Chapter 90 – The Reason for the Sword
The procrastinating Magi soiled the floor of the Great War. Like a slimy, viscous liquid, it dripped onto the floor.
Curling.
A voice like thunder. It was the cry of Edwin, who had borrowed the power of the devil and possessed greater strength than he could have imagined.
Come.
Demon army!
Edwin’s voice sounded like scraping metal. In the dark demonic air that polluted the floor, the wriggling figures began to stand up one by one.
The devil, Naberius’ demon legion, has manifested here, surpassing the protection of the imperial palace bestowed by the goddess.
“Are you really bringing dirty demons and demons into this place!!”
Richard was the flagship. Arnold and the nobles escorted by the knights were shocked.
This was also the reason why nobles who tried to leave Daejeon were blocked. It was to clearly show in their eyes that Edwin had truly made a pact with the devil.
“Get out.”
When the knight guarding the door sidestepped, the ministers rushed out.
“All of them—!”
Arnold exclaimed. It was a booming voice. The roar carrying the master’s history was like that of a beast. The Golden Eagle Knights who followed him took up their own weapons.
And.
“Charge——!!”
With the cry of the giant knight commander, the continent’s best knights moved.
“Die, demons!”
〈Kieeeee-
It was a clash.
The Golden Eagle Knights and the Demon Army. Either way, they were elite soldiers like sharp swords forged.
Chew-.
The knight’s sword decapitated the demon.
A huge demon in the shape of a troll swung a heavy fist.
“Stop!”
Quaang!
A knight with a shield blocked the demon’s fist.
From the other side of the shield, a knight holding a spear, seeking an opportunity, leapt.
“Huh!”
With a spirit, all at once.
Fu-wook!
〈───!!!〉
The cries of the demons echoed loudly. The demons who lost their eyes, but were not killed due to the shallow penetration of the spear, began to run amok. Wrapped around the body of the shimmering demonic energy, the body that became more powerful after losing reason and becoming mad—.
Fit.
Do.
The massive body split in an instant and fell in half.
Cooong.
Beyond the corpses of demons that had fallen with a sound. A man with a large body similar to that of a demon spoke indifferently, holding a sword wrapped in a blazing aura.
“Let’s go kill other demons.”
It was an order from the knight commander, Arnold.
The knight with the shield and the knight with the spear left after bowing instead of answering.
Overall, the war situation was dominated by the Golden Eagle Knights. First of all, the overall numerical superiority was in the knights, and the overall specs were off because the demons crossed the dimension.
And above all.
“Look at me—!!”
Intense roar.
The gigantic Knight Commander radiated blazing momentum, carrying a sword clad in an aura and running rampant across the battlefield.
Without a commander, only soldiers were summoned by the Demon Corps, and there was no one to oppose the tactical weapon called the Auror Master, so they were helpless against it.
And, in the chaos of such a battle.
‘Tsk.’
The emperor rose from his throne. Rather than intervene in this situation with a sword, the frail Aura Master turned to the man who had led to this situation, Scarlett.
‘What am I going to do?’
Scarlett, the Grand Mage, and Arnold, the Aura Master. In addition, Iris, who has an Aura Master right in front of her and has a holy sword blessed by the goddess.
Even the Golden Eagle Knights were here.
Even if the old emperor did not participate in the battle, the situation would have been settled without difficulty.
In reality, the Demon Legion is being organized with only the Golden Eagle Knights and Arnold.
So, the emperor decided to observe the situation while holding the sword in case of an emergency.
Furthermore.
“Keuuugh!”
His two sons violently collided.
The first, who has already ceased to be human, and the second, who blocks the first.
With a talent at the level of a dun-jae, not a bum-jae, I saw Richard holding a sword with his own convictions, overcoming the trauma of the past.
‘You bastard! You guys are me!!〉
The fight was an overwhelming Edwin advantage.
Richard, who let go of Edwin’s gigantic fist, which he could wield as he pleased by uniting the squishy demons, staggered away from the force he could not handle.
Aiming for that gap, Edwin, who didn’t even have a face left to turn into a prototype, raised his fist.
