The Failed Swordmaster - Chapter 62

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Chapter 62 27. It’s Huge (2)

Succubi and incubi are demon clans with similar characteristics.

Both are humanoid, and both are beautiful. This is to seduce humans and absorb their life force. However, they have the fatal weakness that their specialty charm skills don’t work on the same gender.

‘But incubi… their charm skills aren’t the only dangerous thing.’

Watching Lumian charge forward, Morghen wore a serious expression.

Unlike succubi who are only strong in mental attacks, incubi also excel in physical strength.

Strong enough to easily toy with most experts.

Moreover, the incubus in this hideout seemed stronger than typical specimens.

It appeared to have temporarily entered a doped state by absorbing the succubi’s magic power.

‘Of course, it’s hard to consider brother a typical expert either…’

While his aura reserves might not differ from other experts, Lumian has tremendous experience.

He has swordsmanship skills that even surpass sword masters, and aura manipulation abilities too.

Of course, despite all that, it was true that he was worried.

Morghen nodded with a hardened face.

‘Brother told me not to interfere, but…’

If a dangerous situation arises, he’ll step in without hesitation.

He can’t just let Lumian die from sympathy again.

“You bastard! Charging in alone!”

Though his thoughts were long, the time that passed was short.

The incubus who roared loudly also shot toward Lumian.

To smash this kid who barely had facial hair with one punch.

The creature jumped high and brought down his fist with tremendous force.

Kwaaaaang!

Crack, crackle-!

Tremendous power!

A huge crack formed where Lumian had dodged.

However, it was useless if it didn’t hit. Lumian quickly took position behind the incubus and unleashed a sword strike.

Kwang!

But it was blocked. The incubus showed monstrous strength by blocking the aura sword with just his left hand.

Not satisfied with that, he tried to clench his hand to break the blade.

At that moment, Lumian’s aura sword blazed with even stronger light.

“Kruuk!”

Unable to withstand the heat, the incubus threw the sword away.

Lumian didn’t resist that force and spun once. A fierce attack using centrifugal force struck the incubus’s opposite side.

Kwang!

“Kruuk!”

This time the incubus also took damage.

Confirming blood burst from his shin, the creature staggered back.

A roar like an enraged beast flowed from his mouth.

“Krheaaaaa!”

“Hmm.”

Morghen frowned.

It wasn’t a simple roar. The incubus’s voice was mixed with evil energy that could shatter a person’s mind.

However, Lumian had protected his eardrums with aura just before the creature opened its mouth.

With an expressionless face, he kicked the incubus’s jaw.

And just before flying away, he unleashed two attacks.

Kwaaaaang!

Rumble-

“Uaaaaaa!”

Watching the incubus emerge from the pile of stones, Lumian smirked.

Then he immediately approached and delivered merciless consecutive strikes.

Kwang! Bang!

Clang! Clang! Clang! Claang!

The incubus couldn’t regain his composure.

Clearly he was stronger. More powerful, more robust, and faster too.

Yet he couldn’t turn the situation to his advantage. Whenever he tried to do something, his momentum kept getting cut off. The kid’s sword was always where he wanted to advance.

That made the incubus incredibly angry.

He felt like he’d go crazy from frustration!

‘Is it because he’s been resting for so long? He’s pathetic.’

In contrast, Lumian was calm.

He was much weaker compared to his previous life. Both the amount of aura and the internal pathways through which aura flowed were incomparably inferior to before.

However, he had experience. The expertise accumulated through decades of combat.

And one more thing.

Recalling the mountain’s aura, he slightly raised the corner of his mouth.

‘Without this, it might have been difficult.’

Mind, body, and aura are not separate.

When aura runs out, physical strength weakens, and when the body starts creaking, the mind collapses.

From that point, it becomes difficult to read the incubus’s psychology and follow-up movements. Cases occur where you fight well but lose due to lack of stamina.

But now there was no such worry.

The components of the mountain’s aura.

He alternately drew upon the energy of vegetation, earth, and water. The warmly shining sunlight also helped with endurance.

The mysterious power that had allowed him to follow sword master Morghen for days on end displayed its true value.

Lumian was confident of victory.

He just needed to continue like this.

He could eliminate this filthy male demon!

That’s what he thought when it happened.

Morghen, who had been standing behind, informed Lumian of one fact.

“Brother! The magic power in the dungeon keeps flowing into that creature!”

‘Damn! He’s continuously absorbing the succubi’s magic power!’

His thinking had been short-sighted.

Recalling the fact he had momentarily forgotten due to anger, Lumian ground his teeth.

He had planned to drag it into a long battle and gradually wear the creature down, but in this situation, it becomes a useless strategy. If the creature’s power grows stronger, it becomes harder to maintain the upper hand.

Then what should he do?

Should he hand the fight over to his brother-in-law like this?

‘Absolutely not!’

Light flowed from Lumian’s eyes.

He hadn’t forgotten.

He couldn’t forget.

What the creature had said. That statement that drove a nail into his heart without the slightest hesitation.

‘How could he say that? Was it because of sympathy? Because he was an inexperienced boy, could he mercilessly cut down those cute children?’

‘How dare he mock me!’

Calling him a virgin!

Unbearable rage surged up.

Though it was true, sometimes there are times when that truth shouldn’t be mentioned.

But that creature didn’t care. He mercilessly trampled on his wounded heart, tore it apart, and sprinkled salt on it.

A burning hot battle cry burst from Lumian’s mouth.

“Kraaaaaaap!”

Whiiiiiing-!

“No way, that’s…!”

Morghen, who had been watching the battle, opened his mouth wide.

Lumian’s aura sword shot up to tremendous length. It seemed to be at least twice as long. The light and heat also became incomparably more intense than before.

