How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 116
Chapter 116
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With permission granted, Kim Si-on moved immediately.
As if not even giving his opponent a moment, he rotated his body and charged at Vanessa like a whirlwind.
Clang!
Sparks erupted.
Boom!
Soon, amid the explosion, Kim Si-on was rolling on the ground.
“Kugh!”
The exchange that even Sendro could barely see.
It was truly happening at speeds beyond comprehension.
“…How dare you.”
Vanessa panted angrily, unable to hide her fury.
After trying so hard for so long to get the World Tree in her grasp.
“How dare you!”
Who would have thought the plan would go awry like this?
And above all.
Tremble.
What Vanessa couldn’t accept was that she, now an archdemon, was seized with fear.
Vanessa had never directly faced Michael, the adversary spoken of in demon realm legends.
What she had thought at some point was:
“Hmph. Merely some human.”
Just contempt for demons who felt fear after losing to Michael.
The elf race had a strong inclination to consider themselves superior.
Humans were mere creatures living for a moment, pitiable lives.
Those without blessing from the World Tree, without gods to follow, were merely abandoned subspecies.
“How dare!”
The fear she felt toward Go Johan, mere human that he was, felt utterly humiliating.
Clang!
Sparks flew again.
“Demons should develop their vocabulary a bit.”
Kim Si-on crossed his twin daggers and bound Vanessa.
“Every day it’s just ‘how dare’! ‘How dare’! Don’t you know anything else?”
Ignoring the blood flowing from his lips, madness gleamed in his laughing face.
“You guys too…”
Scrape!
Vanessa’s eyes widened.
“…Should go to school.”
Boom!
He struck Kim Si-on back again, but the feeling was different from before.
In fact:
“…!”
Unlike before when he rolled on the ground, Kim Si-on staggered yet withstood the blow and remained standing.
She couldn’t believe it.
These beings she couldn’t fathom as ordinary humans.
Even if they were those chosen as vessels for archdemons that even the archdemons feared, she couldn’t understand.
Talent blooming, accelerated growth, even granting authority was supposedly only their realm.
“How is it possible…”
How was this human not only stealing all the archdemons’ vessels but raising them completely?
Clang!
Sparks flew again.
And this time:
Scrape.
Kim Si-on’s dagger, ever so slightly, bit into Vanessa’s throat.
“What are you thinking about? Do you really want to try middle school? I can tell the Captain and get a recommendation. We have this girl next class named Chorong…”
Boom!
Materialized demonic energy began pouring from Vanessa’s entire body.
“Si-on, I like that you don’t drag things out. Right now they can’t fully manifest…”
Go Johan’s voice reached them.
“But if they achieve their true forms, I’ll have to intervene.”
“Got it, Captain!”
With those words as the signal, Kim Si-on’s fierce assault began.
Kim Si-on, who started slower than Vanessa, was now catching up to her speed.
And:
Scrape!
Surpassing her.
“How…?”
To Vanessa, all of this was unknown and terrifying.
She couldn’t understand.
“How is it possible?”
She understood envy’s power.
To steal the power of the object of envy and accelerate growth toward reaching it.
But to surpass her in such a short time?
“You don’t possibly…”
Scrape scrape scrape!
Kim Si-on laughed beyond the daggers.
“You don’t think I ‘envy’ you, right?”
“…!”
“The only thing I envy is one thing.”
Scrape!
Vanessa’s dagger was cracking.
“Only the Captain.”
Clang!
In an instant, it was incomprehensible what happened.
When he opened his eyes, Kim Si-on with horns slightly protruding from his forehead had passed Vanessa.
Sheath.
He was sheathing his dagger.
And:
Splash!
Vanessa’s headless body was toppling.
“As long as my object of envy is the Captain, I will never lose to those beneath him!”
With those words, the sprouted horn disappeared again, and the blood-red eyes returned to normal.
Kim Si-on was the only apostle who could control the opening to some degree by his own will.
“……”
The elves, including Sendro, couldn’t understand or accept what had just happened.
All the more so having crossed blades.
“Si-on.”
Go Johan approached and patted his head, speaking:
“Wipe the blood off first.”
“…Ah!”
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The battle was over.
Go Johan wanted to uproot them through the remaining Black Gate, but:
Whoosh!
The Black Gate, sensing the archdemon’s death, cut its connection and disappeared.
[Apostle Kim Si-on’s faith stat increases.]
[Apostle Kim Si-on’s Speed evolves to Acceleration.]
As reward for hunting an archdemon, Kim Si-on’s growth was felt.
[You have acquired Vanessa’s Longbow.]
[You have acquired Romanette’s Longsword.]
