Shit.
The long knife almost grazed my chin, but I avoided and cursed it in my heart.
I kicked the abdomen of the mirage.
The mirage rather tried to grab my leg, but the mana’s spinning near my ankle did not allow him to do it.
I kicked the mirage away and shouted.
“You ungrateful son of a bitch! This is too crazy!”
Just shouting loudly blazed anger burns in my heart.
Fucking Soul Siphon.
Just standing still made me feel like I was losing my energy.
Beyond simply being tired and exhausted, I had been affected by mana operations profoundly.
Any carelessness would make me astray.
Damn it, he was much stronger than me.
I didn’t want to admit it, but I had to.
I couldn’t deny that the gap between our power was so wide.
On the 17th floor, I had never experienced such a serious crisis before.
Every time I faced the enemy, I had always been very calm.
If there was a great danger to me at that time, the mirage could know how much strength I could exert.
But the performance of the mirage was beyond my expectation.
I only saw that crazy man suddenly using the magic like wind arrow, and now he was punching out an aura of the same level as mine.
To my relief, one comforting point was that I succeeded in deceiving the mirage.
So the mirage couldn’t grasp me perfectly.
I would have guessed the amount and the completeness of my mana by looking at the technologies I poured out like water.
Of course, he would have known that I had much more mana than himself.
So the mirage chose a short-term battle and was about to rush out without rest.
My odds of winning was slightly increased because of the mirage’s strategy.
The total power of mana I had was a quarter less than that of the mirage.
So if time could be dragged a little longer, the outcome of this battle would be doomed.
The drawing board was unfolded. (I was prepared.)
The next thing was to draw the pictures. (What to do next was fighting.)
kuang!
Original translation from wangmamaread.
The mirage spread the Talaria’s Wings and instantly rushed to me.
My legs clashed with the long knife of the mirage.
The collision between my aura and his aura exploded violently.
I turned my body around to avoid the debris of the collision, and meanwhile prepared to start another attack on the mirage.
Information about the mirage and the situation was my best weapon now.
I knew how would the mirage move next.
As I was expecting, the mirage pushed the long knife away and rushed into my arms, and since I had anticipated it, so I was able to nudge my elbows on the chin of the mirage.
But the mirage continued to attack as if he had never been hurt.
His speed was still faster than me.
The mirage knew it, and obviously, he would continue to retain his current advantage.
I needed a breakthrough that only I had but the mirage didn’t have.
The confirmation that I was the real one.
“I am the real one, you stupid motherfucker!”
Still the same face and figure, and the same technologies and customs.
It was clear that the mirage began to feel confused while he was fighting with me.
The sentence “I was the real one” disturbed the mirage.
Of course, the mirage wouldn’t delve into the words in the battle.
But just this short pause.
The short pause was so fatal for the mirage who used the power that did not match his level.
And I would catch the opportunity.
Kuang!
The long knife of the mirage collided with my weapon and was half broken.
The half of the remaining knife started to shine in blue.
Damn it, it seemed that he was gonna explode.
The mirage was waving a bomb that might explode anytime, so I had no choice but to stop it.
Kuang!
I was temporarily blinded by the burning light in front of me, so that I couldn’t manage to pay attention to it.
The crazy mirage suffered the explosion with his body and used Blink at the same time.
Blink moved his body forward, which should have flown backwards.
In the meantime, he caught my body flying in the air, stuck the short sword on my neck, being exhausted.
I predicted that the mirage would rush to me after the explosion, so I grabbed the neck of the mirage without any delay and placed my weapon on his neck.
Bang, we crashed on the ground together.
My back was stiff.
The mirage and I lied on the floor, and he was lapped over me.
I felt nauseated doing this with a man, who had the same look as mine.
At the moment, we had put weapons on each other’s neck.
“… Get off from me, you son of a bitch.”
The mirage was above me, with a blade near my neck.
If I had not placed my weapon on his neck, he would have cut my throat right now. That was what his expression showed.
He was such a devil.
“Wh… Cough Cough!”
The mirage spilled blood several times as he tried to speak.
He wielded a force that didn’t fit his fountains, so he deserved that rebound.
The problem was that all the blood spilled onto my face.
What the hell?
“What do you mean. You said that you are the real one, what do you mean.”
He had no way to prove that he was the real one at this time.
Aside from facing someone who looked exactly like him, he had always doubted whether he was “real”.
The face of the mirage showed even desperation, beyond anger and pain.
I could understand this feeling more than anyone else, but instead of comforting it, I laughed at it.
“Do you know what is the decisive difference between you and I?”
My face was dim due to the blood of the mirage, I tasted the blood, then I forced myself to open my eyes and smiled.
“Nothing else.”
I told the mirage, who was waiting for my answer, nothing.
“It’s the realm.”
My eyes still couldn’t see clearly.
But it was so obvious.
The mirage wrinkled his face and looked back because of my aura.
The mirage should not have given me the chance as I had thought.
I should have moved without hesitation.
That was the right judgment.
However, the mirage gave me more than 10 seconds now.
So, I should kill him.
“Mind Slash.”
The blade of aura sliced the head of the mirage before he recognized it.
The cut head rolled over my chest.
I threw it away roughly and removed the mirage’s corpse pressing on my body.
The difference between the mirage and I was the realm.
He had no difference with me except that.
Ah, now there was another difference between us.
The mirage failed, but I succeeded.
