Chapter 94
Chapter 94
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 94
Chapter Title: Battle with the Armored Giants
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It all happened in the span of an instant.
The armored giants moved abruptly, swinging their swords toward Go Yohan.
“……!”
The strikes, exquisitely precise yet composed of entirely different sword styles, sought to tear him apart.
But in that instant.
[Occupation: Black Knight changes to Occupation: Knight of Sloth.]
To Go Yohan, who had drawn forth the curse.
[Inaction]
The armored knights’ swords came to a halt.
Had they plunged just a bit deeper, or if he had been even a fraction slower, their blades carried enough power to have truly shredded him to pieces.
And this too was an instant.
[Occupation: Knight of Sloth is forcibly changed back to Black Knight.]
[Inaction is released.]
Along with the goddess’s voice.
Splash!
Blood finally erupted.
In yet another instant, Go Yohan twisted his body and blocked two swords.
[Space Lock]
Even as he used it to halt one sword and fend off the armored giant knight.
Drip, drip.
Long gashes marred Go Yohan’s back, chest, and neck, blood flowing from them.
Thud.
Go Yohan leaped back, skidding across the ground as he assumed a stance.
Thump, thump.
His heart pounded.
“…….”
He couldn’t recall the last time this had happened.
In disbelief, Go Yohan spread his palm and stared at the blood flowing from it.
“You all….”
He said, eyeing the knight giants advancing toward him.
“What are you?”
No answer came.
Instead—
Shrieeek!
Only their ferocious strikes.
As if accustomed to fighting in formation, their attacks closed in with flawless trajectories, leaving no openings.
From the sides, low, high.
And then.
Flash!
From behind as well.
Boom!
An explosion rang out.
It was the shockwave from Go Yohan kicking off the ground in an instant.
Wind whipped up and the earth’s surface flipped, yet by then Go Yohan was already airborne, stance set.
Shrieeek!
But they pursued, swinging their swords once more.
“……!”
Whoosh!
As if dragging him down, pulling him into a fall.
Splash!
Blood scattered again.
This time, a long gash appeared on Go Yohan’s thigh.
“Hah.”
Go Yohan let out a hollow laugh.
He couldn’t even guess how long it had been since he’d fought like this.
[Occupation….]
Even if he tried awakening the curse.
[Occupation is fixed as Black Knight.]
It wouldn’t stir.
He couldn’t use Envy or Greed either.
Thump, thump, thump.
The knight giants approached.
Yet even so.
“Ha, haha.”
Laughter bubbled up from Go Yohan.
“Have I… since when….”
Relied on such curses?
The Holy Knight Michael of Travania had stood tall on his physical prowess alone.
Go Yohan now was the same.
Curses were mere tools for efficiency and convenience.
Ripple.
Brilliant light shimmered in his sky-blue eyes.
Shrieeek!
Go Yohan’s hand swept horizontally toward the oncoming knight giants.
Between his bent fingers.
Drip, splatter.
Flesh and blood fell away.
Finally, the halted knight giants lowered their heads to inspect their bodies.
Roar!
Blood burst forth like a waterfall.
In that other instant, Go Yohan had succeeded in tearing out one knight giant’s side with a space rend.
At this moment, their true nature didn’t matter.
Nor did the temple behind them.
Swoosh.
He extended his hand.
Snap.
Go Yohan flicked a single finger in provocation and said,
“Come.”
He was smiling.
“Knights.”
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Shrieeek!
The knight giants’ swords whirled like a vortex toward Go Yohan.
They truly excelled in formation combat.
If holy power could wield such flawless teamwork, wouldn’t Go Woojin, Go Minji, and Han Sua alone suffice to take down a hexad devil? The thought crossed his mind.
Moreover, they were.
Crunch! Boom!
Individually great enough to be called knights, masterful swordsmen as well.
Different sword forms, different styles.
Shrieeek!
As if their strikes taunted him while bearing down.
‘Can you dodge this too?’
Go Yohan answered the provocation.
Thud.
In the fleeting gap of time.
Within the flow only those who had reached transcendence could perceive.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!
Go Yohan clashed bodies with the knight giants.
Tearing at them with space rends.
Humm.
Digging traps with Space Lock.
Splash!
Yet wounds multiplied on Go Yohan’s body.
“Puha!”
As if exhilarated, Go Yohan exhaled.
Ssssh.
His flesh mended, reverting to its pristine past form as if defying time.
Moreover, Go Yohan was like a beast.
Memories of that time, that era, resurfaced.
‘Monk.’
Wandering the continent with only his two fists, clad in a burlap sack.
Before taking up the sword, when perfecting his body was his modest goal, vowing to fully experience the goddess’s earth and creations with the body she had made.
