Genius Is Taught by Geniuses

038 – Operation (2)

Schwitz.

A favorite family member who received the power of the horns from Lota.

One of the people who killed the Inquisitor’s Hydra and the Black Meister Bergang.

Mad Chimera Alchemist and Warlock.

There were several modifiers attached to his tumultuous life, but to sum up his long life in one sentence, he was the one who ended the age of knights.

Schwitz was a human being who hated knights and hated them.

He wanted all the authority of a knight in this world to fall into mud.

Instead of killing all the knights in this world for the downfall of the age of knights, he focused on how to desecrate the knights.

He thought that if everyone could freely wield swordsmanship, all the authority of the current knights would fall to the bottom, and his plan actually succeeded.

Normal knights blasphemed blood and sweat by giving birth to knights with horns that freely used swords that could not be created even after lifelong training.

Because of that, many knights crawled under Schwitz, put their swords down, and put their horns into their bodies.

If there was only one condition to follow Schwitz’s orders, he could become a four-star knight who could use swordsmanship, so he devoured greedy humans who wanted strength and power and established the Knights of Horn.

But this time it will be different.

The knights will not be broken by Schwitz, and blood and sweat will not be blasphemed.

As of today, Schwitz’s soul is engraved with pain, and he will not be able to conduct any research.

Tigris rushed towards Schwitz.

-crazy···!

Tigris’ charge was like a wizard’s blink magic.

I blinked and Tigris was in front of me.

This body was a specially crafted clone capable of reacting up to 1/500th of a second, but it did not notice Tigris’ rush.

Schwitz hid his embarrassment and checked the sword.

A sword that accurately cuts through the throat.

Instead of bowing his head to avoid it, Schwitz collected the fragments of bone scattered throughout his body with his neck.

The bone fragments were thickly piled up to form a solid shield.

This bone fragment has a characteristic that the more it absorbs magical blood, the harder it becomes.

Thanks to the absorption of all the researchers including the head of the laboratory a while ago, it became hard enough to compare to black iron for the same volume.

‘If you block it, you will counterattack.’

The moment Tigris’s sword was nailed to his neck, he was planning to punch a hole in Tigris’s side with his left arm.

However, it changed just before Tigris’s sword reached his neck.

No power was wasted in the process.

Scratch!

The horizontal cut turned into a vertical cut, and the left arm and left leg were cut off at the same time.

– Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

The blue flame that had been attached to Tigris’ blade stuck to Schwitz’s cross section.

Schwyz struggled with a shattered, burning pain in his soul that he had never experienced before.

The sword that Tigris was using was called ‘pain carving’.

It is a subtype of ‘evil spirit slash’ created independently by Tigris, and was a swordsmanship that only inflicts pain and wounds on the soul.

It was because of Schwyz that Tigris created this ‘pain engraving’.

Schwitz didn’t fight with the main body, he only fought with the clone he had specially made.

Because he put his soul into the clone and fights while controlling it, even if he killed the clone hundreds of times, there was no damage to the body of Schwitz.

Tigris noticed that when Schwitz fights with his clone, he puts his soul into his clone, and devised a way to kill the soul.

But there was no way to kill a common soul in any way.

Since he is a normal spirit, not an evil spirit, ‘Devil Spirit Slash’ did not cause any damage at all.

Instead, they approached it by carving pain into its soul.

The soul may not die, but the pain was to be engraved deep into the soul and affect the body.

A blue blade that flashes again.

This time, Tigris’ sword cleaved his right arm.

Schwitz was awakened by a pain that was twice as terrible as the burning pain, the greatest pain a human could ever experience.

Schwyz quickly stepped back.

I was very nervous that Tigris would chase after him, but Tigris did not move even a single step.

Schwyz cut out the section with a sharp horn protruding from the tailbone to extinguish the blue flame that had stuck to the section.

-Ugh···. Ugh···.

Schwitz took a deep breath and looked at Tigris.

-You···! who are you!

“There is nothing more disgraceful than putting my name on your filthy mouth. So, don’t be silly and regenerate your body.”

Schwitz trembled in fear of ignorance.

The enemy knows himself, and he knows nothing about the enemy.

Schwitz bit his lip and regenerated the body that had been cut off.

Shrek-!

As if they were attached from the beginning, the left arm and the right arm sprouted in an instant.

But strangely, the pain remained dim and tormented Schwitz.

-Who’s your guy?! What is that strange swordsmanship!

“That’s not what’s important in this fight.”

-I’m important… Kaaaah!!!

Tigris dashed again and cut off the man’s jaw.

His jaw dropped and he could see his tongue and the roof of his mouth.

