Emperor! Can You See Stats!?

Chapter 165: Sword of God

‘Emergency Quest!’

The quest that appeared by Galeus’ words was different from the others.

Eurius thought about that point.

‘I’m curious about the beings who call me. He said it was a call. Does that mean the quests that have appeared so far also have some intention of God?’

He had two quests that he was currently doing.

One was [The Dark Cloud over the Imperial Family] to investigate the Imperial Family of the Hwan Empire.

The second was [The Forgotten Sect of God] to face the Heimdall Cult that had been causing trouble from the Western Continent.

And what connected these two quests was the Dark Sect!

He came to this Eastern Continent to subjugate the Dark Sect.

‘The quest said I have about a hundred days left, right? That’s plenty of time.’

The quest that came down now seemed like someone was considering his situation. 

Wasn’t the time allocation too perfect?

‘If I have three months, I can finish my business in the Eastern Continent and go back to the Western Continent without being late!’

Eurius made a decision. 

Perhaps the ones who sent the divine message to visit the Holy Kingdom also gave him enough time with this in mind.

He turned his gaze back to Galeus. 

He had been trembling for a while, but he seemed to have calmed down and straightened his back again.

“So what are you going to do? I have things left to do in the Eastern Continent. Can I finish them and go back to the Western Continent and then go to the Holy Kingdom?”

“It’s all up to you, Godly One.”

Galeus bowed his head. 

It was an attitude that he would not argue with his decision. 

Eurius was impressed.

“Didn’t you say you received a divine message? What if I don’t do this and don’t visit the Holy Kingdom later?”

“That must be God’s will too. We have no right to force you, Godly One.”

“Hooh…”

Eurius nodded. 

Indeed, these people had absolute trust in the name of Godly One.

‘I don’t know if they are flexible or not.’

“So what are you going to do now that you’ve delivered the divine message?”

Eurius was sure that he would help him.

‘He came all the way from that faraway Holy Kingdom, he must have come to help me.’

“Your Majesty, Godly One! I have to go back to the Holy Kingdom.”

“What?”

Eurius widened his eyes. 

Galeus started to explain with an awkward expression.

“You have to go to the Holy Kingdom and get recognized. Then you can command us.”

“Huh…”

Eurius let out a hollow laugh. 

So helping Lord Jungdo yesterday wasn’t as a subordinate?

“I’m sorry.”

Thud!

Galeus knelt down on the floor again and bowed his head.

“I want to help you, but the great ones who sent the divine message told me to do so.”

According to him, the divine message that came down to the three great sects at the same time had this content.

[Find the chosen one. And bring him before me.]

So far so good, but the problem was what came next.

[But! My servants are not yet allowed to serve him.]

“…”

Eurius looked at him with a slightly annoyed expression.

‘Come on, if you’re going to send someone, at least help me! The ones they call God are so stingy.’

Galeus in front of him was a strong man who couldn’t be compared with any of the warriors he had seen so far just by looking at his stats. 

If he helped him, things would be much easier.

As he grumbled inwardly, Eurius heard a familiar voice in his ear.

[Tsk! You’re already lucky enough, and now you want to ride a bus too.]

He didn’t know what he meant, but Yellow Dragon kept clicking his tongue.

‘What’s a bus?’

A little later.

“So I can’t expect you to use force for me in this Eastern Continent?”

“That’s right. Please forgive me for not meeting your expectations…”

He sincerely regretted refusing Eurius’ request. Then Eurius brought up another topic.

“Then what about another kind of favor?”

“…!?”

“Not asking you to defeat enemies, of course.”

“Anything! Just tell me!”

Galeus lifted his head with a pale face. As long as it wasn’t forbidden by the divine message, he would even get him a star from the sky.

He waited for an answer and Eurius opened his mouth.

“Stage Five.”

“Stage Five, you say…”

“It’s not a proper behavior for a subordinate to teach me, is it?”

Eurius’s request was to ask him to show him the way to enter Stage Five, as his growth had stopped.

He had acquired some artifacts recently and grew stronger, but his growth as a warrior had been stagnant since he defeated the Great Emperor.

‘I guess it’s hard to achieve it with simple training, since there’s no known path after Stage Four.’

But wasn’t there a warrior of Stage Five, who was only known as a legend, right in front of him? Eurius had to find a clue to reach the next level at this opportunity.

Hearing his words, Galeus showed a hint of doubt on his wrinkled face.

“Pardon me for saying this.”

“Go ahead.”

“Aren’t you already at that level, my lord?”

