Dragonslayer’s Class Regression Chapter 99

Chapter 99

“These crazy bastards!”

Zeke gritted his teeth watching the outlaws popping up endlessly like cockroaches.

He rode his horse back to rejoin Carus’s group.

Zeke cast a wide-range buff and spread Healing Factor.

WOOOONG!

The companions and even the horses were temporarily restored.

In the urgent situation, the other companions didn’t notice and just rushed forward.

At that moment, a massive sandstorm began blowing in front of the wasteland.

Simon shouted.

“Boss! From here on is Ishtar’s territory!”

“Keep going!”

Zeke’s group penetrated through the sandstorm and went in.

The pursuing outlaws gradually stopped their chase knowing it was Ishtar’s territory.

But the hounds didn’t stop pursuing.

They too charged through the sandstorm.

Watching this, Zeke gritted his teeth.

“Those persistent bastards…”

Since his previous life, Zeke only had bad ties with the hounds.

He shouted to Simon.

“I’ll take care of those guys! Don’t stop and keep going!”

Zeke turned his horse around and charged towards the hounds in the sandstorm.

The wind blew more violently, making it hard to secure proper visibility.

But Zeke using Dragon Eye skill could see the hounds through the sandstorm.

‘About twenty Purple Knights. Seems there’s one Blue Knight mixed in too. How can the Empire produce so many knights like this?.’

While the Draker family overwhelmed the Empire in numbers of Blue Knights and Black Knights, the Empire had overwhelmingly more troops at the Purple Knight level.

Moreover, among the hounds Zeke saw in his previous life, there was even a group composed entirely of Blue Knights with Red Knights mixed in.

Whoosh!

Zeke spread a wind force field and unleashed a gust towards the charging hounds.

Boom boom boom boom!

The gust mixed with the raging sandstorm swept over the hounds.

The commander leading the hound unit shouted.

“Damn it! That bastard’s using magic!”

People of this era who didn’t know about Elemental Sword inevitably mistook it for magic.

Zeke cut down the hounds who fell from their horses while cutting through the gust.

“Arghhhh!”

The hounds with their vision blocked by the sandstorm couldn’t avoid Zeke’s sword.

Then a sword light flashed behind Zeke.

Whoosh!

A Blue Knight swung an Aura Blade.

Swoosh!

Zeke dodged the sword with Shadowless step.

Then he immediately concentrated Aura throughout his body and body slammed towards the horse the knight was riding.

Boom!

Neeeigh!

The horse hit by Zeke’s attack fell sideways.

The knight who was riding the horse immediately got up and charged at Zeke again.

“Haaaaah!”

Zeke deflected the hound’s sword imbued with Aura Blade using his sword filled with gold force.

“Kugh!”

As his wrist stung from the tremendous impact, the Blue Knight retreated back instead of charging again.

He shouted to the other hounds.

“Catch this guy! I’ll chase the prince.”

Then he quickly turned and rode another hound’s horse towards Carus.

Zeke, now urgent, had no choice but to take the Dragon Slaying Technique basic stance.

Woong!

A crescent-shaped aura shot out from his sword.

Slash!

The Blue Knight riding on horseback was hit by the crescent aura Zeke launched from behind and fell from his horse.

He didn’t die, probably wearing armor inside.

“Kugh! That bastard! He’s a Draker!”

The hound immediately recognized Zeke’s Dragon Slaying Technique.

Zeke clenched his teeth.

If even one person escaped here, there was a risk his identity would be exposed.

Zeke focused his mind and raised Bahamut.

Woooong!

Aura surged from the sword.

Zeke’s body moved like a gale.

Dragon Slaying Technique

Wind Technique

Wind Blade

Like wind becoming a single blade, sharp sword strikes poured from Zeke’s body as he ran like the wind..

Slashhhh!

Moving between the hounds, Zeke’s sword that became wind cut their necks, pierced their hearts, and severed their limbs.

“Arghhhh!”

The hounds couldn’t block Zeke’s attacks that had become one with the sandstorm.

After a stream of wind passed, all the hounds fell.

Zeke approached where the Blue Knight who hadn’t died was with his sword raised.

The Blue Knight gritted his teeth looking at Zeke.

“Damn you Drakers. The Empire’s flame will burn you…!”

Slice!

Before finishing his words, Zeke’s sword cut off his neck.

While wondering how to handle the knights’ corpses that had traces of Dragon Slaying Technique, Zeke gathered them in one place and placed his hand on the bodies.

“Power of Decay.”

He tried using the power gained from devouring the great dragon species.

Then starting from the corpses touched by Zeke’s hand, decay gradually began progressing.

TSSS! TSSS! TSSS!

The corpses decayed at a rapid speed, and finally even their armor and swords completely corroded and scattered with the sandstorm.

Zeke was shocked seeing the corpses disappear in an instant.

“So this is the power of decay… It could be an incredible weapon if used well.”

After handling the hounds’ corpses with the power of decay, Zeke mounted a living war horse and rushed towards Carus’s group.

Breaking through the fierce sandstorm, when I moved quickly towards the group and almost reached them.

Something was wrong.

‘That…?’

Simon and Boris had fallen while bleeding, holding their swords, and Carus was aiming a crossbow at someone.

Zeke jumped off his horse and unleashed the Wind Storm.

Whoosh!

Zeke swung his sword at the enemy approaching Carus.

Clash!

They deflected Zeke’s sword imbued with Aura power with a dagger.

Zeke stood in front of Carus and pointed his sword at the enemies.

The two standing before Zeke had slender builds and wore clothes made of cotton, with their faces covered by chadors.

