How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 155
Chapter 155
“Go Johan.”
Drip, drop.
Go Johan’s blood flowed down the blade.
“I have come to deliver the words of the Gods.”
The moment Shin Min-gyu’s voice was heard through the gap.
Go Johan’s emotionless eyes slowly began to tremble.
“The Gods have….”
By the time Shin Min-gyu noticed that change.
Kwooooaaaah!
An unapproachable power began to spew from Go Johan’s body.
No voice came out.
‘Unmoving…?’
The grabbed sword wouldn’t budge.
It was the moment Shin Min-gyu’s pupils also grew large.
‘This much?’
He had emptied his seat and cut ties with the mortal world.
Even when news from the outside occasionally reached him, he didn’t pay any particular attention to it.
After all, the outside world meant.
-Those who couldn’t even be chosen.
He thought they were unnecessary accessories to the world, things that didn’t matter whether they existed or not.
However, the news that reached him quite often amidst that was precisely about Go Johan.
Rumble-rumble-rumble-rumble!
The prince he had only heard of through rumors was beyond his expectations.
Claaang!
Shin Min-gyu’s sword eventually couldn’t overcome Go Johan’s power and broke.
“……!”
That was the Thorn Sword, called South Korea’s first unique item, and he had considered it no less than a transcendent-class item after several enhancements, yet it broke.
‘How?’
Right now, Go Johan should be taking the spatial restrictions with his whole body.
Even his grace should be wavering.
‘Yet he can use this much power amidst that?’
Go Johan’s and Shin Min-gyu’s time was already different from everything else.
In a time where everything seemed to have stopped.
Swish!
Go Johan’s hand tore into Shin Min-gyu’s face as if it had become a falcon’s talon.
“I wasn’t planning to take this out, but.”
Shin Min-gyu retreated and stretched out his hand.
Baaang!
Soon, a roaring explosion echoed.
Another sword suddenly held in Shin Min-gyu’s hand was blocking Go Johan’s grip outright.
A pure white sword boasting a pale blade.
Only then.
“Captain!”
“Captain!”
As if time had returned to normal, Yu Baek and Kim Cheon-seok shouted.
“Step far back.”
Go Johan’s voice rang out.
“I was going to just listen to him talk at first, but.”
Smirk.
“You’re laughing?”
“My curiosity is piqued, anyway.”
At that moment, time seemed to slow down again.
Baa-baa-baa-bang! Bang!
Roaring sounds that seemed like the world would break.
Shin Min-gyu was.
“……!”
He was truly astonished.
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He was one of the first players.
Heroes who defeated monsters in gates and saved the world.
To Shin Min-gyu, that was questionable.
‘Heroes?’
And soon he found out that people were under a great illusion.
‘Players are… equal?’
They were under the illusion that all players were equal.
That they could become strong through effort, and that effort was something anyone could do.
Because of that.
‘Player Shin Min-gyu! I’m a fan! My dream is to someday become strong like you, Player Shin Min-gyu!’
They were spouting such nonsense.
‘I too am going in and out of gates every day to become like you, Player Shin Min-gyu.’
Gazes of admiration directed at him.
But Shin Min-gyu could tell there were other emotions mixed in them.
‘Player Shin Min-gyu!’
‘Player Shin Min-gyu.’
‘Min-gyu.’
Emotions like envy, jealousy, and greed.
Those meaningless emotions acting as if the power he possessed would naturally become theirs someday.
He couldn’t understand it.
‘Ha!’
Equal?
Fair?
That they would become like this someday?
It was all bullshit.
‘Players are not equal.’
From the very beginning, those who awaken are a minority; the starting line is different.
And after awakening, their base stats are different.
Most people don’t seem to know this, but.
‘The experience containers are different.’
The experience points required to level up were also different.
The skills and classes obtained by raising their levels were also infinitely diverse.
The difference between a Warrior class, evaluated as an ordinary class, and a Knight class, evaluated as a high-tier class, is different.
Does that difference come from effort?
‘Bullshit!’
He could assure them, it didn’t.
It was destiny and talent decidedly fixed from the beginning.
And eventually, around the time others started calling him Sword King, Shin Min-gyu was able to witness that truth.
‘You have been chosen.’
The truth Shin Min-gyu had pondered for a long time.
That this was merely a choice.
Baaang!
With a roaring explosion, Shin Min-gyu opened his eyes.
Drip, drop.
At the blood flowing down his face, Shin Min-gyu smiled bitterly and wiped it away.
“…….”
He couldn’t believe it.
Even in the past, there were less than ten people in the world who could properly cross swords with him.
And even there.
-You have been chosen.
He thought there were no more ‘humans’ capable of pushing him to this extent.
“Heuk.”
Shin Min-gyu let out a twisted smile.
Although he had a mission given to him, it didn’t matter right now.
“You aren’t ‘human’ either.”
“…….”
“But being not ‘human’ applies….”
At that moment.
Paaaa.
Along with a halo of pure white light, Shin Min-gyu’s wounds began to heal.
“Applies to me as well.”
Swish!
Shin Min-gyu’s vision flipped in an instant.
When the sword in his hand sliced through the air and space.
Squish!
A flash of light sliced through Go Johan’s shoulder.
