Chapter 39 (1/2)

Chapter 39: Getting Attacked 4

Wooo! Roarrr!

As the path to the cliff disappeared in an instant, the members of the shadow knights began to fall.

“Waahh!”

“Sa, save me!”

They tried and struggled not to fall; however, they had no choice but to fall wherever they were standing.

The case of the Gigants was much serious.

Because of their heavy weight, they fell from the rugged cliff much faster than the knights and suffered a terrible fall.

“The Ogre is too big to be hit down by the shallow Kobold.”

Luke looked down and smiled.

He examined the state of the ground before summoning his golems.

It seemed a bit hard, but with the right amount of force, the golems seemed to have the strength to break it.

In addition, the assassins were foolishly running and jumping to the Gigants, adding to the weight.

Naturally, the result was a clean kill.

“Some wanted to catch and bury someone, but would they survive at this height…”

Luke was surprised by the sharp energy that moved in the dark which made him stop talking.

The moment he moved his body, a dagger from below went past his body.

“Keuk!”

“This damn bastard!”

As Tigel screamed, he was climbing up the cliff.

Not just that, another four had survived.

Even though the wizards were flustered and unable to unleash a flying magic, they still miraculously survived by digging their sword on the cliff.

They were like demons crawling from the depths of hell.

“I won’t just kill you. I’ll keep you alive until you beg me to kill you!”

“Tch, attack him!”

Luke gave orders to the Golems.

However, the five assassins, who survived the fall, weren’t as slow as the Golem’s fists.

Lightly avoiding the attack from the golem, they ran toward Luke.

“Dark ton… uhk!”

Luke tried to blow the assassins with storm magic.

That was when suddenly, a sharp pain rose in his chest.

The magic manifestation had failed, and the sword of the assassins came in without hesitation.

“Kuk!”

The Tigel’s sword passed by Luke’s cheek cutting it a little.

The four assassins tried piercing Luke’s left arm, the back of his right hand, and his thigh and calf.

Despite the fatal wounds being avoided, Luke wasn’t so lucky to avoid all the attacks.

Just as Tigel had declared earlier, he deliberately avoided any fatal injuries as much as possible.

Tigel approached Luke, placing his sword near Luke’s shoulder; he stabbed it very slowly.

“This time, I’ll cut the flesh out then expose the bone out and then…”

At that moment, Tigel didn’t intentionally stop speaking. Luke used dark magic even though he was suffering.

“Kaaak! Black Bind!”

Thththud! Hwww!

The vines of a black plant came out of the ground, and at the moment, it caught the bodies of the assassins.

“What, what is this!”

Tigel tried to pull the vines off that were binding his body but many more entangled him.

Which was why he pulled out his sword to cut them off.

But all this time, his aura was being sucked by the black vines.

The more he struck them, the more it absorbed his aura.

‘This, this!’

Tigel looked over at Luke with wide eyes.

From his body, the aura he was feeling earlier had just been stolen.

It was obvious that this bizarre spell could take away the opponent’s power…

“Oh, dark magic…!”

The descendant of Rakan using dark magic?!

“Kaaack!”

Tigel tried to say a lot more, but Luke moved faster.

At the gesture from Luke, the vines moved very quickly and Tigel’s body got twisted.

The absorbed aura and vitality were taken in by Luke.

Thanks to that, Luke’s wounds were healed. However, his expression didn’t change.

‘It was a technique used to absorb the power of the demons, but I used it against humans!’

In the past, he had learned dark magic and vowed to never use them against humans.

The vow got broken that day.

He couldn’t help it as he wanted to survive. However, his heart was heavy because he broke the vow he made in the past.

Luke turned to the four assassins who were still alive.

Although they weren’t robbed of their powers, they looked at the scene where their captain—a high Expert—died in vain.

They just heard rumors about it. Their jaws trembled at the horror of the dark powers that they heard only in the old stories. They were happening in front of their eyes.

“Uhhh! Sa, save me…”

“Speak only when I told you to do so. Who has ordered you to kill me?”

“Goth, it was Goth.”

“Goth? Where and what does he do?”

“The secretary and advisor of Count Monarch.”

‘Of course…’