Chapter 50: Burning in this Eternal Night
"You stood by the golden wheat field, gazing in the direction of the town from which you came."
"You had cleared your failed experimental fields and replanted them with normal wheat seeds."
"And so, when the harvest season arrived, you once again saw this golden wheat field."
"Just like her soft golden hair."
"This brilliant wheat field swayed in the wind."
"But... you still did not see her."
"You waited quietly and patiently."
"Today, you would wait for her. You believed she would definitely come."
"There was only the sound of the wind in the world, desolate and quiet."
"You stood in this wheat field, from the sunny noon until the dusky evening."
"The afterglow of the sunset flowed between the clouds at dusk, the setting sun rippled in the water accompanied by the rolling mountains. You gazed at the distant mountains and rivers, your pupils seeming to reflect the magnificent rosy red of the entire island."
"And then..."
"You saw a brilliant, dazzling, scorching white light light up on the horizon, constantly enlarging as it came toward you—"
Swish—
Waves of air layered and parted, the tail flame a brilliant, hissing cry.
From the distant horizon, a dazzling, scorching white spear of light suddenly lit up, piercing through the air like a brilliant lightning bolt, annihilating everything in its path in the extreme daylight.
The scorching spear of light whistled and arrived in an instant.
It went straight for the silver-haired youth's almost-frozen pupils—
"It's going to hit...
"—What?!"
The knights' excited voices suddenly froze, letting out a disbelieving hiss.
Like the spear of light that was stopped in that instant.
"How is this possible?!"
Everyone saw it.
Su Shu had raised his hand and actually caught the tip of the spear of light.
The trembling tip of the spear was less than an inch from his brow.
The echo of its hum was unceasing.
"Unbelievable! He caught Lord Percival's Noble Phantasm with his bare hands!"
"Is this guy even human?!"
"He was never human to begin with! Brothers, follow me and charge!"
"...I see. So this is your choice."
From a hundred meters away, that person's voice slowly sounded in their ears.
"Unfortunately...
"Compared to swordsmanship,"
Su Shu flicked his palm, grabbed the shaft of the spear of light, and with his whole body's strength, suddenly threw it back from where it came—
"I'm actually more suited to using a spear!"
"Danger! Dodge!"
BOOM—
A blast wave ten times more violent than when it came suddenly erupted.
The spear of light, like a thunderbolt, instantly shot back into the deep forest, bursting into a scorching white light!
The knights hiding there scrambled out of the forest in a sorry state.
Seeing that they had been exposed, the ambushers from all directions also drew their swords and slowly surrounded this golden wheat field.
"Son of the Vile King Vortigern, Alvin Pendragon!
"I advise you to surrender without a fight. You are surrounded by more than a thousand of our knights!"
The Sun Knight, Gawain, walked out from the surrounding crowd.
He held his holy sword, his whole body blooming with rounds of dazzling brilliance, already under the Saint's protection.
Su Shu glanced at the brilliant dusk and instantly understood his state.
"No sun, I see... that piece of trash Merlin cast an illusion on you, making the sunlight still favor you."
"That's right~ Alvin-kun, long time no see—"
The figure of the magus appeared on the golden wheat field, and then...
Pfft—
The wheat field swayed with the wind, and a dark sword light shot up, instantly piercing Merlin's throat.
"A piece of trash who only dares to show himself as a clone. Just disfiguring you was letting you off easy."
"My true body will never appear before you again, so you can't kill me."
Smiling like this, Merlin's figure dissipated into petals.
"At this moment, at dusk, you can neither devour light nor borrow shadow!"
Gawain came slashing with his holy sword. In this battle, he was the main force against the son of the demonic dragon.
"Alvin, surrounded by us, your defeat is sealed!"
"Defeat? Surrounded?"
Su Shu let out a disdainful sneer.
His faceplate suddenly snapped shut, his whole body shrouded in black armor. A shadow quietly opened at his side, and a fine steel sword of good quality slowly emerged.
"Gawain, you piece of trash..."
"Sorry, I'm not targeting you.
"I mean that every single one of you is trash.
"Defeat? It is you bunch of clay chickens and pottery dogs who are about to be defeated! Surrounded? It is I who have surrounded all of you!"
