How to Survive as a Genius Spy in the Game-Chapter 213: Tsukva (2)

“Damn, he’s full of tricks…”

I was dumbfounded. The opponent was a formless enemy. Of course, he did have a form, but it was safe to say that inflicting physical damage was almost impossible.

To begin with, his body was made of darkness. Moreover, he merged into the darkness. The first method of breaking through that came to mind was Sword Energy.

Should I have brought a Sword Master? It was a pointless and foolish thought. I shook my head. Focus on the present.

The chance of attaining enlightenment and becoming a Sword Master here was similar to the probability of the Great Devil reforming.

In other words, I had to think of a way to defeat him within my current capabilities. It wasn’t Sword Energy, but I could still inflict wounds.

I had already experienced that the moonlight from the Moonlight Technique could harm darkness. The same was true for Ghost Blade.

‘Ghost Blade is better though. It was more effective than moonlight when facing Pelia.’

The special property of a blade that exists yet doesn’t exist. It could produce a pseudo-Sword Energy effect.

I swung Moonlight towards the darkness whip rippling in the empty space. The darkness split, but it didn’t seem to have damaged Tsukva.

Just cutting the darkness was meaningless. I had to aim for when he appeared, whether it was his arm or body. But even that didn’t seem easy.

The best option might be to aim for his main body somewhere in this darkness.

Of course, that didn’t look easy either, but I only had two choices anyway. Still, I was in a better position than Denif.

The Moonlight Technique emitting moonlight was unique. Denif didn’t have the same power as me.

In other words, Denif had no means to directly hit him. Of course, he could inflict some scratches, but the difference in swords was clear.

No matter how good a sword is, it can’t compare to a legendary sword. If he attacked aggressively, it would break soon.

“Denif! Focus on evasion! If your sword breaks, we’re in bigger trouble!”

“Got it!”

Denif quickly agreed. There was no time for further conversation. The darkness at one o’clock rippled.

An arm and scythe appeared from the darkness. I immediately dashed forward. Staying still was the worst option.

If we didn’t move, we’d be one-sidedly attacked. We had to aim for the moments when he briefly showed himself. The scythe moved from left to right.

As the distance closed, the blade of darkness approached. This time, it didn’t stop with one strike. The scythe cut through the air at high speed.

Three blades of darkness with time differences shot out at different heights. Aiming for the knee, hip, and chest.

It was tricky to evade while maintaining speed.

I kicked off the ground and leaped into the air. I maintained balance with winds and kicked off a winds platform in mid-air.

I shot straight towards Tsukva. I swung Moonlight, which I had pulled back over my shoulder, with all my might.

Crack-! But it wasn’t a clean hit. It was a close call. His scythe blocked the sword, and the moment they touched, it disappeared into the darkness.

The moment of contact was brief, so even the metallic sound wasn’t satisfying. At the last moment, the scythe pulled Moonlight with an attractive force, slightly shaking my balance.

‘I should have moved a bit faster…’

My thoughts couldn’t continue. Tsukva’s arm and scythe burst out again from the darkness where they had just disappeared.

The scythe tried to strike my body from above. Having lost balance in mid-air, it was difficult to block the approaching massive blade head-on.

Damn it. I immediately struck my body with winds. The situation was so urgent that I couldn’t control the force.

With a heavy impact, my body flew away. Tsukva immediately turned into darkness and followed me. The darkness, approaching like smoke, swung the scythe at my body again. It was right in front of my face.

“Shit…”

In a state of lost balance, I bent only my wrist to block the scythe while striking my body once more with winds.

I couldn’t control the force this time either. My hit side ached and my breathing was unstable. The hand holding the sword stung.

Still, it was fortunate that I had struck downwards this time. I slid on my back foot and regained balance.

Tsukva immediately followed. This time his right arm appeared. Just as I was about to block the scythe, I sensed something off from behind.

Could he split himself? I slightly turned my head, his sharp left arm was aiming at me from the darkness.

