Chapter 193: Lord Protector (1) (2/2)
Booooom!
The energy of the black dragon missed.
The Lord Protector stretched out his sword aura and made the black dragon’s energy hit the wall. He lowered his body as if lying on the ground before he soared like a snake and aimed for Princess Darianne.
“The Holy King’s Light!”
At that moment, Prince Dion cried out and a white light from the sky covered Princess Daphne.
“Haa!”
Princess Daphne let out a spirited shout as she swung her sword, locking swords with the Lord Protector.
Though her precision and skill proficiency was incomparable to his, it became possible for her to be on par with the Lord Protector in that momentary increase in power.
“Euaaa!”
When Princess Daphne let out a spirited shout again and crossed swords with the Lord Protector, he let his sword go with the flow instead of resisting. He stepped back and looked at Princess Daphne.
“Is it the blood of the Holy King?”
The special ability of the first king.
It gave the first king, Lion D. Salen, a powerful strength for a moment.
It seemed that it was Prince Dion who inherited that special ability rather than Princess Daphne.
Instead of answering, Princess Daphne fixed her sword stance while Jude instantly measured Princess Daphne’s power.
If he added Dion’s support, her overall combat power was stronger than Lucas but weaker than Jude himself.
At this rate, it was possible for them to fight together.
‘I must match with Princess Daphne.’
Princess Daphne was not Cordelia. It was impossible for him and the princess to team up as naturally as he and Cordelia did.
But if neither side helped each other, it would be hard to land a proper attack.
“Crown Princess!”
“Support me!”
At the moment Jude shouted, Princess Daphne cried and rushed towards the Lord Protector, and Jude also kicked the ground.
And Cordelia thought as she watched all this.
‘It’s impossible.’
We can’t win this way.
The moment she saw it, she knew.
Their difference in power was too big.
Wild beasts were able to instinctively sense the strength of their opponents the moment they encountered them.
So did Cordelia.
The Lord Protector was strong.
It was worse than the strange feeling she felt the moment she met First Sword, but it was clear to her that the Lord Protector was a strong person she and Jude could not win against.
What should we do then?
How do we overcome this current crisis?
Jude and Daphne’s teamwork began. Prince Dion couldn’t do anything else because he was having a hard time in just supporting Princess Daphne.
‘Should I join?’
Should I work with them?
No. My senses and intuition are telling me no.
I have to do something else.
I have to find another way.
Cordelia’s gaze turned to the divine sword.
Divine Sword Claíomh Solais.
But she couldn’t just take it away. Because she had already discussed it with Jude.
‘You can’t use the divine sword.’
First of all, it was dangerous.
It was the sword used by Solari, an archangel and the one who was called the sun god.
Cordelia used Ancestral Regression and became an angel, but she was still an ordinary angel, so if she tried to rashly use it, she wouldn’t be able to handle its power, and there was a possibility of her soul and body being damaged.
‘The core of the barrier will break too.’
The divine sword was both the core and the power source of the barrier.
Just as how a remote control would no longer work if it didn’t have batteries, the barrier would disappear as soon as the divine sword was removed.
‘He can’t remove it too.’
The reason why the Lord Protector decided to kill all the royal family members was because it was impossible for him to pull out the divine sword.
‘Perhaps if it’s you… You’re an angel, so it may be possible. But then, it’s like we’re fulfilling the wish of the demon followers ourselves.’
That was what Jude had said.
In the game, the demon followers placed demonic humans and demons on the royal capital when the barrier disappeared, and they summoned a Hell Gate in the end.
Boooom!
Along with the roar, Princess Daphne was greatly thrown back while Jude managed to escape the Lord Protector’s sword with the Hyper-Fast Thunderbolt.
The dark blue aura blade that was originally intended to cut Jude left deep marks on the floor and walls instead.
“Cordelia!”
Jude shouted. He tried to send an attack towards the Lord Protector, but the latter naturally avoided it.
And Cordelia understood.
Apart from Jude’s cry to join them, she realized why she felt that the fight was futile the way it was now.
‘The difference in experience.’
She could say that Jude had a slight edge when it came to their physical abilities.
But if she added the Lord Protector’s skills and experience, a gap that Jude could not overcome was created.
‘Great swordmaster.’
He was that strong even though he had declined because of his age.
Among the Ten Great Swordmasters, the Sword of Light was one of the strongest – so how powerful was First Sword?
‘He was nice to us back then.’
He didn’t want to kill us.
He didn’t fight us with his full power then.
‘Father-in-law.’
She remembered Count Bayer who was fighting against First Sword at that moment.
But Cordelia stopped all her thoughts.
She sharpened her senses when she saw Princess Daphne charging towards the Lord Protector again.
Cordelia herself began to think.
She focused.
Thus, she awakened her wild beast’s senses.
What they needed the most now.
The way to become victorious.
Her eyes turned to the divine sword again.
And there was a flash of light again.
“Uooooh!”
Jude roared and let out the energy of the black dragon, and the Lord Protector cut down the energy with his sword attack.
Princess Daphne attacked from behind, but he easily blocked it.
If it continued like this, they wouldn’t last long.
Both Jude and Princess Daphne were struggling and wasting their stamina and energy.
So before they were completely exhausted, she had to do something before they collapse.
Boooom!
The attack of the Lord Protector did not stop at destroying the floor as it also split the entire floor into two. The aftermath of the devastating attack alone was enough to send Jude and Daphne flying.
And Cordelia flew with her wings. She pierced through the center of the barrier and stood in front of the divine sword.
“Jude!”
At her loud cry, Jude turned his gaze and made eye contact with Cordelia.
Cordelia’s thoughts.
And what they should do from now on.
She couldn’t tell him all.
But telling him some were enough.
‘Trust me.’
Jude stopped his calculations. He once again rushed towards the Lord Protector.
Princess Daphne roared and joined him, and Prince Dion’s eyes turned bloodshot as he awakened the special ability of the Holy King.
And Cordelia looked at the divine sword.
She widely spread out her angel wings and grabbed the divine sword.