Owner of Twilight Intuition – Chapter 115

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟏𝟓

‘Well, that was an easy win.’

If it weren’t for the Roar of the Thunder Dragon, the fight might have lasted a bit longer. In that sense, would you say Zech was unlucky? At least if we had fought before I got this weapon, we would have exchanged a few blows.

Anyway, he’s going down quietly.

It was the complete opposite of his previous behavior, where he vehemently shouted that he couldn’t accept it. Zech, defeated so easily by me, still had a dazed expression as he descended from the duel arena, and as I watched him, I suddenly realized the atmosphere around me was strange.

“W-What just happened?”

“He beat Zech-hyeong in just a few seconds?”

“No, more than that, did you see? He only hit him twice, and Zech-hyeong died.”

“I knew the Vice Master was strong, but I didn’t know he was that strong.”

Murmur~ Murmur~

‘Hmm.’

Looking around, I saw almost all the guild members murmuring in disbelief. It seemed they were shocked that I won without using any special skills. Anyway, I decided to ignore their gazes and spoke to the remaining five.

“Next.”

For some reason, as soon as I finished speaking, some of them started cheering loudly.

Waaaaaaaah!━

“Rudin-nim! That was so cool!”

“Defeat all the remaining members!”

In contrast, the five challengers stared at me with hardened expressions. As I quietly observed them, I could see them discussing something amongst themselves.

“What happened just now?”

“It’s because of the Dynamics skill. It stops your body when you get hit. But it’s a skill you can avoid by jumping into the air or creating distance.”

‘Oh.’

It was the S-rank player who said that. As expected, since he had experienced it firsthand, he knew exactly what it was. Thanks to him, one of my skills was revealed to everyone, but it wasn’t something to worry about.

‘What can they do even if they know?’

As I was thinking that, the guild member who was about to challenge me shook his head and said.

“No, I’m talking about what just happened, not the skill.”

“I…… I don’t know either.”

“How did he get so strong?”

They seemed to be having a friendly discussion, but then one more person came up. But judging by his expression, he didn’t seem to think he could win. If that’s the case, he could just give up, so why bother coming up? As if he knew what I was thinking, the guild member bowed his head and said.

“Please go easy on me.”

“……Yes.”

[The duel begins.]

“……?”

Even though the duel had started, the opponent didn’t even think about moving. This is no fun. Perhaps I wasn’t the only one thinking this, as the guild members watching also shouted similar things.

“Fight! What are you doing?!”

“Are you here on a blind date?!”

‘I guess I’ll have to make the first move.’

I walked forward with that thought. It was just walking, but the opponent seemed to panic and immediately rushed towards me, and seeing that, I dealt with him in the same way as before.

“Dynamics.”

Kwaaaang!━

‘Huh?’

The guild member jumped upwards as soon as I used Earth’s Dynamics. He seemed to have taken the S-rank player’s advice to heart.

But what if he jumps into the air?

I didn’t care and swung the Roar of the Thunder Dragon at the guild member floating in the air. He couldn’t possibly avoid it since he had jumped into the air.

Pachichik!━

“Ugh!”

[Hit Damage! 3,788.]

“C-Crazy!”

The guild member, hit once in the air and knocked sideways, checked my damage and shouted in surprise. I wasn’t sure, but judging by the fact that he didn’t even think about getting up, I figured he was quite shocked. Thinking that, I approached the guild member and finished him off.

“What kind of damage……”

Pachichik!━

[Hit Damage! 3,796.]

[You have won the duel.]

If he had time to talk, he should have dodged. Anyway, I swung the Roar of the Thunder Dragon at the guild member who was too flustered to move properly and easily secured victory. On the other hand, I was a bit surprised.

‘Is it because his skill is at the executive level?’

The amount of HP he had was quite high. At least the two I fought seemed to have around 4,000 HP or more. Considering it’s been a month since Twilight started, it wouldn’t be strange for most to have that much HP.

‘Even I have around 7,000 HP excluding the Guardian of Light title.’

Thinking that way, their HP would be around 5-6,000? Even so, the fact that they couldn’t beat me remained unchanged.

‘What’s left is……’

4 people.

After that, I easily defeated the remaining 3, but they didn’t just collapse.

“Aaagh! Over 3,000 damage!”

