Religion (3)
damn bastards.
I’ve fought these guys at least hundreds of times in my countless lives, but I really don’t have anything else to summarize.
Dark Truth Church.
It was a pseudo-group that worshiped the Dark Lord like a god and did bizarre things in order to resurrect him.
Things that went against humanity, such as kidnapping people, offering them as sacrifices, conducting bizarre experiments, taming monsters, and using the results as soldiers.
That’s why it was at odds with the Lunara Holy Church, which worships Lunara, the god of light. Of course, I wasn’t on good terms with other religions either.
Of course, it didn’t get along well with me either.
“Blood for the Dark Lord!”
“Offer him as a sacrifice!”
“Unleash more monsters!”
The zealots, their eyes red, screamed and charged.
I didn’t want to get involved with these guys, but they were infested like cockroaches, so I had no choice but to become hostile in this way.
At times like this, it would have been convenient to have the people of the Church of Lu Nera, but unfortunately, it was very annoying to be friendly with the people there every time.
In addition, there was no original plan for an all-out war like this with the Dark Truth Church.
I haven’t been able to figure out everything about that church yet, so there have been cases like this, but that doesn’t mean you can’t kill me to this extent.
“Kreak… … !”
“Uh, Dark Lord!”
“Hey, you unbeliever… … .”
I just kept moving my hands and cutting down the zealots as I stumbled on them, looking for an escape route.
They could have fought for three days and three nights, but in the meantime, those guys would continue to replenish their troops, and there would be people who were difficult to deal with, so it was best to do it in moderation and run away.
I didn’t expect to run into a place like this, so I didn’t have a few bottles of holy water I brought with me. Somehow, there are churches everywhere, so I have no choice but to call them cockroaches.
As soon as I put my hand into my bosom and grabbed a bottle of holy water, their momentum suddenly changed.
“Oh oh! Dark Lord!”
“The five fingers of the Dark Lord have come!”
“Fingers! The mace of darkness to that unbeliever!”
Damn this.
It must have been nearby.
Seeing the five of them slowly walking this way through the crowd of fanatics, naturally gave me a headache.
It was because those five were the most difficult to deal with the Dark Truth Church.
It doesn’t matter if it’s one or two people, but five people came at once… … I didn’t even know if I was really ready to die.
Despite being far away, the peculiar eyes of five fingers of different colors stared directly at me.
“Tsk.”
I lightly clicked my tongue and pulled out a bottle of holy water, raising my sword and aiming at them.
“I’m going to run away from now on, so who wants to be a tagger?”
As if waiting for that question, the five of them kicked off the ground and rushed at me like an arrow.
* * *
When I opened my closed eyes, the surroundings were completely dark.
Just in case, I slowly looked around, but fortunately there was no trace of tracking or surveillance.
The bed was uncomfortable, so I relaxed a little and looked up at the sky.
It was the previous year, so there was almost no moonlight, and there were gloomy clouds, so the surroundings were completely dark, perfect weather for infiltrating.
I got up and climbed the mountain without delay. Although it was dark, I was able to reach the destination without difficulty because I had seen the road in advance.
What was visible below was the place called the valley of death the driver had spoken of. As if that was not a false statement, the valley was quite deep and wide.
And inside… … The light was flickering.
That place was the hideout of the Dark Truth Church, and it was the reason for the disappearance of herbalists around here.
“Sick bastards.”
As soon as I saw their traces, disgust immediately came out of my mouth.
My head was pounding at the thought of dealing with the pseudo-church guys again, but this time I was thinking of cutting off their limbs beforehand.
To that end, the raid on this base was quite important. If everything went according to plan, this alone could cut off at least 30% of their power.
After tying the rope he had brought, he wrapped it around his waist and draped it down the cliff.
After roughly measuring the distance from the floor, I threw myself toward the cliff, pulled the rope, and stepped on the cliff with my feet.
When infiltrating in the dark, it was important to move slowly and not rush down.
After holding her body close to the cliff, she slowly descended with minimal movement. As we descended, we began to hear a little voice from below.
But it was more like a mumble, not a conversation.
I didn’t bother to look back, but I knew what was happening down there was as predicted.
“Please watch over us.”
“To those who serve the light.”
“Raise the darkness to the world.”
Each and every one of them is sick of it.
Dozens of people muttered louder and louder, and I moved my body more cautiously downward.
Paying attention to the fall, I landed on the ground stealthily and immediately lowered myself to hide in the darkness.
I was able to perfectly assimilate with the darkness because I already wrapped the clothes in dark colors.
I turned my head slightly to see where the light was shining, and saw many figures standing in a circle and slowly turning in one direction.
In the center, the light from a stone brazier, like a large glass of luxurious wine, was illuminating the surroundings. under it… … Even the skeletons of countless people.
… … .
Really, these guys don’t change every time I see them, so I’m rather relieved.
It was a type that should not be left alone as a human being, so you can use your hands without any hesitation.
“Deeper darkness for the lowly servant.”
“Please take away the light.”
“Wait for the day of resurrection.”
Their fanatical prayers became more and more heated, and even the soldiers guarding the surroundings began to pray together, looking at the fire as if possessed.
Fools.
I’m not concentrating on my mission, so I’m allowing intrusion like this.
