This knight is too perfect

Chapter 16: The Knight's Sword, Not Stained with Innocent Blood [Two in One]

Inside the church, Rhine pulled out the holy nail that was stuck in Anna's chest.

The Bloody Angel who had been suppressing Anna finally let go.

Soon, the holy light fire that originally covered Anna's body was completely extinguished under the suppression of the powerful Shadow Crow power that she unconsciously released.

Only a small amount of holy fire was still shining around Lark, protecting him from being completely swallowed by the tide of shadow crows.

But Larke's persistence obviously couldn't last long.

Because without the help of the Holy Nail, he was a silver-level extraordinary person who was forcibly piled up by the church with huge extraordinary resources.

He is simply no match for Anna, an extraordinary person who has reached the Silver Level with her own will in countless life-and-death crises.

After all, having extraordinary characteristics and being good at using them are two different things.

Anna, who had regained her freedom, did not even deliberately target L'Arc.

She had already made Lark run around in a hurry just relying on the Shadow Crows she had released earlier.

After all, she lost the powerful vitality that the Holy Nail had drawn from Anna's body.

Lark's own physical strength is only slightly stronger than that of a mortal without extraordinary characteristics, and he is simply incomparable to extraordinary people of the same level.

As for the holy fire, Anna didn't take it seriously at all.

After all, Lark's holy fire cannot dispel the darkness released by Anna.

Normally, Anna should seize this rare opportunity and immediately stand up to give L'Arc the final blow.

But now she did not do so, but fell into a silent silence.

Anna, wearing only a black feather dress, ignored Lark who was busy dealing with Shadow Crow in the distance, and stared blankly at Rhine who was kneeling on the ground in front of her, his body turned into charcoal.

Those absent-minded eyes undoubtedly seemed to be lost in some inexplicable thoughts.

It was difficult for Anna to describe in words how she felt at the moment.

It was obvious that she was just using Rhine to hide her identity as a witch and had a fake marriage with him.

She had clearly made up her mind to leave the town and never come back here again in her life.

The person who died in front of him was clearly just an ordinary mortal.

But her heart...why does it hurt so much?

After a moment, Anna seemed to finally understand something.

She squatted down and slowly placed her hand on Rhine's charred and thin cheek.

Feeling the remaining warmth on her palm, Anna whispered in a gentle tone, as if coaxing a child to sleep, "A witch who is good at playing with people's hearts and fate, in the end, her closed heart was provoked by a mortal?"

"Rhine, you are indeed special. After all, I think there will be no one else in this world who would believe in and save an 'evil' witch like you."

"You fulfilled your promise as a knight and lent a hand to an innocent person, completing her redemption."

"In that case, I should also fulfill my promise as a witch..."

Anna stood up, and the gentleness on her face completely disappeared.

Then she looked at Larke who was struggling not far away with cold eyes, as if she was looking at a cold corpse.

"Larke, I said I would curse you and others like you who believed in me. Now is the time to fulfill my promise."

"After all, witches are good at playing with not only people's hearts and fate, but also... souls."

"Larke, I will slowly pull your filthy and twisted soul out of your old body, and then let you watch with your own eyes how I destroy the Holy Light Church that you call sacred and invincible, bit by bit."

"And before that day comes, I will not let you die easily, Lark."

"Because only this is the best judgment for you and your foolish believers..."

Anna's tone was very calm, as if she was stating something objective.

And facing Anna's declaration of death against him.

Although L'Arc was angry, what made him even angrier than Anna, the witch, was the charred corpse kneeling next to her.

After all, if it weren't for Rhine, he would have completed the "judgment" of Anna by now.

Thinking of this, Lark endured the pain of being devoured by thousands of shadow crows, raised his head and looked at the mural on the top of the church engraved with "The Holy Lord Saves the World", his eyes filled with sadness.

"Great and merciful Lord, please forgive the arrogance and negligence of the believer Lark."

"Larke underestimated the witch's power and her ability to manipulate people's hearts."

"She bewitched a devout church knight and made him destroy the judgment you asked me to bestow upon the witch."

"Lord, your foolish and humble believer Lark can no longer see the way forward. If you can hear Lark's sincere prayers and confessions, please bestow the gospel, grant Lark your great mercy, and guide him to continue on his way forward..."

Seeing that Lark was still praying "piously" to the Lord of Light when he was about to die.

Not only was Anna not at all touched, she even found it funny.

These foolish people who pin their future on an illusory god are truly hopeless.

This scene also made Anna firm in her opinion of those foolish believers.

These guys' beliefs are truly hypocritical.

After all, if they were really as pious as they appear.

The doctrine that says "the Lord loves all people equally" should be strictly followed by them.

