How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 5
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Chapter 5
A boy who had nothing was able to save the continent.
It was unprecedented in continental history, something that could be called false even in fairy tales.
But Michael, the great holy knight and noble paladin, champion of the goddess, made that impossible possible.
It was literally a miracle.
-It is the goddess’s blessing.
The day the revelation came.
Swoosh.
The past Michael could see the world that Go Johan is seeing now.
That sight was close to the truth that many sages seek.
Everything was flowing like strings, weaving together like warp and weft to form all things.
Ting.
When Go Johan touched the black string he hadn’t seen before.
“Ugh!”
Lee Jae-kyung let out a suppressed groan with his eyes wide open.
Flutter.
Lee Jae-kyung’s whole body was trembling.
He had to focus all his nerves on his legs that were trying to collapse.
[Would you like to activate the Black Gate by consuming Karma Points?]
The goddess asked.
But he had no intention of doing anything here right now.
‘There are too many watching eyes.’
And there were things to consider.
So Go Johan grabbed one string and connected it to himself.
Crack!
A huge vibration occurred in the world that only Go Johan could see.
Swish!
Despite it being the most beautiful weather, a storm swept over the calm sea of the East Sea.
Splash!
Huge waves began to surge.
It was then that Lee Jae-kyung barely regained his balance.
“What… what did you do?”
He still couldn’t completely escape from the shock.
When Go Johan flicked his hand in the air, the first thing he felt was the peculiar energy emitted when a gate occurs.
But what he felt when he flicked his hand afterward.
‘What was that.’
Even for Lee Jae-kyung with his vast experience, it was an indescribable fear and helplessness.
Emotions surged and instincts screamed to run away immediately, along with the urge to cut down anything that blocked the path.
“The work here is already done.”
But Go Johan spoke too casually.
“The weather isn’t good. Shall we move?”
“……”
In the end, Lee Jae-kyung had to move without getting an answer.
Afterward, it was an ordinary journey as if what happened earlier was a lie.
Just walking and eating.
Even the security personnel who had been on edge due to the sudden weather change now seemed relaxed, watching from a distance.
“Let’s go back.”
Go Johan, still a child, requested to return to the lodging as if tired now.
Of course, this was the moment Lee Jae-kyung had been waiting for.
It was a lodging on a hill by the East Sea, with open surroundings.
“Tell me now.”
Lee Jae-kyung pressed Go Johan.
“What is happening right now?”
“It’s nothing special.”
The goddess simply guided with a signpost.
The choice of whether to follow that path or not was up to him, her knight.
Lee Jae-kyung looked at such a Go Johan with a stern face.
At this moment.
“Don’t brush it off like that.”
Lee Jae-kyung had to ask the question he had been holding back.
“You…”
Go Johan.
“What are you? Really.”
About his true identity.
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It could be understandable that Go Johan healed the injured Shin Soo-kyung.
‘Player.’
They receive various jobs and skills upon awakening, and if there was a miracle through extreme luck, that young boy could have awakened early and gained healing abilities.
‘But.’
It was hard to believe the truth that a six-year-old boy completely wiped out Lite’s assassins.
Because it was something that would shake the very foundation of being a Player.
He was six years old.
Though he hadn’t witnessed the moment of birth directly, Lee Jae-kyung remembered when he entered the mansion as the youngest of the Shinsung family.
He occasionally visited the mansion and watched Go Johan grow, already knowing he was special.
However, a Player’s strength ultimately comes from their level.
‘Levels can only be increased through hunting and occasional quests.’
Lite’s assassins were high-level assassins at the time, their levels were in the mid-hundreds from what he learned.
It didn’t make sense that Go Johan, who had never entered a gate, could defeat them.
There was also a meaning of atonement.
But he took on Go Johan’s security detail with the expectation that he might learn the truth someday.
“Please tell me.”
And today, he saw something he shouldn’t have seen.
A sight as unbelievable as a six-year-old boy defeating Lite’s assassins.
“That was clearly a gate reaction.”
Gate.
“…Could it be, can you open gates?”
If that were true.
“Please tell me.”
This boy was an inexplicable being that couldn’t be explained merely as an anomaly, genius, or world aberration.
Truly.
“What exactly are you?”
That he could be a catastrophe.
Clench.
Lee Jae-kyung unknowingly clenched his fist.
“Not now.”
At that moment, Go Johan’s tone seemed to return to how it was a little earlier.
Not the act he put on to reassure Shin Soo-kyung, but his true self.
“But you’ll know soon.”
At that moment.
Whoosh-!
Energy pouring from Go Johan enclosed the lodging.
