Episode 1124 Beyond Limits (2)
Leonhardt lost everyone in Tyr Village except for his mother and younger sister to a plague.Uncle Roland, his neighbor and practically a benefactor, also died saving him. The Bloodcry Plague became the catalyst for the Holy Sword choosing the Saint.
Mr. Adrian… …
Due to my trauma, I absolutely could not accept the order not to care if allies became infected, yet I could not readily refuse. Thiswas because I could feel how heavy and solemn the judgment Adrian had chosen was.
[Regret stems from choices.]
A sharp energy spread.
[I will teach you what a great blessing it is to be chosen.]
Rakdion completely erased his presence and raced into the battlefield where the two legions were clashing. Adrian immediately pursued him while Eres was getting up.
If you lose sight of it, it cannot be reversed.
With no presence detected, one must rely solely on sight. Sky-blue eyes flicker. Violet afterimages split into even more fragments. The momentit catches up to Rakdion, a single streak of sword energy changes direction and slices through space.
The swords crossed.
Rakdion’s movements stopped. The two stood there in the middle of the battlefield. The soldiers near Adrian gaped in surprise.
“The enemy commander…… *Cough*!”“Ugh, *Gasp*……!”
Those with weak resistance were infected by the cold and quickly breathed their last. Leaving their brief deaths behind, Adrian kicked to the left and right.Countless thrusts from the swaying tip of his sword surged toward Rakdion.
Kagagagagagagagang!
The Sword of Conquest moved subtly, efficiently blocking his offensive. Rakdion stepped forward. With the aftermath of the shock, he sliced through the diagonal line. Heparried it, but his center of gravity was disrupted as the ground shook.
A murderous glare pierced my neck.
Adrian’s neuromuscular system expanded.
Tsk-tsk─────!
As the blade of conquest grazed in a straight line, the surface of the armor froze. He maximized his momentum with his upper body fully arched back.Adrian, shot out like an arrow, spun and traversed Rakdion’s body to the other side, and before anyone realized it, he had reversed his grip on the sword.
A new sword mark appeared on the commander’s armor.
It was the very moment when Lachdion ignored this and manifested his power.
Boom!
[?!]
Rakdion staggered from a sword strike that flew from behind and very close. As he turned his gaze behind him, he caught sight of a purple rift etched in the air slowly closing.
Adrian’s sword energy has been refined a little more delicately.
Now I’m starting to… get the hang of it a little.
A new realm of the martial arts world, half-entered during the battle with Gareth Cirilliard. As he immersed himself in speed, the flow of ki he instinctively controlled began to take root in his body in earnest.
The light sword turned reddish from the friction heat.
The sword strike Adrian unleashed like lightning sliced through the very air, and as a unique energy lingered along its path, the sword mark became fixed. Asit transformed back into sword energy according to Adrian’s will, the successive severance of the spatial realm created a landscape that appeared as if the field of vision were being split.
Adrian alone inflicted direct damage on Lachdion.
However, technology that is not yet mature.
Even though it created a new current, it was insufficient to break the flow led by Rakdion. The level of perfection of the realm did not measure up to that.
My breath.
Adrian felt excruciating pain as if his lungs and muscles were burning. It was a physical overheating he had never experienced before. His legs were lifted off the ground.Even in that state, he twisted his body in mid-air to avoid a direct hit.
Thump!
The moment his body stiffened, a flying gauntlet struck his side. Adrian, who had tenaciously thrust his sword into the ground, did not take his eyes off Lachdion.
To think I’m siding with that choice.
Lachdion deflected the holy sword aimed at his lower body, wrapped it around, and brought it down. Leonhardt trembled and pushed away the Sword of Conquest.
[Resistance. If there is a most terrible plague, it would be that.]
“Embrace the cold, [Nibis].”
Eres recited one of the activation words.The Frost Sword swung horizontally.The space surrounding Rakdion froze in an instant.
“Graaaah!”“Haaah!”
Grizwall and the Mountain King charged and crashed into Rakdion with their whole bodies.Ice shards flew and pushed him far behind.
