How high are you? (3)
The knights surrounded the battlefield in a circle, each with their swords drawn.
Colin still couldn’t get over the pain of defeat, but he also had no choice but to stand up and raise his sword.
Because I have sworn to do so.
“The Sword Master’s rules are truly absurd.”
Joubert was always relaxed, but even he shook his head as if he was embarrassed by the current situation.
Knights who raised their swords for the flowers that were just about to bloom.
Although each person had a variety of emblems, it was now their turn to fulfill their duties under one set of rules.
-Say your name. Boy!
Those who want to pull it out and those who want to bloom.
The guardian and the protected are all standing in one world.
The image that the founding king, Frausen, so desperately wanted was now being recreated in the duel arena of Deermar.
“······You smoked it.”
With someone muttering, Colin looked back.
Indeed, there was a faint light there that had only just begun to bloom.
A boy who walks unsteadily as if he will fall down at any moment.
Nevertheless, the boy walks forward without stopping.
That guy was shining.
A boy holding a world that has just been created with bloody hands.
The guy’s name was Vlad of Shoara.
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Gigi Gigi Geek-
“······!”
As the creaking of the sword got closer, Colin’s eyes filled with surprise rather than anger.
The form of an auror with both arms wrapped around it like armor.
Now, Vlad was pushing Colin, who had the greatest dragon power in Pylos, by force.
“It’s worth it!”
Innate power is inevitable, but there are no limits to the world created.
Vlad was now surpassing the limits of the talent he was born with through Ramund’s strong body technique.
‘Where did you learn such a strange skill!’
Colin, taken aback by Vlad’s skills, quickly removed his sword and opened the distance.
I don’t know what kind of magic he used, but it’s still a bit of a trick.
Colin believed that mediocre talents would eventually break before true power.
“bouncer!”
Rather than adapting to the opponent, utilize your own strengths.
Colin swings his sword in the direction he has lived and believed in.
A flow of split air rushed into Vlad’s head as if it were splitting it apart.
Teuung-!
“······!”
But Colin’s faith was never rewarded.
A sound I didn’t want to hear even in my dreams.
In my memory, a one-eyed man is smiling.
“You’re used to it, right? “This sound.”
“······You son of a bitch!”
Is that shining blue in front of me a sword or an eye?
The man looking at himself now was creating a world that was incomparably more splendid than back then.
A white lightning flashed from his closed left eye, smiling at Colin.
‘In just one year!’
They say young kids grow up in the blink of an eye, but this is growth beyond imagination.
No one present would have even imagined that the boy he was crossing swords with was the boy back then.
“Now it’s my turn!”
‘······!’
The dawn of dawn shone from Vlad’s open right eye.
Weakness detection permitted by Imperial Military Police Commander Auguste.
There was an empty space that even the wild boar, breathing heavily, could not do anything about.
‘leg!’
A solid foundation is needed to support powerful forces.
Colin’s strength comes from his two firmly planted legs.
The flowing wave of aura said so.
‘Holy shit!’
Colin, who was strong but not flexible, was extremely embarrassed by Vlad’s persistent attacks on his lower body.
Because no one has ever attacked me like this before.
Gwagagagak-!
Sword and sword clash.
The gaze between each other’s gaze is full of sparks jumping from the sword.
‘How good am I!’
Colin’s thigh is cut off by the agile sword movement that stabbed the fastest dragon.
The cruelty that cut down the sharpest dragon is persistently targeting the knight’s knees.
All the worlds that Vlad had seen, learned, and defeated were now condensed on the blade in a star-like form.
“Kaaak!”
“Answer me!”
Now I want to know.
Where do I stand in this big world?
How much more do I have to do to reach the end of the sky?
Now the time has come for someone to answer my question.
“You insolent bastard!”
Wow-!
Vlad’s world came to a halt with dark red blood bursting out.
Colin let out a roar as he saw Vlad daring to look beyond himself instead of directly in front of him.
“Do you think I came all this way just to be bullied by someone like you?”
Bright red drops of blood burst out onto the blackened skin, but Colin did not stop exerting his strength.
He is also a person with his own world.
Dreaming upward was not only the privilege of boys.
“Search! “You damned brat!”
With Colin’s roar, the delicate land that had melted in the spring energy began to burst open as if exploding.
Like Colin’s veins bursting with his muscles rising.
“Ugh!”
Colin’s spirit was quite different from before, and Vlad realized that he had missed the moment.
The flow is like a wave; if you can’t ride the wave that comes from you, it will go to someone else.
“Did you ask how good it is for me?”
The constant flow of attack and defense suddenly shifted to Colin.
Everyone has a history and a world they have built.
Colin was also a person who built his own world.
“This is me, Colin of Pylos!”
With a huge roar, an aura began to burn from the tip of Colin’s sword, burning everything in the world.
Colin’s consciousness, which had sunk deep into himself, was no longer thinking about tomorrow.
Colin, who was buried in past defeats, did not have the confidence to take on today’s defeat.
