Chapter 111 – 111. Subjugation of New Monsters (4)
“This… Case… ?”
Seeing the dagger lodged in her chest, Eleanor looked at Eun-hyeon with a puzzled look at the lack of pain.
But then, suddenly, the shape of the dagger lodged in her chest faded, and Eleanor’s anguish began as her blade disappeared leaving only her handle behind.
“Aww!”
Eleanor, feeling the intense pain running through her body, collapsed on her knees on the floor, wrapping her arms around her.
At some point, the dagger that Eun-hyeon had driven into her chest disappeared without a shape.
She harbored a strange feeling that she could not feel the pain despite the sword being driven into her chest, but she forcibly endured the excruciating pain that seemed to set her whole body on fire. I glared at Eun-hyeon, the cause of this.
“You… What the hell have you done to my body!”
“Right now, the princess’s body is filled with a large amount of divine power that she cannot handle.”
The dagger that Eun-hyeon pierced into Eleanor’s chest was a ‘sacred object’ that Eun-hyeon made herself in her new dwelling, the dungeon house, in order to raise Eleanor’s ability as a priest to the next level.
As an apostle of her goddess, Eunhyeon, who can receive divine power from the goddess who is always with her, was able to use the divine power provided by Belldandy to create a sacred object containing an enormous amount of divine power.
Although the nature of the sacred power of the goddess Vesta that exists on the Arcena continent and the divine power bestowed on her by Belldandi are different, they all have the same source of divine power.
To explain the difference between the two powers, there is a difference between the case in which Belldandy bestowed divine power in the form of authority only on Eunhyeon, the apostle, and the divine power that was created so that an unspecified number of people on the continent could use it.
Divine power is like water diluted to a level low enough for humans to use.
“From now on, we will forcibly expand the acceptance limits of the princess’ divine power.”
“Haha. Something like that… Could it be… Ugh!”
Eun-hyeon immediately inserted her dagger into Eleanor’s chest and directly injected the enormous amount of divine power contained in her blade into her body.
In the meantime, I was grateful for the recovery shuttle and many other ways, so I looked for a means to increase her power as a priest, and with Belldandi’s permission, I succeeded in producing it, but I was struggling with when to hand it over. There was, but the opportunity came up and I tried this.
“As if you were using magical power, circulate the divine power in your body and adapt it little by little. I don’t have that much time.”
“Nice… Ugh…”
Eleanor let out a groan and moved her divine power little by little according to Eunhyun’s words.
Eleanor’s current condition is like a situation in which an enormous amount of water is overflowing to the extent that her designated vessel is overflowing.
The process of forcibly injecting divine power beyond the limit and forcibly expanding the vessel to contain the divine power couldn’t be that easy.
If she did something wrong, her vessel containing divine power might be broken.
“Great. I am doing well.”
Even as Eleanor suffered an excruciating pain that felt like her whole body was on fire, she focused on forcibly moving her divine power while listening to Eunhyun.
“Take a deep breath in, take a deep breath as you exhale.”
“Whoa…”
Every time she exhales, Eleanor’s body, which was like a ball of fire, begins to regain her stability little by little.
“Great. You seem to have calmed down a bit now.”
After checking Eleanor’s condition, the cold sweat stopped flowing and she regained her stability, Eun-hyeon put on a satisfied expression.
She actually put a time limit of 5 minutes on Riod, but she tried to help her expand the vessel by directly interfering with her body in case Eleanor failed, but Eleanor was unable to reach her grace. I was able to expand the vessel without difficulty by accepting only the advice.
Now, no one will match her in her mid-priest rank.
Eunhyeon thought to herself that if she left the temple, she would be at the level of staring at the title of high ranking priest.
When the expansion was over, Eleanor opened her eyes, glared at her eunuch, and screamed at her.
“If you’re going to do something like this, you should have said it beforehand! You really thought you were going to die!”
“I told you. I didn’t have time.”
“Why did you bring me here and infuse me with her divine power? There must have been a way to successfully inject it there and come here…”
“Ah, that’s because the princess’s escort knights would be in the way.”
“You know me well. If I had seen the sword go through my chest, I would have put it to your throat right away.”
“So why didn’t you take them separately like this?”
“Take him? Moving people like luggage… !”
“There is no time. Princess. I will break the barrier, so please pray for purification right away.”
