111 – Episode 111. Choseon in the corner of the room (3)
Episode 111. Seokchoseon in the corner of the room (3)
Our group headed to the collapsed building.
Half was a small expectation that there might be survivors, and half was curiosity as to what happened that caused it to collapse.
“…It’s a religious facility? “Is it a cathedral?”
Noah looks around in fascination. It was literally a building that resembled a church. There’s a winged woman painted on the slightly broken window, so it’s probably a goddess cathedral.
Were the people hiding in the church attacked?
This place is a bit far away from the place that Bangguseok Choseon was talking about. She would not be in a cathedral where she and other believers would be.
Hmm. Something is strange. Was the cathedral attacked here too?
Is it a coincidence that cathedrals in other regions were also attacked? … Could it be that the devils are only attacking the church?
“There is no living creature nearby.”
Lake, who was listening, confirmed. Let’s check it first.
– Go inside.
We entered the cathedral with Lakke leading the way.
It was full of broken glass, broken objects, and rotting human corpses. Flies, bugs, and maggots crawl on it. It is a terrible sight.
“My, it smells a little…” “Yuck.”
Noah plugged her nose and made her gag. He must have gotten used to seeing her dead body, so he didn’t turn his head.
Every time something like this happens, I think that losing my sense of smell is not necessarily a bad thing. She can no longer smell delicious food, but she can’t eat anyway because she doesn’t have a mouth.
She remembers the time when she incarnated as Jin Malak. Back then, when she took a deep breath, all kinds of smells came into her.
“They are believers of the Goddess religion.”
Lake looked at their bodies calmly.
– It’s not the devil’s work.
There is no way they would leave a body behind. No, there might be no need for them to kill people.
I wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to create worshipers who would offer sacrifices.
“There is a stab wound. “It may be a clash between civilized forces.”
– …
Suddenly, the concept of ‘predator’ came to mind. They often appear in the apocalypse genre, and they are literally the ones who kill or enslave other survivors and take their supplies.
If this were an ordinary zombie apocalypse world, or a world destroyed by nuclear war, there might have been many looters. But this is a world facing a demonic apocalypse.
It is a world where there are very few people alive due to the massacre and brainwashing of demons. In the end, aren’t marauders only able to exist if there are many groups of survivors, large and small?
I don’t think there is any reason to kill or attack each other.
… If you look at the user’s post ‘I believed in Mr. Monkey’, it doesn’t seem like that at all. That user is probably still waging a war of nerves with the family that occupied the cave first.
“Wow… “
Paya was looking at the mural painted on the ceiling. It’s so fascinating. Is this your first time seeing murals painted by civilized people?
Well, it must be my first time entering the cathedral. From her perspective, it must have been an unholy place.
Let me take a look too.
This is a picture of a young female knight with flowing white hair, whether silver or white, confronting a being holding a golden sword. The person he was confronting was a knight wearing gray armor.
It was more sophisticated than the crude murals painted by barbarians. The colors are colorful and well used.
Looking at the chest area of the two people’s armor, each person had a different pattern drawn on them. Does this mean something like a religious war?
“Uh… !”
Noah, who was snooping around to find out what Paya was doing, looked at the mural and frowned.
– What’s going on?
“Oh, no. It’s no big deal. “It just looks like a mural I saw somewhere.”
Have you ever seen a mural like this? Where on earth?
“Actually, I don’t know. Still, it feels somewhat familiar. I feel like I saw it once… “
When she asked, it was Noah who could not answer well. What? It’s very suspicious.
She also asked Payanarakhe, and she said it was her first time seeing both of them.
Even if this is because these two are barbarians, Noah has been with the Tribal Alliance ever since he fell into this world. She would never have been to the Goddess Church’s cathedral.
… No way?
She took a picture of the mural and sent it to Hannah as her private message.
[Netcama: What is this?]
I got a reply right away. Looks like it’s a free time.
[Not Netcam: Huh?]
[Netcamama: Where have you seen this picture?]
You react like Noah.
[Netcamama: Where was this filmed?]
[Cathedral]
[Do you know where I saw this?]
The reply came a few minutes later.
[Netcama: … no]
[Netcama: I definitely know, I definitely saw it, but I’m not sure]
Am I the only one who doesn’t know because I’m possessed by Loa?
