chapter 808
808. [Western Front] – [Light blooming in despair] (84)
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Day 27 of the front line.
When he returned to the barracks from his afternoon apostolic mission, Cheonseong felt himself slowly changing.
“Huh… … .”
“Ugh… … .”
As the platoon members accompanying him on the mission let out deep yawns and groans, Cheonseong’s gaze suddenly caught his attention.
“Is everyone okay?”
“… are you okay.”
“I’m not okay. really… … “I’m so tired.”
While Iris responded weakly, Christina shook her head.
Hearing the two people’s conflicting answers, Cheonseong looked at them cautiously.
‘Everyone is really tired.’
Strictly speaking, I’ve been exhausted for quite some time already.
So these scenes of these women were no longer unfamiliar or alien to Cheonseong.
If you perform a mission and rest until the next day, you will inevitably perform the mission again the next day.
It was like a treadmill-like life.
The mission given is taken for granted, and there is rarely time to relax. Since the difficulty level of mission performance was different, the fatigue accumulated in the body was also different.
‘Because there is some fatigue that doesn’t go away even after resting for a day or two.’
And that was even more noticeable because Sabrina wasn’t there.
“… … “I’ll stop and go in.”
“I want to take a break too.”
“yes. Rest in peace, both of you.”
“You too, get some rest now.”
As everyone entered the inner room, looking as tired as a half-living corpse, Cheonseong, who was left alone, blankly headed towards his inner room.
Crash.
As I closed the door and entered the inner room, I naturally changed into my officer’s uniform and took a shower.
When I felt a little more refreshed, I laid down on the bed without further ado.
Sreuk.
As I laid down on the bed, which was gently turned off, a sigh escaped me.
“ha… .”
Somehow, this routine felt completely natural now.
And that felt like it was even more of a problem.
ㅡ!
Even now, alarm bells ring in my heart.
A bigger alarm than before.
And now I have a vague idea of what this means.
‘Something big crisis will come.’
crisis. accident. disaster… … .
All kinds of negative thoughts fill my head.
Immediately after completing the mission to execute a first-class apostle, I was already in a daze, but a huge sense of crisis seemed to be whipping me again in my head.
Whatever it is. Obviously something bad will happen.
All I can guess is that the Nine Apostles must be up to something. But I couldn’t figure out what it was.
“… … .”
My mind was tired as I relaxed my body and opened my eyes in a daze.
ㅡ!
And the moment the alarm bell rang in my mind again, I opened my eyes in a daze.
I slowly inhaled and then exhaled again, clenching and unclenching my hands.
“… … “It seems like it can reach, but it doesn’t.”
I realized what state I was in now.
-Wall.
It was also facing a huge wall.
All kinds of complex thoughts and fierce realities have faced me endlessly. I didn’t try to escape or cool off.
faced.
And then we faced each other.
Because I knew that reality was harsher, I just accepted it as it was, no matter what reality I encountered.
And in the past time, I continued to practice alone in the training room.
The understanding of Eustacean spearmanship is gradually gaining ground,
I figured out how to move forward quickly and overcome the difficult path.
Then, I reached a point where I felt more comfortable practicing while holding the spear than resting.
Physical rest.
peace of mind.
No matter what you do, it’s not as good as holding a spear and trying to understand Eustacean spearmanship.
Now, no one could understand me who was subjecting my body so harshly, but no one else understood me as much as I did.
It was ironic.
I’m creating situations that I think are difficult as I push myself further to my limits, but rather than having a hard time with it, I’m ‘understanding’ myself.
“… … “I guess what I’m facing is a wall.”
I muttered absentmindedly, and suddenly a small smile escaped me.
Apparently, he was released from the seal of an apostle in the past and was given an ideal body. My body, which Ariya said was the body of purity, was truly ideal.
And now my hand is blankly raised in the air.
It was full of all kinds of calluses.
“… … .”
I had that thought as I looked at the calluses on my hands one by one.
Time to grab the spear.
And the density of time holding the spear is completely different from before.
As I grew and gained greater understanding, I felt that way about myself.
In the past, if you trained to go from 1 to 1.5 and then 2.
Now it’s like I’m training to go from 100 to 150 and then 250.
Now, my every day is on a different level.
So more… … It felt clear.
Sreuk!!!
Even as I strongly clenched the hand I had raised in the air, my eyes became blurry.
“Overwhelming growth… … .”
However, even with that growth, level 8 felt like a huge wall to me, who was in the latter stages of level 7.
I was now keenly aware of why so few of the outstanding platoon members reached level 8 even though they had been on the front line for several years.
‘experience… … will… … effort… … Determination… … determination… … despair… … regret… … .’
Numerous emotions appear before my eyes and then disappear.
This world is original.
