Paladin of the Dead God - Chapter 418



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Episode 418. Holy Land Lua (5)

The shot sent Peltran flying off his horse. Peltran rolled for several dozen meters before finally stopping. The knights were shocked at the sight and came closer in a hurry.

“Commander! Commander!”

The knights thought that Feltron was already dead, but they were shocked to see him get up. Feltron even showed off his torn cloak wrapped around his blown shoulder to stop the bleeding. However, it seemed that was all, and the other knights barely managed to support him as he staggered and tried to collapse.

“Orcs! When did you come after me when I left you to plunder Ushaq?”

“Oh, Commander! There are orcs everywhere! Our escape route is completely blocked.”

‘It’s noisy, shut up, please be quiet.’

The knights reported ceaselessly, waiting for Feltron’s instructions, but he could not say anything. If it had not been for the blessing of the Red Grail, he would have died from shock. The hypothermia that came from losing so much blood at once was more painful than the pain.

But time was not on his side. Sporadic fighting broke out as the orcs, hearing the cannon fire, rushed in without exception, thinking that a battle had begun.

The Dawn Army was thrown into confusion by the sudden attack, but the situation was the same for Khan’s army.

“Who is it! Who fired the cannon without permission!”

“The enemy! The enemy has appeared! Fight back!”

There was also an uproar in Khan’s army, who heard the sound of cannons late. The centurion who fired his cannon without warning because he saw the enemy might get hit in the shin, but it didn’t matter who it was anymore. The small-scale battles that had already begun sporadically were escalating into large-scale skirmishes.

“What kind of guy is that!”

Atlan shouted in anger from a distance. He, too, had planned to attack when the Dawn Army and the Undead Cult began to tilt in their favor. However, all of his plans were disrupted when the clash occurred due to Peltran’s retreat.

Atlan was shocked to see that about a third of the Dawn Army’s infantry had escaped.

“What were the scouts doing! They missed that large force moving around?!”

“I, I was watching it, but it moved in a completely unexpected direction… … .”

It wasn’t the scouts’ fault. Peltran had moved his troops towards the canyon rather than the usual retreat route, in order to avoid being seen by the angels as much as possible, and that was also the place where the scouts had no sight.

Feltron’s retreat was so sudden and unexpected that it was missed.

Atlan judged that there was no reason for such a large force to move without reason. He was convinced that the Angels of the Light Code had noticed their intentions and had finally decided to exclude them.

Atlan picked up the netherworld with a fierce growl.

“If you wanted to stop us, you should have stopped us at Ushaq! Do you think you’ll be safe now that you’ve opened up a two-front war? Drive their skulls deep into the ground!”

Atlan’s command was instantly transmitted and spread throughout the army.

Although the battle had already begun, it was not until Atlan’s command that Khan’s army finally rose to its full height.

“Woooooooo!”

“Damn it, Dawn Army! Kill those savages! We have to break through here to come back alive!”

As the orcs suddenly surged forward, the knights who had been waiting for Feltron’s instructions had no choice but to order a counterattack. The soldiers who had retreated after hearing the order to retreat were barely able to draw their spears and swords against the newly appeared group of orcs.

Kwadudududu!

Neither the Khan’s army nor the Dawn’s were prepared for battle, so the formation quickly became a mess. An Orc cavalryman trampled through the ranks until he was knocked off his horse by a scythe, and an Imperial knight was blown to pieces by a cannon as he attempted to break through the formation with a small group of soldiers.

A chaos unfolded in which it was impossible to tell who was friend and foe, other than their appearance.

‘You’re done.’

Peltrun realized that the Dawn Army he had led had already been defeated. Except for the Imperial Knights, the mounted Orcs were superior in individual skill. The priests who could have overcome this situation had already been killed by their own hands. On the other hand, the Khan’s army was protected by the generals, the shamans, and the ancestral gods.

“Commander of the Feltron Knights! You must evade! The losses will be too great!”

‘Where? Among the corpses of the priests we killed?’

