Chapter 190 – The Temple
The man went inside the cage.
It is now. Without hesitation, I ran toward the undead.
– Kiik?
It was about five steps left with them. The little guy noticed the anomaly.
Shuuk. A sharp bone protruded from his forearm through the hide.
Were you hiding something like that?
I dodged the stabbing bone knife and stabbed the silver dagger into the chest of the small undead.
Triple evolution.
The fire of the internal air seeped into the dagger.
-Kieheek!
The undead screamed in pain. As if being cut by a sword filled with divine power.
‘Fortunately, it works.’
He pulled out his silver dagger and rolled forward. Bang! A huge fist gets stuck where I was. The small undead, shivering in his pain and unable to escape, were squashed by his huge fists.
I pierced the undead’s forearm with the silver dagger filled with the flames of evolution and ran forward.
Aww.
The forearm muscles crack and cook in the flames.
-Koowoah!!!!
The giant undead went mad and swung his other arm. I ducked down to avoid him and burrowed inside him. As it was, he inserted the silver dagger into the scruff of his neck and twisted it strongly.
Quadduk. I hear the sound of bones breaking. The blood did not flow out, perhaps because it evaporated in the heat of the samadhi. It’s nice to be clean.
Leaving behind the falling undead, he turned to the barbed wire. The guy who was chattering with a sinister face is now looking at me with a puzzled expression.
Put your hand into your bosom Are you thinking of doing something?
Puck.
A woman in shackles kicked a man.
What?
Kicking the man in the face as he leaned forward, he went inside. I stepped on the neck of the guy who fell sideways. I intend to break his neck if he does anything nonsense.
I looked down at him and asked.
“What are you?”
What the hell are you doing wearing two undead?
“Kkeuh… What… Is that…”
“What are you doing? Are you a cult?”
“This person is not a cult. It’s trash collaborating with cultists.”
The answer came from the wrong place.
Turning her head to the side, I see a woman looking at me with her bright eyes.
Lightly wavy blonde hair and jewel-like eyes. A sharp nose and round yet sharp eyes.
She was a beautiful woman
That’s why this bastard was looking at me like that.
“A guy who collaborates with cultists?”
“Yes that’s right.”
“Is the name of the organization this guy is in the Red Hood Bandits?”
“I don’t know that far. I only know that he was a bandit.”
“That’s enough.”
All that’s left is to find out from this guy yourself.
I held the dagger in reverse.
* * *
I got the information from Jason.
As an executive of the Red Riding Hood Bandit, he knew quite a bit.
‘I was trying to lure you in from the beginning…’
The purpose of the cultists was to lure her saint. Occupying Crommore or dealing with the intervening kingdom forces were only secondary.
‘What are you planning to do as a saint?’
Jason didn’t even know why he kidnapped the saintess. Even if he is an executive of a gang of bandits, the information provided is limited.
He’s a guy who can’t help with the important things.
I stabbed Jason through the throat with my dagger.
The guy trembled for a moment, then hung his chin powerlessly, probably cutting off his nerves at once.
There was a woman next to me who watched it with a grin.
“…Dead. Really dead.”
As if she couldn’t believe it, she confirmed death several times by kicking her foot. When it became clear that she was dead, she suddenly burst into tears and sobbed.
“Sister… Jaina…”
I felt troubled when I saw a woman crying and muttering an unknown name.
What about him
I think it will get in the way, but it’s ambiguous to leave it there.
“Knight. Please take me too. I will definitely help.”
On the face of the woman who said that, there was nowhere to see the expression that had been crying before. He had a dry expression that showed neither anger nor sadness.
“Are you going to help? How?”
“I know the way out of here. I came without a blindfold when I came in.”
“…Are you sure?”
“Yes.”
Still a dull face.
Can you believe that
But all I could believe right away was this woman. Because there was a limit to what I heard verbally from Jason.
“Good. Get directions. But you’d better not think about doing anything stupid.”
“Do not worry. I have no intention of harming the knight.”
So this way… Maria stepped out of her cage and started walking down her hallway. I stood next to her and walked side by side.
“…What’s your name anyway?”
“It’s Maria.”
“Maria. That’s a good name. I am Han Yuseong. I’m not a knight, so call me by name from now on.”
“Yes, Mr. Han Yuseong.”
* * *
Just like Yuseong and Varian, Seris and Kara were also moved to different places.
The place where they were placed was neither a bizarre hallway made of bones nor a hallway with a strong sense of closure without a single window, but an ordinary introspective hallway lined with picture frames and candles.
“We need to find other people and move quickly!”
Seris raised her voice at her other adventurers.
She was in a hurry
When she first landed here, Seris was quite taken aback. No wonder the floor of her corridor flashed once and then suddenly she teleported away.
Still, Seris soon calmed down. Because Yoosung is by her side. If she was by his side, it would be something.
But there was no meteor.
I searched and searched the group of adventurers who had fallen together, but the meteor was nowhere to be seen.
Perhaps she stayed in that corridor, or she fell to another place like her.
Celis almost fell into despair, but she managed to come to her senses and urged her to take action.
The solution was simple.
She will go looking for him.
She could have stayed there and waited for him to come, but Seris didn’t want to wait for him any longer.
She convinced the other adventurers so she said let’s go. But there was one variable.
“Why do we have to move? Wouldn’t it be safer to just stay here and wait for the others to come?”
A middle-aged adventurer stabbed himself to the core.
