Chapter 370 – Under the Mask
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The sword cuts through the air.
Over and over again.
Without fulfilling the role of cutting flesh and cutting bones, as if it were a tool for dancing.
The only thing the blade could grasp was the air that smelled of the fishy smell of blood.
Stepping lightly, the masked woman of the Exiled Church landed on the floor a few steps away from Cleon.
The magic-eating sword that couldn’t even reach the end of the robe was howling in anger.
Cleon squinted her eyes as he stared at her untapped body and shut her mouth.
While Amelia buys her time her, and Layla prepares her magic her, Cleon has been thinking of doing something with the Exiled Church.
She seems to be using spatial distortion magic in real time, so the sword can’t reach it even at a distance where it’s obviously “Hit”, And even if she uses magic, her body becomes transparent as if it doesn’t interfere with anything, then returns to normal.
Considering that it was a spiritual body, the magical energy wrapped around the magic-eating sword had the power to cut through the spiritual body without any problems.
Still can’t catch it…
[Cleon, did you notice?]
“…Yes. Apparently, it seems that ‘my side’ has a problem.”
Cleon sensed a slight disconnect between her own body, her senses her, and her perception of her.
The problem is the time difference between ‘reality’ and ‘sense’.
Regarding what happened in reality, there was a very minute difference – even if it was expressed in numbers, even if it was counted as seconds, there was a gap between decimal places.
When her opponent’s ability to manipulate space is added to the difference in sense, it is also explained that Cleon’s sword always cuts through the air.
The magic doesn’t work for the same reason.
[The guy stopped trying to do something to your body, but the effect itself seems to have remained.]
“It seems like that. Even if you try to react to the opponent’s movement, it’s difficult to hit a valid attack if you don’t close the gap.”
[I want to do something for you, but… I’m also possessed by Cleon’s body of her, so I’m fully affected by you…]
Cleon nodded at Illenu’s angry voice, but-
[If you lose concentration while your senses are delayed, this is what happens. Magic Swordsman Cleon.]
Right after that, when he hears the voice behind him, he quickly turns around and distances himself.
Just before her hand her barely touched her body her on her own her, she was able to fall with her her.
A slender, white hand extended from the end of the sleeve of the robe, and she headed for the mask that was wearing it.
[Bewildered…]
As if covering her mouth and laughing, she fired a cheap taunt at Cleon.
But Cleon wasn’t taken aback, taking a deep breath and constantly spinning her head with the thought of somehow resolving this adverse situation.
[Even if it’s a magic swordsman in the world, you can’t catch a human like me without that magic sword. That must be your limit.]
“Galatea is too expensive to cut down on a woman like you. I don’t want her to be her cheap sword her.”
When Cleon responded, she laughed and looked up at the sky.
[Incarnation magic … You became her wedge her. They are too. Certainly the same face, even if they are the same beings, in the end they are other people in another world. He must be a different human than the one he was in love with, but to allow his body her so easily.]
[You talk a lot. Do you really want to tear us apart that much and break Cleon’s mentality?]
Illenu’s voice was inaudible to her, but the woman of the Church of Exile did not stop and continued to speak with her mouth open.
[You are you too. The magical energy needed to return to the original world could have been managed somehow with the wedge – Thunderbolt Mjolnir obtained after defeating the Thunder Lord. If the young princess had asked the Frost Queen she met, she would have been able to return without suffering.]
Perhaps she is trying to make Cleon regret it, so she quietly tells Cleon about her story about her.
[Pretending to be a good human being now… Even if you do that, the karma that the soul carries will not disappear.]
The Exiled Church says something significant. The first thing that came to Cleon’s mind when he heard that was, of course, ‘Emperor of the Magic Sword’.
“──You. Who are you?”
[…Whoops. Well, who could it be? At least a person who has nothing to do with ‘you now’. Let’s say it.]
Cleon’s words turned expectations into certainties.
[…What are you talking about?]
Apparently, Cleon, who was traveling with Illenu, did not investigate the truth about his past life and soul.
When Illenu asked Cleon a question, Cleon kept his mouth shut for a while before answering.
“It’s a story that my previous life was the ‘Emperor of the Demonic Sword’. I reincarnated many times, and I was a member of the dark demon family that had a bad influence on the world. … I think I was a villain who carried out massacres in my previous life.”
