The Protagonists Of The Novel Escaped – Chapter 74

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: TushChen
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The girl with fluttering silver hair stared blankly at the fortress boasting impregnability.

She could faintly feel it.

It was undoubtedly Edanant’s presence.

Edanant had arrived at the Immortal Fortress.

What kind of conversation was he having with the Sword Saint?

She waited anxiously, wondering if Edanant might engage in a battle with the Sword Saint.

Because if the Apostle of War and the Sword Saint were to clash, a catastrophe too terrifying to even imagine would unfold.

‘It would be great if Edan could find out about Beatrice’s whereabouts on this occasion…’

It could be inferred from the brutal massacre the Sword Saint had caused in the Pug Kingdom.

Beatrice had never run away.

For some reason, she had stepped down from the stage where she had been active all this time.

There was an inside story.

There must have been a reason why they had to leave urgently.

‘Since she’s a woman whose mind is covered in a colorful flower bed… I thought she had disappeared to mess around with the lovers she had been keeping by her side.’

Even when she first heard the news that the great Second Saintess who had subjugated the Demon King had gone missing along with her beloved lovers, she didn’t pay much attention to it.

She will return soon.

She thought she would return with her usual naive appearance.

However, even after two months had passed, Beatrice’s whereabouts were still unknown.

Zebeline shook her head with a heavy sigh.

“What’s the situation in the Boemon Kingdom?”

“It seems they have withdrawn most of their troops. There’s no one near the ramparts.”

Was it out of concern for the aftermath of a clash?

Or was it to make way for Edanant and Regnas?

As if expressing her impatient heart, she nervously bit her nails.

The ominous feeling soon became reality.

Because as soon as the Warmonger and the Sword Saint met at the fortress, dark magical energy began to surge from the west.

It was the direction where the lair of the leader commanding numerous monsters was located.

“S-Saintess! The monsters are coming down!”

“Phew…”

Dirt and dust rose madly.

They had noticed that the Boemon Kingdom’s forces, which had been threatening them with sharp spears and swords, had temporarily withdrawn.

So the monsters, which had been cornered by successive subjugations, began to squirm all at once.

The Holy Knights of the Holy Kingdom moved.

Zebeline also took action to respond to the sudden attack.

“Rue, stick close to my side.”

“Yes!”

With a rough roar, the clear sky darkened in an instant.

Then, as pure white lightning struck in unison, the dark sky brightened in a flash.

Thunder roared again.

Sharp lightning bolts scattered in all directions like a spider web.

The Holy Knights let out exclamations at the majestic sight, as if the creation of the world was unfolding before their eyes.

“The White Dragon of the Holy Kingdom…!”

“We have the Saintess with us! Everyone, draw your swords!”

The lightning of the White Dragon protecting the Earth Mother poured down, striking the monsters traversing the battlefield.

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The lightning struck.

Each time, the monsters that had been charging in black were gloriously incinerated.

Even though they rushed in with a fierce charge, revealing their vicious nature, they ultimately failed to reach the saintess.

The sky and the earth were completely dyed in pure white lightning.

Zebeline’s appearance, freely manipulating the sharply scattering lightning bolts, reminded one of Edanant, who had lavishly unleashed overwhelming firepower in the Racial War.

As if imitating the Warmonger’s combat style.

-Rooooooooooooooooooooooooar!!!

When most of the monsters that had rushed forward were eliminated,

A roar resonated.

The huge roar was enough to shake the battlefield.

It was the moment when the leader, who had been commanding numerous monsters and persistently harassing the Boemon Kingdom, appeared.

The Holy Knights swallowed their screams at the sight of the monster raising its upper body while collapsing the mountainside.

“…Somehow, nothing has been easy since reuniting with Edan.”

The saintess reached out her hand to the fairy who had been watching by her side.

Then the fairy ran over with quick steps and handed over the staff she had been holding with both hands.

‘Shall I try using Beatrice’s holy artifact that the Pope and cardinals have been boasting about so much?’

She raised the scepter decorated with carved pure white ivory.

The Scepter of White Night.

The scepter Rue had handed to Zebeline was the Holy Kingdom’s holy artifact that had been stored in the fairies’ paradise.

The saintess, holding the holy artifact, blocked the evil monster like a holy ascetic.

Even though fierce shockwaves swept in every time the ferocious monster advanced, she never wavered.

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When the Holy Kingdom forces dispatched to the Boemon Kingdom began close combat,

Edanant and Regnas focused solely on each other, ignoring the resounding roars.

