chapter 200
200 – Part 2 Episode 28, Repairing the Holy Sword (2)
I could feel the cold sweat running down my neck and shoulders.
Not only that, but a cool, cold wind wrapped around my entire body.
The sweat and cold wind instantly took away my body temperature, and my hot body began to cool down.
Not only that, my body was shaking as fast as Anari’s heart was beating.
A request that the goddess had given before.
The warrior said that if the holy sword is broken, it will disappear from this world without a trace.
And the holy sword I was holding now was splendidly shattered.
It was so flashy that it seemed like its original appearance was not a sword but something like a glass cup.
How should I handle this situation now?
They said it was a mountain beyond a mountain, but after sealing the chaos, it seems to have disappeared again?
I can’t believe something like this happens at a time when I should have been happy and sealed the chaos in both my past life and my current life.
I wonder if I really received a curse engraved on my soul.
“Uh…what should I do…”
Perhaps because I was so embarrassed, I kept talking to myself.
The sword handle he was holding in his hand had already fallen to the floor, and he couldn’t even think about picking it up again.
There is no point in explaining this situation to others.
Isn’t there anything about the Holy Sword that is passed down by word of mouth?
I am the only one who knows that when the holy sword is broken, the hero is hidden from the world.
Vias, I’ve never told that b*stard, so he doesn’t know…
I feel like I’m going crazy.
I don’t understand why this situation suddenly happens to me.
“Let’s go to the cathedral first…”
Now I feel like I can’t even think about it unless I say it out loud.
I opened the door, went in, and headed to my destination.
Still, it doesn’t seem like it’s going to disappear right away.
If it had been effective immediately, I would have already disappeared from this world.
So we headed to a small chapel on the first floor of our house.
It’s a chapel used by Stella and the maids, so it’s not that big, but it’s not small either.
I sat down, clasped my hands together, and closed my eyes.
Even if you don’t sleep, you can have a quick conversation with the goddess at any time in a cathedral, church, chapel, or temple.
It’s possible because I’m a hero.
When I traveled, I had to communicate with the goddess often.
Focus more!
I don’t know when it will disappear if I don’t concentrate, but I keep thinking about other things.
‘Goddess… if you can hear me, please answer…’
-Elvin? What’s going on?
Fortunately, the goddess seemed to have been listening to the prayers nearby and answered quickly.
He sounded a little tired, so I guess he was just listening to prayers all day today.
‘Goddess… we’re in big trouble. The holy sword… the holy sword is broken!’
– Is the holy sword broken? suddenly?
I’m in a hurry, but the goddess’s response is lukewarm, as if it’s no big deal.
I was moved to tears for a moment, but then I realized that now was not the time to argue with the goddess.
‘I guess the problem was that I suddenly injected too much magic power when sealing the chaos!’
– Then I guess I’ll have to fix it.
‘Su…repair? What happens to me?! Will it really disappear?!’
-Why is Elvin disappearing? why?
‘Woah… the goddess said that!’
This goddess… Is it possible that she doesn’t remember?
In a voice that seemed like I didn’t understand what he was talking about, I explained in detail what I had heard from the goddess before.
– Ah, I remembered.
The goddess listened quietly and clapped her hands as if she remembered something.
Every single one of those movements was so disgusting that I bit down on my innocent teeth for no reason.
– That was only when Ervin was directly connected to the Holy Sword in his past life. She is not connected to her current body.
‘Is that so? What’s the difference…’
– To put it simply, the first warriors and the later warriors are different. In the first place, King Jin’s body was dead, right?
Afterwards, the goddess explained in more detail.
It is said that the destruction of the holy sword and the disappearance of the hero only applies to the first hero, ‘Jin King’.
The holy sword that controlled the mighty power of King Jin.
At the same time, the Holy Sword, which strengthened itself by absorbing that enormous power, had great power because it was connected to the ‘True King’.
It is said that the power of the holy sword used by later warriors was not their own power, but rather the power that came from the soul of the Jin King.
However, this time, the holy sword broke, and the connection between King Jin’s soul and the holy sword was broken.
If the Holy Sword is structurally broken, the Jin King cannot maintain his power and disappears from existence, but it seems that nothing has happened now that 3,000 years have passed since the Jin King’s death.
