The Villain Carries the Holy Sword – Chapter 179

Chapter 179: The Mirage’s Oath (3)

The day Cain pierced Abel’s heart with the holy sword.

What was the expression of the Iron-Blooded Princess who was following behind the wedding procession?

Did she laugh, did she cry?

Was she embarrassed, was she angry?

Cain looked into the clear purple eyes of the young Iron-Blooded Princess, Elena, who was shining her eyes before him, and opened his mouth.

“This world is being ruined every day.”

“……?”

“Although it is not in front of our eyes, someone who lives in this world will be dying, and his world is being ruined.”

“…….”

Elena nodded.

Because her world had also been ‘ruined,’ she could understand what Cain was saying.

The beautiful world of only her and her mother disappeared, turning into ashes.

“To answer directly to the question of whether it will be ruined if you get married, it will.”

Cain took two steps forward and stood in front of Elena.

Wooong—

And he held the golden holy sword, ‘Summer,’ which would never break, horizontally on his chest.

Kukung—

Cain’s left foot gently stepped on the floor.

Only the touch was soft, but Pure White Thunderbolt and dazzling sunlight began to melt from his entire body.

[‘Summer’ blesses Cain, the Annihilator of Destruction.]

Winter and summer.

The longest and most arduous of the four seasons allowed in this world are with Cain.

Whooong—

The wind blows.

In the cool wind full of the smell of crumbling sunlight, Elena blinked.

She neatly tied her blonde hair, which was fluttering, back.

Where in the dungeon of the Devil of Lies, Procell, full of a false environment, does such a clear wind blow?

In front of her.

There was a man wrapped in solitary pure white and dazzling sunlight. The one and only hero in this world, let alone the Empire.

Cain.

It was the wind blowing from him.

[‘Winter’ blesses Cain, who confronts ruin.]

Cain pulled out his holy sword.

It was a unique horseman style, like pulling a bowstring with an arrow on it. A posture that Elena, who had seen various swordsmanship of the Empire, had never seen before.

“Ruin is all too familiar.”

To Cain too.

To Elena too.

To everyone.

“To fight against such ruin is to live, and you will be able to break the future of ruin.”

Cain looked back at that moment.

After making eye contact with Elena, who was still a girl, he smiled.

It was a smile of conviction that only those who fight fate and change the world can know.

And Cain immediately looked ahead.

Did Procell also feel that Cain’s posture was unusual now?

Kwaggagagagag—

With a roar, huge rocks began to roll in.

Thinking of Procell, who attacked strictly according to the rules of the dungeon, Cain raised the corners of his mouth.

He recalled Ethelred’s sword, which he had seen terribly many times in this life.

That sword, infinitely resembling a human hand stretching out from a white cliff toward the blue sea.

Ardvark.

Lu Rabada.

Ethelred’s trajectory, which had been impossible in his previous life, exploded. The holy sword, ‘Summer,’ went straight ahead without hesitation.

A high-speed attack so fast that even the sound could be heard late.

Paat—!

The rolling rock shattered into hundreds of pieces the moment it touched.

Is that all?

The traps that were aiming for the lives of Cain and Elena were crushed and destroyed by the pressure of Ardvark and the aura emanating from the holy sword.

Just like that, the sunlight passed all the way to the end.

Sssk.

Cain swept his head back and looked back at Elena from the end of the room.

“Let’s go break it. The Märchen’s little ruin.”

Elena, as if possessed by something, took her steps, and Cain, like the sunlight guiding the way, opened his mouth.

“If you break such a small ruin, your ruin will disappear too.”

“……Yes!”

Would a woman who had the same eyes as Cain want the same thing as Cain?

She didn’t know anything yet, but one thing was for sure, a ray of sunshine had just entered Elena’s eyes, which couldn’t contain anything.

🔹🔹🔹

Special Intelligence Division Chief, Lourens.

Magic Marquis, Margette Wiseman.

The archenemies that the upper echelons of the Empire all know.

“Cleared.”

Lourens broke through the pouring traps at once.

The next room that continues.

It was a simple but ignorant and effective place where a huge amount of monsters poured out.

After the two faced each other once, Magic Marquis Wiseman stepped forward.

She stretched out her left hand toward the monsters that were rushing in like waves.

Tak—!

No magic spell was needed.

The moment she flicked the middle and ring fingers of her left hand with a bored expression.

Kugugugugu.

The eyes of the monsters that were running towards them with red eyes, drooling, close.

The army of monsters running towards them fell asleep at Wiseman’s gesture and began to push rather than run.

Nightmare.

Wiseman smacked her lips.

The monsters that fell asleep convulsed and trembled.

Pick—

One by one, their hearts stopped.

Lourens looked at Wiseman at the overwhelming power of illusion magic. She reached out her left hand towards him.

Tak—!

Her magic, which easily put the legion of monsters to sleep, did not work at all on Lourens.

“Let’s go.”

Lourens walked nonchalantly towards the door of the next room that appeared in front of him.

“…….”

Although she was the Magic Marquis called the successor of the magic tower, she was not a knight, so she could not know that the footsteps of Lourens, who always moved lightly, had deepened.

In this way, they worked together to clear four rooms and opened the door.

“You’re late.”

In front of the ninth room where the boss would be.

Cain was sitting on a rock, and Crown Princess Elena was standing next to him with a clean face.

Lourens and Wiseman blinked.

Typically, the worst 1-star dungeons have nine rooms.

Even though the devil Procell had messed with the dungeon to his liking, he could not touch the basic rules, so Lourens and Wiseman naturally assumed there would be nine rooms.

