Chapter 226 – 226. Death Knight (1)
“Oh?”
“Why are you like that?”
Renat asked at Mediah’s voice, which suddenly sounded startled.
“Recently, I made Death Knights with the souls I received from Asmodeus, and one of them was summoned to the underworld.”
“Death Knight… You mean?”
Summoning a Mediah knight who nests in the Pandemonium that exists on the other side of the void means that many lives in the underworld have been sacrificed for him.
“Hmm, it seems that someone forcibly pryed open the void passage through the cursed seal and summoned my knight… Tsk.”
Medea clicked his tongue lightly.
“It was a ‘surprise gift’ that I was planning to show to Hyuni one day…”
“…”
Looking at Medea, who had a really sorry expression on her face, her servant, Renat, who was serving her, stiffened her face with an expression that he couldn’t really understand his master’s emotions.
They mistake the feelings of hatred and contempt sent by the other person as ‘love’, and do not hesitate to stimulate the other person in order to further crave that ‘love’.
‘Is that the man then…’
Renat remembered Eun-hyeon, who pierced his side with a knife and struck him mercilessly with his fist.
Clearly decapitating him, his head fell to the floor and at that moment he was definitely dead.
In an instant, without even feeling the pain.
The feelings of contempt and hatred that Eunhyeon is sending to Medea are real.
“Ha… Because of this, I made such a boast to Hyuni and left. You’re going to lose her face.”
Mediah herself made a declaration to Eunhyeon that the remnants of necromancy would never appear again in the underworld, but Mediah looks troubled at the fact that the declaration has been broken.
It’s all the more spectacle that she puts on a face as if she really has no face for breaking her promise to her lover.
“What? What if, by any chance, Hyun-i disappoints me for not keeping her promise?”
“…”
“What do you think, Lenat?”
‘He already despises you enough?’
“Ha… What will happen if they hate me, it makes me very nervous…”
‘I already hate you. The best in the world.’
Renat did not have the courage to tell the truth to Mediah, who was misrecognizing Eunhyun’s feelings.
“I can’t help it… For now, the Death Knight, who went down to the underworld, is reverse summoned back to the demon world… Oh?”
She traced the location of the commander subordinate to her, identified the place where the Death Knight was summoned, and Mediah, who synchronized with her commander’s vision to understand the situation in the underworld, made a surprised expression and spat out a shrill voice.
“How did this happen? Why is Hyun-i over there?”
She trembled involuntarily at the sight of her silver-white-haired swordsman confronting her commander-knight, which she saw through the vision of the death knight’s commander.
“Ha…”
Distorted with anger, feeling Eunhyun’s gaze full of contempt and hatred, Mediah spat out her sticky swearing.
“… ?”
Renat, who was unaware of the situation, suddenly saw his owner groaning strangely, and frowned in doubt.
“At all… You are not disappointed… Rather…”
To Medea, who now shares her senses by interfering with the Death Knight’s command, the gaze of contempt and hatred Eunhyeon was sending to the Death Knight felt like passionate courtship toward her.
“You are delighted with my surprise… ?”
Medea’s heart, which had been filled with contradictions of her twisted illusions, was filled more and more with her deep love for her eunhyeon.
“Whoop, whoop, whoop.”
She is not disappointed that he has broken her promise as his lover, but rather seems to be delighted with the surprise he has prepared for her.
To the extent that it makes me smile, I am unbearably happy.
From Mediah’s point of view, Eunhyun’s appearance is seriously distorted.
“Good… If only you would be so happy…”
“…”
“I can do more.”
In the end, Renat tightly closed her eyes and turned away from Mediah’s one-sided love.
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Before she had time to think, Eun-hyeon charged and swung her sword at the neck of her towering Death Knight.
Caang!
[Eunhyeon’s Unique Ability]
[Time Acceleration]
Eun-hyeon’s sword swung at her neck was easily blocked by the Death Knight’s sword, but Eun-hyeon didn’t even think that his surprise attack would work easily from the beginning.
The sword attack through her ambush is just the beginning.
Eunhyun’s sword, which can move faster than others through time acceleration, danced and threatened the Death Knight.
Caang! Caang! Kaaang!
In the midst of a fierce fight that others could not follow with their eyes, Eunhyeon hurriedly spoke to her goddess.
‘Goddess!’
[I get it!]
After reading the accident in Eunhyun’s head, Belldandi nodded her head and left Eunhyun’s side, even though she didn’t explain in detail.
In order to support Eun-hyeon, who soon started fighting, she spoke to Illyana and Eleanor, who were about to pray after concocting a ceremony.
[Leave this to my child and move quickly.]
Illyana twitched her eyebrows, stopped the magic formula she was weaving, and looked up at Belldandi and asked again.
“… Need to move?”
“But…”
Illyana and Eleanor didn’t like the fact that they had to leave Eunhyun, who was fighting a fierce battle with the Death Knight.
However, the one who gave the order was not a human but a goddess from a higher dimension, and it was Belldandi whom Eunhyeon believed in and followed.
[Look around.]
“… ? Ah.”
Eleanor, who was looking at Eun-hyeon worriedly, looked around her at Belldandy’s words, grasped her situation, and sighed slightly.
Illyana also belatedly grasped the situation and groaned softly.
