THE ADVENTURER OF EDEN
4.12 "Experience Shiki and Knight Leonard vs. Berserk Knight"

Shiki fought fiercely with the Berserk Knight. Although originally he could only dodge every powerful attack from the seats of the two Holy Knights.

(Too big! Every blow and swing of his sword was too strong!) Thought Shiki, she was a bit overwhelmed. Of course if he wasn't fast, he would have been over.

The Berserk Knight swung his greatsword again and Shiki held it back with both of his black blades. The powerful force, accompanied by the "crazy" magical energy of the Berserk Knight sent Shiki into a tailspin.

"Gee!" Shiki hit a tree fast until some of them collapsed, causing him to be hit by several trees directly.

It was still better that way than being hit directly with his greatsword, because Shiki had both of his powerful black blades "Hassaikai" being so powerful.

"Where's Leonard?!" Shiki was irritated, the red-haired man had not appeared since earlier.

The Berserk Knight darted to Shiki, who saw every possible human attack of the berserker. There were three possible directions of Berserk Knight attacking him, a sloping swing, a sideways swing and a loud blow.

Among the three possible lines that Shiki saw, the sideways swing was the brightest and made Shiki jump over the attack in a few seconds.

Shiki retorted from above, one of his knives releasing a blue light that turned orange like the horizon; "Highest Time! Horizon Slash!"

TRANGS! The swing of one pitch-black blade was tightly restrained with the Berserk Knight's greatsword. Shiki did not make him thrown, because his opponent's physique was very strong.

Then Shiki served the Berserk Knight in a melee fight, he attacked with his two black blades, clashing several times and fiercely.

Under normal conditions, two knives would not be able to match one of Sir Rackham's great swords. But "Hassaikai" were not two ordinary black blades, they were both strong and sharp black blades.

"Tempest!" Shiki uses "Tempest" to make her faster and more agile.

As soon as it dodged the Berserk Knight's greatsword, the leaping Shiki spun upwards throwing an attack at the fairly powerful Berserk Knight.

"Large Cutting Wind!"

That one crushing attack hit the Berserk Knight until it was slashed and fell; "GAKH!"

Leon appears with his red sword, Durandal. "Impressive, even a Berserk Knight is unable to match you in a melee fight!" leon praised Shiki.

"Why are you so long, damn it?!" Shiki's pissed.

"Shut up! You can't beat him without me!" Leonard was also exasperated, then said again; "Because Sir Rackham is almost impossible to defeat without stopping Madness Enhancement."

"I know, he's like it's endless. Reminds me of the Minotaur that attacked Guildtown back then." Shiki replied. Despite the obvious difference between them, the Minotaur did not have the "mind" of a Berserk Knight.

...

Hibari takes Albert away. "Sorry, Knight Hibari. I'm troubling you."

"No, you're a standout knight, Albert. Your bravery is the reason why you're in the thirteenth seat right now." Hibari replied, smiling and she carried Albert away.

The two of them reached the city of Rouf, and when they arrived, the soldiers told the two of them; "Count Erick left this city?!"

Hibari is upset, of course knows where this Erick went, which is to the place where Sir Rackham was.

...

"Backham!!" Erick's shout appeared while Berserk Knight was also willing to fight Shiki and Leonard. Both of them were shocked; "Count Erick?!"

"Erick... Erick... ERICK!" The Berserk Knight shot towards Erick.

"Damn!" Leonard jumped to save Count Erick, the sword strike could have killed a human easily.

"Why are you even here?! You're adding more weight!" Shiki is upset with Erick.

"I'm sorry, but I'm still.." said Erick, he asked the two of them; "..Why can Sir Rackham still be saved?"

"can't. Even if Leonard's plan succeeds and Madness Enhancement disappears, the old Knight's body will deteriorate and self-destruct inside." Shiki explained that.

"Truely, that was the effect of Madness Enhancement being used for far too long. There must be a reason why Sir Rackham couldn't even stop Buff himself." Leonard replied.

Erick was silent, he had guessed because it was as if Rackham's body was being controlled by Madness Enhancement.

"There's no other option to kill him, but now it's up to you, Leonard." Shiki took a step back, and handed it to Leonard.

