Control Sword With Chi.
Kail Meyer’s secret technique of handling the Aura Blade summoned outside his body.
A skill inspired by the Holy Weapon Kaines’ finishing move, this absurd finishing move creates a new sword outside the body and has never been countered before.
From the enemy’s perspective, it feels like fighting ten Aura Masters at once. Naturally, one hand can’t handle ten.
Even if an Aura Master can see the future, it doesn’t mean they can easily dodge this.
“─Ugh!”
Dewn barely twisted his body to avoid losing limbs or getting pierced by Aura Blades, then rolled on the ground and quickly escaped that spot.
Just as he had ‘seen’ in his ‘future,’ the Aura Blades summoned by Kail plunged into the spot where he had been standing.
Seeing the Aura Blades piercing through the earth and hiding underground, Dewn’s eyes widened considerably.
‘Thousand-Mile Eye-!’
The energy of the sky. His two eyes that read the Heavenly Qi foresee their own future. Dozens of Aura Blades pierce all over his body.
There’s no need to ponder how to avoid them. If you know where the blade will strike, an Aura Master can perfectly evade the attack.
However, after evading several times, Dewn realized that he would simply wither away like this.
‘It’s only a matter of time.’
In this one-sided attack situation, the advantage of reading the future is pretty useless among fellow Aura Masters.
Knowing what kind of attack the opponent will make is a skill any decent Aura Master possesses.
In fact, hadn’t Dewn lost to another Aura Master, Uunosu, and failed to become the successor sorcerer? Of course, even if he had won against her, he wouldn’t have become the grand warrior.
‘I can’t escape with my power alone.’
Realizing this, Dewn quickly fled the village. Kail, worried about the bothersome spears that would keep flying if he increased the distance, started following him.
That was fine. Dewn prayed he wouldn’t die before reaching there and ran blindly.
* * *
‘That bastard’s running.’
Kail sighed watching the guy leave. He wanted to stay and hunt barbarians, but he left that to Merlin and Rizelotte.
Rather than worrying about a mage losing 1-on-1 against an Aura Master, he realized it would be faster for him to follow and deal with the barbarian warriors while the two mages teleported to him after clearing them out.
“I’ll go too.”
“Yuri, you too?”
“Yeah.”
Yuri followed behind him. The two masters waved reassuringly.
Thinking it didn’t really matter, Kail followed the unknown barbarian along with Yuri.
While chasing, they occasionally shot Aura Blades and magic, but even with their backs turned, their ability to see the future remained intact; not a single attack landed.
“This is really annoying.”
If they faced off directly, whether they saw the future or not, he could kill them instantly. But when an Aura Master starts running while seeing the future, there’s no way to stop them.
No chain in the world could bind an unharmed Aura Master; it was only natural.
After running so far, the guy stopped at the entrance of a hill and glared at Kail and Yuri.
“Finally stopped.”
Kail smirked and threw his sword towards the guy. However, the guy made no reaction and quietly stood there to receive Kail’s Aura Blade.
Considering how sharp his reactions were when seeing the future, this was unbelievable. Kail glared at the guy as if asking what the hell he was doing.
“……What is this now?”
“Cough─! Damn invaders… just die already…”
The guy, bleeding profusely and collapsing on the ground, started scratching the ground with his fingers. Kail stomped on his hand to prevent movement and, fearing he might revive again, confirmed the kill by cutting his neck.
The guy, who was an Aura Master, only ran away and ended up taking his own life without resistance, which secretly troubled Kail.
‘Something feels uneasy.’
Usually, in such cases, something was being hidden. The reason for luring Kail here at the cost of his life…
“─Kail.”
“Huh, what?”
“Run.”
At that moment, Yuri, sensing something, began trembling violently. It couldn’t be cold since she was sweating profusely.
Considering she was a master of ice magic and a four-star mage capable of regulating her body temperature, trembling from cold was impossible. Hadn’t she been fine until now?
Something else was making her tremble.
Kuuuuuuuung─!!
“What.”
Staggering—Kail regained balance and looked down at the ground.
The earth shook, and the mountain moved. An avalanche occurred on the towering snow-capped mountains, sweeping away countless beasts and monsters living above.
Most people wouldn’t believe that all this happened because one creature “moved.”
