How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 66
Chapter 66
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“Why do you avoid Director Han Su-a so much?”
Go Johan had once asked Lee Jae-kyung this question.
“That sister…”
Lee Jae-kyung had replied as if completely fed up.
“She’s like an F1 racing car with no brakes. There’s absolutely no stopping her.”
And now.
“What are you waiting for?”
Han Su-a said, pointing her triple-bladed sword at Go Johan.
“Pick up a weapon. Our troublemaker.”
Once she latched onto something, she never gave up.
That tenacity was truly infamous, sometimes lasting for decades.
“I guess I have no choice.”
Go Johan finally shrugged his shoulders.
He did have a desire to see and experience firsthand how strong Divine’s forces were, but.
‘This wasn’t how I planned to do it.’
Still.
“I don’t need a weapon.”
It seemed necessary to test them.
To see if they could live up to his mother’s efforts.
“What?”
“And.”
Whoosh!
An aura burst from Go Johan like an explosion, sweeping through the training ground.
Clang!
In an instant, the 7th Raid Team members drew their weapons and took combat stances.
Their faces showed surprise even as they did so.
‘Instinct.’
They had no intention of getting involved in this event, but their instincts detected danger and moved their bodies.
What was amazing was that Jung Ho-gun, a non-combatant, didn’t feel any of the pressure.
Perhaps it was because he was part of Divine, even if not a combatant.
Swish.
Jung Ho-gun wisely retreated, hiding behind the safety barrier.
“It’s meaningless if it’s just you alone, Team Leader.”
“You cheeky little…”
The team members who had drawn their weapons couldn’t easily put them away, when suddenly.
“I told you to call me Auntie. Fine…”
Swish!
A sword slashed through the air, stopping right in front of Go Johan’s nose.
“They say you’re a villain, and you do look a bit like one. But to my eyes, you’re still just a mischievous kid.”
As if threatening, the sword that had stopped wasn’t by Han Su-a’s will.
Go Johan’s two fingers were holding the triple-bladed sword.
“You all saw that, right? It’s no joke. You were curious too, weren’t you?”
It should have hurt their pride, but.
“Consider this all a raid.”
“…!”
“And your opponent is…”
Grin.
Han Su-a smiled.
Twitch.
The moment her muscles twitched, the triple-bladed sword slipped from Go Johan’s grasp and was swinging again.
“Go Johan. Don’t think about going easy on us. It seems I alone won’t be enough to correct our nephew’s manners.”
Swish!
Even so, Han Su-a’s triple-bladed sword was precisely aiming for Go Johan’s vital points.
Clang! Tremble.
The sword, blocked again by Go Johan, made a metallic sound as it trembled.
“What are you waiting for, I said!”
Han Su-a’s voice rang out, and at that moment.
“I’m sorry!”
Right behind, Yeo Jin-hwi thrust his sword towards Go Johan’s back.
Whether it was multiple skills stacked or not, that blue light looked like it would tear Go Johan’s body to shreds.
And then.
Swish!
Arrows flew simultaneously.
But.
Whoosh!
As Go Johan swung his free arm, a fierce wind arose, deflecting everything.
“What… such brute force…”
Both Han Su-a and the 7th Raid Team members had shocked expressions.
Just the wind pressure created by his hand had canceled the activation of skills and deflected arrows shot by ranker-level Players?
“This is about the level of a two-horned demon.”
Go Johan said, and then.
Thud.
He stomped on the ground.
“I’ll match your level.”
“Who are you calling a villain, you brat!”
Whoosh!
An intense aura burst forth from Han Su-a’s entire body.
She truly was a fiery woman.
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Whoosh!
It was as if flames were erupting from Han Su-a’s entire body.
At the same time, her swung sword created long flames that enveloped Go Johan.
Heat that would instantly reduce any ordinary Player to ashes.
Whoosh!
Once again, as Go Johan waved his hand, the wind pressure pushed back Han Su-a’s flames.
“What the hell.”
If it had been just wind, it would have been impossible, but.
“From two-horned demons onwards, they can manipulate mana.”
If it’s wind pressure imbued with mana, it’s possible.
And at that moment.
“Raid formation! Assume it’s a humanoid monster!”
The 7th Raid Team also began to move.
They immediately formed a formation, surrounding Go Johan.
Rumble!
The energy pouring from them seemed to converge into a single point, pressing down on Go Johan.
‘A battle formation.’
Mana had flows, and Players were those who manipulated and handled those flows in ways they didn’t even realize.
Whether they knew it or not, their positions and structure.
Woong!
The aura emitted by some Players manipulated that flow, compressing it into a single point.
Divine’s raid teams varied in number for each team, but generally around fifty members.
The 7th team was slightly larger with about 60 members.
Rumble!
All that mana combined to become something even greater, pressing down on Go Johan.
“…”
“Impossible.”
But it was the 7th team who were surprised instead.
Even this much would usually make the boss of an ordinary gate sink into the ground with a terrible scream, but Go Johan’s expression didn’t change at all.
