Volume 3, Chapter 63 – True Name——Fischerna

It broke.

The dazzling wall.

The Wall of Sighs, known among Paladins as Absolute Defense… in the instant the pitch-black spear touched it… shattered.

“No… how… how is this possible…”

Fisiel was shaken to the core.

Since when had a Paladin’s Absolute Defense become so fragile.

Even though she did not want to accept this in her heart, the sight before her eyes very bluntly told Fisiel… the shattering of the Wall of Sighs was a fact…

At the moment the wall broke, Fisiel hurriedly tried to defend herself, but that pitch-black spear flying toward her was just too fast…

Schhk…!

Once again, the sound of a spear boring through flesh rang out.

“Ugh…”

This time, Fisiel had actually managed to dodge at the last second. Although she had avoided the vital point just in time, her body was still pierced through by the pitch-black spear…

The wound on her abdomen was still there, and on the knight girl’s left shoulder, the pitch-black spear had gone straight through…

“You dodged the killing blow… but now that you have been run through by me twice in a row, how much fighting strength do you still have left?”

The Headless Knight Fischerna seemed very surprised that Fisiel had managed to avoid her attack.

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However, it was only a surprise.

“Give up resisting, Paladin. In this state, there is no way you can keep fighting.”

Listening to the Headless Knight’s words while feeling the stabbing pain that came from her shoulder and abdomen… Fisiel’s gaze toward the Headless Knight remained wary.

“Just… who are you?”

Fisiel suddenly thought of this question.

That was, what exactly was this Headless Knight before her?

She could easily shatter her Wall of Sighs, and she had repeatedly said that she herself had once been a Paladin…

In that case, which one was this Headless Knight?

“You want to know my name, Paladin?”

In response to Fisiel’s question, the Headless Knight simply asked back in a very calm tone.

“Telling you is no big deal. Actually, the reason I want to kill you and turn you into an undead also has something to do with my name.”

“…”

Even after hearing that, Fisiel only looked utterly baffled.

“Fischerna, that is my true name.”

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Fischerna did not particularly care about exposing her identity in front of her own descendant.

So telling Fisiel her own name was as easy as eating or drinking for this Headless Knight.

But Fisiel was not Fischerna.

The instant she heard the Headless Knight reveal her true name, Fisiel knew the identity of the Headless Knight standing before her…

Fischerna… ever since the founding of the Paladins, a very famous Paladin… because she possessed superb combat skill and immense strength, this girl had been called another King of Knights by the Paladins of her time… at the same time, Fischerna was also Fisiel’s ancestor…

So Fisiel was anything but unfamiliar with this name… on the contrary, she was very, very familiar with it…

“You… impossible… how could that be…”

It was beyond imagining.

That the undead knight who had wounded her so badly right in front of her eyes would be her own ancestor… that powerful ancestor who had borne the title of another “King of Knights”…

“Do you not want to believe it? But I am Fischerna. I really was a Paladin once. Because I used to be a Paladin, there is no one who understands your Paladins’ way of fighting better than I do. So breaking your Wall of Sighs was no accident.”

Having once been the strongest Legendary Paladin in terms of combat power, it was not strange at all for this Headless Knight to say that she understood Paladins’ methods and techniques of battle best.

“How is that possible… you, you were clearly a Paladin, so why would you become an evil undead?”

Knowing the identity of the Headless Knight in front of her, a suffocating heaviness bloomed in Fisiel’s heart.

Fischerna’s identity was indeed recorded in her family’s history. She had been the strongest Legendary, the firmest defender of faith, the Paladin they could be proudest of…

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But… Why was it that, at this very moment, the existence standing before her, claiming to be Fischerna, was an undead knight?

“You are not her!”

In the end, that was Fisiel’s verdict.

“Not her? You can think whatever you want. I am Fischerna. In over a hundred thousand years, I have never once changed my name… but you, my descendant, now that you know my true name, why will you still not join my Graveyard?”

“Don’t be ridiculous… as a Paladin, I cannot throw myself into evil even if I die!”

In Fisiel’s eyes, the undead who dragged the dead back into this world were an existence that profaned the dead.

That power which raised the dead again was just that dark.

“Evil? In your eyes, undead are evil?”

“Are they not?”

“So in your eyes, the Graveyard… is actually an evil camp?”

“Is it not?”

To Fisiel’s rebuttal, the Headless Knight Fischerna gave her view without hesitation.

“That is exactly what I hate about it… Paladins, who look like they are firmly upholding their beautiful faith, but in truth still judge other existences only according to their own likes and dislikes…”

“An empty Paladin order, a kingdom steeped in darkness… from the day you Paladins were born, you have always been guarding such a camp, but after all these years, has the camp you protect really become better?”

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“It has not, has it? Over a hundred thousand years ago it was like this, and over a hundred thousand years later it is still like this… nobles will always oppress commoners, the weak will always be hurt by the strong, there will always be darkness that can never be dispelled by light…”

“You are always fighting among yourselves, always betraying each other, always chasing only the interests in front of your eyes… Paladins who have spent hundreds of thousands of years protecting such a kingdom… have you succeeded?”

“I…” Fisiel did not know what to say.

As the Headless Knight spoke those words, Fisiel could not help but think of how she herself had been abandoned by the kingdom, betrayed by the kingdom…

Her heart began to waver.

It was not because Fischerna’s words were so impressive, but because Fischerna had gone from Paladin to undead, and Fischerna’s words… finally made Fisiel, who had never wanted to face this truth, start facing it head on…

Yes, without a doubt, she herself right now had in fact been framed and betrayed because of some profit.

Lancelot’s death.

The Round Table Knights almost completely wiped out…

She had her own mistakes as well, but the most fundamental cause… was also the kingdom’s betrayal…

“…”

Her feelings were complicated.

Faced with the “truths” revealed between Fischerna’s words, Fisiel found that she had no strength at all to refute them.