Overpowered Sword Chapter 178

Level up with swords (178)

Meanwhile, Leon and Karen finished talking with Guild Master Lugo and entered a bar on the street at night.

The core area of ​​the Kingdom of Jugend.

Even in Area 1, the so-called ‘Heart of Steel’, entertainment facilities were bound to exist. Even dwarves who enjoy swinging a hammer more than three meals a day will have their motivation cut in half if they are told to give up drinking and meat.

When resting, you must rest properly.

The dwarves, who realized the truth through long experience, invested generously in recruiting skilled brewers and chefs. This was because the skills of the dwarves who specialized in metallurgy were not very good.

As a result, Jugend’s food and alcohol became more delicious, and the blacksmiths who pounded their anvils day and night visited the bars on the street instead of their stale beer.

“welcome! Are you two?”

Karen responded immediately to what the employee said.

“Yes, it’s just the two of us.”

“I will take you to the third floor. Do you like a quiet place?”

“I think it’ll be fine as long as it’s not noisy.”

“All right. Please follow me.”

The two people who went up to the third floor were guided to a window seat with a clear view of Area 1’s nightlife.

A blacksmith shop whose lights do not go out even in complete darkness, the sound of hammering faintly echoing from afar, and even the voices of customers bragging about themselves while intoxicated.

Youth’s night, which knows no silence, is noisy beyond the window.

Leon and Karen looked at the night sky for a moment, then ordered a few dishes and started talking.

“It’s a noisy place day or night.”

“They say it’s even worse when you challenge Jugendstil. “I heard they couldn’t sleep in their dorm because of the hammering noise.”

“It’s not a city worth visiting as a tourist destination.”

Leon, who was chatting about an insignificant topic, looked away.

This was the direction where Area 1’s church branch was located.

Karen saw where he was looking and said.

“Do you care about Ella?”

“I think they’re waiting for us.”

“no way. The Cardinal said the same thing. It will take another week to maintain the sacred law machine. “If I go back now, all I’ll see is two people moaning, right?”

“… “Maybe so.”

What she said was true, but her intention was different.

In this case they were too busy.

Whether in the desert or the grasslands, the two were often apart, and it had been quite a while since they were alone together like now. It was already a headache as the number of competitors kept increasing, so Karen planned to use this gap to slow down as much progress as possible.

“Anyway, I didn’t expect you to catch up to the adventurer rank so quickly. “If you only look at the promotion period, I think it would be worth aiming for the youngest S rank.”

“Now that I think about it, Karen is still A-rank, right? She has enough skills and achievements to become S rank. Is she intentionally not challenging herself?”

Karen nodded her head in response to Leon’s words.

“Well, that’s right. “Because there is nothing to gain except fame.”

Before she was an adventurer, she was an assassin, and she learned the ‘Run Dance of the Dusk’ and redefined her fighting style.

A martial art that specializes in killing at first sight.

Oui, which focuses on speed, stealth, and eccentricity, loses its power as it becomes more famous. In fact, the capabilities of the assassin whose main weapon and tactics were revealed were treated as less than half.

So, from the time she was working as a “gwan keeper,” Karen killed her targets while thoroughly concealing her true intentions.

“If the hero’s identity is revealed, it won’t mean much if I hide it, but until then, I’m going to hold on for a while. “Someday that day will come, but I also think it would be better to hide it.”

“is it?”

“That’s right! I later found out that it was my performance. Wouldn’t it be much cooler to have it recorded this way? “Don’t you know this emotion?”

“well.”

Leon, who was about to say, “It seems like something a phantom thief would do rather than a hero’s party,” barely managed to keep his mouth shut.

Because someone’s romance is something that must be respected.

It was that moment.

[Hmm?]

El Cid made a strange sound.

‘El Cid? what’s the matter?’

[Oh, what an interesting sight. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a guy this crazy about swords? He is not aligning the sword with himself, but aligning himself with the sword.]

‘… what? no way.’

[That’s exactly the theory. I was curious as to how useful he was because he was talked about as ‘Sword Demon’, but there is nothing lacking in that title.]

For El Cid, who criticizes most people, this is a very high evaluation. As soon as Leon understood what it meant, his face hardened.

This was because I realized what it meant that Cedric, who was supposed to arrive tomorrow, was already a stone’s throw away.

