The price of slaughter (6)
A cliff located somewhere in the Everint region.
Below that, fully armed Paladins were busy moving.
They were soldiers of the Holy Land who had been summoned for the operation, led by Inquisitors dispatched to the southern regions of the Empire.
Leading them was an Inquisitor named Kelter, wearing an eye patch on one eye.
The Paladins, who received Kelter’s orders, continued their search in search of the infidels hiding around them.
“Look thoroughly around you! Traces of the enemies will be evident!”
Kelter gave orders to the Paladins and looked around.
It’s been over a month since I discovered the movement of the Church across the Empire and started pursuing it.
Kelter’s party executed 40% of them, and they were chasing the rest of the party.
A request for cooperation was also sent to stop those entering the Everint region, but for some reason, Inquisitor Albert was still motionless.
Unless support came, it was impossible to stop the fleeing heretics from the front.
In the end, it was Kelter’s sole responsibility to subdue the infidels.
Kelter frowned and watched the tired paladins.
“Why haven’t we heard from the other Inquisitors in Everint?”
Dissatisfaction with Albert erupted from Kelter’s mouth, which grew annoyed.
A considerable amount of time had already passed since the request for cooperation was sent through the temple.
If Inquisitor Albert was going to join, he should have come here earlier to stop the enemies.
However, the support force did not join, and even proper contact was not received.
It would not have been possible if the support request had not been explicitly ignored.
Quang!
Kelter angrily smashed a nearby tree, and his lieutenant clings to him with a puzzled expression.
“Kelter, don’t worry too much. I’m sure there will be news soon.”
“soon? When is that sooner or later? What good is the news after they’re all dead at my hands?”
“Ke, Kelter-sama…….”
“That’s why I said that if you want to hire a Heretic Inquisitor, you need to pick the right guys!”
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Kelter was furious and gritted his teeth while holding on to the reins.
In his view, most of the heretical inquisitors today were just idiots.
Considering the peculiarities of the heretic inquisitor, it is that they continue to lower the threshold in the holy land, where it is judged that the number of elites is insufficient even if only the elite are selected.
It was clear that such poor people had not yet been able to find proper support because they were wandering around with the title of Inquisitor.
Even by raising the standard, proper paladins must be selected as Inquisitors.
That was Kelter’s idea.
“Don’t you think so too?”
Kelter, who had been thinking about that, turned and looked at his lieutenant.
It was because the lieutenant, who had been joking at him, suddenly became quiet.
As Kelter turned his head like that, he saw the lieutenant covering his mouth.
The lieutenant looked at something and was shivering with a frightened face.
“What are you looking at?”
Kelter’s gaze followed the lieutenant’s.
Six steps from where he was standing.
It looked like a paladin was lying on the floor bleeding.
“Ugh…”
“Is it possible… have you been ambushed by the enemy? You said you knocked down a paladin without a trace?”
shudder.
Kelter found the fallen paladin and drew his sword straight away.
At the same time as Kelter drew his sword, the body of the fallen paladin became ashes and scattered.
A colleague was beaten without a sound or trace.
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Moreover, even the comrades who had been attacked had disappeared without a trace.It was a sight that an average level assassin could not create.
Kelter, who raised a sign of vigilance, pointed his sword and looked around.
“It’s low! Everyone be on the lookout!”
“Kelter-sama…….”
“Have you ever seen an enemy? Where is the enemy now?”
“From above… the enemy has come down from above…”
The lieutenant, who must have faced the enemy, was shaking and holding a sword.
The enemy came down from above.
Hearing the lieutenant’s story, Kelter’s eyes looked at the nearby cliff.
A sheer cliff existed at the top of the mountain where Kelter was standing.
It was a height that no human could ever jump from and survive.
It was virtually impossible for an assassin to come down secretly from such a cliff.
Hearing that the enemy had come down from above, Kelter frowned and spoke.
“Did you say the enemy came down from above?”
“Yes, yes! Obviously from above.”
“How did the enemy come down from above?”
Before Kelter could finish speaking his questioning the lieutenant, a black haze fell from the sky to the ground.
It fell at a speed that could barely be captured by the enhanced senses, and headed towards the paladin riding on the horse.
Kelter’s gaze naturally followed the haze and looked at the paladin who was holding the reins.
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Immediately after the haze landed on the horse, the sound of breaking bones resounded around them.
“Big… Heo Eok…!”
With a brief flurry, the paladin lowered his head.
Through the haze that wrapped around the paladin, faintly a human figure was reflected.
An unidentified man wearing a black hood was there.
thud!
The paladin in front of them rolled off the horse with a heavy impact sound.
The lieutenant who was observing the appearance of the fallen paladin opened his mouth by pointing his finger at the enemy.
“Ah, an assassin…!”
“Yeah, man! Stand there!”
Kelter found the assassin and immediately wielded his sword and approached the assassin who landed.
Kelter’s sword cut through the assassin’s place with a sharp force.
However, as soon as he approached the assassin, the assassin’s body became a shadow and scattered.
The assassin in front of him had disappeared without a trace.
Kelter’s eyes hovered in the air at the very bewildering sight.
Only then did he understand the lieutenant’s words.
The assassin came down from above, and disappeared again without a trace.
The body of the paladin who had been killed by the assassin turned into smoke and was scattered.
“Even the dead paladins, the foes who attacked them… have all disappeared without a trace.”
“·················ogue.”
“Kelter, it must have been an assassin sent by the Order to deal with us! I need to gather the scattered paladins right now……”
The terrified lieutenant’s voice rang out.