Su Shu raised his sword high.
Suddenly, it was as if night had fallen in an instant.
The already declining light of dusk instantly became incredibly dim, and the vision of all the knights was plunged into a dazed darkness.
"Be careful! It's the demonic dragon's Light Devour!"
"I can't see—"
Splurt—
Flowers of blood bloomed ceaselessly.
Countless shadows began to flow silently.
On the wheat field, with every sway of the shadow, the life of a knight was reaped.
"Villain, don't be so rampant!"
"Galatine!"
A scorching light suddenly bloomed. It was Gawain, erupting with the brilliance of his holy sword.
With a sweep of his arm, he instantly thinned out the thick, mercury-like flowing shadow.
"No matter how abundant his magical energy is, it's hard for him to sustain it at this moment. It's definitely not enough to kill so many people!
"Gentlemen, a quick battle! Vortigern is surely on his way!"
The incubus, whose clone was hidden on the battlefield, raised his hand and blew out a flurry of petals, which fell on countless knights.
They were dazed for a moment, then their killing intent flared, and with red eyes, they charged at the lightless black knight.
"Alvin, the changing of day and night is when you are weakest.
"Even as the son of a demonic dragon, how can one person withstand the ceaseless charge of these knights? I admit you are a stunning talent, but farewell..."
CLANG—!
Swords clashed.
Without the protection of the shadows, there was no longer a home-field advantage.
Su Shu swept his sword horizontally, and a dark sword light erupted, cutting dozens of knights in half at the waist.
However... this was far from enough to stop the death-defying charge of these red-eyed knights.
Illusion...
Su Shu frowned slightly.
Under the hypnosis of the illusion, even death and injury seemed no longer terrifying. Merlin's illusion had no effect on his Dark Will now, but it didn't stop the incubus from buffing the team from the side.
Fighting was not Merlin's strong suit. He was never a main carry, but a support.
Dangerous.
In his entire life, there had never been a more dangerous situation.
His father, Vortigern, had already sensed the killing intent and was transforming into a demonic dragon from Londinium, hurtling toward them like a falling star. But it would take at least ten minutes to reach the battlefield.
And Morgan...
—had already been waiting by Su Shu's side!
"Stupid Merlin, did you really think I wouldn't bring a bodyguard!" Su Shu sneered and shouted, "Wife!"
"Alvin!"
With a slightly flushed face, the figure of the witch appeared beside the black knight, her hand on his shoulder.
A debilitating curse spread out from her, causing the knights it hit to become dazed and their limbs to become weak.
Unexpectedly...
Behind Morgan, a brilliant light suddenly split open. A beautiful silver-haired elf, radiating light, reached out and grabbed the witch's arm.
"Vivian—"
The witch's expression was one of extreme surprise.
"I'm sorry, Morgan. The birth of the son of the White Dragon is not permitted by the world, so I must intervene."
"Get the hell away from me..."
The woman's angry curse was instantly cut off. The brilliant light closed in an instant, pulling the witch into the Fairy Forest.
"Merlin, I can hold her off for ten minutes at most..."
The pleasant voice of the Lady of the Lake rippled in the incubus's ear and slowly faded away.
"That's enough, Vivian."
The person he called for backup was countered by the person the other side called for backup.
Su Shu squinted at this scene, and the incubus's manifested clone looked at him with a half-smile.
The world line was in jeopardy. The matter was urgent. The Lady of the Lake, Vivian, was also persuaded by Merlin, something that would have been almost impossible in the past.
Even Artoria was temporarily held up in the Fairy Forest.
Alvin, the heavens themselves want you dead.
The situation suddenly took a sharp downturn.
Raising his sword and cutting down a charging knight, Su Shu began to pant slightly.
Good move. This is really troublesome now.
Dusk.
Dusk was the most dangerous time.
If it were daytime, Su Shu could instantly devour light and use it for himself. What was there to fear, no matter how many people there were?
If it were night, it would be his home turf!
Merlin was right...
Only at this moment of changing day and night, when the light was not bright enough and the shadow not thick enough, was when his power was weakest.
The knights with bloodshot eyes roared and charged. The brilliance of the holy sword purified the deep shadows. Su Shu was pushed back in this encirclement, like a small boat tossed in a giant wave, in danger of capsizing at any moment.
