How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 99
Chapter 99
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Clang!
Brown Beard retreated with sparks flying.
“Huff, huff.”
Lee Jae-Kyung exhaled rough breaths.
He had clearly either dealt with or evaded all those demons to arrive here.
Judging by those wounds, nothing would have been easy.
Saaaa.
Go Johan healed Lee Jae-Kyung’s wounds.
“…Thank you.”
His complexion visibly improved.
“Ha!”
Then Brown Beard’s dumbfounded voice burst out.
“There are still followers of that madman left?”
Swish.
Lee Jae-Kyung looked at Go Johan.
“Really… you’ve changed completely.”
Brown Beard lowered his axe.
“Boys, looks like it’s a failure.”
Then he spoke to the dwarfs.
“If that madman has turned to their side, there’s no chance of winning. After so long in chaos, I thought we could finally be happy after breaking free from our shackles.”
Then.
Shing!
The dwarfs simultaneously raised their axes and weapons to their necks and chests.
It happened too quickly to stop.
“In the next life! Let’s be born as hammers!”
“Uahhh!”
It wasn’t for show.
Scrape.
Axes actually digging into flesh.
Upon seeing Go Johan, they had instinctively realized they couldn’t escape and were trying to kill themselves.
Thud!
Then, Go Johan flicked his finger.
Tatatatatang!
The dwarfs’ weapons were knocked away.
The dwarfs had tried to kill themselves without a moment’s hesitation, but Go Johan had been faster.
“Noooo!”
Brown Beard cried out in anguish.
Madness rippling in his eyes.
“You madman! Have you changed so much that you won’t even allow us to die? Please! I’m begging you!”
The resentment and anguish of those who had been captured by demons and forced to hammer could be felt.
“That much…”
“It’s not like that.”
Go Johan said.
“Don’t assume I’ve sided with those damned evil breeds.”
This was it.
The completely different side of Go Johan that Lee Jae-Kyung occasionally saw.
‘Michael.’
His past life’s appearance.
“I will…”
Go Johan said.
“Annihilate all those damned things.”
At those words, Brown Beard’s eyes lit up.
He was seeing.
“……”
Go Johan with Iron Will.
Brown Beard’s vision.
Kwaaaaaaa!
Go Johan was a black rippling flame.
Its size was impossible to measure, its heat impossible to gauge.
If touched carelessly, it was a flame that would melt one’s entire body in an instant, a flame that would burn not only oneself but everything around.
But.
“……!”
It was there.
Within that, the brilliant light he had seen definitely existed.
No, that was enough.
If only that thing that no other color could imitate existed.
“Just what the hell… you madman! What happened to you…”
He might be that madman he used to know.
“It’s complicated to explain. That kind of thing.”
“Huh.”
Brown Beard seemed conflicted.
But his judgment was quick.
“I’ll trust you.”
“……”
“We can’t do anything anyway except kill ourselves. The Rune Breaker I was going to use on that damned traitor Iron Hammer lost its power when used on you.”
Brown Beard said.
“If you’re an enemy, we won’t be able to survive anyway.”
“……”
“Will you save us?”
Brown Beard asked sharply.
“Will you save us as you please, just like you used to? If so…”
Clang!
He struck axe against hammer.
“Please save us.”
Changed speech pattern.
“Please.”
Go Johan, who had been just listening, finally moved his mouth.
“I’ll save you.”
“Thank you.”
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“Iron Hammer cannot move right now.”
They were moving quickly.
The dwarfs were exhausted to their limits, but were somehow moving as if burning their last flames.
“Also, we cannot face him.”
Brown Beard, who had been cursing and calling him a madman earlier, had completely changed his attitude and was treating Go Johan respectfully.
This was probably his original way of treating Go Johan.
“I can do it.”
Go Johan said.
That he could kill whatever was blocking them.
Chuckle.
Brown Beard moved his bearded lips and smiled.
“Of course.”
Who was he, after all.
Just once, when he had seen him directly.
‘Ahh.’
Brown Beard trembled.
The berserk Dragon Lord who had sunk the eastern continent, walking across the plains while dragging its jaw.
Since dwarfs had suffered more pain from dragons than anyone else, that scene was even more deeply imprinted.
He hadn’t seen him since then.
He had only heard stories, but he…
“But not now.”
Was a being that couldn’t be called a mere human.
How much had they lamented?
It wasn’t just him.
Elves, humans, dragons, and countless other races always sighed whenever they thought of him.
‘If only he hadn’t been a madman.’
The continent’s history would truly have changed.
Brown Beard thought.
“Don’t make the same mistake as back then.”
If he hadn’t gone mad, if he hadn’t been a madman from the beginning.
“Your current self is not in ‘perfect condition.'”
Perhaps the continent would have survived and truly annihilated the demons.
