Chapter 49
A droplet of blood formed on the tip of Li Xun’s chin.
It was clearly Dojae’s sword he had dodged, yet a wound about the width of a finger had appeared on his chin.
And he knew the reason instantly.
‘The sword grew longer?’
Dojae’s sword was now a full span longer than before—a little over 20 centimeters.
In that brief instant when Li Xun dodged the sword, its length increased, slicing his jawline.
Had he tilted his head back just a fraction later, it might not have been the tip of his jaw that flew off, but his entire jaw.
“Cheap shot!”
Li Xun shouted angrily as he backed away.
He attacked using a sneaky method, though Li Xun didn’t know where he’d learned it.
Had it been a long-handled weapon like a spear, he would have guarded the distance.
Many fighters used the distance between gripping near the spearhead and gripping the end of the shaft to their advantage.
But Dojae’s sword had no hilt or pommel.
The blade emerged directly from the hand.
I should have recognized it as an extension of the golem armor, but I mistakenly thought it was a separate weapon and armor.
It was a delusion born from a minor prejudice he couldn’t help but hold, being a swordsman himself.
‘To dodge this…’
Dojae swallowed his disappointment as he watched Lee Sun recede into the distance.
It was a method he devised based on his experience facing Kim Hwan-su’s chained swords.
While the twin swords were difficult to counter due to their whip-like movements, reacting to the constantly shifting distance proved even harder.
