Kill the lord – 4
“Ki -yi Lee’s profit !!!!!!”
As soon as the blessed dagger pierced his body, the lord let out a grotesque scream. It wasn’t the lord himself, it was the scream of a demon half-fused with that body.
The dagger was pulled out and inserted again, then pulled out and inserted again. The first few times he stabbed him, the more he struggled, but after that, his movements became more and more sluggish.
Aurora watched as the lord was purified by divine power and died with her arms crossed under her chest without batting an eye.
I thrust the dagger deep into it one last time and removed my arm. Young-joo collapsed weakly on the floor and repeated only strange noises.
“All right. Let’s go.”
“Hey, is he still alive? Can I leave it as it is?”
Aurora’s finger pointed at the lord wriggling small on the floor with only his life attached to it.
“Yes, he is alive.”
“Aren’t you going to kill me?”
“If you want to kill, you have to kill, but I won’t. Lord Aurora, it’s not that we didn’t kill that from now on, it’s that we couldn’t. The lord has to agree with me too.”
“Of course I will, so don’t worry. But, it’s not that I didn’t kill him, I couldn’t kill him… … Of course there must be a reason, right?”
“Of course it is.”
I pointed at the lord with the tip of my dagger and said.
“They said I had to have something to kill the devil, right?”
“He said he needed a weapon imbued with divine power or a divine spell.”
“That is correct. But we don’t have a weapon with divine power right now, right? So of course you can’t kill him.”
“yes? If it’s a divine weapon, you’re holding it in your hand… … Oh, that’s right. I understand. Certainly, we had nothing with divine weapons. So you can’t kill him. It is very unfortunate.”
As expected of Aurora, who appeared as a very competent and smart NPC in the game, she understood my inner meaning at once and matched my words.
“Let’s ask one more question instead. Why would you bother hiding that weapon?”
“I am not trying to hide this dagger. To be precise, to hide the fact that they used it.”
“Hide the fact that you used it?”
Aurora asked. I nodded.
“Weapons imbued with divine power can literally only be used if you have a certain amount of faith. It is impossible for a non-religious person to use it properly.”
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My explanation was to say around the fact that the ‘Faith’ and ‘Divine Power’ stats in the game must be above a certain amount in order for the blessed weapons to perform at their full potential.
At my explanation, Aurora nodded and tried to understand, then paused for a moment before looking back at me.
“But how do you… … ?”
“Which country comes to mind when you think of faith and divine power?”
“Without anything else to look at, it’s the Kingdom of Raphaella.”
Did the name of the Holy Kingdom change? I did a good job of not opening my mouth first.
“… … Wait, then, are you from Raphaella’s kingdom?”
“no. That is why I want to hide the fact that I have used it.”
At my words, Aurora made an ah sound.
“Because you want to hide the fact that you used a sacred weapon even though you are not from the Holy Land?”
“answer.”
It was only a few words exchanged, but in an instant, the core was touched. Looking at Aurora, who generously reveals the aspects she showed in the game, I was happy.
“… … Yes, if that’s the reason, I understand. Seongguk guys are extreme because they are famous. From your point of view, you probably don’t want to get involved with them as much as possible. But then what are you going to do with that demon?”
“It’s not ours to deal with. I have to send a letter to the imperial palace. The devil has appeared, so please kill him.”
In the game, the player has two options to choose from.
Either kill the lord yourself using a blessed weapon or divine spell, or beat him up as much as you like to relieve stress, then send a letter to the Emperor to take care of it.
Generally speaking, it would be much easier to kill it directly here, but if the player kills it, later in the castle there will be a very annoying kind of interest event.
Receiving their attention was a no-brainer from me. In order not to take on all sorts of dirty and nasty side quests, I had to stop by only once in the middle of the castle and never look at it again.
What kind of madman’s head was the idea of 30 long-distance delivery quests without using fast movement?
“Well, okay. The target to be deceived is the emperor, but if you have already deceived him once, can you not do it twice?”
“You cheated once?”
“You’re talking about this idiot who accidentally touched a book with demons and was devoured by himself.”
“… … Oh, that’s right. I forgot for a while. It was, indeed.”
First off, that was a lie. So this is the second time.
“and.”
Aurora, who added quadrupeds, turned her body around, slightly bowed her back, and looked up at me.
“Of course I should do this kind of favor to the benefactor of my life. Aren’t there mountains of favors to repay in the future?”
A smile appeared on his face.
“Iris, your time is almost up.”
“… … I know. It’s not completely full yet, so wait a little longer.”
At that time, the captains of the Knights of the Silver Dawn gathered at the main gate nervously. The moon was already shining brightly in the sky. In the moonlight, Iris’s silver hair shone brilliantly.