Peltran muttered sarcastically to himself. The plan to defeat the Dawn Army had been successful, but they had lost their troops to their own allies.

This irony even made me laugh.

But before the laughter could fade, a fierce flash of light erupted from the sky.

Kukukukung! A flash of lightning passed through Pia without a trace. Peltran watched as the head of the knight who had been supporting him fell limply to the ground. If he had not bent down, he would have been cut off as well.

The Sword of May was watching them from the sky.

The Sword of May, who was supposed to guard the Holy Land of Lua together with the Burning Maiden, has come to where they are.

‘why?’

Feltron wondered why she was helping him, but she had not come down to help or punish the Black Traitor of May.

It was simply because it would have been problematic if the number of the Dawn Army had decreased in this battlefield.

“Sword of May!”

A thunderous roar erupted from one side of the battlefield. Atlan, an orc with a massive body that seemed to burst with muscle and a horse, was holding the netherworld and aiming it at the sky.

“You have quite a sparkling talent! How much is your price?”

Dduddudduk, ddudduk. The tautly drawn bowstring of the Yellow Heaven screamed. The moment Atlan’s right arm, which had swollen to the size of a horse’s thigh, finally released the bowstring, the whole area fell into silence.

The arrow that left the underworld split a part of the May Sword’s wing and pierced the sky. As if the arrow from the underworld had swallowed up all the air and sound in the area, a huge aftershock and noise erupted later.

The orcs and humans surrounding Atlan staggered as if their eardrums had burst, and then fell down one by one. May’s sword and Atlan also realized that their opponent was formidable.

Soon the two entered into a fierce fight.

But Feltron wasn’t interested in the fight.

‘What about the immortal emperor?’

There is no way the Burning Maiden could face the Immortal Emperor alone. The moment he turned around to assess the situation, Feltron felt the trauma from Lichtheim coming back to him.

***

“What the heck… what kind of mess is this?”

Tukhalin groaned and muttered as soon as he arrived at the Holy Land, Lua. Isaac also felt the same way and could not find a proper answer.

The Immortal Emperor is raising his aura above the dome of the Holy Land Lua, and the Dawn Army and angels are rushing toward the Holy Land. On the other side, monsters that have broken through the outer wall are gnawing at the walls of the Holy Land Lua. However, for some reason, some of the Dawn Army’s troops are retreating to the rear, clashing with the forces of the Olkan Discipline.

I couldn’t even tell where the front lines were or what was going on.

‘What the heck? Why on earth are they forming such an inefficient and insane… … battlefield? Have they all gone mad with the Holy Land Lua right in front of them?’

It was only two days ago that he had heard from Siero that the main force of the Dawn Army had quickly broken through the capital city of Ushaq and was advancing towards the Holy Land, Lua. Isaac, who had never expected that the impregnable capital would be conquered overnight, had to hurriedly head towards the Holy Land, Lua.

His original plan was to capture the Holy Land Lua before the main force of the Dawn Army could do so. He thought that no matter what the main force of the Dawn Army did, they could not be faster than him, who had broken through all the resistance on land and taken the shortest route by sea.

‘But they’re not that easy either.’

I didn’t have to see it to know how they ran so fast, but I couldn’t understand how the capital city of Ushak was taken so quickly.

‘Could it be because of what I did in the Holy Land, Lua?’

As nameless chaos monsters invaded the Holy Land of Lua, the Immortal Emperor called in a garrison force to defend the capital, and the main force of the Dawn Army raided an empty house? It was absurd, but it was possible.

The Immortal Cult should have anticipated this situation from the beginning when they turned the Graveyard Lord over to their side.

Anyway, the situation had developed, and now Isaac had to jump into the chaos. However, unlike those who had fallen into the madness of the battlefield, Ethelred and Tukhalin, who were still sane, had a prickly expression on their faces.

“… … Wouldn’t it be a good idea to just rush in after roughly organizing everything?”

Even Ethelred did not call Tukhalin’s words cowardly.

