novelraw Chapter 216 : A Changing History of the Continent (3)
Chapter 216 : A Changing History of the Continent (3)
Chapter 216: A Changing History of the Continent (3)
The Demon King Luseo Dicanderon listened to those words and let out a crooked grin.
“When the territory of the Demon Realm reaches its peak, this land will end anyway. Until then, I’ll play along with you! You’d better consider it an honor……!”
“Honor my ass!”
In that instant, the Demon King Luseo’s greatsword flew in at blinding speed.
It appeared right in front of his nose in the blink of an eye, and Raion was startled.
“Ugh!”
Raion hurriedly bent his body backward and avoided it.
At the same time, the greatsword that swung downward again aimed for Raion.
Boom―!
Just like before, he felt as though it had grazed his skin.
Kwa-boom! Kwa-kwa-boom!
From that moment on, the Demon King’s fierce assault began.
“You boasted like you could handle me, but now you’re just running away like a rat!”
Boom! Boom!
The pitch-black energy clinging to the greatsword swept about as if gouging up the ground.
With every strike, the earth roared loudly and scattered energy in all directions.
‘The openings are definitely big.’
Raion slashed his sword while massive chunks of earth poured down like waves.
Chwaaaaaak!
The transparent Aura Circle energy split apart as it was blocked by Luseo’s greatsword.
“Yes, this is how it should be to be fun!”
His voice sounded as though he was intoxicated by power up to the top of his head.
Even so, the pitch-black energy clinging to the greatsword did not diminish in the slightest.
Rather, it raged even more fiercely as it swept over Raion.
Kugugugugugugu―! Hwaruk!
“Kuagh!”
This time, it was soil imbued with pitch-black flames.
Then the ground rose up, turning into jet-black spears.
Cha-chaeng! Cha-cha-chaeng!
It was a technique once used by Zelphinia, who handled wind and earth.
After dodging the sharply thrusting spears, Raion spun in midair and barely managed to land.
At that moment, dozens of pressures dropped down from the empty void where there had been nothing.
Kwa-boom! Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-boom!
The sound did not cease easily. It continued endlessly, pounding that spot.
Kwa-kwa-boom! Kwa-kwa-boom! Boom! Kwa-kwa-boom!
After some time, the attack stopped, and silence fell. From far away, only the sounds of Raion’s people fighting monsters could be heard.
“Is this as far as your struggle goes?”
As Raion was buried deep underground, the corners of Luseo’s mouth lifted long.
As time passed, he seemed to grow ever more intoxicated with power.
Then the silence stretched even longer.
“Did he finally fail to endure and die?”
From the large mound of earth, churned up as if wolves that devoured corpses had ravaged it, not the slightest presence could be felt.
Luseo showed a slightly regretful expression.
“I thought you were a fairly strong human…….”
Was it regret he felt? Or had he grown bored while waiting for the continent’s end…….
Then Luseo’s gaze turned toward those fighting the Demon Realm Behemoths.
They were all fighting desperately, unaware of what situation had unfolded.
“This doesn’t seem like how it used to be…….”
His craving for blood and death seemed to be deepening.
Luseo, with three pairs of wings spread wide, vanished in an instant and appeared before them.
“H-how…….”
Everyone had no choice but to recognize him even after seeing his changed appearance. And they understood all too well what his appearance meant.
Jade, who had been fighting at the front, did not waver even in that situation.
“The Master will rise again! Everyone, take up battle formation!”
“Yes―!”
At Jade’s shout, the knights under his command released their Aura and assumed their stances.
At that moment, Luseo vanished again, seized Jade by the head, and hurled him away.
Boom―!
“Kukukuk! You’re worse than a rat. Do you really think these can do anything to me?”
Shiaaaaaak! Pak!
An Aura-imbued arrow flew in from the rear, but Luseo’s hand moved swiftly and caught it.
“Oh……, so there are humans who can handle Aura like this. But it’s nothing more than a parlor trick.”