Of course, it couldn’t compare to a completed aura sword of a Sword Master.

However, it was at least to the degree that he thought it could block his sword several times.

‘How on earth did he do that?’

“Haaaaaaah!”

“Th-this!”

Whether Morghen was surprised or not, Lumian glared at the incubus and delivered a strike of bitter resentment.

The flustered incubus crossed both arms to block the area around his crown. Black demonic energy condensed on the creature’s forearms, becoming as hard as a metal surface.

However, it was insufficient to block Lumian’s aura sword.

Kwajajajajajak!

The expression “cut” wasn’t appropriate.

Lumian split the incubus in half with the feeling of having smashed it to pieces.

From head to crotch, that is, all the way to his thing. The creature’s massive member could no longer be recognized in its original form.

If the creature had been human.

No, if it hadn’t said hurtful words to him, he wouldn’t have given it such a cruel end, but the current Lumian had no mercy.

Huu, he exhaled hot breath.

And he knelt on one knee. His body was strained from drawing too much aura.

Morghen hurriedly ran over and asked about his condition.

“Older Brother, are you alright?”

“I’m not alright.”

“That thing at the end, how did you do it?”

“Just… I’ll explain later. I need to cultivate for now. Keep watch around us.”

Having finished speaking, Lumian took position and entered aura cultivation.

The strike he had just shown was applying the mountain’s aura to maximize the fire attribute.

A method of instantly erupting the heat sleeping beneath the mountain, that is, lava.

‘Like a volcano exploding…’

It was something he had thought of during the race with Morghen, and the effect was better than expected.

Of course, stability was lacking. His body was burning now. The blue mountain was engulfed in flames, crying out in pain.

‘But it’s okay.’

If he drew upon the water flowing through the mountain, it would somehow be extinguished.

Lumian closed his eyes and fell into a world of selfless absorption.

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“Huu. That was easy.”

“Easy, you say. After cultivating for half a day. I thought I’d die of boredom.”

“Didn’t this happen often before? I frequently stayed up for two or three days taking care of you.”

“Ahem. Well, that’s…”

Morghen trailed off.

Because it was true. The previous life’s Lumian had saved him dozens of times, so he couldn’t make a big deal out of this much.

He said.

“Anyway, the subjugation is finished. There don’t seem to be any other demons, so once we perform the purification ritual, the estate will be safe.”

“I see. It’s over…”

Lumian muttered in a lonely voice.

In the end, the original purpose of finding a succubus had come to nothing.

What remained in his mind was only the incubus’s dangling member and the harsh words it had spoken.

It was a subjugation of nothing but loss and wounds.

“Oh right, and this came from the incubus’s body.”

“What? Ah… a demonic stone. It was quite strong indeed.”

Lumian nodded as he spoke.

A demonic stone is the essence of power that high-ranking demons possess.

While other demons turn to ash and scatter when they die, powerful demons like this incubus leave behind their demonic stones.

“If we take it to a priest, it should fetch a decent price.”

“Right? With this size, it should bring quite a bit.”

And demonic stones sold for quite expensive prices.

Not because they had value, but because they couldn’t be purified with ordinary holy water that adventurers or mercenaries carried around, so the Order would purchase and process them.

However, as Lumian looked at the incubus’s demonic stone, an interesting thought occurred to him.

‘This, if done well… could be used like an elixir?’

It wasn’t an impossible thing. At least according to Lumian’s judgment.

Demons were strong because of demonic energy. However, that didn’t mean they didn’t use mana.

This was especially true for high-ranking demons.

Therefore, it was correct to view this demonic stone left by the incubus as containing large amounts of both demonic energy and mana.

‘Of course, if an ordinary person ate this, they’d immediately fall and become a demon…’

I’m different!

Thus Lumian began to coldly assess his own abilities.

‘The vegetation covering the mountain… has purification functions.’

‘The water flowing through the mountain… naturally has purification abilities.’

‘The earth supporting everything… goes without saying.’

‘Finally, the sunlight illuminating all of this… sufficient to burn away even the last remaining demonic energy.’

A smile spread across Lumian’s lips.

It was definitely possible.

If it had been the old rock aura, it would have been difficult. Resisting demonic energy would be possible, but purifying and eliminating it would be another matter.

But now.

‘I can extract only the mana from the demonic stone!’

“Older Brother, what’s wrong?”

“Morghen.”

“Yes.”

“I’m going to eat the demonic stone now.”

“What?”

Morghen looked at his older brother with an expression asking what nonsense he was talking.

However, Lumian was calm. He continued in a gentle voice.

“There’s no need to worry about anything, so don’t make a fuss and just guard me for about one more day.”

“What are you saying? That’s completely absurd…”

“I found a way to remove the demonic energy and absorb only the mana. So I’m counting on you.”

“W-wait.”

Having finished speaking, Lumian immediately swallowed the demonic stone.

Then he felt a hot and stinging sensation spread throughout his entire body.

Of course, it was at a manageable level.

Lumian smiled inwardly and thought.

‘What I lack most right now is the amount of aura I possess.’

That was right. Only that was lacking.

He knew very well the method to advance upward.

The ability to execute that method, the know-how, everything.

Because it was something he had already experienced once.

Therefore…

‘If only the amount of aura is satisfied… I…’

Today, he might become a Sword Master.

Lumian’s expression became solemn.

“Hmm…”

Unable to even guess his older brother’s thoughts, Morghen scratched the back of his head.

Honestly speaking, he wasn’t worried.

There had never been a time when his older brother said he’d be fine and wasn’t.

It was always only him who suffered and overcame life-threatening crises.

However.

“Staying one more day would be too boring though….”

Morghen let out a deep sigh.

Of course, he had no choice. His older brother had often done the same thing.

After grumbling inwardly, he began to stand guard.

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