How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 74
Chapter 74
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From the place that looked as if it had been struck by a meteorite, Go Johan appeared.
“I can wait a little longer.”
His voice was chillingly cold.
“I did not wait just to hunt the likes of you.”
His tone and atmosphere were completely changed.
“If this is all you have…”
At that moment-
Crunch.
There was a sound like something being torn apart.
When the Tri-Horned Demons that surrounded Go Johan looked down, dazed-
Teeter.
They saw their bodies, half torn off and tilting.
“Kuaaaagh!”
“Kkagh!”
The demons screamed.
“Disappointing.”
It happened in the blink of an eye. Half the Tri-Horned Demons were now motionless.
In that moment-
Woooosh!
A fist compressing the air itself came crashing down on Go Johan’s head at the speed of light.
It was the punch of Gallandril, the so-called Archdemon.
Boom.
But the impact was remarkably quiet-
Fwaaaaash!
While the shockwave was the exact opposite, raging fiercely like a storm.
“Putting on a facade, are you, knight?”
Gallandril’s voice boomed, echoing across the battlefield.
Then-
Fwip!
A single, massive wing split vertically and unfurled to one side.
He grinned.
With a twisted mouth, the mouths on Gallandril’s face and forearms all smiled together.
“The words of those stunted dwarves and foul-pointed elves were right, after all.”
At Gallandril’s words-
“Ugh!”
Choi Ji-O covered his ears and fell to his knees.
“Weak, aren’t you?”
Go Johan stood firm, brushing away Gallandril’s punch.
“Weak…”
Go Johan repeated Gallandril’s words.
‘Weak, are you?’
Kartul had said the same thing.
And it was somewhat true.
Compared to his prime in Travania, his present body was lacking.
Yet-
“…So it is as I thought.”
There was something he realized because of this.
“……?”
“You demons don’t seem to share information amongst yourselves, do you?”
“……!”
“Or perhaps-”
Ta!
Go Johan launched himself from the ground.
Swiieeek!
Tentacle-like arms and legs, grotesque transformed weapons, all rushed at him.
“Is there some kind of civil war among you?”
Crunch!
But with that familiar noise, those that had pursued Go Johan were torn apart.
However-
Fwah!
True to their demonic nature, the fragments regenerated, targeting Go Johan again.
[Class Black Knight is changing to Knight of Sloth.]
[Authority: Inaction activates.]
Thud.
They slackened, dropping limply.
Even that wasn’t enough. The Tri-Horned Demons melted to the ground, as though they were slimes.
“Hhh…khh, hhhh…”
They seemed to forget even to breathe.
The tattoos writhed.
Their eyes dulled.
As if they could fall asleep at any moment.
“Gallandril.”
Amidst all this, Go Johan was standing before Archdemon Gallandril.
“Do you think I waited just to summon someone like you?”
“……!”
Archdemon.
He thought they would be at least this well prepared, since they’d set a trap targeting him.
Yet-
Clench.
Go Johan’s face twisted into a sneer.
“The best those cowards hiding in the shadows could send was the likes of you?”
Just Gallandril.
Go Johan’s expression showed sincere disappointment.
“Kaaaargh!”
Gallandril exploded with wrath and demonic energy.
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Gallandril was an enormous monster, seemingly over five meters tall, his entire body covered in eyeballs.
Between those eyes, seven horns protruded.
Wooooong!
Light began to gather in every one of those eyes.
The next instant-
[Gaze]
Ziiiing!
Hundreds of eyes all stared at Go Johan and unleashed rays of light.
[Inaction]
A sluggish green haze leaked from Go Johan, and the beams coming his way began to lose strength, sagging.
But-
Fwap!
The rays quickly recovered their power and poured down on Go Johan.
Such a focused attack could supposedly shred even dragon scales.
Crunch.
With a wave of Go Johan’s hand, the attacks twisted away.
[Spatial Slash]
The space itself was distorted, and the attacks bounced upward, shooting into the sky.
During that time-
Crunch!
With his other hand, Go Johan tore at Gallandril’s body.
[Hand of Inaction]
Despite the torn flesh, the eyes all over Gallandril’s body began to droop.
Sleepiness and the emotion of sloth submerged them.
“How can you use the power of those beings?!”
Gallandril shrieked in terror.
Even among archdemons, Travania had already shown that there were different ranks.
Even if all archdemons possessed seven horns, those created through rituals were mere husks with borrowed power.
A huge body full of dark mana.
That was all they had.
It was still threatening, but-
“Gallandril.”