Even if Go Johan was a special being like himself, the belief that he was even more special.
In the end.
“Because you were not chosen by them.”
That small difference of not being touched by the greatest beings.
Paaaaat!
At the grasping hand lunging in, Shin Min-gyu twisted his body.
Shin Min-gyu’s forearm, moving in a bizarre trajectory, was grabbed by Go Johan, and.
Crack.
It was crushed just like that.
But putting distance between them, Shin Min-gyu recovered again.
“In the end… in the end….”
It was when Shin Min-gyu was about to say something.
“Is that all?”
Go Johan tilted his head and said.
“What?”
“Is that really all?”
“……!”
“You should still have more.”
Grind.
Shin Min-gyu ground his molars.
“I didn’t invest time just to see something like that. Show me a little more of what you have.”
He thought he was the one doing the testing.
“Yeah, is that so.”
At those words, which made it seem like he himself was the examiner, Shin Min-gyu smiled.
Originally, those beings might have thought it was too early to reveal this power, but it wouldn’t matter.
What Go Johan was insulting right now were the Great Ones.
For the dignity of those beings.
“Look closely.”
He needed to show the power of the chosen given by those beings.
Hwaaaaak!
Bursting light.
“This is the power of the Creators, the ones called Gods.”
Paaaa.
“A power that only the truly chosen and anointed ones can possess.”
Amidst the scattering halo of light, the revealed figure of Shin Min-gyu was heterogeneous.
Yes, it was like.
“An… angel…!”
Just as Yu Baek said, it resembled that of an angel.
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One of Shin Min-gyu’s eyes was glowing golden.
But what drew all attention over something like that was a wing made of a halo of light.
On Shin Min-gyu’s half body, a single wing stretched upward and fluttered.
Kwooooaaaah!
That in itself possessed a ruinous power.
“Hup!”
A power that made it feel as if the gate’s pressure had multiplied several times over.
Swaaaa.
Even compared to Go Johan standing against him right now.
“This is the chosen ones.”
It was a transcendent power that would never be outdone.
“The power of those who became angels.”
Shin Min-gyu.
‘Ah.’
Intoxicated by the massive power he felt from himself, his vision was becoming clear.
He wanted to see.
The gazes of those who would revere and worship this power he obtained.
And.
‘Look.’
The two eyes that Go Johan, who was being arrogant just moments ago, would show toward him.
And when he finally looked into Go Johan’s two eyes.
“……!”
Shin Min-gyu felt an incomprehensible emotion.
Dryness; despite seeing this massive power and miracle, he didn’t show any emotion.
And simultaneously, a gaze that seemed filled with contempt.
“Just like.”
Go Johan’s voice was heard.
“A bug.”
It was that moment.
“…Huh?”
By the time Shin Min-gyu felt something strange, it was already too late.
His left arm, which he turned to look at.
Swaaaaak!
Had been clean cut off and was spewing blood.
What followed was a golden flash, and Shin Min-gyu instinctively moved his body to dodge it.
Swaaak!
And soon he realized.
That his lower body had been identically cut off.
Thud, thud.
It was fortunate that his wing was dragging his body up; otherwise, he would have tumbled to the floor and truly become.
‘A bug.’
He felt like he would have become a sight exactly like the bug Go Johan mentioned.
And the emotion he felt was.
“You said the Gods told you to deliver their words to me?”
Fear.
“Uh…. Uh…!”
He tried to swing his sword straight ahead at the approaching Go Johan, but he couldn’t grab it.
Swaaaaak!
The golden sword held in Go Johan’s hand was spewing out intense light.
Ironically, the emotion Shin Min-gyu felt at that time was.
‘Beautiful.’
That it was overwhelmingly beautiful.
And in front of Shin Min-gyu, who had come to his senses.
Shimmer.
A massive golden light was falling to pierce his heart.
‘Ah. I’m going to die.’
It was the moment he had that certainty.
Swish!
The spread wing dragged Shin Min-gyu away.
Craaaaack!
The golden sword embedded into the ground where Shin Min-gyu had been.
Kwooooaaaaaaaaah-!
It was spewing out intense light and generating a rift.
In the meantime, Shin Min-gyu recovered his severed arm and legs, but he was late.
Swish!
Go Johan’s right hand was gripping Shin Min-gyu’s neck.
A strength he couldn’t escape even if he struggled.
“You’re wrong.”
Hearing Go Johan’s voice, Shin Min-gyu could look into Go Johan’s pupils.
Brilliant pupils that seemed to hold a clear blue sky.
But.
“There are no Gods. Only the Goddess exists.”
The massive darkness lingering behind them.
“Among the Gods you speak of, is the Goddess there?”
“…Th! That’s…!”
There must be.
But is it the Goddess Go Johan is talking about right now?
No, in the first place.
‘What are you! Just what are you!’
Even if he was chosen by those beings, is this possible?
This is like.
“You go and deliver it. That I’m thankful for you showing up.”
Crack!
Shin Min-gyu’s neck bent and snapped just like that.
It was then.
Bzzzt, bzzzzzt.
Noise sounds and a broken status window.
Through the gaps, clear text slowly began to reveal itself.
[You have acquired Divine Power.]
What a joke.