Chapter 1068 – Ancient Ones

But thinking about that reminds me of the slums again.

It was definitely the place where Elise and I investigated together.

The cultists had the audacity to infiltrate the slums of Isvant and spread their bizarre beliefs against the poor. There was even a huge cellar beneath their headquarters, and a large number of cultists gathered there and were carrying out some kind of underground construction.

And there was the Evil Giant… And the Dark Trophy, too.

Risha said it was just an artifact that channeled some power into the surroundings, but that was a pretty good thing. Anyway, the Evil Giant, which should have been serving the pagans, suddenly went wild and ran away.

What was the identity of the Evil Giant… Is it related to the Titans? What’s more, those bastards turned Lina’s grandmother into her ghoul. It is something that can never be forgiven. If you reveal the secret, make sure to let Lina know as well.

“So when are you going? Shall we go together?”

Karin said.

“Not right away, let’s go in a few days. But if I run anyway, I think it will take about two days to do this and that, but wouldn’t it be quicker to just go and come back by myself?

Whether it’s a kobold dungeon or an ossuary, if it were me right now, I could run really fast, explore the inside too damn fast, and then come back.

It might be faster to do it alone.
I don’t want to do that for nothing.

“Why go alone again? Can only you run?”
Hehe, that’s not it. Anyway, let’s talk about this later.”
“Father.”
“Hmm? Why Ari?”

Ari came to my side.

“If it’s an underground dungeon made by kobolds digging burrows, I’ll be helpful. There will be tree roots nearby, so I think you can easily figure out the internal structure by using them.”
“Oh, that’s it again.”

Then shall we go together?

At any rate, while she was talking about it, she got up from her seat and took off her clothes.

“Kat. You worked hard. Then shall we rest for today?”
“It should be.”

Let’s go to bed after washing and eating.

I have something else to do tomorrow.

*           *

Next day.

I woke up early in the morning, put on suitable clothes, and a V-gal and a wallet. And I came out with only my ID. The place to go today is the slums. The kobold dungeon or ossuary is outside the city, but the slums are inside the city.

So, you can take a quick look at it today.

First of all, I said that I would go to the slums last night, so it would be okay to come home a little late, but I intend to look around and come back quickly if I can.

What are the infidels?
What was the underground facility like?

I might dig into something like that.

ㅡ Jerking and bucking.

So I move my steps towards that familiar place.

Not long after that, I reached the slum side. As Isvant is a large city, the slums are also quite large. It is also a gloomy and unpretentious place as large as it is. No matter how you look at it, there is no hope here.

Whatever it is, looking at all of these places would seem realistically difficult, but as a paladin, I have sources of information that I can use at any time.

They act independently here and there, awaiting my orders.

This is why slums are so comfortable.

If you properly find and requisition such guys, the difficulty of the investigation will be drastically lowered. They’re bastards who do whatever you ask them to do.

So, why don’t you try to maintain peace today and do good deeds? When I think about this, whenever I go to the slums, I always do only good things. That would prove my good character. Originally, human nature comes from such a place.

“…”

It’s natural.

The identities of those informants were the scum of a ghetto crime syndicate.

Hehe.”

It was the responsibility of a paladin to kill, plunder, and plunder those scum, and it was also an extremely right thing from a fusion Confucian point of view. If you give them a blow, the security situation will improve and I can get the information I want. Better pockets are a bonus.

So let’s do good deeds from now on and create a world where everyone can smile.

ㅡ…
ㅡ…
ㅡ…

With such thoughts in mind, I walk the streets of the slums. As always, the poor, who had lost all hope, fell asleep here and there.

A space where only despair exists.

“To Jongno.”

Right there.

“Shall we go?”

I sang hope

“Shall we go to Myeong-dong?”

This is a song I sang for a long time.

I’ve been living without thinking about it, but since I was walking here, I thought about it for some reason. Yes, let’s call it after a long time. Let’s call and spread hope. Because that’s what a song is.

“Churari!!!”

As I sang like that, hopeful feelings seemed to well up in my heart. In the past, whenever I sang this song, I shed tears of longing, but now I just enjoy it.

This land of another world.

And this sky

That is my Jongno and Myeongdong.
And Cheongnyangni.

It’s my hometown.

Shouldn’t it be fun?

“Shall we go to Cheongnyangni!!!”

That was when I sang with all my heart.

“Uh, uh…”
“This singing voice!”
“No way! No way!!”
“No way aaaaa!!!”
“Is he back aaaaa!!!”

Suddenly, the surroundings started to become noisy.

ㅡBeep!!!

The poor people who were lying down jumped up from their seats and started screaming.

“Kyaaaaa!!!”
“Aaaaa!!!”
“Buy, buy!!!!”
“Buy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Saaaaa!!!”

Buy?

“Murder Badaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!”
“A murder bard appeared aaaaa!!!”
“Save me!!! Save me aaaaa!!!!!”
“Mamaaaaa!!!!!”

No, these bastards.

ㅡFuck!

All sorts of poor people disappeared before my eyes. Everyone, regardless of gender or age, disappeared like a mirage, as if it never existed in the first place.

ㅡaaaaa!!!

All that was left was the sound of receding screams.

“What the fuck.”

I tried to ask where the criminal gangs were.

I guess I’ll have to find it on foot.

More than anything, these bastards dared to see a righteous paladin and reacted like that… These bastards can’t be like this. The thief is rotten from the very beginning, so he has no choice but to see Paladin and avoid it.

“It’s still a fucking town.”

I stopped singing.

It’s not worth letting these bastards hear my song.

Anyway, that way, I explored the slums.

“Hey there. Hello.”
“What, what…! Heo Eok!”
“I was told to ask. Do you know where there is a criminal organization these days?”
“Mo, Momo! I don’t know!”
“Is that so? Thank you.”

