167 – Lifetime – 2
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Several days have passed since Hyeonu left without answering the proposal of a lifetime.
He said he didn’t hate himself.
It’s a pleasure.
But what is the reason he doesn’t answer properly, and what he needs to check.
Veronica was a little, but seemed to know.
So I had to give him some time.
– Knock it. up All right.
“…Hey, Cardinal? Why don’t you stop biting your nails? Your nails must be all damaged.”
“uh…”
However, it was a fact that I knew in my head, but my body did not accept it.
Nervousness, fear, worry.
And anticipation and anxiety.
Veronica, whose emotions were mixed in a complex way, couldn’t help but feel restless.
“If that’s the case, just go back.”
Olwen’s sober words brought her back to her senses.
okay. Now is not the time to be so impatient.
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Just because he proposed, it wasn’t that devil worshipers or monsters were quietly there to celebrate.
So, as always, Veronica moved to solve the problem, joining a familiar face in the process.
“……”
Of course, it bothers me that the familiar face is a person with a little story.
A beautiful girl with red hair.
Lucille, the princess of the kingdom, the next queen, and recently reached the level of a great wizard.
“…Cardinal Veronica. How about calming down a little…”
“…because you’re calm in your own way?”
“Then let’s see what we have to do.”
Veronica sighed at Lucille’s calm question. His head was complicated about Hyeonu, but that didn’t mean he forgot what he had to do.
“The town where the abnormal phenomenon occurred is Oshigen City, located in the northwest of the kingdom. People keep disappearing in Karod Forest, which is northeast of the city…”
“Yes. And the question is… what happened after the missing people returned.”
A man who had been missing for days has returned. The missing person’s family and friends were delighted, and they tried to go back to their daily lives.
There was no return to that daily life.
That’s because the missing person is gone again.
But he wasn’t alone.
family and friends of the missing person.
Because they all disappeared together.
You may think it’s just a night run, but this has already happened dozens of times.
As a result, the city of Oshigen was completely terrified, and ugly rumors spread.
Since it is a city under the direct control of the royal family, it came directly from the royal family.
“What do you think?”
“Appearing with the same face and disappearing again…”
The report from the intelligence department worried the queen.
Even she couldn’t figure out what was going on.
If there was a sage, I would have asked, but he is now in a different place.
In the end, it was Lucille who decided to investigate herself, claiming to be the only disciple of the wise man.
However, the queen, who was worried about sending Lucille alone, eventually requested the church, and Veronica came with the request.
“Among the great demons, there is a white-faced person called Lobla House. Maybe they are preparing to summon the Lobla House.”
“Robla House. Why?”
“The lobla house is a demon that doppelgangers believe in and follow. They say that when a doppelganger captures a hundred people and eats the heads of those hundred people, it can summon a lobla house into its own body.”
“So that’s what the doppelganger did?”
“There is a possibility. Or maybe they are people who want to run away from the city because Mayor Eugen is trash.
“Yes.”
Not Veronica, who became a fool for thinking of Hyeonu, but became Cardinal Veronica who smashed the heads of numerous demon worshipers and monsters, and Olwen nodded with a trustworthy expression.
Lucille asked cautiously as the other nuns and paladins besides her were proud.
“By the way… have you ever caught a doppelganger?”
“No! No! In fact, doppelgangers rarely appear!”
“……”
Lucille let out a small sigh, and Veronica grinned at her.
“But don’t worry, I know how to catch a doppelganger.”
“Is it on the church records?”
“Yes. A doppelganger copies a person, and also reads the other person’s memory fragmentarily and turns into a face the target knows, but there is a limit to the ability to copy.”
“Huh? Is that so?”
“Doppelgangers are the only ones who can’t copy only their holy power. That’s why there is a saying that the doppelganger’s natural enemy is the priest.”
“Why can’t I copy the holy power?”
“The reason is very simple. Because the doppelganger is a child of Lobla House. Since he was born evil, he cannot handle the Holy Power, the good power of the Creator God.”
“What if I follow you?”
“Imitating the holy power? Then this wouldn’t have happened, right? The basic condition for using the holy power is a good heart.”
If you have a good heart, you are derived from the devil, but you will not follow the devil, so you will not be harmed.
So, the best thing to deal with the doppelganger is holy power.
“Hyeonu said that sometimes stupid doppelgangers try to copy their holy power… and burn themselves to death.”
“Wow. Such an idiot?!”
“There are sometimes in the world. And this is a holy relic that allows you to put holy power into every attack.”
Was there such a thing? When Lucille was surprised, Veronica shrugged.
“It’s very precious, so write it down and return it.”
“Uh… what if I get hurt and take this away?”
“No. There’s nothing wrong with that. Rather, the doppelganger is powerful enough to completely burn the relic as soon as it sees it.”
“Wow…”
“By the way, I only made it because Hyeonu taught me how to make it. The church doesn’t have any more ingredients anymore, so they say they can only make one.”
Really, where is the limit of Master’s knowledge? Lucille looked at Veronica in admiration.
A sigh came out of her bright expression.
Height, looks, body.
Of course, I wouldn’t lose as much as my heart for the wise man, but I thought that I couldn’t win in various areas.
“By the way, Cardinal Veronica.”
“Well?”
“At that time… did you tell Master?”
Veronica’s expression hardened. After thinking for a moment, she shook her head, and Lucille let out a heavy sigh.
“Im here.”
I heard Olwen’s calm voice. Looking up, I saw a trail leading into a dense forest.
