How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 114
Chapter 114
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[The World Tree recognizes you.]
The attacks coming toward Go Johan ceased.
Tremor.
The space trembled as if unable to believe what it felt.
Woooong!
The movement and resonance of mana.
“You are…”
It spoke to him not in language but in meaning.
The World Tree.
It was one of the transcendent beings that existed in Travania, a deity that had maintained and managed Travania.
“You are!”
At the World Tree’s voice, Go Johan smiled bitterly.
The reason was simple enough.
Swoooosh!
The World Tree and Go Johan, no, Michael were enemies of fate.
Tree roots and stems poured out, sharply targeting Go Johan.
“It’s been… a while.”
At Go Johan’s words.
Clang!
They stopped.
The parts of the World Tree that had stopped, targeting every vital point in Go Johan’s eyes and heart, felt overwhelmingly threatening.
Tremor.
It seemed to be trembling.
“Why…”
The World Tree asked.
“I feel the aura of demons from you?”
“It’s a simple matter.”
The current Go Johan was Michael.
He had somewhat separated past memories from the present.
Ripple.
Go Johan’s eyes rippled.
The World Tree trembled again at his overwhelming presence and sweeping anger like a tempest.
“To exterminate demons, those damned evil breeds, completely.”
“To exterminate demons…?”
“If I can exterminate them, I will become anything, villain or demon. I have sworn to the goddess thus.”
“You are…”
The World Tree spoke to Go Johan again.
“Still pursuing an illusion. To the point of abandoning your dignity and everything for that illusion.”
“Everything was given to me by the goddess, so I simply offer it to the goddess.”
Tremor.
The tremor felt again was in some way like anger.
But that was the end.
Flaaash!
The bright light that had been shining withdrew like a curtain being drawn.
And within it, figures began revealing themselves one by one.
No matter how much enmity existed between him and the World Tree, there was no helping it.
Given the World Tree’s current situation.
“…Please enter.”
The World Tree could only trust Go Johan now.
“Captain! Captain!”
Kim Si-on who followed called out urgently, raising his hand.
“Me too!”
“Are they your companions?”
The World Tree’s voice sounded surprised.
“Yes. To me, they are… precious people. Those I must protect, and those who protect me.”
Tremor.
“…You’ve really changed a lot.”
Among the figures of people, a single tree stood straight.
It was too small to be called the World Tree, yet too beautiful and divine to be called an ordinary tree.
That was it.
“It’s been a while, Yggdrasil.”
Travania’s World Tree, Yggdrasil.
It had survived even in Travania’s destruction, protecting the elves.
“……”
The elves watching Go Johan approach began to tremble.
And soon.
Swish.
They knelt on one knee and bowed.
“Wow! Just as expected, Captain!”
Kim Si-on seemed fascinated and amazed by this.
“But Captain, why does your expression look like that?”
But he soon grew puzzled seeing Go Johan’s hardened face.
Such an expression from Go Johan was rare to see.
Like tension and discomfort.
“…The World Tree’s…”
One of the elves spoke carefully.
“Betrothed.”
Wince.
Go Johan’s face distorted.
“Betrothed?”
Kim Si-on tilted his head questioningly.
And.
Startle.
Yoon Seung-Ah, who had awakened while held in Go Johan’s arms.
“Be-betrothed?”
Her eyes went wide and round as she looked at Go Johan.
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The World Tree and Go Johan were enemies of fate.
Tracing back, it began when Go Johan executed the fallen Spirit King.
Back then, with the spirits’ rampage, the activities of Travania’s alien race elves, who had hidden themselves in seclusion, began.
The fallen Fire Spirit King, Selion, had tried to prove his perfection by burning the World Tree, and that Selion was reverse-summoned to the spirit realm by Go Johan’s single strike.
Seeing such Go Johan, no, Michael.
“One chosen by the world.”
The World Tree, Yggdrasil, had spoken.
“I wish to make a covenant with you.”
That was a matter of the past.
Naturally, Michael had refused.
As a holy knight serving the goddess, among other reasons…
“Well, how could I marry a tree?”
Kim Si-on said, spinning around.
“……”
Yoon Seung-Ah also seemed shocked, or perhaps influenced by the curse of sloth, her face blank.
“That’s the World Tree, right Captain? Marrying that…”
The elves began to step forward, their eyes narrowing.
But at that moment, bright light descended.
“Huh…?”
As it took form, Kim Si-on’s eyes widened in surprise.
“…Who is this?”
A woman who could be described as pure white revealed herself before them.
But looking closely, black stains were thickly smeared beneath the white collar of her clothes.
“To meet you in such a place again.”
Taking delicate steps, she approached Go Johan without hesitation.
