Chapter 131: Chapter 98: Hack! Awesome! Blood Fury War Axe, Promotion to Seven-star Military Rank
A scorching breath, reeking of rust, exhaled from Reinhardt’s mouth and nose.
His Knightly Aura, now at the absolute limit of the Seven-star Military Rank, whipped up an invisible gale. It became a silent, raging tempest, roaring across the sea of blood and mountain of corpses on the Verne Bridge.
When the raider knights sensed this terrifying pressure, they were all thunderstruck, their hearts seizing with horror!
’That Imperial Knight’s power is still rising!’
His Power surpassed the Six-star Military Rank, shooting straight to the peak of the Seven-star Military Rank—!
If Crusher Stein’s Power upon his arrival at the Verne Bridge was that of a Veteran of Ten Thousand Battles, a harbinger of victory and death surveying his domain...
...then Reinhardt’s Power at this moment was that of a Great Demon from the Dark Abyss descending upon the battlefield. The pressure he radiated was one of primal, unrestrained fury, bringing only terror and slaughter!
Stein looked at Reinhardt as one would a bloodthirsty monster. The unconcealed panic in his eyes gave way to a mad scramble to escape.
The four surviving members of the Wolf Guard sensed it too—Reinhardt’s Knightly Aura now utterly crushed Stein’s Mighty Power. The color drained from their faces!
They swung their Knight’s Broadswords, cutting down swathes of Defense Army soldiers in an attempt to reach and support their Battle Group Leader.
"Lord Stein!"
"You damn ants! Move—!"
In the blink of an eye, Reinhardt moved.
A brilliant Mach Ring erupted from the flow of high-temperature energy. Reinhardt vanished like a streak of light across the earth, and in that same instant, a spray of blood erupted from Stein’s location!
Then...
THUD—!
The muffled sound of a high-speed collision rang in the ears of the Wolf Guard and raider knights. Every Knight who witnessed it felt their eyes twitch in shock!
Because in the afterimages burned into their vision, they saw the Black War Axe slam into an Energy Shield. They saw Reinhardt, a figure like a Demon God. They saw Stein, utterly routed!
Immediately after, the azure aftershock from the impacted Energy Shield rippled through the air and vanished.
Like a runaway freight train, the pair plowed a path of gore straight through the Raider Auxiliary Army’s line, crashing deep into their rear!
When the two combatants came into view of the Mortal Soldiers and raider knights once more...
Stein was forced to one knee, wracked with pain. He had been dragged for a hundred meters, carving a deep trench in the ground. The friction had ground through his Steel Armor, leaving his knee a bloody, mangled ruin!
He roared like a cornered beast, his right arm raised. What little remained of his Energy Shield strained to block the descending Black War Axe, while his Power Backpack whined, pushed far beyond its limits.
Reinhardt’s imposing figure stood wreathed in a scarlet mist of blood. The heat radiating from his formidable Physique warped the very air around him. He loomed before Stein like an immovable mountain.
The unparalleled, terrifying pressure was so immense that even onlookers—both raider knights and Mortal Soldiers alike—were drenched in a cold sweat, their hearts gripped by fear.
Thousands of panicked soldiers from the Raider Auxiliary Army scrambled to get away from Reinhardt, crushing and trampling one another in their haste.
Even the raider knights, faced with this colossal gap in power, found their courage wanting. They couldn’t bring themselves to charge in and save their Battle Group Leader. All they could do was grip their Broadswords and back away, step by cautious step, as if facing an insurmountable foe.
And it was at this moment...
...that they were about to witness a scene that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives.
As Reinhardt beat Stein back, the Defense Army launched an increasingly frenzied counter-charge, throwing their very bodies into the fray to tie down the enemy soldiers and the Wolf Guard.
Before the terrified eyes of the Raider Auxiliary Army...
And under the shocked, incredulous gazes of the raider knights...
Baze World’s sole Seven-star Military Rank Knight, a Veteran of Ten Thousand Battles, the spiritual leader of the Raider Battle Group, the man who had once crushed the champion of the Imperial Arena...
The infamous Knight Warlord of the Ash Soil Star Zone, the Leader of the Wolves who had led them to victory time after time—Crusher Stein...
...was now utterly routed, roaring in desperation against the descending Black War Axe, all his lofty arrogance and contemptuous pride stripped away.
BOOM—!
BOOM—!!
BOOM—!!!
The battle between them was now devoid of tactics or skill. Stein wanted to flee, but he had lost the aid of his Void Divine Artifact, and his three teleportation strikes had failed to kill Reinhardt. Now, his prized Knight Power, the Crusher Force Field, seemed pathetically weak, laughably powerless before Reinhardt!
’Stein had never been a Hero Knight, nor was he a Divine Chosen of the Formless. Even his master, the Ten Thousand Changes Demon Monarch, was merely a Venerable Great Demon from the Wisdom High Tower.’
’No one knew better than him just how terrifying a Divine Chosen Knight could be.’
’It wasn’t just about the Mighty Power granted by a supreme being; it meant the Divine Chosen Knight’s own strength and methods had earned the profound favor of a specific Divine Spirit!’
’Their very existence was synonymous with power!’
’And for Reinhardt to have caught the eye of Avernus... Stein could already imagine his fighting style.’
’In fact, he was experiencing that very fighting style firsthand!’
Savage and bloodthirsty.
But it came with a terrifying pressure that no other Divine Chosen could match!
The roaring Black War Axe descended with immense force. Bolstered by Knight Power and a superior Physique, each downward swing struck Stein’s Energy Shield like a falling meteor!
Reinhardt had countless ways to bypass the Energy Shield and kill him with a single strike. But he was determined to hack through Stein’s turtle shell, one axe blow after another!
