Chapter 196 – The Temple

“What the fuck is this?”

The words muttered by an adventurer represented the feelings of all adventurers, including myself.

The door that the middle-aged man opened because he wondered what it was guarding. I see a lot of people spread out inside it.

‘I think they are probably the people of the territory of Coromore…’

What’s that black thing over your head? Why is it headed for that strange black pillar again?

As I stared at it in disbelief, the group of people in robes in front of the pillar began to hum.

…I don’t have a good feeling.

I don’t know exactly who they are, but I don’t think it would be good to leave them as they are. He quickly drew his dagger and threw it.

Whirly Rick. Hooked

The dagger was stuck in the side of the head of the guy who wasn’t paying attention. As he collapsed, the guys nearby got startled and started glaring at me.

“Hey, hey! What if you just throw it like that? Do you know who those bastards are?”

An adventurer nearby said in bewilderment.

“Who is it? Just looking at them, they’re cultists who brought us all the way here.”

“…That’s probably it.”

“Fuck it all up.”

“That is our specialty.”

The adventurers each grabbed their weapons and glared at the cultists with deathly expressions. It seems that the slender cultists are easygoing after meeting a monster that cut people in half with a single sword.

‘It’s not all about what you see.’

It reminded me of the black magician I met when I captured Liet in the past.

Well… If the morale is good, it’s good.
There is no need to undermine good morale with useless words.
It was content to lightly warn Seris and Kara.

‘By the way, where did Ariel go?’

I tried to warn you, but I can’t see it. I turned around and found it. He stands behind the door and sticks out his face.

Oh that bastard…

“Kill it!”

At the signal of someone’s shout, the adventurers started running. There was a big road in the middle, so I could pass without bumping into people with strange things stuck in their heads.

‘What the hell is that… Huh?’

As I was running and looking at people, I spotted a familiar face. A beautiful woman with long blue hair. She was Sister Catherine.

She was standing up straight and looking at me with her eyes wide open.

‘Why is Sister Catherine over there?’

I don’t think that person is here…

– Quaang!

The sound of something exploding.
The arm of an adventurer who was running in the lead rose into the air. At the same time, things like black skulls and chains flew from the other side.
From beneath the cultists’ feet, skeletons burrowed up from the floor in a manner seen only in movies.
The cultists’ counterattack had begun.

Fuck it or not, I rolled my eyes hard and scanned people.

Probably not probably not no…
Be sick Why are bad premonitions never wrong?

Seeing Sister Nella standing in a stiff posture, I held back a sigh. Is Sister Yuri next to you?

‘First of all, I need to do something to save the cultists.’

That was the moment I thought about it.
Kwaji Jik.
The black pillar in the center of the huge room swayed violently. Starting with that, the black things on top of people’s heads began to grow thicker little by little.
The cultists’ expressions, which had been glaring at us with grim faces, relaxed little by little when they saw that.
On the other hand, Sister Catherine’s expression was full of pain and fear.

Something seems to be wrong.
I had a hunch that something irreversible would happen if I acted too late to sort out the cult.

“Seris, Kara!”

I thought I would be late by myself, so I called the two of them.

The two people who were going to kill the cultists while avoiding the strange black magic turned their heads.

“Brother?”

“What’s wrong?”

“See Sister Yuri and Sister Nella over there? Take it out.”

Seris and Kara turned their gazes in the direction I pointed.

“Uh? Are there really nuns? But do you want me to take it out?”

“Yes, got it. How about you?”

Kara tilted her head and Seris nodded.
Seris felt confident today.

“I’m going to get Sister Catherine. Hurry up!”

After her words, I immediately ran towards Sister Catherine. I did not choose Sister Catherine for any particular reason. It just made her closer to me.

As I approached, Sister Catherine urged me with her eyes, as if asking for help quickly.

I sped up my run and got in front of her. But when it arrived, I didn’t know how to get it out.

‘I don’t know. Take it out at once.’

He grabbed Sister Catherine by the shoulder and pulled her. Then her nun’s body trembled as if she had been crushed by her scissors, and the black thing stuck in her nun’s head clattered away.

She was at the same time as him.

The black pillar in the center was greatly amplified, and then, at some point, it disappeared as if it had lost its power.
The adventurers and cultists spat out loud cheers.

Hundreds of people fell helplessly like toys with dead batteries. I watched the scene, squinting at her, along with Sister Catherine, whom she had just rescued.

