Chapter 910 - What Is the Reason for Your Aspiration
The Minotaur's body stood up again.
Instead of a head, its helmet rolled over and settled on its neck.
Then, blood vessels extending from the neck connected to the helmet, forming a plausible head.
The new eyes formed within the helmet were unfocused and pure white.
A dull, lifeless white that gave no sense of clarity.
-All of you shall become my vessels.
The voice from earlier was heard again from behind the Great Emperor.
The entity couldn't hold back and projected its will consecutively.
In other words, it kept talking.
-You should have accepted my proposal.
It even showed the talent of whispering so only Enkrid could hear.
Enkrid felt disgusted even before hearing words about a proposal or whatever.
"It's a demon."
So he muttered.
"A demon."
Rem agreed.
Following that, Shinar expressed her rage.
"Things worth less than weeds from the Demonic Realm?"
This Fairy burst into anger whenever she saw a demon.
It was an understandable rage if one knew her past.
"All of them are connected to me. Therefore, if you cannot kill me, you will have to fight forever."
The Great Emperor shouted, spinning the iron whip above his head and smashing the ground.
Kwa-gwa-gwang!
The iron whip he swung gouged, broke, and crushed the earth.
"It seems like he was hiding something."
Beharli muttered, looking at his nemesis's sword piercing his stomach.
He had exposed his stomach with the intention of grabbing the sword with his abdominal muscles, but Cypress, who had approached closely in that instant, let go of the piercing sword and struck the breastplate with his bare hand.
With that, his heart was split into three.
It was really just a small, if put into words, a slight and minute difference.
"If I was just a little faster, I would have won."
Beharli said, foaming blood at the mouth.
Frog blood flowed down the corner of his mouth, drawing a line of blood on the breastplate.
"No, you wouldn't have."
Cypress denied those words immediately.
"You hid your skill. Got me again."
"Ah, I didn't hide it, just placed a few more vows."
"...Crazy bastard, if you overuse vows, you'll become a cripple."
Vows and oaths influence Will, but they aren't omnipotent.
Having to live with things keeping pilling up like a mountain, it would be fortunate just to be able to keep a sane mind.
A knight who ignorantly piles up vows and overlaps oaths becomes a monster losing reason, or if less than that, an idiot.
Meaning if the path goes slightly awry, one meets an ugly end where living isn't living, yet one cannot even resolve to die.
"You won't die peacefully doing that. Cy."
Beharli said.
The Frog had strength left but gave up.
Dying, he looked back on his desires and needs.
'Killing was the goal, but.'
Actually, it was fun throughout the fight.
The Frog was satisfied.
Therefore, he didn't use his remaining strength to struggle.
Cypress looked quietly at the Frog.
'Cy' was a nickname he could only hear from someone who grew up in the same era as him.
"The guy who resolved to die peacefully while living as a swordsman is the crazy one. Behar."
Cypress also called the opponent's nickname.
Once, the two trained together and lived like friends.
Wandered the continent killing monsters and killing dog-like bastards together.
It was quite fun.
That was play for the two.
That long play is coming to an end.
Amidst his blurring vision, Beharli felt heat trying to piece his heart back together.
"Clear my corpse far away. Or chop it up into pieces. Otherwise, I will revive. Then I will become a berserker with no reason. Just thinking about it makes me nauseous. Wek."
Cypress had already perceived the change in the battlefield.
Furthermore, this place is the South, the worst among the borderlands of the Demonic Realm.
"Ingis."
Even with one arm and one leg broken, a knight should be able to move.
Also, because of such injuries, he was a talent Cypress wished would retreat and plan for the future.
"It's the enemy commander. Since I want to bury him, take him and retreat."
"Are you telling me to leave the battlefield?"
"Yes, if Aurelia can't get married, take responsibility."
"Master."
Ingis's expression hardened.
"It's an order."
Cypress said with a smile.
Ingis clenched his molars, swallowed his words, and lifted the dying Frog's body.
"Hey, don't die."
Beharli said.
If he doesn't kill him with his own hands, it has no meaning.
So he must not die here.
The Frog's desire is individualism.
"I won't."
Tone same as always.
As Ingis retreated, Cypress dragged his limping leg and moved forward.
Because work remained, the Guardian Deity of the Southern Front had no time to rest.
