Chapter 90
90Mars Holy Grail Knight Zereah(1)
"Wow…!"
"Long live Lord Zereah!"
"Long live the Lionheart King…!"
Amid the cheers of the soldiers, Leon approached the battlefield devastated by the ‘purple fog’..
Of course, the knights, as well as Jaehyuk and Suho, followed to escort the king's journey..
"Gulp…!"
Two people swallowing dry saliva while looking at the battlefield unfolding before their eyes..
landslide victory.
No, this is not a question of whether it is a victory or a landslide victory..
The battle itself does not take place. It's a one-sided massacre.
Just 30 minutes after the departure of the Holy Grail Knight Zereah. The orc camp in front of the canyon has been transformed into hell..
"30In a minute... More than a thousand died."
"This… Holy Grail Knight. It's not the first time I've seen it……."
This is not the first time the two have witnessed the Holy Grail Knight. Because I witnessed ‘Majestic Geobrick’, the Holy Grail Knight of Earth and Abundance, at the Jeju Island Gate..
A creature of superpower, the pinnacle of the earth..
Living saints and transcendents chosen by God.
One of them, the old Holy Grail Knight, straightened his mustache and armor, brought a supply, knelt and offered it. It was Krakan's head..
"I dedicate this honor to the Goddess of Death and the Lionheart King.."
Among all these Holy Grail Knights, he is the chosen strongest one. The peak guardian of the Holy Grail, Leon Dragonia Lionheart. He held in his grasp the supplies willingly offered to me..
"It is truly a dirty and ugly table.."
Krakan's head exploded from Leon's grasp. A knight wiped his hands stained with dirty blood..
"You did it with flying colors, Lord Zereah.."
"I was planning on attracting their leaders, but……."
"For green beasts, they have a lot of patience.."
Leon felt eyes on them. He retreated from the fog of death, but the Orc main force was still close by. He didn't care even though their fierce gaze was directed at him and Zereah..
On the contrary, there are many people who are scared by the 'orc butcher' energy pouring from Leon..
"If he didn't move despite this level of provocation, there must be a leader with considerable charisma.."
"then… Could it be that a warchief has appeared??"
"Maybe so."
Leon traced his memories of the past. About 200 years ago… At this gate, two years later, the 'Lord of Chaos' summoning incident occurred in the empire, and orcs from all over the world were mobilized..
In that great war, the orcs were on no one's side. It was the orcs who destroyed both humans and demons..
'But it was a very controlled move. Is there even an orc champion chosen by the orc gods??'
There were sometimes.
The leader who is chosen by the Orc God to unite all the Orcs and start the great war.
The Orcs who were active in the war against the evil species fought on the opposite side of their main battlefield. I only heard that the great empire ruled by the mighty Sky King of the East collapsed at the hands of the Orcs..
In the end, we clashed with the orcs who destroyed the Sky Empire while dealing with the evil species, but at that time, we did not see a warchief who could be called a 'big name' among the orcs..
Maybe there was an infighting among themselves, maybe.──
"Is it still too early to judge?."
Leon turned his head. Ignoring the gaze felt inside the base of the pitch-black orcs and beast gods,.
* * * *
Barracks in the canyon. While the soldiers stood guard and watched the orcs' movements, Leon visited the tent of Zereah, the commander of the relic convoy..
"Welcome, Your Majesty. I'm sorry for putting you in such a shabby place.."
"I'm not young enough to be foolish on the battlefield.."
"Haha, who would dare to disrespect His Majesty because he is young?."
Leon appeared to be a young man in his mid-twenties at most. However, speaking of the Holy Grail Knight, his body is reconstructed to the time when he was at his peak..
In the case of Leon, it is said that he became a Holy Grail Knight at a very young age, but other Holy Grail Knights are similar to him or are generally in their 30s or so..
Considering that even in this world, Leon's age is 96 years old, he is not old among the Holy Grail Knights, but he is not too young either..
Zereah, who is as old as the grandfather in front of me right now, is 158 years old this year and is in the middle among the Holy Grail Knights..
