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🕑 Added 2025-04-12 05:10:59 +0000 UTCEP.39 Don't... abandon me, Eugene...?
Thud thud thud!
"T-This!! Damn it!!"
The yellow-haired man's expression twisted as he was taking an impressive forward step using mana footwork,
The cave floor was relatively soft ground
And when Eugene swept it with his enormous greatsword
A considerable amount of dirt flew at the yellow-haired man, obscuring his vision.
Whoosh!!!
Feeling his setup had worked, Eugene immediately leapt out and swung his greatsword at the yellow-haired man,
Clang!!
As a result, a savage impact sound burst out inside the cave.
'Tch, he blocked it.'
However, despite the grand impact sound, Eugene's expression was not good.
Sword had clashed against sword.
If it had been a Sword Runner's sword, Eugene's heavy greatsword would have broken through the sword and sliced the body,
But the yellow-haired man's sword was a Sword User's sword, so it had some mana reinforcement and withstood.
Boom!
"Guh!!"
However, the yellow-haired man,
Unable to withstand the repulsive force created by Eugene's huge body and weighty greatsword,
Flew back and collided with the opposite cave wall.
"Come here Jeanne."
Thud!
Rustle rustle!
Though he failed to finish them all off, Eugene had succeeded in temporarily incapacitating two Users, so he had secured enough time for regrouping,
He embraced Jeanne and moved her to a place where she could lean her back against the wall.
"Mmm..."
The moment she leaned against the wall, Jeanne seemed to regain consciousness slightly.
'Jeanne's getting a fever, I need to end this quickly.'
More precisely, her body was starting to ache because of the rising fever.
Jeanne's complexion had turned pale and cold sweat was pouring out.
Her lips were also getting lighter and their color was worsening.
Crack...!
After reassessing Jeanne's condition like that,
Eugene turned back towards those guys again and took an attack stance to bring about the conclusion of the battle against the Sophists.
'But this is something...'
At that moment,
Eugene, who had turned the first chapter that had passed like a storm, became focused on something.
'An unfamiliar feeling inside my body.'
It was a reaction to a considerable sense of discomfort felt in his body.
'My mind is clearly maintaining a calm state, but my body feels excited to an abnormal degree. Is this excitement?'
A disconnect between mind and body,
Eugene was exuding killing intent just thinking he had to save Jeanne, but maintained his composure.
And in the continuing battle, he was in a state of smoothly dominating the opponent.
But his body felt like it was heating up as if in a panic,
Especially since that heating up didn't seem like the usual tension and belligerence,
Eugene has a sense of déjà vu that his body may have undergone a sudden abnormal change.
Eventually Eugene came to vaguely sense a clue about what was changing his body's state.
'Blood...'
It's blood.
'The blood of the Sophists killed by my greatsword.'
Their heads split by Eugene's greatsword.
The blood of the Sword Runner Sophists who died with their abdomens pierced by the thrown sword, pooled on the floor.
'Could it be that my body is reacting to that blood?'
As it entered his field of vision, Eugene could feel the strange excitement inside his body surging even more.
"Well... Is this thought I had just in case becoming more and more correct?"
Thud, thud, thud,
As Eugene detected the abnormal changes occurring in his body like that,
The white-haired man who had gotten up at some point gradually walked towards Eugene and Jeanne.
"You, are you really mixed with demon blood?"
Despite experiencing an overwhelming difference in power,
The white-haired man's face became even more stained with madness.
With that appearance, the white-haired man looked at Eugene and mentioned demons.
'Demon... blood.'
Until now, Eugene hadn't paid much attention to the white-haired man's other words.
But it was the word demon that he heard at the point of recognizing his body's situation,
So Eugene showed a more agitated state of mind than at any other time.
"Not only immune to the crimson shaman's debuff spell, but also impossible movements and combat appearance that defies common sense, kukuku that bastard's body isn't normal, we shouldn't face someone like this cleanly either, hey Lucas take the drug!"
Swish!
Meanwhile, Eugene's exterior showed no sign.
But as if not caring about Eugene's reaction,
The white-haired man spouted madly and pulled out a drug vial from inside his armor pocket.
"I've already taken it out, Jason."
Pop!
