Weapon-Eating Bastard [EN]: Chapter 230

Weapon-Devouring Bastard – Chapter 230

Even with its head gone, the Black Knight didn’t fall; instead, it swung its greatsword.

Clang!

The heavy blow echoed like a bomb exploding. It was a sharp strike that couldn’t be dismissed as mere postmortem [occurring after death] rigidity.

‘It’s even regenerating its head?’

The spurting blood writhed like insects, crawling up the armor, and soon the Black Knight’s face was restored.

Even so, regenerating after having its head blown off was unbelievable.

Even Lee Seo-hyun, known for his monstrous regeneration, wasn’t this extreme.

‘…Lee Gun-sung, what on earth did you create?’

Even if the Supreme Martial Alliance disregarded methods and means, there were things one should and shouldn’t do to people.

“Krrk, krk, krrreee… You, will, die…”

The Black Knight, its face regenerated, muttered with a sound like boiling blood.

The Black Knight didn’t stop attacking even while its head was regenerating.

Thung! Thudududung!

The greatsword cut through the air, and the Celestial Net poured down from all directions, preemptively blocking the attacks.

The Black Knight’s skill was undeniable. Even the Supreme Martial Alliance’s warriors were swept away by the Celestial Net, but the Black Knight was smoothly blocking it.

‘Of course, that’s because it’s not concerned about bodily damage.’

Its magical power was comparable to mine, and its technique was complete. The greatsword sharply cleaved the space, and the magical power was appropriately distributed to suit the situation.

Swish! Clang!

Then, the Black Knight’s eyes flashed, and it began to move forward. It kicked down a spear aimed at its knee, sending it crashing to the ground, and used it as a stepping stone to leap forward. The aura’s explosive force imbued in the weapon was endured with regeneration.

Thus, it used the Celestial Net’s weapons as stepping stones, closing the distance.

Whoosh! Clang!

The Black Knight aimed its greatsword at my head. I twisted my waist to dodge and extended my sword to aim for its heart. The Black Knight deflected it with the surface of its still-intact chest armor and stepped forward again.

Clang! Kwakwakwang!

Immediately, the Black Knight gripped the greatsword with both hands and twisted its waist. With a sound of air being sucked in, three streams of sword energy shot out. The fan-like swing scattered all the Celestial Net’s weapons, blocked my retreat with the second strike, and brought the greatsword down on my head as if to bisect me with the third.

Kagagagak!

Finally, Black Night and the greatsword collided in the air. Sparks flew as the blades of the greatsword and Black Night rubbed against each other.

Swish! Clang!

This time, I deflected the sword while simultaneously slashing its arm and detonating aura in its face.

“Krrrk, krk…”

The Black Knight, sent flying, regenerated even as its organs ruptured and its body was torn apart.

I smiled wryly.

‘Its knack is too good.’

A sense of annoyance and displeasure surged within me. I could concede the regeneration, understanding it as a phenomenon created by forbidden arts. If magic power was injected… I could grudgingly accept it. However, I couldn’t understand the techniques the Black Knight was displaying.

The technique of handling magic power, secret moves, profound mysteries—countless superb swordsmanship techniques. And look at those acrobatics. Using flying weapons as stepping stones, using armor and terrain to deflect attacks. Even though it was created through human experimentation, the techniques it displayed were genuine.

It was as if it was denying the countless martial artists around the world who overcame solitude and repeated training to achieve such feats.

Moreover.

‘Black energy is seething.’

The black energy that stirred when I encountered the fragments of the Unkillable was reacting. I didn’t know what the Black Knight was, but it seemed necessary to subdue it and find out.

It stared at me, twisting its lips into a smirk.

“You, cannot, kill, me…”

A monster that regenerated even when its head was blown off, its arms were cut off, or its heart was pierced. Yet, it possessed an astonishing amount of magic power and displayed martial skills at the level of a high-ranking warrior.

Ordinary people would have felt frustrated.

But.

“Ha.”

I let out a sneer.

“Now even a bug that isn’t even human is looking down on me.”

Swish…….

