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The Leader of the White Blood Religion escaped into the air, enduring Raon's flames, Lecross's sword strikes, and Larian's lightning with her body. Despite shielding herself with blood energy, the impact seemed severe as her complexion turned pale.
"W-What did you do...?"
The Leader of the White Blood Religion clutched the wound on her chest with her hand, spitting out white blood.
"I couldn't sense your presence at all!"
She gritted her teeth, covered in white blood, while still maintaining her aura perception despite her agitated state.
"We summoned a dimension."
As Larian raised the clover card on his finger, a bright yellow lightning bolt struck the Leader of the White Blood Religion, who was trying to heal her wounds with blood energy.
"W-What do you mean by summoning a dimension...?"
The Leader of the White Blood Religion backed away, questioning the concept of dimension summoning as she abandoned her attempt to recover.
"Chamber created a dimension that could hide a person's presence, and Lecross waited inside it. When you were furious at Raon, we summoned the dimension where Lecross was hiding behind you."
Chamber nodded, waving a diamond card up and down.
"Don't lie! If a dimensional gate had opened, I would have known!"
The Leader of the White Blood Religion shook her head vigorously as she resumed healing her wounds.
"The one who opened the dimensional gate was not Chamber."
King Lecross jumped to the left side of the Leader of the White Blood Religion and delivered a powerful sword strike aimed at her head.
"Damn you!"
The Leader of the White Blood Religion raised a transparent wall over her head using blood energy, but Lecross's dark strike shattered the blood energy wall and sent her crashing to the ground. She spat out white blood as she became embedded in a building. Due to the severe wounds she had initially suffered, she seemed unable to focus on recovery or fighting.
Lecross, determined not to miss this opportunity, followed closely behind the Leader of the White Blood Religion and thrust his sword towards her neck.
"Ugh..."
The Leader of the White Blood Religion repelled Lecross's sword strike by concentrating blood energy in her hand, but she spat out blood again.
"The moment you started casting spells, saying you would kill the Luminous Wind Palace Master, Lecross pierced your chest along with the dimensional gate."
Larian explained that the Leader of the White Blood Religion couldn't sense Lecross's presence because the dimension hadn't opened, while she was casting ten streams of lightning.
"We've been training for over a month to cut your heart along with the dimensional gate, but I didn't expect it to work so well. We were lucky."
King Lecross, saying that the training had paid off, unleashed a series of powerful sword strikes at the Leader of the White Blood Religion, who was fleeing. Larian and Lecross fiercely pursued the Leader of the White Blood Religion, giving her no time to recover from her wounds or gather her full strength.
"Damn it!"
The Leader of the White Blood Religion gave up healing her wounds and focused solely on escaping Larian's magic and Lecross's sword. It seemed she was trying to catch her breath before gathering her blood energy. Raon moved behind the Leader of the White Blood Religion while Lecross and Larian attacked her from the front, cutting her waist and thighs with his divine and demon swords.
"Ugh..."
The Leader of the White Blood Religion bit her lip as she looked at the wounds on her waist and thighs, which were oozing white blood. Although she exuded a murderous intent as if she wanted to kill him, she could only retreat due to Lecross and Larian, unable to advance.
- Well done! Your power has diminished, so if you had gone deeper, you would have gotten trapped.
Wrath nodded, telling Raon to continue using Lecross and Larian's movements like that.
- Winter mosquitos are vicious, but that one's not normal either. Even with fatal wounds before the fight started, she's slowly recovering while buying time.
He frowned, saying that if the Leader of the White Blood Religion had succeeded in awakening, not a single human would be left alive on this earth.
'That's why we need to finish this now.'
Raon cut the Leader of the White Blood Religion's back with the flames of his divine sword while she was concentrating on Lecross, and then fled to the left.
"No, it wasn't that I was lucky, I should say it was thanks to the efforts of the Luminous Wind Palace Master."
King Lecross nodded, acknowledging that it was because he had provoked the Leader of the White Blood Religion.
"When did you start preparing for this nonsense...?"
The Leader of the White Blood Religion looked at Raon, biting her blood-stained lips.
