< Chapter 90 - Count Kagehama's Family #2 >
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The Seven Southern Clans were families that originated from the seven knights who assisted the dragon slayer Carlos.
Carlos did not care about gender, age, race, or place of origin when using people, and thanks to this, his seven knights were composed of a variety of people, almost as if he had chosen to do so on purpose.
Queen Janifer Orphan, who was reborn as a powerful warrior by awakening both the divine beast Fenrir and the holy beast blood.
Chris Gaolan, an Elven Knight born and raised in the Eternal Forest.
Shiryu Kagehama, a mysterious warrior from a distant foreign land in the East, and others.
The various knights were granted the rule of the South by the founding king, Lion D. Cailun, in place of their lord Carlos, who lost his life in a bloody battle with the black dragon Malekith. This was the beginning of the Seven Houses of the South.
“What, what is it! What the hell is going on?!”
Count Kagehama’s second son, Bardo Kagehama, quickly covered the painting he was drawing with a white cloth and raised his voice.
Because suddenly a loud explosion was heard.
“It’s an attack!”
“This is an attack, Master! Get out of here!”
Startled by the servants’ voices, Bardo instinctively looked back at the window, but it was the middle of the night and his room was on the third floor. Unless he pressed hard against it, there was nothing to see but the moonlight.
“Eww!”
“Stop it! We have to stop it!”
“Your Excellency the Count!”
“Fire!”
Screams and shouts could be heard here and there.
In the past, Shiryu Kagehama was a great warrior who could cut down a hundred orcs with a single sword, but Bardo was not like that.
It had been over 300 years since that incident, so there was no trace of an Easterner on his face.
With dark blond hair, distinct features, and a pale face, he opened the door in a hurry instead of grabbing his weapon.
And that was the moment.
“father?”
“Come in! Quickly!”
It was Count Kagehama.
Although he was close to fifty, he had inherited the swordsmanship of Shiryu Kagehama and had a much more robust body than Bardo, a young man in his twenties.
Count Kagehama pushed Bardo back into the room, who was about to leave the room dripping with sweat, and quickly closed the door before speaking.
“This is an attack. We must flee. I have reinforced my defenses, but they are woefully inadequate.”
The seven southern families knew each other well, despite their bad relationship.
As Scarlett said, the Southern Seven Houses were keeping quiet about the attack, but they already knew the situation to some extent.
That was why Count Kagehama had stationed far more troops in his mansion than usual.
But this attack went too far.
It wasn’t a small group of troops sneaking in, but dozens of them blatantly climbing over the wall.
Moreover, each and every one of them seemed to be of extraordinary skill.
“hurry!”
“Ha, but where?”
“This way, there’s a secret passage this way.”
“In my room?!”
“This is a passage known only to the head of the household and his successor. Follow me quickly.”
All of the heads of the seven southern clans who have been attacked so far have been safe. Their target was not the heads of the seven clans, but the treasures of the seven clans, including Carlos’ token.
But you never know.
Since this was a different form of attack than before, their objectives could have changed or been added.
“Father, what is that?”
“It’s a symbol of the family. Anyway, it’s not the time to be talking.”
Count Kagehama, who had stuffed a fist-sized symbol containing the emblems of Carlos and Shiryu Kagehama into his pocket, knocked on the wall according to the established rules.
“Wow, my goodness.”
I never would have thought that something like this would be in my own room.
It was when Bardo’s eyes lit up at the secret door that appeared between the walls.
bang!
With a loud noise, the door burst open and five men wearing black masks entered the room one after another.
“Eek.”
There were clear bloodstains on the swords the assailants were holding. It was clear that they had killed several people on their way here.
As Bardo trembled and stepped back, Count Kagehama cursed and drew his sword.
“What the hell! What do you want!”
But instead of answering, the villains focused their gaze on the pocket hanging from the count’s waist.
It seemed like they were after Carlos’s token.
“Hit me! Take the token!”
As the culprit standing at the very back shouted, the four culprits in front simultaneously kicked the ground. Count Kagehama cursed again and tightened his grip on his sword.
And that was the moment.
“Fuck, bang!”
A huge roar drowned out the clear, beautiful voice.
The wall opposite Count Kagehama and Bardo exploded completely, creating a large hole, and the villains, who were completely covered in debris and shockwaves from the explosion, fell down screaming.
