The Adventures of an Overpowered Knight in Another World-Chapter 462- Ten Seconds Massacre

Chapter 462: Chapter 462- Ten Seconds Massacre
"You remember, don’t you?" The demon crooned. "The thing that almost killed the Divine Paladin four years ago. The reason he barely crawled away with his life in the Battle of the Black Tide."
How can he not remember? It was his plot after all, and his greatest mess up.
The demon continued, enjoying Earl Malmond’s reaction. "At that time, you hid the curse within the hostage, the person he had to rescue... you went to such desperate lengths to conceal it. It was a brilliant move, even if it failed."
Earl Malmond looked at the new figure and swallowed hard. This woman... she was carrying that curse? It was natural that he was fearful after all; the curse was capable of eating through even a hero’s soul.
Never mind a weak level 2 human like him. Finally, the anxiety in him completely disappeared.
Abyssal Compass, more than nine thousand demonified knights, demonified Sir Gerard, and even the curse of the Demon Lord. They had prepared everything. The Divine Paladin will die here today. There was no doubt.
"Kukuku... ’My Lord’ has provided everythi..." The demon’s words suddenly trailed off, and his eyes shifted urgently.
"...Interesting. So that was your plan, huh? Using her as the final key." A voice echoed out, not from the demon, not from Malmond, but from inside the ice.
Then, like an onset that heralded their doom, the ice; no, the entire white world, started shaking.
The demon froze and Malmond nearly jumped out of his boots... because the voice was Reinhardt’s.
The Divine Paladin. That was how much they feared this man.
Crick... crick... CRACK...
A sharp, cracking sound pierced the frozen silence. Tiny fractures appeared on the millennium old ice before spreading everywhere. Soon, fragments began falling off.
A golden light, bright and piercing to the eye, burst outwards as cracks spread in all directions. The ice vibrated violently, groaning under the pressure of something vast, something divine, awakening inside.
Then...
BOOOM!!
The millennium old ice shattered. Light brighter than the white snow poured out, flooding the entire frozen land with divinity.
STEP... STEP...
Finally, the Divine Paladin was out. As he stood there half naked in the billowing cold, the world seemed to slow down for a moment. Even after a dozen years of icy penance, his aura was yet to diminish the slightest.
Seeing Reinhardt break free, the demon’s grin vanished instantly while Earl Malmond staggered away, trembling. His fear of the knight was immense.
"So you broke out of the seal after all. No wonder my lord is so cautious of you. Level 10 knights like you are really a thorn in our side. If not for the existence of people such as you, humanity would have long fallen to us."
"Humanity would be fine. In the long years of history, you could not conquer us, nor can you do so in the future. You can press us into the dirt, burn our homes, push us to the cliff, drown us in corpses, but you cannot kill our embers"...
"There would always be new souls rising to lift the world back. There will always be someone who refuses to let the future die. Hope is not soft; it is tenacious. It crawls, claws, and charges until a new dawn is dug free. If you count our corpses, then you must count our courage too, for we are scars and stories and stubborn hope."
Reinhardt’s words struck like a bell, raw and defiant. It gave others hope and the resolve to fight against any odds.
Even someone like Earl Malmond, who has long given up on humanity’s future, saw some hope through his words. Of course, it was for a brief moment before he came to his senses again.
Reinhardt slowly stretched his body, breaking off any ice shards that still clung to him. His figure was suave and defiant.
"Looks like faking to get caught by the Seal of Eternal Ice was worth it. I managed to capture the head and the rat all at once. It’s a pity that lord of yours did not show up."
He glanced at Earl Malmond, who shook intensely under his gaze, and then at the high ranking demon who had been lurking in their kingdom for a long, long time. Because of its race, it was an expert at erasing its tracks and mixing with human society without raising suspicions.
If not for today’s event, catching this demon would have been extremely difficult.
"Heh, you speak like you deliberately allowed yourself to get encased in ice. Don’t kid yourself, human, the Seal of Eternal Ice is one of the special powers of this labyrinth and the Abyssal Compass. Even a level 10 knight like you was frozen for a thousand years," the demon laughed, forcing itself to believe that the Divine Paladin was lying.
Reinhardt simply smiled, not bothering about correcting it. In any case, his plan had worked, a little too well actually. By redirecting most of the Abyssal Compass’s powers towards himself, he made it so that it didn’t have much power to go after his subordinates and other knight orders.
The Seal of Eternal Winter, just like the demon said, was extremely powerful. If it were the previous Reinhardt, he would be struggling to even break out of it. Needless to say, to activate such a powerful seal, the power needed was also very high.
Given that the Abyssal Compass was recently awakened, he didn’t believe it had achieved its full strength yet.
"Kuh, that arrogant and carefree attitude of yours is really insufferable. Do you think you have won just because you broke out of the seal? Look around you, I have an army."
At those words of the high ranking demon, the demonified knights stirred into action.
PHEW...
Reinhardt exhaled, his hot breath releasing steam in this cold winter land. Across from him, the army of demonified knights writhed and growled, thousands of corrupted warriors whose souls had long been eaten away.
Their armor was rusted black, their eyes glowed with demonic energy, and as for their strength... their strength, although weakened now, was the same that once protected nations.