The Villains Need to Save the World? prologue 6

(H: Currently getting smashed in school and a few tests and assignments are coming up and it's kind of important as I am a junior in highschool.  After prelude 7 tomorrow it might be 3-4 days a chapter for a while, I'll make up for this sometime near the holidays somehow and then return to a set 2-3 chapters a week after.)

The Archbishop, Stanley Barry's original intentions were to use some stunning magic on Bella and blame her earlier rampage on being possessed by a demon; clearing her name. After all, she had killed almost a hundred soldiers along with a viscount and a holy knight. Normally such an action would be unforgivable and unable to cleared by anyone else; but Bella's identity as a holy knight would most likely make it easier.

Barry was forced to give up on this solution by the two abnormally frightening gazes that he felt watching his every motion. He was sure that if mad eany move on Bella, even it it was for her own good, the owners of the gazes definitely would not keep silent. But it seemed that they had not wanted to make an appearance as he could not detect them within his field of view.

"I deny your terms! Gramps archbishop, I'm a pirate; there is no turning back for me anymore!" Bella denied his terms for peace, even though his eyes told her that he had not been lying. Bella didn't think that the archbishop was able of clearing her of the sins; she might as well fight them to the end.

"Then how about you promise this old man something?"

"I'll see if I can, after you tell me what you want."

"If… No, when you beat this old man, I hope that you won't hurt the others and let them leave the ship themselves." Archbishop Stanley looked into Bella's eyes as he was talking, he seemed to be giving her a hint.

This old man wasn't simple. Bella could tell from his words that he intended to lose to her, the men on the boat would have a reason to leave, and she would be able to obtain a new ship.

"Alright, I promise you that. Now, I'm not going to hold back!"

Bella mimicked the pose that Bernard had adapted in their fight earlier and charged, she was mimicking his 'Knight Charge' but due to her lack of a lance, she could only bring her buckler in front of her to use as a battering ram while charging.

Archbishop Barry gestured with both of his hands and a wall of visable light appeared infront of him. Bella collided directly with the wall and her shield broke into smithereens accompanied by a loud sound.

"Bless the god of light! The Archbishop won…" their cheers were cut off by another loud sound. Bella had not stopped her charge after her buckler broke, she continued her charge and broke through the wall of light, shattering it.

Bella reached the archbishop with her charge, his face was frozen in shock and had not reacted. He only managed to shake the shock from himself when Bella had suddenly appeared right in front of him with her fist aiming at his chest.

"You're strong girl! We'll meet again, take this." Archbishop Stanley caught Bella's fist in one hand, he seemed to have a protective spell cast on his hand as he didn't seem to take any damage from Bella's punch. He used his other hand to swiftly shoved what felt like a piece of paper into Bella's free hand.

After this, the Archbishop's  body flew backwards several dozens of meters across the deck. As Bella's figure had blocked the views of the others; it looked like he had been sent flying by Bella's punch earlier, and as they had already seen a holy knight face the same treatment just several moments earlier, they did not suspect anything.

Bella looked at the archbishop that had flown off the ship, to others it may have looked like Bella had sent him flying, but Bella knew that he had started flying all by himself. Right before he hit the water, Bella saw him stop and looked towards her with a grin on his face, then turned around and flew towards another ship. Bella was at a loss for words… the archbishop knew flight magic…

After seeing that the archbishop had also been defeated, the surrounding soldiers quickly scattered to find planks and barrels that would keep them afloat, and jumped into the sea for their lives. The deck that had hundreds of men just moments ago was now vacant, save for Bella and quite a number of corpses.

"These guys… they didn't even take care of the bodies!"

"Sister your clothes are pretty much done for…"

Mia and Angel, who had disappeared for the fight appeared on deck, Bella didn't know where they had been hiding until they chose to expose themselves now.

Bella was depressed when she looked down at her clothes, her body might have been impenetrable by weaponry, but her clothes were not. Her underwear was clearly visible between the cuts in her clothes; fortunately, the underwear in this world were rather conservative, almost to the point of thermal underwear in her past life, so not much was actually seen.

She looked at the piece of paper in her hand, she didn't recognize any of the densely written characters, she was only able to pickout the image of the church's cross of light. The characters on the paper were probably some sort of special code within the church that didn't exist in Felia's memory, leading to Bella not being able to comprehend either.

"Do you guys recognize the words on this paper?"

"No, I've never seen this before; by the way, their warships are approaching again."

Before the three of them had a chance to further investigate the characters on the paper, the nearby warships came in support of the one that Bella had taken by storm.

"Damn, do these bastards not know the preciousness of life?!"

"Sister, don't go; you don't want to be seen as an exhibitionst right?"

Angel held onto Bella's and as she was about to prepare for battle once more.

"There's no problem, my underwear doesn't expose much…"

"No, I don't want you to go, I care."

"Me too! Why would you show anyone else!"

Both Angel and Mia grabbed one of Bella's arms, stopping her. Bella looked curiously at the two lolis, she didn't understand where their sudden strong emotions came from.

"Alright… Mia can you see if you can create something like this?"

Bella used a piece of wood she found on the deck to trace the shape of a cannon and described how it worked based on her memory; it would be amazing if Mia could replicate one.

After hearing Bella's description for a cannon, Mia was shocked; but shook her head after think about it.

"It's my first time hearing of a weapon like this, I can probably make it, but we don't have enough metal onboard."

"Then can you make this?" Bella traced the shape for a simple catapult.

"There is no problem if it's made of wood, but we only have enough material for a smaller one."

"It's fine as long as we can make it, Angel can you get some helpers for Mia?"

