Bloodhound’s Regression Instinct

Chapter 54

The fight between the two superhumans was so fierce that it turned the castle upside down.

Bang! Boom!

Splash.

Unlike before, when he was searching for his prey, Hans started to use his full power. His sword aura showed a different appearance from before.

Pure white.

And the ice flowers that bloomed from the tip of his sword were different from the ordinary energy in shape and nature.

Even Villa felt a sense of caution and did not try to easily break the ice flowers.

[That’s one of the branches of the water (水) attribute, the ice (氷) attribute.]

Momon said as he looked at the ice flowers that bloomed from Hans’ sword.

Hans shook his sword slightly and the petals started to fly towards Vila.

The petals that fluttered in the air seemed to fly away with a slight breeze, but Vila’s face was crumpled as he looked at them.

“Damn it! There was another guy like this besides the Duke of Beowulf.”

Momon admired Hans’ ice flowers.

[Each of those petals would kill any ordinary guy without a sound!]

Yan also felt it.

The energy that was contained in each petal was beyond imagination.

‘Can I block even one of those?’

Momon laughed at Yan’s thought.

[You think you can block that with your pathetic mana? Who will find my body if you die?]

Yan snorted and turned his head.

Vila, who was spitting out his anger like crazy before, was now touching the petals with a serious face and destroying them.

His hand movements were as delicate as a woman arranging flowers.

It was incredibly bizarre.

Vila, who even the ogres would call brother, was arranging flowers.

‘I thought he only had a bandit-like spirit and lacked finesse, but he instinctively added softness to it… Truly an imperial bandit.’

Yan noticed that Vila was not used to smoothly passing the petals that hesitated in between.

But as time passed, Vila’s hand movements became more graceful and the time to release the energy inside the petals became faster.

‘This won’t do.’

* * *

Look carefully. I don’t know much, but they say that every battle like that is a great help to swordsmen like you.

As Momon said, it was a fate for those who used skills to see the fights of the superhumans up close.

Especially if it was a life-and-death struggle, there was nothing more to ask for.

They could see things that they couldn’t normally feel visually and blatantly, and there was a lot to learn and see depending on the progress of the fight.

But Yan was different from the others. He was a person who walked the same path again.

Nothing would change by watching their fight.

He had already seen and participated in countless battles of all kinds of superhumans.

Yan, who took his eyes off the fierce battle, found Ascalon, which was dangling near Hans.

‘I have to grab that first.’

“What is the formula of Seolhon?”

“Are you crazy? That’s the vision of the Beowulf Duke.”

“What are you talking about? What is that?”

“…Huh? Who are you? How do you know the mana movement path of Seolhon?”

“You, who are you!”

He succeeded in tearing out the formula of ‘Seolhon’ from Lorena.

She didn’t seem to want to tell him willingly.

Who was he?

It was nothing for Yan, who had faced the big shots of the empire, to roast a rookie who hadn’t even grown his fur.

He asked a few questions to Mory and Lorena, who he had learned from the confrontation with the Frost Knights, and got all the information he needed.

‘There was also a lot of help from the vast knowledge I learned from Momon and the uneducated knowledge of my previous life.’

As he put the puzzle pieces together one by one, he was able to obtain the core essence of Seolhon.

Yan quietly began to recite the formula of Seolhon.

Then the mana heart immediately began to buzz and react.

“Ice is the ultimate of stillness. When it reaches the stop, the soul will bloom perfectly in the cold blizzard.”

It would be nonsense if he spat it out without knowing the way to circulate mana.

But he had already figured out the way from a question to Lorena and a fierce confrontation with the Frost Knights.

As Yan uttered the words, the mana in his body began to rotate vigorously.

‘I thought it was nonsense when I first heard the formula from Lorena.’

As he watched Hans fight with all his might, he began to understand the formula little by little.

Unlike Vila, who spewed out all kinds of attacks fiercely, Hans was exerting his maximum power with minimal movement.

As Yan, who specialized in creating gaps by moving faster than his opponent and dazzling his eyes, it was a strange sight.

Yan, who was reciting the formula of Seolhon to grab Ascalon, soon became immersed in the fight between Hans and Vila.

Evil.

At first, the sound of the surrounding terrain being destroyed began to fade.

After a while.

This time, everything except their fight gradually disappeared.

The collapsing walls.

The crumbling floor.

The flying furniture.

And finally.

Pop!

There was nothing in Yan’s eyes and ears except their fight.

When Yan’s whole mind was focused on it.

Doo-woong, doo-woong.

Whoo-woong.

The mana heart began to change.

Transparent and fierce mana split from the sun and crossed the moon and changed into a mass.

The manifestation of yin energy.

Originally, this was the stage of releasing mana.

But the mana seemed to have intelligence and began to act anew.

Whirring.

The mana began to gather together.

The mass of yin energy changed anew.

Blue, and a very cold feeling of blue.

The color was different from the white mana that the knights of Beowulf usually had, but there was something similar.

The blue mana began to make a new planet in Yan’s mana heart like a silkworm making a cocoon.

[Wow, the water dragon is a water dragon, but what’s different. Or should I call it Mercury now?]

Momon watched it with curiosity.

Time passed.

Before long, the figures of the two superhumans disappeared from Yan’s eyes.

Now all that was left was the white shining ice flower and the crimson energy that seemed to destroy everything.

Thud.

Yan, who was standing still, twitched his body.

* * *

“Hey, old man! Are you running out of strength?”

Hans began to be pushed back as time passed.

Chae-chae-chae-chang!