‘Will’ is power.
A kind of truth that is like a major premise.
And that’s why the effort to sharpen one’s will was in itself an effort for growth.
In that sense, I thought that I had forged my heart as if I had been chipped away at it several times while going through a crisis like an ordeal. My heart, which was originally like a blunt stone, has now been forged into a sharp spear blade.
however.
That wasn’t the only thing that was important.
“There is something.”
… … Something that seems like it can’t be caught but can’t be caught.
And something that you don’t have to do unless someone tells you.
There is something else that you just have to ‘realize’.
“Status window.”
And as if I was possessed, I spoke of the status window for the first time in a long time.
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ㅡㅡㅡㅡ
Name: Han Cheon-seong
Gender: Male (20)
Title: The Awakening One.
Height/Weight: 185cm 77kg
Current continental influence: 145228
*[As continental influence exceeds 10,000, all details in the status window are displayed!]
*The way forward [Light blooming in despair]
ㅡView detailed conditions.
*Ability level.
[Strength 78]
[Agility 84]
[Stamina 86]
[horsepower 87]
[Lucky 9]
[Resistance 4]
*Holding characteristics [1]
[Spear Lv.7 growth rate +18% (inheritance in progress)]
(Keyword to reach level 8 attribution: You must reach the state of divine singing unity)
(Suggesting growth efficiency due to continental influence: Increasing understanding of technology will have the greatest impact!)
*You are in a state of enlightenment about the origin of power.
[Ustea-style spearmanship (Myth grade)]
ㅡView detailed conditions.
*Skill [1]
[Sura Line Seven Style (修螺線七式) lv.4 growth rate – 61%]
-Form 1. Surana Spear (修羅螺線槍) proficiency – 86%.
-Type 2. Sura Ilyeolpa (修羅一裂破) proficiency – 70%.
-3rd meal. Asura seven kite proficiency – 33%
-Form 4. Surabi Heaven (修羅非) proficiency – 16%
…
-Form 7. It will be opened only after all achievements in Surana Seonchichik have been ‘completed’.
(Because you have reached level 7 of the attribute, additional corrections are applied regarding your understanding of the skill!)
*Unique properties [2]
[High Elf’s Mana Properties]
ㅡThe body’s natural recovery and maintenance power are greatly improved, and mana recovery is greatly increased by 80%.
[suppression]
-You can interfere with the principles and concepts of any force and suppress them.
(Currently the power to suppress is 25% of total mana)
ㅡㅡㅡㅡ
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I knew I had grown a lot so far. However, I didn’t bother to check the status window.
Even though the ability stats and proficiency values have changed, I didn’t think it had that much of an impact on me now.
But something completely different existed.
“The light that blooms in despair… … .”
Even as I recited the new path to take, I felt strange.
I am on my way forward. [Crossroads of Fate] clearly had a crisis related to Azazel. And now that I have overcome it, there is a completely different path forward.
“… … .”
Let’s put everything else aside and just check the details of the path to take. I was literally speechless.
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*[Light blooming in despair]
One of the Nine Apostles is targeting you, and another, greater threat is also being prepared.
-The ‘great path’ for one of the nine apostles is presented.
Open Information 1: An apostle who has entered into a subordination contract with the nine apostles ‘Eucilia’ appears.
Open Information 2: Currently, the Nine Apostles are located on the Western Front and in the ‘Dark Zone’.
Open Information 3: Your body will react to a moment of great crisis as a ‘wake-up call’.
Unlocked information 4: Your choice carries unknown possibilities.
-Special information due to extremely high growth will be released!
[Remember that despair can soon become brilliant light]
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“… … .”
There were no words or thoughts.
I was able to capture the information that appeared along the way as if it were just engraved in my eyes.
There wasn’t any completely new information or information that was so great that I felt like I had realized something.
Things I vaguely guessed just turned out to be definitive.
My consciousness was instead directed to something completely different.
“… … despair.”
Even as I was absent-mindedly muttering the key words for the path ahead, I felt as if a strange fear was constricting my heart.
Fear, anxiety… … .
It wasn’t fear or anxiety that came from me facing death.
My mind was blank.
“I am… … .”
What on earth should I do?
I was now accepting crises and trials as a kind of fate. And if I were to be afraid and hesitate about such things, I would have already broken my heart in the past and collapsed in reality.
So the problem was something completely different.
‘People who will naturally get caught up in me.’
My heart was being squeezed by the thought that the platoon members of the enemy wing, who were so good to me, would face a very big crisis because of me.
I’m not going to die.
I felt so clearly that those who would be with me would face an unknown crisis.
I was afraid of that more than anything else right now.
The fact that the possibility of a major disaster like Ensign Sabrina’s happening again in the future has become ridiculously high… … .