[Are you the type to believe that?]
Cleon shrugs her shoulders at Illenu’s shocking words and continues his hard expression on her. Illenu sighs and looks at Cleon.
[Then, what is it? That woman has a grudge against the demon sword emperor, so she’s bullying Cleon?]
“That’s how it will be. This is also karma.”
After hearing Cleon’s answer to Illenu, the Church of Exile looked at Cleon and talked.
[You seem to know. How sinful she is. And how many have been sacrificed for your soul.]
“Yeah. It’s because I heard the explanation directly from the being who made it that way.”
[…
When Cleon answered, she shut her mouth for a moment.
Within seconds she slowly put her hand on her own head.
And when you hear her teeth her clattering-
[Then. Why don’t you commit suicide… Demon Sword Emperor…! Because of you… The world…! Mother…!]
Seeing her not showing much emotion other than ridicule and ridicule, Cleon quietly shut her mouth.
[The face that says it has nothing to do with me… Huhu, that’s right. No matter how much you wear the mask of a sage, your soul is stained with incurable darkness. So, it must have rebelled against the utopia that the father of all things desired, and became an obstacle to his plans many times.]
“The utopia he wants to create, he controls all of humanity and puts it under his control.”
When Cleon said that, the woman stepped on the ground and responded furiously.
[That’s what utopia is! Humans, if not controlled, make mistakes over and over again! War, terrorism, assassination, robbery, crime…! That everything was born out of human disorder…! And- that you are the incarnation of that disorder…!]
At her answer her, Cleon let out a big sigh.
“All of those things must be your own thoughts. You are the ones who pushed a person, a country, or sometimes a race into the rift of another dimension for your own purposes. Aren’t you the one who is disrupting the order the most?”
[…
“Certainly, I’m not that pure of a human being. There were times when I got involved in others for personal revenge, and there were times when I tricked people. I killed my teacher with my own hands. I even took the life of a friend’s precious person. Certainly, my It must be hell where souls must fall.”
As Cleon ruminated and talked to himself, his power into the sword he held grew stronger.
“But, that’s my fault. It’s Cleon’s fault, not Cain, the Demon Sword Emperor. I understand that you hold grudge against me. You can’t forgive me… But. I’ll answer that I’m not the Demon Sword Emperor. If you continue to be hostile and endanger my comrades.”
The sluggish sensation slowly returns.
As his throbbing heart his supplied magic power and blood to his entire body at the same time, Cleon felt his eyes sharpen.
At the end of her swaying focus, she could see her looking at herself in pain as she listened to Cleon’s words of his, clutching at the hem of her robe on her chest of her.
“I’ll make you pay the price too.”
[Cleon!]
Immediately, Cleon’s body jumped forward.
If the magic-eating sword is swung with more magic than before—
[Stupid man…! Such a reckless charge doesn’t work for me, no matter how much my senses return.]
Cleon’s sword cut through the air again.
And, the moment after I thought that her body moved a distance behind Cleon-
Cleon’s body her spurred something on her, immediately reversed her direction her, accelerated further, and ran towards the Exiled Church.
[What-]
She, too, would have never imagined such a Cleon trajectory.
‘Did you kick the ground and turn around? No, the change of direction is so fast for something like that- and besides, it’s strange that it accelerates further.’
Even as she thinks about it, she leaps through space once more, this time she soars into the air.
But – Cleon swung her sword into the air this time, and at the same time, she kicked off something of hers again and jumped into the sky.
Just like an arrow enchanted with penetrating force that pursues its prey forever.
Cleon’s body can be either on the ground or in the air.
Over and over again, I turned to the place where the Exiled Church was, and pursued her while leaving afterimages.
In addition, as she accelerates every time she turns, even though she can leap through space, her reaction speed is also limited.
‘I can’t help it. Rather than continue to be pursued like this, she surely increased the distance and set up a space barrier to protect her body her- ‘
Cleon, who had not even had time to think about it, rushed into herself again. Her black eyes glowed with the light of her magic power her, and she thought only of rising up in horror and swinging that huge greatsword at her. There was
‘What kind of bastard…!’