At this rate, Richard would turn into minced porridge.
Scarlett and Iris were tracking Edwin’s link with the devil, and Arnold was slaughtering the Demon Legion, so he couldn’t come all the way here to protect Richard.
So the emperor would have had to step in.
However.
Even so.
“You’re so shameless, brother!”
Because Richard’s eyes were burning with jealousy, passion, and conviction.
The Emperor did not move.
Saw.
Richard’s posture naturally changed.
Even when he put his hopes on the second, who was different from the first, who put effort after effort, and taught him swordsmanship many times.
How disappointed he was with his son who couldn’t even understand the rules properly.
It wasn’t even the imperial arcane swordsmanship.
When teaching the first, it was a basic swordsmanship that was newly created after seeing the talent of the first.
Such a swordsmanship that even the first, who is only an ordinary genius, can easily understand, and is only at the level of the third-class in the streets.
The only difference between low-level third-class swordsmanship is that, unlike low-level objects that can hinder you from developing bad habits and reaching higher levels, at least there are no such side effects.
It was just that level.
That is to say, he was a son who did not understand even that level, and only wielded a sword recklessly.
But now.
“Iris, Chepeshu, trusted me… !”
Gritting his teeth, Richard let Edwin’s sword slip once again. It was a posture that had been released by force once, in a more unfavorable state, and it was a much softer response than before, when it was a proper posture.
That too, even though it was just too much for me to grow up in an instant.
“No one believed in me like that!”
It was an evil voice.
The sorrow and anger accumulated over the past forty years were contained in Richard’s voice.
It was the cry of a man who had been a kind prince and devoted his whole life to swordsmanship, but had not been reciprocated.
“I thought it couldn’t be helped! Born as a prince of the imperial family, if Lee Da-ji is a terrible level of talent, then it has no choice but to be!”
Richard got up and took his stance.
Edwin swung his fist, and Richard let it out once more. It must have been a fluke, Richard’s body staggered slightly.
But.
‘It’s not just a fluke.’
The emperor’s eyes stared at Richard’s back.
Even if the perfect shed just before had been a fluke, the current Richard had definitely grown up.
As proof.
‘You bastard! What! Looks good! Chattering! Are you!?
Bang! Bang! Bang!
It was because he was calmly receiving all of Edwin’s fists, which came crashing down over and over again, only staggering.
Considering just a few minutes ago when he sat down at a single blow, it was a remarkable growth.
“Your brother looks down on you! I thought it was unavoidable! I was afraid of you!! To the extent that the burns on my back caused by Nii-sama are still throbbing—!”
Furthermore.
‘It’s still little by little, but it’s growing.’
Little by little, little by little.
Richard’s posture was being corrected. His center of gravity went to the proper position, and his sloppy muscle movements began to look better.
In the eyes of Auror Masters Arnold and the Emperor, and Iris, who will soon rise to the same level as them, they still look sloppy.
Even Edwin, who is now rampaging with unreasonable power, the sum of the three would be enough if they step forward.
If it’s the Scarlet Duke over there, a single blow would be enough.
Perhaps even the demons who made a contract with Edwin would not have thought that Edwin would be so mean.
A direct descendant of the imperial family, who was born with the blood of an Aura Master for generations, is actually an ordinary, ordinary bum.
But.
Even so, Richard, who was not even a criminal, is fighting against Edwin, who has gained strength.
What does that mean
“But! You two, you two believed in me! My older brother, who was the object of my fear, told me that he would be no match for my sword!”
In an instant, the tip of Richard’s sword shook.
Refraction of space.
The emperor’s eyes narrowed when he saw it.
“So!”
Once again.
A form of magical power that rises feebly from the tip of the sword.
Aura.
“In that belief… I won’t have to repay you!”
Richard’s body moved in the most ideal form of his forty years of life.
Even he who wields the sword, he doesn’t know how he wielded it.
And.
“By defeating my older brother——!”
──Suddenly.
The sword, even weakly imbued with an aura, cut through Edwin’s upper body, which was swollen with demonic energy.
Duel.
Richard’s victory.