There were two warships surrounding Bella's, they were the ones who had saved the earlier soldiers and sailors that had bailed from Bella's ship. They weren't willing to fight a boarding battle after hearing that the intruder on board had killed alomost a hundred men, including a holy knight, single handedly. Not to mention the archbisop whose fate was still unknown to them. One of the captains, sir Brooke decided to sink her ship from a distance with fire arrows.

Right before they entered arrow range, sir Brooke noticed a bunch of sailors on the deck of the other ship manning wooden constructs; hadn't all the crew bailed? Why were there still people on board? Had the the information he received earlier been false?

What he didn't know was, the sailors were not living people; but were risen corpses that Angel had summoned using the bodies left on board. As he was hesitating whether or not to fire on the other ship, the opposing side made the first move, sir Brooke saw several flaming alcohol barrels fly his way.

A barrel of alcohol landed near sir Brooke and exploded before he had a chance to respond, sending him straight into the embrace of god.

(H: He ded…pretty ded)

After a few volleys, the two ships closest to Bella had disappeared in an eruption of fire caused by the explosions, terrible screams drifted from within; making it a bit hard for Bella's heart to bear.

Mia had only heard the basics on how gunpowder works from Bella, and immediately used the strong alcohol in the ship's storage along with some catalysts that she had procured herself to make an explosive fluid similar to nitroglycerin. Bella was thinking that she shouldn't teach this loli such dangerous stuff anymore and replace the lessons with something more normal instead.

Bella was scared that Mia might go down the wrong path when she observed her excitement; let's not let her make anymore dangerous weapons, Bella was scared that Mia might create a nuclear weapon if she continued.

With the advantage in weaponry, Bella cut through the warships like butter, destroying five ships in rapid succession and heading straight to the center of the envelopement. The other warships were wary of their weapons and did not pursue them, watching as Bella headed closer and closer to the heart of the fleet.

"What's going on?" A dragon descended from the skies, it was a western dragon that was about 8m from nose to tail. The dragon's body was covered in red scales and it's muscled pair of red wings flapped during its descent; it was probably a fire type dragon. On the back of the dragon stood a young knight of approximately twenty years of age, clad in golden armor.

"Mister Shawn! It has been a while, eh?"

"No need for honorifics between us, Mr. Stanley. If you don't mind me asking, how were you wounded?"

(H: Shawn refers to the archbishop as 'teacher')

Dragon knight Randall Shawn was surprised by the trail of blood trickling from the archbishop's mouth. How strong was the opponent to have wounded archbishop Stanley?

*cough* *cough* "Thanks for your concern, this wound isn't much; can you take this old man back to the reserves with your dragon?" The archbishop wasn't faking his injuries; although he was able to block Bella's strike completely but because he shoved her the piece of paper with an unprotected hand, he received some damage from the 'Knight Charge'.

"This… alright, climb on teacher!" Shawn hesitated looked at the flames leaping from the nearby ships, before deciding to first take the archbishop back to the reserves and then returning to check what was happening to the fleet. What he didn't notice was that the archbishop briefly showed a sly smile, as if he had accomplished some dastardly deed.

Currently on the deck of the surrounded black warship, the holy knight Richard was showcasing his power, with a deft swing of his shield he swatted a nearby demon soldier. Not far from him the other holy knight Isaac had also forced back the demon soldiers that had surrounded him. The current battlefield was in their advantage, luckily Archbishop Nicholas had sealed away the most powerful of the demons with the demon sealing cross; if she had been free to roam the battle, not even Mister Shawn the dragon knight could guarantee a win against her.

Under the mast, a fat priest was chanting some form of spell from the book in his hands. Not far in front of him was a girl kneeling on the deck; there was a swirling hexagram beneath her, seemingly used for sealing her powers. It seemed that she was quite powerful as if a normal demon came into contact with the demon sealing cross, they would probably have immediately turned into ashes, while the girl was only unable to move.

(H: this archbishop doesn't have a known first name like Stanley, Nicholas is his family name)

"Where is that old obstinate Stanley? Even if he doesn't want to come over, why is he not sending the holy knight Bernard? We would have been able to return with this female demon already if he had." Archbishop Nicholas grumbled while looking at the girl. Currently, the girl was also enduring her own rage, she would have shredded the fat priest if she hadn't fallen for some treacherous bastard's plot.

At this time, a nearby warship changed course towards them; from the flag that it flew, it seemed to be the ship of Archbishop Stanley.

"Reinforcements are coming!"" the human soldiers' morale skyrocketed while that of the demons plummeted. They were unable to run, it would be a massive disgrace if their princess was captured by the human church; their only choice was to find to the end.

"Bernard! Come help me!" Richard yelled. He saw an armored figure come over from other ship, but it wasn't the holy night Bernard; it was a female knight clad in full plate. The only thing that he could discern of the woman inside were her blue eyes and locks of golden hair that did not completely fit inside her helmet. The style of the armor was definitely that of a holy knight's but Richard recalled that the expeditionary navy had not left port with any female holy knights.

Richard was about to ask the female holy knight's identity when he saw that she had reached out a gauntleted hand, seemingly for a handshake.

This little knight was shy enough to ask for a handshake in this situation? His knightly demeanor prompted him to stretch his hand out to receive the greeting. However, as soon as he clasped her hand, Bella fiercely threw Richard off the ship in one swift motion.

The other people on deck were shocked by the strength of the female knight, it was preposterous even for another holy knight to throw another holy knight as simply as a sack of potatoes.

"What are you doing!?" The other holy knight, Isaac demanded.

"Have you never seen a robbery before? Uncle!"

Bella removed her helmet and looked at the holy knight Isaac innocently. She wasn't scared of the face filled with rage that looked back at her, her currently wore the holy knight Bernard's spare suit of armor that had been modified to fit her by Mia. Her previous equipment was of low quality and she was quite eager to field test her new equipment.

(H: Sorry for the late upload, was finishing up an English assignment earlier.)

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