Then one is the boss room.

The rest are eight.

They cleared four of them, so Cain and Elena must have cleared four rooms as well.

“Was there no legion of monsters?”

Magic Marquis Wiseman asked Cain.

She couldn’t understand how those two came out faster than herself, who was capable of wide-area illusion magic, and Lourens, who had a wealth of experience like a veteran.

Cain grinned.

“There was.”

“Then how did you get here so quickly?”

“Cut them down.”

“…….”

Wiseman looked back at Elena.

Rather than listening to Cain’s words, which always seemed to have half of them missing, the testimony of the 13th Princess, who had watched, would be certain.

“He cut them down.”

“…….”

As Wiseman made a blatantly disappointed expression, Elena immediately spread her hand.

And, like Cain did, she swung it sideways.

“As he drew his sword in the air like this, the monsters were all split in half and died.”

“Your Highness, even so…….”

Wiseman couldn’t understand at all.

However, she saw Lourens, who was next to her, staring at Cain with his eyes wide open, unlike him.

“Then how did you do the trap room?”

Lourens immediately asked Cain again.

“Stabbed them.”

Naturally, he looked back at Elena, and she stretched her hand forward and said.

“He stabbed them. When he stretched out his sword like this, the rocks, the traps, everything broke.”

“…….”

Even Lourens’ mouth was shut.

Cain grinned as if he knew something, and Elena stood there blankly and cluelessly, as if she didn’t know anything.

━You must hide the fact that i’m strong.

Elena said to Cain when they passed the four rooms and arrived here.

She nodded immediately and thanked Cain.

She doesn’t know about other cadets.

But if rumors spread that the princess of the Empire was this strong, it would be dangerous.

Cain knew very well that human desire and power were more terrifying than the monsters of the Great Wall.

“The rumor of Sword Master…… meant it was real.”

Lourens muttered softly.

Magic Marquis Wiseman turned her head, and Lourens said with a bewildered face.

“When I heard the rumor of Sword Master, I naturally thought it was a nobody who only competed with the amount of aura.”

He wondered if he was really a Sword Master while listening to what Cain had done on Airian Island.

However, while it is difficult to even become somebody at the age of seventeen, it is nearly impossible to become a real one.

Even the strongest Knight Duke of the Empire became a Sword Master at the age of nineteen.

“But listening to it, it’s real.”

“Let’s talk about that later. Let’s go since everyone’s here.”

Cain rose from his seat.

The way to hide a tree is in the forest.

In order to hide Elena’s specialness, he deliberately revealed that he was a real Sword Master, so the two did not doubt it at all.

Chuck—

There were four handprints on the door of the boss room.

Cain put his hand on it first, and the other three also put their hands on the door from their respective places.

Clickety-clack, clickety-clack—

Then the thick stone door opens.

As in the very first room the four of them had experienced, a flower garden full of hydrangeas unfolded inside.

In the middle of it.

There was an unnaturally beautiful and antique pavilion, and in the most prestigious seat at the table was a shadow dressed in a splendid brown suit.

There is no face.

The shape is also unknown.

It’s just that something like a black shadow clumps together and shakes like a heat haze. It was so round where the head should be that one would think it was the shape of a person.

《Have a seat.》

A low voice cries out.

And behind the four, white chairs, suitable for the garden table, appeared.

Chuck—

Cain sat down first.

After the other three sat down, the chairs moved by themselves and moved them to the table where he was.

《Nice to meet you……!》

His face-like shadow looked at each one and then stopped when he saw Cain.

Cain also looked at him and opened his mouth lightly.

“Are you a friend of Ballam?”

The devil of lava, Ballam.

He called Cain the End and tried to kill him somehow.

‘That means the devils know what kind of being I am.’

The being of shadow, Procell.

The Devil of Lies, who has only a heart left without himself. He was speechless for a moment at Cain’s question.

And he opened his mouth awkwardly.

《……He’s not my friend. We just lived at the same time.》

“Ballam didn’t even think about listening to people and attacked, what about you?”

《If he is ‘fire,’ I am a ‘swindler.’ Just as not all humans are the same, neither are we.》

“Well, you’re more mean and evil.”

Cain was about to draw his holy sword because he had asked all the questions he wanted to ask.

When he was about to kill Procell at once and clean up.

Thump—

He saw Wiseman’s head fall on the table.

Thump.

Following her, Lourens also lowered his head.

On the other hand, Elena, with her eyes bloodshot and half closed, grabbed her thigh with her own hand and squeezed it to the point of bleeding to resist sleep.

《Oh my. You endure it because you are the End, but for a human woman, you are amazing.》

Clap—

Procell raised his two gloved hands and clapped.

“I……can’t”

At that moment, Elena’s eyes closed.

Thump.

She fell asleep.

Cain immediately looked back at the three who had fallen asleep. And he said softly to Procell.

“Maybe because it’s the heart that Wiseman used, you’re good at illusion magic. So, what’s your last word?”

Slung—

Cain pulled out ‘Summer.’

The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow. Procell, who became even darker, put the empty teacup in front of him to his mouth and said.

《I am very powerless now. I can only put them to sleep. But it will be different if I have a contractor.》

Wooong—

Mirrors appeared one by one above the fallen three. What is shown in it is a dream that each person has.

《Aren’t you curious if you’ll take the hand of the devil at the most difficult moment of your life?》

The devil who wanted a contractor smiled.

“No.”

Cain, who had no intention of waiting for such a thing.

Shhhh—

He thrust his holy sword into Procell’s head at once.

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