How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 96
Chapter 96
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Another space in the church’s underground.
Woong!
The Warp Gate installed there was emitting light.
Yoon Seung-Ah seemed tense, casting magic a bit more rigidly than usual, and the same was true for Gluttony.
In front of them.
Shiver shiver.
The half-mad Dvergr, Black Beard, was kneeling like a sacrifice with his entire body bound.
“……”
Watching all this scene was Go Johan.
The earlier conversation came to mind.
‘There’s a way!’
What Black Beard had screamed desperately when he regained his senses.
‘A way to open a gate connected to Varatkgoen!’
There was already precedent once before.
The Mapo Black Gate in Seoul – that wasn’t a naturally occurring Black Gate but one created by manipulating Dvergr and Dark Elves.
And that was exactly…
“Captain.”
One of the things Go Johan desired most, and all the apostles knew it.
“Preparations are complete.”
Yoon Seung-Ah approached and said.
“How do you think it will go?”
Go Johan’s cautious question.
The Seoul Mapo Black Gate had been half a success for Go Johan.
“…I can’t be certain, but.”
Yoon Seung-Ah said.
“I think it will succeed.”
“……!”
A tremor from Go Johan that was rarely visible could be felt.
“It’s a one-way gate. You can enter, but you can’t exit.”
“So the only way out is to destroy the gate?”
“That’s correct.”
Clench.
Go Johan clenched his fist tightly.
“We’ve cross-verified with the Dark Elves as well, and we’ve reconstructed the mana circuits and magic circles ourselves.”
As if resonating with that tremor, Yoon Seung-Ah also spoke with a trembling voice.
“It’s a success.”
Success.
“It’s an invasion-type gate.”
“……!”
The gates that demons had opened to invade Earth until now – destroying those gates was the end, and there was no way to reach their world.
But what mattered was opening a door not to our world but to their world, turning some place into a battlefield.
“There are still many restrictions, but once we accumulate data, we should be able to open something similar to Black Gates.”
“You’ve worked hard, truly.”
Though the door hadn’t opened yet, Go Johan already said this.
Step.
Go Johan approached the bound Black Beard.
“Hey, I kept my promise.”
Black Beard said trembling.
Really.
“I should thank Seung-Ah and Ha-Yeon once more.”
He regretted the past when he had said these things should be killed.
Yoon Seung-Ah and Lee Ha-Yeon had truly succeeded.
They had instilled pain and fear in these damned things and created usefulness beyond that.
“Hey, keep the promise…”
Crack.
Black Beard’s head was torn off.
In the final moment, Black Beard was smiling.
Not a vile smile, but like the face of a liberated slave.
Swoosh!
And blood spurted from all directions simultaneously.
The captured Dvergr – all their necks fell and rolled on the floor at once.
This wasn’t an execution.
Swoosh!
Black energy being extracted from within.
[Sins are activated.]
Go Johan’s heart, which had contained the sins, could be felt beating.
At that moment.
[By consuming Karma Points, a passage to Varak’s territory…]
[A passage to the Varak Lava Fields can be opened.]
The goddess’s voice was heard.
“Please, goddess.”
Had Go Johan’s prayer been answered?
[The passage to the Varak Lava Fields is activated.]
Whoosh!
The Warp Gate began emitting intense light.
“I’ll be back.”
Go Johan said.
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According to Yoon Seung-Ah, this was similar to the method they used to summon archdemons.
Just as they summoned archdemons by sacrificing demons containing sins.
Conversely, sacrificing demons containing sins to open a passage connected to an archdemon.
The required sins varied accordingly.
“This brings back memories.”
There were also restrictions on who could enter the passage opened this way.
“Indeed.”
Go Johan who entered the archdemon’s territory was not alone.
“But it should be different from back then.”
Lee Jae-Kyung, who had become his retainer, was with him.
“It should be. Back then we just stood there stupidly and it ended, right?”
“Who are you saying stood there stupidly?”
Lee Jae-Kyung pouted as he spoke.
“I killed Hell Hounds and stuff in my own way.”
“You call that killing?”
“……”
The day Lee Jae-Kyung’s life changed for the third time came to mind.
The first was the day he became a player and entered Sanctum.
The second was the Incheon villa incident when Go Johan was six years old.
And the last third was the Black Gate they entered together when Go Johan was eight.
“Still.”
Woong.
Lee Jae-Kyung said while emanating presence.
“This time will really be different.”
The other apostles couldn’t cross the passage connected to the demon realm.
Because they had become vessels for archdemons, entering this place together with Go Johan exceeded the limits set by the passage.
Originally it would have been Go Johan alone, but at least Lee Jae-Kyung could come along.
Kukuku!
Vibrations rumbled.
“They seem to have noticed already.”
“How could they not know when we came so flashily?”
At Lee Jae-Kyung’s words, Go Johan nodded.
It was true.
Behind them.
Chuckle.
