Overpowered Sword Chapter 248

Level up with swords (248)

It was a fact that no one could have guessed.

Regardless of affiliation or status, the people who heard Nex’s words opened their eyes wide as they couldn’t believe their ears.

Even Leon fell silent, at a loss for words.

It was a natural reaction.

Dragon.

It is a transcendental species that the entire continent remembers even though it has been several centuries since its last appearance. Monsters such as drakes and wyverns are classified as sub-dragon species, but compared to dragons, there was a bigger gap than goblins before ogres.

The size of an adult dragon can reach at least 50 to 100 meters, and its athletic ability is also ridiculous.

What about magical abilities?

The established theory was that the magic system currently used by modern humans originated from dragons.

It is also said that the breath released from the Dragon Heart, which contains inexhaustible power, collapsed mountains and tore open the sky, and defeated countless alien invaders along with the gods of old.

however.

‘… The archbishop of the evil church is a dragon?’

El Cid opened his mouth as if responding to Leon’s self-talk.

[Well, I thought so. I wasn’t sure because I hadn’t seen it in person.]

‘You’ve never seen it in person? A dragon?’

[No, the guy called the Archbishop. As for dragons, I met them a few times when I was active. Because his nose was so high, his fists often went out, but he eventually crawled around on his own.]

If it had just become an adult, it might have been an Ancient Dragon-level creature that even the Grandmaster could not treat lightly, but all beings standing in front of Roderick became equal.

Even the Demon King, with whom the entire world was supposed to unite, fell in vain without even giving him a scratch, so how can his dignity as a transcendent species work?

Leon was dazed for a moment after imagining that scene, but soon returned to reality and thought about what Nex had said.

‘It’s no one else, but the archbishop is a dragon.’

Speaking of the Archbishop of the Evil Church, he was a legendary being in the complete opposite sense of Roderick.

A world public enemy.

<The Archbishop of Exorcism> was a similar case, but as he was subjugated by the Holy Church or someone else, the people in that position kept changing, so there was no one who constantly accumulated notoriety like the Archbishop.

There have been countless discussions within the Holy Church regarding the archbishop’s identity, but the dragon was completely unexpected.

‘I heard that dragons are a species that fundamentally follows harmony and goodness, but are there people as corrupt as the Archbishop?’

[As far as I know, he’s the first in history? Because the transcendental species has a high original status, it is difficult to deviate from its nature. Why do dragons, who are supposed to be free from worldly desires, like gold and jewels and build nests to live in places with few people? It’s all because of nature.]

El Cid generously shared information about dragons, of which little remains from this era.

[To return to the main topic, dragons are born with the innate ability of ‘attunement’ regardless of their color.]

One of the characteristics of transcendental species, their innate ability, is completely different from that of elves and dwarves, who excel in a specific field.

Just as the Asura tribe has arms that can crush even space, just as the gangster tribe has the ability to move freely through the sky and water. This is a case where a person possesses abilities that cannot be imitated or acquired by other races simply by being born.

And the dragon’s innate ability was the power of ‘attunement’.

[Dragons can directly interfere with the natural laws of this world, rewriting ecological information, or controlling weather or geological changes. At Ancient level, it would be possible to change a barren desert into a flower garden or control the timing of a volcano’s eruption.]

It is an ability that puts you half a step into the realm of God.

Therefore, since ancient times, dragons have often been revered as messengers of God or guardian deities of specific regions and countries. They were the ones who played the biggest role in restoring the world that had been devastated by an invasion from another dimension.

It was also the duty of the dragon race to calm the distortion of the demon world and close the dimensional crack.

Only after hearing that far did Leon understand.

‘ah… !’

[Do you understand?]

If it were possible to close a demonic realm that even the goddess could not touch, then the opposite would also be true.

The foreign method that Morse used, including the <Dead Spirit King>, was only enough to briefly open the portal. Only the Dragon race’s innate ability, ‘Attunement’, could directly interfere with the Demonic Realm.

That was the reason why Roderick guessed that it was a dragon when he was alive.

Nex, who was lying on the ground, laughed, wondering what he thought of him talking to El Cid.

“I can’t help it if you don’t believe me, but this is all the information I have. Next, let’s find out for ourselves.”

Leon didn’t respond to that but just nodded.

He then took a few steps back and gave Lian space.

The only two remaining royal family members of Clyde made eye contact. From the fate to the ending, it was a fate that had nothing in common.

“I can tell just by looking at your face, little brother.”

Nex, seeing the expressionless Rian, smiled wryly.

“You and I are both children of that damn rapist.”

“Don’t rape… .”

“Are you going to say no? “I don’t know if the former emperor was a good father to you or not, but to me, he was a piece of trash who called himself noble but violated a woman of low blood.”

“I have no intention of denying that.”

“what?”

When a response different from what was expected came back, Nex stopped talking and looked into the eyes of Lian, who was not excited at all.

My blood, which had been boiling, cools as I look at it, which is as calm as a lake.

Lian looked down at his enemy, who had grown up in a completely opposite environment, and who he could not have considered a brother.

“I did not come to take personal revenge on you. As a member of the Clyde Imperial Family, I have a duty to clear up the sins of my clan and restore peace to this land.”

It was a completely different situation from the days when he barely escaped from the purges of <The Light Emperor> and hid in the academy to strengthen his power.

