Chapter 115 – Hero (8)

The situation reversed.

Moreover, Sun-woo who got backstabbed after a while felt very bad. Because he let his guard down somewhat due to the holy maiden image seen in novels, he became angrier.

Perhaps feeling his old memories shattered.

“This can’t be, this can’t be…”

The Holy Maiden whose true nature was revealed didn’t know what to do as the situation changed. Even in that state she spread her hand toward Sun-woo. Prepared to attack anytime.

The mage beside her began chanting spells while breaking the bone stick in his hand with a bloodless face.

Simultaneously a huge circular magic pattern in dark red began drawing on the ground before him.

Seeing his face gradually losing color during the chant, looks like he was using life force instead of insufficient mana.

Naturally Sun-woo had no intention of letting him finish the chant.

The sword shot quickly from Sun-woo’s hand embedding in the mage’s chest. It wasn’t that he threw the sword by swinging his hand, but looked like the sword flew like an arrow on its own.

Flying the sword with inner strength wasn’t comparable to sword control where the sword flies freely, but he was beginning to enter the realm of controlling the sword with inner strength.

“Cough!”

Sun-woo’s sword pierced through the mage’s left chest as is, and regrettably the mage’s heart was in the same position as ordinary people.

The mage fell with a frustrated expression but smiled satisfied while pouring blood on the magic circle appearing on the floor.

The frustrated expression was because he died here before achieving his dream and the satisfied smile was because the summoning circle prepared as final means was completed with his blood.

Now the summoning circle completed with his blood would definitely summon a demon. Because it was a demon too strong to control left as final means, it really suited his last moment.

Eventually the demon would kill everyone here then escape killing many people, but if his summoning magic was imprinted in everyone’s minds with that, that was also pleasant.

The moment the mage welcomed death with a smiling face, Sun-woo’s phone vibrated in his pocket.

“Kyaaaah! This crazy mage! He really summoned it!”

As the magic circle sprayed light, the Holy Maiden who was already in panic completely lost it. She seemed to know what demon the magic circle was summoning.

And from the glowing magic circle drawn on the floor, a giant arm rose up. A burning red arm like a giant tree sprouted from the floor.

The arm appearing murky red to the summoner’s eyes had power flowing out that made breathing suffocating just from looking.

Just seeing the arm, was certain it was at least not below the dragon fought just before.

“Now everyone will die. I shouldn’t die here. I who worked my best to glorify God’s name until now shouldn’t die here…”

The Holy Maiden began rambling with words unclear who she was talking to.

Meanwhile Yeonhwa maintained her spectator appearance as usual and Sun-woo was frowning at the dirty feeling.

The arm rising up immediately bent its joint pressing the ground. Probably planning to pull out the rest of the body by putting strength in the arm.

Thud!

Thanks to that the mage corpse’s hand lying on the magic circle was crushed and burst, but no one here cared about that appearance.

Then Sun-woo stepped forward.

“Fearsome power. If that comes out, it’ll really be no joke…”

Unlike the words’ content, Sun-woo’s expression wasn’t very worried.

“But the mage made one mistake. Why draw the magic circle on the ground?”

Sun-woo knelt on one knee on the floor after a long time and placed his hand on the floor. Then pushed earth spirits toward the earth where the magic circle appeared.

Kugugugugung!

The huge magic circle began collapsing downward with the earth.

Kruaaaaaah!

A scream scraping human souls was heard from inside the magic circle beginning to crack and shatter, and soon the arm protruding from the magic circle was cut off spurting blood.

Fortunately the scream stopped being heard when the magic circle’s light disappeared.

Shortly after, the magic circle all shattered and was buried underground with the mage’s corpse, and the arm protruding from the magic circle was buried halfway in the ground cut off.

The Holy Maiden sitting beside watching that appearance was hiccupping with round eyes.

Sun-woo tilted his head looking at the giant arm whose murky color was disappearing.

Even if the first demon appearing was contaminated by coincidence, the second and now even this monster with this arm being contaminated couldn’t be seen as coincidence.

Sun-woo raised his phone capturing the monster’s arm on camera.

[Demon Duke. Baloa]

[Skills cannot be confirmed with just body part.]

Regrettably couldn’t know skills but could still know where that cut arm came from.

Probably a monster in a high position called duke in a world called the demon realm.

“Is there another contaminated world besides the Empire?”

Even the Empire was a headache situation so didn’t seem necessary to bring in more troublemakers. Sun-woo decided to ignore this matter for now.

But Sun-woo’s thought had no choice but to change immediately.

Because a skill was added to the phone skill window. The alarm ringing when defeating the mage seemed to be because of this.

<Earth Spirit. Grade 7> Grade Rise: 400p

<Illusion Arts. Grade 5> Grade Rise: 200p

<Wheel-Turning Divine Demon Arts. 8 Stars> Grade Rise: 1,000p

<Wheel-Turning Swordsmanship. 9 Stars> Grade Rise: 800p

<Wheel-Turning Divine Law. 8 Stars> Grade Rise: 800p

<Body Enhancement. 3 Stars> Grade Rise: 100p

<Water Magic. 4 Circles> Grade Rise: 200p

<Fire Magic. 2 Circles> Grade Rise: 200p

<Elapsed Time. Grade 6> Grade Rise: 1,000p

<Boundary Magic. 1 Circle> Grade Rise: 200p

<Summoning Magic. 1 Circle> Grade Rise: 400p

Mage Graham’s summoning magic was added.