“……”

Everyone looked at me with shocked eyes at the words shouted by the fifth opponent. In fact, my attack power doesn’t exceed 3,000. To be precise, it’s 2,884. However, since the damage is doubled against opponents with lower Strength than me, it displayed over 3,000 damage.

Frankly, for the damage to be reduced to less than 3,000, their Defense would have to be at least 1,300 or higher…… but judging from the fights so far, it didn’t seem to be the case.

‘Well, it wouldn’t be easy to achieve that level of Defense.’

Even I have less than 1,000 Defense excluding the shield. The shield I crafted is just that overpowered. In reality, Defense was hard to raise since I didn’t have any related stats.

“What did you just say?”

“The damage is over 3,000?”

“Is that even possible?”

“The Guild Master’s Extinction Sword seems to deal more than that……”

“But that’s an S-rank skill. The Vice Master dealt 3,000 without using any skills. It doesn’t make sense logically.”

“Should we ask him?”

“You go and ask him.”

‘……It’s quite noisy.’

Everyone was looking at me with curious eyes, but no one approached me directly. Maybe it’s because we’re still in the middle of the duel? If the duel ends, they’ll probably rush to me and ask me like crazy.

‘What should I do then?’

Should I just give a simple explanation?

While I was thinking about that, the last challenger, the S-rank player, finally came up. Perhaps because she was the only woman, there were some guild members cheering for her.

“Da-in-nim! Fighting!”

“Fighting!”

‘So her ID is Da-in.’

Honestly, the ID doesn’t really matter.

“Is your attack power over 3,000?”

“Hmm? Why do you ask?”

“Just curious.”

Da-in asked me as I was preparing for the final battle. Is she curious about the secret of my damage? But not only Da-in, but everyone here would be curious about it.

“I’ll tell you if you win.”

“……”

I indirectly said I wouldn’t tell her and prepared for battle.

[The duel begins.]

“……Acceleration.”

‘An S-rank skill right from the start?’

Da-in’s body, after shouting Acceleration, became so fast that it was hard to follow with my eyes. I confirmed that she also used Stealth to hide herself, and I roughly guessed the timing of her attack and used Earth’s Dynamics.

“Dynamics!”

Kwaaaang!━

‘Did I miss?’

Chaaaak!━

And a slight impact on my leg.

[You have taken damage! -832.]

‘800 damage?’

Considering my Defense, it must be penetration damage. But the damage itself was lower than before. Perhaps it’s because she died a few times due to the Kill Order. Anyway, while I was looking for her, who had become even weaker than before, I ended up allowing a few more attacks.

[Overwhelming Defense……]

[Damage……]

‘She’s really fast.’

Da-in attacked 6-7 times in less than a second and then retreated to maintain distance. Does that Acceleration skill have a short duration? However, since she attacks several times in that short time, I thought the duration might be meaningless.

‘The damage I took is…… around 2-3,000?’

My HP was shaved off in an instant. Anyway, it seemed like I couldn’t fight like this against her.

‘I’ll have to counter with an S-rank skill.’

“Elsyke’s Phantom Shift.”

Pat━

‘Huh?’

Using Phantom Shift has a Stealth effect that hides myself. In other words, it means I’m invisible, but for some reason, Da-in’s gaze was directed at me even though I was in Stealth.

‘Ah, this happened before.’

Even when I hid with Stealth, Da-in quickly figured out my location. But I couldn’t just stop here. I used Phantom Shift to move next to Da-in and quickly swung the Roar of the Thunder Dragon, but Da-in lowered her head and dodged my attack, then swung her dagger again with her accelerated movements.

‘Damn it.’

At this rate, I’ll lose another few thousand HP!

“Dynamics.”

Kwaaaang!━

I barely managed to use Earth’s Dynamics to shake off Da-in and decided to face her more seriously. It wasn’t easy to deal with her since I was overwhelmingly outmatched in speed. And while I was thinking that, I could see the phantom I created rushing towards Da-in.

‘……No way, is she just going to overwhelm me with numbers?’

My phantom and I have the same attack power, so I’ll have the advantage if I hit her just once. If I hit her twice, victory is guaranteed.

Thinking that, I immediately put it into action.

“Elsyke’s Phantom Shift. Elsyke’s Phantom Shift……”

Da-in’s expression hardened as I quickly created four more phantoms. At the same time, the five phantoms started to pressure Da-in, each using their own skills.

“W-Wow! What’s that?! Shadow Clone Jutsu?”

