Pick Me Up, Infinite Gacha

[Aaron Side Story Episode 35]

4. Those who crave power for themselves (6)

A window with shimmering shadows.

Lydie Gion twisted his toe slightly.

The spear blade deflected through the air.

“…!”

Aaron corrects his leaning posture.

The shadows haven’t gone out yet.

He held the end of his pole long and swung it.

As Lydi Gion threw back his neck, the spear point skimmed where his face had been.

“Is this the end?”

“…no.”

countless years.

Aaron has practiced the same action of stabbing a spear over and over again.

Numerous stabs followed in waves.

Papapapang!

The shadows sway.

Just brushing against the tip of the spear would rip off the flesh.

Even if you block it, it will pierce your forearm with the sword.

However, Lidigion did not move even one step.

He dodged all the stabs while standing.

do not block

Doesn’t even bounce

But he doesn’t even fight back.

Without moving a single step, I twisted my waist and upper body to dodge the piercing stab and dodged it.

Just like magnets with the same poles repelling each other when they try to collide, the spear seems to touch the man but never touches it.

‘Kuk!’

This time, aim for his lower right thigh.

Lydia Gion twisted his right foot and spun his body.

he is with him.

Pak!

“Ugh!”

He kicked the ground with his foot and threw dirt into Aaron’s eyes.

Aaron hesitated and stepped back.

“What’s the point if even a fatal blow can’t be reached? Are you trying to catch up to your master’s back just that much?”

“It’s still here!”

Aaron brushed the dirt out of his eyes.

Tears stinging.

‘This is not the end.’

slow down

too slow.

With his weak physical abilities, he couldn’t even catch that man’s shadow.

‘It has to be faster.’

faster.

stronger.

It must be spread so much that it cannot be avoided.

If the moon’s shadow touched him even once, it was his victory.

that’s why i remember

The memories of those who passed away in the past, leaving their dreams behind.

In the past, the teacher told me.

As if he knew that Aaron would recall that memory someday.

Whoops!

Shadows gather from all sides.

The gathering place this time is Aaron’s body.

His hideous smoke billowed out.

[Collection]

[solar eclipse]

phut!

Aaron kicks the ground.

The soil spurted violently.

Wedge love!

A loud cracking sound in the air.

The stab fired with several times the output sped like an arrow.

Its speed is incomparable to what it used to be.

“Hoo.”

Lydie Gion let out his snort.

Even that stab was a blow that he could dodge with a slight twist of his upper body.

Japanese.

A technique that increases body output by concentrating shadows on muscles and bones.

If simple, it was a simple body enhancement technique.

phut!

A stab that has become several times faster and stronger flies.

The air cracked violently and screamed.

however.

“town!”

Courage!

Aaron, who had passed Ridigion like an arrow, rolled on the floor.

It is the inability to control one’s enhanced bodily abilities.

Lydigion looked down at Aaron with cold eyes.

“Is it over there?”

“…no.”

Aaron stood up.

A drop of blood dripping from his cheek.

My cheeks were torn as my face rubbed against the ground.

‘It’s not the end just because it’s fast.’

how?

No matter how fast and strong your body becomes, it is useless if you cannot control it.

I don’t know if Aaron has the motor nerves and reaction speed to handle it.

Of course there is no such thing.

Inability to use one’s own strengthened body.

The current output is too fast and strong for Aaron to handle.

then.

Ugh!

A shadow fell in Aaron’s eyes.

The shadows that entered from the eyes penetrated through Aaron’s body, eroding the nervous system.

[Collection]

[lunar eclipse]

moment.

The world Aaron saw slowed down.

If you can’t handle the output of your body, you can increase the output of your nerves.

Now Aaron can even recognize the flapping of the wings of a flying fly.

‘done.’

With this level of cognition, you can control your body.

“going.”

Aaron, who spoke briefly, kicked the ground.

This time his posture is not disturbed.

