The World’s Strongest "Sword God" Unconsciously Dominates While Believing Himself to Be a Low-Level Swordsman ~A Story of a Man Who Was Reincarnated in Another World With Zero Magical Power, but Due to a Mistake by the Goddess, Ended up Training for a Thousand Years and, Before He Knew It, Had Become the World’s Strongest~ - Chapter 3
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- Chapter 3 - I Tried Mastering the Sword
One thousand years.
That’s right, a thousand years.
Not one hundred years, not two hundred years, but one thousand years.
I spent that entire period in the [Time-Space Interval].
I haven’t counted the number of times my heart almost broke since it surpassed ten thousand.
While waiting for the helping hand extended by Aristia, I continued to swing my sword mindlessly.
I should look back on the events that led me to this point.
“Hah! Hiss! Hah!”
Around the time fifty years had passed, I became able to unleash two or more sword flashes with a single swing.
Another hundred years later, that number began to exceed ten.
Even so, I still haven’t heard from Aristia.
Around three hundred years later, I decided to switch my consciousness and retrain my fundamentals.
I put down the sword for now and focus solely on improving physical abilities.
As a result of spending about two hundred years on it, I had become capable of moving at speeds akin to teleportation and even running through the sky by kicking off from the space around me.
Around the time five hundred years had passed, I decided to take up the sword once again.
By that time, the concept of fatigue had already vanished from within me, and I continued to swing my sword without taking any rest.
The moment when the number of sword flashes exceeded a thousand and could fill the entire [Time-Space Interval] was a thousand years after coming here.
――That day, I had a strange conviction.
“…Today, strangely, the sword feels more comfortable in my hand than usual.”
This feeling, similar to this, has occurred many times over the past thousand years.
At such times, I always managed to overcome a major obstacle in the near future.
In other words, this is a kind of omen.
It’s the very intuition that I can break through my limits once again.
“However, this time it’s a bit different from usual.”
If the previous times felt like climbing just one step of a staircase, this time it feels like a powerful certainty that I might leap over more than a hundred steps all at once.
I intuitively understood that an unprecedented breakthrough awaited me.
“Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.”
Taking a deep breath, I raise the sword high with both hands.
When I closed my eyes as they were, I quietly “waited for that moment.”
How many hours――no, days, months――have passed in that position?
For that entire time, I continued to focus without breaking my concentration.
And finally, that moment has come…
“―――――”
Following an intuitive inspiration as if lightning had struck me, I simply swung the sword down powerfully and straight.
The blade surpassed the speed of sound, and then even the speed of light――slicing through the [Time-Space Interval].
“…I did it.”
Just one swing――
However, that single swing held a value that surpassed all the hundreds of billions swung up to that point combined.
I slowly open my eyes.
Then, there was something astonishing there.
“This is… a Time-Space Distortion?”
Yes. That was the very distortion I passed through when I entered the [Time-Space Interval] a thousand years ago.
I nod, deeply moved upon seeing that scene.
“I see. So, this time has finally come.”
And then, I said this with conviction.
“――So, with this, I have finally gained enough strength to defeat low-level monsters!”
No doubt about it. This distortion is the best evidence of all.
It’s precisely because I’ve acquired that level of skill that Aristia has finally prepared a distortion to take me out of here.
Upon closer inspection, it seems that the distortion leads to another world.
Perhaps that is another world. Aristia probably wants to say to step into the other world through the distortion.
I feel a bit sad that she didn’t come to pick me up in person, but right now, my heart is filled with even more excitement and joy.
“Finally. Finally, I can leave the [Time-Space Interval] and go to another world!”
Of course, for someone like me who has trained for a thousand years and still only possesses low-level power, the other world would be a harsh and brutal environment.
Even so, it must be a hundred times better than spending time alone in such an empty space.
“Alright, I’m off.”
As I bid farewell to the [Time-Space Interval], I took a step towards a brilliant future――
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The moment Aristia sensed the anomaly was a little over a month after the search for Yuuri had begun.
“What on earth is this!? Suddenly, I felt an enormous reaction coming from a part of the Time-Space Interval…”
After much deliberation, Aristia decided to head to the place where the reaction had occurred.
Even though there were no clues to begin with, any slight sense of discomfort was precious to her.
“Ah! I did it, there’s no doubt that I sent Yuuri-san here… Huh?”
Such was Aristia’s correct judgment, and she successfully arrived at the [Time-Space Interval] where she had sent Yuuri.
However――
Now, what lay before her was not Yuuri’s figure, but an empty space with only a vast distortion leading to another world remaining.
Faced with that scene, Aristia fell into confusion.
“H-huh? Where is Yuuri-san? No, more importantly, why is the gate open? It doesn’t seem like the one I opened… Wait, could it be?”
At that moment, a possibility finally emerges within Aristia.
“Could it be… Yuuri-san opened this gate with his own hands!?”
However, Aristia quickly shakes her head.
“N-no, that’s impossible. There’s no way Yuuri-san, who doesn’t have any magical power, could do something like that. But then, what on earth is this gate…”
First and foremost, she should confirm.
Thinking that, Aristia headed towards the distortion gate, but――
“Ah, ah! Please wait!”
――To make matters worse, the gate had just closed.
With this, she can’t even tell where the gate was connected to.
Aristia instinctively clutched her head with both hands.
“…Where on earth have you gone!? Yuuri-san~!”
Anyway, in this way.
For a little while longer, the search for Yuuri by Aristia was set to continue.