154 – Lake (3)
A total of 43 swords, excluding Commander Michelan’s, are flying towards me.
Uses the Celestial Eye and Mana Burn to the extreme. I can see the path of every flying sword, and every movement aimed at harming me begins to appear slowly.
Booung.
I dodged the sword aimed at my neck by tilting my face back.
The blade barely passes by the face. The center of gravity of the Crusader swinging the sword leans forward. Grab the man’s collar with your left hand.
“···!”
The man, who had wide eyes and a surprised expression, was thrown away.
Puck!
“Evil!”
“Ugh…!”
Then part of the formation shook, and the posture of about five Crusaders collapsed.
Tak.
I dodged the sword aimed at my head from behind and the sword aimed at my right leg at the same time, and immediately kicked my foot.
Chaaa!
The two swords were swung mysteriously. Someone’s calf gets cut. Someone’s Achilles tendon breaks, and red blood spurts from someone’s thigh.
“···!”
“aaah!”
“Huh…!”
I moved my body non-stop while hearing several screams.
Hot.
I grabbed the collar of another Crusader who was falling on his seat and threw him back.
I immediately stamped my feet and rushed forward. Before I could see the body of the Crusader I threw flying away.
“The first type of divine sword.”
He chanted while putting starlight into his sword.
“···!”
“Avoid, avoid!”
Some of the Crusaders see the man’s body thrown into my hands and throw their bodies to the side to avoid them.
Puck!
The thrown body of the man hits someone, and the person who is hit falls ugly to the floor.
At the same time, a gap appeared. Between the Crusaders who fell or ducked and the four fallen ones who were glaring at me with their swords raised. I checked the gap.
“Soul cutting.”
He mercilessly swung the sword filled with pure white light only at the fallen. Countless solid white lines are drawn over the four fallen bodies.
Chaaa!
Pure white light bursts from the drawn solid white line, and the bodies of those who were cut down split apart and black scum bursts out.
Is it because someone’s body was torn apart?
Or maybe it was because it was confirmed that what was rising from the cracked pure white armor was not red blood but black scum.
“···!”
“What, what is it…?”
Some of the Crusaders start to hesitate or take a step back.
“Don’t back down!”
“Raise your sword energy!”
Some do not retreat to fulfill their mission, but instead come swinging their swords.
“Lord, kill me!”
“Ma, Magi…!”
As if sensing a sense of crisis, some Crusaders raised their magic energy and looked for an opportunity.
“I said it clearly. “I only say it once.”
He lowered his head, kicked his feet, and said while dodging the swinging sword with a lot of sword energy.
Wow!
Shut up!
The air is cut down, and the grass is cut down.
“If you don’t want to get hurt, everyone get out of the way.”
Puck!
I jumped up, kicking a man’s solar plexus with the sole of my foot. As the man who was kicked in the solar plexus flew away, I hovered in the air.
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Kwasik!
After dodging one of the swords coming his way, he stretched out his foot again and struck the other man in the face.
“Ugh…!”
The two men fly away, shaking up the Crusaders’ formation once again.
A brief hesitation.
Not missing that moment, I rushed towards the gap that appeared in that moment.
“New sword type 2. “A frozen melody.”
A solid blue line filled with chills was drawn on the three fallen Crusaders.
“New sword type 3. A burning tune.”
The five fallen Crusaders were burned.
“Ugh…!”
“Ugh…!”
“Ahh!”
In the process, all over thirty Crusaders were rendered incapable of combat.
“Stop…!”
Then, Director Michelan, who was watching the whole scene, stepped forward, holding a sword.
“I wish we could stop for a moment and talk…”
“There is no time. “Get out of the way.”
“Who are you? No, why on earth are you doing this?”
I clearly told you to get out of the way. Michelan persistently asked questions, and I raised my sword again and answered briefly.
“I want to save you.”
“Who on earth…”
“You know. “What is happening inside and who is suffering.”
“···.”
After hearing my answer, Michelan seemed speechless and pursed his lips without answering right away.
“···It is a necessary consciousness for the world.”
