Chapter 1412: Death of the Demon-Man

"I know there is a problem with his heart." Xia De nodded:

"You have hinted at many things, and your pale face and almost emotionless lifestyle..."

Haila Osenfort said that he loved her, and she loved him, and both were willing to offer their hearts for each other. And when Xia De visited for the second time, when the two were painting in the back garden, the mistress of the manor grabbed Xia De's hand and placed it on her chest, promising that the reward for the commission was her soul.

These were actually all hints:

"You died of a broken heart, and your husband also said his heart died at that moment. And if he resurrected you directly, you would likely die of a broken heart again."

He deliberately paused to observe the expression behind the veil, but unfortunately, what he saw was still a calm gaze:

"Everyone needs a heart to survive. Since he didn't erase your memory, then in order to keep you from feeling those pains, troubles, and sorrows, Stone Osenfort took away your broken heart and gave you a heart that couldn't feel pain—a stone heart."

Xia De looked at her, and Haila nodded gently: "I am glad you have already guessed this." Because there were simply too many hints.

"And to punish himself, he also gave up his own dead heart and put my heart into his chest to constantly feel my pain and heartbreak."

Haila said, and she finally showed some weak expressions at this moment, looking at the back at the window:

"I cannot feel pain, and therefore I cannot feel love. He loves me so much, and I still love him. But I only remember that I love him, yet I don't know how to love him. I really want to die."

She covered her chest:

"I may still be alive, but I am just living in a void. This is more torturous than any suffering. It is time to end it; liberate me."

The two looked at each other, and Xia De's mouth twitched; things were even more complex than he thought. And having surveyed the affairs of the Osenfort family, he could only say that love and marriage were truly terrifying:

"What should I do?"

"Stone's immortality is rooted in the stone heart given by the demon, which is my heart. As long as this stone heart is not shattered, even if your weapon kills him, his soul will return to my heart at that moment."

This was similar to the soul box of an immortal lich.

"So, I will watch you two here. When your sword pierces his chest and pierces the heart that originally belonged to me in his chest, I will take out my stone heart and destroy it. Liberating him also liberates me."

If Xia De hadn't awakened the woman in front of him just now, the subsequent events would have been terrible.

"That is to say, I have to plunge the sword into the heart that originally belonged to you, and then give a signal to tell you to take out and destroy that stone heart."

"Yes."

Haila nodded gently, and after hesitating, she said: "I have one more request. When you kill Stone, please take him away directly. I... don't want to see him again. I don't know how to face him; he failed me, and I failed him. There is nothing to be nostalgic about; this life should have ended long ago."

Xia De really didn't know how to evaluate it: "No problem." The pale woman nodded:

"I wish you success in your action, and please be sure to be careful of the demon. After the matter is over, please return here to find me, and I will pay the reward for the commission."

She said softly, and the time was almost up, so Xia De was also ready to set off.

However, he asked one last question: "After so many things have happened, and he has done so many wrong things that broke your heart, now, at this very moment, do you still love him?"

"I deeply remember this fact."

The voice behind the veil said, so Xia De didn't ask any more, but walked toward the door.

Crossing the door frame, he appeared directly in the courtyard that was completely covered by gray snowflakes.

At this time, the cedar forest around the Osenfort manor had caught fire at some point, and the fire rising into the sky in the snow illuminated the courtyard, and also illuminated the enemy waiting for

Xia De in the courtyard.

Stone Osenfort rolled up his sleeves, holding a heavy stone sword in his right hand. He watched Xia De, who was holding a long sword, walk from the door of the mansion, and the two looked at each other in the snow without a word.

The strong wind swept the gray snow, and soon it covered Xia De's shoulders. For Xia De, this battle had no suspense; he would not lose.

Not wanting to waste any more time, without any warning, Xia De moved with the sword. He rushed forward, and his boots stepped on the snow, even causing snowflakes to splash everywhere.

Osenfort held the heavy sword with both hands, and the fire illuminated his grim face. The stone sword swung forward in the dark night, but the next moment Xia De's figure disappeared from his eyes, appeared behind him, and then neatly slashed toward his shoulder.

"Ah!"

A painful cry came from Osenfort's mouth; the long sword that destroyed immortality slashed in from the right side of his neck, missing cutting off his head directly by only a little bit.

Osenfort grabbed the blade of the long sword and turned around, smashing at Xia De with the stone sword in his hand in extreme pain. But Xia De also grabbed the opponent's sword with one hand, and didn't let go even though he heard his own hand bones make a subtle sound.

Osenfort's head hung to the left, and the two persisted for a few seconds, then let go and retreated at the same time.

Osenfort used his left hand to straighten his head; the wound healed quite slowly because it was pierced by that special sword, so the head was only temporarily fixed. Xia De picked up the sword with his right hand, and his left hand's index and middle fingers closed, slowly sliding from the hilt to the blade.

The movement of the fingers brought the flowing flames to attach to the blade, until the entire sword was wrapped in flames.