"We've been researching how to break through this wall and kill you for two months since Raon discovered the White Blood Religion Headquarters. No, it's been over three months since it started when Raon went out to sea."
Larian reflected that it had been both a long and short time.
"Raon and the Luminous Wind Palace found the White Blood Religion Headquarters, I, Chamber, and Evelyn researched day and night how to break through the wall and reach you, and Lecross and Owen went through hellish training to exterminate you and the blood demons. The paths of the Five Kings were all connected."
He smiled meaningfully, saying that the movements of the Five Kings were connected like dozens of streams joining to form the sea.
"So you were the one who started it all."
The Leader of the White Blood Religion shot a deadly murderous intent at Raon, as if she had been expecting it.
"You ruined everything again!"
"It wasn't me, but your stupidity that ruined everything."
Raon scoffed as he cut the furious Leader of the White Blood Religion's shoulder with Revolving Sky and Crimson Slash. The Leader of the White Blood Religion eliminated Crimson Slash and Revolving Sky with her blood energy-infused hands, but she was hit by Larian's magic and Lecross's sword strikes coming from her left and right, rolling on the ground.
"Ugh!"
She fled into the air again, putting strength into her leg that seemed to have had its flesh torn away, revealing the bone.
"To think she's still like that after being hit by divine lightning..."
Larian let out an empty laugh, as if he couldn't believe it.
"She's recovering and escaping at the same time. We need to follow her and drain her stamina."
Lecross struck with a sword imbued with transcendent will as he followed closely behind the Leader of the White Blood Religion, his eyebrows deeply furrowed. The immense wind summoned by his sword stopped the Leader of the White Blood Religion's movement and pushed her to the ground.
'To think she can move like that even after being repeatedly hit by lightning magic...'
The Leader of the White Blood Religion was moving faster than him despite being cut by Lecross's sword and enveloped in Larian's lightning. It was an incredible level of resilience.
'She really is a monster.'
Lightning possesses divine power that burns away evil energy. It was astonishing to see that the Leader of the White Blood Religion's martial prowess was no less than Lecross's despite being repeatedly hit by lightning, which is effective against blood energy.
'I wish to kill that monster right now, but...'
Now, they needed to drain her power as much as possible. If they beheaded the Leader of the White Blood Religion, Martha, the mother who owned that body, would die as well. They had to make that monster abandon Martha's mother's body of her own free will.
"Hng..."
Martha trembled, gripping her sword with a murderous intent so vicious that it seemed evil, as if she wanted to behead the Leader of the White Blood Religion herself. Transparent droplets appeared above her black eyes.
"Martha. We need to stay calm, especially at times like this."
Denier grabbed Martha's shoulder, who was excited by the vengeance in sight, and helped her control her emotions.
"Hmm..."
The Leader of the White Blood Religion, sensing a dense and deep murderous intent, retreated to the right and lowered her gaze towards Martha. She simply observed, not attacking or approaching, only looking at Martha.
'Is it really not the case?'
Raon narrowed his eyes as he looked at Denier, who was protecting Martha.
'There won't be a better opportunity than now, right?'
He had been cautious, thinking that if Denier was a spy, this would be the best time to launch a surprise attack, but he only comforted Martha and didn't move. He seemed to be nothing more than a father who cared for his daughter and a swordsman who valued the honor of the Zieghart family.
"Martha."
Raon nodded at Martha.
"It's your turn now. Call out to your mother who might still be in that body."
The Leader of the White Blood Religion still possessed a massive soul despite being severely wounded and mentally shaken. It was too dense for his soul sword to cut, so Martha needed to shake her soul.
"M-Mom!"
Martha pulled out a worn water drop necklace from under her uniform and uttered the word she had been holding back.
"Please wake up! You promised to wake me up every morning until I got married!"
She shouted, looking at the identical water drop necklace hanging from the Leader of the White Blood Religion's neck.
"Your mother died a while ago. She screamed for help, but I tore her soul apart with these hands."
The Leader of the White Blood Religion laughed at Martha as if everything was over.
"L-Liar! Stop lying, you damned mosquito!"
Martha shouted, telling her to stop talking nonsense.
