0.01 Second Sword Master

0.01 Second Sword Master Episode 68

The influence of the Reyes Church on the continent can be said to be enormous.

Normally, if a knight from another kingdom crossed the border without permission, it could be the beginning of a war, but if it was a Knight of the Church of Rayearth, no one would take issue with it.

rather,

“This is the leader of the Great Holy Knights of the Church of Leyers, Luminer. Please open the gates.”

Kki-Ik-!

He showed a friendly attitude enough to open the gates wide.

That would be the case, too, because the leaders of the kingdom could lose the cause as well as the public sentiment if they made enemies of the church.

In fact, from their point of view, the Church of Rayearth was like a thorn in their eyes, but they were just lowering their tails because the power of the Church was so strong.

But that’s what the leaders say, the people are different.

When the Knights of the Order visit the city, the people praise the name of Rahal and sincerely accept the Knights.

“What is the Church doing here?”

“Are you finally showing your face?”

“Tsk, useless bastards.”

However, the atmosphere here in Omer Kingdom was quite different.

Despite the arrival of Luminere, the leader of the Great Star Knights, who is said to be respected by all people, the people even looked at them disapprovingly.

“People here are a little rude.”

“Luminer-nim came, but with that kind of attitude.”

The paladins showed displeasure, but Luminaire looked at them with a calm face. Then one of the people shouted at the top of his voice.

“This continent will be saved by Aslan!! There is no need for a cult!”

Then the other people raised their voices one by one.

“right! You useless church bastards!”

“They turned away when we were suffering!”

“Aslan is the true Knight of Light!”

Seeing the crowd heating up as if a riot was about to break out, the knights felt threatened and put their hands on their hips.

But it wasn’t long before they heard a soothing voice.

“Everyone calm down!”

They were knights of the Omer kingdom.

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Judging from the armor they were wearing, they looked like knights under direct control of the imperial family.

“Welcome to Omer Kingdom. I am Lucette, the leader of the Royal Knights.”

“Thank you for your hospitality.”

“Our king is waiting for you, so let’s go to the palace together.”

Luminaire followed Captain Lucette to the palace.

The people were looking at them with prickly eyes.

“Please understand. Here, too, trust in the Order was once high, but much has changed with the tyranny of the late King and the demon-serving cult. If the denomination had known about our situation and hadn’t turned away, the atmosphere would have been different from now.”

The paladins frowned at the words of Lucette, who had thorns in her words, but Luminaire asked with a calm face.

“It looks like you have more trust in Aslan, the commander of the Grand Division, than in the church here.”

“Yeah, it has to be. It was a place that everyone turned away from, but Aslan-nim did not give up on this place. Despite being able to annihilate our army, he punished Lucian, who had been tricked by the devil, and kept the kingdom alive with minimal damage.”

I was familiar with the story that Aslan recovered the kingdom with Elberstein.

However, I did not expect that the people here would hate the church and follow Aslan to this extent.

“Since then, he has helped in many ways to help Omer Kingdom rebuild, so Grand Knight Commander Aslan is a great benefactor to our kingdom.”

No matter how much it was, to trust the commander of the grand division of another kingdom to this extent.

“Come on. I am Elberstein, the king of Omer Kingdom.”

It wasn’t long before Luminaire was able to have an audience with Elberstein.

Blond hair and good eyes.

That impression alone gave me an idea of what kind of character this king was.

“My name is Luminer, the leader of the Great Star Knights.”

“What are you doing here?”

Contrary to what it seemed, however, Elberstein’s personality seemed quite impatient.

“It’s a customary patrol.”

“The customary patrol is done by a person who is the leader of the Great Star Knights. You seem to be quite sincere in the church. The number of knights and priests brought there is over 3,000.”

Luminaire replied to Elberstein’s suspicious look.

“Doesn’t that mean that the church is also sincere? If there is an evil force that threatens this continent, I will run to wherever it is and judge it in the name of light.”

