Chapter 98
98Fire Acolyte Zereah(4)
800Space orbit at km altitude. An object falling from a celestial realm where no human footsteps can reach..
-Beep! Beep!
Pantheon Holy Grail Knight Yacht Spinner quickly moved the camera eye in response to a series of system warnings..
-Calculate falling speed and impact angle. 8 seconds to enter planetary orbit.
crash Yaphy escaped and jumped from the satellite that was broken by the 'Orc gaze' on the ground, but he calculated that if he entered the planet's orbit with his bare body like this, the fuselage would burn to the ground..
-Deceleration of fall speed. Escape sequence begins.
Yapi urgently opened his parachute. The fuselage will not burn if you slow down before entering planetary orbit. But that attempt failed due to a variable.
-Well done!
In fact, the first and last time the parachute was deployed, it was torn apart by pieces of the shattered satellite..
-Beep! Beep! Recalculate risk.
Measurement complete.
13 seconds from entry into orbit to complete burnout.
The main logic circuit of a strong artificial intelligence that makes hopeless calculations. But Yappy didn't give up.
-Prepare for emergency deceleration. Securing Materials.
Yappy's camera eye checks the sky as it is busy falling..
Even though it rotates dozens of times per second due to lack of center, the ultra-high-performance camera eye captures pieces of satellites in the sky in a split second..
Throws steel wires and entangles them in a perfectly calculated sequence of actions..
Three pieces, four pieces… Once you have the necessary parts, 3 seconds to orbit.
After pulling them into the recovery system, Yappy immediately took out the robot arm and replaced it with a welding tool..
-2… 1… Entering gravitational orbit
At that moment, Yapi's body begins to turn red. The moment it entered planetary orbit, the fuselage began to burn due to the acceleration..
Even asteroids burn up instantly the moment they enter planetary orbit. In other words, 13 seconds until Yappy burns up without a single arm remaining..
Yapi manipulated the steel wire to connect the pieces he had gathered..
The Holy Grail Knight is itself a hub of sacred power. Therefore, even this small body can endure to some extent. But taking that into account, 13 seconds.
-Emergency equipment production. use divine energy.
Yappy's mechanical arm moves busily. Even at the moment of being burned in real time, this steel grail knight moved in a thoroughly calculated manner..
Yes.
yakt spinner.
He is the Grail Knight of Heto, the god of iron and blacksmithing..
To him, the harsh environment in which his body and materials melt in real time are nothing more than calculation elements that are modified in real time.!
-Cheek! Chi-ik! Snap! Chii Iik!
8candle.
-Cough! Kang! Kang! Kyaang!
5candle.
-Additional supply required due to total loss of materials.
3candle.
-Fuselage disassembly. Use of all parts except those for minimum motion operation.
2candle.
The legs are removed, the back cover is cut off, and the armament is broken into pieces and bent..
1candle.
At that moment, what was completed was a thin and wide sphere-like object. The important thing is next.
Seongbeop <Tool production>
The holy power of the Holy Grail Knight is given to the sphere. At that very moment, the shape of the sphere transformed into a holy object endowed with the blacksmith god's holy power..
The next moment, it fell like a shooting star from the sky and landed in the middle of a meadow..
-Kwaaang!
Yappy bounces off the shattered sphere in the aftermath of the crash..
-Wow!
The impact of falling hits the entire body. No matter how bad he was, the fall from 800 km above caused quite a bit of damage to him..
All of the fuselage except the main computer has been shattered, and the broken camera eye makes it difficult to even perceive the surroundings..
If the sphere created with the holy method had not prevented the body from burning, the entire body would have been burned to the ground..
-Main System, Temp… more. Urgent-urgent, repair─p… blanket… blanket
It doesn't budge. Yappy tried to move the mechanical arm, but the body, which had already accumulated damage beyond its limit, did not move as intended..
But the only sound system noticed something approaching..
────
Something is being said. Yapi couldn't see his opponent's face, so he didn't know if it was an orc or a barbarian..
Yapi's limp torso was lifted up like that. A broken camera eye captures ‘red things’.
"Who are you? How do you use the sacred law??"
The moment Yappy heard those words, he mobilized all the power of his system to say one word..
* * * *
Beatrice bombarded the Elector and the imperial army indiscriminately while keeping a close eye on her opponent's movements..
