Episode 117. rather good
“Keuuugh!”
[Durability of Apophis has decreased by 27%.]
[Health has decreased by 32%.]
A sharp pang came along with a red warning message.
The impact was so strong that if it weren’t for the armor, the arm would fall off.
Bright red blood flowed through the pierced Apophis.
‘sh*t.’
The first time I rushed at it, I managed to block it, but after absorbing the sunlight, I couldn’t keep up with its movements.
Of course, I wasn’t the only one suffering.
The Cosmos, which he swung at his shoulder, left a big scar on his side.
Originally, I tried to use feedback after stabbing it in the stomach, but the movement was too fast and missed.
‘It bothers me.’
Aaron frowned.
If you do your best, there is nothing you can’t win, but there was no need to fight against just one person and endure the aftereffects.
“I’ll tie it up, so take care of it.”
Cheng Kang!
Aaron said that to the people behind him and threw the cosmos to the ground.
Then, with both hands, he firmly gripped the sword embedded in his shoulder.
“… … ?”
Markut twitched his eyebrows at Aaron’s eccentricity and tried to retrieve the sword.
However, the sword was deeply embedded in his shoulder, and he could not easily pull it out because he was holding it tightly with the gauntlet.
“Light!”
Nesty, who was waiting for an opportunity with a nervous face, clenched her fists and jumped forward.
Perong!
Soon, with the sound of leather bursting, Markut’s body was pushed backwards.
There was no damage at all because there was a big level difference, but thanks to him, he gave the party a chance to deal with it.
“going!”
“God’s wrath will strangle the feet of sinners!”
“Magic Spear!”
“Big vise interposing hand!”
As Markut stepped back, Rhaast immediately rushed in and blocked his movement, while Vinkel, Gaos, and Bares cast magic at the same time.
Shining thorny vines rose from the ground and strangled Markut’s legs, and dozens of magic spears and the fists of a house-sized giant pounded his body relentlessly.
“Aww!”
Markut struggled desperately to avoid himself, but the thorns of light that rose from the ground clung tenaciously to his legs and let them hang.
Even if his legs were intact, he would be able to move quickly and counterattack, but because his lower body was tightly held, he had no choice but to be exposed to magic in a defenseless state.
He resisted wielding his sword for a while, but gradually his movements slowed down and he eventually collapsed covered in blood.
“stop! stop! You can’t kill me!”
Aaron waved his hand at the party who kept beating the fallen Markut.
Bares and Gaos glanced at him, and finally reaped their magic.
“Certainly, wouldn’t it be better to kill him?”
“What if it happens again?”
“are you okay. Winkel. Tie him tight to stop moving.”
“It is.”
Vinkel moved the shining thorny vine and tied the fallen Markut tightly.
Although he was a lower level than Markut, the intensity of his holy power was beyond imagination, befitting his position as an archbishop.
“good.”
Aaron nodded in satisfaction and put a hand on his punctured shoulder.
“Raguz.”
[Heals the target area.]
[Spirit is reduced by 32%.]
When the power of the rune was blown into it, the gushing blood stopped like a lie and the throbbing pain gradually faded.
After healing, he picked up the Cosmos that had fallen on the floor and approached Markut.
“If you’re going to deal with us, you should have sent all of the Divine Guard, not just one. Did you check the Bible properly?”
“… … .”
Markut frowned at Aaron’s mocking words.
Even the most emotionless Divine Guard seemed to have no choice but to disparage the Bible.
Aaron looked down at him for a moment before gripping the sword in reverse.
Fu-wook!
In the next moment, the sword body glowing with blue light lodged itself in Markut’s stomach.
“feedback.”
[Release the power of the enchanted rune.]
As soon as he uttered the starter word, a blue flash exploded from the blade, and Markut’s mouth opened wide.
“Quaaagh!”
He screamed in pain and struggled desperately.
However, with his already battered body, he could not cut off Vinkel’s thorny vines.
“Ugh! Turn it off!”
As seconds passed, the snake pattern engraved on the nape of the neck wriggled, and the scream gradually changed to grotesque.
The Divine Guard never groaned no matter how much pain they suffered.
That was not the sound of Markut, but the sound of the fragments of Belial that ate away his mind.
“That… … !”
Vinkel, who had been looking at Markut with a complicated face, widened his eyes.
Dark demonic energy flowed from the area where Cosmos was lodged.
“Belial swallowed the Bible.”
Aaron frowned and murmured.
“Belial? Are you referring to that immoral lord?”
Gaos looked at Markut’s pattern and asked.
The one who is everywhere and nowhere.
A tricky demon who coils itself in the mind of the targeted intelligent body and eats it at any time when the mental power is weakened.
Like a colorless and odorless poison, it erodes the mind silently, and if not eradicated early, a catastrophe could have struck.
“The Bible has been eroded… It can’t be.”
Vinkel muttered, shaking his chin.
The Divine Guard is the last bastion of the Church of Light, which must be flawless until the very end, even the moment the Pope loses his life.
The fact that demonic energy flows out of their bodies means that the Bible has already been contaminated.
He knew what Belial’s mark was, and he knew that the bible had already been corrupted, but he shook his head incessantly.
“It can’t be, it can’t be.”
dump-
He continued to deny reality, but soon fell to his knees with a devastated face.
Contamination of the Bible means the downfall of the entire church.
The disease of immorality, which began in the heart of the Church, will soon spread like wildfire across the entire continent.
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“Ah, Sephiroth… … .”
“It’s not over yet, so don’t make a fuss.”
Aaron forced Vinkel to stand up.
At first glance, it seems like the worst has happened, but it turned out to be a good thing.
