Chapter 412 – 412. The Hero and the Hero’s Disciple (3)
Kaaang!
The magical storm created by the collision of Erinn’s rapier and Raynan’s gauntlets swept around, raising a dusty wind.
Even in the middle of the dark night sky covered with dust and obstructing the view, the two were staring at each other.
While denying his relationship with Eun-hyeon, he became irritated with Raynon, who ignored him, and rushed out of nowhere, but it was not that he rushed without any countermeasures.
‘Are you okay. I can deal with it properly.’
The reason why Erin was able to exchange fierce battles with Raynan despite the clear difference in her power is the result of a combination of various reasons.
Even though Erin was immature, she was getting used to how to deal with ‘moments’ like Eun-hyeon little by little, and Ray Nann wasn’t showing her sincerity, and the huge magical power gap between the two was being covered by the power of the divine beast.
‘Good balance.’
Reynon evaluated Erin while fighting dozens of fierce battles in a few seconds.
Her foundation is solid, and it is not easy for even the adventurers of the gold ranks, who are known for their strong fighting power, to receive her attacks. Had been doing
The difference in her power is a move reminiscent of Eun-hyeon, who showed her karate and defense with a flexible coping that never gave up, even if she was on the upper hand.
‘Isn’t being a disciple a lie?’
Erin’s goal isn’t to defeat Raynon, but to buy time for Riod and Gerard to come.
She was carrying on this fight for entertainment purposes, as Raynan was also very aware of her Erin’s ulterior motive to buy time while her backups came to take her down.
But apart from that, just continuing her fight without any change was not the development that RayNun wanted.
In order to test more and more of Erin’s power, Ray Nunn began to press her Erin.
Pug.
“Ugh… Ugh!”
It wasn’t a powerful technique that contained her first magical power, but Ray Nann’s fist, wearing her gauntlet, hit Erinn’s abdomen directly.
The shock and crushing pain of the internal organs in her abdomen was enough to make Erin flinch, but she did not collapse.
Erin’s eyes, who bit her mouth tightly and looked up at Raynon with ferocious eyes, continued to stare at the enemy even in the midst of this.
“Hoo.”
Not befitting his age or gender, he has quite a bit of guts.
On top of that, she wrapped her fist around her one arm of RayNun, who had struck her own abdomen, and then swung her rapier and stabbed her RayNan in the shoulder.
However, it is already known that she lacks the attack power to pierce her own skin with her sword, having already failed to cut off her own arm on one occasion.
Raynan didn’t even think about avoiding her.
“It’s no use…”
[Barbarian Witchcraft (狐族姚術)]
[Fox fire]
The blue flames that swayed from her nine silvery-white tails traveled all over her Erin and began to converge in her hand, wrapping around the rapier she was holding.
Fu-wook
Ray Nunn marveled at the sight of her rapier piercing her own shoulder.
She is a rare talent who has cultivated magical powers that are high enough to pierce her own body strength.
As a martial artist practicing the same martial arts, she marveled that a woman who was so much younger than herself, and who appeared to be just coming of age, had reached such a level.
Eventually, the blue flames from the rapier that penetrated Raynan’s shoulder spread even more and burned his shoulder.
Raising her rapier upwards, Erin slashed RayNun’s shoulder lengthwise and pulled her body back, retrieving her own sword.
She distanced herself from Ray Nann and she monitored his condition.
“…”
Even as Erin’s rapier was retrieved, Raynan said nothing as she continued to stare at the bluish flames burning around her shoulder.
“Indeed… Admit it.”
“I beg your pardon… ?”
“This mysterious power doesn’t belong to him, but the movements and techniques must be his. I believe you are my disciple.”
“… I am not happy at all even if you acknowledge me.”
Erin frowned at Ray Nann’s words of praise to her.
‘… Why?’
Ordinary people or monsters would have to scream in agony at the blue flames that rode over her shoulders and spread all over her body, but Ray Nann was so calm.
“Why?”
“Hmm?”
“Why do you do the evil thing of attacking people with vampires? He said he was Hyun-i’s colleague!”
Even though he was a man praised as a hero, why did he act like a villain attacking humans?
When Erin looked incomprehensible, she yelled at him.
Kyaaah!
The cry of something gigantic echoed through the sky.
The sound was so loud that it resonated throughout the Lindewald Territory.
It was so loud that Erin’s back went cold when she heard it.
“Um, what is that… ?”
Looking up at her blankly, Erin hardened her face.
Every time the huge wings that cover the sky flap once, a wind rises and sweeps the Lindewald territory.
The black creature flapping its wings is a visual reminiscent of something.
“… Bat?”
From the appearance of the Witchbeast, who had never seen it before, I had to feel the thrill of its intimidation.
“You showed up.”
I realized that it was the work of Raynon and the vampires who appeared in the air.
“That… What is that! What the hell is that witch… !”
“… What happened.”
