Chapter 32
Hududuk.
The fragnted body of the Slayer fell upon the corpses of the knights.
The 5-star knights who had fallen into a reflux phenonon due to the vicious fighting spirit.
The 6-star knights who had barely survived against the wicked claws.
Even Fred and Demian, who should have maintained their dignity, wore dumbfounded expressions.
And.
Thud.
“Cough…….”
Only after Killian fell to his knees and coughed up blood did they realize that the current situation was real.
“Killian!!”
“Fourth Young Master!!”
He could hear people calling him from all over, but Killian had no strength to respond.
‘Did I overdo it?’
The blood he coughed up from the mana reflux was dark.
teor Flash and Explosive Flash were techniques that could only be used stably at the 7-star level.
To have used them consecutively at the 6-star level, it was only natural that his body was screaming.
He regulated his breathing, holding onto his fading consciousness.
The skin all over his body was torn, and blood was flowing. It seed he would have to ask Loen for a recovery potion as soon as he returned to the family.
It would be faster to be treated by the Priest here, but perhaps because of his past of being sealed by the Gods, he did not find it appealing.
Just then, Demian, who had approached at so point, extended his hand.
“This is unbecoming of a victor.”
“……”
Without any particular reply, he took Demian’s hand and got up.
“The damage is too great.”
The Black Knight Order was annihilated, and the Red Knight Order had lost a significant number of not only 4 and 5-star knights, but also a 6-star knight.
The surviving Red Knights also suffered serious internal and external injuries and would have to focus on treatnt for several months.
“If I had known the damage would be this great, the Slayer hunt……”
“We still had to do it.”
“……”
Killian once again emphasized to Demian, who was making a peculiar expression.
“If we hadn't hunted it today, it wouldn’t have been strange for a wave to have occurred tomorrow.”
His senses from when he was Adamas were telling him.
If the hundreds of monsters they had hunted today had scattered and left the mountain range all at once, the nearby territories would have been devastated.
‘The damage would have been dozens of tis greater than now.’
It was the best choice, and a sacrifice.
Demian was not unaware of what Killian was trying to say.
“Right. First, we need to call in the White Knight Order and the Blue Knight Order to collect the bodies.”
The White Knight Order he had left in the vice-commander's care and the Blue Knight Order led by Julian were relatively intact in terms of forces.
If they joined, a day would be enough to collect the bodies.
Just as Demian, having caught his breath, was looking around.
“Sir Fred, the cleanup will be handled by the Bastoni knights……”
Suddenly, the sound of sothing being crushed was heard.
Degururu…… Tuk.
“……!!”
“……!!”
A severed head with its eyes open rolled to Demian’s feet.
It was a 5-star knight from the Red Knight Order who had been cheering for the Slayer’s death just monts ago.
“What……”
Before Fred could even grasp the truth of the death that had occurred before his eyes.
Kugugugu.
The knights groaned under the fighting spirit that covered the area.
Footsteps were heard.
It was a light footfall, almost inaudible if one did not concentrate.
“Ah……”
“Unbelievable……”
The knights let out cries of despair at the being that erged from between the bushes.
The face and arms of a Grand Ogre.
The torso of a Grand Troll.
The legs and claws of a Grand Lycanthrope.
Even if the composition of its body was slightly different.
“K-Knight Slayer……”
It was undoubtedly the sa chira as the monster they had risked their lives to hunt just a mont ago.
“Dodge……”
“Vice-comm……”
The two Red Knights closest to it tried to shout urgently, but.
Seogeok!
The bodies of the two knights were torn to pieces in the blink of an eye.
“……You bastard!!!”
Fred belatedly raised his mana and swung his sword, but.
Kung!
His body, unable to exert its full strength, was flung away in vain and rolled on the ground.
“Fred!!”
Demian, who had rushed in, deflected the claw that was reaching for Fred.
Kwang!!
His body, sent flying, collided with a tree.
Tuk.
The head of the unconscious Demian drooped.
The Slayer turned its head and stared at its next target.
Philip, a 6-star knight of the Red Knight Order.
As the wicked claws were aid at him, his mind grew distant under the overwhelming fighting spirit.
His frozen body would not move.
Gulp.
