How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 8
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Chapter 8
Regeneration and recovery were powers not given to most players.
Though it was a rare ability granted to very few.
Crack!
It was different for demons.
For them, regeneration and recovery were natural abilities.
The wing that had been twisted by Go Johan instantly regained its shape.
“You! It’s you again!”
Drows shouted.
Bang!
Another wing struck Go Johan’s body.
At a speed too fast to react, Go Johan’s body was thrown back.
“…!”
Lee Jae-kyung, finally coming to his senses, rushed forward and swung his sword, but it was useless.
[Skills have been sealed.]
Skills that wouldn’t activate when facing a demon.
Lee Jae-kyung swung his sword pathetically, as if his arm had been cut off.
Crash!
Meanwhile, Drows’ wing was falling to tear Lee Jae-kyung apart.
It was a monster.
With experience from numerous gate conquests, Lee Jae-kyung could roughly estimate Drows’ level.
Level 200 was the benchmark for top-ranked players.
But this monster…
‘Estimated level 300.’
At this time, no matter which player you brought, it was truly a monster that couldn’t be faced.
With falling wings, decreased stats, and sealed skills, they couldn’t even block it.
But as Lee Jae-kyung had said.
“Run away!”
He intended to sacrifice himself as Go Johan’s meat shield.
When the slowly swung sword and Drows’ wing, moving faster than that speed, was about to strike Lee Jae-kyung’s head.
Grab.
A tiny hand was holding that wing.
“…!”
It was Go Johan.
“…Still not enough, I see.”
Go Johan said self-deprecatingly while pushing back the wing.
Since the day he was born, he had never once neglected training.
Every moment, every second, he had constrained himself to regain his past strength.
It was a time of pain incomparable to Lee Jae-kyung’s efforts, who claimed to have tried until near death.
After all, what Go Johan called training was like forcibly tearing apart and regenerating his body at the cellular level.
“You…! How can you!”
Meanwhile, Drows shouted.
“God-Slayer!”
God-Slayer.
That seemed to be what demons called Go Johan.
Fear of Go Johan could be felt from Drows’ captured wing.
But at the same time.
“…?”
The fear was being transmitted as bewilderment.
God-Slayer, a being no different from an object of terror to demons.
“Phantom Knight…”
Phantom Knight.
However.
Hiss!
As Drows’ mouth corners stretched wide, saliva dripped between those hideous teeth.
“You’ve weakened! You’ve weakened!”
It screamed like a crow that could speak human language.
“You’ve weakened!”
It wasn’t unreasonable for Drows to think that way.
No matter how fearsome a lesser demon might be, to Go Johan, or rather Michael, they were no different from hellhounds.
But thinking that the Phantom Knight, the God-Slayer, couldn’t handle someone like himself who was merely a lesser demon.
“Kihehehehe!”
Drows burst into maniacal laughter.
Drows was right.
The body of an eight-year-old boy couldn’t compare to his body in his prime.
But that was purely about the physical body.
One thing remained unchanged from then to now.
[Title Zealot has been activated.]
Faith in the goddess.
Crunch!
[Part of Faith stat is converted to Strength stat.]
Drows’ wing was being crushed.
[Part of Faith stat is converted to Magic stat.]
[…..]
Rip!
Drows’ wing was torn off.
[Current Faith stat….]
The body was just that of an eight-year-old boy.
A body no different from peers his age, perhaps even skinnier.
But what it contained was…
[1012]
Something that a mere lesser demon couldn’t withstand.
“Go back and tell them.”
Go Johan, who had suddenly appeared before Drows’ nose, stretched out his hand.
A huge black mass of threads appeared before his eyes.
Those that would never break from small hands.
“Tell them the Goddess’s Knight has returned to tear you all apart.”
Bang!
In an instant, everything about Drows began to explode.
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“Kuhuck, kuhuhuck…. How…! How!”
Drows, with most of its body blown apart, crawled on the ground wailing.
“How can you be he… kuhuck!”
And behind such a Drows was Go Johan.
Crunch.
Small feet crushed Drows, who was nothing but tatters.
“You have nowhere to run.”
“Keeeek!”
Just because they couldn’t die didn’t mean they couldn’t feel pain.
“Go back when you wake up and tell them.”
The emotion of fear was unfamiliar to immortal beings.
So Go Johan, Michael, researched and researched ways to instill fear in them.
Bang!
“Tell them the Goddess’s Knight is here.”
The fluctuating energy seemed to make Go Johan appear like an undeniable knight.