Obtaining two legendary weapons was an added bonus.
[A large amount of Karma Points acquired.]
It was inevitable that vast sins accumulated in his heart.
Writhing tattoos and throbbing heart.
“……”
Yggdrasil, having drawn near at some point, grasped Go Johan’s hand.
Her eyes seemed to ask a question:
‘Are you alright?’
No one knew what Go Johan was experiencing.
Not even Go Johan himself.
But Yggdrasil seemed to know something.
“I’m fine.”
But she didn’t ask.
There was nothing that asking would change anyway.
And he didn’t even wish for someone’s understanding or concern.
Instead:
Tap.
Go Johan pushed Yggdrasil away and spoke.
“I kept my promise.”
Hunting the Dark Elves who sought to destroy the elves and steal the World Tree.
That was the promise.
Now was the time to receive payment.
“I’m prepared.”
Yggdrasil said.
There was nothing more to discuss.
“Wait!”
Sendro, sensing something amiss, tried to approach.
“That’s far enough.”
“Don’t.”
Kim Si-on’s blade had suddenly appeared at Sendro’s throat.
Yoon Seung-Ah’s shadow spike touched his heart.
“Don’t disturb the Captain.”
“Step back.”
As his entire body seemed paralyzed:
Whoosh!
Go Johan grasped and tore Yggdrasil’s clothes.
“…!”
He wanted to say something, but:
“……”
The elves, including Sendro, were struck with shock.
At the moment Yggdrasil’s true state, hidden beneath white garments, was revealed.
From her darkened body, rotting flesh seemed to be falling away in pieces.
This was the truth even her followers didn’t know.
“How much time remains?”
“As long as you can see, my lord.”
The goddess had said:
[Remaining time: 72 hours]
That meant after this time passed, Yggdrasil would completely fall and disappear.
Even with the Dark Elves defeated, the demonic energy eroding her wouldn’t vanish.
“Please.”
Yggdrasil said with closed eyes.
“I ask this of you.”
Swish.
Go Johan placed his hand on Yggdrasil’s head.
Swoooooosh!
A harsh wind seemed to blow.
Churn!
Simultaneously, black demonic energy began flowing out from Yggdrasil like being extracted.
“World Tree!”
Sendro cried out but didn’t approach.
Not because of Kim Si-on’s or Yoon Seung-Ah’s blades, but because of Yggdrasil’s will.
[Taking vicarious responsibility for the World Tree’s sins.]
Flare!
Flames rose and Go Johan’s back was laid bare.
Scrape scrape scrape!
As if invisible blades wounded him, a tree tattoo bloomed brilliantly, being inscribed.
[You have acquired the title: Destroyer of Elves.]
[You have acquired racial privilege: Black Seedling’s Protection.]
The massive current piercing Go Johan’s heart.
“…Kugh.”
Even Go Johan couldn’t help but groan in such pain.
When he took in the Dwarven, he had merely borne the sins their leader should have borne.
“…!”
Now he was bearing the sins of a divine being.
One of Go Johan’s eyes, one of Yggdrasil’s eyes, was turning completely black.
And in the next moment:
Flaaaa!
Yggdrasil’s body shattered into black granules that poured down.
“Huff, huff…”
As Go Johan knelt on one knee, breathing heavily, Yoon Seung-Ah approached to support him.
“…Captain.”
But Go Johan was gazing at what had been the World Tree.
The once verdant ancient tree was turning black.
But that would be a fall different from what the demons desired.
[Destroyer of Elves privilege: Betrothed of the World Tree acquired.]
And as before:
“……”
Sendro and the elves knelt with proper etiquette.
“…We greet the Betrothed of the World Tree.”
They must also be sensing it.
That’s when:
“Captain, congrats on marrying the tree!”
Kim Si-on’s playful voice.
Papapapat!
Black spikes burst forth as if to tear Kim Si-on apart.
“Ahhh! I’m sorry! Noona! Please!”
Kim Si-on had to use all his strength to evade.
[You have acquired a World Fragment.]
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Go Johan had returned.
But unlike when he departed, he was alone.
“…The work.”
Cheol Jung-bae and Lee Jae-Kyung, seemingly becoming quite familiar, approached and spoke:
“It seems it was resolved well.”
Like the elves, these too could sense things without words.
“Yes. There were a few things to handle, so I came alone.”
Go Johan smiled wryly.
He looked quite exhausted.
“…Are you alright?”
Cheol Jung-bae asked with concern.
“…I’m fine.”
Go Johan smiled, but his words couldn’t be taken at face value.
“Captain, this won’t do.”
Lee Jae-Kyung spoke as if unable to bear it.