Swordmaster of the Red Light District

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The sudden battle between Locust men and Seria entered a lull as a careless man cut his shoulder and retreated to Seria.

Rey took a step back and looked at the battlefield that was getting colder.

Seria’s artifact, called Halo, stopped moving and was emitting smoke, perhaps due to overheating of the fuselage.

Most of the warlocks hit by Halo’s bombardment had their robes burned, revealing their faces, but none of them seemed to allow lethal damage.

In the end, the only outcome of this battle was cutting off a man’s shoulder, but in the process, the performance of the artifact was revealed, so it was hard to see it as a one-sided gain for Seria.

Ray looked around widely.

Except for Yeongjuseong in the south, it was an open land.

Most of the people in the vicinity would have fled because of the continuous roar and fire, but it was possible that an immature child could sneak up and hide.

Seria introduced herself as an aunt, but from Ray’s point of view, it was just an unfounded claim, and even if it was true, it was impossible to know what kind of personality and background she had.

‘I can’t go out now…’

Rey established rules of engagement when entering the dinar.

Expose swordsmanship only in situations where even witnesses can be completely removed, and if that is not possible, withdraw.

Pulling out the sword here was an act that completely went against the rules of engagement that had been established in the first place.

My head got complicated.

Dinar is the current enemy base. As soon as Simone was killed, the enemies came.

The battle had to be avoided or finished as quickly as possible in a situation where other support might be added.

If you can back away, go back.

That was a wise decision for now.

‘But when Graduate joins the Locust, it will be impossible to stop the escape, even with all the troops of the Count and Viscount.’

Even if the Count’s forces were to be gathered in a head-to-head confrontation, more than half of the knights would die.

Unless the Earl of Phillips was the Locust and the Cheon-Cheon Ji-Sun, there was no way he could sacrifice himself and give a first attack.

The Locust also did not want the result of needlessly harming the nobles and obsessing over the pursuit of the Empire, so there was a high possibility that he would quietly escape when his identity was discovered.

‘If we don’t touch it first, it’s going to look like both sides are watching each other. Under such circumstances, there is no way the Count would even care about the children of the orphanage.’

Even if the Locusts kidnap some parentless children from the orphanage on their way, the Knights will not move.

This was practically unavoidable.

However.

If Graduate and the Warlocks under the Locust are removed from here.

The Earl of Phillips could have made the Locust ‘huntable’.

‘Moreover, considering the conversation between Seria and Pietro, and the contents of the letter to the Count… All of them are trying to recover the ‘Titty’ that Locust took.’

The existence of Titi unites the count, the viscount, and Seria.

If you just lay the plate in your favor, they will work together to hit the locus.

Exposing her hidden skills to Seria was definitely a very disturbing thing.

However, it was far more dangerous for the troops under Locust to return and assemble without any damage.

Ray made a decision.

‘I’m also fighting. You have to break each one here.’

There were many times when I had to choose the lesser evil than the best in the world.

Ray decided to trust his aunt, who had not known his identity for a few minutes.

‘The enemy’s power is one gradient and three warlocks that appear between 3 and 5 circles. Either way, it’s not easy.’

Although they were warlocks who were tied to one of Seria’s artifacts, this is largely due to the fact that they allowed a surprise attack.

If you reattach, you won’t be incapacitated by a single artifact.

‘In order to end the battle quickly, I have to hold on to one of the Warlocks and the Graduate for a while.’

In terms of simple power itself, Gradue is superior.

However, for Rey, who had little experience, the warlocks who used anomalous magic did not match well.

‘Even if the difficulty is high, I will hold on to the gradient side.’

Just hold on for a few seconds.

When Seria charged with multiple artifacts forming a fire network, the warlocks had no choice but to give their heads helplessly.

If it’s really long, it’ll be wiped out in 10 seconds.

Rey, who had come to a conclusion, stepped forward and expressed her opinion.

It was nonsense for others to hear, and Seria swung the potion bottle without hesitation.

gang!

“Pu-heuk?!”

Once the pain in the bones rang, the narrowed field of vision returned to its original state.

Rey, who was frozen for a moment, came to his senses by tapping his temple.

I was so absorbed in my own thoughts that I forgot the order of things.