Even so, his eyes, his state of mind, were still as deep as a waveless ancient well, without any wavering.
CLANG!
Blocking a sneak attack from Agravain from the corner, the fine steel sword in Su Shu's hand finally couldn't withstand the pressure of the mana burst and suddenly shattered.
"His sword is broken! Now's the time—"
The knights roared and launched an even more ferocious charge.
BOOM—
A vast, boundless shadow suddenly spread out from the lightless black knight, flowing like thick mercury, instantly dyeing the earth like thick ink.
"If you've come to kill me, then be prepared to die!"
No need to hold back, no need to reserve anything. To escape, he had to shock the entire field with one blow!
Su Shu erupted with the full power of an Ultimate Life Form.
So what if one sword broke?
Hundreds and thousands of fine steel swords, stored in his shadow, slowly rose from the flowing ink—
"Danger, fall back—!"
Seeing this scene, the Knights of the Round Table were terrified and did not hesitate to raise their swords to block.
The knight in black raised his right hand.
Aiming at the crowd, he suddenly clenched his fist.
Sss—
Suddenly...
The entire battlefield of slaughter seemed to freeze for a moment.
Splurt—
Flowers of blood burst forth.
A thousand dark sword lights intertwined into a net, flashing for an instant in the dim light of dusk.
Gawain hadn't even seen any movement before his holy sword suddenly burst with a brilliant light, followed by the ear-piercing sound of clashing metal.
And then...
As if a razor-sharp wire mesh had swept across the entire battlefield, countless knights on the wheat field were cut into countless irregular shapes.
Human bodies, like building blocks, collapsed and slid apart, blooming into countless brilliant flowers of blood.
What...
What is this—
The Knights of the Round Table stared, stunned, at this sticky mountain of corpses and sea of blood. Their bodies were all splashed with countless bloodstains.
One blow had slaughtered several hundred knights.
Only a few members of the Round Table were left, standing bewildered in this blooming flower of blood.
The golden wheat field had instantly become a sea of blood.
Stagnant.
Paused.
Looking at this hellish scene, this insane bloodshed, it seemed that the bloodlust in the knights' eyes also gradually faded away.
"Mon... monster—!"
A knight dropped his sword and began to flee like a madman.
Even though the knights still had more than a thousand able-bodied men, even though most of the knights were unharmed at this moment, they would still feel fear in the face of this monster that was clearly not something humans could defeat.
One knight turned and ran, and then... there were two, three—
Hundreds of knights' minds seemed to crack, to shatter. They just threw down their swords and turned to flee in disarray.
At this very moment...
The incubus's gentle, light voice seemed to spread across the entire battlefield.
"Don't be fooled by him, my dear knights~
"That son of the demonic dragon just used his all-out attack. He's already exhausted..."
...Merlin, you really deserve to die.
As if in response to the incubus's words, there was no need to maintain a false front anymore.
The thousand fine steel swords that had emerged from the shadow trembled, hummed, and then all shattered.
The fleeing steps of the knights suddenly halted.
Gawain wiped the blood from his face, enduring the pain of countless cuts on his body, and looked at the black knight kneeling on the ground before him.
His helmet had shattered, revealing his silver hair flying in the wind and his bleeding iron-gray eyes.
His entire suit of black armor was covered with mottled cracks, constantly vibrating and collapsing piece by piece.
He was kneeling in a pool of blood, using the last broken sword in his hand to support his trembling body, not falling down.
"One person against our two thousand-plus knights, and you still killed over a thousand...
"Alvin, I admit I fear you. You are too terrifying. If this weren't dusk, we would all have been killed by you."
The wounded Knights of the Round Table slowly walked up.
Those who had fled, the knights on the periphery, also began to slowly surround him.
"Unfortunately, you lost. Not only did you lose to timing, but you also lost to your sword. Time and place were on our side."
That's right.
Besides the timing, Gawain had seen through the other key point of this battle at a glance.
A common sword... was still too fragile.
It simply couldn't withstand the ferocious slashes of an Ultimate Life Form.
In the past, Su Shu had defeated Artoria countless times through the advantage of his sword.
Now, it was his turn to taste the bitterness of having an inferior weapon.
