章節 482: CHAPTER 641
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Padler swung his sword instead of answering.
Along with the blade, blue thunder poured from behind it like a storm. It was as if a sea of lightning spread from Padler out of nowhere.
Kaio swiftly fired a series of arrows to counteract the rushing blue thunder. The space, tainted with chaos, was illuminated by the intermingling blue energies.
"Looking at it again, it seems that you are not a descendant, but his ghost. Was your name Padler Runcandel?"
[I no longer use that name.]
The god killer's arrow pierced through blue thunder and aimed at charging Padler. Kaio calmly distanced himself, while Jin plunged into the fray to intercept Padler from pursuing him.
The sword that stood in the way of Silus was Sigmund, not Bradamante. After changing the sword, Jin's whole body was filled with lightning energy.
Lightning energy based on aura, blue thunder based on mana.
Even though the lightning emitted by the three people were completely different, they looked exactly the same.
"I don't know why you became a ghost, but your killing intent is deep. Although my memories of Temar aren't quite complete, he seemed to hold you in high regard."
[I also forgot a lot. However, I don't think I've heard that Plutonian tribesmen talk so much. Why do you need a long talk? You just need to face my weapon.]
Swift and precise. If you could sum up the Padler's sword in two words, that would be it.
The only downside of his swordsmanship that reached the realm of transcendence was its destructive power, but even that was overcome by the addition of blue thunder.
Kaio engaged from mid-range, while Jin fought up close.
Because of this, Jin and Padler both fought while conscious of Kaio. Padler was convinced he had to defeat Kaio to target Jin, while Jin believed Kaio had to remain unharmed for what came next.
It was because the battle with Padler was not the last.
'I have to finish it before Kaio gets tired.'
'I need to quickly kill that Plutonian named Kaio in order to deal with Jin.'
They didn't need to check each other's strength.
The three of them were exerting their full strength from the start.
The ground and sky screamed every time when blades, arrows, and lightning collided as if they were turning upside down.
As if the sun was rising over the rotten sea, the lightning bolts of the three were tearing apart the chaos in the Garden of Swords.
If this sight were not a battle between the ancestor of a thousand years ago and the current descendant...… but it looks like a brilliant light that purifies the clan.
It couldn't have been any better.
The inevitable reality scratched Jin's inside. That fact made Jin suffer even more than the blue thunder stabbing his whole body.
Since Padler was a person from a thousand years ago, Jin had never truly felt a connection with him. He had only glimpsed a few of his records as an observer.
Still, it felt like cutting a close friend with whom he had been very close until yesterday, with whom he had a deep connection.
[Argh!]
Padler didn't feel such pain.
It was certainly true that he had no personal feelings towards Jin before mixing the swords.
However, he didn't see Jin as a distant descendant in the first place, but as a manifestation of Temar, the Runcandel of those days.
You lose everything too.
Padler's dark eyes said so.
"Brother Jin!"
Blood spurted from Jin's neck. Multa's rune is now completely broken and has no function.
Even if it was fine, it would not have any meaning against one of the ancient ten great knights.
The wound was not deep. But had it been just a bit deeper, it would have led straight to death.
It was only in that moment, as he watched droplets of blood scatter into the air, that Jin realized unnecessary emotions were dwelling within him during the fight.
Sympathy, pity, guilt, or complex emotions are hard to articulate. Padler was not an opponent who could be faced with such sentiments.
It's not just about doing your best, it's about having the tenacity to kill him.
Jin knew this better than anyone else.
Jin's body transcended beyond human limit, but not his mind. Whether Padler's words are true or not, there was no doubt that he gave his all for the ancient Runcandel.
But, as Padler said, the camaraderie they once shared couldn't replace his lost entirety.
He cannot defend him, whose heart that once protected the clan has become a ghost.
Jin can understand this situation as much as he wants if it was in normal circumstances. But now, Jin stood against Padler as the next patriarch of Runcandel.
Regardless of the reasons, harboring grim feelings towards one seeking to destroy the clan was unacceptable.
"There is one last thing I want to ask, Sir Padler. Do you have any intention of stopping now?"
[Not at all.]
"Then I will eliminate you not as a descendant of Temar, but as a member of current Runcandel."
Jin closed his eyes for a moment. In that fleeting moment when his eyelids shut, the sentiment directed towards Padler closed as well.
Before he opened his eyes again, Padler was unleashing his magic sword that he had created.
Blue Thunder Sword Ultimate Technique, Runcandel Magic Sword Secret technique
Thunder of Retribution - Padler Runcandel
A magic sword secret technique paired with Flame Empress Sarah Runcandel's flame of hell.
At a glance, Jin and Kaio could think of the sword that was the basis of this technique.
