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Chapter 479 - 94 Unyielding Holy Sword

Chapter 479: Chapter 94 Unyielding Holy Sword

Spiral Charge, a classic move favored by the chivalrous knights of West Francia, involved fiercely spinning the long spear to thrust it forward, shaking off any weapons that attempted to block its path.

If it is performed during a speedy charge, it becomes what players enthusiastically call the "Two-stage Charge" technique. Since the rotation of the spear depends on the wrist action and the forearm’s arc of rotation is limited, there is a high demand for the burst of speed at the user’s feet.

Without sufficient acceleration, one wouldn’t have covered many steps before the wrist reached its limit, hence the subsequent thrust would lack the effect of rebounding weapons.

At that moment, the "Light Angel" in front of the Imperial Army seemingly shimmered in an instant, then suddenly surged forward dozens of meters.

Accompanied by numerous bodies being violently tossed up by the spear thrust. Whether it was Power Armor or Iron Armor, their weight seemed non-existent as they were shattered and violently flung aside.

Arms, chests, legs, heads—all parts that came close to that line of white light thrust were almost completely obliterated. Even the seemingly intact flesh of the bodies flung away had their bones and nerves mostly severed by the residual shockwave.

As a result, none of the warriors flung away could rise from the ground. About thirty percent died instantly when they were thrown, while the remaining seventy percent suffered spinal damage, totally losing the ability to move.

Having fully utilized the Spiral Charge, Eleanor instantly halted, twisted her waist, and swung the long spear horizontally in a wide circle.

This precise and perfect Iron Cutting move instantly bisected seven or eight unsuspecting Power Armor Knights at the waist, sending their nearly one-ton half-armored bodies flying without mercy, breaking through the groups of soldiers behind them and scattering flesh and blood.

Just as Eleanor had cleared the enemies close to her and was about to continue her pursuit of the Emperor, she suddenly heard a furious dragon roar above her.

The two Giant Dragons from the Saxon Family, previously serving as the aerial reconnaissance and bombing forces of the Imperial Allied Forces, were now diving from the sky with flapping wings, bringing fiery breath hot as waterfalls, washing over the vast area centered on Eleanor.

Yet it could not wash away even a speck of white light around her.

More precisely, the nearly thousand-degree high-temperature flame that could instantly melt the surface of the Power Armor could not penetrate that layer of white light woven by an incredibly strong will, not even by a hair.

Eleanor, bursting with a shout, thrust out her long spear. A precise Dragon Spear maneuver hoisted up some fragmented Power Armor body from the ground, followed by another Iron Cutting strike.

This was the termination technique of the advanced spear technique, Dragon Continuous Attack, using Iron Cutting to send airborne targets flying. The long spear, covered in white light, upon striking the armor-encased fragmented body, instantly smashed its military armor into pieces.

These fragments, like cannonballs, shot up into the air and, before one Giant Dragon could react, tore open and even penetrated its massive body, with boiling dragon blood gushing out like rain.

The other Giant Dragon hurriedly extended its claws, caught its companion—who had nearly lost half a wing and could not fly—, and managed to wobble toward the camp’s edge to descend.

"Tyrant! Die here!" she roared again toward the front.

The Emperor’s retreating forces only saw Eleanor, the "Daughter of the Morning Star," who just cleared the enemies behind, holding a Light Sword and long spear rushing towards them, frightening them nearly into disarray.

The Demigod, Wilderness Bear Mason, broke from the ranks to cover their retreat, launched a powered charge from a distance, with the ground under his feet cracking open due to his forceful high-speed stamping.

In a mere blink, his speed had broken the sound barrier, charging at that figure composed of light with an extreme velocity that was invisible to the naked eye!

Even the superhuman speed could not surpass Eleanor’s reaction threshold at that moment.

In fact, under the state of Unyielding Holy Sword, most of her will was concentrated into substance, covering her weapons and entire body, while a minor part dissipated like fog.

With the enhancement of Unyielding Holy Sword, she had a profound control over all motions within the range of the Will Fog.

Just before Mason could close the gap with his lightning-speed, her left-hand sword was already swinging out. Mason’s warhammer collided with her light-covered sword, creating another sound-barrier-breaking boom.

The Demigod was then sent flying back at the same high speed, crossing hundreds of meters in the air instantly, his body breaking through a wall at the edge of the camp and lodging into a hill outside the camp, dragging out a trench over ten meters long on the ground.

