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Raon turned silently and widened his eyes. Behind the Black Dragon’s corpse, a man wearing a green serpent helmet emerged.
“You are…”
He had sensed someone approaching from behind a while ago, but he never imagined it would be Eden, let alone someone wearing a serpent helmet.
-That serpent helmet guy. Isn’t this the fourth time already?
Wrath frowned, wondering why he kept coming back to life.
-That’s right. The color is different each time.
From the golden masked swordsman, to the red demon swordsman, the blue serpent swordsman, and now a green serpent. It was unclear how far this would go. Absurdly, he was now curious to see what the next color would be.
“What’s even funnier is…”
He was getting stronger each time. The aura of the man wearing the green serpent helmet had surpassed Grandmaster and reached Transcendence. Although he was still inferior to him, he had clearly crossed the wall and transcended human limits.
-How curious. They are clearly different humans, and their temperaments are not similar, but they feel like the same person.
Wrath shook his head, saying that the very existence was strange.
—Indeed. There is definitely something there.
As he said, all the previous serpent helmet wearers had died, and the green serpent helmet in front of him now was also a different person. However, those who wore serpent helmets remembered everything that had happened with him. This raised suspicions that they were the same person or shared the same consciousness.
“Green this time, huh?”
Raon frowned as he looked at the man wearing the green serpent helmet.
“You recognized me immediately.”
The man in the green serpent helmet touched his helmet and smiled slightly.
“What is your true identity?”
Raon pointed his Divine Sword and tilted his chin.
“For now, you can call me Green Serpent.”
The man with the green serpent helmet introduced himself as Green Serpent as he waved his hand. He seemed less frivolous than the one he had seen before.
-That’s not what I’m asking.
“Then what are you curious about?”
Green Serpent turned his head, as if telling him to speak.
“I’m asking what your true identity is.”
Raon raised his piercing gaze.
“You said before that every time you saw me, I changed to your satisfaction. That implies that you had already encountered me several times, but this is the first time I’ve seen you.”
He twisted his lips as he let out a cold voice.
“Even though this is the fourth time I’ve worn that ugly helmet.”
“Ah, you’ve already asked this question before.”
Green Serpent nodded slightly.
“The answer is simple. Think of it as you feel it. You can consider me the same person or not. It’s up to you.”
He shrugged as if he wanted to tell Raon to think whatever he wanted. He didn’t seem willing to give a proper answer.
“The most important thing…”
Green Serpent licked his lips as he looked at the Black Dragon’s corpse.
“Even though it had just become an ancient dragon, I didn’t expect Zera Piret to die so easily. Should I have acted a little faster?”
He let out a hollow laugh as if he couldn’t believe the Black Dragon’s death.
“Act faster? What are you plotting by joining forces with the dragons?”
Raon threw a question filled with murderous intent.
“Isn’t it simple? Just burn this place down.”
Green Serpent brushed the dust off his hands as if it were obvious.
“The World Tree?”
“It’s something I couldn’t do because you stopped me.”
He licked his lips as if he were referring to the time of the Red Demon Swordsman when he attacked Sepia with the Crimson Flame Demon.
“Do you really share consciousness with those who died?”
Raon lowered his eyebrows as he looked at Green Serpent.
“I don’t share. My consciousness is entirely my own. Of course, the next one will be different…”
Green Serpent muttered something incomprehensible in a calm tone. His personality was clearly different from the previous ones.
“Then…”
Raon was about to speak with Green Serpent when he turned his gaze towards the north. Sterin’s aura had diminished considerably from before. It seemed he was being pushed back significantly.
‘Besides…’
That Green Serpent. He’s hiding something. Considering he said he was done with his business, he must have taken something from Sepia or planted something there. It would be best to finish him off as quickly as possible and go help Sterin.
“I have many questions, but I don’t have time. I’ll take care of you as soon as possible.”
Raon pointed his Divine Sword, enveloped in murderous intent, towards Green Serpent.
