The Elemental Sword Demon King
Episode 64: Second Demon King Experiment
POV: Tiana Von
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At that moment, Tiana prepared her ritual attire and began to set the sealing back.
There was a violent sound of weapons clashing outside the door of the true light temple.
"It looks like he's come."
Victoria called out her Fire Whip and glared at the door and said, "Kaizo and I will defend our last door. Tiana, wait here."
"Are you saying you'll hide me in a safe place alone!?"
"Yes, he is not an opponent that you can use small tricks many times. Even if you can, you no longer have the Blood Queen Rune Stone."
"Don't get me wrong, Victoria Blade. I'm not a princess, just to be protected. Now, I'm an equal teammate." Tiana replied by thrusting her iron ribbed fan, which was used to perform ritual dances towards Victoria.
"I am the daughter of the second ranked girl of «Divine Ritual Obsession». As the sister of Monica Lionstein, you know that it is not a weak existence that can only perform ritual dances, right?"
She had an expression as if she was challenging him. Victoria gulped at the intensity emitted by the daughter of the top-ranked girl.
Of course, the princess maidens of «Divine Ritual Obsession» did not receive battle training as elementalists. However, that does not mean that they are helpless.
On the contrary, as long as they chose a time and place, there were cases where their strength even surpassed that of a high-level elementalist. And this temple was the most suitable place for him to show his strength.
"I understand."
Victoria combed her ponytail red hair upwards and said in a voice that raised Tiana's spirit, "I'll protect you. Perform the most grand 'Kaguya' ritual!"
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POV: Kirigaya Kaizo
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There is nothing like a warning sign. The Sword Style Technique suddenly began. There was a shrill metallic sound. A flash of silver sword flickered, intense sparks scattered within the cave.
The Nyx rune, which was swung down by Kaizo, was repelled by Noah's sword. Not stopping there, Kaizo went further and swung his sword.
Noah slightly shifted his center of gravity and dodged by a paper-thin margin. He made a loud laughter screech, as he jumped straight up. Like a spider, he stuck to the ceiling when he wanted to attack.
"Well, no foreplay?! Let me enjoy a little conversation, Strongest Sword Style Holder (Rei Assar)!"
"Geez, I don't have anything like a knight spirit like you!"
"What!?" Noah widened his red eyes.
Kaizo kicked the wall and jumped. Rune Nyx, swinging in the air and hitting Noah's sword. As if metal was being forcibly scratched, a scream echoed and Noah's sword spirit shattered into pieces.
Kaizo did not stop. He kicked the wall again, changed his direction and hit the side of Noah's face with his fists. He chases after Noah, who is pulled by gravity and falls to the ground, moreover, he kicks the ceiling and accelerates.
With a bird-like motion hunting prey in the air, he gripped his collar, and the back of his head hit the ground like that.
A thick voice had echoed. It was a merciless attack.
He threw another punch with a movement like a precision instrument, but at that moment Noah's right-hand spirit seal shone. Sensing the danger, he immediately jumped to the side from above Noah.
At that moment, a silver sword-shaped flash emanated from Noah's palm. What appeared in Noah's hands was a new elemental aero.
Kaizo retreated and made some distance between them. He prepared the Nyx Rune in both hands.
"As expected of the Strongest Sword Style Holder (Rei Assar). A senseless movement."
"High-level multi-sided movement in a closed environment. First technique trained in «Instructional» school. But I don't do it as thoroughly as you."
Noah fell silent at Kaizo's words.
"Just now, I understood when our swords clashed. You are the same as me, an orphan from «Instructional» School, Demon King Failure."
Instructional School. It was the name of the institution, where Kaizo received training as an assassin when he was a child. It was a secret training institution set up by some nobles.
There, they gather girls who possess the qualities of an elementalist from orphanages across the continent to raise a group of superior assassins.
In the beginning, the establishment was supposed to be an agent to supply assassins to their fellow nobles. However, the teachers of the Instructional School became independent of the nobles before they realized it, and it had become something to embrace the monologue's fanatical creed. That is, the second Demon King's arrival.
He is the only male elementalist in history. He was a Demon King, who used thirty-two spirits and led the continent towards the ruins. It was to create his replacement.
Therefore, the action they took was very simple. He was the only male elementalist left in history. If that was the case, it was only natural that his successor should be male.
With that in mind, they gathered together boys who were considered to have the ability to even slightly exchange feelings with spirits, and did hypnotism, drug giving, spirit possession experiments and so on.
However, his success rate should be nil. For this reason, when Kaizo was discovered eight years ago, those people were in ecstasy.
"true."
Noah Alnest revealed a very terrible smile, "The experiment of the second coming of the Demon King by human hands. His first success was me."
Kaizo distorted his mouth cynically, and shrugged his shoulders. "The first success? Are you kidding me?"
"I understand how you feel about not wanting to admit it. But this is no joke."
"I didn't mean it that way." Kaizo shook his head as if he was sympathetic.
"A male elementalist, who uses thirty-two contracted spirits, if it's considered successful, then you're not at all successful, you know."
"What?!" Noah's red eyes widened, and his expression turned into hatred.
"I was also initially fooled. Did you really use thirty-two contracted spirits. But I was wrong,"
Kaizo nonchalantly told him. "Your spirit is not a contracted spirit. They are all sealed spirits."
That's right, the spirit that Noah Alnest used, wasn't a spirit that exchanged contract rituals. They were spirits sealed and treated as equipment for the seals engraved on his body.
The reason Kaizo realized it was because Noah never used the same spirit twice. Moreover, he also used several sword spirits of the same type.
Unless one planned to use and dispose of it from the start, there was no point in contracting a large number of sword spirits in that manner.
Compared to handling multiple sword spirits, it would be much more efficient to nurture one sword spirit. It would make him stronger with a single sword alone.
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*Connected.....
*Note: This story is fictitious. If there is a similarity in the name of the character, the scene, or the story, it is a mere coincidence and there is no element of intentionality.