Radiant Dragon’s Otherworldly Reincarnation - Chapter 354 : Chapter 354
Chapter 354. It Is His Revenge (3)
While Patrick was in the midst of struggling against the Heavenly Demon.
On the 1st floor, two women were engaged in a bloody battle.
“Kugh….”
“Lady Persona!”
“Mind your own opponent… damn it….”
Kwaaaang!
Persona raised her saber to block the opponent’s attack.
But at that moment….
Crack!
The ground she was standing on crumbled like a cookie.
‘What kind of power….’
The person attacking her now was the Saber Lord, who used the same weapon as her.
He was a master who ranked within the top three throughout the history of the Hebei Peng Clan, and a spirited strongman who had challenged the Heavenly Demon carrying the clan’s expectation that he would take the Heavenly Demon’s head.
Although he failed to defeat the Heavenly Demon and was now in a state of subjugation to him, the essence of the saber pursued by the Hebei Peng Clan was contained intact in his saber.
And that wasn’t all.
Kuuuuung!
“I can’t live with this.”
As soon as the sound of a strong stomp was heard, Persona ground her teeth and extended one hand to the side.
Broken Mountain Palm.
It was a palm technique she had learned hastily from her master.
In fact, Patrick used twin swords as weapons, so he didn’t use palm techniques, but the weapon Persona used was a saber.
In the Murim, palm techniques were essential for those using one-handed weapons.
So he had taught her.
Of course, since she wasn’t used to it yet, her palm technique had many clumsy aspects.
But thanks to the vast dragon energy dormant within her, a palm force of outstanding power was unleashed.
However….
Kwaaaaang!
“Kaaargh….”
The one pushed back was Persona.
The moment the opponent’s fist and her palm met, blood gushed out from Persona’s mouth.
While being pushed back greatly and staggering, she barely managed to regain her balance, and what she saw was the figure of a high monk extending his fist with one hand vertically raised in a half-palm.
“It’s really a cheat. This is….”
It wasn’t a power that could be exerted by that small fist.
If she hadn’t seen it with her eyes, it felt like a small mountain had flown in and embedded itself.
If it weren’t her, not even a corpse would have remained, and she would have been shattered and disappeared.
But she couldn’t hope for help from others.
Glancing at Katherina, the only companion remaining here….
“Kill them! Pour it on until the Spirit Transformation collapses!”
“Yes!”
Kwa-kwa-kwang! Kwang!
She was handling Jonsa and his disciples all by herself.
The terrifying magic being focused on her was not a power that a human could withstand normally.
However, having awakened the royal bloodline dormant within her thanks to Patrick, she was somehow holding on with Spirit Transformation.
She couldn’t expect help from her.
No, rather, Persona had to finish the strong enemy in front of her quickly and help her.
Because Katherina’s Spirit Transformation had a limit.
“Phew….”
She raised her saber and glared at the two strong enemies in front of her.
It wasn’t the first time she had seen those two.
Because she had seen her clan being massacred when they invaded Dragon Land in the past.
But the gaze with which she looked at them now was different from back then.
‘So this is what an absolute master is.’
Saber Lord and Divine Fist.
Both were said to be high-level martial artists who reigned as absolute powerhouses in the world her master came from.
No matter how much of a natural skeleton Persona was born with, it had been less than a year since she started training in martial arts in earnest.
Between her and those two, there existed a distant gap in level as martial artists.
‘What did Master say back then?’
***
Persona had asked Patrick.
“Master. How can I catch up to them?”
“Who?”
“The martial artists of the other dimension controlled by the black mages.”
“Ah…. them.”
“Yes. I think they are a wall I cannot avoid in order to avenge my enemies.”
“Probably?”
“So please tell me the method.”
“What?”
“The method for me to catch up to them.”
Looking at the disciple’s eyes shining with the pure will to improve, Patrick….
“Pfft!”
Hey, Master.
Patrick, with a pitiful smile all over his face, looked at Persona and said.
“Catch up? You? To them?”
“…I have to, to win.”
“……”
“Master.”
“…Pfft!”
Master or whatever, I’ll just choke him!
A moment later.
“Sona.”
“What is it?”
To Persona’s slightly sulky voice, Patrick said.
“You have talent.”
