My Students Regret It After I Retired - Chapter 93



92 – Benedict’s Atonement

As Leos began tearing at them with two swords in his hands, the Celestial Assembly members’ defensive abilities began to shatter in an instant.

“Immediately switch all offensive abilities to focus on defense!”

Itheon urgently redirected all abilities to defense, but it was already too late.

CRASH!

The layered defensive abilities shattered in an instant, leaving only the Celestial Assembly members exposed to danger.

“Im…Immediately redeploy the defensive abilities!”

The Celestial Assembly executive, Itheon, urgently ordered, but before their abilities could manifest, Leos didn’t miss the split second and approached them at close range. The moment they tried to stop Leos, who had appeared in the blink of an eye, the heads of the Celestial Assembly members began to fall one by one to the ground.

The sound of slicing, as people were cut down.

“This… This can’t be happening… This is impossible…”

Itheon’s sanity began to crumble.

He had lived his whole life as a strong individual. The fact that he could be a member of the Celestial Assembly was proof that, unlike the inferior beings on the ground, their talent, whether granted by heaven or fate, was celestial. There was nothing to fear.

Those around him all possessed powers beyond human limits, and the Celestial Lord was truly on another plane altogether. There was nowhere she couldn’t see, nothing she couldn’t accomplish. Just being part of her group felt like conquering the world.

They believed they could achieve anything. They saw themselves at the apex, and just as they manipulated the emperor, they thought they could look down on and control all the world’s affairs, even all of creation. And then, Iteon realizes that it was all his arrogance.

“Don’t come… Don’t come… Stay back… Stay back!”

Iteon starts to stumble backward, his voice trembling. Even then, he scanned the surrounding troops. The Imperial Guard, from Squad 1 to 5, were all annihilated by the bloodfalls Leos used. Only the Celestial Assembly members remained.

Each of them capable of facing a hundred men. Thinking he had to do something before he died, Iteon lashed out.

“D…Die!”

As Iteon stretched his hand towards the sky, lightning started to strike down madly from above. But the lightning was absorbed the moment it touched Leos’ Blood-Soaked Sword.

It wasn’t just Iteon’s attack. Starting with Iteon’s preemptive strike, the Celestial Assembly members, who had been waiting for an opportunity, unleashed their abilities all at once. Rocks, water, lightning, and mana bombs from every direction came flying, but none of them reached Leos.

Where the Blood-Soaked Sword slashed, only an eerie void remained, as if space itself had been cut.

“Ha… haha…”

Iteon went insane.

“This power… These powers don’t work… It can’t be… We’re the Celestial Assembly, there are almost fifty of us…? And we’re losing to just one person, just one person…?”

Since he reached a certain level, Leos had only lost once to a Celestial Assembly power user. And even then, he was only defeated because he had overextended himself, unable to properly use his own abilities.

Leos had experience from countless battles, possessing a natural talent for fighting. And the moment he learned about abilities and obtained the Blood-Soaked Sword, that talent finally started to shine.

Tactics that were previously difficult to execute due to his physical limitations were now possible thanks to the Sword Demon Spirit’s characteristics. The disadvantage of fighting outnumbered was overcome with the Blood-Soaked Sword’s power, Bloodfalls.

The Blood-Soaked Sword’s overwhelming durability, the Sword Demon Spirit’s ridiculous abilities, and Leos’s quick judgment and combat experience allowed him to nullify his opponents’ powers.

An overwhelming difference in talent. He presented an insurmountable wall to his enemy.

“The Celestial Lord… will not let you get away with this. She’s already furious that you killed her underlings, and if you kill us too…”

*Thwack.* With a soft sound, Leos’ sword is plunged into Iteon’s body. Iteon stares at Leos, blood flowing.

“You can’t possibly defeat the Celestial Lord… Just like we lost to you, you too will kneel before the overwhelming power of the Celestial Lord…”

Iteon’s trailing words never came. Or, more accurately, they *couldn’t* come. Because Leos had just sliced his neck with his sword.

With Iteon, the one with the greatest power, falling so pointlessly, the remaining ones lost their will to resist. Some begged for their lives, others tried to flee. Among them, there were those who still wanted to fight. But Leos’s sword was impartial to any type of person.

