< Chapter 71 - Black Lightning >
Chapter 71 – Black Lightning
Kwakang!
A loud noise filled Suhojin’s room.
He drowned out the sound with sound, and lightning struck in the area of silence thus created.
Pitch black.
It traced a trajectory in an instant, like lightning splitting the night sky. It stretched out at a terrifying speed.
bang!
When the second thunderbolt rang out, the Guardians could not properly see the attack.
Due to his strong attachment to life and his long experience in combat, he was able to avoid attacks, but he himself did not know how or what he avoided.
But he was a patriot.
It was one of the Ten Swords.
He counterattacked before he even realized that he had dodged the attack.
He rushed forward with his left hand, which was filled with concentrated blue energy.
Tsuk!
It’s torn.
A dark blue aura split Yuder’s chest. And only at that moment did the Guardian become fully aware of the surrounding situation.
He realized almost simultaneously that he had twisted his upper body to avoid the thrusts that Yuder had launched, and that Yuder had twisted his upper body in return to counterattack.
And then again the black lightning struck.
A black energy exploded from Yuder’s entire body, filling the Guardian’s field of vision, and soon Yuder’s beastly attack began to unfold.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The black sun located in the center of Uther’s chest radiated immense power.
Brain God’s Raise transformed his power into lightning, and Yuder’s fist became a thunderbolt wrapped in black lightning, tearing through the atmosphere.
It was fast and strong.
At the same time, it was extremely rough.
Because it was a crowd.
There was not enough time.
It’s been just over a month since we opened the gate.
I haven’t fully adapted.
Moreover, it did not achieve that much growth in the meantime.
Opening the sixth gate was a impossible task.
If the vessel of the spirit and flesh had not grown larger through the transformation, and if there had been no variable called the Holy Sword Claw Solas, the Six Gates would not have opened in the first place.
Runaway.
A state in which proper operation is impossible.
My heart was beating so fast and rough. My chest, where the black sun was, felt like it would burst at any moment.
The black lightning released from his entire body not only burned the atmosphere, but also tore and tore at Yuder’s skin.
The attacks were fast and strong enough, but they were too rough. There was no trace of the precision that Yuder usually showed.
Self-destruction.
A fate that will be crushed by an unbearable force.
A promised doom that we brought upon ourselves.
It breaks.
If you publish the next volume,
Let’s go a little further from here.
Run wild.
Completely out of control.
The power of the black sun destroys Yuder!
bang!
The thunder boomed again. Yuder’s fist exploded like black lightning.
And Uther did not fall.
His heart was still pounding as if it would burst at any moment, and although the lightning that ran wild continued to add new wounds to Yuder’s arms and legs, he did not break.
He managed to control an unbearable force, albeit precariously.
The Thousand and One Body.
The incarnation of the heavenly being.
Added to that was Yuder’s concentration and calculation skills that were beyond common sense. He finally confined his wild and wild body, a power that should not have been under his control, within himself.
“Woooooo!”
Uder roared like a beast and chased the Guardian King.
Instead of calculating the attack path in the traditional way, he gave himself over to the power of madness, literally turning into a beast and unleashing a fierce attack.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Guardian King was unable to completely avoid the attack.
He couldn’t even attack Yuder with his sword. He was too busy protecting himself from the rampaging beast.
However, when Yuder’s attack reached seven moves, the Guardian King adapted to Yuder’s attack a little. When the twelfth move was played, he finally found an opening to counterattack.
“Wow!”
Amidst Yuder’s roar, the Guardian clenched his teeth. Despite the pain that felt like his left shoulder was being shattered, he swung his sword at Yuder.
He tried to bite Yuder’s nape with a rough sword strike.
Quagga River!
A sword strike like the teeth of a beast.
The swordsmanship unique to the Guardian King that leaves behind extremely rough scars.
But it didn’t reach them. At that moment when the Guardian King was waiting for an opening to counterattack, Princess Daphne and Prince Dion were unable to even think of intervening and were just watching.
Cordelia didn’t let go of his hand.
She felt as if every nerve in her body was burning because she had forcibly converted the immense power of the Holy Sword into life force and then released it, but even in the midst of the excruciating pain, she did not close her eyes. She watched, and so she could instinctively sense the moment when she had to step forward.
‘Greece.’
The magic Cordelia weaves in the midst of extreme pain.
A very basic magic that even beginners who are just starting to learn magic can easily use.
But that’s why it can be used in a situation like now.
Moreover, Cordelia knew better than anyone.
Although he was a self-proclaimed firepower nerd, he never forgot one thing.
The wizard’s fight.
The role of a wizard.
A being that creates miracles called magic.
I slipped.
The moment he tried to dodge Uder’s attack and launch a counterattack, the last chance for the Guardian to turn the tide of the battle came.
