Chapter 691 – 691. Divinity and Fall (2)
“Kill this paladin. With your own hands.”
“… Yes?”
“What… ?”
“What… Called?”
Marius’ proposal was enough to embarrass the paladins and female priests.
Marius explained once again to the paladins and female priests who did not understand properly.
“Kill this paladin with your own hands. You yourself.”
“…”
Marius directly pointed at the female priest and the paladin whose abdomen was pierced by the Death Knight’s blade.
“If you will, I will leave this city right away.”
“Hey, don’t lie!”
The paladin, who immediately understood what he meant and came to his senses, shouted.
“What the hell is the point of your proposal!”
The designated fellow paladin had already had her arm ripped off by the Death Knight’s attack and had severely damaged the internal organs of the abdomen where the sword was stuck.
The organs are contaminated with fraud, and death sooner or later is the same as the predestined ending.
What on earth would Marius gain by killing him?
However, Marius shrugged his shoulders while maintaining a genuine smile.
“I am happy.”
“… What?”
“Ah, how many times do I have to repeat the explanation from before when I heard it properly and it was really annoying.”
Marius felt annoyed and annoyed.
I was fed up with their pitifulness for not understanding even though I explained it properly and straight twice.
But nonetheless, with miraculous patience, he explained once more.
“Because I am happy. Among the choices I made, what choices do you guys make after being distorted by guilt? I am so curious about it that I can’t stand it.”
The result of accepting the option of accepting or not accepting Marius’ proposal after much consideration.
His suggestion is simple.
Soon, he will kill his comrade with his own hands, whose life is short.
A very simple method as described.
However, the female priest who was pointed out by Marius heard the proposal and her hands trembled.
She murmured, staring straight at the trembling of her hands that she couldn’t control.
“With my hands… Colleagues directly…”
Even though her hands may be covered in dust from a series of fierce battles, they are clean and noble hands that have never killed a single person.
These are the hands of a priest determined to save people in order to repay the grace bestowed by the goddess from heaven.
But the fact that he had to kill a person with that kind of hand, and the fact that the target was none other than his colleague.
It stirs up agitation in the hearts of female priests and breeds fear.
“If that’s the proposal, I’d rather… !”
The paladin who stepped forward, leaving behind the female priest who was in an unstable state of mind, tried to accept Marius’ proposal instead, but Marius interrupted him and shook his head.
“No. It is a condition for that woman to do it.”
Paladins who are accustomed to battle must have experienced murder as well.
His attitude to take on the role confidently is evidence.
Marius smiled bitterly and firmly insisted on becoming a female priest.
“Ah…”
Within that intention, the female priest realized.
He was enjoying himself right now.
He wants to kill his fellow paladin and see his heart broken by experiencing the first murder in his life.
Is it the life of one comrade, or the lives of many?
In the midst of the terrible choice of which one has to be chosen, one feels the pleasure of seeing the sight of worrying and suffering and mental shaking.
“I am… What the hell am I supposed to do…”
In order to stop the spread of damage from the undead, he had to take people’s lives with his own hands, which he had sworn to save and protect.
But.
“Huh, ugh…”
Unable to choose either way, the female priest in a dilemma sat down on the floor with a broken expression on her face.
Can’t kill
She could not do the first murder with her own hands.
“Haha! You can’t choose!”
Marius laughed at the female priest.
“I’m really sorry. Can’t even choose something as simple as this!”
Eventually, she raised her hand and gave the order to the Death Knight.
“Cheuk!”
After inserting the sword into the dying paladin’s neck and slicing it sideways, his head fell to the floor and tumbled.
The paladin, who was barely attached by a neat and quick attack, died a miserable death.
“Ahhh…”
Ignoring the sobbing of the female priest who sighed softly, Marius spoke coldly.
“The offer is gone. Kill them all.”
“That, stop… ! No! No!”
The female priest who suddenly came to her senses hurriedly raised her body and said, but even that action was too late.
The Death Knights, who had already begun to act, faithfully carried out the necromancer’s order and attacked the paladins who were confronting them.
Kaaang!
“Keugh!”
The paladins countered the Death Knights’ fierce blows and fought back, but even that didn’t last long.
The Undead who were facing them in the first place were not the only Death Knights.
If only they could focus their energy, it could have been a fight that could be done for paladins and female priests, but the fight didn’t flow so positively.
It was because the corpses that died in the attack of the undead rose again with necromancy and drove them away.
Of course, it was only a matter of time before the Paladins, who were at an overwhelming disadvantage due to the difference in numbers, were pushed back.
“Ah!”
The female priest hurriedly raised her holy power to support the paladins, but the difference in power caused by the difference in numbers did not diminish.
Finally, all the Paladins were killed, and only the female priest was left.
It was the result of Marius intentionally keeping her alive.
“AA AA AA… !”
The female priest was in despair.
“Kuk-kuk. What about this If you had killed that thing, I would have been really inclined to leave.”
Marius roughly grabbed the hair of the female priest left behind.
“Kyaaak!?”
She forcibly lifted her head to meet her gaze and spoke to the female priest as a sentence.
“It’s as if you killed him.”
“Ah…”
If he had made his own choice, if he had accepted Marius’ proposal and killed his fellow paladin, these disastrous results would not have followed.
