How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 110
Chapter 110
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“About that…”
Cheol Jung-bae brought up the topic very carefully.
“I think there might be a way.”
Cheol Jung-bae was someone who had joined the church recently.
For a very long time, he had also been a slave under the demons’ feet.
But no one suspected him.
‘Bishop.’
The position he had obtained wasn’t just in name only.
Like the apostles, he was connected.
“A way?”
Go Johan asked.
“About mages. Perhaps… even more than that.”
Cheol Jung-bae said.
“…There was a rumor I heard while making the demon armor.”
“……”
“It was something the Dvergr were talking about.”
Cheol Jung-bae’s voice trembled.
“The Elf Queen is alive.”
“……!”
Unlike the others, Go Johan’s eyes trembled.
“Elf Queen? That can’t be. She definitely…”
“Yes. She died.”
In the early days when the war with demons intensified, she was killed by demons.
More precisely, by the first Dark Elf who had fallen.
“I didn’t believe it either, but I kept hearing the stories.”
It was already confirmed fact that Dvergr and Dark Elves had joined hands to target Go Johan.
They also knew that similar forces had already infiltrated Earth.
The exchange between them.
If that existed:
“It’s probably the princess.”
It made sense.
“The princess…”
“Missing, disappeared with the World Tree. But if there’s something that could be called the Elf Queen, that’s the only possibility.”
Go Johan nodded at Cheol Jung-bae’s words.
“Elf Queen? What’s that?”
Kim Si-on spoke as if disinterested.
It was Kim Si-on who had hunted the Dark Elves.
Nothing but scraps with no special qualities to be found.
“The reason they’re so weak is because there’s no World Tree.”
Go Johan said.
“Elves are spirits themselves, and one of the great mages.”
Travania’s magic was divided into two schools.
Dragon-based magic derived from dragons, and elemental magic derived from elves.
The majority among them was elemental magic.
‘Would Seung-Ah be…’
Could it be called dark magic?
Anyway, what was important was:
“If we find them, it would be helpful.”
If there were surviving elf survivors, it really would be.
Didn’t they also find the dwarfs?
“……”
Go Johan’s eyes deepened further.
“It’s not your fault.”
Then Cheol Jung-bae spoke as if reading Go Johan’s mind.
The apostles were new connections made after coming to Earth.
But people like Cheol Jung-bae were:
‘My past.’
They could be said to be connected to Michael.
And they were always like waves crashing over Go Johan.
The guilt that the world had been destroyed.
Things he couldn’t protect.
The fact that he had thrown himself away, only remembering revenge against demons because of that.
“……”
He thought everyone had died.
But if there were survivors like Cheol Jung-bae, ultimately he had abandoned them twice…
“It’s not your fault.”
Cheol Jung-bae said again.
“I know.”
Go Johan said.
“Just…”
Because a certain face came to mind.
“You’ve really changed a lot. Anyway, that’s what I think. If the Elf Queen is alive and we use them…”
“Expanding insufficient mages, and training new mages.”
The result would be:
“It would be of great help in the war.”
Nod.
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“Kyaaaak!”
The ones screaming were Dark Elves they had kept alive, just like the Dvergr.
“Kugh! Kyaaaak!”
Unlike the Dvergr, they had no minimum usefulness.
The spirits they handled were already corrupted, and that had no value for use anywhere.
They served only as nutrients to squeeze out mana.
They were just insurance in case they might spill some unknown information.
“Sa, save… no, kill… kill me…”
After long torture, they were wishing for death rather than life.
“Kill… me…”
There was no need to feel any sympathy for them.
The Dvergr had used humans as sacrifices to temper steel to make the blessed items they created for Geo Guild.
What they learned later when making blessing items with side effects removed was that such processes weren’t even necessary.
They were items that could be created by just containing a portion of the mana source that Dvergr possessed.
But these were the ones who had sacrificed human flesh and souls because they were reluctant to give that up.
“You pieces of trash!”
Kim Si-on kicked the hunched Dark Elf as if annoyed.
“I told you to tell me everything you know!”
Bang!
“Elf Queen? You hid something that important?”
“That’s…”
Splat!
Something burst out.
When he opened his eyes, one Dark Elf had fallen with only its torso remaining.
“Do you know how sorry I am to the Captain! Don’t you!”
And these Dark Elves.
They had kidnapped boys and girls.
Getting several guilds under their control and using them to kidnap boys and girls.
Or devouring entire places like orphanages.
“Speak.”
Corrupted spirits.
To create them:
“Speak, you vermin bastards.”