The Guardian suddenly lost his footing because of the slippery floor. He didn’t fall completely, but his attack was distorted. The attack itself was also delayed.
And Yuder did not miss that gap.
bang!
Brain damage.
Yuder’s fist landed on the Guardian’s abdomen. It was the first time he had landed a perfect blow on the Guardian since the battle began.
“Cough!”
The Guardian spewed blood. His body rose slightly into the air, and Yuder’s second attack was aimed at the Guardian’s chest.
bang!
The Guardian flew roughly and crashed into the wall. Yuder flew towards the Guardian, and at that moment, the Guardian swung his sword once more. As someone who had been swinging a sword all his life, his body reacted on its own.
But it was different from before. Yuder saw the sword clearly. He swung his fist at it, which was filled with dark blue energy.
Black Dragon Cross Sword.
An attack that would normally be extremely reckless, targeting the sword’s surface rather than its blade.
But the Heavenly Force made it possible. Black lightning and dark blue sword energy collided, and with a loud noise, the sword of the Guardian King exploded.
Kwakang!
The blades flew. The fragments tore through the bodies of Yuder and the Guardian. Then Yuder used the power of his right fist to spin his body. A spinning kick imbued with the energy of the black dragon rained down from above diagonally like lightning.
Quagga River!
Lightning struck again. But the Guardian did not fall. He defended against Yuder’s attack with his left arm. He somehow endured it and exploded with a dark blue energy.
Tsuhwaa-!
Dazzle Yuder’s eyes. Somehow seize the opportunity to attack and strike him in the chest just before he goes berserk.
The sword was no longer there. It was broken and unusable.
But this kind of thing happened all the time on the battlefield. He concentrated the dark blue energy into the Guardian’s clenched fist.
“Wow!”
The Guardian threw his fist. And Yuder was not fooled. Even as the black sun was going wild – no, he read the Guardian’s aura with a sharper sense. He accurately punched the fist that was coming toward him.
bang!
Fist clashed with fist.
The black lightning and dark blue energy canceled out with a loud noise, and Yuder and the Guardian’s fists shattered at the same time.
But there was a stark difference between the two.
The savior of life.
Yuder’s regenerative powers amplified by the power of the black sun.
“Woooooooo!”
The Guardian King lost both his left arm and his right fist. But not Yuder. He launched a one-sided attack on the Guardian King.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Break the dark blue energy. Destroy the body of the Guardian King!
Boom!
The Black Dragon Cross Strike struck the Guardian’s chest. The Guardian was pushed back and spewed blood, and Yuder, who was about to deliver the final blow, suddenly vomited blood.
It was the limit.
Any further attacks were unavoidable.
If I continued to operate the Black Sun any further, my heart would really burst.
That’s why Uther withdrew his power.
He did so even though he knew that the Duke of Hoguk still had some strength left.
Because Yuder hasn’t forgotten.
That there is one more person.
That there is a woman who, instead of being satisfied and collapsing after a decisive help, will grit her teeth and wait for an opportunity to strike.
“Finish.”
Uther spoke, and Cordelia responded. She leaned forward as if clinging to the Holy Sword, once again unfurling her pure white wings of light.
It wasn’t just Yuder who absorbed the power of the Holy Sword.
Her wings were infused with new powers as she literally turned the divine power of the Solari over and released it as life force.
Angel’s promotion.
The divine power becomes stronger because of it!
“Eww!”
Cordelia shut her eyes tightly and cried out, accepting the power of the Holy Sword once more, and releasing the lightning of divine punishment in pain and joy.
Quagagagaga!
Pure white lightning that could be said to be the exact opposite of Uther’s black lightning.
It started from the Holy Sword and struck the Guardian’s chest. It destroyed the source of the dark blue energy that had remained until the very end.
And then the collapse followed.
The defender’s knees gave out. Unable to hold on any longer, he collapsed.
“Kha··· ha······.”
Uther let out a heavy breath, gasping for breath, and then fell to the ground. And so did Cordelia, who was hanging on to the holy sword. She seemed to slip along the blade and then fell to the ground with a thud.
But Cordelia never lost consciousness until the very end.
I wanted to faint at any moment, but I gritted my teeth and held on.
Because the pure white ring has not yet risen. Because the breath of the Guardian King has not completely stopped.
No matter how strong he was, I didn’t think he would get back up in the middle of this, but it wasn’t over until it was over.
Cordelia looked at the Duke of Guk with her blue eyes.
Henry II was approaching him, breathing thinly.
&
The Guardian King took a slow breath.
It was painful.
It felt like my thin breath would stop at any moment.
My vision was blurry.
It was getting darker and darker.
And the Guardian King realized.
Die.
It ends like this.
It ends up being the same as Long Legs.
I wanted to throw a tantrum.
I wanted to scream and resist.
