Chapter 677 – The Same But Different (2) #PART2
[The Space Time Duel has ended.]
With that message, the players returned to reality—only to face a world in shock.
Even calling it ‘overwhelming’ didn’t quite capture it.
It was more like… they weren’t even in the same league.
“There was this whoosh whoosh sound…”
“He took a few steps, and then it was just over!”
“Weren’t we completely overwhelmed by the momentum?”
You only see as much as you understand.
And sword aura—could only be perceived
by those who had reached a certain level of power.
Thankfully, Nam Cheolmin and Nam Taemin were able to speak for both the informed and the unaware.
“No, on the monitor, it just looked like some kind of magic. Not just me—everyone in the chat thought the same. But you’re saying… there were thousands, tens of thousands of exchanges just now?!”
The screen paused.
“No… hundreds of millions.”
Nam Taemin gazed at the sword aura manifested into countless weapons.
“You probably can’t see it, hyung…”
It was a number so vast, he couldn’t even begin to count.
And because he understood the sheer power of sword aura,
even now that everything was over, Nam Taemin couldn’t help but sigh in relief.
“Honestly, just grazing one of those would’ve been fatal.”
“Even for Mr. Hoyeol?”
“Sword aura ignores defense. Remember how much weaker I used to be? And yet, I could still pierce through Eunaxus’s Dragon Scale and deal some damage. Why do you think that was, hyung?”
“Fair point. Then… what kind of exchanges happened, exactly?”
“That’s hard to explain…”
Even someone like Hoyeol couldn’t ignore the properties of sword aura.
It was the same in the battle.
The reason he was able to stand there unharmed wasn’t because he shielded himself with mana
or deflected the attacks with magic.
Nam Cheolmin grew impatient with his brother’s hesitation.
“Just tell me what you saw already!”
“It’s just… I saw it, but I still can’t believe it.”
“…What?”
As mentioned earlier—it was a bombardment of sword aura beyond comprehension.
Sure, it wasn’t truly infinite, so there had to be gaps.
But it was so close to infinite, that the difference didn’t even matter.
And yet—
“To put it simply… he moved through a threadlike gap.”
“What? Is that even possible?!”
“Who knows.”
Nam Taemin stared at the frozen image and asked himself:
Is that really a level you can reach just by refining sword aura?
No—something was different.
His head hurt from how complex it all felt.
So he shook it off and shifted into the mindset of a gamer.
“If I think of the duel like a boss raid…”
From the days when Arcana was just a game to now,
Nam Taemin had remained among the top-tier rankers,
with countless raid experiences.
So forming a hypothesis wasn’t difficult.
“…It’s like he memorized every single pattern.”
Nam Cheolmin tilted his head in confusion.
“What do you mean? Oh… you mean he was that perfect?”
Nam Taemin just nodded.
Because he couldn’t explain it—
truly couldn’t.
“Yeah… memorizing a pattern like that would normally be impossible.”
He let out a dry laugh, brushing aside the absurd thoughts as he muttered,
“Unless you really attempted it ‘thousands—no, tens of thousands of times’.”
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