95 . Cassandra VS Leon (1)
Ignoring the words of the surrounding servants to keep up, Sieg immediately left the palace.
Although he did not have the power, his heart for the people was sincere. If Cassandra’s meanness harms his people, he will do anything to stop it.
However, it was not enough to prevent Cassandra’s attack, which is said to be equivalent to a natural disaster or disaster for a mere human without any power or ability.
The screams of the people who started to spread from the village eventually filled the sky, and as if responding to the call, dark red blood began to fall from the clouds.
The rain resembling tears of blood, like his heart, began to invade the village.
“Your Majesty! Avoid!”
Avoid? How can a person who avoids in this situation be called a king?
Zeke shook off the servants who tried to dissuade him from behind, and headed towards the village.
The situation in the village was much worse than he thought. Strange spots appeared on people’s bodies, as if the plague had spread, and among them, there were those who collapsed and vomited.
That wasn’t the end.
The body of a person staggering in the center of the village began to inflate and then burst like a balloon, scattering flesh and organs everywhere.
Zeke wiped the blood from his face with his hand at the same time as the person exploded.
The blood on his hands was strangely unrealistic. Yes, this will be a nightmare. A terribly vivid nightmare.
The servants rushed to Zeke, who was standing there blankly, and covered his head with a fine cloth.
“Peha! This black rain is dangerous! Apparently Cassandra’s magic… !”
As soon as those words were finished, smoke began to rise from the bodies of the servants who ran to Zeke, to be exact, where the raindrops touched, and then the sound of burning began to be heard.
Everyone who was touched by the raindrops, like parasites, burrowing into their flesh, rolled on the floor and screamed.
“Ughhhhh!”
I struggled to shake off the rain, but that didn’t ease the pain.
Zeke clenched his fists and began to backtrack. What kind of disaster is this overnight? He bit his teeth enough to make the veins bulge in his forehead, then screamed into empty space.
She is a woman with an eccentric personality. She couldn’t stand to see this horror. She must be laughing somewhere while sipping her coffee leisurely.
“Magic tower lord! What the hell are we doing wrong!”
As expected, Cassandra’s unique laugh was heard in the air, and soon Cassandra tore through the space and appeared.
It is different from the illusions she met in her audience room. Cassandra herself came out to face Zeke.
But even Sieg, an outsider, could know about his magic.
The energy you feel is different from before. This wasn’t the first time he’d seen Cassandra. Even the moment she appointed her as the master of her mage tower, he was there. She thought that she had a strange personality at the time, but the nature of the mana that surrounded her body was infinitely pure.
No, before asking this question, is she a human right now?
How could a human emit such a vicious aura? It’s like a demon….
The moment the thought reached that point, Cassandra raised the corners of her mouth and smiled.
“Hmm? You seem to have noticed the trash subject?”
Why did a man who once subdued evil with a hero choose this path? Zeke couldn’t understand.
As if to answer Zeke’s question, Cassandra opened her mouth alone.
“We don’t need humans anymore in this day and age.”
Zeke said, looking Cassandra straight in the eyes.
“Then, be content with my one life.”
After his words, the smile on Cassandra’s lips disappeared in an instant.
The narrow, curved eyes like the crescent moon revealed disgusting emotions as they were.
“To be satisfied with one life? Do you think you’re worth that much? Where did you learn to negotiate?”
Cassandra raised her finger and patted her Zeke’s forehead, continuing her speech in a sarcastic tone.
“Just because you now have greater power than other people doesn’t mean that the value of your life goes up. Death that can be dismissed as a simple number, do you think that doesn’t apply to you?”
Cassandra, who finished her words quickly, spat on the floor as if offended, and raised his hand high.
The slightest movement of the hand raised seemed slow, and even felt like the sharp blade of a guillotine.
The moment Zeke closed his eyes and humbly accepted his fate.
“Cassandra!”
Cassandra’s arm was cut off as she tried to harm her Zeke, and the one standing in front of her was a face she knew well.
Cassandra backed away from her, then crumpled her face and screamed at the man in the old cloak that blocked her in front of her, instead of the joy of her reunion.
