Chapter 135: Horus Pt. 4
“Mr. Lee…” Jeong In-Chang said as he looked at Lee Jun-Kyeong. However, it was nearly impossible to hear.
Boom!
With the sound of an explosion came the sound of clashing iron.
Clang!
And finally.
“Aghh!”
Jeong In-Chang’s voice could barely be heard under the din of the screams.
“Mr. Lee!”
As Jeong In-Chang shouted again, Lee Jun-Kyeong looked at him.
The battle had begun.
The Jackals and the Hunters, led by a Hunter named Sekhmet of the Hermopolis branch, were facing off.
Clang! Clash!
Nearby, bandages were colliding with swords made of sand.
Lee Jun-Kyeong and his party fell behind and watched the terrible battle.
"What are we going to do?” Jeong In-Chang asked.
Since Lee Jun-Kyeong wasn’t stepping forward, Jeong In-Chang didn’t step up either.
Inebu, who was fighting with the Jackals on the front lines, glanced over at Lee Jun-Kyeong but said nothing.
Lee Jun-Kyeong's role had ended after saving Horus.
It was far too much to expect Lee Jun-Kyeong and his party to join and aid in the fight for the fate of the Nile.
Lee Jun-Kyeong looked at the war situation and said, "I'm thinking."
He needed to decide whether to join the fight or not. In addition, did he want to stand by Horus or stand on Set’s side?
Although it was true that he had saved Horus, Set hadn’t been hostile to him yet.
Rather, the Hunter had actually shown him favor.
He had the interest of both the person behind Set and Set himself.
‘Their chances of winning…’
Lee Jun-Kyeong tried to gauge the winning side by observing the war situation itself.
Although the battle between the Jackals and the Hunters was being dominated by the Jackals, the Hunters were still holding firm and even winning some clashes at times because of their Heroes, which included Isis, Inebu, Bastet, Numek, and Sekhmet, who stood by their side.
However.
Clash! Clang! Bang!
The most important battle was different.
Horus and Set.
In the most important battle, regardless of who was watching, the result was easy to see.
‘Horus is being pushed back.’
Horus had absorbed part of the power of Madness, but he was being pushed back.
It hadn’t been long since he had woken from the seal.
‘He can't control the power.’
The Hunter hadn’t had a chance to properly deal with his sudden increase in power.
He had just overwhelmed Anubis and dealt with the Hunter earlier, and was only now able to feel the extent of his strength.
Even earlier, he seemed to have been trying to ready himself and familiarize himself with his strength while waiting for the Hunters.
Tear!
But still, his bandages failed to come close to Set’s body.
On the contrary, Set’s sword was different.
Slice! Squelch!
His blade aimed at Horus like a snake and was moving like a living creature,
Little by little, Horus' bandages were tearing.
Set was winning.
“Just how did he…”
Lee Jun-Kyeong was shocked by the aura the Hunter was emitting.
The aura of Set was also the same madness that he and Horus had. Moreover, even with the same madness, Set’s aura was properly condensed, and his utilization of it was perfect.
He was manipulating it more delicately and precisely than Heracles, who was the first one who obtained Madness.
‘He’s going to lose.’
Looking at Horus’ condition, Lee Jun-Kyeong surmised that the Hunter was likely to be defeated at this rate.
Horus was fighting hard, but it was too much for him.
‘If we get involved in this…’
Lee Jun-Kyeong tried to estimate their chances of winning again.
His own physical condition hadn’t recovered yet.
He had gained a huge amount of power, but the power he could display could be at an even lower level than what he could have shown before at this point.
Still, eventually, he made his decision.
“We will join the battle,” he said.
The party’s gazes turned to Lee Jun-Kyeong.
They knew that Lee Jun-Kyeong was deciding on a side to join.
Set.
Or Horus.
“We will follow whatever decision you made, Mr. Lee.”
As Lee Jun-Kyeong was pondering for a moment.
“Keugahh!!”
Behind him, there was a scream filled with bloodlust and pain.
“Mr. Lee!”
Won-Hwa and Jeong In-Chang tried to move at the same time.
“This…”
However, Lee Jun-Kyeong had suddenly pierced the bastard that had shouted with his spear.