Luseo threw the arrow back. This time, it was filled not with Aura but with pitch-black energy.
Shuaaaaaak! Thud! Boom!
Negis failed to dodge the arrow, and her shoulder was pierced through.
Even so, the arrow still retained its momentum and struck the ground behind her, letting out a thunderous explosion.
“This is at least a bit entertaining.”
At Luseo’s gesture, the ground overturned.
The Personal Guard knights who charged in with battle formation could not leap over it and were caught.
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kok!
“It’s like crushing bugs…….”
Hwaruk! Shiaaaaaak!
Flames surged from the ground, and blade-like winds raged from the void.
They poured down from above and below, merging to create a massive vortex of raging flames.
“Until the Master rises, we’ll hold out no matter what!”
It was Caldein Flavan.
Originally a 5th Circle Archmage, the spell he had just used was at the fusion stage.
He overlapped the two 4th Circle spells ‘Wind Blade’ and ‘Flare’ to create a new spell, ‘Hurricane Blaze’.
Because razor-sharp wind blades continuously rotated within the flames, anyone who entered would be shredded to the point where not even their shape could be recognized.
“Huff……, huff…….”
Due to excessive mana consumption and the difficulty of a 6th Circle spell, Caldein Flavan gasped for breath.
Even so, the magic did not stop.
The heat of the Flare, intensified by the wind, grew stronger and stronger, as if it were swallowing up the surroundings.
Then a pitch-black slashing strike pierced through the middle of ‘Hurricane Blaze’ and shot up into the sky.
Shuaaaak! Paak―! Paak―! Paak―!
In an instant, the trajectory of the slashing strike occupied the space where ‘Hurricane Blaze’ had been raging.
“You do provide some amusement. Magic fusion, huh. That method was something that fellow used earlier as well.”
Caldein looked at the Demon King, who had revealed himself again. He wanted to fight using magic, but due to the fusion spell he had used earlier, his mana was nearly depleted.
“This time, taste my magic. With this, everything should be cleaned up.”
The Demon King Luseo stowed his greatsword into the empty void and raised both hands.
“Ignavis veritas, semper ardens proditio, in desperatione sancti(Truth of the coward, endlessly burning betrayal, O despairing saint).”
The incantation, muttered in the language of the Demon Race, continued without pause.
“Sentio haud cunctanter ruentem sodalis manum(Feel the unhesitatingly surging hand of a comrade).”
The moment the spell ended, the ground shook.
The Personal Guard who had been buried earlier began to rise one by one.
But they were not normal. Every single one of them had bluish skin and stared around with eyes completely dyed red.
“Kill……!”
It was magic that controlled the dead.
As the command was given, the Personal Guard knights, now turned into Death Knights, rushed at their surrounding comrades.
It was as if true hell had unfolded.
At the sight of the frenzied battle, Luseo showed an even deeper smile than before.
“Kukukuk! All of you will be buried in the history of madness! Bear witness to the glory of the heavens collapsing―.”
He continued speaking with laughter, then suddenly stopped.
It was because of an unpleasant sensation that had begun to be felt from behind.
“What is this?”
Behind him, there was nothing but piles of earth that looked like graves.
However, it did not take long for that question to be answered.
Suddenly, a beam of light fell from the sky and slammed straight into one of those mounds of earth.
Kwaaaang―!
Even as dirt scattered in all directions, the ominous feeling did not fade.
“Don’t tell me the Blessing of the Goddess has been bestowed again? On something he himself discarded?”
Because of that, even Goddess Zigasis had been unable to remain in the Middle Realm and was driven out.
The ominous feeling grew even denser. It thickened as if carrying cumulonimbus clouds ready to spew thunder and lightning.
Kwa-kwa-boom!
With the resounding noise, a beam of light drew a trajectory and stopped right in front of the Demon King Luseo.
“I didn’t know you’d be so petty as to go this far against my people.”
It was Raion. His entire body looked as though clusters of transparent light were bound to it.
“What did you do?”