Night vision wasn’t that bright for worshiping the dark lord, so the time they were praying was the best time to invade.
Hiding in the surrounding shadows, I slowly made my way towards the base.
Stealth was a knack rather than a skill. For example, putting the body out of the opponent’s field of vision, or tricking the opponent’s senses.
That’s why even if you didn’t have to train separately, you could fool most of the guys with just experience.
Is it because I learned from such a good teacher?
Infiltrating a stronghold of this size was as easy as drinking water.
The inside was enveloped in silence, as if all the patrolling men had gone out to pray.
I slowly made my way inside, following the torches that lit up the aisle, muffled by the sound of my footsteps. Because the internal map was in my head, I was able to get to my destination quickly without stopping.
Click.
It was difficult to reduce the sound without special tools when opening the door, but it was after checking in advance that there were no people around.
When I went inside, I felt the cool air with the smell of oil.
The kitchen was quite spacious, as if indicating that quite a few people were staying there, and the size of the drinking water container was also considerable.
Without having to look anywhere else, I went to the drinking water container and immediately opened the lid to look inside.
I thought what if it was empty, but it was filled to some extent, and I immediately opened the bag and took out the bottle I brought.
It was the bottles containing the diluted holy water.
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After emptying a little of the water inside, he immediately opened the lid and poured holy water into the bucket without hesitation. I thought for a while about how much to pour, but I just brushed off what I had and filled the inside.
Even if I leave a little bit, there is no other place to use it.
After the fun work that made me hum involuntarily, I swept the empty bottles back into my bag and cleaned up as little as possible.
Then, he left the kitchen and moved stealthily down the hallway and into a room where he hid himself.
Now was the time to wait.
* * *
Is it about time?
Thinking it must be around lunchtime, I opened the closet I was hiding in and slowly came out.
This room, used by high priests, was full of all sorts of magical things, and the church’s patterns were also visible here and there.
Shall I burn it?
I thought about that for a moment, but soon I thought it was annoying, so I just wrapped myself in a black robe and went outside.
The inside of the base was locked in silence, just like when they arrived at dawn.
It was a clumsy disguise, but it didn’t matter if anyone heard it, so I walked down the hallway with a leisurely step.
And when I opened the door to the place where I arrived, I heard a lot of music.
“Ugh, uh.”
“Oops, I’m going to die.”
“Dark Lord… … .”
The people lying on the various beds were each dying in agony.
To the point where I didn’t even notice that I entered the room.
When I heard the door slam shut, one of them managed to turn around and look at me.
“Who, how big?!”
Before he could speak properly, he immediately approached and cut his throat, causing the others to rise.
“Chi, intruder!”
“Kill, kill!”
It was imaginary that he was going to respond in an absurd way, but it was already too late. While they were screaming, I already decapitated one and held down the other.
After tidying up one room in an instant, as I was tidying up all of the nearby rooms, a loud alarm started ringing.
It took longer than expected, but it didn’t matter.
After cleaning up and leaving the room, someone dressed in armor appeared and blocked the way.
“Who are you?”
“Do I need to tell you? Why don’t you worry about your body?”
“As expected, that was what you did. Did you think poison could do anything to our church?”
“It’s poison, it’s disappointing.”
I laughed and ran straight ahead without any preliminary movement and swung my sword, and he hurriedly raised his sword to block it.
However, the power was not added, and it was pushed inward by a span.
“Is it difficult to write dark magic? Is your stomach rumbling too? Don’t you want to go to the bathroom?”
“Shut up, hit it!”
The sword shimmered with black energy, but as soon as I pounded the stomach with my remaining left fist, it immediately became contemplative and retreated.
To those who possessed the darkness lord’s dark magic, Lu Nera’s divine power was nothing short of poison.
No, originally, it would be worse than the poison, and they could have been blocked by raising dark magic. However, no one would have thought that the meal contained an extremely small amount of divine power.
It wasn’t life-threatening, but things like stomachaches and headaches bothered him, and it made it difficult to draw the power of the Dark Lord.
And with that, I could easily sleep with them without much effort.
“Keuk, kkeukreuk… … !”
He must have been quite strong within the church, but in the end, even this guy couldn’t withstand my attacks.
Footsteps could be heard from all directions, as if searching, and I continued to walk at a leisurely pace and walked around the base as if I were at home.
“Heretic bastard! die!”
“Dark Lord! power!”
“Blood, give blood!”
Like a fanatic, he slashed out one by one those who were making noise and rushing at them, closing the escape passages with both sides. With this, the only place they could go out was the entrance, but as always, it was clear that they would fight to the death.
Gradually, the frequency of the fanatics he met decreased, and now it was difficult to find even a shadow.
Since they hadn’t been annihilated yet, they were probably waiting for me by concentrating their forces near the entrance.
That, too, was to be expected, so I moved further inward instead.
It seemed that it had been dug into the valley for a long time, but the passage continued inward and downward.
Finally, at the end of the passage, after breaking through the tightly locked door, a gruesome scene came into view.
Blood was splattered everywhere in the large oval room, there were things that were once human parts, and there was a rotten smell that stung the nose as if the ventilation was not good.
And inside the iron bars placed in one corner of the room.
There, five children who had lost their vitality were imprisoned.
As I stepped into it, unusual eyes of different colors stared at me.