Episode 146 〈In the name of the Holy King. 〉
The wyvern flew low and passed by the people.
The dead raised their flagpoles and muskets into the sky.
“Long live the 7th Prince!”
“Long live His Majesty the Holy King!”
“The prosperous kingdom will last forever!”
The cheers of the people.
Before we knew it, heavy snow had fallen from the sky, staining the pilgrimage route white.
The dragon I saw passed over the snow field made of holy power.
-Do it loudly and flashily.
That’s what Hans said.
-What we are trying to do is prevention. After three days, they won’t be able to do anything.
Mist Kalf’s usage time is until the day of the succession ceremony.
After that, you will lose the power to open the portal.
so.
“This should be enough.”
I rested my cheek on the back of my hand on top of the Bone Dragon.
The square is just a little while away.
A big statue there.
All you have to do is pray to the statue of Goddess Gaia for 5 minutes and then return to the imperial palace.
“My body aches.”
My whole body was tingling and I felt like I was going to suffer from muscle pain tonight.
Elise’s Resonance Summoned this dragon using the armrests of the Aztalune throne and Amon’s spellbook.
We have to keep doing this until the next 20 minutes until the pilgrimage ceremony.
I used my mind’s eye to look around at the crowd around me.
Because there were so many people, it was difficult to distinguish them.
Some even have their faces covered.
Either there were no vampires, or they ran away after seeing this scene, or Hans and I were just worried.
While I was lost in those thoughts, I saw the statue of Goddess Gaia in the distance.
A whopping 20m.
We reached the majestic statue of the goddess.
The waiting paladins under Charlotte’s command are preparing for the prayer ceremony.
Holy undead surround the square and line up.
The Bone Dragon stopped in front of the statue and lowered its head.
I stood up from the throne.
He took a step and stepped on the dragon’s spine, passed through its cervical vertebrae and jumped off its skull.
I slowly looked up at the statue of the goddess.
He has long hair, a feathered helmet, and is wearing elaborate armor and a sword at his waist.
What is the goddess of love, mercy and life?
The goddess looks like a battle fanatic.
As expected, the martial arts cult is extremely brutal.
Charlotte came up to me and whispered.
“Now you can say your prayers.”
In front of the goddess statue, there is a gorgeous altar and a Bible on top of it.
Numerous flowers are decorated on the left and right.
I walked there.
As we stood tall in front of the goddess statue, the cheers of the people gradually decreased.
A solemn atmosphere.
Only Ellis’ chant rang out.
I put my hands together and got down on one knee.
Holy undead, paladins, and the people all knelt down and prayed.
While praying, I narrowed my eyes.
It is now.
This is the only chance for a vampire to attack.
Now how will it come out?
Will you risk your life and commit suicide, or will you be scared and retreat?
Anyway, with this, you.
“Defeat is confirmed.”
I rolled up the corners of my mouth, closed my eyes, and prayed.
**
The Marquis of Kirum knelt in the crowd of people. He even bowed his head
with his clasped fingers pretending to pray. It was humiliating. Not only was it
not enough to be intimidated by the Holy King, but the Goddess of Life
He kneels down and bows his head.
It feels like he wants to shed bloody tears of misery.
“Now is the time.”
A small whisper rang out in the still silence.
Marquis Kirum was startled and turned his head.
Count Timon glared at the 7th prince in front of the goddess statue with bloodshot eyes.
My body was shaking and my reason couldn’t keep up with my emotions.
‘Count Timon has lost his mind!’
Now is the time to step down.
Count Timon was blinded by his desire for revenge.
When Count Timon tried to stand up, Marquis Kirum held his hand.
I shook my head.
The moment they wake up, it will attack them.
Look!
Others may not know, but the holy undead only pretend to pray.
Even though he is on his knees and bowing his head, he is not letting go of his weapon.
The Bone Dragon is searching for the people with its eyes flashing.
It looks like it’s looking for a vampire.
Everyone is kneeling and praying. If you stand up in a place like this, you will immediately become a target.
“I have no choice but to die anyway. marquis.”
The Marquis of Kirum looked at Count Timon’s held hand.
I could feel my skin melting through my loose clothes.
The body is melting and disappearing due to holy power.
Hearing even the saint’s hymn, it’s as if his complete extinction has been confirmed.
“So, I’ll try to struggle even if it’s just me.”
Count Timon’s eyes are full of determination.
A firm will to give that guy a shot even if it means dying.
There is nothing I can do to stop it.
Marquis Keyrum gently closed his eyes.
“All right. Then, Regis Veramin Grown….”
Marquis Keyrum called out the ancestors hidden in the crowd.
A word containing magical power.