Karen, who saw the change in expression, also spoke seriously.

“what’s the matter? “Did you get a bad feeling?”

Leon answered those words honestly.

“The <Sword Demon> is approaching.”

“what? now!?”

Karen, horrified by the unexpected words, looked away as if something had just occurred to her. She was heading in the direction where the large clock was hanging. She was telling me that the date had changed a few minutes ago when the hour hand went past the number 12.

At the same time, the senses of both people were distorted.

There is no sense of malice or murderous intent at all, but the ‘territory’ extends with the feeling that there is no intention to give range.

He is an Auror Master.

“No, it’s past midnight, so it’s tomorrow? “They said I was crazy, but I was really out of my mind!”

Karen gritted her teeth fiercely as she felt the presence of a sign getting closer in an instant. She didn’t even expect her to be polite, but this was a level of brutality that she didn’t even have common sense for.

How dare you approach me in the middle of the night with the intention of an open fight!

“-I feel sorry for being such a crazy person. “I am also conscious to a certain degree, but I don’t have much patience.”

It was right after that.

As if responding to Karen’s curse to herself, the man who came up the stairs looked at the two people in turn.

‘Is this person the <Sword Demon>, Cedric…? .’

Leon also faced Cedric and examined him.

As a rule of thumb, my height is around 185cm.

Although his physique is not thick, he does not look thin either, and his center of gravity, which is as straight as an awl, is threatening. Ultramarine blue eyes shining bluishly beneath blue-black hair.

The hilt of the sword hanging at my waist clings to my right palm, clanking as if it might be pulled out at any moment.

“It seems like you are the subject of my review.”

said Cedric, looking him up and down.

“I’m sorry for interrupting your secret meeting in the middle of the night, but I can’t wait until the sun rises today. I’d like you to start as soon as possible. “Are you okay now?”

To Cedric, this situation was like throwing a bloody piece of meat to a starving animal.

I want to bite.

I want to eat it up.

The sword that was about to be pulled out by that explosive impulse was somehow suppressed with his right hand. If Leon had answered ‘I don’t like it,’ Cedric would have shot him immediately. It didn’t really matter to him even if he had to deal with two people at the same time or even if he ended up dying.

But Leon did not reject it.

“Well, that’s good. Instead, we move locations.”

Cedric calmed down for a moment at the positive answer.

I didn’t know how long it would last, but somehow I was able to hold on. It is better to fight with all your might under mutual agreement rather than forcefully starting a fight.

My taste as a <Sword Demon> soothed my writhing impulses.

The three people left the bar and disappeared into the night.

In search of a place where the two sword masters could clash, they moved to a quiet place.

* * *

After passing through the streets at night, the three people eventually reached the church branch located near the center of Area 1.

Thanks to the pass they received from Irexana, they were able to use the training hall even in the middle of the night, so Leon and Cedric were first relaxing their stiff bodies in the wide open space.

Cedric looked around and spoke in an emotional voice.

“Hmm, is it a religious order? A long time.”

It was a place where I experienced the bitter taste of defeat about 10 years ago, but I was able to become stronger by continuing to reflect on that experience.

A faint smile emerged from Cedric’s unkempt beard as he looked back at old memories.

Nevertheless, Karen did not let down her guard.

‘Here, if that guy threatens the warrior, Ella and the Cardinal will be able to intervene right away.’

Karen was convinced after seeing him face to face.

〈Sword Demon〉, Cedric was a madman.

It was clear that he was going to cut Leon to death regardless of the circumstances, so he was dragged to this place to prepare for that eventuality. If things went very wrong for her, she planned to buy time by launching a sneak attack herself.

I wonder if he doesn’t know the intention, or if he just thinks it’s good.

Cedric didn’t know what to do, but he was happy to feel the presence of the four people closer.

Sreung.

Cedric finally pulled out his sword, let the tip hang down to the ground, and looked at Leon as he spoke.

“This is the best time in years. you?”

“Everything is perfect.”

“good night. “Then there is no need to say anything more.”

Let’s get started, Cedric raised his sword.

Leon also faced him, raising his holy sword to its middle finger.

‘… … ‘Ugh!’

At that moment, Leon felt the pressure of being surrounded by hundreds of blades from all directions. As soon as he came face to face with Cedric, he instinctively felt threatened.

