How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 127
Chapter 127
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The Gangnam incident occurred on December 19th.
Yongyong turned on his live broadcast after that on December 22nd.
And now.
Rumble!
The church was busier than ever.
The temple construction was nearing its first phase completion, and Cheol Jung-bae was.
“Let’s hurry!”
“Yes! Team leader!”
“Mr. Kim!”
“Sorry!”
Urging the workers, no, the believers, as always.
The believers were each high-quality personnel.
They’d heard that just being registered in rankings was enough to shake up all the rankings.
“Heave-ho!”
That they had grown while constructing the temple was quite remarkable.
“Originally, construction and building are the best for physical training!”
Cheol Jung-bae was shouting as if it were obvious.
“Abs!”
Cheol Jung-bae, who had stretched out his arm as if boasting solid muscles, soon made a sullen face.
“Abs…”
Having become Dwarven, they had changed to be even more similar to humans.
Short bodies and muscles swollen as if about to burst, long-grown beards and hair were their pride.
“I didn’t wish for mere abs!”
At those words, other Dwarven also made sullen faces.
“This won’t do.”
Cheol Jung-bae, who had been supervising construction, personally lifted a pillar.
“Come on! Let’s all work hard!”
He easily lifted a temple pillar that weighed well over tons.
That alone raised the basic stats that players struggled to increase, and agility was needed to lift the long pillar in balance.
Moreover, the pillars used in temple construction were the Dwarven’s special metal.
Wooong!
Just being near stimulated mana, raising even mana stats.
“Construction is the best!”
“Construction is the best!”
It could truly be said that the temple’s construction was helping believers grow.
And finally that night.
“……”
The temple’s first phase completion was finished.
“Wow.”
It was like magic in a different way.
Though they thought they’d merely erected pillars and laid foundations, even just that gave an indescribable sense of majesty.
“It’s still too early to be surprised.”
Cheol Jung-bae said.
If this was all there was to the pillars erected on the vast land somewhere between Yoon Seung-ah’s otherworld magic and Earth.
‘It can’t be called a masterpiece.’
It couldn’t be called a masterpiece of Cheol Jung-bae’s life.
“Gluttony.”
“Preparation, done. Mister.”
Even Gluttony, Kang In-bae, who usually didn’t show himself much from the research lab, had come out and was fiddling with something.
“Then, let’s start operation.”
One by one, everyone at the church came to watch.
Naturally Go Johan was there, and other apostles too.
Wooong!
Light began bursting out.
Woooong!
The light pouring from each pillar soon connected with other pillars and began spewing even more intense light.
“……!”
The amount of moving mana was serious.
The secret metal passed down to the Dwarven and several central pillars containing Go Johan’s mana.
Kwaaaa!
They were emitting explosive mana.
If it hadn’t been overlapping with Yoon Seung-ah’s otherworld, it was such vast mana that it would affect all of South Korea.
“Huh…?”
Then something amazing happened.
The pillars that had been lying scattered stood up on their own in sync with the mana waves.
Thud!
They found their places and embedded themselves.
“Wow…”
Everyone was entranced by that other mystery, just watching.
Thoom!
It was the moment when all pillars had finally embedded.
“Activate!”
When Cheol Jung-bae shouted, Gluttony soon nodded and his eyes shone.
Then light was sucked into the pillars, and mana circuits never seen before began to reveal themselves.
“Ooooh…!”
The one who was impressed then was Cheol Jung-bae.
“…To think it would really be possible…!”
The temple construction actually mobilized technology that even Cheol Jung-bae considered experimental.
Even lost secret techniques that had only existed in dwarf legends.
Gluttony.
Rumble!
Succeeded in reviving those lost techniques.
His authority of gluttony.
What he had done after being permitted to open it by Go Johan succeeded in devouring the fragments engraved in the Dwarven’s genes and making that information and technology his own.
Boom!
A massive shockwave occurred.
The temple’s appearance thus revealed.
“It’s complete.”
Was truly overwhelming.
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The temple that existed somewhere between the otherworld and Earth became the most special place in this world.
When viewed from outside, it had the shabby church appearance similar to before, but the moment you entered that site.
“…Insane…”
A completely different world unfolded.
Three moons floating in the sky.
Intense starlight as if to devour the world.
Below that.
“…This is crazy. Really.”
Architecture that seemed to mix modern buildings, something ancient, and something from another world gave overwhelming inspiration just from looking.
“Wow…”
The building embedded in the center of that land had square and rectangular shapes moving organically, changing its form, and the giant pillars surrounding the outer walls felt as if they were guarding this place like some divine statue.
