Swordmaster's Youngest Son

Chapter 738

Chapter 738

C738

Jin's face contorted as he swallowed a sigh.

The fragments of chains falling from Rosa's face descended slowly, as if frozen in time.

Why...?

Rosa!

The one who should have been covered by the chains should have been an ancient patriarch worthy of respect.

Jin had deliberately fought at a disadvantage, driven by the sole conviction that he had to save such an ancestor.

He had lost several opportunities to cut off his opponent's head and had endured many injuries for this moment.

The reason he couldn't help his comrades who had been fighting behind, beside, and in front of him was all for the sake of rescuing the ancestor who should have remained intact within the chains.

But what he had fought so hard to save turned out to be the evil deity, Rosa.

And not only that, she seemed entirely unharmed...

Freed from her restraints, Rosa did not glow with a faint indigo color like the other beings in the mausoleum, nor did she grotesquely transform into a chaos monster.

She simply had the appearance of a human, or rather...

She had the appearance that could be called Runcandel.

Long, black hair that seemed to absorb light, eyes with a gleam of determination, a gaze that calmly and heavily pressed upon anyone who met it, and hands that firmly gripped the sword, never letting go.

The head of the Runcandel Family, who led the Garden of Swords in place of Cyron for many years, and a giant of her era.

Rosa Runcandel maintained eye contact with Jin.

Damn it!

Unintentionally, Jin muttered a curse.

His breathing quickened as if momentarily suffocated.

He barely suppressed the growing urge to vomit, accompanied by a cold dizziness, and reflexively distanced himself.

If the battle continued from this point, he felt he would make a mistake.

I'm finished.

That thought crossed his mind first.

If Rosa staged this act to give him a psychological shock, she couldn’t have been more successful.

The allies were also astonished.

They too had momentarily shifted their gaze from their respective opponents to Rosa.

I must remain calm.

This is just a trick of the evil deity.

The Rosa that appears human...

Must be some sort of fragment created by the power of the evil deity.

Jin gripped his sword.

"It seems your sadistic tendencies have increased... evil deity. I never expected you to go this far to confuse me."

However, Rosa responded with a completely unexpected reply to Jin's words.

"Aren’t you trying to save me because you know who I am?"

"What...?"

"Why are you referring to me as the evil deity?"

Once again, Jin could only feel his insides twist.

The freed Rosa didn’t even have the resonant voice characteristic of the resurrected.

She seemed genuinely alive. She seemed like someone determined to protect Runcandel at all costs.

Jin's heart pounded wildly.

"I am Rosa Runcandel. Why do you mistakenly believe that the monster that has bound me all this time is the same as me?"

"What are you babbling about...?"

"Jin!"

"Twelfth Flagbearer!"

Urgent voices were heard from behind, belonging to Hedo and Octavia.

Swoosh!

At the same time, a cutting energy sliced through Jin’s back.

It was a sword energy shot by an ancient patriarch targeting Jin.

The one-armed ancient patriarch had managed to withstand five opponents until now because Jin had decided not to kill him.

If he had fought with the intent to kill, the battle would have been much shorter.

Evil deity, stop this nonsense and come out in person.

Clang...!

Bradamante uncovered a chain link that covered the ancient patriarch’s face.

The eternal flames spread through the cracks, melting the chain links.

Little by little, the face within the chain began to reveal itself, and once again, Jin's judgment was correct.

It's not Rosa...

Although the chain wasn’t completely cut, at first glance, the face was clearly different from Rosa's.

At that moment, when Jin attempted to cut the chain once more, the ancient patriarch unexpectedly lunged towards Bradamante, as if intentionally exposing himself to be stabbed.

Jin reacted immediately and dodged the strike.

Only a few seconds remained for the eternal flames to completely consume the chain, and Jin had no intention of losing his ancestor.

Once a few seconds passed, the bindings that held the ancient patriarch would naturally dissolve.

However, the ancient patriarch didn’t pursue Jin and moved to the side.

Is he passing me by?

The evil deity’s intent controlling the ancient patriarch wasn’t for Jin to be mortally stabbed by his sword.

The evil deity predicted with precision that Jin would dodge it.

The true target of the evil deity was none other than herself, who constantly watched Jin from behind.

Rosa.

All of Jin's allies were positioned in front of him.

The only person left behind him was Rosa.

Puh!

"Huh?"

The ancient patriarch’s sword pierced through Rosa’s chest.

Even though Rosa had shown almost flawless swordsmanship while being controlled by the evil deity, for some reason, she, who was behind Jin, couldn’t dodge a single strike.

"Ugh...!"

Suppressing a groan, Rosa grabbed the blade that had pierced her body.

As the ancient patriarch who stabbed Rosa collapsed and ceased moving, Rosa fell to one knee, gasping for breath.

"Ugh..."

Jin couldn’t understand her current state.

Why had the evil deity stabbed herself, and why did Rosa seem to suffer like a human?

And why was he overwhelmed by such a foreboding sense of dread?

He couldn’t comprehend anything. But Jin unconsciously rushed towards Rosa.

It was a mortal wound.

If Rosa were truly human, she would be on the brink of death.

"Evil deity... What does this mean?"

"Do you still see me as... the evil deity?"

"Why are you behaving like a human...?!"

Jin stopped speaking in astonishment.

Rosa's face was much younger than he remembered, much younger than he thought.

Suddenly, Jin realized that Rosa had appeared with a youthful appearance since he cut the chains.

She looked like someone in her twenties, someone of his generation.

His heart sank.

Jin's breathing became heavy.

"Now I vaguely understand the situation... Jin. You must be my son and Cyron's. Cyron and I decided to name our last child, Jin..."

/SHADOWK

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