V2 Chapter 67
“Tch……….the hell. You're pretty much unscathed.”
The second prince smiled bitterly. *cough *cough *cough, red-dyed liquid continuously puffed out from his mouth, he wasn’t aware of how many times he had already been through this. In a great rush, he supported his body up with his hand, then sit up, hugging Ezra tightly, and weakly asked: “Hey, are you hurt?”
Ezra lifted up her face, using her strength to shake her head, her delicate face was already full of tears.
The Second Prince, once she had loathed greatly and looked down upon, one of the prominent leaders of the greatest threat of her race, humanity—now, his entire body was stained in blood.
As for her, apart from her original wounds that was now slowly healing up, she didn’t sustain any bit of injuries, didn’t feel any pain. She knew the reason why. She also knew that, if the Second Demon Prince was to leave her behind, he would have already escaped, but because of her, he diverted his power, diverted his concentration, even his arms he could only use one.
Never in her life had she ever felt so helpless.
At this very moment, she saw him, not one from a detestable race, and her a Hero from an archenemy but instead, just a normal man, a normal woman. In fact, she even seemed to have forgotten who she was. And all she could think of at this very moment was the man risking her life for her sake…
But, she wouldn’t beg him to leave her behind and just leave—
No! She won’t!
After all, it would be like trampling all he had done up until now!
And most of all…
Because she evidently knew that he wouldn’t do it, but instead he will be angry at her for sure.
If she was him, she similarly will not do it.
Therefore, she shut her mouth and swallowed her sobs, and just stared at the Second Prince. Her eyes full of complicated love and hate, she could not understand.
“That’s better,” The Second Prince smiled gratifyingly, then violently gasped for a few more breaths, then, calmed his madly beating heart down using the remaining strength to recover his injuries.
On his body surface aside from those evidently lethal cuts from the Great Demon General, the other was small and not worth mentioning—only look worse than it was.
The only problem that strayed outside of his expectation was the Great Demon General’s power, causing him to suffer terrible internal damage!
Moments ago when he used his full strength to pierce through the crowd, the injuries had worsened a lot and his energy had quickly diminished.
It seemed like he had relied too much on his powers and subconsciously, not intentionally, underestimated every people he had met and seen. Not completely understanding the problem of his current weak body. He had never met a powerful enemy before, and so he thought his body would be able to keep up as long as he has his Cheat abilities. But he was wrong--
Completely mistaken!
He was overestimating his body and underestimating the problem carried along due to his trash body.
His physical limits are starting to show, that it completely dragged down his supposed to be cheat abilities.
Even his reflexes and kinetic vision is already showing its limits, not able to catch up with the speed of his mind.
In addition, he had placed complete trust on his [Vector Body] to defend his body and attack, as well as [Night’s Eye] to mess with the opponent mind and vision to make them missed their target or divert their attacks from him. Although [Night’s Eye] powers were one of his Godly abilities, however, because of the Demon General’s power level much higher than him, its effect greatly diminished, just like [Vector Body], and thus, him being beaten quite badly…!
Truly… outside of his expectation…!
“Your Highness…you’ve lost so much blood…”
Ezra stretched out her hands, touching his chest and corner of the mouth.
The Second Prince smiled and said: “These were not my blood. Don’t be delusional; I’m not going to hurt myself because of you...! Though, if you want to sleep, then close your eyes and take a nap. When you wake up, we will already be in a safe place,”
“Liar……” Ezra gently responded with a faint, pained smile. Then, using her body strength to shrink herself back to his arms, she didn’t say anything anymore.
“Still have a time of flirting, are we…?”
The Second Prince eyes widened as he felt a gust from behind him.
Fast…! The Demon General had already just behind him before he knew it. Gritting his teeth, the second prince grasped Ezra’s body tightly and then, twists past the battle axe that seemed capable of manipulating strong vibrations, causing the air to create a strange eerie sound as if it was cut—
And then went for a roundhouse kick by twisting his waist. His body twisting in an impossible manner that the Demon General never expected…
Hence, due to his bad posture, the latter could only narrowly avoid the Second Prince attacks.
