Volu 5, Chapter The Tenth Misdeed of an Undying Lich: “Undead Creatures Should Never Interfere with the World”
Translator: Akakuroi
After blasting all my holy elent in every direction at once, I heard screams everywhere. Those hoarse yet piercing voices of undead creatures sounded neither male nor female.
I then felt a sudden vertigo and almost collapsed onto the floor. Luckily, Cloud was there for in ti.
Without overwhelming holy and dark elents obstructing , my sensing ability gradually returned. However, the first person I saw clearly was actually…
“Teacher?” Even Aldrizzt is here.
“You idiot!” Furious, my teacher gave a heavy blow to the head that left kneeling on the floor. He then yelled beside my ear, “How dare you lie to your teacher! Are you so tired of living that you want to repent directly in front of the God of Light? Huh?”
Suffering from both a headache and tinnitus, I clutched my head in pain. This feels even worse than Scarlet’s psychic magic. Teacher is indeed much more powerful than a lich… Wait a minute! Speaking of Scarlet, where is she? That blast of holy light might be able to kill other undead creatures, but is it enough to destroy a lich’s body?
Sensing my surroundings, I imdiately found Scarlet lying on the floor not far away from . However, Whitey was nowhere to be seen, and I wondered if it had run away.
Her condition was almost disturbing to see. Lying flat on the ground, her back lted beyond recognition, one could barely tell the shape of her body, and only half of her face was still intact. Despite her terrible state, she still tried hard to look up at . It was hard to tell if it was blood or tears on her face.
Seeing that, I felt a twinge of pity, but it only lasted for a mont. She had repeatedly hard the people around . Not only did she cut off Teacher’s arm, she even killed Judgnt! I can’t forgive her no matter what!
At this ti, everyone who had been in the neighbouring street returned. It seed like that blast of holy light just now had finished off the undead creatures there too. The people who had returned were Judgnt, Blaze, Hell, Moon, tal… All of the Twelve Holy Knights were actually here! Leaf stood in front of . The mont he saw Teacher, he was stunned. He then exclaid, “Forr Knight-Captain Sun?”
Teacher’s eyes swept the crowd. Even though he had been retired for four years, the na and power of history’s strongest Sun Knight was still present. As his gaze fell upon them, everyone subconsciously straightened.
“What happened to your arm?!” Leaf exclaid. Everyone’s eyes focused on Teacher’s empty right sleeve. Uniformly, everyone’s expression changed drastically, and their eyes grew one-and-a-half tis larger than normal.
“Anyone who wants to admire the God of Light in person may continue to stare at my arm.”
After Teacher coldly said that, everyone’s gaze moved away from him. There were people staring at the sky, at the ground, at , and even at the lich; only Judgnt dared to continue staring at my teacher.
Teacher didn’t care about him, though. He just ordered, “Everyone stand in a circle and surround the lich. All of you possess at least so holy elent, and you wield weapons brimming with holy light, so the lich’s soul will not be able to get past you all.”
Then, Aldrizzt walked towards and passed a necklace, which was of course the Eternal Tranquility.
I took the gem from him and looked at it while Aldrizzt explained, “A lich can never be killed. However, with the sealing ability of this gem, you may seal her soul into it. In just a mont, Neo will take care of destroying her body while the rest of the Twelve Holy Knights trap her. At that mont, you must catch her soul, throw her into the gem, and I will take care of the rest of the sealing process.”
Scarlet suddenly started to panic. She tried desperately to get up, but her lted hands made this impossible.
She looked up at with a pleading look on her face.
No, no! Please, I’m begging you, I have never hard you before… She used psychic magic to convey these words. I guess she probably couldn’t speak anymore, for even her throat had lted.
You’ve hurt the ones around . That’s an even greater cri!
I made my reply with psychic magic as well. Suddenly, Teacher asked sternly, “Grisia, are you conversing with her?”
Teacher’s voice was so stern it was as if he was reprimanding . A little confused, I turned around to look at him. However, soone suddenly snatched the Divine Sun Sword from my hands. I was stunned and in the next second, there was a horrendous scream.
Teacher had taken the Divine Sun Sword and attacked Scarlet. The speed of his swing was so fast that I couldn’t even see the sword itself. Scarlet’s shriek was a little piercing to my ears.
Isn’t Teacher overreacting a little?
“Everyone start to gather holy light!” Aldrizzt shouted anxiously, “Don’t move away from your position.”
The Twelve Holy Knights… actually, eleven. Well, it’s not wrong to say twelve, either, since Elijah is here. Elijah hesitated, and even looked around, before releasing holy light, although he did not have much of it.
He looked kind of guilty, and I thought it was hilarious.