'That's strange. I poured out enough firepower to destroy it a long time ago..'
The electors are holding out. They are holding on even in the face of a force that exceeds their capabilities..
'The convoy departed, but…….'
Suddenly, Beatrice realized that one of the three electors was missing. He disappeared in the pouring thunderstorm..
If they hide themselves to attack you, you can respond. The basics of group magic warfare are responses to approaching enemies..
It's a pity that there are no guard knights, but if you are not a Holy Grail knight and are lower than that, you can deal with it somehow..
'But what if… Unless you're hiding to attack me?'
Their top goal. A convoy of holy relics that has just departed. At that moment, Beatrice's gaze was about to turn towards the convoy that had escaped.──
"Where are you looking?."
A huge fireball being shot out. Beatrice blocked it with a wave of her hand, but the deployed barrier cracked..
'I became stronger than before?'
The two wizards wearing purple robes at the end of their gaze grinned. The wizards who had been hit by such a bombardment were turning pale with blood bleeding from the corners of their mouths..
To be exact, it is a feedback from the excessive use of magical power while deploying the barrier..
once. You can defeat it by hitting it properly once. Beatrice snapped her fingers again..
Tsushima <The Death Eye of Destruction)>
An eerie purple color forming in space. They headed towards the Electors at the speed of light..
"Hmm?"
Absolutely stunning. Mixed with fakes here, six streams of death are shooting out from all directions..
Originally, it would have been an execution time where they would not have been able to react because they were exhausted..
<Expansion of the area of effect>, <Heavy activation>──
<HYPER SPELL BREAK)>
The magic linked by the two electors breaks down Beatrice's magic..
Although it is common to nullify an opponent's spell in an anti-magic battle, Beatrice's anti-magic sword must have exceeded the limit of what they can disassemble..
But nothing changes. Beatrice is a huge magic power in itself, but its true value lies in the power of providence that utilizes the magic reverberations scattered in the air..
Tsushima <Magic circulation>
In this huge magic battle, she is truly invincible. There is no way she will lose her magic power against the same magic user..
"Ugh…!"
It was then. Just when he was trying to circulate his own magic and the magic of the electors, a foreign object came in..
"Magi?"
The magic power absorbed was clearly foreign. Beatrice knows this all too well..
"……You sold your soul to the devil."
"I never thought they would push us this far."
The eyes of the electors sank coldly..
Originally, it shouldn't have been revealed here. At least 2 years later... A power that will be revealed only after the grand ceremony of the elected emperor is over..
But the variable called Beatrice was strong enough to force them to break the rules..
Considering the defensive situation and the gravity of the mission, it would be better to take a gamble here than to have the two Electors die if the mission fails..
<Malicious Advent>
Chaotic exploration. Great Demon 《Gendar》
<Malicious Advent>
A corrosive lust. Great Demon 《Nugol》
An evil magic began to engulf the electors..
* * * *
While Beatrice was alone in holding down the imperial army, Hari, Daeseong, and Zereah's convoy of relics drove like crazy towards the Lionheart border..
"We have to hurry!"
Zereah rode the horse without hesitation while holding the box containing the holy relic. The warhorses of the Lionheart Kingdom are the best in the world. Therefore, there is bound to be someone who falls behind..
"Ugh… ! Come on, try a little harder!"
Hari and Daesung. The horses that Leon purchased in Jeju Island are not even basic in his opinion..
The two men's horses were not enough to chase Lionheart's steed, and naturally they were lagging behind..
"Well, don’t worry about us! Let's go first──"
It was then. A loud noise is heard from behind Hari. Koo Dae-seong shouted.
"Oh, the Imperial Army is coming.!"
Cavalry in black armor pursue the rear of the convoy fiercely..
imperial guard.
Imperial Guard Division of the Emperor. In other words, the military group that acts on behalf of the emperor only handles the highest-quality warhorses that are comparable to Lionheart's warhorses..
"Where are you going?!"
The division commander at the head was Wolfhard. Known as Wolfhard of Superpower, one of the strongest men in the empire..
His black horse quickly closed the distance and pounced on Hari's back..
"Ugh…!"
Hari wields the sacred law. Her flame engulfed Wolfhard's armor, but that was all..
