Chapter 163 – Episode 96 – The Hero Who Received the Holy Sword

*All characters appearing are adults.
*This is a fictional story that is nothing but fiction. Never follow

“Is this a holy sword?”

Both hands holding the sword trembled.
Could the holy sword come back to him?
He thought he would never be able to touch him again.
Lillia wondered if her sister intended to surprise herself with a weapon similar to her holy sword.

‘It’s not fake.’

The shape of the handle and the length of the sword.
An aura of light flowed from his entire body as if he was soaked in sunlight.
Lilia couldn’t take her eyes off of her divine power emanating from that aura.

This is the holy sword she used.
She wouldn’t unleash her holy power to such an extent that her body would tremble if it wasn’t for the holy sword.
Lilia looked at her sister in disbelief.

“This, this… Seo, didn’t the holy sword become her sister’s weapon? Why me…”

Lilia couldn’t understand her at all.

‘Surely her older sister took the holy sword.’

The day Lilia was brutally defeated by Eris.
Lilia’s own weapon, her holy sword, was taken away by Eris.

The holy sword cannot be held unless one is of the lineage of a hero.
If her mother, Emilia, or someone who isn’t her own grabs her, she burns away.
Lillia assumed that if Eris held the holy sword, she would naturally disappear as ashes.

But that was a huge delusion.
Eris is her older sister born from the same mother’s womb.
She is the one who inherited the bloodline of the warrior.
He is a demon king, but at the same time, he is a body that can become a hero.

That’s why, even if Eris held her holy sword, she was safe.
Lilia was shocked to learn that the demon king had the holy sword.

What happened to the holy sword after that, Lilia did not know.
It was only a vague guess that her older sister, Eris, was using it as her own weapon.
There was a time when she made a firm resolution that Lilia, who had been foolishly and futilely resisting, must get her holy sword back.
But her promise had long since been abandoned.

Because she’s not a warrior herself.
Because she doesn’t have the right to hold the Holy Sword unless she’s a hero.
She’d rather have her older sister who can use the holy sword properly.
She says she’s fine with just a plain knife.
In that way, Lillia turned away from her holy sword.

She had been ignoring her like that, but she returned her holy sword to herself.
With her expression that she saw something she couldn’t see, Eris laughed as if she was having fun at Lilia who was staring at her.

“What’s wrong, Lilia? Could it be that you thought I wouldn’t give you the holy sword?”
“… I thought the holy sword was my sister’s now. I thought so…”
“I’ve had that thought too. So I tried it once.”

Eris, who had stolen her holy sword from Lillia, thought of testing her, so she used the holy sword before.

‘Oh, is this even possible? It’s all-powerful.’

The holy sword can change its form according to the will of her master.
Whatever it was.
Eris, who lacked information about the holy sword, did not know its ability at all, and was almost in danger.
If she had been a bit stronger than Lilia, she might have become a different person if she had been defeated in that forest.

Could she possibly be herself?
Eris was curious about whether she, having inherited the lineage of a hero, could use the holy sword herself.
She believed she could change the shape of her holy sword herself, as Lilia had shown.

The result was a great success.

When he imagined the magic sword he used to use, the holy sword became a huge great sword.
When he imagined the armor he was wearing, he became an armor that exudes holy energy.
When he imagined that he wanted to wear a shield, he had a shield in his hand, not a sword.
He turned into a spear if he wanted to use a spear, and into a whip if he wanted to use a whip.
When he thought he needed a bow, the holy sword turned into a bow.
The holy sword turned into a cannon when it was deemed necessary.

It was not limited to simply transforming weapons.

‘Oh, can this be possible? Minerva, you gave me something really nice.’

When he imagined he wanted to sit down and rest, he turned into a chair.
He wanted a cup, so he turned into a cup.
He thought he wanted to rest under the shade, so he turned into a parasol.
Whatever he imagined, the holy sword changed into the form he imagined.

‘Ah, this doesn’t seem right.’

However, the Holy Sword is not omnipotent.
There are things that cannot be changed.
Here’s what Eris found out.

