The 9Th Class Swordmaster: Blade Of Truth [EN]: Chapter 486

283. Finale (9)

“Miliana……!!!!”

Caryl screamed her name, swinging his sword like a madman. Each time Agnel’s blade cut through the mist, a sharp gust of wind arose, but the mist would only disappear for a moment before filling the void again.

[Calm down, Caryl.]

The Flame King’s voice echoed.

Caryl realized that many of the Spirit Kings had already disappeared from him.

“Are you the only one left?”

[Using divine power consumes life force. I wanted to settle this with just our lives if possible… I’m sorry.]

Raminus gave a bitter smile.

“It’s not your fault. It’s because I’m lacking.”

Caryl said, clenching the hand holding his sword.

[Look closely. This is the densest mist yet, but surprisingly, the density of divine power is low. It’s probably proof that Yula’s power has weakened due to Tosca’s bones.]

Caryl nodded at his words.

[It may sound cruel to you, but this opportunity Miliana is creating will be the last.]

“I know.”

[The problem is how to find Yula in this mist…]

“There’s no need.”

Caryl said with a bitter look at Raminus’s words.

“I’ve been sensing dragon magic for a while now.”

He pointed to one spot.

“She’s probably there. It’s pathetic, but all I have to do is stab my sword accurately where she is.”

[I see.]

Whoosh……!!!!

As the Flame King’s power imbued Agnel, the broken blade glowed with red flames, displaying a sharp and powerful presence as if it were brand new. Caryl began to burn fiercely, illuminating the darkness within the mist.

Caryl knew well that it was the Flame King’s last life.

“You acted like you could do everything alone, but in the end, I’m only receiving help from you guys…….”

[That’s why we exist. If it weren’t for you, we would have already ceased to exist. I’m grateful.]

Caryl gave a bitter smile at Raminus’s words.

Swish-

Caryl raised his sword.

Then, he slowly closed his eyes. Darkness obscured his vision, and the mist tried to trap his senses, but the dragon magic that even Yula couldn’t block was guiding him completely.

[I will not forgive you……!!!]

The black mist took shape and screamed at Caryl. The form lunged at him as if to devour him, but he didn’t flinch.

[I’ll kill you……!!!]

[How dare you……! You guys……!!]

[I can’t accept it……!!]

Hallucinations poured into Caryl’s mind as if it would burst, but he still didn’t change his expression, focusing only on the one energy he felt.

Whoosh……!!!

Each time the mists passed through his body, Caryl felt as if his internal organs were twisting.

The feeling of his soul and body separating reminded him of when he was traveling back in time within Phare [a place or realm previously mentioned in the story].

[You’re just a monster……!]

[Do you really think you’ll be recognized in this world!]

[They will eventually fear you.]

Wobble-

Caryl’s legs faltered from the constant pouring mist, losing his balance and staggering.

[You’ll end up alone again……!!]

[You will suffer in solitude forever!!!]

The black mist figures gathered around Caryl, mocking him, but soon he still stood up from his spot with his eyes closed.

“Hoo…….”

The exhaled breath continued faintly.

“You’re so talkative. Is the situation so urgent that you have to buy time with illusions?”

Caryl opened his eyes.

The corner of his mouth lifted, coldly mocking the mist figures surrounding him.

[You……!!!]

[You’ll be cursed forever……!!]

[How dare a human set foot in the realm of the gods and expect to be safe!]

[Your future will end up like mine!]

The figures began to spew all sorts of curses at him.

“Yula, you don’t know.”

But the more he heard their cries, the more Caryl seemed to be sure of his victory.

“I’ve been hearing the garbage-like hallucinations spewed out by your god’s spirits in Phare.”

He said to the figures looking at him as if reminiscing.

“With every step I took, you assured me of failure, laughed at my death, enjoyed my pain, and tormented me. It was an immeasurably long time. I walked that solitary path alone.”

The eyes of those looking at Caryl are filled with disbelief.

“Compared to that time, this is nothing.”

Instinctively, they felt it.

That further deception was meaningless and that their world had already been invaded by him.

Flash……!!

Flash……!!

As Caryl’s gaze touched them, the figures began to turn into smoke one by one in an instant.

Whoo- Haa–

He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

“I’m not alone.”

It was as if to burn the flames even more fiercely within his body.

“Miliana.”

Caryl stared at one spot.

Swish-

He put strength into the hand holding his sword and swung his sword with all his might without a moment’s hesitation.

“Because I know you’re in here.”

Clang—!!!!

The power of the Flame King, imbued with the divine power contained in Agnel, began to burn the mist in an instant, and the darkness shattered as if a hard shell was breaking.

No.

The world shattered.

Only emptiness remained where the sword had been swung, and fragments of the broken scenery disappeared as if sucked into that void. His vision seemed to be tangled in dozens of pieces, like shards of glass.

Whoo-

Caryl exhaled, looking at the flames that had disappeared from Agnel.

Whoooo-

The black mists swept over his entire body with a sharp wind, beginning to cling to him. But he didn’t stop walking.

Because the real enemy is beyond the mist.

Whooooo-

As he exhaled his last breath once more, it became difficult to even move due to the thick mist gripping him. He squeezed out his last strength, but it was impossible to even lift the arm holding his sword.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa—!!!!!”

Caryl let out a sharp roar with all his might.

At that moment, a hand appeared through the mist and grabbed him.

“……!!!”

Caryl’s arm, which had been unable to move, tore through the mist and rose up, and the hand that grabbed his arm pulled Caryl’s arm towards itself as if embracing him.

Flash……!!

