I must draw my sword immediately!

Chapter 120 Serpent Mist
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Vasak,
He is the third demon among the 72 demons created by Solomon.

Unexpectedly,

This demon god actually has a kind heart.

His duty was to proclaim the past and the future, and to search for all that was hidden and lost. But in this world where faith had collapsed, he unexpectedly came into contact with a Roman knight whose faith had crumbled over the long course of time.

Vasak developed a distorted understanding of his own responsibilities—

It believes that the deepest "secret" in this world is not knowledge, but the fragility, doubt, betrayal and despair hidden beneath glorious ideals.

then,

It became obsessed with uncovering and amplifying these "secrets," viewing them as a supreme power.

Noble Phantasm [Defiled Oath: The Regret of a Serpent's Sheath],
Things born from such a distorted understanding...

The owner of this treasure was Valerius Maximus, a centurion of a Roman army responsible for guarding the Rhine border in the 1st century AD.

This Roman centurion was not a hero who went down in history, but a dutiful junior officer who firmly believed that the Roman legions represented order, law, and civilization, and he held himself and his men to high standards based on this belief.

During a large-scale barbarian invasion
Valerius's fortress was besieged. He led his men in a bloody battle, repelling attacks many times, but suffered heavy casualties and supplies were cut off.

In despair, he received a "secret order" from the provincial governor: in order to buy time for reinforcements, he was ordered to take the initiative to attack a nearby "neutral" village suspected of secretly supporting the barbarians, kill everyone as a warning to others, and seize supplies.

This order shattered Valerius's beliefs, plunging him into immense anguish and a moral dilemma. Tormented, Valerius ultimately chose to disobey. He attempted to persuade the governor to rescind the order, but was denounced as a coward and a traitor. The governor's enforcement team arrived at the fortress and, on charges of disobeying orders and undermining morale, publicly executed Valerius in the fortress's square.

He gripped his ancestral spear tightly until his death, his eyes filled with anger at injustice and despair at betrayal.

finally,
His body, along with his spear, was hastily discarded in a mass grave outside the fortress.

And this gun,

Ultimately, everything unfolded under the manipulation of a smile, leading the nameless hero Vasak to his doom during a crucial decision.
It became one of its countless spoils.

In order to build that tower.

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now,

Located on Church Street, just a few hundred meters from Winchester Cathedral.

The restless wind howled, gathered, and danced wildly!

The air in front of my nose quickly became thinner.
The rampaging magic surged continuously in his palm.

Feeling the throbbing pain arising from the rapid accumulation of massive amounts of magic power within his body, Suya's expression turned slightly ferocious.
The five-meter-long, exaggeratedly designed Storm Sword that appeared in his hand at this moment was essentially a manifestation of immense power that could send bricks flying.

Its underlying logic is still based on a D-rank imaginary number magic called Aether Archer, but with Sua's D-rank magic power and the massive influx of magic power generated after burning a D-rank magic item,

It temporarily gained nearly 4 times the burst effect.

Any D-rank magic, when infused with such a massive amount of magical power, can achieve a similar explosive effect. However, this extraordinary burst of power brings side effects and enormous energy expenditure that Suya's current body can hardly withstand.

The rampaging magic surged through his body like a knife twisting in his throat.
Furthermore, even maintaining the minimum form of this magic spell can only last for five minutes. If a more powerful attack is to be unleashed, the duration of the magic spell will be rapidly reduced.

Realizing this, Suya immediately turned her head and scanned the street below.

at this time,

A massive steel torrent of over fifty paladins surged forward, about to pass by Suya and charge at the Baling knights standing on another rooftop a dozen meters behind him!

see,

Suya immediately leaped off the roof and swung his Storm Sword downwards in mid-air!

"--call!"

The raging column of wind crashed down onto the street in an instant.

After sweeping away the two paladins in the front row, the mighty wind pushed up the dust on the street, turning it into a dust storm that swept in all directions!
The paladins below halted their charge abruptly with this sword strike.
They immediately raised their hands to cover their faces to protect themselves from the sand and dust.

Using the force of the downward-sweeping wind column, Suya, who was leaping downwards, seemed to perform a double jump in mid-air, his body soaring upwards again, flipping and landing in front of the Holy Knights.

Veins bulged on his face, and he gripped the sword hilt tightly with both hands.

His blood burned like flames under the surge of magic, making the wind swirling around the sword even more violent.

With the simplest and most unadorned posture, the Storm Sword is raised high above the head, held horizontally in the bull-like stance of German swordsmanship.

