Chapter 197 – The Temple

Something has changed
Saint Lorian and the head of the Holy Knights, Melissa, thought so as they watched the black curtain gradually fade.

“Get away from the country curtain!”

Melissa ordered the Paladins who were hitting the curtain.

‘Why is that veil suddenly disappearing?’

Did the paladin’s attack finally work?

No it can’t be He said he had been preparing for a long time. There’s no way something like that could break so easily.

Melissa was not optimistic that the paladin’s power was stronger than the cult leader expected.

‘Breaking down the barriers between us and ourselves… Does that mean we are ready to fight?’

Melissa raised her alertness.
Unsurprisingly, the figure of the leader, seen through the scattered curtain, was far from human.

“Ah… Ah… Finally…”

Blood flowed from her eyes full of joy.
Where the blood flowed, there was no human skin, only black, wrinkled monster skin.

At that time when everyone was astonished by his cunning appearance, only Melissa moved without hesitation.
Filling her silver sword with divine power, she cut it at the cult leader’s neck.

Ching!

The dark red bone knife protruding from the leader’s back blocked Melissa’s silver sword.

“You are too hasty. The festival starts now.”

The bone knife was not the only one that blocked Melissa’s sword.
Dudududuuk.
Dozens of bone knives pierced the leader’s back.
The headmaster cut his hand with a bone knife, spattering blood across the sky. Then the scattered blood boiled in the air and expanded to become large eyeballs.

“Now, let’s start the festival.”

Something that was no longer the leader smiled.

On the other hand, Melissa laughed as she saw the eight eyes and dozens of bone knives looking at them.

“If I catch this, will you give me a reward?”

I guess I won’t give it.
Fuck…

* * *

Damn where the hell are you going?
I wondered if she had something to do with the missing saints and paladins, so I pursued Maria, but I wonder if she made the wrong choice.

“Yah..! Let’s go together…!”

Ariel, who was lagging behind, shouted in a breathless voice.
Because I usually do some exercise.
I went back and put my arms around Ariel’s hamstrings and neck and took her into my arms.

Surprisingly, Ariel’s ears perked up.

“Hey! You, what are you doing?!”

“You said you couldn’t follow me? I don’t have time to argue with you. Then wait there, why are you chasing me?”

“I’m there, do they protect me? I told you when you came Since you brought me in, you must take responsibility and protect me!”

“If you can’t even talk about this… That’s it, don’t go wild and stay still. Otherwise, I’m going to throw it away.”

Throwing it away makes it quiet again like a ghost.
Because it’s really the same

With Ariel in my arms, I continued chasing Maria with Seris and Kara.
Maria, who flew for about 10 minutes, entered the same door as the door to the room where the people were locked up earlier.

‘Is there another one like that?’

Now I’m even confused whether this is the resistance of Coromore.

“What shall I do? Shall we follow you?”

Right at the door, Seris asked my decision.

“I came all the way here, so I have to follow you.”

She drops Ariel off and steps inside the door. Then, as if my prediction was correct, the paladins and saints caught my eye.

The Paladins were fighting something non-human with a bunch of dark red bones pulled out from its back.

It’s not even Doctor Octopus. What else is that?

What are those eyes that turn around whenever the paladins move?

As I was assessing the situation, Maria flew towards Doctor Octopus. Then her Doctor Octopus swung her 15 bone knives at once to drive away her paladins and greet her.

“Welcome, my daughter.”

“I’m glad you descended safely.”

“Okay. But it’s not yet a complete descent. Do you know what you have to do?”

“Yes, Master.”

“That’s it.

The man Maria called the master smiled with satisfaction and then suddenly cut himself large with a bone knife. His blood splattered heavily.

‘What is that doing?’

Sleeping all of a sudden It was an act I didn’t understand, but I realized it when I noticed blood splashing on the floor.
That kid did something

The bubbling blood soon evaporated and disappeared. However, the floor on which the blood clung was not the old stone floor.
Black ash.
The phenomenon spread around the area where the blood had splattered. This place has become a desert made of black ash, no longer a corridor.

Yes desert.

Looking up at the sky, I see the black sun I saw on the way to Coromo.
Wasn’t this indoors?
Landscaping technology is great.
It’s so great that I can’t breathe.

Not sarcastic, really.
I can’t breathe.

Fortunately, it was resolved when she entered the barrier of light opened by her saintess.
However, the heavy pressure that weighed down the body, the skin that seemed to be drying up, and the difficulty in breathing were still the same.

“I say you know what to do, so do what you have to do.”

“Yes, Master.”

Seeing the two begin to move, I drew out my silver dagger and killed them.

* * *

Cagan! Kang! Kang!

The bone sword of the religious leader and the silver sword of the paladins collided, making a grinding noise. Somehow, the leader’s bone knife radiated a lot of wicked energy, but he was not hurt by the silver sword containing divine power.

Melissa took advantage of the chance that the paladins were in front of the leader, and she sneaked around and aimed at his back. The thrust aimed at her back of the head was successful.

However, just before the blades were driven into her head, two bone knives took the shape of an X and blocked Melissa’s sword.

“Are you excited?”

Her cult… The false god of cults laughed at her.

