Chapter 116. Markut
“good job. Gaos.”
Aaron stroked Gaos’s head roughly.
Gaos just frowned as if he had given up, but didn’t resist.
After dealing with Varus, the situation moved quickly.
The party dealt with all the pope’s tricks informed by the apprentice priest Mace, and Vinkel persuaded those who were seduced by their words to become allies.
“Wouldn’t it be better to kill them all?”
Gaos asked while looking at the busily moving people.
The priests were busy cleaning the messy temple, and the paladins were gathering the executed traitors in the backyard and burning them.
It is obvious that if one of them contacts the Holy See, things will become complicated.
It was better to kill him and block his mouth than uselessly embracing him.
“Some people have already left.”
“You said you got out? In which gap?”
“Around the time you and Winkel deal with Varus. You noticed that things were wrong.”
Around the time of the great commotion at the banquet hall, Aaron felt someone heading towards the back door of the temple.
They rode their prepared horses and fled as fast as they could, before the hunt for the mantle began.
“You mean you left me alone knowing that?”
Gaos narrowed his brows.
If he had noticed they were running away, he would have been able to catch them, but Aaron didn’t.
How can a guy who always behaves shrewdly show such a lax appearance?
I couldn’t understand.
Aaron looked at him with an indifferent face.
“I sent you on purpose. Go to Zeroth.”
“on purpose? What good does the Pope know?”
If it became known that the archbishop was on this side, the pope would undoubtedly find another way.
Before they even left Oddhaken’s territory, they were attacked on a large scale by fake troops, and they didn’t know what other dangers would come after they left.
“no. Quite the contrary.”
Aaron laughed at Gaos’ serious expression.
“The Archbishop is on our side, so the Pope can’t touch us.”
“What are you talking about? Why can’t you touch me?”
“An archbishop is a nobleman who has the rank of a grand duke or higher. What do you think will happen if it becomes known that the Pope tried to kill such a person?”
The evidence that the pope tried to kill Vinkel is overwhelming.
Not only the apprentice priest Mace, but also the Pope’s secret letter that Barus had hidden, so he could spread this fact to other regions if he wanted to.
“Moreover, by attacking Vinkel, the pope put the saintess in danger. If Vinkel had died, he would have laid the blame on us, but not anymore. You have to hit us now, but it will only make it narrower.”
“… … Aren’t you the kind of person who would stay quiet like that?”
Gaos, who was thinking hard, pouted his lips.
The Pope is a man who can do anything for the Church.
Things got a little messy, but one of the archbishops couldn’t stand still in fear.
Aaron nodded.
“of course. Now that I know the whip won’t work, I’m going to stick the carrot in.”
The Pope’s bold plan was completely thwarted the moment Aaron revived Vinkel.
Now that the tide of war has turned, he has only one card left: appeasement.
Killing Winkel, driving Oddhaken and Arnin into a corner, and correcting the saintess’ habits all failed, so now she will try to persuade her with words somehow.
“He’s in a hurry, so we just need to sleep here.”
Aaron tapped Gaos on the shoulder a couple of times and yawned as he entered the room.
* * *
‘You’re here.’
three days later Early morning just before dawn.
Aaron opened his eyes to the sharp energy he felt close by.
“Whoever is in charge of the sanctuary of Delor, come out and follow the guidance of the light.”
I was about to put on my clothes and go out when I heard a deep voice from the entrance of the main building of Daeshinjeon.
‘Who did they send?’
Aaron stretched and walked out the door.
At least in Delor, there is no one who can find the Archbishop’s residence so early in the morning and say such a thing.
In other words, the one who just threatened me was the person sent by the Pope.
I didn’t even come close, but if I could feel the presence, it didn’t seem like an ordinary strong person.
‘What, are you alone?’
Aaron, who came out first, twitched his eyebrows at the tall man standing alone at the entrance of the temple.
With neatly brushed platinum hair, he was wearing a white uniform with a star on his chest and a stylish coat.
Aaron knew what that costume meant.
The star on the chest is the symbol of the high priests of Zeroth, and the uniforms and coats are also the clothes they wear during ceremonies.
“Who are you?”
When Aaron appeared, the man asked with a hard face.
It was a high-pressure fight, but it didn’t feel particularly bad.
Rather than ignoring the opponent, an attitude of not knowing how to set an example.
It was a fresh technique.
“I am Aaron Oddhaken, son of Baron Oddhaken in western Delor. you are?”
“nice to meet. I am the first Divine Guard, Markut.”
“… … Divine Guard?”
Aaron narrowed his brows at the answer as stiff as a doll.
[90]
When I saw the level displayed above my head, my dry spit went over.
The Divine Guard are ten homunculus that appeared in the world with the Sephiroth’s scriptures.
It looks like a human, but it doesn’t eat, sleep, and has almost no emotions, so it’s more like a golem than a human.
In the game, it only started moving when a crisis hit the sacred ground of Zeros, but the reason why it came out now, when it was stable, was unknown.
‘Is there something written in the Bible?’
The fact that the Divine Guard came to such a distant place during the stable period means that there is a high probability that there is someone mentioned in the Bible among the party.
If the content was good, it would be of great help, and if it was bad, disaster would come.
‘… … what.’
Aaron, who was examining Markut closely, noticed something strange on the nape of his neck.
An eerie pattern of curled up snakes.
It was smaller than a child’s fingernail and could have been mistaken for an ordinary dot at first glance, but it was clearly visible to Aaron’s eyes.
[The sense of déjà vu is activated.]
[The memory of the 65th life, Paladin Darmion is brought up.]
My head was spinning as soon as I found the pattern, and memories of a disaster that happened in the Zeroth Church flooded in like a wave.
