Radiant Dragon’s Otherworldly Reincarnation

Chapter 206. I Wish They Would All Just Get Lost (1)

Swish!

Brody’s attack narrowly grazed past Patrick’s head.

Speed, precision, and the element of surprise, striking from outside his consciousness.

It was a perfect attack in every aspect, but his opponent was Patrick Schneider.

Brody’s attack unfortunately ended with merely cutting a few strands of Patrick’s hair.

“That surprised me. What kind of sword stretches like taffy….”

Patrick, who had dodged the attack, clicked his tongue.

He had thought there was something to it, but he hadn’t expected this.

And this wasn’t the end.

“Not yet.”

Brody, having retrieved his sword, continuously drew it from his waist.

Each time, his sword stretched long like a whip and flew towards Patrick.

Paang! Paaaang! Paang!

Even when the attacks missed, a shockwave of bursting air echoed at their destination point.

That was how fast and fierce the attacks were.

Patrick continued to dodge the attacks while standing in place. Then, in an instant, Brody’s eyes flashed, and…

“This is the end!”

Brody’s beloved sword, Grau, covered all directions and attacked the cornered Patrick.

This was unavoidable.

In that moment of conviction…

[ Twin Dragons Eight Sword Forms: Fifth Form: Dragon Scale Whirlwind ]

A whirlwind whipped around Patrick’s body, deflecting all the attacks that threatened him.

Kwang! Kwaang! Kwaang!

Brody scowled at the move that allowed Patrick to overcome the crisis.

“To think he could block this.”

Brody was disappointed that his sure-fire move had missed.

Just then, Elione shouted from a distance.

“Sir Patrick. That Demon can distort space. You have to fight as if there’s no limit to his range.”

Annoyed by her words, Brody shouted.

“Shut up!”

And the sword he swung this time stretched all the way to Elione’s side and attacked her.

Kwaaaang!

The blade, imbued with Demonic Energy, rushed towards Elione with terrifying destructive power. But…

“Tsk tsk tsk, you have to be careful.”

Elione was unharmed.

Patrick had run at a speed invisible to the eye and saved her.

Patrick, holding Elione like a princess, clicked his tongue and said.

“You’re supposed to send advice like that secretly with telepathy. Got it?”

“Sir Patrick?”

“Ah, right. You don’t know how to do that.”

Patrick scratched his head and put Elione down. Elione tried to say something to him, but…

“Let’s talk later. Let’s deal with that thing first.”

Patrick put her down and looked back in Brody’s direction.

“I was wary because I didn’t know what kind of trick it was, but now that I know, it makes sense. You control space?”

“That’s right. So…”

A light swing.

That single strike stretched out menacingly again and attacked Patrick.

Patrick moved slightly to dodge it, but Brody spoke to him from a distance.

“What will you do now that you know? Do you think you have a way?”

“……”

“Spatial manipulation is my unique power. It’s a great ability that a lowly human like you could never even dream of. You can’t do anything from there…”

“Hey.”

Patrick cut off Brody’s words with a look of utter pity. And then he said…

“You don’t have much real combat experience, do you?”

“Wha… what did you say?”

“No, to be precise, you’ve probably never fought an opponent as strong as or stronger than you. You’ve mostly just had experience unilaterally crushing those weaker than you. Isn’t that right?”

“……”

Brody couldn’t retort to Patrick’s words.

Because it was the truth.

Even as a Demon warrior, Brody was a young Demon, not even 500 years old.

His power and authority were great from birth, but all he had done with them was trample the weak.

He had never once fought a life-or-death battle against a truly strong opponent.

“Tsk tsk tsk, this is why inexperienced brats are…”

“How dare you, a mere human, look down on a warrior of the Demon race?!”

Brody shouted in displeasure and swung his sword again. His sword, heavily imbued with Demonic Energy, distorted space and fell towards Patrick’s head. But…

Kaaaaang!

Patrick didn’t dodge this attack.

He simply swung his sword, imbued with an Aura Blade, and deflected it.

“Not bad.”

Brody scowled.

Patrick’s strike that deflected his sword was so strong that he almost lost his grip on his own sword. But…

“But how long can you last?”

Brody’s hands moved in a dizzying motion, a sly smile on his face.

Then his beloved sword lunged towards Patrick, exuding a sinister killing intent like a venomous snake.

Kwang! Kwaang! Kwaang!

Patrick swung his sword from his position and deflected the attacks.

Brody’s Demonic Energy and Patrick’s Aura Blade generated intense shockwaves.

“Hmm…”

Brody’s expression hardened.

Although he was the one attacking one-sidedly, Patrick’s relaxed attitude was getting on his nerves.

No, that wasn’t relaxation.

The emotion revealed in that bored expression was less relaxation and more…

Tedium, boredom, and pity.

“How dare you…”

Brody swung his sword, imbued with even stronger Demonic Energy, at Patrick.

His attack, which refracted through space and flew like a whip, flew as if to tear Patrick to shreds. But…

“Foolish bastard.”

Patrick muttered indifferently and swung his sword, fully imbued with an Aura Blade, with great force.

It wasn’t a sword to block the attack like before, but one swung head-on to counterattack the opponent’s sword.

