Chapter 169
Artificial Saint (8)
─I can offer anything.─
Desiree in my arms looked up at me with red bloodshot and watery eyes.
Have you not made up your mind yet? At first, doubt crossed her pupils.
—Even if it is my life.—
“Uh, what is that… … ?”
What followed the question was confusion. Desiree’s eyes waved anxiously. The tightness I felt in my shirt showed how hard she had gripped me.
I faced her shaking pupils without avoiding them.
On the contrary, when I came out strongly from my side, her eyes tried to sneak away, so I gently stroked the back of her head with my only hand.
– Sweep. Sweep.
Desiree flinched at every touch.
“Literally, the [pain] you are carrying. I want you to hand it all over to me.”
Upon hearing my words, her eyes widened, ‘Can they get any bigger than this?’ It was round enough to want to.
But that was for a moment, and she returned to her usual face and shook her head.
“No, I don’t know what the hell it is… … !?. I accepted it while touring the world for nearly 10 years. I don’t know what you’re thinking, but there’s no way I’ll accept it right away and be fine… … . So never, never.”
I stared at her furiously beating her up.
A look of uneasiness flashed across her face.
She swallowed a deep sigh so Desiree couldn’t hear it.
This sigh was a resolution for herself, not something she swallowed because she hesitated.
I tried to smile at her, but stopped.
Yeah, that kind of smile doesn’t suit me.
instead.
He twisted the corners of his lips up. He puts on a confident smile and raises his eyes.
Evil, but regal.
This kind of smile suited me.
I let go of the girl I was holding and stood up.
My legs felt numb, and the blood drained rapidly from my brain, and I felt dizzy, but I endured it.
My dying body wanted to stumble, I hoped to sit down as it was, but I suppressed it.
and.
“Hey Desiree. Who am I?”
asked boldly.
Only a handful of moonlight came in through the smashed ceiling, but it was enough to cast a shadow under my feet.
In my shadow, Desiree was silent as if searching for an answer.
Watching her remain silent, I raised my left hand and poked my chest with my thumb.
“Even though I say this with my own mouth. I am the golden sun, the golden sun. I’ve already thought of a solution.”
The corners of Desiree’s mouth went up at my groundless confidence.
What I am going to do now is the last play in this story.
* * *
The first thing I did after calming Desiree, who was making a fuss about finding my right arm that disappeared without a trace… … .
“Search the basement.”
“… … yes?”
“It is to artificially create a saint. You can’t earn the title of ‘saint’ just by catching the Dragon. There must have been a holy relic or a magic circle equivalent to it installed somewhere. You have to find it.”
“ah!? Certainly, otherwise the Vatican would be overflowing with saints.”
Desiree’s eyes widened as they clapped their hands together.
“Yes, it is a complex ritual. Obviously, if any one of those gears is out of alignment, the whole thing will be messed up. Besides, Jack is an extremely sensible person. There’s no way we’ll fight for no reason.”
“ah! If the ritual itself is messed up and can’t be activated, there’s no reason to fight, and you said you’d suffer my [pain]?!”
I nodded my head at her words in the basement where the moonlight came in as the ceiling was empty.
“Because your body is a kind of ‘vessel’ that receives and stores the ‘pain’ of others. To accept Elizabeth’s pain and restore it to normal, you need to empty the bowl. On top of that, if you use the ‘pain’ you received to destroy the medium, you kill two birds with one stone. Let’s split up and find them first.”
After that, we got up from our seats.
It is a wide basement with endlessly large yellow bricks.
They had to do it quickly before Elizabeth was killed by Jack.
“If you find it, call me and let’s gather here again.”
“Yes, Mr. Sun. I’ll make sure I’m not late this time—!”
Desiree nodded and we parted ways with our backs to each other.
Turning my back on her, I changed the nature of the smile on my lips.
The twisted smile that had been overflowing with confidence suddenly turned into a bitter laugh.
Between the yellow corridors, through the gaps in the ceiling, Jack, who was struggling desperately with Elizabeth, caught my eye.
Her appearance was far from being human.
