Chapter 153
The Death Knight, having escaped from the sanctuary, immediately plunged into the battlefield.
BOOM!
Richmond’s skeletons fell in droves under his shield attack.
“URGH!”
Richmond, who had been controlling the skeletons with his staff, showed signs of fatigue as his magical power seemed to be depleting.
Zeke stepped forward holding the Orichalcon sword.
‘Richmond. Pull the skeletons back.’
The moment his order fell, the skeletons instantly retreated.
Zeke launched a Mace of Light attack toward the Death Knight.
BOOM!
This time, the Death Knight blocked Zeke’s attack with his shield wrapped in magical energy.
Taking advantage of the momentary opening, Zeke rushed at the Death Knight with his sword.
CRASH!
Though blocking Zeke’s sword strike with his shield, the Death Knight was pushed back by the impact, then raised his shield again and pointed his sword at Zeke.
Zeke sneered at the Death Knight.
“Somehow you seem stronger now than when you were alive.”
The Death Knight trembled with rage, feeling greatly insulted by Zeke’s words.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
An enormous magical aura erupted from the Death Knight’s entire body.
This was magical energy of a completely different dimension from the meins seen in the dungeon.
Zeke swung his blade of purification toward the Death Knight’s sword wrapped in magical energy.
CRACK!
Sparks flew each time Zeke’s sword clashed with the Death Knight’s.
Zeke admired the Death Knight’s power while deflecting the sword strikes.
‘A Death Knight who neither tires of the Red Knight’s skill and continues to regenerate. And with an Arch Lich too…’
From Zeke’s perspective, the magical attacks were far stronger than the Aura Blade.
It not only disrupted aura but when wounded by the attacks, the magical poison made healing difficult.
Moreover, prolonged exposure to magical energy caused much higher mental fatigue than facing ordinary knights.
He could understand why Death Knights were described as calamities in stories.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Blades made of magical energy flew toward Zeke.
CRASH!
Hersion deflected the magical blades.
But the impact still penetrated through the armor.
Though Zeke, who was using the Dragon Scale Armor skill to protect his body doubly, wasn’t much affected, an ordinary knight would have been damaged by this impact alone.
‘I’ll need to be especially careful when fighting Death Knights.’
Zeke learned the Death Knight’s characteristics while facing it.
Fortunately, Zeke with his infinite stamina didn’t tire from swinging his sword just like the undead Death Knight, so fierce sword strikes continued endlessly between them.
Then the Arch Lich who had been watching took the opportunity to bombard Zeke with magic.
BOOM! This BOOM! BOOM! CRASH!
Black fireballs rained down on Zeke, and walls of black flames appeared.
However, Zeke wearing Hersion, which had magic defense capabilities, wasn’t particularly damaged.
The problem was that the magical flames affected others as well.
‘The longer we drag this out, the more disadvantageous it becomes for us.’
While the undead army wouldn’t tire, considering that Zeke’s summons could be dismissed, time was against Zeke.
‘I should deal with the Arch Lich first.’
Eliminating the Arch Lich would make the skeletons and skeletal knights disappear too, reducing forces in one go.
Zeke broke through the flames and immediately leaped into the air.
SWOOSH!
Zeke swung his sword imbued with purification blade at the Arch Lich.
CRACK!
Zeke’s surprise attack succeeded in tearing the Arch Lich’s robe.
『ARGHHHH!』
Black smoke rose from the torn robe and cut area.
Zeke didn’t stop and used the power of great purification right there.
WOONG!
Golden aura spread from Zeke’s body.
SIZZLE!
When touched by the power of great purification, the skeletons turned to ash and scattered, while the skeletal knights also seemed affected as they retreated to avoid the aura.
The Death Knight and Abyss Mages deployed barriers to avoid the power of great purification.
The Arch Lich who took the golden aura head-on screamed.
『No! I cannot end like this!』
Black flames erupted from his robe. Soon the Arch Lich’s entire body exploded, sending black sparks flying everywhere.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! CRASH!
Bone fragments covered in black flames shook the crystal cave.
