Chapter 210 – For Elise

The fact that the light was on was proof that someone was there. After confirming that, Elise released the Holy Light. At the same time, the ring of light floating above her head her disappeared.

…As the holy radiance disappeared, anxiety overtook me.

However, the one next to me was Elise, not anyone else. With the devout Elise and the blazing macho warrior, me, it wouldn’t be a task to set justice right on this land.

“…”
“…”

—-There was no need to say anything to the Divine Friend.

After confirming each other’s intentions with a glance, they lifted their tiptoes and penetrated inside. In fact, a conversation with a wink is ‘Let’s do it.’ Or ‘Let’s kill.’ ‘Let’s raid.’ It was possible communication because there was nothing else.

Lina also silenced the footsteps and followed us. She was a three-year-old habit and was in a state where she was making full use of a tremendous level of stealth walking (潛行步法). There was no sound at all. I’m a little envious of that.

“…Brother?”
“Why.”
“No, I want you to keep looking.”
“Can’t I even see my sister’s face?”
“Ah…”

Lina follows her to find her grandmother her.
Will Lina’s grandmother be here?

I can’t know.

Even if there was, it would no longer be Lina’s grandmother.

The ominous appearance of the mummy… A terrible look as if it had come out of a nightmare. It can no longer be called a human being. Lina doesn’t seem to know yet, but she probably doesn’t need to mention it.

Above all, those cultists had a criminal record of undead.

ㅡ…

The flames sway wildly, as if trying to devour the shadows.
We made our way through this basement with it as a milestone.

It is estimated that the shabby building built on the ground was a trick. This sinister cellar was of considerable size, and the torches that lit it everywhere were well-maintained. It would have been changed and oiled regularly.

For what purpose was this place created?
What is certain is that these structures were created for a reason.

I wouldn’t have made it with sincerity.

Well, it might be using the facilities that were there in the first place.
From my perspective, I can’t tell when or how this basement was built.

Like grave robbers digging into the unknown, they investigated the rooms they encountered one by one. But I couldn’t find anything special… It smells like something, but it doesn’t feel like it yet.

That was when I turned the corner.

ㅡSlowly.

Stop.

I heard a sound and stopped. At the same time, I held my breath and opened my ears to focus on the sound. A room just around the corner. The sound was coming from there, and was determined to be clearly man-made.

ㅡSlowly.

I stuck out my face as carefully as I could and checked the inside of the room.

“…!”

The pure white back of the head must have been cursed and discolored.
It was touching something.

Seeing him wearing a black robe, it was clear that he was a priest of Eternal Life.
He was doing something as if he hadn’t dreamed that I was watching.

Extremely nervous, I tightened my grip on the knife. That pure white skin is a characteristic that is tantamount to evidence of cultists. The pointy head of his without even hair seemed to suggest that he was not of this world.

Elise also stuck out her head and witnessed the truth in front of her.

“…Elise.”

Retracting her extended neck her, she called out Elise’s name her in a very small voice. Seeing my face at that call, Elise nodded her head with a stern expression of firm faith.

—Sadly.

Covertly, like a cat attacking.

ㅡ pounding.

At the same time, the strange beating that I felt when I was a child playing Beltu.

It was an extremely impulsive act, and it was like a heinous seizure of a kind that the criminal’s common sense could not explain. Key, key kick. Laughter kept trying to leak out of her mouth her… Elise had a similar face.

At this moment when we are united as Divine Friends, we are united in the true sense of the word. As if possessed by something, as if secretly following the cultist priest without being asked first—

ㅡPeruk!
ㅡPoo-wook!

“…!”

At the same time, he committed a brutal blow.

Elise, who showed acceleration like a thunderbolt, slammed her mace into the back of the cultist’s head, and I stabbed her back in order to confirm the kill.

The cultist was taken aback and collapsed from his firm posture. He struggled with something, but after receiving another blow from Elise, he was immobilized forever.

ㅡPeruk! Fuck!
ㅡPoo-wook! Fu-wook!

What followed was a terrifying sight, like a scene from a vicious silent movie. We mutilated the cultist’s corpse in silence, without any kind of dialogue or emotional expression. As if it was perfectly natural to do so.

Haha… Saints.”

After finishing the work, Elise let out her heavy breath and looked back at me with an exasperated expression. She had a fresh face that was unimaginable for a girl who had just cracked open a human head and checked its contents.

What?

Are you asking for praise?

“Well done, Elise. Even though it’s only one person, at least one evil being has been slaughtered, so the world will be that much more stable. Even God will be pleased.”

As she wished, Elise put her hand her on top of her head her and gently stroked her and complimented her. Elise was delighted with the expression of her intense joy.

“Huh, huhuh. I didn’t expect things to go so smoothly. Then saint, let’s look into this man’s arms. We need to get a justifiable fortune for our sacred hard work.”
Hehe… I guess it makes sense.”

