Chapter 197: Royal Capital (2) (2/2)
“Alex!”
Count Bayer let out his breath when he heard someone call him amidst the roars that burst out in succession.
The swords of light disappeared. And First Sword was no longer in front of him.
“Wasn’t that First Sword?!”
Count Bayer slowly nodded as he looked at Count Chase who had run in a hurry.
“The Lord Protector and First Sword are traitors.”
“What?!”
His surprise was brief. Anger then spread over Count Chase’s face.
“I’ll rip them to pieces.”
More than a dozen people died in tonight’s incident at the grand banquet hall alone.
If he extended the scope to the entire royal capital, he couldn’t even guess how many people had died or were injured.
“Arthur.”
So Count Bayer pacified Count Chase. He sheathed his sword and spoke as he roughly breathed.
“We have to go our children.”
There was still the Lord Protector.
Considering the situation, he was most likely to be attacking the royalty now.
Jude and Cordelia.
Perhaps the two were stopping the Lord Protector.
So they had to hurry.
Even though the Lord Protector was weaker now, he was still one of the Ten Great Swordmasters.
Their children couldn’t be on par with him even if they were strong.
That was why they had to go.
“Okay.”
The two had stood back to back several times on the battlefield.
Upon hearing the words of Count Bayer, Count Chase held back his anger and lifted the magic device he had received from Jude. After determining the exact location, he immediately began moving.
“Haa.”
Count Bayer took a breath. As a result of his continuous sword attacks, he felt like his heart would burst, but he had no time to rest.
He deeply breathed to stop his swelling discontent and immediately kicked the ground again.
Towards the center of the palace.
They flew towards the core of the barrier’s room.
***
“Haa…haa…”
Scarlet harshly breathed as she sat down on the ground.
Her shoulders as well as her hand that held the whip sword were trembling.
It was the side effect of using too much of her sword aura.
“Haa…”
Breathing was so hard that she was in tears.
Therefore, Scarlet didn’t force herself anymore. She lied down on the ground and even set aside her whip sword.
“Haa…”
She didn’t think of anything.
She just closed her eyes and panted.
She was completely defenseless.
But Scarlet didn’t mind.
Scarlet wasn’t the only person here now.
Unlike her who was sweating and panting, there was a monster of the sword who stood without a drop of sweat in him.
Maximilian de Avis.
A man called ‘god’s mistake.’
‘It’s true.’
She didn’t believe those rumors that she had heard, but she could say that it was true now.
‘God’s mistake.’
A monster who was born with all kinds of talent and couldn’t even be imagined as a human being too.
He approached Scarlet.
As her hair dripped with sweat and she roughly breathed, Scarlet forcibly opened her eyes to see Maximilian.
She was out of breath, but she tried to talk and let out a word.
“Thanks…”
First of all, she was of the same age as Maximilian.
And she found it hard to breathe so she couldn’t even speak to him in formal speech.
At Scarlet’s gratitude, Maximilian just nodded his head and then looked around.
After checking the bodies of the hundreds of zombies and the people who were crouching and trembling in fear in the alley’s dead end, he looked at Scarlet again.
“You’re a good person.”
“Huh?”
“You’re a good person.”
Maximilian faintly smiled, and Scarlet felt her face blush.
As expected of god’s mistake.
He was needlessly handsome.
In addition, when a guy who was usually expressionless smiled, there was a considerable charm that came from that gap.
‘Don’t be fooled by his face. That Jude is handsome too, but isn’t he a cunning fox?’
Because there really are a few guys like Lucas whose inside and outside appearances are the same.
Come to think of it, how is Lucas?
Is Pink Bomb okay?
Scarlet’s face became anxious, but Maximilian didn’t see it.
Because he had turned his head to see the western sky turning green.
‘Death magic.’
At present, there was only one person on the continent who could let out such a powerful death magic.
Therefore, Maximilian sheathed his sword. Instead of staying longer, he quickened his steps and looked back at Scarlet.
“I think you already know, but my name is Maximilian de Avis. May I know your name too?”