Pure concept <armor>
The strongest armor passed down from generation to generation to the commander of the Imperial Guard division, known as the emperor's protector. That armor truly surpasses that of the Holy Grail Knight..
The flames that Hari wielded were at the level of producing soot on the armor..
"Die, god's whore."
Wolfhard wields a two-handed greatsword with one hand. Hari gave up even holding on to the reins of his horse and turned back to block his sword.…….
-Boom!
Hari bounces with the sound of colliding with the cannon. She pops like a baseball! She did and she flew and rolled on her floor.
"Ha, Miss Han Ha-ri!"
Daesung's voice bounced off Ha-ri so quickly that she couldn't even reach him. Wolfhard jumped from his horse.
He had a duty to destroy them before they reached the Lionheart border..
"I'll kill you all here.!"
At that moment, you connect yourself with the malicious person you have ‘contracted’ with..
<Malicious Advent>
Ruthless destruction. Great Demon 《Knua》
Like the two Electors, a voice that reaches into a space that transcends dimensions. Accordingly, the subject of the contract extends his hand towards them..
-Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Wolfhard's armor expanded as if it would break. This is because the body inside him exploded in an instant..
However, the Imperial Treasure readjusts its size depending on the wearer. Wolfhard, whose armor was readjusted in an instant, had a terrible deformity..
Blood-red brilliance flashed around the eyes, and veins of blood that looked like they were about to explode appeared on the exposed flesh..
Wolfhard was already big, but now he is twice as big..
Everyone had a hunch. something has changed.
It's not just the body expanding. The providence of this world has become distorted, and entities that should not exist have revealed their evil nature..
Aside from that, Wolfhard landed on the ground and blew out his vicious breath... begins to cover the ground.
-Quang! bang! Quang! bang!
It was a terrible binge. Just running on the ground makes this loud noise..
Wolfhard passed by without even paying attention to Gu Dae-seong and only turned to Zereah, who had the holy relic..
"Stop it!"
Stella ordered. Commoner riders turn around. At that moment, they were ready to die.
"For Lionheart!"
"For the Lionheart King!!"
In an instant, the riders turned their horses and charged back at Wolfhard, clutching their spears. moment of collision──
-Wow!!
The spears that hit the armor break, the horses are smashed, and the bodies of the riders fly into the sky..
Just a collision takes 3 seconds for the riders to be wiped out..
"Thank you, loyal soldiers.."
13m from the ground. A female knight with red hair lowers her sword. The light she believes in protects her sword and transforms it into a holy sword that drives away evil spirits..
Holy Law <Opening the Holy Sword>
Wolfhard was swept away with the black flash she struck. This strike, which is fatal to evil species, is powerful enough to cut down even a high-class demon in one blow..
"what…!?"
But Wolfhard endured it. He swooped down on the armor like a fly and caught Stella..
"Pfft!?"
"A sassy bitch. die!"
The moment Wolfhard was about to snap Stella's neck, a sharp flash of light passed by Wolfhard..
"……!"
Wolfhard retreats, leaving Stella behind in a threatening situation. A middle-aged knight appears in his field of vision..
"Zereah……."
Zereah. That past alter ego blocked Wolfhard..
"Are you, a fool from back in the day who wasn't even a Holy Grail Knight, going to stop me?."
Wolfhard knew Zereah. It was natural that he was a famous monk even in his youth..
A practitioner who found the path of God by wandering not only in kingdoms, but also in empires and even in the distant East. He was laughed at by everyone for being foolish, but he eventually achieved the task of becoming a Holy Grail Knight..
Clearly, Holy Grail Knight Zereah is an amazing man. He deserved the most honorable place singing the twilight.
But the interest is not right in front of you. A being that has not yet bloomed, is just a stuffed past moment..
Division commander of the Imperial Guard and Elector of the Empire. He is not a being compared to himself, a contractor of the Great Devil Knua..
"If you want to defeat me, you'll have to bring at least a Holy Grail Knight.!"
"The Empire is really starting to get cocky too. Since when did the Holy Grail Knight become a topic of discussion for you?."
"This guy……."
Wolfhard glared at Zereah, who was acting arrogantly. I'm thinking of borrowing the power of the holy things.──
"You! where is the holy relic!"
does not exist. The reliquary that Zereah was holding just a moment ago is no longer visible. For a moment, Wolfhard saw someone running without stopping in his field of vision..
