Sovereign of Judgment Chapter 173:
Episode 10: Calculations of Revenge / Chapter 173: Each’s Calculations (6)
TL: emptycube / ED: Obelisk
As the clash between Choi Hyuk and the head wolf became increasingly serious, the universe began to squirm . It was a fight between transcendent warriors that was rare even throughout the history of the universe .
To the point where powerful warriors even felt nauseous, space-time, as well as all order and laws, shook violently .
“Damn it! Gather! Maintain our formation!!”
{What? What are you saying?!}
Due to the completely erased Net of Fate, the species couldn’t communicate with each other .
It was a pandemonium of pandemoniums .
Stars and planets that couldn’t endure the constant clash of power and changes in laws exploded .
Boooom-!
An enormous explosion . Their surroundings vibrated, and a sun, which hadn’t been there, appeared . Day suddenly arrived for this dark space, and all sorts of fragments and gas formed a tidal wave that swallowed the space whole .
Baaang!!
Like lightning, day and night switched, and the warriors cursed as they were hit by the broken fragments and died one after another .
Under the torrential rain of fragments, Baek Seoin felt an unease crawl down his spine .
“Hieh!”
With a strange shout, Baek Seoin flung his body away, and the silver ‘Meteor-Chasing Wolf’ dropped down on his previous spot .
{Grrrrr… How did you dodge?}
“What are you saying? All I hear is you barking . ”
Baek Seoin grumbled while awakening his senses to their limits .
Vring! His Sword of Sentiment ‘Baek Seoin’s Premonition’ rang out as he held it up . When Premonition rang, the part of his body that his enemy would attack would ache .
This was the reason why Baek Seoin, who was only a high-ranked warrior, could endure against a highest-ranked wolf . With his innate skill ‘Intuition’ and his Sword of Sentiment ‘Baek Seoin’s Premonition’, he could narrowly avoid his enemy’s attacks due to the unease and pain he felt beforehand .
However, this also meant that all of Meteor-Chasing Wolf’s attacks were savage enough to put his life in danger . Baek Seoin could die at any moment because of a slight misjudgment .
The angle he held his sword, the distribution of karma in his body, his gaze… nothing was easy . Every trivial decision was followed by a life-threatening unease, and Baek Seoin had to analyze them all in detail before moving . He needed to find a place where he didn’t feel uneasy or ache .
{I can help you . }
Though Naro showed his intent in helping him, Baek Seoin refused .
“No, Naro . If you’re exposed now, your life might be in danger . Hold your breath until we at least set up a defensive line . ”
While Naro had awakened as a highest-ranked warrior, his body was still that of the enormous spaceship . Because he would be at an absolute disadvantage in a close combat fight against the wolves that excelled in maneuverability, Baek Seoin decided not to expose Naro at the risk of his own life .
{You’ll die! It’s not even certain if you’ll be able to set up a defensive line or not!}
“If you act now, you’ll die immediately! Hieh! I have to concentrate so don’t talk to me! Look after Lee Jinhee and Ryu Hyunsung instead of me!”
The silver wolf followed after Baek Seoin like a meteor . Narrowly, as though he could die at any moment, Baek Seoin dodged his attacks and survived .
Everyone was in a similar situation . While they endured for now, they would soon collapse . The formation where they were scattered and killed off one by one changed again . The warriors were pushed into groups and crushed . Due to the lack of space, it was common for allies to be wounded by other allies . While they did their best to push their enemies back and regain some space, what returned was death . The corpses of warriors mixed together with the fragments of smashed stars and drifted away .
The fear of ‘defeat’ and ‘death’ permeated them .
Everyone was clearly fighting desperately .
Choi Hyuk, who had only been a highest-ranked warrior, fought evenly against the head wolf, and the seven highest-ranked warriors and five Berserker executives had yet to die whilst facing opponents stronger than them . However, they didn’t have the strength to reverse the situation because the Blue Manes had become stronger than they had imagined after cooperating with the monsters . All Choi Hyuk could do was not be one-sidedly pushed back by the head wolf . The rest couldn’t even do that .
“We were too rash…”
“What was I entranced by to come here…”
The young warriors of the top four tribes let out sighs . Flames dimmed dangerously, and metal creaked . Darkness paled, and the light became faint .
Ryu Hyunsung endured the planet wreckage that was powerlessly falling on him as he looked at the situation .
