Dragonslayer’s Class Regression Chapter 113

Chapter 113

‘A Hersion of the Thirteen Constellations.’

There are fewer than a hundred knights in the Empire who have been bestowed with a Hersion.

There are fewer than a hundred knights in the Empire who have been granted the Hersion. Among them, the knights of the Thirteen Constellations possess a special kind of Hersion.

Three hundred years ago, when the Holy Empire that had unified the entire Central Continent split apart, various regional lords and kingdoms claimed their own autonomy.

Among them, the Kingdom of Rom claimed they carried on the traditions of the Holy Empire.

The Holy Empire was a religious state that worshipped the Sun God as the one true deity, led by the Pope. However, the Kingdom of Rom worshipped not only the Sun God but also the Moon Goddess Theia, who was paired with the Sun God, and the Thirteen Constellations who guarded her.

The Kingdom of Rom bestowed the Hersion, infused with the power of the Thirteen Constellations, to its finest knights and fought against the Papal faction.

Under this power, the Papal faction was pushed to the eastern continent where they established the Holy Kingdom, while the Kingdom of Rom expanded its sphere of influence to occupy the southern central continent and grew into an empire.

The knights of the Thirteen Constellations played a key role in the rise of the Rom Empire, and thus, the Hersion given to them was an immensely powerful and rare artifact.

Morgan Buffon approached Zeke while fully armed with a Thirteen constellation Hersion.

“I’ll acknowledge you’re no ordinary person to make me activate my Hersion.”

Whoooosh!

A crimson aura burst from the Hersion of the Thirteen Constellations.

At the same time, that energy wrapped around the sword Morgan was holding.

An aura blade emanating an ominous but powerful force surged forth.

Though Morgan was a Blue Knight, when equipped with the Hersion he could exert power comparable to a Red Knight.

Zeke was wary of the power he sensed from Morgan’s sword.

‘I sense a foreign power from that aura blade.’

It wasn’t ordinary aura, nor was it tainted energy like Demonic energy.

Morgan swung his sword and shouted.

“I’ll capture you and make you confess who’s behind this!”

Morgan charged at Zeke while emitting aura with a cold, snake-like energy.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Morgan displayed even more powerful leaping ability through the Hersion’s power.

From midair, aura blades imbued with the Snake constellation power rained down toward Zeke.

WHOOSH!

Surprisingly, the aura blades emanating from Morgan’s sword bent like whips as they flew toward Zeke.

‘What’s this?’

Zeke rolled instantly to dodge the aura blades.

But Morgan’s aura blades persistently chased after Zeke like living snakes pursuing their prey.

SLASH!

Suddenly the tips of the aura blades split into four parts, penetrated the shield, and wrapped around Zeke’s limbs.

The aura blade whips dug into the cloud iron armor.

CRACK!

Perhaps because they were whips made of aura blades, he could feel the cloud iron armor, which normally withstood any impact, being crushed.

‘So this is the power of the Thirteen Constellations.’

The Hersion infused with the power of the Constellations was far more terrifying than Zeke had imagined.

Zeke also had an ancient Hersion, but wearing it in this situation with Imperial knights gathered around could expose his activities in the south.

Zeke focused his mana to use his ultimate skill.

RUMBLE!

The Bahamut’s heart inside Zeke’s body moved violently.

Gathering the mighty mana surging from Bahamut’s heart in his dantian, Zeke called forth the Will of Strength through his Incantation.

WHOOSH!

The Will of Strength enhances the body into a ‘strengthened body.’

In the strengthened body state, any technique used would exert far greater power.

As great as its effects were, its side effects were also strong, so he couldn’t properly use the Will of Strength in his past life, but now with the Incantation eliminating side effects, he could use it freely.

Zeke felt his body become much lighter in the strengthened body state.

He yanked on Morgan’s aura blades that were wrapped around his limbs.

Morgan was pulled by Zeke’s strength.

“Ugh! What are you doing?! Attack him immediately!”

The other knights, except those dealing with the rampaging Gurab behind them, charged at Zeke.

Zeke swung his sword toward the knights while his limbs were bound.

CLANG!

Zeke’s sword, strengthened by his enhanced body, was no different from a knight’s sword infused with aura.

Zeke used rough northern swordsmanship to deflect the knights’ swords.

CRACK!

Watching the knights who clashed swords with Zeke get thrown backwards, Morgan tried to inject more power into his Aura Blade to block Zeke’s movements.