Originally, Belial had to contaminate the priests of Zeros, then the high-ranking priests, and finally the saints and the pope in order to be able to access the Bible.
In order to subdue it in the early stages, you need to find and purify the one whose main body dwells among the many priests of Zeros, but this time there is no need to do that.
Ironically, the Pope’s deviation, obsessed with a sense of immorality, made the attack easier.
‘I’ll have to move quickly.’
Of course, I couldn’t be all right.
If the bible is stolen by Belial, the spread of immorality accelerates beyond imagination.
If you wander around saying that the target has been revealed, you will find Zeros who has been eaten whole by Belial before you know it.
“Do you have any other thoughts?”
Bares asked while looking at the fallen Markut.
Aaron shook his head with a plain expression.
“no. The plan is the same.”
“… … Going to Zero even after going through this? Are you going to face Belial with less than ten people?”
Barres pointed at the party with an exaggerated gesture as if he was dumbfounded.
If Aaron’s words are true, this is no longer a matter of individuals or families.
Even if you canceled all your schedules right away and asked the kingdom for help, you were going to attack like this when it wouldn’t be enough.
It was a decision I couldn’t understand.
“If Belial ate the Bible, it’s only a matter of time before Zeroth is corrupted. It is too late to pursue this and that.”
“No, but… … .”
“Believe me. Your Excellency Count.”
“Please believe me. Count.”
As Bares tried to argue again, Raast and Nesti interrupted.
“… … The saintess, Yeha?”
Seeing the two fanatical eyes, Bares flinched and retreated.
Rhaast is a vassal, so that’s true, but why did even the saintess show this kind of appearance?
“Arthur. When it comes to your grandchildren, I believe in it and follow it almost like faith.”
Gaos clicked his tongue when he saw the flustered Bares.
It was realistic advice from someone who had seen them since Death Landing.
“okay. It won’t be difficult. As long as you treat Gaos well.”
Aaron nodded and looked at Gaos with a leaning eye.
“What are you talking about? Why am I again?”
Gaos frowned.
Aaron smiled silently and lifted the unconscious Markut on his shoulder.
“You will find out soon.”
* * *
“The Bible was corrupted a week ago.”
Inside the Great War, which had become quiet, Markut gave up luck with a hard face.
He, who was freed from Belial’s control under the influence of the feedback, informed him of the situation in the Vatican in detail before leaving Zeros.
“First the Divine Guard and the Pope were eaten, and the next day the Cardinals too. They probably don’t know that they were attacked by demons.”
The scary thing about Belial is that he constantly commits immorality without realizing his condition.
In order to escape Belial’s rule, he had to find the snake mark engraved on his body and dig it out himself, but very few people actually managed to do that.
“I’ve been curious from the beginning, are the Divine Guard originally so ruthless?”
When the story was over, Gaos looked at Markut disapprovingly.
Markut responded immediately.
“We pay respect only to the Goddess and those recognized by the Goddess. Whether the pope, the saint, or the beggar begging by the roadside, all are equal under the goddess.”
“Oops, yes. Your sh*t is thick.”
“I do not have a bowel movement. Little.”
“… … .”
Gaos just kept his mouth shut in response to a stiff answer with no emotion whatsoever.
I felt like if I continued to talk to this golem-like creature, my feelings would disappear just as well.
“All the cardinals were killed in two days… … .”
Aaron chewed on Markut’s words and stroked his chin.
Perhaps because it ate the Bible, the rate of erosion was beyond imagination.
In the current situation, in order to approach the Pope without any damage, the cooperation of the cardinals is needed, but if all the cardinals have already been attacked, it would not be easy to enter the Vatican.
“I never said that everyone was hurt.”
Markut grabbed Aaron by the tail.
Aaron looked at him with an enticing look.
“Is there a cardinal that hasn’t been eaten yet?”
“Cardinal Landis hasn’t been eaten yet. It’s because I went to another area and came back.”
“Landis?”
As soon as I heard the name, the face of a middle-aged man with a beard like a bandit flashed in my mind.
The memory of the character in the past, brought up through a sense of déjà vu, reminded me of the owner of the name.
‘Landis… Landis… … .’
However, even after repeating his name and face, it was not easy to draw what kind of person he was.
If you are a key character in an episode, you can quickly find out what kind of person they are just by thinking of their name, but the identity of an extra-class character can only be known if you see their face or have a clue.
“Are you Landis? Is he still alive?”
Unexpectedly, the clue came out of Nesty’s mouth.
She asked, overjoyed to hear that Landis hadn’t been beaten yet.
Aaron did not miss her words.
“Do you know him?”
“He’s the one who taught me how to fight.”
Nesty clasped her fists with a flash of color.
‘ah.’
As soon as I heard her words, the memory of Landis came to my mind as if a thick fog lifted.
Landis is the youngest of the Cardinals, and is so well versed in combat that he leads the Paladins and spearheads a war with the Demon Lord.
I heard that he had seen Nesty fight a lot, so it seemed that he had trained him.
‘I’ll probably die in the first battle.’
He is a fairly useful strategic resource, but unfortunately, during the first battle with the demon corps, he died heroically while helping the allied forces on the defensive.
I tried several times to attract him as a teammate after seeing his peculiar fighting with fists and feet, but each time he refused to join, so I just gave up and left him alone.
“Cardinal Landis will surely help us.”
Nesty continued with conviction.
Landis was a friend, teacher, and father who warmly embraced her when she came to the church without knowing anything.
If he knew the current situation, he would surely lend his strength without hesitation.
“good. Then let’s start there.”
Aaron nodded and looked at Markut.
“Tell me where Landis is.”
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