How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 97
Chapter 97
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Varatkgoen’s army had ambushed them several times.
Rather, Go Johan and Lee Jae-Kyung had also ambushed them.
The enemies were divine soldiers created by the Dvergr, fire-breathing Centaurs and golems that moved infinitely using power sources.
Thud, thud thud.
But none of them could stop these two intruders.
No.
‘Is it just one person?’
Lee Jae-Kyung smiled bitterly as he looked at Go Johan’s back.
He had worked like crazy all this time and thought he had shown results.
Kuuung!
But that back looked too immense.
It felt like an insurmountable cliff.
“Let’s go.”
At first he was curious what that cliff was.
“Let’s.”
Next he was curious how high that cliff was.
Then he was curious if he could overcome that cliff.
‘Now…’
It no longer looked like a cliff to him.
Crack!
It was a fortress wall.
Not something he had to overcome or tear down.
Kwaaang!
A fortress wall that protected him.
It was so high and massive that it was an absolute fortress wall that surrounded and protected not only himself but countless other things.
“What are you thinking about so deeply?”
Go Johan approached after defeating dozens of golems and said.
Go Johan had just been rampaging like a demon, but at this moment he was the person he knew.
“……”
He had been afraid sometimes.
“I was thinking about humans.”
It was like an inevitable instinct that humans had.
When looking at a massive tsunami rushing in, one inevitably felt fear.
What would happen if that swept us away?
Could we avoid it?
Could we stop it?
But when you realize you ultimately can’t do anything and look at it.
“Suddenly?”
It’s just beautiful.
Looking at the rolling waves and the particles that form the tsunami, the fish living and moving within it, and the immeasurable tranquility, you can only admire it and accept it.
Go Johan before his eyes was such an existence to him.
“Yes. Suddenly.”
But he didn’t want to become something that was just swept away.
Rather, he wanted to become a fish playing within it.
“…I never taught you to be distracted on the battlefield.”
“……!”
“I guess training has been lacking lately?”
“No, that’s not it!”
“I’ll have to work you properly when we get back. What can you do with that kind of mindset?”
“Wait!”
Kwang!
Before he knew it, Go Johan was moving forward again.
“……”
He realized that others were having the same thoughts as him.
Especially those who were now looking at the tsunami called Go Johan for the first time were mostly terrified.
But they too would realize someday.
“It can’t be helped.”
Tat!
“Natural disasters.”
Yes, Go Johan was like a natural disaster of a person.
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It was a huge pit carved under a mountain range, like a gate connecting to another world, and like a natural fortress created by a volcano.
Boiling lava filled all directions, and the path was so narrow that it looked like it could be blocked with just three or four golems.
“I wondered why it was so quiet.”
Lee Jae-Kyung smiled bitterly, recalling the ambushes that hadn’t continued since some point.
“They were all here.”
What appeared to be thousands of enemies filled that narrow passage.
‘This is the only path. You must kill us all to move forward.’
It seemed like they were saying that.
“……”
His whole body got goosebumps from the tension.
Actually, this tension had been continuing since entering this place.
Go Johan tore apart demons as if it were nothing, but it was different for Lee Jae-Kyung.
Gulp.
Something like the inevitable primal fear that humans have.
Just as one feels disgusted and afraid when seeing bizarre life forms, demons were such beings.
No matter how much experience accumulated and how many times he faced them, the trembling didn’t stop.
“…I’m sorry.”
Lee Jae-Kyung apologized.
Despite trying so hard to be helpful to Go Johan, the fact that he still wasn’t much help was unbearable.
‘I have no expectations.’
The words he had said to Sanctum in the S-class Gate.
‘I have no expectations.’
They seemed to be directed at him like words meant for himself.
He was different from the apostles too.
Those children with outstanding beauty and talent that even archdemons coveted as vessels were completely different from someone like him.
Seung-Ah’s magical talent felt miraculous.
Gluttony’s scientific and engineering talent was excellent enough to accelerate civilizational development.
And what about Ha-Yeon?
At that young age, she controlled the world economy and stood at the pinnacle of a world built on capitalism.
In-Kyung was…
Se-Hyeon was…
‘Compared to them, I am.’
Nothing but a mere human.
There was once a time when he shone as a Sanctum ranker, but after meeting Go Johan, he could see that he too was nothing but a pebble.
“What is it?”
“……”
When Lee Jae-Kyung couldn’t easily answer.
Kwaaang!
A huge explosion sound came from below.
Rumble!
The surrounding volcano began to collapse.
“…Were they still fighting?”
Go Johan said in a low, sunken voice.
“Ajeossi.”
