60. The flip side of words
Koo-ung!
The corpse giant that had stood up like a huge mountain just a moment ago, the corpse giant that seemed impossible to defeat, collapsed with a loud roar and splashing wet mud.
Due to the attack of the Holy Sword and the Knight of the Stars, the upper body of the corpse giant burned white and turned into ashes. He is not an undead with a single soul as a medium, so he cannot be resurrected.
“…Hmm.”
This is… An unexpected turn of events.
Huntly hardened his face and put his hand where his right arm, which had been severed from the shoulder to the shoulder and was bleeding dark, should be there.
“This is over. Huntly.”
A disaster caused by overzealous desire to deal with the hero and the star knight at once. There is no excuse.
The Huntly is defeated. By the hero who suddenly showed the power of the holy sword.
“Awesome, yes, hero. To quickly reduce that corpse giant, the masterpiece of a lifetime in which I had invested most of my energy, to ashes in an instant…”
“…That’s right. I am amazed at myself now too.”
The hero eventually broke through the limits and drew out the true power of the holy sword. Without warning, in a very short time, the ceiling that had weighed down his head and the box that contained his body were shattered.
“I see. I was too arrogant.”
The group of warriors who approached Huntly grabbed their hearts at the sudden feeling of nausea.
“Wow..?!”
As if something was stuck in my chest, as if there was a lot of phlegm in my throat…
“Kahak! Cool! Cool…!”
Steel Puck—!
Finally, something that had been clogging his stuffy stomach came out of his mouth, and Huntly couldn’t believe his eyes the moment he witnessed it.
“…Galan, has he been defeated?”
It is the seed of distrust that has been nestled in their mana core.
Since Galan, the spirit body, died, those that lost their owners were oxidized and sent out of the body.
“Coke! Coke! hehehe…!”
The Knight of the Stars approached the worm wriggling on the floor, reached out and touched it while it was still warm.
“…Did you plant these bugs? Indeed, why these kids did such a nasty thing to Austin… Now I understand.”
Saying that, Huntly, who was facing the knight of the star quietly glaring at him, shrugged his shoulders and continued.
“…Not planted by me.”
“Kuhh…! That’s Okay! Now we must see the end!”
Isabel, who had been wiping her mouth, approached Huntly with an expressionless face without any emotional fluctuations.
“There is only death for the undead who go against the providence! Atone for the innocent people who died at your hands, even if you die!”
Undead. After crossing the door of death, a cursed being who forcibly breaks down the locked door and returns.
“…Poof.”
Huntly laughed involuntarily.
Seeing what seemed to be a mockery of the victims, Isabelle crumpled her face and wrapped the light around her mace.
Since the hero used the holy sword, Isabel also felt her holy power amplified, so she was confident that she could finish the Huntly in one blow.
“…Now, let’s laugh…!”
“I am undead?”
“Everyone knows that you are undead! Stop talking nonsense, stop…!”
Pak!
As Isabel raised her mace high in anger, one of her unknown hands pierced the ground and came out.
“… Huh?”
“…What is it?”
After finishing off the corpses around them, Adrien and Maya approached and took a closer look at the hand sticking out in front of Huntly.
The hand of an unknown person, digging through the heavy and damp soil, was struggling as if looking for something.
“Sorry, but I have never crossed the threshold of death.”
Huntly moved his still-movable left arm and pulled out a handful of arms that had protruded through the ground. The warrior party immediately aimed their weapons at Huntly’s eccentricity of holding up his arm with torn flesh and muscles and bringing it to his right shoulder.
“Don’t talk bullsh*t! Don’t be silly, just be gentle…!”
Kududeuk—! The cross-section of Huntly’s right arm, which had been cut off, interlocked with the owner’s missing arm, which soon turned bloody and began to twitch as Huntly moved.
“You, you…?!”
“What is this…”
Looking at the warriors in astonishment, Huntly moved his hand toward the handle of the shovel in front of him.
The first sensation he felt with his right arm, which he had just put on, was the cold, heavy feel of the handle of the shovel.
“Since they have never died, they are not undead either. I was wrong.”
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Not undead. At Huntly’s shocking remark, the warriors and the party couldn’t hide their embarrassment as they looked at each other’s faces.
“That’s a lie! If you’re not undead, how could that eccentricity…!”
“Chit…! It’s definitely finishing!”
“Ac! You look like you’re having a hard time listening to useless things!”
At the warrior party and star knight who were about to strike at the neck at any moment, Huntley, barely standing up using the shovel as a support, smiled bitterly.
“Don’t be so vigilant. On the way to the end, I will give you a present.”
After the battle the other day had exhausted most of his stockpile of souls, Huntly lifted the shovel handle with his trembling arms.
“…A gift?”
“A warrior. Don’t fall for his flattery. I have to cut him down now…”
“…I think. I think I will die soon.”
Maya was right. The boundary between the hero and Gracie was blurred, but in fact, Huntly didn’t have the strength to fight anymore.
He didn’t have the ability to regenerate his body like Galan did. However, as he had extended his life by ‘borrowing’ the bodies of the dead, his body was already collapsing and most of his soul, the support that would support his body, had been exhausted. It was like the lamp in front.
Raising the shovel with trembling arms, Huntly immediately slammed the shovel head down on the ground.
f*ck—! With the sound of splitting the soil, Huntly’s shovel was erected in a straight line without an inch of error.
