The Villain Carries the Holy Sword – Chapter 35.1

Chapter 35.1: Before Our Spring (5)

Kwaaaang━!

Abel gripped the sword and slashed it horizontally.

Victor, who was approaching, hurriedly deflected the strike as he swung unexpectedly.

Sheeet━.

The moment his hand twisted, the sword in Abel’s left hand exploded again.

Shwip!

The sword brushed Victor’s left forearm, splattering blood into the air. Gritting his teeth, he lowered his posture.

“A two-handed sword that you’ve never even practiced with!”

he muttered, encouraging himself.

To confuse his opponent, the attack pattern had to be varied.

The most appropriate answer was to wield a sword in both hands, like Abel.

Above all, it could be dazzling, but a two-handed sword was light and difficult to wield effectively.

Victor believed that he could regain the upper hand and approached Abel cautiously.

Lo Meyer.

However, it was not easy.

Abel, with his eyes half-open, swung the Vanderbilt’s greatsword at the most opportune moments.

Ardvark.

Lu Rabada.

He stabbed it straight in.

Victor endured the growing wounds patiently.

If it was a sword that had never been properly practiced, there would definitely be a pattern. He was sure that he would win if he waited for that moment.

However.

“……How?”

After dozens of exchanges, Victor kept seeing a new side of Abel’s swordsmanship. What followed was astonishment.

None of them were the same.

Abel skillfully twisted his ankles and wrists, changed the position of his knees and elbows, and wielded an instinctive sword that no one could follow.

“I am Victor Lamang Millington! The Iron Rock!”

He exclaimed the nickname that once represented Lamaring and took a step.

Blood━.

His defense weakened.

Abel’s sword reached for him through the gap.

Whoooosh━.

The attack intensified.

Victor narrowed his distance from Abel, covering only his vital points.

When Vanderbilt, who had been in awe, regained his senses and tried to step out again—

Snap.

Cain blocked him with one foot and gestured.

“The match is already over.”

“Sir Victor came out to get his flesh and bones. This is difficult to deal with even for Young Master Abel…….”

“Is that Abel’s only weapon?”

“Yes?”

Vanderbilt answered foolishly.

Cain said without erasing his smile,

“That guy told me, ‘I’ll do it.’ Then I have to believe him as a brother.”

Abel said that he would defeat his opponent, who was stronger and less compatible, without killing him.

Cain believed in his words.

Vanderbilt closed his eyes for a moment and stepped back.

“I can’t believe Young Master Abel’s words.”

Thud.

He dropped the greatsword he was holding and stood tall behind Cain.

“But I will believe the words of Young Master Cain, who has always shown me miracles.”

While the two were talking, two of Lamaring’s knights tried to escape, but they couldn’t move under Vanderbilt’s gaze, which pierced like an arrow.

So the duel, watched by the two counts, came to an end.

Abel’s hand became unsteady.

The position of his foot was regrettable, and Victor thought he had won again.

Fergna.

He swung his sword.

That moment.

“You won.”

Cain declared, and Abel’s clouded brown eyes cleared.

Victor, who faced him head-on, sensed it.

“A trap━!”

En Zauer.

The three swords, which always drew the correct trajectory, wriggled like a viper. He saw the first blow.

Whoooosh━.

It brushed Victor’s face like the wind. The wounds all over his face were terribly sore.

Abel’s sword.

It was in front of Victor’s left eye, a hair’s breadth away.

It was Abel’s perfect victory, who designed the entire duel and fought coolly until the end.

Thud.

Victor knelt. Then he stretched his neck towards Abel.

“Kill me.”

However, Abel ignored him and spoke to Cain first.

“I did it.”

Cain nodded and replied,

“Then you have to continue what you were doing.”

The sight of a lord and a knight.

Only then did Abel bow to Victor and start to say something.

However.

Thud.

Cain moved in the other direction, not interested.

Then, he grabbed the hair of the 〈Ross de Kaerot〉 knight he had spared and pulled it.

Thud━.

Cain, a black-haired warrior, dragging a trembling knight, approached Count Lamaring.

If Abel’s fight was brilliant—

Thud━.

Cain’s footsteps were infinitely dark and cruel, like the night.

He stepped on the corpses in front of him without hesitation, and Count Lamaring dropped his cane and collapsed to the floor.

One by one, people began to stand behind Cain.

Oleciren and Isoel were the first, followed by the rest except for the knights who were on guard.

That’s Ethelred.

Like the waves of the ‘Great Ocean’ that hit the Ethelred coast facing the continent.

The path ahead was made of blood.

Cain pushed the knight of Ross, who was expressionless despite his wriggling body, towards Count Lamaring.

“Did you trust them?”

“…….”

Thud.

Cain threw him sideways.

Then the knights grabbed him tightly, tied him with a rope, and pulled him back.

“It’s a shame they’re so weak.”

“Even your father didn’t do this to me! Edmund didn’t act rashly, but you…….”

Cain raised both corners of his mouth.

The forced smile looked like a clown’s smile drawn on a mask.

Cain raised his index finger and covered his mouth.

“You’re noisy. For a loser.”

Count Lamaring’s eyes widened as if they were about to burst. Humiliated by Cain’s words, he shook his head and shouted,

“Do you think the barbaric power you possess can match the power of civilization! Do you think this kind of monstrosity will be tolerated in this kingdom!”

“I won’t let it be.”

“……?”

“That’s why I’m doing this. I don’t know what that great power of civilization is, or whether it’s magic.”

Chuck━.

Cain raised his arm.

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