episode_0011

“…Wow, I heard about it, but there are really a lot.”

“To think there’s a being who can control this many spirits. Fighting him won’t be easy.”

Standing before the capital of the Prune Kingdom, we faced an immense undead army that felt like a massive wall.

“The situation doesn’t seem better than what we heard, what are you going to do? Young Master.”

“What am I going to do? Break through, of course. You stay here. It’s dangerous.”

“Though I can’t compare to you, Young Master, I also have the ability to protect myself.”

“Those are undead, so you can’t kill them with simple sword strikes, right?”

In response to my question, Baekryeon drew her ring-pommel sword instead of answering.

Then, she took out a few talismans from her bundle, attaching them around the blade of the ring-pommel sword as if winding them around it. Then, a dark blue aura, giving off an ominous energy, faintly swirled around the ring-pommel sword.

“What’s that?”

“It’s a talisman to chase away evil spirits. If you attach this and cut down a dead one, you can send the dead who shouldn’t be here back to the underworld. Do you need one too, Young Master?”

“No, I don’t need it.”

“As you said, Young Master, you can’t kill those dead with ordinary sword strikes, right? Are you okay?”

That’s true, but that’s only the case in normal situations.

What I’m holding is a holy sword.

A divine artifact forged directly by God, possessing divine power, and existing at the pinnacle of divine instruments. Even if I can’t draw out the power of the holy sword itself, the characteristics of the holy sword itself don’t disappear, so cutting down an undead army is simple.

“Then shall we go?”

“This girl is ready.”

Having finished our preparations, the two of us ran towards the undead army.

* * *

Originally, we were planning to rest in a village with a few days to spare before arriving and go at a leisurely pace.

However, we heard news there that the Demon King’s army had invaded the capital of the Prune Kingdom, so we rushed here. What we saw was an endless army of undead surrounding the capital.

Seeing that sight, I thought it was a spectacle in many ways.

At the same time, I could understand why Leon got completely wrecked here.

Leon, who’s already weak, lost because he had to face such a large number of enemies.

Kkeueooo!….

The undead army, sensing our presence, bared their teeth and rushed towards us, following the order to ‘kill the enemy.’

However, an unmotivated undead army that only executes input commands was no match for me.

Seogeok

Keuaaaaa!!…

Each time the pure white holy sword was swung, a white trail was drawn, and four to five undead were cut down.

Due to the divine power inherent in the holy sword, the undead let out a death scream and disappeared into dust.

At the same time, I glanced at Baekryeon.

Baekryeon was also fighting well, not being pushed back by the countless undead army.

Each time her ring-pommel sword was swung, she reliably cut down the undead one by one. In addition, perhaps because of the dark blue aura swirling around the ring-pommel sword, the undead cut by the ring-pommel sword were engulfed in blue flames and turned to ashes, unlike with the holy sword.

“Young Master, I have a feeling that being with you will involve me in a lot of interesting things!”

“That’s not a compliment!”

Sword King Secret Art, Earth Divide

The vertically drawn slash continued to push forward endlessly, dividing the earth and the undead.

Sword King Secret Art, Mountain Divide

The horizontally drawn slash cut through the waists of the undead with the force to cut a mountain in half.

“Young Master, you….”

“Let’s keep going. Follow me somehow if you don’t want to be left behind.”

The undead army seems to have definitely sensed our presence.

The undead here are unable to make their own judgments, so the guy who’s controlling this undead army….

The Lich will notice our presence and start to respond now.

Their pressure will gradually intensify.

“Young Master! Over there!! A sorcerer!”

“!”

Living people starting to prepare magic in the distance.

The Second… no, the Third Order of the Black Dawn Society?

“Can’t stop them from this distance! Evade or block!!”

“!!”

Red flames flicker.

Blue crystals form.

A green flash flickered.

The red flames soon became a huge fireball, burning everything regardless of friend or foe.

