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Meanwhile, the basement of the fortress.
The divine power was removed from Ethan’s hand.
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The knight who returned from an ugly beast to a human again lost consciousness and fell to the floor.
Ethan checked his condition.
‘There’s nothing wrong with that.’
As Ethan wanted, the curse of the beast was lifted and at the same time he returned to his human form.
“How long do you have left?”
Ethan muttered softly.
Entering the basement, he already encountered more than ten knights.
Of course, all of them were already out of human form.
The ugly beasts that lost their sanity, as soon as they saw Ethan, tried to scratch them with their claws.
After defeating these ugly beasts by knocking them down, Ethan cleared the curse.
However, there was still life in the basement.
It was said that there were more ugly beasts left.
Ethan was going to break all the curses of the rest of them.
“If you tried to use me to your own death, you have to pay the price.”
Ethan laughed softly.
The knights cursed by the beast would think that death was their only refuge.
But it was a no-brainer.
Miles’ knights were qualitatively different from those of other kingdoms.
They could be classified as a core force sufficiently on the battlefield.
Ahead of the battle with the rebels, do you throw that kind of power to the ground?
From Ethan’s point of view, it was impossible.
‘If you want to die, you have to fight and die, what kind of bullshit is this. It’s not a kids fight, and I think it’s a joke to lose one or two knights.’
What the Dark Followers were aiming for was the collapse of Miles, one of the main pillars of the United Kingdom.
I couldn’t play around with their tricks.
That was the only reason Ethan saved the knights.
At that moment, a presence was felt behind Ethan’s back.
But there was no sign of harming him.
Ethan looked back with an expressionless expression on his face.
There stood the knight he first met when he entered the basement.
“You are a really great priest. Aren’t you acting too selfish?”
“Looking like you’re talking nonsense, it looks like your body is in good shape.”
“right. Everything is fine except for the fact that you are tired of how great your holy magic skills are.”
“I’m glad you found it useful on the battlefield.”
At those words, the knight burst into laughter.
“Ahahahaha! I thought all the priests with extraordinary divine power were stern, but aren’t they? Can the priest do this?”
“You don’t have to be polite to those who tried to use me.”
The knight smiled bitterly.
There was nothing wrong with Ethan’s words.
Because the knights of the fortress, including the castle lord, tried to use Edan for their own death.
At that time, Ethan raised his chin when he saw the article.
“… … ?”
When the knight was perplexed, not knowing what it meant, Ethan said.
“A guide? If you’re in good health, I’ll show you the way.”
“ah! so be it That’s what I came here for.”
The knight took the lead without saying a word.
It was something ordinary soldiers would do, but it was not humiliating.
Thanks to him, my life was saved, but I thought it was too much of a chore.
* * *
“Oh my gosh… What is all this?”
After many twists and turns, Vivian entered the basement and was astonished.
The candle that lit the darkness fell from the candlestick and was lying on the floor.
“Did there ever be a battle here?”
Even the knights were lying all over the floor.
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Vivian looked for signs of destruction in the basement.The walls and floors were hollow and cracked as if they had been attacked by magic.
It was then that I understood the roar I heard from the ground and the shaking of the ground.
“By the way, is it true that people fight each other?”
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Vivian tried to wake the knights.“Hey, are you okay?”
But even shaking their shoulders, they couldn’t come to their senses.
Tired of doing that to a few people, Vivian got up.
“You weren’t seriously hurt, so why are you losing your mind? It’s strange.”
I tried to just pass by, but Vivian couldn’t.
Eventually, Vivian dragged the knights and moved them to a safe place.
There was a sound of whining.
It felt like my shoulder was going to fall off.
But Vivian was surprisingly strong.
“Whew. Would you have done this?”
After completing the mission, Vivian placed her hand on her waist and looked into the darkness beyond the basement.
There was a very small sound coming from there.
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Vivian swallowed dry saliva.And he went to find Ethan.
* * *
The underground structure of the fortress was unusual.
Ethan discovered the purpose of this place while exploring the underground.
“It was a place where prisoners of war and prisoners were held.”
“right. Is this your first time seeing a place like this? go out and watch a lot. It will be a very special experience.”
Ethan’s face darkened.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a place like this in a previous life.
‘Is this why they chose this place as their grave?’
The basement of the fortress was the most suitable place for imprisoning people.
The castle lord and the knights would not want to show the soldiers themselves transformed into ugly beasts.
Then the morale will drop to the floor at once.
So the knights chose to die in such a dark place.
That was then.
A corpse came into Ethan’s eyes.
“Is that?”
It was a corpse with only the bones left.
Ethan scoured the corpse.
‘It’s strange. The skeleton of the bones is deformed. It is different from the normal human form.’
The knight who followed Ethan also tilted his head.
“It’s strange. As far as I know, none of the personnel trapped in this cellar have died.”
In other words, it meant that the corpses were not even knights who were transformed into ugly beasts.
“Do you know when Iza came to this basement while he was still alive?”
