The 9Th Class Swordmaster: Blade Of Truth [EN]: Chapter 321

“This is all corpses…….”

Miliana still looked incredulous at Carryl’s words.

[It’s not impossible or strange. Alteman outside the lair is a living witness. Why do you think Sleffs came to be? During the Magic Era, wizards used not only Elves but all races, including Gnomes and Dwarves, as experimental subjects.]

Aln said quietly, examining the huge laboratory in the lair.

[Of course, I’m not trying to defend our research. It’s unethical, but it can’t be helped. There’s always a dark shadow on the other side of progress.]

He continued.

[Isn’t the development of medicine the same? We could only understand the human body after dissecting and tearing it apart. Magic is the same. It has been applied, experimented with, and developed.]

“Crazy. How is that the same? You don’t defend your mistakes, but you don’t try to repent either.”

Miliana said, looking at him.

[It’s a difference in beliefs.]

“That’s nonsense. How is that different from what the White Gold Dragon did?”

Thump―!!

She said, roughly pulling out one of the many coffins on the wall.

“Death should be respected, regardless of friend or foe. Even if you use someone as an experimental subject, you should at least feel guilty about their death.”

There was nothing in the coffin.

The coffin broke with a loud noise, and only black dust rose from it.

[Guilt? Don’t be childish. Is feeling sorry after killing someone with your own hands the reverence for death you’re talking about? That’s just self-consolation. There’s no such thing as a sacred death. When you die, that’s it. Just a corpse. Bones that are useless even as firewood can only be used to be resurrected as undead.]

“You……!!”

She glared at Aln as if she was angry, but she couldn’t say anything more.

Different firm beliefs were bound to clash.

In the long history of the continent, who can judge what is absolutely right and wrong?

The Empire shed a lot of blood, but it also allowed many people to live within the territory of the Empire, so the blood shed cannot be seen as purely sinful.

“Stop.”

Carryl finally stopped the two.

“The important thing is that he experimented here. And the corpses inside weren’t necessarily just human.”

[It’s proof that our predictions were correct.]

“What kind of research did he do?”

[Well…….]

Carryl picked up a piece of the coffin Miliana had just broken and examined it.

Zzwing…….

A faint light flickered and disappeared along the fingertips holding the piece.

“Hmm?”

Just as Carryl was about to examine the piece again after the brief change,

Thump― Thump― Thump―

Footsteps were heard in the hall.

“What is it?”

Miliana instinctively put her hand on the hilt of her sword, stepped behind Carryl, and said.

[Krrr…….]

At that moment, a low growl was heard from inside the hall.

“A monster in a dragon’s lair?”

[Is it his pet?] asked Aln and Miliana, while Carryl watched the inside and said.

“Or maybe it’s a sentinel guarding the secrets.”

Kwaang―!!

With a sharp explosion, something covered the two in the smoke.

“……!!”

Miliana hurriedly gathered her magic power and covered her face by applying dragonification to one arm.

Thwack!!

However, with a dizzying impact, her body fell forward as it was.

Thump!!

Her body, which had fallen to the floor, bounced up once more as if kicked like a ball, and then flew dozens of meters away to the wall with a thwack! sound and fell.

“Keuh……! Cough!”

She staggered as she tried to get up from where she was embedded in the wall, but then swayed and vomited blood.

She, who had tamed wild Drakes flying over the Isle of Promise with her strength and torn apart Behemoths, had been defeated in an instant.

Tzzzzzzzz…….

As the dust subsided, Aln said in a low voice, looking at the enemy emitting red light.

[It’s a Chimera.]

As the dust cleared, the creature’s appearance came into view.

[But what’s with that bizarre appearance?]

[It’s a synthetic creature, but I’ve never seen such a monster before.]

Like Lamine, it had an extremely bizarre appearance.

With red skin as if covered in blood, a frog’s head, a locust-like body with large hind legs, and transparent fly-like wings.

Moreover, pus was flowing from its head as if it had boils.

But something came to Carryl’s mind.

The First Corruptions.

Ten Disasters.

Surprisingly, the monster partially contained all of the First Corruptions.

From the first corruption, the blood clot-like skin of Blood, to the second corruption, the frog-like appearance of Hekhet.

It was like a mixture of corruptions.

[But the appearance is strange, but what’s even stranger is the energy felt from that monster.]

[……Indeed.]

Etheral and Duat said, looking at the Chimera.

Duat, who gave the last answer, had a heavy voice as if sighing.

[How can both light and darkness be felt from that monster at the same time?]

“Light……?”

[Yes. Although darkness is dominant, it’s definitely there. As the 2nd Wilderness, I can definitely feel it. The power of Larcis is inside that monster.]

At that moment,

Carryl recalled the blonde man in the Thousand-Year Ice Cave.

Related to the Spirit King of Light, he was clearly not there in his previous life because the seal had been broken.

‘If that monster is the result of Nar Di Maugh’s research, then it means he’s related to the Spirit King of Light.’

That also meant that the seal of the Thousand-Year Ice Cave and the White Gold Dragon had a connection.

[What are you going to do?]

“What do you mean, what am I going to do? You said it earlier. To find out what he has, we have to dissect him. I’m going to catch him.”

“Carryl, be careful.”

Miliana said, leaning against the wall.

