## Chapter 620 – God’S Atlantis
It didn’t make sense for all the villagers to be tight-lipped assassins.
I roamed around the village, questioning the villagers. Those who couldn’t answer my questions were immediately killed.
I didn’t have time to capture and interrogate them one by one. If they wouldn’t open their mouths, I was planning to just kill them all.
Of course, there were exceptions.
Women, especially those with striking beauty, were not killed but subdued and held captive. I planned to leisurely enjoy them after everything was over.
“You’re the 70th one. You’ll probably be tight-lipped too.”
I approached a villager with a blood-stained sword. He had pale skin and a seemingly weak demeanor. As I approached, his face turned ashen, and he trembled.
I raised my sword.
The man was startled, then knelt before me, bowing his head.
“I-I’ll talk! I’ll talk! Knight! Please spare me!”
“No, no! No!”
The blood-soaked village chief shouted. Judging by the chief’s reaction, this man must know something.
“Harma! No! No!!”
The chief kept shouting, saying no. But it had the opposite effect. The sight of the chief, with his limbs severed, teeth pulled out, and skin scraped from being dragged on the ground, only drove him further into fear.
“Let’s start with a simple question. What’s your name?”
“H-Harma.”
“What are you people?”
“W-we are assassins from the Thirst Legion.”
“Thirst Legion? Tell me more.”
The man began to speak. He initially stuttered, but once he found his voice, he poured out information like a flowing river.
The Thirst Legion was a legion specializing in contract killings. Assassination was their main task, and they didn’t shy away from theft either. They were quite well-known in the criminal underworld here.
“Who’s the legion master? Surely it’s not this village chief?”
“The village chief is the sub-master. We belong to the Thirst Legion, but we’re more like subcontractors. When a target appears, we wait for the target to come to the village or lure them in.”
“How do you lure them?”
“One of the villagers disguises themselves as a hunter or merchant, or a woman steps forward to lure them.”
“Are there cases where the target comes on their own, like me?”
“Yes. This is the only village nearby, so…”
It seems the villagers don’t actively go out to assassinate.
In other words, this village itself is a trap, and the villagers are the means of assassination.
“Are all the villagers assassins?”
“Only some have been trained as assassins.”
“You too?”
“…Yes. I didn’t become a formal assassin. If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have become an assassin. Knight, please spare me. I will never do anything like assassination again! I will live quietly! Please, just spare me!”
“……”
The man trembled.
And I trembled too. Not from fear, but from the desire to ejaculate inside Ridella’s pussy again.
“Hngghh…!”
I gripped Ridella’s buttocks tightly. My dick was still healthy.
“So the villagers know you’re assassins?”
“…Yes. They know.”
“So, you’re all in this together.”
“S-some people are forced to cooperate. I didn’t want to be an assassin originally. If my family circumstances had been better… Kuaaack?!”
I swung my sword. The man’s upper body was sliced, and blood and guts spilled out.
“Why, why…?!”
“The promise to spare you was a lie. Everyone in this village will die today. You tried to kill me, so you have to pay the price. Ah, the beauties are an exception. But you’re not a beauty, are you?”
“Gack!!”
I plunged my sword into his neck and moved again.
This time, I didn’t even ask the villagers questions. I killed them as I saw them. I spread my senses to kill those who were hiding.
“P-please spare me…”
It was a girl who was begging for her life, clasping her hands together. The girl who was holding a flower basket when I first entered the village.
My eyes shifted to the side of the girl. A boy was lying dead a little distance away.
“Why did he die?”
“He was poisoned…”
Suddenly poisoned and died?
I frowned. A scene flashed in my mind. I had taken the girl’s flowers and sprinkled them on the boy’s body.
“The flowers you were selling me were poisoned.”
Flustered.
The startled girl trembled and squeezed her eyes shut.
The reason they couldn’t detoxify it must be because they didn’t have the antidote, or because I was killing people.
‘Was I poisoned too?’
I didn’t feel anything particularly strange. My physical abilities might be so high that the poison was slow to take effect.
‘Well, it doesn’t matter. I used Complete Recovery, so even if I was poisoned, I would have recovered.’
I decided to take the girl with me instead of killing her. Even if I didn’t enjoy her now, she would become a beauty later, so it was a waste to kill her here.
I set the village on fire. To kill those who were hiding, avoiding my senses. Some of them quickly escaped out of the village and got away.
Under the night sky, a large fire blazed.
I turned around.
There were five beauties, including Ridella, and one girl. And one village chief.
‘The women should be sent to the desert. Fortunately, I can use the space teleportation scroll to go outside.’
I looked at the village chief. The sharp aura of the chief was gone. It seemed his spirit had died after seeing his wife, son, and daughter-in-law killed before his eyes.
I grabbed the village chief by the neck and threw him into the flames. The village chief’s scream was short.
“Don’t forget why you survived. Heh heh.”
The women who met my eyes trembled.
***
I sent all the women except Ridella to the desert. The reason I kept Ridella by my side was because she was the most beautiful, and it would be a shame to just let her go after she had killed me once.
In a situation where I had to walk without speaking anyway, having a fuck toy like her would make the walk more enjoyable.
“Is it here?”
“Yes. Yes. That’s right.”
Ridella, walking beside me, nodded urgently and spoke politely. It was the result of slowly training her over the past three days.
I put my hand inside Ridella’s clothes. Ridella silently accepted my hand without saying anything. Enjoying the soft feel of her breasts, I walked towards the city in front of me.
The 8,010th district, the city of Estor.
It was a city ruled by Baron Estor. To be honest, I didn’t even know who Baron Estor was.
“Halt.”
Two soldiers in full armor blocked my path.
