Chapter 535 – 535. The Search for the Missing Platoon (4)
It was none other than Erin, who was galloping at high speed across the dark, moonlit forest.
Even though she was running with Agnes on her back, Erin’s speed, which did not slow her down and ran without hesitation, was definitely fast.
Instead of slowing down in a dense forest densely packed with huge trees and various obstacles, she runs faster and faster, dodging them.
Her sense of smell tracked the faint scent of Eira, and as she ran quickly, her movements were uncluttered and extremely neat.
‘I’m sure he taught me well.’
Agies didn’t praise her for taking the words out of her mouth, but inside she admired Erin for this look of her.
It shines even more because he knows who has perfected his judgment, determination, and well-trained physical ability.
Despite having a good teacher named Eun-hyeon by his side, Agies knows very well that it is never easy to accept and follow Eun-hyeon’s directions and teachings.
Eun-hyeon’s teaching, which emphasizes individual efforts and takes it as a basic base, is difficult to endure with her moderate mental head.
But this woman, Erin, who is running on her own, has done it and has been very successful as an adventurer and as a woman.
– Miss Erin is a very interesting person.
She seemed to know a little bit about what Gerard was saying, as he briefly explained about Erin with a smile on his face.
Certainly, the taste of the person Eunhyeon liked was firm.
She is a person who longs for endless efforts to achieve her growth and achievement, just like herself.
She was either herself or Rio de or Gerard.
“Sir Anies.”
“… Why.”
Erin, who was calmly running through the woods without disturbing her breath, broke the silence that cut through the wind and asked Agnes.
“Ogre. Have you ever met him?”
“Yes.”
Agnes did not even think about it and gave an immediate answer.
Twenty years ago, having experienced many battles while working as a team with Eunhyun and others, she naturally included her experience of fighting ogres.
“Are you missing?”
“… Yes. I’ve only heard stories I never fought.”
Although she grew up in a short period of time and gained the honor of being a gold tier adventurer, it is extremely rare even among adventurers to encounter a monster belonging to her higher rank.
It is also a rare species with a very rare population, and the adventurers who faced the ogre met a disastrous end in failing to survive and being reduced to prey.
“Are you strong?”
“Not strong. Not only is it incredibly strong, but the ability to tear through its tough hide and burrow into its flesh is beyond the reach of most guys.”
The nickname for ogres that fly among adventurers is “A monster that eats people.”
Overwhelming predators, ranked higher than other beasts, are feared by simply tearing apart the human body and devouring flesh, blood, and internal organs.
Erin was slightly nervous about the presence of an ogre she hadn’t actually seen yet.
“… Anies-sama can’t win either?”
“Under.”
Anies snorted lightly over Erin’s shoulder.
“Of course I win.”
“And… Then…”
“But the maximum time I can beat an ogre is 2 minutes.”
“… Yes?”
At the explanation Erin couldn’t understand, her legs stopped running through the forest.
“What are you doing. Keep running.”
“… Yes.”
Agies moved his legs again and started running through the woods.
“It’s really annoying, but I can’t win with my bare hands.”
No matter how immensely divinely blessed he was, he honestly explained the difference in strength in a one-on-one battle with an ogre.
“You can win if you use strong spirits.”
“Ah.”
Erin gave a small sigh as if she had realized.
A special ability that allows a portion of a god to descend into this underworld only for those who have received a tremendous divine blessing.
What a privilege it is, Erin, who had experienced its benefits firsthand, couldn’t help but admire it.
Currently, among the priests of the continent, the one who uses the ‘Spiritual God’, which can only be used by only two people, is Eleanor, Eun-hyeon’s wife.
Right away, when Eleanor performed the Spiritual Spirit during the previous vampire eradication operation, she recalled what kind of miracle her large wings floating in the sky had brought about.
“Then, will Anies-sama get big wings too?”
“… What?”
Erin ran and tilted her head at the words of Anies, who asked with a puzzled look on her face as if she was talking about something out of the blue.
“Uh? Miss Eleanor is…”
“Ah. It’s different from him. Do you all use the same skills or the same magic just because all adventurers use magic?”
“… Not really.”
“The same goes for priests who use divine power.”
Just because all those with divine power pray to the goddess and perform miracles, not all priests use divine magic to heal and assist someone.
The existence of paladins who annihilate enemies based on divine power is like that, and Agies is a representative example.
Her greatest strength is her secondary magic and barriers based on the enormous blessings of the divine.
And, although it wasn’t what he wanted, it was an absolute defense that he had acquired after receiving a penalty that stopped his body’s growth.
However, it was excellent in all aspects and superior, but lacked only one thing.
Unlike the paladins who stand in front of her and eliminate the threat by annihilating her enemies, she is not equipped with the ultimate attack to annihilate her foes.
As a result, Agies had no talent for fighting.
“Still, I wasn’t satisfied with assisting the others behind the scenes.”
When working as a team, Raynon with overwhelmingly high defense power was in the vanguard, and Eunhyun and Riod, who had excellent balance, covered the front and rearguard, while Gerard was the enemy’s disturbance, and Illyana and Alice were the enemies in the front with high firepower. It was a well-balanced team that annihilated them.
Agnes played a very important role in supporting her team’s recovery and support, but she was not satisfied with that and wanted to fight other team members in the front.
It was her stubborn behavior, but none of her team members opposed her.
“So he taught me how to fight on the front line.”
“… Is that him?”
“Your husband.”
Suddenly, Anies, who was sitting on her Erin’s back, tightened both of her hands that were holding on to her Erin’s shoulders, and squeezed them with force to crush her bones.
“Oh, it hurts! Sick! Anies-sama!”
