Abandoned by my Childhood Friend, I Became a War Hero

93 – Beast Commander #2

Boom! Bang! Bang!!

With each swing of his claw, Leonos dented the steel deck floor with the impact it received.

The airship couldn’t stand it if it went on like this, so Ion had to constantly move and fight.

Looking at that figure, Heimlich also became impatient.

“Kuh… ! Why… !”

In fact, it was already impossible to achieve the original plan. In any case, since everything was discovered, the situation was a one-shot situation, and in order not to damage the master, at least the third princess had to be dealt with on the spot.

I didn’t expect this situation where the evil spirit protects the 3rd princess, but I thought that if only the princess were eliminated, even the evil spirit would not be able to do anything anymore.

There was a possibility that he would take revenge on the imperial family, but in that case he would be branded a traitor and would only become an enemy of the empire. According to the analysis of the malevolence so far, there was a judgment that such a situation would be avoided.

So, even though he had been pretending to fight the beast and giving orders to kill the princess at the opportunity, Leonos did not show any reaction.

Is it possible that the connection is lost and I can’t hear my voice? Eventually Heimlich opened his mouth and shouted.

“Kill the princess! Don’t fight the beast, kill the princess!”

At that, Leonos let out a furious roar.

“Shut up! I choose who I fight with!!”

Leonos swung his claws vigorously.

The wind cut through the air like a blade and stretched toward Heimlich.

“Uh… ?”

Heimlich, who was already incapacitated by internal injuries and excessive bleeding, was not in a state to avoid it.

Suddenly!

In the end, Heimlich died with his neck, chest, and waist split in half and divided into quarters. He was an instant death with no time to leave a will.

It was the death of the director of the Ministry of Information who controlled all the information of the empire and a master class that did not exceed 100 in the empire, but the noble sacrifice or great mission he longed for did not exist at all. It was an absurd ending.

Already both Ion and Leonos were running at each other, clashing their weapons violently, not caring the least about his death.

“At that time, you were a beast thirsting for blood! I didn’t look back at myself, I fought only to kill! How are you now!? We are fighting to protect someone! Be careful! Be careful! That’s weakened!”

Ion thrust his spear forward and Leonos slashed his claws down. A shockwave exploded and the steel deck split apart like a spider’s web.

The impact of the shock wave pushed both of them back and the battle lulled for a while.

“Maybe.”

“Kreur… what?”

“I might have become weak because I tried to fight to protect it.”

Ion only slightly moved his eyes and looked behind him. There, Elizabeth was watching him with a tense expression.

To be honest, Elisabeth was still a difficult student to grasp her true intentions, and Ion had some doubts about her.

Elisabeth treated everyone kindly, regardless of her rank or status. But what difference does she make after all between a person who is equally kind to everyone and someone who is equally unkind to everyone? Sometimes she wondered if Elizabeth’s standards for judging others might be a little different from other people’s.

But even so, the instructor had a duty to protect the students.

Ion looked forward again and said.

“But it doesn’t feel too bad.”

Leonos’ expression contorted with anger.

“This is disappointing… How foolish my adversary is! Yeah, I wanted to enjoy this fight as long as possible, but I can’t help it. Let’s put an end to it now!”

Gooh-

A rough breath burst through Leonos’s molars, and black magic surged in response to his emotions. His eyes were red, and the air around him was slowly shaking.

Ion knew what that was.

Beast Commander Leonos’ martial arts.

Artiglio Tempesta.

A slashing storm that rips everything apart. Originally, it was spread with the storm sword ‘Stormkarg’, but if you use it with your bare hands, it won’t be much different from the existing power.

If Leonos unleashes martial arts, there won’t be any airships left. Everything will be torn to pieces, leaving only shards of scrap metal and handfuls of blood.

“… ….”

The reason Ion didn’t use magic was that people were reluctant to use black magic, but there was another reason that was more important than that.

That’s why I wanted to avoid using magic to the end, but it was impossible to conclude a settlement with a corps commander-level enemy in a short period of time without using it.

It was a moment when a decision was needed.