After swinging the blade countless tis, Teacher raised the Divine Sun Sword high above his head. The aura emanating from him was scarier than a dragon’s… Frantic, I shouted, “Earth! Shield!”
“Who am I supposed to protect?”
After shouting uncertainly, Earth imdiately ca to a realization and set up a shield around Teacher. However, the shield was not ant to protect him. The person the shield was shielding against was none other than history’s strongest Sun Knight, Neo Sun.
Whether it was the battle aura or the impact of the powerful hit against the floor that stirred up the wind was a mystery, but anyway, I almost got blown away. Aldrizzt, who was much lighter, was literally knocked down by the wind. After the windstorm, everyone looked a little worse for wear, especially Earth; he looked even worse than Scarlet, who had been lying on the floor.
Teacher had actually created a huge crater in the ground, a crater big enough to bury all of us in it. Scarlet, who had been lying there a mont ago, was now gone, and not even a single distinguishable piece of flesh could be seen. All that was left were so tiny fragnts… Teacher, did Scarlet murder your parents or sothing?
Then, a small cloud of dark elent about the size of a clenched fist slowly gathered from the crater that Teacher had created. After that, it started to float up.
“Can you see it? The lich’s soul?” Aldrizzt asked, slightly nervously.
Surprised, I asked, “Can’t you all see it?”
Almost everyone shook their head, except for Leaf, who hesitated before saying, “Just a little.”
As I watched that cloud of dark elent slowly rise, I shouted with all my psychic power. Stop!
That small cloud of dark elent imdiately stopped rising and beca completely immobilized. It really worked. I quickly held up the Eternal Tranquility and enticed it with psychic magic.
Here! Co here…
The cloud of dark elent initially drifted forward, but then drifted back a little again, as if it was struggling. I shouted to it more urgently. Co here, co here…
Aldrizzt said nervously, “If it’s been sealed in Eternal Tranquility, you have to tell right away so that I can help you in ti.”
I nodded, and slowly, slowly pulled it into the Eternal Tranquility. The instant it entered the gem, it started struggling like crazy. I had to use all my powers just to keep it in the gem; I couldn’t even keep my sensing ability up.
Imdiately, I sank into total darkness and had to grit my teeth in order to hold back that cloud of dark elent that was acting like a horse off its reins. I need to open my mouth quickly and tell Aldrizzt that… Then, I heard Leaf shout, “Now!”
A pair of hands covered the gem and I heard Aldrizzt’s gentle voice as he chanted a long spell, gathering a large quantity of water elent. Ice walked forward and helped to gather the water elent as well. As more and more water elent gathered, the pressure on was gradually relieved. Finally, I could even restore my sensing ability. However, I did not choose to regain it. Instead, I helped them gather the water elent.
Aldrizzt’s spell was so long that it felt as if it was never going to end… Luckily, it was just one of those “as if” situations, as the spell did end after all. By then, a huge quantity of water elent had been compressed into a thin coating, trapping that small cloud of dark elent inside the Eternal Tranquility, from which it could never escape.
I heaved a sigh of relief. I was finally finished with that troubleso existence—Scarlet.
After recovering my sensing ability, I wanted to pass the necklace to Aldrizzt. However, he would not take it. He even tried to persuade . “Wear this necklace, it can protect you from the intrusion of the dark elent…”
Cutting him off, I asked agitatedly, “Why would the dark elent attack ? That’s illogical. I am the Sun Knight; the Sun Knight who is full of light!”
Aldrizzt seed to be taken aback by my reaction. Not knowing what to do, he looked at Teacher.
I followed his gaze and also looked at Teacher. Looking back at , Teacher asked calmly, “You sure you want to talk about it here?” He glanced around—the Twelve Holy Knights, and even Elijah, were here.
“Right here!” I replied decisively.
Teacher was a little surprised. Passing the Divine Sun Sword, he took the Eternal Tranquility from my hands. While hanging the necklace around my neck, he said, “Ten years ago, before you ca to the Holy Temple and opted to be a Sun Knight candidate, you had already been adopted.”
“I know.” I nodded and touched the Eternal Tranquility that was around my neck. Then, I suddenly realized sothing… Did Teacher go to that cave and get this gem for my sake?
After a mont of silence, Teacher continued, “You were adopted by Scarlet and her underling, a demoness.”
I was stunned. Sister and the little girl… were a demoness and Scarlet? So the people who adopted back then weren’t human, but undead creatures?
The Sun Knight who abhors undead creatures was raised by undead creatures…
“You went looking for your sister a few tis but couldn’t find her anywhere, so I went to look for her with you. We ran into Scarlet, and she asked for to return you to her. Well, of course I wouldn’t hand you over, as I had already discovered that she was a lich! So we fought, and it was then that I destroyed her body.”
