Chapter 362: translated
I Killed the Demon King. It was a Mistake.
Chapter 362
Yan's path was splattered with blood at every step. There were crowds who tried to resist Yan by firing guns, but they were fruitlessly blocked by the absolute defense ability of Mercy.
"The hero has gone mad!"
"He's being controlled by Sith!"
The crowds fled in all directions to avoid Yan.
Some were trampled to death after tripping over each other, and there were children crying loudly after losing their mother's hand. A single point of slaughter became a terror that swallowed up millions, bringing down the crowds.
"Save the people!"
Amid the chaos, Elijah's distinct voice of salvation crossed the battlefield.
"Everyone! Save the people!"
The people, like lost sheep, moved following the voice of salvation, and soldiers also moved to save the people.
"Come here! It's safe here!"
Was it to relieve their guilt for firing at civilians, or was it because of human nature's desire to be good? The soldiers actively stepped forward to evacuate civilians to safe places.
And they fired their guns at Yan.
"Die! You, puppet of Sith!"
Yan entered the gaps between civilians to avoid the hail of bullets. Blood splattered and screams burst out among the crowd. Elijah donned armor and a greatsword, watching the people consumed by fear.
Elijah smiled a bloody grin.
"Things are going more smoothly than I thought."
A vibration was felt from the ground, as if bugs were wiggling.
"Elijah..."
Elijah grabbed the nape of Sith's neck and placed him on the back of the steel lion like a burden.
Sith grabbed Elijah's wrist with a dry hand.
"Elijah...! You trash...!"
"You were a variable I hadn't considered. Thanks to you, I suffered a lot of unexpected damage."
Elijah knocked away Sith's hand.
"But that was all. You were no different from a child swinging a sword around, drunk on revenge. Proper revenge should be precise and cold."
"You killed Sith! And you played with my life! You deserve to die! Elijah!"
"You're gravely mistaken. If anyone was betrayed, it was me. Pepe."
"What...?"
Elijah watched Yan fighting with the Steel Lion Knights. It was all a scenario Elijah had envisioned.
"When I told you to deliver a letter, you should have just delivered it, and when I told you to observe Caesar, you should have just observed Caesar. But you started thinking for yourself, refusing my orders and becoming swayed by Caesar's will."
Elijah grabbed Pepe's hair.
Pepe froze momentarily upon directly meeting Elijah's eyes. It was because the quiet anger emanating from his pupils penetrated to the bone.
"But you backstabbed me, destroyed the Steel Fortress, and violated my people. Can you even dare to imagine how terrible the sense of betrayal I felt toward you?"
"...Though you created me, I deserve to live my own life."
Pepe pointed to Elijah's avatars dying from Yan's sword.
"The same goes for them. They are not meant to die meaninglessly in such absurd puppet play!"
"A broom exists to sweep dust, and scissors are needed to cut paper. You and my creations are no different from brooms or scissors, except that you can perform slightly more complex commands. Just as a broom that doesn't sweep dust and scissors that don't cut paper are useless, you too are nothing more than a useless tool."
"...How easily you utter such cruel words, Elijah. Can you say the same in front of those avatars dying for your needs?"
"There's no reason to say such things. What reason is there to blame a tool that is serving its purpose?"
Elijah gagged Pepe and handcuffed his hands and feet.
"I've spoken too long. It's time to bring this to an end."
Elijah took up his greatsword and approached Yan. The Steel Lion Knights moved away from Yan as Elijah approached.
Yan extended his sword toward Elijah.
"For Sith."
There was no killing intent in Yan's eyes.
What killing intent could a clockwork doll moving as predetermined have?
Yan rushed toward Elijah in one breath and swung his sword.
Elijah deflected Yan's sword and drew out a chain. The chain was blocked by the absolute defense ability. Yan's sword extended in pursuit. Elijah received the predetermined flying sword with his greatsword, then broke Mercy's defensive barrier with his elbow.
Clang!
It takes at least one second for Mercy's absolute defense ability to reactivate.
One second is more than enough time to behead Yan.
"Farewell."
Yan looked at Elijah and mumbled softly.
"For Elijah."
Elijah's avatar accepted death calmly. But...
Shriek!
A sharp sound tearing through the air was felt behind Elijah's back.
Elijah instinctively raised his greatsword to block.
Crack!
