Chapter 253: Night at Argon Port (1) (2/2)
“Stop!”
When Cordelia yelled in a hurry, Kajsa stretched out her hand and grabbed the waist of Scarlet who couldn’t stop on time, forcing her to stop.
And Jude moved his hand. Instead of evading, he opted for a head-on fight to protect Kajsa and Scarlet.
Baaang!
The energy of the black dragon burst and shook the atmosphere, and the sharp sword flying towards them was pulverized and scattered.
To their side.
Above the roof.
Jude and Cordelia stopped on the roof of a residential house close to the port, and simultaneously looked at the same place.
And Cordelia cursed from the bottom of her heart.
“F*ck! As I thought, it’s one of the Ten Great Swordmasters!”
I knew it! I knew there was a traitor among the Ten Great Swordmasters!
Standing on the roof was a tall man with a fine beard.
Matteo Luculia.
The head of the Luculia family and one of the two members of the Ten Great Swordmasters who lived in the south.
In fact, this had already been foreseen.
There were only three families that had not been attacked before today, and after excluding the Kagehamas and the Ophands, only the Luculias remained.
Matteo frowned at Cordelia’s explicit swearing, but he did not refute it at all.
It was true that he, who was called the Sword of Heavy Pressure, had betrayed the other southern families and joined hands with Malekith.
“Kajsa Ophand, surrender quietly. I don’t want to be rough on you.”
As soon as Matteo’s words were over, unidentified men appeared on the roof.
They seemed to be in the dozens at first glance, but that wasn’t all. Because swordsmen belonging to Count Luculia showed up everywhere too.
“You really betrayed us.”
Matteo’s betrayal was already confirmed when he appeared here, but Kajsa couldn’t help but say it.
The fact that Count Luculia’s swordsmen were here meant that Matteo had indeed completely betrayed them.
What is it?
What on earth was promised that he, one of the family heads of the 7 southern families, joined hands with Malekith who had tried to destroy the south in the past?
Kajsa didn’t think much about it any longer.
He was a traitor anyway, so finding out why he did so didn’t matter to her.
‘I’ve never liked him even in the past.’
Furthermore, based on what he said, he wasn’t being brainwashed like Sebastian.
If so, she just had to knock him down.
As Kajsa clenched her fists and growled, Matteo sighed, shaking his head as he drew his sword.
“Then it can’t be helped. I’ll have to subdue you by force.”
Matteo Luculia, the Sword of Heavy Pressure.
He was not weak.
He was considered to be stronger than Sebastian, the Sword of Swiftness.
Therefore, Kajsa broke into a cold sweat as she instinctively felt the difference in power.
But not for Scarlet.
Her body was sweating, but this was because of her exhaustion from chasing after Jude and Cordelia, and not because she was afraid of Matteo.
There was a reason why she was not afraid.
It wasn’t because she believed in the strength of Jude and Cordelia.
She had never seen Jude and Cordelia fight with their full power in the first place.
There was a reason why she believed in them.
A reason why she did not lose her composure even when one of the Ten Great Swordmasters became an enemy.
“Aren’t you going to use it?”
At Scarlet’s question, Cordelia nodded and pulled out an item from the space expansion pocket at her waist.
“Kajsa!”
“Huh?”
Jude grabbed the wrist of Kajsa who reflexively turned her head, while Scarlet placed her hand on Cordelia’s shoulder.
Matteo felt that something was wrong and hurriedly sprinted forward, but what Cordelia held in her hand and raised was the Moon Crystal, one of the Rogue Master’s treasures.
“F*ck bang.”
As she said that with a wink, moonlight poured down from the sky.
Instead of an explosion, a faint light covered the surrounding area.
“No way?!”
Matteo understood what was happening and hurriedly shot his sword forward.
But Jude had no intention of blocking or avoiding it this time. He and Cordelia just smiled.
Slaaaaash-!
Matteo’s sword pierced the air.
It was after Jude, Cordelia, Kajsa, and Scarlet had leapt through space with the moonlight and disappeared.
“Damn it!”
They leapt across space.
Matteo quickly closed his eyes and spread out his senses.
Because he thought that they couldn’t have gone far since there were many people who leapt through space, and not just one.
But it wasn’t.
He couldn’t find any traces of them, as they had gone a distance far from what he thought.
“Master Matteo?!”
The swordsmen of Count Luculia approached with bewildered faces, and Matteo raised his head at that moment.
He shouted as he pointed to the pillar of light still soaring high in the distance.
“Let’s move!”
If they had taken a long-distance space leap from here, they could only go to one place.
Matteo sprinted on the roof again. But it was then. Something moved past Matteo’s head.
It seemed to blend into the night sky because of its dark blue scales, but Matteo and everyone present could clearly discern the being crossing above their heads.
