How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 150
Chapter 150
“Two weeks have passed.”
At Lee Jae-kyung’s words.
“Pfft.”
Go Johan burst into laughter as if it was absurd.
To think a joke would come out at a moment like this.
And yet.
Nod.
Those reddened rims of his eyes made Go Johan feel a variety of emotions.
“Ugh.”
It was when Go Johan grimaced at the sudden pain running through half his body.
“Captain!”
“Captain…!”
The apostles reached out their hands, unable to easily approach such a Go Johan.
“What a mess… it is.”
That his body was a mess was something Go Johan felt first and foremost.
‘The price for using a power I couldn’t handle.’
It seemed the blown-away memories and the two weeks of time weren’t the only price, as the aftereffects still seemed to linger in his body.
“You must rest more.”
Yoon Seung-ah carefully approached and reached out to Go Johan as she spoke.
It seemed she was trying to lay back down the Go Johan who had immediately raised his body.
“I’m fine.”
“But….”
“How could I do that. I heard it in my sleep, but if I hadn’t woken up, it seemed like you guys would have destroyed the world.”
Flinch.
At that, the apostles showed different reactions.
Yoon Seung-ah just looked at Go Johan, Lee Ha-yeon bit her lip, and Kim Si-on quickly turned his head away.
Slide.
Only Ju In-kyung, who approached, held onto Go Johan’s hand with a tearful face.
“That’s….”
“I’m not trying to say anything about it.”
Go Johan said.
The apostles were willing to sacrifice the world’s population to revive him.
No, maybe that was just taking out their anger.
‘Something must have happened again.’
Even though he sacrificed himself for their safety, this developed world often brought malice that didn’t need to be dragged up to the surface.
If it wasn’t that either.
‘Perhaps they never liked it to begin with.’
He knew.
How the apostles thought of humanity.
How they accepted the world.
“Because I understand how you feel.”
“Captain….”
“But that doesn’t mean you did well.”
For a moment, the air seemed to sink coldly.
Beep, beep.
The mechanical devices connected to Go Johan were only letting out cold mechanical sounds.
“We’ll talk about this later. In my sleep, I think I also heard Lust’s voice.”
“Ah. As for Lust, she went back.”
Lee Jae-kyung answered Go Johan.
“It must have been a big deal?”
“Still, she seems to have gained a lot of control over it.”
Is that so.
‘She worked hard.’
Soon enough, they might be able to come out of that narrow room.
‘Perhaps. Those dream-like things might also be because of Lust.’
Because the power that young girl couldn’t suppress was so sweet that it intoxicated herself and those around her with its sweetness.
Rip!
Go Johan pulled off the mechanical devices attached to his body.
The apostles had worried expressions, but they didn’t try to stop him.
“Captain.”
Only when Go Johan was asleep would their free will rear its head and move, but if Go Johan was awake.
“I’m perfectly fine.”
Go Johan’s will was the highest priority.
“…Everything is as the Captain wills.”
Entities that loyally act and follow only Go Johan’s will.
It could become a shackle for them, or a comfort, but because of that.
‘Apostles.’
That’s why they were called apostles.
Swish.
Go Johan raised his body.
Stagger.
Although he staggered for a moment because his body wasn’t perfectly fine, he soon caught his balance.
He felt the burning pain through half his body, but he didn’t show it.
And he could see.
A full-length mirror situated on one side of the temple’s hospital room.
Go Johan, standing there, almost as if he had wanted to wake up and see for himself, was…
“…….”
Half of his silver-white hair was dyed black.
“This is… a bit conspicuous.”
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It wasn’t just his silver-white hair that had been dyed black.
One of his sky-blue pupils was also shimmering black.
Go Johan could understand what had caused this.
‘Remnants of karma.’
The karma that had spread through his entire body; it remained and discolored him.
The fortunate thing was that the parts that had been dyed black were gradually regaining their original color after Go Johan opened his eyes.
Slide.
Go Johan stood in front of the mirror.
It was thanks to him saying he would take a little more rest after telling them to contact only the Divine upon his awakening.
‘It must be noisy outside, though.’
Squirm.
“I’ll have to let it be for now.”
A long sleep of two weeks.
‘How much time… had passed?’
His question back then wasn’t because he couldn’t feel the flow of time.
Squirm.
It was because those two weeks felt like an incredibly long time.
Great War.
It was a time that felt like reliving the slaughterous war against demons as Michael.
Squirm.
“Mother would be horrified if she knew.”
Go Johan said with a smirk as he looked in the mirror.
The tattoos that were already engraved on his body were the sins of the Greater Demons he had atoned for.
And now.
Squirm.
As if they were all connected into one, the tattoos filling his upper body were squirming like living things.
‘How much karma has accumulated?’
