Chapter 295

At the sight of the suddenly summoned retainers, the demons' mouths all fell open.

Each and every one was a frighteningly powerful retainer.

Even if they fought just two of them, they were beings that couldn't be handled alone.

But there were well over ten of them.

They were in deep trouble.

The one they thought was a knight.

To think he was a guy who commanded such retainers.

And only then did they realize.

“Th-that guy… is a-a monarch.”

“...L-like the Sword Saint?”

“No, he's weaker than the Sword Saint, but…”

The very fact that he was a monarch seemed to have greatly flustered them.

And seeing the demons overwhelmed by his presence, Seonghyun looked back at his retainers as if he were in a bit of a predicament.

Even with his swordsmanship and body greatly weakened.

Why?

As Seonghyun stood there quietly with a sullen look.

Helena, who quickly noticed, approached Seonghyun.

“Think you can handle it on your own?”

“Hmm, probably?”

“Then we'll just watch. Don't you want to experiment with the Galaxy Sword Dance a bit?”

At those words, Seonghyun nodded his head without realizing it.

He had been hunting with the Galaxy Sword Dance for the past few days.

But he hadn't done any definite experiments.

Should he say he hadn't even experimented with half of it?

So he thought this might be the opportunity.

As Seonghyun's eyes lit up like that.

The retainers took a step back.

To let their master's will be done, realizing his intention.

As the retainers took a step back.

‘...?’

‘They're stepping back?’

‘To let that guy face us alone?’

Foolish.

The demons thought so and let out a bitter smile.

If he had used his retainers, they would have died without being able to do anything.

If it turned out like this, wouldn't they be able to escape the moment an opening appeared?

Thinking that, the three of them looked at each other and nodded, and Seonghyun, who saw the demons, also smirked inwardly.

‘I can see right through their thoughts.’

He didn't have the superpower to read minds.

But to see their thoughts like this.

Seonghyun drew his sword as if he found it amusing.

A weakened body and weakened swordsmanship skills.

Also, his mana and health do not regenerate naturally.

How many opportunities would there be to test his skills in such a limited place.

Seonghyun slowly closed and opened his eyes.

Then, the galaxy was contained in Seonghyun's reopened eyes, just like Hindel's.

And the demons, seeing that, paid no heed and each took out their own weapons.

The demon who was Edian took on the form of a staff that rose from his own body, one of the other two became thick as if his whole body was made of iron armor, and the other's fingernails grew long and became twin swords, which he then wielded.

“Hmm.”

“Kikikikik. You're trying to put on a show with your weakened body and swordsmanship.”

“How foolish.”

“We'll make you regret not letting your lackeys behind you move.”

The demons shouted so, and the demon wielding the twin swords rushed in first.

He's quite fast.

To the point where it was a bit difficult to follow with his weakened body.

But as Seonghyun wrapped himself in the starlight-filled radiance.

His weakened body rapidly grew stronger, becoming no different from the demon's movements.

The demon wielding the twin swords was a little surprised at that moment.

But this much was as planned.

Thinking that it would have been a disaster if he hadn't been weakened, he swung the twin swords enveloped in demonic energy.

Hwoong! Hwoong!

A dull sound split the air, as if it was more focused on impact than expected, and Seonghyun, seeing that, swung his sword, his eyes shining with the color of the galaxy.

The sword, filled with a mysterious light like the bluish universe, shot out like a ray of light into the air and quickly struck away the demonic twin swords.

Chaaeng——!!!

A sharp metallic sound was heard as the demon's twin swords shot up as if deflected, and the demon's two arms also shot up.

As the demon, unable to overcome the force, opened his eyes in panic at the repulsive force that tried to lift him into the air.

Seonghyun gripped his sword again and took a stance.

And at the subsequent stance, which looked as if a shooting star was falling from the sky, the pupils of the demon wielding the twin swords widened.

“N-no.”

“Huuuu.”

The demon shouted as if screaming.

And as Seonghyun exhaled.

The sword shot out like a ray of light.

The sword, no, the starlight that shot out in a straight line, flew like a meteor and tried to pierce the head of the demon wielding the twin swords.

The demon wielding the twin swords, on the verge of having his head destroyed by a single moment of carelessness.

But in that moment, the demon whose body had become thick as if an iron wall had appeared.

Kagagagagagaga———!!!

A sound as if something sharp was trying to pierce through metal echoed everywhere, and fierce sparks flew from the iron wall demon's body.

The tip of Seonghyun's sword, filled with starlight, tried to pierce through everything, but the iron wall demon barely blocked it.

Kwazijijijijiji.

“Keuheuk.”

“Keuk.”

As the iron wall demon and the twin sword demon were pushed back greatly by Seonghyun's thrust.

Following that, Edian's magic filled the gap.

A magic circle made of demonic energy.

And from within it, Seonghyun could see the hands of rotten specters, rising from the evil demonic energy, blooming from the floor.

He also instantly realized that something would go wrong if he was hit by that.

‘It's riddled with demonic energy.’

Looking at those countless hands that he absolutely had to avoid.

As Seonghyun wrapped himself in a blue light and radiance as if wrapping himself in the Milky Way, he soared upwards with a mysterious tail like a comet.

Seonghyun, who flew up into the sky without using flight.

Looking at Seonghyun, Edian clicked his tongue, Tsk!

The hands of the rotten specters continued to rise as if they were stretching, but they couldn't reach where Seonghyun had risen.

The hands disappeared.

But the moment Seonghyun rose into the air, he fell to the ground like a single meteor.

And in that moment, the Milky Way was contained in Seonghyun's sword.

This time too, the iron wall demon tried to block him.

