Revive Rome: Wait! Why not make the empress fall in love with me first?-Chapter 480 - 95: Endure

Conflict and slaughter.

A massive number of Blade Warriors, like moths to a flame, fearlessly charged toward the figure of light.

Then, they were decimated in swathes by the white light of the longsword and long spear.

"It’s so ironic... the people I’m supposed to protect are now standing in my way..." Eleanor gasped slightly, feeling a splitting headache.

Nevertheless, she persisted stubbornly, aiming her long spear again towards the direction of the Emperor.

...She must kill him, here!

Two-stage Charge!

The Light Angel quickly closed the distance. War God Leopold had no choice but to stand his ground and block her path with his sword.

Eleanor thrust her long spear, while Leopold dodged backward like lightning, quickly activating his Law Ability.

Weakness Capture!

This Law Ability not only deeply scanned the enemy’s weaknesses but even analyzed how to force the enemy to expose weaknesses that did not originally exist.

With the overwhelming spirituality of a demigod level, the Law of Weakness Capture scanned the Light Angel in front of him millions of times in an instant.

No weaknesses!

Completely invincible!

According to the feedback from the Law, this Light Angel in front of him was an existence he simply could not defeat.

Eleanor stepped forward, thrusting her long spear at his chest again. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

The War God retreated again, but when the long spear reached its limit, it eerily extended even further.

Damn! Being a Physical Demigod, Leopold quickly clapped his hands over the spear tip as if struck by lightning, only to feel a severe burning pain where his palms contacted the white light, losing sensation almost instantly.

"Retreat while fighting, do not confront the sharp edge!" Richarter approached from the right, his longsword swiftly slashing at the Light Angel, allowing Leopold to jump back and finally catch his breath.

You’re trying to stop me too... Eleanor recognized the old Sword Saint and shouted,

"Back off!"

She stepped forward and thrust her Dragon Spear, which Richarter coolly dodged by stepping aside.

The Dragon Spear missed, and she seamlessly turned it into an Iron Cutting horizontal slash. The old man blocked with his sword horizontally, only to be blown away as well, his longsword disintegrating into countless tiny metal particles.

...No, he could have dodged just now, why did he choose to hard-block my spear strike?

Eleanor paused slightly, seeing Richarter rise from the rubble nearby, completely unharmed, obviously having dissipated the force upon impact.

Rather than being thrown off, it was more like he had taken advantage of the force on the spear to fly backward.

So that’s it! Seeing Richarter successfully handle her strike using force dissipation, War God Leopold also suddenly understood.

The result of a head-on confrontation with her was clear for all to see, as the Wilderness Bear had experienced. An effective tactical strategy should involve constant maneuvering and force unloading to stall the time until her Holy Sword state ended!

According to historical records and legends, Charlemagne’s Holy Sword could last 24 seconds, while Holy Knight Roland’s could last up to 32 seconds.

The Holy Sword before them had already been activated for several seconds, so they just needed to hold on a little longer. The tactical strategy advised by the Imperial Sword Saint was evidently correct.

Right after that, Richarter suddenly let out a groan, spewing a mouthful of blood and immediately collapsed to the ground as if he had suffered severe injuries.

Leopold: ......

This isn’t right at all! Was my understanding incorrect?

"Get lost!" Eleanor stepped forward again, her left Longsword cutting horizontally to block his way, and her right Long Spear thrust forward in a quick and ruthless Cloud Piercing attack, her whole body radiating intense white light, majestic as a deity descending from heaven.

Leopold was about to retreat again when suddenly, as if a divine realization struck his mind, he diverged from his tactic and attempted a horizontal sword block—only to be sent flying by the opponent’s Longsword slash.

Leopold, using force unloading techniques during the weapon strike, felt an incredibly terrifying force transmit through the blade, far exceeding what he could dissipate with finesse.

Thus, he had no choice but to let go of his sword handle before his palm burst open; his released Longsword was slapped onto his chest by the force, shattering seven or eight ribs in his chest cavity in that instant, and like Richarter, he was sent flying until he crashed through the camp’s outer wall and landed, rolling several times in a disheveled heap before coming to a stop.

A pulverizing chest fracture and extensive internal bleeding in the lungs—a fatal wound for a normal person... but for a Physical Demigod, it only counted as a serious injury.

However, after personally experiencing the might of the Light Angel, one thing Leopold definitively confirmed was:

The exaggerated accounts in the Unyielding Holy Sword legends were indeed true.

Heavenly Blessing Armor, even a full-strength strike by a demigod could not penetrate; Heavenly Blessing Sword, even a demigod lacked the strength to clash directly... Even Physical Demigods, skilled in close combat, couldn’t manage her blows with force unloading.

All techniques, all abilities, fell useless before the Holy Sword. It was a complete crush formed by absolute power, a gap that no tactics could bridge.

Impossible to fight, unable to withstand, even unable to unload force—the only approach was evasion.

Yet, evading was extremely risky, for this light-emanating figure’s speed and reaction were pinnacle, and for a Physical Demigod to continuously dodge her attacks was not so easy without full-focus and extreme action.

And if evasion failed... if one managed to unload force in time, result would be like Leopold (localized pulverizing fractures + internal bleeding); if not, it would be like Wilderness Bear Mason (body-wide pulverizing fractures + major organ damage).

That meant, a single hit left one half-dead, and a few more would certainly be fatal. Knowing her Holy Sword state was time-limited, to still engage her head-on during her invincible state, did Physical Demigods truly have muscle for brains?

Certainly not.

Considering that the Emperor of the Saxon Family and two other Demigods were watching from behind, retreating from the battle was naturally out of the question. But to recklessly confront her in her invincible state was indeed a foolhardy show of bravado.

Purposefully taking a hit (secretly unloading force) and then pretending to be gravely wounded and incapable of rising to avoid the high risk of continued combat was naturally the ideal choice under these circumstances.

Richarter was the first to understand this, presumably because as a Sword Saint not of noble birth, he lacked their prideful and stubborn habits, thus he immediately pretended to be dead without hesitation.

Leopold, no fool himself, quickly caught on and similarly lay on the ground clutching his chest pretending to be unconscious, while secretly using all his bodily senses to fixate on the distant Light Angel.

If she advanced relentlessly to deliver another strike, he would have had to "struggle" to rise and continue their tangle.

Of course, her target was likely the assassination of the Emperor. As long as she didn’t pursue to kill him, Leopold would continue "seriously injured," indiscernible to others naturally leaving no room for comment. The only one who could perceive the pretence was the Dragon of Imagination with its "Mind Reading," but naturally, he would not risk antagonizing a demigod by reading his mind.

These ancient demigods who had survived to the present day had enough grade and strength, but their keen insight to assess the situation and decide whether to "lie low and stealthily extend their life" was also of an extraordinarily high standard.

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