The Villain Carries the Holy Sword – Chapter 45.2

Chapter 45.2: Melting the Ice (2)

Anticipating the approaching train, the cannons changed their firing angles, and Cain, standing on the train in the distance, could clearly see their movements.

[‘Spring’ delivers the correct destiny with a little bit of its power remaining.]

Fwoosh

The wind blew.

Cain felt the bitterly cold power of ‘Winter’ running down his spine as he enjoyed the wind.

‘I won’t lose.’

It was like a shackle that made him realize how difficult it was to change something called destiny.

But Cain didn’t care. It was only natural that it wouldn’t be easy to overturn something that had already happened!

Rather, it made his blood boil.

Thud.

He realized that the enemies he was facing were not just some insignificant trash, but those who had killed the hero Abel in the near future, and the world itself that refused to change in the distant future!

Crack

He squeezed the handle of Agweska with both hands.

He planted his outstretched left foot firmly on the locomotive.

He didn’t miss the flash of the magic cannon’s muzzle.

Whoosh

The light of destruction descended, tearing through the air.

An ordinary person would have been hit and killed in the blink of an eye, but not Cain.

‘I won’t lose!’

[‘Winter’ devours destiny.]

[The seal of early winter is shaken.]

Dark Sky Bright Light.

Original Style.

Kyrie.

The vertical moonlight split the first cannon fire with its solemnity.

External Style.

Eleison.

The horizontal sunlight crushed the second one with its vastness.

Cross Strike.

Kyrie Eleison.

The moment the heavens and the earth connected, the sun and the moon shining together, Cain Ethelred was not Cain Ethelred, but Lord East of the front lines.

Crackle!

“All shots missed.”

Silence fell upon the ramparts.

They had witnessed a miracle – a single sword blocking the precisely aimed magic cannons.

No one could speak.

No, they couldn’t.

“Sword Master…”

A name heard only in legends, a title recognized only by Edmund Ethelred in this era of Airian.

“It’s the master!”

One who transcends human limits.

The master of all weapons.

A living strategic weapon whose mere existence could determine the outcome of a battlefield.

That was a Sword Master.

Standing on a moving train, he blocked three magic cannon shots, proving his prowess as a Sword Master.

By standing alone to protect hundreds of lives, he demonstrated that his nobility was as straight as his sword.

“A Sword Master has appeared!”

If there was a true Sword Master, it would be Cain.

The ramparts were in chaos, and so was the train.

They had despaired at the magic cannons firing from Ironheart, but when they saw the train was unharmed, they erupted in cheers.

At that moment when cheers and despair intersected.

Cain felt the ‘correct destiny’ that had given him strength leave him.

As the power ebbed away like the tide, he felt as if he would collapse from the overwhelming emptiness. But he gritted his teeth and managed to stand by using Agweska as a crutch.

“Cain!”

Oleciren shouted, emerging from between the train cars.

Cain shook his head.

“I told you to stay back.”

“I told you before not to do everything yourself!”

“……”

“I…… I’m not such a bastard that I’d just watch my friend fight alone.”

The moment the magic cannons fired, Cain had a feeling this would happen and climbed onto the train alone. He thought it would be more efficient to deflect them alone than with many people.

With Oleciren in the lead, others began to climb onto the train.

Seeing them, Cain thought he understood that there was something more important than efficiency.

Watching them move from afar, Arian smiled a sly smile.

“Shoot the sun, Daybreaker.”

As if her mouthpiece, Garick uttered empty words.

“Fire.”

Flash!

Suddenly, a five-colored light flickered beneath the gates of Ironheart.

The people on the ramparts looked down, and there they saw a man in a black hood holding a giant bow.

Rumble.

The earth trembled.

As if he were about to shoot down the sun in the sky with his bow, an immense pressure emanated from him.

The five-colored light that had been flowing out of the empty bow gathered and became a single arrow.

Daybreaker.

The one who breaks the day and summons the night.

The one who guides the night to usher in a complete golden dawn.

The man who had bowed his head to Arian offered up his entire life force in prayer.

“With our flames, we shall renew the world━!”

He shot the prepared arrow to kill the adversary who hindered their great cause.

Whoosh

If the magical cannon was approaching in a round arc in the air, the arrow he fired was shot in a straight line, leaving a long scar on the ground.

Its target was the black-haired Cain, so his companions gathered near him and even the locomotive would be affected.

In the brief moment the arrow rushed towards them.

Cain gritted his teeth and roused the power of ‘Winter’ once more.

It was an attack that looked far more dangerous than the magic cannons at a glance.

He had to block it, even at the cost of his life, to save everyone. He had no choice but to—.

Thud

At that moment, someone pressed down on Cain’s shoulder and stepped forward.

Isoel, who removed her earring and gripped the gravity hammer Credne.

Vanderbilt, drawing his greatsword.

Abel, drawing his sword.

Asher, holding up his shield.

More than all of them, a single woman who stepped forward not with any calculation but with the desire to save him.

Oleciren Rune Airian.

Crackle.

The same darkness that filled Agweska welled up in her gray pupils.

Vanish.

The ninety-ninth witch.

The living end standing at the end.

At her single word, the five-colored arrow shattered into sparkling dust.

“Damn, there really is no such thing as absolutes.”

Oleciren cursed, turning to Cain.

Even she hadn’t expected to use the witch’s power like this. But if she were faced with the same situation again, she would make the same choice.

Because that was who Oleciren was.

“Still, wasn’t I amazing?”

Oleciren smiled brightly at Cain.

[『The conditions for Annihilator of Destruction Ⅲ have been confirmed.]

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……

Clear Conditions: Oleciren’s Awakening (partially achieved), Realization of the End (achieved), Death.

Success: World Line Fixation increase, Peace in Airian.

Failure: Return canceled.

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“Yes.”

Cain replied to her, smiling beyond the messages.

If that was also the ‘correct destiny’, then he would even cut down fate itself.

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