The 9Th Class Swordmaster: Blade Of Truth [EN]: Chapter 380

236. The Final Battle (11)

KWA-BOOM—!!!!

A fierce explosion erupted beneath Khalil’s feet.

“Demigod? You spew nonsense. Mael, even in the Mythic Era, you used your serpent’s tongue to incite discord among the Bladers.”

Retreating, Nar Di Maugh, who had been trampled just moments before, brushed off the debris from his face and retorted irritably.

[What’s with this? Anyone would think the defeat in the Divine Spirit War was my fault. It was your dragons who betrayed Toska, their leader, that caused it. Platinum Dragon. You were the one who led that betrayal.]

[……?!]

[……!!]

The Spirit Kings couldn’t hide their surprise at Mael’s words.

[Toska……? The Golden Dragon Toska was a Blader?]

[Impossible. He was merely a legendary dragon, called the progenitor of dragons.]

[…….]

Duat and Etheral refuted Mael’s story, but Lamine remained silent.

[Even if Polsetia’s seal is broken, the memories of oblivion don’t return? When the Sword of the Book’s seal was broken, my memories returned intact…….]

Mael seemed puzzled by their reactions.

“Send me your power. Then it will be resolved.”

Khalil said to them in a low voice.

[I see……. Unlike those two, Lamine, your memories have returned? Only by touching Khalil’s domain can Yula’s binding on you be undone.]

As if new memories were filling the erased ones, Lamine still couldn’t speak.

Crack-

Nar Di Maugh, freed from under Khalil’s feet, cracked his neck and glared at him.

“To dare……. A mere human calling himself a demigod. Such futile desires lead you to a life of defeat and humiliation.”

“Then what about you?”

Nar Di Maugh’s face hardened as he looked at Khalil, who calmly asked back.

“Why did you covet Lassis’s power and experiment on the Order and Wooden Cloud, and furthermore, humans? What for?”

Thud- Thud- Thud-

Khalil walked towards Nar Di Maugh. It was just a normal walking speed, but somehow the distance between them closed in an instant.

“Isn’t it because you also wanted the power of a god?”

“…….”

Nar Di Maugh stared at him with trembling eyes.

“Do you want to become a god?”

Khalil pointed his sword at him.

“Betraying your comrades and licking the boots of a god, even trying to stab that god in the back, you are just a greedy, ugly dragon.”

[KRAAAAAAAA—!!!!]

Nar Di Maugh unleashed Dragon Fear and swung his hand at Khalil with all his might. As his hand cut through the air like a hook, the space split into five, as if tearing the air.

Swish-!!!

Khalil hurriedly twisted his body to avoid his attack, but the sharp wind grazed his shoulder, cutting into it.

Whoosh……!!

As Nar Di Maugh swung his other hand upwards, sharp gusts of wind vertically covered Khalil once again, following his fingers.

“Shut up!!!”

Clang!! Clang clang clang……!!

Everywhere the wind blades he emitted touched, debris was cut away and shattered.

“Etheral! Duat!! What are you doing!”

Khalil shouted, dodging his attacks.

“Do you lack the courage to face the reality of your lost past? Then why did you make a contract with me?”

[Hmph, presumptuous to try and teach us.]

[We acknowledge you are great, but we are also Spirit Kings. Masters who rule a realm.]

Etheral and Duat answered as if they had made up their minds at his words.

Whoooo……!! Swish!!

Then, the energy of the Queen of the Tides and the King of Darkness swept through Khalil’s entire body and permeated the sword.

[Don’t let our power overwhelm you.]

[He won’t die.]

At that moment, Lamine, who had been silent, answered Duat’s words for the first time.

[That’s the kind of guy he is. Our contractor.]

Crackle—!!!

The sword, which had been imbued with red flames, instantly froze over, and then, once again, the ice clinging to the sword shattered like breaking glass, transforming into a jet-black blade.

“Always with the pride.”

Khalil smirked with a satisfied look as he looked at the completed sword.

KWA-BOOM—!!!!!

Nar Di Maugh’s attack was blocked by Khalil’s sword.

If it had been before, Khalil’s body would have been sent flying as soon as he blocked it head-on, but now he stood still without even taking a step back.

“……!!”

Rather, Nar Di Maugh, who had attacked, looked up at Khalil with a surprised expression.

Whoooo……!

Not only did it block the dragon’s strike, but the sword was pushing back his arm little by little, as if repelling Nar Di Maugh’s magic.

“Why did you do it?”

Clang Clang!! Clang Clang……!!

The sound of metal grinding against each other was heard as Nar Di Maugh’s claws and Khalil’s sword pushed and pulled against each other.

Khalil lowered his head towards the inside of the sword and said quietly to him.

“Why did you kill Rael? The spell she was going to use last. It was definitely the power of corruption. You killed her, whom you had created with such effort, to hide that spell, didn’t you?”

“Shut up……!!!”

Nar Di Maugh roared.

“Not content with the power of gods and spirits, you even tried to dabble in corruption. Could it be……. You experimented on humans with corruption?”

At Khalil’s words, his complexion hardened. Khalil, not missing that brief change, felt he didn’t need to hear any more.

The countless corpses in the Platinum Dragon’s lair.

If they were consumed by experiments with corruption…….

‘When the oracle occurs and corruption pours into the world, what face will you have to encourage us to fight? You are the very person who caused us to fall into corruption!!’

Clench-

Khalil gripped the sword.

“This isn’t a question. It’s a warning.”

KWA-BOOM—!!!

And with all his might, he lifted the sword and struck Nar Di Maugh upwards.

“Hmph……!!”