Not long after, the ‘time the moon takes on the biggest tree’, as the newcomer said, came. As soon as the moon caught the tree, Rize looked around the street in front of the castle gate. But the streets were quiet.
“Erika, do you see people on the road?”
“no. I can’t see anything. It’s empty.
“is it.”
Iris gave a short answer. It was a word filled with very complex emotions.
“Claudia, Lise, Erica. Get ready. I’m going to the mansion.”
With a short word spoken, the knight commanders each mounted their horses without saying who came first. The preparations to invade the mansion had been completed long ago. I was just waiting for the time to come.
Claudia, Iris, Lize, and Erica had a reason for acting so urgently. It was because of the word the newcomer left before entering the lord’s mansion.
If he didn’t return by the time the moon hung on the tallest tree when he looked at it from the main gate of the castle, would he come to the mansion to find it?
Rize smiled, asking why she said such an ominous thing, but the newcomer’s expression was serious. And really, the rookie didn’t come back until this time.
Then there was only one thing to do.
When there was a dispute with the lord, it was the Knights of the Silver Dawn who suffered losses, so in the past, they would have tolerated it. But now things were different.
Because I never wanted to lose that rookie.
From a certain moment, the speed of riding the horse gradually increased, no matter who said it first. In particular, Rize, who was at the forefront, was almost driving the horse.
There was no one to be found on the street, so it was not necessary to drive the horse carefully, and the anxiety increased and the speed increased, so the mansion arrived quickly.
“uh… … ? What are they?”
“Why are those bitches coming here at this time? stop! stop! Hey, can’t you hear me?! Stop!”
The two knights who stood guard at the front gate of the mansion, yawning, shouted to stop in embarrassment when they saw Rize galloping at full speed on horseback and the other three following him.
Instead of following the orders of the knights and stopping, Rize drew a double dagger from her waist.
The knights who saw it were even more perplexed. The Knights of the Argent Dawn had never experienced a situation where they openly rebelled against them.
And, because they knew that if they fought head-on, they would not even be able to compete against the Knights of the Silver Dawn with their own skills.
By the time the two knights managed to grasp the situation and try to grab their weapons, their bodies had already been frozen solid and had been hacked to pieces.
“Kuheouk!”
“Khehe!”
The knights rolled on the floor bleeding from all over their bodies. Rize rushed into the mansion without paying attention to the unconscious knights. Soon after, Iris, Erica, and Claudia followed suit.
The four knight commanders stopped talking only after arriving at the door leading to the mansion.
“You mean there’s a newcomer in here?”
“It is very likely.”
“Are you going to attack, sister?”
“Of course it should. No, even if you guys object, I will go alone.”
Where did Rize’s usual playful and lively appearance go, and there was a bloody and menacing spirit befitting her own hair color. It was ready to cut through whatever was in its way.
“Why are we against it? If you’re going to go in, go in together. And, if we get caught with this, how could our lives be further twisted? Later, you can tell that rookie to buy me a drink since we’ve become like this because of you.”
Claudia took a great sword and strode forward. He raised his arms above his head and slammed the front door with all his might. Kwakwang! With a sound, the old wooden door shattered like canned millet.
Lize was first, followed by Iris, Erica, and Claudia.
“welcome.”
As soon as the four of them entered the mansion, the first thing they noticed was a maid who hurriedly approached them and bowed her head politely.
“… … ?”
At the same time, a question mark appeared above my head. The hand holding the weapon slid down.
“What, did he just say hello to us?”
“Would you like to come? Did I just hear wrong?”
“I heard it too. I thought only my ears became strange, but it seems that our ears became strange as a group. Is it hallucination magic?”
Claudia, Erica, and Iris froze in their seats with bewildered eyes. Either that or not, Rize strode towards the maid and grabbed her by the collar.
“Don’t do useless tricks and tell me where the newcomer is right now—”
“’Mr. Rookie’ told me to invite the knight commanders to the parlor. Please follow me.”
This time, Rize had no choice but to freeze in a daze.
As the hand holding the collar slowly loosened up, the maid casually straightened her collar and turned around and started to climb the stairs. The figure soon disappeared upstairs.
However, none of the remaining four people moved from their seats.
No, I couldn’t move. It was because the head, which was so shocked, refused to think. I didn’t want to close my open mouth.
Eventually, the maid, who couldn’t wait upstairs, came back downstairs and told them to follow her one more time before finally following her to the drawing room.
And in the room with the four.
“Oh, are you here?”
“Welcome, knight commanders.”
There was a newcomer and Aurora sitting face to face at a table and sipping tea.