A trivial soldier riding on Zereah's warhorse with a red-haired priestess who was thrown away by the first attack..
That scum that I ignored because it wasn't worth killing was holding the reliquary and widening the distance.!
"shallow number…!"
Wolfhard tried to run straight towards Gu Dae-seong, but not only Zerea but also Stella joined in to stop him..
"These weaklings…!"
When Wolfhard swung his great sword, the two barely managed to block it. Wolfhard immediately ordered the Imperial Guard to pursue Koo Dae-seong, but there are others who stand in their way..
A rider with a broken arm, a knight who lost his horse. Every moveable member of the relic convoy blocked the Imperial Guard..
Among them, there were some who were coughing up blood as if they were going to die at any moment..
Stella shouts.
"Glorious knights and soldiers of the Lionheart! Leader of the convoy! Stella Vermilion commands! Balgeom…!"
Those who drew their swords without the slightest hesitation. Even in the face of overwhelming death, their eyes are full of fighting spirit..
"Today we die here!"
""I will uphold your name.!!""
Horsemen charging forward with great momentum. The Imperial Guards are rather overwhelmed by their persistent spirit..
Not only knights, but even commoners and commoners fight like knights, risking their lives. No wonder they get sick of it.
"These foolish fanatics. the dogs of the gods…!"
Wolfhard didn't like that for a long time..
The empire is a country with a strict class system. There, nobles are noble beings and commoners are mere expendable goods..
On the other hand, the kingdom was also a class system, but its society was quite different from that of the empire..
The kingdom's nobles and knights, who upheld utter poverty, noble oaths, and just rules with their lives, willingly threw down their lives in front of God's code..
Even the common people they had sworn to protect willingly offered their loyalty and service in response..
It was quite different from the empire that refused to serve God under the pretext of human greed and autonomy..
Empires and kingdoms. That's how the gap between the two countries widened..
"You guys... ! They are livestock that have abandoned their ability to judge for themselves.!"
Wolfhard's great sword crushed Zereah. Just an executor... He broke both of his knees just by blocking Wolfhard's power, which was amplified by the power of the Archdemon..
"Lord Zereah!"
"Don't worry about me!"
Zereah actually took Wolfhard's sword. He attempted to block his movements by driving a large sword into his body..
"You idiot! The power gap is on a whole different level.!"
However, Wolfhard pulled out his sword with incredible strength and trampled on Zereah. His sword struck Stella and her body rolled on the floor like a thrown ball..
"Hmm…!"
It was then. Zereah, who had been killed by Wolffhardt, stood up straight away. He is now past middle age and has the appearance of a young man..
'Resurrection speed has increased?'
It was strange, but Wolfhard didn't care. Now he wasn't even an acolyte.
"Kingdom Knight Sir Zereah. How many times can I survive now??"
"Until the moment she takes this life."
Zereah attacked, risking death. The difference in power is too big. However, the Acolyte Knight Zereah Gun, the Kingdom Knight Zereegan──The Knight of Stealth Zereah Gun.
"Huh... Heo Eok…!"
He stands up again. He did not give up in the face of a great evil he could not face..
"Is this the last time? A fresh-faced child whose foolishness has disappeared. Even your body wouldn't be enough to defeat me.."
"……It's amazing."
young… No, said the boy knight who had just revealed his youthful form..
"In the end, he became a Holy Grail Knight. The goddess chose this lacking knight.."
Zereah's body is bleeding and shaking from anemia. The armor was broken, the whole body was dirty... Those eyes were flawless and clear..
"The Holy Grail Knight is to carry out the quest of the gods... In order to finally face it and carry out that task... Those who give their whole life."
"Their lives are the most beautiful flowers blooming in countless faiths... . That dazzling fame was my dream, my goal."
Zereah raised his sword. The rapier raised high shed a sharp anticipation as if it would pierce the sky..
Even when his armor and body were broken and scattered, his sword and eyes were extremely clear and clean..
Even among the many talented knights, he is a dull man who has seen his limits time and time again..
A person who endured his life in front of the goddess who urged him to give up because he could not see his foolish path..
Finally, after 70 years of wandering, I was given an impossible task..
"O woman who presides over the end of all things.."
"Administrator of the underworld and sinners."
