Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 416



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Episode 416. Holy Land Lua (3)

Peltran’s plan for rebellion was not sudden.

The Red Grail Club has been extending its red hand to various parts of the world for a long time. Of these, the one they have put the most effort into is, of course, the Gertonia Empire, ruled by the Church of the Code of Light.

They have reached out to the Empire by any means necessary, including threats, bribery, and seduction. Most of those bribed serve without even knowing that they are working for the Red Grail.

The only ones who know the truth are those who have sworn directly and have been granted power, like Feltron.

Peltran’s competitors either disappeared suddenly or their debaucherous secrets were revealed. Under this covert patronage, he rose through the ranks to become the Grand Master of the Imperial Knights, and eventually became the greatest creation of the Red Grail Club.

Until just before the deposition of Emperor Baltsemer.

‘If it weren’t for that incident back then, the Gertonia Empire would have fallen into the dancer’s hands.’

Peltrun looked around at the Imperial Knights who followed him and suppressed his regret.

The advance of Waldsemer on Lichtheim was not entirely the result of the Emperor’s own will.

Those who were bought by the Red Grail Club fanned the Emperor’s arrogance, and Peltran distorted information about the cult, buying public opinion within the cult to make it difficult for the Emperor to resist if he rebelled.

Both Feltron and the bloody dukes who supported him predicted a victory for Baltzemer.

With this, the Order of the Light’s Law would fall from grace, the Empire would be torn apart, and the Dawn Army would be brought to a halt.

But the moment the lighthouse keeper showed up and dismissed Baltzemer, it was all over.

Even as he was appalled, Feltron quickly figured out what he could do.

First of all, he had to survive this madness. His opportunistic nature made him realize in a split second that the tide was turning again in favor of the Code of Light.

He immediately murdered the next most important person after the Emperor, Duke Dietrich Brandt, and captured the Emperor. The reason he did not kill the Emperor was that he had been dismissed from office rather than executed by the lighthouse keeper.

Feltron saw significance in this fact.

And he was also convinced that if the Emperor were alive, there would be constant conflict within the Gertonian Empire. Conflict within the Gertonian Empire would lead to the weakening of the Code of Light. Therefore, Peltran decided to protect the Emperor.

The purpose of the Red Grail is not to kill enemies, but to eat them or enslave them.

Feltron’s judgment was not wrong.

This allowed him to survive.

Feltron was allowed to remain in the Imperial Knights because he was credited with capturing the Emperor and killing Dietrich Brandt. The Emperor then fled, leaving behind a rift within the Empire. Despite his eventual failure, the Blood Dukes praised him.

‘But this war is tiring me out.’

The moment angels intervene, all assumptions and plans fall into disarray and fall apart.

Feltron wanted to deal comfortably with humans. Greedy and selfish humans.

But soon, when I thought of one person among the humans, I ended up shaking my head.

‘No, but if it’s a Holy Grail Knight… … This one is really unpredictable.’

In Peltran’s opinion, Isaac Isacrea was a type of person who should never be considered an enemy. So he tried to bring him to his side while plotting a new rebellion. However, Isaac calmly destroyed the Graveyard Lord and advanced to the Holy Land of Lua.

If the Dawn Army was to succeed, Feltron thought, it would be only because of the existence of the Grail Knights.

Because of the Grail Knights, the front of the Immortal Cult was split in two, and because of the Grail Knights, two Archangels were destroyed. Because of the Grail Knights, the defenses of the capital city of Ushaq were emptied, and the main force of the Dawn Army was able to advance to the Holy Land of Lua in a great success.

‘It’s great… … It’s really great. But… … We can’t let the Dawn Army win.’

We cannot allow the millennial kingdom to come like this.

Although the Walaika Kingdom’s proud Skewer Corps did not participate in the war, Peltran was confident that he was a force no less powerful than them.

Sometimes, a drop of poison or a dagger can stop a king from conquering the world.

Feltron had no doubt that Isaac was the one who could make a big difference in this war.

***

The burning maiden gazed upon the holy land of Lua.

