In the place where the thunder once swept by, Richie, who was about to collapse, looked at the staff he was holding.
Beeping, the purple orb at the tip of the staff was cracking.
This was a phenomenon that occurred because the output was raised to the limit in order to block Rene’s attack.
[this… The staff is broken. I can’t fight anymore.]
Rene’s body, who had been holding her breath until then, shook at the words she said with a chuckle.
won
It was because there was a worry that came to mind at the same time as that thought.
“Wait, are you okay? I’m sorry! I’m so excited for a moment… !”
I was worried that I might have used too strong a drink.
It was an extinction technique that was nothing else. It was said that he used it while fighting a fight, but he immediately wondered if it was too vicious to write to Richie, who treated him so kindly.
Richie smiled broadly at Renee, who had become restless, and waved his hand.
[It’s okay. The lich never dies unless the lifevessel is destroyed.]
Maybe you don’t know much about the undead?
According to the thought that came to mind, for some reason, I felt a pleasant feeling, and when I said that, relief appeared on Renee’s face.
“Oh right… .”
She was truly a colorful girl.
[It reminds me of my youth.]
Richie, who was about to say such a thing, said that if he cried once in his lifetime, all the men in the tower would grab his chest, but then he remembered that it was a reckless act and swallowed the words.
Then he approached Renee and held the bone necklace in his hand.
[It is a pass. Baby.]
It was an act of expressing gratitude to the young guest who gave life to the life of the cradle of the enemy.
Renee felt strongly that he had won, belatedly, at the feel of the cold, hard bones.
“thank you!”
A happy heart arose.
Proof is supposed to prove himself to the dead in Cradle, but at this moment Renee felt as if he had proved himself to himself.
He was convinced that there was no longer him who had been sitting down because he could not see, and that there was something that even such a country could do on its own.
[Okay, okay, now, do you want to go see your friends? Everyone is worried about the baby. Especially that dark haired guy… Uh-huh, you look like a dog who wants to poop.]
“Puffy… !”
A laugh escaped Renee’s lips.
The use of ‘a poopy dog’ as a word to describe Vera was somewhat funny, and for some reason, it seemed that Vera was really making that kind of expression.
I can’t draw Vera’s face exactly, but in the meantime, I can vividly remember the imaginary face he drew with his hands looking at him gruntingly.
“You look good?”
[Yes? Hmm… You just have to look at it. Still, it hurts my baby.]
“I hear that a lot.”
Renee giggled.
“Then I will go! Thank you. Grandma!”
[okay.]
good bye good bye
When he waved his hand that had become a rich skeleton, Renee slowly moved away.
Just right. Just right.
The sound of Renee’s cane hitting the floor was exhilarating.
*
“You suffered.”
Vera’s words to Ren as he approached.
To that, Renee answered, with a face full of joy, with her head turned in the direction of Vera.
“Worried?”
like a shitty dog.
Vera replied with a small smile to the question he swallowed because he thought that saying that would upset Vera.
“It’s not like that. I always believe in St.
“Ohh… .”
Renee grinned with a skeptical attitude.
Vera narrowed his eyes, feeling it offended for some reason.
However, that doesn’t mean that you won’t know the conversation Renee had with Richie.
So, Vera just stared at Renee in an unfamiliar displeasure, and then the other party opened their mouths one by one.
After receiving all of them, Renee put the bone necklace around his neck and continued.
“Now it’s Vera’s turn, isn’t it?”
“… Yes.”
“Was Vera a Death Knight?”
“That’s right. Location is… .”
Vera’s gaze turned to the gloomy castle in the distance.
“… This is the castle of Maleus.”
The Death Knight guarding the entrance to the castle.
Vera’s opponent was him.
“How is your condition? Can you do it?”
Renee’s question.
Vera checked his condition for a moment, then replied with a small smile.
“It is the best. Everyone else has passed the proof, so you can fight without pressure.”
It was a confident answer.
