Chapter 151 – Strike Back
#151.
The day was bright.
The Magical Binding Orb spreads a certain wavelength to prevent mana from being used.
That’s why it’s impossible to form an aura or improve physical abilities, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be handled at all.
It was limited to the body, but it was possible to move easily.
That’s why Gaon, who was constantly consuming mana and arranging his stamina, suddenly felt a number of people approaching and opened his eyes.
After waiting for a while, the five knights stopped in front of the iron bars he was trapped in.
The one in the middle nodded, and the knight on the far right took out a key from his bosom and opened the prison door.
They came in without dragging their horses for a long time, and then roughly led Gaon to the outside.
‘Three days later must have been a lie.’
Even though Gaon didn’t hear anything from them, he immediately noticed what was happening.
Actually, it was strange since he said he had pushed back the execution date by three days, but I can’t believe it was a trick he did to confuse me.
It seems that he was too careless.
Of course, he wasn’t completely blind, he just hoped it wouldn’t happen.
However, the question is whether Chorin, not Gaon, had this in mind. I was probably surprised because I wasn’t ready yet.
There were 10 more knights outside the prison.
Seeing that one is a 7-star level and all the others are 6-stars, it seems that they are made up of the most elite knights.
Among them, the representative knight who took over Gaon inspected the magic restraint, confirmed that there was nothing wrong, and put Gaon on the wagon.
Usually, a criminal like him takes the form of deliberately exposing people, but seeing that he even mobilized a carriage, he seems to want to kill even a second faster.
Gaon, sitting on top of the wagon, felt the departure through the vibrations and quietly closed his eyes.
After a while, the carriage stopped and Gaon, who was led outside by the knights, could see the execution site in the front and the count’s family and Kaldran Orgius sitting in the upper seat behind it.
The black shadows wriggling in the red eyes come into view clearly.
Gaon looked at him for a moment and then turned his head.
Then I saw Priscilla, who was a bit emaciated, probably suffering from a lot of heartache. He probably didn’t sleep well because he was worried.
‘Are you okay.’
Priscilla, a mere ordinary person who was quite far away, could not hear or notice, but she said so without a sound.
This time I turned my eyes around.
A large crowd gathered around the execution site, staring at him.
I’ve heard that Chorin borrowed the power of Lupechion to spread rumors around the world, but people’s eyes weren’t sharp enough to see if that was true.
“Walk forward!”
Fuck!
As Gaon stood still and observed his surroundings, one of the knights pushed his back roughly.
Starting with a recoil step, Gaon moved forward at a leisurely but moderate speed, unlike someone whose life was in danger.
The distance to the execution site was not too long, so he arrived on the scaffold within a few minutes, and at the same time, two knights pressed him on the shoulders and forced him to kneel.
As he raised his head, the Count opened his mouth.
“Your sins are not easily forgiven. The sin of trying to shake the count’s family. He will have to pay with his life.”
“… Am I the one who is shaking it up?”
“What? What did you say just now?”
“I didn’t know.”
“… You don’t know how to reflect until the end. Falling for someone like that Shame on you.”
The anger at Gaon’s cheeky attitude went back to Priscilla. Her count, who glanced at her reproachfully, beckoned her, and immediately after her another knight of hers came closer and drew her sword.
It looks like he’ll be killed by cutting his throat.
He was proudly calm even then, but it wasn’t Priscilla.
Gaon shook his head with a firm look in his eyes to believe at the sight of his hips shaking as if he would jump down from the seat of honor at any moment.
He doesn’t die here
Obviously, Chorin would know how to reverse the current situation. He had to wait until the atmosphere was ripe.
As expected, the moment the knight raised his sword, a commotion erupted in the direction he was walking.
-What. Excuse me? Who is it?
-It’s Archbishop Antonio the Superior!
-Are there any 3 guild leaders in Barrymore? What?
Looking back, the collaborators Gaon had acquired over the course of several months were walking proudly.
The soldiers were unable to move and hesitated, probably because of Antonio, who was in the lead.
Eventually the knights run.
– What are you doing here, Archbishop Antonio Senior? This is the execution ground.
“It has something to do with it. I heard the sad news that demons were hiding here. We need to subdue them quickly before we miss them.”
Antonio’s words weren’t loud, but strangely spread out and echoed all around him.
At the word demon, all around began to buzz.
-A demon? Are you a demon? You mean there are demons here?
-Oh my god! How did they sneak?
-Isn’t it related to the rumor I heard from yesterday?
-So Calidora’s wife and Kaldran, the leader of the Steel Knights, are demons? Does that make sense?
The crowd talked and patched up their flesh over rumors.
In the end, they came to the conclusion that Kaldran and Calidora were demons and brainwashed the count to take over the count’s family.
The hit rate was quite high to see that it was just a patchwork of rumors. Perhaps among them are the Windcatchers of Lucipheon.
The atmosphere changed and everyone’s attention was focused on the demons, so Kaldran, who had been quiet until then, stepped forward, perhaps feeling anxious.
He landed on the execution site with a cloud of feet and shouted.
“We will actively cooperate in capturing the demons! But before that, let’s finish the execution first!”