I grabbed the lying ones and bit them, but I couldn’t figure out anything. But don’t give up. That’s how I persistently asked the poor, and eventually I was able to figure out something.

“Uh, over there… Over there… So…”
“What do you have?”
“That… It looks like there was a fight earlier…”

Fight?

“That’s all I can say…”
“Oh thank you. You’re kind.”
“Heh,hehe… It’s not like that.”

Still, I wonder if people’s hearts are all dead, and when I ask something, everyone answers very kindly.

After thanking 1 Cooper, I went to the very place where the fight had taken place.

“Turn it off…”

As soon as I turn around the alley, I hear a man’s moaning. Were you fighting something? Gang fights in the slums are nothing but criminal gang scum. My informants were starting a civil war. Let’s punish them right away.

“No, who is this?”

However, I came across an unexpected person.

“Oh.”

It was none other than Lisette who was there.

Dressed in a fairly radical outfit of hot pants and a tank top, Lisette was beating up gangsters in the slums as she had seen before. She recognized me first and waved her hand her.

“Ughhh…”
“Shut up…”

At Lisette’s feet her, her bony men were pierced and bleeding. Knight Resette. You were doing a good job today.

Hehe, you bastard. Are you still doing that?”
“There is no work because of the recession.”

Said Lisette, who came towards me with her arms crossed.

“Why, my paladin, you don’t like it?”
“Who was beating now?”
“Ghetto thieves.”
“Then I like it. Rather, I want to do it too.”

It’s something I want to participate in too.

“Huh. What kind of fucking paladin is this… But what happened to this shabby place?”

Smiling lightly, she turned her head and asked her me.

“Well, nothing special. I just want to do some research. This is what I do.”
“What?”
“Are there any pagans here? A strange religion is spreading.”
“It’s a strange religion. It spreads all the time. Hey, that oppa is a paladin, no. He’s a paladin? If you don’t want to be pulled out and hung up, tell me everything you know.”

Having said that, Lisette casually inserted a kick into the man’s side.

ㅡPeruk!

“Gyahak!”

This bastard knows how to deal with criminals too.

“Thank you for your consideration.”
“What about this. I’m a noble and a paladin, so we should get along well.”
Hehe, that’s an attitude I really like. Lisette. That attitude guarantees survival.”
“Can I write you a word of honor?”
“Fuck you.”

Anyway, I went over to the man who was groaning on his face and squatted down and patted him on the head.

“Where is this bastard doing all the hard work? Introduce yourself.”
“Ugh… That, so… My name is Paulas… Hehe!”
“Okay. Paulas. You’re a ghetto crime syndicate here, right?”
“Dog, it’s a gang…”
“That’s that, this chewy. You don’t know how many young people who answered me?”
“Sorry!!!”

As I was about to break his finger, Lisette said from behind.

“That bastard is just a nerd. He was beaten by me today because he didn’t have money. Don’t kill him or something. There aren’t many bastards like him these days.”
“Is that so?”

Hagisa A bastard like Lisette always comes to collect money, but the number of criminals in the slums is bound to decrease.

Even so, it’s really amazing to see that there is.

“Anyway, I have a question… I won’t hit you if you tell me everything you know.”
“Well, whatever you say…”

Paulas immediately bowed his head.

I lowered my head and asked him about the state of religion in this slum.

“In the first place… There are many strange religions spreading in places like this… But, to say it, it’s not just suspicious… It’s been around since the old days. Paladins sometimes come out to crack down, but they just pass it over.”
“Oh, is it?”

It’s something I already knew, but I gave up.

“For example, getting mana through mental training… Praying for blessings… There are many people who blindly believe in such trivial things… I, people like us, live by receiving seat rent and protection tax for those guys. For a month… That’s right.”

I know the end well.

It’s a testament to the professionalization of the industry.

“Well, anyway. Haven’t you had any weirdos lately? A devil worshiper or something.”
“Kuh, that sounds like a big deal! There can’t be such a thing! There’s no such thing as it’s a heinous time!”
“Are you so damn assertive?”
“That… My, my job is to collect money for those religious bastards… There are a few kids like me. That’s why I know.”

Yes what

I can’t believe it, but that’s about it.

“Then, has there ever been a gathering of people with a fucking mouthpiece?”
“Nothing like that…Probably not.”
“Okay?”

I got up from my seat.

“Well, I can’t know the details because I didn’t torture it. There doesn’t seem to be a big problem.”
“There isn’t anything like that these days. The priest often comes to look around?”
“Is that so?”

It would be difficult to withdraw troops, but when I saw them on patrol, it seemed that the church was also keeping an eye on the slums.

“Anyway, thank you for your cooperation, Lisette. Verde God’s blessings will be with you.”
“A guy like you can give a blessing?”
“I’m just saying. Do what you’ve been told.”
“What…Yes.”

That’s how I broke up with Lisette, and I looked around with Elise and Lina the other day. I headed towards the building where the evil evil giant came out.

“Hmm.”

The building had collapsed, and a fence had been erected around it. There were signs posted all over the place saying that the Lord of Isvant and the Brass Holy Angel Society were not allowed to enter.

ㅡWheek!

I simply climbed over the fence and entered it.

The confined space seemed so poorly maintained that weeds grew. Anyway, there was a small warehouse-like building right in front of me, and because of the location, it seemed like there was an entrance to the basement, so I broke the lock and went inside.

ㅡ Kikkiik.

“Also.”

As expected, there was an iron door on the floor that went down to the basement. The only difference was that the iron lock was fucking stuck.

— Kwakdeuk.

After taking it all apart.

ㅡKikkiik!

I opened the door and went down the stairs.