Demon-infused Book – 1
“No, how the hell did I bounce something like this?”
After clearing the headless ironclad cavalry, I whimpered and moved the cavalryman’s spear to the horse. I was planning to use this huge spear and the severed head as proof of subjugation.
He did not just wield such a heinous weapon, but wielded it with all his might while on a horse.
If it had been real, wouldn’t it have bounced off the moment it hit and flew through the air with the whole weapon.
The horse waited patiently for me, standing where I had tied the reins. After brushing his mane a few times, he slung his weapon next to the saddle. On the other side, a severed horse head was tied.
Even though both of them were weights that I had to whine and lift, the words seemed to be unaffected.
‘Once it’s one.’
He jumped on the horse and grabbed the reins. Although he had cleared the headless ironclad cavalry, it was not yet time to return to the knights. Is there anything left to do before that?
Finding something to lure the lord away.
I rode my horse to a nearby mountain. This time, too, it ate nearly half a day only on the move.
When we set off, the sun was definitely above our heads, but when we arrived at our destination, it was passing over the horizon with a scarlet sunset.
After tying the horse back to a nearby tree, I approached the huge rock. Behind this huge rock was the entrance to the dungeon I was looking for.
If you play the game in a standard way, you will only find out the secret behind this after halfway through the story. Until then, there was nothing to come here in terms of story in the first place.
I don’t know if you don’t progress the story and just do subquests.
But if you already knew the secret, getting inside was simple. I took out a round stone from my pocket. It was an item dropped by a headless ironclad cavalryman.
This is the key to unlocking the entrance to the dungeon, but a wild horse grazing on the road accidentally swallowed it together, and was consumed by its power, creating a headless ironclad cavalryman.
I picked it up and walked to the back of the rock, picking up the overgrown grass around me. In the game, you have to burn it with fire magic to reveal secrets, but now you can remove at least grass without burning it.
Digging all the grass revealed something under the dirt floor. It was a stone slab with a round hole in the middle and complicated characters engraved on both sides.
The text written on both stone slabs was a warning. Roughly summarized, ‘if you can read this letter, don’t break the devil’s seal’.
‘It’s not particularly useful, though.’
In the first place, those who want to explore something by coming to this place located at the end of the empire will not back down after seeing a warning like that.
I inserted the item dropped by the headless armored cavalryman into the round hole in the slate. Items fit snugly without any gaps. The stone slab then emitted a pale white light.
I stepped back a little and observed the rock. The rock rumbled and vibrated, cracks forming in the surface. The cracks that started at the bottom grew bigger and soon spread to the entire rock.
Not long after, the rock collapsed with a gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Broken pieces of stone rolled down the hillside. Dust rose nearby.
‘finally.’
He waved his arms to scatter the dust. At the spot where the rock collapsed, there was an entrance to the dungeon that was exactly large enough for one person to enter. The thing I was looking for was in this.
After confirming that there were no monsters nearby, I returned to my horse and took a torch from the saddle.
In the game, if you just put it in the quickslot and turn the mouse wheel to take it out, it would come out on fire, but now, of course, that couldn’t be the case, so I had to light it myself.
It was the first time I had ever used a flint, and after a bit of fuss, I managed to catch fire.
‘Why are there no lighters when there are air conditioners, fans, and fluorescent lights?’
Is it because it is a world where fire magic exists?
Holding a torch in his left hand and a bloody sword in his right hand, he stood in front of the dungeon entrance. A bag filled with food was also tied around her waist in case of an unexpected situation.
It was a dungeon of moderate size only in the game, but now I don’t know how big it has changed. Just as the time it took to get to the headless ironclad cavalry boss field increased dramatically.
I entered slowly. The smell of mold peculiar to the old space hit me hard.
‘What’s different from the game is… … It doesn’t look like it.’
I don’t know if there are differences on the inside, but on the outside, it looked the same as the game. I continued walking down the aisle.