Sijos spread out all over the place flinched.
Accordingly, the sacred undead responded all at once.
Hundreds of dead and bone dragons simultaneously glared at Marquis Kirum.
Magical power was detected.
“Marquis Keyrum?”
Count Timon’s eyes widened.
“It’s an order.”
The Marquis of Kirum used a commandment.
The holy dead rose from their seats. I grabbed my weapon.
“Knock down Holy King Allen Allfaults right now…!”
Kwasik!
Count Timon’s eyes widened.
In an instant, the dragon’s huge mouth bit off Marquis Kirum’s upper body.
“Ah…”
Count Timon let out a short exclamation.
The people near the Marquis of Kirum felt something strange.
They slowly opened their eyes.
Only the lower half of his body remained, burning.
He was entranced, but eventually let out a scream.
“ Caaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
“The four people are on fire!”
The prayer was interrupted.
All the people were screaming and panicking.
Count Timon gritted his teeth.
Now is the opportunity.
The only opportunity that the Marquis of Kirum sacrificed his life to create.
Now is the time!
“Seal the Holy King!”
Count Timon glared at Allen in front of the statue of a woman.
Even though vampires appeared and the people were in a state of panic, he did not care. He ignored them
.
He just prayed with a pious heart.
They looked down on themselves.
“Damn it, the body does what it wants…!” ”
Marquis Kirum’s words.
Accordingly, the vampires raised their magic power.
The eyes of the holy undead were focused.
They grabbed their weapons.
They glared at the vampires with burning eyes and aimed their muskets.
“Now wait a minute…!”
A bullet containing healing magic is fired, and the vampires among the people become a hive and disappear.
Corpses with holes all over their bodies burn.
“We have no choice but to move! Strike the Holy King!”
We’ve already been caught.
Marquis Kirum’s words, a ‘miracle’ called [Movement of Deception].
A force that vampires who had been brainwashed for a long time could not resist came into play.
“Let’s go!”
Vampires jumped up from all directions.
All the eyes of the undead were focused on the vampires.
-Eternal extinction to the false life.
A man in shining armor behind the dragon.
Berserker Kasim swung his great sword and cut down the vampire.
-Eternal annihilation to the master. Glory be to you.
Nasus, holding the musket, fires bullets.
Charlotte holds up her shield and overlaps her sword to protect Allen’s back.
Her eyes are focused on the vampires.
Count Timon has his chance now.
“There is nowhere to turn. .Now is the time…!”
It is time for the revival of vampires who have been ruined for thousands of years,
and he himself:
“I will become a hero in history!”
Count Timon moves his long fingers. He
draws a warp line.
The place he wants to head is behind the Holy King’s back.
The narrow space between him and Charlotte.
A warp line is drawn.
He lowers his palm and injects magical power.
Count Timon’s body becomes a molecular molecule. It was split into units.
His vision also darkened, and when it recovered, it was behind Allen’s back.
At that time, the 7th Prince’s prayer ended.
“Hans was right.”
Allen waved his hand and summoned a musket.
At the same time, Charlotte turned around in surprise and swung her sword.
Count Timon took out a jewel from his pocket and pointed it at the back of Allen’s head.
“Don’t move!”
Following Count Timon’s shout, Charlotte’s sword stopped.
This was right after the sword filled with holy power cut off part of Count Timon’s neck.
Additionally, the musket summoned by Allen was aimed at Count Timon’s front.
Allen was showing his back. I just turned my head and glared at Count Timon.
“I told you not to move.”
Count Timon let out a rough breath.
The jewel in his hand.
The heart of Mist Calf.
Powerful magical energy was swirling there.
Allen frowned as he looked at it.
“As soon as you use holy power, this heart will react. .”
Also, the portal was designed to open even if he died.
“If that happens, this place will become hell.”
Count Timon gasped.
It felt like his body was falling apart.
“You will be trapped in purgatory, and the dead in purgatory will come out.”
Count Timon curled the corners of his mouth.
No matter how prepared he was, the bastard was too caught off guard, so he probably didn’t know he would get this close.
“Do you think that will be useful?”
The 7th Prince said with an indifferent expression.
Count Timon broke into a cold sweat.
His neck was pierced by a sword and a gun was pointed at the front of his head.
Ellis’ chant disturbed his mind.
“Yes, it will be no use. I will kill you. Even if it is sealed, Purgatory will be closed as long as the Holy Celt is alive. but!”
This is it.
“It will be our first victory.”
This is the vampire’s first victory.
It is also the seal of the feared Holy King, Allen Allfols.
If this incident becomes known on the continent, many vampires will gain courage and rise up.
The era of revolution arrives.