There were red scales all over her skin, small wings made of a skin like those of a bat sprouted from her back, and a snake’s tail the size of a girl’s leg swayed from her hip.
Elisabeth, who stopped shooting her mana toward the sky, was immediately shot outside and flew away, then exhaled her own breath and destroyed everything in sight.
＜Ah—-.＞
With each breath she touched, the ground turned upside down and the sky split.
The sacred knights supporting Jack, who seemed to be standing firm, became dust and scattered in all directions.
Her movements were like watching a wounded beast.
Hold on a little longer, Elizabeth.
I will definitely bring you back to the way you were.
It would be impossible for Desiree, who is now just a holy woman, but… … .
… … Anything is possible if you become a saint of a higher rank than that.
I took my eyes off Elizabeth and moved forward.
The bitter smile on his lips was still there.
* * *
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Just before Taeyang and Desiree arrive at the basement.
She was sweeping the cold stone floor with her fingertips in the basement, where Jack had left and the Holy Knights had also run out.
‘Are there any gaps, by any chance?’
I lay down for a while and felt the ground.
how long was that
I felt my body gradually heat up. It started with something wriggling from the deepest part of the chest, around the heart.
It is said that the most painful death in the world is Sosa.
I rubbed my chest against the cold stone floor to cool off the aggravation that came from inside my chest.
It started in the heart, engulfed both lungs, and passed through the bronchi to the throat. However, it didn’t come over anymore as if something was blocking it.
“Kaeureuk—!!”
A groan escaped from the excruciating pain.
Itches all over the body as if something is sprouting.
The tailbone and both wings were the most serious, but the sparks from inside the body came first.
He bit his own neck in pain.
A sharp pain crept up in the back of his neck.
How many times did she roll on the floor to such an extent that the chest of the dress she was wearing was all torn and stained red?
-bang!!!
A sudden explosion and shock waves shook the entire basement.
that was the signal
Something got stuck in his throat and chin.
＜Ah————.＞
He let out a breath that had filled his mouth.
Her breath was mixed with screams that she hadn’t been able to utter until now.
By the time I let out all my screams.
Both the severed optic nerve and the severed magical energy were all restored.
And someone whispered in her ear.
[Hey, hey. I am a descendant of the red dragon.]
The voice that lingered in her head was certainly warm, but Elizabeth’s heart was cold when she heard it.
[Has reason gone completely? Damn the witch doctor! Even though you boasted so much, do you still need more time?]
It was because something captivated her more than the warmth of her mother’s voice.
A sense of exhilaration and overflowing magic power wrapped around the whole body.
As if a screw had come loose in her brain, she could only think of one thing.
─Let’s rip and kill the guy who made you feel this pain.─
Called.
Blinking her long, tearing eyes, Elizabeth jumped up through the empty ceiling.
As I soared into the sky, my field of vision widened.
In the widened field of view, I see Jack aiming his sword at him with his back to the half-destroyed cathedral from afar.
When she found her target, her eyes flashed.
Acting on instinct, he took a deep breath towards his enemy.
The heat that started from the heart beat moved to the lungs and then went up to the throat along the airways.
Elizabeth ate it all in her mouth.
＜Ah————!!!＞
He spat at Jack.
A ray of red light divided the dark world.
* * *
Separated from Desiree, he searched the basement.
‘thud!’
The ceiling shakes.
The grains of sand that were caught between the gaps in the stones that made up the ceiling poured down like ‘Bass’ rain.
‘bang!!!’
The ground rumbled.
‘Thumps’ and ‘bangs’ alternately shook the underground.
My body wasn’t in normal condition, so it felt like my stomach was turning over every time the sound sounded.
The blood on the torn and tattered jacket dried up over time.
Yes.
I searched for a medium until my blood dried up.
It was by sheer chance that I found a medium in this vast, endless underground.
This is because if this case is related to Desiree and David 10 years ago, ‘there’ in the center would be the most powerful medium to create a saint.
“Tae, Taeyang… … This?”
“Perhaps it is the shaman who is the core of this case… … .”
