novelraw Chapter 184 : Chapter 184
Chapter 184 : Chapter 184
Chapter 184 : The End of the One Who Sold His Soul to the Demon
Kwaaaaaaang!
Ureureureureung.
The moment the golden lightning struck directly, the monster running towards Muno retreated backward like the wind.
But.
“What an interesting body, Mage!”
The old knight, appearing with a grinning voice, wrapped himself in the surging golden light and rushed towards the monster just like that.
A flustered expression flashed across the monster's head, the face of an old man.
“Hmph!”
Soon, with the guy's snort, the space in front of him distorted and exploded, blocking the Dragon Sword Duke's path.
Kkwaaaaaaaang!
That explosion made Muno, who was just about to dispel the giant mode and accelerate again, lose his strength.
Of course.
- You become a monster abandoning your humanity, and this is all you got!
Kwakwakwakwakwakwa.
The shockwave that struck with the shout was completely destroying the forest in the middle of the night, but it couldn't do anything to him to that extent.
Rather, watching the golden colors creating a gust of wind in the dark forest, Muno was completely relaxing his endlessly tense heart.
“Ha. Old man…….”
That horn was real.
If you were coming, you should have come a bit faster.
While countless thoughts like these dizzied his head.
“Young Master Muno! Are you okay!?”
Karina, who approached his side before he knew it, asked with a pale face.
“……I'm okay. What about you?”
“Ah, yes. Just a bit tired…….”
While the two, meeting in an unexpected place after more than half a year, exchanged awkward words.
A low voice intervened and diverted their attention.
“This shouldn't be the situation to have a romance.”
A middle-aged knight who looked a bit better than Karina.
At those words, both of their faces stiffened awkwardly at the same time, but.
“We seem to have used all our potions, and we should prepare just in case that person goes wrong. Don't look away.”
To the valid point that followed, Muno had no choice but to nod and agree.
After that, Karina's pale face bothered him even more.
“Sir Karina, could you look after Lauel? I think she's over there, she probably used all her strength firing that beam of light just now.”
“Ah……! I understand.”
When Karina turned her gaze, the middle-aged knight nodded, and she immediately started running towards the opposite side of the battlefield.
“Good judgment, Black Knight.”
The middle-aged knight's remark popped out as soon as she disappeared.
At his words of not taking his eyes off the battlefield, Muno ended up chuckling.
“I can see she's tired, well. Actually, I was worried about Lauel too.”
“No, not that. I meant you not complying when the guy urged surrender earlier.”
“Yes?”
That answer was unexpected.
If it's about urging surrender, he must be talking about when the black robe threatened with his and Karina's lives…….
“Generally, acting opposite to what the enemy wants is the basic of tactics.”
The blond middle-aged man with a neat impression speaking calmly looked like a person with absolutely no attachment to life.
“……I was just flustered not knowing what to do.”
“Whatever, it's fine as long as you didn't kneel immediately. I'm Hansen Royer. I have the undeserved nickname ‘Knight of Perfection’, but it's embarrassing so just call me by name.”
Knight of Perfection.
Hearing it, it was indeed a grandiose nickname.
“……Understood. Sir Hansen.”
“Let's stay tense. We might have to intervene looking for an opening.”
“Yes.”
With those words, the two finally began to focus entirely on the battlefield.
In other words, the golden light was overwhelming the black light enough that they could pay less attention like that.
Kwaaaaaaang.
The antique artifact armor mixed with red and gold, the Red Knight Set.
The golden light surging and covering it was emitted from the Dragon Sword, counted as the best even among the kingdom's artifacts.
Even the one using it was the person counted as the strongest among the Dragon Sword's successors in history.
- Is this all you got!
Kwaaaaaaang!
The magic of the mage turned into a monster was only bursting the spots where his afterimage passed.
Seugak.
The monster's body, which occasionally seemed to stop moving, was already shedding black blood here and there.
- Damn it, how is the Dragon Sword here……!
- Because there was good bait!
Kwaaaaaaang!
‘Bait. Old man…….’
