Return of the Iron-blood Sword Hound Chapter 257

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Episode 257: Grave of Swords (3)

from cradle to grave.

The life of an iron-blooded swordsman and a hunting dog consists only of swords.

“The true Baskerville is born in the ‘cradle of the sword’.”

Bikir murmured something that everyone in the world knew.

… … However, the legend passed down within the family has a story behind it.

“The true Baskerville dies in the ‘grave of the sword’.”

It is a smudged writing that remains only as a faded mark on a page of an old, old history book.

An old myth that everyone thinks is just fiction.

However, the moment he discovered the ‘grave of the sword’, Bikir had a hunch.

Of the proverbs handed down in the Baskervilles, there is not a single lie.

Literally ‘from the cradle to the grave’. Baskerville’s roads are entirely made up of swords.

I realized once again that the iron-blooded sword was the fate of the hunting dog.

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Bikir walked up the steep steps inside the tower.

Steps, each sharp like an awl, towered high.

Ordinary people probably didn’t even know that these were stairs.

If the interior of the Mage Tower was mysterious, beautiful, and dreamy, the inside of this tower was terribly lonely, suffocating, and lonely.

Every time I took a step, I felt like my flesh was being cut off by strangely shaped rocks and stalactites, and unknown rusty swords embedded here and there.

Countless swords raised their sword points and glared at me. If it was a prosecutor with a sharp sense of humor, I could feel it more closely.

Tingling – Countless swords, sharpened gazes.

The higher you go up, the more you feel your entire body shrinking little by little.

Stairs worn down, hollowed out, and shaved, you have to take one step at a time to climb it.

If Bikir had not been a sword master, he would have died as soon as he entered the tower, let alone climbed the stairs.

Eventually, Bikir reached the upper level of the tower.

A landscape reminiscent of the ‘cradle of knives’ with countless knives stuck in it, but even more bloody and sharp energy filled the empty cavity.

… … It must be because of the man sitting on the throne in the middle of the common room.

An iron throne made up of sharp knives.

And there was a man in thick iron armor with a long gray beard.

Under the gray eyebrows, where the whites should be, there is empty darkness, and in the center, red eyes like the sun burn coldly.

The sharp, blade-like nose, tightly closed lips, and dark blue dead skin seemed to barely cover the skull.

The black heavy armor and huge greatsword he was wearing made the stronghold he was building look even more solid.

“… … !”

Bikir noticed the identity of this old man at once.

Cane Corso. Cane Corso Les Baskervilles.

Even Hugo, who killed all his brothers and rose to the position of head of the family, couldn’t do anything about it until the very end.

The existence that reigns supreme among the former seven counts and the current seven counts who have gone through the turbulent times of the reigning princes.

The common seven counts’ inaction lies somewhere between the top graders and the masters, but in the case of Cane Corso, this is absolutely not the case.

Although Cain Corso was Hugo’s older cousin, they were separated in age by more than one generation.

Even before he retired from the world of the past, he was already stronger than the sword master Hugo, literally the myth of the sword.

… … Is that why?

Cain Corso did not show his face at all family events, such as a grand banquet or a family meeting, and he refused all the entourage and knights that seven counts would normally lead.

He did not intervene in anything in the world, and in his later years erased all traces of himself and went into seclusion.

So, his whereabouts remained only in the literature, and the records were so unrealistic that even the direct descendants of the Baskervilles did not believe it straight away.

but. Even now, no one denies that Cane Corso was the strongest swordsman in the Baskervilles.

‘If my brother had been greedy for the position of head of household, I wouldn’t be sitting here right now.’

Even the world’s Hugo acknowledged this.

… … Meanwhile.

‘As expected, he was here.’

Bikir thought quietly to himself.

Before Vikir returned, Cane Corso did not appear in the world even though the age of destruction had arrived.

But there was only one thing that happened that would suggest he wasn’t dead.

Once, there was a case where numerous demons marched over the enemy and the Black Mountain.

The goal, of course, was to conquer the human world.

However, after crossing the mountain range and assembling, aren’t some of the legions that should have been gathered invisible?