Scythe in front, left hand behind. I was caught between a rock and a hard place.

“Carlyn!”

Denif came to my aid. Denif, who had been observing the situation around, rushed in and deflected the hand with his sword the moment I regained stability.

It was a dangerous moment. As we regained stability, he seemed to try to create another situation and melted into the darkness.

“Phew…”

“This is annoying. Carlyn, didn’t you say this could explode?”

Denif shook the glowstone. Damn, he’s saying something dangerous. It sent chills down my spine. I quickly shook my head.

“If that explodes, we all die. Even I can’t escape from here.”

“Damn it.”

Denif turned his gaze towards the temple.

“Or could there be something like his core inside that temple?”

“I’ve already seen. It’s not there.”

I answered while surveying the surroundings. When the darkness burst out of the temple, I immediately checked the interior.

But I didn’t sense anything strange.

The surging darkness, that was Tsukva’s residual consciousness. We needed to kill that.

“We need to kill his true form within the darkness.”

Suddenly, the surrounding darkness drew closer. This time, it started approaching from the floor.

Pitch-black darkness approached like a tide over the circular floor. The darkness covered our feet.

However, Denif was fine. Under the light of the glowstone, Denif was still protected.

His target was me. Being Devil’s Blood, and even though Moonlight was frosted with moonlight, it wasn’t as bright as the glowstone.

At that moment, the darkness tried to grab my ankle. I was prepared. I immediately kicked off the ground and leaped up.

The rising darkness aimed for my body. I stretched out my left hand.

The reason I jumped a beat later was for this. To check the performance of Ghost Blade. It was successful.

There was a sensation at the tip of Ghost Blade that cut through the darkness.

The darkness that tried to grab my leg shuddered. It was too early to rejoice. The darkness above me writhed.

“Carlyn!”

A huge scythe formed from top to bottom. It was right above my head. I twisted my body to avoid it.

However, this time Tsukva fully revealed himself.

Boom-! The moment the scythe hit the ground, a violent wave of darkness burst out from that point.

An enormous repulsion. I hurriedly blocked with winds, but was pushed back in mid-air.

My body rotated twice in the air and fell. Upon touching the ground, I slid several meters.

There was no follow-up attack this time. He aimed at Denif, not me.

The revealed true form fiercely attacked Denif. Was he intending to reduce our numbers by one first?

Denif deflected the scythe rather than blocking it head-on. He was mindful of his sword’s durability.

However, this made for dangerous moments. If not for the glowstone, he would have been injured somewhere.

I gritted my teeth and stood up. Denif, who had barely blocked the scythe’s consecutive attacks, was flying through the air. It was an attack he couldn’t deflect.

I charged at full speed with the assistance of winds. The surrounding darkness tried to interfere, but I was faster.

Clang-! I blocked Tsukva who was about to launch a follow-up attack. He had a smiling face. Anger welled up inside me.

Boom-! Thud-! The scythe pressed down on me with a massive weight.

It felt like I was blocking not just the scythe, but also the surrounding darkness.

“You bastard!”

Denif, having regained his balance, charged again. Thwack! However, Tsukva no longer returned to darkness.

He knew that Denif’s sword wouldn’t deal significant damage.

A streak of darkness merely blocked Denif’s sword. Denif’s eyes filled with anger.

He was angry at the unreasonable situation he couldn’t handle, and at his own abilities.

‘Damn. This is getting a bit tough.’

***

‘This is killing me.’

Carlyn caught his breath. How much time had passed? He wasn’t sure of the exact time due to the intense fighting, but it felt like an hour had passed.

Of course, it wasn’t that long. Nevertheless, Carlyn and Denif were noticeably getting tired.

They had entered the temple confidently, but the opponent was formidable. If it had been a ‘person’ of equal strength, they would have won, but Tsukva wasn’t human.