“Really… When the expedition is over, I won’t leave you alone this time.”
Seeing Eleanor’s expression as she gritted her teeth and glared at Eun-hyeon with her resentful eyes, Eun-hyeon smiled.
Her attitude and way of speaking indiscriminately towards her made her very angry, but the moment she confirmed the divine powers swirling in her body, Eleanor made a surprised expression.
‘My holy power, which had been exhausted until just now, was filled up at once… Even more quantity and quality than usual… My hierarchy has really improved… ?”
After a long period of training, the path to a chance to be promoted from a mid-level priest to a high-ranking priest opens, and there are not a few people who end their lives as a priest even after training for a lifetime.
The middle-ranking priest was also impatient to receive respect from the adventurers’ guild or expedition and take him here and there, but the quantity and quality of the divine power currently in Eleanor’s body was clearly out of the range of the middle-ranking priest.
‘What the hell is it? This person?’
It was embarrassing for Eleanor, who did not know that her high-quality divine power was mass-produced using the divine power directly airlifted from the goddess.
“Are you ready?”
“Yes.”
“Remove the barrier.”
When Eun-hyeon pulled out the sword from the floor and released her barrier, the horrors of her battlefield reappeared.
The thick dust and bloody smell that stimulates her nostrils, the roar generated by clashing weapons and monsters, and the images of the expedition members leading their wounded bodies against the monsters make Eleanor’s whole body stand upright and stimulate her.
Quaang!
Startled by the huge explosion, Eleanor shook her body, and soon she regained her senses and began to recite her purification prayer.
[The Lamb who serves God pleads. Please drive away all the corrupt energy from this place and grant eternal rest to the poor spirits.]
[Vesta’s Blessing]
[Purification]
In line with Eleanor’s prayer, Eun-hyeon took out the jewel from her bosom again and threw it into the air at her, freeing her magic power contained in her jewel.
[Elysia Gem Amplification]
[December’s birthstone, turquoise]
The turquoise light that floated in the air again began to surround the area, blending with Eleanor’s ‘purification’.
The Chimera Witches, who were affected by purification through the turquoise light, suddenly stopped and stood tall while fighting the expedition members.
Soon, like a wooden doll whose thread was cut, as it slowly lost its strength and began to fall to the floor, those who dealt with the Chimera Demons were just puzzled because they did not know why.
In the midst of such a chaotic situation, a chimera witch began to walk toward Eleanor with slow, heavy steps.
“Where… !”
“Are you okay.”
An adventurer tried to attack the Chimera Witchbeast, but Eunhyun stopped the adventurer.
The adventurer frowned as he didn’t know Eunhyeon’s intention as to why he wanted to allow the access of the demons instead of blocking them. Did not come to mind
Cooong! Cooong! Cooong!
The Witchbeast looked like a very young boy, but the huge, thick troll arms attached to both of his arms, obviously made Eleanor’s complexion pale.
The Chimera Magic Beast, whose arms were bigger and thicker than the boy’s height, was moving using a pair of arms as legs instead of the boy’s short legs.
The body of the boy in the center of the arms floating in the air as he walked using both arms as legs was a deformed appearance.
However, curiously, the Witchbeast showed no intention of attacking.
It was only slowly walking toward Eleanor.
Everyone around, including Eunhyeon and Eleanor, was staring blankly at the young boy-type chimera witch.
The Witchbeast reached in front of Eleanor, bent her arm that served as a bridge, lowered her body, and met Eleanor’s gaze.
“Oh…”
Seeing the boy’s face with her face contorted and her mouth twisted teratologically, Eleanor absentmindedly turned her head away to avoid her gaze.
“Thanks… Woah… Yo. This…”
“What… ?”
Eleanor was startled by the little boy’s strained voice, and looked up at the boy with the twisted face.
“We… Cast… Save me… For giving… Really… As… Thanks… Wet…”
When the boy who had walked all the way to this place without reaching the Buddhahood even with the ‘Light of Purification’ to convey his gratitude did not finish his words, Eleanor was so shocked as if she had been hit by a hammer on her head and was unable to continue her words. .
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Due to Eleanor’s performance, the death toll in the battle was able to achieve 0.
It was the moment when Riod’s words that he would not let anyone die on the expedition turned out to be true.
