Chapter 311: translated
IKilled the Demon King. It was a Mistake.
Chapter 311
Each time Eligos' sword collided, the Dawn Knights' swords began to plunge into the floor. Eligos began striking not only their swords but also the knights' armor with his sword.
"Ugh!"
Knights began collapsing with broken legs or planting their bodies on the floor like worms.
"Aaaaaaah!"
Galahad swung his greatsword down toward Eligos. Eligos blocked Galahad's greatsword. Like the other Dawn Knights, Galahad felt his greatsword becoming instantly heavier. But light shone from Galahad's greatsword, and the weight of the greatsword returned to its original state.
Whoosh!
Galahad slashed his greatsword horizontally. Eligos avoided Galahad's greatsword and stepped back.
"I've figured out your trick."
Galahad lifted his greatsword and tapped the knights who had dropped their swords or couldn't move because of their heavy armor. Miraculously, the knights could move again.
"The swords didn't actually become heavier. They just feel heavier."
Eligos' greatsword had ‘Awakening Magic’ enchanted on it. It was something Eligos had asked magicians for in the past to resist the charm magic of succubi.
"So your sword has magic cast on it."
Two more horns grew on Eligos' head.
"Then I can increase the intensity a bit more."
Eligos swung his greatsword toward Galahad.
"Not there!"
Galahad raised his greatsword to block Eligos' sword. As soon as he blocked it, Eligos immediately stepped back.
As he retreated, a transparent spherical barrier appeared around Galahad. It felt like being inside a soap bubble.
"You bastard!"
Galahad chased after Eligos.
But Eligos moved much faster than he had imagined. It wasn't just Eligos moving quickly. The Dawn Knights around him were also moving extremely fast. Galahad immediately realized that the soap bubble surrounding him was the problem.
Galahad struck the soap bubble with his greatsword. But the greatsword only passed through the bubble without bursting it. Galahad tried to simply pass through the bubble, but it moved along with him, keeping him trapped. He was completely confined in the bubble.
'Wait a minute...'
Galahad recalled where the soap bubble had originated. It was at the point where Eligos' sword and Galahad's greatsword had collided. Galahad dropped his greatsword and ran out of the bubble. Only then was Galahad able to escape the bubble.
"Indeed a gem among gems."
Eligos trapped a knight in a soap bubble and then retreated.
Galahad looked at the knights trapped in soap bubbles. The knights were moving slowly, as if time was passing more slowly for them alone. Whether they were looking confused, shouting, or trying to escape the bubble. Everything was moving slowly.
"To think you'd escape the time chamber so quickly."
"Devil, you're using cowardly black magic!"
"Cowardly?"
Eligos' expression hardened.
"Do you truly not understand what I'm trying to teach you right now?"
Eligos struck a Dawn Knight's sword. The knight's sword plunged into the floor.
"Even you, who are so strong and beautiful, will become so weak with age that you cannot even hold a sword."
Eligos' sword struck another Dawn Knight. The Dawn Knight's legs buckled, and he gasped for breath.
"Even you, who can run like young leopards, will be out of breath after taking just a few steps."
Eligos struck the body of another Dawn Knight. A soap bubble formed around the Dawn Knight's body, and his movements slowed.
"Even you, who were always faster than others, will become slower than others when you age."
One more horn grew on Eligos' head.
"Your steel-like spirit will also be trapped in the prison of the flesh, gathering dust and rusting away."
Eligos' sword met a Dawn Knight's sword. The Dawn Knight began to age rapidly. As if his soul was being sucked out, his vitality was being drained by Eligos' sword.
The Dawn Knight tried somehow to detach his sword, but he couldn't break free from Eligos' sword.
"Uaaaaaaah!"
Galahad swung his greatsword toward Eligos. Eligos retreated without hesitation. Galahad examined the knight whose vitality had just been drained. The knight's skin was sagging, and his vitality was gone.
"You are too beautiful to grow old and die."
Eligos swung his greatsword toward Galahad.
Boom!
Galahad's legs buckled instantly.
"Your souls are far too noble compared to the lazy, fragile, and deficient humans."
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Galahad's joints trembled with each fall of Eligos' sword.
"Aaaaaaah!"
Galahad evaded Eligos' sword and then rammed him with his shoulder. Eligos stepped back lightly.
Galahad quickly assessed his situation objectively. It was a matter of wounded pride, but it seemed impossible to face Eligos while protecting the Emperor. Galahad spotted Hudson.
"Lord Hudson! Take His Majesty the Emperor and escape immediately!"
"Lord Galahad, but...!"
"Take him and go now! That's an order!"
Hudson didn't want to leave his comrades behind and escape, but he understood why Galahad was making such a request. Hudson finally bit his lip and supported the Emperor.
"Your Majesty. I apologize for touching your sacred body. But..."
"Never mind that, just get us out of here now."
At the Emperor's cold tone, Hudson felt a surge of anger for a moment, but Hudson followed the orders and took the Emperor out of the imperial palace.
Meanwhile, Galahad rushed at Eligos.
"Aaaaaaaargh!"
Galahad knew that Eligos was toying with him.
If he wanted to kill him, he could have done so multiple times, and if he wanted to kill the Emperor, he could have done so dozens of times. Nevertheless, the reason Galahad's spirit remained unbroken was because he truly loved the Empire. Though the nation was crumbling and falling apart, Galahad knew the brilliant past of this country.
If he could just endure this moment. If he could somehow overcome this moment, he believed without a doubt that the Empire would shine brilliantly again like the sun rising after a dark night.
If he could become a bundle of firewood that drives away the cold of the night for the sun that will rise again, he would gladly burn his body.
"For Eileen!"
Galahad swung his sword towards Eligos.
