Emperor of Steel Chapter 434 – Receiving the Crown 1

“Die, Marquis Luke! You!”

‘Blink magic… No, I don’t have time for that!’

If he used Blink magic, Luke would be unable to avoid the enemy attack until the magic manifested.

But if he tried to avoid their attacks with his Gigant, then he would miss Mayers who was ready to run away.

That made Luke move ahead instead of using magic.

The silver Gaius, which went ahead like an arrow released from the bow, pushed ahead, avoiding and trying to deflect the giant swords of the Gigants that were in front.

Kwang!

“This can’t!”

Fearing their extreme loyalty, Luke stabbed the Gigant’s balance device.

He immediately moved and dove into the other 3 Gigant.

“I hit him!”

The giant swords of the enemy Gigant rushed from the back and seemed to have pierced Gaius.

However, what they actually stabbed was an afterimage.

With the high-speed movements Luke was making, the afterimages remained for a while, and with the golden aura, he immediately hit the three Gigants.

‘Ahh, that is the second half of the Gold Sword!’

Rogers was in awe as he saw Luke’s huge sword unfold the first half and then the other part of the Gold Sword.

However, Luke, on the other hand, seemed to be displeased with the second half of the Gold Sword.

‘This shouldn’t be it. How can this be so weak?’

A while back, Luke was able to see the Gold Light God Sword with the help of Saint Nanda… Well, technically, it was the second half of the Gold Sword.

However, it seemed like his wielding was inferior to Yeon Ga-ram.

And he was able to notice that he lagged behind when it came to sword skills.

No matter how ingenious he was, there should have been a difference in sword skills when he was using it from the Gigant.

However, what he couldn’t understand was the core engine of the Gigant fell down when it had to amplify the attack.

‘This is weaker than the Gold Sword used by Yeon Ga-ram who used this with his bare body… What seems to be the problem here?’

“Die, Marquis Luke!”

While Luke was trying to think about it, the enemy Gigant came in to attack.

Luke, who was still aware of his surroundings, used another second half of the Gold Sword toward the man who came rushing at him.

Kwang! Kwang!

The wings of Phoenix spread out from the metal body of Gaius.

That moment, the 5 Iron Fist Knights floated in the air at the same time and fell to the ground.

They weren’t even touched by the sword.

They just got blown away by Luke who was wielding his sword.

‘Not this either. Where am I even making the mistake?’

Luke looked down at the giant sword he was holding with despair despite the mighty blow he just delivered. However, the Iron Fist Knights were thrilled.

“Kuek! That is the Warrior Rakan’s sword!”

“Don’t get killed! We are the invincible Iron Fist Knights!”

Smacking their lips, the Iron Fist Knights rushed to Luke.

As their Gigants were wobbly moving right and left, they continued to attack without giving up.

Despite the fact that Luke was fighting alone with them, neither Rogers nor the Rakan knights joined in.

It wasn’t that they wanted Luke to fail. It was because they were able to see the second half of the Gold Sword in front of their eyes.

‘This is something I didn’t see before…’

‘This is it. Is this the second half of the Gold Sword that the Lord talked about?’

‘This is awesome! This is more awesome than the first half that commander Rogers uses!’

Luke’s Gaius, which moved like the wind, left behind golden remnants, and then, with waves of gold, the sword moved.

It truly seemed like the sword of God himself.

Whenever the enemy Gigant slammed into the sword, the Gigant fell and kept losing some of its metal pieces.

Some of them were attempting to self-destruct in close range of Luke, which made Luke take violent actions and slash off the hands of the enemy Gigant.

“This is really great! Our Lord, defeated 32 on his own!”

“And he did that in just 5 minutes. I believe this to be the second coming of the Warrior Rakan!”

Despite the admiration of the Rakan knights, Luke wasn’t satisfied.

Despite the proper application of the energy and the movements in the situation, the power he saw in his memories didn’t seem to form.

‘This is strong enough. But to defeat that Arsene…!’

Kang!

A powerful blow had suddenly come in.

Luke’s Gaius, who hurriedly defended with its sword, got pushed back.

Flustered, Luke looked over at the Gigant that attacked him.

It was a Gigant that had a more prominent shape than Gaius, a gleaming glove, and an ornament on its helmet.

However, Luke was trying to concentrate on the core engine of the Gigant rather than its appearance.

“Hero class?”

“Tch, my surprise attack just got stopped.”

The one who just attacked Luke was Reynold.

Borrowing it from Mayers, it was the exclusive Rubira. He came to help the Iron Fist Knights.

