NOVEL WEB Chapter 39
The wound was so severe that the wound was not healed.
"Because time has gone back--idiot."
A familiar voice came from behind him, and Haneda looked back in a hurry.
Lian was standing on the steps intact, holding the girl named Ieiri Nishiko in her arms.
"How is it possible? Even if the reversal technique is used, it is impossible to recover. That is a fatal injury!"
Haneda was incredulous about what was happening before his eyes. He swore with his life that his knife had indeed split Lian in half, and even if the reversal technique was used, it was impossible to recover.
"I said, time has gone back, everything that happened before no longer exists, and the current time is about an hour ago." Lian explained patiently.
At this moment, the unconscious Naoko finally woke up. She glanced around and was full of questions.
Lian noticed Naoko's awakening. With a faint smile on his lips, he said softly in a gentle tone: "It seems that you are fine. That's great. I thought 15 minutes was not enough."
"When I traced back to here, I found that you were seriously injured at that time. I almost thought that there was not enough time."
The corners of Lian's mouth rose slightly, and a trace of sadness appeared in his gray and dim right eye, but overall, this face was so gentle and peaceful.
"Lian... your eyes..."
Lian ignored Naoko's doubts and just put her down gently.
"Raikiri!"
Before Lian could speak, Haneda had already swung his slash. At this moment, he was extremely panicked and wanted to kill Lian urgently, and even used sneak attacks, which were not good enough.
The reason why he enjoyed the duel before was because he thought that the difference between his strength and Lian's was not that big, and the two of them were the challenger and the challenged.
But now, the other emotions that originally existed in his heart have disappeared, leaving only endless fear.
Although Lian in front of him has not changed much, the extreme perception ability that has been trained after decades of fighting has been giving warnings all the time since the moment Lian appeared.
"The technique is reversed, trace back."
At this moment, Lian's heart was as calm as still water, without the slightest panic. His eyes that had been lowered slowly raised, and then he slowly raised his right hand and spread his palm slightly.
With the movement of his right hand, a mysterious force quietly emerged, and the slash that was originally as swift as a storm suddenly seemed to be gently held by an invisible big hand, and the speed was obviously slowed down.
It seemed as if time had frozen, and everything became so slow and clear.
"Enlightenment's unlimited technique?!" Glass was very surprised to see this scene.
"Extend the domain, and perish."
As soon as Lian finished speaking, the delayed slash immediately disappeared in mid-air, as if it had never existed.
Lian said calmly: "Time has been reversed, you can now swing the space slash again, come on."
The emotionless words hurt Haneda's self-esteem that had long been abandoned. The gray-haired young man in front of him had completely ignored him and was perfunctory to him like playing with a child.
Haneda's waist was slightly bent, his left hand held the scabbard, and his right hand held the hilt, showing the posture of drawing the sword and slashing again.
The cold curse power surrounded his body, and every breath was chilly. The breath he exhaled condensed into white mist in the air, which was clearly visible.
"If I can kill you once, I can kill you a second time!"
"Shadow Cut!"
In an instant, Haneda's figure flashed, and the long sword in his hand had already been unsheathed. His movements were so swift that several afterimages were left in the air.
His main body and these afterimages almost simultaneously launched a fierce slash, and between the flashes of the sword, it seemed as if a sharp sword net was formed, sweeping towards Lian.
"Extension, annihilation."
"Retrace."
Even with such a swift slash, it still couldn't touch Lian even a little bit, and was completely wiped out in mid-air by Lian's spell.
Using "Extension" twice in a row consumed a huge amount of cursed power, but when the cursed power was about to be exhausted, Lian once again used the spell reversal to trace his body back to 10 minutes ago, and the cursed power reached its peak again.
Lian now has almost unlimited cursed power!
"If your slash is a first-time kill, it is indeed very troublesome, but as long as you adapt to the attack rhythm, it is just the level of a second-rate magician." Lian said calmly.
"You guy!!"
Faced with Lian's sarcasm, Haneda's face became gloomy,
His eyes flashed with anger, and he held the sword tightly in his hand, swinging out a series of slashes randomly, as if to destroy everything in front of him.
His movements seemed a little chaotic, but full of an uncontrollable anger. He was like an enraged beast, wantonly pouring out the anger deep in his heart.
However, these slashes did not affect any ordinary people, and Haneda realized that the noisy people around him had disappeared.
He said in surprise: "What's going on? They were there 1 minute ago, why... why are they all gone, what happened!?"
"Could it be him? But since just now, he has never moved even half a step..."
"The art of accelerating time - Sha."
"The art of retracing time - Su."
Haneda kept repeating the details of Lian's art in his mind, and gradually, an uneasy mood surged in his heart, and a bad idea came to his mind.
After thinking everything through, Haneda laughed.
"Hehe...hahahahahahaha..."
"So that's how it is, so that's how it is...you're the same as me, you gave up something to get this kind of power, your dim gray eyes are proof of that!"
"Power? Eyes? What are you talking about?" Glass beside him didn't understand what he was talking about.
But Lian still looked calm and didn't care about what Haneda said.
He slowly extended his index finger and raised it to his chest. The pale curse gradually condensed at his fingertips like a trickle. Then, he whispered in his heart:
"The ritual is forward - Sha."
As the words fell in his heart, the condensed ritual was launched. This time, Lian compressed "Sha" to the extreme, with faster speed and more concentrated destructive power.
The launched "Sha" was like a bullet, piercing Haneda's shoulder with lightning speed, so fast that he couldn't react at all.
And the "Sha" exploded the moment it pierced his shoulder, and the scattered cursed power flowed around Haneda's body, making his expression more and more distorted.
"Ah..." Haneda knelt on the ground in pain, tightly covering the wound on his shoulder, and made a heart-wrenching cry.
But he still didn't want to die. He endured the pain, slowly stood up, and put the knife he had drawn back into the scabbard.
This action made Lian think that Haneda was ready to admit defeat, so she raised her finger and pointed it at his head, ready to give him a quick death.
But Haneda tightened the handle of the knife again, and then raised it above his head. His eyes showed a firm look, and his breath became more and more fierce. The air around him seemed to be suppressed by his momentum, forming an invisible aura.
Seeing this scene, Lian understood that Haneda was ready to fight to the death, and swung the space slash again, so he gave up the idea just now.
A knife swung with the determination to die will be more terrifying than the last time!
"Well... I can't take this blow, you win." Lian thought secretly in his heart.
Lian slowly raised his right hand until it stopped in front of his left shoulder, his movements were light and graceful. Then, his middle finger and thumb slightly merged, showing a virtual pinching gesture.
At this moment, the boundary of time seemed to disappear, as if it was broken. There was no longer a clear separation between the past and the future.
They seemed to be connected by an invisible thread and became a whole. The sound that should have belonged to the future, traveled through time and space and came to the present.
"Hypostyle - Zero."
"Hypostyle - Qi."