The sacred land where the Code of Light was born and was taken away. The long-cherished land that must be reclaimed was finally visible after hundreds of years. However, the sacred land was now hidden behind a thick and unclean stone wall. It was her job to remove that dome and let the sunlight shine on the sacred land.

But she didn’t order an immediate charge.

It was still dawn, not yet dawn, a time when they could not exert their full strength. And it was a time when they had to wait for the remaining troops to catch up before they could charge forward with all their might.

She was a fiery maiden who had been pushing forward without thinking, but she knew that now was the time to gather her strength.

And from now on, it was a critical time where not a single mistake could be made.

‘The Holy Grail Knight… is nowhere to be seen.’

The Burning Maiden had no doubts about the victory of the Dawn Army. It did not matter whether there was an immortal emperor in the Holy Land of Lua, or whether there were hidden relics or evil miracles.

She has no doubt about the triumph of the Code of Light.

Even when she was just a human, she stood proudly in front of the lighthouse keeper and pressed him, saying, “I’m suspicious of you.”

But that Grail Knight.

Isaac Isaacrea alone made her uneasy.

I know that the Lighthouse Keeper’s plan includes the Grail Knights. I can understand this rationally. However, the Burning Maiden was also displeased that ‘such’ beings were proudly calling themselves knights in the core of the Dawn Army, and that they were approaching the Holy Land of Lua.

Perhaps her suspicions stemmed from her strictures against heresy, but the lighthouse keeper was generous in tolerating her doubts.

‘And I eliminated the Lord of the Graveyard through the Knights of the Holy Grail… … The lighthouse keeper’s insight is beyond even my understanding.’

Even the Burning Maiden could not have imagined that the Grail Knight would defeat the Grave Lord. The awe of the Lighthouse Keeper grew, but on the contrary, the suspicion of the Grail Knight grew. Although the Lighthouse Keeper is respected, he is not perfect either.

If so, it is the job of the Inquisitor himself to fill that gap.

That was also the reason why they harshly pushed the Dawn Army and forced them all the way to the Holy Land, Lua.

To take over the Holy Land before the Knights of the Grail.

And finally, signs of divine order began to appear in the sky.

As the scenery of the Holy Land Lua began to dimly light up, the burning maiden shuddered at the unclean sight surrounding it. The same was true of the dawn soldiers who had stayed up all night with their eyes wide open.

“That is… … ?”

One soldier muttered, doubting his eyes.

Around the huge dome of the Holy Land, countless monsters were piled up like mountains. Regardless of size, they were bizarre monsters with no unified shape at all, and they were scratching and pounding the Holy Land, swinging parts of unknown function.

Among the soldiers of the Dawn Army, there were those who had never seen the apocalyptic monsters before. The soldiers’ minds seemed to be distorted by the twisted forms of life forms that instinctively caused discomfort and nausea.

For a moment, they thought that the Immortal Cult was summoning monsters to protect the Holy Land, Lua.

But no matter how you look at it, it looks like they’re attacking the Holy Land, Lua.

So should they attack Holy Land Lua together with those monsters, or should they help the Undead Cult defend Holy Land Lua?

Their questions were answered by the burning virgin with a whip.

[Unauthorized monsters are targeting our holy land! Warriors of the Dawn Army, burn these monsters and reclaim our rightful loot!]

That’s it. The monsters are nothing more than a bunch of simple bandits!

As the burning tree of the Burning Maiden glowed brighter, the soldiers’ minds became simple and filled with boiling anger.

Kill them, trample them! They are nothing but a band of robbers who want to take your rightful spoils!

They want to take away all the pain, suffering, and injustice you have suffered in this world!

The Burning Maiden felt that the atmosphere was ripe, but she did not give the order to charge yet. The reason she was confident that she could fight even after working her soldiers so hard was because she had prepared everything.

[Throw the prisoners in!]

“No, you motherfuckers! Stop it!”

Several captured orcs were dragged out from the brazier in the center of the Dawn Army main force. The huge brazier, connected up and down, had flames burning up and down like teeth. The knights threw the orcs into it without hesitation.

