Episode 64.
After hearing my introduction, the paladin exclaimed in admiration.
“The Colosseum in the Empire is ranked 5th. You’re amazing. Besides, black mercenaries.”
“hahahaha.”
I laughed awkwardly.
“Nice to meet you. My name is Cesc, a lower paladin.”
“nice to meet you.”
“But no matter how great your skills are, the undead will be difficult.”
Oh, it doesn’t matter.
My weapon, the exorcism sword, has a thread that can ward off demons.
And it’s also effective against the undead.
“My weapon is strong against undead.”
“Are you a holy thing?”
An object with holy power.
Well, it’s a mix of things like that.
“I think it’s a holy thing to some extent.”
“I’m glad.”
Cesc is genuinely happy.
I said it again.
“It’s busy at 1:00, so let’s leave right away.”
“all right.”
I looked at the skeletons coming from the entrance of the dungeon.
A stench wafted from among the skeletons, where nothing but bones remained.
‘Is this the smell of a rotting corpse?’
Before pulling out the exorcist sword, I used telekinesis to thinly wind the thread around the blade from within the scabbard.
Cesc came up to me with the news.
“Everything is ready. If you rush in right away, I will follow you.”
“What about supplies…?”
Perhaps the three people behind Cesc are the people who will follow.
However, they did not seem to have any supplies in their hands.
At least there was only one person holding the bag.
“Oh, it’s in that bag.”
Are you kidding me?
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No, wait.
“Subspace pouch.”
“Yes, that’s right. You’d better leave now.”
I haven’t heard their names yet.
Well, it doesn’t matter if you ask in the dungeon.
“Then, follow me.”
“Hey, but is that a sacred object?”
Seeing my exorcism sword, Cesc put on an awkward expression.
It must be a bit difficult to see jet-black as a holy thing.
However, the effect was certain.
“It may not be a holy relic, but it works well against the undead. Trust me.”
“yes···.”
And as if to prove it, he proceeded to the entrance of the dungeon, slicing through the pouring skeletons with a single knife.
Soon after arriving at the entrance of the dungeon, I realized one thing.
“There are two entrances.”
The entrance was exactly divided into two places.
One is the front, the other is the way down to the basement.
Skeletons continued to pour out on the way down to the basement, so it was unreasonable to head there.
Cesc said.
“When we first discovered it, there was no way down underground. There will probably be an advance party on the road ahead.”
He moved forward while slashing the skeleton.
And the moment I went inside beyond the skeleton, I suddenly felt comfortable.
‘The skeleton won’t attack?’
The skeletons didn’t care about us arriving inside.
It just kept going out the door.
I said looking at Cesc.
“Um… that’s amazing.”
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Not a single skeleton was thinking of going inside.
This is a heterogeneous thing.
“Looks like the advance party has moved forward.”
Well, I wouldn’t have dared to go back.
How could he ever think of going out again after passing through those numerous skeletons?
Besides, if you go out once, you will suffer even more when you come back.
“How many hours has it been since the advance party entered?”
“About a day has passed.”
day···?
“Then, the food the advance party has is…”
“Well, I would have brought snacks or water, but there is no food.”
That would be exhausting.
I said while looking at Cesc and the others.
“Let’s move on.”
On the way, we found several places where the advance party was supposed to have stayed.
“Um… I went so far in one day.”
“It seems that the advance party, who noticed that they were trapped, tried to catch the lich as quickly as possible.”
hmm···.
I thought about it for a while.
I had a reasonable suspicion that there might be a lich in the basement where the skeletons were pouring in.
“Wouldn’t it be in the basement where the skeletons are coming out?”
“It is not.”
Segq said.
“Why? I don’t think skeletons would naturally form like that.”
“I figured out the structure of the dungeon before entering. Of course, I also figured out that there is an underground.”
“Then, that skeleton…”
“It wasn’t there at the time. Rather, the basement is a dead end. Besides, the space is small. So I thought it was a trap.”
then.
As Cesc guessed, there must be a lich at the end of this road.
However, there was one curious thing.
“But I don’t see any monsters.”
The outside must be struggling with skeletons right now.
So far, not even a skeleton has appeared.
“In the first place, that skeleton… is it true that the lich is creating it?”
Skeleton and Lich.
It’s not perfect, but it fits perfectly.
Even if the lich summons a skeleton, it’s believable.
But is it true that the lich summoned the skeleton?
“You are well aware that a lich uses magic, but to say that he even uses summoning magic…”
Summoning magic is also used by a small number of black magicians.
“As proof of that, there are no skeletons on the way to the lich right now.”
Something other than the lich must be summoning the skeleton.
Cesc looked at me anxiously.
“If that’s true, who would do something like this to help a lich and hinder us for what purpose?”
A guy popped up in my mind.
‘devil.’
If you are a demon who is playing a game with Ephinia, you can do it.
But it was also too speculative.
‘That’s right, it’s because I escaped from the devil’s watch.’
If you think about it again, the devil is also an intelligent body that thinks.
I’m sure the devil could also easily expect us to find the lich’s dungeon.
