Chapter 199 – The Temple
Eyes open.
I see an unknown ceiling. It was a familiar feeling, so I got up and looked around without much emotion.
The place where I was was a rather fancy room with various decorations.
Judging by the pattern of the Church of Eurmia, it seems to be a room of a temple.
When I look down at the heaviness I feel in my legs, I see Seris sleeping face down on the bed. It was when she reached out her hand to pet her adorably.
– Clap.
The sliding door opened.
I hurriedly covered Seris’ face with the blanket. It wasn’t until she turned to the man who opened the door that she realized she didn’t have to cover it.
“Brother! You woke up!”
“Shh.”
I pointed to Ceris, who covered her face with her blanket. Seeing him, Kara narrowed her eyes.
“What are you doing right after you wake up? My sister is also…”
“It’s not like that…”
I tried to say no, but I shut my mouth because I felt like I was fidgeting under the covers. When I lifted the blanket, sure enough, Seris, who had woken up, was holding on to my pants.
“…Lol.”
She met my eyes and smiled shyly.
“Hehe, what is hehe? Let go of your pants.”
“Chit.”
Seris let go of my pants with a sad expression. Kara looked at Seris with her ridiculous face.
“Sister, do some work. My brother is sick.”
“Know. I was just kidding.”
“…Really?”
“Huh.”
Seris nodded her head as if it were natural. Kara looked at him with an unreliable expression and sighed deeply.
“Okay. I will believe First of all, I will tell the nun that my brother is awake and come back, so my sister is covering her face.”
Rattle. The door closed and Kara left. Céris climbed onto her bed and she began to touch my cheek gently.
“Where are you uncomfortable? Like her head hurts or her stomach hurts.”
“Yes I’m fine. I’m fine. Rather, your eyes..?”
Apparently, Cerys’ eyes, which had been red in Coromore, had now returned to their original blue color.
“Snow? Aah, this is because it calms the energy of the Heavenly Demon Artisan.”
“Silence it?”
“Yes. Just as Yooseong can raise and lower mana, I can use the energy of the Heavenly Demon Spirit similarly. The reason why her eyes turned red is because she raised the energy of the Heavenly Demon Sacred Art.”
She said, but her point was that she was able to use her mana as well.
“Since when has she been able to pull up? At least it didn’t look like that until we left the temple.”
“Not long ago. Because she has been able to do it since meeting a strange man at the temple.”
Celis explained to me the story of how she was able to control the energy of the Heavenly Demon. She was on the verge of dying and she somehow manages to do me.
A little unkind explanation, but I could understand. Because I’ve had that experience a few times.
“Soon the nun will come. Cover your face.”
“Yes, got it.”
Seris wrapped her face in her cloth. After a while, the door opened and a nun, Kara, and Melissa, whom she had never seen before, came inside. Melissa greeted me by raising her hand.
“Did you sleep well?”
“Yes, it seems that the body is refreshed as long as it is rested. But what is Melissa-sama doing here?”
“My life saver came to see if he was okay. It looks fine.”
“That’s something I don’t know until I look closely. Sister.”
“Ah, yes.”
At the nun’s words, Melissa shut her mouth. The nun sat next to me and started touching and pressing her body all over the place.
“Do you have any pain anywhere? It hurts like a prick when you touch it.”
“There is nothing.”
“Is it so?”
The nun uttered a short incantation. A pure white light covered my body. The nun said as she shuddered at the tickling sensation of something running through her body.
“Please don’t move. I’m looking inside right now.”
“Ah yes.”
I tried not to move my body despite the tickling, unpleasant feeling. Soon, the white light that enveloped my body disappeared. The nun nodded her head.
“My body is normal. It is said that the xie jiao thing entered her body for a while, so I looked inside her body, but there is no special energy.”
“Then can I move?”
It was Melissa, not me, who answered the nun’s words.
“Yes. Just in case, as long as you don’t move too drastically, you’ll be fine.”
“Good. Hey, did I mention that my name is Yuseong Han? It’s an odd name. Anyway, come with me.”
“Yes? Why?”
“It’s because there are people who desperately want to see you.”
Me? Who?
Seris and Kara were here. Who else wants to see me?
‘Is it an orca?’
Because of her backlog, she could not attend the temple. It seems to be a reasonable reasoning to some extent, considering her behavior of driving nails into her, telling her not to get hurt until the day before her departure.
She thought and followed her Melissa.
And the person who was waiting for me was someone I didn’t expect.
“Master, are you here?”
Maria, who was staying in the next room next to me, immediately knelt down and bowed when I entered.
