Curtain Falls
I unsheathed Vendettatein again that I hadn’t been using, and took a stance with it while still in my current state.
I wanted to put my hand on the Vampire Jewel to let it absorb my stamina and use that but, I didn’t have a lot of stamina left anyway, so instead I had to go the mana route as always.
I began pouring the mana stored inside my body into Vendettatein, as the blade began to shine in its usual blood red colour.
Seriously, this ominous look that the sword had during this was something that made my heart race and I’ll never get tired of looking at it.
Now all that’s left——is to swing this sword at Milworc and the ‘hunt’ will soon be over.
I suppressed my inner sadist that wanted to slowly corner him and push him to the edge, and instead I activated [Gale] as I instantly rushed towards Milworc.
He was still holding the rapier in the same stance as before, drawn back like a bow to counter my attack at the right moment.
But I could only laugh at his useless resistance as I approached closer——and the moment I entered the range, I unleashed a slash at him.
And sure enough, Milworc dodged my attacked and then took a step forward towards me, getting close and then fired an upwards thrust aimed at my stomach but……..all of this was well within my predictions.
I twisted my body to avoid a fatal blow from his rapier, and fired a fully powered kick at his own stomach instead.
His bones broke and his flesh tore open.
He must not have seen my frontal kick coming, as Milworc held on to his stomach in pain and lost his balance as he tried to take a couple steps backwards.
Since he was at extremely close range, now he had basically returned back into Vendettatein’s range instead so——–this time I launched a diagonal slash to finally put an end to him.
I swung my sword while laughing so maniacally, I was worried my cheeks might tear open, meanwhile, Milworc seemed to be in extreme panic and looked flustered as he tried to guard with his rapier but………
A thin rapier could never hold itself against a swing from Vendettatein, and my sword ripped through his rapier with almost no resistance——and then continued its trajectory and completely tore Milworc into two.
By pumping mana into the Vendettatein as well, it’s sharpness was even more enhanced so I barely even felt the sensation of the sword cutting through his body.
There was no doubt that this was an exceptional weapon but honestly, the sword’s so good that it can genuinely make its user worse if you were to use it too much. It makes things a bit too easy sometimes.
As I stood over Milworc’s half body that was still flapping its mouth but unable to make any real sound, I didn’t really feel the same sense of exhilaration I felt when I finally killed Bahamut.
I was really having fun in the middle of the fight but, when the finale’s so poor, it retroactively makes the whole experience feel poor.
Having already lost interest in Milworc, I turned away from him since I didn’t have any reason to even look at him again, and instead stared at the members of [Under Eye] that had barged inside the room.
Since the finale to our fight was so utterly shit, I decided I was going to use these guys as my distraction to uplift my mood.
Since I had killed Milworc faster than even the 10 second limit I had given Mielle, she seemed to still be handling them quite easily.
She must be pumping mana continuously to rapid fire one magic after another as it was hard to even see what was happening on that side of the room, and was filled with a bunch of different magic spells being activated.
“Oi, I’m done here, so you can stand back now.”
“[Hail Cudgel]!——wait what, you’re done already!? Did you even need me to buy time??”
“Whatever, just stop with your magic barrage already, and leave the rest to me.”
I made her stop using her magic spells, and waited for the cold and smoke from the spells to dissipate.
Seeing their reactions, a bunch of their members had taken fatal damage but overall, they still seemed quite alive and kicking.
I couldn’t stop my laughter just thinking about how I’ll get to go on a murderous rampage by killing over a dozen people but, whenever I’m about to have fun like this, it was annoying how my own conscience would still try to get in the way and pour cold water over my enthusiasm.
——-these fuckers are all criminals of the worst kind that don’t deserve to live, and also, Ralf and Esta were still fighting in the other building.
Arguing with my own conscience, I convinced myself as I took my stance with Vendettatein and got ready to rush into them.
Hoping to at least enjoy a little bit of cutting through humans, I stopped pouring mana into the sword to return it to its normal form, and with that, I was finally ready.
My conscience seemed to have given up and disappeared as well, and I was literally jumping in place out of excitement to go and cut them down——–and the moment my vision cleared, I activated [gale] and lunged into the crowd.
First, I started with the guys that were already hurt badly by Mielle. Before they could even say anything, I killed them with a single swing of my sword.
………even though I had stopped the flow of mana and using the sword in its normal form, these scrubs were so weak that I still barely felt any sensation even after cutting through their bodies.
Since Mielle’s barrage had already rendered them unable to fight, in a matter of seconds, I had already murdered every last one of them inside the room.
I was hoping to fix my mood, but they were so fucking weak that I was left feeling even more disappointed than when I killed Milworc. Give me my excitement back damnit!
I almost wanted to sigh out loud but, seeing the faces of the members that were still standing outside the room, my mood changed again.
As the cold, dust and smoke finally settled completely, the scene of me standing in the middle of a dozen corpses as well as the torn up body of Milworc behind me became completely visible.
The members were all eager to capture us since they had a huge advantage of numbers but now, their faces suddenly turned and twisted into that of clouded confusion and fear.
——–Now THIS is what I had been waiting for!!
Will they run? Or will they come into the room to fight me?
But I didn’t even let them choose, as I instantly rushed towards them, and began chopping their heads off one by one. Seeing their vanguard fall like that, the members behind them instantly turned to run away.
But the guys who were at the complete back couldn’t see properly and didn’t understand what was happening, so it turned into a huge pandemonium between people trying to run back down and people who wanted to rush inside the room.
Just seeing the chaos had my body trembling with happiness, as I once again began to hunt the remnant survivors of [Under Eye].
