Chapter 699 – 699. Holy Trial (1)
A number of priests, including higher priests, were shocked to see the ‘temporary appointment letter for Heretic Questioner’ shown by Erinn.
Putting aside the astonishment that the head of the Heretic Inquisition, who single-handedly gave this authority to someone with a foreigner status in another country, was crazy, there is only one thing they are currently thinking about.
It’s just that, ‘How can I make this situation go away?’
“Even so… ! There is no reason why you raided my house like this! What the hell is the reason… !”
Fuck!
Erinn’s fist pierced the face of the high-ranking priest who kept struggling and trying to resist.
A number of teeth fell off her floor along with blood splattering on her floor.
“I don’t know what crime the priest committed. You’re a bad person right? That’s it.”
There was no need for evidence or justification.
In fact, the principles of action that make Erinn move are not the rules of her temple or the role or responsibilities assigned to her as a heretic inquisitor.
It’s just an excuse to justify her actions, not a fundamental principle of action.
“Because Hyun-i said he was a bad person. That’s enough for me.”
Erin has as much faith in Eun-hyeon as the priests have faith in the goddess.
“What is this… !”
The High Priestess, spouting astonishment in airy bullshit for missing teeth, put on a madman-looking expression.
The order of work is messed up and this radical behavior of ignoring everything including procedures, authority, and status is nothing short of ignorant.
From the position of a high priest, a woman named Erin was a mad dog that appeared out of nowhere and bit people without covering her front and back.
However, that was the impression from the perspective of a high-ranking priest.
Erin is a hunting dog that has been thoroughly trained by her owner.
Before long, her Erin’s eyes narrowed and glared at her high-ranking priest.
Erin, who is able to read the emotions of others, reads the emotions of the High Priestess who sees and feels her.
“… Priest now. Did you think I was ignorant?”
Startle
The high priest shuddered as he covered his mouth with his hand, which was pouring blood along with his teeth.
For a moment, she was taken aback by not understanding how her Erin could read her own thoughts.
An angry Erin clenched her fists.
“Ha, it’s okay… !(Oh, no…!)”
There was a gust of air coming from where her tooth was missing, but I could hear what the higher priest was saying right away.
But for her, Erin granting his pleas is another matter altogether.
I don’t understand how the hell they got caught.
The high-ranking priest, who did not know the details of Erin’s abilities, was just embarrassed that her feelings were revealed.
As Erin frowned and clenched her fists, the presence behind her stopped her action.
As soon as they figured out that Erin was an investigator sent from the priests’ main school, some priests decided to run away from the mansion where this secret conversation took place.
As they reached the door, Erin put her magic power on one of her legs and kicked the ground as hard as she could.
Quaang!
It was just a minor action of kicking the floor, but the aftermath created by it is not trivial at all.
Unable to overcome the force, not only the ground caved in, but also powerful shockwaves that spread in all directions as if drawing a round circle eroded the surrounding air.
“Kuh… !?”
“Huh!?”
Someone flinched at the powerful magic that flowed through the air, and someone else gasped for breath, making it difficult to breathe properly.
The adventurers immediately realized what Erin had done and hardened her complexion.
In just one moment, she filled this entire space with her own magic power and took control of it.
Erinn’s skills, which require not only a superior amount of magical energy that others cannot see, but also a sense of manipulating it, are at a level that even adventurers cannot easily imitate.
The evaluation, which was judged to be a super-veteran adventurer ahead of the minimum gold rank promotion, rose at once.
‘It is at a high level even among the least gold ranks… !’
The adventurers were at the level of praising their own judgment for quickly declaring surrender.
Obviously, it would not have ended with someone dying somewhere on one side of his body if he jumped at him unaware of the fountain.
“Town… ! Whoops… !”
A priest sat on her floor and vomited, unable to withstand the pressure of her magical powers that her erins had taken hold of her.
This space, now filled with powerful magical powers, gave those unfamiliar with an even more horrific experience than breathing underwater.
