Chapter 295.

The barriers surrounding the Holy Kingdom were expanding outwards day by day.

At first, the barriers only surrounded the Holy Kingdom, but soon, they had crossed the Holy Kingdoms borders and were about to invade the neighboring kingdoms. The Alliance had been laying siege on the Holy Kingdom, but they had to retreat if they didnt want to be swept up by the barriers.

Seeing how they had to stop from time to time and block the Waves even as they were retreating, it wasnt easy for the Alliance.

However, the Alliance showed a surprising degree of strength in the face of adverse war conditions.

The former members of the Western expedition, who had the experience necessary in dealing with the demons and demonic beasts, became the main force as they desperately tried their hardest to make sure the newly recruited soldiers werent devoured by the evilness of demons and beasts they were encountering for the first time. And when the soldiers had difficulty dealing with those monsters, the strong knights and mages stepped forward to deal with them.

And at the center of all this was Park Joon-Min, the Warrior who was praised as the Apostle of God.

As if his body had multiplied, the Warrior flashed from the East to the West, frantically running around the widely spread out defense line.

After all, only the master of the Holy Sword could heal the soldiers contaminated by demonic energy, and only the Warrior could deal with the mighty beasts of Chaos that even the superhumans couldnt handle.

However, even the Warrior couldnt be omnipotent and even the mighty holy power of the Holy Sword could not stop the barrier from pushing forward and expanding its territory day by day.

The priests and Templar Knights had been swallowed up by the veil alongside the Holy Kingdom in the beginning. In order to cover for their absence, the Warrior had been running around and covering the entire frontline by himself - something that was going beyond what his ability should be capable of doing. It was unreasonable to expect more from him.

Ughh. Was Hyung always right under this kind of pressure?

Park Joon-Min could feel himself choking under the soldiers gaze as they looked at him. It felt like he would suffocate at any moment under the soldiers expectations who wanted him to show abilities that went beyond his limit.

The more that happened, the more he overtaxed himself.

[While His grace is infinite, it is the human body that uses it. In your current state, your body may collapse very soon.]

It was to the point where the Holy Sword Balmung tried to dissuade his owner.

Without the priests, Im the only one who can stop the corruption from the demonic energy. If Im lazy, itll be the soldiers who suffer more.

But Park Joon-Min was reckless. It was as if the soldiers dying on the frontlines from the demonic energy was his responsibility.

[I do not agree with you overworking yourself.]

In the end, the Holy Sword had to call on its Holy power and force the Warrior to take a break.

Ah, no. Stop it. At a time like this, we need to save at least one more soldier.

When the Warrior showed such an all-consuming reaction, Balmung and the others around the Warrior finally realized that the Warrior couldnt overcome the pressure and was falling apart from the inside.

It made sense. He may be called the Warrior, or the Apostle of God, or whatever else, but at his core, he was nothing more than a young man in his late twenties. In the other world, he would have recently gotten a job and started training for it. It wasnt unreasonable that he wasnt able to bear such a heavy burden when in the other world, he would barely be a new employee who was just starting to get trained.

Hopefully the Indomitable Grand Duke returns quickly. Then, the burden on the Apostle would lessen a bit

The fact that the Warrior hadnt completely collapsed was all because his sworn brother had promised to return soon before leaving.

At that age, the Indomitable Grand Duke had already been in charge of the frontlines of his country. Although the Grand Duke hasnt truly led as a commander until recently, its true that the success or failure of a war was always on his shoulders.

When it didnt look like Park Joon-Min would be recovering anytime soon, some people even began to compare the Warrior to the Indomitable Grand Duke.

Of course, there was no comparison.

In recent years, the Warrior had indisputably achieved many great accomplishments during the war and played the biggest role in supporting the frontline, but when compared to an influential giant like the Indomitable Grand Duke, he would be severely inferior.

Aside from the major accomplishments at the borders of his own country, the Indomitable Grand Dukes success in the Central and Western regions, where he had zero relations, was incredible.

He had been the first to detect and inform the world of the Western regions collapse when no one knew about it, and he had even infiltrated the Demon Kings land alone and searched out the traces of survivors. Then, the Indomitable Grand Duke had successfully, and miraculously, evacuated thousands of Qeishas and refugees.

All of that had been done by himself without getting support from anyone.

On top of that, the Indomitable Grand Duke had uncovered every detail, and shared it with the world, that the Holy Kingdom was colluding with the Demon King and conspiring to detain the Warrior. In the end, it was the Indomitable Grand Duke who saved the West by eliminating the Demon King. So, it was rather difficult to list all of his dazzling achievements.

Even if it wasnt the Warrior, there was no one who dared to compare himself against the Indomitable Grand Duke.

Of course, behind that heroic path was a lot of pain and anguish