Lee Jinhee was wounded all over her body as she took on two high-ranked wolves, and Lee Jinhee’s unit, which went to save her, was surrounded by other wolves and couldn’t move . Ryu Hyunsung couldn’t even see his own troop members .
As Ryu Hyunsung didn’t have a special skill like Baek Seoin, he couldn’t face off against the highest-ranked wolf, ‘Crushing Mane’, with his strangely increased ability . The wolf had turned Ryu Hyunsung’s body into tatters in 20 passes .
The reason why Ryu Hyunsung was still alive was because the wolf considered him already dead and was slaughtering others around him .
Ryu Hyunsung’s head, which had surged with rage and curses, finally cooled .
‘I’m really going to die now . ’
As he thought this, the madness that filled his mind disappeared, and like a kaleidoscope, his surroundings clearly entered his vision .
‘So this was my final battle . ’
As soon as he thought this, a lofty feeling and a wronged emotion surged within him .
Baang!
Somewhere, another planet exploded, and his vision brightened like it was daytime . As though he had suddenly awakened from his sleep, everything looked clear .
It was a strange feeling . His mind was cool, yet his heart was sharper than ever . Ryu Hyunsung clearly felt this situation .
An encircled situation .
The enemies blocked the front and they didn’t have anywhere to retreat to .
The fear-stricken rookies of the alliance kept being pushed back when there was nowhere to retreat to .
Ryu Hyunsung ridiculed them .
If there was a path, it was in front of them . Even if it was as small as the eye of a needle, they had to find it . Without madness or fear, with all their concentration and strength, they had to defeat enemies stronger than them .
His reasoning and emotions became one as they proposed a path . To push past the enemies in front of them .
‘However… I can’t even move the tips of my fingers . ’
Suddenly, he felt like he knew what to do and could succeed, yet he couldn’t even move his own fingers .
‘Is this really the end?’
While he had always inwardly hoped to die, he didn’t want this sort of death .
He didn’t hope for a death so vain and weak .
The moment he thought this-
“Director Ryu Hyunsung!! Run!!”
He heard Guardian Bae Jinman’s voice . He had approached under Zero’s covert **** and was squeezing his karma to heal Ryu Hyunsung .
When Bae Jinman’s golden karma permeated his body, his body, which had been ripped to shreds to the point of being unrecoverable, began to regenerate like a miracle . That moment, what Ryu Hyunsung felt wasn’t relief like ‘I’m alive…’
‘Ah, I can fight again . ’
He held expectations that he could fight properly this time .
A mysterious phenomenon . Ryu Hyunsung’s body didn’t simply stop at being healed .
The karma that made up his body was redistributed and was being replaced with different properties .
His eyes shined blue .
A genius . While this word was most suitable for Choi Hyuk, Ryu Hyunsung had, in fact, grown up while hearing he was a genius .
A genius swordsman . Since he was young, he received attention as a rising sabre star of Korea and was selected as the youngest national representative ever . There were even big talks of him defeating the top-ranked swordsman in the world during his practice games . Yet, that was all . Ryu Hyunsung didn’t win a single medal throughout his four years at Korea National Sport University . ‘Training-purpose’ was the label given to him . During friendly matches and practice, he was a genius swordsman stronger than anyone, yet he lost powerlessly in real matches .
The length of two finger joints . That distance was always the problem . He lacked the determination to pierce through his opponent’s malice that wanted to kill him and stretch his sword out first .
He believed that he had overcome this weak point after the recruit training began and he joined the Berserkers, killing people and monsters .
‘That wasn’t it . ’
Ryu Hyunsung finally realized that he was still running away . He was in an ambiguous state where it was too painful to live yet he couldn’t die . Perhaps this was why he couldn’t leave the Berserkers since, if he stayed with Choi Hyuk, they would always have a goal . Whether it was right or wrong, whether he liked it or not .
He had always been in this ambiguous state . It was no different from his past days as a ‘training-purpose swordsman’ .
‘Advance . ’
Ryu Hyunsung finally realized the true meaning of the fate given to him when he became a high-ranked warrior .
At first, he was confused . ‘Advance’? To be honest, how he clung to his life while living and fighting was closer to ‘evasion’ than ‘advancing’ . He constantly evaded to his past . He also evaded his past . He fought to forget about his memories and fought while thinking of his memories . To call that ‘advance’?
However, now that he thought about it, it was a desperate manifestation of his subconscious . A warning that he was fated to disappear if he didn’t ‘advance’ .
Ryu Hyunsung finally realized this meaning and wholly accepted it .
My path is in front of me .
