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The light summoned by the Angel forced a choice first. The light that bloomed in its grip didn't fire like a flash, but exploded in front of the fallen King Lecross' chest.
Glenn stepped forward with his left foot without hesitation. In an instant, he moved to King Lecross' side and split the exploding light in half.
"I knew you'd do that."
Derus Robert lowered his fading hand, as if he had predicted Glenn's choice.
"Indeed, the Glenn Zieghart of today is not the cold-blooded man who was once called the Northern Destroyer King."
He curled his lips into a mocking smile at Glenn.
"My voice telling you that Raon and Karoon are dead still echoes in your head, right? Their deaths are simply the herald announcing the beginning of the great war."
Derus lifted his chin, his eyes gleaming darkly.
"Now that those two have fallen, it really won't be long."
He looked at the Angel standing to his right with his eyes closed, slowly licking his lips.
"Next time we meet, I'll have your neck..."
"That won't happen."
Glenn pointed his sword at the fading Derus Robert.
"Do you intend to stab me? Do you have the confidence to do so while leaving the Silent Sword Master's life intact?"
Derus tilted his chin indifferently, as if he were reading the entire situation.
"You've underestimated the king of Owen too much."
As soon as Glenn finished speaking, the Silent Sword Master Lecross stood up, with one knee still on the ground. Despite the gaping wound in his chest, he brought down a heavy sword strike that seemed to make the earth sink beneath him.
A transcendent sword that suppresses the enemy's movements. Lecross must have been preparing this sword strike since he was held by the Angel, because with a single gesture he created a powerful pressure that could shatter the enemy's flesh and bones.
Derus and the Angel's bodies, which had been fading as if they were about to disappear, regained their light and fell back into this world. It seemed that Lecross' sword, which had created a powerful gravity, had broken their teleportation magic.
"Kuhek..."
Lecross fell backwards, coughing up blood as if he had fulfilled his role. Glenn pointed the Heavenly Tremor at Derus Robert and the Angel who had fallen back to the ground. The red lightning that had been soaking the blade calmed down, and the mental image built by the old swordsman bloomed with the elegant fragrance of hundreds of miles of flowers.
"Hmm..."
Derus Robert swallowed as he observed Glenn's sword technique directed towards him.
'This is dangerous.'
Glenn raised an absolute sword that could sever the enemy's soul upon completion. It was an unprecedented realm that even he hadn't reached yet. The noble murderous intent emanating from the Soul Weapon made his heart feel as if it were being squeezed tightly.
'Is he really going to cut?'
He thought Glenn would never use the completed Soul Weapon until Raon's safety was confirmed, as using it would mean leaving this world. But now, Glenn seemed to be actually trying to cut his own soul.
"Raguel!"
Derus grabbed the shoulder of the Angel beside him and shouted that they needed to leave this place.
"It goes against the rules, but..."
The Angel named Raguel lifted his eyelids. As his blue eyes, reminiscent of the sea, blinked, his and Derus' bodies began to disappear, enveloped in white light.
"I won't let you go just like that."
Glenn lowered his eyes and cut with the Heavenly Tremor. A slow sword strike that didn't even make a sound of cutting through the wind grazed Derus and Raguel, who were enveloped in white light. The blade didn't reach them due to the distance, but what the Heavenly Tremor cut wasn't the enemy's flesh and blood.
It cut the soul and mind hidden deep within the body, the most important values that allow a person to exist as a human being.
"Kuhek!"
As soon as Glenn's sword fell, Derus bent over and coughed up black, dead blood.
"This is..."
He trembled his lips, his eyes bloodshot.
"How can a human's sword!"
Raguel also dropped his white wings and fell to his knees. His blue eyes showed shock at the old swordsman. Glenn raised the Heavenly Tremor again, as if he wasn't finished yet, and pushed it towards Derus and Raguel's necks.
"The Scales of the Rule!"
As Raguel bit his lip and extended his hand, beautiful scales made of what seemed to be angel feathers descended from the sky. The scales swayed as if they were being hit by waves, and Derus and Raguel disappeared as if they had been erased from the world.
"Hmm..."
Glenn couldn't complete his thrust and lowered his hand. Although he had only swung his sword once, he was sweating all over as if he were mentally exhausted.
"W-what happened?"
King Lecross, unable to control his body, only lifted his head to ask about the situation.
"It's dangerous, don't talk."
