Chapter 31 - EPISODE 31 – WITCH’S FOREST (4) (1/2)
Terms used in this chapter:
Zhuge Liang – a famous Chinese strategist during the Three Kingdoms period. He is recognised as the greatest and most accomplished strategist of his era, and has been compared to another great ancient Chinese strategist, Sun Tzu.
Li Mu – a prominent military general during the Warring States period of Chinese history. He was named by Chinese historians as one of the four greatest generals of the Warring States period.
The pure white cross burst into light.
The skeleton leader’s ribs and spine shattered, and it fell and collapsed. Jude kept his punching posture for a while before his arms slumped down.
“Haa…haa…haa…”
Holy Cross Punch was one of the skills of God’s Fist and as its name suggests, the sacred battle aura takes the shape of a cross that directly hits the enemy with a powerful punch.
“Haa…haa…”
After taking a comfortable posture, Jude’s rough breathing continued.
Though he had improved his body with continuous level-ups, the technique still used inner Qi that caused a burden on his body.
His body still had a lot of small and narrow meridians that were blocked.
‘But…it paid off.’
It wasn’t just the white ring of light that surrounded his body.
There was also the God’s Fist and the Holy Cross Punch.
The remnants of the sacred battle aura scattered in the air as Jude happily smiled and turned to Cordelia.
As he expected, Cordelia’s side was almost finished as well.
“Break away! Defend! Penetrate the core!”
Cordelia issued rapid-fire commands before gliding on the ground.
It wasn’t an ordinary move. She slipped between the skeletons without any hesitation and swung the Moonlight enchanted by a <Strike> magic to smash their neck bones.
With her actions, the battle formation was destroyed.
This is because, as Cordelia herself said, she penetrated the core of the Guardian Extermination Formation.
“Oooh! Ooooh!”
Lucas, who quickly understood Cordelia’s commands and guided the skeletons towards himself, cheered with a bright face.
There were already three skeletons that had fallen down to his sheathed sword.
“Let’s finish this!”
Cordelia refreshingly smiled as she glided on the ground again. She was like a figure skater that swiftly glided smoothly on the ice.
‘She’s really Yellow Storm.’
Instead of running to help, Jude admired the sight as he stretched his arms.
Cordelia’s movement right now wasn’t just an ordinary move.
‘You’re using <Haste> magic to move on a floor applied with <Grease> magic?’
It was generally not possible.
<Grease> is a magic that causes one to fall on their back, and not a magic that is used to glide like it was ice.
But Cordelia could pull it off.
‘She’s like a real wild animal sometimes.’
If Jude was the type who handled everything through calculations and thinking, Cordelia was the type who entrusted her body to instinct.
That phenomenal movement was the result of acting according to her instincts, and not because of thinking.
“It’s the end!”
Cordelia moved among the skeletons as if she was dancing and swung the Moonlight like a baseball bat. The skeleton’s lower back bones were smashed, and it fell and collapsed on its back.
“Oooh! That was amazing! Lady Cordelia!”
“Hehe, V!”
As Lucas admired her and Cordelia laughed while making a V-sign with her fingers, Jude suddenly smiled as he recalled an old event.
‘It’s understandable why the guild leaders don’t like her.’
Yellow Storm was a disaster itself in massive battles between guilds.
‘Damn it! I can’t predict how it’ll move!’
It was a natural reaction. Once she entered the battle, Yellow Storm didn’t do what the others were thinking.
‘Could it possibly be a genius? Or else, how can it show up like that!’
There was no knowing when, where, or what she’ll do, but strangely, Yellow Storm always appeared in times of need.
It was basic of her to stab the enemy’s sore spot, and as she had just showed in the battle against the skeletons, she was also good at destroying the enemy’s camp itself by penetrating the core of the formation.
Therefore, people unfamiliar with Yellow Storm thought of her as a ‘genius tactician.’
She was like Zhuge Liang and Li Mu, who could see the entire battlefield at a glance and get in the way of their enemies.
But Jude knew the truth.
‘It’s just…feeling?’
The words that Yellow Storm spoke in her battle earlier.
She simply did it without thinking.
Yellow Storm was not the type to stab the enemy’s sore spots by using high-level tactical thinking.
‘How do I say it, I just do what I feel like I should?’
It was literally a feeling or sense.
She feels like she have to do that somehow.
At first, Jude thought that Yellow Storm was lying. However, after spending a long time with her, he finally understood it in the end.
‘It’s instinct.’
Yellow Storm was a genius.
She was a genius in the side of battle sense/feeling, and not on the intelligence side.
She didn’t calculate the ever-changing situation of the battlefield. She just understood instinctively.
And the result was what was shown.
What she should do.
Where she should attack.
Plus one more talent of hers.
The reason why Yellow Storm engraved her existence as a true ‘human storm,’ and her unique ability that even Jude couldn’t imitate.
‘Incredible spatial perception and multitasking.’
Normally, in Legend of Heroes 2, the highest-level mage could generally use around twenty to fifty magic spells at the same time.
But Yellow Storm was different.
‘274.’
It was the highest record of the number of magic spells that Yellow Storm could use at the same time.
She advanced alone with hundreds of magic shots at the same time, making her known as a human storm indeed.
She wiped the guild units from the hunting ground by herself, and even smashed the guild alone.
‘Well, I’m still 1st place though.’
Jude ended his thoughts with a grin as he looked straight ahead again. He saw Cordelia run to Lucas and push her palm out.
“High five!”
“Huh?”
“High five!”
As Cordelia waved her hand again, Lucas blinked and soon raised his hand timidly and high fived with Cordelia.
“As expected of Lucas, good job. Truly a sword genius. The best.”
“Ahem, ahem…Lady Cordelia was amazing too. It was unexpectedly impressive.”
Lucas said with a slight blush in his cheeks.
It was also because of Cordelia, but his heart was pounding at the high five itself.
‘There is a similar scene in Biltwein the Hero.’
Nodding his head alone, Jude approached the two teenagers who were so excited that they were jumping around.
“It looks like the battle’s over.”
“Yes, I think it’s over too, Mr. Bayer. Hohoho…”
Cordelia said as she pretended to be coy when she saw Jude’s face and read his thoughts.
At her sudden change in tone, Lucas smiled and turned his eyes away, as if he deliberately didn’t know Cordelia flirting with Jude.
“Lord Lucas, are you hurt anywhere?”
“I’m okay, thanks to Lady Cordelia.”
“I’m afraid to say this…but I’m glad that the other side were the Guardians of the Holy Cross.”
At Jude’s words, Lucas blinked his eyes, and soon widely opened them as he asked back.
“You mean the Guardians of the Holy Cross? The ones that protect the continent in the shadows?!”