Episode 66 The Purple Knights.
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Slowly waiting in Glenryunark without a promise is tiring.
It was tolerable until the second day.
Seeing the wonderful natural scenery has its own charm.
But, it’s nice to see it sometimes.
In a valley in a mountain valley where there is nothing but grass, how painful it is to just wait for the time to come.
Seeing this, I only think that the hidden people who appear in various genre novels are amazing.
Isn’t it that we’ve spent decades just with these boring days?
It’s been four days since I sat in the corner of the ridge and watched only the valley.
Finally a group of men appeared at the mouth of Glenlunark.
it would be these guys
Who will be the only one who will wipe out that many Awakened people?
I focused my attention.
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“Are there nihilis in this village? You have to tell a plausible lie.”
“Don’t vomit. We just have to work for what we get.”
“No matter how much money I get to play and eat for the rest of my life, isn’t this too much? Negotiate with that Nihilis.”
“So, no one has ever won an order for this offer. Who else would do it, except for fire moths like us who don’t know how precious their lives are.”
Nihilis.
A nickname for a villain who disappeared in the distant past.
Decades have passed since he disappeared, so there are not many people who remember him, but only the big names who still remember him.
Like Chloena and Oscar.
There is only one reason why he is the speaker to them.
Because they were named villains who were active at the same time.
“Are you confident? It’s me who has nothing to lose, but you also have a family.”
“Obviously he lost an eye and an arm. And there I was getting old. However, there will be no chance of winning.”
“Then why did you decide to do such a crazy thing? Did you have any desire to die?”
“Maybe I can have a conversation with him. Seeing that he hasn’t had any accidents since he disappeared, he might have killed that temperament in his prime.”
This man, who called the one leading the way, was silent.
Because he knew it too.
The fact that he would not be able to convince this person with his own words.
Therefore, he was just walking without hesitation.
snappy.
snappy.
When the only talkative man shut his mouth, the only sound he could hear was the squeaky sound of the soles of his shoes falling from the wet ground.
Of course, as time passed, the sound gradually subsided.
The higher you go upstream of the valley, the higher the percentage of gravel in the soil.
After continuing up the stream, they were able to run into someone.
A man sitting still with his seat on his back.
“Brother, isn’t that that person?”
“It seems right. Let’s approach.”
“I don’t know if this is the right decision.”
A group of generals (?) surrounded the man.
However, the man continued to maintain that posture without a single shake.
“Left of nihilism, Nihilis. I’m here to make an offer to you.”
“… .”
“Please drop the Spica.”
“Remuneration… Speak.”
“death.”
A fuchsia firefly performed acrobatics.
The mountain, where the fireflies passed by in early summer, was dyed red, and neatly divided fragments remained.
That scene was the last moment they saw.
“There is only one person who can grant me death. The last disciple and the last member.”
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I really don’t know what happened.
Even with a small number of people, the number of twenty people fell in an instant.
If it was a speed that could not be followed simply by eye, he would have understood.
However, it was not.
Even when the detection ability was maximized with the second ability, I hardly felt the time gap between them when they fell.
At that level, no matter how low the standard is, it will be above the S level.
Of course, I expected it to be strong.
I also expected that a hostile atmosphere would be created with them.
However, I never imagined that things would be sorted out so quickly.
… No matter how you look at it, there seems to be no room for negotiations.
I’d like to withdraw
Just waiting for him to leave.
Eyes and eyes in the mask met.
I hope it’s just a coincidence, holding my breath and closing my eyes.
… The moment I opened my eyes, the masked man was in front of me.
“I already knew that someone was looking for me, but I was such a kid.”
A creepy voice rang out low.
“Be aware. Sensing through mana is very easy to trace back.”
You backtracked your mana detection?
It’s a different kind of monster.
If I had to train my second ability to the limit, I would have barely reached that level.
“So, why are you looking for me? Tell me.”
I wanted to join hands with you and subdue the villain.
tell me this?
I’m glad I didn’t become one of the corpses lying there.
“No, I didn’t even have to ask. Pull out your sword.”
draw your sword
Are you talking about my Managlaive?
When he took out the mana glaive, the masked man nodded.
“I will check to see if you are eligible.”
Saying that, he took something out of his pocket.
Surprisingly, it was a Managlaive.
However, it seems it was still too early to be surprised by that.
When he activated the Managlaive, I was even more surprised.
His sword was magenta.
Even, the color was maintained in a very stable state.
“That’s the attitude of a good prosecutor. Anyone who holds a sword, speaks with a sword. What kind of words can you tell me, can I look forward to it?”
I’m just scared and can’t say anything.
I just want to hit my head and run away.
However, it was already too late to run away.
Because that guy already had Kader’s basic stance.
Thinking that I should kill a kid like me, I also responded with Ryujin’s basic posture.
The moment the tip of the sword turned towards him, a torrent of mana struck me.
Also, full of murderous intent.