“Smile?!”

Melissa, her medicine up, swung her sword at random.
Her words were random, and the swordsmanship of a paladin and holy swordsmanship were well integrated into each swordsmanship.
The bone knife deftly blocked all of those sword attacks.

What? Okay, let’s try this one more time.

Taking a step back, Melissa poured divine power into her sword. More than she originally contained. Enough to shine.
She then lowered the sword, which lit up the surroundings, at her bone knives.

Sacred Sword Strike.

A technique that explosively condenses holy power and unleashes it in one blow.

Melissa thought that the fake god’s bone knife had divine resistance, so it could withstand the silver sword and divine power. So, she made a somewhat ignorant decision to pierce even resistance with her enormous divine power.

And as even the blow that condensed enormous divine power was blocked by several bone knives, it was revealed that the judgment was ignorant.

Her other bone knife stabbed her through the head.

Melissa clicked her tongue and got out of range of her bone knife.

When she raises her head, she sees her spinning eyes.

That was the reason why the fake god was able to block the attacks of several paladins as well as attacks from a blind spot.

‘I think I’ll have to explode that first…’

It’s hard on the subject of eyeballs, and if you decide to throw a spear, you dodge it again.

I want to jump in and shoot it myself, but only a few people, including Melissa, can do that, and even if I do, I have to be prepared to die from being hit by a bone knife in the air.

Melissa looked behind her.

Five new paladins fighting with a pagan saint and two adventurers who happened to join them were fighting.

‘If they join, I’ll be able to do something.’

That strange woman doesn’t look very strong, so she’ll take care of it quickly.
Then, all we have to do is kill this fake god together.

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“Fuck…”

Melissa put in a curse that she wouldn’t normally say. Given the current situation, it would have to be the same even if the pope came.

Jajajajajajajajajajajajajajaja

Her bone knife, which had been moving somewhat stiff until not too long ago, is now being swung like a whip. The paladins hesitated at the whip that was hard yet flexible.

Even the ‘sacred shield’ made with divine power was cracked after a few lashes with the bone knife, so it had to be that way.

Destroying the false god’s eye floating in the air has long failed. As proof, the body pieces of paladins were scattered around the fake god.

‘It’s an error in my judgment.’

Melissa looked at the side of the pagan saint.
The number of people fighting the pagan saint had been reduced by half. The dead were three paladins. Her neck, waist, and upper body were blown away by the pagan saint’s sharp spear.

‘That woman was stronger than I thought.’

Fast and flexible
He spilled or blocked seven attacks without getting hit. Even the attack from the back of the head was dodged as if it were visible.
Maybe that damn bitch shares the Eye of a Fake God.

‘Should I have targeted that woman first from the beginning?’

After her brief thought, Melissa shook her head.
In the first place, the fake god wasn’t even doing his best from the beginning. Whether he aimed at that woman first or the fake god first, the result would not have been different.

Melissa looked at her saintess this time.
Her face, which used to be beautiful and white, is pale. Sweat trickled down like a waterfall as if all the moisture was drained from her body.

It seems that there is not much time left.

Melissa let out a big sigh. And she looked back at the paladins who were still alive.

Brothers who share the same blood in the same temple.

Is it because we spent a lot of time together?

They were looking at her with her determined expression, as if she had the same thoughts as her Melissa. Even with her helmet on, it was felt.

‘They’re all decent Yurmia-sama’s knights.’

Melissa smiled and studied their faces one last time.

Thorkell was so nervous during his first mission that he vomited.
Celia, who seriously contemplated the future with the man she met for the first time at the mission site,
Holic shed tears of emotion when he met the saint for the first time.
And so on.

She threw away her own sword, whose blade had gone out, and first picked up her brother’s sword in Yurmia’s arms.

She raised her sword to her forehead and offered her prayers one last time to her own god.

Lord of the sky and guardian of the family, Yurmia.
Divine Being, worthy of praise and glory.
Here are those blessed by you and dedicated to you.
Please repay their dedication and let them be embraced in that wide and warm embrace.
Then this faithful servant will not spare a little life for you.

Melissa raised her sword high.

“Brothers!”

Last,
A charge order to an honorable death.
Looking back at her paladins and nodding her head, she lowers her sword…

Couldn’t

Melissa’s eyes twitch. Her gaze was directed to the back right of the fake god.

In the whirlwind of a whip, someone was moving toward a false god. The fake god looks at her and her paladins and laughs, as if he hadn’t noticed her.

‘Did I really not notice?’

Or are you pretending not to notice?

Melissa habitually looked up at her levitating eyeballs, then hesitated. She risks getting caught just by looking up at her.

So she, her paladins, stared at the fake god without even breathing properly. They stared at the fake god and could only see him in the visible background.

Don’t rush you can do it slowly Because there is no need to rush. Because I can go back…

Please make sure

Everyone’s aspirations turned to him.
As if in response, Yooseong stabbed the fake god’s heart from behind with an Orichalcum sword full of flames.
The fake god stumbled.

At that moment, Melissa lowered her sword and shouted.

“Brothers, go forward! Victory to Yurmia-sama!”

Paladins charged towards the fake god.
For victory, not an honorable death.