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Raon raised his Divine Sword and Demonic Sword as he watched the Demonblade biting his lips.
“Your aura quantity is superior.”
Because he had sacrificed half of the Dark Black Lotus as living offerings, the amount of death energy the Demonblade wielded far surpassed Raon’s own aura. A head-on battle of strength against strength wasn’t a good option.
“What I have over him is…”
Swordsmanship, probably. The Ten Thousand Swords he had accumulated since childhood had blossomed even more brilliantly upon reaching Transcendence. Even though the Demonblade’s swordsmanship was difficult even among Transcendants, if he focused solely on his own sword, he could fight with an advantage.
“My physical body and endurance are also superior.”
Even if the Demonblade had become younger, he couldn’t match Raon’s physical body and endurance that had stolen Wrath’s power. He just needed to be careful of that newly grown purple arm.
“And there is one more thing.”
If he used the elements he had learned through his recent training with Glenn, he could surely defeat the Demonblade. Of course, it would be exhausting to the point of death.
“Buying time…”
The Demonblade burst into a deflated laugh as he covered his eyes with his palm.
“I’ll tell you this. From the first time I met you, I didn’t like that composure of yours.”
He lowered his purple-stained hand and showed a smile that shone with murderous intent.
“I wonder if that composure will remain when I strip you of your flesh from bone.”
The Demonblade bared his yellowed teeth and stomped his foot. With a roar as if the earth’s axis was twisting, a massive amount of death energy erupted from beneath his feet.
The Demonblade’s death energy, which had been spreading in concentric circles, molded itself into blades and shot towards Raon. It was a ferocious offense, like thousands of archers firing poisoned arrows simultaneously.
Hoo. Raon breathed out a pained sigh as he watched the blades of death energy approaching.
“I can’t afford to get injured.”
The wound on his waist, which had been hit by the death energy, was slowly rotting and festering. If he received more damage, the battle itself could become impossible, so he had to minimize the damage as much as possible.
“Full power from the start.”
Raon advanced towards the approaching blades of death energy, raising the Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation and the Glacier to their extreme. The flames of the Divine Sword spiraled upwards, causing a red wave, while the frost of the Demonic Sword painted a garden made of ice flowers.
The harmony of the Flame and Ice Unification and the Fire Spirit of the Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation. The petals of cold energy rising from the waves of flame collided with the blades of death energy emerging from all directions.
The death energy rushing from the right turned into black ash and sank before the flames of the Flame and Ice Unification, while the wave of death energy spilling from the left froze and crumbled under the Fire Spirit’s cold energy.
Not satisfied with the defense, Raon charged towards the Demonblade while trampling the frozen death energy. He circled the Demonblade from the right, slashing downwards with the Crimson Slash using his Divine Sword, and unleashing Frost Snap with his Demonic Sword.
The two swift and precise strikes aimed for the Demonblade’s neck and chest. The Demonblade, as if he saw everything, snorted and twisted his sword to block both the Crimson Slash and Frost Snap at once.
“You’re slow.”
He launched a sword strike as he clashed with the Divine Sword and Demonic Sword. A massive semicircle drawn along the blade stained purple. The scale of the death energy was so overwhelming that it seemed like a purple crescent moon had risen before his eyes.
“Is he trying to overwhelm me with brute force?”
The Demonblade had clearly realized that his advantage lay in the quantity of aura, and he was obviously trying to break Raon with brute force.
“Then I will resist with swordsmanship.”
Raon took a stance forming a perfect left and right symmetry, like a sword dancer performing a solemn sword dance. He swung the Divine Sword downwards, wrapping it in the grain of the Dance of the Golden Flame, and lifted the Demonic Sword, imbuing it with the breath of the White Shadow Slash.
A silk made of threads of flame elegantly unfolded, trapping the approaching waves of death energy, while clumps of white light erased the fragments of death energy that escaped the silk.
Raon advanced using the Supreme Harmony Step. Aiming for the Demonblade’s shoulder with the counterattack of the White Shadow Slash, he unleashed the Silver Sword Dream with his Divine Sword. The Demonblade erected a thick wall of death energy to block the White Shadow Slash, and directly raised his sword to deflect the Silver Sword Dream that was striking his neck.
“Getting close to me isn’t a good option, is it?”
