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Chapter 412: 409 Sword Saint

Chapter 412: 409 Sword Saint

After leaving Pismi’s warship.

The leather jacket girl and the clerical youth arrived at the entrance to the Extreme Cold Secret Realm one after another.

Standing a few dozen meters away from the entrance, the leather jacket girl Eliya turned and looked at the clerical youth.

“Do you feel it? The entrance facility that guy mentioned!”

“I can’t feel anything, but it should be there. He wouldn’t lie to us about this kind of thing!”

The clerical youth, Wang Yase, said as he raised his hand and fired at the entrance opposite him.

A pure gold cross crashed down, smashing towards the entrance and exit of the Secret Realm.

At the same time the cross fell, an extremely intense black unfolded and directly shattered the cross.

“Is it really there? Or is it an Evil Energy defense?

Can the Evil Energy defense block your attack so easily?”

Eliya was startled and launched an attack herself.

A crescent moon slammed down towards the black protection, just like the previous cross, both Epic 0 Star-level attacks, but still unable to cause any damage to the black protection.

“It’s very strong; it must be at the Epic 1-star level, and possibly even higher. This is going to be troublesome!”

They didn’t have much confidence that they could break through this level of defense.

But it had to be done!

Without breaking this open, they wouldn’t even be able to enter the Secret Realm, let alone anything else.

Eliya and Wang Yase looked at each other and simultaneously summoned their beasts.

As two beams of light flared, two Summoned Beasts appeared out of nowhere.

On Eliya’s side, the Summoned Beast was a Dark Moon Elf with double wings on its back and dark purple skin.

On Wang Yase’s side, the Summoned Beast was an Angel that Lu Wu had seen once during the university league.

What was different was that the Angel Lu Wu saw back then was a Six-winged Angel, while the one that Wang Yase had now had an additional two pairs of wings, reaching the Ten-wing Level.

“Let’s get started!”

After summoning their beasts, the two didn’t waste words and got straight to it!

The Dark Moon Elf levitated, back facing the sky, hands stretching forth as a Dark Moon Longbow appeared out of thin air. As the Dark Moon Elf drew the bow and nocked an arrow, a crescent moon appeared behind her.

The Ten-winged Angel spread its wings, eyes fixed on the black barrier, and a burst of Holy Light erupted from behind, with a massive Light Warhammer, full of a sense of divinity and majesty, materializing out of nothing.

“Dark Moon Arrow!”

“Holy Light Judgment!”

Two skills of the same level as Lu Wu’s “Divine Judgment” exploded in an instant.

One of the utmost Dark, the other of the utmost Light.

The two forces erupted at a cleverly timed moment and location, surprisingly not only not negating each other but also amplifying the power to a certain extent.

This round of attack was almost the limit of what the two could unleash.

Starting with their Big Moves, it was clear to see how determined they were to break through the dark defense.

But this determination went unanswered.

The wave of attack crashed into the dark defense, not to mention shattering it; it barely caused a ripple.

“How is this possible? When we join forces in this move, not even an Epic 1-star being can withstand it; how could there be no effect at all?”

“What do we do now? If we can’t even break this, how are we going to get in? What about completing the mission…”

“Is this the place?”

Just when Eliya and Wang Yase were frowning, an elderly voice came into question?

“Who?”

Eliya and Wang Yase were startled and looked up together to find two people had appeared above them without their knowledge.

One of them even showed a smile sadder than crying.

“Hi, we meet again!”

If this guy wasn’t Pismi, who could it be?

However, Eliya and the others weren’t focused on Pismi at the moment, their attention was on the old man beside him wearing the unique attire of the 11th District, with a longsword at his waist and exuding an aura of old age.

When they saw him, Eliya and Wang Yase’s pupils contracted.

Being rising stars in their respective organizations who had stepped into the Epic level, they had a very detailed understanding of the Epic-level powerhouses in the Alliance, which also included this old man.

If they hadn’t seen wrongly, this old man in front of them should be the Sword Saint of the 11th District, Sword-drawing Master Yukawa Ryuzo, who was said to have died of old age over twenty years ago.

“He was supposed to be dead, right? How could he be here? And with Pismi?”

