Chapter 34 - 33:Paladin(6/?)
(Author’s Note: I’ve been absent for almost a week. I apologize. Due to a certain situation, I was admitted to the ICU. I stayed in the hospital for almost 5 days. In my spare time, I wrote two chapters, but unfortunately, they were deleted, so I had to rewrite them. Anyway, here’s the chapter.)
Seth wildly channeled Mana into his sword, while the Samurai cut down the tentacles constantly bothering him from all sides.
Although the Samurai showed no signs of fatigue, Seth looked exhausted. "This is about to end..."
Closing his eyes and preparing himself, Seth focused, directing all his remaining strength to his arm. As the Mana flowed into it, Seth finally felt ready.
"Let’s go!" Seth bent his knees and suddenly dashed forward at an incredible speed. Shadows moved protectively around him as he approached the Samurai.
"GRrrrhhh!!" The Samurai roared, slicing through the last of the tentacles before moving to block Seth’s sword.
"Warrior! Finish him off!"
The voice of the Mage echoed in joy and excitement. As Seth advanced with quick steps, the Samurai raised his katana vertically above his head.
Letting the tentacles wrap around his body, the Samurai seemed to focus solely on Seth’s attack.
Seth swung his sword in a rapid strike aimed at the Samurai’s stomach, but the Samurai ruthlessly brought his katana down, aiming at Seth’s smaller frame.
Seth only grinned and confidently continued his attack, then created a barrier.
Although the barrier wasn’t strong enough to fully block the Samurai’s sword, it bought Seth one or two precious seconds.
Seth’s blade sliced through the Samurai’s chest, leaving a deep gash. Dark miasma gushed from the Samurai’s chest like blood.
"What!?" The wizard’s angry voice echoed once again. Meanwhile, not wanting to buy more time for the Samurai, Seth suddenly spun his sword and left two diagonal slashes on the Samurai’s back, forming an x-shaped wound.
"Graa!" The Samurai, with a painful and furious groan, swung his katana backward, but by then, Seth had already retreated.
"My warrior! I no longer want him alive! Kill him before he becomes a threat!" The wizard said, both angry and a little frightened. The Samurai seemed to glow with an even greater power as a rising red aura surrounded him.
"So, you’ve entered the second stage…" Seth sighed, gripping his sword tighter, his eyes narrowing. "Tsk, tsk, this is going to be tough."
As the Samurai suddenly slashed his katana forward with speed, Seth braced himself and blocked it.
What Seth didn’t expect was for the Samurai to leap swiftly and flexibly, jumping behind Jack.
In an instant, Seth swung his sword behind him, attempting a slash aimed at the Samurai’s neck.
The Samurai spun gracefully and attacked Seth, but as if expecting it, Seth swiftly retreated. The katana missed his face by just two centimeters.
"He’s copying my moves?" Seth’s eyes gleamed with realization; the Samurai’s basic intelligence was growing, making things increasingly difficult.
Seth launched an attack, aiming for the right shoulder of the Samurai approaching him. The Samurai quickly swung his katana upwards in a crosswise motion to defend himself.
Seth calmly lowered his sword and used it to block the katana.
With a harsh metallic clang, the swords clashed. Seth didn’t stop and gritted his teeth, struggling to deliver consecutive blows to the Samurai’s body.
Clang clang clang!
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The Samurai blocked Seth’s attack. With a roar, he directed a fierce attack towards Seth’s chest.
Seth ducked and retreated. "Slow down, big guy!"
Then he aimed his sword at the Samurai’s chest and lunged forward. Although the Samurai anticipated this and tried to react, the dark sword pierced his chest, causing him to cry out in pain.
"Graaaa!"
Roaring in fury, the Samurai suddenly bent and swung his metal-clad hand down to grab Seth’s face. However, Seth quickly dodged out of the way.
The miasma dripping from the Samurai’s katana shimmered with a hum as he lunged forward, His Katana shined for a moment.
As the Samurai’s attacks grew increasingly frenzied, Seth found it harder and harder to defend himself.
Blocking another one of the Samurai’s attacks, Seth jumped back and put some distance between them.
"This has to end soon!"
Seth closed his eyes and quickly calmed his racing heart, breathing hard. Then he began pumping mana into his legs.
Seth’s eyes snapped open, shining brightly. As his crimson eyes glowed with an intense light, even the Samurai paused and wondered what was going to happen.
Seth slowly bent his knees, his eyes narrowed, and then, after releasing the breath he had been holding, he jumped up, shattering the ground.
"What are you doing! Kill him! You fool!" The wizard’s angry voice spurred the Samurai into action, who roared at Seth in the sky.
Seth just grinned, then, taking advantage of the momentum in the air, he began to fall towards the ground in a rapid spin.
Pumping mana into his arm, Seth swung forward with all his might, and as the dark sword accelerated forward with incredible speed, the Samurai and the Wizard could only watch in astonishment.
"Graa!!"
The dark sword pierced the center of his forehead, and the Samurai staggered backward. Seth, still falling through the air, raised his hands.
As if under the command of darkness, they came to life and began to create a weapon.
"A bow!" Seth grasped the created bow tightly and then aimed it at the Samurai. He pulled the string, then coolly released it.
