The Villain Carries the Holy Sword – Chapter 50.2

Chapter 50.2: The Green Queen, Twilight Sword (1)

The true owner of this land.

The place where the golden pillar of light that split the night in half soared was the coast of Ethelred.

The place where the 7-star dungeon, Eire, was located, where Count Edmund had entered alone.

“It seems Lord Count has cleared the dungeon!”

Cloyd exclaimed brightly, unlike his usual composed self.

“Indeed…….”

However, Arna couldn’t be happy like him.

An unknown intuition.

Whether it was her half-elf intuition or her worry as a mother, she couldn’t tell, but she had a feeling that Edmund’s return wouldn’t necessarily lead to something good.

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A day before Glumiêm appeared.

Creak━ Creak━.

The steady rhythm of the waves crashing against the ship calmed her mind.

In the distance, she could faintly make out the shape of Airian, and closer, the deep blue seawater gently lapped.

At a time when even the most hardened heresy inquisitor would have felt a chill in their heart, Saintess Caterina Fiorelli gently touched ‘Autumn’ and slowly retraced her memories.

‘No matter how hard the heresy inquisitors of Delft tried, they couldn’t find a ship to Ethelred.’

However, as soon as she arrived by train at the port city of Kerk, a strange coincidence occurred.

She happened to see a skinny puppy in front of the station. Caterina, who naturally loved dogs, was naturally drawn to it and tried to feed it.

But the puppy, as if it were human, led her somewhere.

And so, she arrived at a slum in Kerk.

There was the puppy’s owner, an old man groaning in bed.

‘It wasn’t a serious illness.’

A combination of old age and malnutrition.

Unable to ignore a sick person in front of her, Caterina healed him.

And what she heard was that the old man was originally the captain of the Kerk-Ethelred route, but he had his ship confiscated by loan sharks and ended up like this after drinking all the time.

His only son, a ship repairman, was forced to work repairing ships in a distant city because other ship owners, wary of the loan sharks, avoided him.

Lastly, the puppy kept waiting for his son to return.

‘At first, I thought it was God’s will.’

They had enough money to buy a ship, but the Saintess and her party couldn’t find anyone to properly sail it to Ethelred.

But just in time, the perfect person appeared, so she punished the loan shark guild that tormented the old man and his son and took the ship.

She felt good at the beginning of the voyage, thinking she had done the right thing.

Woo woo woo woo━.

But the sacred treasure ‘Autumn’ sent her a strange signal.

Caterina took it as a warning.

As she retraced recent events one by one, she felt uneasy.

‘It all fell into place too perfectly.’

Prepared at the most needed moment.

Coincidence or fate.

Like Cardinal Mauro, if it was God’s arrangement, she could have accepted it, but she couldn’t.

Woo woo━.

‘Autumn’ was crying.

That lonely and solitary cry was whispering only to her.

That’s why Caterina was suspicious.

It was ‘Autumn’ that reminded her of the existence of the true hero Abel and Cain, who unjustly killed him, and it was ‘Autumn’ that led them here.

She couldn’t ignore it.

But there was nothing she could do to find out anything.

Kwakang━!

Suddenly, she heard faint thunder in the distance.

It was an unusual sound for the clear and peaceful sky, so Caterina immediately went out to the deck.

Mauro and the other heresy inquisitors also rushed out with their weapons.

Kwaruruurung━!

As they got closer to Airian Island, a new sight began to appear.

Dark clouds hung over only one particular coast, and the waves were raging tremendously.

“Beyond that is Ethelred!”

The old captain shouted.

Cardinal Mauro narrowed his eyes at the weather, which looked more ominous than he thought.

Then he said to Caterina, who came next to him.

“To cause such localized weather changes, it’s not a 7-star, but an 8-star.”

“And since it’s an underwater dungeon, it must be 8+.”

“Saintess, it’s only natural that the door closes if another team enters the dungeon first…”

Mauro’s eyes moved from Caterina’s eyes to the ‘Autumn’ she was holding.

He didn’t mean to disrespect the dignity of the sacred treasure, but he couldn’t help but be puzzled.

“The sacred treasure will open the way.”

Caterina declared.

It wasn’t known if the 〈Sacred Treasures of the Four Seasons〉 could open a closed dungeon, but she was sure.

Then she raised ‘Autumn’ towards the dungeon, Eire.

Woo woo woo woo━!

A brown light emanating from the holy crown shot straight into the storm.

It was like proof that it was possible.

At the same time, Mauro’s face hardened.

“Don’t worry. ‘Autumn’ won’t show miracles unless it’s related to the hero.”

Faced with the seemingly irresistible changes in the great nature, Mauro could only offer a prayer to God.

“All things are light, and light is ours.”

And the old captain, who was watching this, approached Caterina.

“Is it inside there that the Saintess is trying to go?”

There was no sense of incongruity.

The look and tone of someone who had spent his entire life at sea.

She would not forget the warning from ‘Autumn’, but for now, there was not a single suspicious point about the old man.

Caterina cleared her throat and replied.

“……Yes, God is guiding me.”

“It must be Æðelwealh.”

“Æðelwealh?”

“There’s a legend that the reason why the sea of Ethelred is so absurd is because of the curse of Æðelwealh.”

As Mauro, a clergyman who considered legends as heresy, was about to get angry, Caterina calmed him down with a glance and urged the old man to continue.

Then, the old captain cautiously brought up a very old story.

“The ruined king, Æðelwealh. From the place where he threw himself last, a purple rock grew, and since then, the weather in that sea has become strange.”

And the old captain said that since she saved him, they would risk their lives to guide the Saintess and her party to the ‘Æðelwealh Reef’.

Caterina felt once again that it was all too convenient, but she nodded for now.

The old captain gave urgent orders to the sailors and returned to his original position.

Then he muttered in a very small voice that no one could hear.

“With our flames, we shall renew the world……”

The old man was an ordinary person.

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Rumbling━.

Inside a cavity where the faint sound of thunder could be heard from afar.

The floor was a sea of rotten blood of monsters, and a man sat upright in front of a giant door, unconcerned.

A skinny man who seemed to collapse at any moment. In front of him, a golden sword was stuck vertically.

“I’m…… hungry.”

The moment he opened his mouth, his cracked voice revealed how long it had been since he had taken a drink of water.

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