Glenn approached King Lecross and tried to stop the blood flowing from the wounds on his chest and shoulder.
"...Are they dead?"
"No, I couldn't cut them completely."
He shook his head as he sheathed the Heavenly Tremor.
'I'm sorry, but I couldn't leave this place yet.'
Having completed the Soul Weapon, he could have killed any enemy, but the moment he used that sword, his soul wouldn't be able to remain on this continent and would depart to a higher place. It was the ascension he had longed for his entire life, but he couldn't leave this continent now, without knowing the fate of Raon and the other children.
No, besides that, there was still much he hadn't taught Raon and Karoon. At this moment, he wanted to stay on this earth no matter what.
So he deliberately used an incomplete Soul Weapon to split Derus' soul in half. Even this made his own soul feel as if it were about to disperse, but it wasn't a bad outcome as he could buy time from the enemy.
"I understand..."
King Lecross nodded as if he understood the meaning behind Glenn's words.
"Your Majesty!"
"Is he alright?"
As the barrier created by Raguel disappeared, the knights of Owen rushed towards King Lecross.
"Your Majesty?"
"T-the wounds are too serious..."
"Quickly, move Your Majesty! Hurry!"
The knights, seeing the hole in King Lecross' chest, let out deep groans as they carefully lifted him.
"Q-quickly..."
King Lecross stopped the knights and waved his hand towards Glenn.
"You should leave."
He smiled weakly, telling Glenn to go elsewhere and not worry about him.
"Thank you."
As Glenn nodded, King Lecross closed his eyes, seemingly calm, and entrusted himself to the knights.
"Master of the Magic Tower."
At Glenn's call, the air rippled like a spring, and the Magic Tower Master's face appeared, with his robe removed.
[Yes.]
The Magic Tower Master nodded with a sharp voice, unlike his usual vague and drawn-out tone. He seemed like a completely different person.
"What's the situation elsewhere?"
[Contrary to expectations, neither we, Balkar, nor the Beast Union have been attacked.]
He narrowed his eyes, stating that only Owen had been attacked.
"Hmm..."
Glenn let out a low groan. It was strange that only Owen was attacked when he thought they would attack everywhere simultaneously.
'I can't understand what they're thinking.'
Unable to read Derus' intentions, Glenn felt a knot in his chest. However, there were more pressing matters at hand. He sighed briefly and raised his head.
"Have you been able to contact Montiro?"
[We still can't reach them. There's also no contact from the Black Market, and the Dimensional Gate is closed.]
He frowned, saying it seemed that the Five Kings' own communication network was cut off.
"Then please take me to the closest place to Montiro."
Glenn nodded, forcibly suppressing his trembling heart.
"I think this tremor will only stop if I go there myself."
* * *
A sacred light rose in the dimly lit study where only a small lamp was burning.
"Kuhuk..."
Derus Robert, who emerged from the sphere of white light, collapsed on the luxurious carpet and coughed up black blood.
"Ugh..."
Raguel also lost his balance and fell backwards, knocking over a bookshelf. His hand, still gripping the scales made of feathers, trembled violently.
"Lord Derus?"
Kubara, who had been waiting in the study, approached Derus with wide eyes.
"What the hell happened..."
Despite his confusion, he pulled out a black pill and put it in Derus' mouth.
"Kugh..."
Only after taking the medicine did Derus seem to feel less pain. He barely lifted his upper body and exhaled a breath mixed with the smell of blood.
"What happened? Don't tell me Glenn Zieghart..."
"Yes. It's the Soul Weapon."
Derus nodded weakly, his hand on his chest.
"My soul has almost been separated."
He bit his lip tightly, saying this time it was truly dangerous.
"Is it really a human's sword..."
Raguel wiped the blood from his mouth and let out a hollow sigh.
“It's too dangerous a power to allow a mere human. It doesn't fit the rules or justice.”
He, who had kept his eyes closed calmly even on the battlefield, now showed a terrifying murderous intent in his blue eyes, as if he were truly angry.
"If that sword had been completed, you and I would be dead. It's a power that must be eliminated."
Raguel tightened his grip on the scales, insisting that the Soul Weapon was a power that shouldn't be given to humans.
"No..."
Derus slowly shook his head as he looked at Raguel.
"It's not that it's incomplete, he deliberately controlled it."
He frowned as if he had realized Glenn's thoughts.