The Demonblade sneered, asking if Raon could withstand the death energy emanating from the surroundings.
“That’s none of your concern.”
Ignoring the Demonblade’s words, Raon approached him and lowered his Demonic Sword. The Demonblade bore the weight of the Demonic Sword and curled his lips upwards.
“Then die right there.”
He twisted the sword that had blocked the Demonic Sword. The death energy rotating on the blade condensed at the tip of the sword and caused a tremendous explosion. It was a death energy projectile, fired forward like a Heavy Sky Cannon.
However, because the Demonblade’s death energy was so powerful, the time it took to concentrate the force was incredibly short. By the time Raon came to his senses, the death energy fired by the Demonblade was already rushing towards him.
“No matter how fast and strong a sword…”
Raon stepped back using the Third Step of the Supreme Harmony and raised his Divine Sword.
“It cannot reach the sky.”
He divided the moment into fractions and unleashed the Formless Flow of the Azure Sky Sword. Nothing can reach the ever-changing sky. The death energy projectile fired by the Demonblade failed to penetrate the flames of the Divine Sword and was deflected, hitting the riverbed instead.
A massive seemingly bottomless pit appeared where the death energy had exploded on the ground. It seemed like if one entered there, they might never come out again.
Raon stepped on a bouncing rock and approached the Demonblade, unleashing the Thirty-Six Crimson Flash Techniques. Blades of flame striking thirty-six directions in a single blow swept over the Demonblade’s entire body.
The Demonblade drew a circle with his sword, blocking all directions of the Thirty-Six Crimson Flash Techniques. The purple death energy melted the flames of the Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation, emitting a sticky smell.
Raon used the Supreme Harmony Steps to aim for the Demonblade’s blind spot. Even though the Demonblade’s counterattack was ferocious, Raon stayed close to him until the end, deflecting the death energy with the subtleties of the Fluid Sword.
“Your swordsmanship is rougher than I thought?”
Raon muttered that this level wouldn’t be enough while drawing out the Revolving Sky.
“That muttering of yours ends here too.”
The Demonblade erased the spinning flames and stomped his foot. The dry riverbed cracked in a spiderweb pattern, spewing out a massive amount of death energy.
The moment the death energy erupted from the ground, Raon used the Supreme Harmony Steps to rise into the air. As he was about to swing his Divine Sword to erase the death energy chasing after him, the Demonblade showed a long smile.
“I knew you would do that.”
The Demonblade raised his purple-stained hand as if he had been aiming for the moment Raon was in the air from the beginning. A flash of purple light erupted from his palm, shooting towards Raon’s heart.
While suspended in the air, Raon swung his Divine Sword to cut the death energy erupting from the ground, and lowered his Demonic Sword to block the purple flash fired by the Demonblade.
Although he managed to block the death energy, being in the air inevitably pushed him back. As he was about to step on a seemingly intact rock to resist it with his physical ability, the sword-shaped death energy emerged from the wall behind him.
A situation where flashes of death energy were coming from the front while blades of death energy were rushing from below and behind. Still suspended in the air, he couldn’t block it all.
“I have no choice.”
Raon frowned and summoned Garunua’s wind. The Wooden Ring, riding a green wind, lunged forward emitting a dense killing intent, tearing apart the blades of death energy that had rushed behind him.
“Sword Control, right?”
The Demonblade nodded calmly, as if he had expected this to a certain extent.
“I guess this is your full power from now on.”
“Perhaps.”
Raon shook his head calmly.
“If I hadn’t known about Sword Control, I would have hidden it until the end, but since you probably knew about it anyway…”
The fact that he used Sword Control was already known throughout the continent, so there was no need to forcefully hide it. It was much better to use it at the right time and gain an advantage.
“Then I will show you what true death energy is.”
The Demonblade plunged his sword, glowing with death energy, into the ground. Purple flames erupted from the dry riverbed, enveloping his entire body and unleashing a terrifying aura that seemed to crush everything. Just by its existence, the earth split and rose, and space itself tore. It was a manifestation of martial prowess on a different level.
“Was it until this point?”
The death energy emanating from the Demonblade was so strong that even the flames of the Divine Sword and the frost of the Demonic Sword seemed to stagger. Raon’s heart clenched, and a dull tremor ran through his arms and legs.