“Oh sorry. When she thinks about how she trained him, she suddenly gets annoyed.”
“…”
But how should he respond to the irrationality of taking out the anger of those emotions on himself?
However, as Erin, who had seen some of her strange training firsthand, she couldn’t even fathom how much Agnes had gone through to grow up, so she couldn’t properly express her dissatisfaction.
“Anyway. Eleanor and I have the same ‘Spiritual God’ in terms of devoting tremendous divinity and creating miracles with earnest desire, but the miracles created through that prayer cannot be considered the same.”
What Agnies wanted from the goddess Vesta through her spirit was the ultimate aerodynamic power that could annihilate the enemy.
As a result of that, what she was able to use was her ‘Golden Lion’, which protects her and wields her overwhelming physical power.
On the other hand, what Eleanor wished for from the goddess Vesta during her spiritual life was ‘the salvation of many people’.
Eleanor’s heart wished that no one would die and safely return to the arms of her family, who suffered near-fatal damage and went to a precarious situation right before the candle called life was extinguished.
Appreciating her heart, the goddess Vesta made Eleanor her angelic symbol, the angel’s wings.
Since they are the same priest but have different wishes, the miracles that can be performed through prayer are naturally different.
In particular, among the members of the Knights of Artia and the Magus Wizards, who experienced the effect of the ‘Chief Wings’ made with the desire to save many people, word of mouth spread and Eleanor’s existence gradually became known as a saint. Was starting
“Unlike me, she really is a model of a saint.”
Wouldn’t that look be the most appropriate for a priest or a saint?
Anies, who was annoyed by the cumbersome title of saintess, laughed inwardly.
“… But Anies-sama is also amazing.”
Eleanor saved many people based on her desire to save someone, but just because Agies didn’t do that doesn’t mean Agies is great.
As much as Eunhyeon, Eleanor, and Gerard had heard how great Agnes was, Erin did not think that Agies was not as great as Eleanor.
“Haha, what about this little guy?”
Anies laughed at her and roughly stroked Erin’s hair.
She wasn’t down at all, but Erin’s comforting words didn’t make her feel too bad.
“Kid, kid…”
She had a complicated feeling about being treated as a little girl by Anies, who had the appearance of a much younger girl than herself, but even then, she was a woman of the same age as Illyana on the inside.
However, the same goes for Eunhyeon and Illyana, who treat Erin as her child.
Even pouting her lips, she didn’t bother to express it out of her mouth.
While talking like that, as she ran through her forest, following Eira’s scent, the smell of Eira finally became thicker in Erin’s senses.
“Found.”
Erin, who was feeling complicated about her handling of her child, her eyes flashed and her legs accelerated as she ran through the woods.
And the sign that she sensed by Erinn was one person and three huge monsters surrounding him.
“Sisterhee hee!”
“I go first.”
Ayra shouted with all her might in her direction, and in response to that voice, the monsters stopped their actions for a very brief moment.
Agnies, who was on her Erin’s back, untied her and jumped on top of her, stepping on her Erin’s shoulder.
“Ah… !”
It is true that Erin jumped on top of her using herself as a stepping stone, but she was taken aback as she did not know what to do with the sudden action.
In the gap where the monsters focused on the sound and focused only on Erinn, Agies leaped towards the sky with terrifying leg strength and prayed to his goddess.
[In exchange for my faith, my heart, and my faith, I earnestly ask you.]
The clear voice containing the clean, clear divinity without any dirt resonates from the sky and dominates the forest below.
In the very brief moment that Agies’ petite body soared above the sky, Agies’ whole body was enveloped in golden light along with a pious prayer.
[A blessing to defeat my, your, and our enemies and protect everyone.]
It gradually took shape, and what appeared was a golden lion wearing a gauntlet.
[I beg my goddess.]
[Vesta’s Blessing]
[Kangshin (降神)]
The golden lion, which can exert physical force in the underworld by pouring out a huge amount of intangible energy, divine power, is the strongest weapon for Agnes, who has no fighting ability.
Agies and the golden lion, who had a terrifying mass, naturally fell under the influence of gravity.
The speed is gradually accelerating, and the fist of the divine, which is threatening even if it is just hit, is on the verge of forming a power that can easily tear even the highest level monsters.
Finally, a fist fell into the head of one of the ogres surrounding Eira.
Kwaaang!
With a terrifying roar, the ogre’s head, which collided with Agies’ golden lion fist, was ripped from his body and exploded in the air.
The demon’s dirty blood splattered on her priestly clothes, but her priestly clothes, which had already been blessed by the divine, were cleansed of the demonic blood.
Big, big!?
The ogres who saw the corpses of their fellow tribesmen destroyed and turned into rags in a single moment were quite taken aback.
The fear of dying, which they felt for the first time as they were located at the top of the predators, crept up in their hearts.
Whoa!
The whole forest began to tremble with the roar of the two ogres, glaring at a woman with the appearance of a young girl who terrified them for a moment.
Even without intellect, instinct is calling out.
That little human in front of them is not their prey.
Even after hearing the terrifying ogre’s roar, Agnes rather smiled and showed a relaxed attitude.
“Ah, Anies-sama… ?”
“Okay. Long time no see. Are you feeling okay?”
Ayra put on a bewildered expression at the sight of Anies, who suddenly appeared in the sky with Erinn’s voice and shattered an ogre’s head.
She was so embarrassed that she couldn’t even answer the question of Agnes, who was concerned about her condition.
“Well, lives are attached. That’s it. Well then…”
Agnes, who glanced at Ayra’s eyes with the naked eye, looked at the ogres in front again.
Staring at the troublesome monsters she had to deal with first, she returned to her stance.
“Bite your teeth tight.”
