Chapter 957 – 957. Blood Curse (6)
“Ah, ahhh!”
Lenny let out his scream as Siete’s blade pierced his chest.
Terrible pain strangled her as blood poured from her heart.
As Siete pulled out the blade that had pierced her from behind, Lenny’s body fell over and rolled around on the floor.
“…”
“Siete. First, take the queen out of the palace…”
“No.”
Shite cut off Alex, who wanted to get out of this horrible space as soon as possible.
Siete continued to look down at Leni’s body, where she had stabbed his heart.
“This. “She’s not dead yet.”
“Yes?”
Alex looked shocked and looked at Lenny’s body lying on her floor.
Her blood spilled from her chest, soaking the floor, and her buried face had long since ceased to breathe.
There was no sign of breathing, and the open pupils did not respond.
Lenny met her death.
But even so, I wasn’t sure that she was dead.
That’s because an incredibly dark, deathly energy continued to flow from her already dead body.
Siete intuitively realized this.
Lennie’s dead body, which had already stopped breathing, was nothing more than a vessel for her.
Her body, with her soul that made her up, gone, was just an empty shell of her.
So where is her soul?
Siete was a man named Lexus who reflexively followed her orders.
I looked at the undead who had now become Death Knights.
The death energy flowing from Lenny’s body began to move like a black mist and cover her Lexus.
Soon, Lenny appeared next to Lexus in the form of a translucent spirit.
[Do you know what kind of country this is?]
“…”
Neither Siete nor Alex nor Yuria opened their mouths.
Her enemy, who had abandoned her physical body and appeared in her spirit form, was tense in front of her, and was lost in her thoughts, devising a way to get rid of her.
[You don’t know what you did to me and Lexus.]
If they knew, they wouldn’t be able to disturb themselves like this.
Leni, who became her spirit body, put every detail of the rotten aspects of the Lucadian royal family into her mouth.
In order to become king and gain greater power than their brothers, they trapped them and turned them into traitors.
She was jealous of and criticized the upright character of her son, her blood relative, because he rebelled against her and did not bow his head, and ultimately drove him to death.
Is this really something that brothers and fathers who share the same blood can do?
And in the process, what she did and what she had to endure for Lexus.
“…”
It was a cruel and terrible story that could not be ignored.
Could this country really do something like this without the Lucadian royal family, the center of this country, losing their sanity?
The Kingdom of Lucadia was heading towards catastrophe, to the extent that it would not be surprising if the country collapsed at any time.
“The convening letter of the Continental Congress… “It was from Lexus.”
Yuria was able to guess the inside story of why the Kingdom of Lucadia tried to hastily hold the Continental Congress, which is held every four years, one year earlier.
That may have been Lexus’s arbitrary decision.
His father, the King, was busy playing with women and did not take care of state affairs.
The brothers were greedy for the right to succeed to the throne that the eldest brother would inherit, and in order to take it away, they caused an internal turmoil and caused great confusion.
Lexus must have felt that there was no more hope for the Leucadia royal family.
In the western part, the undead and demonic beasts that had begun to seethe at some point had taken over and were crossing over, and it would not be surprising if a battle broke out at any time.
But with internal affairs being so messed up, will we be able to successfully block the undead and demonic beasts flooding in from the west?
It is absolutely impossible.
So Lexus tried to hold a continental conference to lend help from outside.
However, he was unable to hold a proper meeting and suffered an unfair death at the hands of his family.
In the Kingdom of Leucadia, the only royal family who truly cared about the Kingdom of Leucadia and the people belonging to this territory was Lexus.
“…”
“…”
Yuria and Alex both listened to Leni’s words with dark expressions.
The internal affairs of the Kingdom of Lucadia were much more serious than those of the Kingdom of Pernias before Yuria succeeded her as queen.
[So I killed him. The royal family that is the owner of the kingdom.]
Lenny placed a curse on Lexus’ body, which was moved with the help of a necromancer named Marius.
His body was left hanging on the gallows for over a week, and no one could clean it up, and a curse was placed on his cold, hardened blood, giving off a foul odor.
