Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 189



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Episode 189 Corruption, division, injustice (2)

Georg’s knight was taken aback by the wolf that suddenly appeared from the bush.

Usually, wolves dislike the smell of metal and avoid it. Especially when so many people are moving around. The knight was surprised, but because so many people were moving, he thought he had missed the right time to run away and pulled out his sword. With an important battle just around the corner, I couldn’t waste my time with wolves.

Wow! The wolf rushed in with a loud noise. The moment the knight calmly tried to cut down the wolf, an owl suddenly flew from a tree and landed on his head.

Owl in broad daylight? While the knight was panicking, the owl’s claws left a deep wound in his eye. Then, the wolf bit the knight’s leg and hung down. The horse felt the knight’s embarrassment. The knight, unable to even close his eyes, was thrown to the ground.

A shock that takes your breath away.

The knight shouted, or rather screamed, and swung his sword wildly. At that time, a wild boar came running from somewhere and hit his chest. Due to his mysterious strength, the knight rolled several times and then got up with difficulty.

An animal could not kill Knight Georg. I can’t explain this strange thing, but… … He chanted the Elil prayer and tried to brandish his sword. But at that moment, what came out of his mouth was not a prayer, but a wet rat.

“Cluck, clack, clack.”

The knight felt strange and creepy things growing and buzzing inside his body. The fishy smell of animals biting at his internal organs and choking him rose up his nose.

At that moment, the wolf bit him on the back of the neck.

There was no screaming.

Things like this were happening all over the rear of Georg’s army.

The harm of the witch Hecatli was known throughout the Elil Kingdom, so of course Georg was well aware of it. But I couldn’t figure out why this had happened now. But they soon remembered one reason.

“The Holy Grail Knight is over there, not here!!”

Knight Georg shouted as he took off his armor to remove the leeches that had sprouted all over his body.

There was only one reason that could be assumed. The witches suffered serious damage from the Holy Grail Knight and vowed revenge. Georg was well aware of that incident.

And finally, the witches have come for revenge!

Exactly when they are fighting!

Well, to be exact, they are not Isaac, but the enemies fighting him, but to the witches, they all seemed to be the same Elil Knights. So he must have attacked them without thinking… … I believed that

‘The witch is so stupid that she can’t tell the difference between Aldeon and Georg.’

That was more realistic than the assumption that ‘the witches have actually become servants of the Holy Grail Knight and are attacking Georg’s army under his orders.’

“from now on! We must move forward! Our enemy is not a mountain animal or anything, but the Aldeon army! Fight against enemies with spears and swords!”

Bilon was constantly yelling.

He tried his best to bring the knights who were still in the back row forward. At that time, an even more despairing scene appeared before his eyes. Countless flags, knights, and soldiers were appearing one after another from the rear, left, and right of Aldeon’s army.

The nobles who had returned to their territory due to the cavalry’s disturbance had now joined them.

It was difficult to see it as a coincidence. It was clear that the timing was intentional.

“Billon! We must retreat! “If this continues, we will be annihilated!”

Calvert shouted after seeing the countless number of flags.

Bilon gritted his teeth.

The Aldeon army’s assault was right in front of them, but the soldiers could not ignore the screams behind them. Unlike other soldiers, Bilon was able to know that the Holy Grail Knight was behind Hecatli’s attack. He must have done something to appease Hecatli or make her submit.

And Billon had no intention of backing down from here.

“This is your chance to kill more of them! “All troops charge!”

“it’s crazy! Elil fights foolishly… … .”

At that moment, Bilon swung his spear and pierced Calvert’s neck. Calvert’s eyes widened. Bilon swung his spear again, knocking him down from the horse, spattering his blood.

“What a talkative old man! Demoralizing remarks are subject to summary punishment!”

Some knights exchanged glances at Bilon’s madness and then quickly began to retreat. It was the Knights of Elion, which did not belong to the cavalry. The knights agreed with Billon’s opinion and followed him, but were ordered by Lyanna to retreat immediately if they judged it to be a trap.

After seeing the Elion Knights retreating, Billon realized that the situation had become even more desperate. It was no use accusing them of cowardice.

Billon thought there was no need to worry about the Knights leaving the front line. In any case, his army will not die even if it dies. No matter how much damage he takes, all he has to do is retreat for a moment and then come back to life. Of course, the enemies will also feel strange, but before that, you will be able to cut off the heads of Ethelred and Isaac. Above all, he still had some tricks left.

As soon as Billon’s order was given, the soldiers chose to obey the order instead of thinking about it. Above all, it was much more honorable and glorious to fight Aldeon, a fellow human being, than to deal with the witch’s curse behind his back.

With countless shouts, Aldeon’s army and Georg’s army clashed.

***

The situation of the war itself went in the Aldeon army’s favor.

It was the terrain chosen by the Aldeon army, and it was the time when the Aldeon army wanted to fight, so it was natural. Above all, Hecatli’s presence caused Georg’s army to become very agitated in the beginning, making it impossible for him to display his full strength.

