49. Ohh!? Karbal’s figure…!
[I thought it wouldn’t be an ordinary thing, but this…
The son-in-law became calm. The light emanating from the incantation spear fixed by an unknown force dyed Cream’s face red.
A spell created through collaboration between the Dark Church and the Devil Contractor. Certainly, if it could be hit directly, it would be a fatal wound even for the hero. However, the spear of witchcraft did not flick.
Because of the black cup that floated in the air and thrust its mouth toward him.
It seems quiet at first glance, but we could feel the power swirling within it. The spear is pushed out, the cup is pulled. The two forces were in equilibrium and the balance was maintained.
However, the unstable balance is broken even with a small outside intervention. Cream also looked carefully at the two to see if he had grasped the flow of power, then reached out his hand.
A spark flew from the end. Compared to the flames that Cream usually emits, the firepower was shabby, but it was easy to break the balance of the two powers with just that much.
■■■!
The black goblet howled in a twisted voice. Although there was noise in much of the language, I somehow seemed to be able to guess what it meant. Hungry.
Zan’s mouth opened grotesquely. Chang, who was relentlessly turning his head in the direction of the cream, could not stand it any longer.
The moment you showed a gap, your fate was decided. The black cup sucked in the spear in an instant and swallowed it in one gulp. All of its strength, its wisdom, the blood and life of its victims.
“Is it over?”
Even after swallowing all of her spells, the glass remained frozen in the air. In the meantime, I quickly checked the glass status window.
But shamelessly, Jean’s information was not different from when I checked it before. Black goblet, magic grade, function promotes corruption. It just looks like an ordinary sinister item.
However, if that cup were just a common cursed item, the Dark Church wouldn’t have cherished it so much, and it wouldn’t have been possible to swallow her sorcery as it did just now.
“Oh!”
Cream, who cautiously approached the glass nailed in the air, let out a startled moan. After swallowing the magic, a change was taking place in the cup that had been floating still in the air.
Black powder falls from the glass with a clicking sound. An inorganic substance made of an apparently unknown metal was wriggling and drying up as if it were alive.
The feeble will emanating from the cup makes her body tremble. Not enough, not enough, hungry, more. But maybe I’m the only one who felt this, and the others didn’t respond.
[Can’t you feel it? What does that mean?]
[What are you talking about? I don’t feel any mental waves.]
No, looking back, the only thing I couldn’t feel was the holy sword. Cream looked the same as before, but her hand was clenched so tightly that her dainty fists turned white.
Even in the meantime, the glass is getting dry little by little. Just like a fish out of water can’t breathe properly. Watching that scene, I instinctively exerted my strength.
[You?]
[Stay still.]
In addition to the members of the Dark Church, in the dungeon where the black cup was placed, there were monsters who kept their souls in their bodies. The bitten spirits that had slain and absorbed them were finally set free.
Because the damage is so severe, all of the individual’s self and memories are completely erased, and things that cannot even be made into ghosts. Whitish smoke with no definite shape gurgled from my blade.
And things that obviously have no will flow in one direction as if they are being led by something. Of course, there was a black cup at the end of the procession.
[Crazy, how much do you eat?]
An overwhelming flow of power that even I, who pride myself on manipulating souls, cannot carelessly interfere with. The flow stopped only after sucking up all the souls obtained in the dungeon.
I was horrified, thinking that even I would be absorbed. Unlike before, the glass that swallowed all the souls was full of colorful decorations and grotesque intaglios, and even came alive.
[This absurdly ominous aura…]
Besides, he released his momentum as if he had nothing to cover. Of course, it was ominous only to the Holy Sword, and felt extremely familiar to me.
Cream also took a step closer as if possessed by Jean’s appearance, but soon regained her senses and stepped back. I opened the status window once again and looked at the information on the glass.
– Holy Relic: Cup of Darkness
– Rating: God
– Description: One of the four holy relics sent down by the evil spirits. Darkness that never dries is always full. Those who drink the contents will have eternal life in their hands, but instead…
– Function: baptism of the night
The moment I saw that information, I felt that my guess was confirmed.
I wondered why such a disaster occurred in Hairer, but what the Dark Church was aiming for in the first place was not a mere rural nobleman, but a warrior who stole the holy relic.
I don’t know why the demon contractors sided with the Dark Church, but they dug a trap to kill the hero here and waited. Although that ended up completing the holy relic.
The completed holy relic is now in the hands of the hero and no one else.
*
“Haa, master, no matter how much you leave me behind.”
Cream was swept away by the cocoon, but Choco, knowing the ignorance of her master, didn’t worry at all. She grumbled and kicked the dirty floor.
Even if she sticks out her mouth and shows a pout, there is not even a master to soothe her. In the end, Choco walked around the inside of the alienized castle with a sad expression resembling her master.
Since most of the clothes were torn during the hasty transformation, it was roughly dressed in the clothes of the dead that were rolling around. Of course, it was a mess.
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“Prepare for battle! It is a monster!”
“What?”
That’s why I couldn’t help causing misunderstandings.
The moment Choco turned around the tower of rubble and came out of the corner, he ran into a group of people clad in shiny silver armor. Among them, her face distorted at the words of the woman who seemed to be her leader.
“What now?”
“The momentum is unusual. It even seems to copy people’s voices, so everyone be careful not to be deceived!”