The more he swung his sword at Eligos, the more his breath rose to his throat and his limbs trembled. It wasn't the kind of stamina that would be exhausted after swinging a greatsword a few times.
Galahad felt his life force being chipped away each time his sword clashed with Eligos. His eyes grew dim and his ears became muffled. His hands didn't move as he thought they would, and his legs felt as heavy as if weights were attached to his ankles. But he moved. Until his body absolutely couldn't move anymore.
Click!
Galahad's two legs buckled. His sword remained stuck in the ground like a rock, and his two legs trembled and wouldn't move.
"What a pity."
Eligos raised his sword.
"Too precious to die."
His talent was one that might exist in one out of ten thousand knights, but this man was using his talent for the crumbling Imperial province. He couldn't bestow the blessing of becoming a 'Main' on a human who didn't even know how to properly use his shining talent.
Eligos' sword swung down toward Galahad's neck. The Dawn Knights screamed.
"No!"
Clang!
At that moment, Eligos' sword was deflected. It was because of a spear that had flown in from somewhere.
Eligos looked in the direction from which the spear had come. There stood a man with red hair and red eyes.
"Caesar El Lindger....."
But Caesar's eyes were not directed at Eligos.
Caesar's gaze was directed at Crown Prince Trika. Trika was trembling with just his face peeking out from under a chair placed in the corner of the reception hall, trying to save only himself.
"Trika, you bastard."
"Uh, what?!"
"You really deserve just one hit."
Caesar kicked his jawline right off.
"Kuk!"
Trika immediately fainted. The Dawn Knights didn't know how to judge Caesar, who had kicked the Crown Prince's jaw like a soccer ball.
They were grateful that he had saved Galahad, but to kick the head of the divine Crown Prince.
Even Eligos paused his sword, as the appearance of such an unexpected figure made it difficult to make an immediate judgment.
"How did you get here?"
"That thief Trika Goldmile stole my axe and Raven's wand."
At that moment, Raven appeared beside Caesar.
"Here, I found them."
Caesar held Lefty and Thunder in both hands.
"Phew... I finally feel at ease."
"How are you here?"
"What? Didn't you come looking for me knowing I was here?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Then why did you come here?"
"I came to deliver the words of our king."
"Don't these guys have mouths? Why make such a fuss when you could just talk?"
"Sometimes actions leave a deeper impression than words."
Caesar said, sitting down using his axe as a chair. [TL/N: How?]
"This is why proper home education is important. If you don't learn how to communicate with words, you just throw tantrums."
Caesar said, crossing his arms.
"So tell me. My precious. I'll listen to whatever you have to say."
"...Are you mocking me right now?"
"So hurry up and speak. Do you not understand if I don't speak?"
Eligos was slightly offended, but since he was going to tell the knights gathered here anyway, he opened his mouth.
"First, we will not tolerate those who call us devils and consider us an absolute evil that must be killed unconditionally."
"Second, we will be called Mains, not devils, and as the chosen people who have received the choice of magic, we will rule the world."
"Third, everyone must serve our king, Emperor Denver, and those who refuse must atone with death."
Eligos raised his sword toward Caesar.
"Especially you, Caesar El Lindger, will be held accountable for hunting and slaughtering our comrades."
Caesar clapped,
Clap, clap, clap, clap!
"Okay. I got it."
"You understand? Our intentions?"
"I understand that you're talking nonsense."
"What did you say?"
"So to summarize, now devils are the kings, and the rest of the humans have to live as slaves, and we have to follow someone who calls himself Emperor, Denver or Doenjang or whatever his name is."
If Count Vex is just coffee, Emperor Denver is TOP. To speak so brazenly about killing or enslaving everyone who isn't a Main. A logic that would make even Hitler cry.
"But why am I excluded?"
"Do you not know how many of Emperor Denver's servants you have killed to speak so recklessly?"
"Yes. I have beheaded many of Emperor Denver's or whatever's servants."
Caesar stood up holding his axe.
"But it looks like I'm going to take one more, is that okay?"
Eligos unleashed his sword aura.
"Do you think you can defeat me?"
The one who broke the tense atmosphere was Caesar.
Caesar's Thunder flew towards the guy.
Clang!
Crackle!
When Eligos received Thunder, his entire body became rigid as he was electrocuted by a powerful current.
Soon after, Caesar's Lefty came slashing at his neck. Lefty had snow-white flames blazing on it, and a green aura was rippling around Caesar's body. It was Raven's one-man support magic.
"Of course."
***
Hudson put the Emperor in the carriage.
"Your Majesty, please wait a moment. Crown Prince Trika..."
"Depart immediately."
"What? But..."
"Leave that fool behind and depart now!"
Hudson hesitated for a moment but eventually obeyed the Emperor's command.
"Yes. Understood."
The Emperor took a deep breath and leaned back against the carriage seat. At that moment, the carriage door flung open.
"Emperor Michael Goldmile, may I ride with you?"
It was Hilos.
"If you're going to ride, get in quickly."
"Thank you."
Hilos got on and sat across from Michael. The carriage moved urgently. Michael tidied his white hair and wiped the sweat and blood with his hand. Then Hilos grabbed Mihael's wrist.
"...What is it?"
"I'll wipe it for you."
Hilos took out a handkerchief from inside his clothes and wiped it. Michael's makeup dissolved in his sweat and ran down.
"Those bastards. They couldn't even properly stop one devil. How can they call themselves the Imperial Province finest knights?"
"Still, their loyalty must be the finest in the Imperial province."
"Shouldn't skill accompany loyalty! To be helpless against such demonic schemes... tsk tsk."
Hilos wiped the sweat flowing down the Emperor's neck.
"Your Majesty, do you remember?"
"Remember what?"
"I suddenly thought of that day. When Your Majesty executed all your brothers."