Became The Son Of The Final Boss [EN]: Chapter 74

74.

I bit my lip tightly.

So many battles.

Even in the Imperial Palace, I faced assassination threats and actual attempts, but it was nothing compared to the dread I felt undertaking this quest.

‘I underestimated the S-class difficulty.’

The protagonist, Karen, solved S-class quests through luck and her abilities, but I was not the protagonist.

I didn’t possess Karen’s outstanding abilities or luck. The S-class quest was designed to be incredibly difficult, so even Karen relied heavily on luck to clear it.

If that was the case for the protagonist, my abilities were lacking, and my preparation wasn’t as perfect as I thought it would be.

But I couldn’t back down now.

Geil was waiting to die in the Orc Legion’s main camp.

There were only about 20 days left.

The Orc King was fighting the Ruler of the Ruins, so now was the perfect opportunity.

I had already witnessed the sacrifice of the knights and come too far to give in to the Skeletons and turn back.

“Sylphen.”

I summoned the Wind Wolf.

Whoooooo-!

Sylphen ran forward with me.

The Skeletons gradually came into view. The eerie energy emanating from behind made me realize we were surrounded inside the cave.

‘I’ll take care of the ones in front in one fell swoop.’

Steeling my resolve, I sent all the other spirits back and summoned Ignis.

“Again?”

As soon as he appeared, Ignis grumbled, but I ignored him and immediately unleashed a skill.

The Wind of Fire, a skill unleashed by the two superior spirits, Sylphen and Ignis, possessed a power unlike anything before.

It wasn’t merely the sum of Sylphen, Salamander, and Phoenix, but a superior spirit and a superior spirit combined to create a single, devastating skill.

There seemed to be roughly over fifty Skeletons in front of me.

Each one emitted a much stronger energy than the Orcs.

The way they moved quickly with strange swords was very threatening.

Contrary to my expectation that their movements would be stiff because they were skeletons, they moved smoothly like knights.

“Humi, watch out!”

After confirming the appearance of Sylphen and Ignis, David seemed ready to face the Skeletons after my attack.

Combat had already broken out in the rear, where Riorden was in charge.

Clang-! Clang-!

The sound of Skeletons and knights colliding echoed.

In the meantime, Sylphen ran, and Ignis flew above him.

Whoooooo-!

Soon, the wind and fire created by the two spirits combined into one skill.

Kwaaaang-! Bang-! Bang-!

The wind Sylphen created while running blew like a tornado.

And fire was added to the tornado.

Kwaaaang-! Bang-! Bang-!

It was an incredible power. I felt the entire cave shaking, and stones turned to powder and fell from the ceiling due to the skill’s impact.

I supplied mana to the two spirits without rest and unleashed Chains of Wind and Barrier of Fire in succession following the Wind of Fire.

Sylphen weaved through the Skeletons and created a long chain.

The flames spewing from Ignis’s body turned into a barrier, gathering the Skeletons in one place.

Kwaaaang-!

The Skeletons’ bodies turned to ashes, and their bones turned to powder in the still-raging Wind of Fire and the Chains of Wind that Sylphen was creating.

The heads of some Skeletons were cut off and rolled to the floor.

I tasted bile in my mouth.

Maintaining two superior spirits at the same time was by no means easy. In addition, using several skills at the same time emptied my mana pool in an instant.

It would have been an impossible attack if my level hadn’t risen, but I managed to succeed.

Bang-!

With the last explosion, at least more than half of the fifty Skeletons in front of us were blown away. The remaining half were damaged, with some of the bones that made up their bodies missing, weakening them.

“Protect His Highness with ten men, and the rest deal with the Skeletons.”

When my attack was over and the two superior spirits returned to the spirit realm, David rushed into the fray with the knights.

I quickly used the Breathing of the Wind.

The knights surrounded me in a circle.

Clang-! Clang-! Clang-!

The surviving Skeletons in the front were greatly injured because of my skill, but the ones in the rear were not.

I could see Riorden fighting fiercely.

I ordered the knights.

“It’s okay now. Help David deal with the remaining skeletons.”

I then used the flow of wind and earth to head to the rear.

Certainly, perhaps because my level had increased significantly, my speed was faster, and my movements felt smoother.

I saw Riorden cutting off the head of one Skeleton.

“Riorden!”

“Your Highness.”

I summoned the intermediate spirit Undairon and the lower earth spirit Gnowm.

I didn’t have much mana left, but I unleashed a Water Storm with Undairon first to aid in the battle.

The power was weak.

I didn’t have enough mana after all.

‘Gnowm!’

I manipulated the cave floor where the Skeletons were fighting the knights.

I disrupted the Skeletons’ movements while using Roar of the Earth.

And it had a much better effect than I thought.

The Skeletons, like the knights, were beings who stood on the ground with two feet and held swords.