What flew at Elijah's back was a golden spear.
Elijah could not fail to recognize that spear's name.
The Spear of Penetration.
A relic of Grezawa containing the dragon language of penetrating anything it touches without fail.
Elijah realized his greatsword wouldn't hold and immediately twisted his body.
Thud!
The Spear of Penetration deeply cut Elijah's side. Elijah's blood splattered on Yan's face.
Flutter!
The Spear of Penetration stuck between Yan's legs and trembled. Elijah felt momentarily breathless and dizzy from the sudden pain.
Boom!
Then, a sound like a bomb exploding was heard from Elijah's right.
Boom!
A black axe was suspended in mid-air, emitting dangerous lightning. Mercy's ‘Absolute Defense’ effect had activated to block Thunder. If Yan hadn't blocked it, Elijah's head would have exploded.
"Sir!"
Elijah turned his head toward the direction the spear had flown from.
There stood Caesar, Raven, and Gloria on a flying carriage in the sky. Caesar held up his Lefty and dropped from the sky. Yan reacted first to Caesar, who was flying down like a red comet. Yan put Mercy forward to block Caesar's Lefty.
Whoosh!
Caesar threw his Lefty. Mercy's absolute defense ability activated and blocked Lefty. But the defensive barrier's durability was exhausted and broke.
Caesar broke through the gap and delivered a drop kick toward Yan.
"Ugh!"
Yan tried to use Mercy to block Caesar's kick but couldn't withstand Caesar's kick that was filled with powerful energy.
This was because Yan wasn't the real Yan but merely a clone hastily created by Elijah. Yan momentarily lost hold of Mercy and was thrown to the ground.
Caesar gestured in the air. With a powerful gust of wind, Thunder and Lefty, which had been deflected into the air, flew toward Caesar.
"Caesar...!"
Elijah used chains. The chains deflected the axes flying toward Caesar while simultaneously binding Caesar's limbs.
Ding!
The Storge on Caesar's index finger reacted and blocked the chains.
As the spell trying to bind and the spell trying to unbind conflicted, magic swirled violently. Raven was shocked at the terrifying sight of spells overlapping and breaking other spells.
The surrounding magic compressed toward the center of the conflicting spells and seemed about to explode at any moment.
"Caesar, get away!"
Both Caesar and Elijah sensed that the surrounding magic was not normal.
Caesar immediately retreated.
Crack!
At that moment, Storge shattered and scattered into the air.
Simultaneously, the jewel embedded in Elijah's greatsword also broke and disappeared. The swirling magic exploded, pushing back both Caesar and Elijah.
Blood flowed from their noses due to the stinging impact.
Even Elijah, who hadn't expected such an impact, had blood flowing from his right eye. Elijah felt the greatsword becoming lighter than expected. The sword began crumbling from the tip. The effect of the spell binding the greatsword had worn off. Elijah discarded the greatsword.
Instead, Elijah pulled out Mercy, which was stuck in the ground.
"This is getting quite tiresome now."
Elijah's eyes glowed golden like a beast's.
"I don't know how many times you've ruined my plans."
"That's how the world works. Things never go as planned."
"It's time to end our ill-fated connection."
Elijah prepared to charge. His muscles tensed tightly, causing blood to surge from his side. Although his condition wasn't good, Caesar's situation wasn't good either. Because Caesar was now empty-handed.
"Just die peacefully now, Caesar."
Elijah pounced like a lion.
The air exploded as he reached Caesar in an instant. Caesar's gaze followed Elijah until the end, but his hands remained empty.
In Elijah's vision, he saw the Spear of Penetration. Raven had launched the Spear of Penetration using telekinesis magic. Judging by its silent approach, they must have used magic to eliminate sound.
Elijah had to make a choice. Would he retreat while avoiding the Spear of Penetration, or would he cut down Caesar while being pierced?
'Was this the reason for your confidence?'
Elijah's eyes filled with disappointment. The reason Caesar had been so confident was because he was using such an obvious tactic.
Elijah didn't stop swinging his sword.
Ding!
The Spear of Penetration trembled as it was blocked by Mercy's absolute defense. The spell trying to penetrate and the spell trying to block wrestled with each other.
Meanwhile, Elijah's sword indifferently reached Caesar.
"Die, Caesar."
Caesar's red eyes followed the tip of Elijah's sword. And then his hand moved.