In an instant, the brazier slammed shut like a door, releasing a fierce light through the gap.

As the holy relic in the shape of a brazier, the ‘Teeth of Saint Ayla’, chewed up and devoured the pagans, the soldiers instantly gained strength and vitality as if they had eaten a full meal and slept well.

The soldiers, full of anger and energy, shouted excitedly.

“The Holy Land is just around the corner! The gates of Heaven are opening!”

The burning maiden, feeling that she had had enough, gave a soft command.

[good.]

***

“Ohhhhhhh!”

The soldiers rushed toward the monsters as if venting their anger and resentment from the expedition. The monsters’ grotesque forms and fears posed no threat to the soldiers who were consumed by anger. Only then did some of the monsters surrounding the Holy Land Lua look back at the dawn army.

A giant monster swung its tentacles and cut off the waists of twenty soldiers at once. The monster carefully collected all the upper bodies and swept them into its huge maw. The soldiers who were left with only the lower half of their bodies staggered and fell down.

“Eww!”

However, the soldiers’ minds were already filled with rage, and there was no room for fear to enter. The spears of the soldiers who ran forward, trampling over the corpses of their comrades, pierced the monster’s skin in one breath. The monster’s skin, which would not have been damaged by an ordinary spear, was pierced in one breath by the spear blade wrapped in the sacred flame of the burning virgin.

Soon, the soldiers of the Dawn Army surged forward like a wave. The monsters of the outer world were swept away in an instant.

The monsters have no commander. They are more interested in the Holy Land Lua, which stimulates them, than in humans. They simply react to the stimulation and counterattack. However, that counterattack alone is strong enough.

Of course, the spear wasn’t the only tool that the Yeomyeong Army brought.

“Baptize!”

It is the final battle. At Horgel’s direction, the priests began to pour out the holy fires they had brought without sparing anything.

Boom, boom, boom! Jars inscribed with prayers were scattered across the dome of the Holy Land, and blue flames began to burn fiercely. The apocryphal monsters hanging above the dome fell, writhing with terrible screams.

“Lighthouse, make way for the lighthouse!”

The three lighthouses simultaneously emitted intense light. The intense heat and flashes of light created a path for the Dawn Army to pass through, supporting the monsters.

[Ahr, ■day ■■and hug ■ge! I won’t ■give it to you!]

At that moment, an octopus-like monster hundreds of meters long that had been clinging to the walls of the Holy Land, Lua, crawled forward, making an incomprehensible noise. The octopus also had symmetrical legs on its head, and each time those legs moved, the Dawn Army troops were swept away.

The lighthouse was supporting him and the torch was burning his body, but he didn’t care. Instead, the torch was striking the soldiers with its burning arms and setting them on fire.

[Step back.]

Then, the Sword of May appeared with flames that seemed to tear from the sky. The soldiers cheered at the hot heat and light. The Sword of May swung the swords engulfed in flames in one breath and cut off the legs of the octopus monster. The creature put up quite a fight, but it trembled and finally fell from the wall.

With a loud noise, the dome of the complete Holy Land Lua finally appeared.

[I’ll step forward now!]

The Burning Maiden gathered her arboreal flames. Her flames, like a giant old tree burning to the ground, began to coalesce and soon formed a single pillar of fire that blazed over the holy land of Lua.

Kwadudududu!

Fierce vibrations and heat heated up the battlefield. At the same time, numerous prayers and relics carved into the Holy Land Lua also began to glow, emitting a flash of white light. It seemed only a matter of time before the dome walls were breached by the powerful power.

However, he noticed that neither the Black Immortal Emperor of May nor any of the Immortal Cult’s defensive forces were visible.

And finally, the red-hot, molten walls began to tremble on purpose. At that moment, a fierce explosion struck the burning maiden. The walls exploded and scattered, sending huge debris swept through the Dawn Army.

The heat generated by the Burning Maiden and the cold air from inside the Holy Land, Lua, met, causing an explosion due to the extreme temperature difference.

[What stinking flesh dares invade the sacred ground?]