Five demons (2)
Entrusting himself to the Dark Truth Church, he devoted half his life.
And then, a lot of things happened.
I saw monsters who tried to kill people obey the church, I saw the bodies of knights who accepted the darkness strangely twisted and became stronger, I saw priests’ magic devour heretics, and I saw people sacrificed to the dark lord to become his own. It also strengthened dark magic.
So I was confident that I wouldn’t be surprised even if I saw quite a few things.
But what the heck is going on right now?
He couldn’t understand at all.
“Keah!”
“A monster, a monster!”
“help me! Aww!”
I have seen countless screams and bloody battlefields many times.
Most of the Dark Truth Church was on the side of murder and violence, but today it was the exact opposite.
Unidentified assailants began slaughtering the cultists without saying a word.
No, I didn’t even know that at first.
At some point, people’s signs disappeared little by little, and eventually they faced an all-out war.
The Dark Priest as well as the Dark Knights tried to repel the intruders with all their might, but it was not enough.
An arrow from an invisible place pierced his head.
Swords flew through the air and stabbed people themselves.
The poisonous mist that flowed from the air took its breath away.
The blood that flowed from the small wound formed a puddle.
Blades rising from the shadows slashed his ankles and wrists.
He had no idea who he was fighting with. No, is it true that people are right?
It was as if the energy of death was sweeping the battlefield in its own form. The slaughter that took place right in front of my eyes was a sight that was hard to accept.
Although he was dumbfounded, he tried to rebel somehow by going back to back with his colleagues.
However, the five assailants were slowly reducing the number of inmates from the outskirts, like peeling apples.
I never thought I would be so helpless even with the Dark Lord lending me my strength.
No, it’s just that they use too strong and strange abilities.
Finally, even those standing on his back collapsed one by one, and he was left alone. He raised his sword tremblingly.
Most of the torches were extinguished and it was dark, but only five pairs of eyes gave off a cold light.
Facing colorfully shining eyes, he came up with a certain word and put it in his mouth.
“Ah, demons… … !”
At that, the demons stopped moving for a moment.
He just stared at the demons with trembling eyes, not even thinking about running away.
“devil?”
“Are we devils?”
“What is the devil?”
“A monster that will catch you if you don’t listen.”
“Isn’t that pretty cool?”
The voices of those who used their hands so cruelly were too resonant.
He put on a puzzled expression, forgetting about the current situation, but soon he could not stand the cough that rose from the inside and spit it out.
“Cheuk! Coke!”
It was clear that this was not normal, seeing that it wasn’t just a simple cough, but blood mixed with it, and the limbs gradually becoming numb.
“When did you do that?”
“Inadvertently?”
“I’m getting more and more scared.”
Hearing their voices slowly and faintly, he eventually lost consciousness.
* * *
“Mister, it’s over!”
“Yes, it was hard.”
Leading by Claire, who was waving her arms, the other children entered the archive one by one with faces that were still excited.
While I left the battlefield to the children and investigated, I put down the documents and turned around to check the children’s physical condition.
They said that I helped them the first time, but even now, when they reached the fifth, there were no wounds on the children.
It meant that he was growing at a terrifying speed through actual combat.
It was close to the process of embracing the things Hazel and I had taught me in practice, but the time was overwhelmingly shorter than expected.
In fact, even if I hadn’t commanded them, they had annihilated this place with their own power.
“I’m glad you weren’t hurt.”
“Hee hee, this is not a problem anymore.”
“Then, if you’re not careful, you’ll be in big trouble. Always be alert.”
“yes… … .”
Claire, who had been talking lively, immediately realized her mistake at my sincere words, and the other children raised their nerves again.
Even though the children gained the power to subdue a base without getting hurt, it was still not enough to deal with their main force.
Revenge may be important to the children, but to me, the safety of the children came first.
I will fight after I have enough power and circumstances to completely overwhelm them.
Through these raid operations, the children’s impatience would have been somewhat relieved, so it was possible to look at the plan a little longer. Besides, there are still a lot of bases for them all over the country.
Listening to detailed reports from the children… … .
“Something is strange.”
“yes?”
Rowen asked a question, but I thought for a moment without answering.
Comparing it with information from previous lives, there was definitely something odd about it.
The places I led my children on raids were, of course, places I knew well from previous lives.
These are the strongholds that I personally found and destroyed.
I also remembered the approximate number and size of the bases… … The number of people differed significantly.
Specifically, about 20%.
Considering that there is usually not much movement between bases in the Dark Truth Church, it was obviously strange.
Come to think of it, I confirmed that about 10 people were empty at the previous base, but at that time I thought it was a slight margin of error.
But not anymore.
It’s been about a month since we started raiding the base.
If something like this had happened in the meantime, there was no choice but to have something to do with us.
or not… … Maybe it was because he caught all the spies, including Berrettinio, before that?
I turned around and looked through the data carefully, but there were no reports of personnel.
It was as if they anticipated the raid and retrieved key materials in advance.
“If I had known this would happen, I would have saved at least one person.”
“What is it?”
“I’m not sure, but… … There has been a change in their trend.”
“… … .”
At my words, the children hardened their faces.
It was an intuition that revenge, which seemed to be going smoothly, had come to difficulties.