Of course, in order to succeed, I had to convince Seria first.

Rey activated the core, pouring out mana.

I couldn’t believe it anyway, even if I explained it verbally, so it was quick to just show it.

“Auntie, it seems that your aunt is also talented.”

Rey’s eyes, which began to glow blue, turned to Seria.

Seria’s senses, who had reached the level of Gradual, accurately recognized the flow of mana emanating from Rey’s heart.

Seria’s eyes narrowed in embarrassment.

“…?!”

“I think my nephew is a little smarter.”

Ray raised an eyebrow lightly.

“While I hold Graduate, will you take care of the Warlock? Five seconds is enough, right?”

“…too dangerous.”

“The more time passes, the more dangerous it becomes.”

Seria pondered for a moment, handed the artifact in the shape of an octahedron to Rey and asked.

“Can you run? Faster than me? Then I’ll let you go. Or just walk away.”

Rey pointed to the man without saying a word.

Quang!

Rey and Seria smashed the ground at the same time.

The man who was bleeding his shoulder burst into laughter at the sudden charge of the two.

“You must see the end…?”

A kid runs along with Seria.

At first, I thought he was going to fight with the child in his arms. It wasn’t even nonsense at all.

However, when Rey, who was a little behind, accelerated once more and rushed in, the man let out a sigh.

I can see it in Graduate’s eyes.

Rey has now overtaken Seria by using her own body without any outside help.

“…if I die today, it would be very unfair. I can’t even use the scene now as a side dish to drink.”

A sword gushed out of the man’s sword.

Rei felt the pain in her joints crumble and drew out her sword.

The only thing that Overdrive can catch up with is speed.

The speed is also due to the light body after all, and the actual amount of exercise differs by several times or more.

If the sword clumsily hits it, it will bounce away.

Ray had to hold the man.

take the sword back

The first strike is from the bottom to the top, as if cutting upwards.

thud!

He slammed his legs into the ground and swung his sword.

In an instant, the sword that covered the entire sword was compressed thinly along the blade.

Interest is engraved in the man’s eyes.

It was an incredible achievement compared to its appearance, but apart from that, it was impossible to block the sword with a single, thinly compressed sword.

Even if I comb it as well as possible, the entire sword that covered the sword would be shattered.

The man honestly lowered his sword as if to hold out for once.

GeomGang and GeomGi collide.

Wow!!!

Blood gushed out of Rey’s joints with a roar.

His shoulders were twisted and his sword was shaking. His posture collapsed due to the load on his back.

The sword with the blackness peeled off was exposed to the sword and cracked.

However, it survived

Rey once again exploded mana between the joints, draining the aftermath of the collision with a deformed movement.

the man muttered

“It’s fantastic.”

It was a bizarre sword.

The power of the sword was partially dispersed.

Even after seeing the phenomenon, I did not understand it.

The man recognized Seria turning towards the wizard.

A number of artifacts radiated light and hit the wizards with firepower.

‘Are you aiming for a wizard, not a pincer?’

Did you think this little boy could hold me?

In a situation where he had to feel humiliated, the man felt bliss.

The anticipation of the child’s reach someday and the desire to tear this undisputed genius with my own hands now mixed in a mess.

The man’s vision was completely narrowed down to Rey.

“Okay, hold on.”

The man’s sword scratched the ground, aimed at Rey’s waist, and accelerated in an oblique angle.

Ray thought for a moment.

In order to dissipate the shock, the body must float.

However, if he had taken the sword while he was floating, he would have flew several tens of meters.

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Not only was he completely defenseless against the next attack, he couldn’t even hold the man.

👌👌👌👌👌

Rey bent her left knee and stretched her right foot out to the side.

The posture is sharply lowered and the upper body is tilted to the left.

Rey with his left elbow on the ground raised his sword at an angle.

Kaga Gaga!!!

The man who was aiming for the waist uses a posture that lowers the sword to an extreme and combs it to the sky.

Due to the repulsive force that collided with the sword, his left elbow was completely buried in the ground.

Rey turned her waist to the side while pressing her forehead with her forehead to fix her wrist.

Geomgang and Geomgi collide once again.

Pagagak!!

