The Sword Genius of the Magic Empire - Chapter 59



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Episode 59. Fortress Assault Operation (4)

Wheeing!

Enoch’s mana, a dark blue light that seemed to cut through even the darkness of the room, rose up on the sword.

Beyond the interlocking, crisscrossing weapons.

Leontos bared his teeth at Enoch’s dark blue eyes. He deployed a magic circle of physical strengthening on his arm. He pushed the magic circle away with all his might and dropped his sword.

Quagagagagak!

Immediately afterwards, their weapons began to tear through space one after another, aiming for the other’s life.

The sword cuts in with a quick and flowing stroke, and the axe counters with a heavy and powerful strike.

Sirocco, who was watching that, opened his eyes wide for a moment.

“ah…….”

Her lips parted slightly as she stared blankly at Enoch, who ran towards her.

The battle was unfolding very quickly.

Enoch’s sword surges through the darkness of the room.

Leontos stepped back and spun his axe handle, pushing the sword hard to deflect it.

However, Enoch, who used the recoil from the force of his push to fly upwards, instantly rotated around his waist.

Ping─

A halo of sword light circled around Enoch’s body. He aimed for the enemy’s neck. However, the axe was swung in a semicircle in reverse, blocking the sword’s attack and advancing.

The axe interlocked with the sword pushed the sword back.

For a moment, Enoch’s eyes narrowed.

‘You can’t beat force.’

In a pure battle of strength, Leontos, who uses physical strengthening magic, is defeated. A head-on fight where they exchange weapons and use brute force is not the answer.

If so─

Speed ​​is the answer.

In an instant, Leontos flexed his arms. The rough blade of the axe dug into Enoch’s heart.

Enoch immediately rolled over on the ground to dodge.

At the same time, he quickly swings his sword, aiming for the bastard’s leg.

A dark blue light flashed through the darkness.

“Where!”

However, Leontos blocked the path of the sword by striking down with the axe handle, and tried to trample Enoch, who was rolling on the ground with one leg.

In addition to the physical strengthening magic, a kick with all of one’s body weight. If it landed wrong, it could be a fatal blow.

Enoch avoids it by jumping with his arms on the ground, then turns around in midair and quickly swings his sword.

In the midst of a high-speed, back-and-forth battle, intense sword light and flames swept around the two people.

Another spark from the clash of weapons.

For a moment, their gazes met.

“It’s pretty good!”

Leontos shouted loudly.

Leontos, who barely managed to deflect Enoch’s sword strike, instantly gathered his axes with both arms.

Phew!

For a moment, a heavy axe passed before Enoch’s eyes. A terrifying crashing sound passed before his eyes.

Enoch managed to avoid it by tilting his chin back while quickly moving his sword.

The axe, which passed before his eyes by a width of a sheet of paper, not only shattered the empty test tube behind him, but also destroyed the wall of the fortress.

Shards of stone from the shattered wall and shards of glass from test tubes exploded like shotgun pellets, scattering into the air.

‘As expected, tremendous brute force.’

Enoch’s eyes narrowed slightly.

Leontos is also a user of unique magic that strengthens the body, similar to Sirocco.

As expected of a Suin tribe, close combat is their specialty, so even a single attack would be fatal.

‘Besides, it’s not just about brute force.’

Even the speed and skill with which he handles the weapon from that explosive power make him an extremely superior opponent. There is a reason he is called the leader of the outcasts.

but……

Phew!

In that moment, Leontos’ axe, loaded with incredible power, cut through the air again.

Enoch smiled faintly when he saw that.

Obviously Leontos is fast and strong.

But how does it compare to the last swordsman of the empire?

In that moment, Enoch dodged Leontos’ falling axe with a short side step, then quickly turned around and quickly raised his sword to slash.

Kaaaaang!

Leontos tried to block the sword with the handle of his axe again, but Enoch immediately slid the sword away, turned his body’s center of gravity in the opposite direction, and cut down the man.

