The 9Th Class Swordmaster: Blade Of Truth [EN]: Chapter 372

236. The Final Battle (3)

Shatter…! Crrrrack……!!

As Caryll forcefully shoved Lachna under the barrier, the barrier that had been emitting light slowly began to crack, as if glass were breaking.

“May Yula’s Governance be with us!!”

It was then.

Both doors inside the Sun Hall burst open, and dozens of priests poured in.

Whooooooo……!!

Each of them wore special sashes on their shoulders. Called Pallium [a symbol of authority and high rank], it was a symbol given to top-tier priests specialized in shamanistic powers within the Order, separate from the combat priests.

Aiming their respective ritual implements, including staves, swords, and spears, at Caryll, they chanted in low voices as if praying.

“Pentar.”

Thump—!!!

Then, an invisible force, as if gravity were intensifying, began to press down on Caryll’s shoulders.

However, Caryll, already aware of their appearance, did not succumb to the bonds of the divine.

Rather, black smoke began to rise around him, pushing away the power of light.

The priests couldn’t hide their bewilderment at his appearance, as he put even more strength into the sword piercing the barrier.

“Th, that’s…….”

“The power of Duat!!”

“No way?!”

The priests shouted as they watched the power of Duat deflect their magic.

[I’ll take care of these guys.]

“Better be careful. The power of Duat is diametrically opposed to divine power, so it’s true that it can deal damage, but in the end, only the same attribute can kill the power of God.”

[I know. It’s difficult for darkness to overcome light. But in this divine war, those guys aren’t gods. There’s no way I can lose to humans who are merely borrowing the power of God.]

Duat spoke as if slightly offended by Caryll’s words, but his eyes gleamed with a fierce light, as if he intended to vent his anger on the priests before him.

“Combat priests, forward!!”

“Maintain formation!”

Behind the special priests, combat priests in armor emerged. Generally, even combat priests mostly wore robes instead of armor.

However, the priests deployed in the Sun Hall were all wearing golden armor.

[Equipment imbued with the attribute of light. They know they can’t do it with just the power of God alone.]

Alrn smirked as he looked at them.

“May Yula’s blessing be with us. Agnus.”

The combat priests held their weapons vertically to their chests and recited prayers, and a pure white light flowed around them.

“May Yula’s joy be with us.”

The man at the head of the combat priests shouted in a trembling voice.

“Redemption……!!!”

Then, red energies once again bloomed in a circle beneath the priests’ feet.

Caryll realized that the face of the man shouting with a determined voice was very familiar.

It was none other than Yurin Hugart.

“I think I asked you before. Don’t tell me you’re thinking of fighting me? If you’re serious, you’ll really die this time.”

“…….”

He flinched without realizing it at Caryll’s words, who spoke without looking back, but he shouted as he raised the newly received mace above his head.

“Attack!!!”

Waaaaaaaah—!!

Along with the shouts of the combat priests, the holy blades unique to the priests, imbued with divine power, and shining weapons poured out towards Caryll and Alrn all at once.

Bang!!

Just before touching the priest’s mace, Alrn’s body disappeared like smoke and reappeared behind him.

“Heuaaa……!!”

As another priest’s spear, thrust with all his might, touched Alrn, his body seeped into the shadow of the priest holding the spear this time.

“Aaaagh!”

“Cough……!! Keuheok!!!”

The priest wielding the mace and the priest thrusting the spear suddenly screamed and collapsed.

“He, healing spells!!”

The special priests who were casting binding magic on Caryll from behind shouted as they looked at the suddenly collapsing combat priests. This was because their legs, writhing on the floor, had been cut off by something sharp.

“May Yula’s Holy Spirit be with us……!!”

Chijijijijik……! Chiik!!

The moment the light touched the severed legs as the priests chanted healing spells, the two legs that had been cut off emitted smoke as if burning, and rather began to consume their bodies.

“Ugh!! Uaaaaaaagh!!”

The combat priests struggled to survive, but as black smoke, starting from their severed legs, enveloped their entire bodies, their bodies crumbled as if they had turned to ashes.

[Devour.]

Alrn said with a chuckle as he looked at the crumbling corpses of the priests.

It wasn’t just Caryll who had grown over time. Alrn Zabiass, who had reached a realm where he could no longer ascend in magic, newly built a new realm of magic that he could not have done when he was human or a pure spirit by fusing with the darkness of Duat.

And he showed off dark magic in front of the priests who were brazenly wielding the power of God.

[Come on. Anyone who touches me will end up like that. You’ll be horribly tormented until your limbs turn to ashes before you die.]

At his threat, the combat priests trembled without realizing it from the encroaching sense of fear.

[If you’re not coming, I’ll go.]

Suaaaaaak—!!!

As Alrn turned his body, his body grew taller and covered the priests.

“Everyone, get out of the way!!”

“Don’t touch the smoke!!”

The priests knew that their protective magic didn’t work on him and hurriedly retreated.

“Heuaaa!!”

However, among them, only Yurin Hugart rather held his mace and jumped into the barrier created by Alrn.

[Hooh……. So there’s still someone with guts? I see. You must be the guy Caryll was talking about.]