But Billon thought it didn’t matter. The fear of the Immortal Church was that no matter how much damage he suffered, he could be revived. In order to be revived, one must apostatize, but that does not mean one has forgotten one’s honor.

‘I have already seen the battlefield of the dead in Dawn’s Army!’

Bilon roared silently as he cut down a knight of Aldeon’s army.

There is not a single person who is born a follower of the Immortal Church. There is no one who chose the Immortal Church as their first faith. All were apostates of other faiths and people who left their hometowns.

These were people who chose earthly obsessions over heavenly glory.

Of course, among the opponents he fought, there were so many Elil believers that he was hit by his feet.

‘The glory of Elil? ‘There’s no reason to beg in death when you can get it in life!’

Bilon had not yet apostatized.

The miracle he had borrowed, ‘death insurance’, was activated upon death. If he does not destroy it before his death, his soul will automatically be mortgaged to the immortal Emperor Besek. However, he was already in a state of emotional apostasy in that he had no intention of canceling the death insurance.

There is only one thing he wants, even to the point of giving up everything he has achieved in life.

To restore the honor of my downtrodden brother.

He believed that it could only be achieved by drying up the seeds of the Aldeon royal family.

“Dry out the seed of the Aldeon royal family!”

Bilon roared wildly and swung his spear. With each swing he broke the necks of his soldiers and knocked knights off their horses. Although he was not a sword master, his strength and skills were comparable to that level.

Bilon knew that he could not become a sword master. He once longed for it and worked hard for it, but seeing his nephew, much younger than him, become a sword master first, made him accept that there were areas he could not reach through hard work.

However, he had reached the pinnacle of what was possible through effort.

“Holy Grail Knight! “Where is the Holy Grail Knight?”

Seeing Billon roaring while covered in blood, the Aldeon knights also distanced themselves as if they were fed up. Since the war situation was already tilted towards Aldeon’s army, Bilon, who was active and roaring alone, was almost surrounded. However, Billon, who did not care about his death and injuries, showed more fearsome power than anyone else.

“Come out, Holy Grail Knight!”

Bilon was convinced that there was no one else who could deal with Isaac other than himself at this point. Isaac will stab himself in the heart. Then he himself will instantly become undead, and he will bite the bastard. There was a fight that only immortals could do. The experienced Bilon knew very well what that fight would look like.

But there was no reply from Isaac.

Bilon was breathing heavily and felt something strange. If he were a Holy Grail Knight, he would be as active as himself, or even more active than himself, but he was not seen except at the beginning of the battle.

‘Wait, what about Ethelred?’

If there was no Holy Grail Knight, Ethelred would have to be cut down. But Ethelred was nowhere to be seen.

At that moment, Bilon felt his heart pounding.

‘I was deceived.’

Isaac’s interest was not Billon from the beginning.

His goal from beginning to end was to reach Elion Holy Land.

There was no interest in Villan, who tried to regain his honor even by becoming undead.

“Holy Grail Knight!!”

Bilon let out a scream like a scream while surrounded by the walls of countless soldiers and knights.

***

“It seems General Morse is doing well.”

Isaac muttered as he heard someone’s roar coming from beyond the hill. Ethelred kept looking back with an uneasy expression.

“I don’t know if it’s right for me to leave the soldiers and move alone.”

“What’s the problem if you leave the soldiers behind and run away alone? Rather, if you infiltrate a dangerous place, what’s the problem? “The drivers all understood.”

Isaac, Ethelred, and a small number of knights took advantage of the confusion of the battle to bypass Georg’s army and head to the Holy Land of Elion. This was possible because the cracks and confusion created by Hecatli blinded Georg.

If Aldeon’s army had a high probability of defeat, they would have simply chosen to fight, but due to the various plans laid by Isaac, Georg’s army was being defeated one-sidedly.

Billon was right in thinking that the outcome of a war is decided before it begins.

‘The moment I thought about borrowing the power of the Immortal Church, he was already defeated.’

The power of immortality is powerful, but that is all.

Those who become undead can enjoy the power of the church, but this is based on losing all the connections and reputation they have built up to that point.

Bilon must have been prepared for even that and wanted to win this war.

However, when Isaac realized the number, Bilon had no choice but to be defeated.

‘He won’t understand how I found out.’

Billon hid it quite thoroughly.

The smell of rotting corpses was hidden by the stench of the battlefield, and the cavalry, which was the main force, was deliberately forced to engage in guerrilla warfare outside the fortress instead of joining it. He hid his appearance with armor, and selected those who were willing to fight even if they became undead and took them on his side.

In fact, many of the knights, including Lyanna, were unaware of this. Even if he felt something strange, it was highly likely that he could not connect with the Immortal Church.

There was only one reason that Isaac noticed.

Because he already beat the Elil route.

A few years from now, the Immortal Church is firmly established in the Kingdom of Elil. They conscript dying knights from the Elil Kingdom and bring them into the Black Empire, weakening the power of the Dawn Army itself. But their purpose did not simply end there.

The true purpose of the Buddhist Order was in the holy land of Elion.

‘Luckily, it’s still only in the early stages, so we can uproot it.’

