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26 The Realm of the Demons (3)
Yeongjuseong’s restaurant.
The lord and his family were sitting there.
“You bastard, Chiral. It looks like he moved first? Just looking at pretty and handsome leather makes you lose your temper.”
The lord’s wife opened her mouth while looking at the door through which Elesis and the other mercenaries had finished eating a while ago.
No, to be precise, it was Laxityia, who was the cause of death covered in his wife’s skin and was sent in as one of the executives of the operation to obtain the Holy Blood.
“ Ugh, I don’t have the strength, but I only have a lot of appetite. For the next operation, just leave him out.”
“ Still, it is useful in its own way, so be patient.”
In response to Geron’s words, an officer covered in the lord’s son’s skin, Kezarus, who was the cause of the lord’s skin covering, and the general commander of this operation, answered in a low voice.
His eyes, unlike when he was talking to the mercenaries a while ago, had a cold light that made him shiver.
‘ This operation is important.’
This was an order from Caesarus’s own direct superior and one of the Five Magic Spirits, King Sain (邪人王).
An instruction to obtain the Holy Blood that exists here and deliver it to the Demon Station.
Although the exact reason was not known, Kezarus assumed that it was probably related to the “fallen heaven” planned by the Magic Station side.
‘ It is doubtful that the operation started earlier than expected, but… … .’
at that time,
“ But isn’t it time to come back? Why aren’t you coming?”
“ Since I’m savoring it again, I’m probably eating it slowly. Captain, when are you going to start? Shouldn’t we be moving slowly now?”
Laktia and Geron looked at Kezarus and asked.
“ I was going to start when Chiral returns, but… … I can’t help it.”
Kezarus thought for a moment, patting the table with his finger, and opened his mouth as if he had made a decision.
“ Let’s start hunting from now on. You can kill everyone except the priest.”
Originally, it was right to kill all the humans who entered the territory, but the priest woman had a use for it.
He discovered a secret place where the blood of angels exists within the lord’s castle, but a special ceremony was required to obtain the blood.
And the ritual was impossible for them, and only those related to angels, or at least possessing enormous divine powers.
“ But will you become such a wandering priest? I think we should bring at least a bishop level.”
“ It’s okay to try it first. Even by squeezing out all the blood in his body.”
After saying those words, Caesarus slowly got up from his seat.
At that moment, the entire lord’s castle began to wriggle.
* * *
Hallway of the lord’s castle.
“ No, why don’t you trust me… … .”
Elesis came out of the dining room and muttered gloomy as he headed to the room allotted alone.
She thought of the other members who had gone before, saying that she was visiting the garden of the lord’s castle.
– I guess I can’t feel anything? And Eli, I don’t think you’re talking about the lord and family who greeted us like that.
– What? You said you used a fork and a knife interchangeably? Things like that happen, too. I also sometimes get confused between my left hand and my right hand, so I use a sword to block what should be blocked with a shield once?
As soon as they came out of the restaurant, they made a strong claim to them that something was wrong, but the seeds didn’t work.
Rather, Lat and Amber even had a crush on the lord who welcomed them.
Normally, she would have been too, but not now.
Because it was getting worse and worse.
Elesis believed in his own senses.
– Ellie, you are more special than anyone else in the world.
That’s what her mother always told her.
Like that said, I was proud that I was superior to anyone else at least in terms of ‘specific field’.
And those ‘specific fields’ were those that went against the will of God, such as evil spirits and monsters.
I almost forgot about it because I had never used it until now, but the feeling was still ringing the alarm.
‘ I can’t. I’ll have to convince him again.’
For some reason, it felt like he couldn’t stay here any longer, so it was time to turn towards the place where Elesis was with his party.
“ But… … .”
Her eyes scanned her surroundings.
“ Why is there no one there?”
The servants who had been seen occasionally in the hallway until a little while ago were nowhere to be seen.
No, not only from start to finish, but also pretending to be popular was not felt at all.
It was a moment when doubts appeared on Elesis’ face.
“ Yes, man.”
A woman’s voice from the other side.
Elise’s head turned quickly to the side where the voice came from.
However, there was only a portrait of a woman with closed eyes hanging on the wall.
“ Maybe… … .”
When Elesis noticed something and muttered in a tired voice,
“ Here.”
Go away!
The woman in the portrait spoke again and opened her eyes and mouth at the same time.
