Chapter 258
RMSBS - Episode 258 . Divide and Conquer (8)
*WHIP*
The moment the wyvern army approached the ice barrier, Callithus noticed that the speed of their descent was alarmingly fast .
He soon discovered the reason .
A downdraft current was blowing . One so strong that it could not possibly be natural .
It was as if the current was trying to pin them to the ground .
“Huh?”
And thus, the tragedy began .
Right before the wyvern army arrived, the hundreds of ice shields that Adjest materialized started to shatter simultaneously .
One of those pieces grazed Callithus’s armor .
*CLANG*
Only a single fragment had brushed past him, but the Fourth-Circle magic that had been enchanted on the armor broke immediately .
It was strange . Even considering the acceleration, there was no way that a single ice fragment could be that destructive .
Callithus squinted his eyes . He quickly realized that the tens of thousands of ice shards rushing towards the wyvern army were all glowing faintly .
“Is that… … ?”
Callithus’s breath caught in his throat . He could not believe his very eyes .
If his knowledge was correct, there was no doubt as to what this was .
‘Aura… … !’
Magic lay squarely in the domain of magicians, and aura in the domain of knights . A man of mediocrity would have a hard time mastering just one of those domains .
But the woman in front of him had mastered both .
This was a feat only possible for Adjest Kingscrown, humanity’s strongest magical swordsman .
“KYAAAK!”
“HRAAAAGH!”
The sky, filled with a mixture of human and wyvern screams, quickly morphed into hell .
The wyvern army had flown into the field of aura-imbued shards, and just like that, they were torn apart .
Rapidly increasing their altitude and then suddenly diving to avoid the sniper had led to their demise .
From their perspective, tens of thousands of blade-like shards, each infused with aura, had just come flying at them from nowhere . No knight or magician could withstand such an absurd attack .
Watching his troops getting torn to pieces, Callithus spoke in a dazed voice .
“This is absurd . ”
Those were his final words .
Swept away by countless shards of ice, Callithus was torn asunder along with the wyvern that he was riding .
From the sky rained not just the wyvern unit’s artillery attacks, but their blood and guts .
* * *
Pittsburgh’s Central Square .
Leaving the dragon-shaped fountain between them, the Side Guard and Janissaries confronted each other .
The atmosphere of the two groups was quite different .
While the Side Guard prepared for battle like cold robots, the Janissaries bore eyes of wild beasts that could not contain their excitement .
Raphaello swallowed a laugh at the absurdity in the stark contrast between the two groups .
The Royal Guard and the Janissaries .
Naturally, with the hundreds of years of war between Hebrion and Divide, the two groups had continuously competed for the position of the strongest on the continent .
These two groups were both knight-centric, serving the Hebrion Empire’s Imperial Family and Divide’s Royal Family respectively, making them the national pride and the symbol of strength for their countries .
This was a showdown between two groups claiming to be the continent’s strongest .
“Get ready for battle . ”
Starting with leader Brepon, the Janissaries all summoned their aura at the same time . The result was an extreme suppressive force bearing down on the area and its surroundings .
The Side Guard, apparently unphased by such a display, drew their weapons and aimed them at the Janissaries .
After a brief pause, they charged at each other with no regard to who moved first .
*BANG*
*CRASH*
The two groups collided into each other fiercely, causing deafening roars to ring out in all directions .
The spacious square was instantly destroyed as aura coated weapons clanged against each other and magic exploded .
It was a fierce battle .
The Janissaries only had a few dozen people, but these troops were all knights strong enough to be commanders of any regular formation .
On the other hand, the Side Guard’s knights were less powerful, but they made up for it with their outstanding teamwork with high-ranking magicians .
They were two groups with vastly different compositions, but they both fought neck and neck .
They were locked in a tense battle where neither side indicated any willingness to yield .
However, the longer the battle continued, it was the Side Guard who would have the disadvantage . Their magicians would slowly run out of mana, and the Janissaries would likely triumph in a battle of pure swordsmanship . Even so, the Side Guard continued fighting calmly .
They could fight fearlessly thanks to the presence of a man, who was currently fighting at the forefront of the battle alongside them .
*CLANG*
Raphaello stared ahead as he rotated the aura that wrapped around Gram .
Five swords rushed towards him .
Strong teamwork multiplied the power that any individual held by several times . And if that teamwork was between the best of the best, there was nothing more to say about the power they could wield .
The Janissary knights moved, thinking that it would be impossible even for a King-Class swordsman to block this attack .
But instead, Raphaello took a step forward .
During the slight moment while the Janissaries were taken aback, Raphaello’s sword moved .
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