The more Konstantin spoke, the more excited he became. His emotions were not just directed at Reji, but also towards those things that had been lost and forgotten a thousand years ago, now slowly awakening and returning, giving him a sense of familiarity in this strange and cold world.
“So, can I understand that we are safe?”
Princess Yuffie asked again, but this time Konstantin did not answer. Instead, he shifted his gaze, believing that the new hero, who had just drawn the Holy Sword, would give the Princess the best answer.
Indeed.
Where the Holy Sword is drawn, a demon will fall.
This is an unchanging law of fate from a thousand years ago.
Reji had prepared himself for this from the moment he chose to draw the sword.
Now, he raised the Holy Sword, and the bright and hazy sword tip was aimed at the only demon present, the Wisdom Demon Apostle, Leo.
It was not difficult to tell from the previous conversation that Leo had long discovered, or at least sensed, the power from a thousand years ago that was hidden behind Yuffie.
But the Wisdom Demon had not reported it to him and had chosen to conceal it.
Reji’s expressionless face swung the Holy Sword, slashing out a “Twilight” attack towards Leo.
Leo was also extremely serious. The Apostle’s armor appeared on his body, layer by layer of snake scales crawling onto Leo’s skin, no longer disguising himself but revealing his true demonic form.
The Wisdom Demon was accurately a combination of a snake and a spider.
In addition to the snake scale armor, numerous silken threads appeared between Leo’s ten fingers, each thread extremely fine. However, their resilience was enough to form a net-like defense, directly blocking Reji’s attack.
The next moment, instead of retreating, Leo took a step forward and shot out threads of silk towards Reji, the thin lines becoming the sharpest blades as they aimed to entangle and slice Reji into pieces.
But Reji countered by holding the Holy Sword in front of him, the giant sword splitting into countless miniature flying swords. Each flying sword precisely slashed towards the threads of silk that Leo had attacked with.
The Wisdom Demon shot out a hundred threads, and the Holy Sword in front of Reji split into a hundred flying swords, swirling and encircling him in an impenetrable sword formation defense. Not a single thread could penetrate the sword formation, let alone touch Reji or cut his flesh.
After blocking Leo’s attack, the Holy Sword returned to its original form, all the miniature flying swords condensing and gathering once more into a radiant light before Reji, reforming into the complete and radiant greatsword, which Reji lifted once more.
The next moment, Reji exerted force beneath his feet, his figure leaping into the air. Leo also seemed to know that long-range attacks would be useless, so he chose to set up his silk threads in the air and leaped up to engage Reji in a fierce battle.
Their figures flashed at high speed, and even Yuffie, no, even Konstantin, the former seventh-tier mage, could not see their movements clearly.
All they could see were the constant collisions between the radiance of the Holy Sword and the threads of the Wisdom Demon, erupting with waves of powerful magical vibrations. However, the overall situation could still be discerned.
The spider web of silk threads in the sky was gradually diminishing, retreating inch by inch, while the radiance of the Holy Sword grew stronger with each clash, pressing forward step by step. Finally, as if breaking through a bamboo joint, the Holy Sword slashed through the silk threads that Leo had used for defense, and the final strike, filled with dazzling radiance, landed directly on the Wisdom Demon.
*Shua!*
The outcome was decided.
In Konstantin’s eyes, the powerful Wisdom Apostle was now like a kite with its string cut, thrown out from the sky and falling towards the distant night, his body bearing the marks of the Holy Sword’s damage, especially a terrifying gash on his abdomen that bled profusely. He was either severely wounded or dead, and he plummeted towards the ground far away, seemingly having lost all ability to fight.
And the figure holding the Holy Sword stood victorious, still shining brightly in the air.
Indeed.
The defeated Leo was “thrown” several kilometers away, falling to the outskirts of the Royal City.
…
However, just before landing, the wounds all over Leo’s body disappeared, and the large gash on his abdomen quickly healed. With a light flip, he landed steadily.
There, several high-ranking Wisdom Demons who had received the message earlier rushed forward to support him.
“Lord Leo, are you alright!”
