Chapter 768 – 768. Warning and Gift (4)
Despite being warned, he faced the black knight in front of him who did not stop.
The royal knights of Bartel Kingdom swung their swords without hesitation.
Kaaang!
The knights’ swords collided with Elvin’s shadow armor.
Contrary to the expectations of the Royal Knights, who thought that the sword sword covered with blue magic power would rip through the black armor as it was.
“What… !?”
It was fine, as if there was no damage.
The terrifying impact shook the shadow armor as it received the fierce sword attack head-on, but it was the sword blade of the royal knight that broke instead.
The full plate mail covering his entire body was made from the shadows he handled.
The shadow of the contrasting technique used by Elvin boasts extreme defensive power that can withstand the attack power of six-digit high-ranking magic used by Illyana in succession.
Even if he was a royal knight, one of the elite of the elite of the Bartel kingdom, it was close to impossible to break Elvin’s shadow, which even Iliana and Riod could not easily break.
Elvin, who had not been mindful of the possibility that his shadow would not be able to defend himself from the beginning, started a counterattack regardless.
I swung the mace in her hand as hard as I could.
Booung!
“Kuh!?”
Sensing the existence of the mace swinging with a bloody sound to the point of ignorance, the Royal Guard hurriedly tried to widen the distance.
But even so, the speed at which Elvin’s mace reached the waist of the Royal Knight was faster.
Kwaaang!
“Big… Black!”
The back of the Royal Guard knight hit directly by Erwin’s mace bent 90 degrees and floated into the air.
The lifeguard knight, who could not properly cope with the terrifying shock, fell to the floor and trembled.
“Cool!”
She coughed up a handful of her blood and trembled, but she looked up and glared at Alvin.
He couldn’t even breathe properly, so it was impossible to utter words, but the expression on the face of the Royal Guard knight, needless to say, expressed his emotions.
It is astonishment and fear.
The sword attack performed by the Royal Knights was an attack made up of fierce swordsmanship, and was equipped with an offensive power that tore everything it touched to a level that could be counted among the Royal Knights.
However, his sword skill did not even damage Erwin’s armor, and he could not even scratch it, and instead his sword broke.
On the other hand, what about Elvin’s attack?
It was a simple attack, wielding the mace in her hand.
It was a simple physical attack that did not even use magical powers, let alone manifest sword skills.
However, the destructive power of that simple physical attack is terrifying enough to fold the waist of a knight whose body has been strengthened with magical power in half.
‘Of course. It’s a body made by the two of them.’
The branch of the world tree, the material that makes up his body, has tremendous durability on its own, but the body of Elvin’s homunculus built from that material far exceeds the specifications of an ordinary knight.
Since the specs were made based on the specs of Riod, which boasts the most perfect physical specs Eun-hyeon knows, it is a level that ordinary knights can easily step on even if they can’t catch up to the level.
However, from the point of view of the royal knight who does not know the details, this mysterious black knight who does not use magic at all is shocked by the fact that he simply overwhelms himself with basic physical abilities.
“Eh, what is this… !”
Other guard knights who arrived late stiffened their expressions when they saw their comrades lying on the floor and the black knight who was presumed to have knocked him down.
They drew their swords without hesitation.
This is the royal palace where the royal family resides.
There, a situation occurred in which the guards who protect the palace and the royal family were attacked, and the culprit, Elvin, was the target to be excluded regardless of the reason.
“You must kill!”
Rough work full of agitation.
With those words as a signal, the knights all rushed towards Alvin.
No matter how threatening an enemy is, there was a reason to ask the reason for the invasion and clarify the causal relationship, as long as he was a treacherous criminal who invaded the kingdom.
It was because he saw the state of his fellow guard knight lying on the floor and figured out that he was not an easy opponent who could subdue Elvin intact.
That judgment was largely correct.
For him to subdue an opponent stronger than himself while preserving his life, it was because the losses on the side of the Royal Guard knights outweighed the gains that could be gained by doing so.
But even so, there was a fact that the royal guards did not properly consider.
They did not see what had become of their fellow knight’s sword that had attacked Erwin.
Kaaang!
“Suck!?”
Instead of cutting the black full plate mail made of shadows, the royal knights gasped in astonishment when they saw their swords broken in vain.
The same astonishment from the beginning and a hard agitation spreading around like contagion.
As if digging into the agitation, Elvin’s mace hit the armor of the royal knights directly.
Kwajik!
A heavy blow that crushes the armor of a knight boasting iron wall-like defense, tearing flesh and pulverizing bones.
“This… What… !”
The guardsmen were astonished.
Even if it feels unreasonable that their attacks didn’t work at all, they somehow manage to get over it.
In the world, there are more beings who deviate from reason or common sense than what they thought, and even if they are dissatisfied with the irrationality of the reality, it is not that they did not understand it at all.
Even the difference in rank that exists between himself and the existence of Riod Olivion, who is one of the six heroes and is called the model of all knights, is the same.
But what about this black shadow knight in front of me?
Far from using magical power, it was just a blow by swinging a mace.
A simple swing that shows no sign of effort or time-consuming effort simply crushes the defense power of the body and armor that strengthened the body, threatening lives.
That simple violence is the real irrational itself beyond the level that can be accepted or not.
It didn’t take long for many of the guardsmen who had been helpless to fall incapacitated by Elvin’s mace.
“Shit! Stop it!”
“Protect Your Majesty and His Highnesses’ integrity!”
The guard knights who appeared one after another in the face of the commotion witnessed the horrors of her comrades lying behind Erwin and divided their course of action into two.
