Former General Is Undead Knight
Lesson 17: The Fall of the Sacred City ①
Lambert was slashing the 'demon bug' as he ran around the Holy City.
Already the city is overflowing with corpses and we don't see any living people.
Increasingly, the carcasses of monsters that kept gushing infinitely were reducing scaffolding in the Holy City.
He says he killed the 'worm pot' that was the operator, but it's like the growth of the 'proliferator worm' doesn't show any signs of stopping.
All the bugs seemed to be alive even though they had lost the Lord.
(When this happens, credibility also comes out in the bullshit that 'worm pot' is just alive)
"The Blood Mist Knight" has launched a raid to help the "Bug Kettle" and "The Blood Mist Knight" left Lambert stating that it served its purpose.
Lambert did crush the head of the 'worm pot'.
But the sorcerer's snubbing had accompanied him more than once since Rambal's lifetime, surpassing his assumptions.
Domillione, who has shown his obsession with Lambert over the ages, is at the head of it.
If you were looking at the city, all you could see was how the 'Booster Worm' devoured the bodies, and you couldn't see the sorcerers of the heretical inquisition who should have been engaged with the 'Booster Worm' or the spirits of their manipulative light realm.
In Lambert's view, it was unlikely that a heretical Inquisition sorcerer had taken a back seat on the 'Booster Worm', which could be defeated even by an armed ordinary man.
(Eight wise men... It hurts that I missed that black armored man. Maybe that guy is cutting off the important warfare power on the side of the heretical Inquisition)
Man in Black Armor...... "The Blood Mist Knight" had enough strength to slash each other from the front with Lambert.
It should now be one arm, but it still didn't seem to Lambert that anyone could break through his sword moves and the armor of the self-repairing black demon steel "Dalwright" was inside the holy capital Heinstier.
"The priority should be to ascertain the death of that black armor and... the 'worm pot'? I'm also concerned about the presence of underground passages sensed on the road, but not very much, but there's no room to be sure of that."
I just don't have enough Lambert hands.
It would have been easier if the Four Holy Pillars had reduced the number of the Eight Wise Men they attacked, but as things stand, the Eight Wise Men, who can be confirmed dead, had not been grasped, and the Four Great Sacred Pillars have already lost their filippo by the called high spirits of the 'worm pot'.
In addition, Matthew's death is also considered due to the drastic reduction of angels who were engaged with the 'demon bug' in the Holy City.
All of a sudden, a mass of flames struck the beast in the wake of Rambal.
Lambert waves the great sword and disperses the fiery beast before turning his face to the point where the beast was released.
"... Also you"
Ahead of Lambert stood one of the four pillars, Johann.
My mouth is peeking through the gap on the cracked surface.
"Seeing the tragedy of this holy capital, do you still give priority to sticking with me?
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Johan turns his cane toward Lambert while remaining silent.
"I thought I told you. When it's all over, I'll go and identify you again. Are you saying it's only a desirability to scorn the people who live in the Holy Capital and get rid of me as quickly as possible?
"... a little, I thought. But you are too ominous. If it's done, there's no reason to leave the ghost knight here in the wild to kill Cardinal Zebedai."
I didn't say "kill."
Johann distorts his mouth.
"No, you kill Cardinal Zebedai. There's no way a man like you, a symbol of righteousness, would miss what he did. But that idea of yours is what this kingdom of Legions needs now. How do we combat the 'whistling demon' without our heretical Inquisition?"
"Even if we burned the people to smoke and kill our enemies?
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Johan can shut up a little and put his strength into his hand holding the wand.
"... oh yeah"
To Johann's answer, lower the sword that Lambert stood on.
Johann's face peeking from the surface tenses strongly at Lambert's movements.
"... repeat your outrage on the shield of justice and laugh at me for being impoverished with answers if you are asked"
"I can't laugh. If anyone speaks justice without hesitation while killing a good man, it will be none other than a madman"
Lambert shook his head and laid the great sword against his sheath.
"That's the answer that troubled me, and as long as I keep carrying the weight of the bodies I've piled up, I won't have the right to judge you for what you've become in the past."
Now is not the time when Lambert lived anymore.
You can never take the table stage and dictate politics.
It was also true that the present kingdom's power of war justifiably prevented it from countering the 'whistling demon'.
An imitation that worries about the future of the kingdom and unhindered the thoughts of those who suffer cannot be done by Lambert.
"Let's promise. If Zebedai were a man like you, I wouldn't kill him. Retreat, Johann. You already lack half of the four holy pillars."
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Johann thought he should strike Lambert again at this time, showing a gap.
But when I realized it, I was poking my knee on the spot.
Johann has been worried about killing emotions and building up his track record as an executive of the heretical Inquisition.
Externally, he was defamed of being a horrible group of demons, and internally, there is only unilateral fanaticism by faith.
Being affirmed by such a great presence as Lambert was salvation for Johan.
(But... but still, I have to get rid of this undead here. As the Four Holy Pillars, the answer will not change no matter what, it should be)
Johan stares at Lambert with his knees poked.
Its appearance wrapped around the great armor was much bigger and felt absolute than when I first saw it.
"... one thing, I want to ask. Underneath, I feel countless signs. What do you got?
Lambert asks Johann, who pokes his knee at the ground.
Lambert had a bad feeling about the signs of his footprint, but when he thought of the eight sages rampaging on the ground, he couldn't even turn his hands on an underground matter he wasn't sure about.
But if Johan knew anything about the basement of the Holy City here, the priorities would become clear.
"Underground, countless signs......!?
Johan's face turns pale.
"Do you have something?
"… it is a matter for the upper management of our heretical Inquisition. I didn't stop targeting your neck, but it seems to be gone by then. As long as you aim for contact with Cardinal Zebedai, it will be time to face each other again one day. At that time, I will discuss you with Simon, the last of the four Holy Pillars"
Johan pulled himself away.
Seeing it, Lambert also turned away from Johan and rushed again in another direction.
From Johann's words, Lambert had guessed about the identity of the mysterious signs beneath the Holy City.
First, undoubtedly, what lies beneath is a secret passage, reserved for the upper-church to take off the Holy Capital in case.
He was the most prominent candidate for Lambert's hypothesis, but it was supported by Johan's reaction.
And right now, Zebedai is measuring his escape from the Holy Capital through there... and those countless signs are that the 'whistle-blowing demon' 's hands, perhaps the Eight Wise Men, are already trapping him to kill Zebedai.
Rather than the safety of Zebedae passing underground, Lambert gave priority to killing by uncovering the 'Blood Mist Knight' and the 'Worm Kettle' of unknown survival, which were carrying out sabotage work on the ground of the Holy Capital as soon as possible.