Chapter 439: Dark Awakening - Part 3

“Well then, Della Rose.” Leon brandished his white katana. “You want to fight me?”

His tone seemed flirtatious. As if he didn’t expect Della to give any fight, so he just used this opportunity to come off as cool and impressive. Which he thought would be attractive to girls like her.

Della looked grave, as if she were sitting in a funeral parlor rather than in here. His words entered her ear from one side and immediately exited out the other.

All she could think about was what to do in this situation. Leon tried to kill her guild member. She couldn’t let that just be.

If she fought Leon for real, there was no way she would survive. However, she believed that if he delayed long enough, Leon would just leave.

In the end, all that mattered to him was killing the centipede, and if she delayed him long enough, there might be other players that were close to killing the centipede.

When that happened, he couldn’t just keep fighting her.

“Miss Della.” At that moment, Miranda walked over with her greatsword in hand. “We will assist you.”

Fang Raon, Rock, Machary, Waylen, Jax Hugo, Adam Thorn, Hank Bass, and Dogger Hunt came from the fog—the entire Rose Records was here!

“Guys,” Della smiled. “Be careful.”

A weight was lifted off her shoulders. She was scared to go against him alone. But now with her whole guild here, it changed things.

“Hound Summon!” Rock summoned a couple dark-furred dogs, and they ran straight for Leon. “Rip him apart!”

Leon cut through the dogs. They were cut in half. As the dogs touched the ground, they vanished into a puff of smoke.

“Is that all?” Leon asked with a smirk. “Honestly, that was kind of path—”

Before the words could fully leave his mouth, a massive dog’s mouth appeared right under his feet. It looked scary, and the sharp teeth closed on in him.

“Swallowing Ground!”

Leon jumped high in the air. The Swallowing Ground closed its mouth. It failed to bite him. But the attack was not done just yet.

“Wrap Your Tongue!”

Rock’s grimoire shone, and the Swallowing Ground mouth opened again, and its long tongue shot out towards Leon, wrapping around his leg in a tight grip.

It started dragging him back towards the dark mouth.

“Tch!” Leon slashed through the tongue, breaking free from its tight grip. “Disgusting magic.”

A part of the tongue was still wrapped around his leg. He quickly removed it and tossed it towards the Swallowing Ground.

Swallowing Ground swallowed the tongue, and then disappeared from the ground.

At that moment, Waylen jumped through the air and whipped his sword through the air, but Leon blocked it. The two forces clashed.

Leon punched with his right fist. It hit Waylen directly in the nose. It momentarily stunned him, and Leon swung the sword immediately—going for an Instant Kill!

“Intimidation!” Jax Hugo yelled at Leon, and for just a split second, all his movements stopped. It gave Waylen enough time to retreat.

“Tch!” Leon landed on the ground and thrust his sword towards Jax Hugo. “Archangel’s Judgment Stab!”

Then, Fang Raon and Machary moved in to support Jax Hugo—they attacked at the same time and stopped Leon’s sword before it could reach Jax Hugo.

It took both of them to hold him back, and even still, they were barely able to stop him, and it was obvious that Leon still wasn’t trying his hardest.

“Dueling Instinct!” Fang Raon and Machary both activated at the same time. “Hard Slash!”

They pushed Leon just a little bit. He shrugged it off like it was nothing.

Machary attacked him from high. Fang Raon attacked from low. Then, Leon swung one—the white katana stopped Machary’s attack, and then with the same slash, he extended it to knock Fang Raon back.

With just one move, he was able to stop both of them!

“Blade of Light!” Swords of light flew out of Della’s grimoire, and Leon quickly shifted into defense and deflected them with ease.

“Was that all, Della Rose?” Leon smiled handsomely. “Looks like you’ll need to try harder if you want to defeat me.”

At that moment, without him noticing, a golden circle appeared right under his feet. He would have noticed it if he had stopped flirting and actually paid attention.

‘Foolish boy,’ Rock thought. ‘That arrogance will be his downfall.’

“What the hell is this?” Leon couldn’t move, as if he were trapped inside the golden circle. “I’ll just cut through it.”

He activated Maxima. It should be enough to cut through the golden circle. The sword sliced through the circle with ease.