Go Johan moved like light, grabbing the accumulated gaze energy at Gallandril’s chest.
Wooooong!
The power burned ever brighter, resisting, but Go Johan’s overwhelming strength compressed it.
Vwooom!
It compressed, held in place.
[Class changes from Knight of Sloth to Knight of Envy.]
[Authority: Wraith of Regret activates.]
His silver hair shone brighter, his sky-blue eyes gleamed. His entire body seemed sheathed in silver plate armor.
Tremble.
The mark of Sin-Sins-on his skin shook violently. These archdemons, the so-called Great Ones, were those worthy of the title in truth.
Above them were the Ancient Ones. Their curses and authorities belonged to those ancients.
Boom!
The compressed energy of Gaze crashed into Gallandril, its creator.
“Do you remember?”
Boom!
Gallandril’s enormous body collapsed, powerless.
“Does the past come back to you?”
Boom!
With Gallandril crushed to the ground, Go Johan spoke, foot pressing on his chest.
“The past when you begged for your life.”
Wooooong!
[Mark of Sin transforms into Great Sin.]
In Go Johan’s hand glimmered a tiny blade of light, no larger than a palm.
Gallandril trembled in abject terror at the sight.
“No…no….”
Thunk!
The blade of Great Sin plunged into an eyeball.
“Kuaaaaa!”
Gallandril screamed.
“You’re not even as good as Kartul.”
Go Johan looked down at Gallandril with pity.
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“Remember, Gallandril.”
Again, the blade struck another of Gallandril’s eyes.
“You begged like a dog back then, too.”
“Please…please!”
All Gallandril’s eyes flew wide with agony.
-Please! Please!
It had been the same back then.
Even if called ‘heroes’ or ‘champions’ in various worlds, humans could never stand in the way of a seven-horned archdemon.
-How dare you.
At least, that’s what Choi Ji-O thought in the distant world of Travania.
-Filthy little human, what are you? A hero? A champion?
He thought he would crush and mock them.
-I am…
But that one was different.
-The first knight of the goddess. The noble paladin.
He was not some hero or champion.
Simply a knight who served an unknown god.
-Hahaha!
He had mocked countless so-called servants of gods.
If you ripped off their arms, pulled out their organs-
-S-spare…
All thoughts of gods would vanish, and they would weep and beg.
Even those who stubbornly clung to faith ended up tearing their own kin apart.
-So, where is your god now?
The look of despair and burning rage in their eyes was Gallandril’s greatest pleasure.
Some even helped destroy their own worlds, hoping to be sacrificed to their gods.
He believed the knight would be just like them.
-……?
But he couldn’t understand.
It was himself, the demon, who broke-when the one who should have screamed was the human.
-Kuaaaa!
Gallandril was the one who screamed.
It was different.
A god?
No, it was something else.
“Gallandril. Remember.”
That was a monster.
Insane, zealous, serving a goddess that didn’t even exist-an obsession beyond anything imaginable.
That was a monster even demons feared.
“Now…”
Go Johan’s mouth twisted in a mocking grin.
“Torturing you will no longer be the end of it.”
Thunk.
As the blade of Sin stabbed in-
“Kuhh!”
Gallandril couldn’t even scream anymore.
Indescribable terror, pain, and vivid memories from the past all returned at once.
“You remember now, don’t you?”
“…ghk, guh…”
He could move if he wished.
He could resist if he wished.
“So? What now, Gallandril?”
But the terror engraved in him long ago rose up and shattered Gallandril’s will.
“Spare me… Spare me…”
Gallandril begged.
“Please-! Please!”
Unable to kill a demon, unable to die, with a body that regenerated endlessly, he had spent years bound, having thousands of his eyes gouged out and gouged out again.
-My god is right here.
The voice, every gesture, every hair-none of it was forgotten.
-Does your god exist?
That absolute terror-
“Spare-!”
“You’re wrong.”
Go Johan’s icy voice rang out.
“You should be begging to be killed.”
Thunk!
The blade of Great Sin pierced Gallandril’s chest.
At that moment, ironically, calm returned to Gallandril’s eyes.
“Ah…”
His body faded away.
[Archdemon Gallandril is annihilated.]
[You have gained a large amount of Karma Points.]
[Class: Knight of Greed is unlocked.]
[All archdemons are watching this place.]
“Ah…”
Like Gallandril, Go Johan also sighed.
“Oh, goddess…”
For that greatest one-
Slash!
Without a moment’s hesitation, Go Johan severed Gallandril’s neck.
[You have obtained a Fragment of the World.]