Novel The Max Level Hero has Returned! - Chapter 394

Episode 394

“Kuhuk…”

Lightly tightening the wizard’s robe, he looked around the campsite that had become a sea of corpses.

Catherine is definitely a high-ranking warrior among the warriors.

Its power was strong enough to be compared to Reina, a swordsman, and in fact, she had a record of fighting without a hitch against Frost Worm, a medium-sized flying Bone Dragon.

Then she used an attack that she couldn’t even react to.

Something similar to magic but not magic.

It was similar to the condensed aura used by the knights, but essentially something different.

Catherine, who had fallen in the campground that had become a field of corpses, slowly got up from her seat when she saw Aeria, who had instinctively protected her, trembling with her eyes wide open.

Quickly…

Catherine clenched her fists so hard that she could hear her bones twisting, and without even thinking about wiping the blood from her face, she glared at the only woman standing.

Just looking at the vertically slit pupils was enough to make the liver go cold.

“Uh-huh.”

With a light smile on her face, she gently sucked the red whip from her fingertips and turned her head.

“I was trying to send it off as painlessly as possible.”

“Reveal your identity. Are you the assassin who came to assassinate the princess!?”

To touch the princess escorted by the Archduke, who is said to be the armed force of the Lindis Empire, and no one else, was an assassin who poured as much as he could for an assassin.

No, it was also said that she was a monster with confidence in her power because she had massacred the whole area before she could react.

Where the hell did that monster come from?

Hiding the trembling Elia behind her back, Catherine stood up and quickly looked around.

Most of the fairly competent imperial knights died without knowing how they died.

and.

The excellent and benevolent sword master, Sir Velos, was still alive, but it would not be strange if he died immediately from a fatal wound.

Slowly… Slowly…

Like that or not.

The black-haired woman stretched out her hand, which did not wield the red whip, and sucked in what looked like whitish smoke.

“Haa…”

Then he said with a short sigh.

“sorry. I have to eat your souls.”

A thick whip began to shoot out from the index and middle fingers of her left hand.

“So close your eyes. I’ll make sure you never get sick.”

A flash of red flashed once more.

I reflexively blocked the attack.

Catherine could see that her arms, tightly wrapped in mana, had gone numb.

And

“Ah…”

“You poor princess!!!!!”

Seeing that her plain pink dress was covered in bright red blood, she let out a scream.

The girl with blue-green hair, who had been staring at her stomach while standing blankly, collapsed.

Unable to even scream, she collapsed. At first glance, it was a fatal wound that was too great for Aria to withstand.

She, too, was not a powerless figure.

By nature, he had good affinity with spirits, so he could command low-level to intermediate spirits to some extent, but there was no time to summon spirits against overwhelmingly strong enemies.

“You fucking bitch!!”

what kind of situation is this?

It became clear that the opponent was not just an assassin who had come to assassinate Aria.

Should I just say there was no luck?

There are people like her on the continent.

Ordinary people call them witches, but at least the witches that Catherine knew were not as strong and fearsome as her.

Most of them were just people with unusual powers.

“That poor man… is that a lie? Haha…”

Catrine wept as she held up the fallen Aria.

this is not

I was protecting her, but she died right in front of my eyes.

She has suffered from illness for a long time.

I thought I would now come and receive salvation and see the light, but unfortunately, I ended my life.

even in front of yourself.

“Isn’t it? Say no. please!”

With tears streaming down her face, she cried.

It was Catherine who had felt pity for Eiria, who had been living a hard life since childhood due to the custom of perpetuating prisoners.

Falling in love with her personality, he thought that if nothing else, he would protect her with his own hands.

To Catherine, who had no children, Aria was like a daughter or a lovely niece.

When she saw the light again and took off her mask, she was actually the one who was most happy.

But why the hell did she have to die because she did something wrong?

A stream of air like flame began to creep up all over his body.

Cartrie, who was in tears, slowly got up, forgetting that one of her arms had been cut off.

Then he looked at her with a terrifying gaze.

“sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt you You are stronger than I thought.”

Catherine gnashed her teeth at the woman speaking calmly.

“The human soul is my food. That is why I must eat you to live.”

“Fuck you.”

Spitting out swear words, Catherine seemed to bend down for an instant, and then flew at explosive speed with a huge afterimage.