Anubis, who had lost consciousness in the aftermath of Horus’ attack earlier, was stretching his arm out at Lee Jun-Kyeong, but hadn’t been able to reach the Hunter.
Muspel’s Spear was now pierced through his stomach.
“Seems to have decided our side for us.”
Lee Jun-Kyeong’s expression relaxed as he spoke, and the same was for Jeong In-Chang and Won-Hwa.
However, the fastest of them to move was someone else.
“Growl!”
Fenrir had started hitting the Jackals with his front paws.
The battle had begun for a second time.
Now, it wasn’t just the battle for the Nile.
This was their own battle.
"Let's go."
Lee Jun-Kyeong pulled out his spear. Anubis subsequently fell onto the floor.
[A Skull That Contains Souls has activated]
[The soul of the Hero Anubis will be absorbed.]
[<The Sky of the Apocalypse> looks over at you.]
A barrage of notifications came down upon him in succession.
[<The Desert’s Sun casts its gaze upon you.]
The Skull that Contains Souls wouldn’t activate right away.
For now.
Boom!
He would only fight with his own strength.
They would force an incursion into the battlefield.
“...”
Set looked at Lee Jun-Kyeong and his party breaking through his battlelines and raised his aura even further.
***
Bandages moved forward, piercing toward Set as if it was an extension of Horus’ hands.
The bandages were as hard as steel, and after being infused with Horus’ mana, they were sharper than even the sharpest of any sword.
However.
Clang!
They were pushed aside helplessly by the scimitars of Set.
However, the bandages moved around constantly, and Set found it harder than he had expected to find an opening between the web they wove.
However.
This wasn’t some one-on-one duel to the death. There was no reason to just fight each other with the weapons in their hands.
Shhhhh.
In the midst of the Temple of Ra, a sandstorm appeared.
A sandstorm with the rage of a typhoon.
“AHGHH!”
It passed through the Hunters and came down upon Horus.
It was the sand of death, and the Hunters who fell under its domain suddenly screamed and collapsed.
In response, Horus also used his Authority.
“In the name of Ra, please cast a gaze down onto me.”
His body was set ablaze, and Saint Fire began to burn in his bandages, almost as if coating a blade in fire.
The blades consumed in flames began to rain down over Set.
“Defeat the evil in front of me.”
The sandstorm that had been attacking Horus gradually disappeared due to the blaze.
Clash!
Up until now, his bandages had been struggling their hardest in order to block Set’s scimitars, but they were beginning to leave marks on Set’s blades.
“You’ve gained some strength, but…”
Suddenly, something changed again.
The aura of Set changed once again, and the overwhelming aura that he had been exuding so far morphed into a violent and terrifying aura.
Dark, crimson mana.
“It doesn’t seem like you are good at controlling it, my dear nephew.”
Squelch!
Before Horus knew it, a sword of sand that appeared in Set’s other hand sliced into his forearm.
It wasn’t just a simple cut. In fact, Horus took a step back for the first time in their fight, clutching his chest.
Clang!
“They say you’re not supposed to interfere in a squabble between family members,” chided Set as he looked forward and hurriedly blocked with his sword.
Lee Jun-Kyeong had stabbed Muspel’s Spear in the opening Set had shown.
“I wouldn’t be interfering if this was just a simple family squabble, but…”
Lee Jun-Kyeong settled into a stance.
He started overflowing with strength so strong that it caused pain because he couldn’t control it.
Gurgle.
It began to gush out of his body.
‘I won’t control it.’
Trying to control an unstoppable force wouldn’t allow him to control it. Instead, it would just undermine the maximum limit of the force that could be exerted.
So, he wouldn’t try to control it.
He would just let it all flow forth.
He would leave it all to the flow of his mana stream.
Flicker.
Lee Jun-Kyeong’s spear also flickered with flames. Feeling the Hunter’s aura explode, Set’s expression hardened.
Lee Jun-Kyeong asked a question before he pierced forward with his spear.
“By chance.”
The incredible force that ran wild was devouring his body, and his eyes were tinged with blood.
“Do you have any intention of telling me who that person is?” he asked.
Clench.
