How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 111
Chapter 111
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Silver-white close to white – it was the color of the world that Travania had possessed.
Among the colors of world lines, though there were those with similar hues.
“……”
This was the first time he had seen a line of color that so perfectly evoked Travania.
The things that appeared along with Cheol Jung-bae and the new Dwarven.
Taang!
When Go Johan tried to connect the silver-white world line to the warp gate, the world line trembled with a fierce sound as if resisting.
Of course, it was a trembling that only Go Johan could hear and feel.
“……!”
Only Yoon Seung-Ah vaguely felt the chill, trembling enough to clench her fists.
“……World Fragments.”
Go Johan said.
“World Fragments!”
He called out for the World Fragments that had been entrusted for investigation.
Quick-witted Yoon Seung-Ah immediately disappeared and reappeared holding World Fragments in both hands.
Woooong!
Yes, the appearance of the silver-white world lines wasn’t only due to the Dwarven including Cheol Jung-bae.
Those things that had been given like rewards.
Ziiing.
Go Johan realized that minute silver-white world lines were beginning to show from them.
Swish.
Go Johan’s hand moved.
It was like the fierce dance movements of someone possessed by something.
Like a sword dance performed by a single sharply honed blade.
Woooooong!
It was an act like a ritual offered to god.
‘If I make even a small mistake, the world lines will break.’
The incredibly minute silver-white thread.
It was a thread thinner and weaker than anything Go Johan had ever handled.
Drip.
Beads of sweat were forming and flowing down Go Johan’s forehead, which had looked like steel.
All the apostles watched the scene tensely, only observing.
This was something only Go Johan could do, something no one else in the world could accomplish.
At that moment.
Swish.
Go Johan let his hand drop.
Ripple.
As the mana that began spreading behind formed a shape and drew in the world lines.
Woooooooong!
The bright light of the warp gate flickered as if literally devouring the world.
Everything happened in an instant.
Flash!
The light went out.
Saaaa.
It seemed like a small spark was burning.
Whoosh!
But soon it began to shine intensely as if it would burn the entire warp gate.
“……Kugh!”
A handful of blood leaked from the corner of Go Johan’s mouth.
“Captain!”
“Captain!”
The apostles rushed over in surprise.
But.
Grin.
Seeing the smile forming at Go Johan’s lips, they felt relieved.
“……It’s a success.”
Success.
He had succeeded in connecting and weaving those weak threads.
[An incredible achievement has been accomplished!]
The goddess’s voice of praise was ringing through his head as if tearing it apart.
[You have succeeded in opening the door to a destroyed world.]
[Destroyed world…]
Kukukuku!
[Connected to Travania.]
Swoooosh!
Silver-white threads pouring out from within the warp gate.
Though they were still incredibly weak, Go Johan knew that someday they would become clearer and thicker.
But this wouldn’t do.
What was important now wasn’t ‘Travania.’
In his deepening Divine Eyes, when Go Johan reached out as if entranced after finding the line of something he needed to find.
Kuung.
The warp gate began to stabilize again while emitting light.
“…Did it work?”
Cheol Jung-bae said as if he couldn’t believe it.
Nod.
When Go Johan nodded to affirm.
“Huh!”
Cheol Jung-bae sat down on the spot as if he couldn’t believe it.
“…The Elf Queen…”
Go Johan said.
“I found… the World Tree.”
It was truly an undeniable success.
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[You have entered the Forest of Corruption.]
[You have entered a severed world line.]
The goddess’s warning voice was ringing in Go Johan’s head.
[Incredible achievement acquired: Visitor to a Severed World.]
[Time you can stay in an unconnected world increases.]
[The Forest of Corruption pushes you away.]
In the heavily sinking sensation, the goddess was constantly worrying about her knight without rest.
Crrrrack.
The sensation felt throughout his body – rather than pushing away as the goddess warned, it was sucking him in.
[100 hours are granted.]
[Due to achievement, double the time is granted.]
[After 200 hours, you will be expelled from the Forest of Corruption.]
And.
[The dying World Tree rejects all impure beings.]
Kraaack!
A crushing pain arose as if his entire body was being crushed and torn apart.
A power that shook his insides and tore them apart.
Drip.
Go Johan had to feel blood flowing down around his eyes, unable to move as if nails had been driven into him.
Curses boiled and sins tried to rise.
All sensation seemed to disappear, feeling only like being continuously sucked into a deep swamp.
But.
[Faith stat activates.]
Along with the goddess’s voice.
Flaaash!
Clear light poured out from Go Johan.
Kwaaang!
The moment the swamp that had been sucking Go Johan in boiled and burst from that intense energy, Go Johan could regain his senses.
Tat.
Go Johan’s movement was immediate.
Moving swiftly as if flying, he grabbed two human figures.
Tat.
Like a night bird, he landed on top of a giant tree while holding them.
“……Captain…”
Yoon Seung-Ah called Go Johan as she regained her lost senses.