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Chwareuk!
The Great Emperor raised his right arm high above his head and swung it wide.
Matching that movement, the iron whip trailing at his feet reacted.
Huung.
Wind rose as if to blow away decent-sized boulders, and then the iron whip struck down as if splitting space.
The iron whip the Great Emperor swung was faster than any sword strike.
Even the guy called the Fastest Knight earlier couldn't be faster than this.
The advantage of a whip added with the weight possessed by the iron.
Although a structure getting lighter from handle to tip, it was a weapon made of heavy metal and steel alloy.
The ground hit by the tip burst and broke, bouncing stone fragments in all directions.
Kwang!
A roar rang along the ground.
The Great Emperor swung the iron whip grasped by those thick fingers consecutively.
Ppeo-beo-beo-beong! Ppeo-beo-beo-beong!
The sound of air bursting following the iron whip he swung was loud.
Hwi-ik.
Seeing that, Rem whistled and said.
"Dodging that would be a bit of a headache."
He didn't say he can't dodge.
That is the guy named Rem.
He spoke while spinning two slings simultaneously.
Wiiiiing!
Although the sound was less than that of the iron whip, its power had never disappointed Rem until now.
Such a bullet flew aiming for the Great Emperor.
A bullet harboring the Soul of a Flame Demon.
A bullet that bursts even if blocked.
As he threw the sling at the Great Emperor, a Faceless Knight who revived after dying intervened in the bullet's trajectory.
Peong, Kwaaaang!
Rem expected it to be blocked.
So it was nothing to be surprised about.
Furthermore, he expected them to block it.
Otherwise, there would be no reason for them to gather like baby birds waiting for food in front of the Great Emperor.
"Now, let's see. If they revive even after that."
So he naturally said such words.
Enkrid had just cut all four limbs of the Minotaur using a helmet as a head and split the helmet into three.
Far away, Lien staged a grotesque scene muttering 'It's same no matter how many times' while breaking and pulling out neck bones from the enemies.
The guy burning collapsed as is after being struck by Rem.
"Now, another one."
Rem muttered and grabbed the sling again.
Meanwhile, Ragna also had to turn back.
Since he saw the guy he killed standing up fine.
"Damn it, did I lose?"
Other guys lost their reason and don't even groan, but this guy started running his mouth.
Reasons were various.
The Great Emperor contracted with a demon and placed them under his 'Dominion' through it.
However, there were bound to be exceptional ones among them.
In cases like the Frog named Beharli or Kaelo, by making them form separate contracts respectively, they didn't lose reason even if revived.
"Coming back to life after dying. Rare for a guy to have such an experience."
Kaelo said.
Although Enkrid heard what Kaelo chattered from back there, he didn't react.
Though no one knows, he had exceeded thousands of experiences of dying and reviving.
"You aren't a corpse so I should consider you a ghoul now, right?"
Ragna faced Kaelo once again.
"...Shouldn't you bastard be a bit surprised? Speaking like that in this situation is really something."
The conversation of the two ended there.
Ragna cut Kaelo once again.
This time, no need to even get stabbed in the stomach.
An opponent won once, a technique seen once.
If confirmed, perceived, and grasped, it is easy to counter.
Of course, it was so because he is a genius among geniuses.
"Damn."
Even while his body split vertically, Kaelo died running his mouth.
Once again, Southern knights died in droves.
The Great Emperor raised the hand opposite to the one swinging the iron whip.
"Fulfill."
Words spread while using the revived Faceless Knights as a barrier.
As soon as those words ended, white threads came out from between dead Kaelo's corpse and sewed the body.
Simultaneously, faint heat flowed from his body.
"My name is Kaelo, the Knight who doesn't die. How is it? My new nickname?"
The guy revived.
"Knight who only dies seems more fitting."
Ragna answered and raised his sword.
Crisis?
Not at all yet.
Like Rem, Ragna didn't use Will recklessly either.
A result of facing and sparring with Enkrid's Uske daily.
Ragna cut Kaelo again.
Lien also killed the same opponent again.
Shinar also shouted once in a while killing the reviving Fairy on one side.
"You are a demon. I will definitely kill you."
She expressed obvious rage to the extent one wonders how many existences could draw such emotion from a Fairy.
