Overgeared

‘There are dozens of divine effects in the sword.’

Judar acknowledged that Grid’s performance had never been inferior to his. In particular, he was wary of Grid’s swords. They possessed all sorts of bizarre functions and were deadly to the body. They were so powerful that they even rendered the shields made of magic and divine power almost useless. In addition, the wounds they inflicted didn’t heal properly.

He now completely understood why the dozens of dragons didn’t manage to overpower Grid. They probably needed a breather every time a blow hit them, having to constantly change those who attacked. Even worse, the narrow space meant they couldn’t take advantage of their numerical advantage at all.

‘I thought that after reaching old dragon-level, I could easily win against Grid since he wasn’t able to beat the old dragons. I was wrong. It was a mistake to leave Asura behind.’

He had regrets, but it was too late for such things.

Now that things had turned out like this, Judar had to overcome the crisis alone. His mind was racing. He learned how to use his power and magic in real time. Since he was an expert at making barriers, he had a plan to utilize them at the right time.

“Produce.”

A translucent sphere appeared in front of Judar instead of around his hands, aiming at the sword dance of the charging Grid.

“Distortion.”

The sword dance was sucked into the dimension and reappeared somewhere else–right behind Grid’s back.

Absurdly, Grid’s sword dance stabbed at himself, the unexpected attack inflicting great damage. However, since he was accustomed to pain, he just smiled softly. He was starting to understand the principle of Judar’s power, or at the very least, a rough outline of it.

‘He deals with dimensions.’

He was able to guess easily because he had witnessed Yura’s Hell Leap skill several times.

‘The reason why skills and items become useless once he touches them is because they are transmitted in a different dimension.’

In many ways, it was an overpowered ability. A real headache to deal with, but it was better than when Grid was feeling frustrated because he didn’t know what he was dealing with.

Grid made up his mind and operated the God Hands, confirming that the moment even one God Hand was transmitted, all the hundreds of God Hands became neutralized. It followed the same principle that all his equipped armor became useless when his sword was transmitted.

‘It isn’t a single target ability, it affects a whole category. However, the skill is only transmitted when touched directly.’

The more he learned, the more amazed he was. Still, this didn’t mean there was no room for him to attack. In fact, he might’ve been helpless if this fight had taken place before meeting the old dragons and Chiyou. Now, his experience of fighting against the strongest existences in the world wasn’t useless.

After releasing the combination of Defying the Natural Order and Twilight, Grid started swapping and using multiple weapons. For example, while attacking with Twilight, he let go of the sword in his hand just before it was transmitted. As a result, Twilight’s classification was changed from ‘equipped item' to ‘possessed item’, causing Grid’s newly equipped weapon and armor not to be transmitted.

[......!]

From the moment Grid started to use dozens of weapons, Judar became flustered because his counterattacks didn’t work properly anymore.

‘Has he come up with a strategy to fight against my power? Experience is such a scary thing.’

Those who were naturally strong relied on their natural strength. Just as human beings naturally walked on two feet, they also ruled with their innate strength.

Meanwhile, Grid was the exact opposite. He started as a weak person and became an Only One God. There were traces of fierce deliberation in every moment of his life.

Judar felt a strange tension as he created a new dimension that surrounded his entire body. The attack range of Grid, who had just replaced his weapon and unfolded the five fusion sword dance, was too large.

Grid started sweating as he watched the sword dance disappear to another dimension. Fortunately, it simply disappeared this time, and didn’t reappear.

‘It looks like it isn’t easy to bring it back after sending it away.’

It appeared that the more precise the use of Judar’s power, the greater the consumption. This could’ve simply been a difference in cooldown time, but Grid decided not to calculate that. Didn’t Haranbeka’s group just fail to calculate Grid’s cooldown time and ended up in trouble?

The battle went on for a long time.

As Judar continued to pour out magic, Grid also had to use a lot of skills.

Ttang!Ttang!Ttang!

his health had dropped significantly did Grid come up with an idea. He ordered the God Hands to forge items, and the sound of hammering was

around the area where

attacked the God Hands with his magic. The God Hands only stopped

metal they were smelting, so he unleashed a massive wide-area magic. Dark red magic power spread out and golden thunderbolts

was stunned when he realized that the God Hands’ behavior was nothing more than bait. Still, he reacted immediately, just like an Absolute would. He created a dimension in the direction of the sword dance

cord

with joy and poured

didn’t pulsate. It was

‘A fake...!’

appeared by Judar’s side

The trick worked!

pain, let out a groan for the first time. He flailed his limbs maniacally and counterattacked a few

and crushed him. Every time there was a golden flash within the storm, powerful metallic magic power spread and neutralized

Did he calculate

He noticed that the previous traces of Judar’s attacks were emitting light. It was clear that some type of magic worked on it to form the barrier of this storm. Its power was immense. Seemingly, a lot of magic power had been

‘Dominion’s intuition wasn't false.’

very amiable. He finally understood why Dominion had left to train after being defeated by Hayate. He wasn’t inferior to Grid in terms of magic or his power, but he couldn’t fight against Grid head-on. This made

bewildered face appeared in front of

out of the

and even used Dragon Words, but it was useless. Judar’s dimensional binding was a

[Let’s change the order.]

was strongly engraved on the space as he reappeared next

clearly conveyed to Grid and the group of

“Judar, how dare you?!!”

Breaths had already reached him. He had to do at least something, so he covered himself with a sphere, reappearing shortly after

Clang.

a shield flew in and

only epic, so it was torn apart by a single blow. Still, it had

Judar was already preparing his next

Clang.

in and blocked it. Judar felt annoyed and finally wrapped a translucent sphere around his hand. He ignored the shield and prepared to stab Trauka in the

Claang.

again, shields flew in to

weren’t transmitted. Thus, they retained their physical force. Since those shields were classified as ‘items made by

was puzzled, but he quickly realized

were completed at different times that they aren’t

sense of

Grid ordered the God Hands to produce items in real time. He also added the detailed command of staggering

he should do it whether it worked or not. Fortunately, it ended

loss. He squeezed out most of his remaining magic power and added divine power to activate a protective barrier. The shields made by the Gods Hands no longer protected Trauka. They clung to the dark blue barrier as if drawn

escaped from the storm and hurriedly

“Wave.”

single sword dance, but Grid didn’t

tsunami. The

of Trauka’s neck. Suddenly,

when its master was in danger

Boom, boom, boom!

repeatedly slammed against the dark blue barrier surrounding Judar, but to no avail. Not only was the barrier tough, but it was also strange in nature. It drew in any force that collided

‘ten’, it felt like the initial ‘ten’ was divided into smaller fragments

was louder. Trauka’s thick

the dark blue barrier, shaking it

wasn’t enough. The tsunami of sword energy also didn’t immediately exert its power, instead clinging to the barrier and gradually

of magic power and divine power is