The flame of hell and thunder of retribution were finally completed after Temar taught the ten great knights how to use Plutonian swordsmanship.
Kaio's eyes hardened.
"So you, too, have spent your life chasing after the shadow of the Absolute."
Kaio also had dedicated his life to reaching that sword. To resemble the sword of battle god.
"But that is an realm that can never be reached unless it is the original."
Against the thunder of retribution, Kaio opened 10th battle king mystic technique, 'tsunami'.
The lightning that started with Padler and Kaio took on a form so identical that it could be called the same technique.
The process of those who want to climb to the top will eventually give birth to similar results.
[Do you mean to say you're the original, Plutonian?]
"No. I simply wish to pay my respects. To acknowledge that someone who was never a member of the Plutonian tribe is fighting in the same way as me."
If there was one difference between Kaio and the Padler, it was the 'body'.
The lightning energy symbolizing the Plutonian tribe needed a body that could handle it. Just as you need a blessed body to use Runcandel's decisive killing moves.
"But can you withstand it? With that helpless human body."
That's why Padler's old comrades called him a weakling. His sword was covering up his inherent defects with his life as collateral.
[I've already died once anyway, you keep saying useless things.]
Kaio smiled. Unlike Jin, he didn't harbor any special feelings towards Padler.
He simply found it satisfying to have a strong opponent standing before him, fighting for his brother.
Tsunami and thunder of retribution were overlapping. Jin continued to restrict Padler from closing the distance with Kaio.
It was to raise the strength while holding out until the Padler's energy was consumed as much as possible.
From then on, Padler began to pressure Jin rather than Kaio, and Kaio appeared to be covering Jin with all his might.
As a result, wounds were forming on Kaio's body. If they had maintained the same combined formation as before, Padler would have been the one to start suffering significant injuries.
'It's not efficient.'
On the surface, it certainly seemed that way. Padler couldn't help but speculate. There must be a reason for this inefficient offensive attack.
That's probably because of the energy that's shining in Jin's illuminating heart right now.
Of course, even that was an overwhelmingly vast power.
But for now, that was all it was.
As Kaio implied, it did not occur to Padler that this power could be sublimated to the 'original'.
Because Jin was not a genesis knight.
It was unlikely that Jin would be able to show the realm of the peak that even he had never set foot on, the realm that only Temar had reached a thousand years ago.
However, by the time the tsunami and thunder of retribution reached their climax, Kaio said with a confident voice:
"Brother Jin, show your ghostly ancestor now."
The original sword of the peak.
Kaio continued his words, and the energy in Jin's illuminating heart began to explode in all directions.
Plutonian Swordsmanship Battle God 10th Sword
Plutonian Reign Sword – Open
In an instant, the tsunami and thunder of retribution stopped moving, it was like fighting beasts hesitating when a larger beast appeared.
Jin did not stop there, and opened the next form, Plutonian swordsmanship battle god 10th sword 2nd form, Plutonian reign sword - War.
Sigmund had a heavy will to annihilate those who opposed the Plutonian tribe.
Kaio breathed proudly, and Padler briefly stared at Jin with a stiffened body.
He now saw Temar itself from Jin, and soon realized that it was just an illusion.
The man standing in front of himself is neither Temar nor a member of the ancient Runcandel.
It was Jin Runcandel. Not someone from a thousand years ago like himself, but a shining Runcandel who lives right now.
'But... nothing changes.'
Padler was neither moved nor frightened by the sight.
Nothing changes; the determination to eliminate him and witness Runcandel's downfall didn't waver in the slightest.
The clouds that had gathered according to Jin's will covered Ram, who was oppressing the sky.
Rosa, the Prophet, and the major factions attacking Huphester could witness that sight.
[Even if my body and soul can't remain in the abyss of heaven and hell, even if my name and everything I've lost are erased from this world once again.]
The light of thunders of retribution, which started to fluctuate again, spread a more brilliant light.
The renewed thunder of retribution transcends all the swords that Padler had used during his lifetime.
[I will not let you save Runcandel.]
Suddenly, a faint memory surfaced in Padler's mind.
It seemed like a long time ago, he had spoken words similar to the ones he just said.
-Even if my body and mind, and those I love ultimately vanish completely from this world. Even if all that remains in the end is despair and nightmares. I will protect Runcandel with you.
For some reason, what Padler said at that time was spreading like a distant echo inside Jin.
However, Jin did not stop the sword.
Tears welled up in Jin's eyes, soaked in lightning energy, and Padler's eyes were filled with endless emptiness.
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章節 483: CHAPTER 642
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Ha...…!
Lightning poured down wherever Sigmund and Silus's blades collided. They showed no signs of backing down, even as they were hit by the lightning of Plutonian Reign sword vomited by the clouds and the blue thunder poured out by thunder of retribution.