“If we had done that earlier, the Kingdom of Omer would have received a lot of help, too, unfortunately.”

Does this king still have sediment?

However, according to the investigation conducted by the church, no signs of demons could be found here.

“The church must have made their position clear, right?”

“Do you believe it? I just believe what I saw with my own two eyes.”

Are you saying the church deliberately manipulated the investigation?

It was unbelievable.

“I don’t want to see you staying long in our kingdom. Someone I know well did. We can’t fight together if we don’t trust each other. I do not trust the Order.”

“It is a big mistake not to believe in the Order.”

“I bear the responsibility for that. So please get out of the kingdom now.”

At Elberstein’s cold reaction, Luminaire and the Holy Knights came out of the palace as if they were being kicked out.

“Such a rude person is the king of this kingdom!”

“The sin of insulting the church must be dealt with severely!”

The knights had a lot of complaints, but on the contrary, Luminaire had a lot of thoughts.

‘It was really like seeing the devil.’

The Church clearly stated that they could not find any evidence of a collusion with the devil in Omer Kingdom.

Could it possibly be fake?

no. not.

He has been loyal to the church for the rest of his life and has risen to this position.

I have never doubted the denomination, and I always should.

All of them are confused because of Aslan.

“Don’t forget why you came here. We did not come to fight against the Kingdom of Omer.”

Their goal is one.

Exactly to punish Aslan.

It was an order given by Rahal as an oracle.

According to that order, I should immediately run to Eli Kingdom and cut Aslan’s head.

‘If his strength is comparable to Karman’s, then I can’t attack hastily.’

Besides, there was one more thing.

‘Hariel…’

For some reason, it was Hariel who stayed by Aslan’s side.

“You guys are waiting around here.”

“Yes? Wasn’t it right to go to the Kingdom of Eli?”

“for a moment······. I have something to check.”

“All right.”

I couldn’t let Hariel get swept up in this incident.

And Luminaire wanted to see with his own eyes what he was missing.

* * *

The place where the black lightning fell is right here.

It was the habitat of rappies adjacent to the Omer Kingdom border.

Speaking of rappies, they are monsters that climb trees, but they have a similar appearance to monkeys. Of course, he didn’t steal people’s things or show aggression like that bully-like animal.

They’re just a little noisy, but should I say they’re gentle guys?

“There was an initial report here. But there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with it.”

As Aaron said, it looked like there was nothing wrong on the outside.

But,

“Isn’t it too quiet?”

“Yes?”

“Raffies are the ones who cry day and night. But it is very quiet here. as if there is nothing. You can’t even hear that common bug.”

“ah-“

It obviously means something happened here.

I led the knights and went inside.

“Explore the surroundings thoroughly.”

“Yes!”

It wasn’t long before the knights discovered something.

“Standby division commander. This is written on the tree.”

Red letters written in blood.

They tilted their heads at the text they had never seen before, but I recognized it at once because it was a text I had seen so many times in the game.

“It’s the text of the Tekina tribe.”

It must have been used in black magic rituals.

“Here too!”

“There are similar letters here too, Grand Commander!”

Not only here, but letters were written everywhere.

That means they used the whole forest for their rituals, so what the hell did they do?

‘I can’t believe these bastards…’

One likely scenario passed by.

And as if to prove that I was right,

“Ukkii-!!”

The cries of rappies, which had not been heard before, filled the forest.

The rappies, who had turned black as if they had been scorched, began running in droves from all directions toward our knights.

Seeing this, Aaron shouted.

“order!! Prepare for battle!”

The knights drew their swords and were wary of the rushing rappies.

‘It must have been wide magic.’

A berserk magic that makes even the most docile monsters go wild.

I had a hunch when I saw the Tekina characters written all over the forest.

The black lightning was not to summon demons, but to make these monsters go berserk.

As you can see now, once you get caught in the berserk magic, you run like crazy regardless of the opponent.

‘I can’t catch all of them individually.’

To stop this magic, you need to find the source.