Kwaaang!!!!

I will surely kill that year with my own hands. I will avenge the enemy of Eiria who died by tearing up all of her limbs, limbs and body.

A tremendous explosion enveloped the entire forest.

* * *

“I have no hobby of causing pain to anyone.”

The woman who spoke calmly was fine.

The magician’s robe she was wearing was also intact, with no trace of dust on her long hair.

“…”

On the contrary, Catherine, who was silent while being subdued by her hands, was covered in blood.

“Still, it’s really amazing. I didn’t know there were more strong people like you among humans.”

Speaking calmly, she lightly placed Catherine’s shoulder in her hand.

Hairy…

At the same time, her body fell helplessly.

As if she had neither the strength to stand up nor speak, the woman who looked at Catherine’s gaze as she stared at the woman collapsed, took out the red whip again and said quietly.

“I will let you go as painlessly as possible. sorry to eat But do I have to live too?”

Catherine’s eyes were filled with extreme resentment at that mad smile.

If he was close to the Heinz estate, he would have asked for help from the boy who was considered the lord and the strongest being.

But it was too far for him to come with a request for help.

“Close your eyes and wait. I will let you go without pain.”

Uld continued his speech and slowly raised his hand high.

And it fell softly.

His head would be cut off with that gesture, but he did not have the strength to resist.

Slowly closing her eyes, Catherine gave up everything in endless regret for her inadequacies.

no. I was about to give up.

Unless you saw a boy standing behind her.

Knock!!

“What?”

Unexpectedly, she flinched and stopped the arm she was about to throw down.

A small but firm hand gripped her arm, and blood splattered into her red eyes, shining in the darkened forest.

Chew!!!

And at the same time that eyes glowed coldly to the point of being terrifying, the woman’s arm was cut off.

The red trail was a very neat and smooth sword.

In the midst of the silence, along with the eerie destructive sound, the woman’s model bounced off for an instant, and in an instant, distanced itself from the red-eyed owner.

At the same time, there was a dullness in her eyes that seemed to have lost interest.

“Ah… that’s not fun…”

With a calm murmur, she looked at her severed arm.

After that, a red-eyed boy slowly walked out of the darkness.

“I have no patience whatsoever. I have no luck.”

The boy, who spoke calmly, slowly approached the fallen Catherine.

Then, when he picked up the arm that had been cut off, he brought it to her severed part and raised his divine power.

“Why did you come here?”

Catherine said nothing to the complex question. I didn’t have a chance to do it.

A faint light spread out and gradually restored her body, but in a very brief fight, she was seriously injured.

The miserable appearance did not easily improve even with recovery magic.

“It’s five minutes before the damn thing.”

The boy, who spoke calmly, slowly got up from his seat and looked around.

Then, as if he had discovered something, he opened his eyes wide and strode off.

The place where the boy’s footsteps stopped was where Eria lay helplessly.

“…”

The silent Elia was already dead. My body wouldn’t get cold right away, but my heart had already stopped working.

Please save the poor princess. I desperately want to shout Even a saint knows that it is impossible to revive someone who has already died, but Catherine just wanted to save Aeria.

Of course, the miracle itself did not happen.

The boy’s eyes wavered as he brushed Aeria’s cheek with a trembling hand.

and.

A red whip wrapped around the boy’s neck in silence.

“Oh, Davey Olaun? Rumors have been circulating, so I thought I’d check it out. You were the gatekeeper of this land.”

adversary.

The existence of adversaries that block threats on all continents.

Catherine did not understand the woman’s meaning.

“But strangely, the chief gatekeeper wasn’t originally a one-person role.”

On this continent, the demon lord is on the opposite side of the adversary.

“The devil king and the chief gatekeeper (adversary)… You are really unique. I think I know why it was difficult to use my hands on this continent.”

She said calmly and tightened the whip as if she would slowly cut her throat.

A simple swing would sever its soft neck.

However, the boy remained silent and did not take his hand off Aria’s cheek.

The boy, who was slowly wiping his bloody face, immediately closed his eyes and muttered something.

“Choose…Choose.”

It was a brief agony.

and.

“It is far better to lose money now than to regret it later.”

The boy immediately thrust his hand into the subspace and took out a scarlet ore without hesitation.

The inside of the ore contained a bright ember, as if someone’s soul was on fire.