Son of the Hero King-Chapter 432: CH397:THREE SWORDS

After Sol and Lilith left the church and appeared back in the Tower of Babel, Lilith directed a complicated glance toward her nephew Sol. The boy was getting more and more mysterious the more she watched him.

The moment that shady girl had given her the so-called blessing of the goddess, Lilith had immediately felt the foreign power enter her body. She had received a blessing from Camelia in the past. So she recognized that the power that she was emanating inside her now was clearly different from the one she received from Camelia.

The power felt stronger and purer than the one she had received before. And it goes without saying but something like that should be impossible. After all, the goddesses were the highest beings in this world below the Mother goddesses.

Lilith was well on her way to tearing apart that Blessing at that moment but she was stopped promptly by Sol.

‘Something is happening.’

Something huge was about to transpire…

“Sol…”

“Why don’t we have a fight?”

“Hmmm?”

Lilith almost doubted her ears for a second. The difference in power between Sol and Lilith at her peak was extremely high. But she could not use her mana right now without shortening her remaining lifespan.

If she fought Sol without using her mana, no matter how skilled she was, the only result would be absolute defeat. Like how her realm was far higher than his, in terms of physical strength, she doubted there was anyone in the whole Mortal world who could match Sol outside of Sun Wukong and Siegfried. Even then, she believed that Sol would come out triumphant,

“Why suddenly?”

“No holding back. Let’s fight and give it our all. This would be a rematch of our last fight.”

Lilith frowned as she felt like Sol wasn’t actually having a dialog with her. But rather was simply giving her some pre-established lines.

Was it also a part of his plan?

She sighed and nodded. In the end, it didn’t particularly matter to her. Nothing really mattered to her in the first place.

“Alright. Let’s fight.”

She knew that Sol had grown incredibly powerful compared to his past self. But she wondered just by how much. She was actually a bit excited to witness her nephew’s growth for herself.

Sol nodded tersely before walking ahead with Lilith behind him. Leading her on to the place their ensuing battle would take place.

When they finally reached the top of the Tower of Babel, Lilith opened her eyes wide as she saw all those who were present at the scene.

Pandora, Kali, Medea, Freya, and finally… Ambrosia.

The Ouroboros. The five strongest witches and part of the most powerful beings in the Mortal World, maybe all worlds, were all standing in the hanging garden while looking at her.

As if that wasn’t enough, Isis and Hathor were also present in the scene.

The last one present was none other than her own daughter Lilin, holding her sword in her hands and fully equipped for battle.

Lilith looked at this ludicrous gathering with utter bewilderment, realizing once again just how much influence Sol had in his hand.

Milia appeared from another side of the floor and walked in silence while holding a large greatsword that was taller than a grown man.

It was Lilith’s signature sword.

Once she reached Lilith, Milia bowed with the sword in hand in her direction while Sol walked and stopped once he was at Lilin’s side.

“‘What is going on?”

“I said let’s go all out, didn’t I? Two Dukes against one King. Shall we give it a go?”

Light flickered in her hollow eyes as she gazed at everyone present before nodding and gripping the sword with her hands.

Whoosh.

The moment Lilith took hold of the sword, an incredible resonance of metallic sharp intent permeated the surroundings. Placing a heavy intent of sharpness and lethality above everyone.

Milia stood up from her spot and bowed before leaving the premise.

This moment had nothing to do with her and she knew it all too well. Her only role had been to deliver the sword.

‘I hope I will see you tomorrow, Your Highness. I hope you survive… For your sake and Sol's…’

It would be a shame to lose such a warrior and queen. And even further shame to see the impact her loss would have on her beloved.

Even though Milia left the scene, no one, not even Sol, directed a glance toward her from start to finish.

Looking at Lilith holding her sword, even a battle-crazed lunatic like Sol had to admit that he was feeling sweaty and dry in the mouth. He was once again reminded that, no matter how monstrously stronger he became… His aunt was still in a realm of her own. Dying or not…

This was different from his fight against Surtr and Nihil. Facing those two False Gods could never even come close to the feeling that was chilling his bones right now.

Even though Lilith had not even taken a step from her spot and was just loosely holding onto her humongous sword, he felt like a razor-sharp blade was placed close to his neck, ready to behead him at any given moment. The resonance of her intent to cut anything and everything had reached such a level that it had manifested without any conscious intention on her part.

A maniacal grin formed on his face as his desire to fight began to soar. His repressed urges as a prime battle junky started revealing themselves at this point. His horns shone with an ominous light and draconic scales covered his entire body as Sol unleashed his ultimate form from the get-go.

The air that was already filled with the razor-sharp sword intent became heavier suddenly with the overbearing aura of a war dragon overlapping over it. As if a weight ready to crush everything was placed in the zone, Sol's aura began to pressure everything that existed within this plane.

Lilith smiled when she felt the weight and pressure of his aura and looked at her daughter.

“I am thankful for the occasion to fight. I always wanted to check your progress.”

“Mother…”

Lilin held her sword tigtly. Unlike Lilith’s heavy sword, hers was a long sword but it was so long and thin that even the world long paled in front of it. It was a sword bestowed to her by the elves after she helped them during the incident with the vampire. [1]

An aura filled with the smell of blood stretched out of her body and mixed with the two previous intents, causing the atmosphere to warp. Lilin's intent moved in a way that even space was affected.