Thud!
Elijah saw a magical array flashing on the back of Caesar's right hand. That was a retrieval magic array. An axe flew into Caesar's hand.
What axe was it?
Was it Thunder or Lefty?
Baaang!
Elijah's Mercy and Caesar's axe clashed.
Elijah felt his whole body shaking as if he'd been in a car accident from the heavy impact originating from the axe.
Elijah looked at the axe in Caesar's hand. How could Elijah not recognize that roughly shaped axe?
That was the symbol of Barre and the symbol of destruction and victory that had pierced through the defensive line of the Moon Knights.
It was Wilderness.
Ding!
Wilderness and Mercy screamed as they clashed.
And in the air, the Spear of Penetration was getting closer in real-time to pierce Elijah's head, while spells destroyed each other, turning the surroundings into chaos.
Dooong!
The hand holding Mercy trembled, and his side spewed blood. Magic gathered to one point in an instant like a hurricane, sucking in everything around. Both knew that if Mercy and the Spear of Penetration couldn't handle the magic and broke, neither Caesar nor Elijah would survive.
Elijah and Caesar retreated as if they had made a promise to each other.
Baaaaang!
The magic exploded with the Spear at its center. Elijah maintained his balance with Mercy stuck in the ground.
"Cough!"
A mouthful of blood poured from Elijah's mouth.
"Sir!"
The Steel Lion Knights rushed in to protect Elijah.
Bang!
Gloria fell between Elijah and the Steel Lion Knights. Gloria growled while raising the Blood Moon.
"Do not interfere with Master's battle."
Raven also stood beside Gloria, preparing magic.
Although it was just the two of them, the Steel Lion Knights felt frustrated as if facing a wall they could never overcome.
Nevertheless, they were knights who had sworn to give their lives for Elijah and were his alter egos. They shouted and charged toward the two.
Elijah wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and glared at Caesar.
Caesar was glaring at Elijah while carrying the Wilderness over his shoulder. Mercy crumbled and turned to dust in Elijah’s hand. The Spear of Penetration also disappeared into dust.
Elijah never dared to imagine that the Spear of Penetration, symbol of the Goldmile Imperial Family that had conquered the continent, and Mercy, symbol of the Demon King, would break so easily.
"You always exceed my expectations."
Elijah took out a silver disc from his back pocket.
"I think it's truly amazing that you received the blessing of the Baptism Sword and gathered so many Dragon language relics in just one year."
Elijah threw the silver disc into the air. The silver disc reflected Caesar.
"But as much as you've grown stronger, the you that you must face will also grow stronger."
The Caesar reflected in the silver disc slowly began to walk out.
Caesar's brow furrowed.
As expected, he brought out that bizarre relic. Judging by how Yan was helplessly defeated, it was clear that the Caesar inside that silver disc mirror would have similar physical specs and everything else to himself.
Caesar looked at Raven. Raven's eyes were already directed toward the silver disc. Raven's eyes were brilliantly shining green, suggesting she had already begun analyzing the 'Dragon language’ contained in the silver disc.
Caesar was almost completely out of the silver disc. Caesar took a deep breath and gripped the Wilderness tightly. It seems I need to buy some time until Raven finishes his analysis.
"Caesar! Transform into Barre!"
But Raven was a far more extraordinary magician than Caesar thought.
Raven not only understood the Dragon Language of the silver disc but immediately derived a solution as well.
Caesar followed Raven's words exactly. Caesar's body turned bronze, grew larger, and his hair turned black. It was the complete appearance of Barre. The Caesar walking out from the silver disc also transformed into Barre.
Elijah scoffed.
"Nothing will change just because you change your appearance, Caesar. The you that you must face will transform the same way."
Raven sent Thunder toward Barre. Barre let go of the Wilderness, gripped Thunder in both hands, and rushed toward the Barre in the silver disc.
The Barre in the silver disc raised the Wilderness to strike down Barre. But the Wilderness didn't budge at all.
"...?!"
Barre confronted the replica.
"Why? Heavier than you thought?"
Barre brought Thunder down on the replica. It was a slow axe strike in Elijah’s view, but the replica couldn't avoid it.
Thud!
Thunder struck the replica's head. Silver blood splattered everywhere as the replica's body crumbled.
Crack!
The silver disc cracked and the replica shattered.