At that moment, a group of blue-green lights began to gather from the shovel embedded in the ground.
At the tip of the shovel handle, the group of bluish-green lights gathered and formed a sphere.
Huntly, who barely raised his arm and put the group of lights on his hand, handed the sphere that was constantly wriggling to the hero.
“These are the souls I was redeeming. Since the undertaker is gone… I’ll leave it to you, hero.”
“Uh, um…”
At Huntly’s sudden benign attitude, the hero couldn’t hide his embarrassed expression and accepted the sphere without hesitation.
“Isabel, this…”
“I will take responsibility… And send it to a place convenient for you.”
As Isabel transferred the orb, the short grace period left for Huntly ended.
“Then, now…”
Immediately raising the holy sword, the warrior aimed his sword at Huntly’s heart.
However, Huntly pushed away the warrior’s holy sword with trembling hands.
“It was my job to watch the end of the dead and bury the living…”
“What…”
“And, burying myself… Is what I have to do.”
It’s none of your business.
It is my job to take care of my soul.
“As always.”
At that moment, Huntly’s raised right arm pierced his own heart.
“Keah…!”
Huntly’s body began to slowly disintegrate.
“Dragon… Four. Lastly, I’ll write something you won’t forget…”
The warrior who was looking at Isabel, who purifies souls, turned her head to look at Huntly.
“The demon lord… Is a being created by your own hands…”
“…What?”
At one word he couldn’t understand, the hero let out a dumbfounded sound without even realizing it.
“What do you mean…? Hey!”
However, Huntly, who could give an accurate explanation to that question, had long since passed away.
Even the huge, shining soul that emerged from Huntly’s weakly collapsed body slowly faded in the sudden wind.
* * *
After collecting Galan’s corpse, we returned to the inn with tired bodies.
Royman’s mysterious power gradually disappeared after the battle. Royman had given up on finding out the source of the power long ago, as he only said that it was ‘the fruit of faith’. Let’s just think of it as the power of faith.
I wondered if the inn would still be open after all this sh*t, but luckily it was. At least, a catastrophe of being homeless on the street like this would almost happen.
I have to show my face to Becky once, but today I wasn’t very tired.
However, no matter how much fatigue piled up on top of your head, there was still one thing that needed to be done as quickly as possible.
Gulp—!
I swallowed a large saliva and forced my eyes to open.
“……”
A strange chill lingered between Sylvia, who was sitting on the floor with her knees bent on her knees… So, Argyle, and Luna, who was sitting in her chair and looking down at Argyle.
“Uh, um… First of all… We’ve never met, right? No, it’s not a first meeting… Isn’t it?”
How should I say this? To be honest, just because Argyle’s identity was exposed didn’t make me want to smother her right away.
“…Argyle.”
But it seems that Luna is not like that.
Well, from Luna’s point of view, it’s like being vomited, but to think that the person in question is right in front of her…
“Luna. But don’t kill me.”
“……”
“…Luna?”
…I wish I could give you an answer. I started to worry in my heart that maybe Luna would suddenly start strangling Argyle.
“Hey, Argyle.”
“…..”
Luna and Argyle’s gaze collided intensely in the air.
“Brother. It’s okay to take a little nap. If anything happens, I…”
“No. It’s because I don’t think you can stop it alone.”
Yes. To be honest, if these two fight head-to-head, I think this room will be completely destroyed.
Some time passed, and Luna, who was still looking at Argyle, who had no answer, made an expression of exasperation.
“You are shameless. I don’t even want to answer, this.”
“…Why are you talking rudely?”
“…What?”
That’s a bit thin. Argyle came out stronger than expected.
“No, honestly… I don’t even know what I did wrong? Did you want me to apologize?”
Argyle maintained an openly brazen attitude, and Dasogot sat comfortably with his legs on his knees.
“Hey… Royman, aren’t you scared? I think I’m going to pee.”
“That’s a little…”
Women’s fighting spirit is… I don’t know if I know it.
“Everything, you… You abandoned me!”
Luna must have been very angry at Argyle’s shameless appearance, so she screamed at her, even her voice dropping.
Seeing Luna, with her face flushed red and running furiously as if she were going to run towards Argyle at any moment, Argyle flinched at her body and pulled her body back slightly. It must be that she has a bit of a stabbing part to herself.
“That, that is…”
That’s right. Just apologize, let’s end the day here. I think i’m going to die of sleep
Argyle, who was rolling her eyes and fidgeting with her fingers, looked up at her Luna with her relaxed eyes.
“…What do you want me to do?”
“Get down on your knees and apologize. Right now.”
At the tone of her snarling Luna, Argyle hurriedly fell to her knees.
“Mi, Mi…”
Yes. Keep talking I’m sorry. I was crazy back then…
“Mi…! Crazy boy! You get it and speak ill of the creator!!!”
“aaah! I can’t stand it any longer!”
Even though my wish was overshadowed, Argyle seemed to have more pride than I could have imagined.
“Royman! Hold on to Argyle!”
“Profit…! Let go of this, Austin! Today, I will show you the lower extremities properly!”
“It’s half words until the end! You want to get scolded?!”
“Both of you, calm down!”
Anyway, it seems wrong to go to bed early.