Rey, who used the force of repulsion to step back, got up.

The man slides his right hand under the hilt and grabs his left hand again in reverse form.

Koo!

The ground cracked, leaving a long afterimage of the man.

A stab comes from the front before Rey can even adjust his posture.

can you spill this

Holding the sword by advancing the left hand in reverse was a threat to press it down with force, not skill.

‘It can’t stand in place.’

Rey pulled her strength away from her legs.

Even if it was pushed back and rolled on the ground, I was thinking of dispersing the power of the sword.

Kagak!

The moment the sword and sword meet, sparks are splattered.

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No, it’s not sparks.

Each flashing light was a thinly compressed sword.

Because the man deliberately loosened the control of the sword, the sword that had formed the sword exploded in all directions.

Rey’s vision was filled with sharp shards of light.

‘If you do this wrong, you will really die.’

I was completely trapped in the net of swordsmanship.

He had to break through it by force, but with Rey’s mana, it was impossible.

In a moment of crisis, Harsia’s skills engraved in her brain warmed Rey’s consciousness.

Rely relied on intuition to draw a second sword.

A bundle of swords was pouring down and was about to tear his body apart.

The swords of both hands touch.

ooh-!

The sword energy that alters the space overlaps and resonates with each other.

As the distortion of space spread like ripples, an extensive distortion field was created centered on the two swords in an instant.

The man’s sword, who was facing Rei, was affected by the distortion field and slightly changed direction.

👌👌👌👌

The sword that had passed through Ray was scattered across the ground.

The man gripped his sword and muttered.

“This is another crazy technique.”

Ray couldn’t afford to answer.

It was the first time in my life that I used a technique I knew only in theory, but it consumed more mana than I expected.

Even the joints and muscles were being smashed in real time, and my eyes flickered at will.

If the potion that Seria had hit on the head had not been absorbed later, I might have passed out.

The man mercilessly delivered the next blow to the staggering Rey.

Quad Duck!

The sword in his left hand, which Rey swung to defend, was completely shattered.

Both health and mana are showing the bottom.

‘It’s no longer the limit.’

“Where.”

The man skillfully saw the timing when Rey was about to retreat.

Geomgang spit out light and climbed on the sword.

The moment the man is about to release the sword.

In Rey’s arms, the defensive artifact was activated and a curtain of light was spread out.

Awesome!!

The shield that received the sword from the front causes a crack.

Rey looked at Seria.

Seria, who had pierced the heart of the last wizard, accelerated towards Rey.

Rey had an intuition that he had to take the man’s sword one more time.

Perhaps because the shield had been broken once, the strength of the shield that Artifact deployed the second time was not very strong.

Rey grabbed the remaining sword with both hands.

However, the man shrugged his shoulders and took a step back even though he could break through the shield at any moment.

“I’m sure I’ll hold out. All the wizards are dead, and it seems wrong to run away from that lady’s artifacts. I lost.”

Whoops!

A black spear suddenly rose from the ground the man had just stood on, and then disappeared.

He was also an artifact of Seria.

“Because this is scary. How many artifacts are there?”

While the man admired, Seria came and stood next to Rey.

Victory and defeat were divided.

The man who looked up at the sky exhaled a long breath, pointed at his face, and spoke again and again.

“Listen, little one. My name is Dan. The third son of the Myrter cast out, Dan.”

“What a common name. Are you going to come and repent now?”

“What is repentance?”

Dan spread his arms wide, tightening his chest.

“Child, make sure you write a line in your later epic. To this Dan of Myrter, a young hero who has not yet blossomed is almost dead.”

Ray burst out laughing.

“The guy who’s about to die wants something weird.”

“Child, people die anyway.”

Dan smiled coolly as he watched Seria approaching with only 5 artifacts deployed.

Human life is short and short, isn’t it more important to find a place to die and lie down rather than trying to live a few years longer?

It wasn’t bad enough for a place to die.

The opportunity to leave a name on the first chapter of an epic to be written by an undisputed genius was rare.

Dan made preparations to block Seria’s sword and asked Rey.

“Please, don’t go out of business and grow up to become a great hero or villain. So that my name will be remembered for a long time.”