“What, what is it?”
Count Kagehama looked at the new intruders with a puzzled expression.
There were two women, one wearing a magician-like outfit with a black butterfly mask and large rabbit ears on her head, the other wearing a white mask that covered her entire face.
‘Who is it?’
The masked men were strange, but the women in front of them were equally suspicious.
After all, they were the ones who broke the wall and showed up.
But at that very moment, Bardo, who had been trembling, suddenly shouted with shining eyes.
“Caesar! It’s Caesar, right?! You came to save me!”
Count Kagehama’s eyes widened as Bardo shouted in joy.
Because when I heard what my son said, it really sounded like Caesar.
“Protect the Count!”
“It’s an explosion!”
“It’s the third floor!”
Outside, a loud noise echoed again, and Bardo opened his arms in joy, while Count Kagehama was surprised once again, but in a different way.
Are you saying that my son and the author of Offund, Kaisa, were lovers?
“Hey! Bardo! Didn’t you say if I draw something like this again you’ll kill me?!”
But it wasn’t. Count Kagehama, surprised again by the angry shout, turned to the direction that the white masked woman – Kaisa had pointed to, and swallowed a sigh. It was understandable, because what was lying on the floor was a pornographic painting of Kaisa’s face. It was an unfinished work, perhaps because it was something he had been drawing until just now.
“No, this is so······.”
“You pervert! You died to me today. Huh?”
As Caesar approached, growling, Bardo began to snicker again and backed away, then ran away through the secret door, and Count Kagehama raised his voice again in despair.
“Caesar! I don’t know what’s going on, but this is an emergency. Let’s get out quickly.”
As bad as our relationship was, we knew each other well.
The Marquis of Orphan was simple and ignorant, as befitting a family with beastly blood.
If they came at us head-on, we wouldn’t have sent out the bad guys like that, instead of declaring war and then rushing in with a flag.
So at least he wouldn’t be the author of Offand.
It was extremely strange that it suddenly appeared through the wall, but if that was the case, it was right to run away together for the time being.
‘If there’s a difference, use it to buy time!’
Count Kagehama opened the secret door again and gestured for Caesar to come in.
But instead of Caesar, the woman in the butterfly mask next to him spoke up.
“Your Majesty! Not that way! You must come this way! We have come to save your Majesty!”
It was a voice as clear and beautiful as an angel.
Count Kagehama, moved by the sincerity of the appeal, leaned towards the woman.
“Then through that hole?”
“Yes! This way! Quickly!”
“It’s the third floor! Go to the third floor!”
“Eww! Your Majesty the Count!”
As if to reinforce the woman’s voice, a loud noise could be heard outside the room. It seemed that most of the defenders had been defeated.
“I, I believe you!”
Count Kagehama strode towards the woman, and the woman in the butterfly mask- Cordelia reached out her hand to the Count’s waist.
“As expected, it’s here.”
Carlos’ token.
Scarlett put forward two hypotheses.
One was that Carlos’ token was stored in the treasure vault as previously investigated, and the other was the hypothesis that Count Kagehama had Carlos’ token.
‘Because there were a lot of victims and we were attacked.’
Since four out of the seven southern clans had already been affected, they must have been more nervous than usual.
But in the meantime, you were attacked?
If it was within arm’s reach, there was a good chance he would pick it up and run away.
‘So let’s split up too.’
Scarlett to the treasure room. Cordelia and Kaisa to the secret passageway that Count Kagehama is likely to use.
And the result was now.
Count Kagehama, whose pocket had been stolen in the meantime, looked at Cordelia with a bewildered face, and Kaisa immediately swung her fist.
“Ugh!”
In a situation where he was completely off guard, he was stabbed in the stomach – and it was a fist of incredible strength. Even Count Kagehama, who had mastered swordsmanship, had no ability to withstand it.
“Ugh, ugh.”
Cordelia looked down at Count Kagehama, who had collapsed, holding his stomach while gasping for breath, and spoke to Caesar with her eyebrows slightly narrowed.
“Isn’t that a bit too much?”
“You’re going too far with your angelic voice and scamming me?”
“This way!”
The screams and footsteps of the villains came closer. Instead of questioning them further, Cordelia threw herself straight into the hole, and Caesar followed suit, carrying Count Kagehama on his back like a bundle.