“Let’s begin. No, let’s end this.”
The Demonblade twisted his smile and swung his sword like a whip. Although the blow was light, the sky split with a purple hue, and a torrent of death energy monsters rushed downwards, enveloping the heavens and earth. The blow was more than twice as strong as before.
Raon gritted his teeth and unleashed Sheryl’s double sword technique. With the harmonious swordsmanship that drew ten circles in the air, he knocked down the death energy demonic beasts aiming for his throat.
But there were too many death energy beasts, and their regeneration speed was too fast. Even while using Sword Control, he couldn’t block everything. Flesh was torn from his shoulder and thigh, and pus-filled blood flowed outwards. He tried to stop the wounds with his aura, but the death energy that had seeped into the wounds prevented the bleeding from stopping.
“Even so, I have to keep going.”
If he retreated because of his injuries, he would be overwhelmed by the Demonblade’s power. The only way he could win was by charging forward. Raon trampled the death energy that erupted and moved to the Demonblade’s left side. Enduring the pain of his shoulder, waist, and thigh, he unleashed the Azure Sky Sword.
“Charging mindlessly…”
The Demonblade easily blocked the Azure Sky Sword technique and raised his chin.
“You’re like a moth that doesn’t realize its wings are burning.”
Muttering that Raon was pitiful like an insect, he swung his evil sword to push him back.
“Who is the moth will only be known after this is over.”
Raon deflected the approaching death energy and pressed towards the Demonblade. He unleashed the Fangs of Insanity and the Blizzard Sword Art, stealing the Demonblade’s space and time.
“Hmph.”
As the Demonblade snorted and twisted his sword, a blade made of death energy emerged from nowhere, breaking the flow of the Fangs of Insanity and the Blizzard Sword Art. He even deflected the Wooden Ring that was aimed at his weak point, demonstrating what perfect defense was.
“Has his reaction speed also increased?”
Since he had enveloped himself in the flames of death energy, the Demonblade had been deflecting Raon’s sword instinctively. It seemed that not only his strength and physical abilities had been enhanced, but his senses had also sharpened.
“A little faster…”
As Raon tried to increase the speed of the Fangs of Insanity and the Blizzard Sword Art’s connection, he suddenly stopped. His arms and legs were shaking so much that it was difficult to hold the sword, and black blood began to flow from his mouth and nose.
“This is…”
“It seems it has finally arrived.”
The Demonblade lowered his sword while straightening his back, as if he had been expecting this.
“You have been poisoned by my death energy.”
* * *
“Even so, you held on for a long time. I’ll give you that praise.”
The Demonblade showed a long smile as he looked at Raon, who had stopped moving his sword.
“Yes. It’s remarkable that you fought for so long.”
Because right now, I’m no different from a source of death energy. Not only the martial artists of the Dark Black Lotus, but also hundreds of ordinary people were sacrificed, so it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the area around him was now boiling with lava made of resentment and death energy.
No matter how much Raon Zieghart had ascended to Transcendence, if he fought and got injured in this area, he couldn’t help but be poisoned by this terrible death energy.
“Did you say you would surpass the Five Divine Orders?”
The Demonblade shook his head with a sinister smile.
“It’s impossible for you. Unless the Five Kings, the Five Demons, and the Five Divine Orders fight each other, this balance will never be broken. A new era? That’s just nonsense.”
If that guy had attacked after he spent more time, there might have been a chance to surpass them, but now it’s all over. This will be the end of his journey.
“That’s not for you to decide.”
Despite being poisoned by the death energy, Raon charged forward with his trembling hands gripping both swords, as if he was determined to fight until the very end. Even though he was being consumed by the death energy and must have been feeling unbearable pain from his wounds, Raon’s swords were sharp and unpredictable.
“This guy really…”
The Demonblade lowered his eyebrows as he watched Raon, who was challenging him with a willingness to die.
“Even now, his swordsmanship is superior to mine.”
Unlike him, who used irregular and evil swordsmanship, Raon drew a mysterious sword path that seemed to combine all the swordsmanship in the world. If he hadn’t increased the amount of death energy using living sacrifices, it would have been truly dangerous.
“But it’s me who’s going to win.”
