NOTICE: Many of the novels have been removed because they might cause violations, which we were not aware of earlier.
(181)
Platinum armor radiating a soft glow, with a shield-shaped medallion painted on the chest depicting crossed swords and a sun.
Berethos, the 'Fallen Star' of the Platinum Knights, charged at 'White Shark' Cariosa, swinging his mana-bladed mace.
“Weightlifting, disarm now!”
Of course, he was not alone.
The famous platinum knights, including 'Sunset Sword' Penta, 'Pure' Orsa, 'Mirror' Harcheda, and 'Divine' Tentia, participated.
Cariosa leapt between them with a cruel laugh.
“Valencian. Wait!”
He slashed the storm outward, knocking away Berethos's hammer, and slashed the tailwind upward, striking Berethos' wrist with all his might.
earth.
The moment the hammer fell from Berethos' hand, Cariosa turned around and delivered a high roundhouse kick, striking the lower jaw of Penta, the 'Sword of the Sunset'.
puck!
The moment the heel and the helmet visor collided, sparks flew and Penta staggered for a moment.
Immediately, a tailwind blew towards Penta's armpit, but 'Pure' Orsa, with his sharp sword Estark, launched eight stabs in one breath.
“What kind of evil deeds are these in the sacred palace!”
But Cariosa, alternating between storm and tailwind, repelled the blows with nine slashes.
“Swept away by the waves I brought.”
A swept-out Asenortha-style wind blade blasted Orsa down the stairs.
'Mirror' Harcheda and 'Divine' Tentia rushed forward and backward, pounding Cariosa's body without mercy.
Harcheda used a longsword and a dagger in a dual wielding technique, while Tentia raised her sword above her head and spun it around to create a bloody disc.
Cariosa charged at Harcheda without even looking at Tentia.
Storm was a special sword weighing nearly 8kg, but Cariosa swung it around like a whirlwind, striking Harcheda's neck, shoulders, sides, thighs, and calves.
bang!
There were several loud explosions, and finally, Harcheda collapsed, and Tentia slashed her sword at Cariosa's nape.
“Your Majesty. How dare you stretch out your dirty hand against His Majesty Valen!”
No matter how great a swordsman Chariot was, it was a devastating blow that he could never dodge or block.
Cariosa still smiled leisurely.
Saaaaah-!
Kwaaaaah-!
Wooded!
A sharp 'wind barrier' swept through, shaking Tentia's body, 'stone thorns' rose up, piercing Tentia's armor and blocking her path, and the solid stone steps turned into a swamp with the 'swamp swamp' spell, binding Tentia's body.
“Eww!”
But Tentia eventually cut down the sword.
Cariosa's armor moved like a living creature, shards of iron wrapping around her neck.
The red mana blade and the iron shard collided, and for a moment the iron shard glowed white.
Woof-!
Due to the enormous recoil, Tentia almost lost her sword for a moment, and fell backwards with her knees buckled.
Cariosa expressed her surprise with a bitter laugh at the fact that Tentia had withstood the force of a blow that would have sent even the Sword Expert's knight flying away.
“I will save you.”
puck!
After a rough ride between the armpits and thigh armor in the storm, I climbed the stairs again and again.
Boom!
Looking up at the thunderous sky.
* * *
“Who dares to take my younger sibling away without permission? I don’t particularly want to keep him, but no matter how much I think about it, it’s a waste to give him to someone like you.”
Standing on the roof of the main palace, Sereraji recited a spell.
A huge cumulonimbus cloud floating in the sky roared with thunder, preparing to obey its master's command and bring down divine punishment.
For a moment, she thought she had locked eyes with Cariosa.
The fearsome swordsman who had subdued the guards and knights with a few strokes, bound Tentia's slaughter with a triple spell, and finally deflected it, was looking up at her.
“Yes. That’s the place for you.”
Sereraji's arrogance and pride even made him look down on such a swordsman.
The only thing she feared was the Emperor.
'Second place, isn't that funny?'
“Hit it.”
