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Chapter 652
Elemental Sword.
It was a unique swordsmanship that only the Hero King Kaisir could wield.
Among humans, only Zeke, who inherited the Hero King's legacy, could use the Elemental Sword.
'How can they learn the Elemental Sword?'
Even Jiemens Apollion, who was the Hero King's adopted son, couldn't inherit the Elemental Sword.
That's why Kaisir had made arrangements in the ruins to find someone who would inherit his legacy.
It was unbelievable that someone other than Zeke could use the Elemental Sword.
Zeke recalled another being who could use the Elemental Sword.
'The Hero King's homunculus.'
The Hero King's regenerated bodies created by the Great Sage to stop Jiemens Apollion who had become the Demon King.
Arthur Draker had awakened these sealed beings and used them like his limbs.
Watching Rivein summon pure flames, Zeke formed a hypothesis.
'What if they were given the power of the Hero King's homunculus as well?'
Demon combat techniques, bloodline abilities, regeneration, and the Hero King's power.
They could exert power beyond what Zeke imagined.
'Arthur Draker, what on earth have you done?'
He frowned at the experimental beings Arthur Draker had created that went beyond normal bounds.
Just then, Rivein charged at Zeke first.
WHOOSH!
White flames shot toward Zeke from Rivein.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Zeke also swung Leviathan to create a wall of flames to block the attack.
FWOOSH!
As the same Elemental Sword powers collided, a massive pillar of white flames emerged.
CRACKLE!
Flames scattered everywhere, engulfing the entire cavern.
RUMBLE!
Zeke stepped forward through the flames, glaring at Rivein.
He deployed his gold force field and swung his sword at Rivein.
SWOOSH!
The gold force field imbued his sword with power exceeding ten thousand jin.
Rivein didn't dodge but met it head-on, swinging his sword upward.
CLANG!
A powerful shockwave occurred as the gold force-imbued swords clashed.
Zeke didn't stop there and continued swinging his sword to pressure Rivein.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Intense sword strikes like a giant wielding a sword rained down on Rivein.
But Rivein also didn't yield to Zeke's strong attacks and continued blocking them head-on.
CRACK!
The impact of their sword strikes shattered the altar, creating cracks.
While facing Rivein's Elemental Sword, Zeke noticed something peculiar.
'He can use the Elemental Sword, but the elemental force doesn't feel complete.'
The core of the Elemental Sword was elemental force.
The reason the Hero King couldn't pass on his legacy was that only he, being half-fairy and human, could handle elemental force.
'Without wielding elemental force, it's impossible to draw out the true power of the Elemental Sword.'
Arthur Draker might have discovered a way to imitate the Elemental Sword through the Hero King's homunculus and passed this onto the knights.
Of course, the Elemental Sword's power itself was so strong that it could overwhelm most knights with just that.
But it wasn't a technique that would work against Zeke.
'Arthur Draker must know this, so what's his purpose in sending these beings against me?'
Zeke raised his sword to provoke Rivein, trying to understand Arthur Draker's intentions.
"Just an empty shell of swordsmanship. Did Arthur Draker not properly explain what this sword technique is?"
When Arthur Draker was mentioned again, Rivein frowned and said:
"How could someone like you understand God's profound will?"
Zeke looked at the other Apollion knights behind Rivein after seeing his reaction.
Like fanatics, they too glared at Zeke with angry expressions at his words.
'I should provoke them more.'
Zeke said to Rivein and the knights:
"Haven't you thought that Arthur Draker might be using you? Just like how he's used and discarded many experimental subjects until now."
Rivein shouted with intense emotion at Zeke's words.
"Die!"
WHOOSH!
This time, an aura blade rose from Rivein's sword.
The clear aura blade from Rivein's sword flew toward Zeke.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
CRASH!
Zeke blocked the crescent-shaped aura blade with his sword while stepping back.
'Martial techniques and aura blade too. They certainly have many skills.'
If all Apollion knights had these abilities like Rivein, Apollion would be the continent's strongest family instead of Draker.
But that was just by human standards.
Though each ability was exceptional, that's all it was.
Just two Black Knights who had reached mastery could handle all of them without much difficulty.
That's how extraordinary Black Knights were, having transcended human limits.
But then.
BUZZ!
Suddenly, a strange energy rippled from Rivein's body.
It felt similar to the energy from the sword that attacked him when he first entered this space.
'So that energy was related to Arthur Draker after all.'
At the same time, Rivein unleashed the Elemental Sword's flame field.
Zeke couldn't help but be surprised seeing the white flames enveloping Rivein's sword again.
'That's...?'
Amazingly, unlike before, proper elemental force could now be felt in the white flames.
'How is he using elemental force now?'
Until just now, Rivein's Elemental Sword showed no signs of properly wielding elemental force, but suddenly there was a change.
The surprises didn't end there.
Suddenly Rivein's eyes rolled back, revealing white eyeballs without pupils.
The other knights behind him also changed to the same white eyes.
WHOOSH!
A resonance occurred between Rivein and the other knights.
After a brief resonance, Rivein and the knights returned to their normal eyes.
"Transfer complete."
With those words, white flames rose from the swords of the other knights.
It was real Elemental Sword white flames created with proper elemental force.
Zeke's eyes widened at the sight.
'This can't be...'
It meant they realized elemental force through fighting him and then transferred it to the other Apollion knights.
