Episode 789 Blood Alliance (5)
The twilight of dawn has receded.
The winter morning sunlight began to shine brightly through the windows into the hallway, but despite the warmth, the tense atmosphere remained.
Embarrassment.
The assassins of the Blood Alliance involuntarily swallow, twitch their eyes, and break out in a cold sweat. Even Landerk looks visibly tense.
Romer kept twitching his lips, and eventually, unable to hold back, he spoke.
“Looks like you guys are all screwed?”“…….”
At the insolent mockery, Landerck was instantly filled with murderous intent. It had been a long time since someone had made him uncomfortable with such cheap language in a situation like this.Of course, given his experience, he showed no outward signs of it and focused on the divine being who had suddenly appeared.
I couldn’t sense any vitality. It’s not just that they’ve drastically lowered their presence… What is this?
Even though my magical senses aren’t fully intact right now because my power is dispersed among the pathogens, to be caught from behind so easily…
Is it spatial manipulation?Or an artifact?
I have absolutely no clue how on earth they approached this. Even with the magical knowledge accumulated over hundreds of years, there was not enough information to make a judgment.
What is the Divine Magic in the first place?
Judging by his past actions, he enjoyed using various elemental magic, so his magic must inevitably be specialized in the elemental category as well… … .
Of course, it is too early to judge.
The actions of the new star that we have been watching so far are unconventional in many ways, but beyond that, nothing has been revealed about his background.
It is extremely insidious.
So, Landerck had deceived the gaze of the Luas religion, even if only for a moment, and allocated one pathogen.In return, the resource consumption of the artifact was somewhat high, but it was a worthwhile loss if it could reveal even a little of the hidden part of the divinity.
How could he extract the maximum benefit from the encounter with the Divine here? It was the moment when Landerck was deep in thought for a fleeting instant, divided into seconds.
Divine Verden, seeing through the inner thoughts of the intruders with insight, asked.
“Is it the glory of the dead?”“Yes.”
Melad affirmed.
Landerck relaxed his stiff expression and greeted him leisurely.
“They say he is Landerk of Manyeon.”“I never asked you.”
The space stirred slightly.
Landerk stepped back without ignoring the nerve-wracking sense of crisis and put the assassins of the Blood Alliance he had brought forward.
“Try to block it.”“Yaaaaaa!”
The Blood Alliance’s ‘Slaughter Knight,’ wielding a halberd in both hands, charged straight in. Although letting out a shout was completely out of place in the context of an assassination, it was unavoidable as it erupted from physical instinct.
Regular Strike
The halberd soaring high into the sky sliced straight through vertically. It was the most destructive of his skills precisely because of its simplicity.
Then, a purple line flashed.
The Knight of Slaughter split diagonally. Neither the armor nor the sword could withstand it for even a moment, splitting cleanly as if it had always been that way.
Landerck increased his vision.
A knight commander of a nation couldn’t even react, let alone resist. Is that extreme cutting power an application of the 7th-tier spatial magic,
It is highly likely to be spatial-based magic. It might even be a diverse form of magic that encompasses all other elemental types.
Even though the Knight of Slaughter was killed in a single blow, there was no significant disturbance.The Blood Alliance officers, whose mental realms had been deeply interfered with by Landerck, had their fear of biological death completely eradicated.
Accepting death not as an end but as a temporary state, they ignored the falling corpse of the slaughter knight and drew up their energy and magic power.
‘Sirabin’, a 6th-rank mid-level female mage of the Buyeo lineage, opened her magic.’The Murderer of Iville’, wearing an iron chain infused with the highest-grade metal, took the left side, and ‘Roeng’, a former executive of the Adventurer’s Guild headquarters, took the right side.Finally, ‘Terk’ and ‘Tork’, brothers from the Free State of Formene with a bounty of 1.3 billion Elk on their heads, deliberately took the front line late.
Space domination.
At the same time, Verden advanced while establishing its own territory.
“uh?”
The murderer of Iville who was closest to him was instantly killed as he was split into pieces smaller than a slaughter knight as soon as he felt an unknown anomaly in his body.
Tsukakakakak.
In contrast, Roen, who had barely managed to avoid the severance of space itself, swept the floor with his knee and used the momentum to strike his sword upward.
Verden grabbed the blade with his fingers.
“……!”
Roeng immediately dropped his weapon and created distance with dazzling acrobatic movements, but Verden was much faster. This was becauseVerden’s physical abilities surpassed those of a typical transcendent being in the magic realm.
*Pow*
The moment Roeng’s foot touched the hallway, Verden’s fingertips grazed his neck. Half of his prayer was gone in the blink of an eye.
“Ugh, ugh, choke.”
Roen clutched the hollow half of his neck and desperately parted his lips.It seemed that Landerk’s mental interference had worn off with the recent blow, but no one cared about Roen’s last words.
Gongpa
Immediately afterwards, a shock wave swept through the space.
*Pow*
“……What, what.”
Shirabin immediately dropped her staff and clutched her chest. She couldn’t breathe. She realized that her body was too silent.She couldn’t hear her heartbeat.Her heart had burst.There was no way Shirabin’s frail resistance could have dared to withstand magic that had inflicted significant damage even on Dahit and Ishur.
dump.
Shirabin collapsed.
Even though four people, including the Knight of Slaughter, had died in that brief moment, Terk and Tork targeted Verden’s head and legs, respectively.
Fear causes the body to shrink, but it is by no means useless. The fact that fear is a primal emotion of living beings stems from the need for survival.This is because one cannot ultimately survive by merely charging in without running away.
Terk’s lungs were crushed in a way he hadn’t realized. Terk, who had sliced through the air, looked to the side and glared.
“Brother──”
Gravity surged beneath Torok’s head.Crunch.His neck shattered into pieces.
