The battle over Azurewind was approaching its peak.

The city was covered with the corpses of the corrupted monsters.

The harbor was disappearing under the endless Black Tide.

The hunters were tired.

The cracks were spreading on their armors.

Mana levels were dropping.

And the sea...

Continued creating monsters.

The eyes of the Guild Captain turned to the dark horizon.

All colors had left his face.

"... There’s no end to them."

The healers ran frantically from one wounded hunter to another nearby.

Mages struggled to keep up weakening barriers.

Even the most courageous defenders had started losing hope.

Jennie was standing alone at the front.

Excalibur was resting peacefully in her hands.

The golden light shined from its blade.

But it seemed too small compared to the endless darkness before her.

A huge Sea Serpent came out of the water.

Following it...

Hundreds of monsters climbed up to the damaged docks.

Jennie slowly breathed in.

One sword...

Really isn’t enough.

In her mind, Excalibur chuckled softly.

"So..."

"You’ve admitted it."

Jennie smiled slightly.

"I never doubted your power."

"But this fight..."

"... belongs to us both."

With a light touch, she reached for the second sword attached to her belt.

The blue sheath shimmered with the ocean mana.

For several seconds...

She just let her hand rest on it.

The noise of crashing waves stopped.

Screams of agony faded around her.

Everything became silent.

Then...

Leviathan spoke.

Its deep voice was calm.

Gentle.

Just like the endless sea itself.

"You made your choice."

Jennie nodded.

"I have."

"Not because you want more power."

"But because you can’t protect everyone on your own."

Leviathan didn’t say anything.

Then...

The warm chuckle echoed in her heart.

"That choice..."

"... that is why I chose you."

Jennie slowly pulled out the second Divine Sword.

The crystal-blue blade appeared from the sheath.

With the moment when Leviathan tasted the fresh air...

The ocean quivered.

The blue light engulfed the battlefield.

Crashing waves stopped.

Even the corrupted sea became silent.

Hunters stopped fighting.

The monsters paused.

Everyone watched towards the young woman standing alone in front of the sea.

Now she had two Divine Swords.

One golden.

Another blue.

The air itself was vibrating with ancient mana.

Excalibur started laughing loudly.

"Hahaha!"

"It has been so long!"

Leviathan answered calmly.

"You haven’t changed, as usual."

"And you are still too serious."

"I simply prefer peace."

"And you prefer excitement."

Jennie sighed.

"... Don’t start arguing, please."

The two swords answered in unison.

"We aren’t arguing."

Jennie smiled helplessly.

"That sounded exactly like an argument."

Snow watched her from across the battlefield.

A faint smile appeared.

"They are getting along."

Roxy blinked.

"... Really?"

The golden mana streamed from Excalibur.

The azure mana streamed from Leviathan.

Both lights circled Jennie.

At first...

They were moving independently.

Like two rivers running alongside each other.

Then...

The streams touched.

The world shook.

BOOOOOOM!!

A pillar of golden and sapphire light shot to the heavens.

The clouds scattered.

The black sea stepped back.

The ancient runes appeared in the sky.

Every Divine Mark in Azurewind started shining.

People hid their faces from the blinding brightness.

"What is it?"

"The sky..."

"They are shining!"

Snow silently looked down.

"... It is happening."

Inside the pillar of light...

Excalibur said proudly.

"A thousand years..."

"... has passed."

Leviathan continued with dignity.

"Since two fragments answered the same bearer."

Jennie looked at the glowing blades.

"What do you mean..."

"... fragments?"

Both Divine Swords answered in unison.

"We weren’t born as swords."

Ancient memories flooded Jennie’s mind.

She saw the tree which she never saw before.

Its roots were stretching through countless worlds.

Its branches reached the distant stars.

Every leaf shined like a constellation.

Its bark glowed with the divine light, older than time itself.

Leviathan spoke gently.

"Long before gods created kingdoms..."

"The World Tree of War was standing."

Excalibur smiled proudly.

"And its true name..."

"... was Alas Ramus."

Jennie whispered,

"... Alas Ramus."

Leviathan continued.

"When the War God fell..."

"The sacred tree has shattered."

"The divine branches have become weapons."

Excalibur chuckled.

"We are siblings."

"But we are very different in character."

Jennie couldn’t help smiling.

"So every Divine Sword..."

"... came from the same tree?"

"Yes."

"The soul of Alas Ramus lives in every fragment."

The light around both blades became brighter.

The ancient runes streamed from one blade to another.

The golden symbols intermingled with the sapphire ones.

The weapons floated away from Jennie’s hands.

The whole battlefield was watching the scene in astonishment.

The blades crossed.

