544
Chapter 544
The demonic knights took dragon-slaying stances, perfectly recreating the sword forms.
Like looking in a mirror, Zeke and the demonic knights maintained identical stances while searching for openings to attack.
Zeke could find no flaws in their postures. Their form was so perfect it could be used in academy textbooks.
Zeke raised Ascalon while glaring at the demonic knights.
The demonic knights charged at Zeke first.
WHOOSH!
They launched sword attacks at Zeke while skillfully executing dragon-slaying techniques.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
Zeke deflected their attacks with his sword, advanced forward and deployed a field of golden force.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Powerful gravitational forces extended outward, pressing down on the demonic knights' bodies.
The demonic knights flinched and their movements stopped for a moment.
Not missing this opening, Zeke drew upon the power of grand purification within Ascalon.
WHOOSH!
Golden aura erupted from the sword, enveloping both the blade and Zeke's entire body.
Zeke took a dragon-slaying stance and swung his sword at the demonic knights.
Dragon-Slaying Technique
Holy Spirit Technique
Light Breaking Slash
Powerful compressed golden aura flew toward the demonic knights in the form of a blade.
CRASH!
The Light Breaking Slash instantly severed the demonic knights at their waists.
Black smoke dispersed into ash from the cut surfaces of the demonic knights' bodies as their demonic energy was purified by the grand purification power.
Watching this, Zeke infused even stronger purification power toward the bisected demonic knights.
SIZZLE! SIZZLE!
The parts of the demonic knights' bodies touched by the aura turned to ash and scattered.
But then.
WHOOSH!
The priest on the platform raised both hands.
Purple aura spread from his body and was absorbed into the demonic knights.
GROWL! GROWL!
Tentacles burst out from the cut surfaces of the demonic knights touched by the energy the priest summoned, and began attaching to the severed bodies.
Even the purified and scattered body parts quickly regained their original form as organic matter swelled up.
THUD!
Zeke clenched his teeth as he watched the demonic knights revive in an even more vicious form.
'Immortal monsters possessing the powers of demon beasts, Outer Beings, and chimeras...'
They essentially had all the powers of every demon beast and monster Zeke had seen so far.
The demonic knights took dragon-slaying stances again, lined up side by side and closed in on Zeke.
Zeke lifted his gaze from the demonic knights to look at the priest on the platform.
He suddenly noticed something strange.
'Why is he only providing support and not stepping forward?'
As if waiting for something, the priest only restored the demonic knights from behind without doing anything else.
It felt strange that the priest who saw him as a thorn in his side was stepping back.
'What is he waiting for?'
Zeke thought that perhaps the priest had lured him here deliberately.
His eyes flashed as he gripped Leviathan.
'Even if it's a trap, it doesn't matter. I'll kill him here and end this war.'
He raised Leviathan and thrust it into the ground.
At the same time, he invoked the power of chaos inherent in Leviathan.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
The ultimate power that could neutralize the power of constellations.
The chaos energy arose and enveloped the entire space around Leviathan.
SIZZLE! SIZZLE!
Distortions appeared throughout the space where chaos energy spread, creating shimmering heat haze.
Zeke maintained the chaos energy while keeping Leviathan thrust into the ground.
Then he reached toward the shadows.
SIZZLE! SIZZLE!
The shadows gathered in Zeke's hand, taking the form of a sword.
Shadow sword Caladbolg.
Zeke gripped Caladbolg and took a dragon-slaying stance.
RUMBLE!?RUMBLE!
Since powers couldn't be used within the chaos energy, even Zeke could only use pure sword power.
He couldn't use the system window or his innate powers, but there was no choice now.
When Zeke took the Black Sword stance with Caladbolg with subdued eyes, a storm of will-shaped strong energy arose.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Soon Zeke's will-shaped strong energy filled the space where powers were restricted by chaos energy.
He pointed his sword at the demonic knights who were also taking dragon-slaying stances.
Pure sword power that was both power and not power.
The mind sword that Zeke had awakened in the abyss manifested through Caladbolg.
WHOOSH!
Becoming perfectly one with his sword, Zeke wielded Caladbolg and launched a Black Sword strike at the demonic knights.
Infinite Sword technique Special form
Black Sword Technique
Black Dragon Rising From Water
A shadow dragon erupted from Caladbolg, roaring as it enveloped the demonic knights.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
The black dragon swallowed the demonic knights instantly, raging like a storm and devastating the surroundings.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Growing larger, the rampaging black dragon roared as it devoured not only the demonic knights but also the platform where the priest stood.
The demonic knights couldn't withstand the dragon's power and their bodies were torn apart, scattered everywhere.
Tentacles sprouted from their cut surfaces, desperately trying to regenerate, but within the chaos field's range, powers were restricted and even the Outer Beings' abilities couldn't function properly.
Zeke raised his sword again, this time invoking soul force.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Soul technique was one of the powerful techniques usable without powers.
Soul technique energy gathered in Caladbolg.
WHOOSH!
Zeke unleashed soul technique toward the shattered demonic knights.
Soul technique
Triple Spell
Will of Great Annihilation
It was an attack containing Zeke's will to completely eliminate all remaining traces of the demonic knights.
The Will of Great Annihilation erupting from Zeke's sword completely swept away the writhing bodies of the demonic knights.