"I know, Hibari's ready to accept any risk if anything happens to me." The red-haired man prepared with his sword and Shiki used his strongest Buff.

"Maximum Tempest!"

Shiki releases Buff the strongest wind, with Leonard instantly sucking it out and using it.

"Maximum Tempest!"

Berserk Knight darted at them, Shiki took Count Erick away, with Leonard clashing strongly with the Berserk Knight; TRANG! resisting the incredible swing with Durandal with all his might.

Leon felt pain from both directions, while resisting the Berserk Knight's powerful thrust and the effects of using the Maximum Tempest.

In a few seconds, he would lose for these two reasons, yet Leonard swung Durandal, dropping the Berserk Knight's greatsword.

With a close distance, Leonard began to suck the strongest Buff.

"Suck Madness Enhancement! Durandal!" Shouted Leonard, then his red sword glowed and sucked that purplish magical energy into his red sword.

"Gghhh...!" Leonard felt the pain of Madness Enhancement's magical energy he could feel from Durandal draining it at him.

"GAGH!!" Leonard screamed in pain and Shiki cried out in panic; "Leonard!"

Within a minute, Leon released his magical energy suction and his entire body was in a painful state for him. However there was still a slight remnant of Madness Enhancement magical energy, and Sir Rackham swung his greatsword and Shiki repelled the attack.

"What a good one, Leonard! The rest leave it to me!" Shiki said that, and Rackham looked at Shiki, with her weak gaze, she was quite surprised. "You..."

Shiki attacked Rackham again, he was still able to fend off with his greatsword. Shiki released the Wind Cutter, and released it in large quantities.

"Wind the endless cutters!"

"!!?" Rackham was startled and repelled some of those attacks with his greatsword. But some hit some parts of his body, wounding him quite deeply.

Rackham remembered what had happened to him, while dealing with someone named "Odin", he was defeated easily, the man was a mage capable of activating his opponent's magic and was able to seal it. Rackham couldn't believe there was a mage like that.

Once Madness Enhancement is activated and locked. Rackham rampaged without a care in the Great Port, resulting in the collapse of that largest port and killing many people without him noticing.

(Ah, so that's what happened. It was truly a disaster, ) thought Rackham, as he began to surrender with every Shiki attack that hit him.

"Backham!!!"

Back then, Rackham heard Erick's voice, the only sound he could hear. The voice of his sidekick, someone he considers to be his younger brother.

(Erick.me.) thought Rackham, as he heard Erick tell Shiki to stop attacking Rackham because he was already harmless.

Shiki complies, and sees Erick approaching Rackham. Shiki also hears Hibari's voice calling out to Leonard who is lying behind Shiki.

"Jeez, Leonard..." Hibari saw Leonard's situation was quite bad.

Shiki was annoyed, but Leonard was prepared with these consequences from the start. "Leonard..."

"Shiki, help me get Leonard into town. We should take him back to the capital immediately." Hibari told the young man with black hair, Shiki nodded in understanding.

Shiki sees Erick and Leonard. Erick nods at her as a sign of "hand this to me" and Shiki understands, she goes from there taking Leonard to Rouf city with Hibari.

...

"You okay, Rackham?"

"I couldn't have answered "well" after everything that happened." Rackham smiled in surprise. "I thought I'd be dead in a few minutes..."

"My whole body was about to explode, my heart was pumping blood very quickly. Although the magical energy of Madness Enhancement had already been sucked in a lot, but its effect on the body still felt strong."

"Ah, fuck... I'm really going to die and worse, I've destroyed the Great Port you've been proud of for a long time."

Erick holds Rackham's shoulder. "I don't care about that. The Great Port can I rebuild as long as I'm alive, just as the friendship we've had for 20 years remains until I'm alive."

Rackham smiled hearing that. Erick was really his best friend, even though they were old now, their friendship was still as strong as they were young back then.

This relationship was so strong that none of them got married. Rackham is actually surprised, but it seems that after he dies, Erick will marry who.

Now, Rackham's body is flushed. It seems that Rackham's blood flow has broken out in some places and his madness he's still alive with it even though it's about to die in the near future.

