The Amber Sword

Chapter 30 – Heroic Deck

[Summon the Holy Sword? There are many swords in Vaunte deem as Holy Swords. The Wind Sword, ‘Nordrasis’. The ‘Sword of the Endless Sky’ could be considered another one, and even an Amber Sword simply named ‘Ultimate’… Not that I owned any of these back then.]

[Is this a type of magic? I know the priest has a low level Light Magic Spell called ‘Spell of Holy Swords’, but that’s just a series of attacking chants. It has nothing to do with summoning, and the magic vocabulary in the game is exceedingly strict and cannot be changed randomly.]

[Leaving this question aside, the players in the game have no extreme side effects from using magic, like splitting headaches. At most one will feel exhausted, so…]

As he finished contemplating, he put his mind to it and accepted the command, ‘Summon the Holy Sword’. There were no downsides to this transaction, and he also treated this as a last ditch effort.

Brendel slowed down slightly from his thinking and the Demonic Tree launched an attack with its snake-like vine whips, but he quickly lowered his body and swung his sword up. An arc of silver flash cut off the two vine whips that gave off a rotting smell, and they turned into ashes in the air.

He quickly pushed himself off with one hand from the ground, and accelerated to the Demonic Tree’s area. When he wanted to continue with his next course of action, the words in his retinas changed.

“The Path of Warriors, unlocked.”

[This is the Spell of the Holy Sword.]

He immediately recognize it. It was a low level Priest’s spell, but the attacking power was just as frightening if the OZ was raised accordingly. The Demonic Tree groaned painfully and tried to retreat. Brendel’s attack had destroyed a third of its vine. The Demonic Tree relied on the Golden Demonic Tree’s mana for nourishment, and the vines required many years to grow.

Brendel obviously did not give the enemy the chance to run, and continued to unleash attacks on it. Three golden swords pierced through the Demonic Tree’s body while one golden sword slashed it. The Demonic Tree exploded with a huge bang from the center of the body and turned into ashes.

Right at this moment, Freya also activated the Ring of the Wind Empress. Even though her aim was slightly off, the wind bullet still managed to knock the huge boulder down, and along with a series of large crashing noises, the boulder the size of a small hill went crashing down, turning the ground rocks and Demonic Trees into dust.

Dozens of Demonic Trees perished in an instant, and the Golden Demonic Tree felt the loss. It gave a terrifying wail, it’s scream traveling throughout the Zevail mountain pathway.

Brendel heard of this scream hundreds of times and was used to it. He even found it nostalgic, but Freya and Romaine jumped up with shock and looked at each other.

“W-what was that Brendel?” Freya asked from the mountain peak.

“Don’t worry, we won’t meet that thing.” Brendel sighed with relief when the fight was over. Once this patrol group was settled, the remaining task was much easier. He estimated the remaining time to maintain the Holy Sword to be approximately thirty minutes, but it was not enough time for them to walk out from this valley. If he dismissed the Holy Sword, he would be able to summon it one more time.

He decisively kept the card once he considered the possibility. Romaine finally finished climbing breathlessly and asked: “Brendel, what was, that?”

“It’s the power of this card. I didn’t realize it was a magic artifact earlier.” He looked at the stars within Romaine’s eyes and answered ambiguously.

“Magic artifact?” Freya was surprised to hear this answer. The ring that he had gave her was one, the Half Plate of the Wind Empress was another one, but why would a normal person know so much about magic? In her eyes, magic was so mystical that it could only appear in stories of legends.

She stared at the youth below her, trying to see through his real identity. He said he was a militia from Bruglas, but she felt more and more that it was nothing more than a dismissive lie.

Right at this moment, an astonishing scene that was more impressive than before was happening, but she could not see it. Brendel raised his head to find that golden lights from the surrounding mountain were flying towards him.

Killing monsters that outleveled him was a wonderful feeling.