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Swordmaster’s Youngest Son
[Translator – Junseo]
[Proofreader – Valirius]
Volume 10 Chapter 354 - Ozdok (1)
“Huh, he’s really reacting so quickly?”
Mary smiled, taking interest.
Jin had mixed feelings about it. He wondered if Ozdok would even be able to survive underground for a thousand years in the Black Sea, especially if he was weaker than his prime.
Rumble…
The vibrations got stronger.
From deep beneath the ground, a gigantic creature writhing like a whirlwind could be felt through the earth.
“Oh, it feels like we caught a whale on our fishing rod.”
Mary’s appetite was whet.
“I don’t know how much weaker he’s gotten, but both of you need to be on your toes.”
Murakan found Mary’s reaction absurd. He figured she was so confident because she’d never faced Ozdok in his prime.
Thud!
Within seconds, a limb that appeared to be Ozdok’s ‘arm’ burst out, splitting the ground.
It looked like a metal pillar. Even though it looked like he shouldn’t have been able to move flexibly because his limbs had nothing resembling joints, his arms moved as smoothly as molten iron flowed.
A constitution that was hard like steel yet also fluid like water. From one glance, they could tell he wouldn’t be easy to cut apart.
Ozdok’s arm flailed around feebly, searching for the gold that had fallen to the ground while Mary quietly observed.
Jin, on the other hand, drew his sword before Ozdok could even fully reveal himself.
Bzz!
The pale blade came out of its scabbard, and a flash of blue lightning was released.
Light burst from Jin simultaneously, and in the next moment, Jin sliced the arm of Ozdok that was larger than his whole body, despite the fact that not even half of it had been revealed.
‘He wasn’t cut.’
Jin’s intuition was correct.
It felt like he had cut through water. The moment his blade made contact, he only felt a horrible squishy sensation, not the distinct heavy feeling that came from cutting through bone and flesh or clashing with metal.
“Hey, Youngest! What are you doing?!”
Mary screamed.
She planned to wait for Ozdok to eat the gold on the ground. For the sake of an thrilling fight.
“The prey almost got hurt. Though it doesn’t look like it did much damage. Phew.”
“This isn’t the time for that.”
“I was so excited that I couldn’t sleep. Even if he’s already weakened, I want to fight him after his condition has improved a little bit…”
“That’s not what I’m talking about. Aren’t you competing against me right now?”
Mary’s eyes sharpened at those words.
“I’m saying there’s no time for you to relax. You have to do something before I finish him off.”
“Ha, you petty brat.”
“I know that you, who wore the Silver Light Cuirass alone and created a field of the highest-grade mana bombs, aren't saying that right now.”
“It looks like you’re holding a slight grudge.”
Sliver!
The seams of Mary’s chainsword, Viper, split. The countless blades were infused with aura, and the sword began to extend.
Sharp shock waves shot out in all directions. The gold ingots that Shurry spat out were sliced apart like tofu, and Ozdok’s arm was mangled to the point of being unrecognizable.
Yet he still was not cut.
Ozdok’s arm only lost its shape for a moment from the quick sword strike, but quickly regained its original form once Mary stopped.
Ozdok then continued to fumble around for the gold that was on the ground, but it seemed that the shockwave caused by Mary had sent several gold ingots into the hole where his arm had come out from.
Nom—! Nom—!
The sound of Ozdok greedily devouring the fallen gold could be heard. Ozdok’s dark and evil aura was fully imbued into the unpleasant echoes.
The two gold bars that fell into the hole were no different from sparks that made contact with a sea of oil.
[Kea, eaargh…!]
Ozdok’s roar caused another earthquake. The ground felt like it would flip over at any moment from the vibrations that were now several times stronger than when he had first moved.
Kuargh—!
Ozdok began to rise above the ground. The energy he emitted caused explosions of varying sizes to break out all over the ground. Jin and Mary hit away the debris and readjusted their positions.
By that point, Murakan had ridden Shurry and taken up a position far away.
‘What Picon said was true. He’s so weak he can’t even be compared to back then. But still, with just the kid and his sister, it’ll be risky.’
Murakan made his decision.
He would watch over them for a bit before stepping in.
Even though his body had been weakened from being sealed for a thousand years, Ozdok had not completely lost his dignity as a monster with a core.
Ozdok’s huge shadow darkened the land.
‘It looks strange.’
‘I feel it, the exhilarating feeling that he’ll be incredibly strong.’
Jin and Mary looked up at Ozdok.
If there were a hairless monkey that had its body parts randomly thrown together, and was the size of a fortress, it would probably look similar.
A golden energy came out from the center of his chest. It was his core.
[Keargh. Kuargh.]
Even after setting foot on the ground, Ozdok only made strange noises and showed no interest in Jin and Mary.
It seemed like he wasn’t even aware that Jin and Mary had attacked him. Ozdok rolled the large red eye stuck in the middle of his face around, concentrating only on looking for gold.
“I think my pride’s a little hurt by this?”
Even though that’s what she said, Mary’s eyes looking at Ozdok remained bright and sparkling.
Some would be terrified at the thought of facing an opponent that was immune to physical attacks. No, most warriors would definitely feel that way when they first saw Ozdok.
