Chapter 165 : Chapter 165
Chapter 165 : Supreme King (9)
“Haa, haa…….”
Alicia, gasping for breath heavily, blocked the sword strike that had rushed in front of her before she knew it.
Kaang!
It was just blocking a sword strike, yet just with that, her grip tingled and streams of blood flowed down from her torn palms.
“Quite impressive. Take this as well, intruder!”
Should it be said that they are indeed the renowned Arkendale Imperial Knights?
It wasn't even all the members gathered but just three members, yet just that was enough to pressure the Special Task Force members.
It was fortunate that Alicia succeeded in the surprise attack with the Inquisitor's magic; if the surprise attack had failed, the 4th Special Task Force would have been annihilated by now.
“……Damn it. What do you intend to do now, white hair? At this rate, we'll all die.”
“Do I have any other way? Here it comes!”
Conlan and Albino also screamed and faced the knights in front of their eyes.
Kang!
Ka-kang!
Axes and swords, and swords and swords mingled together, causing sparks to fly in all directions.
The overall situation was unfavorable for the 4th Special Task Force.
Although the 4th Special Task Force gained the upper hand with the initial surprise attack and succeeded in inflicting a heavy wound on one of the Imperial Knights, the remaining two Imperial Knights alone were enough to drive the Special Task Force members into a corner.
Furthermore, the knight who had collapsed with a deep wound had finished treatment and was preparing to join the fight again.
“Big guy! Are you still alive!”
“Still am!”
The situation was desperate.
However, no one among the 4th Special Task Force members accepted that despair obediently.
“Hup!”
The axe Conlan swung rushed toward the Imperial Knight, and as the Imperial Knight struck it away, the edge of Conlan's axe chipped away.
Despite the blade of the axe chipping away, Conlan didn't stop swinging the axe.
Kang!
Kaaaaang──!!
“Messy. Do you think such ignorant attacks will work?”
Despite Conlan's brute force, the Imperial Knight just snorted and leisurely parried Conlan's attacks.
As if he could kill him right away once Conlan's strength drained.
Just like that, when the Imperial Knight was looking for an opportunity, Alicia intervened.
Slash!
“Damn bitch!”
Alicia's sword cut past the Imperial Knight's thigh.
“Kuk!”
But the Imperial Knight in front was also a knight trained and trained again.
He didn't just take it sitting down.
“Ugh!”
The Imperial Knight's sword grazed past Alicia's left arm.
Although the wound wasn't deep, it was an injury sufficient to cause trouble in moving her left arm.
“A pity. If it were a little deeper, your arm would have fallen off.”
“…….”
Alicia gripped her sword with her bleeding hand.
Not yet, not yet.
She couldn't collapse in a place like this already.
‘……Vell.’
Alicia glanced toward the door behind her and moved her gaze forward again.
At that moment.
Rumble-rumble-boom!!!
A huge vibration suddenly felt from inside the palace.
Surely something must have happened in there.
“Hurry! Something seems to have happened to the Supreme King!”
“Move, you lawless people!”
Feeling the urgency of the situation, the momentum of the Imperial Knights became ferocious.
The Supreme King inside the Imperial palace was an existence even more noble than the King of Arkendale, and if such a person were harmed, it was obvious that the heads of all the Imperial Knights responsible for the defense of the Imperial palace would fly.
Now, the Imperial Knights rushed toward the Special Task Force members without even taking care of their own bodies.
“……Dammit.”
Albino was also feeling such a change with his skin.
Whether Vell Blackwood succeeded there or not, if they stayed like this, at least all the Special Task Force members in this place would die.
Therefore, Albino had to make a choice.
“Damn.”
The moment of choice had already arrived.
Albino made a decision.
“Contract Declaration.”
Before anyone knew it, the stream of blood flowing from Albino's thumb drew a single hexagram.
“Ten Thousand Pains.”
***
The white light that seemed like it would swallow everything right away slowly scatters.
Tzzt, Tzztzzt…….
Along with that, the duration of the Divine Sword Levatein ended, and it disappeared.
Loading bullets into the Colt Garrison B-09, I looked at the figure under the scattering white light.
“Cough! Cough!”
Should it be said that he is indeed the Supreme King?
The Supreme King was still alive.
It wasn't something incomprehensible.
No matter that the power of the Postponer of Ruin was added to the Divine Sword Levatein, strictly speaking, it was also true that it was merely a reproduction rate of 30%.
“Ugh…… Postponer of Ruin……!”
The Supreme King, whose whole body became covered in blood, looked at me with a staggering appearance.
The Demonic energy that once seemed like it would swallow this entire area must have been completely scattered by the Divine Sword Levatein to which the power of the Postponer of Ruin was added, as what was supporting the Supreme King's body was purely physical strength.
“Not yet, it's not the end yet!”
“Whatever.”
Whether the Supreme King shouted something or not, I aimed the fully loaded Colt Garrison B-09 at the Supreme King.
Bang!
Bang! Bang-bang─!
Along with the trigger pulled in succession, 9×33mmR 357 Magnum regular bullets lodged into the Supreme King's body.
“Keo-heok!”
“Still alive, are you?”
Clearly, it is true that I still have many things to ask and hear from the Supreme King.
But removing the threat called the Supreme King was considered the top priority above all else.
“Not yet, not yet……!”
Spilling blood from his whole body, the Supreme King raised his body.
It had an appearance just like a ghost.
“Let's…… end this, Postponer of Ruin.”
The Supreme King approached me with staggering steps.
No matter that he was dying, the Supreme King was the Supreme King, so I had no intention of obediently engaging in close combat.
[Activates ‘Weapon Summon(??)’.]
[Personal weapon is summoned.]
