Chapter 151 – Episode 151: The Trial of the Holy Sword (1)
Episode 151: Trial of the Holy Sword (1)
Cool morning.
Lesilia, standing in front of the vine-strewn entrance, was saying her prayers with her hands together.
‘I hope I can protect you with my own strength.’
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The oracle message reappeared.
Lesilia closes her eyes and crosses her cross on her forehead.
Her pious fingertips trembled slightly.
“You arrived early.”
“… ! Master!”
As if trying to hide her frightened appearance, the saintess naturally crossed her hands.
She walks up to her gun with a little hectic steps, and smiles.
“… Did you intentionally not assign personnel?”
“Since I arrived, there have been no sentries.”
His gaze, which had been skimming around the library, became even sharper.
‘It’s similar to that scenario scene.’
I thought of a sub-scenario where the hero was stabbed in the back by her high priest.
A warrior with a long reputation.
The high priest, who was wary of his followers, requested a dungeon without the saintess’ knowledge.
It was a dungeon where a group of goblins who used black magic had nested, so the difficulty was quite high.
The goblins didn’t remove the dead bodies around the dungeon on purpose to scare them away.
So the High Priest made some sort of deal with the goblin chief and got rid of all the corpses.
Thanks to this, the expedition, including the hero, entered a dangerous dungeon without any boundaries.
‘I thought about it while playing, but the strategy is really poor.’
A monster appeared in the library located inside the imperial castle.
It was a situation where a lot of sentries had to be deployed, being wary of dangerous monsters and leaking rumors.
In addition to the entrance, there were no popular ships stationed near the dungeon.
‘Yes, because this is a game.’
Ikarut clicked his tongue as he gazed at the entrance to the library, which told him to go in.
Whether they knew him as an idiot or the world in the game was originally like that, everything was clumsy.
“I can’t just go in.”
“Yes, you can enter only after breaking the barrier itself.”
A barrier made up of a transparent membrane.
The saintess quietly took a step back.
Ikarut stretched out his palm, concentrating the aura.
Pod!
A black aura spread widely and covered the barrier.
The barriers that trembled in the air were slowly dispersing and dispersing.
‘I’m absorbing it.’
The barrier was absorbing demonic energy with a subtle color like soap bubbles.
When Ika Root touched his hand, transparent tentacles formed on the barrier membrane and clung to it.
I quickly brushed it off and the barrier returned to its full shape.
Looking through the eyes of the abyss, the spell was also a barrier that could only be released by killing the caster.
It was pretty tricky.
“I think we should completely break the barrier. To do that…”
Lesilia looked at her and carefully placed her hand on the back of hers.
At the sudden skinship, Ika Root moves his gaze as if wondering.
Then, the saintess’ face turned into a bright red tomato.
“A, that… It’s not that I have other feelings, I thought it would break only if I exploded it… When her holy power and magic collide, it explodes, right? So…”
“I get it.”
“Ugh… Please bear with me even if it’s a little awkward…”
Lesilia bowed her head in shame.
However, she wrapped the back of Ika Root’s hand tighter and softer.
Some kind of refreshing and harmonious energy from her spilled over the back of her hand.
I felt an instinctive reluctance, but Ikarut also dispersed the demonic energy in line with the speed.
Susut…
A black aura entangled like a net.
On top of it, as if it were being put together, it was white and covered with a faint energy.
In an instant, two corresponding energies collided.
Papa baba babat!
Like candles burning in the wick, they exploded one after another.
A huge shock wave was created because the high-ranking holy power and magic power conflicted.
Piece by piece, the broken barrier.
However, the barriers that were fragmented according to the spell began to entangle each other.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to regenerate, Ikarut quickly grabbed the hand of the saintess and led her.
“If I was a little late, I would not have been able to get in.”
“Ha… Iknow, right.”
Her body could be dismembered if she went in the wrong way.
With her heart about to explode, Lesilia was barely breathing.
Ikarut stared at her transparent membrane while waiting for her saintess to recover.
‘How did the hero get here?’
It was a barrier technique that absorbed all energy.
The hero’s divine power will also be sucked in like a black hole.
‘I didn’t enter the dungeon alone.’
The one who entered with the hero must have an aura opposite to her divine power.
Since they said they were moving along with the streets of Charata, I guessed who it was.
‘I don’t have time to procrastinate.’
Seeing Lesilia’s complexion somewhat returned, Ikarut entered her library.
When you open one side of the door surrounded by vines, an eerie wind brushes your skin.
“Unbelievable… It’s a complete mess.”
The library in the saintess’ memory became a mess.
In the straight hallway, plants with gloomy energy were growing randomly.
It was so large that it pierced the bookshelf.
It was like looking at a huge jungle.
“It’s faint, but I can feel the divine power from afar.”
Lesilia pointed her finger in front of her.
It was blocked by the tree trunks that surrounded the hallway, so I couldn’t even see the other side.
I could feel her life as if she had been cut by her sword.
A dungeon where the Trial of the Holy Sword quest takes place.
I felt new about the disaster mode dungeon I hadn’t seen in a long time.
Sussssseseusessseusesssss, S sssss-
“Watch your head.”
“Yes… ? Omg!”
Looking up at her ceiling, Lesilia stiffened like a statue of her.
She trembled as she pulled the veil over her.
“What is this…”
“It must be a mutant monster. It must have been a small bug originally.”
“Ugh… !”
It was a bookworm crawling restlessly up the wall above her.
Her small size grew to a human size, and the speed of her crawling while hiding her presence was also fast.
“If you don’t touch it first, it won’t do you any harm.”
