novelraw Chapter 128 : Chapter 128
Chapter 128 : Chapter 128
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“Grow!”
Ulf shouted and slammed her staff into the ground.
Hundreds of vines, as thick as an adult's arm, surged instantly through the ruins.
They formed an arch shape that blocked even the falling raindrops, then immediately bore fruit and exploded.
KA-BOOM!
With the sound of explosion, the mana from the burst fruits fiercely pounded the demon trapped in the center.
The demon's body swayed this way and that.
“Ulf!”
“Not yet!”
Pan, covered in dust from head to toe, approached Ulf's side.
“Damn it, why is a guy like that here!”
The world was dyed black, then contracted to a single point and exploded.
One side of the vine arch burned up instantly by the dark ray and crumbled into the air.
There, the demon with one wing hanging down roared, emitting evil demonic energy.
[We are the pinnacle of the Demon Realm and the demon of all stories! All despair is My name, and what you face in death will be Me!]
The demon's roar crackled with a booming sound, its pronunciation slurred in between.
It meant there was damage to the passage from where that demon existed to here.
As Ulf quickly formed hand seals, giant Tree Ents swung wooden pillar clubs at the demon.
Below, dozens of green-hued werewolves rushed at the demon and bit all over its body.
However, black light covered the world again.
In a flash, they scattered.
Backlash from the magic flowed, and blood trickled from Ulf's mouth.
“If I knew it would be like this, I would have come here personally!”
It was difficult to deal a critical blow to that demon with just a clone sharing the power of merely the 4th or 5th circle.
It was thanks to Berlis that they could barely hold out.
“Hiyah!”
Berlis grabbed the bone she used as her right arm with her left hand and swung it.
Evil energy surged from the ground and blocked the demon's attack.
Dark Wall.
Although it was basic magic, it was cast by a mage reaching the 5th circle, so its power was certain.
It allowed them to at least block the demon's attacks directed at the students.
And aiming for that gap, the students thrust their small fangs.
“Whittle it down!”
“Hit and run!”
“You die even if grazed! Careful!”
The students gathered in units of two or three, repeating attacks and defense.
It was the squad they formed when sparring with the orcs.
Like Avril said, and like the Chairman said, students who experienced actual combat instinctively knew how to move safely and organically.
Among them, the ones showing the most outstanding performance were Pan, Bridget, and Eleveth.
They understood each other's will with just their eyes and moved organically.
Every time the demon spread its wings, they pulled back like ghosts, and when it folded its wings, they rushed in quickly.
[Insects like gnats!]
However, all these movements couldn't inflict a fatal wound on the demon.
“Why is that bastard here…….”
“Is it a demon you know?”
“It's a bastard we shouldn't let live. We must kill it here no matter what!”
Ulf ground her teeth and glared at the demon.
Before regressing here, that is, 9 years from now.
Around the demon's 70th invasion, that demon appeared introducing itself as the Grand General.
It commanded the demons already manifested in the world spreading their influence, and strengthened them.
Its individual ability was also mighty, enough for hundreds of thousands of people to evaporate just because of this one demon.
There was a reason such a demon saved its strength until the 70th invasion.
‘Its appearance was early, but it was said to have hidden and recovered its strength after receiving a huge wound from a human.’
If that was Cassian, it made sense.
The bastard appeared at Akarind Academy targeting Cassian and fought.
And after being wounded by Cassian, it hid somewhere in the human world holding its breath and grew its power for nearly 10 years.
Then why on earth did an entity of this level appear here and target Cassian?
‘Is there a secret about Teacher Cassian that I don't know yet?’
To solve that question, she had to dispose of the opponent quickly.
There was only one person to rely on for that.
Ulf's gaze, and the gazes of people moving back and forth in the battlefield, all contained Cassian.
He was taking each step with difficulty.
“Phew―.”
He gasps for breath and takes a step.
Every time, his body staggered as if pain surged.
Simultaneously, Yuria poured out blood with a choke from behind.
