Chapter 649 – 649. The Growth of the Hero (5)
“This… I can’t… !”
The devil was astonished.
It was because his hardened nails, which had never been broken before, had been cut off in vain.
The devil’s claws, which hunted countless adventurers who flowed into this anthill, boasted strong durability to the extent that they could withstand the attacks of adventurers equipped with strong power.
“This nonsense… !”
Realizing that parts of his own body had been severed, the demon panicked.
There was no time to deal with the confusion, and Riod, who seized the victory in the chaos, moved.
Riod thought.
‘Lack.’
The formidable attack power that was expressed by holding the sword blade continuously without releasing it was strong enough to split the hard devil’s claws.
However, it was less than half of the power that Riod himself had assumed.
As usual, releasing the sword and swinging it around has a wide range and is powerful.
‘Unbeknownst to me, I was copying him.’
It is because of the influence of Eun-hyeon.
If he wielded his sword with all his might, this anthill, which was barely maintaining the strata, would surely collapse without enduring its power.
That’s why Leo was worried.
How can he minimize the aftermath of the damage and the range of the attack while fully demonstrating his power and concentrate it in one place?
This is the result of that worry.
The new technique that Riod is trying out now is an idea obtained from the swordsmanship of Eun-hyeon, who boasts a skill that combines a fast sword that is difficult to recognize with both eyes and sharp cutting power.
‘This is not my sword.’
This swordsmanship is Eunhyeon’s swordsmanship, not his own swordsmanship.
A style that overwhelms opponents by bringing together the physical and overwhelming mana that was completed by pushing the limits of his black body to the limit.
It is a style that simply explains and pushes with so-called force.
‘Stronger, more, heavier.’
Concentrate all of himself into the sword and condense it to maintain it.
Ugh
The whirlpools of magical power that gathered at the blade of the sword swirled and vibrated the air.
In order to control the blade that was starting to tremble, Riod applied strength to both hands holding the handle and controlled the sword and the magical power of the sword with the grip.
The ever-increasing size and pressure are strong enough to be felt through the skin, making even the devil nervous.
The sense of intimidation felt from Riod’s sword skills is like a mountain.
A huge mountain with no end.
[Olivion swordsmanship]
[Mount Tai]
It wasn’t enough that Riod created the greatest swordsmanship of his life, and he was already breaking out in a cold sweat just by maintaining it without releasing it.
He is only gathering his enormous presence and concentrating it in one place, which requires tremendous concentration and accelerates mental fatigue.
‘Quickly organize.’
Riod, who could not maintain this sword skill for long, moved to finish it quickly.
Rio de’s horizontal slash from left to right was incomparably slower than the swordsman he had shown earlier.
However, the demon at the end of the line of sight of the sword, clearly visible to both eyes, did not respond to the sword strike.
Huge as a mountain, the terrifying sense of intimidation of the black energy that raged like a storm was enough to make the whole body stiff and make the skin goosebumps.
“Nice… Ugh!”
The demon reacted belatedly with a small moan and hurriedly retreated.
At the same time, she realizes that she felt fear and is astonished once more.
‘I… Did you feel afraid? Only to humans… !?’
It was a fact he never wanted to admit to a demon who prided himself on being a superior servant.
However, the human body that the devil has encroached on is in a state of atrophy from the terrifying sense of intimidation felt by the sword of Riod that can be felt through the skin.
Even if you don’t want to admit it, the devil’s body has already acknowledged it.
As the demon hurriedly pushed back his body, Riod’s sword cut across the demon’s chest and cut through the air.
He perfectly avoided the blade, but that didn’t mean he was safe from his attacks.
The sword that raged like a storm tore open the chest of the demon he had thought he had avoided, and a fountain of blood gushed out into the air.
“Quaaaaagh!”
The devil screamed at Riod’s sword, which pierced through the strong durability and defense that covered the whole body with contaminated magical power.
Perhaps because he was confident in his absolute superiority, the sudden incoming damage caused the devil even more pain.
Even though it wasn’t a direct hit, the demon who received great damage from being touched by the sword instinctively guessed how dangerous Riod’s sword was.
If that knight’s attack came in properly, no matter how much he was protecting his whole body with demonic magic, he could easily tear it apart and shatter his entire body.
And the devil could never accept that it was humans who were only his prey that made it possible.
The pain he felt in his chest torn by black magic and the realization that he instinctively harbored fear for the humans in front of him became the catalyst for the devil to completely lose his reason.
“Aaaaan!”
Normally, the devil would never lose his sanity.
However, the unexpected wound and the result of the emotion caused by the inability to accept that a person who is inferior to him is stronger than himself acted as a fatal mistake for the devil.
The demon attacked Riod by swinging the nail on the other side of him, which was still intact.
However, there was no way that Riod would be shaken by the attack, which was swung hastily from a disheveled posture.
