I Killed the Demon King. It Was a Mistake. Chapter 108

I Killed the Demon King. It was a mistake.

Chapter 108

Normally, it would be impossible for Caesar to fight equally with Yugar.

The stimulant’s effect triples Caesar’s entire specs.

Skin and muscles become 3 times tougher, and strength, speed, and overall aura amount all increase threefold.

According to Smir, the stimulant’s effect lasts exactly 1 hour.

Caesar had to settle the match within that time no matter what.

Caesar used wind riding.

He reached in front of Yugar instantly, as if teleporting.

Caesar’s twin axes flew simultaneously to split Yugar’s head.

Flash!

At that moment, Yugar’s golden eyes flashed.

The Luminion Fury was drawn upward from below.

—!

As Caesar’s axe met the Luminion Fury, it pushed away the air completely.

Unlike before, Yugar neither knelt nor showed signs of strain.

What had changed?

‘Now he’s getting serious.’

Caesar saw Yugar’s flashing golden eyes.

Those flashing eyes were a blood technique that only those of the Hironeel bloodline could manifest.

Hunger (虛飢).

While it’s an awakening technique like Berserker, in terms of efficiency alone, it’s far superior to Berserker.

The principle of Hunger is the same as Berserker’s rapidly pushing aura stored in the dantian into bones and muscles.

But the stark difference is that like a hungry beast tearing into prey, the muscles and bones devour and accumulate aura.

Unlike Berserker’s simple and crude release, it was like having a large pot to store it in.

Jeez!

The ground where Yugar and Caesar stood cracked.

Caesar’s twin axes and the Luminion Fury screamed.

The current rising from Thunder tried to corrode the Luminion Fury, but it devoured it like a beast.

The more it did so, the deeper the Luminion Fury’s blue-green light became.

The Magic sword (魔劍) Luminion Fury was beginning to awaken.

Caesar made a quick judgment.

He couldn’t end it with a head-on battle.

Caesar pushed Yugar back, made Thunder smaller, and threw it.

Thunder riding the wind reached Yugar almost at the same time as Caesar.

Yugar controlled the frost blades to create a shield and blocked Thunder.

Unlike before, the shield made of blades had become smaller and thicker.

He had read Caesar’s attack patterns and routes.

‘It’s the same as with Vigilante.’

Vigilante also read Caesar’s attack directions and patterns, blocking his attacks and creating openings with maximum efficiency.

Yugar too was blocking and deflecting Caesar’s attacks with minimal effort.

‘I can’t let the same thing happen.’

Yugar blocked Caesar’s frontal attack.

The air was pushed back again.

But the difference was that Thunder, which had bounced far away, flew along Yugar’s right leg as if alive.

It was the effect of Path of the Wind Form 6: Steel Wind.

Yugar, slightly surprised by the new pattern, quickly moved the frost blades.

But Caesar wouldn’t let that slide.

Caesar dodged the Luminion Fury and kicked apart the frost blades before they could gather again.

Thunder flew through the broken frost blade barrier toward Yugar.

Yugar’s thoughts seeped into Caesar’s mind.

-Impressive.

As knights reach their peak, their speed, strength, and equipment specs become almost identical.

Yet even among top-tier knights, there are different levels.

The clear standard that divides these levels is experience and technique.

While technical aspects have compatibility issues and vary depending on the opponent, Yugar thought few could match his experience.

But for the first time, he felt that this young knight might surpass him even in experience.

‘That’s natural.’

Yugar’s experience and judgment built over long years can all be grasped by Caesar when within 3m range.

Currently, Caesar is definitely one step ahead of Yugar, and moreover, he has somewhat filled the relatively lacking technical aspects through his duel with Vigilante.

This meant Caesar had some chance of winning.

Yugar didn’t think about dodging the approaching axe that was sparking lightning.

Since Caesar’s axe is wrapped in sharp wind, its attack range is wider than expected.

Then he should block it, but Caesar skillfully dodged in the exact opposite direction of where Thunder was coming when avoiding Yugar’s sword.

Too close for the sword to reach, and dodging would mean accepting bleeding.

-So you’re making me bring this out already.

Yugar extended his left hand toward Thunder.

Was he planning to sacrifice his left hand?

No.

The Luminion Fury’s silver blade burst forth, quickly gathering in his left hand to form a massive shield.

Ding!

Caesar marveled at Yugar’s complete form that had blocked Thunder.

‘I never dreamed I’d see this in reality.’

The Luminion Fury’s blade, which had been in the form of a greatsword, became somewhat shorter and thinner, reduced to about the size of a bastard sword.

Instead, the blade boasted a beautiful blue-green light as if forged from emerald.

It felt as if the Luminion Fury we had seen until now was merely a scabbard made to cover that emerald blade.

