Episode 121. Tira and the Temple of Demons (6)
“I think… … .”
The two climbed the stairs to the third floor.
Tira looked at Hanson.
Hanson also had the same eyes as Tira.
“… … Whoever sees it is over there. It means ‘a room lit by moonlight’.”
Where the two eyes are directed at the same time.
It was a room at the end of the third floor, where moonlight soaked through the half-broken window frame.
Surprisingly, black energy shimmered and spread out from there.
“I think you should be careful.”
“… … yes.”
Hanson drew his sword again.
This time, two swords, including the sword he got from the boy.
Hanson transferred the divine power to two blades.
Whoa-!
Two swords shining brightly in the dark temple!
Hanson took the lead, holding a sword as bright as the moonlight.
Took.
Hanson pushes the door lightly with his tiptoe.
Then, along with a creepy sound, the inside of the ‘Moonlighted Room’ was seen.
“That… … !”
A large tombstone is stuck in the middle of the room.
Several layers of unknown ancient magic circles surrounded it.
Some of them rose from the floor and wrapped around the tombstone.
“That’s what I just saw! I guess this is what the barrier imprisoning evil spirits means!”
“… … I guess so. It seems like there is a problem.”
“… … Even I can see it.”
Magic barriers floating in the air.
One of the barriers glowing purple creaked in the air.
From the barrier, where one side of the gap was broken, magic flowed out like a broken hourglass.
“I have a feeling that if we don’t stop that, something big is about to happen, Hanson.”
“… … .”
Hanson nodded.
Ancient tombstones and magic barriers that look unusual to anyone.
One of them is on the verge of breaking.
What if the barrier is broken?
Imprisoned in that tombstone, the never-good thing will be released to the Pinas Archipelago.
I don’t know how much of an evil spirit it was, so I don’t know if even buildings were erected and the monks guarded it day and night.
The only thing I knew for sure was that I would never be released.
“… … Maybe the sun god sent us here.”
“It sounds like an extended interpretation.”
“No, definitely will. It’s also likely that the Harpy Pirates hid treasure here.”
“… … It is definitely an expanded interpretation.”
“Shall I try first?”
Two people who have mastered divine power control.
However, I have never learned about this ancient magic barrier.
Tira had also seen something similar in theology books.
However, the barrier that is about to break must be repaired somehow.
Hanson stopped Tira from taking a step forward.
“I will try first.”
chuck! chuck!
Hanson took hold of the two swords he was holding.
He transferred divine power to his fingertips.
It was an idea to connect the barriers that were about to break using divine power.
but.
pop!
“Kuh… … .”
The moment Hansson tried to approach him, the mana that was swaying around him bounced back.
Even though Hanson, who originally had tremendous physical strength, was wrapped in divine power.
Tira quickly ran to help Hanson.
“… … They say it’s an ancient evil spirit’s barrier, so it’s amazing.”
A magic barrier that is never easy to see.
Tira healed Hanson’s hand.
“I think I should bring a knife. It is unreasonable for the two of us to deal with a barrier like this.”
“… … I’ll try it too.”
Hanson shook his head.
“Didn’t you just see it? If the same thing happened, your body would be unbearable. I don’t even have the ability to heal you.”
“I will not come close. No, not quite close.”
“… … ?”
Tira slowly stands up.
She crossed her hands and smoked a holy light in her palms.
Then, very slowly and carefully, he approached the broken crack in the barrier.
Then an amazing thing happened.
Whoops-!
Holy Light’s divine power soars as it dances like a haze.
The tail of the halo lightly approached the gap in the barrier and began to seal the barrier as if it were stitching up a wound.
“… … !”
Hanson, who usually doesn’t talk much and doesn’t express emotions well.
Even that face was very surprised.
Suss, Susssss… … .
The divine power that slowly sealed the wound covered the stitched part like a bandage this time.
Then, as if they had done their part, they slowly dispersed.
The gap in the broken purple barrier was gone.
The ominous magic that seeped through the cracks had also disappeared.
“… … You’re a better priest than I thought, Tira.”
“I-I didn’t know this was going to happen either.”
“Does the sacred power of priests who have learned divine healing take on the tendency of healing and recovery by themselves… … .”
Hanson admired again.
Tired face, probably because Tyra used a lot of energy at once.
But there was a look of pride on his face.
“With this, the problem of evil spirits has been resolved, right? Even if other people visit this island, there will be no death or injury.”
“I hope so.”
Hanson got up and supported the tired Tira.
“Now, let’s go find only the hidden treasure. This island… … I don’t feel like staying long.”
“I’ve never seen Hanson talk so much.”
“… … .”
Tira looked up at Hanson and smiled.
Hanson saw Tira’s face.
In his field of vision, he saw an old stone slab that had fallen to the floor.
It was very similar to the slate with an adventurer’s interpretation found earlier on the first floor.
“… … I guess I’ll have to check that out.”
Hanson picked up the slate.
As expected, the ancient language was written on the front side, and the adventurer’s translation of the language into the language of the empire was written on the back.
Tira slowly read the tablet Hanson was holding.
“The curious monk who first touched the barrier… … He became an evil spirit because of the guilt of killing his comrades. His room is right next to the entrance on the first floor.”