On the contrary, they stepped towards each other more ferociously and quickly.
The aftermath of their battle now ravaged the entire Garden of Swords. The storm of their sword energies had spread beyond the tombs where the ancestral guardians' swords were embedded, reaching the outer walls and the main house.
Kaio, who started attacking again, was not affected by the Plutonian Reign Sword.
Rather, he seemed to strengthen the god killer with Jin's lightning energy, just as he resonated with the energy of battle god.
Still, the whole of Kalon was eroded by chaos, but the energy of chaos could no longer be found in the Garden of Swords.
It was because the lightning of Jin, Kaio, and Padler had erased the chaos in the Garden of Swords.
But to Jin, seeing the blue shining garden of swords now seemed more agonizing than when it was filled with chaos.
[Ahhhhh...!]
Padler roared.
His body was being torn apart. There was a hole in his left cheek, while his waist twisted and snapped, emitting gruesome sounds of bones breaking and resetting.
Just then, a giant arrow from god killer pierced the middle of his chest. Through the gaping hole in his chest, one could see the lightning behind him.
Even so, Padler did not fall down and swung his sword again.
His body, which should have died and stopped more than ten times, only emitted more formidable power with each blow.
Where do I have to cut to finish him?
It seemed like he wouldn't stop even if his neck was dropped. It seemed that he would stop only if everything that made up Padler's body destroyed—his blood, his flesh, and even the last piece of bone.
"Stubborn ghost...."
Kaio said as he pulled back his bow string.
The word "stubborn" didn't refer to the chaos energy that composed Padler. It meant a special condition that Padler was going through.
Transcendence.
The transcendence of a martial artist who overcomes the limits while facing a formidable enemy, allowing Padler to continue wielding his sword despite being torn apart.
Just as Ron Hairan had transcended the fate of death in the war of the sword Emperor castle...… Padler is also crossing the boundary by clashing swords with Jin.
'Temar. I can see it now too...… the next realm.'
With each passing second, Padler felt his body grow lighter.
It seemed that the destructive power of the original, Plutonian Reign Sword, which overpowered the thunder of retribution at the beginning, no longer seemed like a threat.
There wasn't much emotion while he was driving away Sigmund, and even when lightning cut through his body, he didn't feel any pain.
"But even if you go beyond that realm... what meaning does it hold?"
The arrow of god killer passed through Padler once more.
"Nothing but futile hatred, unable to overcome even chaos. You could never defeat Brother Jin. Even if he didn't call me."
Just because you're transcending like Ron, it doesn't mean everyone can achieve results like Ron.
The values of protecting people despite being consumed by chaos and the desire to kill couldn't be the same.
As if to refute, Padler dug in and left a long gash on Jin's chest.
Jin pushed Padler away without flinching, and there was a sound of something snapping as Padler hit the ground.
Then he stood up again and aimed Silus.
As his appearance became more miserable, the energy of the thunder of retribution was amplified.
It was growing endlessly. In terms of power alone, thunder of retribution reached a level comparable to that of Plutonian Reign Sword.
It appeared to be out of control. The blue thunder went beyond the cloud formed by the Plutonian Reign sword and caused damage to Ram, the chaos dragon, and the black battleships.
"In the end, you've lost your reason and started striking even your allies. From brother Jin's perspective, this isn't bad at all."
[He is not losing his mind, brother Kaio.]
Jin rather thought the opposite.
"What?"
[Since it's going to be the end anyway, it seems like he is trying to destroy everything possible in Runcandel...….]
Wow...…!
A massive crack appeared beneath the lower part of Ram. The chaos dragons and black ships that were flying below them instantly turned to ashes.
The major factions waiting outside were able to see Ram becoming unstable for the first time.
Space began to open in the sky.
"As the leader said, the 12th flagbearer is damaging Ram's power...…."
Berakt said. He was mesmerized by the immense lightning illuminating the Garden of Swords, following the blue flame from earlier.
They felt awe and excitement at the sight of such immense power, something they would never have seen unless it was the patriarch, Chiron Runcandel, or the dead Ron Hairan.
[It is not the power of the 12th flagbearer, but the power of the great knight of Runcandel, the Blue Thunder King. Rosa Runcandel and the Prophet have been overly ambitious.]
"... Are you saying that there is another knight like the 12th flagbearer in the Garden of Swords?"
[Yes. But it's a dying ember. The entire fleet, ready for intensive bombardment. We cannot afford to miss this opportunity.]
Unlike Zipfel, Kinzelo's fleet has not yet suffered significant damage.
As the battleships, led by Grenil, gathered at the forefront, the fleet of up to five hundred battleships all loaded their main cannons.
Aaaaa...…!
