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“you… You are the son of the Oswald family.”

Earl Alloy muttered as he watched Philip step forward. Facing that gaze stained with murderous intent and violence, Philip felt a strange laugh come out.

“You’ve only been reborn as a demon in just a few minutes, so who do you call a kid?”

Philip looked at the situation while saying that. The quick-witted mourners had already run away, but some who were unaware, or whose curiosity exceeded fear, were hiding and looking this way.

‘If that’s the case, the princess won’t be able to step forward.’

Changseonghoe, the most secretive group among man-made organizations. The princess, one of the members, would not step forward unless the situation worsened significantly.

To be honest, it was more important that her identity was not revealed than the life of the sixth prince or the youngest princess.

Philip gave a hand signal to Prince Alexios. It was a hand signal for the combat situation taught at the academy.

Content control the situation, evacuate people.

It was a hand signal easily recognizable to anyone from the academy. However, Philip frowned upon checking Alexios’ expression.

‘That damn uneducated person… ?’

An expression as if the word ‘what are you talking about’ has been moved to his face. Philip knows he never went to the academy.

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Philip felt the need for public education once again and raised his aura.

Felicia, of course, noticed Philip’s hand signals. She didn’t move hastily, as if she was going to match Philip’s.

‘It can’t be helped.’

Originally, it was an act that was close to taboo to inform the enemy of one’s intentions, but in the current situation, it was unavoidable.

After concentrating his strength on the battle, Philip shouted loudly.

“Prince! Take the people and step back!”

Only then did Prince Alexios seem to understand Philip’s intentions. He quickly took his sister, Camilla, and left the battle.

“Everyone run away! We need to step back and gather our strength while they buy time!”

The nobles hesitated for a moment at the prince’s instruction, but when someone left first, they noticed and started to withdraw. They were also trained swordsmen, but few nobles were brave enough to go first in a fight against the demons.

Then it was the Count who was in a hurry. He had no intention of seeing the nobles he was supposed to use as hostages disappear.

“Where are you running away!”

The Count left Philip and Felicia alone and tried to fly to target Prince Alexios. In that brief moment, Philip came to swing his sword and attacked the earl’s wings with his whip.

Wings were the lifeline of the count. He had no choice but to defend his wings, as he would have to flee to the North if things didn’t work out.

“Keugh… .”

The Count, who cut off Philip’s sword with his bare forearm, narrowed his brows as if in pain and let out a groan.

Philip suddenly tilted his head.

‘Is something a little awkward?’

It was not at the level of a demon with a title, but the body that Earl Roy reincarnated was of a fairly high level.

A bit weaker than the previous vampires.

It was said that only an Auror Master could predict victory.

But the count seemed to be unable to make good judgment. And the reason soon became apparent.

‘He has no idea how strong he has become and what he can do with that strength.’

In a way, it was natural. Even if Philip was reincarnated as a demon, he would have experienced the same phenomenon.

‘I’ll win if the princess steps forward.’

Phillip, who had lost his mind to that point, turned his attention to Altair Alloy. She was staring at the Count with sunken eyes, but she showed no signs of engaging in battle.

Earl Earlroy seemed to have noticed the atmosphere and grinned, exposing his fangs.

“… Do you want that b*tch to help? I’m sorry, what should I do? That stupid b*tch signed a contract twenty years ago. That b*tch will never touch me while I’m alive.”

‘What bullsh*t is that?’

With Philip’s question, he fixed his sword. If that was true, he had to prepare for his own death and Felicia’s death at the same time.

Instead of answering Philip’s question, Altair Alloy bit his lip. The contract she had made as a child, thinking that she couldn’t stop the machinations and conspiracies of Earl of Earlroy, was holding her back now.

“Even though that girl is an Auror Master, she can’t survive even if her heart explodes.”

At the Count’s words, Philip licked his lips. Seeing her heart burst and say something, it seemed that she had signed a contract using the ‘chain of oath’.

The chain of oath was an object used when signing a contract at the risk of life between each other.

An artifact that pierces the heart of those who violate the contract.

It wasn’t something made by human hands, and since the ancient artifact was discovered by the Gray Mage Tower, even the Aura Master couldn’t be free from it.

It might have been enough to attack the count once, but before her attack could reach her, the iron needle at the end of the oath chain would pierce her heart.

The moment he thought about it, Philip realized one thing.

‘Oh, wait a minute. Then did he win?’

Philip hastily opened his mouth.

If the princess knew anything about the chains of the oath, she would understand the meaning of these words.

“Did you use the chain of oath? But you already died once to be reincarnated as a demon… … eek!”

“That snout can’t shut up!”