And in front of that.
“…That’s crazy too.”
A statue was erected that you could tell what it was at a glance.
“No! I’m saying that needs to be removed!”
A voice from somewhere.
“It can’t be. That’s the core.”
“So why does the core look like that?”
“We needed the most powerful image to maintain and repair the world!”
Go Johan was arguing with a man with an appearance confusing whether he was a youth or boy.
“No!”
“Alright. I’ll erect a goddess statue too. But what does the goddess look like?”
“Ha, hahaha…”
“That chuunibyou bastard… hasn’t been cured.”
It was Goh Min-ji muttering while watching that scene.
“Min-ji. To your brother, what kind of talk is that?”
And it was Shin Su-kyung.
“Brother? What brother is that bastard!”
“Gasp! Goh Min-ji!”
“But…”
It was when Goh Min-ji made an aggrieved face at Shin Su-kyung’s words.
Scratch, scratch.
Scratching his head, Go Johan approached.
“You came, Mother? And…”
“Hey! Why don’t you greet me properly?”
When Goh Min-ji said that, Go Johan just smirked.
“Since you came well, you’d be standing there.”
“Mom!”
“Johan shouldn’t do that to noona either. You’re family.”
“Noona came?”
“…Crazy bastard. Ahhh!”
Who would have thought that Shin Su-kyung, one of the players South Korea boasted of, would pinch Goh Min-ji’s arm and Goh Min-ji would scream.
And in this place where a miracle seemed to unfold.
In any case.
“Welcome.”
They arrived at the newly completed temple.
“Really…”
Shin Su-kyung said.
“It’s a beautiful place.”
That much, no one could deny.
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“Hey, the statue really isn’t right, isn’t it?”
“…I found out later too.”
“Does that make sense?”
“It did.”
Seriously.
But he couldn’t keep expressing complaints in front of his mother.
Above all.
“To those without permission, this place will just look like a shabby building.”
He was seriously introducing this place to Cheol Jung-bae and his mother.
“In what way?”
“Just a moment.”
Cheol Jung-bae tapped the air, manipulating something.
He said it was a kind of temple construction system Gluttony had made.
Wooong!
In an instant, the place they stood had become somewhere in the chapel.
“Huh…?”
At that appearance without even a hint of dissonance, both Shin Su-kyung and Goh Min-ji exclaimed.
“Though those two worlds are connected, those without permission can’t even interfere. As if those not permitted by god can neither see nor touch.”
It could be called funny words, but experiencing it directly made those words easily acceptable.
This was a space close to a miracle that neither modern nor future times could create.
“…I can see it too well.”
But to Go Johan’s divine eyes, the world’s boundaries and connections were clearly visible.
“Well, you’re beyond specifications, and the temple’s output is matched to the captain from the start. The reference point is the captain.”
“…It’d be safest.”
Goh Min-ji said.
“Correct. If all defense systems and construction systems can’t surpass the captain, they can’t be breached. I guarantee it.”
Cheol Jung-bae said proudly, sticking out his chest.
“This place can truly be called the world’s safest sanctuary.”
He certainly had reason for such pride.
“Also, personnel permitted within the sanctuary can determine gravity and mana density themselves.”
“…Huh?”
“Meaning you can naturally train even in daily life. And whatever training you do, it means showing efficiency close to several to dozens of times.”
Once again, the shabby church had become a temple.
“Would you like to experience it?”
When Goh Min-ji nodded at Cheol Jung-bae’s words.
Boom!
Goh Min-ji almost fell over but knelt on one knee and pressed the ground.
The force was so fierce that cracks appeared on the floor.
“P-please stop…”
“The initial setting seems a bit excessive.”
“Kugh!”
Goh Min-ji exhaled roughly.
Though it was very brief, the change felt in her body was certain.
Of course.
Smack.
She wanted to smack Cheol Jung-bae once.
“Would the Holy Mother like to try?”
“…Holy Mother?”
Before she could even complain about Cheol Jung-bae’s too natural title, Shin Su-kyung had already nodded.
Crackle.
Cracks appeared beneath her feet.
It was definitely different consideration and reaction from Goh Min-ji.
“…Truly amazing.”
Shin Su-kyung was genuinely impressed.
Whoosh.
Mana could be felt scattering from her body.
That density and gathering gradually grew.
“……!”
Shin Su-kyung raised her eyes in surprise.
“Mom, what’s wrong?”
“Well…”
Shin Su-kyung muttered as if she couldn’t believe it.
“My mana stat went up…”
In that brief moment, a notification came that Shin Su-kyung’s basic stat had increased.