<Summon demons and monsters from dimension called demon realm. Higher circle allows summoning higher existences. * Warning: Summoning requires payment. If payment cannot be given, may attack summoner.>

Should say unlucky, quite an awkward magic was registered.

Strong penalty plus demons and monsters with creepy names as summon targets.

But except that summoned beings were contaminated, other problems weren’t much.

Sun-woo who was frowning put the phone in his pocket. The situation wasn’t finished yet. Could worry after work ended.

“Hello. Nice to meet you.”

While Sun-woo briefly checked his phone, Yeonhwa greeted the Holy Maiden.

The Holy Maiden looked at Yeonhwa with an absurd expression. She and Yeonhwa were just enemies who kill each other, yet such a gentle greeting… The Holy Maiden couldn’t understand at all.

But at the Holy Maiden’s expression, Yeonhwa wasn’t bothered at all.

“Interesting. This place’s holy maiden serves God in this way.”

Content sounding sarcastic but Yeonhwa’s expression was extremely serious. She was just curious about the holy maiden serving God in a different way from herself.

“What are you… Ah! You blocked the curse?”

Only then the Holy Maiden realized who blocked the curse.

“Don’t tell me, a holy maiden serving another god? But divine power isn’t felt…”

Perhaps because she serves a god from another world, the Holy Maiden looked at Yeonhwa with an incomprehensible expression.

“Rather than that, need to finish.”

Then Sun-woo stepped forward interrupting the two people’s conversation. Knew well Yeonhwa’s my-way. Had to do his work without getting involved unnecessarily.

“I did it by God’s instruction! If you kill me here, God’s wrath, no, you’ll see revenge from believers scattered across the world!”

As Sun-woo intervened, the Holy Maiden looked at him with a resolute expression. She who escaped from panic before returned to the brightly shining holy maiden’s face seen earlier.

But Sun-woo only laughed low. Whether God or hundreds of millions of believers behind, the opponent was his enemy. No reason to spare someone trying to kill him.

Moreover, looking at hands and feet trembling while sitting, obviously saw the shining face was just pretense.

Sun-woo standing before her silently raised his sword and the Holy Maiden’s face became filled with terror.

“Please wait a moment!”

It was then. A tired and depressed voice was heard from behind Sun-woo. The prince’s voice.

The fallen prince was forcibly raising his body leaning on his sword.

“Prince! Save me! They killed Graham and are trying to kill me! Seems like trying to monopolize fame and wealth from the dragon!”

Seeing the prince, the Holy Maiden shouted at him shedding tears. The face changing immediately from terrified just before and secretly infusing divine power toward the prince while talking, Sun-woo was somewhat impressed.

Perhaps thanks to divine power the Holy Maiden infused, the prince’s movements improved a bit. He walked toward where Sun-woo and Holy Maiden were with a dark face and Sun-woo watched that appearance intently.

Shortly after, the prince stood not before Sun-woo but before the Holy Maiden, looking at her with a depressed face.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

The Holy Maiden noticed something was wrong from the prince’s unfamiliar face.

“Fainting before fights ended multiple times until now was all the mage and holy maiden’s doing. The dead comrades after waking weren’t killed by enemies but you killed them?”

The prince no longer used honorifics with her.

The Holy Maiden’s eyes trembled finely at the prince’s words. The prince realized everything.

Contrary to the Holy Maiden’s expectation, the prince regained consciousness a while ago. Just couldn’t move his body due to severe injury.

Sun-woo also knew that fact so obediently stopped when the prince blocked.

“Ah, oh no, got caught.”

The Holy Maiden looked at the prince blankly with a despairing expression.

“Why on earth! I trusted you! Why did you do that!”

At the shouting prince’s appearance, the Holy Maiden showed a sad smile.

“Still a hero strolling in flower gardens. Well, we made it that way.”

The Holy Maiden became different from before, fallen into despair but comfortable having let something go.

“Common reason. That reason people slandered us behind our backs. After making you king, Graham wanted to become court magician and have summoning magic people turned away from recognized, and I wanted to make the order pushed out by main gods and not recognized by the world into the state religion.”

She laughed wryly with a tragic face.

“Though it became useless now that you noticed everything.”

The prince’s expression hardened even more.

“Then you didn’t need to kill other people!”

“Then could you have become so famous and strong as a hero? That sword wasn’t originally obtained by you either.”

The prince had no choice but to acknowledge her words. This sword now originally went to a comrade stronger than himself.

“I didn’t really mind though.”

“You wouldn’t have. You were just a kind person who likes adventure. Only we weren’t.”

The prince now looked at the woman who was a precious comrade until just before with a sad face.

And he swung his sword toward her.

Swish!

The Holy Maiden fell to the floor spurting blood and the prince stuck his sword beside her.

“Time to close business.”

The prince’s shining face became different from before. Looked like a man’s face somewhat aged and knowing the world.

Spirit mage Alda was staring intently at that appearance. Like the prince woke, Alda also already regained consciousness.

[That man is right!]

[Even though much stronger, he’s the same!]

Spirits were chattering around Alda.

“Yes, that’s him.”

Alda nodded staring intently at Sun-woo. Her sealed memory returned to normal.