The yellow-haired man Lucas also took out a drug vial and opened the lid.
Then the two Claymores drank the contents of the drug vials in one go, and
"Guoooooh!!!" "Uoooooh!!"
They clutched their heads as if screaming and howled like beasts.
'This is dangerous!'
Jason and Lucas roaring after taking the drug,
Eugene's eyes flashed at the ominous feeling he got from them.
Fwoosh!!!
So he stepped into a dash to launch a preemptive attack taking advantage of the gap in the opponent's posture
Whoosh!!
Eugene's greatsword swung vertically towards the white-haired Jason,
Clang!!!
But that attack missed and struck the floor instead.
"!!!!"
Eugene's eyes widened immediately after striking the floor.
Stab!!!
'Already?'
Because Jason had not only avoided Eugene's greatsword
But was already stabbing towards his nape.
Jason's physical abilities had increased incomparably to before.
Swish!!
Eugene ducked his head to make Jason's thrust miss.
Fwoosh!!
Whoosh!!
Then he stepped back using mana footwork while simultaneously
Rotating his greatsword continuously to completely block the opponent's approach and tried to secure a safe distance.
Thud!
That movement worked and Eugene stopped about 5m back after shaking off Jason's follow-up attack.
"Hah..."
But soon Eugene's expression hardened slightly with a low sigh mixed in.
Fwoosh...!
"Kuhehehehe... I can see your psychological state of panic, and the appearance of your pounding heart shaking because of it."
Because Jason was emitting intense red eye light while opening his pupils that had turned into four-wheel eyes.
'He has red eyes like a demon,'
Even to Eugene, who has demon blood mixed in, it was clearly an appearance reminiscent of demons.
"But you're certainly a suspicious one, you should show an even more startled appearance when seeing us who have taken the drug."
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Lucas, who had become the same as Jason,
Started walking to the opposite side of Jason to carry out a pincer attack.
Lucas's appearance with red eye light flashing and red and purple blood vessels starting to stand out all over his face,
It was like seeing the appearance of the continental hegemon era when demons settled in the Iskandal Eternal Snow Mountains
When the demon god's demonic energy was surging.
'But they're not demons.'
However, Eugene asserts they are not demons,
And Eugene's hardened facial expression
Sufficiently matched the reason why Lucas was reacting with a tilted head.
Because Eugene Schneider seemed to be feeling some familiarity
Rather than being startled enough to be taken aback by experiencing an unidentified subject.
'They just look like demons and can exert abilities at a certain level like them,'
As if something was being drawn before his eyes,
As if reading memories that were coming up,
Eugene Schneider went on to define the strange phenomenon before his eyes.
'Yes, I've already seen beings like this before. I definitely saw them. That face that confronted my past self in that form, strangely only that face won't come to mind.'
However, Eugene, who had been drawing in his mind,
Suddenly felt like he hit a huge wall.
It was because the root of the memory had disappeared.
While clearly knowing what that appearance stained with madness, killing intent and murderous desire meant,
The origin of that memory that made him know it wouldn't come to Eugene's mind.
To express it precisely, it felt like it was struggling not to stand at the forefront of Eugene Schneider's thoughts
As if intentionally cut off like scissors.
"Kukuku! I was going to just taste some blood moderately, but my body in this state can't be satisfied with just that. I'll cut off one of your arms and legs each, violate that woman and kill her. Then I'll slaughter the rest of your comrades outside too."
Swish...!
Drip...!
Jason took a charge stance and deliberately slightly cut his cheek with his sword.
The dark red blood flowing down because of that,
He was showing the desire of a murderous demon who simply couldn't suppress the urge to kill.
"Give me your blood, black-haired greatswordsman!!!"
Fwoosh!!
Murderous demon,
Jason charged in with his eyes flashing like a mad dog that had tasted human blood.
'Yes blood, our house turned into hell with blood and dismembered corpses.'
Then Eugene looked at Jason's madness-filled appearance with unfocused eyes
As if he had grasped something.
'The blood-colored murderous demon who discovered me.'
Because he was seeing something different from the scene before him.
Eugene's gaze was one of gradually restoring part of the memory that his subconscious had desperately struggled to keep from surfacing.
