39 – Illusion
“Is it a dream?”
Ir El shifted her gaze toward the light that illuminated the dark space.
The lights were strange.
It shone brilliantly in empty space.
While looking at the shimmering lights, the world distorted and changed.
Faceless men were surrounding Irrel in the dim scenery.
A man appeared in front of them as they slowly approached and stopped them.
“Robert?”
Robert grabbed the hilt and turned around.
Swoop.
Robert’s holy sword grazed the faceless man’s neck.
Before the faceless man could grab his neck, bloody lines formed and his head fell like drops of water toward the floor.
Robert’s wounds were gradually piling up as he killed the faceless men.
A faceless man with a huge sword approached the exhausted Robert, and Robert’s head slipped to the floor in unison.
Her blood gushed from the cut surface. Ire El opened her eyes wide in amazement.
My body suddenly moved at will along with the feeling that my soul was floating.
“I told you not to cross the line.”
Her words came out of her mouth against Ir El’s will.
Pair!
Irrel approached the faceless man with a huge sword and slapped him on the cheek.
The faceless man, seen up close, stood still as if he were bewildered.
I approached Robert’s body.
“Look at the floor.”
Goosebumps appeared on my body. I talked to myself in my dream.
The blood flowing from Robert’s body moved and made letters on the floor.
The bloody letters were Hangeul, a language familiar to Irelle.
– We need to sort things out quickly before it’s too late.
“Should we sort things out quickly before it’s too late?”
I was taken aback by the bloody writing and the control of my body that I had regained before I knew it. Feeling the presence, Irelle hurriedly looked back. He was approached by a faceless man who had slapped him on the cheek.
Not only those with huge swords, but also other faceless men who wore crowns, wands, and swords approached Irrel.
– We need to clean up the men quickly while the system still has power.
The letters behind Ireel came to mind.
Ir El, who had fallen into a deep sleep on the huge bed, opened his eyes.
“To think we should sort things out quickly before it’s too late.”
Irelle, who was troubled for a while by the terrifyingly vivid dream, didn’t think much of it.
“Did you drink too much yesterday? What kind of dream come out?”
Feeling the soft blanket, Irrell fell asleep again.
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Kim came in as I was sitting on the bed, coming to my senses.
“Robert, are you awake?”
“How long have I been passed out?”
“About half a day? How are you feeling?”
“I’m fine except for a little upset stomach.”
“Now everyone is before dinner, can you eat?”
“I have to eat. Go down first.”
“Yes.”
I changed my clothes and left the room.
‘Have I trained too much lately?’
After becoming a sword master, I overworked my body.
The steel that I desperately wanted and thought would never be mine was completed, and the sense of a sword master lived and breathed in me.
I couldn’t stop wielding my sword every day.
I swung my sword as if I was addicted to drugs because I felt that the huge walls that were blocking me were broken down so easily and that I was changing every day.
She said she was fine with Kim, but her body condition was not normal even if her demonic heart wasn’t added wine.
After saying hello to the party members sitting at the table, I also took my seat.
Seir, who was watching me anxiously, spoke to me.
“You shouldn’t overuse the power of the Robert Holy Sword. The reason I fell this time is because of its side effects.”
“It’s because the wine with the demon’s heart added to it doesn’t suit me. As I said before, I don’t have any reaction to the power of the holy sword.”
“Robert… If the recoil gets worse, it’s okay to rely on me at any time. There’s nothing I can do for you, but I’ll be by your side when it’s hard.”
I was embarrassed to see Seir looking at me with a vague expression.
When I said there was no backlash the other day, Seir was delighted and convinced.
‘Is it because of the collapse this time?’
Others also looked at me with sad expressions.
‘It’s not really because of that…’
Even when I said it was because of the real wine, they didn’t believe it.
In the gloomy atmosphere, servants pushed carts in.
Various appetite-stimulating foods began to fill the long table one by one.
“Robert is not feeling well, so he prepared white porridge.
I couldn’t refuse because of my worried expressions, and I looked at the white death in front of me.
I took a spoonful of the porridge prepared for me and ate it.
