The Second Son of The Marquis Runs Away from Home ~ Lacking Talent, He Abandons Everything and Becomes an Adventurer ~ - 187

Chapter 187: Exhilaration

Breaking the guard and distancing ourselves, light emanated from Lowd’s dragon arm, and rays shot out from his fingertips.

Running low, almost crawling on the ground, I swung the poleaxe Baldich in a sweeping motion, feeling the rays passing overhead piercing through the walls.

Lowd inserted the sword he held in reverse into the hole of the poleaxe, piercing it into the floor to stop it forcibly. Releasing the stopped poleaxe, he wielded a sword with his right arm.

Caught by the sword’s blade with the dragon arm, black lightning and white light clashed with a thunderous sound. Lowd regained his grip on the sword and swung it horizontally.

Jumping back while letting go of the sword, I evaded the sword, then immediately blocked Lowd’s follow-up strike with a circular shield held in my left hand, only to have it struck down by the dragon arm.

“Expected that!”

The chain mace, Chain Mace, which had already been deployed in my right hand, approached Lowd in an arc. Lowd leaped, jumping over my head, and emitted a beam of light from the dragon arm.

I intercepted the incoming beam of light from directly above with the shield. The force was so overwhelming that my legs sank into the floor, but I gritted my teeth and endured the pressure engulfing my entire body.

Right after being hit by the beam of light, Lowd transformed his sword into a spear and launched a sweeping blow, which I dodged by jumping directly upward with “Wind Step.”

Kicking in mid-air to turn around, I deployed the Great Sword with the wind and slammed it towards Lowd.

“Hmph!?”

Lowd was slammed into the wall along with the giant sword. Immediately, I took up a bow and arrow and continued shooting dozens of arrows enhanced with magic spells.

The destruction and explosions around the wall where Lowd was slammed resounded, but as I wielded the sword in preparation, Lowd broke through the dust and debris with a towering alabaster shield as tall as himself.

I deployed the tower-shaped shield, Tower Shield, to confront him, and the clash of shields resounded as we were repelled by the impact once again.

Lowd lifted debris from the ground with the dragon arm, and although I blocked the debris and dust with the tower-shaped shield, Lowd unleashed a sword filled with tremendous power and light at close range once again.

“Sky-splitting Dragon Claw Lindblum!”

The torrent of light pierced through the wall, creating a large hole in the dungeon’s wall, known for its strength surpassing the defensive walls of Heinlberia. But…

“Wind Roar Shockwave Wind Wave – Heavy Dual!”

Just before, I released the shield, bent down, and punched through Lowd’s dove-tail with wind and gauntlets wrapped around both hands. Lowd stopped, scraping the floor as he lifted debris, overwhelmed by the amplified vibrations and impact from the two winds.

“Haha… hahaha!”

Lowd laughed, taken aback by the sudden action, but then he laughed heartily and looked at me.

“Indeed, true battle lies in each other possessing the power to kill! What’s amusing about kicking down the masses with overwhelming power? It’s a fight where we burn our lives, and only one of us stands at the end!”

Lowd exclaimed with joy, like an explorer who had finally found what he had been yearning for.

“Berg! If fate exists, then it must be you! You are the archenemy the world has created to destroy my boring life!”

“…Me, an archenemy, huh?”

Lowd spoke without hiding his exhilaration, despite the situation where our lives were at stake, where we were killing each other…

“…Yeah, damn.”

And I, too, seemed to be exhilarated in some way, feeling acknowledged.

Raising our swords to each other, we uttered powerful words as if communicating with each other.

“Battle Dress Deployment – Black-Clad Holy Army Chaos Crusader!”

“Dragon Dress Deployment – Culmination of Life High-End!”

The black storm clashed with the white light…