In Another World with Battle God System

Chapter 07 Completing the Quest 04

Ren lunged forward, and as Jiha entered the range of his blade, he began his first strike with a diagonal slash from the bottom right, Jiha shifted his foot as he dodged the strike with minimal movement.

However, Ren still didn't finish his attack. He kept swinging the blade trying to connect every swing he made toward another and made a fluid movement that looked like he was dancing with his blade.

Jiha with his superior strength and speed kept dodging the onslaught with minimal movement, the corner of his mouth lifted as the embers in his heart began to burn more bright than ever.

Then there is a gap in Ren's swing that Jiha senses. A vertical strike trying to cut open his skull began to descend at Jiha's head. The world turned gray before Jiha’s eyes and the trajectory of the blade slowed down before it was inches away from his skull.

With a minimal movement he bent his upper body to the right side and using the backhand of his left fist smacked the side body of the blade, with its clanking sound that echoed in the room and the strength that canceled Ren's attack made his stance crumble. His hands also numbed after the collision.

“..Kuh”.

Jiha looking at a chance throws a straight punch at Ren's face. But Ren instinctively ducked down as he began to use some footwork to spin around entering Jiha territory and using the momentum of his spin to swing his blade aiming at Jiha's neck.

But Jiha saw Ren's every move. So he ducked down and began to counter using his feet to crush Ren's stance.

With a high-speed movement, Jiha showed. Ren felt his sight turn upside down as a floating sensation began to engulf his body and a straight punch aiming at his chest entered his sight. He crossed his arms and the fist made contact with his left arm. A cracking sound from the destroyed bone echoed in the room, and the groan from a young man shook them to the core.

Ren blasted away like a human cannon, flying in a straight way before burying himself in the wall. His body went limp and dropped down to the floor not moving an inch.

The young woman who was absorbed in the battle before her. She sobered up seeing Ren in an unmoving state. She is too preoccupied with the battle without knowing that the outcome has already been clear from the beginning.

Her heart began to throb as sweat began to drench her back and temple, seeing the unmoving boy. Her breathing began to turn heavy as she tried to squeeze the word to wake the boy who sat around without moving, leaning on the wall with blood that flooded his mouth.

Seeing the boy that went limp Jiha began to approach the boy making sure that he was still breathing or not, and that rang an alarm in her mind. She opened her mouth to shout

“..Please! Don’t kill him!”.

Jiha halted his step as his brows began to knit because his enjoyment was disturbed. He shot a glare at the woman who made her body hair stand to no end, and The knight behind her reacted but couldn’t do anything while being tied shut.

“Don’t get in my way, princess”.

“No, please don't kill him. Please leave him alone from all of this. He had nothing to do with our family..”.

“I said, SHUT UP!!!”.

A thunderous roar escaped his mouth as it echoed in the room and shook everyone present.

“Listen! I will do what I want to do. I am the boss in this place and no one dares try to command me here, because I am the ruler”.

As his barren dark heart began to light up because of the bright red color from the ember that fully ignited, making his arrogant demeanor return as he began to state his order.

Jiha was actually a promising A-rank adventurer in the capital, with the potential of becoming an S-rank. But because of his arrogant nature and his love to play around with women, his reputation worsened and ended up being blacklisted from the guild for eternity. So he began to walk the thievery path where he kidnapped some women for his plaything before selling them to the slave merchant and using the money to drink. After one another happened in his life, he ended up stranded in the slum in this place.

“..Yeah,, uukh you wish..”.

To everyone's surprise, a hoarse voice escaping from Ren's mouth that struggled to stand up made the room turn silent. Their eyes went wide witnessing the boy who they thought had finished was standing with his trembling legs clenching the blade tightly.

Jiha turned his attention and saw Ren, who was bathed in blood, still held the ground up.

A gray world entered his field of vision as he saw Jiha and every person that entered his eyes. His ears keep ringing stopping him from hearing the sound from his surroundings. His mind was a mess, trying to hold it in.

In the corner of his vision, he could see the young woman and his co. raise their brows worried about his whereabouts and the young princess has a tear stricken on her cheeks looking his way.

Ren felt that his left hand was finished with the blue color and a touch of red that smeared inside the skin, paralyzed.

“Will this be my second end?”.

He closed his eyes as he began to surrender to the impending death that would engulf him within a moment. ““..Ren, Live stand strong…””. The figure of his past and current mother began to overlap as the words they said reverberated inside his brain telling him to keep living.

He sobered up as the gray world was still within his sight Jiha was just four feet away from his place, as he began to grip the blade tightly and put his stance.

For now, his stance was lowered for a bit, bending his right leg in front and straightening his left leg backward. He positioned the blade beside the left side of the body pointed backward where the left hand was paralyzed. He is doing a quick drawing stance. Gripping the blade tightly around his right he shot his tranquil eyes toward Jiha and was ready to confront him anytime.

Jiha, who saw Ren ready his stance, couldn’t help himself any longer as he began to crack up in laughter.

“Ahahaha, you are the best kid. Despite knowing that you have no chance of winning from the beginning you still challenge me, but thanks to you the feeling I got as a warrior is back. So this was a perfect chance for me to restart as a warrior by killing you!”.

Ren kept grabbing the blade tight and Saw Jiha lunged at him intending to finish the battle.

Exhaling out, he kept regulating his breathing and made his heart as tranquil as water despite the impending death. “I will live”. As if responding to his plea. His right hand emits a faint dark glow before it is absorbed toward the blade and the blade begins to glow with a dark color.

“DIE!”.

The world felt like it stopped as Jiha entered his blade range Ren with a slow movement swung his blade to the side in a diagonal way. It formed a straight line as if it was cutting the space itself.

Jiha who stopped in his advance, stood still as a bloody line began to appear from his right waist before it continued to split open until his left shoulder, and his upper body as if pushed by gravity began to fall down and blood began to spurt dancing in the air celebrating Ren victory.

[Quest complete..]

Ren, who is spent, began to sway as the emotionless voice that rang in his head felt distant. But he gritted his teeth and refused to fall. He stabbed his blade to the ground to assist him in getting his feet back.

Looking at the two bodies that had been cut beautifully made him realize once again that he won the battle.

He turns his attention toward the party who is shocked to the core about what has been transpired before their eyes. Slowly but surely he began to move his legs albeit it was so heavy like he was being chained to a boulder. He kept walking and approached them.

The young woman whose eyes were moist watching the wounded boy walking to her side, felt a pang in her heart, touched by the resilience of the boy. Trying to save them even in that wounded state.

Ren looked down at the young woman before him who was crying, but tied up. Pondered. He had no strength left to raise the blade. So he stabbed the blade before the woman and opened his mouth.

“Use this..”.

The young woman who was stunned by the boy's action looked him in the eyes before nodding her head. First, she turned her back and her hand that was bound toward the sharp blade, and when she felt that the distance and place were right, slid her hands up and the rope came undone.

Witnessing the woman cutting the remaining rope in her feet. Soma's sight turned black as his body began to drop down to the ground. But before he reached the ground a warm and soft feeling engulfed his being and he heard a small whisperer enter his ear.

“Thank you, now rest”.

The melodious voice entered his brain. It eases all of the tension and nerves around his body as he surrenders himself toward the comfort of endless darkness.