It was because he felt that the troops wouldn’t be able to chase after the Rakan Gigants that were following them.

And his thoughts were right.

The Iron Fist Knights were being unilaterally slaughtered by one silver Gigant.

‘That silver Gigant is the one Reynard spoke of…’

He had heard from his brother, Reynard.

The troops who destroyed the vanguard were the reinforcements of Rakan Marquis, Luke.

At that time, Marquis Luke was riding a silver Gigant, and he told that he got unilaterally pushed back, even though the Marquis wasn’t in a Hero class Gigant.

‘The problem wasn’t with Reynard. This man is a monster!’

After seeing Luke with a huge aura and slaughtering his Iron Fist Knights, he wanted to go and slice off the necks of all the intelligence agents on the Milton Kingdom.

‘That monster isn’t an Intermediate Sword Master, he is an Advanced! What kind of judgments did those bastards even make?!’

He decided that he should feel overwhelmed. However, he wanted to take advantage of the surprise attack.

With all the screams of the riders, he silently approached Luke’s silver Gaius.

He used the core engine’s power to the maximum and fired for a surprise attack.

Kwang!

As a Hero class Gigant, the power of the boomerang he fired had an output of 3,200 fight and was tremendous.

However, Luke managed to stop it and was just pushed back.

Though the plan of Reynold was a bust, he couldn’t step back.

“I am Reynold Gram, the commander of the Iron Fist Knights! And I want a one-on-one match with Marquis Luke!”

As Reynold shouted through his Gigant, Rogers yelled back, “Shut up! This guy! You are asking for a face on confrontation after pulling a trick like that? I know what you are trying to do!”

The opponent didn’t want an honorable Gigantic Duel.

It was just a matter of delaying the time to let Mayers run away.

Luke too noticed the intention of Reynold.

However, he still accepted the Gigantic Duel.

“Commander Rogers, step back. I will deal with the man.”

“But…”

“Don’t worry. We can catch up with Mayers at any time.”

Rogers, who was opposed to it, stepped back after detecting the aura from Luke’s Gaius rise.

It was because he judged that his Lord could win the battle.

With the aura and energy Luke was releasing, he didn’t just feel the desire to fight but also the will to learn something.

‘Maybe he learned the second half of the Gold Sword and a higher level? I can’t interfere if that is so.’

And the guess of Rogers was almost correct.

Luke, who was observing his own sword for a while, was aware. He was aware that something was wrong with the Gold Sword.

However, he wasn’t able to figure out what was wrong and what was lacking.

So he decided to use the opportunity to enlighten himself through going into a battle with strong opponents.

“Let’s attack!”

When Rogers and the Rakan Knights stepped back, Luke pointed his sword at the Rubira of Reynold.

As a response to his actions, Reynold stared at Luke’s Gaius, which stood still, staring at its sword.

He was planning on rushing ahead and use his Boomerang right away if he saw an opening, but he couldn’t find one.

‘Kuek, this guy is really good. Not just a Hero class Gigant, even higher than a Hero class would be useless against him.’

The silver Gaius that was standing still like a rock met eyes with Reynold.

Reynold didn’t know what he had to use to go ahead.

“Would you like to come?”

Listening to the calm voice of Luke, Reynold began to sweat.

He was different from the others from the Iron Fist Knight who fought against evil.

As he was an Intermediate Sword Master, he was able to see how strong the opponent in front of his eyes was.

“Then, I will go,” said Reynold.

With just those words, the attitude of Luke changed.

Reynold rushed in, aiming for the gap that Luke showed.

“Uhh! Die, Marquis Luke!’

Reynold had no intention of backing off from the battle.

He brought out every little power from the core engine with the intent to take Luke down with one final blow.

Due to the sudden depletion of aura, Reynold began to feel dizzy. However, he decided to hold himself up for a while.

Kwang!

Rubira broke into the space and rushed toward the silver Gaius.

Rubira looked like a wolf that was running alongside the gust of winds.

The moment the wolf’s teeth were going o reach the target, a crouched Phoenix spread its golden wings once again.

Woosh!

Loud and low noises could be heard, and the position of the Gigant changed.

Rubira stood in the place where Gaius was standing previously.

In a second, the upper body of the Gigant, which got cut diagonally, fell to the ground.

“Hu, Huaah!”

Reynold, who suddenly felt a gush of cold air, trembled.

If Luke decided to wield his sword a little lower, his head would have been cut off and not just the top of the cockpit.

On the other hand, Luke’s silver Gaius was fine and didn’t have any scratches.

“I l-lost.”

As Luke’s Gaius approached Reynold, the man descended from Rubira and knelt.

