Demon Bible

Chapter 193: Leave It to Me

On the other side, amidst the ruined buildings, sword qi surged.

Six longswords spun like a windmill, cleanly severing every incoming blast of sword qi one after another.

The Captain of the Third Brigade hailed from a noble family in Sky Spring City.

He had chosen to come to Tail Fin Town solely for his own cultivation. He did not lack resources, but he lacked practical experience.

He had decided that after serving as a brigade captain in Tail Fin Town for a few years, he would eventually travel to other whalebacks to explore.

At this moment, he continuously unleashed sword qi, not daring to engage the Six-Armed Naga Demon in close combat.

The Aura Breathing Method he cultivated allowed him to accumulate aura as a medium, enabling a Life Aspect practitioner like him to unleash a continuous barrage of ranged attacks.

Its only flaw was that it was expensive.

Yet, its strength also lay in that very expense, which was exactly how he managed to establish an advantage.

As he swung his blade, the sword qi continuously formed slashing arcs that flew toward the Six-Armed Naga Demon.Anyone who tried to compete with a Six-Armed Naga Demon in swordsmanship was either a fool or a genius.

The demon's bodily flexibility was superb, and its six arms were long and agile.

This type of demon was practically born for swordsmanship.

Most importantly, six swords against one created an absolute overwhelming advantage in quantity that surpassed quality.

When it came down to it, the skills of swordsmanship were merely composed of a few fundamental stances.

Because a sword was ultimately just a weapon. To generate power efficiently while being limited by the range of physical motion, there were only so many paths a blade could take.

At most, one could add a few detailed variations and the augmentation of supernatural elements.

Therefore, when the external conditions were fundamentally unequal, comparing swordsmanship lost much of its meaning.

"I cannot win in close combat, so I have to choose that path—borrowing power!" The Captain of the Third Brigade's eyes lit up as he observed his surroundings from the corner of his eye.

Due to his Heirloom Breathing Method, he had condensed a trait known as 'Unimpeded'.

Simply put, because he spent years absorbing aura into his body and needing to expel it in the form of sword qi, his physique had developed the properties of a conduit.

Thus, as long as external power was available, he had the opportunity to channel that outside energy and unleash sword qi that far exceeded his own attribute value limits.

At this very moment, the only massive external energy source on the entire battlefield that he could utilize was the lingering thunder qi left behind after that bolt of Judgment Thunder struck.

Coupled with the earlier Sin-Burning Thunder Fire, which also possessed the lightning attribute, the ambient thunder qi was relatively abundant.

However, he needed to get a little closer and stimulate the lightning attributes within his own body to attract that external thunder qi.

Of course, he had no absolute confidence that this move would succeed.

Just like the Captain of the Fifth Brigade, he considered meeting Nemus the luckiest thing to happen to him since arriving in Tail Fin Town.

Through his interactions with Nemus, he had learned much of the underlying philosophy in Nemus's swordsmanship—the concept of integrating spell techniques into swordplay.

Only then was he able to complete this technique.

Otherwise, his previous applications of the Unimpeded trait had solely been for cultivation and accelerating the accumulation of qi within his body.

'I am here!' the Captain of the Third Brigade thought to himself, having finally approached the spot where the Judgment Thunder had fallen.

Although there was still some distance, it was close enough to absorb the dissipating thunder qi.

His body underwent a sudden change, and the surrounding thunder qi rapidly surged toward him in that instant.

Self-Created Swordsmanship: Harmonized Qi Slash - Thunder!

The Six-Armed Naga Demon seemed completely unreactive, still swinging its six swords to hack at the Captain of the Third Brigade.

The thunderous sword qi shot forward. The external power rapidly magnified the sword qi's destructive force, elevating its speed by more than just a single tier, and it swiftly pierced right through the Six-Armed Naga Demon's body.

However, the Six-Armed Naga Demon dissolved into nothingness in the blink of an eye, as if it had never existed at all.

A shadow materialized behind him, a delightful smile spreading across the Six-Armed Naga Demon's face.

Its fanaticism for swordsmanship was genuine, but that did not mean it was a brainless idiot.

On the contrary, it was highly gifted. By combining Demonic Art: Illusion with swordsmanship, it had developed the Phantom Sword Art.

Through the continuous swinging of its six longswords, it manipulated changes in light and shadow, coordinating with its spell-like abilities to craft illusions.

Blurring the line between reality and falsehood, an ordinary person's perception would never be able to detect the flaw.

Moreover, in a hellish place like the Abyss, how could it have possibly advanced to a Formal Demon without keeping its wits sharp?

It had long anticipated the direction the Captain of the Third Brigade would move.

However, the slithering speed of its serpentine tail was not particularly fast, making it difficult to catch up to the Captain of the Third Brigade, who had been constantly harassing it with sword qi.

That was why it had used an illusion to bait the enemy, while its true body silently slipped behind him.

The moment his sword qi struck empty air, the Captain of the Third Brigade realized something was wrong.

He tried to move, only to find his body paralyzed.

After all, this technique was still in its conceptual stage, and its protective measures for the user's body were vastly incomplete.

And at that moment, the six longswords were already poised to strike.

In just a split second, he would be sliced into pieces.

'Does my journey end here? I have not even visited the other whalebacks yet...' As these thought rotations flashed through his mind, the Captain of the Third Brigade fell into despair and could not help but close his eyes.

"Clang!" The sound of clashing blades jolted the Captain of the Third Brigade out of his despair.

Opening his eyes, he saw a treasured sword with tree rings and leaf veins running along its blade.

Its name was—the Forest Treasure Sword.

Nemus held the treasured sword, thrusting it forward precisely at the convergence point of the Six-Armed Naga Demon's descending blades, blocking all six swords simultaneously.

The Great Knight of the Tail Fin Town Church, Nemus, had arrived as reinforcement!

"Great Knight!" The Captain of the Third Brigade rejoiced.

"Leave it to me. Go rest and recover," Nemus declared, twisting his blade edge to parry the Six-Armed Naga Demon's swords away.

At the same time, he placed a hand on the Captain of the Third Brigade's shoulder, pulling and pushing him backward to send him safely out of the battlefield.

"Another powerful swordsman?!" Feeling Nemus's sword skills, the greed in the Six-Armed Naga Demon's eyes practically overflowed.

It thirsted for Nemus's soul; if it could devour him, its swordsmanship might reach an even higher level.

The next moment, the six longswords swung out, their blade edges crisscrossing as if aiming to shred everything within range.

Holding his sword single-handedly, Nemus did not retreat but advanced instead. His blade edge flipped and folded back, parrying the combined assault of all six swords with just one blade.

Clearly, Nemus was exactly the kind of genius who could clash in close-quarters swordsmanship with a Six-Armed Naga Demon.

The demon grew even more ravenous. With its next strike, the six original swords seemed to bloom, instantly filling Nemus's vision with an endless barrage of sword shadows.

Phantom Sword Art: Eye-Obscuring Sword Shadows.

However, facing this kind of swordsmanship, Nemus could not help but smile.

In the next instant, his blade edge trembled.

Secret Sword: Thousand Raven Feathers - Modified!

The blade edge seemed to instantly split apart, yet electric arcs of condensed thunder qi connected the fragmented pieces.

Earlier, Nemus had observed the Captain of the Third Brigade's thunder qi shattering the illusions in an instant.

This indicated that lightning possessed a certain degree of countering capability against illusions.

The sky full of sword shadows instantly dissipated. In attempting to create those illusions, the six swords had inadvertently exposed their flaws to Nemus.

He then drove his sword straight through the Six-Armed Naga Demon's head.