Chapter 173. Iron Blood Vs Hell (1)
Where is Lloyd-sama?
This was the question Xaviel thought of the most throughout the day.
To be precise, it was also the question that I had been asking the most earnestly for the past 20 minutes or so.
I wanted to find Lloyd.
but couldn’t find it
It was from the mansion of Count Namaran.
I left the guesthouse and ran down the main street.
There was no alley unchecked, no door unopened.
I cried until my throat was dry.
But there was no answer from Lloyd.
All that returns is the desperate moans of the fallen citizens.
The more I did, the more urgent my heart became.
Because of the situation where you have to pass by people who have collapsed in front of you.
Because of a sense of duty to find Lloyd as quickly as possible.
As much as my busy feet, my heart was running desperately.
Then it was a moment.
It felt like a place where mana gathers.
A wall ominously surrounds the city.
I could feel the mana absorbed by the barrier being concentrated in one place.
I ran.
Maybe Lloyd is here.
I ran with hope.
Arrived and met.
“….”
Cannavaro.
the culprit of this situation.
The moment he spotted him from a distance, Xaviel drew his sword.
Sreung!
The sword in the Sword Master’s hand flashed coldly.
At that moment, Cannavaro’s eyes were filled with astonishment.
‘How is that guy all right?’
My heart sank.
A silver-haired knight appeared in the distance.
It was from the moment our eyes met.
My heart was beating ominously.
Instinct cried out.
It’s dangerous.
‘I heard something went wrong with the barrier now, so mana absorption stopped…It was working fine until a little while ago though. Then that guy must have lost all his mana to the barrier too?’
But he stood still.
As if he had been busy running, he exhaled lightly.
With brightly shining eyes, he was pulling out a sword that was even brighter than that.
that’s a dangerous guy
the moment you realize that.
The moment that about a second had passed since I met Xaviel’s eyes.
Cannavaro’s hand moved quickly.
“Suck!”
Fingers and palms crossed.
It was quickly entangled and untangled.
According to certain rules and arrangements, mana was weaved, assembled, twisted, and then shaken off.
and opened it
Woo woo woo!
The door to space opened in front of his outstretched hands.
darkness within darkness.
Maybe the end of another dimension.
Or, in a space that might be a corner of hell, something shot through the door.
Cheer up!
Thirteen chains were fired.
Each one was as thick as the trunk of a beautiful tree.
And that wasn’t all.
Quadd deed deed!
Every space the chain swept through was crumbled.
by force?
It wasn’t.
It quickly rotted and decayed.
It was as if time had sped up thousands of times.
Just the touch of a chain made everything old in an instant. Corroded. Crumbled. It fell apart.
The paving stones on the floor, the soil, and the wagon were no exceptions.
However, Xaviel did not blink an eyelid.
“….”
No big deal.
It was a thought that came to Xaviel as he watched the rushing chains.
The next moment, Xaviel’s sword moved.
…!
There was no sound.
There was no flash.
Just a normal horizontal cut.
In that one movement, everything that was running towards him parted.
The chains that were heading towards him.
The degree of enmity that the chain contained.
cut off with a sword
Brilliant brilliance bloomed in the space where the sword light had passed through.
Chizuzuzu!
The aura that bloomed suddenly broke all the chains. It swept the space and gained more momentum.
It was the moment I witnessed it.
Cannavaro turned around.
ran
towards the public hall.
He ran away without looking back.
It had to be.
If you procrastinate, you will die.
Because I clearly realized that fact.
‘crazy! Is that a dragon?’
I hurriedly opened the door to the public hall.
In the meantime, the thought came to my mind.
Sword Master?
no.
Even a sword master can’t do something like that.
That is, in the range of the barrier, immediately after absorbing mana for tens of minutes, he raised his aura and cut off his most powerful black magic with a single sword.
‘I don’t know who that is, but he’s not just a sword master. It might not be a person.’
That was all I could think of.
In fact, Cannavaro’s misunderstanding was natural.
He didn’t know that Xaviel had come to this city.
It was because Lloyd came to Namaran unofficially from the beginning.
without revealing himself and his companions. Mixed with Lady Namaran’s entourage. not fussing at all. It was largely thanks to meeting Count Namaran and proceeding with the construction order.
Therefore, Cannavaro was unaware of the fact that the famous silver-haired sword master was staying in the city, that he was working at his free distribution center, or that he had finally come here to slit his own throat.
However, he definitely felt a sense of crisis.
‘I’m being criticized for this.’
