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“It wasn’t easy to find out because they had such a heavy mouth.”
At Ethan’s words, the knights became silent.
After the Anti-Magic War, the Pars Church had searched out and executed the Dark Followers from all over the continent through the Paladins.
But it would not work for the priests either.
How else would a priest like Ethan know how to interrogate at such a time?
“Why don’t you just leave it to us? It’s something we’re more familiar with.”
“Why are you giving it to me? I better do it.”
Ethan frowned.
The way the Dark Followers knew best himself.
So it was the fastest to beat them.
But Conrad thought so.
‘After all, you are a priest of the Pars Church, so you have a lot of responsibility for the Dark Followers!’
When the knights misunderstood, Ethan relieved his stiff neck.
‘Recently, since the divine power has gotten stronger, it was difficult to control when tortured.’
Ethan let out a sigh.
When it comes to torturing dark followers with magical powers, nothing is more effective than divine power.
And Ethan was well aware of how the Dark Followers were trained against torture.
Because they still inherited the imperial style from the time of the Anti-Magic War.
Because of this, Ethan was well aware of how painful it would be to die if how much divine power was injected into a certain part.
But there was a problem.
Due to the recent increase in divine power, when it reacted to magical power, it moved even more violently and ran rampantly to kill the Dark Follower.
Just like hot oil meets water.
Even though he knew the principle in his head, it was difficult to control the divine power that ran wildly.
“Well, it’s definitely harder not to kill than to just kill.”
At Ethan’s cruel words, the knights widened their eyes.
‘Are you saying you hate the Dark Followers that much?!’
‘After all, the Pars Church has no mercy for the Dark Followers.’
‘You mustn’t touch Priest Ethan.’
That was when the misunderstanding between the Knights and Ethan deepened.
bang!
A great vibration occurred in the basement.
“what?”
“It is further down than here!”
It was a sign that a new case had begun, that the work at the Nord Mine was not yet over.
* * *
Meanwhile, the dark follower’s laboratory located in the basement of the mine.
Here, the work to complete the bloodstone was in full swing.
In addition, monsters that were the prototype of the red wolf were summoned, which is necessary for making bloodstone.
Aside from that, the lab was cluttered with various furniture.
Paul, who was retouching the unfinished bloodstone, asked Mark.
“Hey, isn’t something strange?”
“what?”
“The reaction of the bloodstone is better than usual. I’ve been making bloodstone all the time in this mine, but there’s never been a time like today. Rather, since the divine power has spread, shouldn’t it be worse?”
I thought so.
But Mark looked into Kenneth’s eyes and said quietly.
“Didn’t you see Kenneth’s reaction earlier? If I said those words here, I would be in trouble for hitting the candle.”
That was then.
Kenneth called Mark.
“Mark!”
“yes! going!”
Mark ran in front of Kenneth quickly.
Kenneth handed the bloodstone he had completed into Mark’s hand.
“Try this on a test subject.”
At a glance, he could tell that it was a completed bloodstone.
First of all, there was no bloody smell from the bloodstone.
In addition, the color was more shiny than the unfinished bloodstone.
“You mean the red wolf?”
“no. This time it is human.”
“Hey, can it be used on humans too?”
“Of course. Do you know that I brought these people for nothing?”
Kenneth thought that in order to get rid of the Saint Candidates and Knights at the top, he had to create a blood man.
blood people.
The strengthened soldiers made by driving the completed bloodstones into humans were the blood people.
A hundred years ago, during the Anti-Magic War, blood people born from blood stones were said to have played an active role.
It was a fact that the servants did not know.
Only Kenneth and other dark wizards who made bloodstone knew about it.
Kenneth was now full of motivation.
It was thanks to the hard work of creating a proper bloodstone.
Despite the spread of divine power within the mine, he did not even know why the bloodstone’s reaction suddenly increased only today.
“yes. All right.”
Mark proceeded to the area with compliant human subjects as instructed.
The subjects were vagrants who had been kidnapped from a nearby village, and had been put to sleep for the test.
Mark placed the finished bloodstone on the forehead of a human subject.
That was then.
Tap!
Flames flew from the subject’s forehead, which had been studded with bloodstone.
“what?”
Mark flinched when he realized that the bloodstone’s reaction was different than usual.
The veins on his forehead began to wiggle around the bloodstone.
The subject’s body muscles also suddenly began to swell.
At the same time, the subject, who had been sleeping, opened his eyes.
“… … !”
By the time I realized something was strange, it was already too late.
Mark tried to step back, but his throat was already caught.
‘who?’
Mark thought of such a question stupidly.
Even knowing that the thing holding my head was a human test subject that had been sleeping until now.
I had a question because it happened so quickly.
Crrrrr!
The howling bloody man grabbed Mark’s neck like a handle and swung it towards the lab furniture.
Boo-woong!
Mark’s body was swung like a club.
hard!
The head was fixed in the hands of the blood, but the body was swung around, so there was no way the spine could withstand it.
Mark’s neck and body were separated like that.
Then, several experimental solutions from the broken and shattered laboratory equipment were mixed and an explosion occurred.
bang!
“Ahh!”
“Aww!”
Kenneth and his men in the lab were seriously injured and were thrown out.
