76. The Rock Saw
This is the story right after we started to evacuate the stadium in earnest.
Lucia and River quickly got out of the arena building and arrived at the main building.
On the first floor of the main building, there were a lot of people who had evacuated from the stadium.
Lucia still moved with River, but they weren’t very close, so we didn’t talk to each other except business-related things.
The people from the Swordsmanship Research Department arrived, so they thought that Atlas had also arrived, so I looked for him, but I couldn’t find him.
At that time, in the corner of Lucia’s field of vision, she could see the river sneaking out.
‘Where… Are you going?’
I don’t know why, but Lucia chased River.
Leaving the main building and entering the garden, River seemed possessed and lost among the maze of trees, but he walked out with a clear destination.
Lucia almost missed her time and time again, but managed to catch up with her Reaver without being noticed by her disciplined skills by spying on her Atlas.
‘Why are you in a place like this…’
River’s footsteps stopped.
As soon as she caught her breath and took a peek at the place she stopped, Lucia almost screamed at her when she saw the unbelievable sight.
‘Sword.. Castle?? Why are you here??’
The Master of the Clover Kingdom, Swordsman greeted River with a bright smile.
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‘Seol… Mar Seymour… Did I betray you…?’
The worst picture passed through Lucia’s head.
It is said that River Seymour was a spy of the Clover Kingdom and secretly passed the most important information to the Sword Saint in this terror, and only the two of them escaped to the Clover Kingdom… It was a story that would come out of a novel that I read often.
But Lucia quickly denied that imagination.
It was because he didn’t know Seymour yet, but Atlas, who believed in Seymour, did.
She watched the two of them holding her breath, but the atmosphere was not very serious.
“You didn’t run away this time. As expected, people should learn…”
“What is this… what the heck is this… There was no mention of doing something like this…. Is that… All mines? Did the Master team up with the devil??”
“I’m not in a position to explain that to you.”
River was genuinely angry, but the Sword Saint just laughed as he stroked his beard.
“Don’t worry about trivial things like that. Shall we go then?”
“What are you talking about?”
“The plan has changed. Ruler… We don’t have much time, so let’s go quickly.”
Sword Saint Adolph grabbed River’s wrist.
“Poetry.. I hate it..!! “
“Um~ I want to break my leg to see you resisting needlessly. “
Reaver resisted, but he couldn’t resist the might of the Sword Master. He was only getting dragged on.
The swordsman’s way of speaking was completely ignoring River’s intentions.
It was completely different from the friendly swordsman he had shown so far.
His face was still smiling, but now it was so frightening.
Liver, who was being dragged along, shouted at the Sword Saint.
“You promised to wait until graduation!!”
“Circumstances can always change. Are you going to whine like a child when you grow up? Really?”
Then the Sword Master suddenly changed his expression and shouted.
“And… A promise? Are you in a position to say that??
I waited 10 years for you to become an adult, but as soon as you became an adult, you ran away to the academy.
It was Seymour and I’s promise to have a ceremony when we become adults.”
“Ugh..!”
“Did you really think that you were in a position to negotiate with me?”
I let go of the Sword Saint River’s wrist and grabbed her by the hair and pulled it.
Hair, shiny like a thread of gold, was messed up by a violent hand.
“You cheated first, so why do I have to wait three more years? You are already my property and until now I have set you free at my mercy… Isn’t it too extravagant to wish for such a thing?”
The swordsman’s tone gradually became rougher.
As the swordsman’s tone grew harsher, her arms tightened, and at the same time, River’s face could be seen moaning in pain.
I couldn’t figure out what to do.
If you see that they are about to leave right away, the moment someone leaves to call someone, you will never find them.
Even if you rush in now and help the river, the opponent is a master.
There will be no results other than one corpse.
At that moment, someone’s face passed through Lucia’s head.
Atlas is definitely…
“..Stop it.”
When she came to her senses, Lucia jumped out and grabbed her swordsman’s wrist.
‘Ah… ahh what did i do… !!!’
I’m not even an expert, but I’m going to have a fight with the master… Must be crazy
I was thinking in my heart that it really shouldn’t be like this while watching it, but my body reacted first.
Because it seemed like Seymour would suffer worse if left alone.
I couldn’t understand why he did such a crazy thing.
“… They say they hate Seymour.”
“Mr. Russell…?”
But contrary to my confused thoughts, the words came straight out of my mouth.
“Ha.. Oh, this is fun….”