The mont Philip, who had swallowed his dry saliva, sensed his death.
Kaang!!!
Instead of the sound of flesh being torn, a sharp tallic clang echoed.
“Heup……!!”
He rolled on the ground, entangled with Killian's body that had been sent flying.
“Everyone, get a grip!!”
Killian, who was a complete wreck, regained his posture and shouted.
His dangling arm was bent at a strange angle. It had broken from forcefully blocking the attack.
“F-Fourth Young Master……”
“You’re no match for it. Get back.”
Killian said as he spat out blood-mixed saliva, but Philip could not move a single step.
He was not the only one who could not move.
‘This damn fighting spirit.’
Fred swore under the pressure that felt like Mount Tai was crushing him.
He was out of both stamina and mana.
If he, who had mastered the 6-star, was like this, it was natural that the other knights could not move.
Killian confird the state of the vice-commander who was unable to budge.
‘Sir Fred isn’t lightly injured either.’
He had already poured everything he had into hunting the first Slayer.
They no longer had the strength to face a new Slayer.
“Hoo……”
Killian let out a long breath and stopped controlling the reflux.
The uncontrolled mana quickly rushed to his heart and Mana Heart.
‘This confirms permanent damage.’
But with his life on the line, it was no ti to be concerned about such things.
As the refluxed mana began to encroach on his heart, he emptied the air from his lungs and held his breath.
The heart that a human should naturally possess was being encroached upon by mana.
The pulse of his Mana Heart grew faint, and the beating of his heart quickened.
The mont the two heartbeats rged into one.
Hwiiiiii.
The sound of wind escaped from Killian's body.
The mana of a 6-star, beyond control, surged.
Kwaak.
He tightened his grip on the Cheonghwageom.
“Everyone, retreat!!!”
He shouted, ignoring the pain in his heart.
A voice imbued with fighting spirit .
It was at an incomplete level, just like the Slayer's, but it had enough power to snap the dazed knights back to their senses.
Fred, who had been lying down, Demian, who had been unconscious, and the Red Knights, who had been trembling while frozen, all turned their heads to look at Killian.
For now, that was enough.
“You, focus on
too.”
Killian raised his Cheonghwageom and aid it at the new Slayer.
[……?]
The Slayer’s red eyes darted up, down, left, and right.
After looking back and forth between the first Slayer, which had been turned into chunks of flesh, and Killian, its mouth split into a wide grin.
[Kikikikiki…….]
An unpleasant voice echoed throughout the area.
Killian lowered his stance.
‘A minute at most.’
After that, the completely refluxed mana would consu his body.
‘If I can’t kill this thing, we’re all dead anyway.’
Kuguguk.
Killian, having steeled his resolve, aid his Cheonghwageom at the approaching Slayer.
teor Flash.
Dozens of First Flashes descended upon the enemy, but.
Kaaaang!
All of those sword strikes were simply deflected with a tallic clang.
Following that, the Slayer closed the distance step by step.
When it ca within ten steps, Killian’s vision turned red with a burning pain.
“……!!”
He belatedly realized that his right eyebrow had been torn by the Slayer’s claw.
[Kikiki…….]
Killian looked up at the face of the Slayer, which was three heads taller than him.
“What’s so funny?”
The Slayer silently thrust its maw forward.
It was large enough to easily chew up a human head and still have room to spare.
Kwazik!!
Killian shoved his sword into the Slayer’s maw.
‘Annihilate.’
Hwarurururu.
A Blue Fla blood inside the Slayer’s mouth.
[……!!]
Kwak!!
In that instant, the claw that the creature had swung instinctively pierced Killian’s shoulder.
The muscles connected to his broken arm were pierced, but he ignored it and reinforced his mana.
The Blue Fla blazed, using the sword and the Slayer’s muscles as a dium.
He did not have much ti left to move his body.
He poured all his mana into the blade of his sword.
‘I’m sorry, Cheonghwageom.’
Deudeudeudeu.
The hand holding the sword trembled.
And.
Kwang!!!
With the repulsive force created by the explosion of the Cheonghwageom, Killian's body was sent flying.
***
His head was dizzy, as if he had drunk a whole bottle of strong liquor.
Just as he was struggling to regain his senses.
