43. Devil’s Weakness… That’s…
Most of the enemies and traps that appeared later were like that. Rather than being really threatening to those who explore the castle, things that gnaw away at the spirit and stimulate trauma.
A music box that mimics the voices of people we miss, and a ball game of the week that makes the viewer fall into hypnosis. We finally broke through to the first floor by smashing through those things.
“I’d better take a break.”
“Yes.”
No matter how long the corridor at Jajakseong’s was, it wasn’t endless. At the end of the hallway we reached through the bluish-gray smoke, there were three stairways.
We packed camp before that and rested. Although they hadn’t met any strong enemies, it was because the knights were already mentally exhausted.
[Tsk tsk. Weak things.]
Anyway, things are lacking in spirit these days. While I was clicking my tongue, the captain, who had been listening to reports from the knights around me, approached Cream and reported the collected information.
“The space is distorted and it is hard to see, but we can assume that we are currently in the central hall of the castle. Certainly, originally there were stairs leading to the second floor here as well.”
“Three were not, were they?”
“Yes. Which one of them is the passage to the second floor…”
Or maybe all three are traps. The leader seemed to be thinking for a while. At that time, Cream, who had been staring at the leader, threw his words away.
“I’ll be back.”
“Yes?”
“Everyone, you are tired. There is no one to scout.”
“I do, but… are you okay?”
“Leave it to me.”
As Cream pounded his chest proudly, the captain laughed involuntarily, then straightened his expression. Soon he returned to his usual terrifyingly serious expression and bowed his head to Cream.
“Then, please.”
Cream nodded his head and turned around. Of course, it wasn’t that she did the dirty work because of her sudden outburst of her sense of responsibility and mission. Behind that action was my impulsiveness.
[Hey, they’re too intrusive, wouldn’t it be better to just take them off?]
[Yes? In such a rough place? How did you do that…]
[Hey, I think you’re looking at it too funny, but they’re knights too. If we say we’ll take care of it, it’ll hurt our pride.]
Of course, the fact that a knight’s strength is demonstrated not in this other world or in a dungeon but on the battlefield was clearly ignored. Seonggeom protested loudly, but she had no right to decide in the first place.
Well, I don’t have the right to decide either. According to my original personality, those knights would have lost their necks long ago. However, Cream had its own line even though it looked like it was going to end.
It’s because the line is too wide to be considered a hero. Still, looking at the fact that there were no casualties when I first entered the adventurer’s guild. Considering the power of the cream, she was sufficiently considerate of her surroundings.
“Get out of the way.”
“Hee!”
Um… Is it right to be considerate? Cream swung her sword at the knights guarding the stairs. Of course, the sword attack was not aimed at the knight.
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The moment the extended flash of light hit the landing, the whole stairway trembled with the sound of something invisible being broken. Of course, the knights next to him also fell.
“What are you doing! There are people like this all over again…”
“You talked about it, didn’t you?”
Well, being considerate is only a self-standard. The knights were vigorous, but couldn’t argue more than that. No matter how cute he looked, Cream was a warrior.
“I can’t help it, let’s go back.”
Cream didn’t pay attention to the knights and he glared at the stairway he was about to enter. The one she chose was the leftmost of the three steps, she said.
[Be careful. There are many cases where once you enter a passageway like this, you are transported to another space.]
[Well, then it’s rather us. There is no worry that the burden will catch up.]
[You!]
[Oh, that’s true. Noisy.]
The Holy Sword reacted more harshly than usual, probably because of the accumulated stress. Of course, we step inside her, ignoring her as always with her familiar look.
Certainly, the warning of the holy sword was not wrong. As soon as I entered, the air changed. Cream frowned at the feeling of something sticky all over her body.
“I feel bad.”
[Well, there’s no way you’ll win, but you’d better be careful though.]
The stairs were somehow bright, even though there was no corner for a single point of light to enter. Cream took her cautious step forward, aiming her holy sword in front of her.