However, Set only stood in a defensive stance, holding onto his scimitar with both hands.
Horus stood next to Lee Jun-Kyeong again, and their eyes met.
BOOM!
Then, a surprising thing happened.
The Saint Fire Horus had created drew a circle around Set, Horus, and Lee Jun-Kyeong, creating a small area entrapping them in flames.
BOOM!
The Authority of fire emitted by Lee Jun-Kyeong connected to the circle created by Horus’ Authority and began to spew even greater flames.
In an instant, an incredible heat hung over the battlefield. It was so intense that it felt as if they were standing in front of the sun.
Drip.
From Set’s forehead, a drop of sweat trickled down.
“How interesting,” he said, his lip curling into a smirk.
However.
“Did you have to kill my father?”
Unlike Set’s amused response, unlike the scorching flame that was currently blazing through the Temple of Ra, Horus’ cold voice rang out.
“...”
Set immediately shut his mouth.
Muspel’s Spear suddenly thrust forward.
Bang!
As Muspel’s Spear passed right by Set, Horus’ bandages followed tightly behind in its midst.
Clang!
As if it would have been difficult for him to avoid it, Set knocked away the bandages instead of dodging like he dodged the spear.
Lee Jun-Kyeong looked over at Set after thrusting forward.
It seemed as though time had frozen on the battlefield.
If it wasn’t for the flickering of the flames, if it wasn’t for the sounds of the battle between the Hunters and the Jackals that drifted in from beyond the flames, their frozen states, unmoving, were so still that it was easy to be mistaken that time had stopped.
Searching for the next opening.
Not making a move easily.
That was how powerful Hunters fought.
“What do you think about this?”
Lee Jun-Kyeong broke the silence and began to speak.
“If we knock you down…”
Horus and Lee Jun-Kyeong.
“What do you think about answering our questions?”
Set took a step forward and said, “It’s impossible for that to happen.”.
Muspel’s Spear slithered back like a snake and returned to Lee Jun-Kyeong, while Horus’ bandage rolled itself back and wrapped around Horus’ arm.
Gurgle.
The dark crimson mana emanating from Set fell on them heavily, as if he was controlling gravity. Furthermore, it combined with Set’s authority.
Shhhh.
It began to eat away at its surroundings, gnawing at the Temple of Ra.
Flames burned while sand scattered.
[<The Desert’s Sun casts its gaze upon you.]
Everyone heard the same notification, and all moved at the same time.
Clash!
This was a fight that everyone wanted to win and a fight in which no one intended to back down.
As Horus’ bandages made their move, Lee Jun-Kyeong aimed for the gaps in their blows.
Although Set stood alone, both of his hands moved separately, as if they were the hands of two different people, pressuring Lee Jun-Kyeong and Horus.
Rrrip!
The exploding dark crimson mana tore through the bandages and crashed into Muspel’s Spear, causing an explosion.
There was a flame that grew inside of a flame, and a raging sandstorm, rampaging as if it would consume everything.
Slash!
The black leather clothes of Set were overlaid with the dark crimson mana, giving it an even darker gloss.
Slash!
Set’s sand gnawed away at Horus’ body, exposing his withered body.
“HAAA!!”
In the middle of the whirlpool formed by his mana, Lee Jun-Kyeong began to let his Madness loose.
From all three of them, a subtle crimson glow began to emerge.
Shhh.
It was Madness; the demonic power that would give one enormous power and take away one’s reasoning.
The three of them were all using the same force.
Crush.
Lee Jun-Kyeong spoke as he looked at Set and thrust his spear into the ground.
“Your Madness. Did it also come from that person?”
Even though Lee Jun-Kyeong was asking him, Set had no intention of answering.
Lee Jun-Kyeong didn’t rush him for an answer.
Flicker.
The Saint Fire and flames surrounding them began to emit an even more blistering heat and light.
Horus and Lee Jun-Kyeong's eyes met.
Lee Jun-Kyeong spoke again, holding Muspel’s Spear that he had thrust into the ground with both hands.
“The First Flame.”
The skills of the Demon King.
“Maelstrom.”
It was time for the second to appear.
Ggggggrind!
The flames that enveloped the three began to swirl with a strange sound.
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