Instantly, the wind calmed. The Black Knight’s brow furrowed slightly.

Thung! Thudududung!

The next moment, the Celestial Net’s weapons floating in the air began to fall powerlessly to the ground. The weapons made of black energy burst and disappeared like balloons, and the other unabsorbed weapons fell to the ground.

“What, is…?”

Why suddenly discard the weapons?

The Black Knight soon understood the reason. The vast power connected to the Celestial Net was being concentrated into a single sword, Lee Chul.

“Let’s see if you can survive being cut by this sword.”

I gripped Black Night with both hands.

* * *

Yau, a cadre [a small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession] of the Mirror, gritted his teeth.

‘Monsters.’

The Black Knight, regenerating no matter which part of its body was destroyed. Lee Chul of the Supreme Martial Alliance, floating weapons enough to fill the sky and manipulating them simultaneously, it was a monster.

Yau was confident in his skills, but he was certain that these two were monsters of a different caliber.

‘Besides… they’re strangely similar.’

Yau’s eyes were different from ordinary people. He was a shaman who saw souls. And in his eyes, these two, as much as their immense power, felt strangely like twins.

Swish!

Even amidst all this, the battle continued. The Black Knight ignored the power imbued in the weapons with its regeneration and charged at Lee Chul, who was piercing the Black Knight’s heart with movements as if he were out for a stroll.

‘Well, whatever, what’s important now is to survive.’

Yau retreated slowly, swallowing hard.

‘The best outcome would be for them to fight and kill each other…’

But that was unlikely. Eventually, one of them would die. In Yau’s eyes, it seemed like Lee Chul would be the one to die. However, whichever one won wouldn’t be unscathed.

So, he had to think of another way.

‘Fortunately, there are many corpses here.’

Yau gripped the skull tattoo on his chest with his fingers.

Grrrrr!

The wave emanating from the tattoo reached not only the corpses of the Black Blood Squad guards but also the corpses of the Mirror’s wanderers. It was a voodoo-based spell. A high-level curse that manipulated death and souls.

‘First, I’ll take the corpses and run away, just in case. And that bitch…’

Yau’s gaze landed on Anastasia, whom the Black Knight had thrown aside for the battle.

‘The Black Blood Squad probably has a lot of information that could be worth money. I’ll make you my puppet.’

Yau chuckled and extended his magic power towards Anastasia.

That moment.

Thud!

Yau felt as if all the blood was draining from his body. A chill ran down his spine, and his hairs stood on end, causing him to tremble.

Yau’s gaze turned to Lee Chul and the Black Knight. The world was distorting at the tip of Lee Chul’s sword.

* * *

I raised my sword.

The reason I released the Celestial Net was to concentrate the power. Having realized that small attacks were blocked by regeneration, I intended to settle things with Black Night alone.

As if flipping a switch, all the power that had been spread around was recovered.

“You’ve instinctively avoided being hit by this sword, even though you’ve taken every other attack.”

Twitch!

The Black Knight shuddered at my words.

“In the end, power gained through such a flawed method is easily broken by greater power. That’s the problem with you guys. You always try to take the wide path, believing it’s the right one.”

In the end, the summit can only be reached by a narrow path.

I stepped forward, gripping Black Night. The Black Knight lunged out desperately.

‘No need to use Mind Sword.’

The opponent was clearly a skilled warrior. But I hadn’t neglected my training to the point where I would be pushed back by someone like that.

Swish!

A strike delivered with Black Night. It was blocked by the greatsword, but I slid along the greatsword’s blade and swung my sword, thinly slicing the Black Knight’s forearm.

‘Faster, faster… How…’

The Black Knight moved without concern for its body being destroyed by its immense magic power, trusting in its regeneration ability. That’s why it could move faster and more powerfully than anyone else.

But.

‘No, all… my movements are being read…’

The Black Knight’s thoughts couldn’t continue beyond that.

Poosh!

The Black Knight’s left shoulder lost its strength from the storm-like strike. As expected, the edges writhed and blood boiled to recover, but it didn’t fully regenerate.

Then, it tried to disrupt my lower body by stepping forward.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

Whoosh! Clang!