Like a meteor shower, the bombardment rained down towards Ram and the Garden of Swords. More than 80% of the fleet's attack was directed at the garden of swords, because it seemed that their attack would not be enough to hit Ram, but Zephyrin's breath struck Ram's side.
Upon seeing Kinzelo's bombardment from the opposite side, Zipfel also rallied its fleet. Their main cannons were all aimed at Ram.
[We must strike before Runcandel's battleship recovers...…!]
A mountain of fire was forming behind Kadun. He managed to release all his stored power while enduring Ram's main cannon and tearing apart the Chaos Dragon and the black ships.
'Damn it, the soul of ten great knights from the tomb...… I didn't expect this to happen.'
The Prophet chewed on his lip, eyeing Rosa.
It was Rosa who was instructed to summon Padler. So, even if Padler failed against Jin, Rosa would not blame her.
However, regardless of whether the mission to kill Jin succeeded or not, the Prophet's inability to control Padler stemmed from her own lack of ability.
If Rosa were to later question her about it, the Prophet would once again find herself vulnerable to her scrutiny.
'Ha, nothing ever goes as planned. Judging from the situation, it seems even Padler...… might not be able to defeat Jin. I should have warned her about the dangers of using the soul of the Great Knight.'
Even the Prophet had predicted that Stam and Lionel would not be enough, but Padler's case was truly unexpected.
She knew that even if there were variables such as summoning Plutonian tribesmen and Plutonian Reign sword, if it was Padler, he would be able to put an end to Jin.
'... Perhaps, it might actually be for the best. If even Padler is defeated, then Rosa Runcandel will have to take action herself.'
If so, it is highly likely that the speed at which Rosa's mind collapses will accelerate.
However, the Prophet did not have the justification to speak out before Rosa. So while she was thinking about it, Rosa opened her mouth first.
[I understand why Joshua in the past got defeated like that. Retrieve Padler's soul.]
"Are you saying you'll personally intervene?"
Rosa didn't answer, instead deflecting the incoming flames from Kadun.
Fragments of Ram, chaos dragons, and black ships floated in the messy black sky. In the meantime, Kinzelo's bombardment was hitting the garden of swords.
"Are these humans daring to challenge the gods like us? We only heard from you that it was dizzy outside, but I didn't expect it to be like this."
Kaio fired the god killer and intercepted the cannon fire falling towards Jin. Most of them were offset by Plutonian Reign sword and blue thunder, but occasionally, some shells managed to penetrate through.
Because Jin is arranging the power.
It was only natural because he was dealing with strong men like Stam, Lionel and Padler, one after another. They would have been absolute beings in any era without Chiron.
However, unlike Jin, Padler had no one to block the bombardment, nor the will to fend them on his own.
He didn't even dodge the cannon fire, and continued to radiate blue thunder all over the garden of swords and Jin.
An evil ghost who transcends through hatred, the final destination Padler was reaching resembled a monster like Smarion.
His appearance was no longer of a human. More than 70% of the body, which had been emitting a faint bluish light, had disappeared. His body, floating without legs, was riddled with holes.
How he was holding the sword with only three remaining fingers, with his half head gone, and his only eye was still filled with hatred.
Can this truly be called the result of transcendence?
In truth, the outcome was decided from the moment the Plutonian Reign Sword was executed.
The reason Jin couldn't finish him off was simply a matter of efficiency.
If Jin waits a little bit, the thunder of retribution will disappear and Padler would self-destruct.
After that, if even one of his fingers was left, it was clear that Padler wouldn't be a threat even if he crawled on the floor and came towards him.
The thunder of retribution started to subside.
But the next moment. Just like what happened to Lionel. Jin could see the soul draining from Padler's remaining body.
Unlike Lionel, the soul was refusing to leave the body. He was clearly resisting the Prophet's control.
"I have never seen such a grudge in my life, Brother Jin. Brother? Why are you approaching him? Isn't your shadow sword still unable to cut the soul? He is not even worthy to be cut. He's already a wreck."
Jin had a completely different thought when he was trying to cut Lionel's soul.
Jin was approaching Padler because he wanted to tell him something.
[Sir Padler.]
Padler swung his sword at the approaching Jin. The sword was just as powerful as a child wielding it. There was not even a scratch left on Jin's body.
No matter how great the grudge was, Padler's energy had really run out.
[Sir, you will be summoned again. That's the only reason why the person who summoned you is trying to retrieve the soul now.]
Even then, Padler continued to swing his sword. Resisting the Prophet's soul retrieval.
[So at that time, take revenge on me, rather than Runcandel and Temar from a thousand years ago...…. Please harbour hatred towards me, not the distant past about which even your memories are unclear.]
That would surely be better for you....
With those words, Jin watched Padler's soul escape.
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