Wednesday, May 21, 2025

[WN] Shut-In : Chapter 73


Chapter 73

Enhancement


Translator : PolterGlast


After ten days of special training to defeat the Knight of the Holy Remains, I finally finished charging MP and was able to expand the training room.

 

Improving my stats was urgent, so I tried it out as soon as the expansion was finished.

The results were mostly as I expected.

 

The only surprising thing was that the area was much bigger than I imagined.

By expanding it, the overall area had more than doubled.

 

The reason for this was simple: the number of training equipment had increased.

A large number of unfamiliar equipment had been added, and next to the equipment I had been using, there was equipment that looked like its 2P color.

 

By expanding it, I was able to raise stats that I hadn't been able to raise before, such as MP and HP.

I don't plan to raise anything other than attack and agility for now, so even if I do use them, it will be a little later.

 

By the way, the newly appeared equipment can raise stats by 2 with the same three hours of training.

 

The 2P color similar machines seem to be able to raise the stats that used to be raised by 1 to 2 by increasing the difficulty.

 

Now that this has come out, there's no reason to use the old machines, but... I don't understand why new ones were added next to them instead of the machines themselves being upgraded.

 

For now, I decided to raise attack and agility by 1 each using a strange machine that looked like a punching machine attached to a treadmill.

 

After repeating this for about twenty days, when about a month had passed since I started training, I was able to clearly feel the results--.

 

 

 

 

 

"--Shh!"

 

I unleashed a counterattack against the Knight Revenant's downward swing.

I dodged his sword by a hair's breadth and interrupted his attack at the moment he was defenseless as he pulled his sword up from the downward swing.

 

Just as I was about to deliver the finishing blow, Wind Search sensed a presence.

I dodged the attack coming from behind and flew far to the side, and saw a hammer of earth swinging down where I had been a moment ago.

 

The Revenant, who had taken a blow to the arm, adjusted his stance and continued to swing his sword.

 

Perhaps it was strengthened by mana, but even though I had inflicted a deep cut that should have reached deep, there was almost no change in his movement.

 

A blow that exceeded the limits of the human body was swung with human technique.

Its terror was truly indescribable.

 

A barrage of attacks rained down from above, below, left, and right.

The sword flashed, and a flower was born.

The technique of killing people, when honed to the extreme, even takes on beauty.

 

"...Suuu..."

 

I took a deep breath and exhaled slightly.

I swung my sword, one by one, in time with my breath.

 

Just as the opponent used inhuman strength, I also had a power that was beyond human reason.

I matched my attacks against each blow and completely blocked the Knight Revenant's attacks.

With the same stroke, I struck his neck.

 

A critical blow easily sent his head flying.

I dashed forward without using magic against the Mage Revenant, who was preparing magic to attack me.

 

I couldn't cut down magic like what the Knight of the Holy Remains did, but I could avoid it in time with the opponent's magic.

 

Countless thorns jumped out from the Revenant's feet.

I measured the distance while deliberately moving in a large circle to avoid their trajectory.

 

I grasped the distance between us while running.

The decision was instantaneous--I jumped.

 

A flash.

The Revenant, who was cut in half along with his robe, let out a groan.

After killing the Priest Revenant next to him, I turned around.

 

There was the Samurai Revenant, trying to unleash a fatal blow at me.

 

He unleashed a super-fast draw technique.

I deliberately readied my sword again to block it head-on.

 

I grabbed the scabbard with my left hand, lowered my waist, and gripped the hilt with my other hand.

 

He had a full charge, and I had an instant activation.

Drawing Technique can increase the power of a single blow by charging while using mana.

 

The moment of drawing the sword is instantaneous.

The Samurai drew his sword and unleashed a flying slash that became a white shock wave.

 

I drew my sword from the scabbard in an insufficient state compared to him.

Our flying slashes collided.

 

--The outcome was instantaneous.

 

My blow deflected his blow and attacked the Samurai with slightly weakened momentum.

 

The Samurai, who was maintaining his stance, took the full force of my blow and was severed from the torso.

 

"Phew..."

 

I released my stance and wiped the sweat from my forehead with a handkerchief.

This is the arena on the eleventh floor.

What I just did was not a simulation, but a real battle.

 

My body was not covered in white light or purple lightning.

 

--That's right, I'm not using any magic buffs right now.

 

I'm only using my raw physical ability and the Body Enhancement skill.

After a month of struggling to learn swordsmanship, I was finally able to completely defeat a party of Revenants without using magic.

 

I entered my home and went straight to the simulation room.

What appeared before me was--the Knight of the Holy Remains in Revenant state.

 

"Please treat me well."

 

I bowed lightly and entered a battle stance.

 

This time, it was a battle with all buffs applied and magic unlocked.

 

One exchange, two exchanges, three exchanges. I was able to exchange blows properly.

I could understand his movements, I could see the logic behind his swordsmanship.

 

I was still at a disadvantage, but everything else was vastly different from before.

I had grown enough to move on to the next stage--the battle with the degraded version of the Knight of the Holy Remains.

 

I still had a long way to go.

But perhaps because I had a sense of steady progress, I didn't feel tired at all.

 

And the moment I landed Gungnir, inwardly pumped my fist in excitement while thinking, "I finally landed an effective blow!" I was defeated by a counterattack that exploited that opening... Damn it. I still have a long way to go.

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