"As you say, that power goes against causality. He set his own limits because using the completed Soul Weapon would transgress the boundaries and make it impossible to stay on this continent."
Derus let out a sigh, saying Glenn's level had already surpassed transcendence.
"Of course, even this is just absurd power, but..."
Soul wounds can't be healed by another person like physical wounds. One must reduce the pain and injury through their own efforts, but Glenn's sword had cut deeper than before, and it would take quite a while to recover.
"He's a human who goes against the rules in many ways. We can't leave him like this."
Raguel lowered his eyebrows, saying it would be right to kill Glenn himself. Instead of his usual calm demeanor, now his anger seemed more like his true nature.
"No, it's alright."
Derus shook his head calmly.
"It's true that he's strong enough to surpass human limits, but thanks to that, we've learned his ultimate weakness."
"If you mean a weakness..."
Kubara narrowed his eyes as he looked at Derus.
"That old man. His affection for his family has grown even greater than before. This will definitely become a dagger we can use against him."
Derus chuckled as he watched the blood dripping from the back of his hand. He licked the blood with his tongue and cracked a long smile as if his lips were torn.
"Raon Zieghart. No, Raon. It really won't be long now."
* * *
"Please calm down first and tell me again."
Raon raised his hand to calm the excited Jayna.
"What do you mean there's a problem with the Five Kings? Are you saying the Five Demons attacked?"
"Ugh..."
Jayna exhaled as she organized her thoughts.
"It's not necessarily a problem, but it seems there are two possible situations. Either the communication network is disrupted due to the demonic energy flowing from the Black Tower dimension, or the Five Demons attacked the Five Kings and cut off communications. Or it could be both."
She lowered her eyebrows, saying that either way, it seemed clear that the Five Demons were involved.
"The Five Demons..."
Raon frowned as he looked at the sky where demonic energy was still flowing.
'I won't be much help in my current state.'
Having squeezed every last drop of his physical and spiritual strength in the fight, he was about to faint. He was barely holding on to relay information to the Demon Kings, so it was impossible for him to go elsewhere to fight.
'No, not just me, but everyone.'
The Light Wind Palace, the Central Martial Palace, and the allied forces of Owen, Balkar, and the Holy Kingdom of Suphren had also exhausted all their strength and could no longer fight.
"If communications are cut off, does that mean we can't use the Dimensional Gate either?"
"Yes. We can't enter or exit right now. We'd have to use separate teleportation magic, but long-distance travel is almost impossible unless you're at Lady Chamber's level..."
"I see."
Raon lowered his gaze and wrinkled his nose.
'What should we do?'
Knowing Derus Robert, it was more likely that he would go to attack the Five Kings than come here to support. Although they had made several preparations, the fight here had been fierce, so he was also worried about other places.
- Why are you hesitating?
Wrath frowned and pointed at Lust and Gluttony inside the shop.
- You have those idiots you bought right there! Use them when you need them!
'I guess I have no choice but to ask them for help again.'
For now, there was only one option.
"Ugh."
Raon let out a short sigh and entered the ice cream shop.
"Thank you for coming this far first."
He gave a small bow to Lust, whose eyes were blurry and unfocused, and Gluttony, who was chewing on an iron cube.
"No need to thank us! You can ask us for anything!"
"It's for the money..."
Lust and Gluttony shook their heads as if it were no big deal.
"It's embarrassing to ask now, but can I make one more request?"
Raon tilted his head towards the two.
"Of course! Anything!"
"If you give us ice cream or money..."
Lust and Gluttony nodded as if it were fine.
"Thank you. First, we need to move to another location..."
Raon gave a brief explanation to the two Demon Kings.
"I'll be back after the preparations are complete, so please wait here."
He left the ice cream shop to bring those who were in good physical condition. Just as they were about to move to the temporary infirmary, a huge explosion was heard from the direction of the central fountain.
"What's that?"
Raon ran towards the source of the loud noise, his eyes wide. The ground was kicking up white dust from the violent movement, and at the center of it all, he saw a very familiar face.
"J-Jefe de Familia?"
Glenn, who should have been in Zieghart preparing for attacks in other places, was standing at the broken fountain, looking at him.
"Raon..."
Glenn let out a deep sigh as if his chest was tight seeing him. He approached Raon, dominating the exhausted look in his eyes.
"I knew you could do it. And..."
Glenn hugged Raon tightly with trembling arms, his voice tinged with emotion.
"I'm so relieved."
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