Dozens of slashes began to follow. The arena was soon soaked in blood.

“Krrk…”

But the abilities they used as they died, they began to accumulate, one by one, into Leos. The battle continued, relentless.

In the end, the only one left standing was Leos.

*Drip drip drip*

The sound of blood dripping was eerily loud. Leos stood still for a long time, then Bendict, who had been some distance away, approached.

“Brother… did you kill them all?”

“Yeah.”

“Are you hurt?”

Bendict looked unusually serious. Even for Leos, fighting close to 50 ability holders at once, even members of the Celestial Assembly, it was impossible for there to be no external or internal injuries.

“I’m not hurt anywhere.”

“That can’t be.”

Bendict checked Leos’s body, then realized he was mistaken.

‘I thought Leos-nim was just taking a break after killing the Celestial Assembly b*stards…’

Contrary to Bendict’s expectations, Leos wasn’t resting. He wasn’t not moving, he *couldn’t* move.

Leos hadn’t been able to block all the abilities the Celestial Assembly members had unleashed. Even if he had blocked nine parts, that meant he had still allowed one part to hit him, and his body had sustained enormous injuries. And it wasn’t just that. He had pushed his abilities to their limit, and the mana inside him was a mess.

“I’ll just be a moment, Brother.”

When Bendict put his hand on Leos’s back, the mana tangled in various places began to slowly unravel, and soon started to recover some stability.

Leos’ eyes, bloodshot and about to burst, returned to their normal state, and his weak breathing gradually grew stronger.

Conversely, Bendict coughed up blood.

“Cough!”

Bendict only coughed once, but he had to spill a tremendous amount of blood onto the ground. Seeing this, Leos spoke.

“What have you done, Bendict.”

“Leos-nim, I possess multiple unique abilities. One is for offense, the other for support. I simply used one of them on you.”

“What kind of support ability makes *you* suffer like that?”

“It’s an ability that takes the damage that another should have received, and I experience it instead.”

“Such a pointless thing to do…!”

Leos’ expression turned grim.

Having just experienced agonizing pain, Leos knew better than anyone what kind of suffering Bendict was going through right now.

“Cancel that ability right now. You could actually die.”

Leos was prepared to face death due to the tangled mana and severe internal injuries he had sustained. It looked like an easy victory, but every single one of the abilities unleashed by the Heavenly Assembly members had been near-fatal.

Giving up flesh to take bone. With that mindset, he had given up on defense and focused solely on attack, but the cost was brutal. But now, Bendict was taking that brutal price instead.

Thud!

Bendict dropped to his knees and began writhing in pain.

“Bendict. Listen to me. You didn’t have to go this far. It’s a pain I can endure on my own. So, cancel the ability.”

Even as he spewed out blood, Bendict muttered.

“Hyungnim… I was ordered to monitor you by the Heavenly Assembly leader, but I genuinely respect, cherish, and value you. You’re a rare person who sees me for who I am. I was so afraid of the possibility that I might never regain your trust again, having lost it once. Even though it seems like you treat me well as before, I was tormented by the thought that there might be a knot in your heart.”

“Don’t talk such nonsense.”

“It’s not useless chatter. To me… it’s the most important thing there is. Brother Leos. I risked my life. I’ll take on the hardship you’re supposed to overcome. So, so… *kuh-huhk*…!”

Benedict spewed out a massive amount of blood again, this time collapsing to his knees, his face flushed crimson. Yet, despite everything, he looked up at Leos and muttered as if he still had something to say.

“If I… en…dure… and… live… will you… will you forgive… me…”

Benedict began to stammer, unable to even form words properly. His body was visibly paling. Leos immediately hoisted Benedict onto his back, yelling.

“Don’t talk nonsense, Benedict. I already forgave you.”

Benedict smiled weakly, then promptly lost consciousness.

Leos could still feel Benedict’s life force through his mana.

“Moving out.”

He absolutely could not let Benedict die.

‘Hemina… Hemina might know a way.’

A way to unravel the immense damage caused by layers upon layers of powers, and the stacked curses.

Hemina, the manager of the Interloper, was likely to know.

“The Imperial Swordsmen are all annihilated. Now we run at full speed, returning to our base. And.”

Leos clenched his fist, speaking with determination.

“I will save Benedict.”

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