And the moment their attacks collided…

Kwaaaaaang!

“Keoheok…”

A powerful shockwave erupted, and Brody coughed up blood as he was pushed back several steps.

“Cough… h… how?”

To Brody, who had a look of disbelief that his technique had been broken, Patrick said.

“You foolish bastard. The effect of tricks like this is halved once their secret is revealed.”

“Cough…”

“Just cracking a whip from a distance, what? Did you think that was so impressive?”

“How dare you look down on my power?”

“The ability to distort space is interesting. But, you know.”

“……”

“In the end, you can just dodge it, right? You can deflect it, right?”

“……”

“If you’re just going to swing it like a whip from afar…”

“……”

“How is that any different from a real whip?”

In that instant, an exclamation of ‘Ah…’ flashed through the minds of everyone who heard Patrick’s words.

Even Brody himself.

“If you’re going to use a sword like a whip, just use a whip from the start. Why are you performing such a useless trick with a sword?”

“……”

Brody couldn’t say anything back.

“Tsk tsk tsk, if it were me, I would have used that ability to move my entire body while exchanging blows. Just like you did to April a little while ago.”

“……”

In that moment, Brody’s expression crumpled.

And Patrick said with a smile.

“Shall I tell you why you didn’t do that?”

“Shut up. How dare a mere human…”

“You’re scared to fight me up close, aren’t you?”

“I told you to shut up.”

“That’s why you’re just flicking a whip from a distance. Because you don’t have the courage to fight head-on.”

“Shut uuuup!”

Brody shouted roughly and swung his sword with all his might.

But just as Patrick had pointed out…

This time too, he only distorted the space of his sword and swung it like a whip.

He couldn’t bring himself to charge at Patrick.

Seeing the incoming attack, Patrick said calmly.

“No matter how strong it is, a beast without fangs is no predator.”

Kwaaaaaang!

And Brody’s strike cleanly split Patrick’s body in half and fell to the ground.

Those watching were horrified by the immense destructive power. To their eyes, it must have looked like Patrick had been taken down without even leaving a corpse, but…

“That again?”

“I really want to learn that.”

Those who knew Patrick a little were not shaken at all.

Just by looking at Brody’s crumpled expression, it was clear.

What had just been cut in half was merely an afterimage left by Patrick.

“Now, let’s end this.”

The real Patrick had already closed the distance to be right next to Brody.

Patrick, who had ducked down diagonally, lowered his stance.

In that state, he unleashed the technique he had prepared.

[ Twin Dragons Eight Sword Forms: Fifth Form: Dragon Scale Whirlwind ]

A defensive technique of the Twin Dragons Eight Sword Forms.

But at close range, the Dragon Scale Whirlwind had a different effect on the enemy.

“Kuk… Uuuuugh…”

Within the whirlwind of the fierce sword wind, Brody focused all his Demonic Energy on defense.

Thanks to that, he was able to avoid serious injury.

But apart from that…

“Uh… uh uh uh…”

He couldn’t help it as his own body began to float up from the ground.

This was the hidden effect of the Dragon Scale Whirlwind.

When used at close range, it had the effect of launching the enemy from the ground into the sky.

In the first place, the utility of the Dragon Scale Whirlwind was not in deflecting the enemy’s attack head-on, but in twisting the enemy’s force up into the sky.

Therefore, if an enemy was present within its domain, it would be twisted up into the sky.

Just like right now.

“Uwaaaaaaaaah!”

Brody, who had been holding on, shouted loudly and was eventually sent flying high into the sky.

There was nothing around Brody, who had been lifted more than 30 meters above the ground.

And right below him…

“This is the end.”

Patrick was aiming at him, having taken a sword stance.

“N… noooo!”

Simultaneously with Brody’s scream, Patrick unleashed his sword form.

[ Twin Dragons Eight Sword Forms: Sixth Form: Nine Dragons Under Heaven ]

It was Patrick’s ultimate technique of intent, which he had shown in the Arcana finals.

Since he couldn’t unleash the final secret art right now, it was, in fact, the attack with the highest destructive power that Patrick could perform.

Kuooooooooo!

Nine ferocious dragons roamed over Patrick’s sword before being released and flying into the sky.

There was no way to escape the nine dragons that came flying, covering all eight directions.

“Grau!”

Brody held his sword in front of him and tried to endure by emitting his Demonic Energy to the maximum. But…

Kwakwakwakwakwa….

“Uh… Uuuugh…”

It was like a candle flame left in a typhoon.

He couldn’t endure it.

He couldn’t block it.

There was no need to question the reason or logic.

The difference in pure power was just too clear.

Brody’s Demonic Energy was quickly consumed and disappeared. And the nine dragons fiercely descended upon the defenseless Brody.

“Kraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!”

That was the last of him.

In a despair where not a single point of hope could be seen, Brody let out a final death cry and was annihilated.

***

“Hoooo…”

Patrick, having sheathed his sword, took a small breath to regulate his Qi and blood.

And looking up at the sky, he said.

“Did I overdo it?”

But he soon shook his head and said.

“No, this is the right way to deal with a guy like that.”