"By the way, you… It's still the same."
Leon saw this old Grail Knight..
A person who traveled all over the continent on a spiritual journey for 70 years..
He became the oldest Holy Grail Knight, and even in his prime, he looks like a kind grandfather on the outside..
"I saw you not long ago when you were receiving the king's command, but you look so nostalgic. This old man is so devastated.."
"That's not true."
Leon lost many comrades and friends in the great war against the devil..
Among them, there were the Grail Knights whom he trusted and relied on the most. They ascended to heaven first and entrusted him with their success, but some of the Grail Knights did not even see the ascension..
One of them is Zereah in front of me..
Leon felt that it was a burden on his heart that he could not perform the ascension ceremony that the Lionheart King had performed for each of the previous Holy Grail Knights as they ascended to heaven..
He was an ugly king who could not protect the farewell of the Holy Grail Knights..
"Lord Zereah. Jim has something to tell you.."
"I will listen."
Leon slowly began to inform us about the truth of this world..
He fought against demons for 200 years, and the world ended in destruction..
A new pantheon has been established on Earth, which is also being invaded by demons..
Opening the gate here... Above all…….
"You have already ascended to heaven. He met you in the paradise of the gods."
It is even said that Zereah has already died and ascended to the paradise of the gods..
"……."
Jereah seemed speechless after hearing so much shocking news..
Everyone will do that. He goes so far as to say that he is already dead, that the world has been destroyed, and that he is now merely reproducing a moment in history..
There was nothing that wasn't shocking, and there was a lot of things to deny. However, this old knight did not do that..
"sorry."
Zereah stood up, knelt down, and prostrated himself..
"How can you be sorry? Hurry up and wake up!"
Leon urgently helped him up, but Zereah swallowed his sorrow and expressed his sorrow..
"That long fight... How could you endure it alone? Please do not forgive this disloyal knight."
Zereah was just sorry that he could not fight the king until the end..
In the process of helping him confess his sins, Jereah heard about his future and became confident..
"If I died at the hands of orcs... The appearance of the Orc Warchief is virtually certain.."
"I guess so. A champion chosen by one of the orc gods will be on this battlefield.."
Orcs are spread all over the continent and the world, but among them, warchiefs who unite several orc tribes sometimes appear..
A person who unites as few as five or as many as ten orc tribes and obtains the position of warchief..
In an orc society where the strong are the leaders, the only orcs with such power are the orc champions who are favored by the orc gods..
Since ancient times, the emergence of Orc champions meant a great war..
Leon also experienced two great wars caused by Orc champions, and during those wars, he earned the honorable title of [Most Orc Slayer of Primates].
"Your Majesty, then what do you wish to achieve here??"
"fundamentally one."
Experiment with gates. Obtaining loot through quests given by the system is a secondary matter..
"But after entering this gate, one more thing appeared.."
"???"
Leon showed a rare smile towards his trustworthy comrade..
"This time, I want to be with my friend until the end.."
* * * *
The life of the foolish Jerea was quite a famous story even for Leon..
When Leon was preparing for war against the Orcs as a Holy Grail Knight and War Knight at the age of only 27, he saw an acolyte who came on horseback to participate in this war..
"Tell me your name."
"His name is Zereah, the second son of Baron Vertum and a former member of the Liona Knights of the Sunset.."
Even though he is a Lionheart who ages slowly, he is an 87-year-old knight who is slowly aging. From what I heard, it's already been 50 years since I started serving in the Order as a Kingdom Knight..
Leon summoned this old knight aside to indirectly refuse his participation in the war..
"Lord Zereah. This orc conquest is a war to subdue the wandering orc champions. It might be a bit dangerous for you to go out.."
I said it indirectly, but in the end, I meant to send it back. Many knights could feel this as an insult, or they could feel it as consideration..
No matter how he received it, Leon had no intention of letting him join the battlefield..
For a man who had not completely lost his knowledge and experience on Earth, being in his eighties was not an age where he could be sent into battle..
