Read Adventurer Tale of Pouring 25 Years of Life into a Useless Skill, and Now After All That Time is the Strongest

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　The number of Ulil's fingers, which he had just seen through Moe's eyes, was the eighth finger on the turntable.

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　The battle was already in its final stages.

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　Ducking behind Garoud, Thor let out a harsh white breath.

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　The coldness of the surroundings is becoming quite dangerous, although it is better due to the fact that he is moving around.

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　Thankfully, the blood spurting from his wounds hardens quickly.

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　The shieldmen are blocking all the stones coming from the front.

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　However, there is no way to prevent the irregular bouncing of the stones as they hit the ground.

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　Thor's body was already covered with bruises and lacerations.

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　It would have been much worse had it not been for his leather armor with its smooth scales.

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　Thor muttered a few words of thanks in his heart to the skill of the armor store owner.

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　And also for the support of Moe, who was secretly softening the blow.

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　Normally, he would have been by now.

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　But that is not the case now.

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　Thor, his arm outstretched, lightly touches the shoulder blade of Garudo who stands in front of him.

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　Unlike the which only hardens and strengthens the body, the mid-branch skill also grants resistance to heat and cold.　

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　Thanks to this, even in this freezing air, he seems to be able to move as well as usual.

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　However, the armor that covers their bodies is another matter.

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　Especially from the large shield that Garudo lifts against the wind, a hard and sharp sound is constantly echoing.

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　After a quick check, Thor gives up on the armor and returns only the long shield to its new condition.

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　With this, the remaining number of times he can use is now six.

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　Although there is still a little room to spare, it is time to start catching up, considering the precautions he will have to take after the defeat.

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　Thor grips the hilt of his sword again and looks beyond the white cloud of sand.

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　Suddenly, a swear word from Garudo jumps into his ears.

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"d*mn!　Here!"

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　Almost immediately, a gust of wind from directly above pushed them both hard to the ground.

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　It was a familiar and violent movement of the air - a breaking wind.

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　The timing could not have been worse.

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　The wind came upon them suddenly and raged over the motionless Thor and the others.

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　The two men, nearly carried away by the raging wave of wind, desperately get down on the ground.

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　For less than a few seconds.

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　But it seems like a terribly long time.

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　Suddenly, Thor notices that the silence has returned.

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　The sound of the wind, which had been roaring in his ears, has somehow disappeared.

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　The air, which had been so cold, has now disappeared without a trace, along with the sand.

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　Thor looks up and holds his breath.

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　What filled his vision was the figure of a giant standing in his way.

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　Moreover, the tornado arms protruding from its torso were both split in two at the base.

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　The giant of sand storm lifted its four arms high in the air.

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　A long, high-pitched wind howling sound echoed from its entire body.

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　Sometimes, when the number of swarms increases too much, monsters change into a special form of swarming.

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　Similarly, the higher-ranking monsters, when cornered, rarely undergo a change called the frenzied phase.

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　It seemed that this had happened to the monster in front of me.

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　Garudo and Thor stand up and look up at the giant's body, breathing on their shoulders as it rushes toward the sky.

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　Everything they have built up to this point has been completely overturned.

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　The danger has never been greater.

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　To retreat or to advance.

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　Thor does not hesitate to choose the difference between a moment of victory and a moment of defeat.

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　It was a sense of smell acquired by a man who has dived through the eyes of danger alone for twenty-five years.

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　Thor, who has seen what is going on around him, first returns his body to the best condition it can be in.

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　Next, he thrust out his fist and struck Garudo hard on the back.

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　At the same time, he his body to the state in which it is filled with the maximum amount of fighting energy.

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　This was the signal for the finishing touches.

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　The shieldsman, who immediately understood the intention, released all his fighting spirit and let out a scream.

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　Garudo's body swells up so much that his armor is bounced off his body from the inside.

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　For one minute from this moment, all attacks against the shieldman are nullified.

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　Even a soul-destroying dark technique cannot work on Garudo at all now.

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　And the tremendous sense of intimidation that was radiated undeniably inflamed the hostility of the monster to the utmost limit.

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　The Titan raises its four arms in unison at the small, unneglectable being that is groaning at its feet.

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　As it did so, it slammed them all together.　

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　Just before the moment, Thor had shot out from behind the shield like an arrow.

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　He sprints across the bottom of the hollow, aiming for the giant's feet.

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　The fist of the tornado hits the ground with each Garudo, creating a violent gust of wind.

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　With the wind at his back, Thor accelerated in a single bound.

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　He passes under the giant's loins and clings to one of the boulders that has emerged from beneath the sand due to the wind.

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　This was also Thor's destination.

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　With all the concentration he can muster, he searches for the past of the mass of rock he has grasped, to see what it was like before this happened.

