Chapter 118
Rodwell bound Owain’s body tightly with chains.
“What is the next plan?”
“Rodwell, go down and help the others.”
“And you?”
“I plan to finish the business.”
“Understood.”
Leaving the two behind, Joshua entered the room where she had fled.
She was waiting for him inside.
“I have sothing I want to say to you.”
Chloe spoke with her hand on her chest.
“Go ahead.”
Chloe swallowed hard.
The situation was still hard to believe, but one thing was certain.
That boy was at the center of all this.
She thought that if she could win the boy over, she might be able to live.
“Won't you join hands with ?”
The boy remained silent.
He maintained a steady posture as if telling her to keep babbling.
“No one knows this castle as well as I do. And I can help you persuade the people.”
“I have no intention of joining a rotten rope. You have already lost the people's hearts.”
The boy retorted coldly.
She felt that the conditions to persuade him were far from enough.
Her throat felt parched.
Recalling the most primitive thod, she let her cloak slide off.
Her pale skin and fit figure were revealed.
She was confident in her charm as a woman.
The deceased Lord Glover and Owain had both been unable to resist their lust and shared her bed.
She was certain the boy would be interested as well.
It was very common for noble sons of that age to frequent brothels.
“Is that all?”
The boy showed a lukewarm reaction.
His eyes, tinged with a blue light, remained cold.
‘Is he not wavering at all?’
Not a single change could be read in his expression.
She thought he would hesitate at least a little.
However, as if he had not a speck of interest, he instead looked at her with a pathetic gaze.
“If you are captured alive like this, I will kill you without pain.”
Kill her without pain?
She had no intention of accepting such a deal.
However, she was no match for him in magic.
Even if she gathered mana once more, she could not pierce through the boy.
‘There is only one way left.’
She glanced at the curtains nearby.
A shadow twitched inside the drawn curtains.
“It is the Lord, isn't it?”
The boy said.
Chloe only blinked her eyes.
“How much did you feed him?”
There was only one reason the boy could speak like that.
The boy knew the Lord’s identity.
But that was a fact known to no one except herself and Owain.
How did he know?
“The Lord is dead. It did not just end with death; he beca a zombie.”
“……”
“He was the link connecting you to the family, and at the sa ti, the only person with the legitimacy to inherit the title, so he must have been hard to discard. But you should not have done that. Are you not the parent of that child?”
She was not called a witch simply because she was a mage.
The derogatory title of witch was created not by the people here, but by the people of reality.
‘There are plenty of people who cannot let go of family mbers who beca zombies and stay with them. But she kept her son for a different reason.’
The reason she kept her young son alive was not lingering affection.
It was because he was a tool necessary to maintain power.
Players who saw this were disgusted and called her a witch.
“Do you think I could have truly loved the child of a pot-bellied old man who lived his life soaked in booze?”
Chloe laughed.
That laugh subtly twisted Joshua’s expression, which had remained unshaken until now.
“Still, I am grateful to that child. Thanks to him, I seized the actual power of Stalia. If you had not appeared, I could have lived here like a queen.”
“Even if it were not , it would have collapsed eventually. I just brought it forward a little.”
“Haha, is that so? Perhaps it is. Seriously, no matter where they co from, people threatening my position appeared without end. I gave them all to that child as food. It was convenient since he made the corpses disappear without a trace.”
As if she had nothing left to hide, she was unashad of the fact that she had committed sins.
“How did you know? There is no possibility that Owain betrayed ……”
“Knowing that changes nothing.”
“That is true.”
Chloe slowly approached the throne where the Lord was.
Then she pulled back the drawn curtains.
A zombie was there.
Sitting on the throne, tied tightly with chains.
The appearance was that of a young child, but the body was bloated like a person with gigantism.
“Tricks like optical illusions are useless against you, a mage.”
As if trying to test sothing, she approached the zombie without fear.
“This child does not attack . Isn't it fascinating? Even if Owain just ca near, he growled noisily.”
Joshua groaned lowly.
Zombies grow stronger the more they eat.