The piercing, which had sped up dozens of times, aimed at the heart of Lidigion.

His speed far exceeded that of an ordinary 6-star hero.

‘It’s fun every time I see it.’

Ridigion prepares to face the attack.

Soon, a storm of stabs swept through the space.

Conjunction solar eclipse.

A body and nerve enhancement technique with absurdly high performance allowed only to Up users.

Among Pick Me Up’s skill database, there are many body strengthening skills.

Berserk is the most representative, and it was a technique that greatly increased the output of the body instead of losing reason.

There are countless other similar skills, but they have one thing in common.

Instead of becoming stronger, you have to take that much risk.

Body strengthening skills are not free.

It is necessarily accompanied by the disintegration of the body and mind.

But there is nothing like that in a solar eclipse.

Be strong.

It just becomes incredibly strong.

It becomes stronger than if you increased berserk several times, and there is no loss of sanity and no loss afterwards.

In addition, it even has nerve-enhancing properties that are more valuable and stronger than physical enhancement.

Its very existence was disrupting the balance of the game.

Papapapang!

A raging storm of stabbing.

Finally, Ridigion moved from the spot.

Stepping on the ground as if passing by, it moves away tens of meters.

It looks like it’s not moving, but somehow it’s far away.

It was a strange method.

“…!”

phut!

Aaron follows.

It moves at a similar speed, but the wind blows hard and the sound of tearing the air is loud.

It was proof that Aaron couldn’t contain his power.

It doesn’t matter anyway.

“Maybe we can start.”

Lydigion murmured while dodging the ensuing spear.

The longsword in his right hand drew a semicircle.

“…?!”

The blade cut through Aaron’s throat.

From the beginning, Aaron is only firing high-speed thrusts.

Finding a gap between moves and tearing his throat was as simple as pulling something out of a pocket.

“Ouch!”

Aaron takes a few steps back.

He let out a heavy breath, clutching his neck.

‘just now.’

The blade went through his throat.

then it is death

Even if the head is cut off, there is no human being alive.

“what?”

Aaron touched his neck.

The blade just went through my throat.

He definitely felt it.

But he himself is alive.

Under normal circumstances, Aaron standing here should be spurting his blood as he collapses with his neck and body separated.

There’s no way that man named Lidigion could ever make a mistake.

A strange thing happened.

“An eternal dream is something that cannot be cut.”

Lydegion laughed and murmured.

“Isn’t it?”

“It is not cut…”

“It cannot be cut, it cannot be broken, it cannot be burned.”

“It’s just a bubble, just a shadow.”

said Aaron.

At that moment, the blade of Lidigion cut Aaron’s upper body at an angle.

It doesn’t end there.

The sword blades intersected and pulverized Aaron’s body.

If he was a man made of flesh and bones, his whole body would have been torn pieces of meat.

‘Bubbles and fantasies.’

Aaron remembered his teacher’s words.

The dream never ends.

[Collection]

[Dream embracing]

Shuk.

A blade passes through the abdomen.

At first glance, it seems that the blade is cutting through meat and bone entrails, but it is not at all.

just pass by

The blade passes through it like cutting through flowing water.

It has been so far.

Although Ridigion hacked up Aaron’s body enough to kill him dozens of times, he never directly cut the body.

It is not meat and bones that make up the present Aaron.

It’s just dreams and shadows and bubbles and fantasies.

Physical attacks cannot reach him.

The same goes for magical attacks.

He cannot kill the insubstantial.

Absolute defense.

As long as the dream did not end, the body was immortal.

“So will you be alone?”

Startled, Aaron jumped backwards.

The body, which had been cut dozens of times, is fine, but not without damage.

“Wouldn’t it be fine if I killed you until I killed you?”

Ridigion smiled bitterly.

If the dream doesn’t end, kill until it ends.

Karma is a flame that burns with Aaron’s dream as firewood.

When the firewood runs out, the magic ends.