Even though Muno frowned at the voice popping out occasionally.
He had no choice but to let his eyes shine at the moment the giant golden dragon's head swallowed the monster as it was.
‘Dragon's Fang Slash.’
The complete form of the technique he learned. The perfect dragon's head and teeth formed with mana were touching his heart a bit more intuitively now that his level had risen.
But the enemy was also tough.
The monster tore that golden dragon's head and sprang into the air.
“You bastaaaard!!”
A long golden light soared towards such a monster.
Beonjjeok.
- Awoooo!
Soon, the appearance of a golden dragon seeming to ascend to the sky swallowed the mage again.
Kwaaaaaaaang!
Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwa.
Ujijik.
Just the aftermath of that collision in the air shook the entire forest and snapped small trees immediately.
“Kkeuaaaak!”
Eventually, the monster, seeming to have one arm torn off by the dragon, sprang out from between the dragon's form.
“You bastard! If only I wasn't tired……!!”
When the mage's miserable scream resonated through the battlefield.
Muno's gaze met the guy's eyes burning like green flames.
- This is all because of you.
The meaning conveyed even without a voice.
The moment he sent a sneer at that, the guy's demonic energy seemed to soar up instantly.
The feeling that the demonic energy filling the forest was being sucked into the guy.
[I will not forget today's disgrace, Dragon Sword! Black Knight!]
At the same time.
Udeudeuk.
A giant black stem snatched the Dragon Sword Duke's ankle soaring into the air.
The mage with a monster's body changed direction in the air and rushed like a lightning bolt towards where Muno was.
‘Heup!’
Kung.
Double Acceleration and Brute Strength activated naturally.
Udeudeuk.
Heavy pressure was transmitted to his body not yet recovered.
But the mage passed over his head like the wind.
And the place the guy was heading to.
‘Damn!?’
The space where the guy first appeared, where the Magic Knight fell.
There, the circular magic power was still preserving its place as it was.
That thing clearly being magic that crosses space.
“Where!”
Beonjjeok!
When the blue ray of light pouring from Hansen's sword made the mage's movement twist.
Muno, moving reflexively, extended an iron chain.
But the light in Hansen's eyes looking at that direction wavered.
Because Muno's iron chain was heading towards a random empty space, not the mage.
Of course, what he aimed for was the circular demonic energy invisible to Hansen's eyes.
At first, Muno couldn't do anything about that demonic energy either, but.
‘I don't have to absorb it all. Just the pattern…….’
Now that he evolved, just by absorbing a part of that space's demonic energy and disrupting the flowing pattern.
Paaaaaaaang.
Kwakwakwakwa.
“Heup!?”
The demonic energy spread in all directions with a bizarre distortion, nullifying the mage's attempt to return to the original place beyond that space.
‘Now is the time……!’
The moment he tried to aim at the mage, stopped in bewilderment, with the iron chain, Muno felt an intense presence brushing past his side.
Kukukukuku.
Just the massive presence seeming to tear the entire space passing by his side naturally made his body stiffen.
Kwadeudeudeuk.
Even amidst the pressure as if the space was exploding, Muno's gaze was naturally chasing that presence that passed him.
‘Old…… man?’
A superman moving alone like the wind even in the world slowed down by Double Acceleration.
An old knight moving at a speed unimaginable even for his current self.
The back of the Dragon Sword Duke wrapped in golden light looked somewhat different from before.
Between those white hairs, something sharp seemed to be visible, and the hand wielding the Dragon Sword seemed to have scales sprouting.
‘?!’
Before that suspicion could even settle in Muno's head.
Jjeoeok.
A golden ray of light split the body of the mage, who was barely trying to turn around, in two.
“……?”
The mage who couldn't even scream.
The moment the monster's body fell to the left and right containing deep doubt.
Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwa.
An aftermath as if the space was exploding due to the impact of that tremendous blow raged.
At the same time, tremendous demonic energy soared from the corpse that turned into black energy and scattered at once.
“Old man!!!”
The moment he shouted unwittingly.