Again, that’s a great mana utilization.
I still can’t control mana like that.
Will I be able to withstand even a single attack from such a monster bastard?
Seeing you spit out that kind of life, it seems like you’re really trying to kill me.
“Let’s start.”
And then, a magenta sword flew towards me.
The moment Samdocheon welcomed me, a different world opened up.
This feeling is the same as back then.
At that time, the sword body was dyed magenta.
Once again, the sword comes into view.
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Maybe it’s because the level difference is so severe, I can’t see any way to counterattack.Only one sword, said to deflect his sword, was illuminating the way.
Following that sword path, it deflected the opponent’s Mana Glaive.
“It wasn’t a bad answer. You deserve it.”
He managed to evade the sword.
Even that passed by my neck by a single sheet of paper, so it was practically a losing game.
“The qualification to join the Knights Templar is to draw a crimson sword. You have proven it.”
When I say crimson sword, I think it means a red sword, but I don’t know what the knights mean.
“I did… . I did. Have you already completed your second mission?”
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Mission?I haven’t been able to understand what this guy was talking about.
“The first task of the Knights Templar, sacrifice the most precious thing. And, you have lost the most precious thing, your life. good night. Let me accept you as my disciple.”
I couldn’t figure out what was going on.
Suddenly, the disciple doesn’t know what to say again.
“It’s not very happy. If you don’t mean to embarrass me, give me an answer. Or are you unable to speak?”
“I don’t know English.”
“Isn’t it something you risked your life for? If the body was once dead, you would know how valuable it is to have a new life. If not, does it mean that it is not wasted since it is a life that has already been wasted once?”
Hey, it wasn’t my life, so I don’t know if it’s worth it or not.
I had no intention of dying in the first place.
“I had no intention of becoming a disciple. I’m just here to talk to you.”
“What kind of story did you come all the way to the outskirts of the countryside to meet a retired old man like me?”
“I want to borrow your power.”
Hearing this, the man burst out laughing.
“There is a saying that fate is decided. You have come to the right place.”
“what do you mean?”
“It is a story that I would have made you a disciple, whether or not you had the intention to become a disciple. by fate.”
What kind of connection do this yangban and I have to discuss fate?
I couldn’t understand more.
“It looks like you don’t know anything about the Knights Templar.”
“I do not know.”
“It’s been a long time since I’ve forgotten, so a kid like you wouldn’t know.”
The prayer of the Knights Templar does not appear in the original.
It is the first organization to appear.
“I originally belonged to the Knights Templar called the Knights of the Stars. They were knights with a long history. It is a Knights Templar that anyone with the ideological power to deal with mana could join, and at one time many people envyed that they would join. However, the knights were split in two by only one knight, Darren, and their honor was lost.”
“Why?”
“Because he was a madman who cried out that only strength was justice. It would have been nice if he ended up being a mere maniac, but the problem is that he actually had power. He was the first to break the limits of the Green Sword Auror, which everyone shouted as the limit.”
“Isn’t the Sword Auror actually green the limit?”
Unless the person who sold me the Managlaive had lied, the Sword Auror beyond the Green shouldn’t exist.
“Darren argued that we couldn’t cross the green limit because we were locked in a sword. So the guy threw the sword away. I started making my own sword shape with mana. At the end, he was able to reach the state of yellow.”
“Why did the Knights split up? Templars can become stronger, isn’t it good?”
“He was frantically obsessed with color and power. The desire to move on to the next color was very strong. In the process, it was not uncommon to kill a knight who developed faster than him.”
A common cliché.
A story like that, where he was corrupted by pursuing too much power.
“Of course, the king did not like the process and fired Darren and all his followers from their knighthood. Thanks to this, we were branded as outcasts in the Order of the Stars. However, in the end, they survived by establishing their own forces. With only the desire to move on to the next color.”
“So, how did it go?”
“Darren’s will continues. Everyone tried to move on to the next color somehow, and they managed to get to magenta. But no one could reach the next color.”
Are you saying that magenta is actually the limit?
That being said, there seems to be a slight difference in the color of my sword and this person’s sword.
“More sadly, even though I knew what the next color was, I couldn’t get to it. As those who reached the magenta blade gradually honed and polished their skills, in the process of the sword gradually turning purple, I was able to infer that the next color would be purple. However, no one has reached the state of complete purple.”
That was the difference.
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My blade is a little closer to red, and this person’s blade is a little closer to purple, so I guess you’re right.“So, the name of this organization that split from the Knights of the Stars became the Purple Knights. Because everyone’s goal is to draw the purple swordsman.”
“Then why did almost all the Purple Knights disappear except for you?”
“Because of the last mission of the Purple Knights.”
“What is that?”
It seems that the first mission was to sacrifice the most precious thing.
“Every member of the Purple Knights is given three tasks. first mission. Pull out the crimson sword. Now it has changed to membership, but in the past this was the first mission.”
