The Villain Carries the Holy Sword – Chapter 71.1

Chapter 71.1: On a Spring Day (3)

Creeeaaak━ Creeeaaak━.

Rough wooden wheels screamed.

A man was pulling a ballista the size of an adult.

“I can’t be the only one who dies.”

Eyes gleaming with madness.

A middle-aged man with a messy beard dripping down his chin.

Originally, there were no rebels in the Crowl territory. Because the former Count Garick had managed his territory well.

However, when Arian seized power, rebels who opposed her emerged.

━It’s a bother to pick them out one by one. Let’s just burn them all together.

Of course, it was Arian’s plan to wipe out all the opposition.

She tried to gather those who opposed her into a garbage can and kill them, but she failed because she died first.

And Kinld, the leader of the rebels, wasn’t a real opposition.

Kinald, who had failed as an actor and lived as a hoodlum in back alleys, had become a leader when he was chosen by Arian.

But it wasn’t that he was loyal.

Clink━.

The sound of gold coins clinking against each other could be heard from the leather pouch tied to his waist.

The object of his loyalty was gold coins.

“Heheh, I see them.”

Thanks to the expansive grassland that made up the Crowl territory, it was possible to observe opponents from afar.

He dragged the ballista up a gentle hill and hid in the bushes, staring at the shriveled Count Garick and his party.

“To think I’d be working for free.”

When Kinld heard that Arian was dead, he tried to run away, but Oleciren was one step ahead.

It was clear that they would be caught in Crowl’s encirclement, which was narrowing down every minute.

Kinld couldn’t end his life like that!

Thud━.

He pulled out a huge iron ball called ‘Mouton 2’ from his arms and attached it to the arrow of the ballista, which had been modified to shoot bombs.

“If I’m going to die anyway, we’re all going to die together!”

While the Decaster series had to be lit one by one with a fuse, the Mouton series explodes automatically when subjected to a certain amount of impact.

Furthermore, it had more firepower, making it a higher-grade bomb, except for the high price.

Creeeak━.

The ballista’s cogwheels turned, loading the bolt, and the tip of the arrow pointed at Count Garick.

Twang━.

Kinld fired the ballista and shouted like a dying wish.

“Only gold━.”

Swoosh━.

A black trajectory rushing from behind split Kinld’s neck in half from top to bottom.

“……ld.”

His breath, which had been continuing his words, naturally stopped, and his head rolled on the ground, leaving behind the last convulsions of death.

It was Cain.

If he had been just a little faster, he could have caught Kinld before he fired the ballista.

‘Damn it!’

But the ballista had already been fired.

The flames that would rise as the arrow with the Mouton series bomb attached to it hit the ground would burn his companions!

‘I will pay for the future.’

Crackle━.

Cain unleashed ‘Winter’ without hesitation. Pure White Thunderbolt began to swirl around him.

Oleciren, Garick, Abel, Isoel. And even Rude, who was a comrade in the future.

‘I can’t lose anyone!’

He knew it was greedy not to lose anyone.

But Cain, the man he was, was always the one who made the choice to sacrifice the future for that greed.

Just as he was about to draw on the power of the sacred treasure, ‘Winter’, and surpass his limits once more.

Whoosh━.

The spring breeze blew with flower petals, and Cain met Abel’s brown eyes.

That look stopped Cain in his tracks.

“Abel Ethelred.”

No matter how far away, Cain could feel it.

The look in Abel’s eyes, the same one as the day he had stabbed the Hero Abel in the chest, was so familiar to Cain, who felt as if it could happen again any day now, that it haunted his every dream.

It was the look of a hero who had made up his mind to burn everything he had to protect something.

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