Just by making him walk, Yuria's body breaking down was visible to the naked eye.
“A little more…… A little more… A little more, a little more little more little more little more more more more more more more more more…….”
However, Yuria continued her prayer relentlessly, pouring blood from her eyes, nose, and mouth while clenching her teeth.
While all the mages and swordsmen stole attention like that, the weakest existence continued his steps.
When he arrived at a distance where his sword could reach the demon.
[Did you think We would be foolish enough not to recognize even a dagger flying towards Me?]
The flickering light on the demon's face burned up in an instant.
The wings, which were thought to be completely limp and unable to make any movement, spread wide in all directions.
The wounded and drooping wings were a deception.
Despair dawned on the expressions of everyone, from the students to the instructors fighting together.
Only Cassian was an exception.
‘I have to cut.’
The world was dyed black.
He wasn't seeing the demon's wing-like things as reality, but the demon's attack range.
He was seeing the future the demon would create.
And he was seeing the path to shatter that future.
Since he didn't see it in the first place, there was no reason to be swayed.
Taking a step, he moved his sword.
Warm energy was still felt behind my back.
It was energy in which muffled crying was felt.
‘Thank you for letting me come this far.’
I wanted to turn back and see the child's face.
But that was for later.
Something I could do after everything was over.
The blue path in the darkness created by Ulf's wolves came into view clearly.
It was narrow to cut from here, but a sufficient path to advance.
Cassian's Swordsmanship, Second Form.
Precise Thrust.
Inside the darkness that seemed to cover the whole world.
The place where it began.
The sword that advanced into that space, the only one painted white.
Pierced the center of the demon.
* * *
Rewinding time a little, one hour ago.
Rozalin and the people were moving to catch the second demon.
“The weather is filthy.”
Hati, who was driving the carriage, murmured looking at the sky.
It rained terribly.
They were hit by rain continuously until they came here.
Although they were wearing raincoats, if it continued like this, their bodies would freeze and stiffen, making it hard to fight properly.
They needed to go near the canyon to warm up and rest.
“How long did you say it takes?”
The Spear God asked while examining his spearhead.
“Three to four days from here.”
They had to go deeper than where they fought the harpies.
“I hope the rain doesn't continue until then.”
Rozalin clicked her tongue at the rain that didn't seem likely to stop easily.
And silence hovered inside the carriage again.
They were people who didn't really need to talk if Cassian or the students weren't there in the first place.
They weren't close enough to share memories talking about how the fight 10 years ago was like this or that now.
The Spear God was truly a fighting maniac, and he went anywhere if there was a distance to fight.
He fought more with people than demons, and had fought with everyone in this carriage at least once.
Especially Rozalin couldn't like The Spear God.
He picked fights with key forces at every opportunity under the pretext of sparring, and because of that, there were many cases where forces with degraded conditions collapsed.
Meanwhile, the demon invaded.
To minimize damage and kill the opponent, Zelta sacrificed his life.
Her adjutant chose death himself.
As long as that memory remained, she couldn't like The Spear God.
“How is our Teacher.”
But not being able to like him didn't mean she couldn't cooperate.
Having risen to the position of Grand General on a worldwide scale, Rozalin could distinguish between public and private matters.
Of course, judgment was needed on whether stories related to Cassian were truly public matters.
“He was clumsy.”
“What did you say, punk?”
“The sword…… Right. His eyes were surprising.”
The Spear God quietly polished his spearhead.
Certainly, Cassian's eyes were strange.
His spear moved simply but complexly.
From two central axes differentiated from two hands, the spear rotated bizarrely, piercing, striking, and covering points, lines, and planes.
People facing him for the first time found it difficult to grasp the range of his spear and enter.
However, that guy was reading all his movements throughout the time he wielded the spear.
No, not just reading, he was absorbing his sword.
If they had fought a little more, he would have robbed him of all his assets and more.
“Right? I told you our Teacher has killer eyes.”
“His Aura was a bit different.”
