Chapter 512 – Noble Reign (3)
The wooden coffin of the noble ruler was dyed red.
And before I knew it, the guy who was right in front of me swung his fist.
Whoa!
The sight becomes dizzying for a moment. When he came to his senses belatedly from the pain of his head being crushed, he found his head on the ground.
-Ugh… !
Is it because I used up all my protective magic to block the rust from earlier, so I got hit with my bare body?
The pain is painful, but it is difficult to come to your senses perhaps because your brain is shaken.
In a hurry, I covered my entire body with mana and widened the distance. This will be much faster and more certain than moving clumsily.
But there was no chase as expected. The noble ruler just looked at the shocked women who were covering me and me, who was recovering from a mild concussion.
As if he was going to wait and see how I respond.
-This bastard…
Anger began to bubble and boil from deep within my heart. Looking at the red-stained wooden coffin, I guessed, but these were probably not my pure feelings either.
It is not a blatant mental contamination like rust. By drawing attention with the increased strength, it naturally induces anger.
It’s a sophisticated tactic, but it doesn’t work for me either. Because I had already experienced the overwhelming power and anger spreading around me once.
At that time, I felt not only anger but also hunger, so it was even worse than now. How could I be swayed by this level of mental pollution now?
The rest of the group also gritted their teeth as they saw me being beaten, but no one made a hasty move.
Even Fei, who had the weakest mental strength, drank a potion taken from somewhere and quickly returned to normal, handing out the potion he had drunk.
The noble ruler’s eyes cooled down at the sight of us quickly fighting back.
“Hmm. Aren’t you swayed by anger? Then let’s move on.”
-… I’ll kill you before that!
He didn’t bother to reject the unnatural anger caused by his authority, but let it out all at once. A heart that beats hot and a head that sinks coldly.
The surrounding mana instantly disassembles and reassembles and surrounds my body.
What was created was a metal exoskeleton made to fit the dragon’s body. It is a strength assist device that is recreated as closely as possible, taking advantage of the experience of riding the giant golem that Fay made earlier.
The power source is the mana of the dragon heart, and the material is a temporary metal made of magic. But the performance was certain.
With a combination of enormous mass and power, he stomped his front foot towards the noble ruler.
Kwaaaaang!
A loud noise that hurts your ears. However, what I felt in my hand was not the sensation of crushing something, but the sensation of the semi-elasticity turning into tingling pain.
This much was expected. The reckless roar showed awe-inspiring power and durability even in the incarnation state. A noble reign would not be less than that.
Although the floor was actually dented, the guy stood on his own two feet and took the attack. But I am a wizard. It was not swung with its front leg to show off its strength.
“Under… ! “This is a hit.”
A noble ruler who smiles happily. Bright red blood was dripping from the arm of the guy who had taken a defensive stance in the shape of an X.
-Why. Even if other things regenerate quickly, do you think it would be difficult to recover from a wound directly stabbed by a dagger?
The noble ruler did not avoid our attacks. I either stood there and blocked it, or I just welcomed it.
Because it still works. The torn off flesh and skeleton were instantly distorted into a shape close to the creature’s body. Maybe it’s intentional.
But there was just one exception. The area where I was stabbed directly by my dagger. So, the wound that broke Rahim’s heart had not yet recovered.
When he first awakened, instead of filling the hole, he simply threw away the dagger and continued to drain his divine power from the wound.
Now his left forearm will do the same. Hiding it between its claws, it pierced the arm of the noble ruler with a dagger while swiping its front paw.
Even my body strengthened by the power of anger could not block my dagger.
He raised the corners of his mouth and shouted at the first effective hit he received.
-Everyone assist me!
“No. There is no need for that. The hero of this generation. Looking at that calm reaction, I guess I get it. I don’t know how he did it, but he defeated all the evil spirits. Then there will be no need for further exploration.”
The guy nodded with satisfaction and gained momentum.
Kugugoogung.
Jet-black divine power surging from the whole body. Now I know. That thing did not take the form of darkness like a seething silence, but was dyed black by mixing all kinds of divine power.
A tree crown that appears to have sprouted thorns due to being dried out. Five colors bloom above it.
The noble reign did not wait for us and took a step forward.
“Now show me the despair I don’t know.”
A new type of guy that gets closer with just one step. But he never gets hit by the same attack twice.
The moment the noble ruler reached my head, I bit my wide open mouth.
Kwasik!
It goes without saying, but the sound from a moment ago was not the sound of a noble ruler being chewed, but rather the sound of my teeth breaking instead of my chin.
A noble reign that naturally stops in the air. The group poured everything they could towards that guy.
Not to cause any harm, but so that we can hold on to even a little bit. So that I can sink my dagger into it.
As always, the first to attack were Helena and Iona.
“Light… !”
“Good! “Take it all!”
A completely different momentum than before. He must have felt something from the noble ruler who went on the offensive in earnest, or he must have exerted too much force.
An output that is difficult to fully contain even in the vessel called a saint. Even though Helena was bleeding from her eyes and nose, she was able to wield that much power.
Quang!
