[Silver Ash] - Become The Strongest In Another World
CHAPTER 256: The Hidden Knife

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In a place not far from the location of the battle of Silis.

There, Tian and Moldy were fighting one on one. All looked to be a draw at first, but slowly the lead began to be seen on Tian's side.

Tian advanced and slashed with his sword, but Moldy fended it off with his own sword, and intended to give a kick towards Tian's side abdomen.

However, his attack failed. Tian did not allow him to levitate the kick, and directly pointed the revolver's muzzle at Moldy's forehead.

Moldy who saw that inevitably tilted his head directly, then jumped far back, letting Tian return to a safe position.

(I'd like to have some more fun, but .. It's getting troublesome.)

Even though he had always been focused in his fight against Tian, he had actually always observed the situation elsewhere.

He sees Silis falling, and Gild's condition isn't as good either. If this continued, his side would only suffer defeat.

A few monsters from the underworld were deployed to become reinforcements, but that was not very influential since the other party still had enough personnel to deal with it. Especially, the girl with the scythe whom he did not know was.

By far, he is the biggest troublemaker in all the diversions that Gild created.

Moldy had asked Gild to make a diversion by removing monsters from the underworld, but the girl with the scythe continued to kill all monsters.

As if, he was really used to dealing with it.

Moldy wants to continue playing with Tian, but the situation is not supportive. If this situation continued, then his side would only suffer a loss.

Putting aside his goal of distracting all organizations from Feran Cerces, Moldy did not want his life to end up being ridiculous here.

He had already died once, so if he were to die here, there would be no chance to rise.

(Browdy and Heinz didn't come either, does that mean they're dead? )

The useless subordinate. He naturally thought so.

The Swallow Life Order was spread across all corners of the continent, with its center located somewhere unknown whether it was real or not. There's a special designation for 'branches' in every town, and that's the Crew.

The branch domiciled in the city of Fencen was the 17th Crew. In this group, Moldy's position was as Vice Chairman, with his own chairman being Dwayne.

If Browdy and Heinz are really dead, then recruiting or begging for new members will be his responsibility, and he hates it.

While fighting back against Tian, Moldy clicked his tongue.

He then kicked Tian in the stomach, thus making him have to retreat far back to survive the tightness caused by Moldy's kick.

"Hey, old man. I want to have fun for a little longer, but I'm running out of time now. I'm sorry, but I have to finish you off."

" … Let's see if you can do it" Tian said as he swung his sword.

Just as Tian was about to advance and attack Moldy, Moldy had already jumped to the side, making Tian inevitably land where Moldy had stood before.

It made a trap that Moldy had prepared actively.

The ground where Tian was on foot suddenly exploded, and Tian instantly bounced backwards.

Moldy wasted no chance, and directly advanced toward Tian with the immediate goal of killing him. However, just as he swung his sword, Tian had repelled the slash, and turned around directing the revolver's muzzle towards Moldy.

That revolver had room for 6 bullets, and Tian had only used 2 of them. There were still 4 bullets, but Tian did not carry any spare bullets, so he could not haphazardly shoot.

As soon as he saw Tian about to pull the trigger, Moldy immediately lowered his head, and utilized that momentum to hit Tian's arm with the blunt side of his sword.

As a result of the blow, Tian's hand lost its grip over the revolver, and Moldy instantly caught the revolver, before finally pointing it towards Tian.

Tian could barely respond in time. He managed to deflect the direction of the revolver so that his shot would not hit anything. Also, in a pretty desperate situation, Tian straightened his palm, and directly hit Moldy's left abdomen with that position.

However, Moldy also put up a fight.

In a very short time, Moldy managed to pull out a dagger from within his coat, and plugged it into Tian's thigh.

Be it Moldy or Tian instantly retreated as far as possible.

Tian pulled out the dagger Moldy had plugged into his thigh, and made a large amount of blood continue to come out, while Moldy held onto his left abdomen with an expression of agony.

Although Tian's movements looked trivial, the reality was different. A powerful shock wave was launched along with a punch from his palm. Moldy could feel some of his internal organs almost being destroyed.