Yes. It is safer to wait still than to move directly.
“What if the others don’t find us? Or can’t afford it? Then we will continue to be isolated here.”
“Wouldn’t it be more dangerous to move? Because all sorts of traps and weird undead will be waiting for us.”
The middle-aged man looked at the faces of the adventurers and spoke softly. One by one, adventurers began to be influenced by his logical and calm appearance.
Cerys thought he had to persuade him with something else, but he couldn’t come up with anything. In the first place, he usually didn’t have much to do to keep his feet alive.
It was at that time that Seris was thinking of what to say while wrapping his head tightly.
“A cowardly bastard speaks well.”
Suddenly, Kara spat on her floor, sarcastically. The group of adventurers fell silent. The middle-aged man who was looking back at the adventurers turned his gaze to Kara.
‘He… Why is he like this..!’
Seris pulled Kara’s arm as if telling her to stop.
“Mi, I’m sorry. He’s not like this kind of kid…”
“Leave this. Did I say something wrong?”
Kara continued her words with her annoyed face as she slid her Serice’s arm away.
“Don’t twist your tail around saying that you’re afraid of a human being called an adventurer… Adventurers don’t seem to fit your aptitude, so why don’t you quit?”
“…Is that what you mean by knowing that I’m a silver-ranked adventurer?”
Kara laughed at the words thrown by the middle-aged.
“There was another idiot here who messed around with grades.”
Kara looked back at the other adventurers and said.
“Are you all cowards like this man? Didn’t you become an adventurer looking at success while taking risks? Or a bunch of cocks. It’s not even a boy.”
The adventurers’ expressions became ambiguous. There were those who blushed with shame, and there were those who swallowed a laugh at the absurdity.
The middle-aged man, who said he was silver, slowly reached for the sword at his waist.
“You don’t think you can just insult yourself that much and get over it, don’t you?”
“Why? Play one game? Great. It just happened to be the car I was curious about the shape of your interior.”
Kara grinned and raised her greatsword with one hand and aimed it at the middle-aged man.
It wouldn’t be strange if someone jumped in first.
There is a sense of tension at the moment…
Quaang!
A dull, loud sound broke the tension. The eyes of Kara, the middle-aged, and the adventurers turned to where the sound came from.
“Both of you, stop.”
Seris had hit the wall with her fist. Patter. Fragments of broken stone flowed down. Blood dripped from her clenched fists, but Seris didn’t care.
“What is this about people who should be working together? Do you think this will make things better?”
“…Are you mad at me..?”
“Shut up, Kara. You apologize for being rude to me.”
“Yes. Okay. Um… I’m sorry…?”
“Hmm..? Ah… Yes, that’s fine.”
The middle-aged man was taken aback by Kara’s sudden decline, but accepted her apology.
“Thank you for accepting my apology. I am of the opinion that we should still move, but are you still against it?”
Cerys crushed her fists that had hit her against the wall.
The middle-aged man looked at Seris and Kara and sighed.
“I don’t think it would be bad to move.”
* * *
Seris and the others started moving in search of others.
Again, it was not an easy task.
As they went all the way down the corridor, they fell into a strange trap and encountered a group of hungry undead.
And now a giant skeleton made of several bones. It was twice the size of a normal person, but his forearms seemed much thicker than twice.
“If the shields block an attack once, attack immediately!”
At Seris’s direction, adventurers with shields gathered. They gathered their shields in front. When the shields came together, it became something like a large circular shield.
Bang bang bang bang!!!!
The bluntly jumping skeleton collided with the shield.
“Whoa!?”
“What crazy!”
The shield formation collapsed with one blow from the skeleton’s torso. Instead, the skeleton’s movement also stopped for a moment.
Kara and Andy ran towards the skeleton. Kara pointed at the skeleton’s left arm and Andy at her right.
“Die!”
“Wow!”
Damn
A heavy greatsword and a sharp longsword cut through the rotting bones and cut off the skeleton’s arms.
Seris jumped before the skeleton that had lost both arms went mad.
Seris jumped in front of the skeleton’s head.
“Heavenly Demon Punch!”
With all his might, he smashed the iron shield into the skeleton’s head.
Quadd deuk.
The skeleton’s face sank deeply.
The skeleton’s body falls backwards.
Seris hung from the skeleton’s neck and continued to strike it with his iron shield. When the skeleton’s function completely stopped, the skeleton’s head was like a piece of powder.
Kara, who had rolled on the floor in one turn, raised her body.
“I’m fed up with the undead now.”
“That’s right. Because she can’t feel pain, she has to cut her vitals in one go. It’s not too difficult.”
Andy responded to Kara’s complaint.
The two had conflicts, but as a result of going through many hardships together, they became close enough to talk moderately.
Other adventurers also gathered one by one and started grumbling.
– Clap clap clap.
The sound of applause coming from somewhere.
The adventurers turned to the direction of the sound.
There, a large man with dark skin was clapping.
“I thought I would knock it down. When I was assembling it, I wondered if anyone would be able to defeat it… Adventurers these days are no joke.”
Darius clapped and chuckled.
Seris frowned.
“Who are you? It’s someone I’ve never seen before.”
“Me? Well… It’s me, of course I don’t know. Is this guy different?”
Darius took something out of his waistband and threw it. It was a human head that bounced off the floor.
“…Mr. Varian?”
It was also the head of someone Seris and Kara knew well.
Seeing the reaction of the two, Derius grinned.
“You were famous after all?”
