I Was a Sword When I Reincarnated Chapter 1018

1018: Evil God Slayer

The giant antidemon, which had yet to get back on his feet, began making strange movents. All four of his limbs went limp, and his entire body started convulsing.

However, this was a massive giant the size of a skyscraper. Those convulsions resulted in earthquake level tremors.

Even the physically capable dwarves lost their balance. Wouldn’t it be really bad if the goliath struck back while they were defenseless?

Orfalve must have understood this too, so she imdiately evacuated her n. Though stumbling several tis, they slowly but surely retreated from the goliath’s side.

With no one left nearby, Adol joined in the attack. Still, this did nothing to stop the convulsions.

The goliath’s convulsions gradually increased intensity, with yet another change suddenly coming over him.

His body began twisting and deforming with a nasty cracking sound, accompanied by the high pitched noise of bending steel bars. Sothing must be happening deep within the goliath’s body.

Over the course of a few minutes, the shape of the giant antidemon transford drastically. Though the color and size were the sa, he was no longer humanoid. That multi-legged form reminded of an insect.

The only part mostly unchanged was the torso.

All of the goliath’s limbs had morphed into a long and thin shape, each containing several joints, but without hands or feet at the end. And now, there were seven of these insect-like limbs. In addition to the four original limbs, two more had grown out of the hips, and one out of the rear.

The head didn’t change too much, but the neck had just about disappeared. This new shape probably gave the creature a wider field of view of everything in front.

I found the form incredibly disgusting, but the logic seed to fit. We could no longer easily knock down the goliath by focusing on the legs.

This guy might have the ability to transform its own body to adapt to the situation.

「GWOOOOOOOOOOOOOORH!」

「Shields!」

「「「 Roger! 」」」

The dwarven shield division launched their shield arts simultaneously. At about the sa ti, the giant antidemon shot out a mass of evil energy from its mouth.

It took a cone-like shape as if mimicking the breath of a dragon, before impacting the blueish-white magical shield. Not only did the transformation make it more resistant to knock downs, it also seed to unlock additional thods of attacking.

And these new attacks seed more effective at dealing with armies. Imdiately after the shield art’s effects disappeared, it swung one of its legs to cleave us down.

The dwarves reacted quickly by propping their shields again, but were unable to block the massive force of the blow.

Nearly a hundred dwarves got blown away, rolling on the ground.

Even if the legs had gotten thinner, they were still over 10 ters in diater. I have to say, they did well to block the goliath’s onslaught up until now. However, this was also the most damage we’ve sustained so far.

「We’re going to fall back a bit! This position is too dangerous!」

「Then we shall draw its attention! Join up with the rest in the anwhile!」

The giant antidemon’s transformation ant we had the disadvantage at close range. Jayne and Orfalve changed their strategy imdiately.

The dwarves courageously took the front lines again. They needed to buy ti for the rest to evacuate.

This role was most dangerous, yet none of them uttered a single whimper or complaint. They only marched forward following Orfalve’s lead.

There was no ti for hesitation. The longer we take, the more damage the dwarves will suffer. But the giant antidemon had different plans. As if predicting our movents, it moved to interfere.

「GRAAAAAAAAAAAAH!」

「It jumped!」

With those seven legs folded wide, the giant antidemon hopped like a grasshopper.

It landed with surprisingly little impact, right in the path of our retreat. Judging from the huge distance it managed to hop, running away seems very ineffective.

We were now tightly cornered. Maybe our only choice left was launching an all-out attack with everything we’ve got? At least we’re outside of the castle’s ward now, so I should be able to use Dinsion Gate. That said, it could catch up to us in no ti, even if I used my space-ti magic to transport the whole army.

The giant antidemon was still getting supplied more and more mana. The more ti passes, the stronger it gets. At this point, stalling for ti would just be digging our own grave.

Everyone understood this, so their expressions were grim.

We all hesitated for a mont to consider our options, aside from one man.

「As I thought, I must defeat the creature myself. You all stay back and watch.」

Adol, the Divine Sword Knight of Silard. He walked slowly toward the giant antidemon, his whole body radiating divine energy. It seems that’s the result of him focusing his powers for a while now.

「Hold it. If we are to go on the offensive, we should have everyone match the timing. Allow us to support you.」

「There is no need for that.」

「Ah, wait!」

Orfalve and Jayne tried to change his mind, but Adol refused to stop.

Right after saying that, Adol vanished. He had leapt faster than we could follow, and was already right in front of the giant antidemon before we knew it.

Not even this giant creature could keep up with Adol’s ridiculous speed, showing a bit of what looked to be surprise. Nonetheless, the counter attack ca almost instantly.

Four of the creature’s legs ca flying at Adol from all directions in an attempt to crush him――but they were all torn apart. Adol must have hacked them all off, though I couldn’t even notice him moving.

No matter how many tis I see it, Adol’s movents with Alpha active were just insane. I hope I never have to fight him.

I have to wonder what kind of technique Adol will unleash after charging all that power…… Since none were capable of stopping him, all we could do was watch. Of course, we were also focusing our own energy for a follow up.

「Divine Sword Art, Evil God Slayer.」

That’s one straightforward naming sense! Still, the slash contained as much power as the na suggested. Truly sothing that seed capable of striking down the Evil God.

The pure divine energy cloaking Alpha extended over twice the length of the blade. Then, Adol swung his blade vertically downward.

It seems a bit similar to Fran’s Heavenly Judgnt. A simple slash with the divine attribute and god-like speed.

However, the sheer power was just on a different level. No matter what tricks we tried to pull, we could not achieve anything on the sa level.

A flash of light covered the land in white, causing everyone to avert their eyes. A short mont later, the terrifying force slamd into the earth.

It caused a single tremor, yet more than half of our troops fell down. The shockwave of mana blasted out swept down the other half. These were the elite troops, the most talented people on the continent.

And they couldn’t even stay standing. A single slash from the distant Adol was all it took. But the real shock ca after.

The light subsided, revealing a horrific sight to Fran and the others.

「……Amazing.」

「W-Woof!」

「Those divine swords are truly unbelievable.」

「Even with a divine sword, only the ones specialized in direct combat can do sothing like this.」

The rest were so awestruck that they couldn’t speak properly.

What remained in front of us was the right third of the giant antidemon’s body. The left ~70% had vanished, leaving only the right flank and the three legs sprouting out from it.

And behind the giant antidemon was a deep canyon stretching straight into the horizon. As if the gods themselves had popped it into existence.

I couldn’t even see where the canyon ended. Was this really the work of one man?

We’ve seen a similar scene when Fran unleashed her ultimate move in Divine Beast Form, the Black Tiger Thundercrash. However, this scar was wider, deeper, and longer.

The awe had caused my mind to go blank for a mont, though Fran and the others managed to run forward. We found Adol lying motionlessly on the ground.

No one wore a smile, including Fran.

『It’s still alive, even like that?!』

The giant antidemon had begun to regenerate. All of the warriors returned to their senses and began their assault on the giant’s remaining legs. However, our ordinary attacks did little to interfere with the regeneration.

『Shit! If only Jayne’s ritual magic was ready!』