[Yuder! Got it!]
Cordelia threw herself into the air and sent a message magic to Uther, who was waiting on the roof.
Caesar grabbed Cordelia’s waist with one hand.
“Whoa-!”
One person holds it at his side and the other carries it on his shoulder.
Despite the weight of two people, Kaisa landed very stably and looked up at the night sky. Perhaps because the moon was bright, she seemed to have more strength than usual.
[Cordelia, I told Scarlett too. For now-]
“damage!”
It was at this moment that Uther, who had been relaying between Scarlett and Cordelia on the rooftop, suddenly stood up from his seat and shouted.
Tsuwaaaaaaah-!
A huge, red sword charged towards Cordelia and Caesar.
It was so fast that I didn’t think I could dodge it properly.
“Huh?!”
Caesar acted on instinct. He pulled Cordelia, who he was holding with one arm, closer into his arms, and jumped up with a big jump while carrying Count Kagehama on his back.
But the black aura was faster. The bright red black aura surged forward like a tidal wave and engulfed Kaisha’s waist.
Chuhwak-!
Kaiser closed his eyes tightly for a moment, but nothing happened. He landed back on the ground.
“uh?”
how?
Cordelia knew the answer. It was thanks to her fairy steps just before she touched the sword.
“Fuck! Is this the Ten Swordsman again?!”
A huge, bright red sword!
That was when Cordelia started to swear.
This time, a huge black energy surged forward, not horizontally, but vertically. At first glance, it was so huge that it looked like it was at least 5 meters tall at both ends.
“Wow!”
But this time I was able to react.
Caesar quickly dodged the sword by jumping to the right, and faced an abnormally large blade pouring down from the front.
“Where!”
Just before the head was cut off by the icy blade, a black dragon’s energy surged forward. Thunder struck in succession, and Kaisha threw Count Kagehama far away in a hurry before rolling around on the ground and leaving the place.
“evil!”
Cordelia, who was in Caesar’s arms, screamed, but now was not the time to be concerned about her health and self-esteem. She quickly opened her eyes and looked at the place where she had just been standing.
I saw Uder clashing with a very large man.
“Uder!”
“Haat!”
Yuder, who had quickly closed the distance with his first strike, instead of attacking with his sword, unleashed the Black Dragon’s energy once again. This was to buy time to regroup and join Cordelia.
‘Solar sphere!’
A pure white light blazed forth.
The giant enemy that had been expecting the attack – the giant groaned and stepped back, and Kaisha, who had been blankly open, shut her eyes tightly with an evil scream.
And Cordelia got out of Caesar’s embrace and stood up.
She was the one who closed her eyes one step ahead of the solar system because she knew Uther better than anyone else.
“Madurus.”
It wasn’t the Ten Swordsman.
It was clearly the corrupted dwarf Madhurs, one of Malekith’s subordinates.
‘There’s no one like that!’
The giant standing before my eyes was unusual.
It was definitely a giant, but it was a bit different from what we normally think of as a giant.
5 heads tall.
A typical dwarf male body type.
As with most martial arts, swordsmanship favored taller people over shorter ones.
Therefore, dwarf warriors tried to overcome the disadvantage of the lich by using long weapons such as halberds using their great strength.
But Madurus thought differently.
If this one is small, why don’t we just make it bigger?
Madurus focused on the magic of giantization, and eventually succeeded in increasing his body size several times.
It was the birth of a giant dwarf with a large head, large body, and large hands.
“Those bastards are showing off their tricks.”
Madhurs, with grey skin and a white beard, growled with glowing red eyes.
Covered in pitch-black armor and holding an abnormally large sword, he looked like a giant dwarf golem.
“The Castle of Steel.”
“A typical tanking warrior.”
“A powerful physical attack pouring down from a gigantic weapon with incredible brute force.”
“Both water and magic are excellent.”
“Basically dark attribute. It is weak to holy attribute, but it is not a critical weakness.”
“You just have to press the deal.”
It’s been a long time since we exchanged information.
Caesar stood up in surprise at the story of these two people.
“Madurus? Could it be the Steel Castle Madurus?!”
He was a legend – no, a figure from history.
Even in the library of the Marquis of Orphan, there was a record of the battle between Jennifer Orphan and Madhurs.
“Crazy, really?”
It was Kaisa who had already heard about Malekith’s resurrection from Uther and Cordelia.
