Chapter 805

Chapter 805

Wielding both powers that consume humanity: sanctification and bestial transformation.

Combining the two most powerful weapons in the world into one, fully drawing out their abilities.

As if possessed by divine will, taking steps filled with determination and striking with blows imbued with resolve.

Lucas fought truly like the protagonist chosen by the world.

As Ash had boasted earlier, Lucas, having awakened his potential beyond its limits, was undoubtedly the strongest knight.

However-

“...”

The ‘Sleepless Lake Princess’, reborn as the master of nightmares, was invincible.

She was the embodiment of all nightmares in the world, the personification of destruction.

From the beginning, she was not an entity that could be fought or pushed back against.

Against such an opponent, Lucas had managed to hold out for dozens of exchanges. It was an unbelievable feat for a mere human.

Each time Lucas’s sword of light blocked the sword of darkness wielded by the ‘Sleepless Lake Princess’, the Outer Gods’ eyes widened in shock.

But miracles are ultimately temporary.

The difference in absolute power was too great. He couldn’t hold out forever.

This final delaying action was nearing its end.

“...Haah...”

White breath once again escaped from Lucas’s blood-covered lips.

Currently, Lucas was leaning against the dented gate of Crossroad.

He had just received a blow from the ‘Sleepless Lake Princess’ and was thrown back, crashing into the gate like a cannonball.

In Lucas’s hand, the great sword of light [Ad Astra] was still firmly gripped.

But all his other equipment was horribly damaged.

Gauntlets, boots, breastplate, pauldrons, backplate — every part of the armor [Black Scales] was in tatters, and blood poured profusely from the flesh beneath the broken armor.

‘Just one more time.’

Blood dripped from the ends of his disheveled blonde hair. An excruciating pain he had never felt before coursed through his body, cut by the sword of darkness.

But his sapphire eyes still emitted a sharp light like a blade’s edge, and his will remained unscathed.

‘Block it just one more time.’

Lucas himself knew well. That he couldn’t hold off the master of nightmares forever.

So — just one more time.

Just one more time. Just one more time. Just one more time. Continuously...

Whoosh-!

The next moment, the ‘Sleepless Lake Princess’ charged forward. The sword of darkness in her hand swirled fiercely.

Even in the midst of this fierce battle, Lucas was comprehending the principles of swordsmanship.

He continued to internalize how to face that overwhelming sword of darkness to hold out even a little longer...

As the two swords of light and darkness entangled, he was able to withstand the enemy commander’s attack once again.

Crash!

Lucas endured, but the gate he was leaning against exploded.

Along with the fallen gate, Lucas was thrown inside the fortress. He quickly tried to regain his balance by stabbing his sword into the ground, but he was still pushed back for quite a distance.

“Kuh...!”

Lucas gritted his teeth.

The enemy commander had finally entered inside the fortress walls.

Through the fortress entrance where dust rose from the fallen gate, the sound of footsteps echoed: step, step.

The next moment, as the dust cleared with a gust of wind, the figure of the enemy commander — the ‘Sleepless Lake Princess’ — was revealed.

The enemy commander’s light footsteps touched the inside of the fortress. Lucas clenched his teeth and gripped his sword.

Once again.

If once isn’t enough, then twice. If twice isn’t enough, then thrice-

It’s a matter of trying again and again without giving up.

So, once more...

“...?!”

However, immediately after, Lucas belatedly realized that both his knees had touched the ground.

His spirit was still enduring, but his body had reached its limit first.

‘Stand up!’

Lucas gritted his teeth as he struck his disobedient legs that had collapsed on their own.

‘Move, damn legs!’

But before his trembling legs could struggle to stand again, the enemy commander was approaching once more.

Just as Lucas was about to swing his sword even from his fallen posture-

Tap!

Someone rushed in front of him.

The ‘Sleepless Lake Princess’ sharply extended her hand. Dark power wrapped around like a whip, lashing Torkel’s entire body.

Not only the shield Torkel was holding, but all the armor on his entire body was completely shattered.

But Torkel had already activated his ultimate skill [Man is not Made for Defeat].

He feels the pain, but takes no damage.

And Torkel was not a man who could be stopped by pain alone.

Grab!

The warrior’s strong hand grasped the enemy commander’s body. Torkel clung to the ‘Sleepless Lake Princess’.

He knows.

Both the ‘Sleepless Lake Princess’ and Torkel himself, everyone here knows. That Torkel’s strength alone cannot stop the enemy commander.

Knowing this, Torkel volunteered for this role.

If he could create even a slight opening for the enemy commander during the mere 10 minutes he could endure.

If he could expose even a dust-sized weakness in the invincible monster.

If it could be of even the slightest help to his comrades’ counterattack that would follow!

It’s worth trying.

As Torkel dropped and clung to the enemy commander, Junior, who had been waiting on top of the wall, raised her staff forward.

Zing-!

A halo appeared in the sky, and the surrounding space shattered like a mosaic.

[Elemental Disassembly].

It was [Elemental Disassembly] condensed into a single spell by overlapping dozens of incantations.

Until now, Junior had forcibly achieved effects by layering multiple spells when [Elemental Disassembly] didn’t work on an enemy.

But this time, she changed her approach.

She decided to delve into a single [Elemental Disassembly] to the extreme.

To a realm never reached before, scraping away Yin, surpassing Void, and even transcending the realm of Emptiness-

To the realm of Nothingness.

And now she succeeded in proving the formula that had only been theoretical.

Instead of insufficient human magic power, she forcibly overclocked the magic core of her staff to complete the spell.

In the end, the staff [Rod of Crimson], having exceeded its critical point, couldn’t withstand and exploded. But even that was within her calculations.

“...”

Junior sensed it.

That this would be the ultimate magic casting of her life as a magician.

But for some reason, rather than feeling regretful...

She felt relieved.

“Heavens, behold!”

As she completed her ultimate, Junior smiled brightly.

“We are here-!”

Crack-crack-crack!

The halo, grown to an unbelievable size, covered the sky above, and the space below it completely shattered.

Junior collapsed, violently coughing up blood. But her ultimate magic undoubtedly had an effect.

“...?!”

The veil of invulnerability that made the ‘Sleepless Lake Princess’ invincible was lifted.

At this very moment when the connection between the spirit realm and the human world weakened, making magic power scarce.

As the curse, nightmare, and darkness that formed the essence of the ‘Sleepless Lake Princess’ were also powers from another world, i.e., created by magic power. Her existence was clearly shaken...

And Junior’s ultimate magic struck perfectly in that gap.

“...”

Supported and healed simultaneously by the two priests, Rosetta and Zenis, Lucas stood up straight.

Looking around, he saw that his golden aura was already spreading to all the people in this fortress one by one.

It was another miracle born because they all shared the same will and followed the same flag.

“Once more.”

Lucas muttered softly, and

“Once more-!”

The people rushed out.

To stop the enemy commander once again.

To protect the world, even if just one more time.

–TL Notes–

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