“Hey… ! It’s so gross…”
The bookworm monster only moved the tips of its antennae, and had no intention of attacking.
Lesilia bent her upper body a little and grabbed her wrist.
Her face, which had turned blue, looked only at the ground.
Ikarut glanced up and strengthened the aura around her.
Then, the antennae, which acted as sensors, stopped and returned to another position.
‘They’re looking for us.’
The bookworm that climbed the ceiling moved here and there.
He was keeping his antennae up, probably looking for signs.
Sseuseuk.
It wasn’t just one.
Bookworms hiding among the trunks of tall trees, vines, and broken bookshelves were keeping an eye on this place.
Ika Root dispersed her aura so that her presence could not be read properly.
Perhaps the confusion came soon, the bookworms hid themselves.
The interior of the library was vast and maze-like.
From the beginning, their purpose was the warrior hiding here.
The saintess followed the divine power she sensed and walked.
Ikarut occasionally read her steps and lightly killed the bookworm that followed her with her aura.
“Master, please wait a moment.”
Lesilia stopped her steps and took a careful look around her.
The ceiling, the bookshelf, and the tree trunk pierced between them.
Lesilia’s head snooped and narrowed her eyes.
The road came back from the beginning.
The faint divine power that seemed to barely reach her end suddenly disappeared as if she was laughing at her saintess.
She showed up soon, but was suspicious.
I felt divine power within a few meters, but there was no hero.
“The warrior’s divine power was cut off, but it reappeared, but the location was different. Something is strange.”
Lesilia murmured to herself.
She then stares at a tree trunk poking through the bookshelves.
She approaches slowly and touches it with her finger.
Bright yellow dust powder was smeared.
Lesilia rubbed her thumbs against her nose and took a short breath.
“… It was this that confused my senses.”
There were plants and animals that mutated when the gate was opened and the rift was broken.
The tree trunk in front of her eyes was also mutated.
It was the dust of wood dust that confused her senses and caused her to spin in circles.
“I’ll have to remove the stem.”
“If we do it wrong, we could be in danger.”
Narrow hallway.
If the tree trunk that pierced the passage was burned or destroyed, the entire library could collapse.
The tree trunk was divided into several bundles.
Her torso must have been somewhere inside.
“I need to find a tree. If you accidentally burn the stem, ugh…”
Lesilia checked the gigantic stem and she looked away as it was.
Her cracks were filled with dense bookworm eggs.
Sussuk…
Just then, a bookworm on the ceiling was moving its antennae wildly, observing the two’s movements.
“Uh… ? Kyaaak!”
Lesilia looked up carelessly, and she screamed.
Suss, susssss
The moment you touched the tree trunk, the bookworms multiplied in groups.
The scene in which the bugs were infested with the ceiling clung to it was disgusting enough to make you vomit.
Bookworms popped out of nowhere.
Eventually, it crawls to the floor and forms a circle around it.
It looked like it was about to attack if it moved.
“Yes, Master… !”
Lesilia was on the verge of passing out as the terrible insect came close to her eyes.
Her hands that held hers were completely terrified. She raised her strength to the maximum as if she would explode her holy power at any moment.
Here, the corridor collapses after she explodes her holy power, and you can meet death on good terms with the bookworm.
Ikarut held the shoulder of the saintess who was barely holding on to her reason.
“There must have been a communication spell.”
“… What about those worms?”
“Yes, there was magic in the antennae. Judging from the unclean mana, it must be black magic.”
“If it’s black magic… It wasn’t just the hero who went in.”
Only then did she understand why the bookworms had been secretly following her.
The party who came in with the hero cast magic without killing the monsters in the dungeon.
He was monitoring the demon king and the saint who followed.
For some reason, Lesilia’s gloomy intentions gave rise to goosebumps.
“Master, what are you going to do now? The place is too small to fight here.”
“I have no intention of losing my strength recklessly.”
The shadow under Ikarut’s feet spread widely.
Not only the floor and ceiling, but the entire interior of the corridor was engulfed in black shadows.
“It is enough to move it to another place.”
Whoops.
After speaking, the shadow opened its mouth wide.
As soon as the mysterious alien space was revealed, the bookworms were caught up in the black hole-like alien space.
Pod!
In just a few seconds, the swarming bookworms disappeared into the shadows.
The shadow took the form of Ikarut again, and quietly settled under my feet.
Resilia, who was maximizing her holy power, only blinked her eyes.
“Egg plant.”
“Oh, ah! Yes!”
A cluttered corridor, only tree trunks.
There were no bookworms.
Looking around at her quiet atmosphere, Lesilia felt a sense of deja vu.
She sticks close to Ika Root and moves with her gunning stride.
“Ouch! Come on, kill that worm!”
“A worm appeared! Quickly protect the high priest!”
The same time.
After confirming that the demon king and the saint had entered the dungeon, the high priest led the imperial knights and stood at the entrance of the library.
‘The hero said he would compete in the dungeon, but…But I’m still anxious.’
A warrior who was convinced that he could kill the Demon King.
However, the priest couldn’t believe it. Just as he ran away after being hit on the back of the battlefield, it seemed as if he would still be like that now.
If the demon king and the saint escaped, they would attack in front of the controlled entrance.
He built a double barrier with the high-ranking priests, including himself.
Whoops.
I heard the sound of a crack opening somewhere.
As soon as I turned in the direction of the sound, hell unfolded.
The body was covered with countless large, disgusting bugs.
Bugs crawled on the walls, ceiling and floor.
“Daddy, annihilate those terrible things quickly!”
The High Priestess and the Imperial Knights exterminated the bugs out of time.
The woman who was watching her situation through her communication magic skillfully lifted her lip line.
