Chapter 396: Our World (1)
“Yes, I expected as much. You’ve already made several odd remarks about the ninety-ninth floor—”
“Ah, you talk a lot, Zombie! Eat this!” the Sword Emperor shouted.
The clouds in the sky split in two, and the sky itself cracked. The cracks grew toward me, thickening fast. I—
“Freaking he—!”
The moment I raised my dagger, a blast erupted.
Boom!
The aura I had infused into the dagger died like a fire struck by sand. I pumped more aura through the hilt but soon saw it was pointless.
“Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
It was like trying to raise a shield against a rushing tsunami. Perhaps I was just another Don Quixote instead of a hero. Since I was once called a hero, the most basic requirement of a hero was to do something that yielded actual results. To do that, I changed the grip on my dagger as I deflected the attack, gritting my teeth.
“Enouuuuuuuuugh!”
As the angle of attack shifted, the Sword Emperor’s strike lost some of its momentum, but given its great force, deflecting it like that didn’t change the fact that it was unstoppable. Still, it gave me a moment to take a breather, and that was enough.
“Enough alreeeadyyyyyyyy!” I yelled.