Chapter 266: Greatness Cannot Be Overstated x Seeing Dark Silva Again
Dunn West bit his lower lip fiercely. Taking advantage of the brief window where the pain restored a fraction of his consciousness, he immediately opened his aura nodes, released his [Ren], and began to resist the erosion of the "sleepiness"...
It had to be said, he had some quick wit.
The underlying nature of "sleepiness" was essentially "Nen." To defend against a "Nen" attack, one naturally had to use "Nen" in defense!
Without needing any reminder, Edmond—who had transformed into the "foul torrent" and lost his human form, leaving only countless angry eyes drifting with the current and glaring in unison at Roy—had dark "Nen light" rippling across his lake-like surface as he simultaneously released his own [Ren]...
A C-rank and a B- rank powerhouse joining forces!
The sudden eruption of monstrous, fierce flames pressed tyrannically towards Roy... Smelling the familiar scent of the suspected [Blessing] on them, Roy did not change his expression. Reaching his right hand into the sunlight, a sudden sword cry~ was heard.
A "lightsaber" was slowly pulled out from the sunlight. Its body was wreathed in the brilliant flames of the sun, dazzling and blinding, making Dunn West and Edmond Sander involuntarily narrow their eyes, their faces revealing a look of solemnity!
"Dunn, you are right, he is indeed not Andrew Cooper!"
"But rather a... Viscount who has received a [Blessing]!"
Thud... thud... thud... Dozens of maids, boy-toys, and guards fell in the living room, corridor, and garden... Edmond Sander sized up the lightsaber slowly blooming with solar flares in Roy's hand. Adding the fact that the other party could casually transform into Andrew Cooper using a Nen ability similar to "Illusion Shape" or "Disguise," the man began to laugh madly...
"[Viscount] is great... Big shots like you normally wouldn't even look at us straight in the eye, yet now you condescend to come to the shantytown for a piece of trash..." Edmond broke through the heavy sleepiness, flowing straight down. Abruptly, two giant rotting hands burst from the torrent, wrapped in [Ken], and smashed down on Roy's head!
Inside the [Sumeru Mustard Seed], in a hazy space, a faint groan was heard...
Ribéry Garcia lay on a floating wooden floor. He frowned, slowly opened his eyes, and through the fluctuations of Roy's "Nen aura," vaguely saw and heard something... Just as he tried to prop himself up off the floor, a leisurely voice suddenly drifted into his ears... "I advise you not to move around, you'll distract me... and disturb my killing!"
"Where am I?" Hearing it was Roy, Ribéry Garcia felt the burning, intense pain coming from his chest and sensibly lay back down obediently...
The man fell silent for a moment, then asked cautiously, "Great existence, may I watch?"
"Watch if you want, the karma is right there." The fists wrapped in [Ken] arrived!
Roy gripped the lightsaber in his hand, blocked with a single stroke, and spoke faintly to Ribéry Garcia... Ribéry Garcia had a thought. In the [Sumeru Mustard Seed] space, amidst the surging Nen aura, a water screen suddenly appeared. Reflected in the screen was exactly... the scene of Edmond Sander throwing a punch, only to be blocked by Roy holding a sword single-handedly.
A Viscount? Ridiculous... This guy has no idea who he's facing!
The [Fist of the Rotten Stream] ground against the lightsaber, emitting a harsh screeching sound... Ribéry Garcia recalled the fragment of time he saw in his fortune-telling belonging to Roy's future. That Sun Chariot... that gilded giant bird with wings spread so wide they almost covered the sky... and the existence sitting in the chariot wearing a heaven-reaching crown, casting an indifferent glance... could almost be described as a [God]!
Even though Ribéry Garcia had never seen a [God], much less experienced a [Divine Descent], the word... [God] was already the highest title he could think of!
Screech~ Nen auras collided... Roy's feet seemed nailed to the ground. Blocking Edmond's fist with just one hand and one sword, that composure and calmness made Dunn West, who was obediently watching the battle from the side, involuntarily touch the slender leather belt tied around his waist—which was also his weapon, a [Nen Aura Soft Sword] crafted by a master artisan from Rose City... sweating bullets for Edmond Sander!
"Viscount? So it's a Viscount!"
"Does he have some connection with that boy?"
Dunn West stealthily glanced at the boy who was faintly protected behind Roy and had passed out under the impact of the [Sleepiness]... He had clearly snatched the other party from a farmer's household in the shantytown; his background couldn't be cleaner... How could he be connected to a noble lord in the city? Or could it be... the other party is some illegitimate child of a noble lord?