“Why did you suddenly go quiet?”
A familiar voice was heard.
A voice he had heard not long ago…….
[Edan……?]
“Did you suddenly fall asleep? I thought you said swords don't sleep?”
His dark vision brightened, and information about the area flooded into his mind.
A youthful Edan and the Magic Sword Adamas held in his hand.
I was in Edan’s hand, climbing a mountain range.
[Why am I…….]
“Enough with the sleep-talking. Can you speak so I can understand?”
[What……?]
“How to beco a Superhuman!”
[Superhuman?]
“Yeah! Why do you think we’re going through all this trouble climbing this mountain range?”
[…….]
“……”
After a mont of silence, Edan let out a dry laugh.
“Ha…… Did you really fall asleep……?”
[…….]
“Ah, really!!”
Edan grumbled and swung the sword around.
The puzzle in my dizzy mind finally began to piece itself together.
‘Co to think of it, was this when I had mastered the 6-star?’
The youthful Edan was still nagging.
Naturally, the advice I had given to overco the wall also ca to mind.
[……To surpass the 6-star, you must discard the habit of thinking limited to the physical body.]
Edan’s nagging stopped.
“That’s what I’m saying is difficult.”
‘I’ continued, rummaging through my past mories.
[You know that there are blind people among Superhumans, right?]
“I know. Sir Weber of the Ocean Current Nation is like that.”
Edan ntioned the 8-star knight from the Ocean Current Nation, which existed across the ocean.
[The reason that knight nad Weber doesn't feel any inconvenience in wielding a sword despite being blind is because he has opened his mind's eye .]
“Mind’s eye?”
[Yes. Discovering your own mana color, creating a sword with mana, enhancing your ki sense, substituting your five senses, and replacing the voids in your body. All of those are things you learn in the process of becoming a Superhuman. The mind's eye is just one of them.]
“Why are you telling
sothing so important only now?”
My partner complained.
[That’s…… no, never mind. So, what was the na of this mountain range we’re climbing now?]
“You… aren’t you acting strange today? We’ve been on our way to catch the ruler of the Wolfs Mountain Range since yesterday.”
I rembered.
The Wolfs Mountain Range, located at the edge of the Continent. And its ruler.
It was a 7-star level monster that had made Edan awaken his mind's eye.
And Edan, at the end of a bloody battle, had caught it…….
“Do you think I can catch it?”
Edan asked in an unconfident voice.
[Probably. If you survive against the ruler of the mountain range, you will realize sothing.]
“Survive? You say that as if you’re not going to help?”
[It’s only natural that I don’t intervene for you to gain enlightennt. Having mastered the 6-star ans it wouldn't be strange to beco a 7-star at any ti.]
It just required enough ti for the two enlightennts of body and mind to harmonize.
“That's strange. You once told
to be confident because you would help. Why are you suddenly saying sothing different, legendary Magic Sword Adamas-nim?”
[I think… I did say that, didn't I?]
I trailed off, accepting the mories that ca to
a step late.
Edan sighed and stopped walking.
“I was a fool to trust you and climb this mountain range. It would have been better to gather my comrades first.”
[I think it was you… who said that decent comrades would gather once you beca a Superhuman.]
“That’s when you lend
your power. Right now, a few teor Flashes and Explosive Flashes and I’ll get a reflux.”
Edan blad his stagnant growth on Adamas. It was a side of him that was hard to see after he beca the king of Eurasia.
[How did a guy like this reach the 9-star…….]
“Huh? What did you just say……”
[Be quiet and just climb the mountain. Anyway, with that so-called Eurasia Style that you developed, that ruler's head will…….]
Fall to the ground.
I was about to say that, but my voice would not co out anymore.
Edan seed to be shouting sothing, but I could not hear it properly either.
The mories were mixing.
Gye.
A transformation of the principles of the Gate used by the ancient human Adamas into the form of swordsmanship.
The Eurasia Style developed by Edan, and the Adamas Style that I had personally transmitted in the form of a sword…….
Co to think of it.
“……an……!!”
I was definitely.
“Ge…… an……!!”
Facing the second Knight Slayer.
“Killian Eurasia!!”
At the voice calling out my na.
“……!!”
Killian opened his eyes.
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