“……”
“If you train hard, someday you will be able to possess the skill to defeat them.”
“Really?”
“Yeah. Though you’d have to train for about 50 years.”
“……”
Persona’s shoulders slumped.
The battle with the Outer God would take place soon.
Let alone 50 years, there wasn’t even 5 years left, so what kind of nonsense was this?
“Then, are you telling me to give up on revenge?”
“Huh? No way?”
Patrick shook his head as if it were preposterous and said.
“As they say, if you get hit once, you must pay it back at least a hundred times. This is the sect rule of the Great Twin Dragon Sect.”
[There is no such sect rule!]
Someone protested fiercely, but Patrick neatly ignored it and continued.
“The opponents are definitely stronger than you. But….”
“……”
“If you utilize your characteristics well, you can win even against masters who have reached the absolute realm.”
“Really?”
“I only lie sometimes.”
So you do lie.
No, that’s not what’s important.
“What should I do?”
“There’s something my sworn brother said.”
“That Orc warrior?”
“Ah, not him, another younger brother.”
You mean there is another pitiful victim?
“Ahem, anyway, he said.”
“……”
“The soft overcoming the hard is bullshit. In real combat, power is everything.”
“…Pardon?”
“If power is blocked by technique, that means my power is insufficient. It’s not because the opponent’s technique is superior.”
“Master, that is….”
“Hmm, honestly, it’s not like I agree with it.”
Of course.
Who would agree with such a simple and ignorant opinion?
“But he actually took down a few opponents stronger than himself in real combat by doing that.”
“……”
“Well, although he almost died every time, that’s a trivial problem. Don’t you agree?”
It was sincere advice in Patrick’s own way.
Disbelief filled the face of Persona, who was listening.
***
“To think I have no choice but to actually practice that advice that doesn’t even seem like advice….”
Persona sighed.
And she looked at the saber she held in her hand.
[It’s real, I tell you? That’s how that weapon is originally used. Just smash them with power!]
“Phew….”
Yes, now that it’s come to this, what can I do?
I have no choice but to try.
Persona’s body began to change.
Fangs grew, horns sprouted on her head, and wings grew on her back.
Dragon scales sprouted on the vital parts of her entire body, protecting her.
A combat form created through repeated research by her father, Sword Dragon Arcana, to display martial arts while maintaining a human form even after drawing out the power of a dragon.
It was Dragonian.
In that state, she fully activated the power contained in the Seal of the Lord and her own Dragon Heart.
Rumble rumble rumble rumble….
“Uh…?”
“Wh… what is that?”
“That bitch?”
The black mages who were pushing Katherina hard were astonished.
Because a terrifying energy was spewing out from Persona.
This was not power that would come from a dragon that had just become an adult.
It clearly surpassed the power of the Dragon Lord in his lifetime.
“H… How can that young bitch.”
Jonsa’s jaw dropped.
He wouldn’t know, but right now Persona was amplifying and using both powers.
The Dragon Heart she originally possessed.
And the Seal of the Lord inherited from the previous Lord.
She was operating these two powers simultaneously, resonating them with each other and amplifying them several times over.
Naturally, it is an extremely dangerous act.
Who would do such a crazy thing as amplifying two powers by resonating them, when just handling them simultaneously is too much?
[We do.]
In fact, for this time, Patrick’s words were correct.
Twin Dragons Heaven and Earth Primordial Heart Law.
A rare, crazy heart law that splits even a perfectly fine dantian in half to operate two.
Compared to that, operating two powers that are separated in the first place is relatively less dangerous.
Actually, Persona was also operating the heart law fine….
“Kaaargh….”
She’s vomiting blood.
“Kugh…. I almost died just by circulating energy.”
It means relatively.
Relatively….
‘I can’t last long.’
Persona was certain she couldn’t operate this crazy heart law for long.
So she had to hurry the match as much as possible.
“Katherina, step back.”
“Yes!”
Receiving her instruction, Katherina stepped back.
Then Persona raised her saber high.
“Take this!”
Taking a step forward, her body bent like a bow for an instant.
And the moment her two hands, which had gone above her head, struck down….
Five Tiger Severing Gate Blade.
Angry Tiger Strong Assault.
From her fingertips, the ultimate technique honed over a lifetime by the Iron-Blooded Saber Dragon Peng Mujong of the Hebei Peng Clan unfolded.