Of course, Choco hadn’t thought at all about her clothes drenched in her blood and intestines, her claws protruding sharply in preparation for her battle, and her fighting spirit. .
She was filled with heartache because her master had left her to fight an interesting enemy, but the moment her knights pointed their weapons at her with refined posture, Choco’s last patience was cut.
“Kwaaang!”
Letting out her cute cry, Choco rushes at her at a bloody speed that is not cute at all. The moment the leader raised his shield in panic, the little beast stepped over it and lightly jumped up.
The beast’s hunting method is simple, but not ignorant. The knights who formed a solid formation were difficult opponents to break through head-on, but Choco knew an easier way.
Brightly step on the square and run, avoiding the swords that grazed your ankles and biting the most vulnerable part. Choco, who made a light swallow in the air, reversed and landed on the weakest-looking knight.
“Aagh!”
Explosive strength emanating from the small body, the armor of the knight dented in the shape of a fist, and the fallen knight’s body entangled with his colleagues around him, causing the square to collapse in an instant.
A turtle hiding in its shell is tricky, but a turtle with an upturned stomach is just an easy prey. The moment Choco is about to explode wildly in earnest.
“Wait, isn’t that the hero’s colleague?”
Her body stopped at the sound of her voice. It doesn’t matter if it’s a knight or something, but it’s different when it comes to her master.
As her ferocity subsided and reason raised her head again, the words of her coffee that she had called and asked before she left came to her mind. Did she tell her master to keep quiet and not disturb her?
“Chit.”
What did the old man say? But Choco, her excitement broken, docilely put her fingernails in. As she hopped out of the crowd of her knights, they pulled together the broken formation.
“Why did the hero’s companions lead us…?”
“You guys attacked first!”
“Oh, sorry.”
Although she is a cute girl on the outside, the power she showed was overwhelming. When the young knight couldn’t get enough of Choco’s words, the leader who was worse than he was eventually stepped forward.
“·······Apologizing for rash actions. By the way, can you find out where the hero is? Even our colleagues.”
The wounded were left in the camp with the holy sword, and the knights were on their way to the next floor. But before they could go far, the entire castle suddenly shook and collapsed.
In the process, some of my colleagues went missing, and in the end, only the leader and seven knights gathered and wandered around the collapsed castle. That’s when I came across Choco.
“I don’t know.”
However, in fact, Choco was no different.
“I can’t help it.”
In the end, Choco joined them and started wandering around the castle. But they are all martial artists. It may be possible to break the head of an enemy with excellent physical ability, but I was ignorant of this mystery.
With the combination of indefatigable stamina, he just continued to shovel the whole time. When the thought that there is no answer comes to their heads as it is.
“Over there!”
Choco, who has sensitive senses, was the first to discover it. Whether it was the aftermath of the fight or something else, a corner of the ceiling that had been thumping earlier had collapsed.
Of course, but even so, the height was too high, so there was no way to do this…
“What?”
“Don’t you think the ceiling height is lower than before?”
The knights whispered. Even they noticed it now. It wasn’t just the ceiling. The whole space was shrinking very little.
The grotesquely distorted space slowly regains its original form. If she waited like this, she could have just walked upstairs, but Choco didn’t have that kind of patience.
“Hey!”
“What happened?”
“Throw me!”
Choco approached the leader and demanded it. Her general manager, who was momentarily taken aback by her excessive fastball, soon understood what she was saying.
Choco is the lightest and fastest among those gathered here. Compliant with her request, the captain grabbed Choco by the ankle and started spinning her around.
And throw. A small brown beast flew through the hole in search of its master.
*
[So how do I handle this?]
“Okay.”
[We have to destroy!]
Yes, it is good to know the cause and effect of this incident, but the problem comes next.
An evil god’s relic that appears to have regained its full strength. Of course, its value is immeasurable, but it is somewhat difficult for us to write.
If you drink it, it will give you eternal life. It’s even more absurd to let it fall into the hands of others.
Those who are sufficiently stained with evil will be able to draw out the power contained in the cup of darkness. In the end, as the holy sword said, breaking it is the cleanest way…
[So how do you break it? Will it break if I hit it with you?]
[······However, the holy relics are not that easy. I guess I’ll have to go see this one before instead.]
[But we’re not on good terms with them.]
In addition, items that contain ego cannot be carried in subspace. Just as Cream always carries the holy sword with me, the cup is now in a similar state.
He doesn’t reveal his will, but there is a piece of the soul of an unknown person in that cup. Is there really no way?
At that time.
“Wow!”
Something jumped out from a corner of the floor where I wasn’t paying attention, screaming grotesquely. Then, he started rolling on the floor.
Wait a minute, the presence is a bit familiar… However, before he could continue his thoughts, the ball rolled with enormous momentum collided with the cream.
Cream was holding me just in time. Cream’s arm, which had been staggering from the shock of receiving the ball, swung wildly, and my blade touched the glass.
[Huh?]
It seemed that the world stopped for an instant. Was it an illusion?
The next moment, the glass was broken and scattered. It wasn’t clearly a cut or a strong blow, but just by touching the blade, the glass shattered arbitrarily, and the darkness that remained in it welled up.
Cream tried to grip her handle tighter, but her unknown force worked and forced her to let go of her hand. Right after that, darkness fell over me.
“Ka・・・・・・!”
A shrill scream that I have never heard from someone who has always been dull and emotionless.
But that was it. Soon my mind was swallowed by darkness.