Chapter 156 – 45. Slum Patrol (2)
The witch’s shout. And the screams of the slum dwellers were heard everywhere.
It was still midnight. Although residents who came out to evacuate are carrying torches everywhere. It was an absurdly small fire to light the whole night.
Only the outline of the alley is visible at a glance. Pitch-black darkness. In it, I rather closed my eyes.
I felt a monster nearby.
‘A clumsy view is rather a hindrance.’
I hurriedly moved towards him. Infused mana into the mana rod more quickly. Mana rapidly circulated through her body, awakening her senses.
The mana technique used now was an improvement of the source of the Orha family. I haven’t put a name on it yet because the improvement is not completely finished.
And because of the side effects unique to that attribute technique, some mana rods did not shed mana.
‘Especially the mana rod towards her head. Be careful.’
When that runaway mana flows into the mana rod in her head, it affects her composure.
Just like he did when he saw Lilia at the Imperial Library. Turn violent
As Lillia told me, I kept her elemental technique only near the mana heart. The advantages that you can get from that alone are great enough.
I found a witch. She quickly swung her imperial sword.
“Kya-“
I couldn’t even scream properly. With the sound of wind blowing. The head of a monster resembling a goat’s head was blown off at once.
‘It’s faster in practice. Great.’
Temporarily greatly increased his physical abilities through the fast-acting technique. It took only 5 seconds to perceive the magi and cut off the head of one of them.
It was a quick movement and sword strike enough to recall Lucia’s first attack. However, I did not fall into sentimentality and immediately headed for the next Witchbeast. And…
‘3, 2, 1. That’s it.’
Three master Orc-class monsters. Those demons fell head-on with my sword one after another.
With this, all the monsters that were first caught were dealt with. But the situation is still not over.
‘There are monsters that crossed the gate with the Witchbeast.’
The screams of monsters could still be heard from everywhere in the slums. And Renée of Fragments. There was no way that witch could finish this night’s work with just a few witches.
Rene is the bottom stone of the pursuit team. I planned tonight’s slaughter because of my complex about the stone.
After all, finding that woman was the priority.
‘Besides, the soul dagger. Renee has that item.’
Residents of the slums about to die in tonight’s raid.
In particular, victims who die in fear of darkness without anyone’s help inevitably become vengeful spirits.
And the ghosts were excellent prey for that special dagger that ate souls.
Rene is a witch who uses black magic. So, she gathers a large amount of ghosts in a soul dagger, and she must be thinking of making a contract with a high-ranking demon as her sacrifice.
If only the number of people sacrificed tonight would be three digits. However, even after so many residents died, not even a small issue in the imperial capital was resolved.
‘Because this is a slum that was abandoned even in the imperial city. That’s why Lucia’s level of exhaustion goes up.’
But today, that’s not the case. Although Lucia couldn’t stop Rene in Demon King’s Slaughter. I was thinking of stopping that witch and even stealing her soul dagger.
I quickly jumped up a tall tree nearby. The movement of the torches seen over there was directed in one direction.
It means that Lucia is evacuating the residents to the church well.
However, not far away, the screams of the residents were heard again. Some residents were unable to evacuate.
I rushed towards it. The heads of the ten goblins that were about to attack the villagers were quickly blown away.
“Sah, I’m alive. Guard! A knight of the Royal Guard!”
“How can you kill a monster with a single blow… I can’t believe it!”
“We live! Thank you! Knight!”
Residents who escaped from the brink of death shouted. Even though I was misunderstood as a knight of the Royal Guard.
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“Living as Reinhardt’s successor”
* Credentials as formal successor
: As the heir to a family with the blood of a hero, he did a desirable thing.
* Acquisition Reward
: + 50GP / 150MP
: Title proficiency has increased.
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Rather, it wasn’t bad because it was a reward. I evacuated them hastily and headed to where Renee was. It was obvious where it would be.
‘I’m well aware of her behavior.’
Obviously that witch. It will be located on the highest point in this slum area.