But if there’s one thing Erin didn’t think of, it’s that this control of space isn’t about choosing the target that affects it, it’s all within the range.
“Uweak… !”
The high priest, who had already beaten Erin’s fists, shattered her teeth and dislocated her jaw, poured out her gastric juices along with her blood.
Soon after, the high-ranking priest, whose eyes were horribly released, passed out with his head buried in the puddle of gastric juice and blood he had poured out.
“Uh, uh… ?”
Erin was quite taken aback, as if she hadn’t expected the high-ranking priest to pass out.
“I shouldn’t fall… Did I hit you too hard?”
I never thought that a high-ranking priest would be a weakling who could not withstand this much pressure after being knocked out with a single punch.
As if they hadn’t expected her fainting situation at all, the other priests and adventurers looked stunned when they saw Erin’s flustered appearance.
It is absurd to see her defenseless and innocent appearance, to the point where one wonders if she is a woman with the bloody fighting ability she showed before.
She said, ‘Hyeon-i, her tongue, told me to bring her safely…’ .’
Even though she said that it didn’t matter if she showed moderately pungent taste, Erin was troubled when she noticed it belatedly that she had become such a rag.
Does this really seem like a line that shows a moderately tingling taste?
Even so, she thinks that she may have beaten her too badly.
‘What if… ?’
In time, she realized that her companion, who had finally decided to accompany Erin, was near, and she was delighted and called her companion.
“Brother! This guy passed out! What do we do!?”
The shadow that appeared on the floor slowly rises upward, and a spirit that takes on a human form.
Elvin said she had sorted out another place and came asap, but she already felt a headache that her sister was high by messing up her situation.
“This idiot…”
How on earth can you turn a target into a blood clot while left alone for a while?
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“… Uweac!”
After the possession was lifted and Marius returned to his body, he could not stand the nausea boiling inside his throat and poured it out of his mouth.
The damage that spread as a part of the soul was torn away and disappeared was beyond imagination, incomparable to the feeling of loss as if a part of the body had disappeared.
The soul crying out in pain vibrates wildly, causing disharmony and mercilessly shaking the body that serves as a vessel.
The mind in the head is dominated by a crushing pain, and it is difficult to predict when the mind will collapse like a cracked glass bottle.
But even so.
“Keuk, kukkeuk… Kiki Kiki Kick!”
The laughter doesn’t stop
He was so proud and happy that he was able to successfully declare war on the sacred kingdom of Erenia and the Temple of Vesta, which he had been longing for.
Who would dare to challenge the Holy Nation, which is spreading its influence across the continent?
He couldn’t help laughing at his achievements of slaughtering many people and turning priests and paladins into undead.
“Under… Ah…”
As a result, Marius consumed part of his soul and most of the long-accumulated source of necromantic morale, but he was satisfied with the results he had created.
“You’re back.”
It is Raynan who notices Marius’ spirit returning inside the half-destroyed palace.
To be precise, it was felt by Belphegor, the demon who ate his body, but Raynan, who now assimilated the body with the demon, was able to feel a special sense of the devil together thanks to it.
Raynan, of course, immediately recognized the state of Marius’ now tattered soul.
“… You’re not crazy.”
If I had to compare it, it was as if my limbs could not be torn apart and were still being egged on by the blade.
Even in that state, he laughed and reacted calmly.
“Haha, that’s too much. Even if you look at it like this, you jumped into the fight with the determination to die.”
In fact, Marius has already experienced death several times.
In the first case, when they hit the kingdom of Fernias, they met Eunhyeon and the others who had tracked them, and summoned the corpse of an ancient dragon to use high-level necromantic skills that surpassed their level, offering their souls as a price.
The second time was that part of the soul was purified by the divine power of Agnes.
But even though Marius had tasted such death-like pain, he didn’t care at all.
It is because he is the owner of a twisted way of thinking that he can give up his soul as much as he wants for his own goals.