The blue crystals soon became a huge ice spear, piercing everything regardless of friend or foe.

The green flash soon became a huge lightning blast, engulfing everything regardless of friend or foe.

Bang!!!

Kwajik!!

Kieeing!!!

“Are you alive!”

“I’m somehow alive!….”

There are plenty of undead anyway.

So, they don’t care about losses on their own side?

The flames of magic they created burned the undead to ashes, the ice magic they created turned the undead into skewers, and the flash magic they created erased the undead.

But even so, there are a lot of undead. A lot, a lot of them. To the point of being tiresome.

“We’re heading to the capital, I’ll break through the encirclement somehow, so follow me!”

“Understood!”

Seogeok!

The speed of swinging the sword was further increased.

The undead were cut down without any resistance, as if cutting tofu.

It was like drawing a white line on black paper, breaking through the black waves.

“…! Young Master!! The sorcerer again!….”

A magician….

It’s not a big problem for me, but if I glance back, Baekryeon looks injured, perhaps because she didn’t properly evade the magic attack from before. She probably could have avoided it if she was in perfect condition, but it seems like she couldn’t avoid it properly because she was physically tired from following my forced march.

I told her not to overdo it.

“Get out of the way! Move!!”

Sword King Secret Art, Sword King’s威壓 (Wi-ap, lit. coercion/menace)

“!!”

“Ugh!…”

“Heo-eok…, I can’t breathe!….”

Kkwang!!!

A magician’s magic is a very delicate and sensitive task.

Therefore, the casting of magic is inevitably slow. Of course, the speed gradually increases depending on the magician’s skill and mastery of magic, but the fact that it’s a delicate and sensitive task doesn’t change.

To the extent that a magical explosion can occur with just a slight external interference or a slight mistake of one’s own.

“Y, Young Master!… What was that just now?…”

“I just made them nervous.”

Sword King’s威壓 (Wi-ap, lit. coercion/menace).

In the game, it’s a type of CC skill that puts the opponent into an incapacitated state with a certain probability.

It became a quite useful suppression skill when applied to reality.

If I and the opponent sense each other, it can be used regardless of distance.

It puts strong pressure on the opponent’s mind, preventing them from taking action.

“T, then why didn’t you use it before?”

“There’s no reason to use it on an attack that doesn’t need to be blocked.”

“Then what about now?”

“You can’t dodge it.”

Baekryeon blushed at my remark and lowered her head.

In the meantime, the end of the undead’s black waves began to appear.

And beyond that, something was running from the capital’s fortress walls, kicking up dust.

“Is it the royal army?”

“That’s a relief. Then are we joining them?”

“No? It’s even better. Now all the actors are here.”

Completely out of the undead waves, we ran towards the royal army running in the distance.

Perhaps they had confirmed our presence, as different expressions appeared on their faces.

Surprise that the one who broke through the undead army was the hero Leon.

Disappointment that it was only two people, even though they thought it was support from neighboring countries.

And so on.

“….Baekryeon.”

“What is it?”

“You were trying to get stronger for revenge, right? You were going to take up the sword to reach the realm where you could cut through everything in the universe.”

“T, that’s right?… Why are you suddenly asking that?… No, more than that, did I even tell you that far?”

I stopped walking and turned around.

Facing the undead army chasing them, I turned my back on the capital’s castle and the royal army.

Baekryeon was naturally flustered by my actions.

“Y, Young Master?….”

“Cutting everything isn’t important. What’s important is…, cutting what you want to cut.”

I adjusted my grip on the sword.

The stage has been set, and the actors have appeared. There’s no reason to conserve strength anymore.

In addition, I decided to give Baekryeon, who keeps following me, a piece of advice.

“Even if you can’t cut steel, even if you can’t cut paper, if you can accurately cut the target you want to cut…, it doesn’t matter whether you can cut steel or paper. A swordsman is someone who cuts what they want with a sword. You’re not a swordsman just by swinging a sword.”

