Chapter 894

"Whoosh!"

A gust of cold wind blew past, bringing with it a whistling sound.

Snowflakes danced in the cold wind, swirling and falling at the same time.

The ground was dyed a dazzling white by the falling snow. At a glance, one could not see the end of it.

In this season of white snow, countless people wrapped in warm clothes, like refugees, collectively walked in the same direction, leaving row after row of footprints in the snow.

Upon closer inspection, one would realize that their destination was a city.

A very grand and prosperous city that seemed to have just been built, giving off a brand-new feeling.

Many armored knights were guarding around the city gate, forming a line of defense. Even the city walls were filled with knights, giving off a heavily-guarded feeling, or in other words, an austere atmosphere.

Those who didn't know what was going on might think that this city was a military stronghold.

However, this city wasn't a military fortress, but the capital of the Mithra Kingdom. It was the capital of the kingdom.

At this moment, the gates of the capital city were wide open, welcoming refugees from all directions.

Quite a number of people dressed as knights were holding weapons in their hands, guarding the surroundings and shouting at the group of refugees.

"Those from the northern cities, please register at the north gate!"

"This is the east gate! Only those from the eastern cities are allowed to enter the city! "

"There is no fee to enter the city! However, those who do not register will be expelled! "

"This is a special period! The capital city does not accept people from other countries and other territories! Those who do not belong to the surrounding cities, please follow the knights who are preparing to go on an expedition to other territories! "

"Everyone has to queue up! Maintain order! "

"Don't run around! It's dangerous! "

Just like that, the knights gave a warning to the refugees.

The refugees did not complain and obediently queued up, looking at the capital city with eyes full of hope.

That was the look of someone who had survived a disaster and was finally able to keep his life.

Unfortunately, not long after, an accident happened.

"The alchemists have appeared!"

As the knights on one side of the battlefront yelled, the orderly outskirts of King's City were filled with panic at once.

"Monsters!"

"The monsters have appeared again!"

"Help!"

The refugees were like birds that had been startled by the mere twang of a bowstring. The moment they heard the words' Alchemist Demon ', they immediately screamed in fear and prepared to flee in all directions.

But just as they were about to make the scene chaotic, the knights stopped them.

"Don't panic!"

"Stay where you are! Don't panic! "

The knights immediately protected the refugees in the middle, shouting to stop them from panicking.

At one of the defensive lines, sounds of fighting began to appear.

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

Many ferocious and terrifying monsters suddenly appeared on the other side of the snowy ground, letting out terrifying roars as they charged towards them.

"Stop them!"

The leader of the defense line drew the longsword on his waist, pointed it forward, and gave the order coldly.

"Roar roar roar …!"

Countless knights immediately crossed the line of defense and faced the monsters called Alchemists.

Both sides entered a state of fighting.

Although it was said to be a massacre, it was more appropriate to describe it as an encirclement.

The monsters called alchemists were about to charge past the defense line and attack the capital city, but they were immediately surrounded by the knights.

Like a well-trained army, the knights seemed to know the habits of the alchemists very well and were used to fighting them. When they were about to come into contact with the alchemists, they quickly dispersed into multiple squads and surrounded the alchemists.

In this way, they surrounded the alchemists and didn't fight alone. They maximized their advantage in numbers and intelligence.

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

The alchemists violently charged at the encirclement and swung their sharp claws with all their might, trying to kill the knights.

However, the knights were advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, easily nullifying the attacks of the alchemy fiends. Then, before the alchemy fiends could regain their momentum, they quickly closed in and launched attacks, leaving wounds on the bodies of the alchemy fiends.

The alchemists howled in pain and roared furiously. They tried to counterattack several times, but they failed each time due to the knights' unrelenting fighting style.

Finally, the leader of the defense line issued a new order.

"Release!"

With his order, the mages in robes behind the defense line released the spells that they had prepared beforehand without hesitation.

In an instant, flames danced, lightning bolts flashed, hurricanes swept forward with snowflakes, and countless ice and snow formed.

Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam …!