“We call it Adept. Your Aura is Walker level, and we wield Aura more outstanding than that!”
“Systematizing Aura. You are doing something only Grandmasters who established a school of martial arts would do.”
The Spear God himself couldn't create new spearmanship.
He just implemented a spear that suited him by combining numerous spears.
But gathering energy to integrate all swords, not just one swordsmanship.
It was a result unbelievable to have come from that weak person's body.
“But that's all.”
It was amazing, but not something to admire or be surprised by.
Heaven is always fair, so it was natural for someone with that much talent to die young.
This life was the same.
Seeing that he couldn't handle his body properly, even if he survived the demon, it would be fortunate if he kept his life for just 1 or 2 years.
He had seen countless such talented but early-dying fellows on the battlefield.
“That's all, my foot. Watch closely. How much effort we are putting in.”
Thinking that, Rozalin mocked The Spear God.
THUMP!
She intended to mock.
THUMP!
An ominous energy spread as fast as fire flowing in a dry field.
It felt like burning the entire body hot, but the mind sank coldly instead.
It had to be.
The third demon had appeared.
And that third demon was.
“Teacher!”
Targeting Cassian.
Rozalin jumped up, and due to the sudden movement, the carriage shook a little from side to side.
Hati was also startled and stopped the horses.
“W-What! A demon already? No way! It didn't come out this quickly?”
Regressors knew the approximate flow of when demons appeared in the past.
It was only natural, as they couldn't possibly not know when it resonated the world like this every time it appeared.
The third demon appeared more than 2-3 months after the second demon appeared.
But what on earth is this energy right now.
“Haha, should I have stayed at the academy?”
The Spear God stroked his beard, smacking his lips as if regretful.
It was because the energy the demon emitted was unusual.
Fighting demons for over ten years, he had felt the energy of about 70 types of demons.
The stronger the demon, the more gloomy and terrible the energy pounding the world was.
But this energy he felt right now was powerful enough to be counted on five fingers even including the past.
To think it was a demon emitting energy of this level.
The memory of just passing it over 10 years ago felt new.
“W-We have to go back. Teacher, no, Teacher! Huh?!”
Rozalin pounded the carriage and woke Hati up.
Hati also grabbed the reins to turn the carriage urgently.
If a spear hadn't stretched out aiming for his hand, he would have turned the carriage as it was.
“What!”
“We go as we are.”
It was The Spear God.
“Are you crazy? You felt it too just now! It's a demon! You must have instinctively known where that demon appeared! It's the academy!”
“There are two demons. That side has the teacher you believe in and a mage missing one arm. There is a half-wit Saint too, right? Then it is right for us to dispose of the other demon.”
“Fuck, what kind of bullshit is that! I told you our Teacher died to that demon!”
An aura even greater than when she turned the Chief Knight into pulp exploded from Rozalin's body.
Unorganized mana flowed out, making the surrounding dust rise.
However, The Spear God just snorted.
“That demon or this demon, they are both demons. The second demon is growing its power even now. It will get stronger and stronger, and if a demon blocking magic gets stronger, you won't be able to handle the aftermath. You should know?”
“The one who can save humanity is Teacher! Pan, that's why Pan sent us, you crazy bastard!”
“You should consider his duty finished.”
He was sincere.
He released Aura to the whole world and created the foundation of basic theory.
It didn't matter whether he died in 2 years or died now anyway.
He was an enemy they blocked even in the previous life.
So Cassian will block it well.
“This cra…….”
Rozalin, who was about to shout something, soon shut her mouth with a hardened expression and drew her sword.
Blue Aura surged from her sword.
Unlike the Aura she usually showed, it was Aura shaking anxiously as if it would explode at any moment.
Not taking the shape of a sword, but something like fire covering the entire sword and undulating aggravated such anxiety.
“For a beast bastard, a fist is better than words.”
“Hoh-oh.”
The Spear God also laughed while snickering, revealing his yellowed teeth.