It was because Reynold knew that Luke had deliberately saved his life.

Luke opened up the hatch of his cockpit and talked to Reynold.

“That was a great skill. If I was a little late, you might’ve killed me.”

Even if he failed, the blow Reynold was going to deliver was strong.

Although it all happened in a moment, the power of an Advanced Sword Master, well, a Sword Sage’s Hyper Aura got released.

If Luke hadn’t raised his skill in the Southern Continent by fighting Earner and Arsene, this battle would have been a bust.

Of course, that was the case when only the sword skills were considered.

If Luke used his dark magic and the demon’s abilities, Rubira would have been smashed before it could even get close.

“This is an undeserved talent for Mayers. What do you say? Any intend to change?”

At the unexpected offer, Reynold was startled.

However, he shook his head.

“I can’t. Me and my brother have a contract with King Mayers. Even if death is the end, we plan to stay by the contract.”

Lycans, being a mixed-race, Reynold and Reynard were mercenaries for long. However, they never broke a contract in the middle nor runaway.

It was because they had always thought of themselves to be different from humans who fed on falsehood and betrayal.

If he wasn’t a mercenary who had never breached the contract or trust, he would have never been able to reach his current position.

“You are a great man.”

Luke smiled with a sad expression.

It was because he saw the loyalty of the Iron Fist Knights, who killed themselves, and Reynold.

“Go back. The surviving men will take over, so take the others away.”

Reynold was once again shocked at what he heard and expressed his gratitude.

“I will never forget your mercy.”

Shortly after, Reynold left with the other surviving Iron Fist Knights and moved away.

There fewer deaths than he had imagined.

That was when he realized that Luke had prioritized subduing rather than killing.

“There was no need to let them go?”

“There was no guarantee that they would stay on our side if we held them tight either.”

Rather than getting Reynold, Luke was frustrated that he wasn’t able to complete the second half of the Gold Sword.

He thought that he would realize something if he went against a strong opponent. However, even after fighting with someone at the level of Reynold, he was still lacking something.

He was only getting more and more irritated, but he decided to hold off his emotion for a while.

“The battle is done. If there are enemies who are resisting, then ask them to move out of our estates.”

“Understood, My Lord.”

The massive raid ended with the victory of the Rakan side.

The war hadn’t ended, but the power of the Marquis Rakan had inclined toward their win.

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Chapter 435: Receiving the Crown 2

Milton’s army, which had been defeated by the Rakan Estate’s forces, fled.

After two days of fleeing, they managed to reach the border of the Milton Kingdom and finally dropped on to the floor to rest.

“Haa, how the hell did all this happen?”

“I don’t know either. It was almost like a ghost was moving around us.”

“Damn it! How could we not know until the Gigants hit the camp!”

The nobles of the Milton knights gathered in a group of three or five and recalled the raid that happened two days ago.

The attack was surely sudden and was a surprise.

The Gigants weren’t small but the heavy Gigants had appeared right in front of their eyes.

And then the disaster began.

Even the allies tried to fight with their Gigants. However, more than half of the Gigants were destroyed even before they entered the battle with the enemy.

And when the Gigant’s got cut off from the battle. The winning side and the losing side of the battle got confirmed.

“Oh my god, this was all because those guards neglected their duties!”

“We need to punish the knights and the soldiers who were in charge!”

Different and horrifying opinions formed among the nobles who were ready to push off the responsibility.

However, even if they did try to go and punish them, the people involved weren’t present.

The knights and soldiers either fled the scene of battle or died during the surprise attack.

It wasn’t just those guards and knights but also many knights and soldiers were missing.

They were either killed or captured by the enemy. However, the number of men who escaped from the battle was a lot more.

Fortunately, Reynold brought the Iron Fist Knights that survived.

His younger brother, Reynard, who was using Anubis, became a lead.

“The borders are vigilant, but we need to blow the heads of those intelligence agents! If only they had grasped the right power of the enemy, we wouldn’t have had to witness such a miserable scene.”

Reynard, who barely escaped from the battle with Philip, burst into screams.

His brother, Reynold, nodded his head agreeing to it.

If Marquis Luke hadn’t acted out of mercy, the knights of the Iron Fist, as well as his life, would have been ended.

As such, the knights of Rakan were strong.

In the midst of the words between the two angry Sword Masters, the intelligence nobles and agents were nervous.

“I-isn’t this something that needs to be decided after settling down? Whether the intelligence agents are negligent or got cheated?”

“Exactly. Besides, this isn’t supposed to be a matter for us to decide. In the end, whoever decides to dispose of the rules will be abolished.”