“Luas!”
Leonhardt rose and aimed the Holy Sword. Vice-Captain Benheim of the Holy Order also returned to the battlefield, offering a prayer with his greatsword.
Flash!
A bright yellow flash exploded.
Purification for the undead.Healing for humanity under the goddess’s protection.
“Oh, Luas!!”
Kwagwagwagwagwagwagwa!
The radiance became a massive pillar that reached the edge of the sky of the Four Gates world.Transcendent divine power pressed down on Rakdion.
The battlefield to subdue Rakdion was originally separated from the legions, but as you can see, they have now completely intermingled.The spread of infection is inevitable.The wider the hosts move, the greater the exposure the Allied Forces will have to the plague of cold.
“Pfft.”
Karans, Triton, and Castian recovered from the shock and immediately joined forces. In the sky, Rateon and Layla landed one after another using the
“Phew…”“Phew, you managed to dodge the interception.”
Wiping away his cold sweat and saying he was quite lucky, Lateon asked Adrian.
“Many will die. But that’s probably the only way the most can live.”“…….”“What should we do?”
Adrian answered.
Create opportunities.
There is only one way to create even the slightest chance against Rachdion: to sacrifice one’s life. Adrian effectively demanded death from them.
Of course, I didn’t feel uncomfortable or repulsed.
Since no one among them had willingly taken on danger as much as Adrian, this was Adrian’s way of asking them for a favor.
That’s unlike you, saying something pointless.
Rateon raised his shield.The others also gripped their weapons in unison.
That’s our role, by nature.
The sacred pillar vanished, and Lachdion straightened his bent upper body. Pale smoke rose from various parts of his body, but his deceit and malice remained immeasurably thick.
* * *
There was a presence cutting through the undead legion. I felt as though I would be crushed by their malevolent presence and immense magical power, but I did not stop and continued to move forward.As I approached the rear of the legion, I saw undead of a different caliber hurling magic or monstrous abilities at the Allied Forces.
An undead creature with no fewer than six arms is sitting on a throne made up of zombies. There were two more undead creatures exuding a similar sinister aura.
Special entity… … !
Rebecca felt a chill run down her spine as she witnessed several powerful magical beings.Unable to even meet their eyes, she lowered her gaze.
Elemar’s director said.
“I’ll say it again: as long as you don’t move more than 29.3 meters away from me, you won’t be caught.”“Yes, sure.”
Even though they were conversing openly, the undead appeared completely oblivious. They failed to perceive not only the sound but even the sight.
Ethan muttered.
“This is the artifact of the first Demon King…….”
National Treasure of the Arkenad Magic Kingdom [Veil of Oblivion].
The moment one enters the Veil, all sense of presence is completely concealed. Outsiders cannot detect any trace of appearance, smell, sound, temperature, ki, magical power, or divine power.It is one of the legendary treasures of the Magic Kingdom that even modern magic has not been able to fully decipher. Of course, almost no one knows about it.
“I know I’m asking now, but is it really permissible to reveal such a… rare artifact to us?”“His Majesty the Demon King has given permission.After all, Eon is part of the same family as the Demon Kingdom.” “H-part of the same family?”
The wizards of Eon were flustered. And understandably so, as almost no one knew what conversation the Seven Great Demon Kings and Verden had had.
Unlike them, Elemar were mages who were allowed to receive that information, and even to observe the magical battles between the 8th-rank transcendents.
“You will find out later why His Majesty was able to make the bold decision to deploy as many as ‘two’ national treasures of the Magic Kingdom.”
The commander of Elemar drew a staff engraved with a supreme octagonal star. The inverted cone crystal reflected in the eyes of the special forces.It was of enormous size.It was far more massive than Delharun’s Four Gates. As befitting the source of the Four Gates, an incomprehensible ominousness, difficult to fully express in words, seemed to brush against the skin.
It must be precise yet swift.
Rebecca took a deep breath and took out the magic splitting chain device.
The outcome depends on us.
