Episode 148
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“How about an avatar… … !”
It was there, where the enemies of the shadows, the red and the white, gathered that Dale finally revealed his armor.
Avatar of the Shadow Lord, armed with a dark-blooded armor.
Unfolding the Avatar does not directly reveal that Dale is the ‘Shadow Lord’, just as the world of ideas Dale unfolds does not directly reveal the identity of the warrior.
However, the meaning of the act itself could never be belittled. It was an Irregular realm that ordinary magicians could not even dare to imagine.
A wizard who possesses a world of ideas is at the same time armed with the armor of ideas.
“Avatar of the Grimoire… … .”
Lady Scarlett muttered softly as she watched the scene. As a high-ranking wizard, it was not difficult to figure out the true nature of Dale’s abilities.
“Of course, if it weren’t for that, the title of greatest genius in the empire would be a shame.”
Rather, he doesn’t hide his interest as if he is enjoying it.
“I feel sorry for Ray, who can’t hide his jealousy after hearing of the fame and talent of the ‘Black Prince’.”
Ray Yuris, the future enemy you will face as the successor to the Red Tower.
“evil…….”
And Vorenus, the White Mage of the 7th Circle, was no exception to this shock.
“Evil, the embodiment of evil!”
Vorenus began pointing his finger at Dale in a maddening voice.
“That is, without a doubt, the armor of an apostate who has forsaken the love and mercy of the Sister Goddess! It is an evil that cannot be forgiven! At once… … !”
At the same time, as a high-ranking elder of the White Tower, the seven circles surrounding his heart began to rotate. To immediately uproot this disgusting evil and purify it with the light of the Goddess.
It was just then.
Hurrruk!
A few steps before Vorenus’ white magic swept through, flames engulfed the area.
The scene in the barracks where the leaders of the Great Demon Alliance were gathered was distorted, and it meant only one thing.
The world of ideas.
“Ah, the maid of the White Tower really speaks well.”
Lady Scarlett opened her mouth, claiming to be the goddess of that very world. As a high-ranking elder of the Red Tower and a powerful figure of the Empire with a ‘secret’ beyond that.
“Aren’t we now in the midst of a martyr’s duel to heed the ‘will of the Goddess’?”
“How dare you call me a martyr after seeing that sight, Lady Scarlett!”
The white wizard Vorenus of the 7th circle raised his voice as if he could not lose.
“It seems like you still don’t understand the situation.”
“Red Witch, Lady Scarlett! Even if you are an agent of the Empire, there are things that cannot be tolerated!”
It was just then.
Bam.
In Scarlett’s world, something fell on Dale’s head. It was a few drops of liquid.
Thud.
And then the liquid began to pour down like a shower. Dale looked up from the silence.
Blood was pouring down like rain.
Chunks of meat, skinned and bones exposed, were hanging from iron hooks in the ceiling. At first glance, I thought they were livestock like cows or pigs. A slaughterhouse. No. I soon realized.
It was a person.
People hanging from iron hooks were bleeding endlessly, dyeing her world blood red.
A world of fire and blood.
“Did you say that it was unacceptable?”
In Lady Scarlett’s world, the cruel and indescribable flower of bloodshed engulfs the entire area.
“How dare you, a white-topped boar, speak so well.”
The empire is ruled by beings who cannot be called human. And to these beings, humans are no different from livestock such as cows or pigs. Just as people hunt animals and crave their meat… … .
Lady Scarlett smiled coldly. A single fang spurted out from the corner of her mouth. And the threat made the 7th Circle White Mage Vorenus hold his breath. Even if the number of Circles is the same, that doesn’t mean they are equal as wizards.
“Now then, now that everyone is here… … let us begin the duel between the two martyrs.”
Lady Scarlett smiled.
“Nothing will change, Brother Vorenus.”
It was just then.
The Master Templar drew his sword, his white surcoat billowing.
“The love and mercy of the Sister Goddess are with us, and I have no doubt that our Goddess will bring her wrath upon the evil ‘Black Prince’.”
“Lu, the knight of Lusignan… …!”
“God wants it.”
Master Templar cast down the Holy Sign, detonating the aura swirling within his body.
Inside the coliseum built by Lady Scarlett, two Avatar users faced each other and began a confrontation.
The light swirled. After the swirl, the Master Templar’s avatar finally revealed itself.
“Kill them all.”
It was blood-red armor. A knight covered in blood from face to toe. At first, I thought it was blood covered in armor.
“The goddess will choose her people.”
No. The blood clot itself was coagulating into the shape of armor, writhing like a liquid.
Choaack!
At the same time, two blood-red wings began to spread behind the Master Templar’s back.
A knight literally made of blood was holding his sword in his hands.