And was sought out by his own older brother?
Thoughts churning... Dunn West's eyebrows suddenly furrowed. At a certain moment, his attention was drawn by a sword light tearing across the sky!
That sword light was too dazzling, and too searing... As the boy transformed into Andrew Cooper swung lightly diagonally upwards... Only to hear Edmond Sander let out another pig-slaughtering scream. The fist wrapped in [Ken] flew off, turning into a rain of blood midway, falling with a rustle...
"Lord Edmond!" This was the first time Dunn West had seen Edmond Sander injured. As a knight's squire, the command in his eyes vanished, leaving only "Protection". His figure abruptly dashed forward, drawing the soft sword at his waist, and raised it for a sharp [Thrust]!
However, as fellow swordsmen, they seemed to share a telepathic connection.
Before Dunn West could get close, Roy just faintly turned his head and gave him a glance. A smear of scarlet suddenly crawled out, replacing the bright light, followed by three slowly spinning, pitch-black tomoe, silently emitting heart-palpitating fluctuations outward!
[Genjutsu... Unlimited Void...]
"..." [Nen Aura] was projected onto Dunn West through the Sharingan in the manner of [Yin Release].
This knight's squire, a man who loved wearing an open vest, imitating the noble lords of the Principality of Samir, had his eyes go blank. Before the sword in his hand could even reach Roy, his pupils dilated. Amidst a violent mental tremor, he was forcibly injected with the information of an entire [Demon Slayer World] within 0.001 seconds.
His brain was completely stuffed, exploded, and with a boom... shattered!
[Prompt: "Life Energy" +50]
[Prompt: "Faith Power" +10]
[Detected abnormality in "Faith Power", suspecting... the other party has received a [Blessing] from an unknown existence. The 10 points of "Faith Power" are unusable unless...]
[The Host finds the source of the "Faith", kills the other party, and strips them of their "Godhood", only then can it be absorbed.]
As expected, the panel prompt rang out...
Roy finally figured out what that familiar feeling was!
The so-called "unknown existence," the so-called "Godhood"—since it's not [Thunder] worshipped by the Principality of Samir, then... who could it be?!
Thud~ Dunn West fell... The un-thrust [Nen Aura Soft Sword] dropped to the ground with a clatter, sounding an alarm bell for Edmond Sander, who had his arms sliced off by Roy's blade once again!
The man, transformed into a [Rotten Torrent], opened countless mouths and screamed in disbelief: "You are not a [Viscount]!"
A [Transformation Technique] suspected to be [Transmuter],
A [Photification] suspected to be [Conjurer],
Plus the [Sleepiness]... the bizarre [Mental Shock]...
"One, two, three, four... [Duke] [Marquis] [Count] [Viscount] [Baron]... Damn it!"
"What the hell are you?!"
Edmond Sander sobered up, as if suddenly choked by Dunn West's death, slapped with a few loud slaps in the face. Trembling as he looked at Roy, the man turned his head, carrying surging Nen power, smashed through the window, and fled in an instant... Such decisiveness was astonishing!
"Hehehe... Cough cough... What the hell... you are defiling a great existence!"
Inside the [Sumeru Mustard Seed],
Ribéry Garcia sneered, aggravating his injuries. The pain made him gasp again. Gritting his teeth, watching Edmond Sander's pathetic escape, he said angrily: "Blasphemers must be punished, must be killed!"
As his words fell, inside the villa living room, the window was close at hand; breaking it meant reaching the garden... Seeing that he was about to get out...
Edmond Sander suddenly heard a faint whisper: "Freeze!"
The man abruptly stiffened. With another glance, he looked down... Unknown when, an extra [Flesh Sprout] had appeared inside his rotten, foul-smelling torrent body. The moment this [Flesh Sprout] drilled into his body, it was like a dying marine fish washed up on the beach suddenly swept up by a wave and returning to the water, instantly coming alive. It even... became a bit too [active]... a bit too [crazy]... So much so that... he could only watch in despair... as the other party absorbed his Nen aura and grew madly, turning into a small tree in the blink of an eye. Its branches whipped out, spreading to his limbs and bones, making him unable to maintain the [Torrent] form anymore. He kept shrinking... shrinking... and shrinking again... Until, he was sucked into a [Human Jerky], skewered on a branch!
In the blink of an eye, he only had one breath left!
"Enough,"
"Don't force me to slap you!"
