Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 513

The white knight held a brightly shining cross sword in his hand.

The power emanating from him was the power of an absolute being, one that Rowoon had felt before.

The main god of the Holy Kingdom and the main god of Einheart.

—Seran.

The power of Seran.

However, it wasn’t the feeling of the Holy Knights borrowing Seran’s power.

What was felt from the white knight was Seran herself.

The power of the world’s main god, an absolute being who had already transcended and overseen everything.

However.

“Did you steal it?”

The thought that the white knight was Seran didn’t immediately come to mind.

Just like the Dragon Knights who forcibly fused and stole the power of the Guardian Dragons, it was possible to steal and fuse Seran’s power.

*Swoosh.*

The white knight silently gripped his sword again.

“You don’t intend to answer.”

Unlike Rowoon, who seemed somewhat relaxed, the white knight seemed to be focusing all his attention, looking for an opening in Rowoon’s defenses.

“Then….”

Rowoon was the same.

Rowoon finally took his stance.

“I have no choice but to force you to answer.”

The moment Rowoon finished speaking.

*Gooong-!*

The powers of the Transcendent clashed, their time accelerated, and everything around them began to slow down.

*Clang! Clang! Clang!*

The white knight’s cross sword and the crimson sword that had appeared in Rowoon’s hand were clashing, spitting out sparks.

*Thud!*

As the clashes continued, explosions erupted.

*Taaht!*

Rowoon and the white knight simultaneously retreated and changed their stances.

The ground where they had been pushed back was exploding with rocks, the earth’s surface turned inside out.

The scattered fragments were frozen in the accelerated time.

*Kwaang!*

With a thunderous sound, the two rushed towards each other again.

*Clang!*

Sparks flew.

However, unlike before, it wasn’t a mindless power struggle.

Graceful swordsmanship.

Deflecting each other’s swords, letting them flow, and thrusting into the gaps.

*Kukukuku!*

The blood spheres that had risen around Rowoon instantly poured out towards the white knight, but.

*Thud!*

The white armor, imbued with Seran’s power, deflected even that, scattering an even brighter light.

A gap was created for a moment while creating the blood spheres.

The white knight thrust into that gap.

However.

*Gooong!*

The created blood barrier grabbed the white knight’s cross sword.

The cross sword was tightly held by the blood barrier, and the white knight had to use more power to pull it out, and that fleeting gap was.

*Thwack!*

Enough time for Rowoon.

The crimson sword pierced through the white knight’s shoulder joint.

The moment the first attack succeeded.

*Stagger!*

The white knight staggered backward.

Rowoon had been prevented from recovering by the white knight’s attacks.

The white knight was the same.

The crimson sword was imbued with Rowoon’s power, as well as a potent poison that could affect even Transcendent beings.

At this moment.

—*Kuh.*

The white knight was surely feeling pain that made him want to cut off his own arm.

*Hwaaaak-!*

With a bright burst of light, the white knight’s complexion gradually calmed down.

‘Seran.’

The white knight was overcoming even a potent poison that could not be detoxified with the power of the main god.

“Not yet.”

Rowoon said, looking at him.

“It’s not over yet.”

Rowoon was not using his full power right now.

It was like during the Rebellion.

“I haven’t heard an answer yet.”

As if testing Seran, he was slowly tormenting him.

* * *

An invisible barrier filled the battlefield between Seran and himself.

Time within this barrier flowed differently from time outside the barrier.

Within the power of transcendence, the white knight and Rowoon.

The war between the two was taking place in their own time zone.

*Taaht!*

That’s why he could afford to be relaxed.

The white knight was using Seran’s power.

*Clang!*

Rowoon clashed with him, grasping the power he possessed.

‘As expected.’

The more they clashed, the more he could tell.

*Tzzrrrt.*

Each time they clashed, his heart and body were telling him the truth.

No matter whose body the white knight’s was, the adhesive that connected it to Seran’s power was still….

“Chaos.”

It was chaos.

The power of chaos was not only used to seal and forcibly fuse the power of the Guardian Dragons, but it also held onto the power of Seran, who was a higher being, within the body.

Of course, that didn’t mean the Empire could mass-produce beings like the white knight.

Because it was the power of Seran, the one and only god.

‘Only one.’

The white knight was a being that could only exist as one.

And the reason Rowoon was paying so much attention to the white knight was because of the power of Seran he possessed.

Rowoon had already spoken with Seran once.

The identity of Seran that he learned then was.

‘Samo.’

It was his master, the Sword King’s wife, and the mother of the former Emperor Zeke, whom he had defeated.

That was why Rowoon was paying so much attention to the white knight, allocating his power and time.

At that time, Seran had hoped.

That her son would come to his senses from his fall.

That he could move forward again.

However, Zeke, who had been like that, was known to have died.

And the current emperor had ascended to the throne, creating this mess.

