The Hero Disciple Is Back

68. The Conclusion of Two Supermen

“Ugh!!!!”

The sword of the swordsman aimed precisely at the mercenary king’s vital point. At that moment, the mercenary king had to quickly choose one of the two options: defense or evasion.

‘No defense!’

If you wanted to defend, you could, but doing so would consume too much aura.

‘Now is the time to aim for the ultimate strike!’

What was needed now was not the best blow, but the strongest blow, so the mercenary king decided to conserve his aura for that short moment. In order to conserve his strength, he chose the option of evasion.

Phew!

Knock! Knock!

Although he did his best to move to evade, the swordsman also judged that the mercenary king would save his aura in order to bring out the strongest blow, and calculated this by swaying his sword energy and expanding the range of his attack, causing a straight wound to appear on the mercenary king’s chest and causing blood to drip down.

‘It would have been dangerous if I had been just a little bit late! It really was dangerous! But I avoided a fatal injury! That’s all I need!’

But the mercenary king didn’t care.

What was important now was to exploit the gap left by the swordsman who could not immediately switch to defense, and that was the most important thing for him right now, and that was the only thing that was filling his mind.

“Eww!!!”

The mercenary king raised his right fist with a shout. It was a straight fist that seemed simple, but the enormous aura contained within made that simple attack sharper and heavier than any other attack.

‘Must be avoided!’

The swordsman made a quick decision. He could have defended himself by gathering his aura and swinging his sword, but he also had to conserve his aura and prepare for the strongest blow. That was why he tried to turn his head and dodge. However… .

Phew!

He ended up getting hurt on his cheek and shoulder. Up until now, he had just been swinging his aura around in a foolish manner, but he suddenly exploded his aura and attacked in a completely different way, so the swordsman gave him a leg up.

Whew!

As the swordsman swung his sword, the mercenary king stepped back. Blood dripped from the mercenary king’s right hand.

“I guess you did something unfamiliar.”

“Kuuu. You have to do whatever it takes to win against a monster. More importantly, you were clearly trying to hit me properly, but you dodged in that split second? This is a real monster.”

The mercenary king expected that he would inflict a greater blow, but in that short time, the swordsman sensed the crisis and failed to inflict more damage than he had expected by increasing the distance. The mercenary king could not help but think that experience was truly terrifying. If it had been another opponent, it was an attack that would have landed with great accuracy. The experience he had accumulated while walking the path of the sword to the point of being called the swordsman shone through at that moment.

Gulp!

“It’s poisonous. Poisonous.”

Blood flowed from the wound on his chest that had been cut by the sword spirit.

“Please stop the bleeding with an auror.”

“Shouldn’t that be what your father-in-law should do? He’s an old man.”

“That can’t be. Your aura is so heavy.”

“That’s what I meant. Do you know how sharp the aura of inspiration is?”

Both of them were bleeding uncontrollably from their wounds, but they did not try to stop the bleeding. They were both focusing their aura on their weapons, as if they were wasting their aura on stopping the bleeding.

“I think it would be pointless to drag this out.”

“I agree.”

In the end, if we drag this out like this, it will only lead to a meaningless war of attrition. In that case, we should decide the outcome with the strongest blow we can deliver. Both of us should express the same opinion at the same time.

That was the agreement reached.

At that moment, the arena began to shake as if an earthquake had occurred.

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“Shouldn’t it stop?”

The crown prince asked as he looked at the fierce battle unfolding before his eyes, and the two superhumans who were almost causing an earthquake. Warrior Sera shook her head.

“If we stop it now, the two of them will meet secretly and fight like crazy. Then one of them might get hurt… Should we stop it anyway?”

“Then that won’t work.”

The crown prince shook his head hurriedly. He had not known that the two of them would be this strong, but it was clear that they were both valuable forces to the empire. Therefore, the loss of even one of them would be a huge loss for the empire.

“But if something big happens like that….”

Since blood was already flowing out of both sides, both sides looked very serious to the Crown Prince, who had been born into the royal family and lived without getting a single wound.

“If it’s like that, you can recover quickly.”

“… So indeed, superhumans are different.”

“Yes, so don’t worry. If it seems like you’re going to cross the line, I’ll intervene.”

“… … .”

