Summoning the Holy Sword

Rhode was quick in his movements. Ever since he detected Carody trailing him, he had been waiting for him to take the bait. Now that he finally attained this chance, how could he let it go?

The ice-cold Crimson Blade arrived at Carody’s throat, and just a tiny inch more would be enough to make him bleed.

However, Carody dodged and Rhode wasn’t surprised by his nimble reflexes. In fact, he was prepared.

“Celia! Celestina!”

A glaring radiance of white and black erupted along with his summons. The Battle Angel flapped her graceful wings and descended from above with a silver, white sword in hand that was erupting with holy radiance. The darkness in the room instantly shrunk like the tide and exposed Carody entirely, and he desperately lifted his head and revealed a terrified expression.

Battle Angel?!

Although Celia couldn’t overpower him in terms of strength, he still instantly broke out in cold sweat. He realised that this young man named Rhode wasn’t that simple at all. Based on the fact he could summon a battle angel as his servant proved that he held a high status. Damn it! What was the bunch of idiots from the intelligence group doing?! Easy mission? How can this be considered easy?

Carody cursed inwardly. Even though he seemed unwavered, he instantly realized that his assassination plan had failed entirely. His target had obviously set this up to eliminate himself, and it could still be considered a victory if he could escape. As for assassinating his target, Carody could only leave it for later!

Then, he realised that this thought would not even be in his wild dreams.

Then, Celia laid her arms down and turned to Rhode with uncertainty and hesitation.

“Pardon my rudeness, Master. In order to reach your goal, you sacrificed an innocent life. That’s a little too..”

“That’s why I said you’re a dumb sister.”

Before Celia finished her sentence, Celestina interrupted in disdain.

“She’s just a lowly human. Does it even matter if she’s dead? Besides, this chap wasn’t that easy for Master to handle, and if Master didn’t use this lowly human as bait, how could we even finish him off so easily? Or maybe, you had better ideas?”

“We can fight him upright and openly…” Celia clearly disagreed with her elder sister. She shook her head and explained. “As long as we work together…”

“There’s no cure for stupidity and you have exceeded my expectations.” Celestina groaned.

“Since that chap was an assassin and murderer, how would it be possible for him to face you fair and square? You may not be afraid of death because you can’t die now, even if you wanted to, but what if Master died? We…”

“Big Sister!” Celia sulked.

On the other hand, Celestina seemed to have realised that she spoke something inappropriate and abruptly paused. She turned to Rhode with a look of dismay before revealing a proud smile.

“All in all, I don’t think that Master’s decision was wrong, dumb sister. Stop being so stubborn. All Master needed was to win, which is something glory and pride can’t gift him.”

Celestina instantly vanished into a black mist and returned to her card, which hovered in mid-air and disappeared thereafter. On the other hand, Celia turned to Rhode worriedly and followed Celestina in returning to her card without saying much more.

“That’s interesting…”

After retrieving the hovering summoning cards and analysing their pictures and texts, Rhode said softly. As a matter of fact, he realized from Celestina’s remarks that things weren’t as simple as he had thought and their origins were the same.

Unlike a Master Summoner’s summons, all of a Spirit Swordsman’s spirits came from this plane of existence. In other words, the spirits that they summoned were beings that lived or once lived in the Dragon Soul Continent. But, honestly speaking, he didn’t think of it this way when he first met Celestina because from his understanding, Angels and Demons had always been archenemies with no exceptions. Celestina was a pure, high-level Demon whereas Celia was a Battle Angel. It would be impossible for both of their bloodlines to be mixed. However, looking at their relationship, this pair of siblings seemed so natural together… Celestina was a high-level demon, the elder sister of an Angel, and could say whatever she wanted to. On the contrary, Celia was an Angel and didn’t retaliate against the Demon. So, what was this all about?

Moreover, what did Celestina meant by “You may not be afraid of death because you can’t die now, even if you wanted to…”?

It seemed like there was a need to investigate their true identities.