It must be a form created by the karma running wild.
Slide.
The large tattoos continuing down his back to his thighs were squirming every second.
“At least my hair color has returned.”
His pupils were also fluctuating between sky-blue and black, with the sky-blue taking its place once again.
Clench.
He could clearly feel the muscles all over his body.
Mana and….
‘Divine power.’
Even the divine power that acted as its smallest unit.
No, it could be said to be more than that.
‘A smaller unit.’
There was a sensation that could be felt even deeper.
Although he couldn’t utilize it yet, there was no doubt something had changed.
He moved as he put on his shirt.
‘This isn’t the only thing that has changed.’
He had practically intentionally cut off external news, but there were things he came to know unavoidably.
“Stat….”
Player.
A word he didn’t easily spit out because it felt like treating the Goddess’s grace as just a part of a game.
No.
“Status… window.”
He called up the thing he had ignored, wondering if he could hear the Goddess’s voice just one more time if he just refrained from calling it up.
And then.
Bzzzt.
A black screen appeared before Go Johan’s eyes, displaying fine noise.
[Sta… bzzzt, bzzzzzt]
[Win… dow….]
He couldn’t read it.
Nothing on the status window could represent him.
At first, it felt like the sky was falling.
His heart pounded with the thought that he had somehow lost that grace through his own actions after having finally grasped the traces of the Goddess.
But that wasn’t it.
‘All players’ status windows have broken down.’
They said that after that day, the day of the Demon King’s descent, all players’ status windows encountered the same change.
‘Fortunately, the players’ power still seems to be maintained, but.’
Did they say systems like leveling up were completely paralyzed?
There was another change after the Demon King’s descent.
“You said… Gates aren’t appearing.”
The gates that used to appear every second around the world had completely disappeared.
Creak.
Go Johan pushed open the door to his room in the temple.
His rest, was over.
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“This is the current state of North Korea that we can observe via satellite.”
A large screen floated in front of Go Johan as he sat in the meeting room.
Something completely painted black.
They said.
“A black barrier has formed a spherical shape and devoured all of North Korea. We judge it to be a massive barrier that has pushed into Chinese territory, including parts of the armistice line with South Korea.”
It was just captured video.
Sting, sting.
Yet he felt as if the skin-piercing demonic energy could be felt.
“What about the inside?”
In his cut-off memories, all Go Johan could remember was ruins where nothing was left.
“The last thing we filmed is.”
Another screen.
As expected.
“Everything was cleanly erased. There is no trace of any surviving lifeforms, and as of now, even entry is difficult.”
However, there was something Go Johan could recognize on the screen.
A tiny black scar, and something golden.
It was Go Johan.
Even as Go Johan, it was his first time seeing something like that.
“I tried to investigate it separately, but all passages are blocked right now.”
A land that even Yoon Seung-ah couldn’t step foot on.
“It’s become completely forbidden.”
They said it became a land no one could step foot in, but.
Smirk.
A small smile hung around Go Johan’s mouth.
“The plan….”
There was a plan he had set up when he started all this.
“Is a success.”
Go Johan declared that day.
-I will destroy even your world.
It was something he had planned for a very long time.
Demons were extremely selfish and cunning.
Even in Travania, their invasion was completely one-way, not allowing any counterattack whatsoever.
They just endlessly invaded and attacked.
Even if defeated, that was it.
‘It’s a useless endeavor.’
Even if killed, they would just sluggishly revive and look for an opening again.
“…….”
Tremble.
His fingertips felt like they were trembling.
It was excitement.
“Finally….”
The start of this plan was from the demons daring to summon a Demon King.
But the true start, which even the apostles didn’t know about, was Go Johan’s birth.
No.
‘We can’t just be invaded forever.’
It was something that carried over from his past life.
“I finally opened the door.”
A passage that isn’t just for them to come through, but a passage from this side as well.
Nod.
Yoon Seung-ah carefully nodded her head.
“The Captain’s words are correct.”
It wasn’t that they couldn’t feel it just because they couldn’t enter.
“They say it can’t be used yet because it’s not stabilized but….”
It wasn’t just her.
All the apostles could feel it.
“That… is a door.”
That it was a door.
“How long will it take?”
He was anxious, but not entirely so.
He had endured for that long time, so there was no need to rush something right in front of him.
That thing will definitely open.
“Estimated at 1 year.”
Yoon Seung-ah answered.
“Within a maximum of 3 years, that door will be completely open.”
Tremble.
His fingertips trembled once again.
“When that time comes, invading the Demon Realm will also be possible.”
“Huu….”
A word he only dreamed of.
A strange heat was settling in Go Johan’s eyes.
It was because he had finally found the hope of exterminating the demons, all of them.
“We must move in earnest from now on.”
Go Johan was also facing changes.