Chapter 351 – The Four Heavenly Kings (3)

Dojin’s sword shatters Lich’s skull.
The blue eyes that seemed to burn forever soon lose their light and disappear.

Even while looking at the half-shattered skull, Do-jin did not let go. He held the blade upside down and hit the hilt and guard at random.

After striking the sword down to powder, he exhaled lightly and brushed the bone meal off the sword.

“Whoa…… It ends with this.”
“…… Something seems too easy.”
“What?”
“At first, you were dealt with like that—didn’t you deal with it right away?”

Seoyoon said that and expressed her doubts. When they first met, he said that he was more bland than he thought, given that he was swayed here and there by the magic of the lich.

Of course, it was largely due to Seoyoon’s cheating ability being overly fraudulent and realizing Lich’s weakness in her….

Seoyoon, who had a weak sense of battle, did not notice that fact.

“That’s because I didn’t know the information at first. So, I threw the sword once.”

“Why?”

“It’s best if you get hit by a sword and die, and you can roughly tell how strong you are just by looking at how you respond.”

The lich increased the power of his magic by placing significant restrictions on himself. And that could be because he was immortal. Invincible ability to not die. He overestimated his abilities.

The hidden dagger is scary, but the exposed long sword is not. Took, Dojin opened his mouth by kicking Richie’s body that remained without being powdered.

“Through questions and answers, I roughly figured out what kind of abilities I have…… As I observed it, I could see it slightly.”

“You see, what?”

“I saw the line.”

Dojin could see the magic line connected to Richie. It seemed that Richie used all sorts of means and methods to hide it, but it was not at the level of reaching Dojin.

No, if you think that Seoyoon and Aderange didn’t see it— Dojin must be something special.

Do-jin, who saw the line, intuitively felt that the line was the secret of immortality. Resurrecting indefinitely without any penalty like that was impossible even for Aderange, the true ancestor.

So I cut the line. Disconnected, the lich linguished like a puppet with a thread cut off and lost its life.

‘I wonder what that was.’

I was curious. However, he couldn’t find out about Do-jin, who now knows how to handle a knife after disconnecting.

Do-jin took the corpse of the fallen lich, the robe he made with magic, and the staff instead of trophies.

Inside the dungeon, there were stairs leading up and down.

“Let’s go back.”

Judging that it was dangerous to go up further today, Dojin carefully carried the corpse and left the dungeon.

* * *

Shabby house. It was full of dust and mold, and the ceiling was covered with cobwebs.

On a subject narrow enough to see the entire house after a few steps, I ran into bugs five times during that short walk.

It was such a dirty place that ordinary people would frown as soon as they entered. The saintess could not believe that there were patients in such a place.

“Stop, saintess! How is my brother…….”

A child with dirt all over her body she asked the saintess. The saintess smiled softly. Although hidden behind a veil, she was nonetheless too beautiful to conceal.

Hans must have realized that as well, and he looked at the saintess Hebeaul, forgetting that his younger brother was collapsing right in front of him.

“…….”
“—The saintess says that her treatment of her is over.”
“Really!?”

Even if it’s a child, a man is a man- Iris whispered in Charlotte’s ear her, being careful not to reveal her voice or skin to the child.

As always, Charlotte caught the small voice like an ant crawling and relayed the saintess’s words to Hans.

Indeed, the younger brother who thought he would never wake up slowly began to get up.

“Five… Bar?”
“Liz!”

Hans rushed over and hugged his sister his. Liz, who had been lying in bed for a while, looked at Hans and her saintess alternately as if she didn’t know why.

Realizing that her task was over, the saintess got up and left her mansion. Following her saintess her, Charlotte left her words her to Hans.

“If you stay in a place like this, you will get sick even if you feel fine. Let’s find a place to move quickly.”

“Yes Yes! Okay. Holy Knight!”

She smiled lightly at Hans, who was talking vigorously, and quickly stood beside her saintess her.

There’s no way anyone would harm her saintess, but this place is a slum. A place where many insane people reside.

If, by any chance, the holy woman’s jade body is scratched, this place will be erased from the map on that day.

Charlotte did not neglect her surroundings to protect innocent people. Seeing this, Iris began to burst into laughter.

“Don’t be too nervous.”
“Someone might come over.”
“Is that why you brought so much?”

Saying so, Iris pointed to dozens of paladins guarding her surroundings her. The bugs that would be twisted around here disappeared even after hearing the footsteps of the Paladins.

In other words, far from being dangerous to the saintess, the chance of her encountering a rogue or a mysterious person was extremely small.

“Nevertheless, I cannot relax. I can’t say that the same thing as before won’t happen again.”

“Ah, that…… Was she a magical girl? Are you talking about that?”

