Chapter 311 – 311. True Intent (2)
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In the words of the young priest,
As Ardena looked surprised, she hurriedly opened her mouth.
“Chief!”
“What you’re trying to kill… The target of revenge is the priests!”
Ill Reina, who tried to ignore the high elf womanizer’s cries, spoke to Corte with her eyes wide open.
What you want to kill
Those who want to take revenge even becoming the cursed King of Manma.
Is it because they have something in common because they both belonged to the ‘Arch of the Priestess’? Ilayna saw through at once that the people Corte wanted to avenge were the priests hidden behind the scenes.
“Because I was too.”
Leaving Liana’s arms open with her arms open, Ileyna took a step closer to Corte.
Fake priest,
And the former priest who became the demon king.
The two elves, forced to risk a tragic fate, glared at each other, recalling the culprit who made them live in fakes and vanity.
“Are you thinking of seeking peace and safety for your fellow countrymen by sacrificing the priests?”
“Okay!”
To Corte’s question, Ilaina answered with a confident voice without the slightest hesitation.
To him, Corte
She made an expression that she couldn’t understand the silver-haired elf girl who still cared for her compatriots.
“No matter how much you do for your compatriots, in the end, those compatriots will denounce you as a fake behind your back, calling you a counterfeit and pointing their fingers at you. All the efforts you’ve made so far will be denied. Even so… Even so, you mean for the sake of those proud compatriots?”
Fierce emotions began to linger on Corte’s expression, which had been cold and relentless as ice.
Hatred like a burning fire…
It contained anger and contempt toward the silver-haired young girl who stood proudly glaring at herself, and toward herself.
‘Is it because you’re still young? You can’t see reality properly. How the so-called compatriots turn cruel… I have no idea.’
Corté concludes that the reason Ilaina still has faith and trust in her compatriots is that she is not properly aware of her grim reality.
No,
I wanted to think so.
A person with the same fate as himself, facing the same fate, but with a different direction than himself… I turned my gaze away from the pure sincerity of the little girl.
“I am different from you. At least i… Even if I fall on the horse like you, I won’t kill my compatriots! You Coppola! I killed countless knights!!”
As Corte did,
Ileina also showed intense emotions as she glared at her elf, who had become the Demon Lord of Explosives.
She expressed her anger by screaming loudly.
She severely injured her maid of honor, Jean Coppola, whom she considered like her mother, and she murdered many of her court knights who tried to protect her.
To Ileina, who still trusts and loves her compatriots, her existence as Corte dos Liberia is nothing more than a monster, a devil who betrayed her compatriots.
“It was all worthless. She believed that she was the reincarnation of the first priest, and the fakes who worshiped those imitations as gods…. They were just fakes that weren’t even cheap.”
It’s just fake
Everything I’ve done so far….
The head of the priest who was only an imitation and all those who followed the imitation. Also, their allegiance and hearts devoted to imitations were nothing but fakes.
Corte, who had a greatly twisted mind, denied his value and significance, saying that everything he had, and everything that his successor Ileina had accumulated, was nothing more than fakes and imitations.
“Never fake! It’s true that I’ve been deceived so far… ! They fought hard with shining pride and pride! He never shied away from his duty! Don’t you dare insult them!!”
The sacrifice and dedication of our compatriots,
Ileina shouted with all her heart towards Corte, who was swearing that even the deaths of her compatriots were fakes without any value.
“… You inadvertently answered a worthless question.”
Witnessing Ilaina’s agitation and hesitation, Corte let out a sigh as he sensed that he had inadvertently been swept away by emotions.
Truly worthless… ,
It was a pointless conversation.
Why did I put my heart into that little girl? It was only necessary to get a way to the back where the priests were hiding.
Pointing out his mistake, Corté stretched out her hand toward Ilayna.
“Give me the new key.”
To go behind the scenes….
No old key
He needed a new key that the current priest had.
So Corte raided Maherit’s palace to obtain a new key belonging to Ileina, and even raided her villa, which she had chosen as her hiding place.
“No, high priest!”
Ardena shouted and pointed the tip of her holy sword at the scruff of Corte’s neck.
Showing sharp hostility,
She stopped Corte from trying to get what she called a ‘new key’ from Ilayna.
“What is this, Ardena? The priest you serve must have decided to hand over the key to me.”
“… He is no longer the head priest.”
“It’s not like you, it’s forced. Is it an influence from someone?”
“I have no reason to answer.”
Corte was the first to move in an imminent situation that seemed to explode at any moment.
To get a new key,
I must kill Ardena and Valencia.
Corté, who judged that, unleashed the power of her bomb, and made Ardena, Bari Theon, and Liana retreat as well as Ardena, who aimed the sword at her neck.
“Leana warrior commander, protect the priest!”
“Yes!”
As Ardena swung her holy sword, her dark green life force gushed out, suppressing her power of death.
Explosive killing that will inevitably take one’s life.
The life force of the world tree, which has the equivalent power, surrounded the power of an explosion and blocked its ability to kill.
“Please die as Corté dos Liberia.”
The holy sword carved a deep arc along with a brilliant cluster of lights like the constellations embroidering the night sky.
The sixth of the seven poles,
Gaeyang
The power of the bomb that was trying to take the lives of Bariteon, Liana, and Ilayna at the same time was removed.
At that, Corte involuntarily drooled, as if he couldn’t believe it.
“… Is it El Cid’s sword skill again?”
