Chapter 984 – 984. Original Evil (1)
[Huh. I will. My only believer.]
A black hand protruded from the chest of Marius, who was gradually losing his physical form due to divine power.
Kwasik!
“Ugh… !?”
Anyes was momentarily shocked.
Something appeared as if the hand of an animal was tearing the flesh of its prey.
I removed the hand that was clutching his collar and widened the distance.
Is it a new enemy attack?
He was on maximum alert and took a stance ready to attack at any moment, but the black hand protruding from Marius’ chest did not attack Anies.
“That… ?”
“… Hand?”
It wasn’t exactly a hand.
Something shaped like a hand.
A strange thing that can only be described as.
[Ki, kirik, kikkikik!]
A black tree that grew from Marius’ chest as if nourishing his body.
Or a finger that looks like it.
The tips and joints of the fingers split apart, revealing pure white teeth.
Dozens of mouths formed on a gigantic palm, rattling their teeth, creating a mad appearance.
All of their fingers were shaking with eerie laughter.
Marius’s body, with his black fingers floating like biscuits, is trembling due to intense laughter.
“What is that… !”
It was also Anies’ first time seeing this.
Something unidentified that just exists makes me feel very bad and creates a sense of disgust.
Anies moved instinctively.
That is dangerous.
It must be eliminated as quickly as possible.
Her instincts were warning her that something full of unidentifiable grotesqueness should never exist in this world.
It was just as the black finger was about to extend its fist towards Marius’ body, which was rooted as if absorbing nutrients.
“No.”
Eleanor stopped Anies by grabbing his shoulder as he was about to lunge.
After terminating the manifestation of her goddess, the Kangjin (降神), whom she had maintained by consuming enormous divinity and mental power, she was sweating coldly and had an expression of deep fatigue.
It meant that the burden was great, but there was no time to worry about it now.
“Eleanor? Why stop…”
“That’s dangerous.”
“What? “Do you know what that is?”
“I don’t know exactly. But…”
Eleanor has never seen those black fingers.
But I had felt the uneasy power that made it up once before.
Because it was a force that could not be forgotten even if one tried to forget it.
“That woman…”
“The woman?”
“Queen of the Dead…”
Medea, Queen of the Dead.
Her presence began to reach out to this world.
Eleanor instinctively realized what was about to happen.
“We must retreat.”
“Eh?”
“Alvern!”
“Yes, yes!?”
Albert, who was busy commanding the forces of the Holy Kingdom that was engaged in a fierce battle with the army of ghosts, answered Eleanoa’s call.
“We must withdraw all troops immediately!”
“Yes!? But… !”
The voice that suddenly shouted was so unexpected.
The war against the ghost army is as if victory has already been determined.
The original plan was to support Eunhyeon and the expedition team that had gone before by purifying this polluted land filled with thick morale.
It was natural to be embarrassed by the sudden change in plans.
“Come on! Right Now!”
“… ! All right.”
But Albert’s worries did not last long.
From Eleanor’s voice and attitude full of urgency, as if in contrast to her lack of leisure, Albert realized that a variable had arisen that he could not do anything about on his own.
Al Verne knew that Eleanor was wiser than him, as she had experienced various battlefields like this along with her Eunhyeon.
So rather than trying to figure out in detail what happened, she trusted her insight and judgment.
“Gunguuun! “Retreat!”
“Uh?”
“Retreat?”
“Why now?”
Of course, there was no way the Holy Kingdom’s troops would immediately accept Alberton’s cry and order to retreat.
Just like the question Albert had first had, he paused with an incomprehensible expression on his face.
Albert shouted again.
“This is a message from Eleanor! “Retreat immediately!”
She shouted to her soldiers, her voice as full of urgency as her own.
“Um, the whole army! Retreat! “Retreat!”
The Holy Knights commanding the soldiers gave orders in unison, and the Holy Kingdom’s troops, who were engaged in a fierce battle with the ghost army, retreated all at once.
Even though they were on the brink of victory, they accepted the order to retreat without hesitation.
And as if to prove that judgment was correct, the situation changed completely.
The fingers that tore through Marius’ chest protruded, and dozens of mouths in the shape of his fingers began to eat away at Marius’ body.
Kwasik!
Dozens of mouths all over his fingers raised their teeth and ravenously devoured their master’s flesh and bones, crushing and crushing them.
The sight was so shocking and grotesque that not only Es, but also the paladins, soldiers, and priests around him were shocked and could not take their eyes off the sight.
[Key, key kick! It’s good.]
[Delicious.]
[I want to eat more.]
[More.]
[More. More.]
[More. More. More.]
[More. More. More. I want to eat more.]
Some voices were that of a young girl, some were those of an old man, and some were sweet, as if lusting for a mournful lover.
There were dozens of mouths formed on the fingers, each with different characteristics and voices, but there was only one thing they wanted.
I’m hungry.
I want to fill this hunger.
I want to keep eating this delicious food.
Various voices filled with endless greed, voices giggling after experiencing a delicious meal, suddenly stopped.
A quiet silence came in an instant.
The finger that fell to the floor after devouring Marius’ corpse did nothing.
But Anies and Eleanor were like hardened stones, unable to do anything.
Soon, the black-fingered mouths all raised the corners of their mouths and spoke.
[Delicious crab.]
[There are a lot?]
The moment I heard those words.
Anies and Eleanor trembled.
Even though the mouths attached to the black fingers had no gaze or head, I instinctively knew what they were feeling and talking about.
“Master Anyes!”
“Holy shit! I know!”
Before Eleanor could call Anies, she was already running.