But Zeke continued moving without stopping.

“HAAH!”

Zeke’s body, enhanced by soul technique, was a weapon itself.

He swung his sword at the charging knights, kicked them, and threw punches.

Bang!

A knight hit by Zeke’s fist flew backwards.

The Imperial knights who saw Zeke were terrified.

“D-damn, he’s a complete monster!”

The Imperial army completely lost their fighting spirit as they watched Zeke take on dozens of Imperial knights while still being bound by the Snake constellation power.

The dragon’s dignity flowing from Zeke, who had received the title of Dragon being, also had an effect.

As the knights hesitated to charge forward and stepped back, Morgan ground his teeth and stepped forward.

“Damn, you idiots! Move aside!”

He unfastened the belt wrapped around his Hersion.

When Morgan infused Aura into the belt, it gradually stiffened and transformed into a long spear.

Morgan grabbed the whip-like Aura Blade that was holding Zeke while holding the spear.

SWISH!

The Aura Blade wrapped around Zeke quickly shortened.

At the same time, Zeke, whose spirit energy had weakened, was pulled towards Morgan.

Morgan pointed his spear at Zeke.

“I didn’t think I’d have to use this.”

The spear imbued with the Snake constellation power contained the power to pierce through anything.

He hadn’t used it in order to capture Zeke alive and find out his background, but he pulled out his trump card as the situation became urgent.

Woong!

The same sinister energy from earlier began to swirl around the spear infused with the power of the Thirteen Constellations.

He thrust the spear at the approaching Zeke.

Power of the Thirteen Constellations

Unavoidable Piercing

That’s when it happened.

Zeke spread out his water force field.

Elemental Sword

Water Force Field

Reverse Wave Sword

After relaxing his entire body and letting it flow with the current, Zeke used Morgan’s power against him to unleash the Reverse Wave Sword.

CRASH!

Zeke smoothly redirected the spear’s power.

At the same time, a massive wave curved and enveloped Morgan.

“KUGH!”

The power of the Thirteen Constellations that had been wrapping around Zeke turned on Morgan, binding him instead.

His body floated in the air as it was swept up by the Reverse Wave Sword’s power.

Zeke’s sword called forth an even bigger tidal wave.

WOONG!

A shockwave containing the tidal wave’s energy swept through the entire ravine. The power unleashed by the Reverse Wave Sword was tremendous, proportional to Morgan’s strength.

CRASH!

The knights swept up by the energy flew through the air with broken limbs and lost consciousness after being slammed into the ravine walls.

Seeing shadows falling from above, it seemed the snipers on top of the ravine were also affected.

Morgan also couldn’t regain his senses after taking the powerful tidal wave head on.

Morgan, who had floated in the air before being thrown to the ground by the tidal wave’s force, barely managed to get up.

‘The spear of the Thirteen Constellations missed?’

The Thirteen Constellations power was different from normal secret techniques.

Though he had been saving it since it had a daily usage limit, when the Snake constellation power was unleashed, it was meant to definitely pierce the enemy.

This was the first time a Constellation’s power had failed.

He trembled as he recalled the Reverse Wave Sword that Zeke had unleashed.

‘It was a technique I’ve never seen before. Could it be ancient magic contained in an artifact?’

If he hadn’t been wearing the Hersion, he might have died with his entire body shattered.

Zeke slowly surveyed his surroundings before approaching Morgan.

“You conducted horrific experiments at the Bird-folk ruins.”

Morgan’s eyes wavered at those words.

Seeing Morgan’s expression, Zeke realized that he too was involved in the human experiments of injecting monster blood into humans.

‘I should kill this bastard here.’

In his past life, Morgan Buffon had killed countless people in the Third Continental War.

Morgan had shown greater capability as a commander than as a knight.

Later, he even rose to the position of regent in recognition of his military achievements.

Killing Morgan here could deal a significant blow to the Empire’s military strength in many ways.

Zeke slowly approached Buffon.

Then he raised his sword and struck at Buffon’s neck.

CLANG!

Perhaps because of the Constellation’s power imbued in the Hersion, his neck wasn’t cut despite Zeke’s sword strike.

Zeke used his magic reflection skill.

CRACKLE!

Though sparks flew from the Hersion, the armor didn’t deactivate.

‘The Hersion was nice to wear, but it’s really annoying if an enemy uses it.’

Even when Zeke tried to stab his sword into the gaps of the Hersion, it wouldn’t reach the vital points.