“Well. There’s a good chance that a corpse here is a prisoner of the enemy. Ordinary soldiers are sent back to the battlefield even if they commit a crime. Because during war, even a single number is precious. If left unattended, this guy would probably have been a prisoner of the rebels.”
Ethan’s eyes brightened.
‘Right. That’s how it happened.’
Ethan smiled and looked at the knight.
“I have found the cause of the curse.”
* * *
Curse of the beast.
This was a major problem for the United Kingdom during the Anti-Ma War.
When key figures were cursed without warning and turned into ugly beasts, people were naturally terrified.
How the hell do you put a curse on key figures?
If he didn’t figure it out, he would just play around with the plague magician’s same trick over and over again.
However, the secret was not known even after the end of the Anti-Magic War.
It was natural.
Even Edan, who was the Demon King’s henchman, didn’t know.
‘The Demon King may have known, but no one in the Empire knew about the curse of Kha’Zix’s beast.’
If Edan hid his research achievements from being passed on to the Demon King, Kha’Zix was different.
‘He was just a sullen and sinister guy.’
And it was only now, after a hundred years had passed, that Ethan understood the reality.
“It was difficult to find the cause.”
Seeing Ethan’s confident smile, the knight was puzzled.
“Priest, what does that mean?”
“When fighting the rebels, wasn’t it sometimes difficult to deal with ordinary soldiers alone?”
“Ugh. Come to think of it, even though they are not knights, there have been occasional grotesquely strong men among the rebel soldiers.”
“You must have dealt with those guys.”
“Of course. The soldiers couldn’t deal with it.”
This made the conjecture correct.
‘It must have been more difficult to find the cause of the curse during the Anti-Magic War.’
It was simple to transfer the curse of the beast to a specific person, and also to a key figure in the enemy army.
‘You just need to put the entity that is the catalyst for the curse into battle.’
Then the knights of the enemy army would kill the individual that was the catalyst for the curse, and the curse started from that point.
It was natural that this tactic was not revealed during the Anti-Magic War.
At that time, all kinds of extraneous beings were overflowing with the hands of the Empire.
So even if a soldier as strong as a knight appeared, ‘what is that?’ I was going to say it.
But now the times have changed.
The Dark Followers were active in hiding.
He was not in a position to create and consume extraterrestrial beings at any time.
That is why a soldier as strong as a knight stood out.
When the entity of the curse catalyst is active on the battlefield, the main enemy of the enemy who killed it is cursed.
In this way, it was enough to use it even during the Anti-Magic Wars and now.
In particular, the skeleton found by Ethan reassured him.
‘Even though it wasn’t cursed by the beast, it was used as a catalyst, so it was influenced by the body and created a bizarre skeleton. So for a soldier, he was able to show off his might.’
Even if he tried to curse the perfect curse, in the end, a trace was bound to remain.
‘The curse has been erased cleanly, but the traces of mutation are not hidden.’
Ethan got up after examining the body.
The knight had a curious face.
“It seems that you have found a clue about the curse of the beast?”
He was talkative and quick-witted.
aah!
bang!
Before Ethan could answer, a bizarre scream and roar could be heard from underground.
The knight’s expression hardened.
It was a voice so familiar to him.
And Ethan knew that the bizarre cry was the most dangerous thing in the underworld.
Ethan nodded at the knight.
“Let’s deal with that guy first.”
* * *
The rebel city, Haup.
It was located just a few days on horseback to Graytown.
It was also a stronghold for the rebels attacking Gray Town.
David, the lord of Haup, laid out a map of the Haup area.
He was the commander who ordered the capture of Graytown.
“You have more plans than you think.”
David drank the wine and looked at the bookstore opposite.
The bookkeeper was wearing a full hood, covering his entire face.
It was a dismal appearance.
“How did this happen?”
“I don’t know what they did, but the lords and knights of Graytown are still keeping their sanity.”
“Does it look like I just asked for that? Even the Imperial Army came as reinforcements. How long will I have to wait to take over Graytown?”
“They haven’t turned into ugly beasts, but they will soon come to their limits. Then, the Gray Town castle lord and knights who have become ugly beasts will rather damage their allies, the Kingdom Army and the Imperial Army.”
“Hmm.”
“When the ugly beasts do their job, all that is left is the Imperial Army and the realms of the Kingdom Army. The commanders of the Imperial Army are not familiar with this geography or the situation on the battlefield. Then you have a good chance of winning.”
Each and every word was true.
Convinced, David nodded.
But I couldn’t get rid of the unexplained anxiety.
It was all because of the saint candidate Ethan.
The story of his finding a cure for the plague has already spread within Miles.
What if the power of the plague subsides like this?
The Kingdom Army, who has escaped the crisis, will do its best to fight the rebels.
“I thought that the situation could not be more favorable than this, but in the end it turned like this.”
David blew his tongue out of disappointment.
But he still had a bookkeeper.
‘The guide they sent has been a great help to our military so far. I’m sure it will succeed this time as well.’
David struggled to think about it, calming his anxiety.