Chapter 646: You sought to break the Treaty after all. I cannot say I am surprised.
Chapter 646: You sought to break the Treaty after all. I cannot say I am surprised.
"Very well then."
Kael announced as he pointed his sword at Astrael.
He had had enough.
Ever since he came to this world, all he had been dealing with was this shitty politics. There was a threat in the world that could potentially finish it, people were dying left and right and these people...
They were worried about who would have more influence over him and using his status as Hero to gain more authority over others.
To think they would even go against a 1200-year-old Treaty for its sake.
It was ridiculous.
And Kael—
He was tired of being used as a pawn.
And he did not like how this man just threatened his people, just so he could make him cave.
Not one bit.
It was a battle he wanted?
Then Kael was prepared to give him just that.
He still hadn’t used the Ascendent of the Ancients.
10 seconds.
Ascendent of the Ancients, combined with his other skills, and the new skill he got after reaching level 50.
That should be more than enough to kill this man in front of him and his Bond. He would kill them before Astrael could have the chance to bring out his other Bonds.
Then, with only the Sky Army left and him still having a few seconds left in his Ascendent of the Ancient Form—
He would take down more than half of them.
He would level up by killing every single one of them.
Then he would keep levelling up, keep getting stronger, keep regenerating and—
He would fight until they no longer could.
He would etch his fear into their very souls.
He would become their worst nightmare.
Just as Kael was thinking about his battle plan—
"Hero Kael."
Astrael called out, staring at him with an emotionless look on his face.
"You should think it through."
"I have."
"No, you have not."
Astrael shook his head.
"Your Wall was broken, an enemy that doesn’t even deserve to be compared to us managed to breach your Wall. You barely won that battle and now..."
He looked at the blood and the broken bodies beneath him and—
"And now you are trying to face an army much stronger than the last, with broken, wounded and exhausted soldiers.
You cannot win."
Astrael declared.
The Velmourn Soldiers beneath lowered their heads and clenched their fists, as angry as they felt, they...
They couldn’t help but agree with those words.
They could not win.
But—
"Is that all you wanted to say?"
Kael spoke with a solemn look on his face.
Astrael frowned.
From what he knew, Hero Kael was more reasonable than this. Had spending time in a lowly place like the Heights where he was above all made him... more arrogant?
Princess Lavinia, he knew she was far more intelligent than most her age, she should know the consequences of doing what Kael was doing.
Why wasn’t she stopping him?
Heck, instead of stopping him, she was standing up, looking at him with dangerous eyes.
Hero Kael’s Dragon was no different, he was staring as well and those golden eyes, even though they were weak, even though they belonged to only a few-month-old beast—
They were, for some odd reason, still quite intimidating.
Just...
What the hell was wrong here?
These people too.
Even in the state they were in, even when the difference in power was so apparent, why were they...
All standing against him?
Was their belief in Kael *that* strong?
It didn’t make sense.
Did they have a trump card? A way to escape this situation?
Astrael did not understand.
And at this point—
It did not matter.
"Very well."
He sighed in annoyance.
Korvath saw that as a cue and—
"FORMATION!"
He commanded.
The exhausted Alliance Troops moved, ready for another war.
Aurelia’s face paled in horror, she looked around, at the people who were practically willing to give their lives away for that man hovering in the air.
Just... what sort of magic had he done on them!?
She wondered in her mind.
At this moment, the Heights truly was allied.
It was almost moving.
Almost.
Because the moment Astrael raised his hand, the Sky Army behind him took out their weapons as well.
The Mages prepared their Spells, the Shield Lines protected them, the Swordsmen were ready to march down, the Archers were already aiming at the troops below.
This wasn’t going to last long, every single Sky Soldier knew that.
Honestly, it would be over the instant Lord Astrael lowered his hand, that was the only thing they were waiting for.
Astrael looked at Kael one last time, as if hoping he would return to his senses, Kael did not care, he only glared, waiting for this man to give the signal.
That made Astrael sigh again, then, he lowered his hand.
Or at least—
That was what he was about to do but then—
"RRRROOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!"
At that very instant—
A loud, horrifying roar shook the very place and the instant it did, both Kael and Lavinia smiled ever so slightly.
As for the rest—
Both the Sky Army and the Alliance Army froze, they turned to each other, thinking it was the other’s ploy, but seeing the utter confusion on each other’s faces, every single one of them frowned.
Astrael stopped where he was.
Others may not recognise it, but as the Demi God with a stronger sense than normal—
He did.
This roar...
It wasn’t normal.
It didn’t come from any normal beast.
It came from a kind of existence he was quite familiar with.
A kind of existence that was comparable to a Guardian Beast and... the only Guardian Beasts who would be found in this corner of the world would be...
Astrael stared down at Morvain, at the Velmourns and...
He couldn’t help but recall the stories from the legends.
Those... horrifying entities...
The Steel Dragon.
Was it... truly that...?
He wondered in horror.
And just as he thought about it.
"You sought to break the Treaty after all.
I cannot say I am surprised."