I fixed the Black Knight’s right foot to the ground by embedding black energy created in the air.

Swish! Clang!

A strike that came down with each step.

“Eee, eugh!”

With a strange cry, it met the greatsword. I sneered.

‘Easy to bait. Experience can’t be easily obtained after all.’

The sword path of each step was twisted in the middle. It was a feint. It was a strike that didn’t have any power from the start, and Black Night drew a long arc in the air, heading for the Black Knight’s neck.

Slice!

The Black Knight barely avoided a direct hit by dodging its neck. Regardless, the initiative had already been taken.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Feint, feint, feint.

Mixed in between were real strikes with power. These were my signature variations. A true powerhouse would have responded with their accumulated experience, but the Black Knight was constantly being swayed.

“Krr, uh, uh!”

Kwaaaang!

The Black Knight was technically complete. But what if it met someone like me, who was on a higher level? Power gained through flawed methods always has a discrepancy somewhere. To me, the Black Knight was just a well-made doll.

And.

“Krr, uh, how, eeeeeee…”

The Black Knight, with large sword wounds on both arms and chest, collapsed to the ground. The flesh was writhing to regenerate, but it wasn’t recovering, perhaps because it had been cut by Black Night.

I fixed the Black Knight’s body with my foot and aimed my sword at its neck.

“…”

The Black Knight, as if sensing death, stared at the tip of the sword, closed its mouth, and stopped moving. It hadn’t even died yet, but it had given up on all life and was accepting it indifferently. Even that didn’t seem human.

Slice!

Its head rolled on the ground. The spreading blood droplets indicated death.

I looked down at the Black Knight’s corpse and then up at the black bird flying in the sky.

“Black Bird.”

-Bbyak!

“Take care of this corpse. It would be nice if you could take care of it without damaging it as much as possible.”

-…Bbyabyabyak. Bbyak.

The black bird, hesitating as if it didn’t like it, tapped its beak and landed in front of the Black Knight.

‘I need to send it to the researchers at the main family and Valerie.’

A body that shows characteristics seen in people who inherited the bloodline of the main family, and even twisted characteristics in many ways. If this is Lee Gun-sung’s work as I expected, it needs to be studied.

‘Before that…’

I immediately turned around. There was Yau Aduviso. He was an extreme criminal whose name I had heard even in my previous life.

“Kuhahaha! The preparations are already complete! Young lion of the Supreme Martial Alliance! Die!”

At that moment, Yau burst into a terrible laugh and reached out to me.

Swirl, swirl!

Brown mist began to envelop my body. It was the aura of a curse. I let out a hollow laugh, finding it ridiculous, and walked forward, shaking off the aura of the curse.

“H-how?!”

Yau’s eyes widened as if they would tear.

“Sorry, but I’m immune to curses.”

It was defense due to magic power, but I had gained immunity due to the Zaha Stone, and I also had the Divine Spear, Kyungcheon. He charged in without knowing that.

“Get away from her. Then I’ll spare your life right now.”

“How can I believe that?!”

“Then shall we bet?”

I aimed Black Night at Yau.

“Whether your hand is faster or my sword is faster.”

Yau looked at Lee Chul. The distance to Lee Chul was 10 meters.

Yau was currently touching Anastasia’s Adam’s apple. Even moving just a tiny bit would allow the magic power to penetrate, but would Lee Chul be faster than him?

Absolutely not.

Yau was confident in taking a hostage. Surely, he would be confident…….

Gulp.

Yau could only swallow hard and couldn’t draw out his magic power. Yau trembled and slowly retracted his hand that had been reaching out to Anastasia.

And.

“Cough!”

Swish! Pow!

I cut off one of Yau’s arms and struck his head, knocking him unconscious.

‘I promised, so I’ll spare you for now. There are stories I need to hear.’

I left Yau and rushed towards Anastasia. Her skin was as cold as ice. Her vitality and magic power were all weak, perhaps due to the influence of the curse.

And.

‘……Her pulse isn’t beating.’

I frowned as I looked at Anastasia, who was collapsed.