I Aggressively Stack Steel of the Heart in the Knight Order

”HRAAAGH—!”

Kavor used Reinhardt’s grip on his right hand as a pivot.

The Extraordinary Power of the Judgment Court’s Supreme Grandmaster coursed through his blood and muscles like fuel in a heavy machine. His rapidly rising body temperature evaporated the sweat on his skin, releasing a great cloud of white steam.

His expression twisted into a ferocious snarl as he leaped into the air, tucking in his legs like a wild rabbit in a desperate struggle against a falcon.

His legs, now imbued with the power of the Supreme Grandmaster, became indestructible steel spears. They broke the sound barrier, rocketing straight for Reinhardt’s face.

Witnessing this attack—a combination of pure Physical Strength and Body Techniques—

everyone from the spectating Church Knights to Stearns and Koller couldn’t help but pale.

The power displayed by the Judge, Kavor Spencer, had far exceeded their expectations.

The aura of Mighty Power exploding from this Sacrificial Flying Kick briefly reached the terrifying level of a peak Four-star Earth Military Rank!

Urus, the only one who had gotten close to Kavor, felt his expression darken. He could genuinely feel an immense threat from the Judge!

’Knowing the Judges’ methods, for him to have the guts to lead a team deep into Savenxis to arrest Reinhardt, he must have made meticulous preparations.’

’My Elemental Power, Silent Wind, isn’t suited for direct confrontation. If I had to face that...’

However.

Against this powerful Body Technique assault—strong enough to kick an Elite Slaughter Demon to death—Reinhardt simply stood his ground and raised his right arm. A blood-red gauntlet emanating powerful waves of Mighty Power materialized over his Power Armor.

Extraordinary Armament: Blood Hand.

The next moment, under everyone’s horrified gazes, the epicenter of their collision erupted with an astonishing shockwave!

He struck and immediately retreated.

Kavor broke free from Reinhardt’s grasp, performing a series of backflips to bleed off the momentum before landing with bent knees, forcing himself to stabilize by planting a hand on the ground.

He slid backward at high speed, sending soil and weeds flying into the air.

After all that, Kavor, seemingly drained, gasped for breath and jerked his head up. As the dust and smoke from the shockwave settled, Reinhardt was still standing there proudly, not having moved a single step!

Seeing this, Kavor looked as if he had been struck by lightning, utter horror flooding his heart.

’This is impossible—!’

’That kick looked simple and unadorned, but I had squeezed out every last drop of power from the Black Wall Secret Scroll!’

’With that move, I once personally killed an Elite Slaughter Demon!’

’In my mind, even if Reinhardt managed to block that attack, he should have been severely injured, if not dead! As long as my two colleagues made their move, we could definitely have dragged Reinhardt back to the Judgment Court!’

’Once we get him on our turf...’

’...not even the Grand Governor, with all his overwhelming power and influence, could save Reinhardt!’

But for the spectating Church Knights, as well as Koller and Urus, no matter how ridiculously divine the legends of the ”Emperor’s Vengeful Angels” were—both in the Imperial Army and across the Verne World—

nothing could compare to the heart-stopping shock of witnessing Reinhardt’s power with their own eyes!

He didn’t retreat a single step, taking the full-force blow of a Four-star Earth Military Rank head-on!

Even Stearns, who had long since witnessed Reinhardt’s power and fought alongside him, was profoundly shaken to see the Vengeful Angel’s might again after two years.

’How powerful!’

Moreover, they all knew that if Reinhardt had truly intended to kill, he wouldn’t have bothered proposing a Knight’s Duel. When he’d struck back against Judge Kavor’s taunts earlier, Kavor would have ended up a corpse on the ground.

Even so, Kavor had still lost, and lost utterly.

When the dust settled, the Extraordinary Armament on Reinhardt’s right hand crumbled like weathered rock, dissolving into motes of red light that scattered in the night wind.

He had activated the Extraordinary Armament, Blood Hand, to counter the Judge’s all-out attack. But now it seemed his opponent’s full-power strike couldn’t even penetrate the defense of the Morphic Armor, let alone trigger Blood Hand’s shield.

’I overestimated him.’

At that moment, the scene fell deathly silent, save for the sound of the wind.

The Judge with the broken front teeth had a deathly pale face, his eyes wide with disbelief. He couldn’t seem to accept that Reinhardt had used his Knight Power to withstand Lord Kavor’s ultimate attack, one boosted by the Black Wall Secret Scroll.

His right hand clawed at the weeds on the ground, clenching into an unwilling fist.

But he already understood that arresting Reinhardt was impossible with their strength. If not for the deterrent power of the Judgment Court, they wouldn’t even be able to leave Savenxis alive.

Meanwhile.

Judge Kavor Spencer faced the gazes of two hundred Church Knights. The humiliating defeat left him pale and stripped of all dignity, and a bitter resentment over the failed arrest festered in his heart.

The shame of his failure was as intense as the confidence in his speech and the boasts he had made before their departure!

He clenched his fists tightly, veins bulging on his forehead.

His ragged breathing and depleted stamina drained the color from his face, leaving it a ghastly white.

His eyes, in particular, looked like they wanted to pick someone out and devour them, as if he wanted to swallow whole the witnesses to his disgraceful failure.

Most importantly, the opposition faction behind him had been trying to usurp the highest authority in the Administrative Region for a long time now.

And on this path to usurp supreme power, Reinhardt—the Emperor’s Vengeful Angel—was the one and only uncontrollable and unpredictable part of all their plans.

As a die-hard ally of the Grand Governor, the more extraordinary Reinhardt’s achievements and influence became, the more uneasy they grew. This uncontrollable Imperial Knight’s growth rate was especially frightening—terrifying, even!

From the Battle of Verne to the Vengeful Angels project.

As his enemies and as witnesses, they had watched Reinhardt climb from a complete nobody, stepping on a staircase built from the bones of his foes to ascend to the pinnacle of the Imperial Knights.

And their attitude had shifted from initial disdain to their current state of treating him as a formidable enemy.

Therefore, regardless of whether these decisions were loyal, regardless of whether they betrayed the oaths a Judge swore while kneeling before the supreme Black Wall.

For Judge Kavor.

The failure of the arrest mission meant that he, as its planner and leader, would inevitably be cast aside as a disposable pawn upon his return!

’To avoid being purged and executed, Reinhardt must die!’

Reinhardt shot Kavor a cold glance, then turned to walk toward the Avenger Flagship.

The Church Knights and the other Judge all looked at him, their every move an unspoken suggestion that it was time for them to retreat.

Trapped in a dilemma, Kavor stared fixedly at Reinhardt with bloodshot eyes. He desperately wished his opponent would kill him, so that he could at least die with the dignity of a Judge.

And Reinhardt, for the crime of killing a Judge, would pay a bloody price.

But with things having come to this, how could he not understand? Reinhardt had realized this long ago, which was why he had proposed the sacred Knight’s Duel.

’No...’

’I can’t fail!’

’I can’t just run away with my tail between my legs and wait to die!’

’Reinhardt and those bastards forced my hand! They forced me!’

As if making some difficult decision, a tiny parasite hidden deep within Kavor’s heart—so faint that even the Eye of Judgment could not detect it—began to release Demon Evil Power, which fused into his bloodstream.