‘Seran is a higher being than the Guardian Dragons.’

No matter how much the power of chaos existed.

“Why?”

She was not a being that could be forcibly bound to a human body like this.

“Didn’t you want salvation?”

If so, there was only one thing to consider.

“Why are you protecting the one who stole your son and became the new emperor?”

The spirit dwelling in the white knight’s body was Seran’s.

“Why?”

Rowoon asked.

“Who exactly is the current emperor?”

Rowoon asked as if confirming something.

*Clang! Clang! Clang!*

Even in the meantime, the white knight was using the Emperor’s swordsmanship to pressure Rowoon.

However.

*Crack!*

Rather, it was the white knight, not Rowoon, who was accumulating damage.

Rowoon’s sword was piercing through the gaps.

There was no flamboyance or complexity, yet.

*Thud!*

Rowoon’s sword pierced through the white knight’s sword and was digging into the gaps.

It was incomprehensible.

The swordsmanship of the white knight and Rowoon was the Emperor’s sword that the Sword King had taught them.

And the two were not different at all.

Rather, the white knight’s swordsmanship was closer to perfection, at least in the Emperor’s sword.

Unlike Rowoon’s swordsmanship, which had been reborn as parts, the white knight’s swordsmanship was closer to the original form itself.

However, there was a big difference between the two.

“The Emperor’s sword no longer works on me.”

Rowoon.

“Because I abandoned it.”

The two’s swordsmanship, which he thought was the same, was actually different.

Rowoon had already abandoned everything in Gehenna [a place of torment or hell].

And he was still abandoning things.

He was abandoning the traces of his masters, one by one, that had been parts of him.

*Goooo-!*

And he was filling it with his own.

The original form and the foundation would be the Sword King’s sword, but in reality.

*Shweeeek!*

The essence and core of it was what Rowoon had created.

No.

*Hwaaaak-!*

It could be said to be everything of the Three Kings, combined into one.

He was tearing down the mountain he had built and building his own castle, brick by brick.

Although the previous one was more magnificent and splendid, the castle he was building now was the strongest castle that would not collapse even after ten thousand or a hundred million years.

Because the depth and determination were different.

*Thud!*

Rowoon’s sword was faster and more lethal than the white knight’s sword.

Sparks erupted.

The moment Rowoon, who had found his own answer, finally swung his sword towards the white knight’s helmet.

*Grrrk.*

The white knight was pushed back as if by an explosion.

And.

*Crack! Crack!*

It was the moment when the cracks he had built up finally showed results.

The cracks that had accumulated on the white knight’s helmet were splitting and breaking.

The armor that made up the white knight was not just armor.

It was made of Seran’s power itself, which meant that the fusion between Seran and the white knight was breaking.

*Crack! Crack!*

The white helmet was cracking even more.

And finally.

*Crack!*

It completely split and burst open.

“….”

Rowoon’s eyes sank.

“This is….”

Rowoon slowly opened his mouth.

“I didn’t expect this.”

* * *

Everything was stopped, so even the wind was stopped.

In the suffocating silence, Rowoon and the white knight were facing each other.

The only difference was that the white knight’s helmet was split, and his face.

No….

“I didn’t expect this.”

Her face was revealed.

“It’s been a while.”

Rowoon said.

“It’s been a while.”

She replied.

Not the voice that had been distorted by the helmet, but her voice.

“Phile.”

Phile.

She was the former commander of the Batilla Knights, the pride of the Holy Kingdom and one of the Seven Great Knights of Einheart.

She was also the one who had been imprisoned in Einheart with Baekcheong.

—She betrayed us.

She betrayed them.

—Along with Bondeno….

Bondeno, Phile.

They had betrayed the Shinma Alliance and sided with the Empire.

After that, Bondeno had hidden deep within the Empire and had not shown himself, and he was involved in numerous magic circles that made up the Empire, raising the level of the magic circles.

Because of that, the Shinma Alliance could not push back the Empire, and the Empire had established a solid power.

There was information that Bondeno was hiding somewhere deep within the Empire, but Phile was different.

At some point.

—No one has said they saw her.

Phile had literally disappeared.

There were all sorts of rumors, but they were just ambiguous rumors that were hard to call the truth.

She died on the battlefield.

Or she was sacrificed in some experiment.

The story that she had not actually betrayed them, but had thrown herself into stealing the Empire’s secrets, but was discovered and killed in the process.

However, the truth was ambiguous.

And that Phile.

“….”

Was now the white knight and had appeared before Rowoon’s eyes.

And one more thing.

“So that’s why.”

Rowoon could now understand.

The power of Seran that he had felt from her.

Even with the power of chaos, Seran was not something that could be forcibly bound to a body.

Either Seran had taken over the body.

“Did Seran lend her power?”

Or she had made a formal contract with a sound mind.