Alrn looked at him, who was wielding the hammer of light and trying to find his main body, and laughed quietly.

[I’ll spare you especially long. So that the flames of Devour burn your body very slowly.]

* * *

“Stop!!!”

Watching the Order’s light barrier gradually breaking, Kadin Ruer raised his staff, Infinite Breath, upwards and chanted.

“νωϪοκ υφχγ stφ!!!!”

Unlike other magicians, Kadin, who studied the ancient language of Runes, could be said to be the best magician in terms of pure magical destructive power.

As he chanted, dozens of strands of magic power, like red lasers, poured out from behind him and rushed towards Caryll.

Jiiing……!! Jeueang! Pang! Pang!! Paaaang!!!

The lights poured out by Kadin Ruer passed through Caryll’s body. But Caryll still didn’t stop tearing the barrier.

“No way……! To be alive and well even after being hit by the Eyes of Hellfire?!”

“What a grandiose name. It’s just a fire-type magic mixed with the wind attribute at best. You used your head a bit, but isn’t it impossible to cast without the Blader’s weapon?”

“……What?”

Kadin Ruer blushed at Caryll’s words and seemed to lose his words. On closer inspection, it wasn’t his body that the Eyes of Hellfire had pierced through, but only his clothes.

‘Nothing hit properly. Could it be that they were all refracted……?’

The faint light visible through the torn clothes revealed that Caryll’s entire body was covered in protective magic.

Kadin Ruer felt a sense of futility that the attack magic he had developed was so easily deflected.

“That can’t be!!”

He shouted in denial and tried to chant again.

Peoeok!!!

But at that moment, his right shoulder staggered, and his shoulder was thrown back first as if someone was pulling him from behind, and his body floated up.

“Keok…… Keoeok……!!”

He stopped after crashing into a pillar of the hall, bouncing dozens of meters away, and let out a rough groan.

Kadin looked at the Agnel [a magical dart or projectile] embedded in his shoulder and raised his head in disbelief.

It was natural for any magician to have protective magic, but his defense magic was shattered by a single attack, compared to his magic, which he had created with all his heart, being completely deflected.

“Don’t interfere.”

Caryll said coldly, looking at him.

“Kueuk……!”

Kadin tried to get up, but the Agnel containing Caryll’s magic was stuck tightly in the wall and could not be pulled out even with all his strength.

“Ah…… No way!!”

Despite the blurred vision from the pain, Kadin raised his arm to stop Caryll, but the arm with the Agnel embedded in it fell helplessly to the floor.

Clang……!

The sound of the Infinite Breath he was holding rolling on the hall floor was loud.

It was truly shocking.

That he, called one of the Ten Strongest on the continent and the most powerful among mankind, would collapse so futilely.

Not only that.

Because he failed to stop the invasion of just one person, the Emperor of the Empire was in danger, so in the face of overwhelming force, numerical superiority and common sense were all useless.

Pakakaaang—!!!

Finally, the barrier broke, and in a situation where only two people were facing each other, Caryll looked down at him sitting on the throne and said.

“If you think that just one of these barriers is the power of God, it’s just ridiculous. Is there anything left to protect you? If so, you better take it out quickly. Because now your head will fall.”

Caryll raised Lachna and aimed it at Oliven’s neck. But Oliven still had a relaxed expression.

“You finally came here.”

It was then.

The moment he was about to draw his sword towards Oliven beyond the broken barrier, a low voice was heard.

Chwareureureuk……!!

At the same time, a golden rope flew in and wrapped around Caryll’s Lachna.

Chijik……! Chijijijijik……!!

Caryll grabbed the rope to cut the rope wrapped around the handle, and at that moment, pain surged along with tremendous heat as if he had been burned.

But he didn’t let go of the hand holding the rope and pulled it with all his might.

Paang!!

Then, the tightly pulled rope snapped and fell to the floor. The rope, which had been emitting light until just now, turned into an ordinary rope as it lay sprawled out.

[It’s divine power. What is it? It’s real divine power, different from that of the priests. Unless it’s the Master Key, there shouldn’t be anyone who can use that power.]

Mael said with a puzzled look as he watched the scene.

“……Why are you here?”

Caryll looked at the person who threw the rope at him and asked as if he was dumbfounded.

“It’s the Bishop!!”

“The Bishop has come!!”

“The power of Yula……!!”

At that moment, the priests’ shouts echoed in the Sun Hall.

“Bishop?”

Caryll frowned at their elated appearance. Unlike his very unpleasant face, the woman in front of him had a calm and haughty expression.

“This is crazy. Rael Stalen. You’re the head of the Order?”

He called her name.

“What kind of dog-like situation is this?”

In his previous life, she led the Blue Lore, a fanatical cult that opposed the Order, but now she was the head of the Order, so Caryll couldn’t help but be dumbfounded.

Not only that, but Blue Lore was another form of Wooden Cloud, so he was trying to annihilate them no matter what.

But now, the head of that Wooden Cloud had appeared right before his eyes. In the name of the head of the Order.

“Yes. Thank you for coming out without me having to go find you.”

Caryll looked at his blackened palm and smiled with satisfaction, as if enjoying even the pain.

“I’ll kill you all.”