Like the corridor, the stairs were also stretched out with a distorted space. It must have been a while, the moment when Cream, somewhat disarmed, was about to put down her holy sword.
“Master!”
Obviously, something swiftly attacked between the shadows of the stairs where there was nothing before. Before Cream could respond and draw her sword, Choco, who was closer, took the shadow with her body.
Stairs going up endlessly at an oblique angle. It was inevitable that the two animals would fall as they rolled there. Cream also jumped in pursuit of the chocolate that rolled down in an instant.
It’s colorless to have climbed up for tens of minutes, and when we came down using the ice platform instead of the stairs, we returned to the place where the knights camped in an instant.
“What the hell is that?”
“Looks like a beast from another world, be careful!”
Ah, this is not an isolated space again. While I grumbled, the resting knights gathered after seeing the bloody battle between Choco and the attacker. However, the fight was so intense that I couldn’t jump in recklessly.
Cream, who arrived a step late, aimed and kicked the assailant accurately even in that melee situation. The impact caused the two beasts to fall apart, finally revealing the exact form of the assailant.
“The devil…”
[Yes, it’s a small thing.]
The demons of the Underworld are in fact not very different from the spirits of this world. It’s just that the world they belong to is different, and originally they were close to phantoms with no clear substance or rationality.
However, as they came under the influence of those belonging to the other world, their faint existence became firm, and even the mind that functioned as a part of the law sprouted the ego. The spirit became a demon.
– □□□□□.
‘It’, which shrank for a while after receiving Cream’s attack, got up again. How should I explain that? If I had to compare it, I should say it was close to a ball bug.
However, it would be impossible to fully explain it using any word from another world or earth. At least the earth and the other world belonged under the same dimensional laws.
“Don’t be afraid! We are the proud Knights of the Silver Feather!”
As if it was exploring its surroundings, its oily tentacles clicked here and there. The captain who saw that scene bravely thrust a spear at the demon.
However, an attack that did not contain divine power or the power of a higher law was useless to the devil in the first place. The attack with such force that it could pierce even a huge rock suddenly stopped the moment it touched the devil’s shell.
As if all the physical force and impact never existed in the first place. When the stimulus was applied, the demon slowly raised itself.
[This is not an enemy you can deal with. Step back!]
In the first place, warriors were not meant to deal with enemies of the kind that were bound by such rules. It deals with techniques related to the law, such as magic, faith, and shamanism. Or possess similar characteristics.
And the hero was a person who was both.
“I want to see you one more time!”
“Yes, opponent, no.”
The moment even Choco pouted and withdrew from Cream’s restraint, as if that acted as a trigger, the demon fully bloomed and rushed at it.
Even if it was a demon, it was at best a being worse than dust. Even if it acquired a body, its intelligence was incomparable. Cream held out his sword in front of the demon that ignorantly rushed in a straight line.
And.
– Activate Inviolable (EX).
Doesn’t break. Not invaded The moment the law of the upper world was overlaid on the pure white blade, the law of the other world that made up the devil’s body was torn apart as it were.
Behind Cream’s back, the demon’s body, cut in half, couldn’t beat its speed and rolled over. The knights hurriedly dodged, and the piece of the devil came to a halt, knocking down a tent.
[······Was that an easy death?]
Just because a demon has a body does not mean that it is truly a living being. Their bodies don’t possess materialized things created by the laws of different worlds, and they don’t even have vital points.
So killing a demon is only breaking the laws that make up its body. Of course, it takes a lot of time and exploration, and even if you succeed, the demons just return to their original form.
When I was an adventurer, how much sh*t did I say about dealing with demons! It’s not like they’re going to fall like goblins with just one knife. It shouldn’t be…
“Is that the devil tribe?”
“Now that I look at it, it’s not as big as I thought.”