As the arrow flew from the bow, it pierced the Samurai’s right eye. Then a second arrow pierced his other eye and arrows one after another his heart, his hands, his legs, and finally the center of his forehead once more, and the Samurai finally fell to the ground with a roar.
Seth landed gracefully on the ground, and the bow he had created from darkness dissipated into a cloud of smoke, as he took a quick breath.
"More-" Seth forced his body to move. "It’s not over yet!"
Roaring, Seth lunged forward, moving quickly as the wizard’s angry voice echoed again, but Seth ignored everything and focused only on defeating the Samurai.
Creating a spear of darkness in his hand, Seth continued to pump mana into his legs and arms.
"Get up! You useless thing!"
The Samurai thrashed around on the ground, his metal-clad hand striking the ground and cracking it, but he couldn’t get up.
Meanwhile, Seth jumped 20 meters into the air and forcefully spun his body to gain momentum in the air. Then he plummeted down hard.
"Your heart will be my target, Samurai!" As Seth’s spear pierced the Samurai’s heart, the ground cracked, and a loud sound echoed.
The Samurai roared and thrashed, then fell silent, and his hand, still clawing at the ground, remained motionless.
Seth pulled the spear out wearily, and the red-black miasma emanating from the Samurai’s body created a terrifying image.
"You-"
"You talk too much..."
"How-how did you do it!?"
Seth opened his eyes and turned them towards the sky, to where he sensed the wizard’s gaze. His eyes were cold. "You talk too much, be quiet for a moment."
Although he couldn’t see the wizard’s terrified expression, Seth could feel it and grinned. "Or... are you afraid of me, wizard?"
He asked with his head tilted to the side.
The Wizard’s only reply was silence. Seth clicked his tongue mockingly, then with a swing of his spear, severed the throat of the samurai lying motionless on the ground.
After his head was severed from his body, a red-black miasma, like blood, spurted out from the body.
A thin, cold smile appeared on Seth’s lips. "Trying to stall me won’t gain you anything. All you can do is die obediently."
As the Dimensional Sanctuary, which looked like a false paradise, gradually disappeared, the place with heavy rain and the nearly ruined castle reappeared.
The wizard was clutching the Grimiore tightly. Without waiting any longer, Seth lunged forward and his spear pierced the wizard’s abdomen.
"Wh...!" As the wizard spat blood, Seth swung his spear hard to the right and the wizard’s body flew off the tip of the spear and fell hard to the ground.
As the wizard drowned in his own blood, Seth slowly approached him. The hard and heavy rain was washing the wizard’s blood from the ground.
Seth bent down and tried to take the Grimiore from the wizard’s hand, but when the wizard clung tightly to the Grimiore, Seth kicked the wizard’s abdomen hard.
"Agg!" The wizard spat blood and reluctantly let go of the Grimiore. A disdain appeared in Seth’s eyes. "You’re about to die, and you’re still trying to hold the book."
The wizard could only close his eyes in pain. As his eyes slowly lost their sense of sight, an evil smile appeared on his lips.
"What are you laughing at, old man? Tell me, and I’ll laugh too." Seth’s eyebrows raised. The wizard only spat blood. "The ones who escaped in the castle commander’s horse carriage were your friends, weren’t they? The Royal Knights are already on their way."
"You can’t escape..."
As the wizard slowly died, a final triumphant smile appeared on his face. Seth’s eyebrows rose with concern, but he no longer cared about the wizard.
*{One of the 12 sacred artifacts of the legendary White Dragon Albion was found.
The Cursed Book of Vortigern
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Seth examined the Grimoire carelessly. Frankly, he wasn’t a person who liked to rely on other tools.
In Seth’s opinion, Grimoires were very useless. For example, the moment a Grimoire was stolen, the power that came with it would disappear.
This was something that Seth, who was always planned, disliked.
*{The skill can be combined in exchange for the sacrifice of your Grimoire. Would you like to apply this option?}
{Yes, No?}*
Seth said yes without a second thought, and the Grimoire rose with a flash and disappeared with a flash.
{Lightning Manipulation, Illusion Manipulation acquired.}
{God Aura, all skills except Divine Avatar are transferred to a single skill and recreated...}
{Process successful}
{The skill called ’The body of the God of Darkness’ acquired.}
{Skill description: Shadow Manipulation, Karma eye, Shield merged and under the skill ’The body of the God of Darkness’, merged under the sub-skill ’Dark Magic Control’ and evolved.}
{God aura leveled up to level 5.}
{The skill called ’Dimensional Sanctuary’ is locked until the entity named Seth reaches level 100.}
Seeing the last notification, Seth’s eyes showed disappointment. It seemed he had to wait a little longer for the most powerful skill.
"Well, I have to catch up with them before it’s too late."
Seth froze with a sense of danger, then raised his hand, caught the arrow, and broke it. When Seth looked around, he suddenly felt soldiers surrounding him angrily.
"That’s him! Catch him!"
Seth saw that some soldiers were scared but still ready to attack angrily. He sighed and ran away, not wanting to stay any longer.
"He’s running away!"
"Catch him!"
Seth covered his legs with Mana, bent his knees, and jumped gracefully. He pressed against the walls of the castle and shadows appeared under his feet, keeping him fixed on the wall.
Then he suddenly turned back into a crow form and flew away quickly.
He left behind a nearly ruined castle and angry soldiers.