"Don't panic! Reform the formation!" Seeing this, the knight captain shouted loudly.
But the knights who usually obeyed his every word completely ignored him and chose to flee on their own.
The giant monster didn't watch them flee. It swung its flail directly at their heads.
Watching the flail approach, the knight captain seemed to see his own death.
But at the critical moment, Takeru moved. He quickly appeared before him and swung his sword. The monster's arm holding the weapon flew high into the air, landing in the distance.
Raphtalia followed closely, directly cutting off the giant monster's head with her sword. Watching Takeru and Raphtalia cleanly and neatly kill the monster, the knight captain swallowed nervously.
"Leave this place to the Sword Hero. Let's go to the other three Heroes!" The knight captain didn't want to stay here with Takeru any longer. He shouted, planning to leave matters here to Takeru.
Some knights who only knew how to brown-nose quickly followed him away from here, heading to another location.
They had become knights only for a good life. As for fighting to the death and protecting others, they didn't care who did it.
"Cover the Sword Hero! Tight formation!" At this moment, the vice-captain, watching Takeru and the others fighting hard, shouted loudly. Unlike the captain, he had a conscience.
He was born a commoner, worked hard to reach this position, but without connections or influence, reaching this level was essentially the end of the line.
Moreover, he had to be suppressed by some second-generation nobles.
Hearing the vice-captain's words, some knights showed happy smiles. Compared to going to the Spear Hero's side, they felt help was needed more here.
Also, some knights were themselves born in Lute Village.
"Damn it! Let's go!" Seeing a portion of knights disobey him and stay behind, the knight captain felt angry. But seeing Takeru still there and it was still the time of the wave, he couldn't say much else.
As the knight captain led some knights away, Takeru's attacks slowly stopped. Because over where Esdeath and the others were, the boss-level monster had appeared.
It was a three-headed monster resembling a chimera: a goat head, a lion head, and a dragon head. Its tail was also a snake capable of attacking.
Although the boss monster wasn't very strong, under the gravity suppression, everyone was powerless to resist.
Esdeath and the others, mindful of Takeru's instructions, deliberately avoided the area with the boss monster, leaving it to Motoyasu, Itsuki, and Naofumi.
But the two were sent flying in less than a round, taking considerable damage.
Only Naofumi barely withstood the monster's attacks. However, his stamina was already very depleted, and being alone, it was already impressive that he could barely hold off the monster.
After being sent flying again by the boss, Naofumi was panting. Motoyasu and Itsuki, along with their companions, had already moved away from the boss's location, leaving it alone to Naofumi and Emilie.
"Naofumi-sama, let's retreat too. We can leave this monster to the Sword Hero's companions." Looking at Naofumi, who was injured and extremely exhausted, Emilie said.
"No. They can't pay attention to this right now." Hearing Emilie's words, Naofumi glanced at Esdeath and the others, who were surrounded by a large number of monsters.
Because of the gravity, Motoyasu and Itsuki, along with their companions, had barely killed a few monsters the entire time.
If not for Esdeath and the others, everyone would have been overwhelmed by the monsters long ago.
Many adventurers watching the boss, seeing Naofumi about to give out as well, were considering leaving. As for Motoyasu, under Myne's advice, he had already retreated to the edge. Itsuki, not stupid, quietly followed Motoyasu away from the center of the battlefield.
"Holy Gospel!" Soon, just as everyone was about to give up, a voice clearly reached everyone's ears.
A dazzling light followed. Everyone seemed to see a special hall, and Takeru's figure appeared above it, looking extremely majestic.
Accompanied by special bells, everyone felt a sense of peace and tranquility in their hearts. The negative effects on their bodies dissipated completely. Besides that, a large number of ghouls also vanished, leaving only bee-type monsters and armor-clad monsters.
"That's... the Sword Hero!"
"Long live the Sword Hero!"
Seeing this, everyone who had been on the verge of despair was overjoyed.