Looking at this one would think that the three were about to fight to the death.

Kali whistled aloud at the scene, “Truly a family full of monsters.”

It was hard to believe the current sight in front of her. Even though among the three, Lilin’s power was slightly lacking, there was no doubt that she also reached a level of talent beyond measure.

“Freya, Ambrosia, please.”

There was no way they could fight in this place without absolutely destroying everything and potentially putting everyone in the vicinity in danger. As such, they required an isolated place to fully duke it out.

Ambrosia waved her hand, causing space to wrap around all of them and expand. They went from being on the rooftop to standing in a large clearing with a beautiful moon hung up on the clear night sky.

This was Medea's world.

Freya directed a glance toward Medea to which she could only give a helpless shrug. No matter how sturdy this place was, there was no way it would stay standing after what was about to happen. But Medea did not mind it for a bit.

This place had been a refuge for her and a place for her to escape to for a long time already. But it was finally time for her to step outside of this gilded prison and walk once more under the light of the sun.

But now the most important thing was to witness this fight.

———

For the three individuals, facing each other, the location they were on mattered no more.

All they could see was each other.

Lilith slowly began to relax her stance. But the more she did so, the more she seemed dangerous.

Lilin held her sword as she crouched in an Iai sword stance and even Sol was holding a sword loosely in his hand.

This was one of the weapons he received from the dragon territory so they were also created by elves. It was a straight sword with a style similar to western blade in his previous world.

That sword was not particularly sharp. It only had two specialties.

The first one was extreme durability.

As for the second one? It was the ability to absorb mana in a great capacity.

<<Sword Zone: Limitless Swords>>

Everything started in a flash.

Lilith held her sword with one hand and placed two fingers in front of her as hundreds of light swords appeared all around her.

When she pointed at both Sol and Lilin, those blades immediately rushed at them with an unimaginable speed.

“This won’t work, mother”

Lilith muttered. All her life, she had dreamed of fighting her mother at her full power.

For that, she honed her sword. Sadly, Lilin knew— Her mother was a genius beyond belief when it came to swords. This alone would never be enough for Lilin to match her.

This was why she learned more about her power. The fact that this power was the result of her grandfather's experiment disgusted her. But she was not so naive that she would reject this power.

Bringing the fantasy into reality.

In the past, she wished to be one with the world. But she had learned a new truth, refined her power, and finally — surpassed her old self.

‘Watch this, mother. Since your swords are Limitless, then…’

Lilin’s eyes shone with a purple luster while horns grew on either side of her head. Currently, there was no doubt left that she was in no way human.

“Welcome to my world.”

<<Zone: Boundless sword.>>

For Lilin, right here, right now, Distance became absolutely meaningless.

The world all around her changed. From her perspective, be Lilith standing far away or all those swords approaching from different directions, she felt like they were all at her fingertips.

In order to reach them, in order to break them, all she needed —

<< Re-Immortal Slaying Technique: Zero Distance>>

— Was to take one step.

Unlike last time when she needed to take three steps, this time, one step was all it took to go beyond space and find herself in front of Lilith.

At the same time, rays of light filled the world, as if everything had been cut a hundred times and completely erased all traces of the swords Lilith had thrown.

*Clang*

The clear sword of metal clashing sounded as Lilith blocked the slash. Her eyes were filled with surprise and at the same time, pride.

“Beautiful.”

She was entranced by the technique Lilin had just used.

“But still too shallow. You wasted too much power cutting all my other swords.”

She moved her sword and deflected Lilin's before striking on her own.

Lilith's sword was extremely heavy and the pressure building up looked like it would crush Lilin before even cutting her.

Lilith of course wasn't trying to kill her daughter. She just wondered how she would respond to this attack.

It should be fast enough that Lilin would need to use all her strength to block it.

This was why she was surprised to see a grin on Lilin's face.

'Why…'

Her question was quickly answered. When she suddenly felt a gush of mana filling the world, she understood–

“I only had to hold you down.”

Above them, a golden blade that was more than five meters long shone as mana roared.

Coming down with so much power was none other than Sol.

“Don’t forget me!”

Sol was not a swordman. He knew how to use the sword but he had no particular technique.

Even then, in front of pure unadulterated power—All techniques were meaningless

<<Mana Burst!!!>>

BOOOMM!!!

(AN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrgUd1ZUZSY —> For those who don’t know. Here is what Mana Burst looks like. If you can't copy paste then just search Artoria Mana burst or Mana burst Fate)

[1]: As a reminder, Lilith’s sword is basically based on Zabuza and Cloud's (Final Fantasy 7) sword. Meanwhile, Lilin’s sword is based on Masamune (Sephiroth’s sword from Final Fantasy 7. As for Sol’s sword, it’s more based on Excalibur or Mordred’s sword from Fate)

(AN: Around one year ago, Lilin first used her in CH 117. Now she is doing it again in CH 397. Such a beautiful coincid– *Ahem*— I mean, I obviously planned everything from the start. Bow in front of my genius, peasants.

I was pretty hyped writing this. The fight won’t be long don’t worry. I hope you liked the way it started. Lilin and Lilth are worthy of being Vergil’s daughters.)