The lights merged.

Neither swallowed the other.

Neither dominated.

They accepted each other.

The sound that was heard was reminiscent of the heartbeat.

The heartbeat that echoed over the sea.

Then...

The swords transformed.

The hilt became one through the bright core of the living mana.

The blue and golden branches intertwined like those of the sacred tree.

The blade was dividing again.

But not into two weapons...

Into one divine armament, consisting of two perfectly balanced swords connected with the living mana.

The transformation continued.

From twin long swords...

To the double-ended blade.

Then to the sword and shorter companion blade.

Then back again.

Jennie’s eyes widened.

"It is changing..."

Leviathan answered,

"The fragments recognize each other."

Excalibur said proudly,

"The form depends on your will."

"All you need is to pronounce our names."

Jennie reached out.

The Divine Weapon comfortably landed in her hands.

It seemed to be weightless.

As if the swords were always meant to belong to each other.

She instinctively knew every form.

Every movement.

Every possibility.

The corrupted monsters screamed in unison.

They charged again.

Hundreds of monsters rushed at her.

Jennie closed her eyes.

She breathed out slowly.

Then...

She smiled.

Not with excitement.

Not with confidence.

With gratitude.

"Excalibur."

The golden light responded.

"Leviathan."

The blue light played around her.

She opened her eyes.

The twin blades were shimmering beautifully.

Snow whispered softly,

"... There it is."

"The sword style, lost in history."

Jennie walked forward.

She wasn’t rushing.

She wasn’t leaping.

She just took one graceful step.

The world seemed to slow.

Her body moved like water.

Her blades danced like the snow.

One sword was cutting with unwavering precision.

The other was moving in accordance with the rhythm of the sea.

Neither competed.

Neither hesitated.

Each blow followed the other.

Each movement was part of a single, endless dance.

Golden arcs and sapphire waves were intertwining through the battlefield.

Every monster that entered the path of the twins, fell even before it understood what had happened.

No wasteful movements.

No unnecessary force.

Just harmony.

For the first time in a thousand years...

The legendary sword style of the Sword King has returned.

But it belonged to Jennie.

And the ocean itself has answered her call.

Silence fell over Azurewind.

Not because the battle had ended.

Because nobody had anymore breath left in them.

Facing an endless number of corrupted sea monsters was the White Hunter.

Her hands held the dual Divine Weapon.

There was the golden Excalibur.

There was the blue Leviathan.

The two lights swirled around each other like twin stars shining in the same sky.

Neither trying to outshine the other.

On the contrary...

It was their own rhythm.

Jennie raised the blades slowly.

The sea wind raised her silver hair.

The white cloak fluttered behind her.

Closing her eyes for a second...

"Don’t fight with hate."

"Fight to protect."

Arthur’s soft smile...

Elena’s warm hug.

Lucas’s teasing.

Princess Lilia’s laughter.

The people behind her.

The children who screamed in terror.

The hunters risking their lives.

Jennie opened her eyes.

Calm.

Resolute.

"I will protect all of you."

The answer came as deafening roars from the corrupted monsters.

They attacked together.

Thousands.

Sea Serpents crawled in the streets.

Black Coral Beasts unleashed the deadly vines.

The Corrupted Sharks jumped over roofs.

Giant Tide Crawlers smashed everything under their giant bodies.

The invasion shook the city ground.

The Guild Captain ordered,

"Be ready!"

"No..."

Snow smiled faintly.

"Watch."

Jennie stepped forward.

Only one step...

And she disappeared.

Not because she was too fast to be seen.

But because her movements merged into the wind.

There was the golden light of Excalibur drawing elegant arcs in the air.

And there was the blue light of Leviathan following as if in a water flow.

The battlefield turned into the living picture.

Jennie wasn’t a swordswoman anymore.

She was a dancer.

Swinging the one blade with perfect precision.

Answering with grace the other.

Every swing blending with the next one.

Every step blending with another.

Without hesitation.

Just one dance after another.

A Sea Serpent rushed at her.

The Excalibur moved first.

It cut through the corrupted mana surrounding the monster.

It crumbled like glass.

Before the creature even hit the floor...

The Leviathan moved.

A ribbon of water spun around it taking the dead body away from the scared civilians.

Jennie didn’t stop.

The Excalibur laughed happily.

"Hahaha!"

"I’ve missed this!"

The Leviathan was much calmer.

"Focus."

"I’m focused."

"You always sound enthusiastic."

"I’m enthusiastic."

Jennie sighed softly while still moving like a sword dancer.

"Could you wait a bit to argue?"

"We’re perfectly coordinated."

Snow smiled.

"They truly are."