As the platinum energy flowing from the hand holding Caryl’s arm touched the mist, the figures writhed in pain and disappeared as if melting away in an instant.

Caryl looked at the hand with wide eyes as if he couldn’t believe it.

The sword moved.

And the sword cut something.

Thud-

The feeling of the blade piercing through flesh was clearly felt.

The magic that protected him in the mist was definitely that of a dragon.

The brilliant platinum magic was certainly familiar yet unfamiliar. It had been with him for a long time, but it was something that couldn’t exist now.

“Nar Di Maugh……?”

Caryl said towards a shadow in the light.

“Caryl.”

However, he could recognize the being in the light from the voice calling him.

“……!!!”

Caryl could finally understand.

That there was another being with dragon magic besides himself and Miliana.

The last arrangement left by the Platinum Dragon.

Caryl had forgotten him because it was the result of a change that couldn’t have existed in his past life.

“……Father?”

Just as his future had changed, Kwell’s life had also changed. Among them, the biggest change was that his meeting with Nar Di Maugh had influenced his growth, unlike in his previous life.

But that growth didn’t simply mean the advancement of swordsmanship. At the time of his clash with him in Heim [a location previously mentioned], Caryl knew that he had gained a power that he couldn’t use in his previous life.

The colorless power closest to divine power.

It was dragon magic.

“Kuh……. Kuaaaaaaa!!!”

Yula’s scream was heard.

As Kwell’s blood flowing through Caryl’s blade into the wound pierced in Tosca’s bones touched her, Yula trembled and couldn’t bear the pain.

As the Platinum Dragon’s blood flowed over the blackened blood vessels, it caused a reaction with the remaining divine power and began to gnaw at her body.

“Caryl……. Sir Kwell…….”

Miliana said to him with a tearful face.

“He, instead of me…….”

She said in a sobbing voice. Caryl already knew what she was trying to say.

That Kwell was using the Dimension Spiral [a type of magic] that Miliana had to hold Yula with divine power.

And that his blood with dragon magic had dealt a decisive blow to Yula.

And…….

Caryl gave a bitter smile.

“Miliana, you…….”

There was only one magic power felt.

That’s why Caryl thought that magic power was hers in the mist. But now that he knew it was Kwell’s, he realized it late.

“You didn’t have any dragon magic anymore.”

She had only used the relic of the Demon World to deceive him, and she had already used up all of her dragon magic when she used the first Dimension Spiral.

Nevertheless, she rushed at Yula with the fragment in her hand. She must have been prepared to give up her life.

“Kuaaaaaaa!!! I’ll kill you all! I’ll get rid of you! You humans too! This damn world too……!! This kind of thing…… I’ll destroy it! Creations that don’t follow God are useless!!”

Yula, whose heart was pierced by the sword that had pierced through Kwell’s body, screamed like crazy. But the more she did, the faster her blood vessels were polluted.

“Uaaaaaak—!!!!”

Listening to Yula’s screams, Kwell rather twisted the sword that pierced through his body.

Contrary to Yula, he was also in pain as he was being eroded by the power of God, but Kwell’s face was peaceful.

“It’s a relief. I’ve always been late until now, but at least I’m not late for the last time.”

“……Father.”

Caryl didn’t say anything.

Because they understood each other’s feelings enough with just the look in their eyes.

Resentment and reconciliation were unnecessary now.

“I wasn’t trying to lie to you. I tried my best in my own way, we tried our best in our own way…… and you tried your best in your own way. For this world.”

Kwell gave a faint smile to Caryl.

“Godslayer……. A presumptuous death that doesn’t suit a depraved person.”

Blood dripped from his mouth. The blood gradually filled his mouth, and finally, every time he exhaled, sticky lumps of blood poured out.

As evidence of divine power, his blood vessels turned black in an instant, and when even the lumps of blood no longer flowed, he pushed Yula’s body and his own body, which he was holding onto, further into Agnel’s blade.

“Uaaaaaaaaaaaa—!!!!”

Screech-

With a sharp sound of flesh being cut, Yula screamed and disappeared as if scattering into the black mist.

“Raise your head.”

Kwell uttered his last words with all his might.

“The age of dark clouds is over. There are those who believed in you and fought. Now……. Look at them. Caryl.”

Whoosh……!

A strong wind hit Caryl’s face, and when the black mist disappeared, there were countless soldiers around him.

“My lord……!”

“Sir Caryl……!!”

The sight of them calling him was not intact. Someone had their arm cut off, someone had lost their leg, and someone had one eye missing.

They had to fight by stepping on the corpses of their comrades and witness them dying, but there was no despair on their faces.

“You are never alone.”

Kwell whispered, leaning on Caryl’s shoulder with a tired, languid voice.

“…….”

Caryl’s arm hesitated.

Looking at him, Miliana put his arm over Kwell’s shoulder, who had fallen into her arms. Warmth was still felt, but his heart was no longer beating.

He closed his eyes.

For the first and last time, Caryl stroked Kwell’s back with his hand. Kwell’s face was peaceful, as if he had finished what he had to do.

“Caryl.”

Miliana called him.

“There’s still work to be done.”

At her words, Caryl slowly nodded.

“It is humanity’s victory.”

Caryl’s voice echoed across the battlefield.

Numerous magic mirrors appeared throughout the continent, announcing his victory.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa—!!!!

Waaaaaaa—!!

The soldiers’ shouts were heard as if the battlefield would be torn apart at his cry, as if they had been waiting for it.

Looking at them, he felt a tingling sensation all over his body.

Caryl could finally realize it.

The future has changed.