Seeing Lucia holding onto her forearm, her swordsman laughed incredulously.
Since the two of them were similar in height, Lucia faced her sword master’s eyes squarely, but the momentum he radiated was so strong that he wanted to lower her eyes at any moment.
But her body stiffened and she couldn’t even put her head down.
“Hey student… Do you know who I am and do something rude like this?”
“… Simoa is from the Empire.”
Again, she was so frightened that her thoughts stiffened so that the words bypassed her thoughts and spun out as a spinal reflex.
“No matter how master you are, you cannot forcefully take the people of the empire.”
“Ha… “
The swordsman let go of Russell’s hair and shook Lucia’s arm.
With just one light shake, Lucia’s hand, which was tightly gripping his wrist, bounced off.
Lucia was surprised to see her hands being thrown out so helplessly.
‘I was quite confident in my strength….’
She never thought that she would be able to defeat the master by force.
But despite that, I was so helplessly kicked off.
It was a moment when I realized just how big the difference was between the two.
“… You really see all the stars.”
The swordsman gritted his teeth and wiped his forearm with a handkerchief before finally pulling out his sword.
“I can’t tell when I’m wearing it and when I’m not… Are all kids these days like this? “
“No..!! Mr. Russell, run!!!”
The swordsman pulled out his sword with one hand and raised it to the sky.
I didn’t understand it because it was an awkward posture to say it was a simple upper-class tax, but I soon found out why she took that posture.
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“If you die once, you will come to your senses.”
“I’ll go..!! I won’t say anything and I’ll follow you, so please..!! Don’t hurt anyone!!”
River knelt down and begged the Sword Saint, but his expression was firm.
A huge amount of aura emanated from the sword facing the sky.
Like a waterfall pouring backwards, a fierce torrent of aura surged up without knowing how high the sky was.
The jewels embedded in the hilt glowed in response to the aura emitted from the sword.
Lucia had never seen such a powerful flow of aura before.
Her own father, Russell’s aura blade, was solid but not overpowering.
Ah, that’s why you raised your sword.
It was because I had to lift it up so that I could stand firmly on the ground with both legs and withstand that ignorantly large Aura Blade.
I thought that if it was the other way, the ground couldn’t hold it and it might have bounced off.
‘Am I… Dying…?’
This is an extremely broad attack.
In the face of overwhelming power, Lucia blamed herself for stepping out for nothing.
Now that we’ve come this far, there’s no point in running away.
When I put an aura on her sword, a blue aura burned from her sword.
With the rank of Expert on the verge, her aura blade looked like a toothpick with lingering fire in comparison to the aura blade created by the Sword Master.
But Lucia wasn’t intimidated by that fact.
She just held her sword firmly and fought back.
Russell’s Black Rock Sword, a sword that does not give in to injustice and fights against the mighty enemy without fear.
A sword that chooses to fight against it rather than avoid it even if it knows it will break.
Lucia’s body, along with the sword, was caught in the torrent of aura emitted by the Sword Master.
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“… That far… That’s all I remember….”
Although Lucia was in pain, she did her best to convey what had just happened.
“… I… If I were stronger….”
“It’s not your fault.”
Even though Lucia was not at fault, she blamed herself.
All I did wrong was the Sword Master.
No… I wasn’t in a position to say anything to Lucia.
Because I also feel a great responsibility in this messy situation.
“…..”
This is the worst.
The Academy is a mess, Lucia is injured, and River is kidnapped.
Lucia would recover if she was immediately taken to the hospital, but she was worried about River, who was kidnapped by the Sword Saint.
‘Where did you go..?’
I can’t read the swordsman’s true intentions at all.
I don’t think that such a self-confident person truly opened his eyes to the doctrines of the Church of the Devil and sided with the devils.
It would be correct to say that they acted together because they had a common denominator that could mutually help each other.
But what the hell?
Is there anything the Devil’s Church can give him?
…. No, this should not be concluded either.
A sane bastard wouldn’t have done this in the first place.
“No… What the…!!”
As soon as I felt the presence of people, the helmet was automatically put on.
Morgan, who followed, was taken aback by the ruined garden.
Seeing Morgan, a clue popped into her mind.
‘Right… If it disappeared… I would have used teleportation magic.’
Space movement magic such as teleportation leaves traces.
If you are a skilled magician, it is possible to specify the coordinates based on the traces left at the site.
And Morgan was the second greatest wizard in the Empire.