But I couldn’t do it.
My breathing became increasingly shallow, and my body lost strength.
I’m scared.
scary.
I don’t want to die.
Tears welled up in my eyes. My already blurry vision became even blurrier.
And the Guardian King could see it.
The last person’s face reflected in eyes that were losing their light.
“Patriotic hero.”
He was the third king.
I couldn’t see it clearly, but I could tell. I could immediately picture the guy’s tear-stained face.
“It was my fault. It was my fault. Because I was so incompetent··· Because I was so··· useless······.”
Otherwise, there would have been no reason for the Guardian to betray.
Because I couldn’t even imagine why he, the hero of the nation, would draw his sword against the Kingdom of Seilun.
The Guardian laughed.
I found myself smiling without even realizing it.
It wasn’t because of Henry II’s stupidity.
It wasn’t that I was shocked by his foolish, even blind, faith.
I couldn’t see ahead anymore.
Even Henry II’s sobs were not heard properly. Little by little, my senses were becoming dull.
And the Guardian King opened his mouth and spoke.
“That’s not true···.”
It’s not your fault.
It’s just my greed.
I didn’t want to die, I didn’t want to grow old, I wanted to get my strength back.
For that, I betrayed you, betrayed my country, and killed the royal family.
Only for me.
Just for myself.
Someone like you wasn’t even considered in the first place.
I didn’t even care.
It was just a move for myself.
The Guardian could no longer hear.
Because of this, I couldn’t even tell if I was speaking correctly.
‘Why is that?’
Why at the last moment?
Is this the kind of words you leave behind as you take your last breath?
Even if you pour out curses, it won’t be enough.
Even if Henry II had not shown up, the ending might have been different.
Why, why are you spewing out words like this instead of cursing?
“National Guardian······.”
A guy like a fool.
You used to laugh like an idiot, but now you just cry.
It was not seen or heard.
Now it was impossible to even continue thinking.
death.
The promised ending.
At that last moment, the Guardian opened his mouth and let out a breath.
The final thoughts flitted through his mind.
And the patriot died like that.
Darkness took away his consciousness.
&
Henry II fell over the body of the Duke of York and wept.
Princess Daphne fell to the ground, breathing heavily, and Prince Dion retrieved her hand from the floor.
And then Juder saw.
As Cordelia lay on the floor, writhing, white rings of light appeared around her chest.
One, two, three, four, five.
On Uther’s own chest there are four rings, one less than that.
It’s over now.
Finally, he defeated the Guardian King and prevented the extermination of the royal family.
Although Henry II’s cries were sad, and there was still so much to sort out, it was at least an end in sight.
So, Uder used all his strength to move his body. He approached Cordelia halfway.
“Ugh··· Ugh······.”
He somehow managed to get Cordelia, whose face was buried in the blood he had vomited, to turn over and then collapsed next to her.
Cordelia let out a ragged breath.
It was the same for Uther, and he could feel it soon.
Cordelia’s hand, which was groping along the floor as she approached, her small hands were cold and trembling.
Uther instinctively grabbed Cordelia’s hand. He held her trembling hand tightly, and Cordelia turned her face to the side to look at Uther. She didn’t have the energy to open her mouth, so she spoke only with her eyes.
‘Yuder, Yuuder.’
‘Why, Cordelia?’
‘I won.’
Uther, who had been laughing at Cordelia’s gaze, suddenly vomited blood.
And it was the same for Cordelia. She vomited blood and gasped for breath.
It was a complete mess.
Uder’s entire body was covered in blood. Thanks to his regenerative powers, he was unscathed, but it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was bathed in blood.
Cordelia only appeared normal on the outside.
No, actually that wasn’t the case.
His whole body was drenched in sweat and glistening, his cheeks and the corners of his mouth were covered in blood, and his hair, soaked with blood and sweat, was stuck to his face and the floor. Anyone who looked at him could tell that he was in absolutely no condition.
But the inside was more serious.
My hands and feet continued to tremble. My body temperature continued to drop, and even though I was holding his hand, my senses were dull and I couldn’t feel Yuder’s warmth.
But Cordelia smiled.
And the same was true for Uther.
Although both of them looked as if they were about to die from pain, they still exchanged glances.
‘This is absolutely crazy.’
Absorbing and transmitting the Holy Sword’s energy in that way.
This wasn’t some kind of gamble. It was a self-destructive act that was a miracle in itself.
Cordelia responded to Uther’s gaze with moist eyes.
‘So… you don’t like it?’
Uder laughed again at those words he had heard so many times. Although his heart ached as if it was going to break, he did not turn his eyes away from Cordelia.
‘I absolutely love it.’
‘me too.’
Cordelia, who shed her last glance, smiled bashfully and closed her eyes, and so did Uther.
They fell into a deep sleep, side by side, peacefully.
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