It’s strange that only the possessed person, and especially the paladin, reacts like this. Did the goddess force this mural into the minds of the possessed?
What is this mural?
It seemed strange, so I moved my consciousness to Totem No. 1 And asked Harry, the highest intellectual in the Tribal Federation.
When I roughly explained what the mural looked like, he understood. Oh, before speaking, she said that her memories before the descent were in an unstable state.
You might say that God doesn’t know any of this.
“I guess you saw the mural depicting a warrior.”
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– Be a warrior.
No, there was such a thing? Suddenly the atmosphere feels like a traditional fantasy.
“He is said to have come from another dimension at the call of the goddess Ishtania to save her earth.
Since he is a character from the mythical era, I don’t know the detailed story. A high-ranking figure in the Goddess Church might know. “For example, the Pope.”
Isn’t that just a paladin? Why is that woman the only one called a hero?
I once wondered, ‘How do the inhabitants of this world understand the Holy Knights?’ At that time, to satisfy her curiosity, she asked both civilized people and barbarians.
There were a variety of answers, but in summary, they were as follows.
1. Beings chosen by the goddess Ishtania. She can use the power of the Goddess, making her a great threat to her demons.
2. She lacks basic common sense because for a long time she only learned how to use her powers in the dimension where the goddess resides.
3. Beings who suffered from schizophrenia instead of gaining superhuman strength. Sometimes they say strange words or show unusual behavior.
I only knew it this way. No one knew that the paladins came from another dimension.
That’s why it’s even weirder. There is a warrior who proudly holds the title of ‘one from another dimension’, but when you see a paladin, you never think of him as someone from another world.
Did the goddess use some strange power to hinder her perception? There is nothing strange about this b*tch who even allows her to travel between dimensions.
-Who is the one fighting her?
“He is the devil, the incarnation of the evil god Shamishir. Like the warrior, he is a character from the mythical era. I heard that she tried to conquer the world by leading the Demon King’s army, a force that worships evil gods, and that she was killed by a hero. “This is all known only from the records.”
Shamishir, the evil god. There are other gods besides goddesses and loas. No, it would be correct to say that it was there.
Harry said that Shamishir lost his incarnation, the Demon King, and lost his influence on earth. It is also highly likely that she was banished by the goddess.
“It wasn’t just necromancers or demons who tried to bring about the apocalypse. “The only ones who succeeded were the devils.”
It’s just a story about an ordinary hero and a demon king, but why is this in the memories of the paladins?
Waves and waves are ghost stories. I asked a little more.
“Big.”
Without speaking, Harry sat down on the chair and started saying something he wasn’t even asked.
Ah, I asked for no reason. It is a self-inflicted disaster.
“There is a theory that the goddess is an invader from another world, and that Shamishir is originally a being who serves as the guardian deity of mankind, or more precisely, civilized people. This is a hypothesis advocated by those who persistently investigated the reason why goddesses were called ‘goddess of play’ in the past.
History is written by those who win, so it may not be a very foolish delusion.”
That’s right.
It was interesting up to this point, but the next story seemed pointless, so I cut it and returned to Totem No. 3.
I like your old man’s wit.
“Malak, we have discovered a strange creature.”
Lakhe dragged two corpses. It’s like a mixture of a human and a reptile… Yes, it looked like a reptilian.
Judging by the fact that the body hasn’t disappeared, it’s not a devil, so what is it? The infectious agent has low intelligence and would not be able to walk around wearing human clothes.
It is definitely not the cult that caused the mutation. Their blood is red.
Is he a barbarian whose appearance changed after receiving the blessings of another Loa like the Ashana Black Coral tribe members?
That too is a bit strange. Barbarians would have taken their comrades’ corpses with them because of their custom of attaching importance to the afterlife.
Was it a very urgent situation?
In any case, it seemed certain that these unidentified creatures had attacked the cathedral.
“Tunteun has recovered a lot. Shall we leave?”
– That’s right.
Murals familiar to the Holy Knights, the warrior and the demon king, the evil god Shamishir, and the lizard man.
There is no time to worry about this right now. Because the first priority is to clean every corner of the room and rescue the Pope and believers.
So I left the cathedral with many questions left behind.
For the first time in a while, my head became complicated.