Before Philip could finish his words, the Earl of Alloy’s life-and-death attack came. Instead of an aura, it is an attack that uses black magic unique to demons. Since the Count did not raise his sword, he aimed his sharp claws at Philip’s heart.

Philip hurriedly moved his aura according to the reason of the moonlight sword. Instead of a deep blue sword, a pale light flowed from his sword.

The moment the count’s nails met Philip’s sword, Philip thought.

‘I have the upper hand in compatibility, but the difference in output is too great.’

If Philip’s moonlight sword was water, the count’s black magic was fire. If it was at a similar level, Philip would win unconditionally, but the difference in output was several times greater.

A few buckets of water couldn’t extinguish a fire burning a house. Phillip was pushed back and gritted his teeth.

At least, the reason she was able to face off like this was because she had already died hundreds of times from Neria’s first owner.

Compared to her strike, the count’s attack was low and childish.

“Philip!”

Felicia swung her sword to help Philip.

An oblique slash aimed at the Count’s shoulder.

However, the count’s body could easily withstand Felicia’s level of swordsmanship.

The moment the Count ignored Felicia and was about to rush at Philip, Felicia’s sword blade spun at high speed. Feeling his skin being torn, the Count hurriedly attacked Felicia.

“hahahaha!”

Somehow, Felicia, who had blocked his claws, took a big step back and straightened her posture. The little time she had earned Philip did not waste it.

The sword energy, compressed to its limit, stretched out in a spiral, and soon began to rotate at a speed so fast that even the air could be torn apart.

It was Philip’s special move, the ‘Spinning Spiral Sword’.

The Count did not dare to belittle even that. He has released most of his powers. Soon, his gray body was engulfed in black magic. When he realized that he had become so powerful that he felt omnipotent, a smile was drawn on his lips.

‘I’ll have to tear that kid’s body apart and send his heart to his father.’

Soon Philip swung his sword with all his might.

When the black magic power and the magic of the moonlight sword collided, a collision sounded like gunpowder exploding.

“aaagh!”

Philip couldn’t withstand the shock wave and was blown away. Felicia couldn’t even look at Philip’s condition and looked towards the count, but couldn’t check the situation because of the dust.

She pulled out her sword and wielded it as she could, trying to clear away the dust with the wind.

“… The bloody gore is doing tricks.”

Surprisingly, even in the conflict, Earl of Alloy was relatively unharmed. That didn’t mean that it was nothing at all.

The skin was torn everywhere, and the membrane covering the wings was also torn, making proper flight impossible. However, he giggled at Altair Alloy, confident of victory.

“Stay there, Altair. i remember this girl Aren’t you the one who was pretty enough to sneak out of the family and meet him? I’m going to cut the skin of this girl until she cries out in her poo. Do you know if that will be the end? I’ll pluck out your eyeballs, cut out your tongue, and pull out your limbs to make you wriggle like a caterpillar.”

Felicia couldn’t move easily. The only reason she could attack the Count was Philip’s presence. It was only natural that Philip was able to attack the Count because of her presence.

“… Covington Alloy. I’ve been thinking about it for the past 20 years, but you look more like a demon than a human. That disgusting idea is not something that would come out of a human head.”

Altair Alloy, who was watching the scene, stretched out his hand into the air. Then, an iron sword that seemed to have been spilled flew into her hand and caught it.

“Are you going to attack me? really? My heart would burst before your sword even touched my body. Isn’t the chain of oath something you are familiar with?”

“We need to check that from now on. You already died once. Don’t you and I know if the contract will remain intact?”

Altair Alloy replied and walked slowly toward the Count.

“The Aura Master will risk his life just because of two blood clots? That’s funny.”

Despite the count’s bravado, Altair didn’t care.

The Count made up his mind to aim for the moment when sword steel gushed out of her sword. He wouldn’t be able to fight and defeat her as a powerful Aura Master, but he would be able to use the weak girl as a shield.

“Covington, Covington. this poor bastard. You don’t know what a kid named Philip did. My life is nothing in front of that child’s talent.”

Altair sighed.

She wasn’t sure if the contract she had forged with the Oath Chain was still in effect, but since she had already decided, she wasn’t one to hesitate.

Dressed in mourning, she brandished an iron sword.

And no one in this room noticed that she swung the sword.

The Count didn’t even react, and one of his arms was eaten by Altair’s sword steel and disappeared without a trace.

“… ha.”

Altair broke out in a cold sweat and opened his tightly closed eyes.

No matter how much she was a member of the Founding Council and an Auror Master, she could not be free from the fear of death. She clutched her left breast tightly, felt her heart beat for a moment, then smiled brightly.

“I don’t think I will die. Covington. Then you must die, right?”

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