“Judging by the look on his face, he must have made a satisfactory result.”
“Kuk-kuk… Yes. It was very good. Because they successfully watered the temple. Furthermore… I met my destiny.”
Marius evaluated meeting the opponent of fate as the greatest harvest rather than sacrificing the honor and authority of the temple in this raid.
The image of a woman wandering the battlefield wielding a rapier to save people and fluttering her nine beautiful white tails flickers in Marius’ memory once again.
Her whole body trembled with the urge to taste once more the passionate emotions contained in the beautiful eyes that expressed anger at her.
“… Fate?”
“Kuk-kuk.”
Unable to understand what that meant, Raynan didn’t dig deep.
Already Raynan was also aware that she had gone mad as she became a villain.
However, Raynon is at least normal enough to understand the necromancer’s madness and sensibility.
Marius, who was imagining Erin happily, took something out of his arms.
It was a crystal ball filled with black fog like dark clouds.
[Oh oh… !]
Something that saw the crystal ball let out a voice of admiration.
Feeling the souls of nearly 10,000 people trapped inside, Belphegor salivated in admiration.
“Is this enough?”
[No. Not enough More, more needed! We need more souls of this size!]
What Marius asked was the amount of souls needed to open passages and doors connecting the Underworld and the Underworld.
However, summoning high-ranking demons to this place enough to destroy the underworld couldn’t have been possible with only 10,000 souls.
Twenty years ago, the Mirvabila Empire slaughtered hundreds of thousands of humans and reaped their souls, but could not open the door to the demon realm.
It was stopped by a war with the Allies or the intervention of Eun-hyeon and the other heroes, but if they gathered more souls before they stepped out, the fight would have been a victory for the Empire and the demons behind it.
“Kuk-kuk. Right.”
Despite being told that a soul of this size was out of the question, Marius was neither disappointed nor annoyed.
Rather, he is looking forward to the prospect of killing more people and tasting the feelings of screaming and despair.
“Okay then. Where is the witch who will process these souls?”
“She is preparing now.”
“Ah, then I’ll leave this to you.”
Marius entrusted the crystal ball containing the souls of the dead to Raynan and went to rest.
“Whoa…”
“How are you?”
“Well, it’s too much for the time being. Because part of the soul was destroyed, this side, which is already the main body, was also severely damaged. Besides, since I’ve used up all the morale I’ve saved up, I’m thinking of accumulating strength for the time being.”
“Right.”
Raynan nodded her head.
Certainly, Marius’ necromancy is threatening and fraudulent once activated, but the conditions for using it are too demanding.
It is almost thought that he can use it because he uses fraud, an unclean energy extracted from human souls, or because he has given his soul to Mediah without hesitation.
“Kuk-kuk. Don’t be too sorry Because I want to recover quickly now.”
The authority and honor of the Temple of Vesta, who dyed the world with screams and death and became a necromancer, was brought down to the bottom.
Marius had a new goal.
The person I wanted to meet, I found someone who would bump into all of my newly awakened feelings.
“… I get it. Let us act first. If you recover, come with me.”
“Haha. Can I look forward to it?”
Marius was already looking forward to what kind of massacre he was going to create on the battlefield.
As Raynan left her seat and leaned against her pillar, her body stretched out, as if it were after the fierce battle, her body was languid with exhaustion.
“Whoa…”
As she calmed her restless spirit, she pictured in her mind the face of the woman who had fascinated her.
He didn’t know her name, where she came from, or how old she was, but Marius had a strong conviction that she would one day meet her again.
“Can I know your name then?”
She hated herself, despised her, and was furious with her. In the end, she killed herself without giving her name.
But rather than having her regret and anger over it, he thinks of the time he will meet her again, and her anticipation rises.
“Ah… I want to meet you soon. My love… !”
Marius let out a pleasant laugh as he contemplated how to convey his heart to her beloved woman.
He completely lost his mind to the woman he had only known for a few hours, and began to look forward to seeing her again.