This is because, with the exception of super-powered creatures like the Holy Grail Knight, even knights ultimately do not exceed the limits of humans..
"Honorable Grail Knight of Light and Justice, please give me the lowest position. It doesn't matter whether you mingle with the commoners or raise the pike among the men-at-arms."
It was a great insult to the knight. Heavy armored knights, who should seek glory with honor, would fight mixed with light cavalry or general infantry.?
It meant giving up even the chance to win glory..
"Why do you want to go to war like that? There are other ways to achieve glory."
"Honor and glory are not the only things that matter. This is my attitude toward life.."
Leon realized the uprightness of this wretched, foolish and ridiculed knight..
Sometimes I roll around in the mud with monsters, sometimes I join forces with mercenaries to earn travel expenses, and sometimes I climb a mountain full of thunder and thunder without any equipment.──
"You are just faithful to every moment.."
Leon had a feeling that this man would be like this until the moment he died..
* * * *
dawn. A time when the sun has not yet risen.
Orcs' lives are honest..
Wake up in the morning, eat at lunch, fight in the afternoon, eat in the evening, and sleep at night..
It could be said to be the same as humans, but it could be said to be much simpler and 'ignorant' compared to humans who split their time or sometimes switch between day and night..
Be simply strong and live simply. The idea of a creature called an orc.
So, surprisingly, the weaknesses of the Orcs are clear. They were vulnerable to raids at night.
-It's fire!
-the tent caught fire!
No, it's Hongdu in the night. The orcs had to wake up startled by the fire rising in a corner of the camp..
"What's going on?!"
Molkan, one of the orc tribe leaders mobilized for this war, caught the fussing orc and asked him:.
"The food warehouse is on fire! The humans attacked!"
"The security must have been done by things that smell like animals.?"
"I don't know either!"
There were not only orcs here, but also barbarians who worshiped beast gods. They must have been on night watch.…….
"stupid humans!"
But there will also be an unfair side to them..
The number of people in front of the canyon is only a few hundred. On the other hand, tens of thousands of.
No matter how many thousands of orcs were slaughtered during the day, their numbers were overwhelming. You can't make a night raid on them like that??
And that too, ‘just the two of us’..
"The smell of burning animals is truly delicious.."
"Yes, Your Majesty.."
Beyond the burning flames. Two knights were watching this under the cover of darkness..
Needless to say, Leon and Zereah. The two Holy Grail Knights made a night raid on the Orcs' camp..
Because they were all-purpose Holy Grail Knights who possessed transcendental strength and could handle all situations, they were able to cause great damage to the Orc camp with just two night raids..
"Your Majesty, you could have left this matter to me alone.."
"Don't try to take all the glory, friend. Jim just wants to hear the words of those beasts.."
"It was easier now that His Majesty was here.."
"Well, it would have been easier if we had Queen Spero or Sir Spinner.."
"Queen Spero and... Do you mean Lord Spinner??"
It was a connection that Leon made in another world. Of course he doesn't know.
"There's nothing to worry about. If you're lucky, you might be able to join those two, so I'll explain then.."
"I'm looking forward to that.."
"But today it's just the two of us. We're going to have to get those orcs out in the middle of the night.."
At those words, Jereagi smiled crookedly. If the orcs had seen it, it was a smile that would have blasphemed them and called them ‘demons.’.
"There are two Holy Grail Knights here. Is there anything impossible?."
Holy Grail Knight.
Superweapons that surpass legions with a single body.
Zereah might have been alone, but with the most powerful Holy Grail Knight joining him, he decided that nothing was impossible..
"A moment that will ultimately end as a fleeting dream. We will extract as much information as possible for your Majesty.."
Zereah was willing to dedicate this moment to clarifying the truth about the convoy of relics that ended in failure in history..
And if.
If this moment doesn't go according to history.
If the Lionheart Kingdom at the time was faithfully recreated,.
'the man is coming.'
The strongest Holy Grail Knight comparable to the Lionheart King of his time..
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