Free Web NovelChapter 146: Complicated feelings
I am going to die....
Lukas could feel it coldly. He was going to die if he went into battle again against the sword knight. This was not merely a possibility — it was something that was only moments away from happening.
Without him realizing it, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, slowly sliding down. The hand holding the sword shook like a twig in a storm.
With each step the sword knight took, the aura around its frame rose by several times. At this point, it seemed as if the knight had completely abandoned the idea of a trial. It was now a game of life and death, and it was willing to give its life just to take Lukas down with it.
Even from a distance, Lukas could feel the knight’s stubbornness, and his heart turned cold.
Yeah... I am definitely going to die.
He became certain of it. If he played the game fairly, there was only one ending he could see.
While he was lost in thought, the knight closed the distance.
Both Natasha and the golden chest turned their eyes to Lukas, sharing a single question in their minds:
What happened to him? Why is he not moving?
They did not know what Lukas was thinking. They only saw his body freeze in place, not moving even an inch.
Without doubt, at this moment, the sword knight’s aura made even their hearts palpitate. To them, it looked as if Lukas had simply been frozen in place, completely unable to move.
Meanwhile, seemingly unaffected by everything, the sword knight moved, raising its sword high above its head before slashing down. It was a simple slash without any exaggerated motion, yet the world trembled.
With Lukas and the sword knight at the center, a kilometer-long slash appeared, splitting the ground into two parts. The clouds overhead parted, and the earth shook.
Natasha’s heart almost jumped out of her chest. She was staring blankly, thinking, Why did I take action so fast? If I had also battled, maybe the two of them would have been able to defeat the knight.
The golden chest also looked slightly confused. This was the sword knight’s final attack. If it failed to kill Lukas, the Death God would not forgive him.
However, the golden chest had one doubt.
How could the Death God’s chosen inheritor be defeated so easily?
Even the sword knight watched the spot where Lukas had stood. As its body faded, its eyes were filled with both pride and disappointment.
Pride, because it had defeated its opponent. Disappointment, because its master would have to wait once more for the right inheritor... alas, who asked him to be this demanding?
If he had relaxed his standard just a bit, he might have obtained the true inheritor long ago. But knowing the personality of its master, such a thing would never happen.
Finally, after waiting for a moment, the knight grew disinterested. No longer interested in a person that had already been defeated, it instead focused on the empty space.
Alas, its time had come. In this last moment, it wanted to look at its master’s creation one last time.
A space where even the stars’ energy refused to move... who else but its master could create such an inert space?
However, just as it was looking, the knight noticed something strange. The sparkling particles rising from where it had struck were moving toward the spot where Lukas had stood just a moment ago.
Then, from within the cloud of dust, a void emerged.
"Feeling smug, are we?"
Following the voice, the dust parted, revealing Lukas’s figure. He stood completely unharmed, not a single scratch on his body. As he looked at the dissipating knight, his eyes were filled with annoyance.
He had been watching the knight all this time and had seen the killing intent in its eyes.
The knight also finally reacted. Its mouth opened and shock filled the surrounding air.
"How is this possible... no mortal can survive that attack..."
By the end of those words, the sword knight was trembling intensely. ƒreewebɳovel.com
Lukas no longer paid attention to the sword knight and simply focused on assessing the new knowledge filling his mind. ƒrēewebnovel.com
Now that the sword knight had died, the understanding of One Sword to Rule the World flooded his mind. He realized it was not the complete technique, but rather a locked portion that would only open when his sword comprehension reached a certain level.
It appeared these remaining parts would unlock when he improved his sword understanding to a certain stage.
Then his gaze fell to the pile of broken bones lying beside him. He could not help muttering under his breath.
Thanks for this astral bone vanguard. Without you, I might really have died.
That’s right — Lukas had only survived this crisis because he had summoned the bone vanguard to take the attack for him.
He might not be able to summon much, but there was no one stopping him from summoning the astral bone vanguard. At the very last moment, just as the attack was about to land on him, he had summoned the undead to help.
Now that Lukas had successfully obtained the Sword God’s legacy, the inert space had no point of existence. Slowly, it began to return to normal. Natasha could feel the star energy stirring again, flowing freely.
Before she could blink, everything returned to normal, and the strange space they had been in completely vanished.
Lukas could also sense this. He could not help but mutter in annoyance.
Damn, who would believe I obtained the legacies of two gods? Both of them only gave me trouble. Where are my star crystals, my exotic weapons...
Of course, he was only joking. In his heart, he felt extremely satisfied.
The two techniques, along with Tommy in the bone skull, would take him a long way. The path ahead was long, and he could not even imagine where it would lead.
Both Natasha and Lukas had calmed down, each seeing genuine relief in the other’s eyes. Suddenly, a smile broke out on Lukas’s face.
Who could have thought such a thing would happen? Before coming here, he had been treated like the most wanted villain on earth, and now...
Just how fast the world had changed.
While his thoughts were all over the place, Natasha muttered in a dazed voice:
"What a strange place. We have been inside for days, yet in reality only a few hours seem to have passed."
Lukas heard this and nodded, agreeing inwardly.
To distort the flow of time... this was indeed the Sword God’s doing.
If he had any doubt before, all of it vanished from his heart at this moment.
What he had just experienced was definitely the Sword God’s inheritance.
Time continued to pass. Lukas remained staring at the air with a dazed expression on his face. In his mind, the events from when he first encountered Kaiser Von Maximus to the final battle with the sword knight played again and again on a loop.
He had never in his life faced life-threatening situations so many times in a row. Still, although each one was more difficult than the last, as he survived each of them, his heart filled with confidence, making him more certain of his own abilities. Even without Tommy by his side, he now knew he was someone to be reckoned with.
While he was thinking, he felt a gaze lingering on his body. Turning toward the source of that gaze, he saw the White Knight Guild Master looking at him with a pained expression.
Just one look, and his expression faltered.
The feeling of having his wind almost crushed was still fresh in his mind. To be honest, at this point he wanted nothing more than to make her experience the same feeling, the same humiliation, the same helplessness of being unable to do anything while swallowing his rage.
But whenever he thought about taking action, her open palm flashing in his memory brought his anger back under control.
For how much she had humiliated him, without a doubt she was his enemy... but even then, she had helped him in his lowest moment.
Without realizing it, these thoughts spiraled out of his control. Lukas did not know what to do anymore. In the end, he could only take a deep breath and let those thoughts fade away.
At the next moment, he no longer wanted to think about it too much. Step by step, he started moving, with only one clear goal in his mind. Although he had killed Kaiser, the two guards were still there. He wanted to make sure his friend was still safe.
It would be tragic if, while he was standing here thinking about useless things, his friend suffered.
Natasha looked at him without a change in expression, silently following him from behind. She could feel his complicated emotions and felt guilty about her past actions.
Maybe I was too hasty in the past...
She muttered in a very low voice while looking at his back, and for a moment, a pained look appeared in her eyes.
