Chapter 151 – Saint and Holy Knights (6)

The 〈Purifying Spring〉 received from Priest Ban was definitely effective against the demon king.

Wounds inflicted by Sun-woo’s sword coated with the 〈Purifying Spring〉 couldn’t be regenerated even by the demon king.

For the first time, blood flowed from the demon king’s body.

Black smoke gathered near the wounded area and wriggled.

However, perhaps because of the liquid on the wound, the black smoke couldn’t approach any further.

Though the demon king had used spatial movement to avoid Sun-woo’s sword, Sun-woo’s changed swordsmanship inflicted wounds all over the demon king’s body in that last moment of spatial movement.

The demon king looked at the wound on his side and squinted his long-slitted eyes.

Not only did wounds from weapons coated with 〈Purifying Spring〉 not heal, but an intense feeling of revulsion different from divine power surged from the wound area.

[What are you? How are you using abilities from different worlds together?]

The demon king said while looking around.

He seemed to be looking for the monsters he summoned, but the holy knight order had already thoroughly dismantled them.

The lich was roasted by fire and turned to powder, and the contaminated saint was also subdued by the summoners.

In this state, it was difficult to backstab other people with spatial movement.

For him, a necromancy-type demon king with weak physical strength, he could only click his tongue at the situation.

“There’s no reason to answer that.”

Sun-woo launched his body toward the demon king once more. Seeing him move at a speed difficult for ordinary people’s eyes to detect, the demon king avoided with spatial movement once again.

Slash!

The demon king who appeared at the opposite end of the hall looked at his arm with an absurd expression.

A flying sword had somehow cut off his arm.

Sun-woo, who had approached while drawing a large circle across the sky, caught the sword and charged at the demon king again.

The demon king hurriedly retreated. He didn’t even have time to prepare the next spatial movement.

Instead, he exploded his arm that had fallen on the floor.

[Corpse Explosion.]

Bang!

Originally [Corpse Explosion] was a technique that exploded corpses using demonic energy.

However, since he was the demon king of the dead, even just a separated arm had sufficiently great destructive power.

Besides, it was an arm he couldn’t reattach anyway because of the 〈Purifying Spring〉, a kind of holy water.

He wondered if he had to suffer like this as a demon king just because of one human.

At this point, there was no mercy to show.

The stones and rocks on the floor exploded outward and a large sunken pit was created.

On one side of the pit, a large earthen wall rose to block the front. Sun-woo had blocked the explosion with sorcery.

Sun-woo immediately collapsed the earthen wall and charged at the demon king.

There was no reason to give the demon king time to prepare spatial movement.

Sun-woo attacked fiercely without slowing down for a moment.

***

Because Sun-woo kept charging without stopping, the demon king had no choice but to face Sun-woo instead of avoiding.

The demon king’s nails grew long again and black currents surged.

Black currents also took the place of the severed arm.

Clang! Clang!

The currents made of demonic energy and Sun-woo’s sword collided, starting to scatter demonic energy in all directions.

***

“It seems we’ve become spectators.”

The prince sighed regretfully while watching the fight between Sun-woo and the demon king. For him, who had always been a protagonist in fights, the current situation was difficult to adapt to.

However, even by his own assessment, joining that fight was impossible.

Strength and stamina could somewhat keep up with magic on equipment and his own skills, but there was no way to match their speed.

The demon king’s spatial movement with no delay and Sun-woo’s martial arts that created optical illusions couldn’t be followed by the prince’s vision.

“Are there many monsters like that among summoners?”

“Since only ability users resistant to contamination from each dimension become summoners anyway, there are many strong people. But I’ve never seen an ability user as strong as Sun-woo who also grows this quickly.”

Daniel, who had helped the knight order slice through nearby monsters, answered the prince’s words.

“Phew… I’m glad I closed the hero business early. To think there’d be a master-level or higher swordsman even among summoners…”

Daniel couldn’t comfort the prince with any words as regret and lingering attachment remained.

“Well, that side will have more regrets than me. I’ll give up my regrets here.”

The prince looked at the gloomy-faced knight order, then returned to an alert state with Daniel.

Meanwhile, Illiana, who had ordered the knight order to clean up the surroundings, sighed while watching the fierce battle unfolding in the center of the hall.

Originally, those who should fight the demon king weren’t that man who came with the prince, but the holy knight order.

However, all plans went awry because the demon king didn’t kill the saint but used her as Priest Ban’s opponent.

Since he collapsed vomiting blood, the knight order had no way to withstand the demon king’s demonic energy. He barely got up to face the saint, but couldn’t purify the demon king’s demonic energy as well.

When he collapsed, the knight order had no choice but to charge at the demon king prepared to die.

However, that was also foiled and now they had become spectators watching someone else’s fight.

That said, it wasn’t a situation to step forward and join the fight now.

Since it was a necromancy-type demon king, they had to be vigilant of the surroundings not knowing when he might raise corpses.

For now, they could only wait for that fight to reach a conclusion.

Illiana, who had made her decision, tilted her head.

“Isn’t the fight going on too long? No, something’s a bit different.”

The demon king, who had been fighting fiercely with Sun-woo, gradually felt puzzled amid the continuing fight.

They had already inflicted many wounds on each other, and compared to himself who didn’t tire, the human before his eyes clearly showed signs of exhaustion.

In a normal situation, it would be a situation where he had seized the upper hand and was gradually finding leisure.

However, the demon king began becoming increasingly anxious instead.

‘Why?’

The demon king thought about the reason while hastily avoiding the sword with spatial movement again.

And the next moment.

Seeing the human’s face rushing toward him after spatial movement, he could understand the reason.

An excited smile was blooming on the human’s face.

‘No way?’

The demon king shuddered at the thought that came to his mind.