The Demons and the Human Alliance hurriedly tracked their location.

And soon, a startling fact was revealed.

It was the fact that an innumerable number of demons had all died while crossing the Uuni Salt Desert.

Of course, salt storms and basilisks were present, but it doesn’t make sense that several legions were wiped out.

So, demon soldiers chasers were dispatched to investigate the scene.

… … However, none of the demons that entered the salt desert came out alive.

All who come here have gone missing or have only been found as shredded and dismembered corpses.

Even that was a difference that would only be discovered after being blown away by a storm.

So the Human Alliance concluded that something unknown, strong and dangerous existed in the salt desert.

As a result of the great heroes who raised raw meat and pondered for a long time, several absolute masters who retired from the world were cited as the cause of the incident, and one of them was Cane Corso.

‘… … Hugo must have guessed that a Cane Corso was here, seeing that one of the Baskerville hounds had died while delivering the letter.’

That’s why Bikir also visited this place today.

Hugo Les Baskerville, who is a sword master like himself and is learning the 7th Baskerville.

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And the Cane Corso, who is said to have transcended Hugo a long time ago.

Vikir is trying to find a way to overcome the Sword Master by meeting Cain Corso and getting a hint about the Baskerville 8th.

‘And I got the ghost tree with both sides.’

You can guess it by reading the book ‘The Return of the Hound of the Head of the Mado Family’. Wraith trees grow right here.

Bikir also knew that the Wraith Tree was in the Uuni Salt Desert due to his knowledge before returning.

It was because he personally saw the scene where Siere, the eighth city, was collecting the fruits of the Wraith Tree, which had grown to the extent that its branches hung outside the salt desert.

‘At that time, a huge number of people were sacrificed to prevent the Wraith Tree from being passed over to the demons.’

And by taking the lives of those sacrificed as manure, the tree of the dead grew bigger and bigger.

It was not enough to cover the entire desert, and the trees grew taller and taller than the entire Red and Black Mountains.

Its appearance was similar to that of the World Tree in mythology.

It threw innumerable fruits under the bare branches of trees that stretched out all over the mountain.

The lusciously hanging skull-shaped flesh was full of corpse flesh and ghost juice, and the sight of them hanging in clusters and swaying in the wind made it look like a line of hanging corpses.

The fruit of the wraith tree. Ghost Fruit (亡靈果肉).

When the devil picked the fruit and took a big bite, the thick sound-dimensional mana spurted out along with the blood-like juice, and at the same time, a high-pitched scream filled with pain rang out.

There is no way that the dead soldier (亡者兵), who was dying, will be completely crushed by biting into a bite of the ghost fruit.

The Wraith Tree gave tremendous power to the Demon Legion and at the same time became a disaster for the Human Alliance.

“… … .”

Vikir ended the flashback.

Sure enough, I could see something black behind the iron throne in front of me.

A throne made up of countless swords. The evil malice that grew up behind it.

That’s it. That is the ghost tree.

Other than me, it seemed that there was no other tree in the world worthy of being called the Wraith Tree.

A tree of ghosts that feeds on the resentment, screams, and grief of the living.

A skull-shaped flesh that contains the power of the dead and grows.

The sight of it stretching and climbing was grotesque enough to give goosebumps even to Bikir in the world.

It is still small, but over time it will cast a shadow that is thicker and bigger than any other shade cast in this world.

Meanwhile.

Cane Corso raised his head. And he opened her mouth in a voice heavy as lead.

[This is the grave of the sword. The place where those who pursue the ultimate of the sword will come for the last time.]

Inside the eye socket, where the white and black eyes are reversed, the red pupils of the old man stand out.

He seemed curious about Bikir’s youthful face.

[…] … hey what are you?]

Cain Corso becomes an older adult who is much older than Hugo, or strictly speaking, Vikir’s uncle.

However, Bikir had no intention of respecting the family law or the anti-war laws.

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That’s why I can draw the sword without hesitation.

“Find out for yourself.”

The only thing he was interested in was the road to Baskerville Type 8 and the two ghost trees behind the Iron Throne.

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