Eliya and the others were filled with questions, yet Yukawa Ryuzo didn’t pay attention to them.

“Evil Energy Shield, it seems he really is inside!”

He walked forward and slowly drew the longsword from his waist, the sword point quivering as he stabbed towards the black protection weakly.

The sword had no aura of might to speak of, even making one worry if the old man would die before he could stab out.

But as the sword pierced forward and gently touched the barrier, the previously unbreakable protection Eliya and Wang Yase had attacked showed a point.

Subsequently, a light crackling sound arose, and cracks began to spread endlessly.

Immediately after, the black protection simply shattered in front of a dumbstruck Eliya and Wang Yase.

“Let’s go!”

Yukawa Ryuzo sheathed his sword and, along with an unwilling-looking Pismi at his side, entered Ice Hell.

He didn’t glance at Eliya and the others from beginning to end.

The two of them didn’t dare breathe heavily until after Yukawa Ryuzo had entered.

“What a terrifying presence!

This man truly deserves to be called the Sword Saint; despite being heavily injured and encumbered by old age, his strength is still so fearsome. A defense of this level was easily shattered; for beings like us, just one sword stroke from him would probably suffice, right?”

“He must be after Lu Wu and the Fragment!”

This wasn’t good news for Eliya and the others.

It meant that an already challenging mission now faced a significant new variable. They were supposed to wrest it from Lu Wu, but now they might have to confront Yukawa Ryuzo directly, with the difficulty of the mission greatly increased.

Despite this, Eliya and Wang Yase did not back down, following closely into Ice Hell.

No matter what or who they faced and whatever the difficulties, they had to complete this mission!

In comparison, Pismi’s resolve was lacking by a great deal.

He had no intention of undertaking the mission.

If possible, he would have preferred to stay on the warship, for although he was a military enthusiast, he was a faux enthusiast.

Not one who took command and service as a sacred duty or fought for humanity.

What he yearned for was a bit more retrograde—a King.

A King he could admire and serve wholeheartedly.

If there was a king who was willing to give his all in battle, he would have found such struggles comfortable before the king’s birth.

Like the current situation, he absolutely didn’t want to get involved.

Sadly, fate liked to toy with him, and whether he wanted to or not, he had to get involved.

“Where is the person?”

Upon entering Ice Hell, Yukawa Ryuzo immediately turned to Pismi, his sword already at his throat before asking again, clearly understanding Pismi’s uncooperative nature unless faced with violence.

This tactic worked well on Pismi, who, with a sword at his throat, immediately became energetic.

“Just wait for me, I’ll check for you right away!”

As he spoke, Pismi took out a set of equipment from his space ring and with a slight motion, thirteen bird-shaped robots took to the sky, and he quickly set up the central command system in a very short time.

In less than three minutes, a scouting system was built and began operating.

Around two hours later, the first wave of scouting had findings.

But Pismi wasn’t ready to disclose them.

On one hand, he didn’t know if revealing the information would leave him valueless and lead to his death.

On the other hand, he didn’t want to get involved in this matter.

If he revealed the location and Yukawa Ryuzo killed Lu Wu, he certainly couldn’t escape retaliation from Lu Wu’s father and the conspirators behind Lu Wu.

If Yukawa Ryuzo failed and was killed by Lu Wu instead, he wouldn’t fare any better.

Pismi, who had reviewed Lu Wu’s profile and analyzed it, knew quite well that the guy held grudges.

He definitely wouldn’t be let off!

So he wanted to delay, not wishing to get involved.

But just as he had this thought, Yukawa Ryuzo’s sword was at his throat.

“Have you found something?”

“No…” Pismi subconsciously shook his head, but as Yukawa Ryuzo’s eyebrows lifted, the pressure of the sword increased, and Pismi’s scalp felt like exploding. He immediately nodded, “Yes, yes, yes!”

Only then did Yukawa Ryuzo lower his sword.

“Speak!”

With the sword no longer at his neck, Pismi grew bolder, “Let’s make a deal. I’ll tell you the location, and you go by yourself, okay… I’ll take you, I’ll take you, isn’t this better? Can you not always threaten with a sword? I get scared easily!”

In the end, Pismi had no choice but to reluctantly stand up and lead Yukawa Ryuzo to the location he had discovered.