But that didn’t apply to Mary, nor Jin.
‘It doesn’t look like he’s regenerating. Maybe his body’s like that of a ghost?’
While Jin was lost in thought for a moment, Mary had already rushed toward Ozdok.
Ozdok had stuck his long, dark tongue out at the gold scattered on the ground.
“I’ll cut you down until you cease to exist, Ozdok.”
Slice—!
Slicing off his tongue. No, seemingly slicing off his tongue was only the beginning.
Mary’s sword, Viper, shot out sword aura everywhere like scattered light.
It shot out so fast, that even Jin had a hard time tracking the overlapping afterimages with his eyes, and with each flash of light, Ozdok’s massive body blurred.
For the first few seconds, Ozdok continued to ignore Mary.
However, when the gold bar he was trying to swallow was ground to dust by Mary’s sword aura, he reacted for the first time, turning his red eye over to her.
A dull thud.
That sound was heard as Ozdok turned his gaze to Mary.
The distinctive sound that was made when a person was struck by a trained fist or a blunt object.
“Ugh!”
At the same time, Mary gritted her teeth and flinched.
She had been hit in the side by Ozdok’s tail.
Fortunately, she was able to avoid a fatal injury by blocking the attack just before it hit, but to her, it was a greater mental blow than a physical one.
‘I was almost taken out from a single hit…?’
A single hit.
By an attack that hadn’t been carefully prepared, but like an unconscious movement, as if swatting away a fly.
She was almost put out of combat. If she had defended any later, it wouldn’t have ended with just one or two broken ribs.
Even Jin, who was watching the scene, couldn’t help but feel quite surprised.
‘With that body, how is he so fast that even Mary could barely react?’
The hairs on his body stood on end.
“Murakan! Are you sure he’s been weakened?”
As Jin shouted, Murakan raised both arms and made a circle, signaling that Jin’s words were correct.
“If things get tough, I, the great Black Dragon, will help you out. Just try your best, kehaha!”
Mary stood up again, her eyes shining. Her whole body ached, and she was overcome with confusion and anger.
Instead of expressing it out loud, she kept a cool head.
Within the warrior world, there wasn’t a single person who didn’t know Mary was a fighting maniac. It was also a well-known fact that she liked fighting without thinking.
Because of this, most people thought that Mary was just a simple-minded person with a short temper.
But those who knew Mary ‘well’ would say Mary was most frightening when she had the cold look she had presently.
‘It was like this when I fought the youngest and when I killed through those Wraith Corps guys, and now as well. There’s definitely been a ton of fun fights since the youngest came back. Right, how do I go about facing this guy?’
Nom, nom nom!
The gold that had fallen to the floor was entering Ozdok’s stomach.
The attacks the two had launched weren’t entirely ineffective. Although they weren’t able to injure him, more than fifty percent of the gold bars they had brought to tempt Ozdok were swept away in the attack.
Since gold was the source of Ozdok’s power, had he eaten all of it, he would’ve recovered twice his present strength.
“Youngest.”
“Yes?”
“If you want to hit him with a physical attack, you’ll probably have to aim for the moment when he’s hardened up for an attack.”
“I was thinking the same thing. At all other times, it feels like attacking air. It would’ve been nice if that damned Black Dragon standing behind us told me about this.”
Murakan was lying on Shurry’s back, watching the two siblings with a bright smile. He was even snacking on Lathry’s cookies he had brought with him.
“But his body won’t always be in that air-like state. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to chew on the gold bars like he is.”
“He must have a weakness, right?”
“Yes. And there might be another way to make him susceptible to physical attacks.”
Phwoosh, freeze!
Jin sheathed his sword and cast a fire and ice spell simultaneously, one in each hand.
“I’ll find a way to deal an effective blow on him using magic. In the meantime, please find out his weakness.”
“Got it.”
Pweh!
Mary spat out the blood that had collected in her mouth and closed the distance between herself and Ozdok.
Now Ozdok was also aware of Jin and Mary. Initially, he had been out of his mind after waking up from his seal and smelling gold for the first time in so long, but now he had regained some of his intelligence.
[Keargh!]
The chainsword was once again engulfed in light, tracing a sharp path. Ozdok didn’t dodge the attack this time either, instead simply swatting Mary away.
Mary continued to swing her sword at Ozdok without showing any signs of fatigue despite being hit on the ground several times, but she could do nothing but endure it as she bounced off the ground more than ten times in just over a minute.
This was no longer an issue concerning her pride. It was because she accepted that Ozdok was stronger than her.
‘He seems to be immune to magic as well.’
Fire, ice, wind, earth, lightning. He tried every type of magic, but none of them worked.
Ozdok was virtually an impregnable fortress.
Had Jin not discovered one additional phenomenon.
‘He’s not immune to magic and physical attacks at the same time…!’
He almost missed it. Because Mary was being pushed back so much, there weren’t many opportunities for them to attack together.
He made a breakthrough.
‘All that’s left is too… Unleash a magic attack right as my sister does?’
It was a task far easier said than done.
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Translator – Junseo
Proofreader – Valirius
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