[Summons weapon, ‘AKR-74 Assault Rifle (GF-40 Grenade Launcher Combined)’.]
Summoning the AKR-74 Assault Rifle whose cooldown time had filled up again, I clearly showed the Supreme King what it meant that all men are equal before a gun.
Clack─
The Supreme King, whose armor he was wearing and the Demonic energy he was wrapping around his whole body like armor became rags, had no strength left to block the bullets anymore.
The fired 7.62×39mm rounds ruthlessly dug into the Supreme King's body, and every time they did, the Supreme King's body heaved.
“Kahaak……!”
Nevertheless, the Supreme King was not only still alive but continued to approach me.
“……Just like a monster.”
I can't even count how many bullets I've poured into the Supreme King's body now.
And yet, not only is he still alive, but he's moving?
No matter if he's a Level 8 player, this was beyond the limit.
‘Seems he has a survival-specialized trait.’
If it's this level of vitality, he must possess top-tier survival-type traits like Narrow Escape or Emergency Repair.
I summoned all the firearms I could currently use and continued to pour them onto the Supreme King.
Booooom──!!
Bang-bang-bang!
But the Supreme King didn't stop moving even as his whole body became tattered.
In a sight where someone seeing this would think they were having a nightmare, finally, the figure of the Supreme King reached right in front of me.
“Finally, caught you.”
Laughing low with a metallic sound, the Supreme King reached out his hand to me.
That movement itself was so slow that it seemed not difficult to dodge, but for some reason, I couldn't dodge it.
Crack!
The Supreme King's slow fist touched me.
With that, I realized.
That as much as the Supreme King had slowed down, my movements were also not like usual.
“Now, let's go together until the end, Postponer of Ruin. Whether you are the fate that can stop me!”
“I won't decline.”
I also drew the Fang of Blazing Fire, the only weapon left to me now, and rushed toward the Supreme King.
Each other's fists and daggers were exchanged.
When my bone broke, a huge scar was made on the Supreme King's chest, and when my left arm twisted, a hole was made in the Supreme King's stomach.
“Kahak, Kahaak…….”
“……Just, die already.”
“I, refuse……!”
“Damn bastard.”
Before we knew it, both the Supreme King and I reached the limit of our stamina and continued meaningless hand gestures and foot gestures with staggering movements.
Thud.
The Supreme King's fist touched.
It didn't hurt that much.
Slash!
The Fang of Blazing Fire cut the Supreme King.
It barely cut only the outer skin.
The pathetic fight of those who had already vomited out everything they had continued for a while longer.
Amidst the situation where doubts arose whether a conclusion to this fight would ever be reached, finally, one of the Supreme King's knees bent.
Thump!
“God…… dammit.”
But being unable to move anymore was the same for me too.
If I could move just a little, a very little more, I could completely cut off the Supreme King's life.
Although it was clearly so, my body, which had reached its limit long ago, betrayed my will.
“Hoo, hoo……!”
Move.
Move.
I tried to forcibly move my body while repeating and repeating again continuously, but this goddamn body didn't listen to me.
“Kuk, kuk-kuk…….”
The Supreme King laughed, making a metallic sound.
“What is so funny?”
“Isn't it funny that both you and I are doing this in this state.”
“Not really funny.”
“No, just this is sufficiently amusing, Postponer of Ruin.”
The Supreme King chuckled.
I don't know what on earth is making the Supreme King so amused, but I still had a move remaining.
“You seem to be mistaken about something.”
The Supreme King seemed to think I couldn't stop him with this, but that was a huge mistake.
“You're already finished.”
There is no reason I have to stop the Supreme King personally.
For me, just dragging the situation to this point was practically the same as having done my job.
Crack, crackle──!!!
The air trembles.
No, the space itself trembles.
“……What have you done?”
“Well, it's not like I did anything in particular.”
The space that fluctuated roughly begins to crack open like a spiderweb.
I knew that phenomenon.
“Don't tell me that is……!”
The Supreme King's eyes opened wide.
And through the cracked fissure, a person wearing the Punishment Order's priest robe finally revealed their appearance.
The visitor looked at the Supreme King, whose whole body had become like rags, and clicked his tongue.
“My friend, what on earth is this unsightly appearance?”
“……Ballak!”
Newbie Hunter Ballak.
He appeared in this place.
“You appear fast enough.”
“I was late due to circumstances. Because my old friend was guarding against the visit of those including me quite significantly.”
It seemed the Supreme King was caring quite a lot about intrusion utilizing Space Magic.
Ballak's gaze scanned me and the Supreme King once each.
“Anyway, it seems I'm not late.”
“Already late enough.”
“Haha, is that so? Then that is regrettable.”
Ballak approached in front of the collapsed Supreme King.
“Foolish friend, didn't I try to stop you so much? What my friend intended to do was bound to fail eventually.”
“……Shut up. I have no words to hear from a bastard like you who only tries to hide everything because you are afraid of the truth.”
“All of us cannot handle the truth yet. Great chaos will come. What is wrong with preventing that?”
“Do not look down on people, on humans, Ballak! We can all make a choice! Right and wrong will eventually be judged within that choice!”
The Supreme King shouted as if screaming.
Looking at such a Supreme King, Ballak couldn't hide a somewhat compassionate gaze.
“Either way, the conclusion has already been reached. Although reaping my friend's life with my own hands is not very pleasing…… this too must be the providence I must perform.”
“Do you think you won?”
“Well. This cannot be called a victory, but at least it will have some meaning.”
“Wrong.”
The Supreme King, who seemed to have already given up on life, laughed low.
“I won.”
The hand of the Supreme King, who declared victory in a low voice, stabbed his own heart just like that.