People with countless numbers stuck in their eyes and mouths.
The faces of such people were all contorted and they were screaming silently.
“ Ahhh!”
Elysis screams at the bizarre appearance and walks away.
The title of the painting came into her eyes belatedly.
hell.
That moment,
All the portraits in the hallway looked at Elesis and grinned.
“ Uh, what… … !”
She backs away with a tired expression on her face.
I felt a sense of vitality and incongruity, but I never dreamed that I would actually be alive.
Soon after,
Kiki Kiki Kiki Kiki Kick!
The figures, who were smiling while looking at Elesis with a maddening madness, started to come out of the picture one by one.
* * *
Yeongjuseong 1st floor.
“ The hunting instructions have been dropped. You can secure only the priests and kill the rest.”
A group of signs were walking down the hallway at high speed.
Now they openly pour out their magic in all directions.
There was no need to hide any more as long as the killing order had already been given.
“ Hey, they said they went to the garden… … We don’t have to go together, so should I just go right away?”
Inside the maid’s skin with freckles that seemed to be torn at any moment, one of the signs said with a bright eye.
De Haal, who was leading this group while wearing the chieftain’s hide, snorted.
“ Don’t be bullshit. Don’t you know that I’m trying to eat it all by myself? unconditionally equal distribution. Did you understand?”
“ Hehehe, don’t be too angry. Honestly, you want to eat alone too. It’s like instinct.”
“ It’s instinct, it’s Nabal, and if you jump out on your own like last time, I’ll kill you first.”
“ I know, I will.”
The sign of a maid waving her hands as if to calm down at Dehal’s words.
Dehal, who was slowly shaking his head at him, and then started walking again, looked back as if strangely.
“ But somehow, the number seems to have decreased, doesn’t it?”
“ What do you mean by him?”
“ Literally. A few have disappeared.”
The number of signs that clearly followed at the beginning was seven.
But now, including himself, there were only six.
“ Hehe, aren’t these guys secretly falling in the middle with the same thoughts as me?”
“ No, if that were the case, I wouldn’t be able to catch a glimpse… … .”
That was then.
Quad Duck!
The sound of something breaking was heard in their ears.
“… … !”
Dehal quickly turned his head to the side where the sound had come from, but the sign that was already there had completely disappeared.
“ Enemy! Be vigilant and spread your senses!”
Are you still the leader of the group?
DeHal quickly grasps the situation and makes the best decision in an instant.
At his words, the other signs also began to close the distance between each other and be vigilant in all directions.
‘ What? Have you ever been in a castle?’
No, let alone the castle, I had never heard of a new enemy breaking into this territory.
There are only prey.
Therefore, the current situation had no choice but to be perplexed for the autographers.
‘ However, if you are vigilant in all directions like this, even the enemy can move arbitrarily… … .’
But before Dehal’s thoughts were over,
Kwajijijik!
One of the signs disappeared again with another eerie sound.
No matter how far you spread your senses, there are bound to be subtle blind spots.
Since it was an attack that started from such a blind spot, he could not even react.
“ What, what!”
“ Where… … !”
Signs that start to shake him.
Several people have already lost their lives.
In addition, despite being sufficiently vigilant, he could not even see how the enemy was attacking, let alone the appearance of the enemy.
The doubts that started from that start to turn into small fears among them.
Because that meant that they too could die without knowing anything.
“ Hey! calm down. Yes, he’s a guy who specializes in stealth attacks. Once you get it right… … .”
It was the moment when the sign wearing a maid’s skin was about to open his mouth to calm such agitation.
Awkward!
Then her head disappeared.
No, to be precise, it was correct to say that it was swallowed by something.
The mouth of the beast made of darkness.
Wow! Wow!
The jaws of black water, which made her feel ominous just by looking at it, were chewing her head and swallowing it.
dump-
With the body of the handmaiden who had lost her head like that, the body of the maid fell to the floor as a starting point,
“ Hey, what the hell is that… … !”
The fear in the minds of the other causes was rapidly amplified.
The cause of death was basically a stronger attachment to life than other monsters.
Because it was their instinct to want to survive as long as possible and eat as many human stomachs as possible.
Therefore, it was easy to agitate when threatened with life.
“ Ugh… … !”
The signs, who fell into chaos in an instant, start moving while leaving the formation.
and at that moment,
Kwaduk, Kwaduk, Kwaduk Duk!