But actually?
Are the ordinary residents in Xavier Town human?
Are witches human?

Faced with this problem, Larke gave the answer with his own actions and his personal interpretation of the doctrine.

That is, in the eyes of him and many foolish believers like him, the people in the world whom the Lord of Holy Light loves equally do not include ordinary people and witches.

What a sad and ridiculous interpretation.

People like Lark never believed in the 'Lord of Holy Light' from the beginning to the end.

But it is the self-righteous "Lord" who was misinterpreted by them.

As for what the real Lord of Holy Light is like, I think it is no longer important to Lark and others.

After all, this group of foolish believers who have fallen into fanatical worship have already misinterpreted the doctrine and are deeply trapped in the illusory beliefs they have woven, unable to extricate themselves...

And if we were to describe what a true 'believer of Holy Light' looks like in Anna's eyes.

Then there was only one figure that appeared in her mind.

A mortal who is willing to brave the raging fire and do everything he can to redeem her from the unjust trial.

And only such people fit Anna's impression of the original group of Holy Light believers.

He should be the real light in the eyes of the world.

As for the Holy Light Church today?
It is nothing more than a tool used by a group of foolish people to deceive the world.

Thinking of this, Anna felt an inexplicable sadness in her heart.

Obviously, there are still true practitioners of the Holy Light like Rhine in the church today.

But why are the people who control the Church of Holy Light now hypocritical and foolish like Lark?
If the person who judged her teacher was someone like Rhine, then perhaps...

Anna shook her head and immediately threw this unrealistic idea out of her mind.

Because there are no ifs in this world.

Anna immediately gathered her thoughts and prepared to give Lark the final blow.

End this unfair trial unilaterally initiated by Larke.

After all, she had already determined that Lark had no other trump cards except the 'Bible' and the 'Holy Nail'.

What Anna didn't notice was that due to the previous fight between the two, a not-so-big gap appeared on the ceiling of the church.

The moonlight from outside passed through the gap and finally shone onto the half body of Rhine holding the holy nail in the church.

Although the light was not dazzling, it seemed extremely bright in the dim church at this time.

However, this whole scene was seen by Larke who looked up.

Larke looked at the holy nail that Rhine held before his death in disbelief, and murmured to himself: "Merciful Lord, it turns out that you really heard the humble prayer of the believer Larke and gave me guidance for it."

"If this is your will, then your humble follower Lark... is willing to give it a try."

Hearing L'Arc's words, Anna instinctively sensed a hint of uneasiness.

But she was unable to identify the source of the uneasiness and stop it on the spot, so she missed the best time.

Then, in front of Anna's shocked eyes, Lark suddenly gave up resisting, retracted the holy fire around him, and allowed the shadow crows to devour his body mercilessly.

Just when Anna's attention was drawn to this strange scene, Rhine's body, which had been silent for a long time, began to move quietly.

Suddenly, rays of holy fire appeared from the cracks in Rhine's cracked skin.

At this moment, these holy fires were like special silk threads, and began to control Rhine's body in a strange way.

It was only at this point that Anna realized what was causing her anxiety and what L'Arc was up to.

She looked at Rhine, whose body was covered in holy fire and whose eyes were closed, and Lark, who was being eaten up by the shadow crows not far away.

Anna let out an unprecedented roar.

"Larke!!!"

Anna never imagined that the "guidance of the Lord" mentioned by Larke was to desecrate Rhine's corpse!
But before Anna could take any action, the revived 'Rhine' heavily inserted the holy nail into his body.

The next second, the Bloody Angel that had disappeared reappeared, opened its arms to Rhine, and embraced him.

But unlike the suppression of Anna, the Blood Angel did not restrict Rhine's actions at this time.

Instead, it turned into streams of light and finally merged completely with Rhine's body.

Soon, a scene appeared that shocked and angered Anna.

Rhine's lifeless body began to recover at a speed visible to the naked eye under the help of some extraordinary characteristics.

After the wounds on his body were completely healed, the resurrected 'Rhine' raised his right hand.

The next second, the Bible left on the ground by Lark turned into a stream of holy flame and gathered again in the hands of Rhine.

It was just different from the Bible that appeared in Larke's hand.

When this holy flame condensed in Rhine's hand, it materialized into a silver-white holy sword.

In fact, whether it is the Holy Sword or the Bible.

In essence, it is just a manifestation of Lark's 'Extraordinary Characteristic: Holy Light Emblem'.

The Holy Light Emblem is in Lark's hand, and the image it displays is the Bible.

In Rhine's hands, it takes the form of a holy sword.

As he obtained the holy sword, Rhine opened his eyes again.

