How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 153
Chapter 153
Crunch!
It was a noise that made it feel like his heart would crumple just by hearing it.
A noise like scratching a chalkboard with chalk.
It was a noise that made his whole body break out in goosebumps, but.
“Cap….”
To Yu Baek, it felt like hearing an angel’s trumpet.
“Captain!”
It was Go Johan.
The noise of Go Johan hunting demons and demonic beasts on the battlefield.
“Why are some people so stubborn?”
From behind the torn-apart silhouettes, a man with silver-white hair revealed himself and spoke.
“If you’re pushed that far, it wouldn’t matter.”
“……!”
A voice that seemed to reprimand Yu Baek for not using karma.
“…….”
And the remaining players were instantly frozen, unable to move.
‘What just happened?’
They couldn’t easily comprehend the scene that unfolded right under their noses.
The sight of people being torn completely apart.
And.
“Are you awake?”
“Yes. A little while ago.”
The sight of them asking after each other’s wellbeing so nonchalantly amidst that scene.
Shudder.
It was a truly terrifying sight that would give anyone goosebumps.
“What are you doing….”
Meanwhile, a small voice was heard like a whisper.
“What are you doing-!”
But it soon became a shout.
“Kill him!”
It burst out as an order.
Only then did the players who were frozen in fear come to their senses and kick off the ground.
It’s Go Johan.
They didn’t know how he, who was even known to be dead, showed up here, but the important thing was.
‘We have to kill him.’
The fact that they had to somehow deal with that monster.
Just now, more than ten players were completely torn apart in a single strike.
If he used that much power, there should naturally be an opening.
Swaaaaak!
Dozens of swords rushed as if to hack Go Johan to pieces simultaneously, but.
Cruuunch!
What was heard was the exact same noise as before.
Thud, thud.
Those things dropping down from the air, frozen stiff.
It was the moment when the players who had chased even Yu Baek into a corner were completely annihilated in less than a few minutes.
Terrible?
They didn’t even have such a thought.
That unrealistic sight just felt like a dream.
“…Ah….”
Kim Yoo-jung muttered along with the players who were now barely enough to count on one hand.
“Demon….”
Those words weren’t wrong.
With that silver-white hair and sky-blue eyes, that man couldn’t be called human by any means.
How could a human be like this.
“Demon…!”
A man with albinism, unusual even for a Korean.
This was the price of realizing only now that it was truly a curse.
Step.
Toward the approaching Go Johan.
“Don’t come closer-!”
Kim Yoo-jung shouted.
“Don’t come closer! You demon bastard!”
“…….”
But before he knew it, Go Johan had arrived right in front of Kim Yoo-jung’s nose.
Sizzle!
In an instant, electricity sparked.
Simultaneously, the raging storm became a massive explosion and began bursting out.
Baa-baa-baa-bang!
It was a skill using all his might.
It wouldn’t be wrong to say it was an explosion of all the power he had in the past—a power strong enough to blow even a Twin-Head Ogre to pieces.
Crackle, sizzle.
Toward the swirling smoke.
Swaaaak!
Kim Yoo-jung wildly swung the sword imbibed with lightning.
“Die!”
Ever since Go Johan appeared, his mind had gone completely blank.
These struggles were all he could do in the fear where only his instinct remained.
“Di….”
In that area where the smoke from the explosion and the storm was raging.
Swish!
A pure white hand popped out and grabbed Kim Yoo-jung’s neck.
“Y… You demon bastard…!”
Kim Yoo-jung, grabbed by the neck, shouted with all his might.
“As expected! You were a demon all along! We are indeed… the true ones chosen by God….”
He wanted to pour out the words boiling inside him, but he couldn’t.
Poof!
Because Kim Yoo-jung himself soon scattered into flying fragments and rained down.
In what could be termed a fierce battlefield just newly, only silence instantly descended.
“Captain.”
Yu Baek carefully approached Go Johan and spoke.
Knowing how much Go Johan hated demons and.
‘God.’
Knowing how much he hung his hopes on such an existence, he wanted to comfort him not to mind Kim Yoo-jung’s words.
“A demon, huh.”
But he couldn’t.
Brushing the foreign matter off his hand, Go Johan said.
“Chosen by God—that might not be entirely wrong.”
“…….”
“But what does it matter. Their God.”
Go Johan looked up at the sky and said.
“When it isn’t my Goddess.”
Yu Baek, overwhelmed by the seemingly changed atmosphere, couldn’t easily open his mouth.
Rumble! Bang!
The barrier-like things surrounding the area shattered.
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Roar!
Flames were rising everywhere in the city.
He found it strange that no backup had arrived, and he also found it strange that there were no civilians around.
‘It was a barrier.’
Only after the barrier shattered did Yu Baek realize he had been trapped inside one without even knowing.
It was an entirely different form of barrier compared to what he had experienced so far.
Honk, hoooonk!
The sound of horns was echoing in the distance.
“Guild Master!”
“Are you alright!”
Only then did the members of the Sanctuary Alliance and Kim Cheon-seok, who seemed to have just arrived, shout at Yu Baek.