Master Templar, the ideology of the Knights Templar.
“Every time my sacred armor and wings are defiled with the blood of the ugly and filthy pagans… … .”
The blood of pagans overlaid upon their innocence.
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“My body and soul, as they turn to the goddess, will become more and more pure, clean, and noble.”
The Master Templar muttered softly.
“What is truly important is the purity of the spirit, not the purity of the body. The more my armor and body are defiled and degraded by the blood of apostates, the more I should rejoice in the purification of my spirit.”
The article was built on blood, and the very idea itself was made up of blood.
An avatar of cruelty that you would never think of as a white tower and a church sword. At the same time, it was the very essence of the ideology of the Knights Templar.
Fanatics who believe without a doubt that even the blood and ugliness they will get on their hands is part of their faith in the Goddess.
“Haha, what a beautiful and nauseating sight.”
Lady Scarlett sneered coldly at the sight.
Blood armor.
And the armor of Black Blood.
“It has been said that the wheel of history rolls only on blood. Ah, what a beautiful and enchanting sight!”
Lady Scarlett muttered in ecstasy as she looked at them.
At the same time, several of the Alliance members who were watching their martyr’s duel began to retch in disgust.
The Blood Knight kicked the ground. Likewise, he was striking the Shadow Lord, whose body was wrapped in black blood.
Kaang!
Dale took out his pitch-black magic sword, ‘Kia’, and countered his blow, and at the same time, the Dark Blood’s armor began to rise up like liquid metal. The sharp spikes sank straight down towards the Master Templar.
At the same time, the blood armor surrounding the Master Templar also began to move.
Just like Dale’s mirror.
‘Hoo.’
Kaang!
The blades made of blood crossed each other, widening the distance between them. At the same time, the wings of blood rising from behind the Master Templar spread wide.
Choaack!
Along the spread wings of blood, skewers that were as hard as liquid metal began to rise. They were bloody blades that looked like they were raining down arrows.
Dale kicked the ground against the swirling blade of blood.
“Blood, blood! Every time the blood of the pagans defiles my body, my spirit becomes more and more pure and clean!”
The Master Templar’s ideology, built on the bloodshed of pagans. The fanatic’s belief that justifies the massacre of countless bloodsheds in the name of God.
“Let them bleed, kill them all! The goddess will choose her people!”
Now, looking at the Master Templar, who was screaming fanatically while sprinkling the blood he was wearing… … .
I thought about it absentmindedly.
So what is this dark armor that surrounds Dale now?
Why did the Book of the Black Goat wrap its tentacles around Dale’s body and give him an avatar of this form? Why did it think that this avatar was called the ‘Armor of the Shadow Lord’?
What on earth does this black blood mean?
Dale asked back.
It was by no means a light question.
Even if it was done with the power of the Grimoire, even if the avatar currently enveloping Dale’s body was not ‘Dale’s thoughts’, the meaning contained in this armor made of black blood.
“What is blood?”
That is why the Shadow Lord asked back.
Everyone in this world has their own beliefs about ‘blood’. The armor Dale is wearing now is no exception.
“It is the oil that turns the wheel of history.”
Lady Scarlett answered.
“And if you ask the people of the church, they will tell you that it is a symbol of the life that the Goddess has given us.”
After hearing her words, Dale fell silent.
After closing his mouth, he burst into laughter without a sound.
“What is so funny, you Saxon apostate?”
The Master Templar, covered in blood, spoke, leaving behind the blood-clad armor that covered his body.
Because only then can Dale understand the meaning of the black blood that surrounds him.
Blood takes on a ‘bloody’ color when red blood cells combine with oxygen.
Oxygen, an atmospheric substance essential for the survival of living things.
We need to breathe to live, and it is the oxygen that combines with the red blood cells in our blood that allows us to have a ‘blood color’.
And when oxygen is not properly supplied to the blood in the body, the blood turns black.
Therefore, black blood meant only one thing.
Bloody death. Absence of life.
Black Death.
That was the end point of the world and life contained in this dark blood armor.
─ So you just realized it now?
It was just then.
A voice was heard.
There was a girl with goat horns appearing behind Dale.
“I knew it, I knew it, you Saxon apostate!”
The Master Templar could not hide his anger at the sight.
“It’s so ugly! It’s so ugly and so ugly that I can’t stand it! The filthy filth in your soul makes me sick to my stomach!”
Blood rushed out like a gust of blood, and the Master Templar readjusted the hilt of his sword.
“You crazy kid.”
Dale laughed at the sight as if it were someone else’s business.
The Shadow Lord slowly stretched out his arms, becoming aware of the ‘black death armor’ surrounding his body.
The darkness of the black death, the armor of dark blood that wrapped around his body, began to spread.