***
She’s a witch with dark blonde hair, so she looks orange.
Rene was sitting on the window sill of the broken tower, looking down.
The tearing shouts of demons and monsters. The screams of death uttered by the worms that were dying in that beast.
The sound made Renee happy as if it were a sweet heavenly melody.
“Whoops! Good! Ask me to run more lovely witches. To do that, I even mobilized a marker to induce a sudden gate here. Is not it?”
A mercenary driven by money. The mercenary group that has kept that iron rule most perfectly in Island is the Byrea mercenary group.
In addition to disputes between the imperial territories, he has carried out requests for subjugation of beasts, regardless of who received the payment.
Of course, if he couldn’t pay the price, he immediately turned into a gang of bandits instead of mercenaries.
Rene obtained the magic soul stone obtained through the subjugation of the demons and the black magic secretly transmitted among the witches. With the two, they created a special magic tool called a marker.
A place where the concentration of demon power is high. If you install a marker there, you can induce the creation of a sudden gate. Its accuracy is also quite high.
Because that marker was the reason Renee, who was still only at the 3rd level of black magic, was able to enter her pursuit squad.
‘And if you collect the souls in the soul dagger. The contract for the 4th tier is coming soon. Whoops.’
Then I won’t be doing chores in the back seat forever.
It’s a dirty and smelly place, so I don’t want to stay even for a while. Still, there are many bugs that will feed the Soul Dagger.
Poor people who can’t use a single mana. There was no word more appropriate than worms for the people living in these slums.
And the look of the bug dying pik pik. Because it was pretty fun.
“Hmm. Still, the amount of ghosts gathering in Soul Dagger is smaller than I thought. Let’s put some more markers on it.”
Beneath the broken tower. A yellow gate was wriggling in the air.
The beasts and monsters that jumped out of there were working diligently for him.
Although it is the gate that all Irish people fear and hate. He seemed lovely to Renee.
I threw a square dice-shaped marker near it. The magic power in the air was concentrated there.
After a while A new yellow gate has been summoned.
“What. If the number of monsters doubles, won’t the number of corpses increase right away? Whoop!”
Like that, Renee enjoyed the scenery under the tower.
However, when a little more time has passed. Renee was puzzled.
‘Why? The amount of ghosts gathered by the Soul Dagger is smaller than expected.’
Five monsters and monsters that were previously summoned. In addition, one more gate was opened.
Apparently, the raid had begun, seeing as the screams of the residents of the slums could be heard.
So, the soul dagger that I put in my bosom had to absorb the ghost and resonate. But it was quiet.
“What. What happened?”
Renee looked more closely at the slums beyond the darkness. Dark night. So I could see the torches of the villagers who had fled from the monster’s attack were lighting up.
It was strange.
Obviously, the light had to move around and around. The lights were moving to one place in an orderly manner.
This means people are evacuating.
“Did the guards crawl out already?”
It can’t be. Several months have passed since the Chusaldae entered the ecliptic. He was well aware of how poor and lazy the imperial guards and military police were.
That’s why they’re not the ones to rush to the scene just because a few bugs in the slums are dying…
‘Then the holy priests in the church here? No. I don’t think there’s a person like this who can evacuate the residents while dealing with demons and monsters.’
Renee was stunned for a moment. Although I don’t know exactly what’s going on. She means her plan is twisted.
Put off opening additional gates for now. She had to quickly find out what was going on down there.
“Familiar…”
She stretched out her long, white fingers and tried to summon her servants as they were.
Right at that moment.
“Wow!!”
Someone behind her pulled her hard from behind. And at the same time her own body is turned around.
Hearing her beep, she felt a sharp pain in her abdomen. The shock was so strong that she couldn’t even scream.
***
I headed for the highlands of the slums. The time when Teria was a saint rather than the ecliptic. Buildings from that era were left crumbling all over the slums.
The stone tower that can be seen up there now looks like a trace of those days. And the closer I got to that place, the stronger my demonic power was.
‘It sounds like the gate has opened over there.’