At some point, Lydi Gion, who had come in front of her, lowered her sword and cut it.

The blade of the sword fell from Aaron’s head and cut his body in two.

Shuk. Shuk. Shuk.

I heard it countless times a few days ago.

The sound of blades cutting through the air.

Aaron is being torn apart alive.

Although his blood doesn’t splatter, a shadow escapes through the cuts.

“Kuk!”

Aaron jumped backwards several times.

Whenever that happened, his man followed him like a ghost.

‘I can’t shake it off!’

no matter how fast you move.

Even if he spurts the ground with all his might and bounces off, he is still in front of him.

phut!

A stab with a shadow shot out.

Lydi Gion dodged the stab and slashed his neck.

he can’t shake it off

No matter how much I stabbed and swung the spear, I couldn’t even cut his collar.

It’s not a matter of power or speed.

There was a more fundamental cause.

“You know? Where am I going to attack?”

Aaron said in dismay.

Instead of answering, Ridigion cut Aaron’s upper body horizontally.

Aaron shakes off and swings his spear in all directions, but none of them touch.

Whoops!

The shadow on Aaron’s body deepens.

It increased the output of the solar eclipse.

‘It’s a lot of consumption, but…’

There is no chance of winning even if you leave it anyway.

You have to overwhelm that man with force.

bang!

There was the sound of something exploding.

The thrust, approaching the speed of sound, pierced the side of Lidigion’s face.

Suddenly, Aaron’s physical abilities were approaching the limit of a 6-star hero.

‘shit.’

On the other hand, the world that Aaron perceives has slowed infinitely.

he looks smart

the man’s movements.

‘What the hell.’

that’s why it’s frustrating

I don’t understand.

Even before he stretched out his spear, the man predicted its trajectory.

No, it wasn’t a prediction, it was a foreknowledge.

Because there was never anything wrong.

The concentration of the solar eclipse deepened.

Aaron’s physical ability has long surpassed that of Lidigion.

The same goes for his awareness.

But he can’t catch up.

If so, there is only one possibility.

That man lives in a future farther than himself.

No matter how fast it is, it’s useless.

If you knew where to attack and how to move, dealing with it was as simple as yawning.

“Sight. Breath. movement.”

Lidion murmured as he lightly dodged the triple thrust that led to his head, upper body and lower body.

“Hide it.”

Aaron bit his lip.

If that happened, you wouldn’t have heard that I had no talent.

“Without any arrangements or calculations, they just stab and wield whatever they see. Your spearmanship is like that of a beast. Of course, I don’t think you can learn by saying this.”

“You know.”

said Aaron.

“Would I be doing this if I could learn it?”

“I guess so.”

Lydigion also smiled.

Just stab and wield at random.

A spearmanship no different from that of a beast.

‘That’s the correct answer.’

decided to admit

Because Aaron’s talent didn’t make it to the next level.

How many times has he been himself?

He remembered the question and answer with his teacher.

It was about martial arts.

“Do you know what the basics of martial arts are?”

the boy said grimly.

“To turn your 1 into 10 and your opponent’s 10 into 1. That is, the weak against the strong. Oh, that’s not what I said, so don’t ask. That guy did it.”

“Is that so.”

“But will that work for you? Can an idiot like you know the principle?”

Aaron, who was listening, sulked and lowered his head.

He can’t learn martial arts himself.

So he was struggling with this now.

“How am I going to win? a guy like that.”

“yes?”

“Even if I attack with a power of 100, that bastard will change it to 1 to dispel it, and then change his 1 to 100 to knock me out. That’s ridiculous.”

“I see.”

Mathematical analogies like crap.

Still, the truth won’t be much different.

Even if he unleashes a blow as heavy as an acid, he makes his feather light and his own feather heavy as a mountain to knock me down.

In other words, no matter how wide the basic ability is, it is not an opponent.

Even if it is a difference of dozens of times.