'Arthur Draker didn't send them here for nothing.'
Beings that awakened abilities while clashing with Zeke.
If they truly awakened to elemental force and could properly wield the Elemental Sword, they would become another calamity in the mortal realm.
Rivein silently glared at Zeke and this time unleashed the Elemental Sword's wind field.
WHOOSH!
A powerful storm rose from Rivein's body.
Zeke decided to face the Apollion knights with Infinite Sword Technique instead of Elemental Sword.
WHOOM!
Sword light rose from his raised Leviathan and Ascalon, flying quickly toward Rivein.
SCREECH!
The mind-sword that cuts the source instantly tore through the storm Rivein created and dug inside.
The sword light flew quickly, about to pierce through Rivein's body.
The other knights behind Rivein jumped up and all wielded the Elemental Sword's wind field.
Though it was an amateur storm sword with weak elemental force, dozens of sword strikes combined and resonated to increase its power.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The massive storm created by the Apollion knights slightly twisted the trajectory of the two swords flying toward Rivein.
Rivein quickly used spatial movement to dodge in that gap.
SLASH!
Even though he dodged with spatial movement, the mind-sword that cut the source left a wound on Rivein.
Red blood flowing from his split shoulder stained his white uniform.
Rivein gripped his shoulder wound and gritted his teeth.
Even their regenerative powers couldn't easily heal the mind-sword wound left by Zeke.
As Zeke gestured, the two swords flashed with sword light again and aimed at Rivein and the Apollion knights.
"I don't know what method you used, but I'll kill you all here."
WHOOSH!
Even more powerful sword light raged from the swords than before.
Rivein's expression gradually hardened watching this.
Zeke activated Overclock again, consuming karma points.
Divine status arose, and Zeke fully released the power of the constellation.
RUMBLE!
Pressure flowed from Zeke's body that felt like it would crush their entire bodies just by being in the same space.
The Apollion knights including Rivein felt instinctive fear seeing Zeke release his divine status.
Toward them, Zeke emitted divine status and summoned Flames of the Abyss, one of the Arrogant Savior's authorities.
A different kind of flame from the Elemental Sword's flame field rose from his body.
"I'll burn you without a trace."
CRACKLE!
A ring of flames formed above Zeke's head.
Flame spears shot out from the ring made of Flames of the Abyss toward where the Apollion knights were.
BOOM!
The Apollion knights swung their swords against the spears of flame raining down upon them.
WHOOSH!
But their crude Elemental Swords could not block the flames of the abyss.
The Flames of the Abyss that caught on their swords grew larger, spreading across their white uniforms and entire bodies.
"AAAARGH!"
Several knights engulfed in Flames of the Abyss screamed out.
They tried to regenerate the areas where the flames had caught, but it was useless.
The Flames of the Abyss were fires that existed in the deepest places, burning not just flesh but soul and shadow as well.
Regenerative abilities borrowed from external species could not block them.
The knights at the front ultimately had their bodies reduced to ash by the Flames of the Abyss.
Seeing this, Rivein raised his sword and shouted to the other knights.
"Raise the white flames! Resonate your power to block it!"
Following his command, the other knights tried to block the Flames of the Abyss by raising white flames.
WHOOSH!
A wall of white flames emerged to counter the spreading Flames of the Abyss, but the Flames of the Abyss rushed to devour even the white flames.
If they had been white flames made of perfect elemental power, they might have been able to withstand the Flames of the Abyss to some degree, but what the Apollion knights created wasn't flames of that purity, so the wall quickly crumbled.
While they were in disarray, two swords imbued with the power of the Abyss flew at high speed toward Rivein.
BOOM!
Having learned that even a graze from the swords Zeke had thrown could inflict fatal wounds, Rivein, who was already wounded in the shoulder, made his judgment.
Deciding they would be difficult to block, he tried to avoid them again through spatial movement.
But at that moment, a massive wave occurred throughout the cavity.
WOONG!
Zeke simultaneously deployed Skill Magic Reversal and Strong Wave Resonance with his amplification authority, making the flow of magic too unstable for spatial movement.
With even spatial movement blocked, Rivein could only watch as the swords flew toward him.
Just as Leviathan and Ascalon were about to pierce Rivein's body.
CLANG!
Surprisingly, Rivein's sword blocked the two swords imbued with the power of the Abyss .
Zeke furrowed his brow as he looked at Rivein who had blocked his attack.
This was because an unfamiliar energy was emanating from Rivein's body.
CRACK!
The wound that had remained on Rivein's shoulder disappeared, and a strange energy began to envelop his body.
Black energy settled into the sword he was holding, and its appearance suddenly changed.
SWOOSH! SWOOSH! SWOOSH!
Zeke frowned at the sight of the gray sword in Rivein's hand.
He had seen the sword he was holding before.
"Caliburn."
Arthur Draker's exclusive weapon.
Not the sword that was in the Draker family's vault, but the one he was said to have discovered in a dungeon in his youth.
Looking at Rivein holding Caliburn, Zeke said:
"Arthur Draker, is it you?"
At his words, Rivein looked at Zeke with gleaming gray eyes.
"Zeke, my son. It's been a long time."
Arthur Draker, who had possessed Rivein's body, spread his arms wide toward Zeke.
"Stop your wandering now and return to your father's embrace."