Isn’t it a very tough mission from the first mission?
I think most will get out of here.
“Is there any reason why you changed from a mission to a qualification?”
“It was because of the ruling of the Senate that all of the Purple Knights should learn spirituality and Lilium.”
“Equation 0?”
The photon glaive sword method I know ranges from 1 to 7 stars.
I’ve never heard of zero food.
“It’s not a zero-style (??), it’s a zero-style (??). The name was given in the sense of the swordsmanship of the knights who disappeared into the shadows of history. It is a sword technique developed and named by a man named Ha Yu-seong, but its greatness. Because it was so great, the Elder Council formally recognized it as the sword technique of the Purple Knights. It is just a shell without all the essential herbivores from the 7 Stars, Urdo Spirituality you know.”
After all, is it the story of becoming a true Mana Glaive swordsman only by completing the Spirit Spirit?
Well, there’s a long way to go.
“Then, spiritual knowledge is probably the strongest sword method.”
“No, 7 stars, Ur is stronger. It’s because the last herbivore is missing from all the techniques of spiritualism. This is not actually missing, because no one has even perfected a single skill, so the last herbivore is missing. Of course, in order to perfect the technique, I had to draw a purple sword.”
“Then, did Ur improve the unfinished part of Spiritual Spirit so that it can be used in practice?”
“Accurate. That is why Ur has different characteristics for each individual. It’s because you’ve modified the spirits to suit your own taste.”
The history of Managlaive swordsmanship is more complicated than you think.
I didn’t know there was such a background.
“Anyway, in order to deal with Lilium, you must at least be able to draw a red sword, so the first task was moved to the condition of joining.”
“The second mission was ‘sacrificing the most precious thing,’ wasn’t it?”
“okay. It is a mission given in the sense of throwing away all things that only hinder you in learning the sword.”
It’s such an extreme organization.
It’s me, I’ve done it by chance, but the other person was sure to get the entrance cut on the second mission.
“The third and final mission, the same color cannot exist under the sky. If there is a member of the same color as you, kill him.”
… All the members just disappear.
Because of that crazy rule, they must have killed each other.
“So, how many members are left?”
“It’s two. You and me.”
“I have no intention of joining.”
“I have decided to make you a disciple. Whether you like it or not, you are already a member. You must uphold the mission of the Knights Templar.”
All of a sudden, the story takes a strange turn.
It’s nice to be taught directly by the strongest Managlaive swordsman.
However, I don’t want to overturn the stigma of being a member of this psycho group.
“This is the first and last mission I give you. Kill me and complete the spirit. You will continue the maintenance of the Purple Knights.”
“I am not a talented person to do that.”
“No, you have to. you have talent No one was able to join the Purple Knights at your age.”
No, it’s only for a very short time that I can pull out the magenta sword.
Even that cannot be controlled by itself, and only occasionally activates at dangerous moments.
“Why do you want to die like that?”
“I have killed dozens of teachers and students over the past 100 years or so. I certainly believed that anyone but me would complete the Spirit Ritual, but in the end, I was the only one who survived. Believing that it is an area that no one can complete and cannot reach, while waiting for the day to die as a defeated remnant, you appeared. Anyway, I have no regrets in this life any more. If you’re going to survive poorly, it’s better to die at the hands of a disciple who has completed the spiritual ritual.”
He spoke in a calm tone, but he felt as if he was vomiting blood.
After all, the members who were pupils, classmates, and teachers were all killed with their own hands, and now the only person left to be called a member is you, so it must be painful.
I don’t sympathize with him though.
Anyway, he’s an obvious villain.
“What do you want me to do?”
“Now I will pass on to you all the skills I have or know. By the time you master it all, you will naturally be ahead of me. And then, kill me. In the spirit of perfection.”
If you ask me so earnestly, what’s wrong with refusing?
Accepting the offer doesn’t seem bad either.
After all, I won’t be able to get ahead of this guy even after 100 years.
In the meantime, I just need to skip the technology.
“I will. Knights member.”
“I thought well. From now on, you are an official Knights Templar. As a teacher, try to complete your final mission. I will always be waiting here at Glenlunark, so if you need help, come here.”
“By the way, why are you staying in this place?”
“Glenlunark means Valley of Stars. When I was a member of the Knights of the Stars, I made an oath with my comrades here. Even if there is a day when we part, our hearts will always be together. Now there are neither the Knights of the Stars nor the Knights of the Purple left, but this is still the hometown of my heart.”
He’s not a cheesy villain.
Although he has a cruel side, he is a man with a living loyalty.
“All right. It’s late now, so let’s go back. We will see you again tomorrow.”
“If you are not busy, make sure to come every day. Effort does not lie.”
Turn your head and go down the valley.
I’m going to have a hard time waking up from tomorrow.
The training I did with Aina was so hard that I thought I was going to die, but since I was caught by such a crazy idiot, I won’t have any body left.
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