion differed from the ‘reading moves’ ability of the First Wahyhiemhai as he played the world like a game.
“Then, shall we make a bet? Whose final move will win.”
“What’s your move?”
“My final move is [Titos Beam].”
That move was so bizarre that even Professor Sadako, who had experience teaching Titosso, couldn’t readily agree to it.
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“Oh. This time it’ll be slightly different from before.”
“I hope it’s not just empty talk.”
Oknodie unleashed the Paper Airplane Aircraft No. 2 from her backpack.
Michael’s sword cleaved through the aircraft, but the aircraft had already executed a maneuver called [Spatial Evasion].
It was a temporary dimensional leap maneuver crossing between coordinate dimensions.
The aircraft bought a turn and soon launched numerous paper airplanes from another dimension.
[Magic Stone Airplane]
[Magic Stone Airplane]
[Magic Stone Airplane]
The airplanes, crossing dimensions and reacting explosively near Michael, burst one after another, but the blast’s aftermath forced secondary damage.
[Double Zone]
The sturdy double zone absorbed the blast damage, but the expected explosion impact was lower, naturally thinning the zone’s thickness.
Seizing the opportunity of that moment’s disregard, one paper airplane triggered a grand surge of magic power exceeding even the previous meteors.
Boom!!!
A crooked smile crept onto Michael’s face.
“You’re pulling cute tricks. Instead of exchanging sword techniques, you aim to wear me down with a reading of plays, is that so? Quite adorable.”
While he spoke continuously of adorableness, he wasn’t looking cute at all, as he lowered his posture with murderous eyes — his clothes soot-stained from the blast getting through his double zone.
As he extended his sword towards the air, the technique he initiated burst forth simultaneously in all directions.
[Light Killing Black Night]
The sword technique of Light Killing engulfed all defenses, making the sky evoke memories of pitch-black night with its upper-area-range technique.
That merciless assault didn’t merely strike at physical space.
It forcibly pushed and tore apart all coordinates tied to the natural mana and the entire dimensional flow.
“Ah?!”
A pirate Nodi, lying in wait within the dimensional crevice sporting a pirate hat, jumped onto a paper aircraft and frantically hammered at it with a paper hammer.
“Do a U-turn! Use dimensional leap quickly!”
But once he was discovered, there was no next move.
If he didn’t return to the coordinates of the Middle Realm, he would become a missing person along with the displaced dimensional flow.
However, if he returned, he’d meet an immediate death swept away by Light Killing.
The last hope of the pirate Nodi was to reach the Middle Realm before the aircraft was completely torn apart through a maneuver switching positions within the split moment between the swords of Light Killing, but…
[Light Killing, Alter]
[Transform Technique - Act 2]
As soon as the pirate Nodi returned to the Middle Realm, he was engulfed by the double Light Killing, which had twofold density, bursting apart.
However, thanks to unleashing such a powerful area attack, Michael realized.
Oknodie was neither on the ‘ground’ nor in the ‘air’.
This child’s location was from the very beginning ‘underground’.
Somewhere beneath the earth.
During the chaos of the ground cracking and the mana reaction covering the surface, she had been hiding underground, continually sending moves to strike from above.
At the same time, he noticed another fact.
In the mana-barren area where natural mana had been swept away, the mana from the [Magic Stones] that had been attached to the paper airplanes began to coalesce.
And that energy was entirely made up of [Dark Mana], forming an artificial dark zone that could only be detected should one amplify their perception beyond the thick mist of dark mana.
Ka-ah-ah-ah!!
The rushing dark mana filling the ripped space and the rapidly expanding darkness made Michael realize.
Now is the time.
This was the golden opportunity for Oknodie to strike at him.
A moment of genius when she wouldn’t be able to utilize great techniques and even area techniques was his chance to capitalize.
“Bring it on. I shall cut down that cunning final move without mercy.”
The double zone enveloping Michael expanded abruptly with a deep breath.
Maintaining a range of around 5mm, it explosively expanded to 10m, making the eyes of the Ninjadi charging toward him in the darkness grow wide.
Boom!
No, it was not the Ninjadi that was cut.
It was a log initiated by the log switch technique of the Ninjadi.
