Chapter 95: Battle to the death in the Silver Palace
Gull Farion, Alek Kallman III, Reida Reia and Badigadi with the God of Fighting armor.
They were all gathered here with the sole purpose of killing me, I could take them all on by myself, but I don't think I can even take on Bagidadi with Rudeus, we need Orsted, and we need him now.
That was what I thought as I sent mana to my communication ring, Orsted had said to activate it in case something bad happened, but even I thought I wouldn't need it, if Badigadi wasn't here I wouldn't be as nervous as I was now...
"Shit! Rudeus!! Get Ariel out of here!" I shouted as I got into a combat stance.
But there was no response, in front of me was Gull Farion and Reida, although she looked just as confused as I was.
"Gull, so you've fallen so low as to side against Princess Ariel" Reida muttered slowly as she unsheathed her sword.
"Heh! This is more personal, but if you want you can try to attack me, although I'm not the Sword God at the moment, I'm still at my best" he said with a smile.
"No... right now we're on the same side" she muttered as her gaze turned to me.
The other nobles were completely in shock, those who tried to get up were cut in half by Gull or Reida, Ariel had run as fast as she could with Triss and had taken refuge behind Rudeus, but he had bigger problems, Alek was giving a stupid speech while mocking Rudeus, I hadn't seen Sylphiette for a while and that was starting to worry me.
"What are you doing there waiting? Didn't I teach you that the one who attacks first is always the winner?!" Gull shouted.
I took a deep breath, I can handle them, I can do it, they are nothing to me.
I closed my eyes, inhaled deeply, crouched slightly and... with one jump I closed the distance between me and the two divine rank swordsmen in front of me.
It happened in less than a thousandth of a second.
Reida couldn't even follow my movements, his arms were just lifting slightly, he hadn't even realized that I had moved.
With a long sword of light, I cut Reida's throat cleanly, his head was still stuck to his body, he hadn't even processed that he had died.
I turned to Gull Farion, he saw my movements just barely, but he was still trying to intercept the attack that was going for Reida, his arms were exposed...
I closed my eyes and opened them again, I made a decision.
With a clean cut, both of Gull's arms flew out, his eyes widened, the feeling of pain still hadn't reached his brain, I quickly jumped and grabbed his sword and Reida's and returned to the place where I had been before.
The sound returned, the color returned when I stopped moving, the momentum of my attacks finally reached the two swordsmen.
Reida's head flew several meters and his body fell to the ground with a dry sound.
Gull's arms also fell to the ground as his face contorted in pain and he gave a heartbreaking scream, like a huge bear that was wounded as he fell to his knees.
"Gull!!!" Alek screamed as he looked at me with anger.
"Fuahahahaha! So the rumors are true! You are the youngest Sword God I have ever seen" Bagidadi shouted from the hole in the wall he had made.
The guy hadn't even entered, he was waiting outside, analyzing me...
"Alek Kallman lll!!!, I challenge you to a duel! Accept it or die!" I shouted pointing my sword at him.
His face turned into surprise but he put on a manic smile.
"Hah! Sword God Gino Britzs accepts!" he said as he got into an attack position.
I looked at Rudeus, the guy looked totally scared, behind him were Ariel, Luke and Triss equally scared.
"But with one condition! While this duel is going on, let them go!" I shouted
Alek looked at me confused and scratched his chin thoughtfully
"Very well! The Sword God has given all of you a few more minutes of life! Be grateful!" Alek said in a mocking tone.
Without waiting any longer, Ariel and her group left the room at full speed, at this rate Orsted will arrive... I can win...
...
"Tell me something Alek Kallman..." I muttered
"What are you doing here? Are you plotting against Princess Ariel?!" I shouted
"Eh? No! I'm here because I was promised that Orsted would be here! I've killed all the remaining superds, and now it's Orsted's turn!" he said in a proud tone.
"The remaining superds!?...What do you mean?!" I asked.
"Hah! Those demons were taking refuge in the kingdom of Bihereil, it was easy to find and kill them!" he declared.
"..."
I was completely shocked at this, by this point Ruigerd should already be in that village, that means...
I tightened the handle of my sword to the point that my hands turned pale as I tried to control my anger.
"Tell me... Who told you that?" I muttered with murderous intent.
"Ha! That would be me, boy!" A familiar voice said from the table where the guests were.
Some nobles lay dead, others fainted and some were hiding under the table, but there was one who remained impassive.
Prince Grabel...
The guy had a huge smile on his face as he stood up from his seat, he showed me his right hand and with one finger he pointed to a ring, he took it off and...
"Damn you little bastard..." I muttered angrily.
In front of me was Gesse Nukadia, he was dressed like a noble and looked at me with pride.
"You don't seem so clever now do you?...Next time you kill someone, make sure they're dead" he said and put his hand into his robe, from it...he took out a sword with a red blade and a white staff and threw them to the ground.
They were Ghislaine's sword and Roxy's staff.
"Did you think that with your current power it would be enough?! No one betrays Hitogami and comes out victorious!" he shouted but the words did not reach my ears, I could only look at the sword and the staff on the ground...
I don't even remember what happened, literally anger controlled me.
It was as if I were a spectator of my own body, I could see what was happening but I couldn't control it.