Motoyasu, Itsuki, and Myne widened their eyes. Takeru's move just now was simply too unfair.
Not only could it dispel negative effects and eliminate enemies, but its range was also so large...
Takeru ignored everyone. He landed directly in front of Naofumi, confronting the boss monster, the Chimera.
"You've finally arrived." Seeing Takeru come over, Naofumi completely relaxed.
With the burden gone and being slightly healed by Takeru's skill just now, he felt he could challenge the Chimera again.
But seeing Takeru's target was it, Naofumi didn't make a move.
"The village over there was affected. Handling that delayed me a bit." Hearing his words, Takeru spoke directly.
"Roar!" Seeing Takeru completely disregard it, the Chimera roared in anger. The middle lion head directly spat a stream of high-temperature flames at Takeru.
"Futile roar? Holy Light Sword!" Watching the rapidly approaching flames, Takeru showed a disdainful expression. He raised the Holy Sword in his hand and quickly condensed a giant light sword.
The light sword was so large that even Raphtalia and the others in Lute Village could see it clearly.
Then, the giant light sword slowly swung down with Takeru's hand, parting the flames like a hot knife through butter.
Besides that, the boss monster, the Chimera, was completely engulfed by the light sword. All monsters along the path turned to ashes the instant they touched the light sword.
Boom~~!
After a tremendous tremor, everyone saw the destruction Takeru had wrought. Before Takeru lay a chasm, ten meters wide and over a kilometer long.
Looking at the abyss-like chasm below, the hearts of those on the battlefield pounded wildly.
Motoyasu and Itsuki could hardly believe it.
They were all 'ordinary people' summoned at the same time, yet Takeru possessed beautiful and powerful attendants. And wasn't Takeru's strength a bit too exaggerated? They even suspected Takeru was cheating...
Takeru ignored everyone's suspicions. He looked calmly around.
After the Chimera's death, the colorful vortex in the sky slowly dissipated. Many monsters also quickly disappeared, or rather, were transported away by a mysterious force as the wave dispersed.
Watching the monsters quickly disappear, Takeru didn't mind. After all, he had long expected this, and his gains this time were already very plentiful.
Also, everyone thought Takeru had completely annihilated the Chimera's corpse. Actually, that wasn't the case. The moment the Chimera died, Takeru had directly stored it in his portable space. Because of the bright light, nobody noticed...
"Is it over?" Looking at the sky returning to normal, and the monsters gone, if not for the bottomless sword chasm Takeru had left before him, Itsuki would have doubted whether he had just hallucinated.
"Takeru." Seeing Takeru's arrival, Esdeath and the others, who had completed their task of holding back, came directly to Takeru's side.
"Good work." Looking at the four, Takeru said with a light laugh. The four nodded gently in response.
"Good work, Heroes." At this moment, the knight order finally arrived belatedly. The lead knight captain smiled and looked at Motoyasu and the others.
But upon seeing Takeru, his eyes widened again. He distinctly remembered Takeru should have been over there.
'That meant that the Holy Sword attack just now was released by the Sword Hero?'
Thinking this, he became nervous now. Although he had connections, having provoked a Sword Hero of such immense strength, things wouldn't be easy for him...
"You arrived too slowly, didn't you?" Looking at the knight order's people, Motoyasu frowned and said.
"Please don't say that. I wonder which Hero released that attack just now?" Hearing Motoyasu's words, the knight captain didn't care. He only asked nervously.
Hearing the knight captain's words, Motoyasu, Myne, and Itsuki fell silent. As for the adventurers in their parties, they looked at Takeru.
Then, the knight captain noticed Takeru's expression, which seemed to be smiling yet not. His heart tightened with nervousness.
"The king has prepared rewards. Come, let's go." Although everyone spoke, the knight captain understood that the world-shattering attack just now was Takeru's doing. So, he quickly spoke.
Watching the knight captain change the subject, Takeru didn't say anything.
After all, now was not the time to judge him.