There were many reasons for this, but as I said just before, it was right to say that the biggest factor was the reduction of other external concerns.
There is no need to fight for your life.
There is also no concern about the undead taking hostages.
If it was a one-on-one fight that could be done in such a state, moreover, if it was an experience against a rival, Vera was rather pleased.
Isn’t this a place where you can freely test your own sword that you’ve been training for?
A situation that can also be called unexpected luck.
Vera said with great pleasure in it.
“Then go. Why don’t we finish the proof and take a break before meeting Maleus?”
“Yes, it is.”
Renee, too, responded by venting out some of the worries that had been embedded in Vera’s confident attitude.
*
The road to Goseong was a series of desolate landscapes.
True to the saying that it is truly the land of the dead, all you can see is the dried up trees and the dregs of fallen leaves.
It’s an empty landscape where you can’t feel even that little bug.
It was about 30 minutes left until they reached Goseong when the party, who had been walking with a slightly relaxed mind, felt something unusual according to such a landscape.
“… Sir Vera.”
Miller’s voice, like a whisper.
To that, Vera replied with a wrinkled expression.
“Yes, there is something to catch up with.”
“What should I do? I think there are quite a few.”
“… .”
Vera responded with a nod to Miller’s answer, broadening his senses.
The direction that corresponds to the north from your current location.
I could feel dozens of signs following them while maintaining a certain distance from them.
They were undead.
‘Skeleton?’
If you add divinity to enhance your hearing, you can hear the rattling of bones. There was also the sound of rubbing iron.
For what purpose are you following?
In the midst of those thoughts, Vera caught a strange thing among the faculties.
“… human.”
“Yes?”
“Humans are stuck.”
Vera’s head snapped to the north! and went back
It was certain. A human was caught among the dead.
Since it is a land where even the energy of life cannot be found even after washing the eyes, it is a limited space that can be felt even from a distance.
Mana swirling around humans and humans. And there were the dead who formed a rank around that person.
“… Necromancer.”
It was highly likely.
At Vera’s words, the group’s faces hardened.
“You have a big liver, do you mean anyone thinking of rolling a corpse in the cradle of the dead?”
It was Miller who spoke out of nowhere.
For Miller, it’s a natural question.
Cradle of the Dead is the land of Maleus.
All the dead here are subordinate to Maleus.
By the way, to roll such a dead man is to declare that he will face-to-face with Maleus, but what kind of crazy human would do such a thing.
Vera narrowed his eyes at Miller’s words and looked north a little more.
“… It is not visually identifiable. It’s not that far away, but it’s probably something they’re doing out there.”
His hand was pointing towards the holy sword.
“Whether he really is a madman, or if he is a slave to Maleus, will be known from the fight.”
Vera tensed as if he was about to head towards the pursuer.
As soon as we arrived at the castle of Maleus, we decided that it was right to put away any elements that could be a threat.
“Lady.”
“Are you coming?”
“Yes.”
“Then please bring him alive. You should also consider the possibility of belonging to another group, right? It may have been tracked from the outside to the cradle.”
“I know that.”
Vera took a step forward with an answer, and then sent a message to the party.
“I will do it alone to track and catch it. We need to consider the possibility of a double whammy, so please protect St.
After he finished speaking, before he could even come up with an answer, Vera shot out toward the north.
*
As the distance got closer, something was clearly felt.
‘Awareness inhibition barrier.’
Surrounded by this place was a barrier to obstruct awareness.
At that, Vera was able to understand why he had not been able to catch them with the naked eye.
‘It is a matter of competency that has not been hidden until the very beginning.’
In the subject of dragging the dead from the cradle, the perfection of the craft is rather poor.
Vera felt his doubts rising even more, and as he drew nearer, he clenched his sword in the presence of the dead moving busily.
‘I try to respond.’
raised divinity. It was the idea that there was no need to give priority to a conversation in a car coming out of the battlefield from the other side.