“What else? I took back the power I raised.”
“Took back?”
“That’s right. I took it back. Like this.”
Before anyone noticed, the sword already gripped in Raion’s hand swung.
A trajectory was carved across Luseo’s upper body, which he failed to dodge in time.
Chwaaaaaak!
“Kghhh! You cut me?”
He had even been drawing power through the land that was turning into the Demon Realm.
As proof, the three pairs of wings, his enlarged body, and the mana flowing from his entire body were all still intact.
“That woman merely gave me a seed. I was the one who raised it. Then whose do you think it is?”
“I see……, so that’s what it meant? The Goddess truly committed a foolish act. But this must be only momentary power!”
Luseo drew out his greatsword once more and swung it.
Kaaak! Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kok!
Raion’s movement, which had seemed to be pushed back, came to a halt.
“You’re enduring it?”
“No, I’m blocking it.”
Chwaang! Shiaaaaaak! Cha-chaeng! Chang!
Raion’s sword, now faster than ever, carved him apart.
It was so fast it could barely be seen by the Demon King’s eyes.
“H-how!”
“Don’t you feel your power weakening?”
“Mine? Th-that can’t be!”
“Of course it is. I severed the flow with the blessing I struck down earlier.”
At that moment, Luseo tried to sense the power that had been swallowing the continent.
But he felt nothing. Only a hollow silence lingered, as if all connections to existence had been cut off.
“How did you do this to my power……!”
“This is my real power. Well, even I can hardly believe it myself.”
An even more powerful Divinity burst forth from Raion’s entire body.
That power flowed straight into the sword made of dull-gray Adamantium.
Shwaaaaaak!
“It was fate from the beginning for it to end like this. In a way, I was just played with by the Goddess.”
“Don’t be ridiculous! I will use the continent as a sacrifice―!”
Chwaaaaaak!
Raion’s sword slashed toward the Demon King. The trajectory burned away pitch-black blood as it traced through his legs.
Chiiiiiiik!
The Demon Race’s blood was reacting to the Divinity.
“Aaaaaaagh!”
Shuaak!
At that moment, all three pairs of wings that the Demon King had been about to spread wide were completely severed.
“Aaaaaagh!”
As the pain continued, tears of pitch-black blood flowed like water from both of the Demon King’s eyes.
“Let’s end the nonsense here. I’m tired too.”
“You think this is the end! It will never end!”
Luseo turned both hands toward the ground and began preparing something. At the same time, the land that had turned into the Demon Realm started to convulse and split apart at random.
Kugugugugugugu!
“I will at least bring ruin to the Middle Realm! Blood tears will flow from the eyes of the Supreme Deity! And because of that, the Goddess will fall to the ground!”
All resentment was directed toward the Goddess.
The Middle Realm, along with humans and the many races living upon it, were nothing more than sacrifices.
But Raion had no intention of letting it be.
“Let’s finish it.”
With an expressionless face, Raion swung his sword.
It was an attack containing everything of the Divinity that had been pouring out from his entire body.
The pale yet transparent light expanded massively and swallowed the place where the Demon King Luseo Dicanderon stood.
And it wasn’t only that.
The land that had been transforming into the Demon Realm was also drawn in, as if affected by that power.
It became as though the entire world had turned pure white.
Then, as the vision of the others slowly returned, their surroundings came back into view.
“Master!”
“Master―!”
Patrick, who had been fighting elsewhere and ran over after seeing the light, felt a sense of emptiness at the devastated state of the battlefield.
Then he spotted Raion, kneeling at the center of a massive crater.
“Master, are you all right!”
His voice was filled with concern.
In response, Raion remained silent, unable to answer.
No trace of the Demon King could be found anywhere. Sensing that, Raion collapsed as if letting go of something.
“Master!”
At the same time, pale white light energy burst from Raion’s entire body like smoke and scattered in all directions.
Startled, everyone rushed toward Raion.
Jade, Negis, and Caldein, all heavily injured, had also risen at some point and approached his side.