“What is that……”
─Gueoooo-!
Kail’s expression hardened as he watched the presence slowly raising its head beneath the snow-covered mountain.
Among all the creatures he had seen, it was the most overwhelming in size. Large enough to crush Hecatoncheires, whose battlefield spanned dozens of meters, like bugs.
A dragon hundreds of meters tall poked its face out.
─KwaAAAAAAAAANG-!
The dragon roared.
Avalanches began simultaneously erupting in all directions.
The awakened dragon seemed to search for the presence that woke it, turning its head this way and that, and upon spotting Kail and Yuri, hesitated before poking its face closer.
‘Opportunity-.’
Seeing this as the perfect opportunity, Kail swung the Superior Blade, condensed with all the Aura he could use, not just an Aura Blade.
Cracks began forming on the dragon’s head where the blade touched, and the contacted area shattered completely, falling to the ground in chunks.
If it were an ordinary creature, this alone would have inflicted a fatal injury. But for a dragon whose head alone was over ten meters, it wasn’t enough.
─KuoOOOOOOO-!
“Damn it-!”
Seeing the dragon roar, whether in pain or anger, Kail quickly took Yuri and fled the scene.
Watching the two fleeing far away, the dragon flapped its wings. Ice wings spanning dozens of meters unfolded, lifting the enormous dragon’s body higher than most mountains into the sky.
Flap─!
The soaring Ice Dragon chased after Kail’s group.
A legend slumbering at the end of the world stirs.
* * *
“Is this the end─?”
Merlin looked around, seeing the barbarian warriors falling to his magic. The surroundings were filled with warriors felled by the two mages’ spells.
This was inevitable since all the young and strong warriors had volunteered for the Great Wall invasion. The warriors left here were either tribal guards prepared for unforeseen circumstances or old soldiers unable to exert full strength.
Confirming all the warriors had fallen, Merlin cautiously detected remaining people with his magic power and found women, children, and elders trembling inside tents.
“Hmm… Even though they’re barbarians, laying hands on a child seems a bit much?”
Whether Merlin’s words held any meaning, the woman hugging and trembling protectively over a child swiftly swung a burning stick.
Perhaps it was true they were a tribe of warriors; even mothers raising children were warriors. Merlin knocked out the charging barbarian woman with his staff and sighed deeply, checking for any hidden warriors.
“None left.”
Exiting after checking all the tents, Merlin tilted his head seeing Rizelotte bringing out an old man.
He couldn’t understand why she brought out an elder with no detectable magical power.
“Let me go─! Let go! You disrespectful brat!”
“Aah- So noisy. Won’t you be quiet? Kid?”
“Kid? You little brat!”
“Sorry, but I’m several times older than you?”
Hearing Rizelotte’s words, Merlin chuckled. Most women were sensitive about their age, but she revealed hers without hesitation, perhaps due to maintaining youth with magic power.
Or maybe claiming to be hundreds of years old carried some mystique compared to mere decades.
“Why the old man?”
“This elder is a shaman.”
“Shaman?”
“E, eeh! Let go! Damn outsiders!”
The elder’s claim to be a shaman changed Merlin’s gaze. Some belittled shamanism as an inferior practice unworthy of magic, but Merlin didn’t think so.
Shamanism communicates with heaven and earth spirits to perform miracles with minimal power. Though not frequently usable, even an elder’s strength could change the weather—a feat challenging even for a mage like Merlin, considering the ridiculous cost.
And not knowing what a shaman might do, it was best to eliminate them. Thinking this, Merlin raised his staff when the slightly deranged elder’s eyes sharpened.
“─So be it. Dewn.”
“This old hag, suddenly her eyes…”
“Aah, forgive me, Spirit. Please quell your wrath.”
Kuuuuuung…!
The earth trembled. Simultaneously, an immense magical power was felt. Sensing the flow, the two turned their heads from the elder toward the distant direction of the tremor.
The snow mountain collapsed, and avalanches swept across the land.
Blizzards raged like storms, and within the storm, a dragon appeared.
“Please, be satisfied with our lives alone.”
With the elder’s words and the magical power emanating from the dragon, the two mages swiftly ran towards the dragon.
That was a being capable of annihilating this world.