More monsters rushed at her.

Dozens of Abyss Crabs surrounded Jennie from everywhere.

Their giant claws fell down simultaneously.

Jennie danced.

The golden light blasted out.

Every claw froze in the middle of its fall.

Excalibur’s holy energy overwhelmed the corrupted mana covering the monster bodies.

Dissolving the darkness.

Cracking their armor.

The Leviathan acted immediately.

It summoned blue currents underneath the creatures.

The water spiraled up like graceful dragons.

Not breaking them in pieces...

Redirecting them.

Colliding one with another.

The entire formation broke up.

Jennie walked between them.

Two silent slashes.

The battlefield went still.

All the monsters fell at the same time.

One of the hunters whispered,

"...She beat them before they even noticed it."

Above the city harbor...

The Corrupted Sharks jumped through the air.

Their huge jaws aimed right at the city wall.

Jennie looked above.

The Leviathan glowed faintly.

"Let me."

She raised the blue blade.

The sea answered.

Pillars of water shot up from the harbor.

The currents flew through the sky twisting like live snakes.

One by one...

The creatures became trapped in the graceful spirals of the water.

They couldn’t move.

They couldn’t escape.

Jennie silently walked under them.

The Excalibur flashed.

Its golden light cleansed every trace of the corruption.

The monsters vanished into the harmless blue mana and drifted back into the sea.

Watching the children on the city walls gasped.

"It looks like stars..."

The blue particles floated in the air.

And the scared citizens watched them falling like the glowing snow.

The roar of the Giant Tide Crawlers.

Their bodies burrowing under the city.

The stone exploded.

Buildings shivered.

Jennie calmly closed her eyes.

She could feel it.

Every vibration under the earth.

Every movement under the flooded soil.

The Leviathan murmured,

"The water remembers."

Jennie smiled.

"So do I."

She just made a strike on the ground.

The blue ripples spread under the city.

Every underground current responded to her call.

The tunnels became flooded.

The Tide Crawlers lost their balance.

Before they could recover

...The golden light fell from above.

The Excalibur cleansed every trace of the corruption within the water.

The monsters fell under the power of the twin Divine Weapons.

The battlefield shook violently.

Then...

It became quiet.

The defenders could only look.

Nobody cheered.

Nobody shouted.

Beauty took their words away.

The Guild Captain slowly lowered his weapon.

"I have fought monsters for thirty years."

"I’ve seen kings, heroes...but never..."

He swallowed.

"...saw such swordsmanship."

The elderly fisherman took off his hat.

"She is not fighting."

"She is blessing the battlefield."

Nearby, there were the children watching with bright eyes.

A little girl smiled.

"The pretty lady is dancing."

Her mother nodded gently.

"Yes."

"And because she is dancing..."

"We’re still alive."

Roxy stayed safely behind one of the magical barriers she created.

She was watching Jennie moving across the battlefield.

Her notebook hung forgotten in her hand.

For once...

She didn’t write anything.

"...I don’t think..."

"...there are words for this."

Snow was quietly looking at the sea.

His blue eyes reflected both golden and sapphire light.

"The world once called Leonis the Sword King."

He smiled warmly.

"But this..."

"This belongs to Jennie only."

The last wave of the monsters was rushing.

Hundreds.

Perhaps over a thousand.

The corrupted horde was flooding the harbor.

Jennie breathed deeply.

The dual blades glowed brighter than ever.

The golden light.

The blue light.

The white mana.

Everything.

She started her final dance.

Not fast.

Not violent.

Just...

Beautiful.

Every step made ripples under the flooded streets.

Every swing connected perfectly with the next.

The golden crescents cleansed the corruption.

The blue currents swept the fallen monsters.

And the sea itself moved in harmony with her.

From above...

The battlefield was like a giant painting.

White.

Gold.

Blue.

The light dance against the endless darkness.

When Jennie finally stopped...

She quietly lowered her swords.

Silence followed.

The harbor was empty.

Not a single corrupted monster was left.

The first great attack of the Black Tide was destroyed.

The citizens burst into the thunderous cheers.

"Raven!"

"The White Hunter!"

"She saved us!"

"Our guardian!"

Jennie only smiled from under her hood.

She didn’t wave.

She didn’t accept their compliments.

As usual...

She turned and quietly walked away.

Stories began spreading behind her.

Some said Raven controlled the ocean.

Some believed she was the saint blessed by the gods.

A few whispered about the return of the legendary being.

Nobody knew what was true.

But at the end of that day...

Everybody in Azurewind saw the same image.

The lone hunter in white.

Dancing across the battlefield.

With the golden and blue light surrounding her like the sea embraces the sunrise.