Ion took a deep breath. The tip of Ezetus’ spear pointed at Ion’s heart. Elisabeth’s eyes widened at this sudden suicide attempt, and Leonos growled, fangs baring.

In an instant, Ezetus’ spear blade pierced Ion’s heart deeply.

Soon after, a terrible scream filled the room.

“Keep it off!!”

The moment the heart was ruptured, a huge amount of mana exploded and black flames rose like a furnace.

Ion’s whole body wrapped in black flames was covered with black armor in detail without the slightest gap, and golden eyes shimmered beyond the only exposed eye sockets of the helmet.

Flicking through the dark flames with his arms, Ion slowly moved forward with the rustle of his armor. Flames simmered along his footsteps.

Elisabeth’s heart sank at the enormous black magic and ominous aura that would never be inferior to her demon corps commander.

Who can think of that person as a hero?

Elizabeth finally found out.

An ominous star. Horrible star.

Why is he called by that nickname by people?

“Are you finally ready to stick? My old adversary-!!”

Leonos let out a ferocious laugh and swung his arms wildly as if to welcome an old friend who had only briefly returned. Leonos must have had two arms, but in that short moment, Elizabeth saw eight arms being swung.

Even that was really fleeting, and the arms already had 16, 32, 64… It was constantly increasing and creating a storm in the skies of the islands. It was a death storm tearing to shreds everything she touched.

Fighting such a king of beasts, the man in black armor quietly lowered his stance with his spear in his hand. And the moment I took a short breath.

Blood flashes raged like a storm.

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An image of absolute destruction that rips everything apart on one side.

One side is an image of absolute nullity that turns everything into nothing.

When grand masters were once regarded as legendary, the outcome of conflicts between opposing martial arts has long been a subject of debate among master classes.

The answer to that was here.

Mugeuk is when strong people who have reached an extremely high level use each other’s strongest image as a technique. Forging one’s image like a sword and unfolding it as a shield is martial arts.

Unsurprisingly, a martial art with a more precise and solid image could push the opponent’s martial arts away.

Elizabeth looked at the spectacle in dismay.

“The storm… Are you dying?”

As Ion swung his spear in all directions against the storm of blades, all the spear blades of Ezetus accurately pierced the point of the storm one by one.

Every time the spear pierced the air, the center, called the eye of the storm, dissipated, causing the storms to collide with each other. The storm that filled the sky was slowly dissipating.

Myeonggyeongsu(明鏡止水). An image of a calm water, where even the huge ripples caused by throwing a rock gradually subside.

The marvelous appearance even felt artistic, like a perfectly working machine without an inch of error.

Soon after, Ion turned the spear rapidly and swung it vigorously toward the last point, and the sound of the air ripping reverberated, and a windless silence unfolded even in this lofty sky.

Perfect windless realm. The bloody spear tip pierced right through Leonos’ heart.

In the stillness full of silence, Leonos vomited blood.

“What I knew… Mugeuk has changed a lot….”

Ion replied in a calm tone.

“Because I had a change of heart.”

“No poles… Was it something that could be learned so easily?”

Leonos raised the corners of his mouth fiercely. It was a laugh that seemed dejected but somewhat relieved.

“I thought I was weak… Wasn’t that Rather, it has become stronger.”

“… ….”

“That power… Right… Armor is not armor… Was it a restraining tool to suppress the power… If you keep that kind of power in your body… I can’t even call myself a human….”

Ezetus, which pierced Leonos’ heart, has the power to cut all magic. That’s why the power of the necromancer that revived him was gradually dissipating and disappearing.

“Kreur… I would have been much stronger at first… Even if the speed of getting stronger… Too fast….”

Leonos looked at the blue sky before the last moment. Unlike the dull sky of the Demon Continent, the sky of the islands was clear and blue.

“This is enough… not bad….”

After his words, Leonos’ body turned into a handful of ashes. The wind that came soon after made the ashes lightly blow away.

Ion added quietly, looking at the ashes that were carried away by the wind.

“… Calm.”

It was a cloudless sky.