【Space Slash】+【Breath of All Things】+【Sword King Secret Art】

A line was drawn.

In the past,

The sword energy that was said to have split a mountain by someone called the Sword King,

Now, in this place,

Appeared once again against the countless undead army.

“Mountain Divide”

As if erasing it with an eraser, it cut down all the waves in front of me and erased everything in front of me.

Transcending space, it cut through everything.

“T, this is….”

“Hmm…, I was going to cut everything down, but there’s something left.”

Even the enemies who barely survived,

Even the soldiers of the kingdom who rushed out to support,

Stopped their words and actions at that near-divine spectacle and focused their attention on me, who had shown this divine skill.

Kya, this is it.

“Great soldiers of the Prune Kingdom! I, the hero Leon, have returned!! The enemies are now nothing more than a disorganized rabble! Let’s drive out the evil Demon King’s henchmen who tried to invade the Prune Kingdom!! Let’s drive out the enemies who terrified the people of the Prune Kingdom!!!”

I shouted with all my might, riding the momentum.

Sword King’s威壓 (Wi-ap, lit. coercion/menace) is a technique that puts pressure on the opponent and restricts their actions.

But this isn’t a game.

If used well, it can also be used as a technique to boost the morale of allies.

The shout mixed with威壓 (Wi-ap, lit. coercion/menace) reached the soldiers, and the soldiers’ morale soared.

“Let’s go!!!”

“Uoooo!!!”

Of course, the opponents are undead, so they don’t die, but it’s possible to suppress them so they can’t move. If you cut off their limbs and behead them, they can be neutralized. No, more than anything, a faint divine power is felt in the soldiers’ swords.

Perhaps they received help from the priests of the Holy Kingdom in the capital and imbued the swords with divine power.

“Okay, then now all that’s left is….”

“You…, I’ve never heard that the current hero has this much power. Are you… really the incompetent hero?”

“That’s….”

“A Lich.”

The Lich Mage appeared before them.

What was his name again.

I vaguely remember it, but it doesn’t matter since he’s not an important guy.

“That’s right, I’m the incompetent hero Leon.”

“….The Demon King’s revelation was not wrong. I can only feel foolish for my arrogance.”

“Yeah. And because of your arrogance, you’re going to die.”

At those words, the Lich started laughing, rattling his bones, as if something was funny.

“Foolish! You seem to be showing off, believing only in your holy sword, but you can’t kill me! No matter how much it’s a holy sword, you can’t target my life vessel in another dimension! And as long as my life vessel is intact, I’ll never die!!”

The Lich, full of arrogance, started preparing magic.

However, at the same time, he protected his body with dozens of protective spells.

As expected of a Lich who has lived for many years, his magical abilities are top-notch.

Baekryeon also noticed that and frowned, putting strength into the hand holding her sword.

“Young Master, use that thing from before one more time….”

“Even if I use it on that guy’s level, a magical explosion probably won’t happen. And even if I give him rigidity, he’ll quickly recover and finish the magic.”

“Hahaha! That’s right! I’ll wipe out you and this kingdom completely!!”

A sphere of blazing flames.

It was so big and powerful that it couldn’t even be compared to the flame magic used by the guys who were either the Third Order or Second Order.

“Kteut! Young Master!….”

“Don’t worry. Nothing will happen.”

I raised my sword high.

He’s misunderstanding one thing….

【Killer Spot】+【Intuition】

I can see a line to him.

Not a line of instant death or anything, but a faint line of magical power connecting him to something called a life vessel.

Magical power is also part of all things.

If I can see it, I can cut it.

“Earth Divide”

“Inferno….”

Seogeok

“…Wh…at?….”

I cut the magic.

I cut the line of the life vessel.

I cut the Lich.

That was all.

“You missed your chance to die, so hurry up and go now.”

The Lich’s end was also no different from that of an ordinary undead army.

And when the one who summoned the army disappeared, the remaining undead weathered away and disappeared.