YGDA Ch 29 Part A

Chapter 29 – 3rd Passage of the Legend: The Hymn of Heroes (1st part)




Everyone gathered at that place should be thinking about the same think at that moment.
Yes, they are thinking about the collapsing of the old system and the start of a new age that is happening here.
It was in that exact moment when the young prince thrust his sword in front of the duke throat.

Because of that ---- they are unable to follow up the thing that happens in an instant after that.
Renya should be able to detect that thing and prevent it from happening…… if that thing were to happen to his allies. But…


“GUHAA……! W-……what?”


But if that thing were to befall the duke that they confronted as enemy at the moment, even his reaction became duller.
An ominous looking sword smeared with blood sticks out from the duke chest. One thrust from the back had without mercy pierced the duke heart.


“Too bad but you are still far from winning Prince Gerard. From now on, we will replace Duke Conrad place as your opponent”


In the same time as that voice resounded in the audience room, the duke body is thrown to the floor. The man standing behind the duke is now can be seen by Renya and the other people without any obstacle. He is wearing that somewhat familiar black clothing with that usual hood to hide his face. Renya already knows what that uniform means.


“Ordought sect…… and that crest, I remember that. One of the top brass I assume?”
“Mu, who goes there that recognize me before I even had the chance to introduce myself first?”


Renya was about to say ‘You don’t have to know’ then dash forward and cut the sect member without mercy. But he stopped himself from doing so. He suddenly got an idea to show how dangerous Ordought sect is to everyone here. In his previous battle with the sect, only Therese and Doris present there as witness but now there are Prince Gerard and even King Bernard! Those two holds a high political power within the two kingdoms so if those two know about how scary and brutal the sect is then there should be profit that can be taken from this misfortune.
Renya, having decided his mind, carefully choose his word to bait the sect member.


“…… I’ve killed a guy that wears a similar kind of clothing like you in Sirkaberia”
“So that’s it…… then you are the heretics that disturb our activity in Sirkaberia right?”


The man clad in black without care opens his hood and shows his face in the open.
He is a guy with short cut brown hair and wear glasses. His long slits eye gives a strong impression that of a researcher while at the same time give an impression of a plain guy. But for Renya, he was surprised to know that there are even eye glasses too in this world. This god is missing the focus quite off in the moment.


“I am a member of the Ordought sect, Darvis, and my rank in the sect is Bishop. Pleased to meet you all. I know it might be rude but can I implore you with some question right away……? You might want to think of it as a compensation for me introducing myself to you. How does it sound to you?”
“…… Let’s hear what you have to say first”
“…… Why did you still alive? That guy should have received the blessing from our god……”
“Ah, now that you mention it, I vaguely remember that he said something along that line when he is about to die. I don’t know what going to happen at that time but in front of me, it doesn’t have any meaning at all. That is my answer”


Hearing that word from Renya, Darvis slightly twitched his brows. He seems to be trying to hide his bewilderment but it was like a child play in front of Renya’s godlike observation. But then the corner of his mouth suddenly warped. He seems to realize something that made him happy.


“Then…… that guy died while still being a human?”
“Yeah that’s right, then what?”
“Kukuku…… HAHAHAHAHA! I see I see, just as I thought that guy really doesn’t have enough faith toward our lord! If you think a bit about it then it should be clear right. He even treats the ceremony as means to satisfy his own sadistic heart where he should give priority to our lord first and the foremost. What an imprudence guy he was!”


While laughing out loud like a madman, Darvis kicked the duke corpse casually.
Eventhough he is a rebel who aims to usurp the throne, he is also without doubt a family. King Bernard can’t hide his anger toward that thoughtless action toward his younger brother corpse.


“You bastard!”
“King, heed my advice. To moves recklessly because of your emotion is dangerous you know? Why is it dangerous? Because your little brother here will become one with my lord”
“What did you say?!”


When the king is about to take one step forward, the duke corpse suddenly twitched.
Did the duke still alive? Everyone present thought like that so they focused their sight into the duke corpse. But to their surprise, there is a black matter flows out from the place that was supposed to be the duke’s heart. The black matter slowly but surely wraps around the duke body and covers it.
The duke body is like being consumed by a gel type monster. His corpse melts and steadily resurrect into something else not off this world.

In front of this unheard bizarre sight, everyone can only hold their breath and become speechless. Even Renya thought process can’t follow the thing that happening in front of his eyes.

When he realizes, that black gel like substance also sucked in the black metal scrap that used to be an army of black knight. Those metal scrap melted and agglutinated inside the gel and transformed into something else.


(That time…… When I forcefully pressed down that ‘something’ inside that sadist guy by using my divine power…… So this is what that ‘something’ supposed to become eh)


Perhaps if he didn’t do it that time, the thing that happens right in front of his eyes might have happened then.
In that horrifying situation where no one dares to move a muscle, the nightmare had taken form in reality.


“GROOOAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!”


The thing that stand there is a giant.
The black gel had transformed into a giant that exceed two meters tall. The black gel also creates a warped black great sword in the giant hand. After the black gel finishes its transforming, it gets sucked up inside the body of that black giant that holds a big great sword.

Duke Conrad corpse had transformed into such a terrifying monster. It is breathing roughly but that pair of red eyes gives off a grotesque light. That thing releases a thick killing intent aura to its surrounding.

The black knights that were massacred by Renya before also start transforming following the giant black knight.

But those things don’t move like the previous black knights that moved in an ominous too perfect order before. They moved ferociously like a wounded beast. And their shape is not that of a knight anymore. It transformed rapidly from a small beastman type monster into a black mud doll monster. Eventhough it still looks mostly human, both its hands and feet fingers has a long sharp nail protruded. This monster both hands and feet is definitely a lethal weapon.


“Well then let’s us begin the second party! It might be difficult to invite her highness the queen and her highness the princess to come with only this many gentlemen inside the castle though!”


With that word as signal, the mud doll monsters move together at once.

They move even faster from when they are in their black knight form. They moved right and left freely in the surrounding of Renya and the others.

There are four of them attacking. Each equipped with sharp claws in both of their arms and feet.
Furthermore, those monsters deploy a hit and run tactics like a pack of beast making Renya and the others had difficulties in attacking back.

Gerard and King Bernard manage quite well under this barrage of attacks. They can’t counter back any attack but they continuously receive, parry, or deflect those claws with their sword.
Sometimes using the pillar to protect their back, sometimes using their feet to kick back the attacker, those two skillfully hold their ground.

But the royal guard knights aren’t as skillful as those two. There are those who feel victim to those claws and got splits open along with their armor, there also those who failed to receives those claws with their sword because of those monster formidable brute power and receive wound from their attacks. And in the end, when those claws closed in into their throat ---- those mud dolls monster suddenly stop moving.


“It made me a little bit surprised but…… I won’t let you do as you please that easily”


Renya casually swings his sword with all his might. And with that single slash, a mud doll gets cleanly cut into two. And this time, after that mud doll fall to the floor, it then returns back into a lump of black mud and disappears.


(It is faint, but I can feel divine power within those black mud things…… Ordough sect… they seems to be not any simple fanatic religious organization after all……)

It only gives a weak feeling so that power is only in a level where it was just slightly above a human. But what made Renya worried is the duke corpse that had been turned into a giant.


“…… I can’t just simply finish things like this right……”


A feeling of anxiety had taken root in Renya’s heart as he feels the power that was hidden inside the duke transformed body.




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