The real massacre began.
The black beasts, randomly protruding from the darkness that filled the hallway, disappear one by one, biting the scattered signs.
“ This is… … !”
DeHal spit out a voice mixed with astonishment and agitation as he looked at the signs that were diminishing so quickly.
hunt.
It was really unbelievable, but now they are being hunted.
‘ The fear was maximized by brutally killing the guy who tried to induce and calm the fear by not appearing in the first place.’
Perhaps the appearance of the beast at that time was also calculated.
I was blown away by the subtlety.
‘It’s already too late to control.’
A really unfamiliar situation.
Because they were always on the hunter side, not the victim side.
So I didn’t know that I couldn’t handle this situation any more.
“ Aww!”
“ Sa, save me, aah!”
In the meantime, the number of signs continues to decrease.
And in an instant, the screaming ceased.
In the end, only the chief valet was left.
before him,
Shrek-
A darkness appeared that engulfed all the other signs.
Soon after, a man emerges from the darkness.
“ You… … !”
At that moment, Dehal’s eyes widened.
The man in front of me was one of the four prey who entered the lord’s castle today, and he should have already been eaten by the executive, Chiral.
I couldn’t understand why the author was here.
Did they infiltrate in hiding their powers from the beginning?
‘ Then, how do you know and what happened to Chiral… … .’
“ You seem to be thinking a lot.”
Dehal’s thoughts were interrupted by the low voice of the man, Zion.
“ If I die anyway, it won’t be of any use.”
“ This dog-like bastard!”
Dehal, who burst out in anger at those words, began to rush towards Zion at high speed.
With him, a terrifying morale begins to flow from his whole body.
At first glance, it looked like he had been provoked, but his mind was colder than ever.
‘ I did slaughter other guys, but it was all a sneak attack. If so, then the face-to-face confrontation will definitely be weak.’
In addition, the fact that he abandoned that advantage and appeared like this was proof that he was careless because he was the only one left.
He was planning to use that negligence thoroughly.
‘ Aim for one shot by pouring all of your power from the beginning!’
Good luck!
With that thought, the human skin covering him groaned grotesquely and gathered in his right hand.
Along with that, fraud explodes.
Up to that point, Zion had just stood still.
“ I’ll shatter your entire body!”
Dehal, who lit up his eyes at Shion’s reaction, finally poured out the prepared blow.
No, I was actually trying to pour it out.
Gee!
A single solid line on his neck without any warning.
Because his head, separated from his body, fell to the floor along such a solid line.
‘ How… … .’
A body floundering with its head missing, and a view gradually downward.
The last sight Dehal saw in that field of vision was that of Shion, who was looking at him without any inspiration.
“ It’s worth it.”
Shion muttered like that, disturbing the darkness that was still taking the form of a beast.
The movement to annihilate the dead a while ago was a hunting method that Shion frequently used from the beginning.
In addition, by referring to the blood magic used by Liusina in the past, and transforming one of the original Black Star skills, a pretty good picture came out.
It looked like it would be used more often in the future.
‘ Now I have to figure out the location of the Holy Blood… … .’
With that thought, Zion looked at the hallway leading to it.
He had already spread the Heukseongha to understand the structure of the entire lord’s castle, but there was no place presumed to be where the Holy Blood was hidden.
No, to be exact, he probably didn’t find it.
‘ It’s time consuming and inefficient to go around and find yourself.’
Then there was only one way.
‘ The only choice is to make them find themselves from the other side.’
Conversation of autographs I heard a while ago.
According to the contents, there was no need for Shion himself to go to rescue Elesis first.
The female Honsa that I hung before entering the Youngjuseong Fortress should be sufficient.
It looked like it could be used as well.
However,
‘ Before that, it would be better to deal with these guys first.’
With that thought, Zion reached out to the wall next to him.
Whoa!
The moment when the Heukseongha, which swelled from Zion’s fingertips, completely enveloped his entire arm,
“ Kyah ha ha ha ha!”
Aww!
The whole wall exploded with a loud laughter, and a dreadful, deceitful blade rushed towards Zion.
A blow that was so strong that it could not even be compared with the autographs he had dealt with a while ago.
Soon after, the moment when such a fraudulent blade and Shion’s hand collide,
The entire corridor of the lord’s castle began to vibrate and split.