“Can’t we apply the same formula by learning a similar level of skill?”

“Will that work for you?”

“…that won’t work.”

It is a theory.

Aaron didn’t have that quality.

‘How should I win?’

Aaron groaned and pondered.

The master smiled and said.

“easy. Very easy.”

“How is it, Master?”

“If you can’t do it with a hundred, then with a thousand. If you can’t do it with the power of a thousand, just do it. can you keep uploading? One hundred thousand million ten million.”

Aaron’s mouth fell open.

It was an outrageous exposé.

“Whoops. Imagine. How long can you last? If you make a mountain like a feather, this time you’re going to hit the entire mountain range. Can I pass that lightly? What next? next time? How long will that be?”

Even if he is the god of nothingness, he can infinitely turn the power of 10 into 1, but never return it to 0.

‘I’ll hit you.’

with overwhelming violence.

Smash it whole and crush it.

“…”

The darkness in Aaron’s eyes deepened.

It’s not over yet.

The output of the solar eclipse increases.

A body beyond its limits.

It didn’t even make a sound anymore.

‘That man lives in the future rather than me.’

let’s accept

No matter what I do, everything is read and caught.

There is only one road.

Destroying that man’s future all at once.

‘It’s a beast.’

That’s right.

An honest beast that only knows how to bump into the power it has.

If so, just keep increasing the power.

Until you know, you can’t stop it.

“…”

The spear swung and grazed the place where Lydigion had been.

Even if you miss a thousand times, it’s okay.

It should be one last time.

how about that guy

Even if you avoid a thousand times, if you get hit once, that’s it.

He has only one chance.

Aaron, on the other hand, has countless opportunities.

Dozens of shadows had already disappeared instead of his body, but he stood still and swung his spear.

‘Faster.’

Aaron recognized the problem.

The reason why that man avoids his attacks so easily is because the attack route is easy to read.

‘More difficult.’

Lidigion is dodging all of Aaron’s attacks from the front.

In the meantime, he stabbed a counterattack.

In the state of facing his face, you can see everything about the other person.

So it will be easier to deal with.

‘What if it’s like this.’

He himself suddenly disappears.

Then, it appears from behind the opponent.

There should be no foreshadowing.

The man in front of you can tell the next move with a single breath.

‘Just thinking about it.’

reverse the position of his body;

Of course, this is more of a delusion.

Absolute teleportation without any trace or delay.

It was a magic impossible even for a great mage.

But in a dream it is possible.

[mountain]

[One thousand miles away (天里一跳)]

Pod!

Aaron’s body disappears.

In the next moment, the body swung the spear behind Lidigion.

The smile on Lidigion’s lips grew thicker.

His man’s new model slid to the left, leaving an afterimage.

Shuk.

At the same time, the blade aimed at Aaron’s neck.

But Aaron is not there.

This time it was above the head of Lydigion.

He raises the spear blade down and stabs it with momentum to pierce the crown.

Lidigion moved a few steps.

A downward spear pierced the floor.

gushing sand and dirt.

In the meantime, Aaron’s new model disappeared again.

Lydigion laughed out loud.

“ha ha ha!”

right this time.

As soon as Lydy Gion dodges the stab, he emerges from the left.

It does not move by moving his body directly.

Aaron was changing the position of his body with just a thought.

Shadows appear and disappear from all sides.

In a dizzying succession of stabs and swings from different places, they swept all over the place.

Papa papapat!

Aaron’s spear, which had moved five times in total, aimed at Ridigion’s back.

Lydia Gion dodged without even looking behind him.

“It’s fun!”

above the plains.

Dozens of shadows are flashing.

Each of them is a trace of a dream.

“Isn’t it funny?”

“What do you mean?”

“Those untrained heroes often praise their skills, saying that they are new craftsmen and refusal to study. According to the classification of martial training, the current four techniques are body methods.”

new law.

Martial arts on how to move the body.