The biggest difficulty was the inability to strike the opponent head-on. Of course, Carlyn had similar experiences.

The devil’s fragment. But it was hard to compare. Back then, the darkness wasn’t as pervasive as now, and his skills were incomparable.

Short-distance spatial movement and melting into darkness were on completely different levels.

Back then, he could aim for where the opponent would appear, but now, even knowing the signs of appearance was problematic.

Tsukva adopted an attack pattern of creating openings with long-range attacks and then quickly pressing in. It meant he rarely showed any openings.

‘The darkness is his domain. We need to drive this darkness away.’

The most fundamental cause of this situation was the darkness dominating the surroundings. Aside from the unclear vision, his space was too vast.

He could appear anywhere within his domain and use that darkness to attack.

Even the sun-like glowstone only illuminated about 1–2 meters around it.

The option of lighting a fire wasn’t available either. He was someone who could simply make an ordinary flame disappear.

In the end, what remained for Carlyn was moonlight. The Moonlight Technique. He focused on the Moonlight Technique while blocking attacks from the scythe and darkness.

However, gaining enlightenment in such a combat situation was not an easy task.

Dodge, deflect, block, attack… The attacks usually didn’t succeed.

Carlyn had managed to cut a few times with Ghost Blade, but it wasn’t significant. As time passed, it was Carlyn and Denif who were accumulating injuries. They were also getting physically exhausted.

“Should we collapse this place?!”

It was Denif’s shout. Although darkness was above and below the temple, this place was ultimately located in the earth beneath a mountain.

If they buried the entire temple… it would indeed disrupt their plans.

Tsukva was a residual consciousness, so he couldn’t leave this place. After escaping, they could bring back a Sword Master.

It wasn’t a bad idea. However, the problem was its feasibility.

“Can you do it?”

“…It might take a while!”

Carlyn saw no feasibility in Denif’s words. He had gotten too excited over a momentary hope.

The top was darkness, and Denif’s mystic was still insufficient. Moreover, those who built this temple wouldn’t have done a sloppy job.

Denif had spoken out of frustration. However, even knowing it was impossible, it was a pleasant thought.

If they buried this place and got out, it would be night. The moon would be up. Carlyn thought of that moon.

‘On a dark night, the moon would be illuminating the ground.’

Suddenly, that afterimage was deeply etched in Carlyn’s mind. It was close to a small enlightenment.

Right now, Carlyn was only emitting a faint moonlight on Moonlight.

But originally, the moon was a light that didn’t lose its nobility even in darkness. Even if it couldn’t drive away darkness and illuminate the world like the rising sun.

The moon was a natural light source shining in the darkness of night.

And Carlyn recalled that sometimes when he swung his sword, the afterimage of that light remained like the moon.

He had been drawing the moon.

Then, wouldn’t it work to draw the moon, the form of the moon, over this darkness?

He remembered the waves shown by Rudehrn’s sword. It wasn’t an illusion. Despite Mondegreen’s warning, this wasn’t imitation but inspiration.

Carlyn chanted the Moonlight Technique and thrust his sword. The mana in his body turned cold yet hot.

The afterimage of moonlight contained in Moonlight drew the moon. It was a half-moon. For a brief moment, he felt the darkness receding.

‘Ah…’

And in that instant, the half-moon blooming in the darkness connected with the half-moon in Carlyn’s inner self. A sense of elation welled up.

Tsukva, noticing that Carlyn’s state was unusual, began to attack urgently.

However, Carlyn was undeterred. Although it was a moon that bloomed briefly, Carlyn continued to draw the moon while blocking the darkness.

A momentary half-moon drawn by Moonlight imbued with moonlight.

But if that moment gained continuity, it would no longer be just a moment.

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A half-moon blooms in the pitch-black darkness. As the darkness receded, Carlyn smiled. Inside him, the mana that had been burning hot and cold regained stability.

He had reached the 6-star level of the Moonlight Technique, the realm of Duke Brusek.

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