"There is no point in continuing this … "

Moldy laughed dryly and threw out his sword. He then took out another sword that was shorter in size, and slimmer than before.

Swinging the sword for a moment, Moldy then launched some low-level magic to give up Tian.

Several colorless energy balls flew through the air, and targeted Tian. Of course, Tian who saw it instantly made preparations to deal with it.

After analyzing the path and speed of all the energy balls, Tian managed to predict at which point the energy ball would land; one right on his stomach, one on his left chest, two on his legs, one on his left side, and more than four did not hit the target.

Right before all those energy balls landed on his body, Tian immediately jumped to the side, making the batch of energy balls land and destroy the ground.

Not stopping there, dozens to dozens of colorless energy balls kept popping out and attacking Tian nonstop.

Tian tried to dodge, but was unable to avoid it completely. Several balls of energy managed to land on his body, and gave him quite a severe wound.

Even though it belonged to the category of low-grade magic, in fact its power level would depend heavily on the person casting the spell.

If a Moldy-class person were to launch it, then the damage would be equivalent to middle-class attack magic.

After the bombardment from Moldy was over, Tian managed to find a gap to attack. He advanced and prepared with his sword to attack Moldy.

His revolver is still in Moldy's hands, and he doesn't know when Moldy will use it. Even so, it won't be a big deal.

Facing an attack from a firearm was quite a thing Tian mastered.

Tian and Moldy once again faced off in close range. The two of them attacked and fended off each other, and the superiority was still not possessed by any party.

Moldy fended off Tian's sword slash, and moved one leg back. Then, he instantly utilized that momentum to leap backwards.

Tian, who was at the scene, accidentally stepped on the ground where Moldy had stood before, and set off an explosive trap that Moldy had planted there.

Taking that as an opportunity, Moldy directly charged at Tian with the same magic as before.

Dozens of colorless energy balls continued to charge towards Tian from all directions. And while Tian was preoccupied by it, Moldy secretly instantly prepared even more powerful attack magic.

Just above Tian, a gigantic transparent light sphere appeared. It had an abnormally large amount of magic energy vortex, and it was slowly dropping itself towards Tian.

A huge explosion suddenly occurred, but the effect of the explosion did not spread anywhere because Moldy had set up a barrier that confined Tian with that gigantic energy ball.

He created that barrier to concentrate the impact of the explosion to a single point. Even so, it seemed that it was still not enough to kill Tian.

After the black smoke slowly dissipated, Tian's figure could be seen in the center of the crater that formed.

The crater has a hot streak like magma, as a result of the heat of the explosion created by Moldy.

There, Tian's figure did not look good either. He lost his right arm, with some parts of the skin on his body melting.

The explosion caught the attention of almost everyone there, and they rushed forward to save Tian. However, the barrier Moldy created prevented them from entering.

Tian looked like he would fall at any moment, but he was still able to move.

A black cat appeared beside him, and his melted skin slowly returned to normal.

"Hmm? Familiar who can cure, huh? That's very rare."

Familiar animals are normally used as a method of transportation, delivery, and assistance to attack. Familiarity with the ability to heal is arguably very rare.

Moldy was interested in seeing that familiar ability, but he already had no time.

Directing his sword tip forward, Moldy again took out dozens of energy balls to attack Tian.

Each of those energy balls he unleashed with a certain pattern, interval, and direction, thus guiding Tian to the point he wanted.

Unfortunately, Tian already understood his purpose.

With his sword, Tian held all the energy balls that came directly towards him. Each one of those balls could produce great damage, yet his sword did not even scratch in the slightest.

But of course, Tian did not have much manpower to continue resisting the attack with his sword. Occasionally he would be forced to dodge in the other direction.

It was used by Moldy.

He continued to urge Tian to dodge, and finally found the right gap to attack.

After all those magic attacks, he did not have much magic energy left. Until the end, Moldy had to take it another way.

Moldy looked at his left hand which he had not moved since, and smiled.

"You better be of little use" he said, letting out a dry-sounding laugh.

Moldy then plunged his own sword into the ground, and briefly directly pulled his left arm, until it was cut off.