“What use are those proud divine laws in front of you? It’s all a joke, and it’s like crappy garbage.”

Lydegion laughed loudly.

Even so, Aaron’s attack does not reach even once.

He fluttered the sleeves of his long sleeves and freely dodged the incoming attacks.

doesn’t even rub

Aaron felt goosebumps run down his skin.

“What is a true Shin Gong? It exists right here.”

Lydigion laughed at them.

How useless is that?

They have been honing and honing specific skills for thousands of years, exalting and extolling them as divine skills.

If you learn this skill, you can surpass even the gods.

That’s why it’s a divine skill.

No martial art can match the subtlety of this technique.

That’s why I quit school (絶學).

What’s new and what’s out of school?

If you have the skills to learn the skill to the end, you are strong enough without them. just like you did

No matter how great the new technology and the jeolhak are, can they be compared to the sight in front of them?

Aaron Delkard.

That man is weak.

If it were you, you could hit it hundreds of times on the spot with one hand.

It was like a worm.

However, those who have not attained enlightenment just because they have karma are trying to cross the realm.

That’s what true Shin Gong is.

If you just learn it, you can make any weakling reach the position of a god.

All of the enlightenment and training that has been achieved so far becomes useless and useless in front of karma.

‘okay.’

Ridigion remembered the past.

how savage it was

The person who defeated him was just a guy who didn’t even learn intermediate spearmanship.

Will it be okay?

How could the world be so unreasonable?

How could the universe bestow the blessing of karma on such an incompetent person?

If karma was his share.

If only he could handle that ability.

It just doesn’t end there.

Ridigion could assure him that he could surpass even the gods.

That technology has no weaknesses.

one if any.

Those who use it are too weak.

On the other hand, what can be obtained is eternity and infinite.

New craftsmen who could exist only in imagination and delusion are real in the dream of karma.

‘I wanted to get it. Your strength.’

I longed for it and longed for it.

I thought of strength as a means and thought nothing of it, but the moment I was defeated by that, I became greedy.

I thought it was a pearl necklace around a pig’s neck.

I thought I could write better and better.

But now I know.

‘Even if I could beat that boy with nothingness’ talent.’

Thus, Lydigion cast off his lingering attachments.

‘He couldn’t win with the talent of his heart.’

That power was not allowed to him.

If you do, you have no choice but to grind and polish the power that is allowed to you.

‘The reason I was able to realize my strength by being truly humble.’

after the match is over.

The boy said to the man on his knees.

It’s not over yet.

‘Because there was that back figure.’

Kang!

Aaron staggered back several meters.

The white blade violently ricocheted off the spearhead.

“Are there any more?”

It is impossible to block the moon’s shadow.

Ridigion bounced off the spear shaft instead of the spear blade.

“there is.”

Aaron returned his stance.

Whoops!

A black shadow eventually wrapped around the entire window.

“You can’t do it twice.”

“Looks like it.”

If it touches that densely compressed shadow, no weapon will be safe.

“I will go.”

No need to dig the ground.

Aaron, who disappeared on the spot, appeared behind Lidigion.

Lydegion glided around Aaron’s side.

Shuk.

An oblique cut grazed Aaron’s body.

Subsequently, Lydigion’s body is scattered into several pieces leaving afterimages. Aaron couldn’t tell which one was real.

‘It’s like a monster.’

Aaron’s body also literally disappeared, catching up with Lidigion.

The two shadows intersect and embroider the plain.

Now it doesn’t even make a sound.

There is only a wild typhoon raging across the plains.

Piles of dirt and gravel lifted from the ground were blown up by the wind.

Ordinary people cannot recognize it and cannot enter it.

This is already the world of demons.

In the meantime, the path of the blade sometimes bends and cuts Aaron’s shadow.

Aaron’s stab against this pierced the air black.

Only the traces left by the two new models and spear swords that appeared and disappeared at a glance showed the direction of the battle.