Dragonslayer’s Class Regression Chapter 135

Chapter 135

SWISH!

Gurab, who had grown almost as large as a basilisk after Zeke absorbed the hydra’s power, flicked his tongue and made threatening sounds.

“M-monster!”

“AAAAH!”

People on the main road fled in panic.

SWISH! SWISH!

As hydra’s poison was sprayed everywhere, acrid smoke rose from grass and trees.

The disguised Paladins were startled by Gurab’s appearance and formed a defensive line with their shields.

The hounds were confused at this sight.

‘Who are these bastards?’

That’s when it happened.

Clatter! Clatter!

Undead made of monster bones revealed themselves.

At the same time, a demi-lich appeared and shouted in an eerie voice.

『I am a servant of the ‘Herald of Blood and Madness’! Eliminate those beings of light immediately!』

The demi-lich suddenly ordered the disguised hounds.

The hounds were bewildered when the lich suddenly gave them orders. The surprised hounds drew their weapons.

The Paladins were equally surprised at this sight.

‘Who are these bastards?’

The Paladins recognized them as enemies alongside the monsters and immediately charged with their shields.

“Chaaarge!”

CRASH!

The undead monsters shattered and flew away when hit by the Paladins’ shields.

Then a figure in black armor leaped out from among the monsters and attacked the Paladins.

CLANG!

The attacked Paladins fully recognized the hounds as enemies.

“They’re heretics! The heretics summoned monsters and magical beasts!”

The Paladins, blinded by faith, interpreted the situation as they pleased.

Shield-bearing Paladins charged at the hounds with frenzied eyes.

The hounds had no choice but to counter with their drawn weapons when the Paladins charged.

Once chaos broke out, the reason for fighting didn’t matter.

They focused only on eliminating the enemies before them.

Zeke, watching all this while hidden in the bushes, smiled slyly.

‘Well done, Dragon warriors 1, 2, and 3.’

Zeke had secretly hidden Dragon warriors among the hounds and made them charge at the Paladins to start the fight.

As Zeke planned, the Paladins and hounds fought while misunderstanding each other’s identities.

‘It would be nice if they just destroyed each other like this.’

That’s when it happened.

PHEEEEEEE!

A loud horn sounded from behind.

As soon as the horn sounded, the fighting hounds immediately turned and began retreating.

Though the Paladins persistently chased the hounds, they were no match for those specialized in pursuit.

Zeke had Gurab and Richmond lead the Paladins as far from the main road as possible.

Then he pulled back to chase after the retreating hounds.

He needed to cut off their connection points before they could spread their net, creating an opening for Arina’s group to escape.

RUSTLE! RUSTLE!

Zeke, following the hounds while concealed, discovered them stopping in front of a cabin deep in the forest.

Then a knight disguised as a mercenary came out of the cabin.

‘Seems to be Blue Knight rank. The field commander?’

The Imperial Knight shouted at the hounds.

“You idiots! I told you to capture the Lubern bloodline, why did you clash with the Paladins?!”

Though the hounds felt wronged by the sudden situation, they had no choice.

In the military, a superior’s word was law.

The knight gritted his teeth and shouted.

“Damn! Can’t even handle surveillance properly! Commander Daria will have my head if she finds out!”

The name Daria caught Zeke’s ear.

‘Daria… Does he mean Daria Calvi, the Archer of the Imperial Knights?’

Daria Calvi, Knight of the Sagittarius constellation, was the most skilled among the Empire’s female knights.

She mainly used a bow rather than a sword, and was said to be able to accurately hit an ant on a wall from kilometers away.

‘If Daria Calvi is here, this could get troublesome.’

Morgan Buffon, Knight of the Snake Palace, was more of an excellent strategist than a powerful knight.

But Daria was known as the closest to a Black Knight among the Empire’s Red Knights due to her outstanding skills.

Zeke couldn’t help but feel pressured.

‘I didn’t know the Empire considered the Lubern bloodline important enough to involve a Commander.’