In the end, she is a masked woman who hastily jumped into space and moved to a location near her without specifying the correct distance for her.
As expected, kick out! When Cleon’s body turns towards her again as she hears something like a bolt of lightning, she tries to jump through her space once more-
[What… Hey, this is…!]
It clings sticky to her own body, and is puzzled by her magical powers that hinder her leaping into space.
A lump of magical power that remains in the air and is concentrated enough to possess physical power-
Where the hell did this all of a sudden-
Only then does she get ‘hot’ and look around her.
Magic poetry shines, and what is reflected in her eyes is-
Several lumps of magical power were clumped together on the ground and in the air.
[That, it was-]
The moment she opened her mouth after realizing her truth.
Cleon’s great sword was finally able to play its part.
Starting with the mask, Cleon’s body her exits her sideways, slicing cleanly through her body her in diagonal lines.
Kagagak…! When Cleon had advanced a few meters, stopping her body her through her hooves her —
[Heuk…!]
Coughing out, the mask split in half dropped to the ground.
From her left shoulder her to her right side her-
Staggering, she turned around and looked back at Cleon.
[…It’s unexpected. I hoped…]
Illenu spoke while watching Cleon, who was taking a deep breath after consuming a large amount of her mana.
To put it simply, what Cleon did was to reverse the function of the magic-eating sword, which was capable of creating powerful magical slashing waves that possessed physical force.
By not sending that slashing wave, but staying at the place where the sword was swung—
It created a transparent magical wall.
And by using the physical force of the magical wall, it is also possible to use it as a foothold in the air.
The moment your feet touch the wall of magic, the body accelerates when it creates a backlash of magic.
Of course, it wasn’t to get rid of the burden on the body, so I needed a body that could withstand the murderous acceleration, but-
Cleon’s tenacity and vitality her have been proven in the battles so far.
And the masked woman, who was in a hurry, jumped using space jump-
In the end, it leaped through space as if it was caught between several walls Cleon had built.
As a result, I was stuck on that wall and couldn’t make a new leap into space.
It was the end of being cut by Cleon’s sword of hers.
“…I’m dizzy.”
After Cleon accelerated, he staggered and turned around to look at the masked woman he had cut off.
And seeing her face her, she shut her mouth for a moment, then squinted her eyes.
Her hair is silvery. If I were to say which way, she was closer to gray like gray.
“…Are you a member of the Empire?”
And, Cleon got a feeling that she was different from the kingdom people in the characteristics of her appearance.
As if her soul her is wounded, she bites her lip when questioned by Cleon, who is bleeding from her forehead despite her being in a spiritual body.
[Don’t you know? Even after seeing this face… I guess… My mother is a ‘tool’ for you. It would have been nothing more, nothing less.]
As she said that, she put her hand in her own bosom and—
Then, she drew something of her own and quickly swung it at Cleon.
Charleureuk! Thinking that something like the sound of chains ringing, she thought that the one flying towards her was-
“…A plain sword?”
Of course, Cleon lightly blocked it with her sword.
It was a sword that I had seen somewhere.
No, it wasn’t me who saw this.
To be precise – in the memory of the demonic sword emperor ‘Cain’ she saw –
“——The Princess of Flareless…!”
[…
What popped up in Cleon’s memory was Hutina Flairless.
She was the first woman the demonic sword emperor Cain made his own at the Imperial Military Academy, and later, as his vassal and his concubine, she was one of the women who stayed with Cain until the very end.
But—in front of her, she resembled Hugh Tina Flareless, but she also showed a different side of her.
“—You… You can’t be Cain’s-“
[…I have nothing to tell you. Demon Sword Emperor. …That reincarnated person.]
Saying so to Cleon, she closes her eyes.
I could see her body slowly dissipating from beneath her feet her.
[You better not think I’m the only one holding a grudge against you. The organization itself called the Church of Exile- you-]
After saying that, she completely disappeared and dispersed.
Cleon had no choice but to watch her last appearance her in silence.
[You left behind something like a curse…Cleon?]
“No. … She just thought she saw her … When I saw her her face her. I remembered her now.”
Cleon’s gaze turned towards Amelia, who was fighting Yogtos.
“Right before falling through the gap in another dimension… Amelia’s new maid.