While trying to endure the pain after pulling out his own arm, Moldy tried to change the shape of his arm into a strange blob of black liquid.

Even if it had been severed, the arm was still a member of Moldy's body. He could still change his form into a wisp of black liquid, just like when all the members of the Swallow Life Order tried to escape.

Without letting Tian take the chance to recover, Moldy instantly reconstructed the shape of his arm into a long black spear.

Compared to having to cast magic continuously, this was much more effective.

Tian was seen trying to get up from his position, and he also saw what Moldy was preparing for.

Looking around, he could not find anything that could serve as a shield. All he could do now was to dodge. However, just how severe was the damage that the spear would create? Tian could not estimate it yet.

The vision gets worse as time goes on. It also began to lose personnel little by little.

Moreover, Tian was also barely able to contain his anger when he realized the situation Rita was in.

Squinting his eyes for a moment, Tian focused on waiting until the spear was launched from Moldy's hand.

Finally, the time he was waiting for came.

With a terrifying speed, the spear was launched. His rotation in the air made his speed increase, but it was still within the limits that Tian could notice.

Tian tried to dodge the spear by jumping towards the way his sword was located. But it didn't work.

He could not move from where he stood.

Looking down, Tian immediately discovered a strange wisp of black liquid was holding back so that his feet could not move anywhere.

"This water ... So, yeah ... He also changed one leg, huh? "

It is not so visible because the position is far apart, but if you pay attention to it more carefully, Moldy has also lost his right leg. Now he stands on one leg.

Tian frowned, then sighed tiredly.

"I don't think I can enjoy my retirement" he said, smiling weakly.

Right after he said it all, the spear Moldy launched landed and pierced right in the middle of his chest.

A little misses the heart, but it's enough to kill someone.

Tian instantly vomited a large amount of blood, and his consciousness gradually faded away.

However, in the midst of all that pain and drowsiness, his memories of everything that happened in his life began to appear.

(So this ... What they call .. Flashback before death .. )

Tian tried to endure his drowsiness in order to watch the memories fade away one by one.

There are memories of her young self, when she was an intelligence agent for the church. There was also a memory of him teaching all the members who had just joined the Lunatic Order.

Dozens of years of devotion to the church ended when he carried out his duties as a 'shadow soldier'.

Tian fell down, with the spear still stuck in his chest.

It was the end of his long life.

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After making sure his enemy was really dead, Moldy immediately dropped his body to the ground, and breathed heavily.

Although he looked calm, plucking out his own limbs to become a weapon was a painful thing to do.

He could not turn one limb into liquid without changing the other part. That means, he must separate one organ from his main body so that it can change its own form without affecting the main body.

Cutting off his own arms and legs was painful, but it was worth the result.

Moldy tried to raise his body and watched Tian's corpse. The spear that stuck in his chest slowly turned back into liquid, and it moved closer to Moldy.

The wisp of liquid that had held Tian back earlier also returned to become his leg.

Finally, Moldy's body came back complete as before. He slowly got up and looked around.

The situation has not changed.

Although he had already killed Tian, there were still more than a dozen church members there.

Moldy laughed lightly, and intended to leave. However, the sudden feeling of heat and pain appearing in his chest made him instantly freeze and fall silent on the spot.

Moldy slowly looked to his own chest, but did not see anything wrong. Then, he realized that the problem was behind.

With a stiff movement, Moldy tried to look back, and found the figure of Dwayne—the 17th crew member Swallow Life Order— while standing with a revolver to his back.

As soon as both of their eyes were fixed, Dwayne smiled, and again pulled the revolver trigger.

The bullet was ejected, and this time it hit exactly where Moldy's heart was.

However, the bullet did not penetrate deep enough, so Moldy simply fell to the ground without receiving instant death.

Moldy still doesn't understand. He stared at Dwayne while confusion and anger took hold of him.

"To ... napa? "

The question was issued with great difficulty, but Dwayne did not answer it immediately, and instead returned fire up to 4 times.

His revolver had run out of bullets, so Dwayne dropped his gun, before smiling at Moldy.

"Is this surprising? "

Dwayne chuckled as he watched Moldy slowly lose consciousness.