Kenneth grabbed his aching head and looked into the smoky lab.
Blood dripped from his forehead, which had been torn in fragments.
‘What the hell happened?’
The aftermath of the explosion still lingered in the laboratory.
Fireworks were bouncing all over the place.
That was then.
Crrrrrrr!
The sound of a beast’s roar could be heard from the smoky lab.
“A red wolf?”
Kenneth thought so at first.
This is because it was the first monster that came to mind in relation to bloodstone.
Soon the smoke cleared, revealing what was there.
It wasn’t like a red wolf.
was a person
Because of the muscles that had swelled to the limit, his posture was rather erratic.
Mark’s head was held in his hand.
Kenneth was astonished.
“Tongue, why are blood people running rampant?”
Not all of them lost their reason just because they were blood.
But now, the blood people in front of them were causing a runaway.
It was also in the state of being born from completed bloodstone.
One hundred years ago, beings who were active in the Anti-Magic War.
In other words, it was the advent of disaster.
Kenneth soon met the blood man’s eyes.
At that moment, the blood rushed in front of his eyes.
“uh?”
Immediately after uttering that one syllable, Kenneth’s consciousness disappeared.
Kwajik!
It was because his head was crushed by the hand of a blood man.
* * *
Sreung!
The knights drew their swords in unison.
The knights lined up side by side were blocking the narrow decommissioning path.
“Did you all listen to what Priest Ethan said? No matter what happens, you must defend this place! Do you understand?”
“yes!”
The knights responded with determination to Conrad’s words.
Soon the enemy was coming.
Crumple!
Red eyes gleamed in the darkness, and the howl of an animal could be heard.
It was a red wolf.
When he did not see Ethan, whom he had expelled using his divine power, he immediately ran after the knights.
The knights and the red wolf collided.
The red wolf’s claws sprinted towards Konrad’s body.
Kang!
Conrad’s sword and the wolf’s claws collided.
But there was something different from before.
As soon as it touched the blade, the red wolf was startled and bitten.
The claws of the red wolf that touched the sword were cracked.
“haha! Is this great?”
Conrad smiled broadly.
The swords of the knights had dazzling divine power.
It was the divine magic that Ethan cast.
Just by touching a black enchanted sword with divine magic, it inflicted fatal wounds on the red wolves.
The body of the red wolf, reconstructed with the magic of bloodstone, was to collapse due to divine power.
“This is the sword that Priest Ethan gave me. If you don’t use it properly, I’ll ask you when I get back!”
The knights clamored vigorously.
It was the moment when he was finally able to properly confront the artificially strong red wolves.
* * *
Meanwhile, Ethan left the knights behind and headed to the depths alone.
The more I went into the deep darkness of the mine, the more vivid the red flames.
There was also a cloud of smoke.
‘It’s a mess.’
Even small explosions could be large in mines due to dust explosions.
As a result, huge fragments were scattered here and there.
The smoke that covered my eyes cleared a bit.
Then a being lurking in the darkness was revealed.
It was just blood.
“What?”
Ethan, who had lost his absurdity, muttered like that.
Because it was unexpected.
‘Certainly, it would not be possible to create bloodstains from unfinished bloodstone.’
Moreover, according to Ethan’s guess, the skills of the dark wizard here weren’t even enough to make a finished bloodstone.
I was surprised to find blood in such a place.
Crrrrr!
The blood man roared like an animal and spread his chest.
shhh!
Then, without any notice, he suddenly rushed to Ethan.
“A spark of brilliance.”
Ethan activated a level 5 holy magic.
Whoops!
A spark of brilliance blazed in his fist.
Ethan threw a fist at the blood people who had rushed all the way to the front.
puck!
Chi profit!
When Ethan’s fist pierced the blood man’s chin, the blood man’s foot was pushed back.
Crumple!
However, the bloodstain did not fall even though they struggled in pain.
It was different from the red wolf, who fell down or ran away just by being exposed to divine power.
Then Ethan was convinced.
“Are you a finished guy?”
At first, it was a long one.
But I knew for sure.
‘It has direct resistance to divine power.’
It only looked like a completed blood man made of completed blood stone.
The bloody man stretched out his arm to grab Ethan’s neck.
widely!
Ethan flicked it lightly with his strengthened right arm.
puck!
Then, with his left fist, he slammed the temple of the blood.
If it were a human, it was a blow that would have made a goal sound, but the blood did not move.
The bloodline continued to attack immediately.
As the battle intensified, Ethan was able to directly check the blood man’s abilities.
In the meantime, a question arose.
‘Did you finish the bloodstone at once with that crude bloodstone or your skills?’
I didn’t understand.
The bloodstone of the red wolf that I saw when I first entered the Nord Mine was unfinished.
Besides, didn’t there have been testimonies from the miners?
It smelled bloody.
It is a distinctive feature of unfinished bloodstone.
But in the meantime, I couldn’t believe the bloodstone that was completed in such a short time in front of my eyes.
‘furthermore.’
Ethan’s eyes narrowed.
slurp.
Blood wounds were being regenerated.
The wounds caused by bumping into Ethan disappeared in an instant.
Checking the playback speed, Ethan murmured.
“After all, he’s just been born.”