[Don’t tell me, you’re using me as a training opponent!]

At the demon king’s voice heard in his head, Sun-woo muttered softly.

“Bingo.”

Sun-woo was extremely excited right now.

Because he had met a proper opponent while stuck at the threshold of super absolute.

Of course, it was a dangerous battle dancing with death, but since it was a fight with an almost equal opponent, Sun-woo felt the wall of super absolute gradually crumbling.

Especially, unlike the Demonic Cult martial artist he fought before, since it was a battle of speed, the movement techniques and footwork Sun-woo had been weak at were rapidly growing to the level of his other martial arts.

Sun-woo was intoxicated by the sensation of breaking through the wall and fighting the demon king using only martial arts while sealing all other skills.

‘Just a little more!’

Sun-woo’s sword became increasingly refined and faster moment by moment.

To avoid the increasingly faster sword, the demon king frantically used spatial movement, but he couldn’t avoid Sun-woo’s senses and sorcery examining the surroundings.

Because of Sun-woo rushing in with light-body technique as if knowing in advance where he’d spatially move, the demon king could only desperately keep avoiding.

Then at one moment.

Crack!

Sun-woo clearly felt a crack form in the wall blocking him.

Sun-woo’s sword slightly wound around the demon king’s blocking nails, then descended along his arm and split the demon king’s shoulder.

The demon king hurriedly retreated with spatial movement.

He looked at his half-severed shoulder, then soon opened his beak wide and began laughing.

[Kyahahaha! Finally the effect of that disgusting water has ended! I’ve been waiting for this moment!]

The demon king’s shoulder cut by Sun-woo’s sword slowly began reattaching, and other wounds also returned to original.

Only the arm exploded with 〈Corpse Explosion〉 remained severed.

The holy water made with 〈Purifying Spring〉 also didn’t last forever. Moreover, it was impossible for the holy water to keep enduring inside demonic energy.

People’s faces hardened at the unexpected sight.

Priest Ban hurriedly searched his body, but there was no remaining holy water.

The emergency supply the knight order carried had also all been used dealing with monsters.

It wasn’t like 〈Purifying Spring〉 could be whipped up on the spot.

And it wasn’t like collecting saliva would make it holy water either.

When the knight order, Priest Ban, and Alda were about to move immediately, the prince and knight commander stopped them.

“Wait. It’s not time to go out yet.”

The prince’s speaking eyes were directed toward Sun-woo, who was far from the demon king.

Sun-woo had been standing continuously since then in that posture of thrusting his sword at the demon king.

Though he looked frozen, unlike his visible posture, momentum was increasingly strongly emanating from his body.

The demon king’s laughter also gradually stopped as Sun-woo’s momentum grew stronger. However, he soon checked his restored body and shouted confidently.

[Without that petty god’s water, nothing can wound me! I’ll kill everyone here, go out into the world, kill and revive them again to show everyone what the kingdom of death is like!]

The demon king couldn’t help but smile imagining the 〈Death Knight〉 made using the corpse after killing the human before his eyes.

The movements would become slightly stiff, but it was perfect for establishing as his guard.

Then protecting his inferior body and dealing with those tedious dregs of god would be sufficient with one Death Knight.

The demon king fully drew up his demonic energy with his recovered body.

Since his body didn’t receive wounds from attacks anyway, he planned to approach as much as possible and self-destruct even if it meant embracing him, without needing to flee.

He’d lose part of his body, but that much was sufficient compensation for the enemy’s strength.

The moment the demon king tried to approach Sun-woo again with spatial movement, Sun-woo’s hand that had been stopped moved.

‘Revolving Sword Technique. First Form. King Yama Pierces the Heavens’

Sun-woo, who softly recited the technique name in his head, lightly threw his sword forward.

The sword thrown forward began moving slowly like a fish ascending against water, then gradually accelerated.

The outward appearance wasn’t much different from how Sun-woo had thrown his sword until now, but the inside was completely different.

He received absolutely no assistance from skills, controlling the sword solely with internal energy and mental imagery.

Thanks to that, his flying sword could come completely under Sun-woo’s control.

And one more thing.

The flying sword could fully contain Sun-woo’s internal energy.

The Revolving Divine Sword wrapped in sword energy shot toward the demon king like a swallow flying through the heavens.

The demon king was surprised by the shooting sword and hastily used spatial movement, but the sword that pierced through where the demon king had been standing accelerated further and plunged down where the demon king appeared!

Realizing avoidance was impossible, the demon king tried to block the front with his hand to receive minimum damage, but the sword pulverized everything blocking the front.

Thud!

The sword shattered the remaining arm, then pierced straight through the demon king’s neck, and the demon king’s head was severed in an instant and rolled on the floor.

The demon king’s head rolling on the floor looked at Sun-woo’s flying sword in the sky with a bewildered expression.

[What happened? Why isn’t it restoring? Just because you used a different strange ability shouldn’t prevent restoration?]

As the demon king said, his body with the head fallen off sat down as is and began melting, and the head also gradually began melting into demonic energy.

[How did you do it! This is impossible! Decades of waiting ended like this?]

Above the melting demon king’s head, Sun-woo’s sword circled while scattering white powder.

[Wait! I’ll come back! Then both this world and the world you live in will all meet their end…]

Thud!

Without finishing his last words, the crow head was stepped on by Sun-woo’s foot and burst.

“Come at me. I’ll throw you all as food for this sword.”

Sun-woo, who had finally crossed the wall of super absolute, retrieved his sword with a confident expression.

The 〈Contamination Treatment Agent〉 powder he had hastily applied before throwing the sword thoroughly played the role of 〈Purifying Spring〉 substitute and scattered white from the sword blade and the melting demon king’s head.