Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 466

Puk!

Heart Severance activated.

At the same time, he felt flesh being cut, and he even heard the faint sound of a tiny wound being made.

Sliiide—

The corner of Su-ho’s mouth lifted.

Yeah.

The answer was Heart Severance.

If the outer shell was too hard to pierce, then you just didn’t touch the outer shell in the first place.

Why did I learn Heart Severance?

The effect was definite.

As proof, Hercules was finally showing a proper reaction.

- Kehahahaha! So you’re finally showing some cute tricks!

He wasn’t just mocking him—he even praised it as a cute trick.

It wasn’t exactly praise worth anything since it wasn’t the real Hercules, but still, it had landed as an effective hit, and an effective hit meant it was the most usable attack he’d shown so far.

But that was all.

Su-ho’s brow furrowed again.

‘Heart Severance lands an effective hit, but the damage going in is way too small.’

Heart Severance was a skill that had evolved from Cross Severance.

But the underlying principle was similar for both, so all that had really improved was the attack power.

Either way, if you controlled your strength well, you could stab into the deepest part of the target no matter how thick the outer shell was.

That was why he needed the next step.

He had already cut enemies he couldn’t even scratch before with Diamond Cutter and Sky Cleave—now it was Heart Severance’s turn to evolve.

Of course, the process was the same as everything else.

Endless repetition.

And the time would be short compared to his past life.

Because Void Striking Style’s 7th Form was a technique he had already realized once in his past life.

‘It’s just that I kept putting it off because I didn’t have the environmental conditions to train the 7th Form!’

But now, he had an extremely good environment to train the 7th Form.

The Hercules replica.

Frequent ruler-grade Fear that removed all buff effects as a matter of course, and an overwhelming physical body whose very hide was so tough it could ignore even a fully buffed, enhanced Diamond Cutter.

But no matter how absurd its physicality was, it seemed it couldn’t have trained its insides and inner muscles to the same degree as its outer hide.

‘Still, it’s incredible. A fully buffed Heart Severance can’t deal a big blow to it.’

But if it was the 7th Form, evolved further than this, he could definitely take it down.

Kwooooooom!!

Hercules’s olive-wood club once again passed by Su-ho and detonated against the floor.

Terrifying.

Truly threatening.

Su-ho swallowed once.

He had spent endless time with countless enemies to level up his sword techniques, but the being before his eyes was, without question, the most threatening of them all.

But maybe because of that—

Even as cold sweat broke out, the corner of Su-ho’s mouth lifted faintly.

‘This is what thrill is.’

Su-ho’s sword swung once more.

[ Heart Severance is activated. ]

Slaaash!

The swung blade pierced through the ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) flesh of the Hercules replica’s forearm.

- Kehahahaha! It itches! It itches so much!

However, as if he’d been bitten by a mosquito, the Hercules replica scoffed and immediately counterattacked.

Kwooooooom!!

The club detonated.

This time as well, it didn’t touch Su-ho.

But Su-ho swung again.

Slaaash!

And once again, he succeeded in landing an effective hit.

- Fine! Let’s see who wins—let’s go all the way to the end!!

The Hercules replica swung the olive-wood club again.

It was the beginning of a very long fight.

*

- You run well for a rat bastard!

It was the longest fight yet.

And because of that, Su-ho removed everything he had placed on the guy, including Enrage.

The more Enrage stacked up, the faster the guy’s attack power and movements became.

But separate from whether Enrage was on him or not, the Hercules replica grew furious at Su-ho, who kept slipping away annoyingly, and it raised its own attack power and movement speed on its own.

Kwooooooom!!

The Hercules replica’s olive-wood club detonated against the floor again.

Looking around, the entire world was full of craters.

All of it was the Hercules replica’s work.

Each time, Su-ho shifted the battlefield.

The arena was an endless, infinite place anyway, and if his foot so much as caught on one of those craters and he got hit by the olive-wood club, there was no bigger loss than that.

If he had to pick one fortunate point, it was that the Hercules replica had fewer skills than he’d expected.

- Uaaaaaaah!! You rat bastard!!

[ The Unknown Hero uses ruler-grade Fear. ]

[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]

[ Due to the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood, the Fear is not applied. ] 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

[ Due to the effect of ruler-grade Fear, all buff effects on Players are removed. ]

Instead, the cooldown on ruler-grade Fear was short.

So it was fine.

Since his purpose was to evolve Heart Severance in the first place, extra buffs didn’t matter whether he had them or not.

Slaaash!

[ Heart Severance is activated. ]

Another Heart Severance bit into the Hercules replica.

He didn’t even know how many effective hits it had been already.

Honestly, he felt like he’d been landing Heart Severance on the guy for at least half a day, and at that point, it was natural to think the guy would have taken no small amount of damage.

But reality said not a chance.

Even if you stabbed a pine tree with a toothpick all day long, the pine tree wouldn’t collapse.

Still not letting go of hope, Su-ho swung again.

[ Heart Severance is activated. ]

Sgak!

Another Heart Severance.

But in that moment, Su-ho’s eyes widened slightly.

‘Huh?’

A slightly different feeling.

He had swung it so many times that only Su-ho could sense that tiny difference.

Maybe because of that, the corner of Su-ho’s mouth lifted without him realizing it.

‘Something big is coming.’

Thinking that, he swung once more.

[ Heart Severance is activated. ]

Sgeoeok!

The lifted corner of his mouth surged upward.

Because the feeling had come.

It was the moment Su-ho swung one more time.

[ Heart Severance is activated. ]

And then—

[ ■■ smiles at your tenacious effort. ]

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