The Villain Carries the Holy Sword – Chapter 105.1

Chapter 105.1: Spring When Stars Fall (4)

Fwooooosh━!

Arrows came flying.

Marquis McLoud grabbed his head and hurriedly ducked.

Even a human shooting from this distance was terrifying, but right now, dozens of elf archers were firing.

Even though he was nearing the end of his life, McLoud couldn’t help but feel fear at the sound of the wind whistling past his ears.

Because he had no way to defend himself.

Clang━!

However.

Cain had a way.

Clang, ting, ting!

Within the time it took for the arrows to reach them, a time divided and subdivided, there was Cain.

‘It’s been a while.’

The days of the Great Wall came to mind.

Cain, holding Agweska, swung his sword, recognizing the incoming arrows.

‘These are malicious.’

Some were aimed at his lower body, which was difficult to block with a sword.

To be precise, they aimed at both his upper and lower body simultaneously, intending to hit at least one.

Thud━.

He lifted his foot and stomped down on an arrow.

In the realm of time that Cain perceived, the warrior’s blade was visible, let alone the arrow, which was even slower.

This was no problem.

Ting.

The arrow flying towards his eye was deflected by Agweska.

Thump.

The arrow, having lost its force, stuck in the ground near Cain.

And so, a dense forest of arrows was created.

Amazingly, even though McLoud and Cain’s surroundings were blackened by arrows, not a single one pierced them.

Swoosh━.

Cain glanced sideways and smiled.

“Keugh━!”

An elf screamed as an arrow hit him.

‘One down.’

Among the arrows flying towards him, there was a suitable one.

He intentionally let it graze the side of Agweska, and the stray arrow struck an elf’s shoulder.

The elf, hit by the arrow, dropped his bow and trembled in pain.

One by one.

‘Too bad.’

He tried to eliminate the enemies using their own arrows, but the elves weren’t fools, and they quickly blocked his strategy.

They began to block the dangerous arrows that were bouncing off the ground by using the wind spirits they had summoned.

“Cease fire!”

But his intention was successful.

At Elder Elf Faye MacGeraghty’s command, the rain of arrows ceased. Marquis McLoud cautiously raised his head as the terrifying sound stopped.

Roughly hundreds of arrows were stuck all around them.

He desperately shook off his fear and looked up at Cain.

“Did… Did you protect me?”

At McLoud’s murmur, Cain looked down with a relaxed smile. Not a single wound marred his body, which held the black sword.

“I just happened to do so.”

“You may not be Ross, but I’m still your enemy…… Why?”

McLoud, who always acted based on cold calculations of profit and loss, couldn’t understand Cain’s actions.

In this situation, of all situations, saving him from a barrage of elf arrows didn’t make sense, no matter how he calculated it.

Cain glanced to the side for a moment.

In the distance, he could see Oleciren and her party approaching while fighting.

“We are citizens of the same nation.”

It felt awkward saying something Oleciren would say, but seeing Marquis McLoud’s expression change in real-time, he felt good about it.

“Citizens?”

“Even if we fight amongst ourselves, we must join forces when a greater enemy like the elves appears.”

“Join forces……”

Leaving him, who was still half-dazed, behind, Cain lifted Agweska and placed it on his shoulder.

It was a habit he had developed while using Winter’s greatsword in the past, placing the sword, which wasn’t even that big or heavy, in such a way.

Then, he spoke to Faye MacGeraghty.

“Why stop there? Let’s do some more.”

Cain lightly kicked the arrows stuck near his feet, breaking them.

“Well, I guess you’d be too ashamed to keep shooting after failing to hit a single shot from this distance. Even a dwarf could have hit me.”

He crushed the elves’ pride.

They were already humiliated for failing to hit Cain, and the fact that hundreds of elves were frozen in place by the pressure of a single enemy was itself a disgrace.

At Cain’s provocation, most of the elves stirred.

At that moment, Faye MacGeraghty asked Cain,

“What is your relationship with Edmund?”

She had been staring blankly at Cain for a while, and the more she looked at him, the more he overlapped with Edmund.

━I will go.

Having fought against the previous expedition as well, Faye MacGeraghty remembered Edmund clearly.

At the time, when Faye MacGeraghty was commanding the kidnapping of the supply soldiers as hostages, the other expedition members were unable to step forward.

Edmund had stepped forward alone, wielding a single longsword.

━I will go.

Faye MacGeraghty turned her head.

Cain happened to be standing in that very spot.

Edmund had charged in a straight line from there to the Barrier of the Great Forest.

The elves had tried to kill him with spirits, magic, swords, and arrows, but it was impossible.

Just like Cain had done moments ago.

Edmund, with a single longsword, had pierced through the elves’ barrage in an instant and retrieved the supply troops.

Grip━.

Faye MacGeraghty suppressed the rising fear.

His expressionless face as he charged, his eyes that haunted her dreams every night, were unforgettable to Faye MacGeraghty.

That fear was creeping back in.

“I’m not close with Edmund.”

Cain shrugged and replied. Marquis Ross, who had been watching, added,

“That boy is Edmund’s biological son.”

“……!”

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