Chapter 501

"I was able to arrive at Fort Mocna soon. My mind was complicated. What to say to Liana when I meet her, whether the command and purification work is going well. There were many things to ask and confirm. However, when I arrived, the atmosphere of Fort Mocna was beyond calm and was ominous. 'It seems like there is a problem.' '...It looks like it.' There were so many troops standing on the walls, to the extent of being suspicious of a battle. And, whether it was a premonition or a prophecy, a creepy feeling ran down my spine. I ran straight to the base and jumped over the wall in one breath. 'Ma, Your Majesty...' 'Rhine...Hart?' There were not only soldiers standing on the wall, but also Liana with a serious expression. She seemed surprised and guilty that I arrived at this timing. 'What's the situation?' 'I don't know...I don't know...' Liana's face turned blue. Olivia, who left to exorcise demons and spirits, was walking towards Fort Mocna in the moonlight. She was staggering and covered in blood with her hands. As if possessed by something, Olivia was approaching Fort Mocna from the horizon. Her ears were flowing as if the cold was rising from her whole body. Olivia has the ability of a sacred spirit. I know as well as anyone that Olivia has an innate resistance to mental interference or disturbance. But even Olivia seems to be dominated by something. It was not immune to such characteristics. The soldiers on the wall seemed to feel a strange horror at the sight of Olivia, who had left on a mission to exterminate evil spirits and purify them, returning in a miserable state. I don't know exactly what happened. However, Olivia is in a state of being dominated by something. Liana was staring at the scene with a stiff expression. Did the paladins and priests who went with her die? By Olivia's hand? 'I'll take care of it. Don't interfere.' '...Okay.' Liana nodded her head with a stiff expression at my calm command. I jumped off the wall and walked towards Olivia, who was approaching from the horizon with cloudy eyes. When she looked up at me, her eyes focused. Although she was far away, I could only read the negative emotions that were reflected in her eyes. A distorted face. Trembling lips. Fear. Anger. Hatred. Only such negative emotions were being read." From Olivia's body, a sinister energy begins to boil, and she looks at me with clear hatred and disgust in her eyes. Olivia is possessed by the pure god Tuwan's power and the opposing force, Kier's power, which she rarely uses. Has she been consumed by the power of corruption, having been devoured by the already dead demon? Olivia, wrapped in a new energy, takes a step forward, as if asking when she started stumbling. With a beast-like movement, Olivia rushes towards me in an instant. This is my first real battle since becoming a master class, and I never imagined it would be with Olivia, who was possessed by a demon. How did Olivia become like this? Can she come back to her senses? Can I do it? I was confused, but I have spent a long time honing my ability to find stability in chaos and fear. I take a deep breath, calm my mind, and focus. I compress and refine the flow of magic to the extreme, compressing the mana that is unnecessarily released to the limit, using it only to strengthen my body. I deflect Olivia's arms, which are covered in the dark energy that rushes towards me like a beast, with my bare hands. With a loud, eerie sound, our arms collide. "How dare you touch anyone like this?" I fiercely strike Olivia's neck. With a single punch, she flies out like a rock, rolling dozens of times on the ground. I can't use a sword, and I can't kill Olivia. "Kruuu..." Olivia covers her face with one hand and starts to moan. It was a grotesque cry. Red tears flow from Olivia's eyes. Is that the agony of the spirits that possessed Olivia? Or is it the agony of having to fight against her will? Or both? A common smoke rises from Olivia's body, and something resembling a human shape appears and disappears in the smoke. There are too many demons attached to her body, and it seems like her body can't bear it and is releasing them. Olivia's appearance was pitiful, terrifying, and sinister. I can't tell if Olivia is suffering or if the spirits are suffering. Translation:

"Ugh.... Ugh!"

-Kiaaaaa!

-Kurrrrrng!

As black smoke rose from Olivia's body and let out a loud wail, the grass in the wilderness was pulled out and a massive shockwave was generated.

"Die."

"Die."

"Die."

"Save me."

"Why should I?"

"I want to live."

"Uhuhuhuk...."

That wasn't all.

The shockwave not only created a gust of wind, but also gave me a strange hallucination that sounded like thousands of whispers in my ear at the same time.

It was only for a moment.

My head felt like it was going to explode.

While I was momentarily lost in the massive whisper, Olivia had reached me.

-Kwakang!

As Olivia's outstretched fist hit me, I could only be thrown back dozens of meters with a dull shock.

-Chiiiiing.

"......"

I blocked it.

Even though I blocked it, the area around my wrist where Olivia's fist hit was turning purple and dying.

Kier's power of corruption.

When I killed Laverier Lanche, I used the corrupted Tiamat to kill the one who constantly regenerated wounds.

Laverier Lanche, who was contaminated with the power of corruption, could not recover from the wounds and died.

Olivia, who uses Kier's power, tries to corrupt my body by breaking through my magical barrier.

-Uuuung!

Finally, I summoned Tiamat and concentrated holy power on the wound.

