Chapter 193 – The Temple

A strange phenomenon that occurred in the corridor.
As a result, the adventurers were scattered all over the castle, and they were suffering from all sorts of traps, undead, and the officers of the Red Riding Bandit.

On the other hand, the circumstances of the paladins and saints were different. They didn’t scatter like the adventurers, but moved to one place.

“What is this… Holy Lady, may I ask what the situation is?”

Melissa swallowed a laugh and said. Unlike Melissa, who gave up her thoughts halfway, the saintess’ expression was serious.

“…It’s teleportation magic.”

“Teleportation?! Is that possible?”

Teleportation is famous for being the most difficult among high-ranking magic. This is because setting coordinates as well as detailed mana control is damn difficult. On top of that, there is even a huge risk that a limb may disappear if one mistake is made.

Can such magic be safely used on such a large number of people and without a single injury?
It was close to impossible.

“I can’t believe it either. Maybe they used a different trick. The important thing is that we are stuck in an unknown place.”

The gaze of the saintess, Lorian, turned to the pitch-black veil. A black curtain stretched over the lord’s chair on the stairs and the door leading outside.

Melissa laughed at Lorian’s words.

“I heard you were locked up, my lady. You can break something like that. Hey, I’m the youngest.”

Melissa called to her paladin, who had just sworn her faithfulness, and she nodded her head at the black veil.

“Break it.”

“Yes!”

The youngest paladin pulled out a silver sword. Upon endowing her with divine power, she became a sword that glowed white, and she swung it toward her black veil.

Kang! When he was hit by a sword covered in divine power, a ripple arose around the area hit by the black subtitle.

“Right. It works. Crush quickly. The saintess is waiting for you.”

“Yep!”

The youngest paladin, who had a strong discipline, pounded hard on the black curtain to earn points.

Kang! Kang! Kang! Kang!

However, no matter how hard they pounded, ripples only occurred, and the black curtain showed no signs of dissipating.

Melissa sighed.

“Aww, so you are. Don’t go in.”

The youngest paladin slumped her shoulders and returned to her place. Melissa looked back at the other paladins and said.

“Among you, I think I can break that much. Hand!”

“Stop playing with Melissa. I have an ominous feeling.”

“Saint, please wait a moment. This is a matter of the paladin’s pride. If she becomes a paladin and can’t break that ominous shield…”

“I won’t wake up.”

“…What. What kind of kid did that? Sleep.”

Melissa glared at her paladins. The paladins kept her mouth shut and only looked at Melissa. As if she was never herself.

Melissa was dazzled by her.
Huh, true. If not you, who are you?

“Melissa, I heard the voice over there, not over there.”

“Yes?”

Following the voice of the saintess, the place Melissa looked around was the black curtain covering the lord’s chair.

“…You mean the veil said something?”

“No. There is someone inside.”

There is someone inside. With that one word, Melissa’s eyes changed. She drew her spear and sword and spoke to her black veil.

“Is someone there?”

“If so?”

“Do you believe in Yurmia-sama?”

“No.”

“Then look for it.”

Melissa threw a spear imbued with her divine power. The spear flew off with a pure white brilliance and crashed into the black curtain.

Quaang!

The spear and divine power exploded with dazzling brilliance.

She was so fast that Lori An didn’t even have time to stop.

“Balm! What are you doing!”

“The corrupt cultist was punished.”

“Maybe not a cult, but an ordinary citizen imprisoned in a veil!”

“Do you think an ordinary citizen can smirk at you while imprisoned in that foreboding shroud?”

“…Even if he wasn’t a citizen, we could have had a conversation.”

“Haha, as expected of our saintess, her head is a flower garden. This is because you have never met a cultist in person.”

“What?! Melissa, do you want to get a pay cut again?”

“Do whatever you want~ It won’t make much of a difference if you take more of what has already been shaved off here~”

Melissa shrugged her shoulders. Lorian’s expression darkened. Even though she took out a pay cut, she barely reacted like that. She knew Melissa’s hatred for cultists, but she didn’t know that much.
Lorian sighed.

“I’ll give you a special look this time. However, from next time, I will really cut my salary, so just know that.”

“Yes~ Yes~ I understand… Saintess. I don’t think you need to look.”

“Yes?”

Melissa’s expression hardened. Lorian followed Melissa’s gaze. Then she also hardened her expression as well.

As the smoke dissipated, the black curtain that was revealed was intact with only a few scratches.

‘Did Melissa’s nova explosion stop?’

Even if it’s a little off, it’s Melissa that Laurian acknowledges as much as her skills. Her position as the leader of the Paladins was not made by luck. Being able to block Melissa’s divine explosion means that the black curtain is not an ordinary shield.

As Laurian freaked out and Melissa hurt her pride, her voice came again from within her black veil.

“You said that. That she won’t break.”

The voice was weak, as if it would break at any moment. Still, she was heard again and again. Was this also using magic?

“Who are you?”

To Lorian’s question, the person inside the tent introduced himself.

“Such a pity. You didn’t introduce me. My name is Michael D. Veritrice. The faithful servant of the Eye of Doom and the leader of his servants.”

“…That means you are the leader of the Eye of End.”

Laurian narrowed her eyes.

“All bayonets!”

At Melissa’s command, all the Paladins drew their silver swords. The silver sword was endowed with divine power and glowed white.

“Attack!”