The morale of the expeditionary force, which led to victory without a single casualty in the battle against the deformed Chimera Witchbeast, soared to the highest level.
At the center of it, of course, no one could deny that not only Riod, but also two people, Eleanor, the ‘Flower of Pernin’, were the first-class contributors.
At the last moment, standing in the center of the battlefield, she was able to kill the beasts at once with a prayer of purification.
Afterwards, Riod moved to a place a little far from the battlefield and set up a base camp, and Eleanor was busy sorting out the seriously injured and lightly injured through cooperation with her other priests and taking care of the expedition members.
“After all, those monsters are a type of ‘synthetic monsters’ synthesized by ‘biological alchemy’?”
“… Unfortunately, yes… I’m wrong. There are definitely examples of success like this.”
After hearing Cecilia’s report at the commander’s barracks after the base camp was set up, Riod swallowed his silence.
Cecilia had previously declared to Leo that the synthesis of humans and demon beasts was absolutely impossible, and her purpose of following this expedition without fail was to confirm the existence of this demon beast.
From Cecilia’s point of view, it was a feeling of resentment that the pride of a scholar was crumpled.
As someone who is well versed in alchemy in her own way and is teaching students in Aether, it was a situation that proved that she was wrong in her claims.
“Why did you come to that conclusion?”
“That… This person will explain.”
“Oh sorry. It’s a little late.”
“… How can you not handle that smell?”
Cecilia, who was unable to analyze properly because of the disgusting stomach that aroused her disgust, dissected the corpses of Chimera witches until just before her.
After dissecting dozens of monsters, Eun-hyeon’s body smelled of rotting corpses, and when the smell of the dead bodies filled the commander’s barracks, Liod frowned.
“Because the matter is the matter. Leo, what I say now. Can you believe it?”
“It sounds like there was a time when I didn’t believe you. Talk.”
“Do you remember what I said then? The reason why humans and monsters cannot be synthesized.”
“I said it was because of the contaminated mana. After all, even if you try to synthesize it, it will cause a rejection reaction and become a monster.”
It is no longer a combination of humans and demon beasts.
It would be correct to see it as a combination of a witch and a witch.
“I told you then. If humans find a way to stop the progression of magical beast transformation even with contaminated mana in their bodies…”
“I remember saying it might be possible.”
“That is… Is it possible?”
“Anyway, the creator of these monsters seemed to have found a way. In a very vicious way.”
Eunhyun frowned and did not hide that he was in a bad mood.
It was very unexpected for Riod, who didn’t see Eun-hyeon expressing blatantly negative emotions that often.
“What way?”
“To kill a person and synthesize the corpse with the Witchbeast.”
“Yes… ?”
“When a person dies, the mana in the body disappears and only an empty shell remains. Even if parts of the body of a demon beast are synthesized, there is no mana left in the body, so there is no contamination of mana, and there is no way that a human corpse that has already died and ceased activity will become a demon beast.”
“Ha, but… So how does it move… ? In the end, if the human body that becomes the base is also dead, even if you combine a corpse with parts of the beast’s body, it’s just a corpse after all.”
“This must be the method devised there. Professor, in this world. There is such a thing as ‘black magic’, a forbidden spell.”
“That… I know.”
Isn’t this ‘black magic’ that has recently caused a stir with the case of Elvin Hersha?
“Just as there are many different types of magic in general, there are many different types of black magic. Among them… There is a ‘necromantic technique’ that forcibly settles the soul of the deceased into the body of the deceased and uses it as his servant for the rest of his life.
“Human corpses as their own species… No way… !”
“The professor is probably right. Riod. In this case, at least three types should be grouped together.”
“… Talk.”
“First, ‘alchemist’ with the ability to synthesize a human with a beast, second, a ‘necromancer’ who can control a chimera, a synthesized beast made from human corpses as a base, and third, probably acting with them and a human The ‘bandits’ who procured the corpse of Do you know what I’m talking about?”
The purpose is still unclear and cannot be determined.
However, if a powerful Chimera Witchbeast is created by synthesizing the characteristics of the Witchbeast into the body of a dead human as it is, and a Witchbeast Corps is created that is controlled by a necromancer by turning the body of a dead human into ‘Undead’.
It wasn’t hard to imagine what effect that would have on Pernias Kingdom.
