How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 44
Chapter 44
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[TL Note- Alliance names have been changed in order to keep the consistency, if you are wondering about the alliances, they appeared in earlier chapters already.]
“Wait.”
Go Johan emerged among the people.
“Everyone, step back.”
The Hojo Guild members who finished scouting were surprised at his appearance.
“What, what is this?”
The Hojo Guild members had never encountered Go Johan before.
They were known to have entered with the Holy Alliance rather than the Sacred Alliance.
Moreover, they hadn’t properly heard about Go Johan because they immediately went out scouting and returned.
“…Go Johan?”
They seemed to finally recognize who he was.
“Three hundred Red Orcs and ten Black Orcs?”
“Y-yes, and?”
“And items piled up like mountains…”
Go Johan’s sky-blue eyes slowly sank.
The Hojo Guild members stepped back, sensing something was wrong.
Silently, the Sacred Alliance members approached them.
“W-what are you doing!”
“Commander Go Wujin! What is the meaning of this?”
“This has nothing to do with the Holy Alliance.”
Go Johan said.
“Didn’t you hear the warning not to go to the Orc village?”
Though they hadn’t heard about Go Johan, the warning should have been passed along.
“There were fewer Orcs than expected, so we just went to check! Who are you to tell us what to do!”
They shouted, thinking they didn’t need to fear Go Johan if he wasn’t connected to the Holy Alliance.
“Besides, what can you do? We’re not part of any alliance.”
Their voices grew louder as they realized Go Johan couldn’t act recklessly.
Go Johan was the key player in conquering the Black Gate?
It was unbelievable.
Players couldn’t be geniuses.
They could only become stronger by accumulating time and effort to level up.
“Anyway! Hojo will attack the village! Damn it. We can’t return empty-handed after coming this far!”
They spoke as if seeking approval from surrounding players.
“What? Are you going to stop us? I heard some force monopolized the last Black Gate too – wasn’t that the Holy Alliance?”
Sneer.
Did they think they had the upper hand?
“If not, don’t try to stop us. Who knows, maybe you really did conquer the last Black Gate. If so, maybe that’s why you were able to become so strong in this Black Gate!”
Murmurs spread.
Not everyone had received Go Johan’s help.
And it was true that they had questions about what they saw.
As mentioned, a player’s strength could only be evaluated by the passage of time and their activities, Go Johan’s sudden power…
“Indeed.”
They couldn’t help but think there must be some secret.
“Tch. Just our luck. If you really are strong and the Black Gate is your secret…”
Sneer.
“Then we can become like him too!”
“Y-yeah.”
“There were others who got special classes from Gate quests before.”
“Right, it doesn’t make sense.”
Opinions started emerging from those who had been suppressed by large guilds.
‘In Travania.’
He had no choice but to be swayed by these people.
Because he was a Paladin.
And.
‘If such a situation arises, abandon them.’
Yoon Seung-ah had advised what to do in this kind of situation.
And.
Silently.
Go Johan opened his closed eyes.
A darkness seemed to ripple in his sky-blue eyes.
“Is that all you have to say?”
“What?”
At that moment.
Whoosh!
As Go Johan’s hand moved, wind blew.
Even ranker-level players staggered backward from the gust… Crack!
In that moment, Go Johan’s hand had grabbed the Hojo Guild leader’s neck and lifted him up.
It happened so suddenly.
Clang!
The Hojo Guild members hastily drew their weapons and aimed at Go Johan, but.
Swoosh.
The Sacred Alliance members were already pointing their weapons at them.
“Wh-what are you… ack! What are you doing!”
The Hojo Guild leader said.
“This is…”
Thud.
Go Johan threw down the Hojo Guild leader.
“Tie them all up.”
“W-wait!”
Those not belonging to either the Holy or Sacred Alliance stepped forward in protest.
What the Hojo Guild leader couldn’t say was surely this:
‘This isn’t reasonable.’
‘This is wrong.’
Even in the Gate, there was no way to force others unless they threatened other players’ lives.
‘So I must show them.’
Even if he had to become a villain.
That their very existence was already threatening all players.
“You want to attack the village.”
Go Johan addressed the crowd.
“Let’s do it. Get ready. I’ll go with you.”
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Nearly a thousand people were selected.
All of them were from small and medium guilds who had agreed to attack the village and weren’t part of any alliance.
Of course, some from the Sacred and Holy Alliances were among them, but.
“……”
Their numbers were extremely small.
When Sacred members volunteered to go with Go Johan, he ordered them to guard the camp.
The Holy Alliance seemed to share similar thoughts.
Besides them, some from the Black Order moved together.
“Foolish ones.”