Amidst the explosions, the alchemists were hit by the spells released by the mages. They were either burned by flames and howled in pain, struck by lightning bolts, sliced by hurricanes, or frozen by ice and snow.

The knights that surrounded them had already retreated to a safe area when they sensed the magic waves from behind.

Just like that, a small-scale monster siege incident was perfectly resolved by the knights of the Royal City.

When the refugees who had fallen into a state of panic and chaos saw this scene, all of them were stunned.

Then, they became excited.

"So powerful!"

"Is this the Royal Knights?"

"So … so powerful!"

"We made the right choice to seek refuge in the capital!"

The refugees couldn't help but cheer, and some even cried tears of joy.

The knights who were guarding the refugees also loosened up.

However, the attack wasn't over yet.

"Gaaaaa — —!"

All of a sudden, a terrifying roar resounded and entered everyone's ears.

"Oh no!"

"It's the larvae of the Demon Dwellers!"

"The larvae of the Demon Dwellers are here!"

The faces of the knights changed, and they cried out one after another.

Then, in the snow in front of them, a huge monster rushed through the snowstorm and entered everyone's eyes.

It had dragon wings on its back, a centipede-like body, and a human upper body. It could spit dragon breath — the larvae of the Demon Dwellers.

To an ordinary person, it was the worst opponent and also the most terrifying enemy.

"We're doomed!"

"We're doomed!"

The refugees who were overjoyed a moment ago instantly turned pale.

None of them would be able to forget that nightmarish figure.

That was because the city they lived in, their hometown, was destroyed by such a monster.

If it was an ordinary alchemist, the knights of the various cities could still handle it. However, this terrifying and powerful monster was unstoppable and could easily destroy a city.

That was to be expected.

It was a Legendary-level monster, an absolute nightmare in the eyes of an ordinary person.

Not to mention a small city, even in a large city, the appearance of such a monster could be said to be fatal.

After all, the entire Mithra Kingdom only had three Legendary-level powerhouses on the surface.

Among them, other than the strongest Legendary-level adventurer belonging to the Adventurers Guild who wandered around without a fixed place to stay, the other two Legendary-level powerhouses were the leader of the Imperial Knights and the patriarch of the Elbein family, and the Pope of the Temple of Light. Both of them resided in the capital and could not care about the other cities in the kingdom.

Therefore, if such a monster appeared in a city, an ordinary small city would be destroyed in minutes. Only some of the more powerful large cities could rely on human lives to successfully resist it through large-scale encirclement and suppression.

But that was only resistance.

The larvae of the Demon Dwellers were not ordinary Legendary-level monsters.

They could spit dragon breath that could destroy all defenses, causing the barrier of the city and the defense line of the knights to be reduced to ashes by the dragon breath.

They had the characteristic of having half a physical body. If one did not use special methods, such as Holy Magic to purify and kill them, even if they were killed, they could quickly recover.

Thanks to this, the number of cities that could survive in the hands of these monsters in the past month was less than one in a hundred.

Therefore, how could it not strike fear into the hearts of others and make them feel hopeless?

Even the knights looked at this monster with tense faces, their hands holding their weapons so tightly that they turned purple.

But they did not despair.

Because they knew that an existence that could deal with this monster would soon appear.

"Gaaaaa — —!"

The larvae of the Demon Dwellers let out a frightening cry, the flames in its mouth fluctuating, turning into a scorching breath that blasted towards the crowd in front of it.

Before the dragon breath arrived, a wave of high temperature evaporated the snowy ground, causing the accumulated snow on the snowy ground to melt instantly.

However, just as this fatal dragon breath was about to land on the crowd and cause countless deaths, a figure silently appeared.

"Clang!"

A dazzling stream of light bloomed.

It was a light that bloomed from a sword.

The newcomer held a dazzling golden longsword in his hand and appeared in front of the dragon breath extremely abruptly.

Then, facing the incoming dragon breath, the person gently swung the sword in his hand.

"Puchi!"

With a crisp sound like silk tearing, the scorching breath that could cut through everything was cut in half by the holy sword.

The flames exploded like sparks and scattered in the air, looking very dazzling.