A curse that applies to everyone in the royal family who has the same blood as Laxus’ blood.
Due to the curse, his death stream was twisted in Laxus’ body.
In a different case from necromancy, the reason she was able to become undead was because of the arcane magic she had independently learned.
The black magic called witchcraft was like that.
Like necromancy, it is a highly dangerous magic that can have a negative impact on the world if used incorrectly.
Therefore, witchcraft was considered taboo among witches and was considered dead.
The reason Lennie knew about the existence of black magic was because her parents, descendants of a witch clan, had secretly passed down the magic.
The first thing he did after twisting death and resurrecting Lexus was to annihilate the entire Leucadia royal family.
It was an easy task for Laxus, who was resurrected as a Death Knight due to a curse.
The curse that Lenny placed was ‘Blood Bond’.
It was a hex that grew stronger the more it was killed and drunk from those who had the same blood as the one designated as the agent of the curse.
Laxus, who broke into the palace at first, showed excellent swordsmanship even in her original state, and as she killed the royal family members one by one and took their blood, the undead characteristics she had bestowed with a curse became stronger.
As a result, the Lucadian royal family collapsed.
13 hours.
This was the time it took Lexus and Lenny to take out the royal family of Lucadia and the knights who tried to protect them.
The king and other relatives who inherited the royal blood all tried to run away, trying to find a way to survive in their own way, but Lexus found them all and butchered them.
Because Leni’s blood curse enabled him to know where they were, no royal family could resist his pursuit.
Lexus and Lenny were the last to keep the king alive until the end.
The King did not ask for forgiveness from Lexus and Lenny.
He did not repent for his mistakes, nor did he beg for his life in an ugly manner.
The king lost his mind as he faced the hell that unfolded before his eyes in just half a day.
He just laughed like a maniac, denying reality, and had his head cut off by Laxus’ sword.
[Are we evil?]
Lennie asked.
“…”
“…”
Neither Yuuri nor Alex could say anything.
The two just wanted to be happy.
I just wanted to protect my people and country.
But can we really say that it is something that cannot be helped and conclude that it is even evil?
How on earth can we solve this evil that has been thoroughly created in the irrational reality of a dark world?
However, unlike the two people who hesitated because they could not answer, Siete did not hesitate.
“Whether it is evil or good, it is not that important to me.”
Siete continued speaking while aiming the mistletoe at Lexus and Lenny.
“What is certain is that you and your lover, the undead, are interfering with my student’s work.”
That alone was reason enough for her to aim her sword now.
[Okay.]
Lennie laughed.
The royal family of Lucadia was slaughtered, along with all the royal knights, wizards, and nobles within the palace.
However, Siete showed no interest at all.
There was no sympathy for her story, nor did she convey any feelings of contempt or disgust.
Just cut it because it is an enemy.
Isn’t this a very clear and simple way of thinking?
The same was true for Lennie.
If I had heard her own story and sympathized with her half-heartedly, she might have felt very offended.
She kills them simply because they are enemies who get in her way.
That is enough.
[Then die.]
“It’s as if you can kill someone whenever you want. Then where…”
Siete grabbed the mistletoe that was aimed at Lexus and took a stance.
The blue magical energy surrounding the mistletoe flashed like lightning and disappeared.
It wasn’t hidden.
[Hyeonseong Joo, polar progenitor]
[Lee Hyeong-hwan-wi]
She moved at an invisible speed, leaving behind an afterimage.
Siete appeared next to Lexus.
“Have you tried it?”
Before her voice, mistletoe rushed down Lexus’ neck.
Kaaaaang!
The roar of the sword striking her armor rang out at a slower tempo.
Siete paused for a moment.
‘… ‘You couldn’t cut it?’
It was so shocking that she was none other than herself, and even if she was made of fraud, she could not be cut.
She was confident that she had reached the pinnacle of swordsmanship, and there was not a single thing she could not cut.
Even a huge rock the size of a house, and even the skin and skin of demonic beasts, which were harder than steel, were cut like radishes by her sword strike.
The reason she was evaluated as having reached the pinnacle of her sword skills and was called a sword saint was because no one could follow Shite’s sword with her own two eyes, let alone block it.