The elves bowed again.
“She’s… beautiful…”
Kim Si-on muttered as if mesmerized.
The apostles’ beauty undeniably far exceeded average.
Archdemons chose their vessels considering all talent and potential they possessed, striving to draw it to the limit.
Beauty.
It touched the fundamental thing demons coveted, so the beauty of the apostles, who were nearly vessels for those archdemons, far surpassed even Kim Se-hyun or Ko Min-ji.
The currently blank-faced Kim Si-on was the same.
‘I’ve been cast! Captain!’
There was more than one person bothering him at school.
But this beauty before his eyes was different.
“Ah…”
It even radiated holiness.
That’s when it happened.
“Hm?”
The woman’s steps didn’t think of stopping.
Already within close distance of Go Johan, she drew closer still.
And.
“……!”
She charged.
With both arms spread wide to embrace Go Johan, her lips extended as if to kiss him.
“Gasp.”
She charged right on.
Swoooosh!
Shadow blades bursting from the ground blocked Go Johan’s path.
“……How dare you attempt such seductive acts… on the Captain.”
Yoon Seung-Ah’s voice, suppressing much.
Even if it hadn’t been for that, Go Johan was already prepared to evade the charging woman.
It was her.
“You’ve removed something bothersome.”
The World Tree, Yggdrasil.
She was the physical manifestation of Yggdrasil herself.
Enemy of fate.
Clang!
The shattered shadow blade dispersed as specks of darkness.
Taking advantage of the gap, Yggdrasil touched Go Johan’s cheek.
“In your eyes…”
Neither Yoon Seung-Ah nor Kim Si-on could move easily.
“I still cannot find reverence or faith toward me.”
Because Yggdrasil’s eyes held an indescribable sadness.
“You are not…”
Go Johan said.
“My goddess.”
“……”
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[Remaining time: 100 hours.]
Quite some time had passed since stepping into the World Tree’s domain.
In that time, Go Johan and Yggdrasil had exchanged much conversation.
“……”
Yoon Seung-Ah, who seemed uneasy at first, had found peace and was resting.
Clang!
Kim Si-on was crossing blades with the elves.
“Quite skilled?”
Kim Si-on seemed quite satisfied with the battle against the elves.
Among them, one who appeared to be the commander.
“Thank you.”
Sendro thanked Kim Si-on for his words.
Sendro showed no contempt for Kim Si-on, rather looking upon him with awe and respect.
It seemed obvious even without speaking.
‘Go Johan.’
Because of that.
That’s when it happened.
Saarrr.
The tree stems that had wrapped around Go Johan and Yggdrasil unwrapped, revealing the two who had conversed for a long time.
“I’ll… ask you to do this.”
Yggdrasil spoke.
In fact, she had been abandoning everything and merely waiting for the end.
With the unexpected visit of an ally, she found hope.
Such she, along with Go Johan, approached the tree that would become her true form.
Grrrrrk.
The tree opened, gaping wide.
Inside.
“She’s the last High Elf.”
A girl resembling Yggdrasil sat with hands folded, eyes closed.
It didn’t seem like sleep.
More like being dead.
“I promise. However…”
Go Johan said.
“You will lose ‘purity’. As I have.”
“That’s something we can only accept. For the continuance of our species and hope. What remained was only destruction.”
Yggdrasil touched Go Johan’s cheek.
“Just that you appeared again… that you continue fighting for us, is enough gratitude.”
She was a deity, the World Tree.
Like Go Johan’s Divine Eyes, there was something only she could see.
“But illusions…”
Crunch.
Go Johan grasped Yggdrasil’s hand as if to crush it.
Actually.
Crackle!
Yggdrasil’s white and beautiful arm was cracking like dead tree bark.
“Stop.”
“…I understand.”
The one who retreated.
“Time is running out. Soon…”
Rumble!
“They will come.”
It was a sound like distant thunder.
Outside, the black holes wavered.
The Dark Elves they had faced upon arriving, their deaths confirming coordinates was certain.
“Step back.”
Go Johan advanced and spoke.
The elves tried to follow, but Yggdrasil stopped them.
“Our battlefield isn’t here.”
There was a separate place to fight ahead.
The two had that conversation.
Woooooong!
The black holes, the Black Gates already seen on Earth, were distorting.
More than seven in number, the Dark Elves that would pour from them would literally be an army.
Yggdrasil had said:
‘Only two remain.’
Among countless worlds, only two World Trees remained.
With one being Yggdrasil, the fallen demon species Dark Elves would use considerable force to obtain Yggdrasil.
Tap, tap. Tap.
Dark Elves painted black were stepping on the ground one by one.