"Erick, I'll..."

"Yes, thank you Rackham. You are the "strongest keeper" of my life" Erick said with a sad smile. "See you later..."

Erick hugged Rackham. "Goodbye, buddy."

Rackham smiled and his heart exploded inside his body. He closed his eyes with a smile, and died in the arms of his best friend Erick.

...

Simultaneously, Alicia's entourage from Metra waterfall and the Holy Knight's entourage from the capital arrived. Shiki and Hibari take Leonard directly to the capital, and Erick will be taken by Alicia's entourage later.

***

2 Days after the "Berserk Knight terror" was successfully stopped.

The state of the Asteria Kingdom became quite chaotic after the spread of the destruction of the Great Port and the killing of many people there. Unlike what happened to the three royal families, Parliament could not cover it up and arguably, they deliberately allowed the news to spread widely.

Although the Asteria situation was quite chaotic, it was not something Shiki needed to care about. Shiki is worried about Leonard at first, but his treatment goes well by the Sanctum Priests.

They suppressed the Madness Enhancement in Leonard's body, then in a way, they were able to purify it.

Shiki heard Madness Enhancement had a curse magical energy of as much as 40% and that was the basis of this strongest buff skill having a significant increase in the body of its user.

The three Priest Sanctum diagnosed Leonard to be cured in three months, but his body would be difficult to move and he might have to use a wheelchair.

It was no big deal, as Leonard would be cured and could lead the Holy Knights even if he did not fight.

...

Then Shiki and his two heroin are welcome to stay at Thousand Stars Castle. Their room is also separated, but Yui is in Shiki's room and is upset;

"Why do we have to live in that disgusting Blackmore place! Is there no other place?!" Yui protest.

"Just enjoy, Yui. It's free anyway." Shiki sat on her bed, and it was very tender.

"Oh right, where's Alicia?" ask Shiki curiously.

"So he said, he had a meeting with the Star Knights and would present himself as the "temporary king" of the Asteria Kingdom." Yui replied that; "He was confident for this, even though his magic wand was not yet usable."

"Hmm, right. With Blackmore's status gone, the Romanovans would ascend to the throne. Alicia's confident about this, but I don't know the officials." Shiki understood, trying to guess.

...

"Our decision is rejection, Princess Alicia. You can't be a "temporary king" without regalia." Baron Hormet said that to Alicia, who was naturally upset to hear that.

"Can you go into more detail, Jacob?"

"Without regalia, you have no right to take your position. Unless the entire Blackmore family is wiped out and there's still Prince Artha Blackmore alive."

"If he returns and betrays Naraku, we will gladly accept him." Hormet explained to Alicia; "Moreover, the holy sword Caliburn could use now..."

"I don't understand, Artha is a traitor and General Evil NARAKU, why do you support him?" ask Erick.

"Hormet has a point, if Alicia wants to be king, then you have to kill Artha and with that the Romanovas become the supreme rulers of this land." Sharukh tells Alicia; "Just like Princess Reina or Duke Robert Stardust, the Stardust family has to kill..."

"Enough with your silly opinion! I'm getting out of here!" Alicia was really upset, those officials really did not want to be under someone else's orders.

...

Alicia told me what happened to Leonard and Hibari. "Congruence between Officials, huh? It doesn't surprise me at all." Leonard commented.

"What are they planning? Do they just want their position as royal regulators not to be taken by people?" ask Hibari curiously.

"That's the clearest reason I feel, and the most reasonable." Leonard agrees.

"The story will be different if the stupid chick is here" said Alicia sighing, and upset with Reina. "And he left for no apparent reason...!"

...

In the hallway of the Thousand Stars castle, Shiki walked over. He heard what happened to Alicia, and things didn't go according to plan.

Then the sound of footsteps rang out from in front of Shiki, he stopped and a man's voice rang out; "For a long time no see, Shiki-kun. It's been two years, hasn't it?"

Shiki was shocked to see the old man appear before her; "Duke Robert Stardust..."

...Chapter 4.12 "The Adventurers Shiki and the Knights Leonard vs. Berserk Knight" - done...