But from behind, Edian shouted urgently.

“It's dangerous!!!”

“!?!?!?”

“D-dodge!!!”

At the urgent shout, the iron wall demon belatedly moved out of the way.

And as Seonghyun descended upon that spot.

A fierce radiance erupted as if the surrounding space was distorting, and the Milky Way was in full bloom.

Kwaaaaaaa——!!!

Immediately after, an explosion occurred like a destructive meteor that destroyed everything around it.

The iron armor of the iron wall demon, who had not completely escaped from there, shattered.

Crack, creak.

“Keuheuk.”

“D-damn it.”

The Galaxy Sword Dance, which was their perfect counter, gradually wore down the demons.

But the creatures were still only planning to escape.

They looked at Seonghyun's retainers, not him, with their eyes shining brightly.

There was still no sign of them preparing or moving.

Seeing that, Edian sent a telepathic message to the other two.

-They still don't seem to have any intention of moving. We'll hold out a little longer and then run.

-No, is that even possible?

-...It's hard for me to block too.

However, despite Edian's opinion, the twin sword demon and the iron wall demon spoke as if they were skeptical.

A look full of fear.

But Edian spoke as if he were confident.

-Our hearts are here. We'll take them and teleport. We'll run away with our hearts in an instant.

-Th-then what about the demonic weapons?

-I-if we don't have those, we'll surely be punished by the great one.

-Fools! What's the point if we die!!!

Edian scolded the two for spouting foolish words.

And at those words, both of them came to their senses.

-Ah, I get it.

-S-so we just need to grab our hearts first and run away?

-Yes, that's right. We'll create an opening within that time as much as possible.

At Edian's words, the remaining two nodded their heads.

And Edian, looking at the two, laughed inwardly.

‘Fools, the moment you two are attacked, I'll run away alone.’

He had said it with the intention of abandoning those two from the beginning.

If those two grabbed their hearts first, they would naturally be targeted first.

If he took that opportunity and ran away with his heart, no one would be able to catch him.

Since there were none more adept at secrecy than the demons.

They were certain it would succeed.

At that very moment.

Seonghyun slowly walked out of the massive crater.

At the same time.

‘The momentum changed.’

Until just a moment ago, they had been rushing in with a killing intent.

That stance had shifted a little.

Catching that subtle change, Seonghyun narrowed his eyes sharply.

Thinking of something else right in front of him.

They were different from the other monsters he had fought so far.

‘Cunning.’

Even if they weren’t burning with fighting spirit.

He thought it natural they would at least consider a way to bring him down somehow.

But there was no such sign from the demons.

Seonghyun looked at them and shook his head.

Fine, try it then.

‘Do they think I’ll let them go?’

As Seonghyun slightly lifted his eyes, as if a bit angry.

The light of the galaxy blooming within them spread its radiance around.

And as light burst out around Seonghyun for an instant.

The demons couldn’t help but frown for a moment.

The blinding light made them fear they might lose their sight, and that was their fatal mistake.

In that instant, when Seonghyun appeared before the iron wall demon.

The iron wall demon, startled, grabbed at the air.

Then something appeared in the form of a black sphere.

Seeing it, Seonghyun instinctively understood.

That it was the demon’s heart.

As he gripped the heart, the iron wall demon’s shattered ironclad body began to restore itself, and his strength seemed to recover at once.

But in that moment, Seonghyun’s sword was dyed with the galaxy, dark blue, and moved like a constellation studded with starlight.

Stars formed in the air, and starlight linked the points between them.

The stars were the light thrust forth by Seonghyun’s sword.

And the starlight connecting them was the arc traced by Seonghyun’s swings.

Thus the Milky Way created countless constellations.

The beautiful constellations asserted their presence brilliantly and drove into the iron wall demon’s body.

“Guhk.”

His whole body was pierced, his entire form sliced.

There was no part left unscathed on the iron wall demon.

And among the places swept by the constellations.

Was his heart.

The heart, pierced clean through by the circular starlight, could no longer fulfill its role.

The twin sword demon felt a chill the moment the iron wall demon was struck, instantly dropped one blade, and likewise grabbed at the air to seize his own heart, now like a black sphere.

Then, unlike the iron wall demon, he tried to escape by teleporting.

At that moment, Yoosung appeared before him.

“...!!!”

Just as he was about to teleport away.

As the sword that warped space swung, wrapped in the galaxy, in a single instant countless strands of starlight bloomed like rivers.

Following the trajectory of the sword, it created a Milky Way and touched the body of the twin sword demon.

And then.

Scre————ch.

The light of the Milky Way split the twin sword demon's body.

And on that trajectory, his heart was also split in the same way.

“Ah…”

The twin sword demon could realize it in that moment.

That the mysterious starlight, like the Milky Way, had not cut him but purified him.

The demonic energy and the demon's heart were just swept away as if washed by water.

As the twin sword demon realized that and rolled his eyes.

There, Edian had already grasped his heart and was becoming blurry.

His intention was to escape across space.

The twin sword demon looked at the fleeing Edian and sneered, regretting his own foolishness.

‘...You'll get yours too.’

At the end of that thought, the moment the twin sword demon was also disappearing like the iron wall demon.

Edian tried to get out of there.

‘Thank you! Thanks to you, I…, huh?’

The moment he was about to run away.

He felt the teleportation slowing down for some reason.

And Edian could realize.

This is.

‘Teleportation… delay?’

The moment he realized that.

Seonghyun appeared in front of an Edian.

And with the sword wrapped in starlight, one of Seonghyun's swordsmanship skills.

A torrent of swords and blades bloomed.

Literally, a countless wave of starlight poured down like the Milky Way.

“Ah…”