"O boatman who guides mortals from the lowest places."
Everyone said it was impossible.
He advised that it was the goddess's will to give up..
"please hear my voice."
"God bless your knight."
But the knight attempted the impossible.
The challenge did not require evaluation from others..
I didn't find any reason why the impossible should be excluded from the challenge..
In the end, I replaced the impossible with the possible and overcame death..
And it was pleasing to the goddess of death..
[My wife will protect you..]
Beyond time and space, towards the still foolish and honest knight---the goddess smiles at the being who only reproduced that history..
That's enough.
The fool sings of the end of twilight.
"death is with me."
Zereah's momentum grows like a storm. Wolfhard realized that the inexperienced young knight was different from before..
"Nothing changes!"
A sword is heard. As a signal, Zereah's new model was fired like a cannonball..
"I am not immortal."
"I fight wearing something immortal.."
"Destined to overcome mortality and triumph."
* * * *
the battle is over.
The fight between the Relic Convoy and the Imperial Guard was an unwinnable one from the beginning..
A small number of them, most of whom are commoners, and the strongest elites of the empire. No matter how much the momentum increases, the weapons are on a different level..
The only painful thing is that I ended up spending over 30 minutes risking my life to deal with the attacking convoy..
A man who was at most a knight-errant held on to the Imperial Guard division commander Wolfhard until the very end..
"Damn fanatics!!"
Wolfhard kicked in anger at the traces of Zereah, who had disappeared into smoke. Immediately, I grabbed the wound on the back of his neck..
Just a handyman. At best, I almost got hit by a knight-errant. He would have been the one to have his throat pierced and die if he had not been demonized by Malignant Advent..
Wolfhard began to feel afraid inside. The people in this damn kingdom are this guy and that guy and they are crazy fanatics..
"dismissal… ! It's not too late! Even if you ride a horse to the Lionheart border, it will take at least half a day, so you can chase it from now on.!"
"Chase them right away! The sacred object must be recovered!"
Wolfhard did not get on the horse. The effects of Malicious Advent can still be maintained for several more hours. It would be much faster to run barefoot..
"Sir, how should we handle the interest??"
At that time, one of the Imperial Guards pointed to the surviving Knight of Lionheart. The woman with scars all over her body was Stella, the leader of the convoy..
"Huh... Heo Eok…!"
She didn't even have enough strength to lift the sword, barely holding it with both hands, but the spirit in her eyes still didn't disappear..
"Deal with it. leaves no survivors."
Before the chase began, the Imperial Guard aimed their spears at the dying female knight. Even though she had exhausted all her holy power, Stella held the sword again..
"In Lionheart……."
Offering his death to the kingdom.
A loyal knight sings of his final glory.
"There is glory──!?"
At that moment, Stella felt her skin shaking..
My lips are swollen and the air is burning. Everyone felt that this was an obvious abnormality and inadvertently looked up at the sky..
"ah……."
It was a shooting star. A meteor falling and burning itself.
The red gas that decorates the sky burns the entire world's atmosphere and even evaporates the clouds. The sky burns red and red rain pours down and evaporates repeatedly..
"……!"
It was a strange phenomenon that could not have happened..
The great magic of the empire is the great magic of the weather manipulation system, achieved by overlapping and reinforcing spells over and over again..
But just by falling, it turns the sky red..
-Kwaang!
The meteor that fell from the sky created a huge crater and exploded in its wake in all directions..
The red knight appears with a huge explosion that destroys the surroundings in an instant..
Full body armor as red as a scarf.
One in each hand, a huge sword that is impossible for even several men to lift..
What scares me more than anything is the swirling flames. The flame that seemed to be completely consumed by just touching it was not a flame if you looked closely..
The spiritual power flowing from the whole body is just overflowing to the point where it can be seen..
"Ah, ah……."
Warriors in black armor tremble in fear.
No human being of this era would know that legend..
"slaughterer……."
"beheading knight…….
"god's wrath……."
"……witch hunter."
"agent of punishment."
"Warrider of Doom."
The youngest Holy Grail Knight, the strongest Holy Grail Knight of his time, comparable to the reputation of the demon slayer Lionheart..
"I am Vulcan! I am Vulcan!!"
Holy Grail Knight of War and Flame.
The strongest Holy Grail Knight of this era poured out his fierce anger..
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