novelraw Chapter 208 : An Unkind Battlefield (3)
Chapter 208 : An Unkind Battlefield (3)
Chapter 208: An Unkind Battlefield (3)
Shiaaaaaaah!
The flapping of the Zombie Wyverns’ wings grew faster as it rode the wind.
I drew the trajectory of my sword toward them.
Shwaaaaak—! Slash!
“Are you just going to keep doing that from afar?”
The Death Knights and Zombie Wyverns were finely chopped apart and scattered.
There were still many left.
However, they could not easily rush in and hesitated.
“Then I’ll go to you.”
I stepped in among them and continued to swing my sword.
The energy of the Aura Circle wrapped around the blade as I cleaved through the Death Knights along with it.
In an instant, the chaotic sky was being cleared.
After that, my gaze turned toward three beings. They had split into three directions and surrounded me.
“O messenger of the Goddess……, today you shall meet your end here.”
Gremory began from his hand, up his arm and shoulder, and wrapped his entire body in black lightning, releasing it outward.
“Why are you setting the mood that much? Isn’t it just about killing and being killed?”
“Did you dare mock Lady Zelphinia while wagging that filthy mouth?”
“Last time it was that guy called Valam. This time too, enemies meeting on a narrow bridge, is that it?”
Giving up on thinking too deeply, I swung my sword widely to the side.
The Slashing Strike imbued with the Aura Circle’s energy flew toward them while drawing a huge arc.
Chwaaaaak—! Kwaaang!
A sharp sound rang out along with a deafening explosion.
“Where do you think you’re going!”
In an instant, Gremory closed the distance right in front of my nose and swung a spear made of Pitch-Black Lightning.
Pajijijijik!
As the blade and the spear shaft collided, a shockwave spread all around.
In that opening, Decarsen also charged at me.
“Corruptionis hasta Corruptionis(The Lance of Crumbling Corruption).”
Dozens of lances, heavily imbued with Deathly Energy, floated around Decarsen.
Shushushushushuk!
“Let’s see how long you can block it!”
A dense barrage of attacks flew in.
I began to strike them down, swinging my sword at an even faster speed.
Cha-cha-chaeng! Cha-cha-chaeng! Cha-chaeng!
At that moment, Malphas did not stay still either.
“The Coward’s Red Sword, Falling Captionem Proditionis(The Coward’s Red Sword, The Pouring Trap of Betrayal).”
Spells in the Demon Race’s language poured out continuously.
From Malphas’s entire body, Pitch-Black Wind surged forth, wrapping around him as if his wings were growing gigantic.
At the same time, his wings swept, and Multicolored Wind Feathers rushed toward me at high speed.
Gremory in front, Decarsen behind, Malphas to the side.
The attacks were completely concentrated.
‘Those feathers feel ominous.’
I immediately drew a formula with my left hand.
“Gravity Bomb!”
A gravity bomb exploded in the opposite airspace, and all the feathers turned their direction toward it.
In that opening, I sliced through the lances Decarsen had created in a single stroke and soared upward.
“You think you can run away!”
“Thanks for following me so well.”
“What—! Guhk!”
Thud—! Shuaaaaaak!
Suddenly, enormous boulders fell from the sky and crushed Gremory.
There was not just one huge rock, but dozens of them.
Anticipating the situation, I had prepared ‘Concrete Meteor’ in advance.
Thus, a gap formed in the pincer attack.
“Damn it—!”
Humiliated by the sudden attack, Gremory flared up and flew back up.
In his hand, an even larger Pitch-Black spear shaft than before was about to swing.
As its attack power was maximized, its speed was slower.
I was not the type to miss that opportunity.
“White Castle!”
My left hand kept drawing formulas, and inside my body, the Aura Circle was spinning busily.
With a resounding chant, pure white lightning shot out from my fingertips and began to rapidly rotate around me.
The lightning disrupted the hazy whirlwind Malphas had been maintaining and took position.
The moment the preparation was complete, I swung my sword at Gremory’s Pitch-Black spear.
Kka-kang—!
A fierce yet clear metallic sound rang out as Gremory’s spear was knocked upward.
“Kuhk—! Such a pathetic trick!”
The enlarged spear seemed to scatter like light and vanish, then split in all directions and flew toward me.
At that moment, the white lightning of ‘White Castle’ erected around me pulled in the Pitch-Black Lightning and collided with it.
Pajijijijik—! Chwa-cha-chak!
As the attacks were nullified, I drew lightning from the ceiling of ‘White Castle’ and drove it down.
Pajijijijijik!
The target was Malphas, who had been continuously firing Multicolored Wind Feathers.
“Kuaaaaaaak!”
The feathers were continuously being sucked into the ‘Gravity Bomb’ I had spread around.
Then, struck by the lightning driven down from above, Malphas let out a scream.
It was an attack that even Kamio, the Marquis of the Demon Realm, had found overwhelming.
As a Count lower than that, no matter how awakened he was, it was difficult to endure.
“You’re next!”
“Do you think it will be the same as last time!”
Decarsen Falkahn had once again transformed into a demonic form, just like before.
In that state, he poured out Pitch-Black lances formed in the air once more.
Shiaaaaaaak!
The speed was as if the wind itself were being torn apart. It was so fast that it shredded the space where I had been floating and plunged straight into the ground.
“……What?”
A situation that had seemed like an opportunity.