I added my words quickly, lest the children be hastily disappointed.
“There is a lot of change in personnel. It’s like moving your base somewhere. Up to this point, I’ve raided places I knew of, but I can’t be sure they’re there after that.”
“Then what about their headquarters? Can’t we go into a place other than this and capture the religious leader?”
“You guys need to improve your skills a bit more, but we don’t know where that is yet. And at that time, we plan to borrow the power of the Holy Church, so stop thinking that we will do it by ourselves.”
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Although he answered Frederick’s question like that, he was actually well aware of the location of his main base.
I went back and forth in various ways, to the extent that I could visit it even with my eyes closed.
So, through these small-scale raids, I was trying to slow down their activities little by little to prevent more victims… … I never even thought I would do something like this.
“Anyway, I was going to end this operation here. Everyone must have learned a lot this time, so I need time to slowly refine it.”
“I am still lacking.”
“I think we can do a little more.”
“I want to erase it from the world as soon as possible.”
At the lightly thrown words, bloody momentum returned.
The raid seemed to have relieved the spirit of revenge a little, but it seemed to have ignited the fire.
Finally, I raised both hands and said.
“I will be honest. Other than the bases we’ve been to so far, information on other bases hasn’t come in yet. That’s why I can’t go even if I want to.”
“… … .”
Claire, quick-witted, seemed to understand that I was lying, but didn’t bother pointing it out.
Unexpectedly, she seemed to know that the children needed a break because she was surprisingly caring.
At my words, the children put on sullen faces, and I said with a little smile.
“As much as we ran amok once, they will hide inside as well. Then you won’t be able to openly promote or do things like before.”
I didn’t bother to say that it would lead to fewer victims. Kids will understand that too.
“So, if you train your body through training for a while… … We’ll be able to reduce their power faster than now. It makes them unable to raise their heads even a little bit.”
At my persuasion, one by one, the children put a special energy in their eyes.
To be honest, I’ve been doing much better than I thought so far, so the progress was very fast.
In addition to this, if the cooperation of not only the Lunara Church but also the other Holy Churches were added, the Church of Dark Truth might go down the path of destruction without a single breath of energy.
But a ray of anxiety still lingered.
Sudden change in personnel.
It was clear that they were moving their base.
After wandering around for a month, he must have noticed that most of the base locations were discovered.
Of course, they knew the locations of the preliminary bases, but they were not planning to attack them right away.
I also needed to know how much change was happening to them.
This kind of thing happened occasionally, but this time there was a corner that I didn’t know why.
The decisive reason was that he had seen the Dark Lord, whom he had never met outside.
In the end, you will have to see it with your own eyes.
The headquarters of the Dark Truth Church… … I had to go to ‘Jehard’.
* * *
Jehard.
Just as the headquarters of the Lunara Holy Church was located in the Holy City of Hisera, the other side was also a kind of city.
It was also an ‘underground’ city.
“her.”
Upon finding the entrance, I realized that my foreboding was correct.
It was because the entrance to the bottom was completely destroyed and collapsed by someone.
In addition, it was thoroughly camouflaged, so it seemed that it was not destroyed from the inside, but from the outside, so that it could not be found.
“Looking at the traces, it wasn’t long… … .”
I didn’t expect to move the main base, so the back of my head felt tingly.
It had never been like this at any time in my previous life.
I looked at the other entrances just in case, but they were also completely collapsed, so it seemed difficult to enter even if the debris was removed.
“Oh, I didn’t want to go there.”
I licked my lips and turned my head to look at the vast lake.
It was Lake Maneroba, which boasts the second widest area on the continent.
Jehard was the city right under the lake.
I thought about it for a while, but I had no choice but to go down to the lake.
I could see a quiet village on the other side, so I didn’t think at all that the headquarters of the Dark Truth Church would be down here.
Everyone thinks like that, so I can’t guess this place at all, but.
I, too, had been able to find Jehard after a lot of hard work, and now I had something in front of me that I thought I would never do again.
“Okay, let’s think positively.”
Going down to Jehard through the original entrance was also quite difficult.
It is equipped with traps to repel intruders as well as dark knights who stand guard, thoroughly excluding uninvited guests who accidentally find the place.
Of course there were ways to avoid them, but… … Actually, the place I was going to was much easier.
Water, the biggest factor that could function as a city, was being supplied to Jehad from Lake Manerova, and of course he knew the location of the waterway that led to it.
They wouldn’t have thought to stop that.
Even if you try to stop it in the first place, you won’t be able to stop it.
I put all the equipment in my bag and put one of the artifacts, the ‘bubble rod’, in my mouth.
An object that stores air and allows you to breathe five or six times underwater… … To be honest, I didn’t expect things to come this quickly.
After catching my breath for a moment, I jumped straight into the lake and continued straight down.
The blue scenery spread out in all directions, but my eyes could clearly see the destination, so I swam only there.
Reaching the bottom of the lake, I pushed myself toward a place where one person could barely pass.
I continued down the winding passage and when the air in the bubble wand was almost exhausted, I finally managed to get out of the water.
“Damn it.”
Immediately after, looking at the scene unfolding in front of my eyes, I put a short curse word into my mouth.
There, unlike what I remembered, there was a city that was completely shattered, revealing ruins.