However.
“Buff!”
“Buff!”
As the support Players’ buffs activated.
Whoosh!
With Han Su-a at the center, that flow changed again.
Thud!
An even fiercer mana pressure pressed down on Go Johan.
Rumble!
Go Johan’s body began to tremble slightly, and small footprints appeared beneath his feet.
“As expected.”
Han Su-a clicked her tongue at the sight.
“So you can pretend to be a villain to this extent. Our troublemaker.”
“Still, it’s more than I expected.”
It was the moment Go Johan’s eyes changed slightly.
“This is now three-horned. About the level of the boss from the Black Gate that opened in Korea.”
Creak!
The 7th Raid Team began to be pushed back.
They couldn’t hide their astonishment.
About 60 ranker-level Players, even if not all were rankers, most were skilled enough to be ranked at any time.
Such a group had exerted all their strength, and even with Han Su-a joining the formation.
Creak!
They were being pushed back.
Step.
Conversely, Go Johan moved as if he no longer felt any pressure at all.
“Are you all just going to have a staring contest?”
Go Johan’s voice.
Swish!
Simultaneously, a wind sound erupted from behind him.
“As if.”
Han Su-a had moved at a speed incomparable to before, taking Go Johan’s back.
Bang!
A sound like an explosion burst forth between Go Johan’s blocking fingers and the triple-bladed sword.
“Nice block.”
Han Su-a retreated without hesitation, and.
Swish!
Once again, sword strikes and arrows poured from behind… It was a strange thing.
Clearly, there was no one as strong as Han Su-a among the 7th team.
Bang!
Yet the power was no less than Han Su-a’s.
“Mana transfer.”
A technique of transferring mana using the battle formation.
The Player concentrated with mana receives pressure that could damage their body for a short moment, but.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
At the same time, it was as good as having multiple Players at Han Su-a’s level.
A seamless combination.
Bang!
As they pushed Go Johan, small cuts began to appear on his body one by one.
‘Indeed.’
Was this what it meant to be Korea’s number one?
‘They’ve learned well in such a short time.’
There was something the 7th team didn’t know.
That was.
Woong.
Go Johan had taught them this mana formation.
Of course, it was delivered inconspicuously through the church, but for them to perfect it to this extent.
And for the 7th team, who couldn’t be called Divine’s elite, to achieve this much was remarkable.
‘One point.’
In Go Johan’s divine vision, he could see where the threads of energy intersected.
Just touching that slightly would shatter their mana formation.
But that shouldn’t be done.
‘Divine vision is my ability.’
These people needed to experience demons.
Bang!
Several swords fell, trapping Go Johan like a prison.
Following that.
“Binding!”
“Entangle!”
Magics formed by skills trapped Go Johan once again.
“How about it? Troublemaker. Does Divine still seem lacking?”
On top of that, the blade of the triple-sword touching Go Johan’s neck.
Han Su-a looked at Go Johan with a victor’s smile.
“I know you have more, but we’re good enough for the field.”
It was when Han Su-a spoke as if she had completely won.
“It’s lacking.”
“What?”
At that moment.
Flinch.
Han Su-a’s body flinched.
Tremble.
The Players who had created the sword prison began to shake.
Thud.
Those with insufficient levels and bodies, mostly support-type Players, began to collapse.
Go Johan had imitated the power a three-horned demon would have, but he hadn’t shown everything they possessed.
Demons.
‘Those damn species.’
They had even more tricks.
The most troublesome trick.
[The curse of Sloth activates.]
Curses and domains filled with all sorts of debuffs were exactly that.
Go Johan, imitating this, spread the weakest form of Sloth.
Those without resistance to curses were collapsing one by one from the feeling of powerlessness spreading through their bodies.
“And…”
It was the moment Go Johan’s eyes sank once more.
“Kuherk!”
Screams began to be heard.
Whoosh!
It was a waterfall, a tidal wave.
“This is four horns.”
Level 600.
“Shall we continue?”
At Go Johan’s question, Han Su-a gritted her teeth and glared.
“…Y…es.”
She truly didn’t know how to give up.
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Divine’s training ground was a place where even high rankers causing chaos would end with just scratches.
In fact, they were confident the guild building would be fine even if hit by several nuclear bombs.
But in such a place.
Whoosh!
Wind was blowing through a hole that looked as if it had been torn open.
“Huff, huff.”
The collapsed team members exhaled rough breaths.
“…”
As for Han Su-a.
Thud.
She fainted with her eyes open.
“Haah.”
Go Johan covered his face as if troubled.
Really.
“I see why you avoid her so much.”
It was a day when he truly understood why Lee Jae-kyung avoided Han Su-a so much.
Most of the 7th team members had fainted and collapsed from the power emitted by the four-horned demon, but Han Su-a had fought to the end, even overclocking her Player core.
Of course, she didn’t reach five horns, but still.
“…In their own way.”
Go Johan said as he placed his hand towards the fallen Han Su-a.
“They’re not bad.”
He acknowledged their will and spirit, if not their skill.