Go Johan called Lee Jae-Kyung.
“It looks like you’ll have to break through here yourself.”
“……?”
“I think I need to hurry.”
“……!”
Only then could Lee Jae-Kyung understand what Go Johan meant.
“Can you do it?”
To that question.
“Leave it to me.”
Lee Jae-Kyung answered.
Swish.
Go Johan’s figure disappeared.
When he opened his eyes, Go Johan was falling relentlessly toward the lava below.
Swiiish!
Arrows and bullets burst toward him.
Kwang!
Another explosion followed.
Lee Jae-Kyung, it was an explosion he had created by charging toward the demons blocking the narrow path.
Clang.
The sound of metal rang out, and they looked at Lee Jae-Kyung.
“You asked if I could do it?”
The gazes of demons coming toward him.
It was still true that he was trembling.
Clench.
He gripped the sword hilt and drew his sword.
Sring.
With a clear sound, a blue-green light burst out.
“I have to.”
The task Go Johan had entrusted to him, he had no intention of backing down.
Above all, if Go Johan had entrusted it to him, it meant it was something he could handle.
If the massive fortress wall had opened a gap to allow enemy invasion.
There must be a reason for opening that gap.
Goooo!
A storm began to rage around Lee Jae-Kyung.
Gurgle, gurrurgle.
The sound of them chattering in bizarre language could be heard.
It didn’t matter.
“When you’re scared, focus on one thing.”
Go Johan’s words came to mind.
“For example.”
Clang!
“Something like the sword’s cry.”
The moment Lee Jae-Kyung’s sword rang out.
Pwhaaak!
The heads of the Centaurs in the front row were severed and blood gushed out.
He had heard that the current world ranking 1st place was in the early 400s in level.
He had heard that since Black Gates appeared and high-grade gates sprouted up like bamboo shoots after rain, players’ levels were also rising steeply.
But did they know?
“Your opponent is.”
Lee Jae-Kyung, that his level was.
“Me.”
In the early 500s.
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Kwaaang!
Go Johan smiled at the explosion sound coming from behind.
‘It’s about time to let him loose.’
He understood Lee Jae-Kyung’s deep concerns.
That his usefulness in this war wasn’t great, that kind of helplessness.
And that was also true.
The countless strong people of Travania in the past were the same.
‘Are we…’
‘Actually being helpful?’
He didn’t understand then.
That’s why.
‘You’re not needed.’
Go Johan distanced himself from them.
Only he went to the battlefield alone, and only those who insisted on following could stand by Go Johan’s side.
But that was all.
After the explosive battlefield ended.
‘We… will return.’
They turned away in defeat and helplessness.
He thought it was inevitable, that it was for their sake.
In reality, without him they would just die, so he thought making them retreat would help save their lives.
Swiiish!
But it wasn’t.
Later, they were steeped in defeat.
They fell for demons’ schemes and feared confronting them.
They became people who only waited for someone while meekly accepting death.
Kwang!
That shouldn’t have happened.
“Above all…”
Go Johan finally entered the boiling lava.
Pushing away the lava through sanctity and entering deep underground, something like an old castle revealed itself.
“They’re definitely helpful too.”
Lee Jae-Kyung, he was strong.
Even in Travania, there were countless knights who sought Go Johan’s teachings, but among them, less than a handful could imitate Go Johan’s swordsmanship that wasn’t swordsmanship.
But Lee Jae-Kyung had become able to imitate even part of it through hellish training and effort.
Kwaaang!
He could trust and leave the pathetic demons above to him.
“……!”
When Go Johan cleared his thoughts, he felt the gazes of demons.
Those terrified things had one or two horns on their heads.
“How, how…”
“How did you get here!”
Their voices toward him could be heard clearly, unlike with Lee Jae-Kyung.
“We, we’ll step aside!”
They shouted as if pleading.
“The path! We’ll open the path!”
“Do you know me?”
Go Johan asked.
The demons he encountered entering this place seemed to not know much about him.
It was natural since Go Johan hadn’t fought all demons.
“Do you…”
Step.
“Know me?”
As Go Johan walked forward and spoke, the terrified Dvergr quickly retreated.
“How, how could we not know…!”
Right now it was hard to call them demons.
It was like.
“…How… could we not know…”
They had faces and appearances similar to when terrified humans faced demons.
And.
Crack!
Space collapsed.
“You guys were the dwarfs of Travania.”
Go Johan said as he tore open their chests.
Eyes darkening as if their souls had left.
“Run, run away!”
“Save us!”
They began to flee, wanting to live.
Go Johan smiled with satisfaction.
At this moment.
‘I am the demon.’
To them, he was the demon.