“Scar…let.”
“That’s a pretty name. It suits you.”
It wasn’t some words he made up. So Scarlet had no choice but to blush when she saw Maximilian’s faint smile.
“Scarlet, I have to go now. The zombies around here have been wiped out… And it seems that the situation here is about to end, so there won’t be much danger. Let’s meet again if we have a chance someday.”
“W-wait…”
Scarlet had nothing more to say, but she thought that he shouldn’t just go like this, so she tried to say something, but Maximilian had already turned around.
He headed west, and Scarlet chose to just close her eyes instead of forcing herself to raise her upper body.
‘Pink Bomb.’
Don’t get hurt and be safe.
Scarlet recalled Cordelia’s face before she let go of her consciousness.
***
The chaos in the royal capital gradually settled.
The flames were still there, but the zombification that spread like wildfire was over.
The Royal Guards reorganized their command system and began to overwhelm the zombies and demon followers, and the royal capital also regained its order due to the activities of the Royal Guard Knights.
“As expected of the royal capital.”
It was the capital of the Sälen Kingdom, one of the greatest powers in the continent.
It was greatly shaken, but it seemed to be impossible to completely destroy it.
With his hand on his sword, First Sword gazed at the royal capital before turning to the side.
He saw Koros sitting on the ground and Saluzia treating him.
“You failed.”
The Lord Protector couldn’t destroy the barrier.
Koros and Saluzia’s plans to open the Hell Gate in the royal capital when the barrier had been destroyed had also failed.
At First Sword’s comment, Saluzia grit her teeth.
She wanted to tell him to shut up, but she held it in.
It was useless.
‘It’s over.’
They dealt quite a big blow to the royal capital, but that was it.
Rather, the damaged suffered by the Devil’s Hand was greater.
Saluzia herself and Koros lost almost all of their combat troops, and they also lost their powerful card called the Lord Protector.
“My identity was also revealed.”
The Sword School’s First Sword.
The Sword Saint of Light, Rhun Froud.
He was unable to remain in the Sword School because his identity was revealed.
They really failed.
It was fortunate that Saluzia herself and Koros had managed to save their lives.
“Well, there’s nothing we can do about it.”
With a bright smile, First Sword approached Saluzia and Koros.
Saluzia sharpened her senses as she instantly became alert, but it was only for a moment.
Because First Sword just passed by Saluzia and Koros.
“Saluzia.”
With his back facing her, First Sword said in a low voice, and Saluzia raised her head to see him.
First Sword shrugged once and continued while he still showed his back.
“I’ve already said it, but my identity has been revealed. I can no longer use the name First Sword. So…in the future, I think I’ll be using my true name from now on.”
Saluzia understood what First Sword was talking about.
As he had said, he could no longer live as First Sword.
He had joined the Devil’s Hand in order to live his life as a demonic human now.
And his new name.
A name given to him by their head, which had already been decided for a long time.
“Duke.”
At Saluzia’s call, First Sword had a small laugh.
He turned around and gazed at the royal capital again.
The Sword Saint of Wind was there.
The two people he liked so much was there too.
‘If the Lord Protector died, it means that that two lived.’
He was one of the Ten Great Swordmasters who had grown old and weak.
How did they defeat such a Lord Protector?
How much stronger would the two who defeated the Lord Protector be in the future?
His heart pounded. He remembered his fight with Count Bayer and unknowingly smiled.
‘Not bad.’
Since he was an enemy now.
Because he could kill and kill as much as he wanted.
It wasn’t just the Sword Saint of Wind.
He had always wanted to fight against Seryu, the Seven-Killings Sword.
And the Golden Sword, who was said to be the strongest among the sword saints.
Even the great swordmasters of the empire.
And those two.
Jude and Cordelia.
He liked those two so much that he wanted to break them himself.
First Sword, or rather, Duke, laughed out loud.
He smiled in anticipation of his reunion with everyone.
If everyone here can recall, ‘Duke’ is the demonic human that the rotten waters have suspected of having killed Landius because he had Landius’ sword.