Thud!

Caesar swung Lefty once to create wind, and retrieved Thunder that was flying in the air.

As Yugar’s Luminion Fury gently touched the ground, the solid earth melted red.

“I’ll honestly admit it. I underestimated you.”

An emerald tentacle protruded from Luminion Fury’s guard.

The tentacle wandered in the air for a moment searching for its path before burrowing into Yugar’s arm.

Then the tentacle began greedily sucking up Yugar’s blood and aura.

Nevertheless, Yugar didn’t make a single groan.

“I thought you were young and inexperienced. But I was wrong.”

Yugar let out a long breath.

“You are a complete knight.”

Yugar charged forward for the first time.

The sight of Yugar rushing forward with his shield held up front in his left hand reminded one of a massive cannon.

Caesar saw the shape of the shield.

It looked like the full moon that could always be seen when looking at the sky.

Caesar threw thunder and swung Lefty toward Yugar.

Clang!

Along with a heavy gale, sharp winds gilded here and there.

Unlike before, there was no overall displacement of air.

It was because Caesar controlled it.

The winds that tried to scatter in all directions became dozens of wind blades flying toward Yugar’s body.

Boom!

Yugar blocked all those sharp winds with frost blades he had prepared in advance.

Then he thrust Luminion Fury behind his shield.

The shield that should have blocked it created a path for Luminion Fury to advance as the emerald blade touched it and made a hole.

This was the unique swordsmanship of the House of Margrave Hironeel.

Moon Eclipse.

It was a shield-sword technique that only those who could properly use Luminion Fury could employ.

***

Mitchell watched the duel while wearing a hood.

Despite Arch Duke’s threat to leave Homigraph, Mitchell wanted to see this duel with his own eyes.

Margrave Yugar Hironeel.

Yugar was famous for having gone on a dueling journey when he was young to objectively measure his strength.

Though Mitchell was very young at the time, he still remembers the scene when Yugar came to House Redfield and crossed swords with his father.

At that time, Yugar wasn’t holding a frost blade nor Luminion Fury, but his near-perfect shield-sword technique was enough to trouble his father, and it eventually ended in a draw.

But Mitchell knows.

That it was his father’s clear defeat, but Yugar deliberately held back to preserve the Duke’s honor.

So Mitchell was very curious about how much stronger Yugar had become after obtaining the ‘Frost Blade’ and the demon sword ‘Luminion Fury’.

Would Caesar be strong enough to reveal Yugar’s full power?

Could I, now at a similar age to my father back then, defeat the current Yugar?

But all those questions were blown away by Caesar’s amazing fighting spirit and combat operation.

‘…Amazing.’

Not only did he make the demon sword Luminion Fury reveal its true form, but he was properly breaking down Yugar’s ‘Moon Eclipse’.

Caesar dodged the eerie emerald blade that pierced through the shield with dancer-like graceful movements before swinging his axe again.

As if he knew how Yugar would attack.

An axe as a weapon is made for offensive purposes, so it’s very vulnerable to defense.

So you either have to overwhelm with power and speed or compete with movement…

‘He’s playing mind games.’

Caesar was always one step ahead of Yugar.

As if he knew exactly how Yugar would attack and defend, when Yugar blocked with his shield, Caesar deflected it, and when Yugar attacked, Caesar was already at an angle to counterattack.

This sight reminded Mitchell of Yan.

Yan would parry Mitchell’s sword as if he knew exactly how Mitchell would move, and always position himself at an advantageous point.

Then Mitchell would slowly lose momentum like a withering plant and inevitably be defeated.

‘Could Caesar actually win?’

Not just Mitchell, but everyone here thought Caesar would be completely defeated.

Caesar’s combat ability was almost fully understood through word that he had lost by a narrow margin to the prophet ‘Vigilante’.

After seeing his performance in the infinite duels with their own eyes, they were certain that while he would rank within the top 1,000 in the Empire for single duels, he would fall short of the top 100.

In other words, they expected that Caesar’s strength could never match Yugar’s.

His speed would also fall short.

And even his experience would be lacking.

But Caesar, through some unknown method, had caught up to Yugar’s strength and speed.

And his experience was one step ahead of Yugar’s.

The current battle was at a stalemate only because Caesar’s equipment was inferior to Yugar’s.

What would have happened if Yugar didn’t have the frost blade and Luminion Fury?

Mitchell could hardly imagine the result.

‘Just who are you, Caesar.’

Using the barbarian secret technique that Barre uses.

You, who at such a young age possesses experience that seems to see through your opponent.

Are you a genius like Yan?

Why has heaven allowed so many geniuses on this earth? [Tl/N: LOL]

Is it because it’s the mixed era?

Or because the world needs them?