This time the second prince turned his body, avoiding all of the Demon General’s downwards wave of attacks produced like a rippling wave, crushing everything.
"Heh! I am not just only strong! Twerp!"
A huge air tearing sound came from the enormous battleaxe. In response to the sound, the impact of the menacing blade that looks like the moon destroyed the Second Prince foothold, creating a large fissure—at the same time erupting upwards. The Second Prince who was high up in the air kept his face that was full of tension, calm and indifference, completely ignoring the pain wracking his body.
Gritting his teeth, the Second Prince tighten his hold on black dagger and Clang! the black dagger and the enormous battleaxe collided with each other without making any loud sound, only a metallic ring. Afterward, the slender looking black dagger attached to the large moon-like blade of the battleaxe of General Profar, like a maggot on a wound, and diverted the battleaxe original trajectory.
The black dagger twisted itself in a circle a few times, and immediately transferred the momentum of the battleaxe cleanly towards the side, causing it to fall to the ground. Of course, this desperate action too almost caused his wrist to break and his entire arm got numb--too weak...!
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He endured the pain and fortunately, able to execute the move.
Boooom!
The blade of the axe head stabbed through the ground like a hot knife into butter. However, to this, General Profar’s face changed as he looked at the masked youth he was fighting with amazement.
Just now, he had been unable to control the movements of his own battleaxe. If it was repelled normally, he wouldn’t have been so amazed. But the fact that his battleaxe seemed to shift slight without its strength and power reducing and without any obstruction, was a first even for him…!
“What skill was that?”
The Great Lion Fang of the North asked with a look of disbelief.
“Taiji Sword…” Though, with dagger version~ The Second Prince answered nonchalantly, trying to appear unhurt and confident.
When it came to Taiji Sword, he wasn’t all that proficient at it. However, he had still been in contact with it enough times to understand the Taiji sword philosophy of “using softness to conquer strength” as it was a wonderful way of fighting against people with higher strength than his, back in Earth.
Taiji Sword has the principle of deflecting weapons. Now that he was not only weaker than his opponent but also in a state where his energy was all but gone now, the Second Prince was forced to use the Taiji Sword techniques that he wasn’t very proficient in to block the attack. Call about being desperate.
Well, at least he was able to, perhaps luckily executed the technique. of course, the shivering of his arm was coated by illusion he immediately invoked using his [Night Eye] as if not, it would be deemed as a weakness.
[Taiji Sword] is a kind of Chinese Martial Art that emphasized the idea of “using softness to conquer strength” in order for the weak to beat the strong. With the ability to deflect attacks in such a way, this would prove to be extremely beneficial to the Second Prince at this current moment. The only flaw was that the Second Prince cannot use a proper sword and instead of a black dagger with limited length. If he did, there’s a high chance that it might be discovered as the [Imagis Realis].
Besides, he also didn’t possess other weapons that can rival that of the [Raging Bull God], the beloved Battleaxe of the Great Demon General, which was among the strongest weapons existing in the world. It was not even that much inferior to his [Imagis Realis]. It was a rare Magic Weapon as well.
Well, not like it’s necessary as he was really not fighting for one last standing here…!
The moment he found a good opportunity, he would surely turn heel and escape this place without hesitation…!
It’s just that, it’s surely hard to find something like that, as demon elite imperial guards covered almost every direction. He was only able to last this long because he was fighting the Demon General, and with his pride and reputation, he wouldn’t ask for anyone’s assistance the moment he steps on the stage…
He was able to make use of this so-called warrior's pride to his advantage.
Thus, he could focus his attention on him alone…
Even still… this would not last long…
The General’s eyebrows creased together as he ran the word through his head. Soon after, he shook his head and said, “Taiji Sword, I’ve never heard of such a strange name or technique.” His eyes looked at the masked youth in a confused manner before laughing, “Bu twerp! Just what are you, really…? You associate yourself with that human, so I thought you might be human yourself… but why can I feel demonic aura coming from you…? Are you a demon…?”
“Who knows,” The second prince grinned. "Damn thing, also confused me."
If he couldn’t find any opportunity, then he should just create one…!