But unlike the clear and bright eyes before, Rhine's eyes at this moment were very empty.

It was so empty that one could tell at a glance that this body that had started moving again was just a soulless shell, not the real Rhine.

Anna trembled all over when she saw Rhine like this.

That was her anger, anger from the bottom of her soul.

"Witch, this is the guidance of my Lord, and also His mercy to the rebel Rhine."

"Because when I noticed the holy nail in the hands of the rebel Rhine under the guidance of the Lord, I completely understood the Lord's will."

"The Holy Nail is not just a simple seal, it is also a rare soul-binding device in the world."

"Evil witch, you can devour my body, but you cannot desecrate my soul that is extremely pious to the Lord."

"I used the holy fire remaining in the body of the traitor Rhine as a guide, and asked him to use the holy nail as proof to sign a covenant with my soul."

"From now on, I will use the body of the rebel Rhine as a vessel to carry the soul of the Holy Light believer Lark, allowing him to continue to carry out my Lord's will in the mortal world."

"Be thankful and give praise to the great and merciful Lord of Holy Light."

"Because even when facing an unforgivable person like the Rhine Knight who committed a heinous crime, my Lord still has mercy on him."

"Not only did he forgive his sins, but he also guided me to help him pay for them and continue to spread the glory of my Lord."

"It's my honor, and also the honor of the rebel Rhine."

"Evil witch, I am both Rhine and Larke right now. We are... inseparable."

"Accept the judgment from my Lord."

As soon as he finished speaking, Rhine, whose body was covered with holy patterns, held the holy sword and launched a frantic attack on Anna.

Compared to Rhine when he was alive, Rhine at this moment is not only faster, but the holy sword in his hand also possesses amazing extraordinary properties.

However, he seemed to be unskilled with his body, so that many of his attacks seemed powerful but were actually not threatening at all.

But facing such a 'young' extraordinary person.

At this time, Anna was not only dodging, but she didn't even have the desire to fight back.

She was worried about whether her attack would hurt Rhine's body.

That’s right, although at this moment Rhine’s body is carrying L’Arc’s soul.

But his body still belongs to the real Rhine, the one who risked his life to save himself in the holy fire.

So Anna was thinking about how to grab the soul of Lark without hurting Rhine's body.

But the battles of extraordinary people are always dangerous.

As Lalke gradually became familiar with Rhine's body, his attacks began to become more aggressive.

In addition, after he discovered that Anna had never fought back from beginning to end, many of his attacks became more unscrupulous.

Close combat has never been Anna's strong point, especially in this restricted situation.

Ignoring the shadow crows around him, 'Rhine' broke through the shadow crow barrier around Anna with one sword and slashed towards her body.

Anna, who was already in a state of panic, was unable to make an effective counterattack at this time.

Because she has not yet found a way to attack Lark's soul without hurting Rhine's body.

But she hesitated, but L'Arc would not.

Looking at the oncoming holy sword, Anna, for some reason, finally chose to close her eyes tiredly.

However, the expected severe pain did not come, because the holy sword in Rhine's hand did not fall on her body in the end, but stopped at three fingers above her head.

Just as Anna was confused, a familiar, gentle voice came.

"Don't be afraid, Anna."

"The sword of a knight must never be stained with innocent blood..."

Anna opened her eyes in disbelief.

Rhine's left hand firmly grasped his right hand, stopping the holy sword that was about to fall on Anna.

During this process, Rhine's body was shaking constantly, as if he was engaged in some fierce confrontation.

That was the will of Rhine Simmons, which was in violent collision with Lark's soul.

And the results are obvious.

Rhine used his mortal will to defeat Lark, a silver-level extraordinary person.

Even if this victory cannot last long.

But this is enough for Rhine.

Looking at Anna who was in a daze, Rhine smiled warmly while fighting against L'Arc's will.

“Anna, please don’t let Rhine Simmons bear the soul of an innocent person, okay?”

"Because it was too much for him."

"So, do it. This is a sincere request from Rhine Simmons, and it is also your best salvation for him, my dear... Miss Witch."

Hearing this, Anna fell silent, completely silent.

But when she noticed Rhine's holy sword slowly falling and the determination in Rhine's eyes.

She knew she had to respond.

So she raised her head and for the first time gave Rhine a sincere smile from the bottom of her heart.

That smile was beautiful, because it was the first time that Anna's heart, which had been frozen for many years, opened up to an outsider.

But in this smile, there is an indescribable sadness.

Just like the last bloom of a flower before it withers.

"As you wish, my dear... Sir Knight."

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The next chapter is the final summary of this small copy and the construction of the protagonist's unique and extraordinary system.

The extraordinary road begins now!
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