“It is important that I carve pain in your soul.”

-Igai!!!

Schwitz’s horns ran through the space at random.

Tigris calmly cut off his horns and stepped back.

I had seen it before, but Schwitz couldn’t believe it.

The horns of this clone are hard enough to compare to black iron.

Because alchemy and black magic were precisely harmonized by referring to the spider’s web composition, even a 5-star knight could not be cut.

But Tigris harvested Schwitz’s horns like a harvester’s sickle.

Sigh-!

– Whoa!

In addition, it slashed through the horns that were flying at random and cut Schwitz’s waist.

Blue flames broke through the intestines and nervous system and began to moth eat.

It seemed that the man-eating beetles of the Godiva desert were devouring the intestines and muscles.

Schwyz dug everything under the heart and regenerated it.

I couldn’t just let the damn knight do it like this.

Schwyz used black magic.

Two huge magic circles were created at the same time.

It was the 5th circle magic, Explosion.

Two black fireballs flew towards Tigris.

It was the size of a human head, but if it flew over a certain distance and exploded, it was magic that devastated an area of 30 meters.

Moreover, the effect was even more terrifying because it was made with blood and the life force of the clone rather than made with magic.

The blue flame attached to Tigris’ sword went out, and a red flame burned together with the silver sword.

Pubuk!

Tigris’ sword pierced the center of the fireball almost simultaneously.

‘You idiot!’

Schwyz smiled in anticipation of an upcoming explosion.

However, the expected explosion did not occur.

The sword of Tigris destroyed the Explosion magic.

Schwyz was astonished.

-Nonsense!

The history of swords is as long as magic.

Just like a wizard makes various magic to check a knight, a swordsman has done a lot of research for a long time to kill or block the wizard.

However, although magic and aura had one thing in common, that they use the same mana, it was said that it was impossible to block magic with swordsmanship because the texture was completely different.

However, the elves who could use both auras and magic were different.

The elves, who have been magic swords since they were born, invented the ‘Sake of Spell Hunting’, a technique that can block magic with a sword.

The elves succeeded in hunting the dragon ‘Satutimeo’ that ruled the jungle through the spell of hunting.

The elves eventually went extinct, but their skills were passed on to Tigris as the records of the dwarves, and Tigris became the only human capable of using the forgotten skill ‘Scourge of Hunting’.

Tigris’ sword lit up with blue flames again and approached Schwitz.

The sword of Tigris passed three times.

First the eyes, then the groin, and finally the vocal cords.

-Kaga each!

As the vocal cords were cut off, there was the sound of boiling blood.

Another blue flame passed through the restless body.

The tough and hard leather made of bone fragments was not even a thousand pieces in front of Tigris’ sword.

Tigris didn’t blow off his arms and legs at once, but sliced it up as if he was cutting frozen meat into thin slices.

Schwitz created horns and tried to riot, but it was no use for Tigris.

It was because he had already learned all of his attack patterns.

Tigris slashed his flesh thinly, avoiding the horn’s assault.

Blood and flesh splattered all over the place, and Tigris’s face.

But Tigris didn’t care and focused only on adding pain to the gnome.

Schwyz flew his horns in all directions at the same time like a hedgehog with his last stroke.

Tigris stepped back.

From a distance, it looked like a tropical fruit, durian.

Red blood leaked out through the crevices of the thorns.

The horns were removed and the man appeared.

The shiny bone fragments lost their shine, and in some places they could not be regenerated, revealing their bare white skin.

And the four horns on his head were reduced to two.

Schwyz shook his body.

Although the blue flames were extinguished and all body parts were regenerated, the pain in the soul did not stop.

Moreover, the pain engraved on the soul began to affect the body.

Every inch of his body was rotting black.

In particular, the limbs that Tigris attacked were serious.

Both his fingers and toes did not regenerate as if he had leprosy, and he could not contain his tremors.

– What the hell is this…

“It looks like you haven’t put the suicide function into your clone yet.”

Schwitz trembled even more.

He didn’t understand how much he knew about himself.

“And if you die like this, you won’t even remember this conversation.”

Schwitz’s memories are not contained in his soul, but in his alter ego.

Of course, in the future, there will be a technology that puts memories into the soul, but not now.

It was fortunate that Schwitz’s technology was not developed yet, and he was able to inflict a blow to the soul.

If it dies like this, the research data of the ‘Horn Knight’ researched in this laboratory will not be transferred to the main body.

That said, the horn knights might not appear in the future war.

Schwyz’s anxious eyes scanned all directions.

Police and drivers were evacuating all citizens.

Schwyz saw the citizens fleeing to the Evolution Bridge.

I figured out a way to escape.