“Yes.”

As the saintess said that, she remembered what had happened when she was the Grand Priest. An incident in which an unidentified girl attacked the Holy Knights and aimed at her Saint her.

If Dojin hadn’t been there, it was a major incident that might have put her saintess’s life in danger.

“Could that happen again? Didn’t you see the report? An extremely rare event, one of only a few in history?”

“It is, but…….”

Cases like Maeve were not uncommon historically. Aren’t all legendary creatures such as dragons, true ancestors, nine-tailed foxes, and horror heroes all like that?

A monster embodied in human imagination and unconsciousness.

Of course, most people would never have to face such a monster or have a monster attack them…… Iris, who had already been blessed by God and became a saint, did not take such a thing seriously.

“Rather than that, let’s go find her husband her.”
“…… Do you mean Dojin?”
“Okay. I did as you sent me——let’s go get the award!”

As Iris said, her eyes twinkled her. Because she was the only reason a saintly person would come to such a slum.

A request from someone you can’t help but love. In the letter Do-jin sent, there was a word to treat the family of a boy living here, so he came all the way to this place with her heavy butt off her.

‘Ah, husband-.’

And asking the saintess to heal the little sister of a commoner—and a girl living in a slum like this—was a great disrespect.

What some people might consider blasphemy. In other words, it was as if the saintess had obtained a justification for asking Do-jin a lot.

The saintess, who climbed into the carriage full of her expectations of her, shouted at Charlotte, who rode along with her.

“Let’s go! To the mansion!”
“…… Yes.”

Charlotte quietly told the coachman where he was going, and the coachman slowly started driving the carriage.

To the mansion where Dojin will be.

* * *

“This…….”
“What do you think?”
“…… It’s a terrible spell. Where did you get this?”

Raise looked at the skull in front of me and let out a sigh. The thick mana flowing from her corpse was caught in her eyes.

Seeing that even after her death, she radiates such intense magical power, it’s hard to imagine what it must have been like in her lifetime.

“It’s Richie.”
“Rich?”
“Yes.”
“The Rich I Know?”

After hearing about the identity of her corpse, Raizen looked at Dojin with her dumbfounded eyes and asked again. Looking at Do-jin, who nodded, Rai finally realized the identity of the magical power emanating from her corpse.

I don’t know where or how I got it, but this lich still had its magic path. So, the core, commonly called a life vessel.

‘Nonsense…….’

Of course, that sounded magically impossible. The Life Vessel is the source of the lich’s immortality, and it is impossible to kill the lich until he is destroyed.

It meant that unless the lich, obsessed with life to the point of throwing off his body, suddenly went out of his mind and willingly donated his life vessel, he would not be able to see the life vessel.

A dead lich with a life vessel was the equivalent of a corpse with a beating heart.

“How did you catch this?”
“Yes?”
“The Life Vessel is alive…… How?”
“Ah- that?”

Dojin casually stretched out his hand like a blade and spoke.

“Just like this—you die from cutting yourself?”
“…… What?”
“I just cut it.”

Hearing that the connection with the Life Vessel, which was invisible and protected by all sorts of magic, had been cut with a knife, Rize let out a blank laugh, as if he had no face.

Is that possible? Cut and save the magical connection with the Life Vessel in a separate dimension? Had that been possible, the existence of the lich would not have existed.

However, Raize, who recalled Dojin’s behavior of her, turned his gaze back to the corpse, thinking that Dojin would be able to do that.

“Can you do that again?”
“Cutting? But now I can’t see it.”
“That’s because the connection is broken now.”

Rajae said that and slowly raised his mana. And he started chanting dimensional magic, which boasts the highest level of difficulty among magic.

After a while, a different dimension that was fixed with the coordinates of the corpse appears. Before opening the dimension, Rize asked Do-jin to cut off any connection immediately.

Trusting Dojin who nodded, Rise opened the dimension while sweating like a surgeon in charge of heart surgery.

“I’m sorry-.”

Intense magical energy and vitality emanated from within. Life Vessel – The source of the immortality of the lich, and the magic that produces magic.

It was a rare material that no wizard in the other world had ever seen.

[Oh, oh-.]

The moment the Life Vessel was revealed to the world, the psychic that had been severed was reconnected, and the lich opened his eyes.

Before Richie, who came to his senses, could do anything, Dojin swung his sword fiercely and cut the connection.

The disconnected lich sagged again like a puppet with a thread cut off, and it came back to life every time Ryze touched the life vessel.

“Okay, that’s it…….”

While dying and reviving repeatedly, Ryze finally succeeded in sealing the Life Vessel.

Just imagining what he could do with this, Ryze felt a rush of adrenaline.