Chapter 224 – Dragon’s Nest
#224.
“Big!”
Kagagagak!
Hirencia shed all of the jet-black strong energy that was attacking her with her graceful swordsmanship, and occasionally counterattacked, drawing attention.
At the time of the first attack, I blocked it head-on, but if I dealt with it like this, it was possible to withstand it.
In the meantime, the Knight Commander, who was looking for an opportunity, penetrated the moment a gap was revealed and left a big and small wound.
Of course, it was only regenerated and disappeared quickly due to demonic energy, but it was important that it had a consistent advantage in battle.
The current Gaon was unrivaled in terms of power, but it was remarkably behind in technology.
Straight line only. It only attacked in a straight line, ignorantly without reason, and only rushed at the person in front.
Hope dwelled on the faces of all the knights except for Hirencia, thinking that they could be easily defeated at this rate.
But that was just a hasty judgment.
Although weak, the Dragon’s ego was planted in the dragon’s heart. Now, Gaon was also controlled by it, and as time passed, he was gradually recovering his intelligence.
Of course, the level is still so low that I can’t even say a word, but the problem is that I’m learning through fighting.
Even if you can’t imitate the desperate swordsmanship, there’s only one. He sensitively sensed the hostility towards himself.
The demon’s essence is darkness. The opposite is light. With her ego swallowed, Gaon instinctively attacked the Platinum Knight fiercely, but ironically, she was aware that this woman was safe.
And all of her, except for her, are shedding their lives for him.
I want to be the first to kill the woman in front of me, but the situation is not good. If so, what should I do? Of course you have to change the order.
Just when a short thought flashed through my head, a long line of blood was drawn on my back by the leader, and a firm decision was made.
Kill him first
But how?
In its current state, no matter what you do, you can’t get rid of it. In the end, it means that you have to figure out the number of something. With his unformed intellect, he slowly rolled his head and pondered over a method. In his eyes, he saw Hirencia looking anxiously at him.
That’s it. You have to use that woman.
In an instant, the plan began to take shape. A very simple yet deadly plan of all.
Chew!
Another sword strike passed through his forearm. Even though he could have avoided it, he didn’t deliberately avoid it and looked at Hirencia while being attacked.
And looking at the scar on his forearm, he could be found biting his lips.
A smile formed on Gaon’s lips.
The battle after that was similar.
Following the gap where Gaon drew her attention to Hirencia, the leader attacks her gap, and when her gaze returns, she steps forward again to return her attention.
Gaon pretended to be swayed by the knights’ movements as if his learning ability had been castrated.
After a while, Gaon’s body was filled with so many wounds that it was impossible to cover them with his regenerative power.
Of course, the knights were not normal.
Due to the depletion of mana and stamina due to the long fight, the aura on the weapon had faded a lot.
At this rate, the regular members would be gone before 10 minutes had passed.
The captain shouted to boost morale.
“It’s not long now. Let’s all stay focused until the end! Got it?”
[Yes! Captain!]
The leader, who smiled contentedly at everyone’s answer, sent a telegram to Hirencia leaving a long scar on Gaon’s side.
– All members are exhausted. He’s getting stronger too. The fight can’t last long. I’ll cut off your life at once, so hold on to it with all your might.
-… Please send me pain free.
– I will.
Eventually, I had to come here.
Hirencia looked at Gaon with her eyes dripping with regret at the fact that she now had to say goodbye for real, but she firmly ate her heart and raised her sword.
“Haap!”
An incomparably brighter light burst from Hirencia’s sword. She drew out all of her auras for a short-term showdown.
As Hirencia grew up in the ducal family, the number of elixirs she ingested exceeded dozens. All of them have become part of her and are accumulated in the danteon, and are so vast that they will never be exhausted unless it is a very rare event.
As if to prove him, the aura that remained after covering her sword shimmered around her and exerted a strong presence.
A glow filled the dark dungeon.
“Aagh!”
Feeling a strong sense of rejection, Gaon immediately rushed in and delivered a blow.
Viscount Chow!
A jet-black river radiated from her fingernails and tore everything in its path.
The energy radiating from the dragon’s heart was huge beyond imagination, but it was useless if it didn’t hit.
Hirencia, with her miraculous swordsmanship, shed all of her shock and caught her gaze brilliantly.
‘Sorry. I’m so sorry.’
If there is any way, I want to save Gaon. However, no matter how much Hirencia thought about it, she couldn’t come up with a way to get rid of her demonic energy.
Gaon’s pupils were split vertically like those of reptiles, probably because the rate of union between the demonic dragon’s heart and body had increased.
Gradually, she is changing from what she used to know.
Kang! Kaga River!