Flash!
A single bolt of lightning struck down, drawing a line like a tree branch.
Excluding the diffusion technique, the lightning struck only Cariosa.
Cariosa still laughed eerily and raised the storm into the sky.
The azure mana blade glowed fiercely and took the lightning strike.
bang!
There was a blinding flash of light, and several guards actually rolled on the floor with tears streaming down their faces.
“You sorcerer! Do you think you can deal with me with this level of magic?”
Immediately afterwards, the same lightning struck again.
“This level of magic? It’s too early to even judge.”
bang!
The arm that had been holding up the storm trembled for a moment.
——————
faqwiki.xyz
Join our Discord for new chapter updates!
https://discord.com/invite/xr7SxG5T6V
——————
A satisfied smile appeared on Sereraji's fresh face, and her two eyes of different colors.
She commanded the clouds she had summoned.
“I don’t want to see that monster anymore.”
Dozens of lightning bolts flew in simultaneously from a giant cumulonimbus cloud.
Kwakwakwakwang!
The knights and guards wearing magical plate armor were thrown to the ground, and even Cariosa's body, which had been as solid as a steel statue, staggered.
Her iron armor glowed white, and translucent scales formed spheres around her body.
"Sereiraji declared with a victor's smile on her fresh lips.
“I think I won?”
bang!
Ten lightning bolts from the cumulonimbus cloud converged into one point, compressed into a single spear that struck the ground.
At some point, Sereraji's blue hair naturally took on the aura of a golden dragon.
Even the best warlocks of the imperial family glared or let out a sigh as they looked at the sight.
Cariosa muttered in a humiliated voice, her black vertical pupils trembling.
“Dispel.”
At that moment, a huge cumulonimbus cloud melted away like August snow.
A huge amount of mana flowed back, and Sereraji reflexively shut his eyes tightly.
Eyes, nose, mouth, ears, under fingernails, under toenails.
Every orifice and thin spot on his body burst and blood flowed out.
However, Sereraji held on without collapsing and collected the running mana into his heart.
It was a miraculous level of mana control.
Cariosa muttered as she watched the blue shadow staggering from the rooftop of the palace.
“You have great talent. But I am the one who has grown up to be a wizard with such talent and has mastered the sword.”
Residual electricity still crackled between her sharp teeth.
'I was surprised that it penetrated the armor. Tsk. Using Dispel on a young wizard. I hope it's not too badly injured. That kid is probably that Celerazi. This is probably the famous 'infiltration' spell. The existing blocking magic isn't enough anymore. I'll have to get a separate lightning rod.'
The thing that interrupted my fleeting thoughts was the 'Sword of Sunset', Penta.
A mana blade glowing with the color of sunset swooped down on Cariosa's body as if it were going to cut her in half.
Cariosa grinned, raised her storm sword, and chanted a spell in her mouth.
“I’ll show you something fun.”
The infiltration technique that Sereraji had used was reproduced in her hands.
Lightning and the azure mana blade with added penetration techniques pushed away Penta's sunset, and a tailwind stabbed Penta's armpit.
Sereraji looked at the sight of blood pouring out from the rooftop, eyes of different colors wide open.
'In the meantime, you stole my magic… ? Yeah. So you don't forget what you've experienced in person.'
Sereraji regained his composure with a few deep breaths, then prepared to cast his spell step by step, holding his staff with his left hand and making a hand gesture with his right.
'Do you think I'm going to collapse like this?'
* * *
“Valencian. Let’s go east.”
Cariosa said, throwing one of the guards down the stairs.
Valencian smiled sheepishly, shrugged, and looked down at her.
Cariosa smiled bitterly as she thought about using her destructive magic, which dealt with pure force, to draw Valencianus in.
“Yeah. If you want to bleed.”
At that moment, a voice brushed past Cariosa's ears.
“You intend to lock my lord in a fortress tower where the sea breeze blows? Absolutely not.”
Tentia was staggering, but was getting back up again.
Cariosa looked at Tentia as if she was glad that things turned out well.