Clang!!!
At that moment, the sound of metal clashing echoed through the cave,
Eugene, who had been standing blankly without even taking a stance,
Had somehow moved his greatsword to block Jason's sword.
'My father, Ulysses Schneider.'
Eugene's gaze looking at Jason before him with regained focus,
And the recovered root of memory were together.
"Kukuku! Now you're showing good eyes again!"
Jason had been somewhat disappointed that Eugene Schneider's killing intent had subsided after his and Lucas's transformation.
But not only did he perfectly receive Jason's attack with his physical abilities greatly increased through the drug's power,
When Eugene flashed eyes full of murderous light again, Jason raised the corners of his mouth in satisfaction.
Thud!
"A struggling prey is more fun than one with a stupid expression, huh?"
Then as he was about to change his footwork to engage in full-fledged attack and defense,
Jason's eyes widened.
Crunch...!
"What the hell, are you crazy? What are you doing, you bastard!"
Because Eugene had grabbed the blade of Jason's sword with his left hand.
"If I just pull it out, your fingers will be cut off and blood will burst out! Fuck! You won't let go? Won't you let go of this?"
Jason, who took a stance to retrieve his sword with a somewhat flustered expression despite pretending to be confident,
But his sword didn't budge from Eugene's grasp and Jason's momentum eventually crumbled.
Then an even more mind-blowing situation unfolded.
Crack!!!! Clang!!!
Eugene's left hand finally broke Jason's sword that he had been struggling with.
"!!!?????"
Shock, the mad dog's eyes lost their identity and widened.
Because the sword with Sword User's mana projected and reinforced
Was broken like a wooden sword by a hand wearing gauntlets.
"I'll give your sword back."
Stab!!!
Towards Jason's shoulder which had stiffened because of that,
Eugene stabbed in the upper part of Jason's sword that he had just broken.
"Guaaah!!!"
A miserable scream burst from Jason's mouth.
Fwoosh!!!
"Fall back Jason!!!"
Then Lucas on the opposite side belatedly used mana footwork to close the distance.
Thud!
"Worry about yourself, idiot."
Eugene, recognizing the situation, kicked Jason with his left foot to send him flying and
Swoosh!!
Immediately stepped mana footwork to slide towards Lucas.
"No chance!!"
Swish!!
Lucas, whose specialty was zigzagging and changing left-right directions,
Predicted Eugene's current straight attack,
So he stepped 90-degree rotation mana footwork almost as if he had been waiting to catch the angle.
Thud!
Eugene, watching that appearance of Lucas, responded without difficulty as if countering with his unique beast-like athletic ability.
Eugene Schneider who suddenly stopped his forward step like that,
Took a stance to swing his greatsword towards Lucas who had moved to the side.
'You monster! But this is a situation where you can't put your full strength into it, you bastard! I'll block this and go for a thrust on my side!'
Even Eugene's monstrous reaction speed was somewhat within Lucas's range of prediction.
Especially if he could break Jason's sword barehanded,
If Lucas tried to fully receive Eugene's greatsword, his sword would be shattered miserably.
So he induced a structure where Eugene's power would be reduced,
And based on that, he aims to block Eugene's first strike and then go for a killing blow.
Whoosh!!!
Eugene's greatsword swung horizontally, cutting through the air,
Swish!!
Lucas raised his sword towards where Eugene's greatsword was coming, according to the roadmap he had made.
'What... is that!!!!!'
At that moment, Lucas's expression became one of doubting his own eyes.
Fwoosh...!!!
Eugene's greatsword that started flying in quickly,
A faint blue haze was emanating from the entire greatsword.
'Sword aura???????'
Sword aura [劍氣].
It was clearly the phenomenon of mana being externally manifested through the sword, known as sword aura.
Crack!!!
'Sword, Expert!'
The symbolic technique of Experts, called second awakening,
Among even awakened ones, it is the realm of the chosen.
Lucas clearly saw the scene of Eugene Schneider's greatsword full of sword aura, who had become a Sword Expert,
Shattering his sword as it came in.
His gaze was like one whose heart and soul spurting blood had been taken away after being entranced by the demon god's black fire.
Slash!!!
With that expression, Lucas's head was separated from his body