Reynold could only frown at their excuses.

“What is His Majesty doing right now?”

“Phew, he went to bed due to fatigue. Since we escaped in the middle of the night, he is in extreme fatigue. And as soon as he got here, he passed out.”

At the words of Count Lao, a sudden turmoil was raging outside the commander’s campsite.

‘Did the enemy chase us all the way here?’

The brothers were stiff because of fear. They were more terrified now compared to the time they went to the Southern Continent for the first time.

They were holding onto their chests.

The nobles were holding their breaths as well and wanted to know what was happening.

Fortunately, the enemy didn’t appear, and the agitated guards became embarrassed.

Mayers, who was asleep, jumped out of the tent.

Mayers fell into a deep sleep due to the shock of defeat and fatigue during their escape, but he wasn’t in a position to sleep.

It was because his nightmares, which he thought was over, started to hunt him again.

-Your Majesty! This is unfair! Why did you have to kill me?!

A blood-soaked Count Bazzo was on his knees, crying.

A cool wind tingled his eardrum, and his headache only made it worse.

“I have nothing to do with it. Didn’t I tell you that I know nothing about it?!”

-Don’t know? How can you not know, Your Majesty?! Didn’t Your Majesty send those men to kill me and my companions who were going to return?

Indeed, Mayers sent Aegis fairies to kill Count Bazzo.

The reason why he had to use Aegis for the assassination was because very few people knew about their existence apart from Mayers.

Although Aslan was present, he had no idea of what they were used, and he was sent to Variand Mountains after the war as a commander to the fort.

-It is unfair! How could you do this to me?!

“Uahh!”

He had to keep listening to the same words again and again. As time went on, they started to get on his nerve.

Even if it was a good song, it wouldn’t have mattered, but it was a ghost, complaining right into his ear.

In addition, Mayers, who was in a slump because of his last defeat, reached the peak of his patience.

“Yeah, I killed you. What can you do? And you call it unfair? You are a man who was below me and enjoyed riches because of me!”

-Your Majesty, I devoted my body and mind to fulfill your dreams…

“Really?! It was because you were so loyal to me that I killed you! The right justification to wage war on the Marquis Rakan!”

At those words, Count Bazzo narrowed his eyes.

-Was the cause more important than me?

“Obviously! Whether you give your body and mind to me for years or not, you are just another servant under me! If I want you dead, you need to be dead!”

Mayers, who was in a bad mood, screamed at Count Bazzo.

“I am the nation! I am the absolute existence that determines the life and death of the millions under me! If you were truly such a man, you wouldn’t be crying over like this. You should rejoice that you were the base for the long-awaited burden! Even from hell, you were helping me!”

-Do you really think so? Would the other nobles agree with Your Majesty’s ideas?

“Huh, what does it matter if they agree or not? If needed, I can use the same method any time. Anyway, the nobles and soldiers are just long term baggage.”

-Hahahahahahaha!

All of a sudden, Count Bazzo burst into laughter.

Suddenly, his bloody figure turned neat.

-You have no blood or tears. I knew that. I won’t bother you anymore. There is no need for that to happen.

“What? What do you mean…?”

-Keuk. I hope the nobles understand this well, Your Majesty. That is if they don’t want to see the country fall.

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When Mayers, who wondered about the last words of Count Bazzo was about to ask again, Bazzo disappeared.

And in the blink of an eye, his surroundings changed.

‘No, this is the outside of the tent, how…?’

He was sure that he had fallen asleep in the tent, but he was outside instead, wearing his nightgown.

In addition, there were many nobles there, including Reynold.

The problem was their gaze, which was unusual.

The feelings of agitation, disappointment, contempt, and anger, were all mixed together.

And for Reynold and Reynard, they seemed bitter and cold.

If eyes could kill a person, they would have killed Mayers and cut him into a thousand pieces.

‘Did they just hear the entire conversation he had with Bazzo in his dreams?’

Mayers recalled the knight when he had killed a guard in his tent.

Just as then, Bazzo seemed to have done another trick.

“Your Majesty, did you really kill Count Bazzo? Did you kill him so you could justify this war?” Marquis Volant asked with a shocked face.

“T-that…”

“And were you serious when you said that you would take us down if necessary, just like a piece in a chessboard?”

Mayers wasn’t able to answer because of how confused he was.

If he admitted that he was serious, he would face backlash from the nobles who were supporting him till then nor could he give up an awkward lie with no truth.

‘Damn it, what should I do…?’

As Mayers hesitated without answering, the eyes of the nobles only turned colder.