Broken crystal shards flew everywhere.
[You have eliminated the Fallen Death Priest completely corrupted by magical energy.]
[The acquired ‘Arch Lich’s Old Crown’ is automatically saved to inventory.]
[Shield of Light and Mace of Light proficiency increases.]
[The Fallen Priest’s ‘Sun Magic’ is absorbed, transforming active skill Flash Bang(C-rank) to Sun Bomb(B-rank).]
[Curse Reflection skill rank increases from absorbing the Fallen Priest’s spirit.]
[300 Karma points awarded as reward.]
SCREECH!
When the Arch Lich vanished, the skeletal knights and skeletons lost their power and collapsed.
Zeke withdrew the power of great purification and approached the Death Knight and Abyss Mages.
The panicked Abyss Mages shouted at the Death Knight.
“Death Knight! Destroy them!”
The proud Death Knight wouldn’t take orders from anyone except their summoner.
He simply glared at Zeke with burning eyes, ignoring the mages’ commands.
The Abyss Mages were flustered when the Death Knight wouldn’t follow their orders.
At that moment, Gurab swung its tail threateningly toward the Abyss Mages while emitting poison mist.
“ARGHH!”
Gurab’s scorpion-like tail was lethal even with just a graze.
The Abyss Mages surrounded Gurab while keeping their distance, checking him with magic.
Seeing this, Zeke spoke to Richmond.
“Richmond, send the Reptilian skeletons toward Gurab. Hold those mages down.”
After binding the Abyss Mages, Zeke approached the Death Knight and pointed Bahamut.
“Let’s settle this again.”
The Death Knight, seeming to sense this wouldn’t do, stepped back.
Then he muttered something.
『Great Lord of Darkness. Grant your humble servant the power to destroy these enemies.』
Changes began occurring as if his master had responded to the Death Knight’s plea.
CRACK!
The Death Knight’s armor grew thicker and his helmet changed to cover his entire face.
Simultaneously, a ghost horse breathing blue breath appeared beside the Death Knight.
The Death Knight mounted the ghost horse while emitting even denser demonic energy.
His sword gradually lengthened until it transformed into a lance.
The Death Knight mounted on the ghost horse, holding shield and lance, exuded strong pressure.
Seeing this, Zeke also summoned Bucephalus.
NEIGH!
Zeke mounted Bucephalus and drew Bahamut.
WOONG!
Aura Blade surged from Bahamut.
Zeke on Bucephalus and the Death Knight on his ghost horse glared at each other, waiting for the moment to attack.
Then suddenly both charged at each other at high speed.
CRACK!
Lightning streaked from Bucephalus’s horn and struck toward the Death Knight.
CRACKLE!
The Death Knight raised his shield to block Bucephalus’s lightning.
Simultaneously, the ghost horse opened its mouth wide and breathed out blue smoke.
Bucephalus, being a spirit beast, leaped into the air as if in pain when touched by the blue smoke.
The Death Knight also rode his ghost horse up into the air.
『I’ll cut off your head and offer it to my master!』
The Death Knight raised his lance and charged at Zeke.
Zeke, riding Bucephalus in the air, held Bahamut and took the Dragon Slaying technique stance.
Dragon Slaying Technique True Dragon Sword
Chapter 6 Section 2
Dragon Heart Pierce
The Aura Blade surging from Zeke’s sword formed into a lance shape.
The lance-shaped Aura Blade spun fiercely as it flew toward the Death Knight’s shield.
CRACK!
The Death Knight’s shield couldn’t withstand Zeke’s attack and crumpled, piercing through.
The lance-shaped Aura Blade pierced straight into the Death Knight’s armor.
CRACK!
As the Aura Blade struck the heart area, cracks formed in the armor.
For a moment, the Death Knight’s red eyes flashed inside the helmet.
The Death Knight gripped his lance infused with magical energy and threw it with great force toward Zeke.
BOOM!
Seeing the magic-wrapped lance flying toward him, Zeke used the Shield of Light skill.
CRACK!
The force was stronger than expected – though the Shield of Light tried to block the Death Knight’s lance, it shattered immediately.