I was sure.
It was the best magic he could use.
But it was cut off with a sword.
No matter what he did, he would not be able to match that silver-haired man.
‘then….’
Cannavaro’s gaze moved impatiently.
The center of the main exhibition hall of the public hall.
I headed towards the fallen angel statue placed there.
The statue was densely covered with shamanic patterns carved with his blood earlier.
“….”
hell night.
Should I summon you now?
The barrier is broken.
The gathered mana is not enough.
Even if you summon it, there might be a problem.
‘But if I don’t summon you right now….’
Die.
The thought was brief and the decision was made in an instant.
Cannavaro’s hand touched the statue.
It was a statue that had already been prepared for all shamanistic purposes.
Only the final activation of the summoning ceremony was left.
Triggering was easy.
Cannavaro’s hand on the statue.
A little mana he infuses.
That was enough.
Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
The bloody patterns engraved all over the statue emitted an eerie light.
At the same time, dozens of strange visions floated around the statue. flashed I was dreaming. It soared and rose, shouting and convulsing.
And the statue was crushed and exploded.
Quad angle-!
“Great!”
exploding statue.
Debris splattered in all directions.
Hit by shrapnel, Cannavaro collapsed.
Blood flowed from his bruised forehead.
But he hadn’t even thought to wipe away the blood.
He immediately raised his head.
He confirmed the appearance of the being he had summoned.
“Hell Knight….”
Pussss…!
The place where the statue was crushed and exploded and smashed.
A black mist drifted over the marble display stand.
Red eyes flashed in it.
Look around in all directions in one breath.
Clearing the fog in two breaths.
Finally, the Knight of Hell appeared.
However, it looked a little strange.
“what….”
Cannavaro’s expression twisted.
His eyes hurriedly scanned the whole body of the Hell Knight.
The Hell Knight finally appeared in the black fog.
However, there seemed to be a flaw(?).
I wasn’t riding the hellish warhorse.
was missing an arm.
It didn’t even have a leg.
In other words, he was not riding a horse and was a one-armed, one-legged man.
“Aww! What is this!”
Cannavaro covered his head with both hands.
ruined.
As expected, it was caused by a problem with the mana absorption of the barrier.
So I couldn’t collect enough mana.
There was too little mana to summon a proper Hell Knight.
‘No matter how much!’
Efforts and funds put in over the past long time.
A great achievement that I promised to achieve in the future.
Recalling it as if he was groping, Cannavaro despaired. got down on his knees I looked up at the Hell Knight, who was not feeling well, with a devastated look.
It was then.
“Could it be that you did this to summon it?”
A voice resounded inside the public hall.
Xaviel had already entered the public hall.
He was frowning with a wary gait.
His eyes were fixed on Hell Knight.
“….”
He looked at the Hell Knight, and the Hell Knight looked back at him.
Blue eyes and red eyes.
Their eyes met.
next moment.
The silver-haired knight and the knight of hell were already clashing swords.
It was because from the moment their eyes met, they realized that they were enemies.
Tuquaang-!
A silver long sword and a black two-handed sword collided.
Brilliant aura and corrupted energy of curse collided.
A power struggle without concessions between the opposing opponents took place.
The moment the two swords collide.
The aftershock swept all over the place.
Xaviel’s eyes widened.
“…!”
It is power beyond imagination.
The sword was almost pushed back.
It wasn’t just the strength that was surprising.
‘From the hand to the shoulder. My bones are cold.’
Fierce wrinkles formed between the foreheads of the silver-haired knight.
He recalled the moment of the crash he had just suffered.
Was it the moment when swords collided with swords?
A cool energy penetrated through the sword body.
In an instant, it penetrated the skin and penetrated the muscle tissue and bone marrow.
It invaded the forearm along the blood vessels.
If I hadn’t rotated the mana circle immediately after realizing that, if I hadn’t driven away the cold energy with strong mana pressure, I would have suffered a blow to my heart.
‘It’s a strong enemy.’
It wasn’t just a powerful undead or a skeleton soldier.
Even more so, he was not an opponent to be looked down upon for not having an arm or a leg.
only one clash.
Through that, Xaviel almost accurately grasped the Hell Knight’s power.
‘On the same level as me.’
He is more than an ordinary sword master.
With a sword master like King Alicia, two or three people would have to stick together to be able to fight against each other.
But what if that skeleton knight’s limbs were intact?
Even the current self couldn’t handle it.
‘But not now.’
can do.