“This…”
Knowing that the land is drying up and the surrounding grass and trees are losing their vitality and are rapidly decaying, all the vitality of nature is being sucked into one place and becoming concentrated.
[Children will be able to sense the presence of Jin covering the entire realm in order to summon a knight that seems to embody that ‘death’ to the underworld.]
“…”
Even now, the souls of the dead Dark Elves are flocking to and being absorbed by the Death Knight, who is fighting Eunhyun.
The medium of the cursed seal that Radia triggered while committing suicide was none other than her heart, but the scope of the curse was the entire territory of this forest where their tribe lived.
The obsession and madness that he had already admitted defeat and used even the spirits of his own dead people for revenge without hesitation made the entire realm of the forest rot and become brittle.
[If you leave it like this, the ghosts of the Dark Elves who have died over and over will be absorbed into that knight, and it will only become a vicious cycle.]
In order to stop the Death Knight, which continues to be strengthened by absorbing the spirits of the Dark Elves, first of all, it is necessary to cast the seal of the curse on the entire area.
And they realized why Belldandy, who cherished and prioritized Eunhyeon the most, approached them and told them this story.
It was none other than Eun-hyeon’s order.
“… Let’s go. Eleanor.”
“Yes?”
“Right now, the priority is to do this curse first. Because Hyun-i also prioritizes that right now and is desperately blocking that by herself.”
“… Yes.”
Illyana took Eleanor’s hand and activated her teleport.
The coordinates are the entrance to this forest area where Derkin is supposed to be.
It was to tell the elves that the situation had changed drastically and to take command.
[Eight-digit upper magic]
[Teleport]
While the magic was manifested and was about to transfer to the set coordinates, Illyana glanced at Eunhyun’s back, who was fighting a fierce battle with the Death Knight.
“… If I die, I really won’t let you go.”
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Kaaang!
“… !”
As the swords collided with each other, the bloody blow to cut down their lives was blocked, and Eun-hyeon recalled an indescribable sensation and twitched her eyebrows.
‘Strange. What. This?’
The Death Knight only defended against Eunhyun’s attacks, but did not actively attack them.
As soon as he was summoned, the appearance of the Death Knight, who knew how to take advantage of the thick morale he spewed out, is very calm and serene.
‘What I feel is definitely Mediah’s energy. But why doesn’t she attack?’
The black puddle on the floor where the Death Knight was summoned soaked into the Death Knight’s body before he knew it and was absorbed without leaving a handful of traces.
Eun-hyeon frowned at the death knight’s morale that grew even thicker and confronted him while taking a vigilant posture while aiming his sword.
Within the Death Knight’s helmet, which was staring at Eun-hyeon, blue eyes flashed.
Clap
The Death Knight, who had been standing still, raised his sword, aimed it at Eun-hyeon, and finally began to act.
She lowered her waist by bending her legs, and rushed forward with a speedy movement that left an afterimage.
[Eunhyeon’s Unique Ability]
[Accident acceleration]
Eun-hyun, who had missed the movement for a moment, sensed an instinctive danger and activated thought acceleration, and swung her sword in response to the belatedly caught Death Knight’s sword attack.
Caang!
“… Keugh!?”
Eun-hyeon groaned after blocking a large horizontal slash from the right side with her sword.
His legs were pushed away by the heavy sword strike, which was different from his nimble body movements, and he forcibly endured the fact that his center of weight was about to bend greatly by strengthening his lower body.
‘Fast.’
If he had not instinctively activated the thought acceleration, he would not have been able to respond, and the sense that his upper body might have been split in two made Eun-hyeon chill.
And without giving him time to erase that cold sense and find his cool, the Death Knight’s sword strike continued.
Kaang Kaang Kaaang!
Forcibly correcting the posture of the body that had been pushed out, and in the flow of sensitivity and thought acceleration, Eunhyun responded to the Death Knight’s attack step by step.
‘It’s not an ordinary ghost.’
There is something on a different level from the kind of Death Knight that Mediah manipulated in the past.
It would have been impossible to withstand the one-sided onslaught of the Death Knight if it weren’t for Eun-hyeon, who lived in a time flow several times different than others, splitting the time of one second in half, then in half.
And the more they share the sword, the more unknown questions arise in Eun-hyeon’s mind.
The more I carefully analyze each movement of the Death Knight through detection and thought acceleration, the more I feel a sense of déjà vu that rises in my head.
The reason why Eunhyun was able to cope with all the attacks even while receiving an overwhelming onslaught that was different from that of an ordinary Death Knight was purely because of her senses and thought acceleration.
All-too-familiar attacks and movements.
The sword dance, in which each movement was like art, reminded me of the sparring memories we had shared dozens of times in the past.
‘No way? No, it can’t be… ? But…’
I hated even thinking about that possibility, even assuming it, so I tried my best to ignore it, but as we repeatedly clashed swords with each other, the more the battle continued, the nostalgic feeling welled up in my heart.
“Why do you…”
A very brief moment when he loses his composure, which he would never have lost if it were normal, and hesitation dwells in Eun-hyeon’s sword.
[Oh!]
[Siete Swordsmanship]
[Beheading of white flowers]
A single, sharp yet beautiful sword strike that slashed through hundreds of flowers pierced Eun-hyeon’s left arm.