That’s probably why he messed with the lich’s dungeon.
Well, maybe I’m thinking too deeply.
Skeletons were simply summoned by the lich, and those numerous skeletons must have been the result of the mana they had collected.
cooong!
Explosions were heard in front of us.
Cesc and I met eyes once, and immediately ran.
The street where the explosion sounded was not that far, so we arrived quickly.
“It seems to be over here.”
Cesc, who was next to him, looked at the door and said.
huge stone gate.
Vibration continues to be felt from the stone gate.
I got my ears.
‘It looks like this place is certain.’
It’s subtle, but you can still hear the explosion.
It seemed impossible to open the stone gate with the current number of people.
‘If it’s this level of seokmun…’
I guess I can break it.
I immediately poured mana into the sword and fired a secret skill.
When the mana mass collided with the stone gate, white dust rose.
“Come on in!”
When the dust cleared, there was a hole that people could pass through.
I took the lead and entered the stone gate.
“hmm···.”
There were no starters there.
‘Of course not.’
The advance team departed about a day ago.
I heard that the number of people in the advance party was about twenty.
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No matter how slow the advance was, the distance between us would have widened quite a bit.
I looked behind me and saw that everyone had entered the stone gate.
“Anyway, the cause of the vibration seems to be the lich.”
A man in priestly clothes next to Cesc had said.
“then···.”
Are you saying that the advance party is fighting the lich right now?
Cesc and I hurried to the source of the vibration.
Several explosions were heard along the way.
A man in priestly clothes pointed to a small stone gate.
“Here it is. There, demons and divine powers collide.”
Being this close, I could feel it too.
‘Divine power and magic.’
The undead use magic.
Demons also use magic.
Might there be some connection?
‘And it’s warm… what should I say?’
Mana basically feels warm.
Divine power was mixed with warmth.
‘I can’t express it in words, but this must be noble.’
I opened the small stone door and entered.
The situation that unfolded before my eyes was a battle situation.
Richie and the vanguard were confronting each other.
Several magic circles floated in Lich’s hand, and magic continued to flow out.
The leader of the vanguard shouted.
“Everyone, wake up!”
The advance party was huddled together to block the lich’s magic with a transparent membrane.
Cesc exclaimed.
“I’m here to help!”
At Cesc’s cry, the lich and the advance party looked at us at the same time.
Richie started to let out an odd laugh.
The leader of the advance party called out to us.
“Avoid!”
And at that moment, the lich’s magic poured down on us.
Faster than that, I sprinted forward.
‘I can feel the magic in magic.’
He swung an exorcism sword wrapped in thread.
The moment the magic and the sword met, the magic scattered and disappeared.
‘also···!’
Step by step, I moved forward cutting through the magic.
It was a lich with only bones left, but it was said that he was embarrassed.
-You are the enemy that ‘he’ spoke of!
If it is ‘him’.
It seems my prediction is correct.
“The devil’s servant is here.”
I had never seen Richie, but he was very different from what was written in the books.
In the book, it was not written that the demonic spirit was overflowing like that lich.
Either the book is wrong, or that reach is unusual.
I guess I’m on the latter side.
– ‘He’ predicted that you would come.
A large magic circle was drawn above the lich’s head.
‘no way···?’
Obviously, that is a summoning magic circle.
However, it was different from the pattern of the devil playing the game with Epinia.
The summoning magic circle opened and a familiar head appeared.
“That’s…!”
It was the look I knew.
It was the appearance of the devil I dealt with in Lugi Village.
cattle with horns on their heads.
However, there was one thing that was different from before.
There were shattered wounds all over the body, starting with the face.
said the demon with a mean laugh.
-It’s been a while.
The devil’s reaction convinced me.
It wasn’t like the demon I dealt with, it was him.
– It’s been a while since I saw you, so my wounds are sore.
“How are you alive?”
Obviously, it was sent back to the demon realm in pieces.
Even the devil couldn’t have survived.
– Now you can introduce yourself.
The devil reached out.
Then, a greatsword appeared in the air.
– The demon of resurrection, called Revive.
“The Devil of Resurrection…?”
I heard that demons have different roles.
If that demon is the demon of resurrection.
“Is it possible to resurrect in that state!”
– Except for the fact that the wounds still haven’t healed because of your f*cking sword, I’ve been perfectly resurrected.
Revive grabbed the greatsword that had formed in the air.
-And I descended again to kill you. Even making a deal with the devil of the book.
The devil in the book that Revive is talking about must be the one playing the game with Ephinia.
Revive grabbed the greatsword of the air.
And he swung right at me.
A huge demonic storm came.
“Keuugh….”
I salivated and made a wall out of thread with telekinesis.
It was because of Cesc and the others behind me.
The wall between Magi and Sil collided.
I shouted at Cesc and the others.
“Join the advance party quickly!”
Dealing with Revive and protecting Cesc and his friends is next to impossible.
It would have been better if I had joined the advance team.
“all right.”
Cesc and the others cautiously joined the advance party.
I said while looking at Revive.
“Don’t knock me down again. Advance corps, please be rich.”
The revival rushed at me with a flash of light.