No what is this…
[Maria’s status window has been updated]
No, what the fuck is this…
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〈 Han Yuseong 〉
Species: Human
Gender: Men
Age: 24
Height: 176
Weight: 76
[Muscle strength 18/25]
[Agility 20/30]
[Stamina 19/25]
[HP 36/100]
Residual Karma: 980
〈 Title 〉
〈 Skill 〉
-Four Martial Arts [Lv.3] [82.42%]
-Daedong Checkpoint Combat Swimming [Lv.1] [3.03%]
– Wolf’s Pact
-Manryu Returning God [Lv.3] [11.22%]
-Meeting in China [Lv.6] [26.78%]
-Tetrahedron Method [Lv.3] [92.26%]
-Hermit art of welcome door [Lv.3] [66.12%]
-Samadhi Evolution [Lv.1] [1.2%]
-Blood poisoning [Lv.1] [23.1%]
– No white poison
-Observer [Lv.1] [00.0%]
-Family
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The status window, which seemed to have been seen for a long time, was a little different from before. First of all, Karma increased exponentially.
This must have been obtained by killing the undead, a man named the leader of the Red Riding Hood Bandit, and the cult leader.
It is a reasonable reward for high school students.
‘By the way, what are the observers and the subordinates below?’
I first clicked on the observer.
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〈observer〉
Summons an iris that uses your own blood to illuminate your vision.
The size can be adjusted arbitrarily.
Number of Summonable Observers: 1
The maximum distance that the owner and observer can maintain: 100m
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‘Isn’t this the technique that cult leader used?’
Remember wisely.
The gigantic eyeballs floating in the air accurately caught the movements of the Paladins.
I also had a lot of trouble avoiding those eyeballs.
‘It’s a better gain than the karma I just saw. But why did this happen?’
Because you killed the cult leader?
That doesn’t make sense. If it was to get a skill every time I kill someone, my skill window should be so full that I couldn’t even bother scrolling down by now.
‘…The thing I can explain best is, of course, the one that came into my mouth later.’
Melissa said that something like black slime escaped from the cult leader and went into my mouth. It wasn’t long before she got out thanks to her own artificial respiration.
‘Why artificial respiration…’
No no. It doesn’t matter now.
Anyway, it would be most desirable to say that this skill came about as the black thing I swallowed came out.
Then, what is the ‘fellowship’ created with the observer?
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〈 〉
Maria, who used to be the saint of the cult ‘Eye of the End’, now believes in you and follows you. She will value you more than her own life.
*If the owner wishes, the owner and his followers can share karma.
The bond between Maria and Yuseong Han: Stage 1
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‘…Is this the reason that woman suddenly called me master?’
I still get dizzy when I think of that time. She had a hard time explaining it to Melissa, who was looking at me with strange eyes.
By the way, what’s the point of being able to share karma whenever I want?
Does that mean I can use Maria’s karma if I want to?
Is the reverse also possible?
If so, I think it would be pretty good. Because Karma can be used flexibly.
The bonding step below it… Let’s ignore it for now.
I turned off my status window and turned on Maria’s status window. It’s a family that was created by force majeure, but first of all, we need to look at the ability.
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〈 Maria 〉
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Height: 164
Weight: 54
[Muscle strength 17/30]
[Agility 16/30]
[Stamina 14/30]
[Magic attribute 15/40]
Residual Karma: 120
〈 Title 〉
One who serves
〈 Skill 〉
〈 share observer〉
〈 Sado flower 〉
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His abilities were… Pretty decent.
Just like Kara.
‘The woman who was imprisoned had abilities like that?’
According to common sense, there’s no way a woman who was just locked up could be that strong.
Perhaps when she awakened as a cult saint, her body changed.
Otherwise it can’t be explained
‘I’m glad it won’t interfere with my work though.’
It seems to help quite a bit, let alone hinder it.
At least, like Ariel, she wouldn’t try to run away in the slightest danger.
Satisfied, I looked at Maria’s skill window.
Observer Gong Yoo seems to know without even looking at it, and she clicked on the apostle painting under it.
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〈 Sado flower 〉
Maria, who was an ordinary believer, becomes an apostle and punishes her enemies.
Maria’s physical abilities and magical powers greatly increase.
*Caution.
When her apostolicization ends, Maria is left incapacitated for a while. She recommends using them wisely.
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‘If it’s an apostle… Do you mean the state in which three pairs of wings sprouted from her back?’
If that’s right, this is awesome.
I remember Mary, the saint of the cult. She didn’t lose at all even while dealing with Seris, Kara, and five paladins alone. Rather, she accomplished her feat of defeating three paladins.
Of course, I was able to do that because I shared the observer used by the cult leader.
However, it does not change that it is a trump card that can be used in case of emergency.
They say people are harder to get than a thousand gold. I got someone I can trust and use.
‘No, I haven’t gotten it yet.’
It would be safe to say that he truly gained it only when he got her out of her Yurmia religion.
“Why are you staring into space?”
I opened the door and looked at the saintess and Melissa who entered.
…How to convince