“Hahat.”
Those memories and sensations awakened fully.
Boom!
To the space-rending strikes.
Smirk.
Go Yohan smiled and offered his chest.
Spurt!
Blood and flesh sprayed, coating the knight giant’s helmet.
As the blinded giant staggered back.
Crack!
Go Yohan, already recovered, seized the knight giant’s helmet.
Crunch!
Immense force seemed to crush the helmet.
Behind him.
Shrieeek!
The other knight giants’ strikes targeted Go Yohan’s back.
Spurt!
Blood sprayed again, but ignoring it, Go Yohan shoved the gripped knight giant to the ground.
Mounting its chest.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Like some primal force, he hammered down with fists, plunging them again and again.
Slash! Slash!
The knight giants swung relentlessly to cleave Go Yohan.
His exposed back was riddled with whip-like marks, like a slave’s.
Whiplashes.
Ssssh.
Their strikes grew harder to land wounds on Go Yohan’s body over time.
It hardened, and hardened further.
Even if they pierced that gap to wound him.
Boom!
Go Yohan regenerated while swinging fists to pulverize the gripped knight giant.
Crack.
A faint sound echoed then.
Finally, the seized knight giant’s movements ceased.
Drip, drip.
Blood flowed from Go Yohan’s fists—who’s blood, he couldn’t tell.
As Go Yohan rose and faced the knight giants.
Flinch.
They recoiled as if struck by fear.
Click.
Go Yohan gripped the Mark of Great Sin with his blood-soaked hand.
As it began shifting into the form of a Great Sin.
Whoosh!
A pillar of light descended.
[Special Gate: Entrance is destroyed.]
Bright light began emanating from the knight giants’ bodies.
[Return for today.]
At the voice that rang out.
“……!”
Go Yohan snapped to attention and looked skyward.
The eyes that had seemed entranced moments ago regained their original light.
He couldn’t believe it.
“…G…Goddess?”
The goddess’s voice.
But no reply came.
Rumble!
The space crumbled.
“Goddess—!”
Despite Go Yohan’s cry, the space merely tore apart.
[Reward: Orichalcum Ingot is granted.]
His inventory grew heavier.
[Reward:…]
The goddess’s voice rang clearly to the dazed Go Yohan.
[Large amount of Karma Points is purified.]
When he opened his eyes, Go Yohan stood where the warp gate had been.
“Go Yohan! How in the world….”
Go Minji, who had apparently exited the gate first, started rushing toward him joyfully.
Swoosh.
But she halted upon seeing his eyes.
A madness even she, a berserker, couldn’t easily comprehend.
Something unapproachable.
But that was all.
“…I don’t know either.”
When he blinked again, the man standing there was the Go Yohan she knew.
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The warp gate connection succeeded.
Go Yohan tried reopening that place, but ultimately failed.
The world he had faced seemed to have fled from him, hiding away.
‘Not yet.’
As if saying that.
Still, the warp gate hadn’t failed entirely.
Humm.
The warp gate’s radiant light poured forth.
First, it connected to the Busan Sanctuary Alliance side.
-It’s a historic moment!
The success was announced to all.
Next came Russia.
The warp gate installed at the Moscow Player Association activated.
-This makes Russia the second safest nation in the world.
Association Chairman Ivan declared so on an official stage.
America was still pending.
A gate secretly linked to Goldian existed, but officially, opposition from the US government had stalled installation.
Moreover, since warp gates weren’t yet open to the public, people merely thought:
‘Something’s happening, huh?’
‘The world’s changing, I guess?’
They hadn’t grasped it yet.
They would in time.
Or perhaps it was better if they didn’t.
“Oh….”
In the church basement, Gluttony—having finished all tasks—spoke with raw emotion on his haggard face.
“Ori…chalcum!”
In Gluttony’s hand was a purple ingot: orichalcum.
The reward for defeating the knight giants.
“Ooh…. Oooh!”
Such dramatics from Gluttony were rare, but orichalcum warranted it.
A metal Go Yohan knew of, if only in name.
‘God’s metal.’
Hailed as the world’s most perfect, a legendary substance said to become anything.
Alchemists dreamed of it till their dying breath, yearning to glimpse even a fragment.
Even in Travania, he’d never seen it.
“G-Genuine…!”
Go Yohan’s armor and sword were adamantium, not orichalcum.
It was.
Humm!
An item radiating light like a legendary one, even as an ingot.
“C-Captain! Can I research this?”“That’s why I brought it.”
“Captain—!”
Gluttony threw himself at Go Yohan.
“I love you! I love you!”
As Go Yohan chuckled in disbelief.
“Captain, I have something to report.”
Yun Seung-ah appeared from behind and said.