That zombie, who had swallowed countless lives, had naturally beco a mutant.
A mutant reproduces mories and abilities from when they were alive.
For him, a young child, the mory side must have awakened more than abilities.
“What do you think the reason is?”
“It must be a child’s heart wanting to be loved by a parent.”
Even though he gave the correct answer, Chloe was indifferent.
Rather, she seed to be pondering how to use that point.
“Then, as you wish……”
Chloe fell to her knees.
It was the boy’s magic she had suffered in the hallway just a mont ago.
“You seem to be mistaken about sothing.”
She could not move a single finger.
She heard the voice of the boy approaching from the opposite side.
“I have no intention of fighting that child.”
The zombie Lord was tied with heavy chains and could not move.
Killing this bastard was a piece of cake.
But to fight him after releasing him?
Perhaps in a ga, but in reality, he absolutely declined.
“Did he eat about a hundred people?”
Zombies grow stronger the more lives they devour.
Even if he were a young child, depending on the amount he ate, he was no less than most mutants.
“You were only used under such a pathetic parent. Pitiable, indeed.”
He pulled a sword from his backpack and stabbed the neck of the tied zombie.
The blade bounced back.
Unlike ordinary zombies, the skin was hardened.
To pierce this, one needed a knight with a strong aura or a sword infused with mana.
“Wreathe so lightning on the sword.”
Chloe gnashed her teeth.
Not only had she been brought to her knees by such a young child, but she was even receiving orders.
Anger boiled up to the top of her head.
“I am the master of the Glover family! Who do you think you are to speak such reckless words!”
“This is absurd.”
The pressing mana grew stronger.
Her upper body, which she was barely holding up, completely gave way, and her face was slamd into the floor.
“Respect is not sothing obtained by a position, but by character. Do you want to act as the master after making the castle a ss like this?”
“Ugh!”
“I am very angry. Because of you, precious talents lost their lives. If they were here, they would have been a great help in managing the castle.”
“……Don't evaluate my decisions, a re thing like you!”
“I won’t then. Now, wreathe lightning on the sword.”
She did not want to end like this.
As if she would let it end!
The last remaining lightning was a shot ant to kill him.
She managed to spread her palm, gathered mana, and fired it.
“You’re going to resist until the end huh?”
The boy took the mana.
He did not just take it, but made the fired lightning stay in one place.
Impossible!
To do such a thing, knowledge regarding the [Lightning] attribute up to Templar (Grade 5) was required.
“I understand the Countess’s intention very well. In return, I will kill you as shafully as possible.”
Joshua wreathed the mana he had taken onto the blade and swung it at the young Lord sitting in the chair.
Crack!
The zombie’s head fell to the floor and rolled.
He checked the Countess’s reaction.
A parent would normally be consud by grief when facing a child’s death.
Even if that child were a zombie.
However, no emotion could be felt from her.
[Achievent - Completed ‘Slayer of the Lord’.]
[Acquired 300 coins.]
[Current coins - 500 coins.]
“What on earth are you?”
Chloe trembled with a confused look.
This child is a monster.
He possessed skill that made such an expression well-deserved.
She felt through her skin why Owain had been wary of the boy and why he had feared him.
“I am a survivor.”
Joshua’s eyes shone.
He would not be toys of the world and roll in the mud forever.
The battle in this castle would end overwhelmingly.
He would instill such an impression in the people.
* * *
Leonard steadied his breathing.
If he were to write his moirs soday, the battle he fought today would decorate the most important page.
A knight seeking revenge against the Captain who persecuted him.
Is it not cool just to imagine?
However, Rodwell was ruining everything.
“Hey, you punk. Won't you do it right? The mage unit kids are doing so well, what becos of my face in front of Joshua if you guys struggle!”
Rodwell, who had co back down, shouted loudly.
Instead of giving encouragent.
He growled out of fear that he would be put to sha.
But this side had an excuse too.
‘The knights Adela is facing are mbers, and we are facing the Captain. The rank is different!’