The ground flips over with one leap. The brilliantly shining mace and the giant lion’s paws seem to be controlled by different people, simultaneously aiming for a noble reign.
However, the two’s desperate attacks did not hit the mark. Translucent barrier. Because the power of sloth blocked it.
The isolated space was shaken by the shock, but Helena and Solari’s original purpose was not to break their steadfast reign.
“Now!”
“Know! Know!”
Before Helena could shout, Iona threw her body away. Her eyes were so cold that it was hard to recall her usual playful mood.
Iona is looking at her surroundings inorganically like a glass bead. The cool-headed thinking circuit soon produced the optimal results.
Phew!
Her own heart was stabbed with a pipe and exploded. The blood that lost her vessel bursts out like an explosion, and the fishy scent of blood vibrates.
In essence, it is fatal damage that is no different from self-inflicted harm. But now Iona knows. Just because her heart is gone doesn’t mean the vampire will die.
Recalling the area of her blood that Vlad had shown me, I stretched out my strength to see the moist blood around her.
Chains, stakes, shackles, weights, nets, frames, large cart wheels, etc.
Iona, who has created all kinds of restraint spheres with her blood magic, takes control of the surroundings of her barrier.
If the barrier is disturbed even slightly, the moment it comes out, it will be tied up in dozens of layers.
However, the noble reign was still relaxed despite the evil blood magic that surrounded him.
“Vampires are a great race. Power. Beautiful appearance. Long life… “Everything is like upward compatibility with existing races.”
The direction of the darkness pouring from the empty chest of the noble ruler who spoke like that changed. The one that suddenly covers the sky and obscures the inside of the barrier.
It was behind Iona that the noble reign that had temporarily obscured everyone’s view reappeared.
The guy who escaped with extreme stealth, like a seething silence, grabbed the back of Iona’s head as she was just about to turn around.
The grip, which had become incredibly strong, ripped off Iona’s head.
Paang! Shoot…
Iona’s true blood poured out like a fountain from her neck, which had been torn off along the way.
“But that doesn’t mean it’s a perfect race.”
Iona is a vampire who is close to the source of her blood. Breaking her head doesn’t mean she’s dead. You just lose consciousness and become incapacitated for a moment.
However, the story changes when dark green ectoplasm is poured into Iona’s helpless body. Vampires are also half undead.
The clenched fist of a noble ruler. Her green liquid begins to drip between her fingers, which should have been stained red by her blood.
Helena, who saw this, urgently threw her body.
“How dare you!”
Light shoots out. Helena, who burned her own body, recovered, and burned again, imbuing her divine power beyond her limits into her own body, strikes the wrist of her noble reign with her mace.
Coo!
Ectoplasm evaporates as the wrist is torn off. Was it bothersome that the noble reign was getting closer and closer to the main body? The light of Solari contained within remains in the wound and hinders recovery.
But the two’s outbursts ended there.
Kwasik.
A noble reign that gripped Helena’s neck with his other healthy hand.
“A saint. It’s a strange fate. “Do you still not know that your God has taken away your life?”
“Deprivation… No! I, of my own will, gave my life to the Lord… !”
“Under! “I wonder if that little beast will care for you as much as you care for it.”
As he said that, he slowly tried to break Helena’s neck. I barely recovered my stance and threw the dagger and Solari came out at almost the same time.
“Of course, don’t save it. “So much so that I would gladly die with you if necessary!”
A clear lion’s paw appears on Helena’s empty hand. Her cloak, reminiscent of a lion’s mane, fluttered and briefly obscured her view.
Grabbing her by the neck, he twisted her whole body in the air and pulled out her long claws. The arm of a noble ruler is cut off with a long arc.
He was trying to continue his attack by inadvertently regenerating her arm, but he took advantage of that opportunity and cut off her severed arm once more.
“Huh?”
The flesh on the cross section bubbled and boiled, but it did not lead to regeneration.
No, to be more precise, it is regenerating at this very moment, but it is dying at a similar rate.
The wrist that was struck directly by the forcefully extracted divine power is slowly regenerating, but this is not the case. At least during this battle, you won’t be able to use one arm.
That’s what I thought.
“It is truly a wonderful curse. It’s been a long time since murderous intent and hatred have been sharpened so sharply. … But it’s not enough to reach my heart.”
The cross section that had been repeatedly regenerating split apart and began to shrink inward. What then appeared was the maw of a huge beast.
They gave up on the shape of the arm and made it into a completely different organ. In the process, the cross section cut with a dagger was pushed into the deepest place and hidden.
That arm will probably never return to a human arm again… That’s just a minor problem for a noble ruler.
-That monster…
“Right. I am a monster who destroyed many worlds. It must be the evil spirit of evil gods. The bottom of you that has not been broken by arrogance, anger, jealousy, lust, sloth, and appetite… “Show me your despair!”
Thus will the crown of sin be completed.
A word added in a voice that seemed to be so excited that it couldn’t bear it. I realized those words. The fact that the noble ruler never saw us as enemies in the first place.
To him, we were nothing but selected sacrifices.