Chapter 560: 560: Rage

Chapter 560: Chapter 560: Rage

The Great Demon Leader was staring at the arena.

A part of his hidden mouth was again revealed by pulling the blank portion of his face.

Stomach acid welled up, and a magic crystal, sticky with the acid, was spewed into his hand.

At the same time, a long string of confidential information was written on his special sheepskin scroll.

“Archimedes…hand this document to the old man in the Witch God Knight Legion. If he considers the future of the Holy City, he will naturally give up competing with me for this student.”

“Yes.”

“This student can only achieve his maximum potential under my command.”

…

Dumps’s performance stunned the audience.

It was like watching a magic show.

The perfect control of magic even surpassed the standard of formal knights, and the shift between close combat and ranged attack was just right. The whole process was smooth and natural, fully demonstrating the demeanor of a king.

However, some people could see that Dumps’s victory was quite hard-fought.

When he stepped off the arena.

Han Dong immediately remarked, “You must’ve been scared… You almost lost.”

“Ha ha… this undead is too exaggerated.

All the powers I used were to restrain evil, and such a ‘Death Knight’ would become a great weapon for the Holy City to fight against the demons once they grow up.

These underground students are really terrifying… Is it Winry’s turn in the next round?”

As the topic changed.

He found that Winry in his team was in a state of considerable tension.

The draw for the finals was quite fortunate.

Winry and Hell Sean were drawn together, and they fell into the same category to some extent – [Solid] and [Power].

The upcoming match would be a pure physical collision…

Although Winry was talented, Sean was not weak either.

In terms of combat experience, Sean, who had been trained in the Hell Knight Corps since childhood, was naturally more experienced. If their strength and defense were equal, Sean would undoubtedly win in the end.

“Winry.”

“Ah… Vice-captain! What is it?”

“You don’t have to push yourself too hard in the competition, and you don’t have to demand too much of yourself… You’re not purely a combatant, to begin with.

If you find that you can’t hold on, just surrender decisively. Doing your best is enough.”

“Hmm…”

Winry tightly grips her ‘Blacksmith’s Hammer’

And steps onto the arena.

Meanwhile, due to his utter defeat in the semifinals, Sean, who had a belly full of rage, steps onto the arena with his ‘absolute fury’, completely overwhelming Winry in terms of aura.

However, the venues drawn by the two were somewhat interesting.

Venue: [Cathedral of Light]

A cathedral, transparent to the spectators, rises from the ground, enveloping the two within.

This scene enhances the affinity for the Holy Light.

Correspondingly, fiends will be restrained in such areas.

This includes Sean’s demonic constitution.

With the announcement of the start of the fight.

Sean directly steps onto the ground and destroys the priest’s statue in the cathedral with a punch.

He also cuts his own wrist artery, letting a large amount of blood drip into the Holy Water pond, completely contaminating the cathedral and utterly ruining its sanctity.

The rules did not specify that the scene could not be destroyed.

The referee did not stop Sean’s actions.

When Sean returned to his original position, he focused on Winry, who was ten meters away, but did not attack immediately.

He held up his five thick fingers, hovering at ‘5’.

Due to the endless anger, red hot breath continuously vented from his mouth.

“I’ll give you five seconds to prepare.”

“Ah…okay.”

Winry was just like that… She quickly moved her arms as if ready for a serious battle.

Sean would not hold back just because his opponent was a woman.

He only wanted to win the match and fully vent his anger.

Crack!

The force exerted from the calf, the floor completely split open.

Propelled by strength, Sean soared towards Winry… ready to end the match with a single punch.

Clenching his immense, red fist, magma patterns surfaced on his skin, slamming directly onto Winry’s body.

“The speed has slowed down a lot, I can finally see clearly…”

Ding…

The sound of the heavy hammer striking the metal block resonated throughout the Colosseum.

Shockwaves visible to the naked eye spread out, even spectators outside the arena could clearly feel it.

All the knights watching the match widening their eyes.

“What the hell!?”

Even Han Dong, Abe, and Dumps were startled.

Thud… thud… thud!

Sean from Hell, like a lump of red metal, smashed through multiple pews in the cathedral and several thick stone walls without slowing down at all.

Bursting through the cathedral, flying a distance of more than five hundred meters.

After landing, he kept rolling, finally stopping at the edge of the arena.

If Sean hadn’t dug his giant fingers into the ground, he would have fallen out of the arena.

A hammer-shaped dent was imprinted on Sean’s arm, and his entire burly right arm was ruined… he was left somewhat dazed from the blow.

Winry was standing in the cathedral, looking quite worried.

After all, they were all graduates, she was just instinctively threatening and gave her full strength in one hammer swing.

“Wow… I accidentally used all my strength. Is he going to be okay?”

…

“What’s the background of this girl?!”

For a time, discussions about Winry began in earnest.

In the semi-finals, Winry was targeted by the fastest Hummingbird Knight and didn’t have a chance to show her strength and could only stand and get hit.

“My God… what’s going on with Winry’s strength?”

When Han Dong first saw Sean from Hell, he merely compared his strength with Winry’s from before… He didn’t expect that after Breaking the Breed, Winry’s brute strength would have a qualitative change.

To describe it as terrifying brute strength wouldn’t be an exaggeration.

“After this match, Winry will attract the attention of the highest level of the Holy City…” Dumps muttered.

…

“This level of strength cannot be achieved by practicing alone… it’s no longer just brute force, but freakish strength.”

This hammer.

Also immediately sparked Captain Kaimon and Great Knight Rolan’s interest in Winry.

If they could acquire such ‘freakish strength’ and cultivate it, it would certainly elevate the overall standards of the Knight Regiment.

Inside the WindRider Knights, the commander of the Hummingbird Guard who had previously faced off against Winry, stared at this scene without surprise.

She was well aware of Winry’s strength and through the battle and some information stored in her mind, she deduced that Winry’s freakish strength might have come from a knight who was executed in the Holy City.

“Captain Jack… could this girl be the descendant of Darius?”

In the dark seat, Captain Jack immediately raised a finger signaling not to discuss such matters casually.

…

The edge of the arena.

Sean from Hell shakily gets up, clutching his somewhat dizzy head. If he hadn’t been robust, that hammer blow would have been the end of him.

“Why… is it always like this…”

Rage.

The fury stored within him was completely unleashed by that hammer blow.

Sean from the semi-finals was ‘toyed with’ by the previous first-place holder at the Knight Convention.

In the finals, he almost got one-shotted by a female graduate…

The rage was completely ignited within his body.

Flames spread throughout Sean’s body, giving people the feeling of ‘self-immolation’.

This scene surprised the leader of the Hell Knight Corps, Marlon.

“Oh! ‘Rage’… quite interesting.

Control of power is only a basic skill, if you can control rage and turn it into your own power, that’s a higher level.”

The rage burns the body.

Burning off unnecessary impurities, melting and refining the flesh, steam constantly overflowing… Sean’s massive body was constantly being refined in this process, slowly transforming into an ordinary human figure.