The black demonic energy created a deeper hole in that space full of darkness.
- Aaaaaaa!
Like the feeling of something being sucked into a hole drilled somewhere.
Ending with the scream let out by the faint phantom of an old man, the darkness within that darkness, the black space disappeared as it was.
And.
“Right, this is the end of the guys who sold their souls to the demon.”
The face of the Dragon Sword Duke, turning around with a grin, was truly refreshment itself.
It was a relief.
“Thank…….”
The moment Muno tried to greet him immediately.
The Dragon Sword Duke, who approached right in front of him before he knew it, was already extending his hand towards his head.
Kwadeudeuk.
“Aaaak!? Why, why!?”
Screams burst out naturally the moment that hand, digging into the inside of the reinforced helmet, twisted and grabbed his cheek.
“Old man? Oooold maaan?”
Damn it…….
The old man making a mischievous expression in front of his eyes didn't seem to have any intention of letting him go easily.
* * *
I almost lost my ear for calling the old man 'old man'.
“Still, since you have the merit of luring the Demon Cult Leader, I'll let you off here.”
“Auuuu…….”
Muno, barely released, grimaced holding his still stinging face, but.
He had to clear up the misunderstanding.
“Demon Cult Leader. No.”
“What?”
“Guy I don't know either. Was Mage.”
At those words, the Dragon Sword Duke's expression became strange and he looked back at Hansen.
“It's something I don't know either. But it is certain that he is a Mage!”
“Who doesn't know that? You slick bastard…….”
When Hansen's tense face started to turn pale.
“Ruler of Dark Green, Master of the Green Tower……. The Magic Knights clearly said so.”
Muno, who recovered his stinging cheek, quickly corrected the misunderstanding.
At that moment, the Dragon Sword Duke's face stiffened sharply.
“Not the Demon Cult Leader, but the Master of the Green Tower? Is that true!?”
“Yes. I clearly heard so.”
“This f*cking!!! Are you sure?”
“I'm telling you it's certain.”
The moment he confirmed, the Duke started to have a fit.
“Aaaaa! Damn, I felt something was fishy!! Damn it!! No, why did one of the Magic Tower Masters……!”
He grabbed his white hair and scratched it vigorously while shouting.
‘He attacked without even mixing words.’
“No, anyway he was a guy to be beaten to death, did it turn out…… well?”
While being bewildered by himself.
“Don't tell me a war will break out because of this? No way. He intruded first so…….”
He ended the monologue with words making the listener extremely anxious.
“Isn't that right!?”
“Yes! Of course!”
To that shout like a struggle, Muno had no choice but to respond sincerely.
Because the Seven-Star who tried to make him a test subject dying was a very good thing.
Of course, the fact that the guy wasn't the Demon Cult Leader was a bit regrettable though.
“That Magic Tower Master or whatever said he came listening to the words of Loser Exlam, in that way.”
That one word made the Dragon Sword Duke's atmosphere change completely.
“Oh!? That, the one you mentioned……?”
“Yes. A figure presumed to be the Demon Cult Leader.”
“Oho. Then the story is completely different. There is a link between the Magic Tower Master and the Demon Cult? Hehehe. This gives us justification?”
The Duke seemed to brighten his stiff face, but then.
“Ah, no. There's no evidence. Damn.”
He crumpled his expression again and scratched his head vigorously.
Then.
“You guys! Nothing happened here today? Got it? If it leaks, a war might break out!”
In the end, he started to threaten looking at the others.
Of course, Muno, not wanting to be nitpicked for no reason, was just watching that scene in almost a motionless posture with Hansen.
“Oho? By the way, Muno, you bastard, did you grow again in that time?”
The Duke, finishing his fit(?), started to show interest in him again.
“……Yes. Thanks to you.”
“Of course. It's naturally thanks to me. Of course.”
……What is this human trying to do again.
While he was making a bitterly awkward smile.
“Young Master Muno!?”
“Sir Muno?”
The voices of familiar people who approached before he knew it rang in his ears.