Chapter 267
KWAKWAKWANG!
A sword strike imbued with golden aura exploded against the Qiongqi’s body.
CHIIIIIK!
Black smoke rose from the Qiongqi’s dead body.
Zeke rushed forward with his sword to ensure a perfect finish.
At that moment, the ground shook and a demon beast sprang up from below, blocking Zeke’s path.
KYAAAAK!
It wasn’t a beast-type demon beast but rather a giant insect-type demon beast resembling an ant.
‘Damn it!’
Zeke swung his sword and split the demon beast in one strike.
But that wasn’t the end. More demon beasts kept springing up from underground.
Zeke took out Bahamut from his inventory and wielded swords in both hands, cutting down the demon beasts.
KWADDEUK! KWADEUK!
Yet even as black smoke rose from the Qiongqi’s dead body, the sound of bones reconnecting continued.
Zeke stepped back while watching the approaching demon beasts.
‘I need to deal with him quickly.’
Zeke put on Agamemnon’s mask and focused his purification power while planting both swords in the ground.
He planned to unleash a great purification by fully releasing the power of Agamemnon’s mask.
Zeke first unleashed the sacred flame technique, spewing light maces toward the demon beasts.
KWAKWAKWAKWANG!
Dozens of light lightning bolts poured down toward the demon beasts.
Zeke then unleashed the power of great purification.
WOOOOOONG!
Golden aura spread from his body, simultaneously expanding in all directions.
KIIIIIING!
As the two swords he had planted resonated, the power of purification swept through all the demon beasts at once.
KEEEEEEK―
The demon beasts touched by the purification power writhed in pain and spewed black smoke.
KAAAAK!
A horrific scream also erupted from the Qiongqi’s dead body.
However, when the suffering demon beasts heard the scream, they rushed to gather around the Qiongqi’s corpse, piling up like a mountain.
Before long, the Qiongqi’s corpse was completely hidden by the other demon beasts.
‘So the Four Fiends are capable of even this.’
A demon beast controlling other demon beasts.
It had too many peculiarities to be considered just another demon beast.
Zeke grabbed his swords and unleashed the power of great purification even more strongly.
WOOOONG!
Golden light rose into the air forming a ring. As the ring gradually widened, it scattered bright light.
Soon after, the ring vibrated and dispersed as if exploding.
PACHING!
The golden ring carried the power of great purification across the entire island forest.
At the same time, the light dispersed and drifted around the surroundings.
Zeke wrapped up the great purification skill and stood up.
Then he approached where the demon beasts were heavily piled up.
Though they had built a mountain with their bodies to protect the Qiongqi, they couldn’t escape the power of purification.
Since his companions weren’t around, Zeke unhesitatingly unleashed Gluttony toward the mountain of demon beasts.
CHUCHUCHUCHI!
Black shadows rose up and swallowed the clustered demon beasts.
After absorbing the demon beasts, Zeke felt something strange.
‘No message about absorbing the Qiongqi appears.’
Zeke quickly spread out his Beast sense to search the surroundings.
But the Qiongqi’s presence couldn’t be felt anywhere.
Zeke withdrew the shadows and examined where the demon beasts had been.
“Damn it!”
There was a hole in the ground.
* * *
“Princess, please eat.”
Clonne entered the tent where Arina was with a greeting.
When she set down warm soup in front of Arina, Arina smiled and shook her head.
“Clonne, I’m fine. I’m not hungry yet.”
Clonne sat down in front of her with a worried expression.
“You don’t need to blame yourself like this. If you hadn’t stopped them, none of the people would have survived.”
Though Clonne comforted Arina sincerely, Arina’s expression remained dark.
She thought that due to her poor judgment, she had almost put not only her companions but also Lubern’s children in danger.
She raised her head to look at Clonne and said.
“Clonne, actually I… I think I was under the illusion that I was strong after inheriting light magic.”
At those words, Clonne shook her head and said:
“W-princess, you are strong. And more beautiful than anyone! Also elegant… Anyway, you need to cheer up!”
To Clonne who had been an orphan, Arina was like a mother.
Even when the Rose Knights were being chased by the Holy Kingdom and living in the underground world, Arina took in and raised orphans despite being blind herself.