The sharp sword strike deeply grazed the bastard’s waist.

Valid.

Blood spurted into the air in an instant.

Perhaps sensing a moment of crisis, Leontos swung his horse sharply to widen the distance between them.

Then, he covered his injured waist with one hand and took a few steps back hesitantly.

In a brief lull in the battle, Leontos frowned and glared at Enoch in surprise.

“Amazing. This level of physical strengthening magic.”

Instead of answering, Enoch swung his sword sideways once.

With a splattering sound, Leontos’ blood splashed onto the floor in red arcs.

Leontos tilted his head when he saw that.

“… … You. What is your identity?”

It was natural for Leontos to be suspicious.

‘Originally, physical strengthening magic greatly increases the user’s body’s reaction speed, agility, and even endurance.’

However, usually when the power of reinforcement magic starts to exceed a certain output, the body reaches its limit, and muscles rupture or body tissues become damaged.

That is precisely why physical strengthening magic that boasts such enormous output is usually exclusive to the beast race, which has naturally strong bodies.

So Leontos asked Enoch fiercely, as if he could not understand at all.

“With a body like yours that isn’t a water race, wouldn’t it be impossible to withstand the recoil if you strengthened your body with that level of magic?”

Actually, the answer was simple.

Because it’s not magic.

chuck.

Enoch crouched down, holding the sword at his waist.

Already, more than half of the field of vision has been obstructed. The situation is already unfavorable enough.

The battle shouldn’t be prolonged.

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The sword’s trajectory cut straight down in front of Enoch’s eyes, as if cutting through the white text blocking his vision.

Leontos raised his axe for defense.

But Enoch’s sword blade, which had just hit the axe, changed direction to the side, then slid down the axe’s handle and accelerated like a runway.

With a sharp metallic clank, the blade crashed down the handle of Leontos’ axe and rushed into his hand, sparks flying.

“──!!!”

Moment.

Leontos turned his horse into a horse with his animal instincts.

I barely managed to block the sword before it reached my hand.

However, as if he felt threatened by continuing the battle, Leontos leaped backwards with a great leap, putting some distance between himself and Enoch.

“… … This is annoying.”

A shadow fell across his bowed face.

The bastard slowly looked at the test tube next to him. Leontos said with a slow, self-mocking smile.

“I never thought I would be using this here.”

Chaenggang!

In that moment, Leontos smashed the test tube closest to him with his fist. Then he brought his hand, covered in the green liquid that flowed out from it, to his injured waist.

Cheeeeek!

The next moment, his blood vessels began to glow a dark green and bulge all over his body.

Enoch paused for a moment at that sight.

An ominous feeling came over me.

“… … Even though it is a reagent with a slow erosion rate, it always leaves an extremely unpleasant feeling.”

Leontos muttered, looking at his arm.

“Masuhwa!”

He spoke softly, bending his knees sharply toward the ground.

A threatening appearance, like a catapult about to be launched.

─It’s dangerous. That was the moment when Enoch instinctively felt a sense of crisis.

Kwaaaaang!

Leontos leapt violently in a straight line towards Enoch, swinging his heavy steed in a large sweep.

Suddenly, an overwhelming crashing sound struck.

‘…!’

Enoch’s eyes opened wide for a moment.

A speed that made evasion impossible. Instinctively, I raised my sword diagonally to the side and took a defensive stance.

Kyaaaaang!

But the moment the bastard’s attack hit, the shock felt like it was going to crush my body with the sword I was defending against.

The clash of the axe and the sword erupted with a loud noise, and the entire top floor of the fortress shook with the impact.

“Huh!”

With the pain of his wrist snapping, Enoch momentarily decided that he could not defend himself. He immediately supported his right wrist, which was holding the one-handed sword, with his free left hand.

Kagak-

The sword guard blocks the axe blade.

The defense was barely able to prevent a breach.

Nevertheless, Enoch was pushed back farther, leaving a long shoeprint with the sword that had blocked the attack.