However, Kelter immediately sent a hand signal to shut the lieutenant’s mouth.
In silence, Kelter’s eyes scanned the perimeter of the cliff.
There were many places where people could hide.
It was a situation where you never knew when and where the hiding enemy would come out.
In the sudden silence, Kelter gave orders to his men.
“Be vigilant. You never know where the enemy may suddenly pop out.”
The moment Kelter’s words were finished, holding the sword.
A black haze fell from the sky again.
Kelter’s face hardened when he saw where the haze had risen.
The enemy appeared to be falling down from the top of the cliff.
This time a haze was falling towards the lieutenant who was next to Kelter.
The lieutenant, whose head was caught in the hands of the assassin in an instant, looked at Kelter.
He turned to Kelter for help with a terrified look on his face.
“Ke, K, Kelter, I… do not want to die…!”
“Calm down! There is an enemy behind you——!”
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Along with a quiet sound, the lieutenant remained silent, unable to even give a mortification.
That was the lieutenant’s last will.
Kelter bit his lip, looking at the lieutenant’s appearance as the powder flew away.
There was not even a chance to react against the enemy coming down in an instant.
Facing the enemy with his dagger in the haze, Kelter felt fear.
Kelter, a heretic inquisitor in the world, was terrified in front of an unfamiliar assassin.
“You are next.”
The assassin declared, pointing at Kelter with the tip of the finger holding the dagger.
slurp.
As before, as the assassin’s figure disappeared from his seat, Kelter’s sword was holding as much power as possible.
Kelter, who was left alone, sweated and looked around.
thud. thud. thud. thud.
A harsh heartbeat echoed clearly in Kelter’s ears.
Now, there was no paladin left to help Kelter.
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“Hmmm…”
Three days have passed since Daniel, who was praying, was selected as an apostle.
In the meantime, I have been constantly observing Daniel who was moving with the character Elliot.
First of all, he annihilated the elite monsters who had been chasing the followers of the church alone.
The sight of Daniel jumping off the cliff and erasing enemies one by one was a sight to see why he was called the silent butcher.
Those rescued by Daniel’s hands decided to remain in Daniel’s hiding place.
It was called ‘farm’ and it was the place where Daniel had dealt with the targets he had been collecting.
“The important thing for us is a calm mind. You have to be able to hold your breath and hold your breath in any situation.”
Those rescued by Daniel wanted to be reborn as assassins under his guidance.
It was entirely Roan’s plan to send some followers to Daniel to form an assassination squad.
Of course, it was only at the beginning that Daniel seemed to be refusing to teach because it was too much of a burden.
However, there was nothing I could do to leave Daniel who was rejected by me, who wanted to see him nurture an assassin.
I sent Daniel a private message and offered him a threatening request.
Daniel, who received a luxuriously wrapped request by a new translator, was educating the assassins in his own way.
– “And the best way to stay cool is to get used to taking lives.”
– “Getting used to taking life…”
The believers lined up in front of Daniel were all holding slaughter knives.
And in front of them were the livestock that Daniel had been raising one by one.
Daniel, who was going to teach assassination, is teaching the followers to slaughter.
He told his followers that this process was fundamental to everything.
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Maybe it was because I was being educated on something completely different from what I expected.One of the believers who was being educated also expressed dissatisfaction with Daniel.
– “Daniel. You don’t teach man-to-man combat, do you?”
– “······Yes.”
– “Why? Wouldn’t it be better to develop skills through face-to-face combat from the beginning?”
– “I have no intention of teaching assassination to those of you who can’t even properly kill livestock.”
However, Daniel shook his head and seemed to deny the story of the believer.
It was a story that I would not teach the advanced course to those who did not have the basics.
In order to assassinate, you must know how to kill properly.
I nodded my head in admiration at the way his theory was contained.
The first assassin training course I saw was more interesting than I thought.
“I think this is the way the assassins were educated.”
I don’t know to what extent this game preserves the historical evidence for assassins.
However, Daniel’s assassin course, which teaches how to handle livestock, was quite plausible.
If you learn everything from small things step by step, you can accomplish big things without any problems.
How to hold a knife and how to handle a knife.
How to pierce a knife without bleeding.
And even practice moving the knife quietly without making a sound.
The things Daniel taught were close to the basics that any assassin should know.
The textbooks he used were all useful, except for teaching them how to raise and care for livestock.
“After a few months, they will also become the denomination’s assassination unit.”
Watching the believers being educated under Daniel, I pictured in my mind what they would look like when they were fully grown.
I don’t think there will be as many assassins as many as Daniel in a short period of time.
However, if he had been taught by an assassin like that, even a little bit of his master’s fragment might have been buried.
If he could even handle various skills under the influence of ＜Divine Response Device＞, he would be able to do his part in battle, even if he wasn’t as good as an apostle.
It was a moment of anticipation for the future of the believers who were slaughtering meat under Daniel’s teaching.
“I can’t wait to see what it will be like when I become an assassin one day. And if the denomination’s troops all grow big, then maybe…”
The time will pass and the time will come when the power of the denomination will grow innumerable.
Just like the believers who use skills by accumulating enough sacred contribution points, and the paladins of the church who will be trained by Evan to handle the sword skillfully.
And in its place, the assassination unit of the church that Daniel raised will also join.
The moment when all the troops of the denomination achieve sufficient growth will surely come.
If that moment comes one day, then——.
“We must wage war.”
There will be a war to satisfy the karma requirements of the ＜Adescent＞ quest.