Leo waved his hand, but soon turned his head and looked towards the King’s Tower in the distance.
Some of the Wisdom Demons who couldn’t hold back asked, “Lord Leo, why…why did his majesty draw the Holy Sword and attack you! You were so loyal to him…”
“Fools!”
Leo angrily rebuked his subordinates before they could finish. “Haven’t you realized his majesty’s intentions yet?”
“Heh!!?”
‘his majesty’s intentions?’
The high-ranking Wisdom Demon was confused, unable to understand the situation. ‘Didn’t his majesty stand with the humans and turn against Lord Leo, even injuring him badly? Hmm? Wait a minute.’
‘What about Lord Leo’s injuries?’
Even if that Holy Sword is a fake one, it still had some power of the former hero, and for demons, wounds inflicted by the Holy Sword were harder to recover from than other injuries, requiring a long period of recuperation. But now,
Leo ignored his subordinates and shook his head, gazing at Reji’s figure in the distance with a sigh. ” his majesty’s move was indeed brilliant. This way, that old ghost will likely place his full trust in his majesty and be willing to confide any secrets to him.”
“For his majesty, there is indeed no need for a Wicked Demon. Any secret can be revealed to his majesty, and if his majesty desires, he can always make others willingly divulge their secrets. But as for me…”
Leo sighed deeply, having tried to persuade Konstantin earlier, but the result was clear.
‘In fact, for the ancient ghost, confiding in a demon was a false proposition, it was impossible.’
‘But…’
‘His majesty had achieved it…’
It was only at this point that some of the high-ranking Wisdom Demons beside Leo seemed to realize that the whole commotion between the Demon King and Leo was fake!
It was all an act put on for the benefit of those humans!
To gain the trust of that ghost from a thousand years ago!
So that was it!
‘No wonder Lord Leo’s injuries healed so quickly, as his majesty had never truly attacked him. And Lord Leo was also remarkable; without much communication between them, he was able to instantly understand the Demon King’s intentions and skillfully cooperate.’
‘Was this the bond between the Apostle and the King?’
The high-ranking Wisdom Demons felt ashamed and inferior, and were touched by their previous suspicions and doubts about their king.
‘No wonder Lord Leo called us fools; we truly were.’
‘From now on, we must learn from Lord Leo and deepen their understanding of his majesty to keep up with his thoughts and actions!’
‘However, Lord Leo, who had been behind the scenes, had now been defeated, but why hadn’t the King sheathed the Holy Sword? Why did it seem like he was still in a combat state, or even…’
Not only did the high-ranking Wisdom Demons feel this way, but Leo himself felt it even more.
‘During our “pretend” fight, aside from acting, his majesty had also seemed to be…’
‘Warming up with him’
‘Hmmm maybe…’
‘The fact that his majesty hadn’t sheathed the Holy Sword proved my guess, but what came next was strange. Who was his majesty warming up for? Or rather, in the Demon King’s eyes, was there another opponent, one who was…’
‘A true enemy?’
The Wisdom Demons continued to speculate about Reji’s intentions.
In fact, they were quite right. Reji was warming up, or more accurately, he was accumulating layers of “Sword Momentum” with Leo.
With the power of the Hero boosting his originally weak foundation, he needed more than that to ensure a one-hit kill, leaving his opponent no time to react.
So he needed to accumulate the full 20 layers of Sword Momentum.
-The Holy Sword, once drawn, will bring the fall of a demon- Reji did not want to break this “Hero’s Quote” that he had once spoken.
So tonight, he intended to use the Holy Sword to strike down a demon.
Of course, it wouldn’t be Leo.
Reji looked towards the crimson light group that had drawn closer during the reconnaissance of the barrier but had not shown itself, intending to hide and observe.
‘There was no need to guess’
Reji already knew who this was. One of the “seven” Apostles in the royal palace had already been exposed when Reji discovered the presence of Apostles within the barrier.
There were nine Apostles, including Ulala and Dian. Who else could the extra one be, other than the one who was supposed to be in the Chaos Rift?
‘Wicked Demon, Lordan’