"If you were to obtain a holy sword, then even in a dusk ambush, we would all have died here."
Gawain sighed softly.
"Unfortunately, those sentient holy swords all choose their own masters. How could they acknowledge the son of the Vile King Vortigern? A fiend like you is not worthy of the name of a holy sword..."
"A holy sword... huh?"
Su Shu, with great effort, panted and raised his eyes, looking at the dim light of the Revolving Sword of Victory before him.
Gawain's Saint's protection, which had deceived the sunlight, was over. He was now heavily wounded, in his weakest state.
But even so, Su Shu at this moment was also at the end of his rope, unable to even lift a hand.
How could he... fight the remaining thousand men and the nearly intact Round Table again?
"That's right. You lost to my, Gawain's, holy sword."
"Heh... cough—cough cough—a holy sword..."
The knight in black coughed up blood and laughed with great effort.
"Something like that is not worthy of me."
"If you say you're not worthy, then you're not worthy."
The Sun Knight was never the type to be sentimental and talk nonsense. A dying man had nothing good to say.
He raised his sword and swung it down with both hands.
"Farewell, Al—"
"Stop! Gawain—"
In the void, a heart-wrenching cry seemed to sound.
Gawain's holy sword froze in mid-air for a moment.
Because the one who shouted was none other than... his king.
I'm sorry, my king. This is the one thing I cannot obey you on.
Gawain put all his strength into his hands and swung the sword down—
However, it was this one hesitant thought that gave the knight in black the only sliver of a chance to survive.
Swish—
The holy sword passed through the body of the demonic dragon's son as if it had passed through a black shadow, shattering into a虚妄.
"What..."
The pupils of the Round Table knights narrowed slightly.
As if it were a final burst of strength before death, Su Shu dodged this slash.
He struggled, stumbled, and limped toward the afterglow of the setting sun.
This was the once-in-a-lifetime flash of an infamous villain.
His deep shadow was cast on the pool of blood, as if it were about to dissolve into it.
Though it was still dusk, the sky instantly dimmed.
A layer of gloomy clouds just happened to cover the rosy red of the sunset, and then, it also brought... a vast shadow.
"I don't need mad joy.
"In return, there is no deep despair.
"I don't like to dwell on victory or defeat.
"Likewise, I don't want to be entangled in troubles."
The silver-haired youth's ethereal voice slowly sounded in this bloody dusk.
"I just want a peaceful life...
"—Just this one, insignificant dream."
Su Shu looked up at the brilliant, changing sky.
"I'm about to die. I don't have the strength to look for you.
"But...
"If you are willing to accept my ideals, if you are willing to follow my path.
"Then come...
"—Come to my hand and become my sword.
"I swear on the name of Alvin Pendragon.
"I will definitely not fail your name..."
Fear.
Cowardice.
As if from the bottom of its heart, it was afraid.
The holy sword in Gawain's hand began to tremble ceaselessly, letting out a clanging cry.
He looked up in a daze at the knight in black.
"Everyone, quick—!"
The Sun Knight had never screamed so terrifiedly before.
"Stop him—"
The knights trampled on the blood of their comrades and charged.
Hundreds, thousands of people, charged at the lonely figure in the middle of the battlefield.
"Cough... cough cough—"
A strained, blood-coughing sound was heard.
The knight in black, trembling, raised his hand as if to touch that brilliant afterglow of the sunset.
Using his last bit of strength, he closed his five fingers and gripped that...
"Sword of the Heart."
In an instant—
All the swords held by the knights slipped from their hands and flew toward the center of the battlefield.
The holy sword held by Gawain fell to the ground, its dim light extinguished.
The clouds in the sky gathered.
A thousand swords fell like rain.
A spiraling black longsword fell straight from the sky, piercing the ground before the dying knight, humming.
Su Shu raised his trembling hand and gripped the hilt tightly.
The name of the sword appeared in his mind.
"You have obtained the Sword of the Eternal Night's Dying Embers."
Like darkness.
And like a fluttering flame.
An aura as deep as a prison slowly emanated from the knight in black—
Announcing to the world the death of fate.
"Noble Phantasm Unlocked—"
"The Dark Soul Over The Heaven"
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