The power of the ice flower was strong, but the opponent on the other side was too bad.

It was hard to inflict a fatal wound on Vila, who had a perfect body that would be called the strongest creature on the ground in the future, with only the ice flower.

The amount of mana that went into the ice flower was considerable, so it was not enough to be satisfied with a slight injury.

“Hoo-wook, hoo-wook.”

But Hans couldn’t let go of his sword even if he was exhausted.

If he couldn’t finish Vila here, the safety of the domain people and the family members, including Lorena, would not be guaranteed.

The Beowulf Duke and the domain that he had protected for a long time made Hans’ shoulders heavy.

‘I have no choice but to burn my life.’

He was not afraid of death.

After all, the knights of the north had lived with the fact that they could die someday in their hearts since they first received the knight’s appointment.

Besides, he was at the level of enjoying longevity.

‘But……’

He felt a bit bitter thinking that he would never see the lady again.

If he had known this, he would have spent more time with the lady.

Hans’ eyes lit up with a determined light, and the black turned whiter than before.

“Let’s fall to hell together!”

Hans’ face changed.

Sudden aging began.

This meant that Hans was volatilizing his life.

Saaak-

Three ice flowers bloomed on the trajectory he swung his sword.

At that moment, Hans’ appearance aged rapidly.

If he had been a middle-aged man in his 40s until now, he was now an old man over 60.

‘Now that I’ve released this ice flower, I’ll die.’

But he had no regrets.

He protected the lady.

So that the lord who executed the crown prince would not suffer the sorrow of losing his child again.

It was then.

Pulp!

The eyes of the two superhumans who were fighting momentarily turned to another place.

“……”

“……!

There was Yan, who was emitting an ominous energy.

It was enough to be confused by the sudden phenomenon, but Hans turned his head back and looked at Vila.

It was not the time to look away.

But Vila seemed to have a different idea.

“This, this crazy! What is that!”

He exclaimed in horror and pulled away from Hans, who was stuck to him.

Hans frowned.

He didn’t know why he was horrified.

“Mana hole is three?!”

“Mana hole? What is that……”

Before Hans could ask what his mana hole was.

Yan’s eyes slowly opened.

Hans was startled by his eyes, which were dripping with light.

It was a weak momentum compared to himself and Vila.

‘He realized something. Or got something.’

The discomfort he felt from him stopped the fight of the superhumans.

Yan, who opened his eyes, finally opened his mouth.

“Hans! Throw me the sword that fell on the floor! Hurry!”

A very urgent voice.

Hans felt the discomfort break at once.

‘It’s unmistakably his usual self.’

Hans smiled bitterly and turned his head to where Yan pointed.

Hans opened his eyes wide when he confirmed the identity of the ‘sword’ that Yan mentioned.

“This is?”

It was a sword that he couldn’t hear even if he tried hard.

The only person who lifted this sword was the Beowulf Duke.

“Blow up the whole floor!”

As soon as Yan’s words were over, Hans rolled his feet.

Kwang!

The floor where the sword was placed cracked and floated in the air.

And Hans kicked it hard.

Kwaang!

With a loud noise, the sword that was floating in the air flew like an arrow toward Yan.

Yan clutched his heart.

Dong. Dong. Dong.

A different drum sound rang and a new planet showed off its presence.

‘If my hypothesis is all wrong, I’m screwed!’

He couldn’t say it was the ‘perfect Seolhon’ that Lorena had, but he made a planet that was similar to it.

He made it by combining the formula and operation method that Lorena taught him with the mana flow of the Frost Knights.

“Mercury.”

Yan prayed that his hypothesis was right and grabbed the sword.

Whoo-woong.

He didn’t feel the severe pain and the weight of the mountain that he had felt before.

Sarararak.

Ascalon shed the rust that filled the blade as if it was shedding its skin.

The white blade and the plain grip.

Ascalon fit perfectly in his hand as if he had held it since he was young.

An enormous energy flowed into his hand from Ascalon.

It wasn’t the pain he had felt before. It was something he could call power.

[This, this is the dragon-slaying sword that the dragon-slayer used!]

Momon was flustered as if he knew Ascalon.

Yan glanced at Ascalon and turned his head sharply.

Vila’s eyes were red and he glared at him.

But he wasn’t too worried.

The power that flowed from Ascalon was enough to handle Vila.

“Sir, please rest.”

Yan said, and Hans got up with difficulty.

“I can’t rest when I hear that.”

Hans twisted his body for a moment, but soon straightened up.

Then he twisted his mouth.

“But I was the leader of the Frost Knights.”

“Are you responsible if you go to the grave?”

“Don’t worry, Beowulf is not so petty.”

Yan chuckled at Hans’ joke and took a stance.

Despite the sharp momentum of the two, Vila did not shrink, but roared.

“You bastard! That’s mine!”

Vila’s eyes were fixed on Ascalon that Yan was holding.

His eyes turned red again and he ran toward Yan, not Hans.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwang!

Yan calmly adjusted his breath at the sight of Vila running over and turning the floor upside down.

Jirit. Jirit.

It felt like a mountain was flying towards him.

He felt numb from head to toe just by looking at it.

‘Ascalon reacted to the Seolhon of the north.’

It was much more effective to use the sword of the Beowulf family than to use the dark dragon power, even though it was still immature.

The mana that flowed from Mercury circled Yan’s body and soon spewed out as cold.

Yan slowly lifted his sword and lowered it.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwang!

Kurung.

And what happened.

Hans and Yan both opened their mouths wide.