It wasn’t an auror or telekinesis.

I am overwhelmed by his abilities as a swordsman. An intuition that is almost like a precognition of the future, that if he competes with sword techniques, he will be defeated even after hundreds of moves, makes Leon retreat.

“A power struggle from the beginning wouldn’t be fun. “Let’s start with the stabbing.”

Cedric said with an innocent smile.

He loved swinging a sword and didn’t know what to do with it. It was a face befitting the nickname of a sword master. Before the goosebumps that crawled up Leon’s back could subside, they started.

One step.

Cedric casually entered Leon’s gap.

Keying.

An unmanned vehicle whose gap is violated reflexively intercepts the enemy. Leon’s reaction did not deviate from common sense either.

Straight thrust.

The sword strike from the shortest distance is aimed at Cedric’s neck. The two swordsmen slashed each other’s afterimages at a distance of 2 meters, catching the swords fired faster than sound with their sword blades.

If the range of weapons is equal, a martial arts confrontation is not much different from a siege. The defending side can have an advantage over the attacking side in terms of power consumption and number of battles.

however.

Kaaaang!

The sword that struck like a thunderbolt simply bounced off, and Leon, who was stabbed through the gap, retreated a step.

Without missing it, Cedric’s sword follows suit.

Like a viper, like a swallow.

As the flow and trajectory change several times a second, Leon’s eyes become irritated to the point of stinging. As soon as I can block the stab aimed at my forehead, it cuts my throat. As soon as I dodge it, it switches to a lower slash.

A chain of sword strikes that is difficult to follow even with 〈Anbeop〉.

‘Damn it, I can’t escape! The level of perfection of the sword technique is on a different level!’

Even though they are not inferior in both speed and strength, when they clash with swords, there is a clear difference between superiority and inferiority. Leon’s sword strikes were cut off sharply no matter how hard he tried, and Cedric’s sword strikes seemed like they were roughly piercing, but they were threatening every time.

A few strands of hair flew from the blade that barely grazed his bangs, and Leon took a step back again.

Otherwise, my head would have been blown off in the next sum.

“Haaaaaab—!”

However, just as Cedric was about to take another step forward, Leon rushed forward as if going against the flow.

If you lose in a battle of numbers, you have no choice but to break the game.

For the first time, Cedric’s sword snapped and was pushed back, and Leon took a step forward. If the advantage of defense was efficiency, the advantage of offense was momentum. Just as advancing is faster than retreating, the attacker can exert more power than the defender.

Whoops!

Cedric, who had received John Howe’s sword, took two steps and grinned at the sensation of his hand throbbing.

good night.

As soon as he realized that he was losing in sword skills, he found a solution in terms of tactics, and his physical ability was much stronger than expected. It was a long time since I had met him, and he was an opponent worthy of a proper fight. As the blood boils, the body heats up like a piece of iron ready to be quenched.

On the contrary, a few drops of cold sweat came out from Leon.

‘strong. When it comes to swordsmanship, he is at least two levels higher than me. Even if you catch up with your eyes, you get lost in the big picture. Even though my physical ability is actually higher, it’s so one-sided… !’

It’s not called ‘Sword Demon’ for nothing.

Only then did I understand what El Cid had said.

If Leon swings his sword by moving his body, Cedric moves his body by swinging his sword.

Although it is a bit different from the union of body and sword, in a way, that method was also a point of achievement. An inhuman spirit, skills trained through struggle, and the embodiment of madness that treats one’s own body only as a tool to wield a sword.

Cedric, who used that calmly, smiled.

“I think this will be enough to warm up.”

A blue-gray aura bloomed on Cedric’s sword.

The aura is solidified like metal without a single bit of disruption, and the power that has reached the realm of materialization is fixed on the blade.

〈Auror Blade〉.

It is an Aura Master’s privilege, and a means of absolute destruction.

In response, Leon also raised his holy sword.

Wooooow.

Although it was not as grandiose as when it clashed with Nephren Ka, the sword body swirling with brilliant light and heat drove out the darkness around it and activated the ‘Guardian’s Stigmata’.

Although small and feeble, this brilliance is truly the sun.

Leon-style Aura-Blade

Sun Sword

Solaris

Leon, holding the sun sword in his hand, rushed towards Cedric.