Paladin of the Dead God
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chapter-175-1
The moment Isaac faced the angel, he abandoned any thought of holding back.
Even angels do not underestimate their own kind.
Survival required his utmost effort from beginning to end.
The Colors Beyond, pulsating like a river, quickly enveloped Isaac and the Green Knight. The Green Knight felt the aura of the colors surrounding him and ignited a fiery gaze within his helmet.
“You creature of chaos! How dare you reveal yourself before me!”‘…That’s somewhat a pleasant reaction.’
The angels Isaac had encountered so far had either tolerated him or even attempted to ally with him, unlike this clichéd and rigid response from the Green Knight, which was almost welcome.
It might be a characteristic of Elil, but an enemy is an enemy.
To kill the opponent and to survive oneself.
Isaac liked the simplicity of that.
Rrrrrrr!
The Colors Beyond summoned by Isaac enveloped the surroundings like mist and surged towards the Green Knight like a giant serpent. However, the physical force within the colors was insufficient to even scratch the Green Knight’s armor. Even the illusions and hallucinations whispered by the colors failed to affect the angel.“Stop your trivial tricks!”
With just a roar from the Green Knight, a huge hole was blasted through the mist of colors. Isaac leapt through that gap. His goal was to obscure the angel’s vision, even if only slightly.
Crack, crash! The Eight Branches of his sword techniques ferociously tore at the Green Knight.
The leaves of his wings fluttered wildly, scattering in all directions as Isaac’s sword energy roared viciously.
However, the moment the Green Knight swung Kaldbruch horizontally, the ‘Eight Branches’ created by Isaac’s sword energy were shredded into pieces.
Isaac was thrown back a great distance by the shockwave.
‘Insane.’
He had braced himself, but the overwhelming power was still daunting. Fortunately, he managed to inflict a wound on the Green Knight’s armor. The energy embedded in his sword energy could injure even an angelic being of Urbansus.
But no matter how much Isaac’s swordsmanship had improved, defeating an angel of Elil with swordsmanship alone was a tall order.
‘He’s summoned here. Sending him back should suffice.’
Cedric was knocked out, and the Green Knight, a mere Basic Angel, only utilized the power imbued in Kaldbruch. His purpose was strictly to protect and serve the user of the Holy Sword. He wouldn’t engage in a fight to the extent of damaging the Holy Sword, so if pushed to a crisis, he would revert to his basic function.
‘If I can just hold out until then.’
But the Green Knight wasn’t simply waiting around while Isaac pondered his next move. Without any warning, the Green Knight swung Kaldbruch.
A gust of wind surged. In that instant, Isaac felt hostility from all directions.
Everything seemed imbued with a murderous intent towards him.
The suffocating murderous intent was not a point or a line, but a sea. Isaac was already drowning in it. Simultaneously, the swirling winds and leaves began to batter him.
“Cough…!”
Even a mere leaf carried enough lethal intent and sword energy to kill Isaac. Without his armor, he would have been minced within seconds. Within this overwhelming sensation, Isaac activated a Crystal Tombstone Fragment.
With one wrong step potentially fatal, Isaac mimicked a series of movements. There was no time to practice or refine, nor did he understand the philosophy or aesthetics behind them, but with the power of the crystal ring, he perfectly replicated the movements.
Sometimes, an imitation surpasses the original.
Crack. The Colors Beyond powerfully contracted around Isaac’s body and then exploded outwards.
Blurb-blurb-blur. The Green Knight quickly brought down Kaldbruch, blocking the storm of sword energy.
The Colors Beyond around Isaac bristled like a thousand spikes of a porcupine, instantly imitating Cedric’s advanced sword technique. His sword energy punctured everything around imbued with malice, causing the winds to halt and the leaves to scatter to the ground, shattered.
‘Damn.’
The colors collapsed again into a liquid before rising as mist. Isaac looked down at his trembling hand. Imitating the shell of someone else’s advanced sword technique without fully integrating it into his own was still a strain for him. Only with the aid of the Colors was he able to use it successfully.
Isaac’s eyes flashed. The Green Knight, sensing Isaac was about to act, saw him charging forward honestly once more.
The Green Knight had already gauged Isaac’s level. His accomplishments were impressive but not on par with himself, an angel. Yet, he did not let his guard down; beings of chaos always revealed the unexpected.
Thus, when tentacles burst forth from the scattered colors like vines reaching up, he was not surprised. The tentacles grasped and pulled at the
Green Knight, trying to tear him apart.
But the moment the Green Knight fluttered his leafy wings and swung his sword, the tentacles exploded.
“How dare you insolently oppose an angel of Elil!”
“The insolent one is you.”
Isaac gritted his teeth and swung the Luadin Key amid the bursting and severing tentacles.
“I am an Agent of Chaos!”
However, the Green Knight had already severed all the tentacles that tried to bind him. He sneered at Isaac’s arrogance as he brought down Kaldbruch, aiming to cleave Isaac’s head. The Luadin Key was a powerful relic, but it couldn’t match Kaldbruch.
A force capable of splitting both the Luadin Key and Isaac in half surged forward.
Boom! The blade of Kaldbruch cleaved through Isaac’s left arm.
“…!”
–TL Notes–