First I reached Gesse at a speed I had never reached before, everything around me turned black, I even surpassed the speed of color.
With a simple slash I cut Gesse in half, I didn't stop there, I reached where Gull was writhing, I planned to try to make him reconsider, but now I can't, with a slash I also cut off his head, then I went towards Alek who barely had time to react
(claaank!!) the sound of ours resonated throughout the place.
"What's wrong Sword God?! Are you mad?! Let me tell you that your wife Dedoldia was a thorn in my side!" he said with a smile.
"Raaaaaaaah!!!" I let out a guttural scream as I thrust my sword towards Alek.
"Ngg..." he made a sound of effort as our swords clashed.
Seeing that this wasn't working I crouched down and aimed for his ribs, he couldn't react in time and I cut him in half.
I didn't stop there, I cut off his head, I cut off his right arm and his left arm until they turned into ground meat as well as his legs, I didn't stop there, no matter how much I cut him he would revive, so I kept going and going, I don't know how much time passed, but I even used fire magic to burn the flesh, it was too fast, I had done too much, I didn't care, nothing mattered to me anymore, if everything these bastards say is true, I don't even have a purpose to live anymore.
When Alek's flesh turned to ashes I wanted to stop, but my body couldn't. I looked behind me, there was only one imposing figure that stood out from all the others.
Six arms, at least three meters tall, and he was approaching me quickly. I didn't hesitate for a second and I lunged at him. I threw a long sword of light at him with all my strength. My arm hurt. I had never put it through so much effort, even now. My attack reached him...
It made a slight cut on his armor, on his chest, where I had aimed. The force of the attack made him stagger backwards. I didn't stop there. Because of the momentum of my attack, I crashed into the wall. I didn't know that I had broken in the process, but I didn't care and I lunged at him again.
My target was now his legs, because of his momentary loss of balance, he was staggering backwards, but I didn't care, I again threw a long sword of light at him, directly behind his knees, the blow was accurate, but I felt like hitting a wall, but in my case, my sword was a hammer and I was able to make my way through.
Again the momentum made him stagger and now he fell forward on his knees.
"Fuahahaha! You're very strong!" He shouted as he tried to stand up, but I didn't let him do it, now I stopped halfway, turned 360 degrees and lunged at him again, again at his chest, but Badigadi realized this, with wind magic I changed my trajectory in the air and rose, one of his right arms was exposed.
"Graaaaaah!" A turn in the air my sword headed for his arm.
(claaaank!)
The sound of metal hitting echoed in my ears, I gritted my teeth in pain and anger when I saw that my attack did nothing to him.
His armor had a slight dent but nothing more, I wouldn't beat him like that.
"fuajajajaja!, my turn!" he said and threw three arms at me at once.
I barely had time to use my sword as protection, the sensation was the same as when I was run over by that truck before dying.
Unfortunately my sword couldn't bear it and broke under the weight of the attack, with this the three fists hit my body and I was sent flying, crashing into a wall at supersonic speed.
"bleggh!!" When I crashed into the wall, an intense pain ran through my entire body, it was so much that I even tried to scream in pain, but instead of a scream, blood came out.
I was practically embedded in the wall, I couldn't breathe.
My head hurts, my arms hurt, my feet hurt, I feel like my internal organs are collapsing.
"S-shit..." I muttered as my vision blurred and I fell to the ground with a thud.
"Stay proud, you're strong" Badigadi said as he approached me, I could barely move my arms and tried to search under my robe for something that could help me.
The king level magic circles! I've only used one of the three that Orsted gave me...
With this thought in mind, I unfolded the circle and placed it on my chest.
Quickly a feeling of immediate relief invaded my body, it's as if all the pain before had only been a dream, I even felt stronger than before.
"Wow! Humans have really become resilient!" Badigadi said as he approached me at a slow pace.
"..."
I looked around, my sword had broken, I hadn't brought my father's sword with me, I had lost sight of Gull Farion's sword, the only sword available was Alek's...
"I guess it's time for you to say goodbye..." Badigadi said, he was already close to me.
With water magic I created a smoke screen between him and me.
"Hah! Useless tricks" he said and began to hit the ground where I had been, one more second and I would be mush...
I ran at full speed to the point of skidding and with one hand I reached for Alek's sword.
It was heavy, about a meter and a half surely, and an immense feeling of power overwhelmed me completely.
Badigadi came out of the smoke screen and stopped to look at me.
"Hah! That sword won't make any difference!" he shouted as he lunged at me.
I started running again until I was behind him...no!, I have to give him a precise blow!.
I started running further back, until I reached the end of the room.
"Now what are you planning!!" he shouted as he searched for me.
"...in my right hand a sword" I muttered as I raised the sword above my head.
"in my left hand a sword, with this blade I will claim hundreds of lives, I am the Sword God Gino Britz!!" I shouted.
The next moment everything around me began to float as did Badigadi.
"Whoaaa!, what the hell is this!!!" he shouted as he twisted in the air.
"Haaaaa!!" I shouted as I lowered the sword to the ground.
The building around me collapsed, Badigadi was thrown to the ground at the speed of light and I felt half of my mana being drained in an instant.