After that, we descended without rest from Azrael's shrine, which was hellishly difficult to climb but hellishly easy to descend, and arrived at the village around afternoon.
"Phew, we've finally made it... but come to think of it,"
For some reason, the mountain village had hundreds of times more people than before.
"Arash-nim, what on earth is this?"
"Ah, Juwan? You're already here. All of these here are refugees."
"Refugees, you say?"
"Yeah, well, here's how it is—"
According to Arash, the Holy City has started moving in earnest, and the Purification Knights and the Round Table are moving on a large scale, capturing people indiscriminately, and these refugees seem to be those who barely survived from them.
Additionally, he added with a hint of regret, "There were originally many more, but now only this many..."
At those words, while everyone was bewildered by the sudden movement of the Holy City, I started to get goosebumps.
"Shit... this is a trap!!! Those bastards deliberately let the refugees escape to the mountain village!! They plan to find out the mountain village and wipe everyone out at once!!!"
Everyone was shocked and surprised by my words, but when I added, "Those bastards can become beasts if necessary... you saw it in that prison, right?" they had no choice but to understand.
"Boss Juwan!!! It's serious!!! Beacon fires!!! Beacon fires are rising from the western village!!! Moreover, the same beacon fires are rising from the southern and northern villages!!!"
"What!?... Damn!!! Those Round Table bastards with such a dirty trick....!!!!"
Enraged by the simultaneous attacks on three villages, Juwan was furious, and I urgently sorted out the situation and shouted.
"I'll go to the west!! Tota and Juwan to the south! Mashu and Fujimaru to the north! Arash, Samjang, and Jeongmil, prepare for any possible attack!! And...."
[Skill Shadow Clone Technique activated]
"I'll attach my clones to each of you!! Move quickly!!"
Immediately, I opened the Aurora Curtain and urgently moved to the western village, and the western village was turning into a sea of fire.
"It's not too late yet...! Then!! Mansang!!"
[Skill Ten Kinds Spirit Law Technique activated]
Then, from my shadow, the elephant-shaped shikigami Mansang appeared and began spewing a large amount of water towards the burning village.
"You all scatter and handle the rescue of survivors and the disposal of the Purification Knights!!"
"Yes!!!!"
Immediately, the scattered clones used Fire Dragon Slayer Magic to consume the flames, or dealt with the Purification Knights with Star Platinum's rush, or froze the Purification Knights with Zadkiel while simultaneously suppressing the fire.
"What about the people?"
"There are none left now. Most were evacuated early by Baekmo, and we evacuated all the people who were fighting here for various reasons without leaving.... As for the rest, already..."
At those words, I felt regret, but then let out a sigh and looked at the nearby corpse.
"I see, then... why don't you come out slowly? How long are you going to keep pretending to be dead?"
I looked at the fallen corpse and said.
"You disguised yourself quite well... if it weren't for me, it would've been hard to figure out... right, Lancelot?"
"...Hmph, so deceiving you was impossible after all..."
Immediately, the appearance of the fallen corpse changed in an instant, and before I knew it, it had transformed into Lancelot.
"Is that one of your Noble Phantasms, For Someone's Glory? (Not for my own glory) It was quite elaborate, even though it didn't work on me..."
At my words, Lancelot immediately took out Arondight with a serious look.
"It's the king's order. He said to absolutely not let you live..... Personally, I'd like to spare you, but this is the king's order... as one who has received a Gift... I cannot refuse, so I'll go all out!"
"Ha! If you can, then try it!?"
Immediately, I drew my holy relics, Hwaryong Melyongdo and Flame Fire Dragon Sword.
Perhaps because I had earlier fed the village's flames to the two holy relics, and on top of that, continuously fed them Camael's flames and Hongyeomsal's flames, the two swords were burning hotly.
"Here I go!!"
[Skill Mana Burst activated!]
Gathering mana in my legs, I instantly rushed at Lancelot and swung the two swords, and Lancelot blocked my attack.
"Haat!!"
Easily blocking my attack, Lancelot immediately swung Arondight to quickly behead me, but at the same time, a gust of wind swirled and pushed Lancelot away.
"Where do you think you're going!?"
Not missing the brief opening created by the wind, I immediately accelerated with the wind and attacked Lancelot, but Lancelot swung Arondight abnormally fast to block the attack and even counterattacked in that situation.
"Tsk!"
However, his counterattack was intercepted by Muhan, and at the same time, the Flame Fire Dragon Sword moved to slash him, but Lancelot twisted his body to barely avoid the attack.
Slashes with the sword / Blocked by the sword.
Counterattacks / Pushed back by the wind.
Throws the sword / Deflects it with a twist.
The deflected sword quickly thrusts / Twists body to avoid.
Grabs the sword and rapidly accelerates to charge / Twists body to barely avoid.
Swingsthe sword / Blocks with the sword.
In an instant, we exchanged dozens of blows, quickly calculating each other's next moves.
[Simulation in progress]
With the Great Sage's support, I quickly blocked the next attacks, counterattacked, predicted again, and attacked.
[Fable 'Adversary of the Round Table' roars!]
The Fable of Round Table Special Attack revealed its intensity, momentarily weakening Lancelot's.
"Haat!!!"
Fwoosh!!!!!
With the rapidly consecutive attacks, I broke through his defense and slashed his shoulder, tearing through his armor and flesh as blood gushed out.
"This much is nowhere near enough!!!"
Despite that, he calmly responded, swinging Arondight dozens of times and finally knocking away the Hwaryong Melyongdo and Flame Fire Dragon Sword I was holding.
"This is the end—"
As the two swords flew away, I immediately drew two new swords from my inventory and blocked Arondight.
"Tsk! You had more swords?"
"What? Never seen someone use multiple swords before?"
Immediately, I took my stance and operated the Path of the Gale and Raphael to their limits.
"Try and block this... well, it'll be impossible, but still!!!"
In an instant, I accelerated towards Lancelot.
The secret sword of the once-in-a-generation genius swordsman Okita Souji, containing 'the first thrust,' 'the second thrust,' and 'the third thrust.'
"This is!!!!"
Feeling that something was wrong, Lancelot urgently abandoned defense and attempted to evade, but he couldn't escape my rapidly accelerating speed.
"First step, sound breakthrough; second step, no interval; third step, absolute blade! 『Nameless Three-Stage Thrust』!"
[Stigma Nameless Three-Stage Thrust activated]
Thud!!!!!
Immediately, with the sound of something bursting, Lancelot and I accelerated and crashed into the wall, and I quickly stepped back and looked at Lancelot.
"Guh! Keuh!!!"
Due to the Nameless Three-Stage Thrust, a large hole was pierced through Lancelot's stomach, completing a perfect lower-half donut.
Unfortunately, I didn't pierce his spiritual core, but I think I inflicted quite a significant injury.
'But is it okay to do this to this guy?...'
As I belatedly wondered if it was okay to do this to him, I suddenly felt a powerful force from above and looked up at the sky.
"...Holy shit... you crazy Lion King bastard... did you prepare that to kill me!?"
Immediately, the Holy Spear Rhongomyniad descended towards this place at high speed, and the village was engulfed in light.