That’s why everyone in the Rose Knights treated Arina like a mother and had such strong loyalty that they would do anything for her.
When Arina reached out her hand, Clonne approached and laid her face on her knee.
Arina stroked Clonne’s head with a bitter expression.
Though Clonne was rough and uninhibited outside, to Arina she was still like a young child.
Arina said to Clonne.
“Clonne, I want to entrust the Rose Knights to you.”
At those words, Clonne raised her head abruptly and said:
“W-princess, what do you mean?”
“I’m going to step back from the front lines now and focus only on teaching the children. I’ll leave all the Knights’ affairs to you, Clonne.”
At those words, Clonne shook her head firmly.
“That’s impossible! The Rose Knights are a holy order that follows the God of Light. For us, the Princess is our only God of Light.”
Then Arina smiled and said.
“I’m not the God of Light. You know that well too.”
Arina took Clonne’s hand and said.
“Clonne, this is something I’ve been thinking about for a while. I would like you to lead the Rose Knights and follow Sir Zeke.”
At those words, Clonne’s eyes widened.
“C-Captain Zeke, you mean?”
“As you have probably noticed to some extent, Sir Zeke also inherited the bloodline of Lubern. In fact… he can use an even stronger power of light than me.”
She touched her eyes as she spoke.
“It was actually Sir Zeke’s power that healed my eyes. He… literally possesses the power of miracles.”
Clonne was shocked by Arina’s words.
Until now, she had thought Arina’s eyes had recovered through inheriting the power of light. The fact that Zeke had actually performed a miracle to heal them was surprising.
“Princess. I…”
“I’ve seen how happily you gets along with Sir Zeke’s knights. To be honest, though I’m only saying this now… You look better wearing armor than nun’s robes.”
Clonne made an embarrassed expression at Arina’s words.
In truth, she too had been surprised to find herself feeling greater joy in displaying her capabilities as a knight while training with the Black Sword Knights.
In reality, she had already reached the end of Blue Knight level and was approaching the realm of Red Knight.
Even without systematically learning mana training methods, Clonne was already displaying abilities far superior to other knights through just her instinctive sense and talent.
Arina patted her shoulder and said.
“There’s no need to rush. After you have thought it through enough, we can discuss…”
That’s when it happened.
Something caught Arina’s keen senses.
She jumped up from her seat and shouted.
“Clonne, ring the bell!”
Hearing Arina’s words, Clonne immediately ran outside and rang the warning bell.
DING! DING! DING! DING!
As the danger-warning bell rang, everyone in the camp tensed up and took defensive positions.
“Everyone to your positions!”
The dwarves who remained in camp took their positions at the anti-magical beast weapons they had assembled from the equipment and weapons they had brought.
Richmond led the undead legion, Cayman led the dragon warrior unit, and Gurab led the shark dragon unit as they guarded the surroundings.
But the enemy emerged from a completely unexpected place.
KIRRRRRRK!
Insect-type magical beasts burst through the ground beneath the camp.
KEEEEEEK!
Though it was sudden, the knights quickly and calmly rushed toward the magical beasts.
“CHAHAT!”
Felix, Aster, and Diego each led their knights to face the magical beasts that had entered the camp.
KWACHIK!
The magical beasts began to be pushed back by the knights’ composed response.
In that gap, the Rose Knights also attacked the magical beasts from behind.
“Die!”
PAZIZIZIK!
Clonne swung her mace wrapped in light’s punishment at the magical beasts. Each time her mace swung, magical beasts fell dead.
Nerissa and the young fishermen unit also caught the emerging magical beasts with nets and killed them by piercing their heads with harpoons in one strike.
“PHEW, what are these things?.”
“Brother! They won’t die if you stab like that. Try stabbing properly!”
While others were dealing with the magical beasts, Arina climbed up to the watchtower.
The ominous feeling she had sensed wasn’t coming from the ones underground.
Soon Zion approached her side and asked.
“Lady Arina. Why did you come here…?”
Just then, Arina’s eyes widened as she saw something flying through the air and shouted.
“Enemies are coming from the sky!”
KUGUGUGUGUGU!
A black swarm of insect-type magical beasts was approaching, carrying beast-type magical beasts.
Arina stretched her hand long toward the sky.
Then she gathered the power of light.
WOOOOOONG!