"You should be able to feel it, right? That the only soul left in this body is me."
The Leader of the White Blood Religion shot a blood energy slash towards Martha, saying she would send mother and daughter together. Denier raised a sword barrier to block the blood energy aimed at Martha.
"Ah..."
Martha's jaw trembled as she watched the Leader of the White Blood Religion's cold gesture attempting to kill her with her mother's face. Her eyes sank into a dull color.
"Is, is it really my mother's soul...?"
"No!"
Raon pressed the Leader of the White Blood Religion with a storm of flames raised by red petals, then turned his gaze towards Martha.
"Your mother's soul is still alive."
"Stop talking nonsense. The owner of this body is already dead."
The Leader of the White Blood Religion shook her head firmly, as if it was already too late.
"Then, why are you still wearing that necklace?"
Raon twisted his lips, pointing at the water drop necklace hanging from the Leader of the White Blood Religion's neck.
"Hmm..."
The Leader of the White Blood Religion couldn't remove the necklace that was swaying from her neck even after hearing those words.
"A cold-blooded monster like you wouldn't leave the soul of the body you've taken alone. It's not that you leave it alone, but you can't help but leave it alone. That necklace must be a condition to possess the body."
The Leader of the White Blood Religion was wearing that necklace when he saw her before. It was clear that there were essential restrictions that she had to endure to obtain someone else's body.
"Damn insufferable..."
The Leader of the White Blood Religion clenched her fist around the necklace as if she had been hit in a vital spot. But in the end, she couldn't break or remove the necklace, and she lowered her trembling hand.
"T-Then..."
Martha looked at him with a faint light in her black eyes.
"Yes. Your mother is definitely alive."
Raon nodded with a tone of certainty.
"I'll subdue that monster and bring her back, so wait here."
Raon stepped on the Steps of Supreme Harmony, crushing the ground stained with white blood. He charged towards the Leader of the White Blood Religion, raising the flames of his divine sword and the coldness of his demon sword to their extremes.
"Well said. Let's finish this once and for all."
Larian scattered cards imbued with lightning attribute magic into the air as if to support him.
"I'll set aside my knightly honor for now and focus solely on victory."
Lecross launched himself with his sword, saying it wouldn't be shameful to fight together.
Lecross's sharp and heavy sword strike pressed against the Leader of the White Blood Religion's waist, dozens of lightning bolts summoned by Larian constricted her arms and legs, and Raon's flames and cold energy rising from the ground further deepened her wounds.
"Argh!"
The Leader of the White Blood Religion fled among the buildings with a bestial scream. She sprayed a fog created by magic to obscure their vision.
"That won't work anymore."
Raon split the white fog with the Heavy Sky Azure Sky Sword's Great Sword Bond, then chased after the Leader of the White Blood Religion who was escaping through the alleys. Lecross and Larian also ascended into the sky, intercepting the Leader of the White Blood Religion with sword strikes and magic, determined not to let her escape.
Raon stabilized his ragged breathing as he watched blood spurt from the Leader of the White Blood Religion's back.
'We can't give her time under any circumstances.'
The Leader of the White Blood Religion was currently critically wounded to the point that she would die immediately if she didn't recover, so she couldn't unleash her full power and was fleeing while regenerating the wounds on her body. If she was given time to erase her wounds, the situation could reverse immediately, so they had to keep pressuring her.
"M-Damn it!"
The Leader of the White Blood Religion seemed unable to move her left shoulder, and while she blocked Lecross and Raon's sword strikes as well as Larian's magic with only her right hand, her wounds continued to increase. The shadow of defeat began to creep over her complexion.
"We must keep pressuring the Leader of the White Blood Religion so that she can't focus on recovering!"
Raon unleashed two pairs of Flame Dragon Strikes with his divine and demon swords. The fire dragon and the water dragon intertwined and swept across the Leader of the White Blood Religion's entire body.
"Ugh!"
The Leader of the White Blood Religion's lips trembled as she suffered burns and frostbite, unable to completely block his sword strikes despite raising a wall of blood energy.
"Keep going!"
Raon unleashed powerful and rapid sword strikes from blind spots when the Leader of the White Blood Religion was blocking Lecross's sword and Larian's magic.