But it was a fact that I couldn’t really feel.
The legendary evil dragon has been resurrected.
Since it was Kai’sa who had already experienced the Kraken, I believed it for a while, but there was still a part of me that was suspicious.
Nevertheless, the reason why he took such an active role now was because of his sense of duty to repay the favor to Uder and Cordelia, as well as the practical reason of being able to give a piece of cake to Count Kagehama.
But it was true.
Madhurs, one of Malekith’s three knights, appears.
“Kekekeke, you recognized me and didn’t run away? Your courage is truly admirable.”
Madurus let out a sinister laugh and lowered his sword. At the same time, light began to shine from the pouch on Madurus’ waist and the pouch Cordelia had taken from Count Kagehama.
Carlos’ tokens were resonating with each other.
‘Four of the seven families.’
And the fifth family including the Kagehama family.
Even when attacking your family, the method was different from now.
They were guys who were secretly working in their own way.
But on the fifth try, things were done openly like they are now.
Why is that? What is the reason?
At that moment, Yuder raised his head.
Because a hypothesis has been completed in my head.
“no way?!”
The reason it appeared in the fifth.
The reason why he brought out all the evidence he had already collected.
“Oh, did you notice?”
Madurus shrugged.
Caesar looked back at Juder, not knowing what to do, and Cordelia, instead of doing the same, looked at Madurus and behind him.
The Kagehama Count family was collapsing.
The garden was on fire, and the men who had burst out of the mansion began to surround the walls as if forming a siege.
So Cordelia took a deep breath.
Instead of thinking, I felt, and naturally understood what I had to do.
“Let’s go to Madures.”
Let’s take this opportunity to defeat him and take Carlos’ token.
Uther nodded at Cordelia’s words.
In any case, if we could defeat Madurus here and take the token, we could create an advantageous situation.
“Now, wait a minute. It’s Madurus. It’s Madurus.”
This was no ordinary opponent.
He wasn’t even in a weakened state like Sebastian.
Although Caesar spoke in confusion, Uther and Cordelia just glared at Madurus, who burst into laughter as if he was amazed.
“It wasn’t courage, but recklessness and madness. If you want to face me, you should bring at least someone like the Ten Swordsmen.”
“Oh, yeah, Ten Swordsman.”
That was right.
Although Madhurs wasn’t in perfect condition yet because Malekith had not yet been resurrected, considering his original specs, he would have needed to have specs at least similar to that of the Ten Swordsman to be able to deal with him.
Ten Swordsman.
That damn Ten Swordsman.
“Hey, Caesar.”
“uh?”
“Look carefully.”
Behind Cordelia’s back, a light wing spread out. At the same time, a pure white ring formed above her head, releasing the power of a powerful angel.
And that wasn’t all.
The moment Madurus flinched, thunder erupted. Yuder, transformed into a single bolt of lightning along with a black gale, rushed towards Madurus. Accelerated, he opened the sixth gate in one breath, and awakened the power of Sword Origin.
What would happen if we went back to a month ago and had a rematch with the Guardians?
Should I fight like I used to, spitting up blood?
Against the weakest of the Ten Swordsmen, the Guardian King?
Quagga River!
Once again the thunder roared.
And Caesar could see.
Uder’s answer.
The sword skills of one who has reached the level of Ten Swordsman!
“What the hell?!”
Madurus panicked. He instantly raised his strength to avoid Uder’s attack, which was faster and more powerful than he could have imagined. He quickly retreated and solidified his defense.
It was something incomprehensible.
It was impossible.
But it was a clear reality. The blow, which was filled with Uther’s power that had literally exploded, struck Madurus’ shield.
And that is why Madurus could not take his eyes off Yuder.
Madurus’s men who had been surrounding the wall were also surprised by the sudden release of power and all looked at Yuder.
Caesar did the same.
So Cordelia sent a message magic to Caesar, causing him to see herself rising into the air.
“ah?”
Caesar looked at Cordelia with a blank expression.
Cordelia, with a dark smile on her face, stood holding high a sword that was emitting a very white light.
“The original deal was to start right away.”
Before the opponent can respond properly.
In a blind spot that cannot be properly defended.
“Judgment Day.”
The true power of heavenly judgment that only angels can use.
Pure white blades rained down from high in the sky.
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