Immediately afterwards——

Sudden!
It slashed downwards! The next instant...
The visible storm transformed into a high-pressure column of wind three meters in diameter, sweeping out and striking the ground!
The wind column pierced straight into the ground beneath the street, shattering and sending bricks and stones flying.
In the next moment, it quickly plowed out of the ground in an arc, creating a semi-circular crater in the ground, and then pushed the brick fragments and soil dust below to mix together, turning into a turbid giant crescent-shaped sword aura!

"boom!"

Like a sea of ​​sand pressing down, sand waves and high-pressure winds burst forth!

Upon witnessing this, the fifty-odd paladins who had been charging in formation paled in shock. Under the threat of death, they instantly regained their will from Vasak's control and attempted to scatter and flee.

but,
It's too late!

With this single sword strike, over fifty paladins were struck, knocked down, and buried by sand up to half a meter high, creating a trench two meters deep in the street.

pat!

Suya, gripping the shortened Storm Sword, flipped and landed on the street.

however,
Before he could even catch his breath, which had become rapid due to the massive consumption of magic power,
A large area of ​​shadow then appeared on the ground in front of them, hanging down from above.
Suya suddenly raised her head.
He was astonished to see that his head was covered with a head full of sweat!

mid-air,
More than ten paladins, like Titans jumping off a plane in Attack on Titan, spread their limbs and pounced on him like paratroopers on the verge of death!

boom!
boom!
boom!
boom!
One by one, paladins clad in full plate armor weighing dozens of kilograms piled up like a human pyramid, pinning Suya down. With crazed expressions, they raised their heads, pulled daggers from the sheaths bound to their leg armor, and without any regard for whether those below were their own men, immediately stabbed them fiercely into the gap below!

however,
at this time,

"Boom!"

A sound like a Tyrannosaurus Rex trampling echoed from beneath the crowd!

A shockwave spread out from the ground!

The violent tremors caused the dozen or so heavily armored paladins who were pressing down on Suya to sway unsteadily.

Then,

“Drink ah ah ah ah!!”

The slender figure at the very bottom was actually carrying more than ten heavily armored knights with one hand, straightening his upper body while kneeling.
With his other hand supporting his sword, he slammed it down into the ground with a ferocious look on his face, twisting the hilt!
"--boom!"

The hurricane that rose from below instantly twisted and pulled up more than ten burly men who were covered in Suya's body, causing them to lose their weight, and in an instant, it turned them into cannonballs and shot them away!

"Hiss!"

Suya suddenly spat out a long, straight white ribbon from her mouth, her expression instantly freezing.

After two bursts of power, the Storm Sword's accumulated magic was completely depleted, leaving it only able to maintain a minimal Storm Sword form.
Fortunately, the majority of the paladins had lost their fighting ability after just two moves. If it came down to melee combat, Suya was confident that he could hold off the remaining dozen or so master paladins whose strength had been forcibly boosted.

however,
Suya, however, did not let his guard down. His gaze went straight past the dozen or so paladins who were trembling in front of him and looked at the square-faced knight Vasak standing behind them. He stared at the long spear that Vasak held high and could be fired at any moment, and his expression became more and more solemn.

The Storm Sword, a magical artifact, could not stop the Noble Phantasm spear.

To stop the gun, Suya had to be on high alert at all times and try to intercept it with her only remaining C-rank Noble Phantasm, [Edo Ado's Charge].

And at this moment——

Vasak at the end of the street finally moved!

He slightly opened his mouth and gave Suya a mocking smile.

The next moment,
Vasak seemed to have finally gathered his strength. He immediately bent over, raised his long arm, and swung it out as if he was about to shoot out his spear!
Suya stared intently at the other's movements, and a silver-white rein with rose patterns quietly floated in her palm.

However, in the next instant,
Suya then saw,

The purplish-black snake skin wrapped around the spear in Vasak's hand suddenly stood upright!

A strange, purple light shone from the empty, snake-like eyes.

The snake's mouth suddenly burst open!

Then,

A plume of purplish-black smoke shot out from the snake's shed skin, instantly transforming into a vast expanse of poisonous fog!
The already dim environment of late at night, coupled with the smoke obscuring vision, instantly deprived Suya of her sight.
Furthermore, this poisonous fog not only has the effect of blocking magic, but also contains a hallucinogenic hypnotic toxin.

now,

Even with Suya's Red Dragon Eyes, she couldn't see Vasak's movements behind the smoke!

(End of this chapter)