“I will become a hero and the hope of salvation for my people in this world!”
Now, the achievement of opening another dimension cannot be achieved and it disappears.
Rather than suffer like this, I would rather die as a hero.
At that time, Allen grinned.
“Do it.”
Count Timon forgot what to say.
“Charlotte, step back.”
Charlotte hesitated at Allen’s words,
“It’s an order.”
Charlotte carefully pulled out the sword stuck in Count Timon.
Charlotte stepped back, lowered her posture and raised her shield.
She was ready to step out at any time.
Count Timon glared at the 7th prince.
‘You bit your subordinate?’
What kind of confidence do you mean?
No, don’t be afraid.
You’ve already lost everything.
It’s foolish to be afraid of gambling with nothing to lose .
Allen opened his mouth.
“You’re delusional, Count. What you want is my seal and the vampire’s first victory. Called?”
Allen snorted as if it were insignificant.
“What do you think will happen if that fails?”
“what?”
“Do you know what kind of place this is?”
The 7th prince stands up.
Count Timon hesitates and takes a step back.
Allen looked back.
There is no hesitation in action.
There is the heart of Mist Kalf that can be sealed right in front of you.
This seemingly good behavior seems like a provocation.
“It is the succession ceremony of the Holy King.”
Count Timon flinched.
Allen dropped the musket on the floor and spread his hands.
“And the vampires got scared and attacked the Holy King’s succession ceremony. But what if I fail?”
Count Timon’s eyes gradually widened.
I turned my shaky head and looked around.
The vampires have already been killed.
People are filled with fear.
But he is not leaving.
An expression filled with fear, but an expression of anticipation and longing for something.
Countless people came from all over the continent.
We are looking at the Holy King who has descended on this world and the vampires who are trying to stop him.
What if I lose right now?
Allen smiled crookedly.
“I guess I’m finally coming to my senses now.”
…The vampires would be admitting a massive defeat.
Fear surged in Count Timon’s heart.
Fear dominates reason.
The defeat of all vampires is determined by oneself alone.
“Roll your head and struggle.”
Allen raised his head and sneered.
“Think of a way to overcome this situation, Count.”
Count Timon’s gaze wavered.
My teeth chattered and chattered.
The opponent has knowledge of warp.
No, he has a much higher understanding of things about other dimensions than he does.
What does that mean?
‘Preparing for warp.’
At that time, Count Timon felt a sign of presence behind him.
Richie exhales.
Nasus raises his musket and aims.
This is the one who disrupted the warp in the ice castle.
‘Are you acting with confidence in Richie?’
No, that can’t be possible.
No matter how much of a lich he is, it only confuses the magic power using Mist Calf’s heart even more.
He plans to immediately interpret the warp gate he will create and destroy it.
He is in arrogance.
I can’t help but think that way.
‘It’s impossible, he’ll never be able to interpret it.’
There is no way to stop it from using the 1,500 years of knowledge it has created.
Count Timon glared at Allen with wide eyes.
Count Timon’s breathing became rough.
“Whoa…. haa…. haaaaaaaaaaah!”
Count Timon infused magic into the heart of Mist Calf.
The jewels tremble as if the heart is reacting.
The surrounding space becomes distorted.
A line as thin as a sheet of paper appeared in the air.
Dimensional Gate.
Warp gate connected to Purgatory.
It is opening.
“I will seal you away.”
Count Timon shook his head.
The knowledge in my head quickly engraves runes and encrypts the portal.
“And I’ll tell the whole world about this.”
Count Timon’s body is crushed.
“We know that the vampires of our people have achieved victory!”
The thin line opened like a living creature’s mouth.
Allen’s eyes widened.
I looked into the warp gate.
It was hell.
A world stained with gray light.
The entire earth is made of flesh, and there are seas and lakes made of blood.
The withered trees moved, and strange zombie-like corpses rolled around and walked around, preying on their own kind.
A scream echoes from the sky and a huge ship, hundreds of meters long, made of bones passes by.
Another world.
A perfect portal that is completely different from the warp gate created by the necromancer.
purgatory.
It was opened.
“Is it open…?”
When Allen saw that, he was mesmerized and lowered his head.
Count Timon burst out laughing at that sight.
After all, it was nothing more than a bluff.
He just wanted to scare them so they wouldn’t open the warp.
“Holy King, be afraid! Your cursed power and body are sealed within this…!”
“Thank you, Count Timon.”
Allen touched his forehead and then raised his head.
Allen is smiling.
It is a smile that is so cruel and mean-spirited.
“You…”
That look was like…
“You opened the gates of hell for vampires to go to.”
He looked like the devil from a fairy tale.