Dark clouds gradually began gathering to cover the sky.
KURRRRRRRNG!
And soon white light began shooting back and forth within the gathered dark clouds.
Arina clenched her fist and shouted.
“Heaven’s Thunder!”
The highest-tier attack magic of light that had disappeared when the Lubern dynasty was broken manifested.
PAZIZIZIK!
Lightning bolts of light began striking down from the dark clouds.
KWAKWAKWANG!
Along with massive thunder, bolts of light struck down toward the approaching magical beasts.
KEEEEEEK!
The insect-type magical beasts holding the beast-type magical beasts were struck by the Heaven’s Thunder lightning and crashed to the ground.
PUPUK!
The magical beasts that were struck by the light lightning and fell turned to mush.
The ones that got up through their strong vitality became sacrifices for Richmond, Cayman, and Gurab’s units who were waiting.
URRRRRRRNG!
As the massive light lightning struck down like divine punishment, the approaching magical beasts tried to turn back, unable to approach any further.
That’s when it happened.
There was something approaching, flapping its wings through the lightning.
WOOOOO!
The Qiongqi, now much larger than before, spread its wings wide and let out a horrific cry toward the retreating magical beasts.
The fleeing magical beasts then changed direction and charged toward the camp again.
At Arina’s gesture, Heaven’s Thunder struck down strongly again.
KWAZIZIZIK!
Half fell after being struck by lightning, but the remaining half continued their charge.
The magical beasts had no choice but to charge forward, as the Qiongqi behind them would catch and devour any that tried to turn back.
KEEEEEEK!
The magical beasts that had reached the camp released the beast-type magical beasts they were holding. Beast-kin magical beasts poured down from the sky like rain.
KURRRRRR―
With their strong bodies and recovery ability, the beast-type magical beasts immediately got up and rushed toward the knights who were attacking other magical beasts.
“You bastards!”
Nerissa shouted roughly as she summoned water spirits to sweep away all the surrounding magical beasts.
KEEEEEEK―
As the sea serpent-shaped water spirit coiled around and threw off the magical beasts, other magical beasts rushed toward Nerissa through the empty space.
WOOONG!
Light shone from Nerissa’s eyes and water appeared in mid-air, coiling around her body. Simultaneously, the swirling water swallowed the approaching magical beasts and drowned them.
The young fishermen unit cheered as they watched Nerissa’s ancient sorcery.
“Captain is so cool!”
“As expected of the Captain!”
Watching the magical beasts’ attack situation while floating in the air, the Qiongqi gritted its teeth as the humans fought better than expected.
Its plan to break the humans’ formation, petrify them, and devour their souls had gone awry.
The Qiongqi had planned to absorb souls here to replenish its power more before escaping the island for larger land.
The Qiongqi immediately turned away, not caring at all about its dispatched magical beasts being annihilated.
It planned to keep attacking the humans to drain and tire them before attacking when they were weakened. Though it had grown stronger, it couldn’t be careless given the large number of humans.
Just as the Qiongqi was about to return while planning for next time, it felt something approaching.
KURRRRRR!
The Qiongqi made an unpleasant expression as it sensed the presence of a human using strange power that suppressed its own power.
The Qiongqi quickly turned its body, opened its mouth wide, and breathed out strong petrifying smoke toward that human.
WOOOONG!
Darker and denser smoke than the dead Qiongqi’s filled the sky completely.
The Qiongqi believed that even a human with strange powers couldn’t avoid this smoke.
That’s when it happened.
PAZIZIZIK!
Lightning poured down toward the Qiongqi.
KIIIIK!
The Qiongqi hurriedly swerved to avoid the lightning.
Zeke, wearing Hersion and riding Bucephalus, revealed himself from within the smoke.
CHWARARARAK!
Chains extended from his hand and coiled around the Qiongqi’s body.
KEEEEEEK!
Though the Qiongqi caught in the soul sealing technique twisted its body frantically trying to escape the chains, the chains only constricted around the Qiongqi’s body more tightly.
A golden aura rose brilliantly from Zeke’s sword as he aimed at the Qiongqi.
Simultaneously, that light merged with Bucephalus’s lightning.
PAZIZIZIZIZIK!
Golden lightning exploded against the Qiongqi’s body wrapped in chains.
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