“I thought I was ahead this time, but I didn’t expect you to be above me again.”
As Green Serpent smoothly moved his fingers, an enormous Red Dragon soared into the sky above Sepia amidst an explosion of crimson flames.
“It was good I asked Matirus for one more.”
He nodded with satisfaction.
“With two against one, it shouldn’t be too difficult to stop you.”
“A dragon…”
Raon bit his lip as he looked at the Red Dragon floating in the sky.
«It has lived a long time, but it’s not an ancient dragon.»
Judging by the size and mana of the Red Dragon, it had reached the end of maturity, but fortunately, it wasn’t at the level of an ancient dragon.
«Of course, being red is a problem.»
The Red clan possessed the greatest martial prowess among dragons, and this place was a forest. It was the perfect battlefield for it to exert its greatest power.
-Oh! Two roasted dragons! And with different flavors!
Wrath even clapped as if he were happy. Despite the dangerous situation, a hollow laugh escaped him.
[It has been foolishly taken by surprise.]
The Red Dragon seemed more annoyed by being tricked by a human than angry at the death of its kin, as it narrowed its eyes and opened its enormous maw. Upon its abyss-like black throat, crimson mana began to condense like lava.
[But I will still have my revenge!]
The Red Dragon unleashed the flames it had condensed in its mouth. The Flame Breath, the dragon’s strongest breath, fell like lightning towards Raon.
Unlike the Black Dragon, it did not spread over a wide area but was compressed into a point, making its pressure tremendous. His feet involuntarily dug into the ground, and the hand holding the sword trembled.
“Try to block it for now.”
Green Serpent took a considerable step back, as if he wanted to conserve his strength. His movement technique made him disappear from sight in an instant, as if he were riding the wind.
‘What intense heat!’
Even with his Fire Resistance, the heat of the breath made him feel as if his skin were being burned. Without the Ring of Fire, he probably wouldn’t have been able to stay in that spot.
Raon gritted his teeth and plunged into the Flame Breath. He resonated the Ring of Fire to the extreme and unleashed the Great Heavy Sky Bond of the Blue Sky Sword with his frost-imbued Demonic Sword that shone with a silver gleam.
The flame breath that threatened to destroy the Great Forest clashed with the cold energy of Glacier in the air, engaging in a competition of heat and cold. Steam rose in all directions, and a field of white snow spread across the ground.
The sword technique of the Great Heavy Sky Bond, which embodies the vastness of the sky, began to break the heat and freeze the Flame Breath itself. Blue icicles that seemed to reach the sky rose from the ground of the Great Forest.
[Impossible!]
The Red Dragon’s eyes trembled as if it couldn’t believe that its full-powered Flame Breath had been blocked.
[How could the Flame Breath be frozen…?]
“Youngsters should go play somewhere else.”
Raon stepped on the frozen flame breath and soared towards the sky. Before the stunned Red Dragon could react, he swung the Silver Sword of Dreams towards its neck. Just as the shining red blade of the Divine Sword was about to pierce the Red Dragon’s scales and shatter its Dragon Heart, a green blade imbued with wind emerged.
It was Green Serpent. The man who had disappeared from the ground suddenly appeared to block his sword.
“I can’t let you kill this friend too. We’ll have to retreat from here.”
As Green Serpent lowered his chin, a strong wind blew and pushed Raon back.
“What if I refuse?”
Raon resisted Green Serpent’s wind with his Transcendent willpower and pressed his Demonic Sword against the Divine Sword. Although he couldn’t shatter the Red Dragon’s heart, he managed to inflict a fatal wound on its neck before retreating.
[Graaaaaah!]
The Red Dragon writhed in pain, its enormous body convulsing as if the mere tearing of flesh were unbearable.
“I didn’t expect you to be able to push forward from there.”
Green Serpent frowned and said that Raon had a terrifying personality.
“What ruthlessness!”
He licked his lips and said that Raon’s personality seemed to have become more aggressive.
-But you’re not afraid, are you?