The crown prince had seen many duels in his life. Of course, there were also duels between superhumans. But none of them had ever fought a duel that was so thrilling. Despite this, the warrior was calm. As if he could really stop it at any moment.

‘I know I defeated the Black Sword, but…’

The crown prince had never seen it in person. The difference between seeing it in person and not seeing it in person was very big. So the crown prince knew that the warrior was incredibly strong, but… . It was impossible for him to accurately determine the extent of that strength. Furthermore, he was not a warrior. However, seeing those two fight, seeing the warrior who could stop those two at any time… . It was only natural that he felt different.

At that moment

Kwaaang!!!

Two people clashed.

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Chaeng! Chaeng! Chaeng! Chaeng!

‘This guy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’

‘This old man!!!!!!!!!!!!’

The two men glared at each other with fury as if they were enemies, and swung their swords and fists madly.

The reason why their eyes completely rolled back was nothing special.

Clearly, they must have agreed to end the match by sharing the strongest room… .

Because what I was waiting for was not a single powerful blow, but an unstoppable series of attacks.

That is, both of them were fake.

They were trying to trick their opponents into using their strongest attack, avoiding the attack, and then finishing them off with a series of attacks. The problem was that they both thought about it at the same time. As a result, the two of them exchanged series of attacks as if they had made a promise, and it completely turned into a fight to see who would lose their stance first or get tired first.

“Eww!!!!”

“Eww!!!!”

Both of them howled as if they would never give up, and quickly swung their swords and fists.

Fujik!

The wound on his shoulder that he had received from the Mercenary King earlier burst open and blood gushed out. However, the Sword Demon swung his sword without even blinking.

Chae-Ang!

Phage crackle!

As he was blocking the sword, the Mercenary King’s right gauntlet ended up completely breaking. In addition, a wound on his chest burst open and gushed out like crazy. The Mercenary King didn’t even blink an eye.

‘Now is the time!’

“Eurararararat!!!!!!!!”

He filled the gauntlet on his good left hand with aura and swung it around.

‘This attack cannot be stopped!’

The swordsman tried his best not to defend with his sword, but he judged that the current attack was dangerous. He tried to defend with his sword imbued with aura.

At that moment

Phew!

The moment the sword touched the mercenary king’s aura exploded, targeting a precise area.

Clang!

The last sword of the swordsman could not withstand that attack.

‘I finally made it!’

The mercenary king had been waiting for this moment. What he had been aiming for from the beginning was the sword of the sword demon.

Weapon Destruction, no matter how amazing a superhuman is, the moment his weapon is destroyed, he will inevitably be vulnerable. For a human, a weapon is like life, and the moment it is destroyed, a vulnerability is created, which is a truly instinctive result.

So, the mercenary king thought that the moment when the sword of the swordsman breaks would be the only chance for him to win, so he focused only on that moment.

And finally, I broke the sword of the swordsman.

So the mercenary king thought it was his victory.

and

That’s it

It became his ‘pain’.

Phew!

Knock! Knock!

Blood flowed from the swordsman’s hands.

The reason was simple.

The moment the mercenary king broke the sword

The swordsman quickly grabbed the broken blade as if he had expected it. And he put all his remaining aura into the blade. Since he was holding the blade with his bare hand and had not protected his hand, the blade cut through his hand without mercy, and as a result, he was covered in blood.

But the result

The broken blade aimed precisely at the neck of the Mercenary King. The Mercenary King also tried to defend with his remaining aura, but because of the unexpected situation, his aura was eventually pierced through helplessly.

Gulp

Blood flowed slightly from the neck of the mercenary king. Naturally, it was because the swordsman had adjusted it the moment he pierced the aura. A drop of blood was enough to prove victory.

“… It’s my victory, you punk.”

“… It is my defeat, Your Majesty.”

The mercenary king laughed and agreed.

Who would have thought that the swordsman knew that he was aiming to destroy the weapon, and that he was also taking advantage of the weapon’s destruction…? He was truly fooled. Even if he didn’t want to admit it, he had no choice but to admit it, since this was the result of playing around in the palm of his hand.

That he had become the stepping stone of the Sword Demon.

At that time, Sarah shot a small amount of aura at the referee who was absent-minded and forcibly brought him back to consciousness.

The referee hurriedly performed his final role.

“I declare that a new swordsman has been born!!!!!”