CG Chapter 110: Falcon Spirit of the Sun
It didn't take long for the two Grand Knights to start exchanging deadly blows.
Folek slashed with his sword, while Lucas swung his morningstar like a hammer; if it hit him, it would crush Folek under its weight, turning him into a mangled mess.
When Lucas attempted to use Folek's fatigue to his advantage and take him down easily, he was surprised.
In the middle of the battle, and without his notice, Folek's hunched back had straightened, and his fatigue seemed to have magically disappeared.
Realizing that he had been tricked, Lucas looked like he had swallowed a fly. "Do you only know how to play around with these lowly tricks? Do you people really not know shame?"
Folek knew exactly what Lucas meant, but he wasn't fazed. Instead, he felt happy that his trick had worked.
He continued to strike ruthlessly, targeting every vital spot on Lucas's body.
Whoosh!
With a flash, Folek's sword moved, aiming to stab Lucas's heart. Just as Lucas was about to evade, the sword shifted its trajectory, as if it had broken through the air, now targeting Lucas's neck instead.
Luckily, Lucas managed to stop the sword midair by having the chains of his morningstar wrap around it, halting it in its place.
Bam!
That, however, didn't stop Folek. He began delivering one punch after another to the armor covering Lucas's stomach while struggling to wrest his sword free from the chains.
Lucas was resisting the pain he felt from Folek's strikes, the pain was so intense that it made him want to puke.
But instead of falling back, he growled while taunting Folek, "Give up! What I take, I never give back!"
"Oh, no you don't!" Folek roared in response.
Once Folek said that, his sword began to vibrate at an alarming speed, just as it had when he used the Grave of the Fireflies against Ragnar.
Ragh!
However, if someone focused closely on the vibrations, they would notice that, despite its speed, it didn't reach the same frequency.
The vibrations caused both his sword and the chains around it to heat up.
This left Lucas with no choice but to take back his weapon, as he didn't want to burn his hands.
Lucas's anger reached a new peak, and with it so did his bloodlust.
The fact that he, as a servant of Solarus, the god of the sun, needed to run away from some mortal fire made him want to crush Folek here and now.
Due to his anger, Lucas started to attack more mercilessly.
The savage strikes of a smashing morningstar, coming from the sky, would easily crush Folek under its weight if they struck him.
Unfortunately, Lucas was struggling to land a full attack on the slippery Folek.
Every time the morningstar's strike neared him, Folek would sidestep or distract Lucas with a counterstrike.
While Lucas was boiling with anger from within, Folek was having the time of his life. He felt a happiness that could hardly be explained to anyone who hadn't felt the rush of battle before.
This wasn't because Lucas was an easy enemy, far from it, in fact, but because, unlike his battle with Ragnar, he felt like he had a chance to win and was facing a human. A powerful one, yes, but still a human."
The battle went on, and the two Grand Knights ignored everything, focusing only on each other. Although their strikes were brutal, there was a beauty to them that was hard to explain
Suddenly, just as the battle almost reached a stalemate, the eyes of Folek and Lucas lit with bloodthirst.
Folek looked like he was falling to the ground as he slashed with all his might at the gap between Lucas's leg armor. He wanted to cut off his leg tendon to cripple his movement.
Lucas, of course, wasn't going to let this happen, so he brutally attacked with his morningstar at Folek.
Whoosh!
At that instant, Folek was left with two options: evade the attack and survive, or continue and risk losing his life to injure one leg.
The choice that most would have made at that moment would be to evade, but Folek refused to give up that golden chance, deciding to exchange injury for injury.
When he made that decision, he shifted his position to receive the attack with his shoulder armor while continuing with his attack.
Thud!
The blunt force of the morningstar caused even Folek's armor to dent in and his shoulder bone to fracture.
This all might have seemed like it took a long time, but it all happened in an instant.
In that single moment, Folek felt an unmeasurable amount of pain. He felt like the fragments of bones in his left arm were moving around, shaking like a bag of loose stones.