At Green Serpent’s shout, the Red Dragon, which was writhing in pain, gritted its teeth and turned around.
[No way! I will kill that insect with my own hands!]
The Red Dragon revealed a gaze full of murderous intent as it recovered its wound with healing magic. One after another, high-level spells were created around it, and thanks to its Red lineage, the power of the spells seemed no less than that of the Black Dragon it had just killed.
Green Serpent also seemed determined to go all out now, as he condensed green wind into his sword.
“I don’t like your wind.”
Raon frowned deeply as he looked at the wind reflected in Green Serpent’s sword.
“I’ll break it right now.”
* * *
“Haha…”
Siyana let out a long sigh as she lowered her hands.
“This is tough.”
Although Raon had eliminated most of the poison, he couldn’t block the toxins carried by the wind. Summoning four spirits of the highest quality simultaneously to protect all of Sepia had consumed too much mental energy, causing her to feel dizzy.
“But I can’t rest.”
Siyana narrowed her eyes as she watched Raon, the Red Dragon, and Green Serpent fighting in the sky.
«If we stay here, even Lord Raon won’t be able to use his full strength.»
There were many elves and children in Sepia who couldn’t fight. For Raon to be able to use all his power and prepare for any contingency, they couldn’t stay there.
“Everyone, move to the sacred ground!”
Siyana called out to the remaining elves in the village as she opened a space in the sacred ground she had created to protect the World Tree.
“But if the World Tree is in danger because of us…”
“It’s okay! The World Tree always thinks of us first!”
She shouted firmly at the hesitant elves and pointed to the path leading to the sacred ground. She seemed like a completely different person from the one who was trembling in front of Raon.
“Ah, understood.”
“Everyone, enter the path leading to the sacred ground! Children first!”
The elves, seemingly encouraged by Siyana’s words, entered the path to the sacred ground with their legs wobbling.
“Lord Raon.”
Siyana clasped her hands together as she looked at Raon erasing the flames of the Fire Dragon.
‘Please.’
She silently said a prayer that no one would die and entered the sacred ground for the last time.
* * *
‘Alright.’
Raon nodded as he watched the elves enter the sacred ground. He had found it difficult to control his attacks to prevent magic or sword strikes from falling on Sepia, but now he felt he could fight properly.
“Where are you looking?”
Green Serpent lowered his eyebrows and swung his sword. With a single stroke, hundreds of blades of wind rushed towards every vital point of Raon’s body.
[Explode!]
The Red Dragon took advantage of the wind that Green Serpent had created to fire a high-level fire magic called Exploding Flame. The magic, originally powerful but slow, came like a bolt of lightning traveling on the wind.
Raon simultaneously deployed the Wall of Fire and the White Flame Flash to block both the wind blades and the Exploding Flame. However, the impact was so great that he couldn’t avoid being pushed back.
“It seems even you struggle with two against one.”
[This time you won’t be able to block. It’s over!]
Green Serpent raised a sword that had condensed all the wind in the atmosphere, while the Red Dragon once again condensed its Flame Breath.
“The end? I like endings.”
Raon advanced towards the Red Dragon and Green Serpent as if he had deliberately allowed himself to be pushed back, kicking the air with force. He took the Supreme Harmony Steps to their extreme, placing his Divine Sword on his shoulder and his Demonic Sword behind his waist.
Flames and frost, as large as if they could cover the sky, emerged upon the dying Divine Sword and Demonic Sword, like the final explosion of a dying star.
Raon Zieghart’s Sword Style, 6th Course
Divine-Demonic Harmony Linked Technique: Blue-Red Invincible Sword. The ultimate swordsmanship of Transcendence manifested in the world through the blades of the Divine Sword and the Demonic Sword. The flames and frost, which should have been opposites, formed a heterogeneous harmony and spread, completely shattering the Red Dragon’s breath and Green Serpent’s wind blades.