And if it’s usually the source of this kind of berserk magic-

thud-! Koo-!!

There was only one boss monster that could be said to be the best of this group.

“Kooo-!!”

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Giant Raffy.

The reason why adventurers and players pass through rappy’s habitat without touching it is because of that giant rappy.

Not befitting of its gigantic size, it was usually very docile and quiet, and it was a monster that just ate and slept like a nerd, or a very frightening guy who would jump up and punish rappies if someone bothered them.

‘There’s a source there.’

Like the rappies, there was a black jewel embedded in the center of the giant rappy’s body, which had been turned black by Magi.

The energy coming out of there was driving rappies crazy.

I quickly shook my head.

“Raphael, Alexander. The two of you will deal with the rushing rappies. And Hariel, Aaron. You two kill that giant rappy and come.”

“Yes!”

“All right!”

He brought 1,000 knights in preparation for this, but the terrain was steep and narrow, so it was questionable whether he could deal with all those rappies.

It wouldn’t be a big deal if my bosses played well, but I felt like I had to take some damage.

‘Never come to me.’

It was the most important thing.

I don’t know anything else, but I shouldn’t be harmed.

And they moved at my command.

“Shoot!”

“Do not allow monsters to approach!”

Raphael melted the approaching rappies with his magic power, and Alexander made everyone raise their bows to intercept the approaching monsters.

And Aaron and Hariel,

“Huh-Ah-!”

“Kooo!!”

Hitting his chest like a gorilla, he swung his sword at the approaching Giant Raffy.

‘It’s not easy after all.’

The two talented players were fighting in a pincer attack, but Giant Raffy was showing no sign of being easily knocked down.

It must have been tough to be strong, but the source embedded in that chest made it go berserk, so it didn’t seem to feel the pain itself.

there,

“Ukkii-!!”

“No, stop it!”

The number of rappies rushing in like a swarm of insects was so great that in the end the knights were engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

As feared, the terrain was steep and narrow, so if they climbed down the trees and attacked, the knights would be defenseless.

Furthermore-

“Keuo-!!”

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Giant Raffy, who was distracted by Hariel and Aaron’s attack, suddenly started emitting demonic energy from his body.

“Oh!”

“Ugh!”

The two of them lost their balance due to the sudden demonic attack and were blown away from a distance by being hit by that gigantic hand.

It won’t die to that extent, but the problem is,

“Kreurre-”

That guy made eye contact with me.

“Huh? Hey, come here.”

“No, stop it!”

The escort knights, who were brandishing their swords diligently to prevent rappies from approaching me, widened their eyes when they saw the giant rappy approaching with a stomp.

It was the same for me too.

‘no. I’m going to fight those two. Why me-!’

The more I grumbled inside, the closer I got to him.

yet,

“Keuo-!!”

The giant rappy, which flew high with amazing jumping power, was falling on top of my head screaming.

right at that moment.

“dare.”

A strange scene unfolded as the intense bravado climbed up his back.

“Keu, kreu-.”

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Giant Raffy’s body was suspended in the air in a straight line.

“Whose body is a small creature trying to touch?”

Not only that,

“Keu, keuuk…”

“Ugh…”

Knights with swords trying to cut down rappies,

The rappies, which flew high to bite their opponents, also froze in place, as if time had stopped.

telekinesis of power.

It was a desperate situation, so it was a ability, it was to hold everything in a radius of 300 m without covering the enemy with telekinesis.

“Looking down at this body over there. You are cheeky.”

I commanded him with a sense of bravado rising to the top of my head.

“Kneel.”

Koo-!!

Then, the massive body collapsed to the floor in an instant and let out a scream.

“Keu, koo oh-.”

Because he went crazy with the berserk, he struggled and tried to get up somehow, but-.

“Kneel.”

Woo-!!

Once again, his body sank to the bottom of the floor.

“You dare not look down or look up at me.”

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Giant Raffy’s body convulsed and was crawling across the floor.