The taste of porridge was a bit boring. I wanted to eat smoked meat a little further away, so I stretched out my arm and missed the fork.
It seems that I missed it unknowingly due to the twisted qi and muscle pain from excessive work, and the twisted qi and blood from what happened yesterday.
“Looks like you’ve been pushing yourself a little lately.”
“Robert are you okay?!”
“It’s okay. It must have been bleeding for a while.”
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I laughed out loud because it was so absurd that I dropped my fork.
“Robert’s recoil from the holy sword is already leaving aftereffects…”
“No no, it’s not really. I’m really fine. I missed it because my blood was tangled for a while.”
It seemed that the qi and blood that had been twisted in his right arm were twisted for a moment as they just stretched out.
I picked up my fork while laughing at the amazing coincidence caused by two severely twisted blood vessels, but for some reason the restaurant became incredibly quiet.
‘What is it? Why is everyone looking at me like that?’
“Sword Master’s temper is twisted…?”
“I never thought about it… The sword master dropped his fork…”
“How much recoil against the power of the holy sword must accumulate…”
“Goddess…”
“Robert hyung…”
Everyone looked at me in a daze, probably in shock.
“It’s really okay. It’s because I’ve been training a lot lately and what happened yesterday is a coincidence. The twisted gihyeol might cause your fingers to lose strength for a while, right?”
My words made the air above the table even more still.
‘No, what’s the reaction? Could it be that I really misunderstood that the recoil accumulated enough to drop the fork?’
“Robert, I’ll feed you.”
Lena came next to me with a chair.
“No, it’s really okay.”
“Then we all know that you’re fine. I just want to feed you. Oh, try it.”
“I can eat by myself. The reason why I dropped the fork was really a coincidence and my fingertips got numb for a while.”
“Robert, I’ll feed you tomorrow. Today, eat whatever Lena feeds you.”
“I’ll feed you after that.”
“Then it’s my turn at the end.”
Strange meals were arranged in the order of Lena, Scarlett, Seir, and Arnes.
Lena held out a spoon filled with porridge to me with a worried expression.
‘Ah…Why does no one really believe me?’
When I saw Lena looking at me and waiting, she was really embarrassed.
‘I don’t even know anymore.’
I sighed and decided to just open my mouth.
“Good job, kid. Then let’s have another bite.”
The difficult meal time in a shameful situation passed like that.
After sending the concerned party members away, I went out into the clearing to practice.
‘My body isn’t normal yet.’
But I couldn’t stop.
In my previous life, I did catch at least one demon king.
And there were times when I pushed other demon lords, but the finish was lacking.
‘That’s why I’m important.’
The heart of the demon lord breaks with unreasonable force, but it can be easily broken with a holy sword.
If you catch the first demon king with little damage, you can delay the despair of others.
Besides, with Kim and the party members, the first demon king was easier to catch than I thought.
‘Though that won’t stop Middle-earth from perishing.’
“Let’s do it.”
There was a glimmer of hope that had seemed hopeless for the rest of my life.
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Kim barely returned home late in the morning after the funeral.
She really thought she was going to die trying to shake off the woman who was holding on to her like a water ghost.
After taking a shower and checking the smart loan, the points accumulated today were updated.
‘Your brother looked a bit unwell.’
Opened the party member window to increase Robert’s HP.
‘Hmm…’
People’s memories are not perfect, but now, this world was a little different from the one in the comics.
‘There was no reaction against the power of the holy sword in the comics.’
This world was a bit harsh on heroes.
Before leaving the mansion and using the hypnosis app, I read a book about the contractors of the holy sword.
There were two main things in common about the contractors of the holy sword.
One is that they all made great achievements, and the second is that they all went mad or died after suffering from accumulated backlash.
‘Even if I manage to catch the demon king somehow, I don’t think Robert-hyung’s condition will be normal.’
There was absolutely no answer to the route in the manga.
‘Would there be a character in the theatrical version?’
He is a character who doesn’t appear in comics and appears only in the movie version, but it wasn’t strange that he was in the world now because it was a little different from the comics.
‘It wouldn’t be bad to visit it once.’