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　Then he poured all his magical energy into it.

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　The next moment, Thor was in a place overlooking the hollow.

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　At his feet, a white mountain of rock rises up.

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　This was before the sandstorm incarnate, the monster.

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　And in front of him was the back of a giant who was curling his body and continuing to beat Garudo.

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　The thickness of the torso was clearly reduced, as could be seen from below.

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　It was probably due to the increase of four arms.

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　This was the chance that Thor had found.

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"Sae Frost!"

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　There was no way that the long-eared Yuril could have missed Garudo's exclamation as he unleashed his full power of martial arts.

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　The woman who had sensed the movement of Thor and the others was already chanting a new prayer in response.

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　The pure white mist that had been generated spread through the air and covered the giant monster's back.

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　The air creaked and froze in the blink of an eye.

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"Come in, Mr. Thor."

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　Seizing the opportunity, Thor kicked the rock at his feet with great force.

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　His body leaps high into the air, reaching just above the giant's back.

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　The giant's attention should have been focused on Garudo, but it seems that his frenzied phase was not so sweet.

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　Reacting to the presence that had come flying directly above them, a series of rolled-up rocks are shot into the sky.

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　The stones pierced through the frozen back and struck Thor like porcupine spines.

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　Thor quickly flaps his blue-striped cloak in mid-air.

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　His maximum defense was already in place before he jumped.

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　Small purple lightning bolts burst out from the cloak and bounce off the pebbles that are digging into the cloak.

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"Go, To-chan!"

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　The upper half of the monster's body is completely stopped by Yuril's magic.

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　This made it easy to see inside the torso.

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　A black mass appears to be floating in the center.

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　It is the spirit nucleus of the Storm Sand Giant.

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　Thor's sword breaks through the thin ice and runs toward the target.

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　The spell of the freezing fog is only near the surface, but for some reason the winds that should be swirling inside have stopped moving.

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"Now, Thor!"

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　As he jumps down, a white blade is swung down, cutting off even the wind.

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　A clear sound rang out.

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　A beat later, the black mass of the spirit nucleus shifts in half in the middle.

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　At the same time, the gathered wind is released in all directions.

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　Pushed by the wind, Thor's body, which had been leaping through the air, accelerates downward.

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　However, there was already a visitor at the landing point.

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　Garudo throws down his shield and opens his arms.

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　His arms catch the man as he falls.

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　The two men, half-naked and holding each other, gaze into the air, their armor broken.

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　Then, after confirming that the monster has completely vanished, they look at each other and quietly clench their fists together.

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"...... You did it, Thor. You did a great job of getting down on the ground."

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"Yeah, I think we got it all sorted out."

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　I look up and see Ulil and the others sitting in the middle of the slope.

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　When they noticed Thor's eyes on them, all three of them waved at me with exhausted faces.

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　It seems that they have run out of energy.

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"Where are you?　Where are you?　Cerce!"

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　Thor's head whipped around at the sudden cry.

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　A bearded guide was calling out to the few remaining boulders, as if searching for something.

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　It seems that the effects of his invincible martial arts have finally worn off, and his steps are unsteady and faltering.

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　Thor was about to approach and call out to them, when someone suddenly ran by him.

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　It was Saralisa, holding a lyre.

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　The player went to the middle of the hollow and plucked the strings lightly.

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　It was a technique called "Negative Sound Tuning" - a technique to distinguish the density of sand by the echoes of sound.

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　It seems, however, that she was not looking for a safe zone this time.

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　Her face changes color, and she rushes to one of the rocky debris.

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　She throws down her precious lyre and starts to wade through the sand as hard as she can.

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　Just as Thor and Garudo caught up with her, Saralisa seemed to have dug something.

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　As they get closer, it becomes clear.　

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　From beneath the sand emerged the skull of someone.

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　Something like dead grass clung to its empty eye sockets.

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　As soon as he noticed it, Garudo let out a guttural sound.

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"Oh, I knew it. ....... I knew it, I was too late."

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　Saralisa says nothing and moves the sand out of the way.

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　A bundle of seashells was entangled in the exposed white neckbone.

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　It was probably a decorative cord from which an adventurer's tag had been hung.

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　At the previous dinner, Saralisa had blurred the meaning of the conspicuous jewelry, but it was originally for this kind of confirmation.

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　Finally convinced that it was her sister, Saralisa stood up with a sob.

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　Then, for some reason, she pulled out the knife from her waistband.

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　Before she could stop herself, the blade, undulating in waves, was sucked into the abdomen of her brother-in-law, who was standing next to her.

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　Garudo lets out a muffled cry.

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　He reaches out for Thor, but Saralisa, glaring at him with her reddened eyes, stops him.

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"I told you. I told you not to get in the way of me avenging my sister's enemies.

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