A man who had heard of the urgency of the situation and rushed over saw Raynan’s face and lowered her voice.
“This voice…”
At the sound of her old colleague’s voice she’d grown tired of over twenty years ago, Erin and Raynan simultaneously turned her head in the direction of her voice.
“I-Gerard…”
“Gerard?”
“You ask what happened!”
The voice of a colleague that evokes nostalgia for the nostalgic past is not a voice of frivolous and light attitude as always, but a shout of anger.
“Why are you here! Raynan!”
The sight of Gerard getting angry while barely enduring trying to let go of the strings of reason is a completely different sight to Erin, seeing for the first time.
Gerard raised her voice and Erin trembled, shaking her shoulders involuntarily.
‘Ji, you must be really angry…’
Gerard was enraged that his former comrades, who had risked their lives together back to back, now turned into enemies and threatened many people.
In fact, many emotions were crossing in Gerard’s heart.
Before expressing all of these emotions, after holding them tightly in his chest, Gerard opened his mouth.
“… Miss Erin.”
“Yes. Yes… ?”
“Please go straight to Riod.”
“But…”
Gerard did not let go of his stiff expression and pointed his finger at the giant bat beast in the air.
“Anyway, the response over there seems more urgent.”
“Ah…”
Erin sighed lightly.
She immediately nodded at Gerard’s words.
It is true that the Demon Beast floating in the air looked more dangerous than the old hero in front of him.
Erin couldn’t help but nodded her head.
“… Be careful. Gerard.”
“Miss Erin, too.”
As Erin stepped away with a worried expression on her face, Gerard glared at Raynan again.
“Hyun hyung-nim was right…”
– Gerard. The reason vampires built their nests in the Lindewald Territory couldn’t have been the thoughts of vampires alone. There must be informants and collaborators among humans.
-Recently, through Heilangdan, I even got information that the kingdom of Rendir was destroyed. The situation across the continent is not serious.
-It’s just an unfounded hunch, but… I think that the incident that is happening right now and the event of the destruction of the kingdom of Rendir are connected.
-It’s too much of a burden to entrust Leo with this sort of information gathering. I want you to back up Riod and collect information about this side.
Eun-hyeon’s guess and premonition matched exactly.
He didn’t predict that the culprit was Raynan, but sending Gerard based on his intuition was the optimal move for now.
“Lendir Kingdom… Is it yours?”
“Okay. I broke it.”
Raynan said that without the slightest hesitation she affirmed what she had done.
“… What happened. Explain.”
“There is nothing complicated. I just hated that country.”
“Then why!”
Gerard finally couldn’t stand it and raised his voice once more.
“Why… You… Are you doing these things!”
He could not find his whereabouts as he disappeared for nearly 15 years.
However, when it suddenly appeared, it seems to destroy the country out of nowhere, and it is committing an evil act of attacking civilians by establishing a cooperative relationship with vampires.
On top of that, he even summoned a monster that was so powerful that he had never seen it before in the air.
Everything Raynan has ever done, and everything she does now, she is trying to reshape the peace that she, her Eunhyeon, and her comrades back then had built the hard way to end the war.
“I would have said that. I hate this continent. So I’m thinking of breaking it.”
“What… ? Hyun-hyung risked his life back then!”
No, it’s not just Eunhyun.
Although his sacrifice left a scar that could never be healed as a big thorn in the hearts of the remaining comrades.
Those who risked their lives in that battle were the same, and the number of lives lost in that war is uncountable.
“Gerard. I just realized In fact, this continent we protected was hidden from view in war and chaos, but in fact it was very ugly and dirty.”
To the subject who had no power, no military force, and the subject who had only lineage, family history, and wealth.
After defeating the evil that harmed people and took their lives, what appeared later was another evil that was busy enriching itself by persecuting and squeezing people.
As long as those guys exist as the heads of organizations, rulers of the country, and rulers of the world, this continent itself has no future.
“The world I, we, and he tried to protect was such worthless garbage.”
Fearing that his power and influence would grow too much, he hated the kingdom that betrayed him and took his family.
So, at the end of his death, he surrendered his body and soul to the devil’s whisper and decided to avenge him.
“I hated and hated the kingdom of Rendir that took everything from me.”
So I broke it
“And being alone and feeling like I’m living in hell every moment, I hate this world full of people laughing and chatting and enjoying a peaceful life.”
So it’s going to be broken.
If it is a continent that is not worth protecting and developing like this, I am full of desire to get rid of it altogether.
“…”
Gerard met Raynan’s eyes, burning with hatred, and gripped his dagger tightly.
His heart and humanity were already destroyed.
Unable to fathom what kind of experiences he had and how long he had spent to reach this point, he bit his teeth tightly and closed his eyes tightly.
Now, the Ray Nann in front of him was not a comrade he had fought with during his life and death, but an enemy of his own who was trying to wreak havoc on the continent.