-Things that the holy sword cannot change: large buildings such as castles, tanks, aerial battleships, catapults, chumps, super-large monsters, etc…

It cannot change into an existence that is too bulky.
That was the weak point of the holy sword that Eris had found out.
Of course, it’s not fatal enough to devour its advantages.

Eris decided to return this highly effective weapon to its original owner.

“Definitely useful. But I will not be used.”
“Why?”
“It’s the younger sister’s weapon, but as an older sister, do I need to use it? I have a magic sword, do I really need to use a holy sword? Lillia, you’re not going to point a knife at me anyway, but is there any reason not to give it back? That’s how I felt.”
“…”
“So I decided to give it back. It is polite to return a weapon that has an owner to its original owner.”
“I am not qualified to hold this holy sword…”

Lilia said she felt sorry for herself.

“I can’t even handle this sword properly, it’s very weak…”
“You are saying all the sad things, little brother. You are not weak.”
“But I lost to my sister.”
“I had no choice but to lose. Because I was stronger.”
“…”
“But losing once is no reason for her to throw away the holy sword.”

Lillia learned the bitterness of her defeat.
Even if she trains to die, she finds out that she can’t even reach the tips of the devil’s toes.
She realized that she couldn’t be everyone’s hope.
She couldn’t be anything, she thought to herself that she didn’t deserve to be the owner of the holy sword.
She thought it better to hand her over to someone stronger than herself.

Eris directly refuted Lilia’s thoughts.

“You can be strong enough. I will make it for you.”
“Sister…”
“Because I have the means to make that happen.”

Means to become stronger.
Lillia knew what it was even without Eris telling her.

‘You mean eggs?’

A giant egg she used to remodel Lilia.
Lillia heard that the egg was made by improving the pillar she originally used.
If she wants to make Lilia stronger, Eris will use her eggs without hesitation.

‘The first time it happened was the worst.’

She gets stuck in an egg
It is buried in a pile of tentacles nestled within it.
Tentacles impart power and knowledge.
And in exchange for the delivery, it becomes a plaything for the tentacles.
Even if tentacles massaged her breasts, even if they violated her crotch, even if she sucked her breast milk, even if she ate up her own excrement, whether it was baby juice or urine, she had to remain still.
Become a tentacle’s toy.

That’s really painful
Being humiliated by an overwhelming force without being able to resist is something I don’t want to think of again.

‘If my sister wishes…’

But if she’s what her sister wants.
If she wants herself to get stronger sooner rather than later.
Wouldn’t it be right to regard suffering as a temporary ordeal?

“If this is what you want… I’ll do it. I’ll do it! She will become the master of the holy sword!”

Even if this was manipulated, Lilia didn’t care.

“I will become a sword for my sister!”

‘Cause I can’t go back to the past

“Yes, yes. That’s how you’re my brother.”

When Lilia agreed to accept her Holy Sword, Eris put on a satisfied expression.

“I hope you do well in the fight against the goddesses.”
“Goddess… Am I fighting them too?”
“We will use all available power. Of course, that power includes you.”
“Goddess, fighting goddesses…”

Lillia could know through her past experiences.

She will not forgive the goddesses for capturing their sister, Minerva.
For raping Minerva, she will wipe out all life on this land, including her demons.
To them, everyone alive on earth is a sinner.
Because I’m just a sinner who couldn’t protect Minerva.
So, fighting with the goddesses is unavoidable.

Eris intends to involve Lilia in the upcoming fight as well.
This is also why Eris decided to return her holy sword to Lilia.
It’s because you have to increase your strength to have a slight advantage in the fight against the goddesses.

“I will work hard. I’ll do anything you want, sister.”

If Eris likes it, what’s wrong with her going against the goddess?
Nothing but Eris came to mind in Lillia’s head.

“It’s really heartwarming.”
“Iknow, right. Before, she hated her sister so much…”

Diana and Selena looked at the two sisters with happy expressions.

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Alright, now you’ve got the holy sword.
Then, how should I use this holy sword?
Is it better to use it the way it used to be, or is it better to use it in a different way?
Lilia was troubled.

‘The old way isn’t enough.’