It’s not that there is no anger.

It’s not that there is no resentment.

However, Ryan was not controlled by those emotions.

“It’s not that I don’t have any grudge against you for killing my father, my brothers, and my subjects. “I feel like I want to cut out that tongue and eyeballs right now.”

“I don’t mind if you want to do it, right? “The nervous system is not properly attached to ectoplasm, so it cannot feel pain.”

Nex laughed and mocked him, but Lian just laughed and shook his head.

“What does torture mean to someone who can’t even feel pain? And I won’t be like you. There is a good precedent in the name of <The Light Emperor>, who fell to a place of no return while being swayed by resentment and hatred.”

“… … .”

This time it was Nex’s turn to keep his mouth shut.

“Brother, I will become emperor.”

Lian proudly declared while looking back at the ruins behind him.

Ecliptic Karelum.

Faced with the sight of a city that was the most luxurious and magnificent city on the entire continent just a few years ago, being brutally devastated, he said that he would overcome even this adversity.

“Even if I cannot survive as an empire and become king, I will not be reduced to someone who ruined everything like my brother. History will record the Emperor Guang, who caused this catastrophe, as the worst criminal in the empire. “People in future generations will say that my older brother, who inherited his blood, was a more terrible person than my father, who murdered my older brother’s mother.”

“Is that your revenge?”

“I am self-employed. “This is the ending of my brother who chose to become a perpetrator rather than remain a victim.”

“Don’t be ridiculous! “I have no regrets.”

Nex muttered that as if he were defending himself.

“It was the only way to get out of that bleak villa. No one tried to protect me, and everyone who loved me died at the hands of the beast called Father. “I just struggled with all my might against my unreasonable fate!”

“Then who should blame those who died during your struggle?”

“… that.”

When Nex fell silent, at a loss for words, Lian continued speaking as if driven by the shaking.

“Although your childhood may have been more cruel than mine, the choice to join the hands of the evil cult was probably your own. The time has come for him to accept his punishment.”

“… … .”

“I will no longer blame you, nor will I forgive you. “As a monarch, I can only give a proper judgment to one criminal.”

As Rian said that, he pulled out the sword from his waist.

With a swoosh, the night air is cut by the drawn blade.

The anticipation that spread along with that sound reached the nape of Nex’s neck, which was lying on the ground.

“Sinner, Nex Imperium Gladius von Clyde. I will confess your sins.”

Holding the blade to Nex’s neck, Lian recited his charges in a low voice.

It wasn’t just one or two things.

Even if all the punishments recorded in the Imperial Code were applied, there would still be more crimes. Lian’s voice echoed throughout the ruins of the White Palace for several minutes, and the aura on the blade became increasingly clear.

Nevertheless, the end finally came.

“For such a crime, I will judge the sentence that will be given to you.”

Ryan sentenced.

“It is a beheading. “Would you like to object?”

“… … .”

Nex did not respond for a moment and looked at the night sky.

It was a scene that was no different from what I saw when I was young.

If there is one thing that has changed since those days.

“… is it.”

Nex closed his eyes and slowly opened them, looking up at the blade pointed at his neck.

The facial features of the young man holding it were clear.

A face and eyes that were even more hateful because they resembled those of the late emperor, similar to those I had seen so many times in the mirror. The face of Rian I saw for the first time, letting go of everything,

“do whatever you want.”

Nex just smiled obnoxiously, without saying any words of apology until the end. Unlike himself, who was born with desire and hatred, his younger brother was blessed with love and glory.

I thought I would not be able to tolerate its existence until I die.

I only found out right before the end.

That it was all a vain illusion.

‘I thought the thing called blood ties was cut off when my mother was murdered.’

If it weren’t for their father, who wouldn’t be angry even if he killed them a hundred times, the brothers might have been able to have a good relationship in their own way.

Nex closed his eyes while thinking that.

From beyond the darkened field of vision, there was the sound of the wind cracking.

and.

Wow!

The head detached from the body and rolled on the ground.

Ectoplasm never spewed out anything like a spirit body or blood that imitated the physical body. The concept of critical points was also unclear, but it did not mean there was no damage.

Nex’s body, which was already on the verge of collapse, began to disintegrate into small pieces starting from the beheading.

From the tip of the toes to the severed head.

In less than 10 seconds, the ectoplasm that was Nex dissolved into thin air without a single piece remaining.

“… … .”

Lian looked down at the sword body, which did not have a single drop of blood on it, and then turned around with an expression that even he could not understand.

‘Is this the end?’

Could there have been a better ending?

Lian, who couldn’t see the future, had no way of knowing. He just walked this far, barely supporting the reality that was thrusting before his eyes with his two shoulders.

Just like Nex, who held Morse’s hand while trapped in the villa, Lian also chose the option she thought was best.

As a result, Nex died, and he lived.

‘This should be enough. Okay, this is it.’

There was no way for the two half-brothers, Nex and Lian, to tolerate each other. If the only possible ending is tragedy, it would be right for the evil one to fall and the guilty to be punished.

You have to believe in the ending you came up with.

I have no choice but to believe it.

The path that Rian must walk from now on is not to show weakness to others.

‘Lian Imperium Gladius von Clyde.’

This was the name that the God Emperor of the Clyde Empire should have given himself.