Marius’ sentence drove a wedge into the female priest’s increasingly crumbling heart.
What can you do in this despair?
“Oh God…”
The only place a female priest could turn to was the goddess she worshiped, after all.
“Hmm?”
“Oh God. Please…”
“…”
“Oh God! Please! Punish the interest! She is the goddess Vesta!”
She prays with a voice mixed with pleading, but what answers her prayer is a voice of disaster mixed with ridicule and ridicule.
“Keuk… Kuck-kut! Haha!”
The appearance of a female priest looking for a goddess at the end of her mental collapse is truly pitiful and miserable.
And it was the past self that Marius hated the most.
At that time she was helpless, unable to do anything, unable to hear or hear anything, unable to understand why this had happened to her.
The woman who cried tirelessly in search of her goddess was the same as the woman she was today.
“Okay. Pray! More! Increasingly! With sincerity! Please listen to your longing!”
Rather, it is a ridiculous contradiction that Marius, rather than a female priest, wants her prayers to reach the goddess.
“Pray to judge me!”
His reason, who was willing to be judged himself, was completely twisted.
Faced with the madness of a monster that cannot be understood by human reason, the female priest’s heart began to crack and collapse.
“Huh, ugh…”
However, the female priest, whose mental state had completely collapsed, gave up on praying to the goddess Vesta any more, and she sat down on the floor and wept endlessly.
Desperation, thinking that her own life, her role as a priest, and the mission she had to fulfill were all over.
Seeing the completely broken female priest, Marius’ excited heart cooled down and he put on a sad expression.
“… It’s no fun.”
Her more desperate, struggling struggles and having to fight her own against herself, but seeing her so easily broken, she was disappointed that her expectations were not met.
‘Is that woman special after all?’
The woman that popped into Marius’ mind was Erin.
It forced her to kill her unwanted innocent teeth in a similar way to her female priest and shook her mental, but that beautiful and lofty figure that overcame the pressure admirably and showed fierce anger at herself.
Marius was fascinated by her gaze, which had a firm heart that would never break.
As time went by, she firmly faced her own feelings for Erin, and glanced at the female priest whose mentality had collapsed, the exact opposite of her.
“Stop dying.”
The moment when he sentences a female priest who has lost interest to death and tries to take her life.
“Stop. You fucking bastard.”
“Hmm?”
And in front of such a hopeless situation, someone appeared as if he had heard the female priest’s prayer.
“Goddess. Give me some strength.”
[Vesta’s Blessing]
[Barrier of Sanctification]
With the appearance of her powerful divine power, which purifies the filthy air filled with her dark morale, a young girl with her blonde hair appeared.
Her appearance itself is that of a young girl less than 15 years old, but Marius would not have recognized her as she used her divine power, which was incomparable to any priests or paladins she had ever met. There is no way
He was also a man who served in the sacred priesthood before this change.
There was no way he didn’t know Anies Yersalekah, Archbishop of the Temple of Vesta.
“Okay. I see. You stayed.”
Marius realized who was maintaining the barrier of the temple main school, which should have been lax as all the troops were dispatched.
The reason why the Paladins and Priests were able to put all their forces into suppressing the undead while leaving the main school of the temple at ease was because they were confident that the barrier of Agnes, the current saint, would never be broken.
“Ah… Anies…”
The female priest shed tears because Agnes arrived at the miraculous timing.
Salvation dwelled in her heart as she shed tears of emotion as she felt the divine light emitted from Agies.
“Goddess… The answer to my prayer…”
“… Tsk.”
Looking at the female priest, who arbitrarily thought that the goddess Vesta had heard her prayers, Marius clicked her tongue as if he didn’t like her.
Agnes, who soon confronted him as if blocking her way, spoke to Marius.
“I’ll give you a chance. Don’t commit any more sins and just do it this far. Then at least I’ll get rid of it comfortably.”
The outcome of the necromancer, who has slaughtered countless humans and played with the lives of those who became the dead, is accumulating karma day by day.
Agies’ invitation to kill him painlessly was the least mercy he could give Marius.
“Kuh, kuh.”
However, Marius listened to Agies’ recommendation and rather laughed at it.
“Stop? Are you insane? You really thought I would accept the offer?”
“…”
“If I was going to stop, I wouldn’t have even started!”
He wouldn’t have inherited necromancy from Mediah, and he wouldn’t have killed all the citizens of the city where he was first invited to be a priest, Coloras, Bishop Venter, and the city.
Already from that point on, Marius was unstoppable.
Now, Marius is a racehorse that runs tirelessly for the goal he sets as his mission.
In the process, there was no such thing as a brake.
“… Okay.”
Agies listened to Marius and made up his mind.
He is a victim created by the desire and malice of humans due to a loophole in the system of divine power, which can be said to be the grace bestowed by the goddess Vesta and the temple.
Agies’ role was to dispose of him, who had become a stain and a monster created by the temple.
‘Maybe I’d rather be fortunate.’
His only consolation is that he has been given the opportunity to correct this role himself, rather than entrusting it to Eleanor, who will be his successor.
Agies clenched his fists and rushed toward the center, Marius, escorted by the Death Knights.