No matter how excellent the swordsmanship, it’s meaningless if it doesn’t reach.
“Stop fighting and die!”
The Demonblade didn’t confront Raon with swordsmanship, but pushed him back with the sheer amount of death energy. Raon tried to wriggle like an eel and resist somehow, but gradually his speed decreased and his sword strikes became dull as if his strength was fading.
“Huh…”
Raon finally stopped moving, bent over, and coughed up black blood. His hands holding the swords trembled violently.
“Now it’s over.”
The Demonblade nodded with a long smile.
“I will show you a miserable end for all the trouble you have caused.”
Just as he was about to tear Raon’s flesh apart with his sword pulsing with death energy. Thuk… The Demonblade’s hand trembled like Raon’s exhausted hands, and he dropped his sword.
“What’s this…”
While rolling his eyes, not knowing what was happening, Raon slowly got up.
“Let me say the same thing to you.”
Raon tilted his chin, his red eyes shining.
“It seems it has finally taken effect.”
* * *
Hoo. Raon exhaled a cloudy breath as he watched the Demonblade’s hands and feet trembling.
“It was a little late, but it worked properly.”
“Don’t tell me it’s…”
Wrath opened his eyes as he saw the Demonblade’s trembling hands and feet.
“What you suffered from the old man?”
“That’s right. It’s that lightning aura.”
Just as Glenn had paralyzed him with lightning aura during his training, Raon used the lightning aura of the Celestial Thunder Arts that Glenn had taught him to suppress the Demonblade’s death energy.
“Lightning a-aura?”
The Demonblade’s jaw trembled as if he had just noticed the change in himself.
“Since when…”
“From the beginning.”
Raon shook his head while wiping the dead blood flowing from his mouth and nose.
“I mixed lightning aura into the energy of heat and cold.”
Thinking that the Demonblade would prepare himself if he saw the lightning aura, Raon had hidden it in the flames of the Ten Thousand Flames Cultivation and the cold of the Glacier, gradually sprinkling the lightning aura of the Celestial Thunder Arts. Thanks to this, the Demonblade only now realized that his body had been infiltrated by the lightning aura.
“You probably didn’t notice the lightning aura seeping in due to your overflowing death energy, but the power of the Celestial Thunder Arts was very slowly eroding your body and mana circuit. Just as you aimed death energy at me.”
Feeling the Demonblade’s death energy pressing against his body, Raon had also tried to control the Demonblade’s energy with lightning aura, and it seemed to have worked properly.
“So that’s why you kept fighting in close combat.”
The Demonblade bit his lip until it bled, as if he now understood why Raon had fought in close quarters.
“Not bad. No, it’s impressive. But nothing will change.”
He picked up the sword that had fallen to the ground. Flames of death energy that seemed to reach the sky burned on the purple-stained blade.
“You, poisoned by death energy, won’t be able to move a single finger now!”
The Demonblade unleashed the death energy as if to erase the entire continent, seemingly intending to finish him off in a single breath.
“Ten Thousand Demon Death Palace!”
His death energy spread endlessly, erecting thousands of blades of death energy in the sky and on the ground. The countless emerging blades of death energy connected in a circle, forming a shape like a massive palace. It seemed that he intended to trap Raon inside this palace of death energy and kill him without leaving a single piece of flesh.
“No.”
Raon shook his head calmly and readjusted his grip on the Divine Sword and Demonic Sword.
“I’m not at my full power yet.”
He drew out the tyrannical energy residing in his liver and wrapped it around his entire body. Askara’s Fighting Spirit. The tyrannical energy that could draw out maximum power in any situation seeped into his mana circuit, repelling the foul-smelling death energy.
Raon raised his Divine Sword and Demonic Sword towards the blades of death energy that covered the sky and earth.
Raon Zieghart Style Swordsmanship.
Sixth Form: Invincible Azure-Red Sword.
He raised the sword strike that had always brought him victory to the level of Transcendence, and with the Wooden Ring, he unleashed the wind-infused technique of the Celestial Thunder Arts. Three swords converged before Raon’s eyes, forming a joyful harmony. Flames, frost, lightning, and wind connected in golden lines.
Like the dawn rising to overcome the dark night, the radiant sword that would open a new era split the purple sea raised by the specter of the old era.
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