“I don’t rember anything about that fight…” I replied blankly.
“You fainted at that ti. When you woke up afterwards, you didn’t rember anything about that fight and never ntioned anything about looking for your sister again.” Impatient, Teacher continued, “The Pope ntioned sothing about post-traumatic stress disorder… Anyway, you’d forgotten about it, so I pretended that nothing had happened. Since it happened so long ago, I didn’t think there was a need to tell you.”
Being raised by undead creatures… the seriousness of this issue was debatable. I was at a loss as to how I should react. Looking at the Twelve Holy Knights, I saw that they were equally expressionless… I glanced at Teacher’s empty right sleeve and was overwheld by grief. Depressed, I said, “Because of , you lost an arm.”
Teacher suddenly raged and bellowed, “She lost the fight and lost a body; I lost and I only lost an arm! It has nothing to do with you! If you dare to utter one more word about it I will never co to find you again!”
I imdiately replied, “Fine, fine, I won’t say anything about it anymore!”
With a harrumph, Teacher said, “You’re almost perfect, but you just talk too much! Oh yeah, and your swordsmanship sucks.”
Soone laughed. It was Elijah. He was the only one who didn’t know my teacher well enough to actually dare to laugh when he was speaking…
Teacher glanced at him and asked coldly, “Who are you?”
Elijah imdiately stopped laughing and stamred, “I, I’m a royal knight, Elijah.”
“A royal knight?” Displeased, Teacher said, “What are Archer’s people doing here? Undead creatures are the responsibility of the Holy Temple. Since when were the royal knights involved?”
Archer referred to the current king. In this world, probably only the forr real pig of a king, the queen, and Teacher could directly call him by that na.
Elijah was stunned for a while when he heard the king’s na. Finally, he responded, “Then, I should report back to His Majesty that the situation has been resolved.”
With that, he saluted and left awkwardly… He actually forgot to salute Teacher. Theoretically, Teacher was no longer the Sun Knight, and there was nothing wrong with not saluting him. However, that was just theoretically speaking, since a person who could chop a lich into fragnts was much more worthy of a salute than soone with just a title.
After Elijah had left, the others seed to want to leave, too.
I imdiately shouted, “Wait, Judgnt… and everyone else, don’t go yet!”
Everyone stopped in their tracks. Teacher turned and glanced at , but then he left while dragging Aldrizzt along with him.
In the end, there were just twelve people left at the scene—the Twelve Holy Knights.
Everyone looked at , while I looked at Judgnt and said, “I know you’re hiding sothing from . Let guess, it’s not about how I was adopted by undead creatures, right?”
Judgnt hesitated, and just when he was about to say sothing…
“Listen to first!” I stopped him. After seeing him nod, I continued, “You once asked if there was anything I could discuss with Silent Eagle that I couldn’t with the Twelve Holy Knights. I’ll give you the answer right now—no!
“I was once afraid, afraid that there really was so kind of unspeakable secret about , afraid of your reactions if you all were to find out about it. That was why I secretly went to look for Silent Eagle. But I understand now, compared with so unspeakable dark secret, compared to protecting everyone… no matter what the reason is, the worst thing is none other than ‘hiding the fact’ itself!”
With that, Judgnt’s expression seed to relax a little and the others even nodded in agreent with what I had just said.
“So, so…” Taking in a deep breath, I continued, “Regardless of why you’re keeping a secret from , are you now willing to tell what you’re hiding?”
Frowning, Judgnt asked, “Is it a must for to tell you?”
“You once promised three demands.” Calmly, I said, “Do you still rember?”
Judgnt’s expression changed, and he nodded solemnly.
“Very well, then. I’m going to make my first demand.”
Judgnt’s expression beca gloomier. He still looked as if he was unwilling to tell . Why is that so? I was really curious and tempted to find out, but… I raised my voice, saying “And my demand is, you’re only allowed to hide three things from in your entire life. Just three! Understood?”
He was stunned.
After saying that loudly, I then asked softly, “So, is this the first thing you’re going to hide from ?”
Staring intently at , Judgnt nodded and said, “Yes!”
“Okay! Then you’re only left with another two,” I agreed. I then coolly reminded him, “Don’t use them up too quickly. We will be together for the next sixteen years!”
He laughed and nodded. “That’s more than enough.”
“True, in twelve years you’ve only used one…”
“Ah, dammit!” Storm suddenly sighed loudly. “And I actually thought I would get to hear so gossip!”
“In the end it was just that Sun was once adopted by undead creatures… boring!” Earth comnted, disappointed.
“…Sohow, I think that being raised by undead creatures is not as bad as being raised by history’s strongest Sun Knight, right?” soone whispered softly.
Oddly enough, no one dared admit to saying that sentence.
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