Besides, if it’s Rene of the fragments. She was a witch with a fairly S-type personality.
Of course, she is not a sane person for a member of the Byrea Mercenary Corps. She added if she was a member of Chusaldae.
The witch would be watching the scene of the disaster she had staged, from the best viewing spot.
Besides, she was always dissatisfied with her own rank, which was her lowest. It was clear that she would be making up for her own inferiority complex by climbing to such a high place.
‘Because of her personality, she goes on a rampage even more in the second part of Demon Lord’s Slaughter.’
So if you can deal with that witch in advance, it’s a great opportunity.
On the way up, I encountered four new monsters. And even a group of subordinate monsters of the beast.
I wanted to fly all at once into the midnight sun, but I held back. The flash of mana poured out by the midnight sun was too bright.
‘It would be troublesome if René, seeing that, flew away and ran away.’
Like a witch, you should be used to riding a magic wand like a rosette. Because she is a very cautious woman. I refrained from using the Mana Blade and confronted the monster with pure swordsmanship.
Among the group, I felt the strong spirit power.
‘All four brothers. Are the monsters like goblins? No problem.’
It was fortunate that Renee hadn’t achieved high-level black magic yet.
The markers Renee handles lead to higher-level gates later on. I think type 4 monsters are still the limit.
By the time he came here, Reinhardt’s blood was already boiling. The runes of the imperial sword. There was no need to create that demonic resistance shield.
Shu Woo-wook-
In an instant, the monsters turned into corpses. And jumped towards the top.
The inside of the tower was wider than expected. It might have been a fairly large tower among the ruins of the Saints’ days.
I reaped the mana seniority method and hid the presence of my feet as much as possible. I quickly climbed to the top of the tower.
‘As expected, he was here.’
Orange-haired short-haired woman wearing a witch’s hat. Renee was sitting on the window sill of the tower.
She cautiously approached the back. Then she reached out and grabbed her by the back.
“Wow!!”
You wouldn’t have expected it at all, she was dragged to me defenselessly. I turned Renee around and put one of her fists in her stomach.
“… Uh… Uh…”
I must have felt so much pain that I stopped breathing for a moment. Her face was severely distorted.
She was no ordinary woman though. A powerful fist that can kill an adult man instantly.
“Ha ha… Heh… What… What!! Who are you!”
But even as he groaned, he had the energy to say something to me. It seems that a protection spell was cast on the witch’s robe.
I didn’t answer Renée’s words. No, he replied with his palm instead.
Poo!!
“What… What… Ah!”
The sound of her slapping on the cheek filled the space between the two of them. I had no intention of giving René the time to come to her senses.
Poo again.
He slapped more cheeks in succession. Then, finally coming to her senses, Renee uttered her spell through her mouth.
“Kuh… Whoop… Blood Fog!”
Renee spat out her saliva mixed with her blood. It seemed that her mouth had burst from being slapped so many times by me. And from her blood, her bright red mist rose.
‘It’s just as I thought.’
There was a reason for not flying the sword from the beginning. Renee is a black mage and a blood mage.
If a large amount of blood oozes out of a sword wound for no reason. Rather, it made her more difficult to deal with.
Besides, if you even notice that I’m not an ordinary prosecutor. That woman runs away
‘I can’t do that because there’s a lot to take.’
So he attacked her with her bare hands. It will hurt terribly, but enough that she won’t be fatally wounded. And if it was humiliatingly beaten to that extent.
‘It would be a disgrace to that sadist woman.’
In other words, he provoked Renee. Renee was also caught.
“The dog of the zodiac…Was it a knight of the royal guard! Damn you son of a bitch! I will return this humiliation tenfold! I will nail her to a cross so that she will never die, and I will draw her blood and eat it!”
“Do whatever you want. If you can.”
If you didn’t frown, you’d have a rather bewitchingly pretty face. The face was contorted.
Soon, her red mist turned into a snake and began to wrap itself around me. It was blood magic that René was proud of.
