Chapter 198 – The Temple
The battle between the paladins and that strange monster is not something I would ever get involved in. Even if I intervened in the fight with Maria, there was nothing I could change.
All I could do was hold my breath and wait for an opportunity.
After waiting like that, I slowly disappeared from everyone’s attention.
Then the opportunity came and I took it.
That’s it.
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The first memory is a long time ago.
It was born from the hands of an old lich. Richie looked at it and said.
-Aren’t you hungry?
He shuddered in the sense that it was right. Then Rich laughed cheerfully and threw something. Something Rich had thrown was trembling as he looked at it. It wasn’t true until later, but that something was a demon who tried to take the place of the lich and was defeated in reverse.
It swallowed the wounded demon whole.
The tough muscle tasted like melting, and the blood was sweet.
It was the first time I felt the sensation of ‘delicious’.
-Would you like some more?
This time, too, it warmed up and affirmed. I wasn’t curious about how his body was structured. I just wanted to eat more of the same thing as before.
After that, the lich continued to feed it. From ordinary demons to undead, succubus, etc., They didn’t care.
It felt that the more it ate, the better its cognitive abilities were.
The more he did, the more he realized that the lich who created him was a very powerful being.
Whenever the lich said a word, he knelt down on the floor and crawled, no matter how strong a demon he looked.
Looking at it, I got a weird feeling about it.
-Do you want to be like this too?
The lich pierced its heart at once. He looked at it with a happy smile for some reason.
-Do you want to kneel down on everything in front of you, eat what you want to eat and take away what you want to take away?
Its cognitive ability improved and asked Richie.
Is that possible?
Richie still smiled.
– Where are you going to not be?
How many years have passed since then? It had become something that some humans admired.
It was thought while looking at the rich human land, not the barren land of demons.
There must be more delicious things here than there, right?
Richie said so, so it must be true.
It acted as the god of the ‘Eye of the End’.
According to Richie’s words that he should not be seen by humans, he sometimes gave an oracle and ate the souls of people who were offered sacrifices.
The human soul was really delicious. It is incomparable to anything I have ever eaten.
Excited, it acted more diligently as a god. As the decades passed, its religion grew so large that no one could ignore it.
Religion grew and more people knelt before him, but it got tired of it.
Exactly, I’m tired of hiding myself.
That’s when I thought about it.
Why should I listen to that lich?
He himself was the god of a religion.
Look at the countless believers on their knees. Compared to that lich, I don’t have much to bow down to.
So it made its own advent plan.
It descends by swallowing the souls of hundreds of its followers and the inhabitants of Coromore.
He becomes stronger by eating the saints who will come to stop him.
After that, he will continue to eat everything that gets in his way and become stronger. He will eat everything in the world.
Even the lich that created him in the end.
…It should have been.
‘How did this happen?’
That’s what he thought while dealing with the Paladins who were terribly rushing along with fierce shouts.
The movement of the bone knife was not as free as before. Taking advantage of that gap, the paladins popped one of its eyes floating in the air.
The field of view transmitted to it is reduced. Other eyes work harder to fill the field of vision, and the fatigue continues to accumulate on it.
It was being pushed back by humans and paladins.
‘I’m being pushed back..?’
Not even that mighty lich, but mere humans like this?
“Don’t be ridiculous!!!”
Manipulated all bone knives. Nothing to watch anymore Cut it to pieces with bone knives.
It thought so.
But even that didn’t work out.
– Cool
Coughing and blood dripping from the mouth. Every time I try to control the bone knife, I feel a burning pain in my chest.
It’s because of the dagger that damn human bastard stuck in earlier. I don’t know what he did, but the hot energy and exorcism of the dagger hindered his actions.
Squeak-
In the blink of an eye, his right arm was cut off.
“This kind of junk-“
Squeak-
The moment it turned around, its left leg was cut off. It did not see the moment its leg was amputated. All of his eyes that were floating in the air were bursting.
Swords filled with divine power poured down like rain on top of it collapsing. Fluffy. The swords were stabbed mercilessly, covering the chest, abdomen, and legs.
There is no blood circulating in the body, and there is no strength in the muscles. In the cold stares of the paladins looking down at it, it had no choice but to admit its own defeat.
‘Yes, I admit it. This time, I lost because of a momentary mistake.’
But the next one will be different.
It calmly waited for an opportunity in the cold, hardening corpse.
* * *
Squeak-
The head of the fallen strange guy rolls on the floor. The bone knives hung limply, and Maria also fell and rolled on the floor.
The black ash that covered the floor disappeared and returned to a normal stone floor. The heavy pressure and the black sun that weighed down the body also disappeared.
Eventually, the paladins who saw the corridor completely returned to its original form looked up and roared loudly.
– Aaaaa!!!
As hard as it was, the feeling when you win will be special.
Sooner or later you’ll be depressed watching your fallen teammates, but for now, I think you’d better let them enjoy their victories.
It was when I was turning my sore shoulder.
Melissa, who had just cut off the weirdo’s hair, took off his helmet and strode toward me…
-Side
He grabbed the back of my head and kissed my lips.
The moment their lips met didn’t last long. It was short enough to be called a kiss.
However, the shock and aftermath was great.