There was only one place that wore such distinctive attire.

‘Ishtar’s mystic artists.’

Zeke threw a potion to Simon and asked.

“What happened?”

Simon applied the potion to his wound and used the rest on Boris who had deeper wounds before answering.

“Those bastards suddenly appeared and attacked.”

Zeke pointed his sword at the Ishtar side and asked.

“Why did you attack us?”

One of them stepped forward and said.

“You ignored the Ishtar family’s exile order and entered their territory.”

It was an unwritten rule that when the Ishtar family issues an exile order, no one can enter the family’s territory.

Zeke glared at them and said.

“Are you saying you attacked immediately without even hearing our circumstances?”

“We prioritize the family’s exile order above all else. Those who ignore the holy sandstorm’s warning cannot have good intentions. There is only judgment from the Earth God.”

Since the Ishtar family was famous for being stubborn and narrow-minded, there was no point in further dialogue.

Zeke took a deep breath and slowly opened his mouth.

Ancient Eastern language flowed from his mouth.

“Under the name of the Earth God, I wish to determine the guilt of violating the exile order through an honor duel.”

The Ishtar warrior was shocked by Zeke’s words.

“You, you! How… Do you know the holy laws of earth?!”

The Ishtar family was a place that strictly followed family laws passed down for a long time.

Among the laws of the Ishtar family, there was one that took precedence above all.

Holy judgment through warriors’ confrontation.

The Earth God they worship was also the god of warriors.

Therefore, when someone commits a crime or a problem occurs, there was a law stating that after a duel betting warrior’s honor, one could know what judgment the Earth God had made based on the result.

Since Ishtar was the most closed-off place on the continent, naturally no one outside knew about this law.

However, Zeke knew about Ishtar’s laws thanks to his experience of being in a special organization in his previous life.

When the warrior’s law suddenly came up, the Ishtar warriors showed surprised looks.

Then someone who had been quietly watching from behind stepped forward.

Another warrior was shocked.

“My, my lady, are you going to participate in the duel?”

The warrior nodded and stood in front of Zeke.

The Ishtar warrior soon held uniquely shaped daggers in both hands.

The blade was wavy like water.

Zeke knew that dagger was the Ishtar family’s exclusive weapon.

‘Using that dagger. Seems to be a warrior of considerable status within the family.’

Ishtar, one of the three transcendent families.

They were a family of mystic practitioners different from the knights of the Central Continent.

They display unique physical techniques combining weapon arts, assassination arts, and poison arts after strengthening their bodies using mystic arts.

While Zeke was recalling about Ishtar, the Ishtar warrior took stance with the daggers.

Zeke also took the Dragon Slaying stance with Bahamut.

One could not let their guard down for even a moment when facing an Ishtar mystic artist.

Swoosh!

The Ishtar warrior rushed towards Zeke first.

Clash!

The warrior swung the daggers with animal-like movements.

Zeke stepped back, pushed by the force in the daggers.

‘Incredible strength. As if using Aura.’

Zeke also concentrated Aura in his sword and clashed with the warrior’s daggers.

BANG! BANG!

When the sword and daggers collided, it sounded like metal masses crashing.

Zeke swung his sword with all his might against the warrior’s attacks who wielded the daggers with sharp mystic angle techniques in continuous linked movements like dancing.

‘Strong.’

Central Continent’s swordsmanship evolved in a way optimized for Aura training.

However, Ishtar family’s mystic arts focused on efficient killing techniques.

Thanks to this, warriors of the Ishtar family were all worthy of being called killing experts.

They were specialists of killing on a different level from mere assassins.

Clash!

Under the endless chain of attacks, Zeke couldn’t properly find a moment to use Dragon Slaying technique.

Zeke stepped back and changed his stance.

“Whew.”

After catching his breath and taking the Elemental Sword stance, Zeke spread the water power field.

WHOOSH!

Among what he learned from Kaisir, the water power field was the most difficult to acquire.

Zeke’s sword advanced smoothly like waves.

CLASH!

When the flow of the sword suddenly changed, the Ishtar warrior was bewildered.

Like other knights of the Central Continent, they had only been defending, unable to find timing to use Aura, but suddenly displayed a completely different sword.

SWOOSH!

Though slower than Zeke’s previous sword strikes, it had even fewer openings than before.

The Ishtar warrior felt their sword dance’s flow being disrupted by Zeke’s sword.

Eventually, the Ishtar warrior had to retreat, unable to properly execute their mystic angle technique against Zeke’s sword that kept thrusting between their linked movements.

Whoosh!

A sandstorm blew between Zeke and the Ishtar warrior.

They glared at each other without moving.

Though they appeared to be standing still, in reality, an enormous number of exchanges were taking place.

The other Ishtar warrior watching was shocked.

‘Good heavens. To think there was a warrior who could fight evenly with the young lady.’

She was called the greatest genius in Ishtar family history.

Even the family’s top warriors couldn’t keep up with her sword dance.

In terms of physical techniques, no one in the family could match her, so it was shocking that an outsider who invaded their territory was fighting evenly with her.

That’s when it happened.

Swoosh!

The two lunged at each other simultaneously.

Zeke’s sword swept through the sandstorm like drawing a massive wave.

WHOOOOSH!

The Ishtar warrior running towards the wave-like sword strike spun her  body while holding the daggers and rode up that wave.

Swoosh!

The warrior who rode up the wave smoothly spun her body once more, jumped into the air, and unleashed a flying Kick towards Zeke.

A whirlwind kick containing the force of ten thousand pounds fell toward Zeke.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

A massive explosion occurred where Zeke had been, causing sandstorms to rise in all directions.