Angry Tiger Strong Assault.
The name of the form sounds fancy, but….
Actually, this is just striking down.
Originally, what Peng Mujong pursued in saber arts was not profundity or anything like that.
The only thing he pursued was one thing….
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa!
“B… Block it!”
“Lunatic Shield… Kugh!”
“Gyaaaaaak!”
Absolute destruction.
That realm which Iron-Blooded Saber Dragon Peng Mujong had pursued so much to reach was unfolded at this moment from another’s hands.
The violent Saber Strength emitted by Persona first tore apart the defenses of Jonsa’s three disciples too lightly, shredding them to pieces.
“Aack!”
“Noooooo!”
“Mast… Kugh….”
At that moment, Pride, the oldest confidant among Jonsa’s disciples, reflexively turned his head back, worrying about his master’s safety.
And he saw.
The figures of the Saber Lord and Divine Fist standing and guarding only in front of his master.
A position solely to protect only Jonsa.
The moment he saw the two, Pride felt pain greater than his flesh being torn apart.
‘Master….’
The master who saved him, a collateral royal who almost died after getting swept up in a struggle for the throne.
The master who helped him hone his talent as a black mage.
The master he inwardly thought of as a father.
Such a master….
“H… How….”
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwang!
Swallowed by the rough torrent of Saber Strength, Pride could not even finish voicing his question.
“Do you think I will die here?”
Watching his disciples die before his eyes without even leaving a corpse, Jonsa gritted his teeth.
His life had been a struggle to survive for his entire existence.
For the Outer God….
To reach the divine rank and become a great being surpassing humans when the great setting sun eventually arrives….
Thousands of years endured solely for patience and survival for that purpose.
To be compensated for his past years of being born in the lowliest place and living servilely, he must ascend to the divine rank.
When he becomes a great being surpassing humans in that way, all his misfortunes and sins will be accepted as years of endurance.
Before that, he can never die.
“As if I would die!”
Along with Jonsa’s shout, the Saber Lord and Divine Fist unleashed powerful blows.
The majestic golden Fist Strength and the sharply refined Saber Strength certainly possessed the discipline and spirit befitting absolute masters.
But….
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwang!
Their attacks only left very slight marks on the wall of the rough torrent.
Without fail, the Saber Strength that engulfed them swallowed the bodies of the two.
In the process of being swallowed like that, a faint smile formed on their lips.
Now there is no one to protect him.
But Jonsa used his final move as if he had been waiting for this very moment.
“Curse Explosion!”
Corpse Explosion.
A magic favored by black mages that causes undead to self-destruct to inflict damage on the enemy.
However, the power varies vastly depending on what the corpse is.
A corpse explosion caused by sacrificing two absolute masters evaluated as absolute experts in another world….
Kwaaaaaaaaang!
It had tremendous power, as if it would blow away even Persona’s rough attack.
An explosion of tremendous power, enough for a mushroom-shaped cloud to bloom from the aftermath.
After that explosion occurred, there was nothing in front of Jonsa.
“Ha…. Hahahahaha….”
He survived.
He was abandoned by the Outer God.
He wasn’t even chosen by the newly chosen one.
Even the disciples he had nurtured for over a thousand years were all dead.
But he….
“I survived. I survived again.”
As expected, yes, I knew it would be like this.
I survive.
Isn’t he the one who survived amidst countless crises during that long time?
Until the day comes when he ascends to the great divine rank, even by his own power, he will never die.
“That is my fate….”
Stab!
It was then.
From behind his back, a single sword pierced Jonsa’s heart and protruded out of his chest.
“Ku… Kugh….”
When Jonsa turned his head with difficulty, Katherina was there, glaring at him with an exhausted Persona under one arm and stabbing his back with her other hand.
“Y… You bitch….”
Jonsa tried to reach out with his trembling hand.
Katherina looked at such a Jonsa coldly and said.
“It is his revenge.”
And the spirit flames that bloomed from her sword burned Jonsa just like that.
Fwoosh!
Jonsa of the black mages, who had reigned as the patriarch of black mages for a long time and even achieved the revival of the Outer God.
His end was brought about by the hand of Katherina, whom he had once thought of only as a chess piece.