At that moment, blood sprayed along with a heaven-shaking roar from the center of the dueling ground.

“Uriyaaaaaaa!”

Whose blood was it?

Mitchell stood up, disregarding appearances.

***

Yugar couldn’t help but smile.

Who would have thought he’d meet such a splendid warrior in his twilight years.

Although this duel began with dishonor.

At this moment, he was having as much fun as when he went on his dueling travels in his youth.

Moon Eclipse.

Ironically, this shield swordsmanship that symbolizes the Hironeel family is known only by name, with few having actually seen it.

That’s because to use Moon Eclipse, one must completely reveal the Luminion Fury.

The core operational method of Moon Eclipse lies in the fact that while the opponent must be conscious of the shield, Yugar can strike with his sword without having to be mindful of the shield as an obstacle.

Even those with the fastest reaction speeds find it difficult to perfectly block a sword that comes flying unexpectedly from a blind spot.

Perhaps only technique-type knights who have trained their ‘Sensation Aura Operation Technique’ to the extreme could react to it?

But Caesar was different.

As if he could see through the shield, he accurately caught the direction of Yugar’s sword and even counterattacked.

Such movement would be impossible without reading Yugar’s thoughts in advance.

Therefore, ironically, the reason this duel could maintain some semblance of balance was not because Yugar was more skilled than Caesar, but because he had better equipment.

‘If Caesar wins…’

What would happen if Caesar defeats him and survives?

Could he become an honorable knight who would properly establish the crumbling empire?

What if Yugar kills Caesar in this duel?

Wouldn’t Yugar be committing the most terrible sin in the world?

Gulp gulp!

The Luminion Fury vibrated as if craving more blood.

And two tentacles extending from the guard additionally burrowed into Yugar’s right forearm.

The blade became longer and darker.

‘Getting hungry.’

Yugar was not only running out of stamina but was also being overwhelmed by the urge to put anything in his mouth.

However, the more this happened, Yugar’s body moved faster and stronger, responding more sensitively.

The Hironeel family’s awakening technique ‘Hunger’ had the characteristic of becoming stronger and faster as stamina depleted and hunger grew.

The demon sword Luminion Fury also greedily craved Yugar’s blood and aura, with tentacles increasing one by one as the user became weaker and mentally depleted.

Eventually, he could enter a state of unconsciousness and die with only his skin remaining after the demon sword sucked all his blood and aura.

That’s why the word ‘demon sword’ always precedes the name Luminion Fury.

“Uwaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Yugar let out a battle cry.

Yugar pulled himself together from his weakened state of mind.

And he struck his sword towards Caesar.

Faster.

Stronger.

At a speed and angle Caesar couldn’t react to.

Yugar’s life isn’t his alone.

Yugar decided to kill this honorable and righteous person to save his son.

Holy water.

God’s gift that can cure all diseases.

The Royder Order promised to give the holy water if he just killed Caesar.

With that alone, he could save his son.

The Hironeel family must continue through my son.

The upright son who, among three siblings, uniquely understood and mastered the ‘Snow Mountain’.

He couldn’t bear to watch such a son die not honorably in battle, but withering away in a hospital room.

My son must survive.

He must survive to continue the Hironeel family line and become a great roof protecting the continent.

Even if I die.

Yugar struck with his sword.

But Caesar wasn’t there.

“Uriaaaaaaaaah!”

Caesar’s Thunder was flying towards Yugar’s right hand.

Swoosh!

Yugar instinctively pulled back his right arm.

Then Caesar’s Thunder cut off the tentacles that were extending from the Luminion Fury.

Blood spurted out and the tentacles drooped.

Ziiiing-!

The Luminion Fury trembled as if screaming.

For Yugar, who couldn’t use sword energy, the Luminion Fury could provide sharp cutting power like sword energy.

But it demanded a lot of aura and blood in return.

Now that one of the tentacles that was sucking Yugar’s blood had been cut off, the Luminion Fury instantly became overloaded.

The size of the Luminion Fury became strangely smaller.

The blade part became bumpy as if eaten by a mouse.

Gulp! Gulp!

The three tentacles stuck in Yugar’s forearm started frantically sucking his blood and aura.

Yugar suddenly felt dizzy as if he was becoming anemic.

But Caesar had no intention of being considerate of Yugar’s physical condition.

Caesar rushed at Yugar.

Yugar instinctively parried Caesar’s axe.

Clang!

For the first time, Caesar was pushed back in a test of strength against Yugar.

The axe was pushed back and Caesar was stopped.

This was the effect of Yugar’s blood technique ‘Hunger’.

-Cannot lose.

Yugar’s complicated mind began to become simple and clear.

-Will win.

The face of his son in Yugar’s mind started to become blurry.

-Will kill.

Yugar’s golden eyes began to turn purple.

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