“Tell them I will tear you all apart this time.”
Crunch!
“Save…”
Bang!
Now even Drows’ remaining pieces all exploded.
Regrettably, Drows hadn’t been annihilated.
Somewhere in the demon realm, it would revive again and spread those wings someday….
[Sin’s hierarchy has been activated.]
Then the Goddess’s voice was heard.
[You have slain the lesser demon, Drows.]
The Goddess had clearly said.
[You have succeeded in your first demon hunt.]
[Unique achievement, Adversary of the End, has been acquired.]
[Slight stat increase against all demon types.]
[Large amount of Karma Points acquired.]
That the demon had been killed.
“…?”
Go Johan looked at Drows’ corpse with a dumbfounded face.
The black threads that had constituted it were unraveling, and he could feel them connecting to himself.
“Go-Goddess?”
Even without the Goddess’s voice, he could feel it.
[Legendary grade item, Drows’ Staff has been acquired.]
That the demon had truly been annihilated.
“I… I wasn’t wrong.”
The resolution he made when he threw himself into the demon realm’s gate.
His resolution that he would become even a demon if he could hunt demons.
“The Goddess wasn’t wrong…!”
It was the moment that bore fruit.
Thud.
Lee Jae-kyung, finally relieved of tension, collapsed right there.
As a player, he too knew well that the situation had ended.
[Level has increased.]
[Level has increased.]
[Level…]
The countless level-up messages and rewards given were proof of that.
“When we return… you really have to tell me.”
Now it was okay to raise flags.
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Like all gates, Black Gates were the same.
After defeating the boss, you must destroy the sleeping spatial core behind it.
Players called it the reward room because you could obtain numerous items and gate destruction rewards there.
But.
“……”
“……”
What existed there wasn’t brilliant treasures or items.
Of course, Go Johan wasn’t interested in such things, but what was present was too unexpected.
“Kee… Kee…”
That thing crying like a beast.
Drows’ wing feathers were stuck all over its body, and small horns seemed to be sprouting on its head.
But one thing could be said clearly.
“That’s… human… isn’t it?”
Indeed, human.
The clothing visible between the black wing feathers looked like a middle school uniform.
More precisely, it was a girl.
A girl who might have just entered middle school, slightly older than Go Johan.
Step.
Go Johan approached the girl.
“Kee… Kee…!”
The girl, seemingly afraid of Go Johan, was only making incomprehensible crying sounds.
The boy who approached like that grabbed the girl.
“Keeeee!”
Though the girl screamed as if trying to escape, it was impossible to break free from the boy’s grip with her still pathetic strength.
“……”
Go Johan’s eyes sank.
‘I thought I had opened the gate of doom.’
That wasn’t it.
Somehow, the demons had already extended their claws to Earth, that was clear.
“…Vessel.”
And as they had in Travania, they were clearly spreading tumors to corrupt Earth.
The girl was a vessel.
“Vessel?”
“It’s a possession vessel.”
A vessel for demons to be contained in and move freely on Earth, for manifesting their true form someday.
‘The demonization has already begun.’
In the past, Go Johan had encountered such vessels several times.
Each time, there was only one thing he could do.
Grab.
Give peace and rest so they wouldn’t fall further.
“Keeeee! Keeeee!”
Just as he was about to make the same choice now.
“Wait…!”
Even without Lee Jae-kyung’s restraint, Go Johan released his hold on the girl.
“…This sin is not yours.”
The girl was merely a victim.
Still bound to the demon realm, she wouldn’t have harmed anyone.
Demons, though they could never coexist.
“…I will.”
Hadn’t he also resolved?
To become a demon in order to hunt demons.
“I will bear your sins.”
“…Kee?”
Go Johan stretched out his hand.
The girl, trembling in fear, looked at such a Go Johan.
“Keeeee!”
She reached out with her hand that was transforming into wings and grasped his.
“Kee! Kee!”
[You have sufficient Karma Points.]
[You have sufficient Faith stat.]
[You possess the Dark Knight job.]
[You possess the Zealot title.]
And the Goddess spoke.
[Sin substitution is possible.]
Lee Jae-kyung couldn’t even stop it.
After all, he wouldn’t know what Go Johan was doing now.
“I shall do so, Goddess.”
Flash.
Bright light erupted from the girl’s body.
The body that was changing through the process of corruption returned to that of a human.
But nothing could be done about the small horn marks on her temples.
[Substitution complete.]
[Large amount of Karma Points acquired.]
[Status effect, Curse of Sloth has been activated.]