"If we keep this up, we can win."
Although the Leader of the White Blood Religion displayed tenacity beyond that of a cockroach, her stamina and blood energy were noticeably decreasing. They had to keep pursuing and continuing their attacks until the very end.
'However...'
This is quite challenging. Although it hadn't been long since the battle began, the sense of crisis that he could die with just one counterattack was consuming his stamina and mental strength much faster than usual. His back was soaked in sweat and his head was spinning.
'Still, I must keep going.'
To fulfill his promise to Martha. And to avenge Derus, he had to finish hunting this annoying mosquito today. Raon moved behind the Leader of the White Blood Religion and employed the Heavy Sky Cannon. After drawing the Leader of the White Blood Religion in with a powerful gravitational force, he exploded the massive aura gathered in his sword technique.
The Leader of the White Blood Religion's arm, covered in blood energy, trembled as if she couldn't completely dissipate the impact of the Heavy Sky Cannon due to the gravitational pull.
"Your escape skills are impressive. You must be the best among the Five Demons."
Larian let out an empty laugh, as if he hadn't expected the Leader of the White Blood Religion to endure so much.
"But now it's time to finish this."
He unleashed all the magic stored in his 52 cards, summoning a massive lightning bolt that filled the sky above the White Blood Religion Headquarters.
"I'll also put everything into this sword."
King Lecross adopted a charging stance like a knight with a lance, gripping his sword with both hands. His body shone with a dark light as if he had become one with the sword, emitting an aura that seemed capable of tearing apart the sky and the earth.
"I'll follow you."
Raon imbued his divine and demon swords with different auras and raised the Wooden Ring Sword. He prepared his most powerful strategy, firing a whispering wind along with the Blue-Red Invincible Sword.
"If I dodge this, I'll really die."
The Leader of the White Blood Religion, realizing that she couldn't avoid this, gathered even the blood energy she was using to heal her chest wound to raise a wall of blood energy and employed an absolute defense spell.
"Come at me!"
She shouted, stomping her foot as if she would endure it with her body, unlike when she was fleeing.
"Ten Thousand Lightning Bolts!"
Thousands of lightning bolts fell upon the Leader of the White Blood Religion's head next to Larian's hand. Raon passed through the lightning bolts that didn't harm him at all and exploded the heat and cold energy imbued in his divine and demon swords towards the Leader of the White Blood Religion's chest.
He pierced through the magic wall with the two blades of the Blue-Red Invincible Sword, which unleashed terrifying power, and employed the Whispering Wind with the Wooden Ring Sword hidden behind his back.
The Leader of the White Blood Religion, focused on blocking Larian's lightning and the Blue-Red Invincible Sword, didn't feel the presence of the Wooden Ring Sword that had pierced through her blood energy, and her neck was pierced.
"Ugh!"
The Leader of the White Blood Religion, despite having a sword pierced through her neck, didn't retreat and endured with her blood energy-covered hands until the flames of the Blue-Red Invincible Sword extinguished.
"You won't escape!"
Larian, despite his heavy breathing, didn't rest and moved to the right side of the Leader of the White Blood Religion, plunging a magic-imbued dagger into her wound. The flames that erupted from the red dagger further tore apart the Leader of the White Blood Religion's wound.
The Leader of the White Blood Religion, despite having a sword pierced through her neck and her body on fire, didn't fall and remained in her original position, pushing back both Raon and Larian.
'How is this...?'
Raon trembled his jaw as he looked into the Leader of the White Blood Religion's eyes. Her black eyes burned with ecstasy, not the despair he had seen before.
'Wait... Now that I think about it!'
Raon turned, remembering someone who had started with them but hadn't arrived. King Lecross Albern of Owen, known as the Silent Sword Master, was gasping for breath as he looked at the blade protruding from his chest. It was the exact same appearance as when he had stabbed the Leader of the White Blood Religion from behind.
"Ah..."
Behind Lecross, who was spitting bright red blood, a man with cold features and snow-white hair reaching his waist emerged. Although his hair color was different and his eyes had changed, he was an unmistakable man.
"Denier Zieghart..."
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