Galeus’s gaze scanned him up and down. Of course, Eurius was in a half-transcended state of Stage Four.

“I don’t think my level is complete. Shall I show you?”

Swish!

“Hmm?”

The trail of his sword lightly swung cut a rock cleanly at a distance of about thirty meters. It was the space-cutting technique he learned from the Great Emperor’s secret technique.

This skill, which was almost impossible to defend against, seemed omnipotent at first glance, but in fact it was incomplete.

The first problem was the range. The range that Eurius could set as his effective distance was about thirty meters, and the power consumption was not efficient, so he quickly got exhausted.

“I thought it could be solved by training at first.”

But it seemed that it was not a matter of proficiency. No matter how much he practiced, the efficiency of space-cutting did not improve. Eurius had no choice but to come to this conclusion.

‘Incomplete secret technique, and a skill that I learned without enlightenment. It must be incomplete somewhere.’

“Huh… I understand what you mean, my lord.”

Galeus nodded his head after hearing his explanation and raised his hand.

“What I realized as the level of Stage Five is this.”

Swish.

He lightly waved his hand in the air. It looked like a child’s hand gesture, but the result was astonishing.

Boom!

“…!?”

The rock that Eurius had just split suddenly shattered into pieces with a shock wave. He broke the rock with just a gesture without any sign.

“Ah!”

At that moment, Eurius remembered the Grand Emperor Sharnos. He was said to have split a mountain peak with a single sword.

‘What Galeus did is similar to that, except for the scale!’He might not have thought of it because of the difference in magnitude, but if he replaced the 

gesture with a sword, the rock with a mountain, the situation was similar. It was!

‘He didn’t split the space with his gesture. He skipped over it!’

Realizing that, Eurius also figured out why space-cutting consumed so much power.

It was because he forcedly increased the range. In fact, it was enough to just eliminate the target cleanly, but his space-cutting also cut everything in between. It was no different from swinging a huge sword of thirty meters long. Of course, it would be costly.

“Hmm…”

He nodded his head repeatedly and Galeus opened his mouth again.

“You seem to understand the principle. You are indeed my lord.”

“Let me try it once.”

Eurius made a cautious face and chose a small tree a few meters away as his target.

Swish

“…”

His sword moved faintly in the air, but nothing happened. Eurius clicked his tongue.

“Tsk! Of course it wouldn’t succeed easily.”

To be honest, skipping over space was more absurd than cutting it.

‘Cutting at least has an image of slicing! How can I cut something far away without any sign unless my sword teleports?’

As if guessing his question, Galeus spoke up.

“My lord! What were you thinking when you moved your weapon?”

Eurius tilted his head.

“Of course I swung it with the intention of cutting that tree.”

Galeus shook his head at that answer.

“The tree is much farther than where your sword reaches. How did you intend to cut it?”

“Well…”

Eurius was speechless for a moment. If he knew that feeling, wouldn’t he have succeeded already? But Galeus wouldn’t have said such a thing for no reason.

“You already know the method, my lord. Isn’t it simple if you infuse force?”

“Well, yeah.”

As he said, the tree was only a few meters away from the fire. It would be enough to launch a force into the sword. This technique, called sword qi in the East, was something that anyone who had reached a certain level of martial arts could do.

But what did that have to do with such a low-level (?) technique? Galerus answered his question with a serious expression.

“They are not different.”

“…!?”

Eurius felt more puzzled. What was this nonsense?

While they were having this conversation, the sun had set and the surroundings had gradually darkened.

And Eurius was diligently swinging his sword in the yard in front of the darkened conference room.

Swoosh!

But the sword that cut through the air did nothing but make a whistling sound.

‘This is not training, but a moonlit exercise.’

Eurius grumbled inwardly and recalled Galerus’s last words.

“That’s all I can tell you. You are a wise newcomer, so you will soon realize it.”

‘Wise my ass…’

Unfortunately, Eurius did not gain any insight. He just imagined cutting down the tree he had set as his target and swung his sword in the air. Of course, the tree did not even get a scratch.

“…”

Swoosh!

He continued to swing his sword with a tired expression. In fact, he was not tired from swinging his sword like this, but he felt mentally burdened because there was no result.

‘He’s not trying to make fun of me, is he?’

Before he knew it, his mind was filled with all kinds of thoughts and he could not concentrate on his training. And mistakes were bound to happen.

Thud!

“Damn!”

While his attention was elsewhere, he unknowingly injected force into his sword. Eurius tried to quickly change the direction of his sword, but

Crack!