“Mr. Smith of the Mont Blanc, would you rather swear instead of saying good-bye?”

The man frowned.

“My name is Dan. Are you doing this on purpose, you bastard?”

Seria and the man collided.

Kwaggagak!!

*

Seria killed Dan without difficulty.

Because Dan rebelled to the end, he couldn’t subdue it alive.

Either way, it will be a very lethal bleeding for the Locust.

Seria approached Rey with a potion. Rey first covered it from the top of the head.

Seria, who handed the potion, narrowed her eyes and looked into the distance.

Rey was talking about escaping to the Countess with Pietro, and felt the vibration of the ground a step later.

Ray quickly turned her head.

“Article…?”

A knight in armor was approaching with his horse in a charge formation.

The pattern engraved on the armor was very familiar.

Phillips knights.

Perhaps they heard the roar of the battle just before, the knights who had been charging, pulling out stems until they reached the sword, slowed down their speed.

They seemed to recognize Ray and Pietro’s faces from the other side as well.

Rey grunted as she grabbed her throbbing joints.

“My dear, if you’re coming, come a little faster. I’m running after I’ve changed all the growth plates.”

It was actually half a joke, and Ray didn’t expect the Earl of Phillips to respond so quickly to the letter he received.

I thought it was only a knight, but even Count Phillips himself accompanied him armed.

Most of the knight-level power in the territory was gathered.

Count Phillips and his knights, Pietro, Seria and Rey gathered together.

Everyone who dragged the corpse into the castle shared information related to the current situation as dry as possible, excluding unnecessary stories.

At the end of the story, Ray realized something she had overlooked and asked urgently.

“Where is Sir Didier?”

“I remain with Jimmy in the nursery.”

Ray sighed in relief.

“thank you.”

There is no way that the Count, who had led most of the knights, left Didier out of simple favor.

Rey noticed that the Count had figured out Luna’s situation, but it wasn’t a big deal now.

Ray insisted right after the core story was over.

“We must strike the hideout immediately before the warlock can escape.”

Jenkinson was furious.

“What kind of place do you make fun of this lowly thing?”

“I delivered the letter, found and eliminated the culprit, rescued Pietro, and located the warlock’s hideout. I’m not worthy to open my mouth?”

“Is that your ball? The little one is already talking nonsense…!”

“stop.”

The count opened his mouth as he looked around the knights.

“There is no time for hesitation. Before the warlocks escape, raid the hideout to rescue Titty and annihilate the enemies of the Empire at the limit of their capabilities. Any disagreement?”

“…”

“I’m leaving right away.”

“I will obey your orders.”

The knights moved quickly.

Matthew followed the knights and handed Ray the sword.

“It doesn’t make sense.”

“Fortunately, the neck is stuck.”

Rey, who took the sword bearing the seal of the Phillips family, took a deep breath.

It is said that the Locust has worked with a small number of subordinates, less than ten, from the past.

If there were no surprises, the locust’s minions in the hideout would be around five at most, and there were 11 people who were above the expert level.

Although Locust’s own strength is a variable, it was worth trying as long as he was accompanied by Seria.

The Earl of Phillips seized the opportunity to bring the matter to a close thanks to his decision at a speed far exceeding Ray’s expectations.

Ray wanted the Locust to quietly lock himself in the hideout.

This should be the last battle.

*

“thank you.”

Jimmy, who was guarding the entrance to the orphanage, suddenly opened his mouth to Didier.

“I wanted to say something to the Count, but I didn’t know that he would come first.”

Had it not been for Didier, the orphanage could have been left unprotected.

As Jimmy repeatedly thanked him, Didier shook his head.

“I hope you appreciate your generosity, not me.”

“You are right. During my long mercenary life, I have seen many valuable people, but few are as generous and wise as the Count.”

As the conversation continued, the two kept their senses up.

I didn’t know when the warlock would appear in the nursery.

However, a few hours later, Jimmy and Didier met, a very unexpected person.

“what?”

Jimmy raised his eyebrows and asked, the emaciated man pounding his chest and shouting.

“I’m here to get my daughter back. I heard that the officials at this orphanage took her daughter at will. Please return it quickly.”

“What’s your daughter’s name?”

“Luna. Call me Luna .”