Now was the time to move forward .
If he didn’t, he would die . He didn’t have the energy to think about victory or defeat, only to find the path . It was time to open a path with his cold reasoning and wild nature .
At some point, his tattered body had completely recovered .
Ryu Hyunsung turned his back on Bae Jinman, who held his hand out towards him, and Zero and shouted towards all the fear-stricken warriors,
“Open your eyes properly, you dimwits! Break through them!”
Unlike his ragged beast-like voice before, his voice rang out clearly this time . His voice, containing his enlightenment, was clearly transmitted to the warriors who couldn’t understand Korean .
Everyone’s gaze momentarily fell on Ryu Hyunsung .
Ryu Hyunsung stretched his leg out . He turned his waist like a top and flung his arm forward like a fishing pole . His karma, which explosively surged in his body, was pushed forward like a river without any hesitation . He passed through the length of the two finger joints that he had always lacked .
Crash!
Slash!
‘Crushing Mane’ charged at him like a cannonball as soon as he heard Ryu Hyunsung’s voice . His body passed by Ryu Hyunsung’s chest, and Ryu Hyunsung’s sword slashed his mouth .
{Kyaah!}
The first attack Ryu Hyunsung landed on ‘Crushing Mane’ was a fatal blow . While three streams of blood flowed from Ryu Hyunsung’s chest after the wolf passed by him, he didn’t bat an eye .
He only saw a clear sword path to kill the unpleasant wolves . A thread-like path . Nonetheless, a clearly existing path .
A beautiful sword path was drawn with his hand .
Ryu Hyunsung easily caught up to the wolf that was shaking his head and retreating from him . He pushed his claws down and slashed his neck before the wolf could dodge it .
Slash-
The highest-ranked wolf, ‘Crushing Wolf’, couldn’t even yip before his deeply slashed head was thrown into space .
Slash!
Ryu Hyunsung’s sword slash left a trailing afterimage as it slashed through a corner of the battlefield . The wolves in its path were simultaneously split in two, and a canyon was drawn on a small natural satellite that was in its path .
His sword slash seemed like the work of a sword **** .
“Ryu hyung? Wh- what is this?”
Despite being pushed towards the defensive, Lee Jinhee was at a loss for words . It was the same for the two wolves that had attacked her . While their mouths were agape, Ryu Hyunsung passed through the wolves and sliced the heads of the two wolves off their bodies .
“Did you reach the highest rank…?”
Lee Jinhee said blankly .
Yet, Ryu Hyunsung didn’t reply, only shooting out after patting her head . This time, to help the seven highest-ranked warriors who were struggling .
**
Due to Ryu Hyunsung, the mood of the battlefield changed . With his help, the strongest warriors of the alliance could defeat the wolves that were holding them back, and the freed highest-ranked warriors went out to help others . It was now time for the deeply infiltrated wolves to be pushed back .
The front lines were formed, and their defensive line stabilized .
Seeing this, Baek Seoin shouted in an almost singing voice,
“Now’s the time! Naro! Restrict them!”
{I’ve been waiting for this!}
The wave of karma that spread from Naro’s spaceship snared the wolf that targeted Baek Seoin and the wolves that infiltrated around them . ‘Meteor-Chasing Mane’s highest-ranked karma was instantly degraded to that of a high-ranked warrior . The wolves that noticed this change targeted Naro, but the flow had already been reversed . A threefold defensive line had already been set up in front of Naro .
“That’s it! It’s working! We can fight!”
The fight between ‘Meteor-Chasing Mane’ and Baek Seoin, in which Baek Seoin was one-sidedly on the defensive, had turned into a close fight . Recovering his composure, Baek Seoin glanced in Choi Hyuk’s direction .
“Now… If the leader wins…!”
While the situation had improved, that didn’t mean they were winning . If Choi Hyuk quickly won, then, no matter how large the losses were, it would be the alliance’s victory . However, if Choi Hyuk couldn’t in time, then the inferior punitive force would face the chance of being annihilated .
For some reason, it currently seemed like Choi Hyuk was being pushed back .
Just then, Baek Seoin saw Ryu Hyunsung .
He, who had created balance in the battlefield, was charging towards Choi Hyuk and the head wolf, who were fighting over there .
“Hey! Ryu Hyunsung! Are you crazy?! Where do you think you’re going?!”
Baek Seoin heard her scream .
Bang, bang, bang!
Another star exploded brilliantly . His surroundings brightened as though it was daytime .