“die!”
“······!”
Kwaaaaaaaaaa!
Vlad rolled away, avoiding the exploding ground.
Piles of dirt were falling like rain on our heads.
“Huh, huh.”
The fight is already over.
Only the duel remains.
The soldiers who were clinging to the door and stabbing each other all stopped like statues and were only watching the current confrontation.
Everyone realized that the fight between these two would be the beginning and end of the day.
“Hehe…”
A huge duel that a small town cannot contain.
While everyone watched with bated breath, Vlad was smiling.
It was a smile that not even the falling mud rain could cover.
“Why are you smiling!”
Colin shouted loudly as he saw Vlad suddenly smiling as if he had lost his mind, but the smile that started from his blue eyes did not stop.
“I think I can do it.”
Vlad, who has finally stopped laughing, swings his sword.
The Star Sword, which had been dusted off, was shining blue.
Unlike before, this is a battlefield without anyone’s help or consideration.
But Vlad was sure.
“About you… “I can handle it now.”
“what?”
Vlad raised his sword with those words.
A sword made by spirits and given by the World Tree.
Vlad, who once again felt the sensation of holding an unadorned sword, erased his smile and returned to a serious expression.
“Thank you for answering me.”
Vlad got today’s answer by looking at the man in front of him.
Colin of Pylos.
A great knight who awakened Aurors and established his own world.
But I have already surpassed this man.
“So let’s get this over with now.”
And now it proves it.
The worlds built by Vlad began to swirl over the sword road established by the first Sword Master.
“Okay, go for it! Vlad of Shoara!”
The boy’s stumbling steps to make a world bloom have not yet stopped.
The precarious footprints so far have been piled up one by one in the boy’s world, creating the present article.
“okay. “Not like a brat.”
Vlad’s eyes began to sparkle when he heard Colin’s shout.
The blue eyes of the little dragon, which had finally found out where it was and had opened its eyes to its own potential, were shining blue.
“Call me Vlad of Shoara.”
Today, Vlad survived the wedding.
He protected someone’s happiness with his sword and protected people’s daily lives.
So now it’s time to throw them one last red rose.
“······!”
In an instant, light flashed.
They started out facing each other, but before they knew it, the positions of Vlad and Colin had changed in passing glances.
It was a light that you could not block even if you were looking at it, and that you could not avoid even if you noticed it.
“Keueoeook······.”
Colin’s eyes widened as if he couldn’t believe it.
A sharp stake was driven into his heart that would not allow him to live any longer.
My heartbeat is slowly fading away.
A slowly collapsing black figure poured out red liquid and fell over the small village.
Colin, knight of Pylos.
He ended up becoming one of the pieces of evidence created by Vlad today.
“Because you came all the way up here.”
Winners and losers.
Vlad, who had taken Colin’s life as a reward for a fair duel, felt the light touch his shoulder and slowly raised his head.
Before you know it, a moon is floating in the sky.
“Just a little more and I’ll be able to reach it.”
Just like that day, the moon with its miserable blue light was looking down at Vlad.
Vlad felt like the moonlight shining down on him had gotten a little closer than before.
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A large mansion illuminated by moonlight.
The dust that settled on the floor there is full of sand grains.
Dry winds originating from barren lands have always bothered the people of the West.
“Count.”
Large lobby.
In a space too large for just the two of them to exist, Count Gaidar looked at the knight who bowed to him.
“It’s time. “Count.”
“······Details.”
The highest point of the lobby.
The knight of blue moonlight was climbing the stairs that not even his biological son could climb.
He was a man worthy of approaching the Count.
The blood and corpses he created were no different from those that laid the current stairs.
“Dragon Blood Lord said.”
Godin approached the Count and whispered in his ear in a low voice.
The grains of sand floating around in the spacious lobby were hiding his voice.
“okay?”
Count Gaidar, who heard Godin’s words, strongly grabbed the armrests of the chair.
He was so happy that his two eyes were shining brightly in his frowning face.
“The time has finally come.”
The cold-blooded ruler of the West.
A usurper who doesn’t mind taking.
Count Sigmund Gaidar.
He had been waiting for this moment for a long time.
“I’ve been waiting too long. Godin. “It was so boring that it was painful.”
“I completely understand. “Count.”
It was the fate of those born in the West to always be hungry no matter how much they swallowed.
Because this damned land always made me long for land far away, not where I was located.
This constant hunger was like a curse.
“Go Godin. Go and retrieve my son’s sword.”
Even though the robber was robbed, he endured for a very long time.
But now the time had come, and the West would have to endure no more.
The fence that had barely maintained its shape was torn down as of today.
“Go to Deremar. Go and bring the bitch who calls herself the gateway to the North before me!”
“All right. “Count.”
A knight who received orders from his lord.
As always, Godin will not hesitate to carry out his orders.
Outside the window shining from behind Gaidar, the blue moonlight was shining on Godin.
It was the same color as the moonlight that fell with the smile of a rose that day.