“If only I had been a little late…”

Sister Catherine, who had said that far, shut her mouth. She may have been stunned that she was relieved that she had survived, when hundreds might have been dead or alive.

Because she is not an ordinary person, but a faithful nun.

‘More important than that…’

Did the two of them make it through?

‘It will be fine. It’s because the last two weren’t from their rocky days.’

Believing Seris and Kara would have done well, he slowly turned his head.

Across the central road where cultists, the undead, and adventurers are mixed, Seris and Kara are seen holding Sister Nella and Sister Yuri in their arms. Seeing him crouched down, he seemed impatient.

‘Thank god. Because I succeeded.’

Others couldn’t find it, but what is it? All I had to do was find someone important.

“You promised… You kept it.”

When I was relieved, Sister Catherine put me in my arms and said with her round eyes.

“Thank you.”

Catherine smiled.
It’s a heavy smile mixed with guilt.
I think you live a very difficult life. If you’re lucky enough to survive, you’ll just have to be happy.
I followed her with her smile.

“What are you doing with this much…”

-Kyaaaaa!

A maiden’s scream that rips through the air.
Heard from the entrance.
She turned around and saw Maria sitting on her knees in front of the large door, as she had been following her.
Three pairs of black wings hung from her back as she hugged herself with her pained face.

What else is that?
I’ll turn, really.

* * *

Crash.
The sound of running and running echoed lonely in the hallway.

‘Where the hell did you go!’

Han Yoo-seong suddenly ran out quickly.
He is the one who saved himself when no one else saved him.
Have to find him

That was the only thought in Maria’s mind as she ran down her aisle.

Her muscles, weakened by her long imprisonment, trembled, but Maria did not stop.
She ran a long way to get to the pile of her corpses. These are the corpses of adventurers cut up by the leader of the Red Riding Bandit.

‘This is Han Yuseong?’

Maria examined her corpses with her quivering eyes. The corpse, laid on its back, turned forward to see her face. Fortunately, there was no Yuseong Han among the bodies.

Relieved, Maria was able to see the huge door in front of her eyes.
She is also a strange woman standing at the door with only her face sticking out.

‘My ears are long.’

That was Maria’s impression when she saw her elf for the first time. For her, it was more urgent for her to find Yuseong Han than to be an elf.

‘Will he be in here?’

Maria walked through the door without hesitation.

“Uh..? Hey, human! It’s dangerous there! Come here!”

I ignored the noisy elf behind me and looked inside. Fortunately, she was able to find the meteor in no time. That was when she was about to run to Yuseong Han.

Padding support…

The black pillar that glowed in the center disappeared.
People falling down.
In the meantime, Maria fell to her knees helplessly.

“Ughhhhh…!”

Her head aches as if every single cell in her brain is burning. You can feel the pain of the flesh tearing down her back. Quadduk. Black wings broke through her back.

The Doctrine of the Eye of Doom comes to mind,
No. No. She doesn’t want to be the saint of that disgusting religion.
However, her spells inscribed on her by her cultists and the holy water she fed on her simply made her a pagan saint of her own.

“Kyaaaaah!”

That scream was her final resistance as her Maria.

The saintess of the Eye of End slowly raised her head.
The whites of her eyes have turned black and her pupils are red. In the center of her forehead is a large open eye. The saintess of the Eye of End spread her three pairs of wings and flew up.
As it were, she flew through the huge door.
To meet her own master who has come upon her.

* * *

Maria flew away flapping her black wings.

What is it really?

“What are you going to do now?”

Menseris asked Sister Nella on her shoulder.

I looked at the adventurers once. He is struggling with the black magic of the cultists, but he seems to be able to overcome it somehow.
They say we don’t have to join in.
I turned her head again in the direction Maria had flown.
For some reason, I have a feeling that the reason why Maria has changed like that is related to the fundamental cause of this fight.

“I have to go after him.”

“All right.”

Cerys set Sister Nella down on her floor. She sees what she is doing and she puts down Sister Caradouri. Catherine approached the two nuns.

“Leave this to me. I will protect the two sisters no matter what.”

“Then I’ll leave it to you.”

After a brief conversation with Sister Catherine, Sister Ceris and I ran to the other side of the door.

“Uh? Uh?! Where are you guys going!”

“Ariel, if you’re going to follow me, if you’re not coming, wait here!”

“What?!”

Ariel looked at the adventurers and us one at a time with a puzzled expression.

“Ac..!”

Ran after us.