They tortured and tortured those children.
When pure souls suffered and lost their light, new spirits were born through the Dark Elves’ dark arts.
That’s why.
Kim Si-on had volunteered to handle them.
Shing.
What the Dark Elves had done was the worst sin that would make the apostles shudder.
“Seems like a game, doesn’t it?”
In the pitch-black darkness, only Kim Si-on’s eyes and mouth seemed to float.
If Go Johan was what all demons commonly feared:
Shiver.
For Dark Elves, Kim Si-on was even more terrifying.
“…I don’t know!”
The Dark Elf screamed.
“I, really… sob! I don’t know!”
Slice!
Kim Si-on drew his dagger along the Dark Elf’s skin.
“I don’t… kyaaak! I don’t know! We also only heard rumors and stories!”
“Keep talking.”
“Da, Dark Elves are divided into several branches! One of them is looking for the Elf Queen!”
Slice!
“There might still be… pure-blood elves remaining!”
Slice!
“I, that’s really the answer!”
Only then did Kim Si-on straighten up.
“Phew.”
Kim Si-on exhaled, his lips forming a bright smile.
“Really?”
“Yes! Yes! It’s true!”
Those who would have been objects of terror beyond anything else to someone were screaming in fear.
“Then you don’t know even if we open your side’s door?”
“Yes! Pr, probably…”
Swish.
Kim Si-on turned around and looked at Yoon Seung-Ah.
Today’s torture hadn’t been permitted by Go Johan.
Go Johan wasn’t cruel enough to permit torture for Kim Si-on, who still had a young body.
It was just the apostles moving by mutual agreement among themselves.
“What do you think, noona?”
“It doesn’t seem like lies.”
“Ha, so it doesn’t help the Captain.”
Kim Si-on scratched his head with his dagger.
“Then can I kill them?”
Nod.
The moment Yoon Seung-Ah nodded:
Splaaaaat!
Blood burst out simultaneously.
They were monsters with blue blood, as if they weren’t even people.
“Useless bastards. Trash! Vermin! How dare you…”
“Because those things are demons.”
Ultimately, it seemed only Go Johan could solve this.
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“There was nothing we could obtain from the Dark Elves.”
“I see.”
Go Johan nodded after hearing Yoon Seung-Ah’s report.
“Keep this in mind from now on. There’s nothing we can get from those things anyway.”
It was unclear whether rescuing Cheol Jung-bae was possible because they had kept the Dvergr alive.
But Go Johan didn’t think so.
‘It would have opened anyway.’
The Black Gates currently opening must be related to the demons that had infiltrated Earth.
As they entered here, they would have been connected to their territories too.
Cheol Jung-bae’s rescue might have been delayed, but:
“You’re more important.”
There was no need to waste mental energy dealing with demons unnecessarily.
“Don’t keep trying to get close to those things. Don’t try to use them either.”
Go Johan warned.
“Just being with those things will continue to corrupt you.”
“I’ll keep that in mind.”
“And.”
Go Johan said.
“There might be a way.”
“…How?”
“My Divine Eyes were strengthened when I took in the Dwarven.”
He could actually see more threads that weren’t visible before.
Even if they weren’t the most important things constituting the world, they were things that could influence it.
And when the Dwarven were recognized as residents of this world:
Swish.
The World Fragments given as rewards began to emit light.
Several strands.
New threads revealed themselves.
“You don’t need to investigate the World Fragments anymore.”
“May I ask why?”
“Because I found out what they are.”
And the threads that revealed themselves were colors all too familiar to Go Johan.
“Prepare the warp gate.”
White.
“We’re opening a door.”
“……”
“You’ll come with me.”
“I’ll prepare.”
Yoon Seung-Ah disappeared like a shadow.
“Phew.”
Go Johan, left alone, exhaled.
“Really… damn things.”
How far were they planning to torment him?
But that’s why he was rather grateful.
Ripple!
It seemed like he would never lose this anger.
‘Goddess.’
He also thought all of this was the goddess’s arrangement.
[Faith stat has increased.]
He received word that preparations were complete.
Go Johan headed to the basement of the church undergoing reconstruction.
There was no elevator, but Yoon Seung-Ah’s magic transported him.
Woooooong!
The warp gate was resonating.
But unable to find coordinates, it seemed unable to gauge where it should open.
Woong!
Go Johan’s Divine Eyes activated.
And:
Creak.
He barely grasped one still-too-thin white thread and began connecting it to the warp gate.
White.
That was:
“Travania.”
The color that Michael’s destroyed world had possessed.