“Long time no see?”
“Long time no see? Is that sound coming out of your mouth right now? What are you doing?”
“What are you doing… Can’t you see Could it be that your head has gotten worse?”
Cassandra has definitely changed.
When he was on an adventure with him, he was faithful to pleasing him with gestures and words mixed with charm or coquetry, but not now.
Leon was no longer a deterrent to Cassandra.
She didn’t really have a crush on Leon. She just wanted something.
However, now Cassandra could do whatever she wanted without Leon.
Cassandra’s attitude towards Leon, whose usefulness has disappeared, is more cold than ever.
Seeing Cassandra’s changed attitude, Leon didn’t show her surprise, but he soon calmed her down. He wasn’t blind. Rather, he had a rough life since childhood, so he had a better sense than others.
Then you shouldn’t treat her like you did before. The energy she felt was similar to that of the demons, that is, the enemy of mankind.
“I never had a proper decision with you.”
“Didn’t you make a lot of decisions? You always win in bed.”
As if he didn’t have time to listen to Cassandra’s jokes, Leon finished her speech and straightened up.
She shrugged her shoulders as she saw her holy sword pointed at her own throat.
“Even if you pretend to be strong, in the end you are a human, why are you pretending to be so special when you are lucky enough to be chosen by the holy sword?”
Before she could finish her words, Cassandra swung her hand from top to bottom at Leon. One gesture as if to drive away a flying insect nearby. That one hand gesture came to Leon quite differently.
In the same direction as Cassandra swung, the strong wind blew up, wounding Leon all over his body.
“You and I grew up in different environments.”
“Environment?”
Leon planted his sword deep into the ground and took a deep breath.
One breath, one leap.
And a single swing.
He couldn’t even catch it with his eyes.
Cassandra couldn’t help but belatedly watch in a daze as both of her own wrists were severed in an instant and she was scattered on the floor.
“If it’s the environment, I won’t bow down either.”
She spoke confidently, but Leon knew better than anyone else that he couldn’t hit her like this.
Her most unreasonable ability, which doesn’t fit the logic of her world at all. The reason why her Leon hated her the most was unfolding right in front of her eyes.
Leon raised his sword again, as if tired of looking at Cassandra’s hand, which had begun to regenerate.
Cassandra had a characteristic sneering smile that Leon had never shown before.
“Yes, I will admit it. Even if you borrowed the power of the holy sword, are you a hero?”
Muttered at the same time, pointing her hands down.
“Gravitas.”
A short chant, but what happened was by no means insignificant.
Leon, who lost the holy sword from his hand and fell to the ground in an instant, couldn’t even move.
Cassandra shrugged her insignificance and sat on top of Leon, letting her sneer out again.
“Was it just this much? You are weaker than you think.”
In the midst of the gravity that was crushing his body, Leon could think of only one thing.
Embarrassment, a sense of heterogeneity as if you are not someone you have known before.
Did you know she could use this kind of magic? When she was at a party, wasn’t she mainly dealing with contagious poisons and corpse-like powers that were actually out of line?
And Leon realized it belatedly.
Yeah, she never showed off her real skills.
She hated the fact that the power she was proud of was being used against insignificant monsters and bandits.
Perhaps she now has the magic that weighs her down on her skills that she originally possessed. She certainly killed the owner of the Mage Tower in an instant, and she had enough skills to take the place herself.
There was no chance of winning at this rate.
‘Do I have to write here after all?’
Leon clenched his teeth and said to Cassandra above her.
“Yes, I am weak. Compared to you, my essential ability must be absurdly small. A common child who pretends to be a hero by borrowing the power of the holy sword.”
“Did you just realize that? Well, don’t worry. I have no intention of killing you right now.”
“But those weak guys have at least one.”
“What?”
After Leon’s words finished, a light resembling the sun began to emanate from the blade of her holy sword.
The vibration of her magical energy that runs all over her as if sparks are flying is a power that is on a different level from the power Leon has shown so far.
“Now, I finally become a hero.”