“Just how many are there?”

“It’s a clone, but it even uses skills!”

Since there were five phantoms, the skills they used were diverse. Some used Giant’s Sprint, while others used Provoke, Spinning Strike…… Seeing the phantoms using all the skills I have, it felt like I was revealing all my skills.

‘What’s that guy doing?’

Ting━

Seeing a phantom suddenly flipping a coin, I sighed and rushed towards Da-in. Perhaps because it was difficult to attack me with so many phantoms mixed in, Da-in gradually showed signs of being pushed back, but……

‘She’s damn good at dodging.’

Even with six of us, including me, running around and attacking, Da-in continued to use Acceleration and dodge the attacks by moving around.

However, she didn’t seem to consider the HP that my phantoms and I have.

My current HP is 14,170. At level 7, the phantoms have close to 4,000 HP. It’s an amount of HP that can’t be killed in one hit even with a proper attack, so she couldn’t kill my phantoms by attacking once or twice and then running away like this.

‘Let’s finish this.’

Although I haven’t landed a successful attack so far, I remembered another ability of Phantom Shift and guaranteed victory.

“Phantom Explosion.”

Flash━

Soon, a blue light shone simultaneously. That light naturally came from the phantoms, and Da-in immediately retreated upon seeing the sudden light. However, phantoms were positioned all around her except for the back.

Thinking this was my chance, I charged forward with my shield raised.

“Giant’s Sprint!”

Seeing my charge, Da-in seemed to hesitate for a brief moment, but she jumped sideways and dodged my charge. She dodged, but there was already a phantom emitting light where she landed.

Kwaaaang!!- Kwakwakwang!!━

[Skill Damage! 3,143.]

[Skill Damage……]

[You have won the duel.]

It seems she thought dodging towards the phantom was more likely to succeed than getting hit by Giant’s Sprint. However, since the phantom causes explosion damage based on its remaining HP, it was all for naught.

Anyway, after winning with that explosion damage, I felt a bit tired.

‘Phew, this is quite annoying.’

I didn’t expect it to be this difficult. Sighing, I looked at Da-in, and Da-in, who had briefly turned gray due to defeat and then returned to her original color, got up from her spot and glared at me with a frustrated expression before leaving the duel arena.

‘How did that Aizen guy manage to issue a Kill Order and kill someone like her?’

While I was thinking that, looking at Da-in, who seemed like she could escape instantly using an S-rank skill as soon as she logged in, cheers celebrating my victory could be heard from the surroundings.

And along with those cheers, I could see Aizen coming up.

“You’ve worked hard.”

What hard work? In the first place, it was his fault for saying that the Vice Master would be decided based on skill.

“Now all that’s left is to fight six people.”

“Six people……”

Is he really going to do it? I turned my head to look at the guild members who had challenged me. They flinched at my gaze and looked flustered. Seeing them like that, I felt like my will to fight was disappearing.

“Forget it. I’m tired after fighting consecutively.”

If the other side showed a strong will to continue fighting, it would be a different story, but I didn’t want to force them to fight in the current situation. Therefore, I said that, and Aizen didn’t force me and announced the end of this duel.

“Then we’ll end this duel here.”

Waaaaaaaah!!━

‘Is it all over?’

“Rudin-nim. What are your plans after this?”

“Huh?”

Aizen spoke to me as I was about to leave since the guild matters were over.

“I have some things to do today. But why?”

“I think it’s about time we do a B-rank quest.”

Why is this guy trying to drag me into this? I wanted to ask out of curiosity, but a B-rank quest was something I wanted to try at least once. It’s a B-rank quest that requires 100 gold to accept. I haven’t been able to do it because of the cost, so I was secretly drawn to it, but I soon shook my head.

“Sorry, but I’ll do it next time when I have the chance.”

“I understand. Then please contact me whenever you’re ready.”

‘Huh? Does he want me to contact him if I want to do a B-rank quest?’

It was a bit absurd, but I nodded. Then I looked around and saw the guild members still lingering in the duel arena, looking at me. It was as if they would rush to me as soon as Aizen disappeared.

“……Then I’ll be going now.”

“Yes.”

[Using Return Scroll.]

I quickly took out a Return Scroll from my inventory and returned to my mansion, letting out a sigh of relief. Will it get even more tiring from now on? Anyway, since I finished the urgent matters, I thought I could continue working on my crafting skills like yesterday.

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