The moment Verden, who was on a bounty hunt for the first time in a long while, stood facing Landerk, someone silently ambushed him from behind.
I’ll cut off my nerves first.
‘Krylo’, the third-in-command of the current Grimnax, an assassin group in continental politics. He was a natural-born assassin who had never once been deprived of his position since birth.
Opening up
A short, serrated dagger held in a reverse grip was aimed at Verden’s spine.A confident strike.His experience had whispered that it was impossible to perfectly dodge, even for a transcendent being… but unfortunately, a lifetime of experience was not always right.
Because Krillo had never attempted to assassinate a transcendent being.
Ss
The skill missed.
Verden, utilizing a
Phew.
Krillo, who had been pierced from the back of his head to the space between his eyebrows by a single spiral of space, glared with eyes filled with astonishment and soon knelt down.
Verden, having lightly flicked his finger to remove the guy’s corpse, looked down at Landerck from a distance of about two steps.
“Is this the pathogen Isabella spoke of? It is akin to a kind of split.”“If it weren’t for the pathogen, I certainly wouldn’t have come looking for it. I know how to know my place, too. Even if I’m not afraid of death, invading a Transcendent’s domain in my true form to get killed is not part of my plan.”
Landerck smiled without wiping the blood and brain fluid of Krillo from his face.His clean teeth were stained with blood.
“By the way, seeing your spatial magic made me curious about something…… Do you happen to have any connection to the Kernoden family?”“…….”
Verde did not answer, nor did he change his expression. He simply stared blankly at the other person, as if observing.
Regardless, Landerck continued speaking.
“I have seen a form of spatial magic similar to yours before. Sheorn Kernoden. He is a Spatial Transcendent, a rarity even among the Transcendents of the Magic Realm. To be honest, I have come to suspect that you have inherited his legacy.”“…….”“It is no wonder, considering it is rare for mages to have overlapping magical styles; for a Transcendent to possess such magical commonalities… Isn’t this too coincidental to be dismissed as a mere coincidence? Huh?”
Landerck began to test Verden with a very confident attitude. That audacity stemmed from his conviction in his magic that, even if he died, it would only result in the disappearance of a single pathogen.
Divine power is specialized in space. Yet, the fact that it primarily used other elemental magic must be interpreted as a smokescreen to conceal its full power. Above all… … it is stronger than we originally anticipated. Both magically and physically.
It is on a completely different level from when I risked my life hunting the Bone Dragon in the Republic of Beldirn. Even though I have awakened as a Transcendent, the rise in my level has far exceeded expectations.
It is a growth rate that is hard to believe considering he became a transcendent being just last year.
Is it pure talent?Or is it something else?
I couldn’t know for sure, but just personally confirming that he was distinctly different from a typical transcendent being of the magic world was an invaluable gain.
The plan succeeded.
Landerck decided that it did not matter if the pathogen died like this. So, he stroked his beard with a sense of complete composure.Whatever reaction the Divine Being showed, it would be conveyed as information.
It was then.
“No matter how much you divide the main body, there is only one life.”“What do you mean?”“Because the essence is ultimately one as well.”
Verden grabbed Landerk’s shoulder.The Magic of Destruction.Destructive magical power raced through the magic circuit.
You’re the same way.
Ruin
A dark red light flickered between Verden’s palm and Landerk’s shoulder. Landerk opened his eyes wide at the sudden stimulation.Instinctively, a scream that wasn’t in his head burst out from deep within his throat.
“Ugh, Aaaaaaaah!”
Landerk knelt down. Sweating profusely, he tried to shake off Verden’s hand, but it wouldn’t budge.
Unbearable pain, as if tearing through every nerve in the body and ripping it to shreds, was being inflicted upon all the fragments.
“Ugh…!! W-how… completely blocking the split body’s senses… how is this even possible in the first place, Aaaa
Landerk’s arm was torn off.He had torn it off himself.Landerk had barely managed to break free from his restraints, but before he could do anything, the back of his neck was crushed hard by Verden’s foot.
The essence began to be destroyed once again.
“Aaaaaaaah!”
The composure Landerck had displayed while facing various transcendent beings vanished. Even though he was not afraid of death, he could not escape this sensation.
Dangerous… …?
Something is different.
I have a hunch that if I remain exposed like this for too long, something beyond the body will be damaged forever. My survival instinct, dulled to the limit, screams at me to get out of there immediately.
I can’t hold out on this.
Landerck used another split body to open the magic to its extreme again. Bleeding from his eyes, nose, and ears, and foaming at the mouth, he forcibly damaged the magic at the cost of his life.
Ping──
My head spun once.
Landerck lowered his head. Then, the body of the split entity slowly scattered and soon vanished without a trace due to the destruction of Verden.
Verden sensed his surroundings.
My presence has completely vanished.
Verden, having confirmed that there were no other intruders in Arrain Fortress, calmed the magic circuit and brought the situation to an end.
Silence fell.
I’ve become stronger.
Melad, realizing that Verden had grown magically, asked cautiously.
“Welcome, Shinseong. By the way, is he dead?”“He escaped before then. He probably isn’t unharmed, though.”
I struck him just as I had previously attacked the main body through Gluttony’s leader’s clone, but since the method was not yet perfect, a one-hit kill was impossible.
Still, it caused enough damage.
It seems you are handling the undead forces without much difficulty. Experience in warfare like this is rare, so we can wait and see a little longer.
Verden, having examined the current state of the Arain fortress walls, shifted his gaze. Aldanis and Romer, whose eyes met his, spoke hurriedly.
“Welcome.”“Oh, welcome!”“Right.”
Verden nodded and spoke in a low voice.
Report what happened while Isabella was away.
With this, Verden returned to the continent.
