56 – Grief and the Black Knights (2)

Changed the subtitle of the previous episode from [Spare Card] to [Sorrow and the Black Knights]!

The content has not been modified, so it’s okay to just look at it!

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Drawing the sword of sorrow from its scabbard, in the center of the swirling blue flash,

The first thing I did was to activate ‘Super Sense’.

“Woe, heed my call.”

As I whispered softly as I gripped the trembling sword hilt, the sword of grief roared once again.

ㅡKiii Iik!!!

A deafening scream resounds,

Suddenly, a familiar mechanical sound is heard.

ㅡTitling!

[Use ‘Sword of Grief”s unique skill #1, ‘Super Sense’.]

[※Maximum 10 minutes for super senses.※]

[Remaining duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds]

The senses of the body become sharper.

The field of view that was dizzy from fatigue widened,

The flow of air rides on the skin and is clearly felt.

In my ears, I can clearly hear small sounds that I couldn’t hear until just now.

The colorful smells of the forest flow from your nose.

“Huh, ha…”

I exhaled at the aura of awakening transmitted from my body’s sensory organs.

All the senses in my body were on edge, and a blue aura flew from my whole body.

“……”

what?

Originally, this kind of aura didn’t come out from the body, right?

It seems that the effect of ‘super sense’ is sharper than usual…

Is it because he is fully using the Sword of Grief?

For a moment, I stared blankly at the sword of sorrow that was explosively emitting blue flashes.

Soon, I regained my senses and moved my gaze back to the enemies standing in front of me.

“…….”

Where their gaze landed, there were black knights who were standing where they stood.

Among them, a knight of great rank standing in the middle quietly opened his mouth.

“Arms of the Gods… that’s the 3 Gods of Emotion…”

“……”

“Is it the sword of Rotia, the God of Sorrow…?”

….f*ck, I know this.

At the knight’s question, I let out a small sigh and narrowed my eyes.

Well…. If you can’t recognize it even though it emits such a loud effect, is that strange?

“Haa… That’s why I didn’t take the sword of grief out of its sheath…”

I let out a small sigh and glanced around.

Fortunately, the place is in the forest,

The aura emitted by the sword of sorrow did not seem to be exposed far.

You won’t be able to see it from afar…. It’s fortunate.

Because when other people find out, things get complicated…

“The atmosphere you exude has changed, it must be fun.”

“What are you talking about, you rotten corpse bastard?”

The undead looked at me with creepy eyes and twisted their lips.

I blew my middle finger toward their soggy gaze and started manipulating the status window again.

“Buy 3 bottles of ‘Temporary Explosive Power’, ‘Steel Body’, and ‘Intermediate Mana Potion’ from the shop.”

ㅡTitling!

[Purchase complete!]

[Total consumption points: 1050p]

[The effect ‘temporary explosive power’ is applied!]

[The strength stat will rise to A rank for about 10 minutes!]

[The effect ‘steel flesh’ is applied!]

[Raise your body to its peak in about 20 minutes!]

[Instead, after 20 minutes, all damage is refunded by 3x!]

The body, which is a mess due to fatigue and injury, is patched up with points and skills.

Strength rises from the tattered body, and the saggy muscles begin to expand.

Extreme fatigue and pain from injuries are swept away shallowly.

“Whoa… The effect is good.”

Points are a bit expensive, but…

1050 points…

….Shouldn’t I have taken out 2 bottles of mana potion?

I opened the caps of the potion bottles in my hands, salivating slightly at the painful consumption.

Then, without hesitation, he poured them into his mouth.

ㅡTitling!

[You have consumed ‘Intermediate Mana Potion’ (×5)!]

[The depleted mana is filled.]

[The number of times the skill ‘Blink’ can be used is added.]

[Remaining number of uses (6/10)]

“done…..”

It wasn’t enough to raise his body condition, even Blink’s stock was restored to some extent.

As long as this is enough… Time is a bit tight, but it’s worth a try.

I lightly moved the staff one step and got into a stance.

The dark blue blade is aimed at the black knights.

“What did you do? I feel the power explode all over my body…”

A high-ranking knight who had been wriggling until just now, and then expressed doubts about my condition, which had suddenly become fine.

I unilaterally ignored the question and quickly kicked the ground.

ㅡQuaang!

With a loud sound, the ground where my feet were standing dented.

At the same time, my body is pulled towards the black knights at high speed.

One of the knights who reacted to that blocked my way with a huge shield.

It seems that he intends to run into me as I rush through his shield.

sorry but that

Sounds like a bad judgement.

ㅡWhere you go!!!

The sword cuts through the wind, before my shield collides with my sword,

I blew a subtle sneer at the face visible through the shield.

ㅡGoodbye, sick child.

At the same time as he said that with his mouth, the sword and shield clashed.

and……

ㅡSuddenly!

“……!?!”

The swinging sword of grief slashes the entire shield soldier along with the shield.

The shield soldier’s body, which had been cut in half, collapsed on the floor.

“……!!!”