A snake pattern engraved on the neck of a young beggar in the corner of the Zeroth Church.
The pattern is transferred to the neck of the citizen who reached out to the beggar, and to the merchant who was talking with the citizen.
The merchant visits the temple as usual and prays to the goddess, and soon snakes coil around the necks of the Sephirot priests.
Disaster begins then.
Serious crimes such as murder and arson increase exponentially in Zeros, which boasted the highest level of security, and the temples and the Vatican in each district ignore them as if they were strangers.
The gaze that showed the city center of Zeros in chaos for a while changes direction at some point and illuminates the depths of the Vatican.
The most secret place of the Holy Land.
Snake patterns can be seen on the necks of the ten Divine Guards, and ominous laughter emanates from the last blackened Bible.
‘Damn it.’
After a while, he escaped from his memory and spat out swear words inwardly.
The bible, which should have been safe until the very end, was devoured by the demons.
“Markut?”
While Aaron was getting ready, the other party, who had finished preparing, came out of the temple.
“Why are the Divine Guard here… … .”
They were greatly embarrassed to see Markut waiting at the entrance.
It was only natural that the Divine Guard, which is hard to see even for the priests residing in Zeroth, had come this far.
“Archibishop Vinkel. Saint Nesti.”
Markut looked at Winkel and Nesti with a nonchalant face and put his hand on his waist.
“According to the will of the Light, I will execute you.”
Sureureung!
At the same time as the sound of drawing out the sword, Markut’s model disappeared.
Caang!
The next moment, with a harsh metallic sound, sparks flew in front of Nesty’s eyes.
“… … !”
Nesty realized belatedly what had happened and sighed.
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Markut and Aaron were fighting with their swords facing each other.
“Kuk!”
A moan escaped from between clenched teeth.
[Minor fractures occurred in both wrists.]
[HP decreases by 6%.]
Enormous strength to the point of being injured even while wearing the Turisaj rune as a passive.
Indeed, he was the guardian of the Bible.
“Markut. What is this?”
Aaron asked calmly, holding back the throbbing pain.
“I am carrying out the will of the light. Do not interrupt.”
Markut said with only his mouth moving with an expressionless face as usual.
A pattern the size of a fingernail engraved on the nape of his neck wriggled grotesquely.
‘Belial.’
That is the mark of Belial, who is called the lord of immorality.
A spirit demon that instills a disease called immorality into human emotions and makes them feel pleasure the more they do wrong things.
When I recalled the memories of a while ago, the laughter that flowed from the bible was his.
‘How did he eat the Bible already?’
Belial is a demon that is relatively easy to deal with as long as you manage your morality well.
In order for it to devour the Bible, as I saw in my memory, all the priests of Zeroth must be gripped with a sense of immorality, but now, no harbingers of it have appeared.
‘no way.’
No, come to think of it, there are more conditions that can encroach on the Bible.
When high-ranking priests, who should have greater integrity than normal priests, are engulfed in immorality, Belial can ride their hearts and access the scriptures.
The minds of the high-ranking priests are so hard that there is no room for them to break through, but someone recently made a crack.
‘It’s the Pope.’
Finding the culprit was easy.
The pope has to cooperate with the saint more than anyone else, but he is more sensitive to the saintess’ movements than anyone else because he has a political position in managing the church.
In the game, he had no complaints because he imprisoned the saintess and acted like a puppet, but now he was having trouble with her going out and making trouble.
He hates the weakening of the church’s power more than death.
He was under a great deal of stress because of the saintess who was not sure where he might go, but since the saintess sided with the dark elves, the church’s weak point, it was only natural that he felt immoral.
‘So he must have made such an ignorant plan.’
Killing an archbishop who has been devoted to the goddess for a long time and hiring fake soldiers is an idea that even the most obsessed pope would never do.
Belial does not exude demonic energy or has an ugly appearance, so most of the cases do not feel its existence even as it gradually deteriorates.
With the pope at that point, it was no wonder that the Bible was contaminated.
“This is not the will of the light. Markut. You are being deceived.”
Aaron, who finished his judgment, spoke in a low voice.
I was thinking of digging up information about the Vatican if the conversation worked.
“… … get out of the way I will not warn you twice.”
But Markut nicely ignored his words and threatened him.
‘Raguz. enchantment.’
Aaron gave up the conversation without a word and muttered to himself.
It was purely because of the Bible that Marquth became like that.
Now, far from the Bible, you should be able to restore it to its original state using runes.
Anyway, it was wrong to talk now, so I thought it would be better to subdue him first.
[Gives the power of a rune to Cosmos.]
[Spirit is reduced by 10%.]
A stream of blue air flowed from his hand and circulated around the pitch-black blade.
Chaeeng!
Markut swung his sword wide and retreated as if he felt an unusual force.
“For those who oppose the will of the light, there is only death.”
He muttered in a low voice and raised his sword high into the sky.
Then, the early morning sunlight that was beating down on the temple was sucked into his sword.
The temple area became dark for an instant, and darkness came.
A Divine Guard unique skill that enchants the surrounding light to the sword.
Originally, it was a skill to use with the support of the surrounding priests, but now there are no reinforcements, so it absorbed the sunlight in a hurry.
“… … .”
Aaron held the cosmos forward without a word.
In pitch-black darkness, a pure white blade was aimed at him.
‘Can I avoid it?’
No matter how much rune power and twilight swordsmanship were, the level difference of 40 could not be easily overcome.
In addition, the author was not a demon and could not use runes as a soul, so he had to deal with them purely with his natural strength.
tadak-
With the sound of kicking the ground, Markut’s model lengthened.
Got the card!
In the next moment, a sword engulfed in dazzling light pierced Aaron’s shoulder blade.
Only I am immune to magic
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