“Hmm.”

If he wasted time here, more garrison troops could come rushing in.

For now, Zeke hurriedly raised one of the fallen horses and loaded Morgan onto it.

He planned to kill him once the Hersion deactivated as time passed.

Zeke took out chains from his left arm and bound Morgan with soul binding techniques.

“Hup!”

As soon as he was bound by the chains, Morgan couldn’t move and bit down on his molars as if in pain.

‘Oh? This works well.’

Though he hadn’t properly mastered it yet and didn’t use it in battle, it seemed it could become a useful weapon if he could use it.

After loading Morgan onto the horse, Zeke leisurely left the ravine.

He planned to kill Morgan once the Hersion deactivated and return to the Allensia Border Headquarters.

After leaving the ravine, Zeke entered the red sand wasteland.

Then Morgan, who was captured behind him, shouted.

“You bastard! Do you have any idea what you’ve done?! You dared to strike an Imperial Legion Commander! Are you not afraid of the consequences?!”

Zeke turned around and struck Morgan’s helmet with his elbow.

“KUHUK!”

Morgan fell silent momentarily from the skull-rattling impact.

But he soon started shouting loudly again.

‘What an annoying bastard.’

While running through the wasteland, thinking again about killing him as soon as the Hersion deactivated, dust clouds rose from behind.

Zeke looked back with his dragon eyes.

‘Those guys are…?’

They were knights in familiar attire.

None other than Abel’s Red Lion Knights.

Zeke spotted Abel and William among the knights.

‘Damn.’

He hadn’t expected Abel to come out personally.

He seemed to have come out to investigate after hearing the news that the entire ruins had collapsed, and ended up chasing him.

Realizing the pursuit team had arrived, Morgan shouted.

“Ha, the Lion Sword has come! You fool! Put me down now and tell me who’s behind you! Then I’ll give you a painless death!”

Zeke tightened the chains binding Morgan even more.

“ARGHHHH!”

Perhaps because it was soul binding technique, it seemed to cause pain even through the Hersion.

Just then, the horse Zeke was riding seemed tired as its speed gradually decreased.

‘Healing.’

Zeke restored the horse through a healing buff.

The distance from the knights widened again.

That’s when Abel, who was behind, charged forward alone.

THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD!

Abel pursued right behind Zeke at an incredible speed.

He drew out the red sword at his waist.

When Abel infused the sword with aura, flames arose.

WHOOSH!

Massive flames flew towards Zeke.

WHOOSH!

A shield spread from the armor.

But Abel’s flames penetrated the shield.

NEIGH!

The massive flames burned Zeke’s warhorse to ashes.

In an instant, one horse completely turned to ash and disappeared.

Zeke landed on the ground while holding Morgan.

Abel looked down at Zeke from his horse.

“So it’s you. The one who took away Carus.”

Abel immediately recognized Zeke from their encounter at the Panstas terminal.

He dismounted and pointed his sword at Zeke.

“You won’t escape this time. I will definitely find out who sent you.”

Whoosh!

Flames rose from the red sword in Abel’s grip.

Zeke ground his teeth looking at Abel’s flames.

‘The Red Dragon Sword. The unique artifact that Abel received when he became a Blue Knight.’

The Red Dragon Sword, said to be forged from a Red Dragon’s fang, was a unique artifact containing great power but was difficult to handle, so it had been stored in the family vault for a long time.

After being promoted to Blue Knight, Abel demanded this Red Dragon Sword from Arthur Draker.

Abel proudly made his own the magic sword that was said to engulf unworthy knights in flames the moment they grasp it.

Wielding the flame-breathing Red Dragon Sword, Abel showed outstanding combat power even among current Draker knights.

The powerful flames Abel unleashed flew towards Zeke.

CRASH!

Zeke blocked Abel’s attack by spreading his defensive will.

WHOOSH!

As soon as Zeke blocked the attack, he swung his sword towards Abel.

Abel hid his body within exploding flames.

‘Damn it.’

He was greatly restricted because there were many enemies and he couldn’t use Bahamut.

Zeke tried to find a way to escape this place by creating an opening.

He could get caught by Abel if he wasted more time.

Zeke gripped his sword while steadying his breathing.

Abel smiled coldly while watching Zeke.

“Abandon your futile hope. You will never escape from here.”

Just as Abel was about to swing flames again.

THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD!

NEIGH!

From far away, strange battle cries rang out along with a massive dust cloud.