The huge cellar was bigger than any stone chamber I had ever seen. It was as empty as it was huge.
The only thing that filled that large space was the metaphysical patterns that started from the floor and filled up the walls and ceiling.
Nothing else existed.
I instinctively felt it.
A three-dimensional shaman who uses the entire center of the underground, one of the largest stone chambers.
I moved my hardened lips as I walked towards the center of the ceremony.
“Desiree. Get ready.”
“… … all right. You can really survive, right?”
“Don’t worry about that. I will use it to destroy the spell right away. thank you? Swordsmen who can freely handle all kinds of power like this are rare.”
She let out a deep sigh, and then.
open your mouth
[Lord—,]
Prayers began to flow from her mouth. It was a prayer that would normally have passed casually, but
[Lord—,]
Not now.
Desiree, reciting a prayer, put her hands together in front of her chest.
[Why are you abandoning me?]
A red light leaked out between her tightly intertwined fingers.
It is an intense primary color. Its blood-red color clung to one side of the field of vision even if you looked at it from the side of your eye.
When Desiree untied her tightly entangled hands and opened them, a dark red orb the size of her thumb was in her hand.
Her hand hesitated to hold it out to me.
That’s why I approached this side first.
I didn’t even take a few steps, but when I arrived in front of Desiree, I picked up the red marble without hesitation.
—I swallowed it.
“Are you really okay?”
At first, I didn’t feel anything.
But that’s for a while.
A throbbing pain pierced my heart.
“Kaaagh—!”
“Taeyang-kun?!”
I couldn’t stand it any longer and collapsed.
As Desiree approached, he raised his hand to stop her.
The agony of the creaking body from the battle with Jack was something that could be blown away at once.
The pressure inside the body changes arbitrarily, and it feels like my eyeballs are about to be pulled out.
It feels like the skin all over your body is peeling off and someone sprinkles coarse salt there.
It is literally the pain of beating the intestines alive.
-You have acquired human [pain].
– This enormous power can be used as a ‘sacrifice’.
– Would you like to use it? (Yes or No)
I tried to feel it for a while, but this was not at a level that humans could endure, so I waved my hand and groped for the notification window while crawling on the floor in excruciating pain.
-congratulations! You have succeeded in complete evolution.
-Your ‘Gyeong’ rises in line with the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’!
-Your tendency changes to ‘extreme evil’. (Watch out! The ‘good’ characters you encounter for the first time have a strong loathing!)
“Ouch–, Eek!!! Huh!!!”
Contrary to the intense pain that soon subsided, the body continued to retching in vain.
In my mouth, the sour taste of gastric juice and the fishy taste of blood entangled together.
I breathed and thought.
─As expected… … Only the ‘rate’ went up, didn’t there be anything else?
bit his lips
As expected.
Desiree, startled, came up to me as I was rolling on the floor and helped me. I borrowed her shoulder and barely stood up.
“… … What is this? Taeyang-kun, are you okay!? What the hell happened?!”
“ha… … . I almost died.”
It rested on Desiree’s shoulder, barely breathing.
The eyelids slowly come down.
I stopped even blinking because I was afraid I would never be able to open it again.
Suddenly Desiree’s profile came into view.
The bright blonde hair was stained with dust, and the heavy armor that reflected the brilliant silver light was dented and stained with blood so that it could not emit any more light.
The spear in her hand was broken in half, and the tattered flag was tattered.
Even though it was dirty here and there and no longer shone, there was something about her that made people feel warm just by looking at it.
Moving her closed eyelids and blurry eyes, she stared at Desiree’s eyes, which were spotless and clear.
The tip of the broken spear pole was sharp.
enough to easily penetrate a human heart.
I decided to look at it.
“Desiree… … .”
He rejected her shoulder and stood alone.
Fearing that he would stumble if he walked, fearing that he might not be able to properly capture the last face he saw, he stood motionless, as if nailed to place.
The day her name was called, she turned around.
“yes?”
“Sorry.”
– Chow!!
The tip of the spear she held pierced my heart.
A few drops of blood splattered on her dazed face.