However, it did not seem like the current Rodwell could be cald by any words.
He wanted results.
And it was the sa for himself.
He wanted to prove himself to Joshua, who had provided this spot for him.
“You dare to deceive , not knowing the grace I bestowed upon you! You are a disgrace to knights.”
Carius spat out curses.
He was extrely resentful that a young knight had deceived him.
“Disgrace, my foot! Isn't it because you act like that that the kids all flee? Ask the students. See if even one out of ten bastards wants to go to the Sunlight Knights.”
Leo let out a long sigh.
Whenever he tried to retort, Rodwell took the lead and browbeat him.
He thought the grudge between the two was deeper than his own resentnt.
“Rodwell!”
“Shall I go down myself and settle things once and for all?”
Carius’s face distorted.
If Rodwell ca down now and attacked in coordination, there was no chance of winning.
Leonard was strong.
He was not at this level when he was under his command.
Just who on earth had led that boy to this point?
“Did you escape from and go under Rodwell?”
“No.”
“Are you planning to mock again after coming this far!”
“I am not Rodwell’s sword, I am Joshua’s sword.”
“Joshua?”
The na was not unfamiliar.
For so reason, his hair stood on end.
Carius soon rembered that Joshua was the na of the boy who had been active at the eting.
“I learned many things under Joshua. And he provided this spot for . As if telling to overco you and co back.”
“You obtained teachings from a bastard younger than you? What a disgrace to knights!”
“What does age matter in learning? That bastard is a human a hundred tis better than you.”
Blood vessels stood out in Carius’s eyes.
He could not bear being compared to a re student who had not even graduated.
Furthermore, even more so if that student was a human who had been called a failing student.
“Since Owain has fallen anyway, there will be no chance of victory in this fight. If so, I should at least take your life as a gift for the path to the afterlife!”
Carius charged.
The sword he swung flew toward Leo’s chest.
Bang!
It was a heavy montum.
As if he had not beco a Captain for show, the sword he swung was as dazzling as a snake.
“Talleon, Gavinu!”
But this fight was not one Leo fought alone.
The entire knight unit faced Carius.
Leonard no longer thought of the two as separate from himself.
“Are the three of you attacking in such a cowardly way?”
“Where is there room for cowardice or not in war? Everything is futile after death.”
Imagine if he had said such things to Joshua.
He would have heard a nagging earful all day long.
“That’s it! Push him a little more.”
Talleon and Gavinu exchanged spots while parrying and swinging their swords.
Leo filled the gaps between them.
Carius, who had been pouring out attacks fiercely, was busy retreating while groaning.
The three swords struck down as one body, as if a single person were holding and swinging them.
“Leonard!”
Carius scread and exploded his aura.
It was the final blow.
A sword strike created with the sole intent of killing Leo alone!
The spirit of a human prepared for death was enough to make Leo tremble.
“Leo.”
A voice was heard then.
Joshua was visible on the second-floor stairs.
As if to boast, he held out the Countess, whom he was carrying by the waist, to the front.
I have done it.
So you do it too.
With the heart of chasing after his back, Leo concentrated his aura in one place.
Fear had long been cast aside since before the fight.
“Second Secret Sword, Lightning Strike!”
Back when he was training on the island.
It was a thrust that could not even cut a dummy.
But it was different this ti.
The swordsmanship refined through training was swift, befitting the na Lightning Strike.
The swords collided.
The sensation remained at his fingertips.
A mont later, the sound of soone collapsing was heard from behind.
Judging by the sound of armor, it was undoubtedly Carius.
“Huff, huff!”
His breath was rough.
When he slowly raised his head, he saw Joshua.
Looking at him, who stood in a higher place than himself, he thought.
That he wanted to stand in the sa place as him soday and see the world.
“Hey, you brat! I’m the one who trained you hard for a week, so where are you looking? Thank first.”
Leo trembled.
He made a mistake.
In this situation, satisfying Rodwell, who held a longer grudge, was the priority……
“I’ll deal with you later.”
Rodwell’s eyes lit up.
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