Chapter 136: Chapter 101: Start Stacking, Stein’s Mockery
Faint blue system text flashed before Reinhardt’s eyes and then vanished.
[You have entered the Blood Fury state.]
[Wounds inflicted by the Black Cutter possess an Extraordinary Trait that makes them difficult to heal.]
[Current Physique Strength Boost: 200%]
[Your stamina is rapidly draining...]
The dissipating blood-mist of his Bloodthirsty Madness transformed into a flowing, scarlet Blood Armor, clinging to Reinhardt and the surface of his Black War Axe. It was like a river of blood from the Abyss, inverted and dripping upward.
The next moment.
A tyrannical and unrivaled Knightly Aura, already surpassing the limits of the Seven-star Military Rank, wrapped in an incomparably terrifying pressure, became almost tangible as it swept across the entire Verne Bridge!
In the perception of the Fallen raider knights, this Knightly Suppression, which emitted a terrifying and unsettling aura, was like a chariot of death built from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, rumbling toward them to crush everything in its path.
The Fallen, who a second ago had been reveling in their powerful Demon Power, all had their expressions change drastically, their eyes filled with utter horror!
As the Black War Axe tore through a Fallen of Five-star Military Rank strength with devastating and utterly vicious force, his consciousness was still marveling, ’Is this really the power an Official Knight can possess?’
But as his vision spun and went dim, he finally realized his body had been sliced in two.
Blood flowed unceasingly.
The horrifying wound was so grievous that not even Demon Power could save him.
In the moment before death arrived, he struggled to lift his head, trying to get a clear look at Reinhardt’s movements, but the only thing that appeared in his vision was the terrifying blade of the Black War Axe.
’Such incredible power...’
BOOM—!
The heavy, powerful downward swing of the war axe smashed his head, split open his chest and bones, and cleaved him in two!
At the same time.
Faint blue system text streaked across Reinhardt’s vision.
[Giant Devouring Current Layer Number: 4450]
[Physical Enhancement Coefficient: 4.450]
He gained seventy layers of Steel of the Heart.
But the real battle had only just begun!
Tens of thousands of monstrosities swarmed forward like a tide, a dark flood that instantly submerged Reinhardt. These deformed creatures, which had lost their minds and completely turned into monsters, attacked frantically and without fear of death, using any means necessary!
Biting, clawing, lashing with venomous tentacles.
Like vengeful spirits and ravenous demons crawling out of Hell, once they found a target, they would not stop until death!
Unfortunately, their feeble attacks couldn’t leave even the slightest scratch on his Morphic Armor. Their only purpose, perhaps, was to pile up their own flesh and blood to impede Reinhardt’s slaughtering pace!
Like mowing grass, every swing of the Black War Axe felled swathes of monstrosities.
The monstrosities that tried to climb onto Reinhardt’s back to pin him down were met with a high-temperature energy stream from the Aikacia Nozzle, their flesh and blood instantly carbonized!
Thick, acrid smoke billowed up.
Empowered by immense kinetic energy, Reinhardt was like a cannonball smashing into a pile of flesh. In a single breath, he tore a bloody path through the dense horde of monstrosities on the Verne Bridge!
Severed limbs, spattered gore, and shattered bone.
They flew through the air behind him like a fireworks display of death.
One of the Fallen raider knights drew upon the power granted to it by the Demons, unleashing a Mind Storm in the form of white lightning that struck at Reinhardt, attempting to shatter his mind and consciousness.
But this Mighty Power, strong enough to instantly kill a Five-star Military Rank Knight, slammed into the protection of the Morphic Armor.
For the first time, this Extraordinary Armament displayed its astonishing Magic Resistance!
Vast amounts of white lightning were swallowed by the dark purple, living substance, with only a few extremely faint wisps of power seeping into Reinhardt’s body before harmlessly dissipating.
The price for its sneak attack was to be met with Reinhardt’s death glare as he turned his head back to look!
Flames of blood rage burned fiercely in his eyes.
He looked ready to devour someone whole!
The Fallen’s body trembled as if electrocuted. That gaze, crossing a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, traversing a hundred meters and countless obstacles, made it feel the very real threat of death!
Its spirit was shaken to the core!
As a former Elemental Knight, its first reaction was to summon Ice Armor—a ward condensed from Extraordinary Power, more solid than steel.
However, he only felt Reinhardt’s Knightly Suppression wash over him.
The sound of something tearing through the air followed immediately after.
The next moment, the Black War Axe brutally smashed his Ice Armor, ignored his defenses, and hacked deep into his chest. The power of Imperial Technology shattered his heart and lungs.
The Demon Power from the Ten Thousand Changes Demon Monarch tried to save the Fallen’s pathetic life, but under the corrosion of the Blood Fury’s Mighty Power, copious amounts of blood gushed from the wound like a spring.
In the span of a breath.
The traitor, one of those who gave the Imperial Knights the most trouble on the battlefield, lost focus in his eyes and died completely.
The crisp sound of Steel of the Heart also rang in Reinhardt’s ear—a sudden seventy-layer gain!
The instant after Reinhardt cut down the Fallen, three Knight’s Broadswords—one from the left, one from the right, and one from behind—came chopping viciously toward him.
But it didn’t matter what attributes their Knight’s Broadswords were imbued with, nor the strength of their Knight Power.
In his Blood Fury state, Reinhardt’s strength and Mighty Power were enough to ignore it all!
He raised his left arm, parrying the chop from a broadsword.
The Aikacia Nozzle activated on low power, the blast of high-temperature energy roasting the body of one ambusher on the spot.
As the Knight’s Broadsword from the right hacked into the Morphic Armor covering his shoulder, Reinhardt stomped on a corpse on the ground, wrenched his war axe free with one hand, and thrust the spiked axe handle at the ambusher on his right, but the latter dodged nimbly.
Using the momentum, Reinhardt twisted his body with immense power. His war axe whistled through the air, cutting down swarming monstrosities as it viciously struck the ambusher on his left!
It tried to defend itself.
But Reinhardt once again used his momentum to leap into the air, and the Aikacia Nozzle erupted with a stream of high-temperature energy, propelling his body forward at high speed like an arrow loosed from a bow.
After slamming into this knight, he used its body as a shield and charged all the way in the direction of Caster Monastery!
Flesh and blood flew everywhere in his wake!
But the mountain of corpses piled on the Verne Bridge relentlessly blocked his path to provide reinforcements! After a pause of less than a second, the tide of monstrosities swarmed him again, grabbing his legs, seizing his arms, and piling onto his back!
From the Upper City District at the other end of the bridge, Reinhardt could hear the terrified screams of countless civilians and soldiers as they died. He could also hear, with perfect clarity, the wild laughter of the traitor Stein, and the Telepathy that constantly taunted him.
"Reinhardt, if you kneel and beg me now, plead for the great Demon Prince Stein to show some mercy, I wouldn’t mind sparing these few ants.
What do you say? Think about it. Heh heh heh."
Mixed in with Stein’s vile voice were the desperate pleas of a civilian, the crying of a child, and the wretched scream of a dying soldier.
He was letting Reinhardt hear this on purpose.
To torture his mind and destroy his faith.
He just wanted to see how long this Imperial Knight could struggle.
’A mere Official Knight, trying to save the world by himself? What a joke!’