“What is it?”
“Are you a knight of the Valderte Duchy?”
The soldiers recognized the cloak I was wearing.
“You have a good eye. I am Seong Yujin, a knight of Valderte. I’ll be stopping by the city for a while.”
I thought the soldiers would bow and step aside. Considering Elena’s reputation, they should do so immediately. But the soldiers didn’t move.
“Do you have a pass?”
“No.”
“I’m sorry, but even if you are a knight of the Valderte Duchy, you cannot enter without a pass.”
“……How can I get a pass?”
“You can get one issued within the city.”
“I see. I’ll get a pass after entering the city. Step aside.”
“As I said before, you cannot enter without a pass.”
“……I am a knight of Valderte.”
“Even if you are a knight of Valderte, there are no exceptions.”
I crossed my arms and glared at the soldiers.
“Are you playing with me right now?”
“That is the lord’s policy. I apologize.”
“Go tell the lord that I have come.”
“The lord has anticipated a situation like today and told us. There are no exceptions.”
I looked around. I saw a group of people camped in front of the right city wall. They were people without passes.
“Are they unable to enter because they don’t have passes either?”
“Yes. They can enter in ten days even without a pass.”
“I don’t understand. Why did you choose such a cumbersome system like a pass?”
“You wouldn’t know since you came from afar. Recently, unidentified people came and committed crimes and fled. The lord, worried about the city, implemented the pass system.”
“……When did it start?”
“Three days ago.”
“Was Baron Estor a neutral party?”
“……”
“You’re not answering.”
“That is not a question I can answer.”
I turned my head to the side. Ridella, sensing my gaze, shook her head.
“B-Baron Estor is an imperialist.”
“I see.”
I drew my Hwaryeon Bido and plunged it into the soldier’s face. The soldier next to him was shocked and shouted.
“Attack! It’s an attack!!”
I approached the soldier. The soldier swung his spear at me. I unleashed a blue sword aura on my blade, instantly cutting through the spear and armor.
Thud!
The city gate closed.
The soldiers inside the wall quickly moved to close the gate.
I clenched my left fist. Black energy writhed.
Heavenly Demon Divine Art (天魔神功) Dragon Fist (竜拳).
Kwaaaang!
The city gate was shattered, and the fragments flew backward and fell to the ground.
The soldiers blocked my path and surrounded me. The middle-aged man in the center distorted his face in anger and shouted at me.
“Knight of Valderte! What is the meaning of this?! This is not a place for you to cause trouble! Is your behavior the will of Valderte?!”
“No. It’s my will.”
Heavenly Demon Divine Art (天魔神功) Heavenly Demon Sword (天魔劍).
The blue sword aura at the end of the Hwaryeon Bido turned black.
The black sword aura, which had been flickering like flames, began to condense as if compressed on the blade. There was no burning sword aura. Instead, there was only the black aura wrapped around the blade.
A realm beyond sword aura.
Sword Qi (劍罡).
I swung my sword horizontally.
A black line was drawn, separating the upper and lower bodies of the soldiers who had surrounded me. Red blood stained the ground.
“Kyaaaaaaah!”
With screams, the citizens around me began to flee.
“Ridella.”
“Yes, yes!”
“Lead me to where the Thirst Legion is.”
“Yes!”
Ridella moved ahead. Even the assassin who had stabbed my heart was afraid of me.
“He’s here!”
“He’s not a knight of Valderte! He’s an imposter who attacked Estor!”
“Kill him here!”
Soldiers and knights rushed towards me.
I raised my sword upwards. A black wind gathered around the sword.
Heavenly Demon Divine Art (天魔神功) Heavenly Demon Sword (天魔劍) Demonic Wind (魔風).
The wind, imbued with sword aura, raged, indiscriminately cutting down soldiers and knights. In less than 10 seconds, they were reduced to mangled corpses rolling on the ground.
I followed Ridella, killing all the enemies who attacked me.
The Thirst Legion’s building came into view.
It was a three-story white building. On the outside, it looked like a building where ordinary people would live.
Dozens of people were standing in front of the building.
‘About 50 people. The strongest one seems to be… just one.’
It was the one in the middle. A middle-aged man wearing a fedora. He was the strongest among those gathered here.
‘But he’s still weaker than me.’
He was probably the master of the Thirst Legion.
“Valderte’s hunting dog has come all the way here. You must be very angry?”
“I couldn’t stand the thirst.”
I raised my sword.
“I won’t make it long. Who commissioned you to kill me?”
“Even if we all die here, we won’t tell you. You’ll never know who commissioned us.”
“Was it Baron Estor?”
“……”
The man didn’t answer. Not even his eyes wavered.
But I instinctively knew that Baron Estor was the culprit. As an imperialist, he was probably a follower of the Crown Prince. And the Crown Prince probably commissioned the Thirst Legion to kill me through Baron Estor.
“I’ll have to kill you all and Baron Estor too.”
“You’re crazy. Baron Estor is a noble. You’re going to kill him without any solid evidence? You’re the one who’s going to die. Even if you kill Baron Estor, do you think the nobles of the empire will just stand by?”
Pfft.
A sneer escaped my lips.
“Do you not know who’s behind me?”
“Are you talking about Valderte’s bitch? It’s a big mistake to think that bitch will protect you forever.”
“You know nothing about the Empire’s Five Dukes.”
The Empire’s Five Dukes wouldn’t even bat an eye if a baron was killed by a slave. If I kill Baron Estor, will Elena be in trouble? That’s ridiculous.
“What?”
“Never mind. It’s just a waste of my breath. Die without knowing.”
I drew out the Heavenly Demon Energy from my body.
“Now! Activate the barrier!!”