It was a near-perfect barrier different from what was spread in Go Johan’s room.
That.
Whoosh, whoosh…. Swoosh.
Multiple layers made the lodging into a perfect fortress.
Having experienced this, Lee Jae-kyung thought that even if all of the Shinsung family’s forces rushed in, they couldn’t easily break it.
No, they wouldn’t even notice the anomaly before that.
Go Johan stretched out his hand.
Ting.
He flicked the black thread that had been connected from the East Sea beach.
That long thread had long since been attributed to Go Johan and moved here.
At that moment.
“…!”
Lee Jae-kyung couldn’t help but feel that terror again.
No.
“Kuhurk!”
It was more than that.
This time, unable to hold back, Lee Jae-kyung fell to one knee and retched.
In his blurry vision filled with tears, he saw something he shouldn’t have seen.
Ripple.
In the center of the lodging’s living room, a black crack about to open.
“I’m contemplating.”
Go Johan said.
“Which path is the one the goddess is presenting to me.”
[Would you like to activate the Black Gate by consuming Karma Points?]
This was.
“What choice I must make.”
It was a demon realm gate that should never be opened.
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The demon realm invasion in Travania happened after a very long time of preparation.
Though the exact beginning is unknown.
-Can you not hear the voices of the beast gods?
When facing the Orc Great Chieftain, Kartul, he first saw it.
-Knight of the human god, this is true divine power.
The Great Chieftain who rose with ten million orcs claiming to summon a false idol god, burning several kingdoms and trying to open the gate by sacrificing humans.
But that ambition was stopped by Go Johan, Michael.
From that day, it started to appear.
‘What is this?’
The black threads.
Next was the corrupted Spirit King.
He saw it when the Fire Spirit King Ignia became corrupted and burned the elven forest.
That black threads were binding the Spirit King.
It continued afterward….
And finally, it began.
-Demon realm invasion.
The demon realm gates that had opened sporadically, those black threads covered the continent.
The source where all those thread lines were connected was where he defeated the Demon God, Balrock.
“……”
And now, Go Johan was seeing those black threads.
He knew better than anyone what would happen the moment he touched and moved these.
‘The demon realm gate will open.’
And the invasion will accelerate.
Those hateful demons will start appearing in this land, making it exactly like Travania.
If he doesn’t open it.
‘It will open eventually anyway.’
Just a matter of timing.
And the question of who opened this gate.
So he could say simply.
“Oh goddess.”
Perhaps now Go Johan was about to open the gate of apocalypse to this Earth.
And he decided.
‘I vowed the moment I threw myself into the demon realm gate.’
To completely annihilate those demons whose very existence is a denial of the goddess.
And if there was only one way to kill them.
‘I would become a demon myself.’
As if to show that choice wasn’t wrong, the goddess bestowed her blessing again and led him to this place.
So the contemplation was brief.
“I won’t just wait again.”
Ting.
As he flicked the thread, the crack began to widen.
“Now.”
Go Johan moved those threads to drive them in and said.
“I will destroy your world.”
Even if it means becoming a demon who brings apocalypse to the world.
Because he clearly saw what resulted from the past when he only waited out of fear of bloodying his hands.
Boom!
Finally, the gate that should never be opened, opened in a lodging by the East Sea.
As the energy escaping from there spread out, it began to heavily press down on the entire lodging.
“Kuhurk!”
Lee Jae-kyung’s entire body swelled as if about to burst.
It was because his magic power went berserk, unable to handle the negative energy pouring from the demon realm gate.
Tap.
When Go Johan’s hand touched Lee Jae-kyung’s body.
“Huk, huk…. huk….”
Lee Jae-kyung could finally catch his breath.
“It won’t take long.”
Go Johan said.
“Are you… going?”
Lee Jae-kyung asked.
Grip.
Pressing down on his shaking knees with both hands, Lee Jae-kyung stood up.
“I’ll go too.”
Whatever Go Johan was, whatever secrets he had.
Lee Jae-kyung resolved that day.
That he would not lose him no matter what it took.
“Do you know what that place is?”
That end.
“Even if it’s hell, I’ll follow.”
In the past, Go Johan was alone.
Because only he could represent the goddess and follow her will.
But he failed.
And he hastened the end.
“…It is hell.”
“Then that’s perfect.”
If he declared he would become a demon, it was time to act accordingly.
“Let’s go together.”
[You have activated the Black Gate by consuming Karma Points.]
[You have activated the Black Gate for the first time.]
[Unique achievement ‘Opening the Demon Realm Gate’ acquired.]
[Karma Points will not be consumed when activating Black Gate.]
[Acquiring massive Karma Points.]