It is possible if you are yourself.
It was from the moment I had that confidence.
A ferocious determination flashed in Xaviel’s blue eyes.
His sword became more sophisticated and violent at the same time.
Quarter-tutter-!
A series of iron-blooded attacks pouring down like a storm.
Didn’t take care of the situation.
If you want to cut it, hit it on the other side.
When I tried to free it, I hit it up and reacted by blocking it, and it stabbed me before I knew it.
– …!
The Hell Knight’s skull shook violently.
Could it be that all humans in the surface world are like this?
The knight of hell felt confused.
It was because the first person to strike swords after descending to this land was, of course, Xaviel.
– what….
I heard that humans are weak.
No matter how imperfect he descended.
So even if it’s in a state where it can’t even display half of its original strength.
He thought that there would be no human on this earth to stop him.
Unfortunately, that trust was shattered in less than a minute.
With a rib cut in two by a sword.
Quasac!
The silver longsword sliced through the chest of the Hell Knight.
The severed armor and ribs were mercilessly scattered to the floor.
Of course, he wasn’t a Hell Knight who could just stand still.
– …!
He shouted the language of hell and sprayed his sword.
The black curse’s shock wave swept through the entire space in front.
However, Xaviel did not avoid it.
Rather, they set fire to the front.
Tuquaang-!
Xaviel’s longsword cast a thrust at an invisible speed.
next moment.
Blasting like an awl was fired.
He pierced the shockwave scattered by Hell Knight at once. stretched out more rushed Towards the Hell Knight’s skull. Infiltrated. penetrated
Pop!
The front of the Hell Knight’s helmet was pierced by the blast.
The skull was pierced back and forth.
Finally completely smashed.
– …!
The whole body of Hell Knight, who had lost his head in an instant, convulsed.
But that’s for a while.
Go crazy!
Hell Knight missed the sword.
The bones of the whole body were separated. no it was broken It collapsed like a sandcastle collapsing.
A knight of hell that surpasses even the sword master.
It was the moment when Hell Knight fell into a pile of bone fragments.
“what….”
Cannavaro couldn’t even blink, his mouth gaping open.
A clash between Xaviel and Hell Knight.
An incredibly complicated number fight came and went.
But on the outside?
It only took a few seconds.
So, from the standpoint of Cannavaro, who was watching, the Hell Knight, whom he had suffered so much to summon, could not last even a few seconds and was defeated and reduced to a pile of bones.
‘I…Are you having a nightmare?’
Unknowingly, Cannavaro’s legs gave way. slumped down I raised my head stunned. I looked at the silver-haired knight approaching this way with a blank look.
“If it was a serious crime, a summary execution would be preferable. But you’ve committed too many sins. He should be properly interrogated in the royal palace, not in a place like this.”
“….”
A longsword pointed at me before I knew it.
Seeing that, Cannavaro swallowed dryly.
‘Where the hell….’
Did this monster appear?
He couldn’t believe the reality even when he saw Xaviel in front of him.
It was like that too.
Even within the walls of Noctanium, he was perfectly fine.
There were flaws, but the scene where the hell knight was removed at once.
It was all because it felt so unrealistic that it was easy to believe even when I saw it with my own two eyes.
‘Could it be a dragon pretending to be a real human? no i can’t Dragons can’t intervene in human affairs for no reason. Then…then…Wait a minute?’
Cannavaro hesitated.
I desperately want to regain my composure.
I desperately want to roll my head.
It was thanks to the fact that I remembered one thing after working hard.
‘Xaviel Asrahan.’
I’ve heard that name before.
A young sword master who appeared like a divinity.
Rumor has it that he is more powerful than the king?
He said his appearance was extremely beautiful.
He said he had silver hair like the Milky Way.
A monster approaching with a sword aiming in front of him.
That guy’s face was just that.
‘But why is he here?’
If that Xaviel Asrahan had come to this city, there was no way he wouldn’t know.
Could it be that he came here unofficially?
Could it be that they foresaw their plot in advance?
I couldn’t tell.
But I didn’t feel despair.
It was because the scene behind Xaviel’s back caught his eye as he was about to despair.
“Ha ha ha ha ha.”
Cannavaro raised an eyebrow involuntarily.
where his gaze landed.
Behind Xaviel’s back.
Before I knew it, a pile of black bones was regenerating itself and raising my body.
Kudo deuk…Good luck…!
A Hell Knight’s black skull helmet restored in an instant.
In the meantime, a more ferocious light began to flash.