"Gaaaaa — —!"

The monster called the larvae of the Demon Dwellers saw this and let out an angry roar.

What greeted it was a slash.

A dazzling, holy, and bright slash that looked like the incarnation of the God of Sword.

"Puchi!"

In the next second, the golden slash cut the monster in half.

"— —!"

The monster's roar stopped abruptly, then it slowly collapsed.

Blood dyed the ground red.

The monster did not get up again.

The slash that contained the holy power seemed to have completely destroyed its structure and ended its life, making it unable to revive even though it was half a physical body. It became a dead soul under the sword.

The being wielding the Holy Sword glanced at the corpse of the monster on the ground, then disappeared in a flash.

"This … this …"

Everyone who saw this scene was dumbfounded.

The knights, on the other hand, let out a huge sigh of relief and revealed a smile.

One of the refugees could not help but ask the knight closest to him in an extremely agitated manner.

"What … what happened just now …!?"

That refugee's emotions had already reached an unbearable level.

The knight looked at him, smiling and feeling proud at the same time.

"Don't be surprised, this is the foundation of the Royal Capital." The knight said, "The Royal Capital has the strongest knights of the human race, the Godly Temple's strongest pope, and the legendary one. How could a mere larvae of the Demon Dwellers threaten the Royal Capital?"

"The legendary one?"

This sentence made many people's eyes light up, and an uproar broke out.

Especially that refugee, he said with extreme excitement.

"Could it be that the one who attacked just now was … the brave one …!?"

This sentence was exchanged for the knight's affirmation.

"That's right, that is the brave one, the hope of us humans!"

Hearing this, the refugees once again cheered and cried tears of joy.

"As expected of the brave one!"

"Then the thing that just killed that monster must be the legendary holy sword, right?"

"So powerful! You killed that monster with a single strike! "

"If the brave one was in our city, then our city wouldn't have been destroyed!"

The people couldn't hold back their emotions and began to clamor.

The knights looked at each other, also unable to hide the pride in their eyes.

It couldn't be helped.

The only brave one in the entire Omnippertansen was here with them, it was hard for them not to feel proud.

One had to know that in that unprecedented disaster a month ago, the one who fought against the leader of the [Primal Demons] and the terrifying Demon Dragon that he cultivated was their brave one. In the end, the one who joined forces with the demons and demons to fight against the leader was their brave one.

As the brave one's fiancée, the second princess of the kingdom, and the kingdom's most precious treasure, the holy sword, like the brave one, saved many powerful beings in the Hall of Glory and made great contributions in that battle.

If it weren't for this Hero couple, perhaps the capital would have already fallen, the human race would have already fallen, and the entire human world would have become a paradise for monsters.

Because of this, there was hope in many people's hearts.

"If it's the brave one, then he can definitely end this sudden war and reclaim the world's peace."

With this hope, the human race was able to persevere in the current world for the past month.

They were able to persevere until now from those monsters and demons.

Just like that, the knights began to clean up the battlefield and continued to guide refugees from various cities into the Royal Capital.

Because of this, they didn't notice that in the sky above the Royal Capital, the brave one with the holy sword was looking down at them.

"Reclaim the world's peace …?"

The young man, who was dressed in a noble's palace attire, had already sheathed the holy sword in the scabbard at his waist, and he looked like a rich and noble swordsman.

Then, he spoke as if he was mocking himself.

"What an inexplicable mission."

As the hero spoke, he slowly rose into the air, rising into the sky bit by bit.

As he rose higher and higher, his field of vision became wider and wider, and he could see the entire icy land.

As far as his eyes could see, there were battles and slaughters all around him.

"Roar …"

"Roar …"

Countless monsters roamed the land, and there were countless of them.

There were knights who were escorting the refugees to the Royal Capital, and they were engaged in fierce battles with the monsters that discovered them.

There were also monsters that killed and devoured each other, becoming more and more powerful.

Just like that, the world fell into a bloody slaughter.

The doomsday-like scene was imprinted into the brave one's mind.

For a long time, it didn't disappear.