The end of the world was near.

To prevent the predetermined outcome, the ‘symbol of evil’ was necessary.

Only then did the questions begin to unravel.

Through Regnas’ explanation, Edanant finally understood the details of the brutal massacre that had occurred in the Pug Kingdom.

He also learned the reason why the Saint of the Sword had fallen to become a king’s assassin.

“…So you intend to become the symbol of evil yourself?”

“That’s right.”

The Saintess Party, who had saved the world by subjugating the Demon King, intends to bear the evil.

At Regnas’ concise answer, Edanant contorted his face and expressed his rage.

The declaration to abandon holiness and embrace evil was no different from shouldering the unforgivable sin that the Holy Kingdom vehemently forbade.

The supreme heroes fall into villainy.

Edanant gripped the gun handle while recalling the image of Beatrice, whose gentle smile was dazzling.

“You stupid fools, you should have put me forward instead! As an apostle serving the Disaster God of War…! I could have perfectly replaced the dead immortal Demon King! Is your head not working?”

If he had been told that the world might face its end at any moment, he would have willingly accepted the necessary evil.

An evil to replace ‘death’ is needed.

Then, one could simply put forward ‘war,’ which is called an endless calamity just like death.

Why?

Why on earth…!

He glared at the Sword Saint as if he might pull the trigger at any moment.

Edanant, who finally faced the truth he had been desperately searching for, expressed his anger and futility with trembling eyes after learning the reason why the protagonists, who had reached the epilogue after twists and turns, had disappeared.

“I’m just as frustrated. If the Disaster Gods of Tyranny and Famine had existed until now, we could have found a replacement somehow.”

If the Disaster Gods of Tyranny and Famine, who had threatened the existence of humanity like Death and War, had wielded their power until now, there would never have been any concern about the end of the world.

But unfortunately, Tyranny and Famine had become ghosts in the distant past.

The Disaster God of Tyranny was subjugated by the heroes of the Evelas Empire, the predecessor of the Valtarian Empire, and buried in the western desert.

And the Disaster God of Famine was sealed by Bellatiel, the adopted daughter of the Earth Mother and praised as the supreme archangel, and thrown into the eastern sea.

Now, the only remaining endless calamity was War.

Only a very few people, including the Saintess Party, knew about him.

“Edan, I have conveyed everything I wanted to tell you.”

Regnas’ energy, which had been peaceful like a warm breeze, transformed into a fierce storm.

It was because he had finally drawn the sword hilt he had been firmly grasping.

A chilling metallic sound rang out.

At the same time, a sharp blade tip was revealed.

“From now on, you are an enemy of the Saintess Party. In order to enforce the necessary evil of the world… I must ultimately become your enemy, as you have risen to become a hero representing the empire.”

“……”

No matter what he said, it would be of no use.

The fools following the saintess were all insane eccentrics.

He accepted the proposal.

He also drew Aldebaran to confront Regnas, who had declared a hostile relationship.

“Regnas, you must have said you would never use force against the weak.”

“What an amusing joke. Why would Edan be weak?”

Clang-!

As soon as they finished speaking, their sword strikes clashed.

The shockwave shook the ramparts.

Nevertheless, Edanant and Regnas charged forward without backing down.

Sharp sword strikes poured in several times.

Then, the ramparts of the fortress, which boasted impregnable defensive power, collapsed like sliced vegetables, cut into pieces.

“…Your sword speed is remarkable. You have finally mastered Maximilian’s swordsmanship.”

“It’s been 3 years since then.”

The Warmonger’s blade tip blurred.

And the Sword Saint’s blade tip blurred.

The same timing.

The same movement.

Just as Edanant imitated the Hero’s swordsmanship, Regnas did the same.

Was he trying to score points as a judge?

The sword monster who had mastered all the supreme swordsmanship in the world intentionally used the same technique.

“I have no personal feelings towards you. Of course, it would have been different if it were Maximilian.”

“I fully understand.”

The muskets deployed in the air spewed fire in unison.

Countless bullets fired from the muzzles poured down on Regnas like a heavy rain.

“I also have no personal feelings.”

The form of the sword energy flowing along the blade changed.

Swoosh-!

And he unleashed a feat of deflecting hundreds of bullets in a single strike.

It was a divine art befitting the strongest who had risen to the ranks of the Seven Strongest in the Warring States by fanatically pursuing swordsmanship.

Edanant clicked his tongue as he watched the bullets fall to the ground with a thud, like grains that had been weeded out.

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