The sky, darkened by the tremendous mana wave, opened, and black jets of water emerged from the sky and the earth. However, as the Red Dragon and Green Serpent had also used all their power, the wave of the Blue-Red Invincible Sword failed to cut them and faded in vain.
How is this possible? A mere human…
The Red Dragon let out a tired sigh, as if it couldn’t believe Raon’s martial prowess.
“My hand is trembling.”
Green Serpent also shook the hand holding his sword, as if he had lost strength.
“But it’s fortunate. Now that his sword technique has ended, he won’t be able to produce the same power as before… Huh?”
He widened his eyes as he was about to cheer on the Red Dragon.
“What!”
Raon’s hands, which should have been holding swords, were empty. The moment he realized this, a sword flew out from the right. It was the Sword Control technique that cut space.
“Ugh!”
Green Serpent quickly gathered wind to deflect the approaching Heavenly Drive. Although he managed to block it, the power contained in the Sword Control was too strong to avoid internal injuries. Black blood spurted from his mouth.
“Urgh, help me… huh?”
As Green Serpent turned around to ask for help, he saw a bright blue-bladed sword piercing the Red Dragon’s throat.
“Crazy…”
It seemed that Raon Zieghart had fired two Sword Control techniques from the beginning, and unlike him, the dragon had been unable to dodge them and had been pierced through the throat.
[Graham…]
The Dragon Heart is a vital point for dragons, similar to the heart for humans. With that damaged, the Red Dragon fell to the ground, unable to control its body. The Red Dragon rolled its eyes and let out its last breath, just like Zera Piret, who had dismissed the humans.
“…I thought our levels were similar, but I didn’t expect such a difference in martial prowess.”
Green Serpent’s blood-soaked lips trembled as he looked at the dead Red Dragon and the Black Dragon’s corpse beside it.
“Whew.”
Raon let out a sigh tinged with the smell of blood, with his waist half-bent.
“Thankfully, it worked.”
He had targeted both simultaneously with Sword Control at its extreme the moment the Divine-Demonic harmony ended, and fortunately, he managed to take one down. It would have been better if Green Serpent had also died, but he was happy to have dealt with at least one.
“Although I’m exhausted too…”
Having fought consecutive battles with all his strength and even visited the mental world, he was very fatigued both mentally and physically. His body felt heavy as if it were soaked in water, and his aura was severely depleted, but he maintained a calm gaze without showing it.
“The situation that was favorable to you is over.”
Raon shook his head as he grabbed the returned Heavenly Drive and Rimmer’s sword.
“Without further ado, let’s finish this…”
Just as he was about to attack Green Serpent, something flew from the north and crashed into the center of Sepia.
“Ugh…”
Turning his gaze, he saw Sterin staggering in the cloud of dust. At the same time, a noble-looking man with golden hair and eyes appeared beside Green Serpent.
“Is it ready?”
The golden-haired man tilted his chin towards Green Serpent.
“Of course it’s done.”
Green Serpent nodded, licking his lips.
“Then…”
As the golden-haired man snapped his fingers, Sepia crumpled like a piece of paper crushed in a hand, and then a powerful explosion occurred. With a golden glow, space opened, and the barrier of the sacred ground that concealed the World Tree shattered.
“Ah…”
“W-what’s happening?!”
Siyana and the elves, standing as if they were protecting the World Tree, widened their eyes at the sudden situation.
“Are you Raon Zieghart?”
The golden-haired man, who looked like a dragon, raised his chin arrogantly.
“To kill two of mine in such a short time, you must certainly die here.”
He tilted his head, awakening murderous intent in his calm gaze.
“Back to a disadvantageous fight, huh?”
Green Serpent sneered as he swung the sword in his hand.
“A disadvantageous battle…”
Raon pursed his lips as he looked at the Heavenly Drive and Rimmer’s sword.
“I’ve been through dozens of them.”
He retorted, raising golden flames upon the Heavenly Drive and Rimmer’s sword.
“I’ll show you what a Zieghart swordsman is capable of.”
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