Riod avoided the nails coming in to cut his face with a graceful evasion.
He lowered his head to avoid the sharp devil’s claws, and burrowed further into the devil’s arms.
“This… !”
When the massively swung attack missed, the devil, who had allowed an empty gap, realized his mistake.
But it’s already too late.
Since he had already been allowed to approach to a distance that would be closed by extending his arms, evasion was impossible.
However, for the devil who cannot even block Riod’s mighty attack, it is as if the end has already been decided.
[Olivion swordsmanship]
[Crushing Taishan]
A great mountain-like wind hits the demon’s head and begins to crush its body.
“This… About… !”
The demon raised his arms to defend against Riod’s sword strike.
Both arms reinforced with contaminated magical power collided head-on with Riod’s sword.
“Nice… !”
The devil groaned softly and bit his teeth tightly.
The sword strike from above gives a terrifying sense of pressure, and it feels like a huge rock is squeezing it.
It was the answer that Leo de, who raised his body’s ability to the limit, found to bring out his strengths to the maximum.
His sword, like a huge mountain, finally rips away the resisting demon’s magical power, and begins to crush the encroaching demon’s arms.
“Aagh!”
Swept away by the fierce sword wind, both arms were scattered in all directions like pieces of meat torn by saw blades.
The demon screams in pain.
As the guards on both arms were mercilessly ripped apart, the defenseless demon could no longer resist Riod’s attack.
Finally, Riod’s sword started at the demon’s head and rode around his neck and chest, crushing the demon’s body.
The cross-section of the cut-off sword wasn’t cut with a sword, but it was as rough as if a piece of paper had been torn apart by a storm.
‘I, I, only to a human… !’
The demon, swept away by Riod’s sword energy, couldn’t even scream as his body slowly disintegrated under his attack.
For a moment, he couldn’t understand why he had to annihilate while at the very least experiencing defeat by humans.
‘Goo Si-on… !’
The words of Gushion, the lord whom he devotedly served, came to the devil’s head and lingered.
-Human beings are not something that can be ignored.
The devil couldn’t understand Gushion’s words.
Compared to demons themselves, human beings have a shorter physical lifespan, and their souls and minds are absurdly weak.
Occasionally, humans who are born with a stronger body or who can stand against demons through training are born, but they can only fight against demons of the lowest or lowest level.
Their lifespan is short, their powers are insignificant, and they are unable to resist the special abilities possessed by demons.
To demons, it is only natural that human beings have only the perception of being sacrificed or prey to grow their power.
But Gushion was different.
He had a happy expression on his face as he recalled the struggle he had with a certain human being.
-There was a human woman who drove me to death.
The woman was strong.
The sword she wielded was radiant, beautiful, and lofty.
If you ask who was the strongest human being Gu Shion had ever met, Gu Shion immediately thought of that woman.
-I won, but I lost.
Gu Shion was able to win because she was a demon herself, and because she was a human.
This is because the longer the life-and-death struggle continues, the more clearly the limits of the human body are revealed.
Human beings tire too easily, and crumble too easily.
The swordsmanship pouring out of that slender body, the essence of the technique melted into a series of swordsmanship that flowed like a dance, was so enchanting and felt like art.
So, while Gu Shion was finally able to win the battle against the human female swordsman, she admitted that she had lost in the skills she had built up on her own.
Among the demons, the high-ranking great demon with high military power recognized only one human woman.
-So I’m looking forward to it. To meet her disciple one day.
Gu Shion knew that the human female swordsman had a disciple.
I hope that one day the student who inherited her skills will grow up to inherit her master’s will and come to seek her revenge.
And she waited and waited for another pleasure to be given to her.
-But the disciple never showed up.
The demon did not eat the human female swordsman’s soul, but kept the state of her soul and reaped it.
One day, when her disciple came looking for her, she intended to show her the grown-up of her disciple and kill her disciple in front of her as she watched.
In the end, at the end of the earth’s destruction, all the demons were driven back to the demon realm and the passage connected to the earth was sealed, and that wish was not fulfilled.
It was only regrettable that the soul of the human female swordsman who had been collected had flowed into another place in the incident and was lost.
-I was really sorry.
As he recalled Gusion’s words of acknowledging a human woman, the devil realized his mistake.
‘I… You got it wrong.’
I couldn’t afford to relax.
This human was still growing.
Before he could create this terrifying sword skill, he had to kill this human before he could grow at an astonishing rate.
The reason for his defeat was his arrogance, thinking that he could handle at least one human at any time if he put his mind to it.
Now, if only a little bit, I could understand the meaning of Gushion’s words.
‘Zen… Page.’
If he had realized the meaning of those words a little sooner, if he hadn’t looked down on just one human being, he wouldn’t have faced such a miserable defeat.
That silent resentment could not be expressed in the end, and the demon disappeared.