Even though I am the reincarnation of King Jin and a warrior.
– In the case of Ervin, it’s like he was using his own power.
‘So that’s it… So the true form that could not be liberated by anyone but the Jin King…’
I am the only one who has unleashed the true power of the holy sword.
Because it was my power from the beginning, the true form of the holy sword that no other warrior could bring out except me…
‘So what do we do now?’
– Now that this has come to an end, let’s just send the Holy Sword away.
That would be better.
Restoring the Holy Sword to its original state is the same as connecting the Holy Sword to me.
This time, it was a shame because the connector was not me but King Jin’s soul. If the connector had been me, I would have disappeared.
If one sword breaks, I disappear too?
Who would carry a sword with such terrible penalties?
‘But then the symbol disappears?’
Also, if you don’t have it, the hero’s symbol will disappear.
The Holy Sword is a sword used to practice sword swing, but it is indispensable because it is a treasure of the Church of Christ.
– All you have to do is return the sword to its original shape.”
‘That way…’
After all, the goddess is omniscient and omnipotent.
I let out a sigh of relief, thanked her, unclasped my hands and opened my eyes.
Is it because I am relaxed?
As I looked inside the dark chapel, my eyes began to close.
I have to hurry up and take a shower and eat.
*
I am going around the church headquarters to airlift the items needed to restore the sword.
While the other ingredients were easy to obtain, one item was quite difficult to obtain.
Mithril.
It’s silver that contains magical power, but there’s no place where you can get it.
Still, since it is the headquarters of the church, I thought there might be a place where I could get it, so I briefly left the training for preliminary priests and wandered around.
After all, is there no other answer than to talk to your father-in-law and ask for it?
“Kyuung?”
“Yongyong. Just in case, look around carefully.”
You never know.
Who would know that someone’s leftover mithril would be lying around so carelessly?
That’s why I brought Yongyong.
Yongyong has an excellent ability to find things.
However, the problem is that no matter how much Yongyong moves around, there is no response.
Since we exclude all Holy Knights wearing mithril armor, they don’t respond.
“Kyaung!!!”
The moment I thought.
Suddenly our Yongyong started to react.
Yongyong, who was sitting on my shoulder, jumped up and came up on top of my head.
Is it really true?
I wondered if it was possible, but I never thought it would actually exist.
Yongyong slowly followed in the direction he was heading.
I wondered where I was going, but it turned out that I was heading towards the spirit shelter, not inside the church headquarters.
There’s mithril here?
The griller…
It’s been a while since I’ve been here.
As I entered, I could see our attendant priests and the lower-ranking priests working hard on my behalf.
It must be difficult…
It will be difficult because our priests who served on duty also had a very difficult time.
In my case, all I did was sit and play with the spirits, so it wasn’t that difficult.
Than… Yongyong goes inside.
“Use… Let’s get permission first.”
I am definitely an outsider.
Since Yongyong is the former leader of the spirits in the spirit shelter, it would be okay to just go in, but for me, it is common sense to get mirror permission before entering.
It’s not difficult to get permission, though.
There is no reason to refuse.
Anyway, I went straight to where the guardian was and received permission.
Because you go in for a moment and then come out.
Naturally, when I went inside, spirits came into my arms.
I don’t know if they came here because of the mithril or to pat the spirits’ heads.
As I was stroking his head, Yongyong headed somewhere.
I guess he’s upset because he’s paying more attention to other kids than Yongyong right now.
I’m sorry for no reason.
Our Yongyong.
“Kyuung?”
“Wow… I’m surprised.”
I thought he might have sulked and disappeared somewhere, but Yongyong suddenly jumped out from behind me.
Then he stuck his head out to me to ask for my head to be stroked, so I couldn’t help but stroke his head gently.
But… you have something in your mouth.
Also, where did you pick this up and put it in your mouth?
“Kyuunung.”
“Uh-huh, if you keep something like this in your mouth, you’re Jiji. Jiji.”
Yongyong usually reacts excessively when something is taken from his mouth, but today he didn’t react much.
I looked at it to see what it was, and it turned out to be a slightly blue metal.
It’s also a pretty small piece.
At best, it’s about the size of the knuckle of my little finger.