The tree in the yard that he had originally targeted fell down without resistance, but he gave a bitter smile.

‘I must have moved my force unconsciously while thinking about bending.’

When attacking an enemy farther away than the length of the sword, it was common to use force to increase the power and range. He had used his force as usual in a moment of distraction.

‘Yeah. As Galerus said, if I can use my force, cutting down a tree at this distance is easy.’

But that was not training. What he wanted was not this, but a means to attack the enemy by transcending space.

“Anyway, I have to be careful. This kind of thing happens when I use my force habitually.”

If Eurius was a martial artist of his level, his force would naturally rise as soon as he thought of it.

The so-called sword-force unity! It was the stage where the sword hit the enemy as soon as the will arose. Hadn’t he reached this stage and then risen to the level where he could compete with superhumans like Daegong?

But as soon as he thought that far, Eurius suddenly seemed to remember something.

“Wait? Habit? Sword-force unity?”

And the next moment.

“Ah!”

Flash!

A lightning-like thought flashed through his head. He had found a clue!

Swoosh.

Eurius picked another tree in the yard as his target and drew his sword.

Thud!

Crack!

A blue blade sprouted from his sword and easily split the tree in half. It was a normal use of force. He failed to achieve his goal of transcending space.

“…”

But Eurius did not show a disappointed expression. He looked around for another target. This time it was a collapsed wall.

Thud!

Crack!

The wall also fell apart easily. He also failed this time by using force normally. But this action was repeated without stopping. And the speed got faster and faster.

Crack!

Bang!

Rumble!

The conference room was already in ruins, but as Eurius swung his sword around, it became even more chaotic. Dust rose from the fallen walls and trees.

Eurius swung his sword thousands of times in just a few hours. What was the meaning of this action?

Finally, when he was about to swing his sword almost ten thousand times, there was a reaction.

Ding!

[Your proficiency in sword-force unity has increased.]

‘As expected!’

Eurius smiled triumphantly. The method he chose was correct. He swung his sword even harder.

Whoosh.

Time had quickly passed and it was already midnight. By the time the sun rose, Eurius was feeling tired.

‘How many times did I swing? Ten thousand? No, maybe thirty thousand?’

At first, he was counting the number of swings, but he soon forgot about it.

[Your proficiency in Divine Sword Fusion has increased.]

The occasional messages of proficiency increase were the only way to estimate the number of swings. And finally!

Swish!

His sword cut through the empty air. And then…

Crash!

A crack appeared on the wall that was a little far away, and then it crumbled down. His sword had sliced through the wall without even infusing any force into it.

Ding!

[The rank of your trait: Divine Sword Fusion has increased (S rank).]

[Your job: Superhuman (Grandmaster) has changed to a higher level: Transcendent.]

[A trait – Mind Weapon has been created.]

“I did it!”

Eurius was quite exhausted, but he was so happy that he felt like jumping. His guess had been right.

Swoosh.

At the same time, a presence appeared in the conference room.

“…!?”

“Amazing! Even though you are a Godly One, I expected it would take at least a few months…”

“Did you watch me train?”

The identity of the presence was Galeus. He pretended to leave, but secretly watched Eurius’s training.

Clack!

He knelt down again and bowed.

“I congratulate you on reaching a new realm, Godly One!”

“So my method was correct?”

Eurius smiled faintly and he nodded.

“That’s right! When you reach the fifth stage, it’s not important what sword you swing, but you have to swing the sword of your mind!”

[Mind Sword]

The fifth stage was the beginning of a legendary realm that was called Simgeom (心劍) in the East. When the mind moves, the force moves, and the mind sword that extends from there strikes the target!

It was the final stage of Divine Sword Fusion.

“Normally, even if you swing your weapon tens of thousands of times a day, it would take decades of training, but you are different, Godly One! You reached this realm in just one day!”

Galeus trembled with emotion. He had reached this realm when his hair had turned white, but Eurius had climbed up in just one day.

“I was just lucky.”

Eurius looked at him with an awkward expression. He felt guilty because he had used the privilege of a player to reach this realm.

‘Divine Sword Fusion is a trait! Then, if I increase my proficiency, wouldn’t I naturally reach this realm?’

His guess was right and Eurius, who trained with his mind moving force and sword naturally, was able to climb up to this realm quickly.

A person who reached this realm did not even need to swing a sword. He could attack as he pleased with his mind alone!

Eurius wanted to test this ability. He lifted his sword and lightly swung it in the air.

Snap!

A blue line appeared in the air thirty meters away from him.

Pop!

Crash!