Mana creeping out from her was embracing and protecting her.
And beside her.
“Damn it!”
Annoyed cursing burst out.
“Ptui ptui ptui! This feels disgusting!”
Originally Go Johan had intended to bring only Yoon Seung-Ah to this place.
The World Tree was famously harsh to visitors, and its methods were similar to a kind of magic, making it incredibly difficult.
He had thought Yoon Seung-Ah’s magic would help in penetrating such a World Tree and learning something new.
“Ugh!”
And Go Johan’s other hand.
Tat.
Kim Si-on, who had regained his senses before Yoon Seung-Ah, steadied himself while swaying.
But that was only for a very brief moment.
Saaaa.
Soon he began to harmonize with the surrounding energy and completely regain what he had lost.
The other person was Kim Si-on.
“Captain! This place is fucking intense!”
Kim Si-on said as if fed up.
“What the hell is this?”
It was a forest full of withered and twisted trees, with only darkness thickly covering the space above.
The murky air was sucked in like poisonous smoke, trying to poison the lungs.
Bubble bubble.
The ground where they had been just moments ago had all become swamp, feeling like a monster’s maw trying to suck in everything alive.
“Elfdain.”
Go Johan said.
“It’s the elves’ sanctuary.”
A scene that denied all memories of the past.
The sanctuary that all elves of Travania in the past had been born in and protected – Elfdain.
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“Captain… I’m fine.”
Yoon Seung-Ah said while balancing on the tree.
Was it because she had been held by Go Johan?
Whoosh.
Both of Yoon Seung-Ah’s cheeks were dyed red.
“Noona, you should consider time and place, right?”
At Kim Si-on’s words.
Pop!
Sparks flew.
“Ahhk!”
Though Kim Si-on immediately dodged, it was inevitable that a small wound appeared on his cheek.
“This witch!”
Yoon Seung-Ah tried to wave her hand silently.
“Calm down.”
When Go Johan stepped in to mediate, Yoon Seung-Ah returned to her usual calm demeanor as if nothing had happened and stood beside Go Johan.
“I’m sorry.”
That sight naturally brought laughter.
That swamp was a place that sucked in and devoured the senses of everything standing on it.
The swamp of corruption with power enough to devour even Go Johan’s and the apostles’ senses.
But even without Go Johan, Yoon Seung-Ah and Kim Si-on wouldn’t have been caught.
Saaaa.
Yoon Seung-Ah had already activated multiple layers of barriers and magic to embrace her own body.
“Hmm.”
Kim Si-on’s sharp senses were so intense that nothing could paralyze them.
Grin.
Kim Si-on smiled.
“Can I kill them?”
It was a sentence without a subject.
Saaaa. Saaaaaaa.
The sound of withered forest branches swaying in the wind seemed to be heard.
Kim Si-on first, then Yoon Seung-Ah seemed to sense it and quietly cast shadows.
“Captain, let’s have a bet for the first time in a while.”
Kim Si-on said.
“Who can…”
Though Go Johan’s permission hadn’t fallen.
Swoosh!
Kim Si-on’s figure rippled like powder and disappeared.
“Kill more!”
The moment that followed, Kim Si-on’s figure appeared flickering on a nearby tree and swung twin daggers.
Clang!
Sparks flew, but what splattered afterward was green blood.
“We’ll be back.”
Yoon Seung-Ah stepped back and said.
“Will you be okay? Your mana probably won’t move properly.”
Go Johan spoke to Yoon Seung-Ah worriedly.
This was a world different from the Black Gates they had conquered so far and different from the territory that the hollow archdemon had possessed.
Limited mana, forests and winds that deceived the senses.
“I appreciate the concern, but…”
Yoon Seung-Ah showed a slight smile.
“I’m fine.”
It was because Go Johan’s concern itself, the affection contained within it, felt good.
The shadows that had already extended beside her began devouring the surrounding trees.
“Ahhh! What! Noona’s going to do it too?”
“Envy, this isn’t a game.”
Kim Si-on’s figure kept flickering.
“Approach with a more serious attitude.”
“Tch! Nagging again!”
When Kim Si-on flickered for the third time.
Swiiish!
Corpses that had lost their necks were falling helplessly toward the swamp.
‘Impure beings.’
The World Tree had branded him and the apostles as impure beings through the curses and sins they possessed.
And it poured out everything it had to suppress and take away from them.
But it wouldn’t be able to stop them.
Kwaaaa!
Because they were none other than those apostles.
“Twelve!”
How many minutes had passed? Kim Si-on had already dealt with twelve enemies and proudly extended his fingers while boasting.
“……I also have twelve.”
Yoon Seung-Ah, who had moved shadows to erase enemies below like the swamp, also had her competitive spirit and said so.
At that moment.
Craaack!
The sound of the world being torn apart rang out.
“Twenty.”
The forest that had existed before Go Johan’s eyes – part of it was being torn away and crumbling.
“Cheating!”