The way to use the holy sword is simple.
It fights by changing its form in various ways.
A really useful method.
It’s because you don’t have to deal with enemies with just a sword.

However, one decisive shot was lacking.
We need the power to finish off the enemy.
Without that power, Lilia was defeated by Eris.

If so, wouldn’t it be better to strengthen the holy sword?
Not only her own body, but her holy sword must be equally strong, thought Lilia.
That way, you can have a little bit of an advantage in the fight against the goddesses.

‘Wait…’

Suddenly, Lilia had this idea.

‘Can’t you make it like me?’

Lillia has both her soul and her body corrupted.
And as she fell, the power she gained was so ecstatic.
When she was a human, she looked so pitiful that her truly ignorant power boiled over in her body.

What if we incorporated it into the holy sword?
If her holy sword can be corrupt like herself, if she can become a demonic sword like her sister’s weapon, won’t she become stronger?
Lillia turned her head towards Selena.

“Hey, Selena. I have a request for you.”
“Huh? What would you like to ask for?”
“Can you teach me how to corrupt the soul?”

Selena was taken aback by those words.

“I can teach you, but where will I use it?”
“I want to use it on the holy sword. I want to turn the holy sword into a demonic sword.”
“The Holy Sword? Ah…”

Selena understood right away.
She also knew roughly how the Holy Sword was born.

The Holy Sword is a weapon created with the power of the goddess Minerva.
She possesses tremendous divine power.
When she first saw this weapon she said Selena was greatly impressed.

The holy power accumulated in the holy sword is like an endlessly dug well.
I don’t know where the limit is.
The resistance to contamination is strong as much as the accumulated sacred power.
If you simply inject evil magic into it, it will purify itself.

So we need to get to the core.
Just as a succubus corrupts the soul, the source of human beings, to increase the number of compatriots, if you corrupt the core, the source of a holy sword, you will be able to turn it into a demonic sword.
For this reason, Lilia asked Selena to teach her how to corrupt her soul.

“The hero corrupts the holy sword… The Goddess must be greatly astonished.”

Diana, who was watching from her side, put on a look of interest.

“She wonders what it would feel like to be stabbed in the back by the champion she trusted,” She said.

If you are not of the warrior lineage, you are not qualified to hold the holy sword.
It was a measure taken by the goddess Minerva to prevent the holy sword from being misused.
It was because she believed that if she was a descendant of a hero with a righteous heart like Emilia, she would not use the holy sword for bad intentions.

But maybe this is good.
Did Minerva ever imagine that the actions she took for the safety of her holy sword would endanger her holy sword?
The goddess’s easygoing faith brought about this situation.

She’ll definitely be able to scream at me to stop.
Diana already had a picture of the goddess in her loud pleas.

“Is that a good idea?”

Eris didn’t object to her brother’s idea either.

“But, instead of doing it here, how about doing it in front of the goddess?”
“In front of the goddess?”
“Yes, I’m sure the woman would be very disappointed to see her own weapon corrupted.”
“Before the goddess…”

She shows the holy sword corrupting into her demonic sword in front of the goddess.
Even the world’s Minerva, who tenaciously endured her constant torture, would not be able to bear it.

“Is that a really good idea?”

Lillia smiled spontaneously.
It is the appearance of a goddess in despair.
She was thrilled just to imagine it.

“Then, I’ll go to the workshop after the banquet. I will make it into a demonic sword in front of everyone.”
“Okay, I’m going to take a look too, so you should do well.”
“Yes, sister.”

If the heart of her human days had remained, Lilia would never have put those words out of her mouth.
She would have resisted saying she couldn’t do it even if she was forced to.

But she is not the current Lilia.
For her sister, Lilia would give up anything.
Even if it means betraying those who believed in her.

-Go oh oh oh

Did she realize what fate she was doomed to?
Like a frightened beast, the holy sword thrashed loudly.
But she didn’t care about Lilia at all.

“You look happy too. I want you to go to the workshop soon.”

The holy sword decided to accept the change, it was just a misunderstanding that way.

And,
“Woah, what is it? Why is your body shaking so much?”

Confined in a workshop far away, the goddess Minerva trembled with an unknown chill.