Return of The Unrivaled Spear Knight

CH 142

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shua’s face.

If the Lich Heinz, presumably the sorcerer in question, was not here, Joshua needed to change his plan.
He’d originally wanted to save Ash’s family from Heinz, but, with the root of the issue gone, it would be alright to postpone that for a bit.

Ash’s work could wait until he got back to Arcadia from Reinhardt.
He’d have to visit Reinhardt just to get updated information.

Besides the Moon Gate, I can’t postpone the trip to Reinhardt.
There’s too many influential people gathering there.
I have no alternative except to wrap up the current situation as fast as possible…

[So it means that the caster is mad.
I already said it, but regardless of what anyone else believes, that means that the death knight is entirely under your command, driven only by your magic.]

That was one less thing to worry about, then.

[Do you feel good?]

“I made a vow.”

[A vow?]

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Lugia’s counter question made Joshua think seriously again.

1That symbol… The carving on the basement entrance was probably made by the fallen Holy Knight.
Given that he came from Hubalt, not Avalon, the images were rather simplistic: two bulging horns atop of an inverted triangle—the universal depiction of a dragon’s head—and above it, a star inside a circle.

At first glance, Joshua thought it was a magic circle.
That was how everyone on the continent would depict it.
But a magic circle over a dragon’s head? Magic and dragons were intrinsically bound together, but not in a way that was relevant to the situation.

Hubalt found magic even more distasteful than Avalon.
Those of the Holy Empire regarded it as heresy against the divine intent.
The rarity of magical swordsmen and the difficulty of controlling divine power and mana at the same time reinforced their beliefs.

So they don’t use magic circles.
That leaves one possibility.

There was one item common to the Hubalt Empire that resembled that design: Hubalt’s native coinage.

Money—or rather, gold.
Combine the two symbols and you get a golden dragon.

You would be a fool to consider dragons in an abstract context.
After all, golden dragons were surprisingly abundant in Igrant.

“The crest of the Avalon empire…!”

That sent him on another train of thought.

The triangle—the wizard’s hat.
The “1” numeral obviously meant “first.” Lastly, the cross on the head… It wasn’t misshapen—it was deliberately inverted.

The gold dragon signified the Imperial family of Avalon.
The wizard’s hat, marked with the number 1, signified the chief wizard.
An inverted cross signified heretics.

Putting it all together…

The chief wizard of Avalon is a black magician.

That meant that Duke Altsma was not turned into a death knight by the lich.

The robed man who appeared at the end of Duke Altsma’s memories—given that they were in the heart of the Swallow Empire, Evergrant should not have been anywhere near there.

I was too young to know about Heinz and Berbers’s activity in my past life, so I’ve been working off of historical documents.
But I was relying on them too much. Joshua’s eyes fell.

If the Imperial family had intentionally altered those documents to say that the lich never set foot on the continent after the Eastern Massacre…

God’s revelation, conveyed to the High Priest of Hubalt, was undeniable.
Heinz, contractor of Asmodeus, was in the continent.