Then she looked at her arm. When she released the dragonification, the arm that had blocked the Chimera was bruised blue.

‘I can’t hold a sword like this.’

It was just one blow.

The monster in front of her had rendered her secret technique useless with a single blow.

“Damn it, I won’t lose again if I get a proper chance.”

Miliana said, as if feeling wronged.

“There aren’t any more monsters like that, are there?”

“You’ll see plenty more from now on.”

“……What?”

“So train harder. Don’t just become a dragon, become strong enough to kill a dragon.”

Miliana frowned slightly at Carryl’s words.

Step― Step― Step―

He moved slowly.

Unlike when it had caught Miliana in an instant, the Chimera seemed cautious.

“To make Miliana like that. I wonder how strong it is. It’s a good opportunity to test the power I got from the Thousand-Year Ice Cave.”

Somehow, even with the enormous monster in front of him, Carryl seemed happy.

[Be careful. The entire lair could collapse.]

“That would be good too. It might calm my nauseous stomach a little to see this damn place completely disappear.”

Carryl drew Larcna towards the Chimera.

Zzzzzzzwang……!!

An aura blade of milky white was initially created from the hilt without a blade.

Zzzt…… Zzzzt……!

As arcane power was added to the pure dragon magic, the blade turned purple. Carryl slowly pointed the sword forward.

Perhaps sensing something unusual.

The Chimera watched the tip of the sword pointed at it, took a few steps back, and revealed sharp fangs that didn’t match its frog-like face.

[Krrr…….]

As its long tongue was swung around like a whip, the walls were violently destroyed here and there, and rocks fell overhead.

“This is…….”

Miliana trembled without realizing it at the thick magic power that filled the hall and made it hard to breathe.

A presence she had never experienced before.

‘It’s surpassed 6th class……?’

Before entering the lair, Aln had clearly said that Carryl couldn’t release the multiple seals because he hadn’t reached 7th class.

But now his magic power was definitely not at the level of 6th class.

‘He deceived Alteman.’

Miliana smiled faintly and looked at Carryl.

As she had expected, Carryl had been told the secret of the Thousand-Year Ice Cave by Alteman, but he didn’t completely trust him.

There hadn’t been enough time for them to get to know each other, and it was still a fact that he was related to Nar Di Maugh.

He had come here to find the secret of the White Gold Dragon, and Carryl had deliberately separated from him under the pretext of the seal and entered the lair.

It was inevitable because he had to be meticulous, but she was just sorry that she hadn’t noticed it herself.

‘If he’s the man I follow, he has to be this good.’

Miliana had guessed that Carryl had obtained something in the Thousand-Year Ice Cave, but she didn’t know it would be this much.

Miliana raised the corners of her mouth without realizing it.

“It’s a pity that I’m the only one seeing the moment history is changing.”

In an instant, she felt like the hair on her whole body was standing on end at the magic power that exploded from him.

At that moment,

Carryl’s blade turned silver-gray.

Sword Demon Art (劍鬼術) [A swordsmanship focused on speed and precision].

Kwagaaaaaaga―――!!!

With a thunderous sound, his Larcna poured down on the Chimera.

Kwang―!!

The sword cried as if it were wailing.

Thwack!! Kwagwang―!

Kwagaaaaaagaagang……!!!

As the sum of dozens, hundreds of sword strikes poured down like a shower, the Chimera’s head staggered wildly and slid back.

The ground beneath its feet shattered, and as it scraped the floor, the corpses that had been lying scattered were crushed, raising dust.

Carryl’s attack did not stop.

Like lightning striking, Carryl’s Larcna aimed for the Chimera’s crown. The monster, staggering and unable to come to its senses, instinctively stuck out its tongue to block Carryl’s attack.

Zzang―!! Zzzeueung―!!

However, Carryl’s formless silver-gray blade rather cut the Chimera’s tongue into pieces and rushed in.

“Amazing……. Is that the realm of a Sword Master with 7th class magic power?”

Miliana murmured, as if fascinated by Carryl’s overwhelming appearance.

[You’re barking up the wrong tree.]

At that moment, Aln said to Miliana.

“What?”

[It’s true that he obtained that swordsmanship in the Thousand-Year Ice Cave. But what he obtained was only swordsmanship, not magic power. The rank of 7th class is just what that guy awakened himself through the sword.]

“That’s…….”

[What does that mean?]

Aln chuckled.

[It doesn’t mean he’s fighting the Chimera with all his power. There’s no 7th class magic power in his attack right now. He’s just fighting with the swordsmanship of the Sword Demon.]

Carryl had completed his swordsmanship by tracing the traces of the Sword Demon in the murals in the Thousand-Year Ice Cave.

But he sensed it.

That it wasn’t perfect.

The true power of the Blader could only be drawn out when the power of magic, called great magic, was added.

But Carryl didn’t easily accept it.

Even if it didn’t reach the level of great magic, he had the wisdom of the Spirit King and the knowledge of the Archmage.

[He used us to create a new swordsmanship in that short time. Maybe the real secret technique he got in the Thousand-Year Ice Cave is that.]

Aln said quietly.

[The swordsmanship of a real Grand Master.]

He looked at Carryl.

[We named it this way.]

Miliana heard Aln’s voice as if it were accurately piercing through the loud noise.