Following that, just as the fearsome energy was detected, a few more sword strikes flashed.
Many clone Nodis fell as power returned to the main body and the remaining clones.
Using that power, the Ninjadi desperately repeated the switch technique, perilously pricking Michael’s sense the moment he exchanged the log’s position, feeling a chilling sensation brush against his neck.
“I… I want to eat Reap’s candy too…”
Before the Ninjadi’s neck and body separated, dozens of strikes pierced through the clones.
With that offense akin to an expression of rage and the Ninjadi’s tragic end finally detected an overwhelming force that could be paralleled to the previous ‘Grand Magic Nodi’.
That direction was not the underground towards which Michael had speculated, but rather the ripped dimensional fissure that had displaced all coordinate values.
“A mere human wouldn’t analyze the absolute coordinate values of the Middle Realm while not being a dragon and would have expected to become a dimensional missing person. This madness, indeed the main body is worthy of consideration.”
The main body sought to eliminate Michael’s sword that was slicing through the Ninjadi’s physical form, through the added strength of all the defeated clones.
As the main body had maneuvered without realizing the hints from the realm of the Light Killing as deception.
“Reading the moves means my victory. I’ll engrave a proof of the skilled swordsman signifying my hope for the next two years…”
By channeling the power of necromancy into a strike sending the target to the [Netherworld] — which holds precedence over any dimension — integrated with a strike promising to send them to Hell.
Indeed, it was an excellent strike to handle with a surprise.
Should it hit, recovery from injuries would be impossible, and the leap would forcibly send someone to the Netherworld, rendering it pointless.
Of course, that was only the case if it was ‘struck’.
If it could be blocked and cut back, then Michael would be the victor.
[Reverse Technique]
[Black and White Intersection - Titos Beam]
As Michael extended his sword with his highly magnified sense, the thought of victory already in his mind, he was startled by the awful brilliance that obliterated all his mana detection.
He was paralyzed.
Every sensory organ was affected.
His vision went dark, his ears became deaf, and mana detection was blocked.
Yet, even amid this, Michael’s sword unfalteringly sliced at the position where the main body Nodi was in the darkness.
This was a result permitted by the substantial correction of swordsmanship experience gained from Michael’s ‘successful investment’.
Thud
When his paralyzed sensations returned, Michael witnessed it.
The fact that the strong power he had confidently believed to be the main body till the end was, indeed, a clone.
Dispersing mana.
The unique effect when a clone dies.
What got stabbed was a clone, and himself.
“Are you an idiot? To load more power onto the clone than the main body. Should you be betrayed, it would be game over.”
“It’s fine. Any Nodi is ‘all of me’ after all. The continuity of existence is completed through the inheritance of memory, you see?”
The main body, with a subtle power that Michael hadn’t been able to sense, waited until the last clone Nodi fell.
And right after the clone Nodi perished and his power returned, he burst forth through the ground and thrust a sword into Michael’s leg through a
The insanity of willingly transferring most of one’s power while daring the risk of having the clone take his strength was insane even in the eyes of Michael, known as the mad noble.
“The Director of the Foundation. I’ve heard of the eccentric genius, but to raise a mad child to this extent, it makes me lament the fact I never had the chance to duel him in life.”
“How about the exam?”
“It’s a pass. I’ll lend you my strength. But, in two years, there’ll be no mercy for a real duel.”
Oknodie, who could have landed a successful hit even against a top-level professor, satisfied with her craftsmanship, withdrew her sword.
“But what was that flashy move at the end?”
“It was a fun technique. I applied the fury of the storm to my sword tip and tried to hit you back instantly with a swing of the sword, causing paralysis upon perceiving the path of the strike. But I had trouble controlling the power, and I almost ended up killing you, so I held back.”
“… Would it be possible to postpone the retake for 20 years instead of 2?”
“Not a chance.”
Oknodie trembled at the thought of facing a Michael whose strength had grown exponentially in just two years due to the side effects of her rapid growth.
The veterans often focused not just on their own strength but on raising those around them for a significant reason.
Never did she expect that she’d have to fight alongside that terrifying swordsman in two years, feeling compassion for Sing, who swung her sword in the air while recalling Michael’s blade from a corner of the barrier.