The knights were unable to block the sharp attacks of the Skeletons because the ground was twisted, and their bodies shook for a moment.

‘I’m not fighting alone. There are various ways to defeat the enemies.’

The knights with me are all skilled. As a spirit master, I could have killed the enemy directly, but I can also support my companions and enhance their abilities.

I smiled to myself and said to Riorden.

“Finish them quickly.”

According to my will, the Gnowms moved busily.

* * *

How can a spirit master contribute to battle?

Today, I experienced the method directly, rather than imagining it.

I killed Skeletons directly with the superior spirits and supported the knights with Gnowm.

In particular, I learned a lot while supporting the knights.

“Your Highness seems to be getting more and more skillful.”

I shrugged at David’s words.

“I need to become more skillful.”

After dealing with all the Skeletons, my steps were much lighter.

No traps or other undead types were visible yet.

I wasn’t letting my guard down because it was a strange cave, but I didn’t need to be overly anxious.

The battle with the Skeletons gave me great confidence.

There were plenty of ways to help in battle, even without powerful skills or superior spirits.

‘I can also heal.’

I had set the spirit master to be a rarer existence than a wizard and helpful in battle, but I was realizing the reason I didn’t even know myself when I was writing, after becoming a spirit master myself.

‘A spirit master can create much more diverse variables in battle than a wizard. It can’t even be compared to a knight. Combat is not about fighting according to mutual promises, and the most important goal is to win or kill the enemy by any means, so it is natural that a being who can create variables is scary.’

Should I say that my awareness as a spirit master has become clearer?

Some kind of confidence rose up.

“Skeletons, are they undead, not monsters?”

David nodded.

“Yes. It is clear that there is a seed of darkness behind the Orc King. It must be related to the demons.”

The existence of demons only appears in the second half of my writing, and it was first mentioned in the Goran’s resurrection incident.

‘Karen’s heroic side appears in the battle with the demons after destroying the Empire.’

I couldn’t write that far.

Because I became Arwen Carl Leord.

Anyway, the fact that people recognize the existence of demons at the current point in time was definitely a bit faster than my setting.

At that time, the Sylphs conveyed their voices.

There’s something in front of us.

Kyaaaak!

“Sy, Sylph!”

My body shook violently at the Sylphs’ simultaneous screams.

The Sylph was forcibly reverse summoned to the spirit realm.

A spirit returning to the spirit realm against my will meant it had suffered enormous damage.

Of course, there was no choice but for me to be hit as well.

“Keu, keueok!”

“Your Highness!”

I swallowed a scream and said.

“There’s something in front……”

Kwaaaang-!

Something flashed in front of me with an impact that shook the entire cave.

In an instant, my vision disappeared.

Swish-!

I tried to regain my senses.

I heard an ominous sound in my ear.

Swish-!

Riorden shouted loudly.

“It’s a Dullahan [a headless horseman]!”

After regaining his senses first, Riorden sprang from the rear to the front and swung his sword.

“Keok!”

Through my slowly returning vision, I saw Riorden spitting out blood.

And then I felt an overwhelming aura of darkness!

My body trembled.

The fear I hadn’t even felt facing Wyvern Fear, the Ruler of the Ruins, crept up my back.

“Ri, Riorden!”

“Yo, Your Highness, get out of here……”

Riorden’s words were cut short.

The Dullahan lifted its huge foot and stepped on Riorden’s chest.

“Keok!”

Riorden’s body bent like a shrimp.

Whoooooooo-!

“Riorden!”

My voice cracked without me knowing.

At the same time, Sylphen sprang out.

The Sylphen rushed at the speed of light at the monster with its head tucked under its arm, the Dullahan, which was emitting a terrifying aura of darkness.

A huge wind blew inside the cave, and dozens of Chains of Wind fluttered around the Dullahan’s body.

Scratch-! Scratch-! Scratch-!

Black blood gushed from the Dullahan’s body along with a terrible sound.

“Heo, heo!”

I gasped for breath.

Was it because I had witnessed Riorden’s death before my eyes?

Sylphen was summoned in response to my emotions, and a more intense skill than ever before was unleashed.

It was the first time that one spirit had created multiple Chains of Wind.

“Riorden!”

The knights moved quickly at my words.

Their bodies had stiffened at the sudden situation, but they regained their senses when they heard my voice.

“He’s still breathing!”

At the knight’s urgent voice, I immediately summoned Undairon.

The aura of darkness burst out from the Dullahan’s body, which had been torn to pieces, the moment I tried to use Cleansing Wave.

Kwaaaang-!

The knights and I rolled on the floor from the impact, and I instinctively unfolded a Barrier of Water rather than a Cleansing Wave at the chilling energy.

Bang-!

The Dullahan’s huge sword pierced through the Barrier of Water and pierced my shoulder.