“Valencianus. If you follow me obediently, I will spare that knight’s life.”
Tentia didn't mind Cariosa's arrogant attitude.
Jokes about the Platinum Knights who protected the Emperor spread throughout the Empire, and many looked down on the Platinum Knights.
This was also something that the Platinum Knights assisted to some extent.
It was intended to induce let down one's guard.
Tentia gripped the obsidian stone pillar a span long that she had hanging from her waist tightly.
Crispy!
There was a sound of something breaking, and the next moment, all mana within a 25m radius from the center of the stone pillar froze.
This magical tool, the culmination of the Imperial Magic Workshop's technological prowess, was an expensive consumable that even the best magicians could only make one a month, even if they did their best.
The knights' mana blades shrank or disappeared, and the numerous magical circuits engraved on their armor ceased to function.
“It’s a seal stone.”
Cariosa looked down at Tentia, giggling.
“I heard that Archduke Valencian is more skilled with magic than with the sword?”
“… … .”
“Do you think this will help? Are you thinking of trying that wizard’s attack from earlier?”
“… … .”
“You guys are the same. Even when the only places I could aim for were the armpits and the inner thighs, you were still getting cut down, and now you’re turning your armor into scrap metal? Now that it’s hard to use mana, it’s probably harder to suppress injuries… … Oh. Right. You said the armor got heavier.”
The thick knight's armor originally weighed over 50kg, but through a 'lightening' technique, it was made to feel like it weighed less than 10kg.
As the mana froze, the spell stopped working, and of course, the weight returned to its original state.
It was only natural that the guards and knights could not stand up properly while wearing that on their injured bodies.
Tentia struggled to get up and took off her heavy helmet.
Now that the expanded vision spell has disappeared, I can't see anything through the narrow slits in my helmet.
His manly face, drenched in sweat, was hit by the summer breeze, and his red hair was fluttering.
Cariosa gave a heartfelt compliment to Tentia's sharp gaze.
“I wish you had been born in the East. Oh, I told you this in secret. My knights are very jealous.”
He left her behind and walked towards Valencian.
Cariosa finally stood before Valencian.
With a slightly drunken expression, like a shark with a piece of meat in front of it.
“You didn’t kill anyone. Did you do a good job?”
Valencian nodded with a bitter smile.
Although some of the guards rolled on the floor in agony, not a single one died.
“Okay. Thank you.”
Valencian stretched out both hands and embraced Cariosa.
For a moment, Cariosa didn't understand what was happening.
Platinum hair, golden eyes, and sweet-smelling red lips were right before her eyes.
Her face, which was shining as if sprinkled with pearls, suddenly turned red.
Cariosa laughed.
It was a truly noble and triumphant expression, one that went back and forth between appetite, lust, and a sense of conquest.
Valencian spoke in a low, deep voice.
“As you know, His Majesty will not come out. Now that I have seen this, I must cut off your head for the sake of the imperial prestige, but then there will be no great noble in the east to fight against the fish race.”
Cariosa laughed like a shark about to prey.
"yes."
“Actually, I liked the Marquis’s proposal. The Marquis is beautiful, strong, and wealthy, and she showed interest in me. The more stable His Majesty’s authority becomes, the more I feel free. Yes. The Marquis is a woman who is too much for me. I should beg her to marry me.”
“I get a strange feeling from that statement.”
“But I have decided to remain in the capital even if it means being left stranded. My emperor is here.”
“Who cares?”
“If there’s one thing I want you to remember… … I want you to be my Emperor and my good friend. I really do.”
Valencian's voice trembled for a moment.
'I hope that in this life, I can reach the 40th year of your reign.'
The words he couldn't say melted in the gaze he met, and the bastard Duke opened and closed his eyes, which had already turned vertically.
The sight that Cariosa saw from a distance where her breath could almost reach him was like the sun setting and rising.
No matter what happens, I will take that royal family member who is like the faded sun. I thought that for a moment.
Phew!
The gunshot from Matan rang out.