Decarsen Falkahn sensed something subtle about the feel of the attack. He moved his grip and scattered the Pitch-Black lances that had been moving while clustered together.
Chwaaaaak!
“Where did he go?”
The lance, which he had expected to be covered with bits of bone and flesh, was clean.
My movements were nowhere to be seen.
“He did this last time too, didn’t he?”
At that moment, Raion’s voice was heard from behind him.
Just as Decarsen was about to turn around in shock, a Slashing Strike of transparent energy flew in.
Slaaaaash!
“Kuaaaaagh!”
Following the scream, the attack continued to rain down. The energy of the Aura Circle, heavily infused with Holy Power, was carried on the sword as it kept carving through.
Slash! Slash!
The crescent-moon-shaped Slashing Strikes, stretched along their trajectories, tore massive wounds into Decarsen’s body.
At the sight of the terrifying barrage continuing, Gremory’s gaze turned blood-red.
“How dare you toy with us like this!”
Along with a monstrous roar, pitch-black lightning poured out from both of his shoulders at a horrifying speed.
The lightning of the ‘White Castle’ surrounding them in all directions also extended its grasp as if to restrain it.
A sound like the air being ripped apart echoed everywhere.
Shuaaaak! Boom!
In the meantime, Raion swung his sword down toward Decarsen’s head.
An enormous crash followed as he was slammed all the way down to the barrier floor.
Only then did Raion turn his head toward Gremory.
“Are you still doing that?”
“It seems you want even your soul to be annihilated. Even if I have to stake everything, I will not let you off!”
Gremory’s lightning lashed out even more violently.
In that instant, the lightning of the ‘White Castle’ poured out from the western and eastern walls, engulfing Gremory.
Bzzzzzzzt—!
The lightning failed to escape a fixed distance, as if trapped inside a glass bottle.
“Kuaaaagh! Where did you learn such despicable tricks!”
“You’re really noisy.”
Raion focused the energy of the Aura Circle even deeper into his sword.
At the same time a semi-transparent glow wrapped around the blade, he swung it. The sword’s trajectory passed through Gremory in a single motion.
True Martial Art Sword Form Slashing Bow
A long, stretched wound split Gremory’s upper body in half.
Bzzzzzzzt!
From within that gap, pitch-black lightning burst out.
“Do you really think I’d fall to such an attack!”
Gremory forcibly tore apart the lightning extending from both sides that had been restraining him.
Pajijijijit—!
The tangled lightning gathered once more over Gremory’s entire body, filling in the split in his upper torso.
“Percute De Rotting Tonitru Deo (Strike of the Rotting Thunder God).”
Gremory’s quietly muttered voice continued.
Gremory instinctively realized what was needed to deal with Raion floating before his eyes.
Petty tricks that deceived the senses, half-measures born of pride—those were all arrogance.
What was needed right now was pure power.
In response, pitch-black lightning poured out from Gremory’s entire body more intensely than ever before.
Chwajwajwajwajwak—! Shuaaaaaaak!
The pitch-black lightning became a flash ten meters in diameter and shot straight toward Raion.
It moved at the speed of light.
“Kekekeke! Hahahahaha!”
The power Gremory unleashed at full strength was enough to blast a huge hole through one wall of the ‘White Castle’.
Of course, the energy of the ‘White Castle’ instantly filled the hole back in.
In the middle of Gremory’s laughter, he felt a chilling sensation on his back.
“He dodged that?”
“What’s there I can’t dodge.”
With the sword he had been re-concentrating energy into all along, Raion split Gremory vertically.
Slaaaaaaash!
“Ah, ah……?”
Feeling his head being split apart, Gremory found it strange.
He had endured the same kind of attack earlier as well.
But this felt different.
“Wh-why is this happening?”
The Demon Race possessed terrifying regenerative abilities.
And for such demons, their greatest weakness was Holy Power.
Raion’s sword was overflowing with an overwhelming amount of Holy Power.
And the ‘White Castle’ spread around them served that same role.
“No matter how much you struggle inside a mousetrap.”
At that moment, Raion’s sword moved even faster, finely slicing Gremory apart from left and right, diagonally and more.
It was to ensure not even the slightest opportunity was given.
“…….”
Gremory, who had dreamed of avenging Zelphinia, could no longer endure, and his body scattered into the air.
After that, Raion kicked off the air and flew toward Malphas, who was being restrained by lightning.
Snap—!
At the same time he snapped his fingers, the lightning of the ‘White Castle’ was cut off.
Smoke rose from Malphas’s completely charred body.
“So he had already gone beyond his limit.”
Before the words even finished, Malphas’s entire body collapsed and scattered away as pitch-black ash.
Even Kamio, who had been a marquis, had barely managed to endure……
After dealing with the second demon, Raion searched for Decarsen, whom he had slammed into the barrier floor earlier.
“Where did he go?”
He looked around, but Decarsen was nowhere to be seen.
Raion spread his Perception to search for Decarsen.
The red dot signifying Decarsen was moving farther and farther away from the barrier.
“When did he escape? Could it have been back then?”
There had been a moment when the barrier was briefly breached by Gremory’s attack.
Decarsen, having grasped the situation, must have used that opening to escape.
“Should I chase him? No. I still need to deal with that…….”
Raion deactivated the ‘White Castle’ and looked down at the ground.
It was to stop the army advancing toward the Boluzan Kingdom.
But allies, who must have started moving at some point, were already busily holding them back.