The fight went on for a long time. The Knights also form their own formation and help, but in reality, Hirencia and Gaon. It was like a confrontation between the two.
In the meantime, the leader put all his energy into the sword and looked for gaps like a hyena aiming for prey.
At some point,
“Ahhh!”
“Kuaaa!”
Kwaaaaang-!
The two gigantic energies collided and created a tremendous repulsive force. Platinum and jet-black auras bit each other, and a light that made it hard to open my eyes exploded.
Just when everyone’s eyes were focused on one spot, the leader moved.
The predecessor of his family, the Linesis family, was the Assassination Guild. After becoming an aristocrat, he threw off his mask as an assassin, but his swordsmanship still carries that characteristic.
Sneaky and sharp
Like that evaluation, his raid was carried out without even the slightest sign.
It is almost impossible to detect in advance during such a mess, let alone a surprise attack that is difficult to notice even normally.
Even if it were to block this attack, it would not be able to withstand the cumulative shock and would reveal its gaps again.
Then it was enough to just push through and deal with it.
… That was my first mistake.
While continuing the battle with Hirencia, Gaon kept a close eye on the leader who was hovering around him, and deliberately exchanged attacks, revealing a huge gap.
It means that what the leader regarded as an opportunity was nothing more than a trap.
As if Gaon had waited, he immediately countered the leader’s attack.
Kaaang!
The spark of the aura flew and his sword bounced wide. The captain turned his body over and killed his backlash while using that strength to pierce his sword.
‘Chit! Is this for the best?’
He was facing the outstretched black heart.
Even if it was Gaon, he would die if he was hit in the brain, so he tried to aim there as much as possible, but due to the structure of his body, that was impossible.
Besides, if you’re aiming for the brain, there’s a high chance that you’ll recover the arm that bounced up and defend it.
All I can do now is to try to evade at best, but even then, the balance of my body will eventually collapse. If Hirencia and both sides immediately gave it a pass, I could surely kill it.
This is the second mistake.
Because Gaon had no intention of avoiding this attack to the heart from the beginning.
Woowook!
The leader’s sword easily pierced the dragon’s scales and penetrated deeply into his left chest.
Gaon, who had completely penetrated the sword and hung the blade behind his back, was pushed back by that force and took a few steps before stopping and lowering his head.
“Whoa, whoa!”
Breathing is rough. Since it was a series attack that squeezed almost all of the auras, it consumed a lot of stamina. The captain tried to pull out the sword.
Tuuk!
That is if Gaon’s arm hadn’t held him.
“No… !?”
“Queuck!”
Gaon burst into a wild laugh and then slashed the dragon’s claws formed with strong air toward the leader’s heart as if he had suffered himself.
With his hand held, there is no escape. His only hope is to end his life before then. The only person who could do that was Hirencia.
She knew it too.
But knowing it with your head and putting it into practice are two different things.
‘I have to kill him?’
Because of the pressure of having to end Gaon’s life with my own hands and the string of hope that I still can’t let go of, I hesitated for a very short time, close to an instant.
And that hesitation had irreversible consequences.
Woowook!
“Cuck!”
Kang Ki’s claws pierced the captain’s chest and protruded from behind. A heart that was beating hard was held in his hand.
“Turn off, turn off… Sugar… Page… !”
The captain squeezed out all his strength before he died. I have to kill this monster. You are the only one who can do that. You shouldn’t miss this opportunity.
In response to her unspoken will, Hirencia twisted her stained face with regret and swung her sword.
Kaaang!
And she was easily thrown out.
Gaon laughed fiercely as he deflected the attack in such a way that it was impossible to see that the most important organ called the heart had been hit.
While facing that smile, Hirencia realized it belatedly.
“It had two hearts.”
One is the human heart Gaon used to possess. The other was the heart of a demonic dragon that contained an enormous amount of demonic energy.
As I calmed down and listened, I felt a strong heartbeat coming from the right side of my chest.
Why didn’t I know this until now?
There is no need to worry about it. Because I couldn’t hear it, of course. What I heard now was nothing more than what he, Gaon, was deliberately telling.
That you guys were fooled It’s nothing but a futile thing to do.
I was saying that.
Gaon, who had been looking around the knights mockingly for a while, brushed off his hand.
Whiik- Cheolpudeok!
Then, the leader’s corpse, which had been threaded there like a skewer, rolled powerlessly across the floor. He doesn’t even move as if he’s already stopped breathing.
“Everything, everything, Captain… !”
“Oh, no. Wrong!”
Only then did the knights who faced the reality fall into a panic. Everyone lost their will to fight and began to withdraw in fear.
Gaon attacked them.
From then on, what happened was no longer a fight, but a one-sided slaughter by predators against their prey.