Not only the paladins, but even the saintess stared blankly at me and Melissa. I also looked at Melissa in disbelief, but she, the person in charge, smiled and said,
“It’s a prize. Did you live thanks to you? One kiss for the price of your life is a cheap hit.”
“…”
“What, what’s wrong with your expression, dude? The first kiss of the Holy Knight Commander? No matter where you go, you can brag about it.”
She laughed heartily and patted my back.
“Ah, did you really want to die? The money he hadn’t spent yet and had only collected was flickering in front of his eyes. But just then! You appeared behind that bastard! I begged you to stab me in the back of the head safely, and you succeeded! So you deserve it! You can take it!”
“No… That… Are you okay? A vow of chastity…”
“Huh? Ah, that only applies to those who serve male gods. Do I serve a goddess?”
“Yes? Then… Do the men who serve Yurumia-sama have to keep the oath of chastity?”
“Of course.”
Melissa nodded her head.
I was at a loss for words at the shocking fact that the gods had a harem.
Melissa laughed, wondering if my expression was funny or if she was just in a good mood.
Wasn’t that a tree you couldn’t even climb anyway?
Let’s move on good bye.
He gave me a look like that, and his glare at me became more lively.
I wonder if that bastard will be excommunicated someday.
As a punishment for not maintaining chastity.
“Did you like it?”
My body froze slightly at the sound of the voice next to me. I turn to see Seris, whose face is hidden by the cloth, and Kara who sighs deeply.
“Brother… In the end again…”
When Kara said that, her face was mixed with resignation.
Hey i’m sorry
“Kara, listen, this is my fault…”
“Uh, huh? Hey, did you have a lover?!”
Melissa yelled as I was about to say something to Kara. There was no smile like before, and it was a serious expression of astonishment.
No, why is this human again like this?
“Yes, there is.”
“Why are you saying that now?!”
“No, what if we just bumped our lips together?”
“Sir… It’s a big deal. I saw all the other kids… You even saw the saintess… Hey, why didn’t you talk!”
Melissa suddenly loses her temper.
I was stunned and laughed for a while. Then it was the moment when I opened my mouth to say something.
“Oops?!”
Something black leaped from behind Melissa and went into my mouth.
At that moment, a feeling of dizziness came over me and my body staggered.
“Uh?! Hey! Are you okay?!”
“You?! Are you okay?!”
“Brother!”
The sound of worrying about me feels far away.
Shortly thereafter, consciousness was lost.
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‘Okay, it worked.’
It was bathed in joy. It was good to wait for them to catch their guard.
‘This guy was so quick that he averted my eyes.’
Take this guy’s body and run away from the paladins.
Those who dared to oppose me.
One day, I will take painful revenge without forgetting anything.
It decided to crouch again. Because time was always on its side.
‘By the way, where is this guy’s image?’
I had to see the image so I could absorb it and make it my own. All around it was a black background. As if it was left alone in the void.
‘Did I enter the wrong place?’
No. It went right into the mouth of that black-haired human. If you are a living human being, you must have an image.
It wandered around in search of an image of the meteor.
It was when I was wandering around for such a long time.
“It’s no use looking for it like that.”
The black background was dyed with a bright skylight. It turned around in the direction the voice came from. A woman of considerable beauty by human standards was on her lap petting a burning bird.
Seeing it, it was bewildered.
‘When did they come?’
I didn’t feel any signs of approaching.
It asked the woman, hiding its embarrassing feelings.
“What do you mean it’s useless?”
“Weren’t you looking for an image of this child?”
The woman grinned.
“Yes. I was looking for this human image. Do you know where it is If you let me know, my special you…”
“Because it’s useless. That’s right, you don’t notice even when you’re by my side, right?”
Kyaa-
The burning bird let out a cry. The woman stroked the bird’s head and back with a hearty smile.
“Have you by my side? Bullshit. All around is a black or sky blue background…”
The one who was talking closed his mouth.
There is an image of that human by her own side. But she doesn’t realize it. All around is a black background.
Goosebumps rose from every corner of his body.
“No way…”
“That guess is right.”
Whoops, a woman with a bright smile.
It lost its temper and cried out.
“Sounds funny! The image of a human who had dedicated his life to me was only slightly larger than my body. But how could the image of a mere human being be so huge…”
“Sometimes. He’s a kid I’ve been picking and choosing for a really long time. Are you offended by such absurd remarks?”
There was a chill in the woman’s eyes.
At that moment it lost the freedom of her body. I can’t even turn my gaze, let alone my voice.
“Whoever made it is a very crude and dirty way. No kindness.”
Its body tightened strongly. It realized That wasn’t something he could do in the first place.
Like the lich that made him!
“To think that such trash would try to take away the body of the child I had worked so hard for… I didn’t seem too comfortable with it.”
A woman who laughs as if she is full of energy.
Her long silky silver hair swayed, and she snapped her fingers.
“In my heart, I want to destroy it here, but if I do that, the children outside will doubt this child. Turn off Leave the abilities that seem useful.”
Its body went round and round and gradually shrunk. It soon disappeared from the meteor’s image and was discharged through the meteor’s mouth.
“Come out! See, I said this method was right?!”
And before he could react, he was stabbed by Melissa’s sword as she wiped her lips with the back of her hand.