SIZZLE! SIZZLE!
The remains that couldn't regenerate through organic proliferation turned to black ash and scattered in the wind when touched by the Will of Great Annihilation.
ROAR!
The black dragon carrying the Will of Great Annihilation and mind sword power enveloped the entire space as Zeke completely crushed his enemies.
Soon the storm of will-shaped strong energy subsided, revealing the devastated cavern.
The hundreds of lined-up demonic knights were nowhere to be found.
Standing firmly in place, Zeke gazed at the empty cavern while gripping Caladbolg.
The chaos energy was still maintained as Leviathan remained thrust in the ground.
Zeke used his energy sense to search for traces of the priest.
'He couldn't have died this easily.'
Harvey West was the priest who had maintained the Abyss's lineage in the shadows of the continent for hundreds of years.
Since escape was impossible while chaos energy was deployed, Zeke intended to end his ill-fated connection with him here.
Just as Zeke was searching for traces of the priest.
SIZZLE! SIZZLE!
Suddenly a black shadow rose before Zeke and someone appeared.
At first he thought it was the priest showing himself again, but it was different.
A mysterious figure with a robe and hood pulled low to hide their face.
Zeke found their appearance somewhat familiar.
'The one who killed Abel?'
The unidentified figure who had taken out Abel's heart while the Nostra family was healing him, causing his death.
They had appeared here.
'Could they have been with the Abyss all along?'
But that didn't make sense.
The priest had devoted himself to using Abel as a vessel for the Demon King for a long time.
He had transplanted the dragon heart into him and fed him Ramon Jiemens who was consumed by the power of evil gods to resurrect his sleeping soul.
The priest wouldn't deliberately take out Abel's heart to kill him.
Because of this, Zeke suspected another force had joined hands with the Abyss recently.
It was a reasonable assumption since the figure who took Abel's heart had appeared here.
SIZZLE! SIZZLE!
The priest revealed himself behind the mysterious figure.
He spoke while looking at Zeke.
"Zeke Draker, you won't be able to escape from here today."
Zeke raised his sword at those words and said.
"That's my line."
Mind sword power erupted from his body again.
At the same time, he rushed forward to launch a sword attack at the priest.
WHOOSH!
In that moment, the mysterious figure leaped toward Zeke and swung their sword.
SLASH!
Their sword collided with Zeke's sword, sending massive shockwaves in all directions.
Considerable impact traveled through Caladbolg to Zeke.
He stepped back and looked at the figure who had blocked him.
It was a slender man.
'The power from his sword is extraordinary.'
His skill clearly surpassed that of a black knight.
If he had black knight level skills, he would be a renowned knight on the continent, but Zeke couldn't think of any known knight who matched.
Just as he was trying to guess the figure's identity, the mysterious knight charged at Zeke first.
WHOOSH!
He swung his sword down at Zeke from above.
Zeke raised his sword to block the knight's blade.
CLANG!
As the swords clashed, strong shockwaves rippled out.
It was a pure battle of sword against sword without any constellation powers involved.
Then the mysterious knight who had locked swords with Zeke suddenly applied force and pushed forward.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Zeke felt the knight's sword become heavier in that moment.
Zeke tried to deflect it to the side and counterattack.
But surprisingly, the knight's sword flowed flexibly like water, sliding down Zeke's sword and instantly changing direction to strike Zeke's shoulder.
SLASH!
The arcing sword strike left a wound on Zeke's shoulder.
DRIP!
Blood flowed from Zeke's wound that wouldn't heal immediately due to powers being restricted by soul technique .
Zeke frowned at the pain in his shoulder, unused to injuries not healing instantly since gaining his immortal body.
He retrieved a healing potion from his spatial pouch and injected it into his arm.
SIZZLE!
The Naga's healing potion quickly treated Zeke's wound and restored some stamina.
"Haa."
Zeke regained his breath and gripped his sword again. Though his realm was higher as a transcendent, his opponent's swordsmanship could be superior in this situation.
SIZZLE!
Zeke advanced quickly toward his enemy, cloaking himself in strengthened body power through soul force.
WHOOSH!
Zeke's Caladbolg, enhanced by soul force, flew toward the mysterious knight.
The knight smoothly deflected his strike with wave-like movements as before.
Zeke parried the sword and stepped back, a bewildered look crossing his face.
'This technique...'
RUMBLE RUMBLE!
The mysterious knight built momentum and unleashed sword strikes at Zeke.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
It felt like being swept up in a massive wave.
'Elemental Sword, Water Force Field... Wave Sword?'
The mysterious knight was using the technique that only Zeke should know, having learned it from the Hero King.
Zeke stepped forward as the Wave Sword surged toward him. His sword became imbued with water power as he reversed the flow of the incoming Wave Sword.
Elemental Sword
Water Force Field
Reverse Wave Sword
The wave's power reversed, crashing over the mysterious knight and the priest of the Abyss.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
As the massive surge of water gradually subsided, the knight stood protecting the priest of the Abyss.
Zeke's eyes widened seeing the face of the knight whose hood had fallen off.
'...Master Kaisir?'
Shockingly, the mysterious knight had the face of Kaisir the Hero King, master of the Elemental Sword.