There was no shout filled with anger.

But Khalil instead took a short breath, further refining that anger into something colder and sharper.

[A fool who knows nothing dares……!!]

Nar Di Maugh’s entire body, which had been bouncing up, began to be enveloped in a pure white light.

[Do you know who I am!! Spirits? Do you think that such power, even if added, will be a threat to me!! Don’t try to understand the great purpose I want to achieve with your shallow knowledge!!]

His voice gradually grew louder, as if a megaphone had been attached, and along with it, his body also began to grow gigantic.

[Lamine!! Etheral!! Duat……!! Were you all there!!]

As he, who had been polymorphed into a human form, returned to his original dragon form, an overwhelming pressure descended that was incomparable to the fake one Khalil had killed earlier.

[I am the true master who will rule you as the 영령 지배자 (yeongnyeong jibaesa) [Master of Spirits]!!]

KRAAAAAAAA—!!!

As Nar Di Maugh opened his massive mouth and shouted, the earth trembled and shook.

[Not some mere human like that!!!]

Whoooo……!!!

His breath began to condense with tremendous heat. Perhaps because it was filled with anger, Khalil instinctively sensed that his breath was something that could not be blocked with a sword, unlike before.

But it was impossible to avoid it.

Because he saw Wingel collapsed in the cockpit of Ascalon, and Jarka Hochi and Kay Rothschild sitting on the floor with broken legs.

The moment he dodged, their lives would surely be extinguished by the Platinum Dragon’s breath.

[You seem to think the same.]

Aln Zabiuss said quietly as Khalil’s eyes glanced over them.

“The answer is still attack.”

Ooooooooggggggggg……!!!

The fragments beneath Khalil’s feet began to stir and rise, as if gravity was reversing around him.

Clang!! Clang……!!

At the same time, the power of the Spirit Kings, which had been condensed in the sword, erupted like an explosion, transforming his sword into a giant greatsword.

[Hurry!!]

Mael’s cry was heard.

[But……. How? To use the 섬격 (seomgyeok) [Annihilation Strike] that generates from the impact of power, you need dual blades. What about the other one?]

Kugagagaga……!! Clang……!!

The floor in the path of the breath was relentlessly overturned, and debris flew everywhere.

As he watched the breath swirling towards him with the debris like a vortex, Khalil said without turning his head to Aln’s question.

“Ziggrah. If you’re awake, you need to move.”

It was then.

Among the collapsed comrades, Aln finally realized that Ziggrah was missing.

“I’m late.”

A figure that appeared in Khalil’s arms wiped the blood flowing from his mouth with the back of his hand and handed him something.

A dagger with a sharp, shining blade.

It was Agnel.

Without hesitation, Khalil gripped the dagger and leaped towards the breath with all his might.

섬격 (seomgyeok) [Annihilation Strike].

Clang!!! Clangggggggggg—!!!

At the same time as Agnel’s blade was imbued with purple arcane power, Khalil collided the Sword of Polsetia, which combined dragon magic and spirit power, with all his might.

With a tremendous roar, an explosion occurred around the Sun Hall along with a pure white light.

[Everyone be careful!!!]

“Y-Your Majesty!!”

Aln unfolded a black mist to create a shield, and Kadin Luer hurriedly chanted a spell as if enveloping the body of the collapsed Olivon.

KWA-BOOM—!!!

Clang—!!!

A fierce explosion erupted, and the Imperial Capital was filled with light as if the sun had fallen.

Fzz…… Fzzzzzz…….

The smoke that had filled the hall slowly subsided, and the figures of the two appeared in the dust.

The two were crossed, and unlike before, their positions were reversed, facing each other back to back.

“Was it a little short.”

Agnel, held in Khalil’s hand, turned into black ash as if it had exhausted its power, scattering into dust. As Kaliak’s relic looked at its end, Khalil looked at the sky with affectionate eyes.

[Ha…… Haha……!!!]

It was then.

Nar Di Maugh turned his head towards him and shouted. There was a sharply cut wound on his neck, but it was not enough to kill him, a dragon.

[Khalil!!! You failed!!! A human dares……! Yes, of course. It was impossible from the beginning to give me a blow!!]

The Platinum Dragon’s head moved roughly up and down as he laughed.

“Is it a failure…….”

“Damn it…… If only the sword was a little longer…….”

Kay and Ziggrah looked at him and lowered their heads as if frustrated.

“Raise your heads.”

Khalil said to them.

“It’s not over yet. 섬격 (seomgyeok) [Annihilation Strike] isn’t over with one strike.”

Khalil shook off the ashes from his hand and said to Nar Di Maugh.

“The sword strike still continues.”

As if to prove his words, the magic power flowing from the Sword of Polsetia still remained.

“You’re the one who doesn’t know. I didn’t intend to kill you with one strike from the beginning.”

Nar Di Maugh had a slightly nervous expression at that sight, but soon snorted and said.

[……Crazy. What can a guy with no sword to use do?]

“I do have a sword.”

Rather, Khalil smiled coldly at his words.

“Just one. A sword that surpasses Agnel in terms of magic output.”

Everyone looked at where Khalil was standing. He slowly bent down and grabbed something like a pillar that was lying under his feet and lifted it with all his might.

“……!!!”

At that moment,

People couldn’t help but be shocked.

It was not a pillar.

Ascalon’s greatsword was erected stiffly towards Nar Di Maugh like a guillotine blade. Its length was as tall as the dragon, making it seem like they were watching an execution day for him.

“I warned you I’d crush you.”

As if answering Khalil’s words, the blade of the greatsword gleamed in the rising dawn.