Free Web NovelChapter 91: Chapter 68: My Fury Is Greater Than Yours! Haymaker
The curse of Avernus, like a restless specter, whispered ceaselessly in the depths of Reinhardt’s soul.
Slaughter.
Rage.
Corruption.
An eternal, mighty power called to him, trying to drag him into absolute madness, to slaughter every living thing in his sight!
But this voice, which could corrupt all creation, was utterly incapable of shaking Reinhardt’s unyielding, steel-like will.
Everything he had once endured.
Sacrifice.
Transmigration and rebirth.
A childhood filled with hardship and hunger.
Years as a refugee, woven from death and depravity. freēwebnovel.com
The humiliating deaths of his Knight Tutor and his Battle Group comrades amidst conspiracy and betrayal.
All this cruelty, all this pressure, had never once eroded his courage or his spirit.
Just as he had sworn in his Knight’s Oath before the Radiant Holy Image while serving in the Iron Blood Battle Group, he would live as a human, and he would die as a human.
The world of humanity didn’t need a savior, because everyone who fought for it was a savior.
In that instant, the aftershocks of Reinhardt’s soul resisting the corruption of Avernus caused the reflection of the Abyss projected onto the real world to tremble and collapse!
The dying sun flickered.
The inverted river of blood, having lost the guidance of the Mighty Power, crashed to the ground. freewёbnoνel.com
The blood altar, as grand as a palace, also began to crack and crumble amidst the tremors.
The sky shattered. The light of dawn from the real world shone through the cracks, bathing Reinhardt in its warmth and tranquility.
His hair, long since matted with crimson and crusted blood, now radiated a faint, silvery luminescence under the dawn’s light.
This faint, silvery light.
To the eyes of the Demons and Mages, it was more blinding than the noonday sun. They howled and fell to their knees, crying out in unbearable agony.
This faint, silvery light.
When it fell upon the eyes of the Radiant Angels and Imperial Knights, the shock and solemn awe in their hearts was beyond description.
For this was recorded in the Great Unity Scripture: a sign of the Divine Emperor’s favor, granted only to the purest, most loyal, and bravest of humans.
A Miracle of Radiance—!
Even stained by demonic blood and trapped in a hopeless situation, the surviving Angels of the Steel Wings Mobile Combat Team still knelt piously on one knee.
The Knights of Dark Gold Blood raised their weapons, their soaring battle cries invigorating the heart!
Only Sedon remained aloof, his expression cold and steady, but the slight, uncontrollable tremble in his dark pupils betrayed the monstrous waves crashing within his soul!
In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through his mind.
’This Empire.’
’Since its founding, there has only ever been one Divine Emperor, and there will only ever be one Divine Emperor.’
’The wielder of the Radiant Holy Sword is the chosen child of the Divine Emperor, the nominal Lord of the Empire, the one they respectfully call "Your Highness".’
’But in the end, they are just names in the Empire’s long history. They are mere mortals, stripped of their humanity, possessing only the Knight Power of a Radiant—tools to keep this vast Empire from collapsing.’
’Until the fifth Lord of the Empire and his brother were born into this world, goaded Ludwig into an expedition to the Dark Abyss, leading to the loss of the Holy Sword and the division of the Empire...’
Sedon had never truly respected anyone. He was born in the highest echelons of the Empire, looking down upon its vastness and its trillions of subjects.
His vision was filled with only one thing: the interests of the Empire.
It was only natural for individuals to sacrifice and bleed for the Empire’s sake—including himself.
Even the Lord of the Empire was merely a lucky soul favored by the Holy Sword, a tool for the great Divine Emperor to achieve the grand undertaking of restoring the Empire.
But after the battle with Reinhardt, after witnessing this Miracle of Radiance, he was beginning to understand why the Empire was founded, and what its other cornerstone was. It was something that, for all his life spent at the apex of power, he could never have grasped.
The courage of mortals.
This scene, like an epic scroll painting, was reflected in Sedon’s eyes.
Swarms of Demons howling in agony.
Imperial Knights kneeling in pious reverence.
The dawn piercing the darkness. The young Knight, with his body of flesh and blood, holding back the Abyssal Great Demon, fiercely unafraid of death! In this moment, he was the incarnation of the Empire’s wrath!
Reinhardt.
"ROAR—!"
The roar of the Furious Great Demon Hekatos, wrapped in the maddest darkness and bloodlust, dispelled all light and hope that tried to shine into the Abyss.
Its heaven-scorching fury churned the river of blood!
It had never felt such a soaring will to fight, for it smelled the blood of a strong opponent.
Hekatos stared at the god-chosen human who excited it, its cavernous maw splitting into a terrifying arc—the satisfied smile of a Great Demon.
Its dull, cold laughter was soul-stealing.
"I am Hekatos, the Furious One, under the command of the supreme Avernus. It has been far too long since a human could truly ignite my rage. Human, your skull will be displayed in my palace, and your blood will be used to please my master."
The Demon Language was long and complex, with an ominous power flowing through every word, but Reinhardt clearly understood the meaning Hekatos intended to convey.
His face was filled with rage.
His ever-climbing Knightly Aura was even beginning to surpass the Seven-star Military Rank! A dark red mist of blood, like a blazing fire, shot toward the sky, erupting with a terrifying, roaring shockwave!
When this aura reached its peak, Reinhardt’s eyes blazed with a fury so intense it felt as if they would split. He would answer the Great Demon’s mockery and death sentence with this boundless rage!
He stared directly into Hekatos’s eyes.
"But my rage is greater than yours! Demon—!"
Combat Skill—Deliberate Punch!
The sky-high blood mist abruptly contracted, converging entirely upon Reinhardt’s left arm.
A dark red boundary, formed from the aftershocks of overflowing power, completely enveloped Hekatos’s head.
BOOM—!
The terrifying Knight Power, like a giant cannonball, slammed into the Great Demon’s head. Before this unparalleled destructive force, Hekatos’s massive skull exploded like a shattered watermelon!
Shattered bone and flesh, mixed with broken spikes and Demon’s Horns, burst apart like a firework of death!
The Demons.
And the Knights of the Empire.
When they saw Reinhardt straddling the Abyssal Great Demon, his one punch obliterating the profane creature’s head, the entire battlefield fell into absolute, dead silence!
Even the most steadfast of Knights would have their souls disturbed by the evil Mighty Power emanating from an Abyssal Great Demon’s body, let alone witness something as horrifyingly unheard-of as tearing a Great Demon apart by hand.
Albert, who had been standing stunned at the Great Demon’s feet, had witnessed the entire event. When the Great Demon’s blood splattered onto his face, he snapped awake, dashing forward to catch the falling Reinhardt.
Deliberate Punch.
Reinhardt’s final trump card.
As a price, this Combat Technique drained all of his Knight Power. Once used, there was no turning back.
He was now too weak to even stand steadily.
Albert supported him, weaving quickly past the stunned Demons, crossing Baihe Town to rendezvous with the main force.
With the greatest speed of his life, he took out the military order and handed it to Sedon.
But even after receiving the retreat order from the Military Affairs Department, with the Great Demon’s head shattered and the creature deader than dead, he still couldn’t see a single trace of relief on the faces of his superiors, Sedon and Heinrich. They just stared grimly at the Great Demon’s headless corpse.
In fact, the veterans who had served longer than him were also staring at the Great Demon’s headless corpse with the same grave expressions.
Heinrich removed his battered helmet, tightened his grip on his Dragon-Hunting Giant Spear, and strode past the two to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Sedon. He gazed at the Great Demon’s corpse as if facing a formidable foe.
"Take care of him, Angel."