The spell got destroyed!

“Oh no…” Della paled.

“ANCHOR!” At that moment, Fang Raon stopped Leon in place. “Do it now, Della!”

“The hell?” Leon suddenly stopped in place, and he looked at Raon with surprise. “What did that bastard do?”

‘He is so strong…’ Fang Raon sweated furiously as he tried to hold him in one place. ‘It takes all my strength to just hold him in one place!’

At that moment, three golden circles appeared above Leon. They were shining and spinning like cogs in a machine.

“Golden Circle: Crash!”

The golden circles crashed on top of Leon. It would be enough to kill most players. An explosion ensued, and a huge cloud of smoke covered the entire area.

“Did that get him?” Hank Bass breathed heavily.

The dust cloud cleared, and there they saw him, Leon, standing unscathed in the middle of the swamp. Della’s all-out magic attack did nothing.

“What?!”

Della couldn’t believe it. Nobody had escaped that attack without a scratch before. Leon was grinning, unfazed by the powerful attack.

“Curious?” Leon asked with a smile. ‘I must look really cool right now.’

“…” Fang Raon looked at him silently with narrowed eyes. ‘That attack landed. It wouldn’t have exploded otherwise. Why does he not have a single scratch on him?’

He remembered his talk with Raizen, who talked with him about his fight with Leon, and he said how it was the strangest fight of his life. The things that Leon was capable of doing made zero sense.

“Yo, Leon!” At that moment, everyone turned around to see Shane Scuf walk over. “Need help with these pests?”

‘Oh no…’ Della grimaced. ‘It was already hard enough to deal with Leon. If Shane joins, we are going to lose.’

“…” Leon looked at Shane coldly. “Does it look like I need help? Go deal with the centipede. I’ll be there shortly.”

“Nah, I’ll let others deal damage to the centipede first. It’s just a waste of time and energy for me.” Shane sat on a rock. “I’ll just watch.”

Leon just scoffed. It did not matter to him. At that moment, Rose Records kept attacking him, and he just shrugged off all their attacks.

Whenever the white katana slashed through the air, somebody almost always died. Wounds after wounds appeared on the bodies of Rose Records.

The only person Leon really wasn’t trying to injure was Della.

“Hound Arm!” Rock’s arm turned into a dog, and it shot towards Leon. “Eat him raw!”

Leon dodged it, and then he sliced through Rock’s arm. The arm went flying. It turned back to normal, but his arm was still gone.

“Heal!” Dogger immediately healed Rock, and his arm grew back. “Huff…”

It was pretty exhausting to heal missing limbs. Way more exhausting than any other injury.

Leon attacked Dogger. If he got rid of the Healer, it would become so much easier. However, everyone protected Dogger.

He failed to get through Jax Hugo’s massive shield. Then he was immediately attacked by the Warriors of the guild.

The arrows and spells flew through the air, trying to hit him from all angles, and Leon weaved through the attacks, but he couldn’t escape completely unharmed either.

Fang Raon kept attacking Leon. It was risky because if he wasn’t super careful, Leon might cut his head off.

‘Want to kill Leon? I can help you.’

A strange voice appeared on his mind. It was a familiar voice, though. He didn’t look in the direction where the telepathic voice came from.

It came from Shane Scuf!

‘What does he want?’ Fang Raon frowned. ‘I thought it was weird for him to follow Leon around like a dog after what happened to them in the past. So he really wants Leon dead?’

He also wondered how Shane could speak to him telepathically. Assassins shouldn’t have such abilities.

‘What do you want?’ Fang Raon talked back to Shane.

‘To kill him, obviously.’ Shane Scuf crossed his legs with a smile on his face. ‘I need your help to do that.’

‘Why do you want him dead?’

‘Who wouldn’t want him dead, haha?’ Shane Scuf sounded like he was laughing inside his mind. ‘He is a total asshole. Trust me, everyone except Seonwoo Kim wants him dead.’

Fang Raon didn’t know whether he could trust him, but Shane really had no reason to lie, unless he was just playing games with him.

‘What do you want me to do?’

Time till the Dark Awakening: 1 hour and 58 minutes.