“Let’s go, follow them!”

As Pismi and his party left, Eliya, who had been secretly watching them for two hours from the shadows, was about to lead Wang Yase to follow when she noticed Wang Yase hadn’t moved.

“What are you waiting for, let’s go!”

“Look over there!”

Eliya was startled and followed the direction Wang Yase pointed to, noticing that a mechanical rat had appeared there out of nowhere.

At that moment, the mechanical rat started running in the opposite direction to Pismi and his group.

“What’s this?”

“It’s from Pismi, follow the mechanical rat!”

Eliya then realized, “Pismi kept a trick up his sleeve, did he give us Lu Wu’s real location?

It seems we wrongly accused him before. Maybe he’s not as indifferent as he appears; he actually cares about this mission, about the safety of all humanity, so that’s why he did this!”

No, you’re overthinking it!

Pismi wasn’t here, but if he were, he would surely have responded this way.

Of course, his reaction wasn’t snobbishness; he truly wasn’t that noble.

He deliberately left Eliya and the others a clue, not out of high-mindedness, but simply because he didn’t want to face Lu Wu.

He felt that if he had to face Lu Wu, his life would certainly be at risk.

So he reported Lu Wu’s location to Eliya and the rest, letting them go after Lu Wu.

These two definitely wouldn’t be able to take down Lu Wu, but they could scare him off and force him to reveal himself.

Once Lu Wu was exposed, Yukawa Ryuzo on Pismi’s side would surely chase after him immediately, and with no time to pay attention to him, Pismi would be able to smoothly extract himself from the vortex and return to his battleship to resume his music and dance.

…

On Eliya’s side.

Following the mechanical mouse, they ran fifty miles north towards the entrance of Extreme Cold Hell.

The further they went, the more confident Eliya and his people became.

Because along the way, they saw many ruins from fierce battles and Summoned Beast corpses left by the roadside.

From both the ruins and those corpses, they could tell there were signs of bird-like combat.

And as far as they knew, Lu Wu had such a bird among his Summoned Beasts.

“Turns out Pismi was right; Lu Wu entered this Secret Realm indeed seeking to break through to the Epic Level.

Judging by these ruins and corpses, he and his Summoned Beast are undergoing rigorous and cruel training, and the results are quite impressive; that bird has made great progress, and the last few ruins already possess an aura close to the Epic Level.”

This gave Eliya and Wang Yase a strong sense of urgency.

They had to find Lu Wu before he made the breakthrough to the Epic Level and take him down before Yukawa Ryuzo on the other side noticed.

Otherwise, both they and Pismi on Yukawa Ryuzo’s side would be in danger.

“The moment we see Lu Wu, we go all out immediately!”

“Understood!”

Just as the two nodded in agreement, a violent fluctuation suddenly came from ahead, and they knew they had found Lu Wu.

Sure enough, not far in front of them, an ice-blue bird was battling a group of Frost Giants.

When they arrived, the battle was nearing its end.

The ice-blue bird delivered a violent peck, piercing through the largest Frost Giant Bear’s heart; the Extreme Cold Beam erupted, instantly shattering the Frost Giant Bear, and the ice-blue bird swallowed its heart in one gulp.

This burst of action made Eliya and his companions involuntarily gasp in shock.

With a move that instantly killed a King-level, 3 stars peak Frost Giant Bear, the ice-blue bird’s power had definitely reached Epic 0 Star level.

But that was also okay.

The ice-blue bird was only at Epic 0 Star level, still within their capability to handle.

Moreover, they noticed something unusual about Lu Wu’s state, as he was frozen throughout the fight and continuously held by the ice-blue bird, never joining the battle.

“Lu Wu must also be absorbing energy in preparation for his breakthrough, and it seems they haven’t noticed us, which is an opportunity for us.

Let’s wait until that bird completely finishes the fight and lowers its guard before we attack.

Concentrate the attack on Lu Wu and ensure we take him down with one strike!”

At this moment, Han truly hadn’t realized he was being targeted.

After settling the battle, he contentedly placed Lu Wu in the cold pool of the Frost Giant’s territory, and as soon as Han let go of Lu Wu, the attack came…