Chapter 252
Hell Sword...
Connected to Iyarugt, this Skill was powerful indeed, but the activation requirements were no less difficult, requiring successive strikes for a small probability of activation.
Such a Skill was difficult to use in actual combat.
In a life-or-death battle, successive strikes were a hard thing.
After all, with his sword-drawing technique, if the level of his opponent was such that he needed more than one strike, then he’d likely have little attention to spare for activating Hell Sword—and if it did activate, he might even miss the System notification saying as much several times.
Fortunately, it was easier than expected.
In that sense, Jae-Hyeok’s confrontation with Theodore could be said to be relaxed. Not only had he activated Hell Sword with relative ease, but he’d also had the leeway to watch for the activation message and thus respond promptly.
In part, the smooth outcome of this battle was a testament to Jae-Hyeok’s rich combat experience in fighting higher-level opponents.
Primarily, however, this outcome was thanks to Theodore’s nature as an undead.
For hundreds of years, Theodore had lived as an immortal being. What were lethal wounds to a human were nothing more than slight inconveniences to Theodore’s skeletal body. As such, its combat style had developed in an equally inhuman direction—not shying away from its opponent’s strikes.
Ironically, however, this made Theodore’s perpetual body have relatively low endurance when in combat, as Jae-Hyeok was able to work away at its joints, slowly hampering its movements while waiting for Hell Sword to trigger.
The experience of fighting Loren was very helpful.