Spell 【Flame Attachment】, this was a brand new skill given to Xia De after Sister Delage burned the evil object as firewood after the Battle of Pantanal, allowing him to attach the Primal Fire to weapons.

After a brief rest for both sides, they charged at each other again in the surrounding fire and the gray snow. This time Xia De did not use space power, but encountered Osenfort head-on, and the latter erupted with all the power belonging to the demon-man, his body wrapped in black flames, and his right hand even cracked, flowing out black shiny lava.

Because Xia De's sword was lighter, it was swung more flexibly. Slashing, hacking, stabbing, and picking, the long sword attached with flames almost formed a ball of light in front of Xia De. And Osenfort also swung his long sword to block, and in the clanging sound, the speed of both sides became faster and faster, Xia De pressed step by step, and Osenfort retreated step by step in the snow.

The collision of metal and stone sparked, and the sound of the impact almost connected into a piece, echoing in the snowy night. Relying solely on physical strength and swordsmanship skills, Xia De gained an absolute advantage in this duel.

And Osenfort held his breath, blocking every attack. A first-ring Shushi was not Xia De's opponent at all; his true confidence was the power bestowed by the demon.

"I know your entire past, know your pain and unwillingness. But today is the end, Stone Osenfort, I have met many crazy people, and today I also want to ask you, do you feel you did something wrong?"

Xia De hadn't felt like he could fight so happily with a sword for a long time, without needing to worry about other means, just needing to swing the long sword forward again and again according to his own heart, and then approach the enemy step by step.

He thought that after this matter was over, maybe he could find a swordsmanship master to practice with, and he couldn't waste the swordsmanship he inherited from 【Night Watcher】.

"I have never been wrong; everything I have done conforms to my own ideas."

Compared with Xia De's calm words during the battle, Osenfort was holding his breath when he spoke:

"Even if I might die under your sword tonight, I have no mistakes. Walking step by step to today, I am still me."

He suddenly parried Xia De's sword, then jumped toward the sky, arriving at the position above Xia De's head. Xia De thought he wanted to sneak attack from above, and immediately raised his sword to block, but didn't expect Osenfort to step on the air again in the air, and with the black mist appearing under his feet, he jumped again in the air, and when he landed, he had already appeared at the door of the manor.

"Double jump

?"

Xia De was quite envious of such a skill. After Osenfort landed, with his back to the burning forest behind him, Osenforts who were shirtless, wrapped in bandages, and whose bodies were twisted like twists, walked out of his shadow one by one. This was the skill of the Stone Mirror Demon; it saw the secrets in Osenfort's heart.

And Osenfort, as the main body, also twisted his body crookedly like the monsters walking out of his shadow, and his hands and feet became extremely uncoordinated as if controlled by silk threads:

"My cruelty, my viciousness, my cunning, and my love for Haila, all of this is me; this is my lifestyle. I do not allow anyone to change these."

Thirteen Stone Osenforts held swords together, facing Xia De against the background of the fire rising into the sky.

Xia De nodded:

"Since this is the case, then let your cruelty, your viciousness, your cunning, and your love all die together."

Because of the indignation in his heart due to Osenfort's love story, and the mood of wanting to return to the Wilde Opera House, at this moment, facing the fire outside the manor, it completely erupted. The long sword Xia De slashed down from the upper left, under the reflection of the surrounding fire, slashed out an arc of moonlight, and then he rushed toward the Osenforts.

Thirteen Osenforts raised their swords together, and the pitch-black power drove thirteen stone swords to shatter the moonlight slash, and then the thirteen people raised their stone swords together to meet Xia De.

The rotating moonlight ring flew forward while Xia De was running, and then his left hand swung the pitch-black Great Sin Chain, stabbing toward these sinners with great sins like a poisonous snake.

Thirteen people surrounded Xia De, but it was as if Xia De surrounded the thirteen people. Osenforts, who possessed partial space teleportation power, flashed black figures one by one, launching attacks on Xia De one after another, while Xia De almost suppressed them with just the long sword in his hand and the chain in his left hand.

The sword light reflected the fire of the forest, and the Great Sin Chain with five runes had a more powerful binding effect on the figures of the sinners. Moonlight bloomed in the snowy courtyard, and Xia De moved his feet while swinging his long sword in all directions, almost forming a rotation similar to a "sword dance".

Twelve figures were defeated one by one under the long sword, and after making wailing sounds on the spot, they exploded into black coal ash.

At the end of the battle, the long sword Xia De slashed down from the upper left, under the reflection of the surrounding fire, forcibly cut off the stone sword in the hand of the Osenfort main body. The moment the stone sword broke, Osenfort, who widened his eyes, let go of his hands, and then pushed hard toward the air in front of Xia De in the flying snow.

A huge force came, but it failed to push Xia De down, and the reaction force of this unknown strange technique instead caused Osenfort to fly backward.

"It's over—Moonlight Slash, Fourth Form!" Xia De, holding the sword with both hands, finally turned into a sharp silver arc of light in the moonless night, almost catching up to Stone Osenfort, who was flying backward, in the next second, and pierced his body with the long sword in the air. ===== CHAPTER 1413 =====