Suddenly, Zeke recalled Arina’s words about how all powers on the continent wanted to possess the Lubern bloodline who could use miracles.

The Empire’s Emperor, obsessed with immortality, couldn’t help but be tempted.

Zeke drew his sword and put on a mask.

‘I need to divert their attention as much as possible.’

Zeke ordered Richmond to lead the monster troops and drive the Paladins toward where the hounds were.

If the two groups weren’t allies, they needed to be made to clash as much as possible to shake things up.

GRRRROAR!

Gurab’s roar was heard from afar.

The Imperial Knights and hounds tensed and drew their weapons.

“Damn, suddenly a monster horde.”

The Imperial Knight signaled nearby hounds to join with the main force.

Zeke stealthily followed them while guiding Richmond and Gurab.

The hounds heading into the mountains gathered in front of a cave where a camp was set up.

‘These bastards have camps set up everywhere.’

Zeke conveyed the cave’s location to Richmond and Gurab.

He tried to observe the situation while staying hidden.

Suddenly, black lightning struck towards where Zeke was.

KWAKWAKWABANG!

Zeke quickly rolled his body to dodge the lightning.

‘What?’

Zeke couldn’t help but be flustered when magic accurately struck him while he was in stealth.

Then something crossed Zeke’s mind.

‘That Abyss mage at the Bird tribe temple also figured out my position.’

Though he didn’t know the principle, it seemed the Abyss had detection magic that could penetrate stealth.

Zeke looked around with his dragon eyes.

Then a mage wearing a black robe appeared from inside the cave.

“You fools! Over there!”

The mage once again accurately pointed to where Zeke was.

Knights and hounds rushed towards where the mage pointed with his staff.

WHEEEK!

Zeke dropped his stealth and lured the hounds and knights towards the forest.

While doing so, he occasionally took out daggers from his chest and threw them at the hounds.

SWOOSH SWOOSH SWOOSH!

The Aura infused daggers struck the hounds’ legs and arms.

The knights deflected the daggers with their swords and charged straight at Zeke.

CLANG!

The Imperial knight’s sword clashed with Zeke’s sword.

“Haaaaah!”

The Imperial knight raised his aura blade and pushed against Zeke.

‘That level won’t work.’

Zeke countered while blocking the knight’s sword that was only pushing forward, using his water force field.

KWABANG!

A powerful sword strike hit the knight’s armor.

“KUHECK!”

The knight’s armor completely crumpled and was about to break from the properly landed strike.

The Imperial knights realized Zeke’s skills were extraordinary and corrected their stance.

Zeke deployed his wind force field against them.

WHOOOOOONG!

A powerful wind rose from Zeke’s sword. He unleashed a storm blade straight at the knights.

CHWAAAAAAAK!

A huge storm enveloped the knights and blew them into the forest.

WHEEEK!

Zeke swung his sword at the knights who lost their balance.

CLANG!

Some knights somehow managed to raise their swords and counter even within the storm, but most fell after being hit by Zeke’s sword.

“KUHECK!”

After the storm subsided, more than half of the Imperial forces were gone.

The Imperial knight gritted his teeth and pointed his sword at Zeke.

A will to fight to the death could be felt.

Zeke wondered as he looked at the Imperial knight.

‘Why are they being so loyal to that crazy emperor?’

He couldn’t understand why the Imperial knights were so desperately carrying out the orders of an emperor who was ransacking all the dungeons in the continent saying he would achieve immortality.

Regardless of Zeke’s doubts, aura blades rose fiercely from the knights’ swords.

“HAAAAAH!”

The Imperial knights charged at Zeke all at once.

KWABANG!

Zeke’s sword imbued with the will of destruction clashed with the knights’ swords.

“KUHECK!”

A knight who took the will of destruction head-on coughed up blood and collapsed.

‘I should pull back here and lure them further away.’

Just as Zeke was about to withdraw after seeing the knights halt from the big collision.

KWAKWAKWABANG!

Black lightning struck again where Zeke was.

‘Damn mage.’

The black-robed mage appeared with black smoke.