A thick pillar that was in the range of the line was cut off and a building that had become a ruin collapsed.

It was an amazing power, but Eurius looked slightly disappointed when he saw the result.

“The range doesn’t seem to change much.”

The range of his mind sword was about thirty meters in radius, just like spatial cutting. It seemed difficult to increase it further.

“Hehe… If you keep training, your distance will gradually increase.”

Galeus generously accepted his complaint. In fact, what he showed was an unbelievable realm.

‘He is very greedy for a Godly One.’

He thought so inwardly. But Eurius had a different thought.

‘Thirty meters is too short. In fact, if they are above a certain level of warriors, they can defend against attacks from that distance, right?’

Even if they were only superhumans, attacking from thirty meters away was nothing. The mind sword was amazing, but it was not an invincible skill.

Eurius did not increase his combat power much by possessing this miraculous treasure. He still felt unsatisfied after reaching the fifth stage.

‘Is there no way to attack from further away?’

[You are worrying about something simple.]

“What?”

Yellow Dragon somehow knew and spoke in a casual tone.

[If it’s far away, just make it closer.]

“Closer?”

“What?”

Galeus was puzzled by his muttering, but he had no chance to answer. His mind was spinning rapidly.

‘Get closer? Does he mean to shorten the distance?’

But it was useless if he approached. 

Then what did the Yellow Dragon mean by that? 

Eurius thought hard again.

‘The Yellow Dragon’s advice always had a meaning. He had a sharp tongue, but he was a useful sword. Sword?’

He stopped his thoughts there. 

Come to think of it, the Yellow Dragon was a sword. 

The very sword he was holding in his hand right now.

‘Then, shortening the distance means!’

Flash!

Eurius’s mind turned white as if fireworks exploded in front of his eyes. 

He had only figured out the training method before, but here he had a real enlightenment.

“Master… Huh!”

Galeus, who had been worriedly watching Eurius talking to himself, widened his eyes.

Flash!

The sword suddenly disappeared from Eurius’s hand. 

No, it didn’t disappear, it flew away at an explosive speed.

Whoosh!

The sword that left his hand became a streak of light. 

A blue light flashed across the air.

Pop!

He didn’t care what was in front of him as he was in a state of no-mind. 

The sword flew straight through the roof of the central building of the Righteous Alliance and soared into the sky.

Boom!

The roof was torn off with a terrible noise, even though the sword had just grazed it. Broken tiles and shattered wood splinters scattered everywhere.

“What the hell!”

“Ugh!”

The highest building in the Righteous Alliance was where the leaders lived. 

They were startled when the roof suddenly opened up and looked up at the sky.

“Is it an attack?”

“Who the hell is it again!”

But they had to open their mouths in disbelief when they saw the light flying in the sky.

Whoosh!

The sword didn’t fly in a straight line. Sometimes it curved, sometimes it soared high and then dropped sharply. 

Of course, its speed was almost too fast for the eyes to follow.

Seeing the sword floating in the air, screams of fear and admiration erupted among the leaders of the Righteous Alliance.

“Is that!”

“It’s Shadowless Sword!”

“Oh! I can’t believe I’m seeing this in my lifetime!”

[Shadowless Sword!]

This technique, also known as Swordless Sword, was considered to be the ultimate martial art that only existed in legends along with Simgeom.

This was not a simple technique of manipulating objects with energy like Air Control. 

The sword moved by Shadowless Sword was faster than wind and had more powerful force than any secret technique in the world.

The true value of the fifth stage was not an incomplete Sword of Mind, but this Shadowless Sword.

“Hehe…”

Galeus also let out a hollow laugh. 

He had reached the fifth stage more than ten years ago, but he never dreamed of such a technique.

‘Indeed, Master is someone who cannot be measured by this old man’s narrow-mindedness!’

“…”

Snap!

After tens of minutes, the Yellow Dragon Sword returned to Eurius’s hand.

“Huh!”

Eurius finally came to his senses from the shock of enlightenment and looked at the scene in front of him.

Puff.

The roof of the three-story building that stood in the center of the Righteous Alliance was completely collapsed. 

Fortunately, there seemed to be no casualties, but he was undoubtedly the culprit.

Pop!

At the same time, the experts of the Righteous Alliance rushed towards him.

“Grandmaster!”

“What happened?”

They looked at him with faint fear and respect in their eyes after witnessing the legendary realm.

“That’s…”

“Could it be another attack from the Evil Sect!”

“No…”

Eurius couldn’t lie.

“I made a mistake while training. I’m really sorry about that building.”

“…”