Based on the cutting edge cut by the holy sword, the law collapsed and the demon’s body slowly returned to nothingness. I couldn’t say anything even while watching the knights flirting around and looking down on me.
I’m about to shake my common sense right now. Calm, who calmly folded the holy sword, went to the captain and said.
“Too long. Scouting, pointless.”
“Is that so? It is not possible to distribute the knights, so it would be better to select one aisle and enter it together.”
The captain nodded for a while and listened to Cream’s words, then turned his head and urged the resting knights. Soon, the knights who quickly organized their luggage gathered together again.
“The monster may attack again. Everyone be careful!”
“Yup!”
The stairs Cream had been through were too narrow for the knights to move, so the stairs chosen this time were in the middle. Because it was the widest and closest to the original location.
Cream and Chocolate lined up at the forefront, followed by the captain and knights. Choco, the leader, also humbly acknowledged that she was a strong person who could not be matched.
“Aagh!”
However, the incident broke out shortly after. How many stairs did you climb? It was because the moment he turned the corner, three demons jumped out of the shadows.
Each of them is different, but each one has a monstrous shape, they jumped over the knight’s square and landed inside. The situation turned into mayhem in an instant.
“Damn it, stab it! Poke!”
“Robin! What are you doing!”
The knights’ attacks did not have any effect even if they penetrated the demon’s body as it was or touched it as if there was no impact in the first place. Eventually, an unseen warrior intervened.
The dazzling silver armor was good for blocking enemy attacks, but it got in the way of controlling myself in such a confined space. Some of the knights felt as if their bodies were tilted, and then they fell over the stairs.
“Marx! Hanson!”
The leader called out the names of the fallen knights in an anxious voice, but there was no answer. Look, I said I was right with the luggage. In the end, Cream had no choice but to sigh and go out again.
Cream stepped on the ice platform and ran down the stairs. As the hero left and the light of the holy sword faded, the fear that had been suppressed in the hearts of the knights could be seen rising again.
“Aren’t you going?”
[Me? I have to serve as a milestone.]
I felt it in the Dark Church’s dungeon, but Cream seemed to be able to track my location in some way. This time, in case the space was distorted, Cream had left me among the knights.
Of course, I didn’t forget to bluff the knights and Choco before that. Thanks to that, Choco suddenly became a guard dog who had to protect me.
“Huh, master. I’ll take you too…”
[What can I do if you are too slow?]
Of course, our relationship was not very good. As I was avoiding Choco’s glare and distracting her, I heard footsteps at the top of the stairs.
And the one who showed up was Cream holding the holy sword like a torch. She looked at the cages below her and gave a puzzled look.
“The knights…!”
“Sorry. No, I found it.”
Cream, who had apparently gone down to find the fallen knights, appeared at the top of the stairs. As alienation progressed, all sorts of absurd things were happening.
I thought it was an infinite trajectory, but when I encouraged the knights to walk more stairs, it turned out that it wasn’t either. Ironically, the second-floor door was waiting for us.
“Then, where did Marx and Hanson go…?”
One of the knights muttered in a low voice. There was no way anyone in this room would not hear that self-talk, but no one answered.
Because I didn’t know. They were just knights. Even if they knew how to kill people and how to tell stories about their exploits at banquets, this fear of the unknown was not originally their domain.
However, the Bishop of the Moon was injured, and the Torture Wizard was confined to his room, so in the end, only the knights could save Viscount Heir.
[See what?]
“This.”
Before entering the second floor, Cream, who had been bending over on the stairs for a while, immediately picked up something. It was brown hair.
It was ripped from Choco. A few strands must have fallen off while fighting each other when the devil attacked Choco a little while ago.
That must have been a different staircase, but the fact that it came from here…
[No, let’s not think about it.]
It only gets complicated, but it doesn’t change that no matter how much they try, they end up collapsing in front of the warrior’s overwhelming power.
We entered the second floor with vague anxiety.
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The Silver Feather Knights, currently 3 stragglers.