The rare material of his warhammer had already turned into dust at the moment of collision with the white light, and the residual shockwave spread throughout his right hand, shattering almost all the bones in his limbs and chest.

This Demigod known for his Physical Power now lay miserably in the trench on the hill’s surface, his body full of crushing fractures and abrasions.

And the invisible internal organs, were thoroughly jumbled by the residual force. Were it not for the Wilderness Bear’s stored life force, it would likely be reduced to a mere tenth of its life by now.

"This..." The remaining demigods were completely dumbfounded at this moment.

Even with the most extreme pessimistic prediction, they could only foresee that the Angel of Light had used some method to weirdly evade or neutralize the high-speed charge of the Wilderness Bear.

Yet they had not expected that the opponent would fully absorb the full-blown attack of the Wilderness Bear, and then, completely unscathed, send it flying hundreds of meters away, nearly turning it into a shape barely recognizable as human.

Such extreme defensive power and offensive power, as well as that dazzling radiance...

"The Unyielding Holy Sword!" War God Leopold suddenly exclaimed, "Charlemagne! Roland! The Twelve Holy Knights! God, that is the legendary Unyielding Holy Sword!"

Thus, not only were the demigods frozen in place, but even the always thunderous Emperor Otto seemed as though someone had choked him, his face red and ears crimson, with no more words coming out.

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The Unyielding Holy Sword, one of the three extraordinary swordsmanship techniques, was also the most famous on the continent.

Among them, the most classic is the far-reaching legend that "whoever masters the Unyielding Holy Sword, is acknowledged by God as the Emperor of the Solomon Empire."

Even though Charlemagne had already been crowned by the Pope announcing him as the successor to the defunct West Solomon Empire and becoming "the Emperor of the Solomon people," however, this legend was once wildly circulated, even greatly overshadowing the Pope’s appointment.

After all, everyone knows that the Pope can step down, and who knows when the next Pope might change his mind.

And the Unyielding Holy Sword, a sword technique almost no one could learn, as proof of the Emperor of the Solomon people, it was more imbued with legend and myth, wasn’t it?

However, just like the historical Undead Illusion Sword, there were two individuals at the time who mastered the Unyielding Holy Sword. One was Emperor Charlemagne, and the other was his Chief Holy Knight, Roland.

Consequently, based on this legend, rumors began to circulate that "after Charlemagne dies, he would pass the throne to Holy Knight Roland."

Needless to say, such rumors were rather unpleasant for the royal family. Then, some coincidences happened:

At that time on the Iberian Peninsula, the Frank Empire’s army and the necromancers from the South Continent waged war, later the necromancers proposed a peace talk with Charlemagne.

Even though Roland strongly opposed, Charlemagne still agreed.

According to the terms of the peace, both armies needed to retreat simultaneously. At this point, a certain earl proposed that Holy Knight Roland should lead twenty thousand men to cover the retreat for the Frank army.

The result was that the necromancers perfidiously led an Undead Army of four hundred thousand quietly from behind, encircling the twenty thousand led by Roland.

Holy Knight Roland fought fiercely until his entire army was annihilated. Legend has it that under the activation of the Unyielding Holy Sword, he even single-handedly killed tens of thousands of undead, but eventually exhausted his will and strength and perished.

Then Charlemagne’s tardy army finally arrived, and the great emperor held the body of his loyal Chief Holy Knight and wept bitterly.

Of course, those complex conspiracy theories and exaggerated legends are set aside for the moment. In any case, when Leopold shouted the words "Unyielding Holy Sword," two facts instantly flashed through the minds of everyone present.

First, owing to the legend of the Unyielding Holy Sword, the existence of this female knight now genuinely threatened the ruling status of the Saxon family as the royal family.

Although the vast majority of the Francs devoutly follow the Solomon Sect, their obstinate belief in their own traditional myths is unshakable. Once the news spreads, they are bound to worship this knight as the "true God" of the Francs.

As for the cunning Great Nobles, although they surely wouldn’t be foolish enough to blindly believe in a myth, they would inevitably pretend to be devout believers when the time came to incite a rebellion and overthrow the rule of the Giant Dragon family, rallying around a new ruler.

Second, although history has hyped the Unyielding Holy Sword to divine heights, based on the records of the legends and the recent probing, at least one aspect of the myth does not appear to be baseless.

The reason it is proclaimed a Holy Sword by the Church Court is that "the armor bestowed by God is unbreachable; the sword bestowed by God is unstoppable."

That is to say, as long as the Unyielding Holy Sword is activated, this knight is utterly invincible.