I Aggressively Stack Steel of the Heart in the Knight Order

’This is bad—!’

How could one become a Three-star Earth Military Rank Church Knight without being a veteran of countless battles?

The moment he felt Reinhardt’s gaze, a horrifying sensation washed over him—the feeling that his every move and tactical intention had been completely seen through. In an instant, the hair on his body stood on end!

He screamed inwardly, ’This is impossible!’

With his Extraordinary Armament, the Teleporting Light Spear, he had killed many foes far stronger than himself! His greatest pride was fighting above his station, having personally executed a Four-star Earth Military Rank apostate!

However, all his pride and combat experience shattered. Just facing a motionless Reinhardt, the terrifying feeling of being stared down by a man-eating monster completely shattered his rhythm!

An Earth Knight’s thoughts moved as fast as lightning.

In that brief instant, less than 0.3 seconds, he came to a sobering realization: he was no match for the man before him.

But...

The moment he drew his blade, he had felt the direct threat of death, as if a killer’s blade was already at his throat. So why...

Facing a powerhouse of Reinhardt’s level left him no time to think. The moment he sensed the danger, he prepared to use his Extraordinary Armament’s Special Ability to switch places with the spear again.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

A terrifyingly immense Destructive Suppression, like a reverse tsunami or a collapsing mountain, crushed down upon his Knight Power!

This momentary suppression made his control over his Extraordinary Armament sluggish.

The next second.

His vision went dark. A terrifying force he couldn’t resist even with his full Knight Power seized his head and neck. It slammed his head toward the ground with such ferocious might that it broke the sound barrier!

BOOM—!

The Church Knight’s entire head was driven into the ground!

A wide spiderweb of cracks spread wildly from the impact!

As Stearns clashed with the Church Knights, the Judge who wielded natural lightning appeared above Reinhardt in an instant!

A high-temperature electrical current gathered in his right fist as he brought it smashing down on Reinhardt!

But before the fist could land, Reinhardt’s body radiated a spherical, dark-purple energy pulse. As the pulse passed through the Judge, the electrical current on his body instantly dissipated, and he lost control, tumbling from the sky.

His face drained of all color when he realized his Black Wall Secret Weapon had been nullified!

’How is this possible?!’

But how could he, with only the body of a Mortal, possibly dodge or counter while in mid-air?

He fell face-first, crashing against Reinhardt’s Power Armor, which broke his nose and knocked out his front teeth before he slid to the ground.

When he managed to roll over and open his eyes, he saw Reinhardt standing before him. His Power Armor-clad body was as imposing as a mountain, and his cruel gaze looked down upon him.

At this moment.

It was like a bucket of ice water had been dumped over the Judge’s head. He had never dreamed that the legendary "Emperor’s Vengeful Angel" could have grown this powerful!

Even with the Black Wall Secret Weapon: Thunder Punishment, he was no match for this man.

He was acutely aware that if Reinhardt were to just stomp down, his head would be crushed into a bloody pulp, exploding on the spot!

But as the Judge, drenched in a cold sweat, covered his head and braced for death, Reinhardt simply gave him an indifferent glance. With the dull thud of colliding metal, his Power Armor stepped over the man’s body.

Looking back on Reinhardt’s life, his enemies had included Fear Knights, Great Demons, Wizards, and powerhouses like Warlord Nico.

Even his opponents in glorious Knight’s Duels were formidable Imperial Knights like Heinrich and Sedon.

The combined strength of these Judges, the Church Knights, and even that member of the Order Think Tank was enough to threaten any Battle Group Commander.

But in the eyes of Reinhardt—who had already advanced to Five-star Earth Military Rank, whose physical limits had reached terrifying levels from stacking Steel of the Heart, and who now wielded Domain Power—they were simply too weak.

They were not even worthy of him using half his strength.

If he wished, he could slaughter all these overconfident enemies who were trying to capture him in under a minute.

But his War Axe and his cruelty were reserved for Demons and traitors. To deal with men like these, a righteous punch from an Imperial Knight was more than enough.

Besides, Reinhardt knew exactly what it meant to kill a Judge within the Empire’s borders. The powerful entities within the three great Judgment Courts were not something he could afford to provoke right now.

As for these Church Knights participating in the arrest, if he were going to kill anyone, it would be the traitorous bastards pulling the strings from the shadows, not these low-level Knights who were just grunts for the Judgment Court, serving as cannon fodder.

In a way, these Church Knights facing him were no different from how he once was at Frostfire Fortress—pawns caught in the conspiracies of a power struggle, low-ranking Knights that nobody cared about.

The Dragon Slayer need not become the dragon.

Stepping impassively over the Judge at his feet, Reinhardt unslung his Black War Axe. His steps were like a boulder parting a stream; every Church Knight in his path scrambled away in horror.

At the same time, his harsh, gravelly voice reached Stearns’s ears.

"Stearns, don’t kill them."

Stearns, caught in the heat of battle, had one Church Knight pinned under his boot and had just cut down another with his Knight’s Broadsword. Upon hearing Reinhardt’s warning, his battlelust and raging fury instantly subsided, and his senses returned.

Regarding this matter, Koller had long wanted to remind Reinhardt.

But he didn’t.

If Reinhardt was merely powerful, but lost his reason in battle and slaughtered indiscriminately, then Koller would have considered applying to leave the Vengeful Angels after this was all over.

Because he could not see a future for the Vengeful Angels Battle Group.

But after hearing Reinhardt’s warning to Stearns, and seeing how he handled the Judge...

Koller finally understood why Lord Sedon had been so insistent on handing leadership of the Vengeful Angels Battle Group to a young Imperial Knight like Reinhardt.

Although the Great Tutor of Vengeful was a man of few words, Koller realized that this formidable young Imperial Knight who fought his way out of the Demon Void Realm was nowhere near as lacking in wisdom and experience as he had imagined.

Meanwhile, Urus appeared like a ghost behind Judge Kavol. The Judge had just torn open a Scroll and seemed to be channeling some kind of Extraordinary Power.

But Urus simply pressed a short blade to his neck and said coldly, "Don’t try to resist, Judge."

"You—!"

Kavol had made meticulous preparations before this arrest mission, and had been brimming with confidence when he set out.

But he underestimated Reinhardt’s strength.

Or rather, his intelligence was outdated, from before Reinhardt fell into the Demon Void Realm. In fact, aside from the Holy Rose Order, the Red Flame Son, and Bach’s party, no one else knew that Reinhardt had mastered Domain Power.

After Urus had Judge Kavol under control,

Reinhardt just stopped where he was and said coldly, "Urus, let him go."