It was not the time to talk about the injuries already. The Second Prince took the initiative this time and jumped towards the Demon General.
Enduring the regurgitating blood from coming, he used his left hand gripping the black dagger to hit the Demon General’s stomach. Punching faster than the one before, he didn't mind even if his fist broke. He was reluctant to use the tip of the [Imagis Realis] due to the Demon General’s relationship with his sister, as he was certain that Demon General had surely look down on his dagger, and would never make any attempt to block and he was right—
This bastard didn’t even care about his coming, depending on his body’s defenses. If he had used [Imagis Realis] with the sword’s ability to [Penetrate/Severing All Creation], the Demon General would surely pay heavy consequences…!
He had never expected that the Second Prince’s weapon was the horrifying [Imagis Realis]—but still…
Giving a blow that was equivalent to a double-edged sword, the Second Prince self-mutilated to deliver a deep punch into the huge body.
“……！？”
A bitter voice slightly leaked out of the Demon General.
However, the Second Prince overrode the impact suffered from the reaction force.
Punching deeply into the abdomen, the Second Prince found out that there was a secret hidden in the Demon General’s body.
How heavy......! Definitely, not a body mass a three-meter body should have......!!!!
This freaking monster…!
The Second Prince fist could only generate a trace of movement.
“Nuu.....!!!”One step, the Demon General Lion Fang; Profar’s eyes widened as he felt an impact surging his body. This twerp…! The Demon General placed its right foot backward. His expression beaming.
“Indeed, you’re strong…!” The Demon General held the Second Prince arm in the latter’s surprise and held him down. Then, the Demon General raised his axe and swung it down, slashing the figure in front of him.
The Demon General grinned…
However, his happiness was short lived as the moment his axe cut the masked youth in front of him in half, he was not greeted by the expected blood and gore. Instead, he was hit by an explosion of wind…
“What?!”
Then, as the Demon General jumped back from panic due to the sudden development he couldn’t understand, a voice suddenly echoed in the surroundings—
“As the fire burns out and as the sun falls into the darkness, I summon thee, darkness of self, be blind me enemies and surround me self with darkness…!”
A Chant?!
Magic?!
He was a not just a mere warrior but a Magic Warrior...?!
The Demon General heard an incantation and immediately felt startled.
“Everyone fall—” Before he can finish his orders, black dust sparkled from his surroundings...
Bang, bang, bang, bang! Jet-black streams of smoke erupted around the Demon General and the surrounding Imperial Guards.
A long-range fascination magic quickly expanded to cover the entire area.
The darkness descended to above the General’s head and the surroundings became dark. His vision was obscured by the darkness. He was stunned for a moment, thinking it was poison gas or any cursed-like magic spell but after a few minutes of controlling his breath and trying to protect himself with his magic power, he noticed something odd.
This is…?
This is not a Poison Gas or anything!
It’s just smoke!!
It was not even an intermediate magic spell, much less a high-level composite magic...
It's a fucking basic magic spell that can't do shit aside from concealing people's appearance!
The Demon General roared in anger.
"Are you trying to stall!!" he cried from the center of the thick smoke. Immediately came the sound of the air being torn.
WHACK! A red light burst out in the swung battleaxe, dispelling the smoke.
The smoke faded quickly, once again restoring light to the world.
The Demon General hurriedly looks at his surroundings.
There was...
"... ..."
No sign of the masked black Killer.
"... ..."
The only one around was him and his surrounding guards.
"... ..."
The two figures; the human knight and the masked Killer are nowhere in sight.
“Damn it!!” The Demon General raged.
“They fled!” Because of the sudden development that caught him off-guard, he was too late to react and even thought the mist was a poison smoke and halted. Although it was just by a few minutes, it was already long enough for them to flee to who knows where.
“Find them!!! Find them all of you!!!”
The Demon General bellowed in anger.
This is a shame! He actually let two cornered mice escape from his palm?! Who was he? He was the Great Demon General of the Northern Imperial—
The Lion Fang of the North!
And yet, he was actually outsmarted…?!
The Demon General roared in anger, as well as shame…!
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