“… … I don’t know why they bothered to record the location. The ancient demon barrier is on the third floor.”
“Now, wait a minute!”
Tira said with a contemplative face.
“You said that the devil’s soul seeped through the cracks and drove people crazy! That means, the devil didn’t kill people himself!”
“As written here, the monk who scratched the barrier in the first place must have had his soul become an evil spirit and killed the other monks.”
“Then even if the devil reattached the barrier of the sealed tombstone… … !”
“… … !”
Hanson opened his eyes.
“… … The evil spirits are still inside this temple.”
Kyaaa!
As if waiting, a terrible scream was heard.
The very first scream heard on the shore!
It was spreading from the first floor of the temple.
“The adventurer who translated this! That person came here too and went down to the first floor again! It wasn’t that I met an evil spirit on the first floor and was killed!”
The body of an adventurer who died on the first floor.
Tira remembered that appearance.
“Have you come this way and gone down again to meet the evil spirit?”
“yes! That’s it! furthermore… … !”
Tyra and Hanson.
The image of a boy appeared in their heads.
The same boy who gave me something to eat and told me to escape through the hallway on the first floor.
The two started running towards the stairs at the same time.
“aaa!”
A boy’s cry is heard, seized with fear.
Tira and Hanson run down the hallway on the third floor.
There was something in the eyes of the two people standing on the stairs leading to the first floor.
“hey! The room right next to the entrance! The door was closed when we came in!”
“… … It’s open now.”
“song!”
Hanson wrapped his thick arm around Tira’s waist.
Soon after, Hanson, who had condensed divine power in his leg, detonated it.
Kwaaang-!
Hanson was fired with a great sound!
The bodies of the two moved like arrows and reached the entrance room in an instant.
A terrible thing was going on inside.
“Aww… … Ahh… … .”
The boy’s body fell to the floor.
A dark, shimmering evil spirit clung to it, sucking something from the boy.
“Hanson!”
Chae Chaeng!
Hanson with his sword drawn.
He immediately attacked the demon, and the demon that sucked the boy’s soul also recognized Hanson.
Gyaaa-!
The evil spirit attacked Hanson while vomiting strange cries.
kang!
The moment Hanson’s sword and the evil spirit’s black claws met.
There was an unpleasant sound that sounded like metal colliding with each other.
Divine power is the power against all kinds of evil.
However, the evil spirit fearlessly attacked the sword encased in divine power.
“Keugh… … .”
Dozens of black arms sprouted from the demon’s body and scratched Hanson’s entire body.
Hanson, who has a sufficient amount of divine power not only in his sword but also in his body.
His body, which is harder than steel, was torn apart and red blood flowed.
“T-Tira! Take the boy and get out of the temple!”
“I can’t!”
“This evil spirit is no match for me! hurry!”
Hansson used all his strength to drive the demon into the wall.
An evil spirit that was so powerful that it would have been impossible to fight against at all without divine power!
Because it spent so many years here and consumed the souls of poor visitors, the evil spirits were dozens of times stronger than when they first bloomed.
That’s why even a strong combat priest like Hanson was at a loss.
“Holy Light!”
Tira squeezed out the remaining divine power and lit a healing light.
Tira’s Holy Light is an attribute of light that does terrible damage to the undead, the dead, and the evil spirits it is dealing with, not healing.
However, the evil spirit showed no sign of shrinking even with the appearance of Holy Light.
Then Hanson shouted again.
“Run away! Go get your sword!”
“I-I can’t do that!”
“If you stay here, everyone will die! hurry!”
“Ahh… … .”
Despair in Tira’s eyes.
The boy lying on the floor is about to pass out of breath.
As Hanson said, all three of them will die if they stay here.
But Tira didn’t want to give up on Hanson.
It was then.
“oh!”
Something flashed through Tira’s mind.
It was a very brief scribble I saw next to the corpse of an adventurer on the first floor.
[Burn]
A simple two-letter word.
It is a letter carved on the floor with the remaining power of the adventurer right before he died.
Tira quickly looked around.
‘It’s an evil spirit that doesn’t react to the Holy Light, so… … !’
What if something needs to be burned, but the demons don’t take damage from the Holy Light?
And according to the contents of the slate written in the ‘Moonlight Room’ on the 3rd floor?
‘The location of the monk’s room that first touched the barrier… … There must be a reason for recording that!’
Hanson’s life is at stake.
But Tyra was calmer than ever.
Because he knew that only he could turn the situation around.
Tira calmly looked around.
she found something
“… … !”
Soon after, Tira shouted as she ran.
“Hanson! Catch the demon!”
“Keuaaa!”
Hanson notices that Tyra is up to something.
He embraced the evil spirit with all his might.
It’s possible because it’s a body that has divine power!
The demon tried to tear off Hanson and tried to bite him in the neck.
and that moment.
“That’s Okay!”
A handful of Holy Light remained on Tyra’s palm.
That transfers to what Tyra found.
It was the white bone of a monk curled up in the corner of a room, dried like a mummy.
Pasut!
Kyaaa!
The demon that tried to bite Hanson.
Blue fire soars in its soul.
As the fire on the white bones grew stronger, the blue flames in the body also grew stronger at the same time.
and.
The mixture of white bones and evil spirits turned to ashes and scattered.