Go Johan said in a sunken voice.
“With nearly ten thousand Red Orcs spread around, they like dividing their forces.”
The Holy Alliance clearly recognized this vulnerability.
“People’s hearts aren’t all the same.”
Kim Cheon-seok and Yu Baek were beside Go Johan.
“It’s greed. Tsk. Though I shouldn’t talk, having acted desperately to survive, but there should be limits.”
Yu Baek was understandable, but Kim Cheon-seok was unexpected.
“I told you. Body blocking. Earning my keep. And…”
Kim Cheon-seok said.
“Like Yu said about being indebted to you… body blocking isn’t just about that.”
Perhaps it was the veteran in him.
Kim Cheon-seok seemed to have already noticed what Go Johan was planning.
When the forces that set out like this.
“Th-there it is!”
Arrived at the Orc village under Hojo Guild’s guidance.
“What did I tell you! Look! There’s only this many!”
Indeed, the Orc village seemed to have only about three hundred Red Orcs and ten Black Orcs visible.
“Look!”
Behind them, items shone in piles as if showing off.
“Ohhh!”
“It was true!”
And the players accepted this as natural.
After all, all Gates had been like this until now.
Simple-minded monsters, visible traps, and even more clearly visible rewards.
‘If you risk just a little life.’
They could just take the rewards.
‘Oh Goddess.’
It made one wonder.
Why the Goddess had created such trap-like things in this world.
“Tch. It does make one greedy.”
“……”
Kim Cheon-seok and Yu Baek’s reactions weren’t much different.
“Do you want to stand with them?”
Go Johan asked.
“No thanks. I’ve lived long enough. And I told you. Having been deployed in war, there are times like this…”
What they lack.
“What looks like clearly visible fruit often turns into a poisoned apple.”
Kim Cheon-seok.
“…I won’t do something foolish like losing something big while clinging to something small. I was just surprised.”
Yu Baek was the same.
And.
“Do those things tempt you?”
Now Go Johan spoke to the players who had come this far, sitting down with a thud.
“Do as you please.”
He couldn’t just abandon them outright.
For them.
‘They’ll need a lesson.’
Because now he was a villain, not a Paladin.
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“Die!”
The players faced the Orcs as if they were their mortal enemies.
Three hundred plus ten, against player numbers three times that.
No matter how strong the Orcs were.
“Kill them all!”
United players.
Offense rather than defense.
When their strategies and plans came together.
“Waaaaah!”
The seemingly unbeatable Red Orcs started falling like dominoes.
“Stupid fools.”
Yu Baek beside Go Johan said irritably.
“They don’t even know who to thank.”
It was true.
The main reason players could face the Orcs was.
[Sin’s hierarchy is in effect.]
[Curse’s hierarchy is in effect.]
Because Go Johan was blocking the Evil God Ograk’s debuff.
That’s when it happened.
Bang!
A group was sent flying with an explosion.
Those who fell to the ground losing arms or parts of their upper body, groaning.
Even as players, they couldn’t recover from such injuries.
Whoosh.
The excited atmosphere naturally turned cold.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Those things appeared, shaking the earth.
“Sacrifices.”
Black skin, covered in all sorts of spells since childhood, continuously adding tattoos with prey’s blood.
And finally, when their entire skin turned black.
Grin.
They were called warriors.
“Indeed, as the priest said.”
The players made another mistake.
Those who had only faced Red Orcs had never encountered Black Orcs called warriors.
And they simply thought the difference between the two was just one rank based on experience.
Boom!
Would anything have changed if they had been told in advance?
“They wouldn’t have believed it.”
It was experience, and it was fact.
“Aaaagh!”
“Save me!”
Humans blinded by greed don’t listen.
Even with experience, they’re blinded by greater gold.
And one more thing.
Kukukukuku!
The earth was shaking again.
“O-Orcs!”
“Red Orcs!”
Unlike the stupid monsters from Gates until now, these were cunning.
They knew how to strategize like humans, and had taken countless human lives through their craftiness.
They.
“…War.”
Still hadn’t realized this was war.
‘This is a holy war.’
But.
‘This is my holy war.’
And it would mean something else to them.
“This is your survival.”
The reason he helps is because it leads to the holy war.
“Wh-what…”
“Prepare for battle!”
The surprised Kim Cheon-seok and Yu Baek shouted.
That’s when Go Johan finally stood up.
Crack.
He tore at space.
The Black Orc that had been slaughtering players stopped in its tracks.
When it slowly turned to look at Go Johan.
“Go…”
The warrior’s eyes were twisted with shock.
“Gorzul Krak!”
Boom!
The Orc’s body was torn apart and exploded.