In such a chaotic battlefield, it wasn’t easy to form a front line. It was easy to tell the difference between the enemies, who were mostly orcs, undead, and monsters, but it was obvious that the damage would be enormous.

Isaac felt a bit uneasy.

Could the angels be acting crazy for no reason? Isaac had the impression that they were being chased by something.

We must occupy the Holy Land Lua before ‘it’ comes. We must hurry.

‘Who is that?’

[Nameless chaos watches you.]

Isaac raised his head.

‘Could it be me?’

The angels were trying to finish this war before Isaac arrived.

It was hard to understand why Isaac was now on guard after having supported him all this time, but perhaps it meant that Isaac’s usefulness had run out after eliminating the two angels.

‘That means… … I must hurry and occupy the Holy Land, Lua.’

If the ‘enemies’ are in a hurry, then of course you have to hurry too.

Isaac pulled out Kachulain as if possessed. Tukhalin was flustered and called out to Isaac once more, but he did not stop.

“Holy Grail Knight!”

What stopped him was a woman, Leonora, who suddenly appeared in front of him. The people from above who had been with her were standing by his side.

***

Isaac barely managed to stop his horse and looked at her in disbelief.

“It looks sturdy enough that it wouldn’t matter if a horse were to hit it?”

“You were the one who ran to me without me noticing, even though I was shouting and waving my arms from afar. And if I get hit by the horse, is it your fault or mine?”

Isaac didn’t think it was a question of responsibility, but he got off his horse anyway.

I couldn’t figure out why I had suddenly rushed there. I felt anxious, as if the Holy Land Lua was pulling me in.

“What’s going on? You said you were going to the capital Usak. Has everything gone well?”

“Of course.”

As she spoke, Leonora glanced around the chaotic Holy Land of Lua.

“But you’re not thinking of jumping in there, are you?”

“We came here to occupy the Holy Land, Lua. Of course we have to fight.”

Leonora smiled brightly.

“No, I found a secret passage leading to the Holy Land, Lua. Let’s go in there without fighting.”

Instead of answering right away, Isaac just stared at Leonora. Isaac still hadn’t forgotten why she had come all the way to the Holy Land of Lua to find him.

“Have you found the Hand of Midas?”

Leonora chuckled. She said with a gentle smile.

“The Immortal Emperor said that if you stop him, he will give you the Hand of Midas.”

It was not unexpected. The Immortal Emperor must have seen through it all along that Leonora would do anything to obtain the Hand of Midas.

But the question is whether Leonora has the ability to do so.

“That means the Hand of Midas is still in the Holy Land, Lua. The Immortal Emperor was unable to move the Hand of Midas even though Angela discovered it. Doesn’t that mean we can go and retrieve it ourselves?”

Isaac laughed bitterly.

“You talk about betrayal quite calmly, don’t you?”

“Betrayal? The Hand of Midas was originally the property of the Golden Idol Group. This should be called a repatriation.”

There are few people who would be brave enough to lie and betray God to His face.

Leonora is one of those very few people.

Of course, Isaac also considered the possibility that Leonora was lying and deceiving him.

That was when.

A flash of light spread as if the sky was being torn apart. It was as if the sun was rising from the void. All conversation and fighting ceased, and everyone’s eyes turned to the sky.

Six lighthouses appeared, shining like the dawn of dawn. In the center of them, wings began to spread, one by one.

The sky suddenly turned black as if all the light in the world was being sucked out.

In a world without light, only that being appeared in its full form.

The soldiers dared to groan and slump down, covering their eyes. Isaac had been like that in Lichtheim too. He could not see with his eyes, and only the image engraved on his retina for a moment remained as a scar in his memory.

But now it wasn’t as painful as it was then. No, the image was even more clearly visible.

From the patterns carved into the six lighthouses to the feathers that formed the sixteen wings. The face inside the wings could not be seen, but it was clear that the difference in class was not as remarkable as before.

Isaac muttered softly.

“light housekeeper.”