I was deeply worried because it was an incident that could lead to the destruction of the Elil Kingdom if I made a mistake. But fortunately, Billon did not have the authority to invade the Holy Land. If Lyanna had fallen for his trick, the worst thing would have happened.

Patter-patter… … The spring rain that had stopped for a while began to fall again. Isaac walked forward, smelling the water coming from the lake.

“Let’s hurry. “If we only arrive at the Holy Land of Elion, we can end the war faster.”

***

When they arrived at Elyon Castle, the gates were wide open and the drawbridge was down. It was only natural that Aldeon’s army had withdrawn and only Georg’s army was waiting to return.

Isaac could tell at a glance that there were only a few troops left in Elion Fortress.

But I couldn’t let down my guard. Georg’s army’s strongest strength will remain in Elion Fortress.

Isaac confidently approached the front of the castle.

Ethelred and the other knights looked exhausted, but Isaac was confident that Georg’s army remaining here would not attack any more. The most extreme and warlike would have already gone out with Bilon, leaving only skeptics and those who took Lyanna’s orders.

As Isaac and his group approached, soldiers were seen bustling about on the walls above Elion Fortress. Isaac approached slowly so that they could fully prepare themselves. Even when they finally passed the drawbridge and reached the castle gate, there was no one to stop or attack them.

The Aldeon knights also looked in disbelief, and even the soldiers of Georg’s army were the same.

At that time, a knight approached Isaac.

“General Lyanna Georg is waiting.”

The driver left only those words and went ahead. It was unclear whether he was speaking to Ethelred or Isaac. Ethelred exchanged a look with Isaac and followed behind the knight.

The place the driver guided us to was an empty ferry crossing leading to the holy land of Elion, on the other side of Elion Fortress.

The pouring spring rain was making ripples on the lake, and a thick fog was rising. The sound of pattering water drops chattered like the noise of onlookers. And on the surface of the lake filled with water mist, Lyanna Georg stood.

She was waiting for them like an old tombstone, taking in all the pouring rain.

Ethelred muttered in disbelief as she looked at that scene.

“on the water… … .”

“There is a bridge under the water. your majesty. “The rumor that there is a bridge in Elion Castle that leads to the holy land of Elion was true.”

The biggest role of Elion Fortress is closer to the ‘main gate’ than the protection of the holy land of Elion. Other than that, there was no particular strategic advantage, but the symbolic meaning was stronger than anything else. And Lyanna was the heir to the family that had guarded the gateway for dozens of generations.

She was carrying hundreds of years of history on her shoulders.

Lyanna slowly scratched the surface of the lake with her Lumiad. Pure white frost bloomed like flowers and dispersed with the flow of water.

The tip of her sword finally aimed at Isaac.

“It seems that the tongue of the Code of Light is stronger than the sword of Elil. “You broke Georg’s sword with just a few words.”

Isaac shrugged.

“We also did not accompany the Aldeon army. “Isn’t this fair?”

Then Isaac continued speaking calmly.

“And to be precise, I should say that the sword was broken not by me, but by the swordsman himself. You are the ones trying to wield a toothless and unmaintained sword. “I just pointed out the cracks.”

“That’s ridiculously true. “I am a believer in the Code of Light.”

‘I’m not even a god of the Code of Light.’

Even though Isaac thought to himself, he welcomed such misunderstandings. Looking at the reactions of the soldiers and knights remaining in Elion Fortress, it was clear that Lyanna had decided to surrender and accept defeat. Considering that there was an apostate in her clan and that he was controlling her military core, she could already see that she had lost all of her honor as a guardian of the Holy Land.

The honor that her ancestors had built up, her ancestors had all lost.

Isaac didn’t know what to make of this irony.

Lyanna, who held the holy sword Lumiad, named honor, had no honor, and Ethelred, who held Kaldbuch, named justice, had no justice.

‘It all happened because of the foolishness of our predecessors.’

Perhaps the time has come for the old old system to truly collapse. And now it was time to write a new history.

Lyanna stroked her rain-soaked hair and let out a long sigh. Her white breath blew long distances between the raindrops.

She looked blankly at Isaac, then turned to Ethelred.

“I lost all my pride, my honor, my cause. In every way, this war was your victory, Ethelred. “I don’t know if it was just from the time I started following the wishes of my elders.”

Swish, whiz. However, Lyanna fixed Lumiad and prepared to fight.

“But I don’t think you’re right, Majesty Ethelred or Grail Knight. The Holy Land is under threat, and pagans are trying to gain ground. “I don’t know what’s right anymore.”

“Lyanna… … .”

Ethelred tried to speak as if she couldn’t hold back. But Lyanna cut him off and declared:

“Now I am abandoning my family. Give up your position. “Let go of vain desires.”

She declared, gripping the knife tightly.

“Only Elil will use me as a sword to make a fair judgment here.”

Blah blah blah. The surface of the lake where Lyanna was standing froze violently, forming a glacier. At the same time, Lyanna, who had become a snowy demon and a pure white snowstorm, rushed in.

In the end, the end of the long fight was a duel.