Chapter 84

Chapter 84

However, there was a type of grace in highly advanced holy magic above the 7th level. It disregarded the notion that recovery magic with holy power couldn’t completely heal everything.

Davey had three types of power right now: holy power, devil mana, and normal mana. Ironically, the most developed power among the three was holy power; although, it was thanks to using

his

damn 9th level holy power.

Yulis, who was losing consciousness, slowly looked up at Davey with wide eyes. Feeling a warmth surrounding him, he murmured, “P...Prince Davey?”

“You’re still going to call me by my title?” Davey replied.

“Pardon?”

“Thank you.”

Yulis looked dumbfounded by Davey’s short thank you.

“I don’t forget favors.” Then, Davey slowly pulled out Blue Ribbon with one hand. “Nor do I forget enemies.”

Yulis seemed to be surprised by Davey’s unexpectedly low voice.

* * *

[Even if it’s a single strike, it’s best to hit wherever causes the most damage.]

‘Did you say that you created these skills here?’

[Ah, right. You know that thing that Eva always makes... That thing. A stickman! That gave me inspiration for this.]

It was just shocking that this unbelievable fighting skill had been created by a stickman.

Davey calmly stared at the silent Count Colio, who had been thrown into the wall by his attack. He then walked past the frozen knights and headed straight toward Count Lington.

“Prince Davey? How did you...” Count Lington asked.

“Seriously. You are foolishly brave,” Davey commented.

Slice!

“Hm? Kuh?!”

Crash!!

“Get out of the way. You’re going to splatter blood on Winley.”

Lington’s eyes almost popped out when one of his arms was cut off in an instant. And even before a panicked scream could escape from his mouth, a strong, invisible wind blew him away and sent him crashing into the back wall.

“Don’t die. Live,” Davey commanded Lington.

‘Live so that I can cut you into pieces myself.’

Choosing not to say more, Davey stared at the knights in front of him.

“How many people ganged up on one person?”

Although Mencius had said that no one could win against a group ganging up on them...

-I don’t know who Mencius is, but I don’t think he said something like that...

Perserque pouted when Davey ignored her.

“Ahhh!! Ha...

Groan

!!” Lington was stuck in the back wall, screaming in panic.

Count Colio couldn’t get up after being slammed against the wall, and the knights were staring at him, dumbfounded.

‘What a sight.’

“Sir, how did you... Never mind! You have to get out of here! These people are dangerous!” Yulis urgently shouted.

Davey calmly stared at the knights. He replied, “You should take care of yourself first.”

“Sir!”

WInley, who was looking around in shock, suddenly screamed. With bulging eyes, she had glanced behind Davey to see Count Colio, who had been unconscious until a little while ago, swinging his sword with a nasty killing aura.

Clang!!!!

Davey blocked Count Colio’s attack with his sword, but he was still knocked back by quite a distance. It was as if the buff magic spells he used weren’t enough for him to match up to Colio’s strength.

“B—Brother! Are you alright?!” Winley widened her eyes, looking like she would shed tears at any minute if there was even a scratch on Davey.

“Yulis.” Davey quietly called out to Yulis, then he sat Winley down beside Yulis. “Please keep Winley safe.”

“L... Leave it to me.”

Davey nodded to Yulis, who stuttered as he answered, and lightly stretched his neck.

Crack... Crack.

He cracked his neck, then said, “How could a Swordmaster be so shameless and attack me from the back?”

“You. Is that a demon sword?” Colio asked. He didn’t think that Davey could be a Master. He commented, “It is a sword too dangerous for a greenhorn like you.”

“Who are you calling a greenhorn?”

“I will be taking that sword.” After such determined words, Colio charged at Davey again with a terrifying killing aura. Although Davey had blocked Colio’s surprise attack, Colio was still a Swordmaster; his specialty was fighting head-to-head.

And Davey’s specialty was going head-to-head as well.

‘He’ll die too fast if I just slash him.’

Davey nodded as he glanced at the swords in his hands, then threw Red Ribbon and Blue Ribbon behind Count Colio, which was where Count Lington was.

Stab!!

“Kahh!!!” Lington, who was scuttling away, slammed against the wall again.

When Count Colio slightly staggered at Lington’s scream, Davey didn’t miss his chance and rushed in. Then, he pushed down on the ground with all his strength and shot up into the air.

Crash!!!

He made another hit on Colio’s unguarded gut.

“Keugh!!

Groan

!”

Davey was astonished at how Colio still managed to get back up from the ground even though he had breathlessly rolled on the ground. However, Davey would gladly choose to have him as a sandbag.

Boom!!

“Ugh!” Colio was pushed back once again. He couldn’t even scream. He simply rolled on the floor after being hit by Davey’s fist, which had struck him precisely in his gut, without even being able to defend himself.

‘How could you defend yourself when you can barely breathe?’

And the moment Count Colio stumbled without holding a proper stance, Davey’s fist immediately hit his gut again.

“

Groan...

Kah!!” When Davey’s fist struck his gut once more, Count Colio stumbled and fell onto his knees with bulging, red eyes and a clenched jaw. “Y...You bastard!!!

Groan...

Kah!!” He shouted angrily, “Stop aiming for my gut, you cheap bastard!”

Davey pushed himself up from the ground and charged at Colio, who was almost kneeling on the ground and shouting furiously.

Count Colio instinctively let go of his sword and protected his gut with his hands, but...

This time, Davey broke Colio’s guard with his knee instead of his fist, and he rushed in. “There are no dirty and cheap tricks in fighting.” He struck Count Colio’s gut again.

* * *

Perhaps Colio was able to tolerate the continuous attacks on his vulnerable spots because he was a Swordmaster. He endured the attacks quite well, but he was disappointingly weak. He didn’t lack skill, since he used to be a soldier of the powerful Lyndis Empire and was the royal palace’s captain after that. However, Colio didn’t have half of his former strength and Davey had noticed this very early on.

-It’s all the same according to someone that had failed after trying too hard to raise his level.

They had been given their life sentence of swordsmanship. It was a burn-out that people experienced when they tried to raise their level to the extreme without sufficient preparation. The word ‘burn-out’ didn’t exist in this world, but the phenomena was similar.