El Cid’s sword skills were expressed through Ardena.
Even a local weakness does not exist,
A weapon perfected by an oath of elves who crossed over to the east, called the realm of unmanned people.
Chilguk made up of a total of seven fasting meals made even Corte express disapproval.
“However… , El Cid’s sword skills aren’t without weaknesses.”
Having said that, Corté dropped the whip that was radiating the power of an explosion on the floor.
Long and nimble like a snake,
The worst weapon that took the lives of dozens of court knights was revealed again.
As the whip that had slaughtered her compatriots emerged, wrapped around Corte’s hand, Ardena narrowed her eyes, raising her alertness towards the power of her blast.
“You are the one who didn’t fully and perfectly master El Cid’s sword skills. Ardena.”
No matter how perfect your swordsmanship is,
If a swordsman who handles swordsmanship doesn’t wield it perfectly, it will only end up full of holes.
Corte figured it out.
Ardena had just begun learning the swordsmanship of her master, El Cid.
She saw her flaw in her rather clumsy skills.
“It’s unpleasant.”
As Corté swung the hilt of her whip wide with one hand, the snake of the black shadow moved.
With the sound of cutting the air,
The whip, which was only one stick, began to look like it was divided into several branches.
As if reaching the speed of sound,
At speeds that may have exceeded the speed of sound….
The whip was struck and whipped like a death that could never be avoided and prevented.
“Kheup!”
Ardena also wields a holy sword,
I took a step forward towards her death.
She whipped her whips while wielding the sword blade of Kaiyang, which intercepted all of the seven poles’ fasting and ranged attacks.
She overcame her death by parrying all the consecutive attacks that flew at a speed that transcended the speed of sound, too fast for the naked eye to perceive.
Hundreds of attacks that had been inflicted in a short moment were all knocked out with only one sword.
‘You hit all that?! Invisible… It seemed that the chain attacks continued hundreds of times… !!’
Without allowing even a single attack,
Ardena’s skill at whipping off all the whips containing the power of explosives with only her intuition and reflexes made Liana look astounded and startled.
“Did you say that I am a weakness?”
As she clears sharp chains,
Ardena narrowed her steps and reached Corte’s close range.
“But I also have strengths.”
Dark green light on the blade of the holy sword.
The life force of the world tree ignited as it flowed down the long sword body.
Life force pushed away the power of the explosion.
The ‘birth’ of the World Tree, the symbol of life, drove away the ‘death’ that unconditionally takes the life of the opponent.
The repulsive force that occurs when two forces located at different poles collide with each other. It was Ardena who had the upper hand in that repulsive force.
“The only power that can’t stand against the power of an explosion, literally… Is it superlative?”
Every time the whip was swung, the power of the explosion was scattered like a poisonous mushroom spewing out spores.
Even so, Ardena was fine.
She also went so far as to purify the surrounding space to a harmless environment surrounded by her explosive power.
‘The life force of the World Tree… It is the power to purify all the unclean things in this world and all the harmful things that threaten life.’
Seeing the deep green that pushed away the pitch-black shadow, Ardena felt confident.
With this power, it is possible.
It was possible because of this power.
What drives away death is birth,
Overcoming the power that takes away life will be the growth that embraces life.
“Keugh!”
As the blade Ardena wielded came close to her nose, Corte let out a drool.
Of course, the power of the explosion doesn’t work… He was beginning to feel alert to Ardena’s power to even purify it.
* * *
When the demon king of explosions and the demon king of tyranny appear at the same time in the land of the elves and exercise their power,
Maherit’s palace was still engulfed in chaos.
Toward the palace in the swamp of chaos,
A new threat that no one expected has begun to lurk.
“… The time has come for Corte dos Liberia to fulfill its pact. As a condition of opening the gate above Maherit’s palace, we will find a clue that will lead us back to the original world.”
Another One.
A stranger from another world,
Wanderers who longed to return to their original world, but never returned and ended up wandering the continent.
Refusing to appear in the world, strangers from another world who have been tracking clues to return to the original world began to appear in Maherit’s palace.
“What is the probability that that bitch will fool us?”
“The clues are already in our hands. The question is how to activate it… That is the answer.”
“Well. It means that you have definitely received the advance payment.”
Druin nodded his head in agreement with Vermouth’s words.
A white sword that shines in white silver and a famous sword that oscillates with dark blue waves,
Two swords were drawn at the same time.
The elven knights who caught sight of the humans who appeared in Maherit’s palace without any sign of any sign surrounded the surroundings in an instant like a swarm of ants that sensed a warning pheromone.
“Don’t kill me. Elves are not enemies.”
Vermouth said.
Druin revealed this to him.
“That’s a command I really like.”
As soon as the two swords were fully drawn out, stigmata were engraved in Druin’s eyes.
The other Another Ones did the same.
Red stigmata were formed on different parts of the body.
“Mo, everyone else wants… ?!”
“Like a Demon Lord Slayer… All stigmata… From the gods that humans serve… Those endowed with power….”
The elves were shocked to learn that the dozens of humans who appeared as if they were about to attack Maherit’s palace were all another one possessing divine powers.
Even the elves who have lived for a long time,
It was the first time seeing another one with so many people, so he put on a stunned expression.
“After finishing the work before the Demon King Slayer returns, quickly open the door and withdraw. Never make a mistake or be late.”
At Vermouth’s words, the other Ones each nodded.