“……”
Go Johan was silent.
“In your hands, you don’t have the holy sword you used to claim.”
Brown Beard stopped and said.
“On your body, you don’t have the divine armor you used to claim.”
Brown Beard stopped and said.
“Iron Hammer is in the middle of a ritual. That bastard who has exploited ten thousand dwarfs for decades with the will to create and wear the legendary demon armor.”
“Demon armor?”
“Originally he tried to make it for Valork, but…”
“He had no intention of offering it.”
At Go Johan’s words, Brown Beard nodded.
“Do you see it?”
Brown Beard pointed ahead.
Three volcanoes, three red pillars were rising.
“You must destroy those to destroy the demon armor ritual as well.”
“And?”
“They must be destroyed simultaneously.”
Brown Beard went toward the dwarfs.
“We’ll take the right side.”
“……”
“Let your follower take the left side.”
“Follower… no.”
Lee Jae-Kyung said.
Though they shouldn’t have been able to communicate, it was due to the effect of an item Brown Beard had given them.
“Go to the center yourself.”
Brown Beard said.
“I will.”
Finally Go Johan’s answer was heard.
Tremble.
Brown Beard trembled his beard.
That man from the past wouldn’t have listened to his words.
‘It is a trial sent down by the goddess.’
He was a man who would just advance knowing it was a trap, rather enjoying it gladly.
“Shorty, I’m not something like a follower.”
Perhaps because Brown Beard had wounded Go Johan’s chest earlier.
Lee Jae-Kyung spoke to Brown Beard without any courtesy, unlike usual.
“I’m the Captain’s retainer.”
“……!”
Once again, Brown Beard trembled his beard.
“…Really?”
“Ask the Captain. I am the Captain’s retainer.”
Nod.
When Go Johan nodded, Brown Beard let out a hollow sound.
“Really… you’ve changed.”
And he raised his axe.
“Retainer, listen well.”
Was he going to give some advice?
“That statement is quite racially discriminatory.”
“……!”
“Well, see you later.”
The dwarfs began moving first.
“Just what… are those guys?”
Lee Jae-Kyung asked Go Johan.
How should he explain?
After pondering for a while, Go Johan stepped forward and said.
“Comrades-in-arms.”
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Tatatata!
The dwarfs were quickly advancing toward the right mountain range.
Gulp gulp.
They didn’t forget to drink honey ale in between.
It was beer they had hidden and endured for a long time for this day.
Also, it was different from ordinary honey ale.
‘Dwarf secret technique.’
There was a phenomenon that only some craftsmen among dwarfs experienced.
When hammering continuously, the sound of flames, hammering, and cooling metal combined to create a strange bee sound.
At that time, a very small amount of the purest molten metal was created.
A yellow liquid that was neither molten metal mixed with magic nor anything else.
Dwarf craftsmen called it.
‘Honey.’
Honey.
The honey ale that dwarfs spoke of was actually referring to this from long ago, which current dwarfs didn’t know.
Clang!
Just drinking it made fighting spirit spring up, and blood vessels and skin hardened like steel – this power was the secret of the combat techniques that dwarf ancestors were proud of.
“Chieftain!”
A dwarf running asked Brown Beard.
“Just who is that person?”
Not all dwarfs in Varatkgoen’s territory were from Travania.
Demons had devoured multiple worlds, and not many Travania-origin dwarfs had survived.
This reaction showed that.
Clench.
Travania dwarfs who faced Go Johan and clenched their hands with determination as if resolving something.
In contrast, other dwarfs couldn’t understand.
“Using even the Rune Breaker made to kill that bastard Varatkgoen!”
Using a divine weapon meant to kill an archdemon against a mere human.
“Just who is that person…!”
After waiting so long for revenge, they were angry that Brown Beard seemed to have ruined it.
“You fool!”
Brown Beard shouted.
“…He’s a madman.”
Brown Beard’s small voice was heard.
“So who is this madman!”
A dwarf shouted.
“I must have said it several times?”
The ritual site was beginning to come into view.
“Your worlds were different from Travania.”
“……!”
“Unlike your worlds that were swept away unable to do anything, our Travania endured and fought to the end.”
“Don’t tell me…”
“It wasn’t because of an alliance of various races, or because special will or protection existed.”
Just.
“One thing.”
It was a story they had heard dozens of times.
‘There was a truly amazing human in Travania.’
A story that seemed like it would only be heard in fairy tales or legends.
“Because that person existed.”
No, it was mythology.
“There are various ways to call him. Among them are great holy knight, noble paladin…, and goddess’s knight.”
Brown Beard said while raising his axe toward the Dvergr group.
“He was also called a fanatic.”
Woooong!
The Rune Breaker began to cry.
“But we called him like this.”
The dwarfs prepared for battle while listening to Brown Beard’s story.
“Mad God.”