“I’m fine.”
Hearing Yu Baek’s words, they noticed Go Johan next to him, flinched, trembled, and tried approaching cautiously.
“I suppose we should establish control first.”
At Go Johan’s words, the approaching Kim Cheon-seok nodded and commanded the alliance members.
“From that side to this side. Let’s get it completely under control.”
“Understood.”
Only then did Kim Cheon-seok approach them as well.
“Are ya awake?”
At Kim Cheon-seok’s constantly changing speech pattern, Go Johan smirked and nodded.
“Were you ambushed too?”
“……!”
At Go Johan’s words, Yu Baek looked at Kim Cheon-seok with surprised eyes.
Certainly, there were traces of battle left all over Kim Cheon-seok’s body.
“I dealt with it quickly and came.”
“You did well.”
That wouldn’t be it.
Unlike Yu Baek, who couldn’t have assumed the worst-case scenario of a rebellion within the Sanctuary Alliance, Kim Cheon-seok had kept his senses sharp to the changes and warned the church.
“It seems other places are in chaos as well.”
Roar!
Indeed, flames were shooting up as if a war broke out from various spots in the city.
“What in the world is this….”
“An ambush.”
A voice acting like it was no big deal.
“Parts of the Sanctuary Alliance executives, Black Crown, Holy Alliance, etc., were simultaneously ambushed.”
Go Johan examined what had become fragments of Kim Yoo-jung.
“The Association as well.”
“How could that be….”
No, the signs were already there.
The signs were definitely there from the moment the North Korean people flocked into South Korea three weeks ago, when Go Johan was known to have collapsed.
For all these things to be possible, various conditions and cooperation would be needed, but the most important person was there.
“Min Jun-hyuk.”
“The President.”
The name that came out of Kim Cheon-seok and Yu Baek’s mouths.
“Yes.”
Go Johan didn’t deny it.
“The President betrayed us.”
Even though it was a situation that could be called despairing.
Smirk.
Go Johan was simply smiling.
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“H-How… how did it go…?”
Min Jun-hyuk barely suppressed his trembling voice and said.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
The heart beating right now felt even more intense than when he checked the votes for his presidential election.
Thump!
His heart felt like it was going to burst.
“How did it go!”
In the office, several corpses were strewn about.
Ironically, those corpses were wearing bodyguard uniforms.
‘The church.’
The ones they sent, those who said they would protect him, had become corpses.
“Please wait a moment.”
Instead, other men and women in bodyguard uniforms were standing as if protecting Min Jun-hyuk, delivering news.
WEEEEING!
Outside, the siren sounds of what seemed like a declaration of martial law were ringing.
“…….”
Min Jun-hyuk was biting his nails, his complexion pale white.
The beginning of it all was three weeks ago.
It started from when Go Johan wiped the nation of North Korea off the map and a large number of North Korean people defected to South Korea.
The news that Go Johan had collapsed.
It was when he felt anxious about that.
-What are you afraid of?
The one who had visited him one day asked him.
-Those things called demons whose very existence you can’t even be certain of?
He showcased stealth to the point that even the bodyguards sent by the church couldn’t notice, as he asked.
-Or are you afraid of the demon named Go Johan who single-handedly erased a nation?
He thought it might be a test.
-Do not doubt.
But it was different.
-Go Johan is also a demon. No, he is a true demon.
A voice that erased his anxiety just by hearing it, taking away his trembling.
It was tranquility itself.
-Rejoice. For the true servants of God have chosen you.
-Who are you?
-We are.
The voice spoke.
-We are angels meant to protect you.
Angels.
An existence he thought was merely an illusion, similar to the demons that existed in myths.
They told him various things and also told him what he had to do.
He could be certain.
‘Ah. These are true angels.’
Existences he shouldn’t doubt.
Even so.
Bite.
Now that this moment arrived, from the very moment he truly rebeled against Go Johan, his heart was pounding again.
“We have completely surrounded the Holy Guild and the Taehan Guild.”
A report arrived.
“……!”
“The takeover of the Association is complete.”
Victory reports.
“Over forty assumed players belonging to Black Crown are dead, and we have arrested over thirty.”
The news arriving simultaneously spoke to how much had been prepared for this moment.
Clench.
Min Jun-hyuk clenched his fists.
‘I am, I am not wrong.’
The incoming victory reports were the proof of that.
Weren’t even Go Johan’s apostles, called the Sins since some point, not showing themselves.
Now that they were gone.
“The funds for Greed’s side have been frozen.”
The unified force Go Johan had built was crumbling down in a flash.
“…….”
Not yet, not yet.
The important thing was left.
“…The assumed headquarters….”
The final, most important news.
“We have pinpointed the location of the Johan Church and the Johan Orphanage. The encirclement was successful.”
Slam!
Min Jun-hyuk punched his hand down, unable to calm his excitement.
Success, it was a success.
“Now… annihilation….”
Just when he was about to say he could escape that terrible shadow of Go Johan if only they wiped everything out.
“……!”
A panicked voice followed in the report.
“On Yu Baek’s side… traces of Go Johan have been discovered.”