* * *
A loud roar rang out.
Kwaaang──────!
The aftermath of the battle affected both the World Alliance and the Xerion Empire. The divine sword energy that flew north exploded, obliterating over a thousand undead.
“Gasp! Gasp…!”“Der, no! Noooo! Aaaargh!”“Damn it, the plague is spreading rapidly!”
As the spread of the cold gradually accelerated, casualties mounted in the Allied Forces, both at the front and in the rear center. Despite the immediate reorganization of the corps, the sight of hundreds of infected men suffering and dying was etched before their eyes.
Lachdion responded toAdrian’s resolute determination with vicious malice.
Instead of confronting head-on, he traversed the battlefield while passively counterattacking, allowing the hosts pursuing him to infect his own allies.The more he did so, the weaker Rakdion became, yet he nevertheless devoted all his strength to spreading the infection.
[7,134 people as of now.]
The blade twists.
[How many must die before one regrets the choice?]
Adrian leaped, struck the blade with his heel, and swung it widely while gripping the end of the handle. The lightsaber, which nearly sliced through his face, grazed the armor and sparks flew.
Bang!
Leonhardt rushed forward and cut off Lachdion’s sword strike with his body.
Success followed.
The punitive force pressed on, but they could not catch Lachdion as he deliberately executed evasive maneuvers. Even if he risked his life, he could not create an opportunity if he acted that way.
Time was not on the side of the alliance.
It was then.
Rakdion threw his long sword. It was not a precise trajectory, so it was not difficult to dodge. However, it was not aimed at the extermination squad.
Tukwak!
A Guardian Elf’s spine was pierced. Before he could even look back, he turned into an ice statue and soon shattered into pieces.
Karans felt as if something was snapping.
All elves prioritize their own kind above all else.
“Aros!!!!!!”“Karans, stop!”
Despite Adrian’s attempts to dissuade him, Karans closed the distance, spreading the energy of nature. A curved sword path, difficult to read, wound its way.
Lachdion measured the gap.
Whoosh!
One of Karans’s thighs was split in half, and his right arm was severed.Elf blood splattered.
[A loser’s child, of all people.]
Bang.
Karans did not fall but bent his legs and grabbed the man’s wrist. Then, with his other hand, he thrust the blade in with all his might.
[… … !!]
Do not underestimate the elves.
The light sword pierced Karance’s torso. Beyond it, Rakdion’s neck was split open. The blade of the light sword narrowly missed Karance’s vital spot.In an instant, Adrian shattered Lysandro’s fruit potion, poured it onto the severely wounded Karance, and immediately threw him to the rear.
It was a planned move.
Karans turned his uncontrollable emotions against him to create an opportunity, and Rakdionessentially took the bait he threw.
“It is impossible. For an elf not to lose their reason even at the death of their own kind. How much more so for a Guardian Elf.”
Lachdion paused.
‘What is this… filthy energy imbued in this sword, which is closer to a Destroyer of Fate than Mother Nature?’
As he observed Karans flying far away while unconscious, he came to understand the cause of a strange phenomenon that should never have occurred to a normal elf.
[The connection with the World Tree is severed──]
Adrian twisted his lightsaber 90 degrees and firmly anchored it to the center of his neck. *Crack!* Although the blood vessels in one eye had all burst from the punch, he did not move a single step.
Leonhardt the arm holding the Sword of Conquest.Leila the shoulder with the power of the Great Demon.Eres the left calf while chanting the activation word.Grizwall and Castian the remaining arms with brute force.Benheim and the Mountain King the right thigh.
After 37,215 people died from the cold contagion, Lachdion was suppressed once.
Triton unleashed the Seal of Resonance, weakening the space surrounding Rakdion once again. Rateon cast aside his sword, grasped his shield with both hands, and leaped.
The tip of the shield aimed at the end of the sword handle that Karance had thrust in. It was penetrating Lachdion’s ball at an angle.
Kwaaang──────!
After 40,103 people died from the cold contagion, Lachdion’s lower jaw was blown off.