[Flesh Sprout Technique] deployed... Roy flicked a finger and hit Edmond Sander, just quietly watching him turn into his current jerky-like state. Sheathing the lightsaber in his hand, his figure flashed. With a step, he arrived by his side. Patting the [Heart Worm]'s butt, he sent it along the karmic thread to drill into Edmond Sander's heart before he took his last breath!
"Fi... five..."
Following [Transformation], [Photification], [Sleepiness], [Mental Shock]... Edmond Sander's mind shook. He realized a transparent bug had abruptly intruded into his heart, raised its slender mouthpart, and stabbed down right there. Just like the [Flesh Sprout], it began to madly devour his "despair," "fear," "unwillingness," and other... negative emotions.
Barely holding onto his last breath, he looked at Roy, his eyes wide wide open, staring at him and said: "You... you... you are actually..."
Before the words left his mouth, Roy gave a "Shh" and sealed his lips.
Following that, the door to his mind was instantly breached by Roy. With a thought, he directly invaded it, standing with his hands behind his back in the field of his heart...
Swish Inside Edmond Sander's heart, the picture scroll of his life slowly unrolled, surfacing before Roy's eyes...
There were scenes of him running wild on the streets of the shantytown as a child, growing up eating meals from a hundred families...
There were scenes of him teasing cats and dogs, only to be chased and bitten on the butt by dogs, fleeing in a panic...
There were scenes of him, a bit older, stealing on the street, only to be caught, looking panicked and lost...
At a certain moment, Roy suddenly froze.
He saw a familiar head of dazzling silver hair intrude into his view, rescuing Edmond Sander.
Roy almost lost his composure. Amidst violent fluctuations of Nen aura, his facade almost broke, revealing his true face!
For no other reason than the resemblance. Too similar... Roy stared blankly. The owner of that silver hair unquestioningly saved the then-young Edmond Sander, saying to the wheat cake shop owner who caught him: "Hand him over to me."
As he slowly turned around...
Revealing a cold, tough face exactly the same as Silva's...
Roy's brain exploded with a "Boom". His consciousness violently vibrated, "Pfft... pfft... pfft..." turning into countless "sharp swords", instantly piercing Edmond Sander's heart into a sieve!
"Squeak—" The [Heart Worm], which was still devouring negative emotions, was suddenly stirred up by Roy like this, losing its foothold. It squeaked dissatisfiedly and rolled back along the karmic thread...
And, as Edmond Sander's heart completely shattered. His Nen aura, including his life, because he lost the support of his [Mind/Heart], couldn't even last two seconds. His head tilted, losing signs of life on the spot...
The remaining [Flesh Sprout], which had already grown into a small tree, shook its branches and leaves in dissatisfaction. As a result, receiving a cold, stern glare from Roy, it trembled in fear, and then... shrank rapidly, returning to its [Flesh Sprout] state, following the [Heart Worm] to drill back into Roy's body.
[Prompt: "Life Energy" +170...]
[Prompt: "Faith Power" +25...]
[Detected abnormality in "Faith Power", suspecting... the other party has received a [Blessing] from an unknown existence. The 25 points of "Faith Power" are unusable unless...]
[The Host finds the source of the "Faith", kills the other party, and strips them of their "Godhood", only then can it be absorbed.]
Roy stood blankly by the window, letting the panel prompts echo in his ears. His eyes were slightly lowered, his expression grim and uncertain. Even Ribéry Garcia in the [Sumeru Mustard Seed], despite spatial constraints, keenly sensed something merely through the fluctuations of Nen aura...
The man was in his forties; he had seen more filth and squalor than the salt he had eaten.
He sensibly kept his mouth shut and didn't make a sound. But his experience told him that the boy at this moment... was clearly extremely emotionally unstable because of something.
Fortunately, time is the best regulator. Some emotions, some matters, as long as the timeline is stretched... they will silently fade away invisibly, until they are forgotten, until they vanish without a trace...
After standing silently by the window for a moment, Roy forced himself to return to his senses. He looked up out the window at the bright, blazing sun, its sunlight spilling down, illuminating and warming the earth...
The boy took a deep breath. With one man and one blade, he killed all the remaining guards who aided the tyrant. The panel prompted another harvest of 40 points of Life Energy. Subsequently, he deployed the [Sumeru Mustard Seed] again, taking in Dunn West, Edmond Sander, and the corpses of over a dozen guards, along with the hypnotized "young boys and girls"...
Finally, with a flick of his finger, he unleashed the [Scorching True Meaning], catalyzing a wisp of flame, burning the entire villa thoroughly from the inside out. He then instantly Photified, drifted with the light, and vanished...
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