Sending her signal, Melissa ran first and jumped high on top of her. She added her own gravity and slammed her sword down hard.

Bang! The sound of a strong blow was heard, but there was only a slightly strong ripple in the curtain.

Paladins surrounded the black curtain and swung swords filled with divine power.

Bang bang bang bang.

There was a strong sound of blows coming from here and there. However, this time too, only the number of excommunications occurring in the veil increased, and the veil had no significant effect.

“It is useless. How many years have you been preparing for it, but could it have just broken this much?”

Despite the words of the leader, the paladins did not stop attacking. Persistence was one of the virtues of a paladin.
Lorian asked the priest.

“What is the purpose? What on earth do you want to do such vile things at the expense of ordinary people?”

“Are you curious? Don’t worry. If not, you’ll find out soon. Just wait a little bit until that time comes.”

Through the curtain, the teacher’s insidious laughter flowed.

* * *

Around the time Yooseong, Seris, and Kara were looking for each other while slicing through the undead, a poor elf was trembling in fear in a corner of the castle.

“Everything… Where did everyone go…”

She looked around her, wrapping her arms around her voluptuous body. Even though there were more than a dozen adventurers around her, she was not at ease.

‘You were supposed to protect it. You decided to take responsibility… But then run away by yourself? Bad guys..!’

After all, I didn’t believe in humans!

Her cold reflection would have reminded her that they hadn’t abandoned her. But now she was restless.

‘Bad guy. If we meet later, I’ll tear off the pepper.’

Ariel trembled, but she wondered how she could rip off Yuseong’s pepper. She forgets that because of her constraints she can’t do him any harm…

“You must be very scared?”

An adventurer nearby came up and talked to me.

What is this disgusting human being? Are you talking without knowing the subject? Are you going to break your arm?

As she pondered seriously, Ariel came up with her stupendous idea.

‘This person must have fallen for my beautiful appearance and started talking to me, right?’

Even though she was rotten inside, an elf is an elf, and she was very beautiful by human standards. Because she not only had a doll-like face, but also a great body.
That human must have been fascinated by her appearance and started talking to her.

If so…

‘I’ll just sacrifice myself in case of danger!’

Originally, don’t human beings like to sacrifice?

Ariel recalled the past, when torturing the captive humans, she begged an older man to release the remaining ones as he would die.

‘Oh yea! Get a life!’

Ariel smiled and was about to accept the adventurer’s words.

“Pull out the knife! Undead!”

The adventurer who was leading the way shouted. Ariel’s face hardened. She turned her trembling head and stared in front of her.

There are undead.
There were so many.
There were so many that they filled the hallway.
Ariel is out of her mind.

“Aaaaa!!”
-Kieek!

Adventurers and the undead collided. At first, the group of adventurers and the group of undead were clearly distinguished because they fought in line.
However, as time passed, the battle line became meaningless, and the undead and adventurers began to mix.
Spears and knives mingled, shouts and screams, blood and flesh flying around.

‘Run… I have to run away.’

Ariel looked back. There is no light source, so you can see a pitch-black hallway.
You want me to run down that road alone?
There was no way that would be possible for cowardly Ariel.

Ariel turned her attention to her adventurer, whom she could not help but spoke to herself earlier. The life she left behind will be spent here.

“Ah, Mr. Elf. Wait a minute… Kuh! My, I’ll help you… Aaaaa!”

The adventurer was fighting to the death with an undead.
Oh, that worthless bastard.
Whimpering at one undead…

Ariel suddenly missed Yuseong Han. Even though she was a human being without her ignorance, he was sure to protect her. If that undead was also him, she would have killed it at once.

She was when Ariel was groaning.

-Kieek!

Two undead came running to chew on her soft flesh.

“Kyaaaaah!”

Ariel covered her face with her arm and closed her eyes. I’m going to die now… I’m going to be eaten by the undead and I’m terribly… You bastard Han Yuseong. If you made them into slaves by force, you shouldn’t protect them.

Ariel mumbled inwardly.
Strangely, she felt no pain. She gently removed her arms and opened her eyes to see two undead with her body cut in half.

“Uh?”

How did this…

-Yingying!
– Weeing!

Water bodies and wind whirlwinds noisily the size of a man’s head whirled around her.

“Ah! Weria!”

They are her spirits. It disappeared together when I was teleported from the corridor.

“Did you come to see me?”

-Yingying!
– Weeing!

Spirits shaking their bodies.
Ariel’s heart was stirred by the wave of her emotion, and she tried to embrace her spirits as it was…

-Kieek!
– Kiek!

“Kyaaak! Ea! Weria! Kill them! Kill them all!!!”

Ariel screamed, glowing. Her air spirits and water spirits moved to protect her own contractor.

Dozens of wind blades decapitated the undead.

Ice picks pierced the heads and chests of the undead.

After the wind blades and ice picks passed by, there were no undead standing on two feet.
The adventurers, as well as Ariel, were dumbfounded. She stared blankly at her own spirits.

What? Might count more than I thought..?

“Wow, Mr. Elf, you are amazing! Alone like this…”

When everyone was riding, the adventurer who was Ariel’s spare life reached out her hand to Ariel’s shoulder.

Ariel snapped her hand away.

“Does this garbage human dare to touch me? Do you want to die?”

She looked at the adventurer with contempt. The tender elf that had just been trembling in fear was no longer there.