Zeke gritted his teeth and unleashed Soul Technique while watching the lance fly toward him.
Soul Technique
Double Spell
Will of Reflection
Zeke struck away the incoming lance with Bahamut, imbued with the will of reflection.
WOONG!
The lance then flew back toward the Death Knight.
BOOM!
The lance imbued with the will of reflection pierced straight into the cracked heart area.
CRACK!
The Death Knight, whose heart was pierced by his own thrown lance, fell from his horse and plummeted to the ground.
CRASH!
The Death Knight, fallen onto protruding crystals, could only twitch, unable to move with the lance pierced through his cracked armor.
Zeke descended on Bucephalus and looked down at the Death Knight while enduring the Double Spell’s recoil.
Red eyes glowing inside the helmet glared at Zeke.
『Zeke Drake… I’ll cut off… your head… for my master…』
Zeke felt his body stabilizing as time passed, caught his breath, and activated the gluttony skill toward the Death Knight.
SWOOSH!
The Death Knight’s body slowly disappeared into black shadows.
A message window appeared.
[Devoured the Fallen Death Knight completely tainted by demonic energy.]
[Depleted health, mental power, and mana are being restored.]
[The acquired ‘Death Knight’s Cursed Armor’ is automatically saved to inventory.]
[Absorbed memories of ‘Paladin Secret Art Sun Swordsmanship’ learned by the Fallen Death Knight when alive.]
[Combined with Agamemnon’s Golden Swordsmanship to learn special skill ‘Sun Golden Swordsmanship(A-rank)’.]
[Dragon Fang Soldier skill rank increases from absorbing the Fallen Knight’s spirit.]
[300 Karma points awarded as reward.]
Devouring powerful magical beasts like the Arch Lich and Death Knight brought quite a few rewards.
‘The Curse Reflection and Dragon warriors skills have ranked up.’
With Dragon warrior’s rank increase, the number of warriors he could summon at once increased to 30.
Zeke smiled with satisfaction and turned to check on Richmond and the Dragon warriors facing the Abyss Mages.
The Abyss Mages were still resisting against Gurab, the Dragon warriors, and Richmond’s undead army.
Zeke leaped toward the Abyss Mages’ location.
“B-block him!”
The Abyss Mages frantically fired magic at Zeke.
Zeke deflected all their black magic with his improved Shield of Light.
Then he launched Mace of Light at them.
BOOM!
The much stronger Mace of Light devastated the Abyss Mages.
“URGH!”
Zeke approached one of the fallen mages, stepped on his neck and asked.
“Why aren’t you summoning familiars?”
The mage’s eyes shook violently at the question.
Looking down at the mage, Zeke suddenly felt a familiar energy.
‘Hmm, this is the energy I felt from Griesmodal.’
Zeke understood the situation as he watched the mage sweating profusely.
“Seems Griesmodal no longer responds to summons?”
The mage’s eyes darted around nervously at Zeke’s words.
Having been severely beaten by Zeke and having part of his soul devoured, Griesmodal was too damaged to respond to his contracted servants’ calls.
As a result, the Abyss Mages contracted with Beast Tamer Griesmodal were suddenly reduced to wielding only the power of ordinary black mages.
And the mages here had volunteered for this mission to earn merit and contract with a stronger familiar than Griesmodal.
Zeke clicked his tongue looking at Griesmodal’s contractors.
“Making contracts with demons for power, you’re all insane.”
One of the Abyss Mages spoke to Zeke while coughing blood.
“Cough! You Draker spawn born with Aura’s blessing! How could you understand?! The pain of the powerless! Cough!”
Zeke approached the mage who spoke. He grabbed his collar and shook him while speaking.
“Don’t try to cover your cowardice and weakness with pathetic rationalizations, you trash.”
The Abyss Mage trembled at Zeke’s fierce voice.
The naturally flowing dragon’s dignity was not something a fallen dark mage could withstand.
Zeke spoke to the collared mage.
“I’ll give you one chance. Tell me everything you know about the Abyss. Then I’ll give you a peaceful death.”
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