“It is not for the world, but for the rotten vested interests of the Holy Kingdom. “Maybe it’s for the evil spirit.”
“What nonsense is that!”
“It seems like you don’t understand what I’m saying, so I’ll just say it once. It is a divine power, an artificial power, created within me. That damn power is created by borrowing black filth and demonic energy.”
“···.”
“Why? Would you deny it even after seeing that terrible scene with your own eyes? If you have any thoughts, let me know. Do you really think that the scene you saw was a trial given by the Heavenly God?”
I sighed at Michelan, who couldn’t answer right away, and then raised my mana again.
“There is no need to answer, so get out of the way. That would be good for both of us.”
“···Cut me down and leave.”
Michelan, who had a vain expression on his face for a moment, soon calmed his expression, raised his mana and spoke in a determined voice.
“If you really want to save someone from what’s inside, prove it.”
“I will also do my best to prove my faith.”
“If you can’t prove it even here, wouldn’t it be better to prove my false faith?”
Why does the story of faith come up here?
I wanted to say something sarcastic, but when I saw Michelan’s complicated expression, I couldn’t, and wordlessly breathed starlight into my sword.
“I’ll go first.”
Michelan rushed at me straight away. A sword covered in pure white light flies towards my neck.
Chaeng!
I swung away a sword with a pure white light, and a sword with an even whiter light.
Is it because the power in the sword was not enough? Michelan’s body rotates, and his sword changes its path and flies towards me once again.
Chaaa!
I turned my body and narrowly avoided his sword and tried to swing it.
Still, perhaps because the Crusader leader was the leader, his center of gravity did not collapse. Unlike the other Crusaders, he quickly regained his stance and charged at me again.
When I saw that, I swung my sword once again towards the sword covered in pure white light. With more force than before.
Chaeng!
The sword body covered in pure white light breaks, and the sword blade, cut in half, rises in the air.
A gap that appears momentarily.
Kwasik!
I did not miss the opportunity and struck his uvula with the pommel.
“Wow…!”
Then Michelan begins to fly away with the death horse.
When I saw that, I immediately kicked my feet and chased after Michelan, who was flying away.
Thump.
Michelan’s huge body fell to the ground, and I stood over it and raised the Sword of Good and Evil.
And then.
Kwasik!
“···!”
I plunged the sword into the floor right next to his face, which was whimpering in pain.
“Sir Michelan. “You’ve been neglectful, but you don’t seem to have been corrupted, so I’ll give you a chance.”
After taking a moment to catch my breath, I took out a dagger from my pocket and continued speaking.
“It is an artifact that reacts to magical energy. Normally, it is just an ordinary dagger, but when there is demonic energy nearby, like now, it takes on a black color.”
I placed the black-colored dagger on his chest.
“Take this dagger and go to the Pope.”
“I don’t know whether Pope Franco is corrupt or is acting. So you go and see for yourself. And make your choice.”
“Will you become the sword of the fallen and help color the world into chaos, or will you, just once, swing the sword as an honorable knight of God?”
Cough.
Michelan, who was still unable to make a voice after being hit on his uvula, made a coughing sound and stared into my eyes.
His pupils are shaking violently. Eyes filled with doubt and astonishment become moist.
Tuk.
This time, he placed the parchment handed to him by Duran on his chest.
“This is a list of those who have fallen. “I think you, who have not been corrupted, will know better why I am handing you this.”
“Choose, move. “I assure you, you will never have an opportunity like this again in your life.”
After saying that, I got up and started walking towards the magic circle I remembered.
“Keu, kuuh… Sleep, for a moment…”
In the meantime, a small voice is heard.
When I turned my head, I saw Michelan, who was suffering, holding his head up with difficulty.
“Well, in order to get into it…”
“Are you saying this is necessary?”
“Now, what on earth are you doing…?”
To ask what I do.
“Let’s just call him a savior.”
“···.”
“A savior who came to save a girl and innocent people.”
So, save those you can save.
After saying that, I threw the Rosario I had received from Duran onto the small magic circle.