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Chapter 191 - Chapter 192: Back Up

He held his blade like death itself.

No—he was death now.

His sword hummed, soaked in enchantments and blood, and with a single step forward, he closed the distance. His breath was ragged. Smoke curled around him, lacing through the cuts in his armor. His eyes, dull with exhaustion, burned with one last flash of intention.

The barbarian, wounded and wheezing, raised what remained of his iron slab in reflex.

Clang!

But instead of a clash, it sang.

"True sharpness," Denish whispered. And he meant it—not as a boast, but a prayer.

His sword, fractured and near shattering, cut through—not deflected, not parried, but through the barbarian's greatsword like it was cloth. A scream of metal, a hiss of burning air, and then it carved deeper—through armor, through flesh, until it tasted bone and passed to the spine.

The barbarian's mouth opened. Not in pain. In awe.

He fell, not backward but inward, collapsing like a monument cracked from within. A giant undone by precision.

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