Black Dragon.
Dragons belonging to Malekith’s Dragonflights!
There were only two, but their greatness was beyond imagination.
Gigantic beings whose body length reached up to 30 meters were flying through the sky, making the sight quite unrealistic.
“Rooooooar!”
One of the dragons roared, and the demons Sicilia gave to Matteo also howled together and revealed their true forms. They followed the dragons and rushed towards the pillar of light.
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The group who appeared with the moonlight then raised their heads as soon as they landed.
Because the roars of the dragons and demons shook the entire port.
“Crazy.”
At the sight of dragons flying towards them, Kajsa cursed while Scarlet swallowed her breath.
She had already heard the situation from Jude and Cordelia, so she believed them to some extent. But after seeing the dragons, she realized that Malekith truly existed.
“Hurry up!”
The dragons were flying straight towards them, so they couldn’t just watch.
When Cordelia shouted, Kajsa and Scarlet came to their senses and quickly ran towards the stone statue located in the center of the pillar of light, while Jude hurriedly narrowed the distance from the statue by using Hyper-Fast Thunderbolt.
“Kajsa!”
As Cordelia jumped off Jude’s back and shouted, Kajsa threw the token of Carlos in her hand.
Cordelia caught the token with her telekinetic power instead of using her own hands, and looked back at the statue.
The moment she faced the huge statue of Carlos that was around 5 meters tall, she instinctively knew where the token should be placed.
“There!”
The sword worn on Carlos’ waist.
The token flew towards a hollow spot on the end of the sword handle, and the stone statue reacted.
As if it was attracted by a magnet, the token settled on the end of the handle.
“Roooooooar!”
The roars of the dragons grew closer.
Kajsa and Scarlet shrank back at the Dragon Fear that put the beings around them in a panicked state. And among those present here, Scarlet was the only one ordinary human, so she trembled involuntarily.
Kajsa hugged Scarlet’s shoulder.
She glared at the dragons, growling as if the blood of the divine creature made her do so.
And the pillar of light disappeared.
The magic circle that glowed under the statue disappeared, and a line was drawn in the middle of the statue. It split open, revealing what was hidden inside, and Jude clenched his fist.
“Bingo.”
Carlos’ legacy.
A symbol of domination that allowed all the 7 southern families to be under one’s rule.
It was a item that did not even appear in the game since it was only a background setting.
But on the way here, Jude had already guessed on what Carlos’ legacy might be.
‘What they were trying to stop was not the forces of the 7 southern families becoming into one.’
It definitely wasn’t because they didn’t care about it that much.
They did care about it to some extent.
But that wasn’t the true reason.
‘It’s too rough.’
Even though two of the seven families remained, their means of attacking from the front was too rough.
If the tokens were truly their goal, it would have been better if they dealt with it secretly like they had previously done.
If they had handed over Carlos’ tokens to Count Luculia who was on their side, they would have been able to prevent the union of the 7 southern families, and also prevented it from being used.
But the situation changed when they openly attacked with demons and demonic humans now.
Even if Count Luculia presented the completed Carlos’ tokens, it was obvious that he had colluded with the demons to collect it, so the 6 southern families would not have followed his words.
‘After all, their purpose was not the 7 southern families.’
Their purpose was the legacy itself that could be found through Carlos’ tokens.
And if it was something they covet.
Especially if it was something Sicilia might be aiming for.
“Roooooooar!”
The Black Dragons roared again.
Kajsa yelled at them while Scarlet clenched her teeth to overcome the Dragon Fear.
And Cordelia glanced at Jude.
Instead of getting it for herself, she gave way to Jude.
To begin with, it was something that suited the swordsman Jude more than her who was a wizard.
“Kuooo!”
The two Black Dragons swallowed their breaths at the same time. They opened their mouth to fire their Dragon Breaths, but at that moment, Jude reached inside the statue and grabbed Carlos’ legacy.
Fuaaaaaaa!
They fired their Dragon Breaths.
Dark blue beams shot down with a momentum that could swallow the entire central square.
But it did not serve its purpose.
The Dragon Breaths that they had shot into one were split into two, crushing only the left and right sides of the statue.
Kajsa who was hugging Scarlet tightly then opened her eyes.
Scarlet panted since her face was buried in Kajsa’s chest, and she looked up at Jude who was standing in front of them.
And they both remembered at the same time.
The legend of the south.
The story of the great hero Carlos.
“Ascalon.”
Ultimate Three.
The Dragon Sword that fatally wounded Black Dragon Malekith and sent him into a deep sleep.
Jude gripped Ascalon.
He glared at the Black Dragons with a bitter smile as he heard Valencia complaining from the depths of his mind.