As such, Siete’s sword strike demonstrates fearsome cutting power that cannot cut anything, and at the same time, it is the ultimate definition of a fast sword that breaks through the speed of sound and drives forward.
But she couldn’t cut a single piece of her armor with her own sword strike.
Sreuk!
“… !”
Eventually, Lexus began counterattacking.
As a swordsman who had practiced swordsmanship, his original skills were outstanding.
A sincere swordsman who demonstrates his talent after practicing it for a long time.
It was a sincere swordsmanship that could not be seen as something to be used by someone who had been reduced to the undead.
However, that was only a story among people in the same category as him, and compared to Siete’s swordsmanship, the difference in capabilities was clearly revealed.
Even though Lexus’ sword attack had not already been fully unfolded, a sword path was drawn as if predicting the future.
Siete passed by the Lexus’ slow-moving road.
Siete dug deeper and aimed the mistletoe at Lexus’s armor.
‘If cutting doesn’t work, stab it.’
Siete’s mistletoe cut through the wind just before piercing Lexus’ neck.
Kaaaaang!
‘I knew it.’
A black airflow composed of death energy blocked Lexus’ neck and stopped Siete’s mistletoe.
The strength, speed, and timing were perfect.
Nevertheless, what blocks her swordsmanship is not a technique like hers, but an intangible and unpleasant force.
The ‘blood curse’ she placed on Laxus grew stronger as she swallowed and bound all the blood of her royal family.
And the completed curse strengthened the abilities of Laxus, who had become undead.
[In the future, Master, you will face truly unreasonable enemies. An enemy who may be more unreasonable than the devil who killed my teacher back then.]
Even if you have honed and polished your swordsmanship and reached the top level, there are limitations that cannot be overcome just by the physical characteristics of the swordsmanship.
I couldn’t understand at first.
Because I have never met such an enemy.
If you are hard and solid, you can increase your attack power by surrounding yourself with sharper magical sword energy, and if you reach the limits of your body, including physical strength, you can only move forward by breaking those limits.
The reason why Siete was defeated in a battle with a demon named Gusion and had no choice but to face her death was because the gap in physical ability specifications that exists between humans and demons widened.
Realistically, physically, she lost because her own life was burned and oxidized before the devil’s.
But what about the enemy in front of us now?
Laxus, who became a Death Knight, was an enemy whose level of swordsmanship was inferior to Siete’s and there was a gap that could be easily overpowered.
But Siete couldn’t beat her Lexus.
Laxus, composed of the characteristics of undead and curse, blocks all of Siete’s physical attacks due to the curse completed by Lenny.
It was an even more unreasonable situation than the battle with Gusion, which brought them to a near-dead state but was ultimately defeated.
‘… Okay. ‘I guess that’s what you meant.’
Only then did Siete understand Eunhyeon’s story.
[I will teach you. I want to teach my teacher how to cut through that irrationality.]
‘Damn disciple. Before I know it, he overtakes me…’
When the student, who had no talent and was far behind, realized, he was already walking in front of him.
The reason may have been the training Eunhyeon experienced in her dream.
She heard briefly from Erin what happened there.
How much pain she suffered and how much effort she got to achieve that level.
I envy you.
I got greedy.
She realized that it was not she who was walking ahead of the end of her sword, which she had hoped for, but her own student, who had not a single talent of her own.
But she is very proud, proud, and proud at the same time.
Yet she was refreshing.
Because in her life, no one had ever stood in front of her and guided her.
I am so proud and happy that the person who guides me is none other than Eunhyun.
And at the same time, a special feeling sprouts within one’s heart.
It was not the kind of affection that blossoms between priests.
A special feeling that a person of the opposite sex has toward someone of the opposite sex.
‘Wait a moment. ‘I’ll catch up with you soon.’
I see the same things as you, I feel the same things as you, and I will stand next to you.
And, I will convey my heart to you.
Siete’s eyes shined so brightly that they had never been seen before.
At this moment, she opened her ‘heart’s eye’ and stepped into the realm of immortals.