To others, it would look like he had unilaterally thrashed him as usual.

But Patrick had used more than 70% of his full strength in this battle.

It wasn’t because he lacked confidence.

It was to uphold a great proverb that was most famous in Jianghu, yet forgotten by so many idiots.

Complacency is forbidden.

There was no one who didn’t know the phrase itself.

But, you know.

They really didn’t fucking follow it.

From the brats of the prestigious orthodox sects to the demonic heads of the unorthodox factions who were said to have a knack for real combat, if you gathered all the guys who died because they didn’t follow that rule, you could fill the mountains of Northern Mount Mang with their tombstones.

Patrick had no intention of becoming one of those idiots.

So when facing an unknown being, Patrick’s theory was just one thing.

‘I have to crush them with all my strength.’

To leave no room for what-ifs, he had even used Nine Dragons Under Heaven.

In fact, since he couldn’t rashly unleash the final secret art, Dragon God’s Reign Under Heaven, Nine Dragons Under Heaven was the best technique Patrick could perform right now.

The technique itself was a lower version of Dragon God’s Reign Under Heaven, after all.

In any case, he had dealt with him perfectly, not leaving a single piece of flesh or bone.

Even that suspicious-looking strange sword fragment and all.

Matthew and the others watched Patrick, who was returning to the group after his victory, with a fed-up expression.

“That bastard, now he’s even catching Demons of all things.”

“That’s right.”

“Amazing. Just amazing. Right. It’s amazing, but…”

Matthew, Isabella, and even Riman…

They all looked at Patrick with a mixture of feelings.

It had been hundreds of years since a human had defeated a Demon.

Having achieved such a great feat, Patrick was truly worthy of being called a hero. However…

‘A hero?’

‘Him?’

‘No. That’s not logically correct.’

No matter how they thought about it, it was a bit much.

Hero Patrick Schneider.

Hmm, that’s not right.

It was extremely unfair.

But with the achievement he had accomplished right before their eyes, they couldn’t say anything…

Amidst the group’s very mixed feelings, Matthew spoke.

“Come to think of it, it’s only natural.”

“What is?”

“How can a low-class demon like that win against a great demon from hell?”

Then Isabella chimed in.

“You’re right.”

The intellect of the Tower of Truth also agreed.

“That is a logically sound interpretation.”

Isabella and Riman vehemently agreed with Matthew’s hypothesis.

The idea that a great evil had crushed a lesser evil to death resonated with them much more than a heroic tale of a great hero defeating a wicked demon.

However…

“Aah…. Sir Patrick.”

Even if the whole world turned its back on Patrick, there was one being who would blindly praise him.

Her name was…

“April. You should take off your rose-colored glasses… Huh?”

Matthew was about to tell her to cut it out but stopped. And a voice came from behind Matthew…

“I am right here.”

It was April.

Then who was that just now?

The person who was clasping her hands together, looking at the approaching Patrick with a dazed expression, and exuding a love unlike any other in the world was, well…

“Ms. Elione?”

“What’s wrong with her now?”

“One look and you can tell she’s lost it.”

“So why?”

Isabella shouted as if she was annoyed with the world.

Regardless, Elione was looking at Patrick with a love unlike any other in the world.

Well, that was…

She had always been like that.

From the moment Patrick made a flower bloom on the branch of the World Tree she possessed, she had shown a strong obsession and affection for him.

But her current state went beyond that…

“Sir Patrick.”

She ran in one step and opened her arms to em…

“Ahem? How dare you?”

…brace him, but Patrick stopped her by placing his palm on her forehead. And then…

“How dare you? It is said that men and women, after the age of seven, should not sit in the same place.”

His fuddy-duddy level had definitely gone up.

But it wasn’t just Patrick’s fuddy-duddy level that had gone up.

“Sir Patrick.”

“What? First, get ba…”

“You’ve become the World Tree, haven’t you? Right?”

At Elione’s words, Patrick flinched.

And the others around them were all horrified.

“Wait? What did she say?”

“I misheard, right? I misheard that, right?”

“Sister. What did you just say?”

In response to the storm of questions, Elione smiled brightly.

And she shouted to her clan.

“Everyone, look closely. And touch. Feel it. You can clearly feel the presence of the World Tree within him.”

And the Elves hurriedly ran to Patrick and examined him.

“Let go of me! Get off! Ouch! Don’t pinch me!”

As a result of Patrick being briefly harassed by the Elves’ hands…

“How can this be?”

“How did this happen?”

“Oh…, O World Tree.”

It was true.

The Elves could clearly feel the presence of the World Tree from Patrick.

It was as if Patrick had really become the World Tree.

And Patrick scratched his head at his companions, who were standing with their jaws dropped, and then…

“Well, that’s what happened.”

The continent’s youngest 7-star swordsman.

The winner of Arcana.

A candidate for the son-in-law of the Kingdom of Atronia.

A master of combat who had overwhelmed numerous 7-star knights from other countries.

A madman who waged a full-scale war with the Kaisar Kingdom.

And now, of all things, he was the World Tree.

“That crazy bastard…”

There was no room for logical refutation in Riman’s mutterings.