He aimed his staff at Zeke and said.

“Who are you?”

Without answering, Zeke pointed his sword at the mage.

‘Perfect timing. I’ll lure them from here.’

Zeke stepped back while using Light Mace against the mage.

KWAKWAKWAKWABANG!

A massive light fell like it was piercing down towards the mage.

SCREEEECH!

Black smoke rose from the black hemisphere surrounding the mage’s body.

“Damn Lubern magic. Catch him! He’s of Lubern bloodline!”

As Zeke expected, the mage recognized the light magic.

Zeke turned and fled deep into the forest.

PEEEEEEE!

Whistles began to echo all around.

It was a signal of the hounds spreading their net to gradually tighten the encirclement.

‘Richmond, how are things with the paladins?’

‘Urrrgh. Master. These guys are too persistent. Gurab and I might die at this rate.’

At those words, Zeke had Richmond and Gurab enter deep into the hounds’ net.

He planned to trap the paladins inside the net.

Meanwhile, the mage behind him floated and chased while shouting.

“Catch him! We must catch him!”

Zeke maintained a proper distance while luring the mage.

It was groundwork to catch the Abyss mage.

GRRRRRR!

At some point, Gurab’s roar was heard from afar.

Zeke realized the paladins had entered deep into the net’s territory and dismissed Richmond and Gurab’s summons.

Then he stopped fleeing and turned towards the mage.

The mage who was flying sliding across the ground raised his staff and swung it at Zeke.

“I’ll paralyze you alive!”

CRACKLE! CRACKLE!

Dozens of black energy balls flew towards Zeke.

At that moment, Zeke took out the orichalcum sword he had placed in his inventory.

WOOOONG!

And immediately used the Light’s Punishment skill.

CRACKLE CRACKLE!

Current made of light flowed through Zeke’s sword.

‘HOOH?’

Zeke deflected the energy ball fired by the mage with his orichalcon sword flowing with the light of punishment.

SLASH!

The energy ball cut by the orichalcon sword turned to ashes and scattered.

Seeing this scene, the mage paused in mid-air in bewilderment.

“Im- impossible! Cutting magic with a sword!”

Zeke cut down all the energy balls flying towards him.

Then he jumped into the air and swung his sword at the mage.

SWOOSH!

But only black smoke remained where the mage had been.

Landing on the ground, Zeke scanned the surroundings with his dragon eyes.

Then he launched dragon claws towards where he sensed a suspicious presence.

Slash!

He felt something catch on the dragon claws.

“KEUUGH!”

The smoke gathered and revealed the mage.

Black blood dripped from his chest.

“Why isn’t the wound healing…? How is this possible..?”

This wasn’t the first time using dragon claws, but it was the first time seeing such an effect where it completely blocked or finished off someone. Wounds from dragon race skills seemed impossible to heal.

‘I didn’t know dragon race skills had such an effect.’

While purification blade and light skills destroyed magical energy, dragon clan skills seemed to inflict fatal wounds on them in a different way.

CRACKLE!

Holding the white sword wrapped in the light of punishment, Zeke slowly approached the mage.

The mage pointed his staff at Zeke with one hand while trying to stop his bleeding.

Zeke spoke to the mage.

“Which demon’s subordinate are you?”

The mage flinched at his words.

Then he soon let out a groan like a monster’s cry.

“So it’s you. The one who terminated the project in Allensia. I never thought Lubern would get involved.”

As expected, this mage also seemed to be a member of the Abyss.

Zeke pointed his sword and said.

“If you’re pursuing us for miracles, it’s useless. Tell that mad emperor to give up such delusions.”

The mage spat out a mouthful of blood and laughed darkly.

“You will never escape from here.”

Then suddenly the mage took out a dagger and slit his own throat.

Zeke was startled by the mage’s sudden suicide.

‘Damn, I needed to capture him alive to get information.’

Zeke gritted his teeth looking at the mage’s corpse bleeding out.

That’s when it happened.

Hiss!

Black smoke began rising from the mage’s body.