It's not impossible to recover, but it's definitely slow.

Kier's power suppresses Tuwan's recovery power.

My wrist hurts.

Olivia was strong from the beginning.

-Kkukkukkuk!

But now I felt like I was facing not just Olivia, but thousands of enemies who hated and resented me at the same time.

The hallucinations didn't stop.

Hatred and resentment that hit my ears, and screams of those who didn't want to die, confused my mind like a curse that had been cast on me.

I have to focus on the battle.

I have to subdue Olivia.

But I can't hear what I need to hear.

The pain that seems to paralyze my hearing and the resentment that confuses my mind as if it is invading my mind suddenly gives me a dizzying vertigo.

-Kkwaang! Kwakang! Jjeoeok!

Olivia's physical attack doesn't stop either.

An attack imbued with the power of corruption breaks through my defense and instantly rots my body.

If you use Tuwan's pure power in reverse, it becomes a massive power of corruption.

It was a corrupt power that seemed to decay just by touching the skin.

The reason I can withstand this attack is because of Tiamat's power.

Perhaps the demons attached to Olivia's body have also enhanced Olivia's physical abilities and Kier's divine power.

Olivia's divine power was originally strong, but not to this extent.

-Sseureuk!

"......!"

Tiamat, which was in my hand, disappeared and appeared in Olivia's right hand.

Olivia and I share Tiamat. A bizarre situation was unfolding where Olivia had taken the Tiamat I was holding. But that wasn't the end of it. A black lightning bolt struck from the sky, and the Tiamat emitting holy power transformed into a cursed demonic sword. Olivia, who held the cursed Tiamat, charged towards me. There was no time for a power struggle using Tiamat. I had to receive it with Alsvinir. I had reached the Master Class, and Olivia had not. I was different from the other Master Class members in that I could enhance my magical power with extreme efficiency, allowing me to output more power than other Master Class members with the same amount of magical power. In addition, I possessed overwhelmingly powerful magical power. However, the corrupt power of Kier was rotting my body in real-time. If my opponent was someone I could handle with that power, there would be no problem. I just had to kill them before it became a long battle. I couldn't kill Olivia, and if the battle continued like this, my arm would be destroyed, and it would be the end. The periodic wailing of the spirits hit my ears like a shockwave, not only physical attacks but also the power of corrupted divine power and the curse of souls. If I were an ordinary person, I would have gone crazy or died from just one of those attacks. I couldn't kill Olivia, but if I didn't, I might die. A distant echo came from the wind, "Kill the Demon King..." A group of knights approached on ghost horses. Death knights. They looked like they had just died not long ago. The holy knights dispatched for purification rituals had died. And they were resurrected as death knights by Olivia and the power of the spirits. Once, Olivia and I had fought hard against a death knight that appeared in the capital city of Levern, where the cultists of the demon god appeared. Over time, Olivia had gained the power to create such death knights herself. However, she was only using that power to attack me. Dozens of ghost horses rushed towards me. It was overwhelming to face even one of them at that time. Moreover, it was Olivia who had directly dealt with the death knight at that time, not me. Time had passed. Olivia had gained the power to summon death knights, not just defeat them. Translation:

I cannot compare myself to who I was before returning from Lijai, nor can I compare myself to who I was before going there.

"Ha!"

-Wooooong!

-Skuk!

Before the ghost horse could react, I cut both the ghost horse and the death knight at the same time. In an instant, what was once a paladin of Edina was reduced to nothing.

In the end, the eerie thought that I was only killing someone who was once an ally lingered in my mind.

I didn't just have to deal with the death knights.

-Kwak!

Olivia Ranche was still the real enemy I had to face.

I was thrown roughly to the ground by Olivia's momentum as she ran from behind and hit me. The shock wasn't too severe, but my side where I was hit hurt.

The shock wasn't the problem, but being close to Olivia would cause corruption to progress.

The death knights rushed in with eerie agility.

I stood up again and held Al's Bringa.

Al's Bringa is an object that lends strength when the enemy is stronger or more numerous than me.

I am stronger than them.

However, Al's Bringa still lends strength when there are more enemies than me.

With a sense of excitement, I tried to figure out how to break through the strange agility of the ghost horse rushing towards me and how to subdue Olivia.

-Flash!

The lightning illuminated the world.

-Kurururung!

The thunder tore the world apart.

-Kwakwakwakwak!

Lightning began to pour towards the death knights.

The flesh of the death knights, who had not been dead for long, burst out, and their bones, which could be considered their real flesh, began to burn and gradually turn to ashes.

When I turned my gaze towards the walls of Edina, I saw Rianna reaching out her hand with a distorted expression of despair, feeling as if I was killing an ally twice, no matter how much they had died and come back to life.

Rianna seemed to be feeling more than just that. She seemed to be feeling a greater sense of despair and guilt as she looked at me with eyes that had lost her comrades for a long time and had to deal with their humiliating deaths with her own hands.