Through the falling chunk of meat, I can see another knight standing behind the shield soldier.

Without hesitation, I stepped on the step again.

Once again my body is fired like a cannon.

A knight hurriedly raised his sword, shocked by my appearance.

I could tell from the moving sword that he was preparing to evade and counter.

ㅡWhere you go!

My body reaches right in front of him,

As a result, the moment the knight twisted his body and tried to swing his sword, my lips were quietly moved.

“Blink×2”

ㅡFajik

At the same time as reciting the incantation, the vision flickers.

My new form disappears before the eyes of my enemies.

And the next moment-

My body appears behind the knight who was preparing the counter.

As I lightly step on the ground,

ㅡTuk…..

The head of the knight, who does not know when it was cut, falls to the floor in vain.

The body that has lost its head collapses.

“Whoa…”

It took about 20 seconds to get here.

There was still about 9 minutes left before the super senses went off.

I kicked my head off the floor and looked at the five remaining knights.

Knights looking at me with bewildered eyes.

I said, wiping the bloodstains from my face.

“I don’t have enough time… and my body gets sick again soon, right?”

ㅡSo,

“Let’s finish it quickly.”

As soon as I spit out those words, my body moved toward the knights once again.

The knights who came to their senses belatedly stretched out their swords at me.

At the same time that five swords and one sword collide,

ㅡ bang!!!!

There was a roar that shook the entire forest.

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A few minutes before the proper battle between Raiden and the Black Knights.

Lucy and Aaron were on their way through the forest, riding through the ‘Canyon of the Mutang River’.

“Raiden! Raiden! Answer me if you hear me!”

Lucy shouts that with a burning heart.

However, no matter how many times I called, nothing that could be called an answer came back.

Lucy squeezed the reins tighter, suppressing the creeping anxiety.

At that time, Aaron, who was running next to Lucy, pointed somewhere near the gorge and shouted.

“Princess! There’s someone in front of me!”

“Where are you!?”

Lucy reacts quickly and looks in the direction Aaron’s finger is pointing.

About 100 meters ahead, a girl was sitting on the floor.

“Is that…?”

Long, silvery hair peeking through the blurry silhouette.

As soon as Lucy saw the hair, she realized that the girl sitting on the floor was Maharet.

“It’s Maharet! Everyone must be around here!”

“The other members don’t seem to be visible… but let’s go to Maharet first!”

The two of them slightly turned the running horse and headed for Maharet.

When they got closer to her, the two slowed down and stopped in front of her.

Lucy jumped off her horse first, followed by Aaron.

“Mr. Maharet!”

“Maharet student!”

Maharet sat down in front of the cliff of the gorge and looked down blankly.

For some reason, she didn’t notice him even though Aaron and Lucy came to him with a loud noise.

“Mr. Maharet! Mr. Maharet! Wake up!”

Lucy shakes the distraught Maharet’s shoulder, bringing her consciousness to the surface.

Maharet finally came to his senses and looked at the two people who suddenly appeared in front of him.

“Princess 1…? And Professor Aron…?”

“Yes, Student Maharet.”

“How are you two here…”

“Because the communication signal of the 4th team was cut off, I ran in a hurry. What happened? Where are the other members?”

Aaron asked, looking around and noticing that Maharet was alone.

Maharet trembled slightly at the question.

“Maharet student…?”

“There was a raid… there was…”

Words that come out in a voice that doesn’t have a pulse.

The contents were truly shocking.

“A raid?!”

“…..To whom?”

Lucy is startled by the unexpected words,

Due to Bly’s disappearance, Aaron, who had guessed the situation to some extent, calmly requested an additional explanation.

However, the answer that came out of Maharet’s mouth was something that embarrassed even Aaron.

“Undead… to the black knights…”

“Yes…? Undead?”

Aaron was taken aback by Maharet’s words.

Undead.

It certainly didn’t feel like Magi at all.

“…Are you sure you didn’t look at it wrong?”

“I’m sure…”

Maharet shook her head helplessly.

It was only then that Aaron realized that the situation was more serious than he thought.

Bly’s Disappearance,

Something that blocked the magic tool’s communication,

And the sightings of the undead that do not feel the magi.

Aaron broke into a cold sweat as he listed the oddities of the present in his head.

“How did the situation go…?”

“…….”

Silent Maharet.

At that time, Lucy, who had been quietly listening to the conversation from the side, intervened between the two.

“What about Raiden? What happened to Raiden? Is he with the rest of the crew who aren’t here?”

Hearing the name Raiden, Maharet’s dazed face turned white.

“Rah, Raiden is…”

Maharet’s stiff body trembled slightly.

Red eyes that are losing their vitality,

A fist with both hands clenched to the point of bleeding.

At Maharet’s unusual reaction, Lucy and Aaron knew something was wrong.

And that uneasy intuition—

“Dead, uh…”

—-Unfortunately, it did not miss.

Following Maharet’s quivering voice, Lucy’s muffled voice hovered in the air.

“What….?”