Enoch, who had been pushed back for a while with a loud thump, stopped when his back hit the test tube.

‘The power has become several times stronger.’

Enoch’s eyes narrowed.

‘Is that how you use magic?’

If it had been a normal sword, it would have been shattered the moment it encountered an axe with such destructive power.

But fortunately, there wasn’t a single scratch on the sword.

However, Enoch’s hand holding the sword was shaking slightly due to the tremendous shock and vibration that blocked the attack.

It’s a disaster.

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‘Why, my vision was almost completely blocked…’

Right then.

Outside the windows on the top floor of the fortress, the sounds of another skirmish were heard.

-Kuuuung!

Leontos looked out the window, gritting his teeth at the sound of fighting coming from inside the fortress.

The black uniforms of Nemesis blocking the retreat route through the back gate of the fortress caught his eye.

Leontos quickly clicked his tongue and left the stable.

“Since I used the magic potion earlier than expected, I want to settle things with you guys here, but…”

Swish.

As he said this, Leontos took something out of his bosom.

“There is no need to do something so reckless when facing a major event that will determine the future of the tribe.”

Inside his hand.

A small detonator appeared.

“I’m going to go now.”

Leontos glanced to the side for a moment.

Shiroko, with her eyes blank and her eyes trembling slightly as if she still hadn’t recovered from the shock, was standing next to me.

Leontos glanced at her and said.

“Did you ask why I, who was protecting the tribesmen earlier, am doing this? My answer is simple.”

He said, looking at the test tube.

“Because this is the only way left for us.”

“what…?”

“If you survive here, you must know this, young heir of the tribe. Soon, Vendetta will begin a ‘large-scale experiment’ that will turn most of the tribe’s beasts into beasts.”

Sirocco shouted in a trembling voice.

“Experiment? What the heck… .”

“It’s a deal with Vendetta. It’s our future.”

As soon as Leontos finished saying those words, he grabbed the lever of the detonator he was holding in his hand.

Kurururur!

In an instant, an explosion echoed from the fortress’ ceiling.

A series of large tremors came from the fortress’ ceiling. Along with a creaking sound, large cracks ran through the entire upper part of the old fortress.

Looking up at the ceiling on the verge of collapse.

Leontos spoke in an extremely dark tone.

“Successor of Lycaon. One day, you too will understand what I said.”

Oh my god!

At that moment, a huge rock fell from the ceiling. Soon, the ceiling began to completely collapse.

Beyond the curtain of falling rocks, Leontos slowly turned his back and spoke.

“Because this is the only future we can choose.”

“… … ?”

Shiroko stared blankly at him, as if she couldn’t understand what she had just heard.

Then, with another loud noise, the rock fragments pouring down from the high ceiling collapsed even more, immediately covering Enoch and Sirocco.

Sirocco’s eyes widened as he suddenly noticed that.

“Oh, no!”

Sirocco looked this way quickly.

While huge pieces of ceiling are falling.

In the meantime, Sirocco was seen desperately running towards me, stretching out his hand to save me.

“Don’t die!”

But before she could reach Enoch.

A huge piece of debris falls between her and Enoch.

Pieces of the ceiling fell one after another like a giant curtain, completely obscuring the sight of Sirocco running towards me with his hands outstretched.

Kuuuuung!

Before he knew it, Enoch’s vision was completely blocked by the huge debris that fell and piled up right in front of him. In an instant, his vision was filled with thick darkness.

And then the next moment.

? The World of No Cost: Until Entry Completed… 100%

? Memories that are the source of the subject: Access success

? Inheritance of the Source of Memory: “The Last Swordsman of the Empire”

Above the blackened field of vision.

Messages came to me quietly.

? Hidden Ability: [Archive of Memory] activated!

? Keyword: [Suin Tribe’s Demonization Experiment]

? The source of memories of “The Last Swordsman of the Empire”

─ [The Water Tribe’s Demonization Experiment]: Succession Begins!