Her leaf-shaped sword cut the Black Elf's neck and hacked it.
Would she revive even if divided into dozens?
She revived.
A single word from the Great Emperor back there, "Fulfill," was enough.
Only, reviving didn't mean non-existent skills appeared.
No, it was correct to see them as worse than before.
Throwing poison-coated daggers and swinging swords while losing reason, but not actually utilizing the advantages their bodies possessed.
Since they revive anyway even if they die, they could fight throwing their bodies, but they fight holding onto habits from when alive.
Furthermore, since they don't use their heads, the opposing side could say it was a bit easier.
"If we keep fighting like this forever, we are the ones who lose."
Luagarne's words.
It was a sight sufficient to astonish all who watched.
Even in such a moment, Krang only showed calm eyes though.
No reason to be surprised.
Even less reason to be flustered.
Those including Krang are spectators armed with trust and belief.
Right now, believing was the best he could do.
Kwang!
The Great Emperor struck the ground swinging the iron whip as if venting anger.
The guy burned by the Soul of the Flame Demon raised his body.
He became a knight fighting while burning as is.
Meaning became a more threatening enemy.
"Burning won't work?"
Rem said.
If burning doesn't work and splitting doesn't work, what should be done?
Temperament as a hunter guided him to a certain path.
'Isn't it enough to kill the guy named Great Emperor?'
He calculated the trajectory and speed of the moving iron whip, aimed for a gap, and took a step.
Swing the axe and take the head.
Considered it an opportunity to see if the guy named Great Emperor also revives.
Then the ground heaved and rose blocking the front.
Rem, who was just rushing out, smashed the wall with his fist.
Kwang!
The wall broke as is, flying broken stone chunks in all directions.
Rem, who was charging, used the rebound from swinging his fist to fly his body sideways.
Peong!
One of the Faceless Knights thrust a spear into the spot where he was.
"Look at this?"
While Rem muttered, Enkrid also broke out of the ground that just rose to surround him on all sides, cut the head of the Minotaur attacking again, and just killed the wizard who had practically become a bolt of lightning.
The Great Emperor stopped swinging the iron whip and spoke so everyone could hear.
"I am the Ruler."
Words coming from his mouth were the extreme of arrogance.
-You will all die and become part of me.
The demon also shouted excitedly.
Enkrid struck away Dawn, jumped to the left, and cut the lightning once again.
Somehow he felt like repeating the same thing continuously.
Speaking of, his stamina and strength were draining.
The Great Emperor with the demon on his back didn't allow them to approach near him.
Simultaneously, Enkrid split his thought in two and thought.
'Reason for smashing the ground with the iron whip.'
Exactly the ground the Great Emperor swept with the iron whip rose and attacked.
Also, something similar to the momentum flowing from the Great Emperor's body was felt from the walls blocking all sides.
Words intuition and sixth sense tell.
The Great Emperor's iron whip makes what it strikes its own.
"This guy is doing all sorts of things."
Rem also muttered.
He also roughly grasped it.
The ground the Great Emperor's weapon touched is not an ally.
It's on the enemy's side.
It would become walls and pits as the Great Emperor wished, activating like traps.
Should say he dominated the terrain.
"I am merciful and broad-minded, so I speak."
-Follow my will.
The Great Emperor said.
Whatever he did to his voice, the demon's voice was heard overlapping.
"Ride the flow."
-Stop thinking.
"Stand under me. Thus save your lives."
-There is nothing you can change.
The Great Emperor's Faceless Knights were living castle walls and shields wearing plate armor.
Everyone killed their opponents over ten times and then again.
Meaning the moment where an ordinary person would discuss giving up was approaching.
Yet not a single one wavered even a bit.
Especially the knight with black hair and blue eyes standing at the center even more so.
"There is nothing after death. What is the reason for fighting so?"
The Great Emperor asked.
No need to ask whom that question was directed at.
The Great Emperor's gaze headed to Enkrid.
The man walking while cutting monsters and lightning that revive even if killed.
He was six steps closer to the Great Emperor than before.
It was a quite impressive appearance to the Great Emperor.
Therefore, threw the question.
'What is the reason for your aspiration?'
The Great Emperor's question forced a short contemplation on Enkrid.
The Ruler of the South contained coercion and oppression even in his words.
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