Even though he was the strongest knight in the count family, it would incur great resentment for him to proceed with his own affairs like this.
However, the fact that Antonio and others appear like that is all to save Gaon. Assuming that it was the first priority to deal with him, he immediately took the knight’s execution sword and held it high.
“Oh, no!”
“It’s Master—!”
Seeing that, Chorin and Hayeon hurriedly run past Antonio, but of course Kaldran is faster than the girls.
I didn’t know that even Gaon would come out so recklessly, so I hardened my face and prepared to get the sword in a hurry.
It’s impossible to block without damage, so I was thinking of just sacrificing my arm and taking off the magic restraint.
But before that, he sensed a sign that he was quickly being crushed through his senses and stopped his action.
Wedge love liquid—!
Right before Kaldran’s sword strikes and cuts Gaon in one blow,
Kwaaaaang!!
Taking off her robe from the audience seats, In-yeong flew in in an instant and grabbed the sword.
The force was so strong that when the two swords collided, a shock wave spread in an instant and the execution ground fell.
At the moment of confrontation, Kaldran twitched his eyebrows and said.
“Prause Diulog? How are you here… !”
A blond-haired man with a thick beard grinned.
“Thanks to Iza behind here. They also let me know that you are a doppelganger.”
“Shit… !”
Kaaang!
Khal Dran let out a low curse and quickly retrieved his sword and cut it horizontally.
With Gaon’s eyes only seeing afterimages, Prause stepped out of the water so fast that he didn’t catch it from the front and let it flow moderately.
He came to Gaon’s side and quickly cut off his magical restraining sphere.
Chaeng-Geurang!
The neatly cut handcuffs fell to the floor, and Gaon turned his wrists to get himself up.
“Thank you. Sir Prause.”
“Haha! I am truly grateful. Thanks to you, I can avenge the young master!”
It was not enough to thank Gaon 100 times for breathing life into him as a knight who died while blaming himself.
In the midst of their confrontation, Chorin and his party approached, passing through the knights before he knew it.
As if this was a golden opportunity, she pulled out her Truth Mirror and shrieked as it reflected her sword Dran.
“Look at this man! Here, Kaldran Orgius is the king of doppelgangers! He is the one who manipulated the county behind the scenes and scorned them!”
Faaaaah—!
As Chorin infused her magical energy into her mirror, a bright light burst out and enveloped her entire body with her sword Dran.
At the same time, black shadows rose from his eye sockets and began to stumble.
[Ahh! What is this!]
The mirror of truth only reflects the truth.
The doppelganger’s shadow, which had taken control of the brain and was forcibly attached to it, wriggled to get out of the body as if to avoid the light.
As the king of doppelgangers, Kaldran seemed to be enduring to some extent, but everyone else in the crowd except for him came pouring out of all the holes in their faces.
– Aww! Look at this!
– A monster, a monster!
Everyone who saw the shadow wriggling on the floor screamed and hurriedly moved to escape the execution site.
As the confusion arose, the surrounding knights and soldiers were at a loss, not knowing what to do.
Antonio woke them up.
“What are you all doing! Hurry up and evacuate the villagers! And the Holy Knights, surround this man immediately! This man is the culprit behind everything!”
[I will follow Martina’s will!]
All the paladins who followed Antonio also formed camps around the execution ground where Kaldran stood.
The one who stood at the forefront was the Heretic Inquisitor, Julkes.
It was inferior to the Holy Knights in the capital, but all of them, reaching 30 people, were at least 5 stars.
In the meantime, Gaon welcomes Chorin and Hayeon, who have come running.
“Gaon-san, are you okay?”
“Master! Are you not hurt? Tell me if you have I will kill them all!”
Ha-yeon raised a gale she had obtained from her ant nest and screamed ferociously.
“Doesn’t exist. So rest assured. The two of you will take care of Priscilla first. Just in case.”
“… All right. Take this instead.”
What she held out was a small grass bracelet.
“This… ?”
“This is a magic I made by applying entangles. With this, you can instantly heal from a distance.”
“… Then I will be grateful.”
Chorin must have learned magic as hard as she could, and it seemed that she had already grasped the strands of her own magic.
When he smiled happily, this time Hayeon stepped out.
“Master, me too! Get a window here.”
“Yes, thank you too.”
Ha-yeon handed her a flurry of spears, as if she thought she wouldn’t be of much help in this fight anyway.
As she took out a regular steel spear from her subspace pocket and held it, she patted her head once and then approached Prauss, who stood in front of her with Kal Dran.
“Now let me join you.”
“Hmm? Are you okay? I don’t think things are normal.”
She took her physical condition as an issue, but from the look in Prause’s eyes, it seemed as if she would die soon if Gaon, a knight of seven stars, got stuck.
Gaon simply snorted and raised his spear.
“Don’t worry. I have an idea too.”
“… Then I’ll believe you. Go first!”
As if he couldn’t wait any longer, Prauss immediately rushed at Kaldran.
The knight’s soul, which had been locked in self-reproach and sorrow, was awakened again.
A requiem to honor the master resounds sorrowfully from his sword.