The first is to prevent Elvin, whose purpose is unclear, from reaching the royal family, the owners of this palace.
And the second is to evacuate the royal family in preparation for her emergency.
‘It’s annoying.’
Alvin continued to think as he dealt with the desperate knights who were trying to hold on to his ankles.
It wasn’t too difficult to deal with the knights attacking right now.
It was more cumbersome than I thought to just make it incapacitated without dying.
It is very easy to use the shadows to cut off their heads all at once and take their lives, but it took longer than expected to subdue them without taking their lives.
In the first place, Elvin is a wizard who fights by manipulating shadows, a spirit, not a warrior who wields her weapon to subdue opponents.
It was annoying to deal with them in a way that didn’t fit.
If the knights knew about Elvin’s current situation, they would have been in a state of panic, but the uncomfortable truth was that he was helpless despite this.
Even with that thought in mind, Alvin continued to move forward, knocking down the knights one after another.
It was around the time he had almost subdued the knights of the Royal Guard, and he was walking through the corridors of the palace, heading towards the king’s sleeping quarters.
“Go, don’t come any closer!”
She warned, as a woman grabbed a small knife the size of her fist and pointed it at Alvin.
She was a young woman who looked quite young, and she seemed to be a lady-in-waiting of the royal family.
Her hand, which was holding her little knife and pointed at her erwin, was trembling with her fear.
“…”
I couldn’t understand how he was going to subdue himself with such a small excess.
Even if she was just a small weapon, she had quite the courage and grit of a handmaid to hold it and fight against herself.
Seeing her like that, Alvin somehow felt like she had become a villain herself.
‘Well, isn’t that wrong?’
From her point of view, Erwin was no different from the world’s most ruthless man who suddenly stormed into the palace single-handedly and knocked out dozens of royal knights.
Still, unlike the knights of her royal court, Elvin, she did not have the heart to treat this maid with violence like they did.
It may be because, unlike the Royal Guard Knights, who have sharpened their swords as their lifelong mission to protect the royal family, maids-in-waiting are delicate women without any fighting skills.
‘I’m still in the same age as Erin.’
Her younger sister, the tomboy, she wasn’t so weak that she could get scratched if she hit her, but somehow she didn’t feel like it.
Alvin manipulated one of her shadows to materialize.
A shadow that rose above her, thin and long like a whip, grabbed and restrained the hands of her handmaid who were gripping her knife.
“Kyaaak!?”
Elvin finally reached her destination, leaving behind her maid, who fell to the ground in an instant, driven by the pulling power of her shadow.
Alvin glanced up at the door of the bedroom, which seemed to be heavy.
Kwajik!
As she lowered her mace with all her might, the splendid and magnificent door collapsed in vain.
She kicked down the rubble door, went inside, and looked around, but inside the royal chambers it was terribly quiet.
‘He ran away.’
In fact, she already knew to some extent.
From the time she faced her trembling lady-in-waiting outside her door, there was no sign of anyone in her bed.
But that didn’t mean there was no way.
It would be natural to have a secret passage inside the sleeping quarters to evacuate the royal family in case of an emergency.
[Elvin’s unique spirit art]
[Chasing Demon (追跡鬼)]
A shadow wriggled around Elvin’s floor and began to form a circle around her.
A collection of shadows wriggling like living creatures and turbid like a sticky swamp.
The circle of shadow gradually grew in size and eventually covered the floor, walls and ceiling of the kingdom.
As if looking for a ventilation hole through which air could pass through, I searched every nook and cranny of the sleeping quarters to find a secret passage that might have been installed inside.
Elvin discovers a secret passage through which she is captured by his senses before long.
‘Found.’
She quickly explored the interior by penetrating the shadows through the secret passage, and identified a large number of people running hurriedly through the secret passage.
Number six.
Perhaps the King and Queen.
And judging by the state of the armed forces, the remaining four must be the Royal Knights who were closest to escorting the king and queen.
Alvin stepped into the shadows on the floor and initiated her movement.
The secret passage in the dark underground is a place full of darkness and is the best place for shadows to act.
This is Elvin’s territory.
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“Omg! Huh! Huh!”
How many minutes did she run at full speed? The king and queen of the Bartell kingdom did not stop running even though she was out of breath.
Shortness of breath even though he hadn’t run for a long time must have had a big impact on him not being able to hide his agitation at the shocking news that was heard one after another, starting with the sudden attack and riot.
“Your majesty! Little bit more… !”
“Ah, I know… !”
The royal guard urged them to leave the palace as soon as possible in order to distance themselves from the assailants, but this was the best the king and queen could do.
“What the hell is going on… !”
The news of the raid was so out of the blue and completely unexpected.
Only one attacker.
The news that they had proudly invaded the palace in broad daylight and turned the palace into a wasteland was no different from a disaster for King Bartel.
What the hell does that mean
But thinking about it didn’t come to a conclusion.
‘Is it a rebellion?’
The first thing that came to mind was rebellion.
However, it was meaningless to draw hasty conclusions in this situation where there was no clue about him, who led it, or where such a monster came from.
First, I had to survive.
When I was desperately running away, breathing so heavily.
“… ! Stop!”
The guardsman who was running in front of him hurriedly restrained it with his hand and stopped moving.
“Wh-what is it!?”
“…”
The king, taken aback by the sudden restraint, asked, but the Royal Guard knight did not answer.
Right now, all the nerves of the Guard Knights were pointing forward.
“Ahead, something…”
Clap clap clap
A knight in black appeared out of nowhere in the dark, proudly letting out the rustle of his heavy armor.