The gate filled with white light rippled and disappeared.
They couldn’t have missed the sight that looked like heaven’s gates opening.
Kukukuku!
The vibrations were getting closer.
“Shall we go together?”
Lee Jae-Kyung asked.
“Of course not.”
“…I’ll have to work harder.”
“You should.”
Finally.
Thud!
The enemies revealed themselves.
Bull-shaped magical beasts, Centaurs.
Short Dvergr riding on top of them.
Beside them were…
“Golems.”
They weren’t just ordinary golems.
Armed golems covered with Dvergr equipment.
The number of what were probably scouts was close to a hundred.
“Please go first.”
When Lee Jae-Kyung’s voice was heard.
Tatatata!
Go Johan was already running across the ground.
Seeing that sight, Lee Jae-Kyung thought.
‘Now everything will really change.’
He was certain that the upheaval wasn’t over yet, that it was just beginning.
Woong!
Before he knew it, Great Sin was in Go Johan’s hand.
The sword emitting brilliant light cried out in Go Johan’s hand.
Swiiish!
It was swung horizontally as is.
Brilliant light sword energy drew a line and shot toward the enemies.
Woooong!
Those startled by the sudden attack tried to dodge or block Go Johan’s sword strike in their own ways.
Crack!
But it was already too late.
Like its color, the shining sword energy reached the enemies at the speed of light.
Kwaaaang!
In an instant, it tore apart more than half the enemies.
Only golems and magical beasts survived.
Once more.
Swiiish!
Go Johan’s sword strike flew.
Only then did Lee Jae-Kyung begin to move.
His role was simply to stick close behind Go Johan and sweep up the fleeing stragglers.
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“I was a little nervous.”
After three rounds of ambushes ended and they were resting briefly, Lee Jae-Kyung said.
Since they had invaded an archdemon’s territory, it was true he had been nervous.
If they couldn’t defeat the archdemon here.
‘We’ll be trapped.’
As Yoon Seung-Ah had said, they might be trapped in this hot lava field with endless years passing.
But as he said, Lee Jae-Kyung was only ‘a little’ nervous.
“Those damned evil breeds would be dumbfounded if they heard this.”
Chuckle.
At Go Johan’s words, Lee Jae-Kyung curled up the corners of his mouth.
“It’s true, isn’t it? Rather, they’re probably the ones who are nervous.”
The ambushes had stopped for no particular reason.
It was because they thought sending armies wouldn’t be able to stop Go Johan anyway.
“They’re probably trembling right now.”
The sight of an archdemon trembling.
Lee Jae-Kyung, who had been making idle jokes, hardened his expression.
“…Still, we’ve come quite far.”
Lee Jae-Kyung, who vaguely knew about Go Johan’s purpose.
The annihilation of demons was natural, but Go Johan was making great efforts regarding the process.
And they had achieved the first thing they had worked toward.
“Will we be able to do this going forward?”
Making their lands the battlefield instead of our land becoming the battlefield.
Being able to strike first rather than always getting beaten.
Go Johan wanted such a war.
“I don’t know.”
Go Johan, who had been leaning against a rock, said.
“What kind of place was Travania?”
Lee Jae-Kyung suddenly asked.
They hadn’t come here just to kill the archdemon.
‘Iron Hammer.’
There was also the goal of rescuing the Dwarf Great King of Travania.
‘Travania.’
Lee Jae-Kyung knew.
About Go Johan’s previous life, Michael.
“It was a place as if cut from a mold.”
Go Johan said.
“You know those fantasy worlds that appear in novels and such – sometimes I find it curious. I think the first person to express such a world in writing was probably someone like me.”
That could be.
“Various races lived together, and there were empires and kingdoms. It was a world where swords developed more than guns, magic more than science.”
Go Johan’s eyes sank deep.
He was recalling the past.
“The unspoiled nature was beautiful, and the tall castles gave a certain resonance.”
At those words, Lee Jae-Kyung imagined Go Johan’s world.
“And…”
Go Johan said.
“It was also hell.”
“……”
“The number of people who starved to death was countless, and there were many heartless parents who sold their children.”
“……”
“The nobles were dissolute, and the royalty was cruel.”
Go Johan closed his eyes.
“The beautiful nature was full of dead bodies.”
It was hard to easily imagine.
So Lee Jae-Kyung changed his question.
“Then…”
It was something he had always wanted to ask.
And something he had been gradually learning about.
“What kind of person was Michael?”
Lee Jae-Kyung asking about Michael, Go Johan’s previous life.
Several demons knew Michael.
This time’s Black Beard had also known Michael.
They always said.
‘Knight of Illusion.’
‘Knight of Fear.’
‘Knight of Death.’
Trembling with fear, they said such things.
“Michael was…”
Go Johan said as he stood up.
“A great holy knight and noble paladin. The goddess’s first knight.”
Chuckle.
“Enemies are coming. Still, this time they seem to have prepared properly.”