The blood keeps pooling, but Moldy's consciousness is still holding. Despite that, the shock of getting an attack from Dwayne left him unable to think.

During this time, he acted as a deputy, as well as an envoy to Dwayne. Because of this, Moldy developed considerable trust in him.

But all of that is back in doubt now. Why did Dwayne intend to kill him? He could not find the answer to that question.

"Hey, do you know my full name? "

Moldy was confused, but he kept trying to answer, while blood continued to be drained out of his body.

If not for his strong defense, and accumulated experience, he would have already died by now.

"Live .. Lee … "

Moldy was convinced by that answer. However, the reaction Dwayne gave to that answer made him instantly doubtful.

Little laugh, Dwayne then flicked his finger, instantly creating a barrier that made anyone outside would not be able to hear or see their conversation.

"The answer is true, but it's not accurate. My real name is Dwayne Lee Minster. Do you know that name? "

Dwayne lifted his revolver back up, then began refilling the bullet while waiting for Moldy to react.

Shortly thereafter, Moldy's eyes widened. He was finally able to remember all the information about the name.

"You .. Paradise ... Falls?! "

'Minster', Moldy doesn't know that name very well, but he has some information about him.

Minster is a family name, which has a long history with its heyday that took place simultaneously with the era of the Aino nation.

The Minster family was one of the great families of the Aino people, and they were rumored to have perished after the fall of the nation.

There are many other great families whose glory days ended after the collapse of the Aino people, and they are all also rumored to have been wiped out.

However, certain parties clearly knew that some of these families managed to survive, by abandoning their descendants in the present.

The Swallow Life Order became one of the parties most aware of the existence of those families.

After all, it was their organization that was the culprit of the downfall of that powerful nation.

As far as Moldy was concerned, there was an organization consisting of heirs to the great family names of the Aino people.

Minster, Fhloch, Olden, Grimald, Yacob, Hall, Amana, and Anson are the names of the great Aino families that have so far been known.

Each of the heirs of the family came together and formed an organization called Paradise Falls.

That's all Moldy knows. He didn't know much, because it wasn't his business, and he wasn't interested in studying them either.

After Moldy gave his guess, Dwayne smiled and began to clap his hands happily.

"Congratulations, you're right! I'll give you a hundred points for that! "

While Dwayne was happily giving him praise, Moldy could only continue lying on the ground laughing dryly.

"Haha, so this is your goal, huh, asshole? You bastard, why are you involving me? "

To the question, Dwayne's response was merely a cold, piercing smile and gaze.

"Why? Isn't it obvious? That's because you're a member of them. For the sake of the glory of my ancestors, I will destroy all of you, even if you are just a lowly member who knows nothing."

After saying that, Dwayne again pointed his revolver at Moldy. Only, this time he was targeting the head.

"If you want to blame someone, blame all your predecessors who chose to deal with our nation."

Moldy wants to rebel, but he can't. I don't know since when his body couldn't be moved at all.

The only thing he could do was turn his head around and open his mouth without being able to say anything.

Then, he saw Dwayne widen his smile.

"Really, heaven is on our side."

With that said, Dwayne pulled the trigger, and a lead bullet made it through Moldy's skull to destroy all of its contents.

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"Now ... Feran must have gone to deliver the file. As planned, yes .. Hehe, I didn't think all the years of planning would go this smoothly."

Dwayne lifted his revolver, removed the barrier that had been locking him up, then looked around.

Clearly, the situation was very bad for the Swallow Life Order. However, for Dwayne, this was a beautiful sight.

Indeed, infiltrating as a member of the Swallow Life Order was not a waste. Because that way, all his plans can run smoothly.

This situation was so pleasant to look at, that Dwayne wanted to laugh. However, he tried to hold back his pleasure.

It's not over yet. This plan still has many stages left.

Dwayne looked the other way, and realized an oddity.

The surrounding air suddenly became heavier, and an extremely gripping feeling emerged.

Dwayne turned to the direction where the gripping feeling was coming from, and found a young male figure standing quietly with a smile.

Then, he heard a delicate voice echoing all over the place.

"《All Fiction》"

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