– Look around!

Schwitz raked up his magical energy and threw dozens of black fireballs into Tigris.

And without looking back, they ran towards the Evolution Bridge.

The idea was to take the citizens hostage and run away.

Dozens of horns protruding from Schwitz’s right hand spread like a net and attacked the citizens.

“Ahhh!”

Seeing this, some threw themselves into the Lucet River, while others collapsed in fear.

At that moment, a huge sword as white as snow flew towards the horns that spread like a net.

The huge sword, embracing the cold of absolute zero, collided with the net of horns and made a roar.

bang-!

The shock wave flooded the river, and the cold emanating from the giant sword froze it all.

The horns were all shattered as if struck down with a huge hammer.

“I came by just in case, but it was good that you came.”

The white sword made of swords became smaller and gathered in the smooth silver Bastard Sword.

Citizens were excited to see the man with the Bastard Sword.

“It’s Count Logan!”

“We live!”

Schwyz was astonished.

Logan de Fryharden.

A six-star knight and the king of the northwestern Friharden region.

I couldn’t understand why the person who should have been in Friharden was here.

– What is this… Whoops!

All of a sudden, the sword of Tigris, who had extinguished dozens of fireballs, pierced his back and pierced his heart.

Before long, the divine blue flame on Tigris’ blade engulfed Schwitz’s body.

Schwyz’s entire body burned fiercely as if he was going to burn it to ashes.

– Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Schwitz couldn’t lift a finger.

Even when he tried to fight Tigris by making horns, the horns were all burned out in the tremendous heat.

Schwitz’s horns were not as hard as black iron.

Schwyz pushed Tigris away with all his might, in fear that his soul quickly burned away.

Even though Tigris’ sword was pulled out, Schwyz’s body trembled like the remaining firewood.

Schwitz’s body automatically regenerated itself.

But the body couldn’t even stand up.

Both legs were charred like rotten pieces of wood, and the horns on their heads had already lost their shine and were half-broken.

-Who the hell are you? What the hell are you…!

Tigris decided to be satisfied with this.

It was because it was clear that his regenerative power had died so that his body would collapse once he was decapitated.

“The pain that will last a lifetime will take the place of my name.”

– Whoa!

The sword of Tigris was drawn horizontally.

His neck flew through the sky.

Its body and head crumbled and crumbled like soft graphite.

Tigris looked away from Schwyz’s body that had turned to black dust.

And calmly looked around.

Before returning, there were always more corpses of allies than corpses of enemies where Tigris was.

The damage to the allies was serious because they recklessly ignored the operation and moved.

But this time it was different.

There was no dead person in sight of Tigris.

There were only a few people who had been scratched by a blind stone.

Tigris had a strange feeling that he couldn’t comprehend, passing through his heart.

It was not known now, but later Tigris found out that this feeling was ‘relief’.

* * *

A sudden terrorist attack in Purple Town caused the musical to be canceled, and Logan and the three of them jumped in to rescue the people.

Charlotte, Linia and Irene focused on helping the police evacuate the people, while Logan ran to the front of the Evolution Bridge where the attack had taken place.

But there was nothing Logan could do.

Logan had no choice but to watch the battle between Tigris and Schwitz in silence.

It was because he knew at once that Logan was not in the right place to intervene.

‘I can’t believe it…’

Logan couldn’t even understand if the sword that Tigris was using was truly a sword.

He seemed to have broken more than a few frames of the swordsmanship he was thinking of.

To explain swordsmanship in extreme abbreviation, it consists of strengthening the muscles using Auror or changing the wave of swordsmanship.

So there was really nothing the knight could do other than smash and cut, to put it simply.

However, the sword that Tigris was using did not cut and stab, but created a kind of magical phenomenon.

I had never seen a swordsmanship that extinguished magic and caused a phenomenon to set fire to the body, but there was only one person who used a swordsmanship that caused such a phenomenon to be magical.

The current Black Meister Bergang.

Berggan, who has reached a point where he can express natural phenomena with a sword, treated the sword like magic.

However, Tigris has a total of 4 Auror rings.

How could a 4-star knight create a phenomenon with a sword similar to Bergang?

Logan’s common sense couldn’t quite understand it.

Tigris put the sword into its sheath and approached.

And bowed his head.

“thank you. If I made a mistake, it could have caused serious harm.”

“…No. You suffered.”

Logan wanted to ask about Tigris’ swordsmanship right away.

But now things weren’t good.

There were several people who were bleeding and injured.

Saving lives was a priority now.

“I’m sure you’ll explain everything later.”

Tigris nodded as if he understood Logan’s words.

“Yes. All right.”