A long time ago, this was the place where the priests and paladins of the Holy Kingdom engaged in a bloody battle with a certain demon, failed in subjugation, and sacrificed their lives as a second best solution to seal the cave itself.
That was the reason why the warning not to break the seal was engraved. If a demon so powerful that the Seongguk failed to subdue it was released to the world again, what kind of catastrophe might come?
However, there was one fact that Seongguk misunderstood about the devil. That is, the demon sealed here also suffered tremendous damage while blocking the attacks of priests and paladins.
The flesh of his whole body was broken into pieces and scattered all over the dungeon, and his body was purified by divine power, but he succeeded in retreating the priests and paladins after struggling all over the place, but the wounds suffered by the devil himself were also serious.
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Most of the power has been dissipated, reaching a level that cannot be restored naturally, so even though a wild horse on the road swallowed the key to the seal, it has not been able to break the seal.
Therefore, in order to prevent it from being unavoidably destroyed and returned to Hell, it was waiting for the day when someone would come in and release the seal while nestled in a book.
If Seongguk had known that, he would have hung on to the end even if he had to sacrifice more. It was a pity.
‘… … You can hear the story later.’
Even that, directly to the devil himself who was sealed here.
It was one of the other characteristics of Brunet 4. One quest could be cleared under various conditions, so it was necessary to play multiple times to see all the stories.
ㅡuuuuuu……
From the other side of the cave, a loud moaning sound could be heard. He drew his bloody sword. It was a start.
From there, making a uh-uh-uh-uh sound, something staggered toward me. All of his flesh was rotting away, he was wearing armor that was all rusted out, and he was holding a sword with all his teeth missing.
It was the corpse of a paladin who had fought demons here before. The corpses were resurrected as dead, with the flesh of the demon scattered in pieces sticking to them one by one.
Even though he was now in the shape of a rotten corpse, the dead stood upright as if to show off the fact that he was a paladin in the past.
I, too, leaned the torch on the floor to my right for a while, and gripped the bloody sword with both hands. The dead paladin raised his sword high above his head and lunged forward.
He rolled to the right to escape the attack and swung his sword at his side. His battered sword collided with the floor and banged! The sound echoed through the cave, and at the same time, the side burst open.
He turned and charged again, not caring at all whether his side had been cut off or not. This was the annoying point of the dead mob. Even if you get hit, you won’t be stunned at all.
Unless it was a huge attack that would blow away the body itself, like an oversized hammer or oversized sword, I didn’t get any rigidity from normal weapons.
For general weapons, it was convenient to think of it as always applying super armor.
ㅡTeoong!
‘But parrying doesn’t work.’
After exchanging a few deflection workshops, seeing that his movement slowed down, I took out a small shield in my left hand and deflected the swinging sword.
As his body staggered with a cheerful thump, I thrust the bloody sword into his throat and twisted it.
Thuduk, the head rotated 180 degrees, and with the sound of flesh tearing, it spun around and was ripped off. The headless body struggled with its arms and collapsed, and the bodyless head crackled at its mouth.
It’s called ‘Battle Fatigue’, but I wondered why battle fatigue was piled up on the dead, who were already corpses, but I didn’t want to ask unnecessary questions. I just use it because it’s possible.
I picked up the torch I had parked beside me and tapped the corpse with my foot to see if the item I was looking for had been dropped. But nothing really stood out.
‘Tsk, is this nonsense?’
I guess I will have to wander around here for a while. If you’re lucky, there are cases where two girls you meet for the first time can drop one by one and go straight to the book.
I could hear more of the corpse being thrown from the other side. well, that was fine All you need to collect is two. You can get 2 of these in just a few minutes.
In the past, when I had to collect all 100 of them to break an achievement, I almost threw a mouse, but compared to that time, it wasn’t a big deal.
ㅡuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…
This time, two dead in priestly clothes walked out. He set the torch aside again and grabbed the bloody sword with both hands.
Originally, the basic of all gacha is to run until it comes out.