Child of Destiny

Roger’s empowered rifle released a powerful beam of light that charged towards Shin in a very destructive manner.

’Class Fighting Style: (Empowered) Radical Beam’

BOOM! ZONG!

But at the same time, Shin was repeatedly putting in and pulling out his sword from its sheath before swinging it rightwards. Together with his actions, a bunch of crescent sword waves were sent flying towards the incoming beam of light in a successive manner.

’Class Fighting Style: (Modified) Purgatory Stance’

Shing! Swoosh!

BANG! BANG! BANG!

The sword waves that were sent by Shin were immediately destroyed by the charging beam of light during their collision. But given that each sword wave was much stronger than the other, the charging of power of the radical beam dropped drastically.

Each of the collisions was quite massive as a powerful explosion was being created every time the opposing powers clashed against each other.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The audiences couldn’t help but unconsciously move their butts at the edge of their seats as they watched this scene.

They were aware that there was something odd going on in this match since the two players in the battle arena were too talking too much compared to the previous fights so far. But despite that being the case, their hearts couldn’t help but become shaken the moment they saw Shin and Roger used their strongest attacks from the get-go.

After a few more collisions of powers, Shin finally felt that he was running out of elemental mana that he could use for a couple more crescent waves. With that, he gathered all of the remaining elemental mana from his reserve before and charged them on this sheathed sword for as fast as he could.

Most of the spectators watching the scene felt that their hearts suddenly tightened especially when they saw that Shin suddenly stopped attacking and just waited for the beam of light to come after him.

Despite that beam of light losing most of its powers from the previous collisions with Shin’s sword waves, its charge was still strong enough to one-shot Shin if ever he got hit by it.

Fortunately, they were quite familiar with Shin’s style right now. So, they immediately somehow calmed themselves down when they saw the glowing light being released by the sheathed sword that Shin was holding.

At this point of time, time seemed to slow down as everybody stared intensely at the match. None of them even dared to blink their eyes, afraid that they would miss the most important part of this battle.

Everyone unconsciously gulfed a mouthful of saliva as they continued to watch the charging beam of light get nearer and nearer towards Shin.

Meanwhile, Shin took a deep breath as he waited for the right time to unsheathe his sword. And when the ’radical beam’ reached the ideal ranged, he finally pulled the [Yamato] out from its sheath to unleash all of the elemental mana that he had accumulated.

’Clash Fighting Style: (Modified) Purgatory Stance – (Thirteenth Slash) Final Crescent’

Shing!

Swoosh!

Right after Shin unsheathed his sword and drew an arc with it, a large sword wave was immediately released from it and flew forward with an insane speed.

This particular sword wave flew so fast that no one could even get a glimpse of it when it was released by Shin. And it even sliced the beam of light without having anything resistance as if it was a hot knife cutting through butter.

Roger, who was waiting for that final attack from Shin, didn’t even have enough time to react to that final sword wave when it was finally unleashed. All he could do was to stare blankly in the air as that sword wave cut his body in half.

In the meantime, Owen who was watching from the VIP room, couldn’t help but have a sudden chill that ran through his back when he saw that final attack. Then he started breaking in a cold sweat when he suddenly remembered his last exchange with Shin.

”D*mn! So, that was the final sword wave?” muttered Owen with a stiff face and twitching mouth. Then he started shaking his head as he started to realize Shin’s real strength. ’This guy is truly a monster in human skin.’

At the same time, the whole audience-stand became dead silent once again as they stared at the battle arena with a stunned expression on their faces. The same as earlier, all of their mouths were in total agape while their heads were trying to process what they just witnessed.

One the other hand, the online spectators who were watching the match on their screens had their eyes wide open as if they were unable to close them anymore. Even the keyboard warriors on the live chat forgot to type the words that they were saying.

It was the same with the hosts of the different online platforms who were covering the match. All they could do was to stare blankly at the giant screens showing the match – dumbfounded and completely unable to speak anything.

It was as if someone pressed the pause button and everything suddenly stopped moving!

The remnants of Roger’s radical beam were already dissipating when Roger himself started falling towards the ground. And in the very same moment, Shin was also putting the [Yamato] back to its sheath.

Clank! Thud!

Those two soft sounds resonated in the battle arena at the same time. And since the whole place was currently in a dead silent state, those sounds seemed to be a pair of deafening sounds that exploded so suddenly.

That was only the time when the System announced the result of this match.

Victor: Player ’Nameless Swordsman’!

As if everyone had a silent agreement, all of them suddenly exploded in an uproar at the same time. The whole audience stand started shaking due to their loud shouting, it was as if the silent cemetery earlier suddenly transformed into a busy festival street.

It was the same for the online broadcast, every live chat was being flooded by a bunch of exclamation marks, shocked emoticons and similar things. The chat was moving up so fast to the point that even seeing a single message became completely impossible.

This hype lasted for a few more minutes before everyone finally recovered themselves and started to calm down. Though, the topic of their talks and online discussion was still the recent match of this tournament.

No matter how odd the match had started, no one could escape the fashion of how it ended. Shin already stunned everyone with the insane speed that he showed in the middle of the match. But the manner in which he closed the curtain of the fight was completely on a whole other level.

Given how hot this current topic, it would sure take some time before everything came back to normal.

At the same, a lot of major powers started to take note of Shin. In the early stages of the tournament, these guys were just treating Shin as a skilled player who somehow possessed a decent talent. But they were now looking at him very seriously especially after seeing his last two battles against Owen and Roger.

These superpowers started digging out all of the information that they could get regarding this mysterious ’Nameless Swordsman’ who now had the title of ’Angel of Death’. And together with that, these powerful guilds also sent a bunch of scouts on the Holy City of the Saint Heaven Kingdom to investigate a few more things about this certain player.

What’s more, some of these superpowers seemed to be very determined at recruiting Shin since they even sent some of their renowned individuals to act as their scouts.

Though, the local Major Guilds residing on the Saint Heaven Kingdom seemed to expect this to happen since they immediately started making some arrangements to keep these ’scouts’ in check.

And due this incoming ’party’, the Saint Heaven Kingdom would surely be going to become a very lively place for the upcoming days.

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Meanwhile, the man in question was sent back to his room. And the first thing that he did after arriving was to lie down on his bed, collapsing on it due to exhaustion.

Even if that last exchange with Roger looked so simple in the eyes of others, it actually put quite a huge toll on his mind and (in-game) body – especially that final sword wave that he sent at the end of the match.

Accumulating a large amount of elemental mana required a lot of concentration – what’s more suppressing it until the very final moment.

A single mischief on his concentration might affect the skill activation which would result into a skill combustion – or much worse, it might even lead into a mana explosion.

Shin stared at the ceiling of the room while trying to recover himself. ”Hu~… It seems like using the final slash of the ’Purgatory Stance’ will drain a lot of my energy. I guess I can’t use it much until I can finally use it without having any drawbacks.”

He rested for a couple of moments before he finally recovered some of his mental strength. And right after recovering, he immediately sat up on the bed and closed his eyes, planning to enter a deep meditation state.

When he finally achieved his ideal state, he immediately started assessing his battle earlier. Even if it was just a short exchange, he still felt some strange things when he tried to mimic Sairen’s movements in that fight.

Recalling the fight, Shin started grinning widely before muttering. ”Let’s see what I can learn this time.”

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