‘Only humans need to be captured.’
They’re skeletons being manipulated… Even if I break it, after some time, I will find the pieces and move them again, so I didn’t have to worry about them.
Immediately after, the distance from the group of skeletons gradually got closer, and as a result, the field of vision became brighter.
‘see.’
It caught my eye that the skeletons were grouped together in one place.
The divine unleashed by Vera was overlaid on the sword.
He raised his sword high.
The moment when I was about to swivel forward like that and unleash the divinity.
drop-.
And Vera’s movement stopped.
There was no other reason.
It was because the mysterious pursuer who had decided to capture the Inyeong seen among the skeletons was too small.
‘child?’
No, it was a little too big to be called a child.
Vera narrowed his eyes and looked at Inyoung.
‘… what.’
Vera, who had completely confirmed In-young’s identity, was bursting out with a smirk from his mouth.
It was because she was a young girl who was just starting to give birth to a woman’s womb, hiding amongst the skeletons and trembling.
If I had to guess, I’d say it’s about fourteen years old.
Her black hair was so thick that it covered her eyes. Pale, tired skin that is not white. In addition to the unusual appearance of covering her body with pieces of cloth that should be called rags instead of clothes, a scythe taller than her height that the girl was holding caught her eye.
this is something
As that thought crept into Vera’s head, his expression began to take on a strange look.
Meanwhile, the girl, who had been trembling while staring at the floor, lifted her head and looked at Vera.
The moment their eyes met like that, the girl was startled and started a game.
… It was so loud that it would be right to say that it caused the game.
After doing so, he suddenly jumped up.
The eyes peeking through the ragged bangs looked around anxiously, then turned to Vera.
A series of absurd actions.
Vera looked at the girl’s diet, suddenly remembering ‘Let’s see how far it goes’.
Strength entered the girl’s hand holding the scythe. The shaking of her legs could be seen through a piece of cloth, but in the meantime, the girl took a step forward. Suddenly, a sign of plausible determination appeared in his eyes.
Immediately after, the girl raised her scythe and rushed in with a really low-key shout.
“Hey, hey, hey!”
Naturally, it was an attack that didn’t work.
The scythe, wielded by the girl, broke in half when Vera ricocheted it off.
Tuk-!
The flying scythe fell to the floor, and then the girl’s body hardened.
The girl’s eyes, which began to move little by little, went back and forth between the blade part of the scythe, which fell to the floor, and the part of the handle she was holding.
Suddenly, tears welled up in the girl’s eyes.
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The skeletons suddenly trembled and bumped into their teeth. At first glance, they seem perplexed.
He, of course, had an idea that came to mind for Vera.
‘Are you sick?’
It was such a thought that I wondered if this child was lacking somewhere.
In the midst of a really ambiguous confrontation, the girl bit her lip and raised her arm to see if she was trying to wipe away the flowing tears.
I rubbed my eyes with my arms.
For a moment, Vera, who had burst out laughing, held his breath at what was revealed by the action. His eyes widened as if they were about to tear apart. The hands were pointed forward.
The outstretched hand grabbed the girl’s arm and rolled up her sleeve.
“Huh, hey hey!”
The girl started the game again and tried to run away, but it was a rebellion.
Because Vera and the girl’s strength was so different.
A normal Vera would immediately let a child show this sign, but Vera now has no time for that.
It was because the tattoo on the girl’s forearm was a shape that Vera could not have imagined.
The eyes looking at the forearm had a grim look as if they were about to eat a frightened girl.
‘… stigma.’
The thing that grew out of his arm was a stigmata just looking at the cancer.
This tattoo, in which a three-stroke curve draws a concave triangle, and the power felt within it was unmistakably a stigma.
squeak squeak.
Vera’s head was raised.
Vera knew what this stigma meant.
‘… Apostle of rest.’
An apostle of rest who appeared in the world when the war with the demon king broke out.
This girl was her.