What made Anies move was the moment when the black finger, which had been rooted to the ground like a tree branch and had not done anything, expanded in size and extended a branch towards the retreating Holy Soldier.
However, even though she moved as soon as she sensed that slight change, her action was a bit late.
A soldier who had been retreating to the rear after receiving an order to retreat came into the recognition range of the black finger.
“Uh?”
It was only after the soldier arrived in front of him that he felt the presence of the black finger.
[Hi?]
It was a friendly greeting, but the innocent girl’s voice gave me goosebumps.
Puuk
“K, ahhh!”
And at the same time, a sharpened black finger stabbed the soldier in the eye.
It was as soon as that moment occurred that Anies arrived.
“Damn it… ! Really… !”
Unable to block the attack from the unknown object, Anies gritted his teeth and grabbed the pitch-black object that stretched out like a twig and pierced the soldier’s eye.
With his divinely strengthened grip, he stretched straight out and pulled out the black finger that pierced the soldier’s eye.
Kwasik!
As soon as she realized that her fingers were broken, unable to overcome Anies’s grip, she urgently shook the body of the soldier she was supporting.
“Hey!”
While examining her consciousness, a large amount of bleeding poured out from one of the soldier’s pierced eyes.
But should it be said that miraculously being alive is a result of heavenly luck?
Or should we consider it fortunate that the unidentified black finger did not have that much killing power?
[It was delicious…]
[What?]
[Why are you interrupting me?]
[Why?]
[Die.]
[Die. Die.]
[Die. Die. Die.]
[Kill everything that gets in your way.]
Eventually, a large amount of murderous intent pours out.
A huge murderous intent that would not tolerate anyone who interfered with it came upon Anies.
The black finger that began to wiggle expanded in size.
The finger grew bigger and bigger, and soon the tip split into many fingers, and the tip of that finger split into many more fingers.
And what was formed was a huge tree made up of thousands and tens of thousands of fingers.
Anies saw it and gritted his teeth.
“What is that… !”
The sight of fingers stretching out long and thin like tree branches to form a trunk, wriggling all at once.
An unidentified being that cannot be compared or compared to any other living creature in this world.
And the morale that makes it up.
It is different in quantity and quality from the morale that Marius was building up in his body and soul.
If that crazy necromancer is like created evil.
That is just the original evil itself, as if it was created that way from the beginning.
A heresy that arose against the laws that could not have been created by the providence and principles of this world.
The being attempted an attack by sending a large amount of murderous intent towards Anies.
The fingers, thin and straight like tree branches, move in unison.
The tips of the fingers, which changed into sharp awls, stretched forward all at once and attacked Anies and his soldiers.
[You are a goddess!]
[Vesta’s Blessing]
[Holy Sanctuary]
The sanctuary of blessing created by Eleanor’s prayer to the goddess surrounded Anies and the soldier.
It became a transparent curtain, blocking the gap between Anies and the Black Finger Tree.
A miracle created by specifying a location rather than focusing on oneself was bound to be less effective, but it would not have been as effective as non-existent.
Thud! Coo thump! Cooooo!
Hundreds of fingers transformed into thorns were blocked by Eleanor’s miracle.
Due to the constantly attacking physical force, the damage accumulated and the miracle barrier gradually cracked and began to lose its effectiveness.
“Thank you. Eleanor.”
But I bought time.
Another soldier rushed over and helped the soldier who had lost one eye, protected by Anies, and quickly ran away.
Arnie Es, who was alone, could not hold on any longer and aimed for the moment when it would break.
Anies, who has consumed more than half of his divine power, can no longer use the River God.
But that didn’t mean her powers were completely powerless.
Damn it!
As soon as the miraculous barrier that Eleanor had spread was broken, Anies snatched with her bare hands the hundreds of thorns made by her fingers.
“Sigh!”
As she took a deep breath, she used her formidable strength to tear off the thorns all at once.
The first thing Anies realized was when she broke these fingers while saving her soldier.
‘This. ‘It’s not as hard as I thought.’
It’s really just the finger level of an ordinary person.
With her attack and defense power and this level of physical power, Es thought it was a fight worth fighting.
It didn’t take long to realize that was a bad idea, though.
[Again?]
[Are you interrupting me again?]
[Why?]
[Why are you disturbing me?]
[You also.]
[Kill it.]
A thorn awl made of black fingers extended towards Eleanor.
“Tsk… !”
Eleanor was unable to react as she saw the thorn awl arrive in an instant.
Even though the Black Finger Tree and Eleanor were a few hundred meters away, it took the thorn awl a blink of an eye to reach them.
It was virtually impossible for Eleanor, who was born with enormous divinity like Anies, but whose physical abilities were no different from that of an ordinary human woman, to see and avoid it.
“Elenoa! Danger… ! “Big!”
A holy soldier who was in a hurry to retreat blocked the gap between the black awl and Eleanor.
The soldier who was stabbed in the chest in an instant vomited blood.
“Ahhh… !”
The soldier said as he was dying towards Eleanor, who was astonished and tried to stretch out her hand.
“Escape… You have to hit it…”
Hehe!]
[Delicious. Delicious!]
[More, more… !]
[I’m going to eat more!]
The black fingers that made up the tree all rose up into the sky.
“No way… !”
No, only then did he realize that he had judged wrong.
Although he said he could withstand the piercing power of that thorn, he was not fighting that monster alone.
Because there were many soldiers from the Holy Kingdom who had not yet retreated here.
As if that uneasy premonition came true, black thorn awls were targeting the soldiers who had not yet retreated.
[Delicious!]
[Give it to me!]
The mouths of the awls all over the place attacked the soldiers of the Holy Kingdom, expressing their greedy appetites.