Staring at the road where people and animals are walking, Veronica raised her Divine Mark.
“Put out the Seongbeopjin here, don’t let anyone escape.”
“Yes.”
“Sys. Recruit the priests and paladins of Oshigen City. We need to make a thorough siege.”
“Yes.”
The mood that had been somber like that of a punk just before had disappeared without a trace.
Veronica, who has become a cold-hearted Heretic Inquisitor who has smashed the heads of numerous devil worshipers and evil monsters, said to Lucille.
“If you’re a great mage, you can expect something big, right?”
“Sure.”
Lucille held up Cosmo’s wand given to her by the sage.
ruler. What magic should I use now?
The forest is vast, and an evil doppelganger lives inside the forest.
then.
“I guess this is it too?”
After closing her eyes for a moment, Lucille opened them and held out her blood-red staff. At that moment, what formed on the tip of her wand was a white ember.
The highest level of fire magic.
It was a ‘remnant’.
However, there was something different from the existing janbul, it was influenced by the sacred object in her other hand.
Satisfied that the embers, which should have been red originally, were pure white, Veronica grabbed the mace, and the moment the embers on her staff flew skyward and touched the forest.
-Rurrr.
A fierce fire began to devour the forest.
It’s not just a fire. Sacred fire that can be said to be holy fire, filled with holy power.
As if to burn down the evil forest at once, the torch began to take control of the forest at once.
“And then!!”
As he lifts his staff, a strong wind blows.
The highest level of magic in the wind world.
It was a ‘typhoon’.
The sky becomes dark and the wind that starts to blow makes the torch even bigger.
Gradually, as the evil forest began to be devoured by the torch, Veronica closed her eyes.
It is to detect the evil force moving inside the forest by Seongbeopjin.
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Just like that, when Lucille burned nearly half of the forest.
Veronica opened her eyes, revealing white teeth.
“found.”
“Let’s go together.”
At Olwen’s suggestion, Veronica shook her head.
There is only one evil being in this forest.
It is more troublesome to be caught by a doppelganger or being used by a group of people.
“Is the cardinal all right?”
Lucille asked anxiously, and Veronica grinned.
“I’m Veronica.”
To her confident, charming smile.
Lucille sighed, letting the ground disappear.
Her way of speaking, her confidence, her actions.
He looked so much like a sage.
Veronica walked lightly through the burnt-out forest where the remains of the torch remained.
how far did it move?
Evil energy flowed from the center of the forest, where the torch could no longer be reached.
She walked toward it without a word.
Found an altar.
“…Whoa.”
There are corpses without heads.
They were pitiful, pitiful people who had already had their heads stolen by their doppelganger.
When Veronica crossed the cross towards them and took a step forward.
A huge wolf came out from inside the forest.
– Curry!!
As if trying to bite off Veronica’s head at once, her mouth opened wide.
Veronica just turned and swung her mace.
-Kwajik!!
The wolf, hit by an attack full of holy power, fell to the floor. When the wolf, which had been emitting black smoke and howling, ran away toward the forest, Veronica calmly headed for the altar.
“Save… give…”
-Roaring!!
Here and there a girl with serious injuries staggers along. Veronica held out her Divine Mark toward her.
The girl, bathed in the scattered strong light, screams and rolls across the floor before running away.
One more step towards the altar.
“aaah! God! Thank you! Thank you!!”
The one who came out blessing and praising the stretching god was a man without one arm.
The moment he was about to approach, who was happy with tears and runny nose.
Veronica slammed her mace into the ground.
-Kuuu…!!!
The spreading holy power with a low vibrating sound struck his body.
The man who had been swept away at once coughed up blood and looked at Veronica with burning eyes.
“Bitch…!!”
“Hmm.”
Veronica snorted and emitted holy power again, and the doppelgänger hit by it blasphemed God and ran away into the woods again.
and.
“…veronica.”
A man in a white robe walked out.
Seeing him, Veronica couldn’t help but flinch.
That would be true, too, because that man was Hyeonu, whom Veronica loved so much.
“Were you here?”
so that.
Veronica walked towards him.
slowly and calmly.
Seeing that, the sage spread his arms.
“Come on.”
Veronica ran.
“be quiet!!”
Her mace is the Sage’s, no.
He read Veronica’s memories and smashed the doppelganger’s head, which imitated the sage.
-bang! bang! bang! bang!!
Distorting her pretty face, Veronica is a sage, no. Now he just started smashing his doppelganger, which had become almost indistinguishable like a slime.
how beaten was that
When the doppelganger’s body was completely destroyed, and even the traces were not properly identified, Veronica gnashed her teeth as if her resentment was not resolved.
“Who dare to imitate…!!”
Slowly, Veronica turned her head toward this filthy altar that she thought her doppelganger had made.
Step by step, he began to walk with the desire of destruction.
Olwen, who had been waiting anxiously, and Lucille, who had been waiting outside, aimed their weapons at Veronica as she walked out from the forest.
Veronica showed off her holy power casually to them, and after seeing it, the paladins headed deep into the forest to check the inside.
“Uh. Cardinal Veronica.”
“…..”
“What happened?”
When Lucille asked about her threatening look, she exclaimed, feeling very upset.
“nothing!!”
after her stupid answer.
Lucille and Olwen broke into a cold sweat when they saw what the Paladins had brought out.
The translucent corpse of a monster that was hardened to such an extent that even its shape was unrecognizable.
The symbol of Lobla House, the great demon that has been completely destroyed.
Seeing that, Lucille and Olwen shook their heads.