After she instructed Lina to keep her watch her, she undressed herself as a cultist, holding back her bursting laughter with Elise. Elise seemed to feel a great sense of fulfillment and joy from killing a heretic.

Something seems unusual, but I was the same, so let’s move on.

As a result of checking his desk and belongings of her, she was able to pack miscellaneous items such as a flask containing some kind of reagent, a craft tool, a small carving knife, and an unknown dried plant.

What is it used for?

It seemed that there was nothing that seemed useful right away except for the mysterious documents written in scrawled handwriting scattered here and there. The rest was just junk.

“These are objects of unknown purpose. I wonder why they have these things… It must be some kind of sinister research.”
“Research… Are you trying to do an experiment?”

Evil experiment.

What is a test subject?

I didn’t want to imagine it, but the specific delusions that kept swelling up made my head dizzy.

Test subjects, mummified in the dark and crying with grotesque sounds… In their delusions, they reminded us of the bizarre appearance of Buddhas with flesh bodies who were said to have become Buddhas alive. The monk who was confined in the brilliant gold leaf was still alive and longing for his life without his even entering the world…

ㅡWhoop!

He shook his head vigorously to extinguish the burning delusion.

The body’s mana was running out of control as if reacting to something. I took a moment to breathe and calmed myself down. It wasn’t very difficult.

“Saints? Your complexion doesn’t look good. Are you worried about something?”
“…Ah, it’s nothing special. Maybe it’s because it’s a little hot.”

Okay. I have Elise.

Anyway, since the existence of cultists has been confirmed, it is a winner.

There must be remnants and treasures left here somewhere. Be confident, Kim Katt. These cult priests will never be able to stand up to me and Elise, true warriors trained in killing and hunting.

Above all, he has no tattoos on his face and no weapons.
If you take a surprise attack, you win 100%.

“Then let’s go to the next location. I feel like the urge to exterminate the evil beings is running amok… My heart just won’t calm down.”

Elise, who grabbed the part of her chest that was being protected by her gauntlet her, said with her face blushing. The cultist hunt seemed to be expected quite a bit. Um… It was out here, and it would have looked so cute if we were doing normal things.

“Feelings that can’t be calmed down. In that case, you can call it an irresistible impulse.”

Of course, it’s still cute.
Our Elise is the best.

“An unstoppable urge… Are you saying? Yes. This unstoppable urge is about to explode. This must be a sacred task given to me by the God of Order. To satisfy him, I must wipe them out as soon as possible. Will.”

Elise, who put her wad of paper into her arms her, said as she went out of her room. She followed her out of her, and Lina followed closely behind me with her frightened expression on her face of her.

“I think it’s really a pleasure to do sacred service with you.”
“Hehe. Me too, Elise. When I’m with you, I feel joy too.”

Elise = joy is the formula.
When she said this with a smile, Elise laughed too.

“…The urge strikes again. Come on, next cultist.”

She poked around and searched for her next victim. It took time as the basement was large, and finding them didn’t go as planned either.

Right now, I’ve only found a cluttered warehouse with piles of useless stuff, or a jar of oil that looks like it’s being used to feed a torch… Is there more?

Hopefully there won’t be just that kid.

There must be something more. This means that the balance does not match. Things didn’t work out the way I thought, so I started to get more and more frustrated.

“…It appears.”
“No words needed.”
“Of course!”

And that irritation was expressed in extreme violence. I saw a shadow ahead of me, and we ran towards it in complete madness.

“…Ah?”

The owner of the shadow was, of course, a cultist priest. His black eyes his widened as he watched us rushing in, and his black mouth his opened. Do you know how to make me scream?

ㅡPeruk!
ㅡShhh!

A passing technique that combines the power of friendship and faith.
As my sword stabbed him in the neck, Elise’s mace struck him in the stomach.

“Kuhh…!”

Hitting him like that, of course he didn’t make a loud sound, only the sound of the wind. It was n’t too difficult to put an end to his life as he crouched in pain. He immediately carried his body into a nearby room and stripped him of his clothes.

“…Saints. It seems there is no harvest this time either.”

Nothing came out of his corpse.
Elise looked at me and said a little darkly.

“Well, what if there is no harvest? We don’t serve for money. Killing the heretics is the greatest reward.”

Elise knows that I reveal wealth. She must have cared about that. I also spoke while being considered of such Elise.

“Th, such a pious word…! Yes, that’s right! The saint’s words are right, and right again! Ha, but my honest wish is that the saint would take care of his wealth… Don’t you like it? Spoils of war? Second.”
“Of course I like it, but don’t worry too much. It will come out when you do it. Loot is only incidental. Our main purpose is the blood of the wicked, right?”
“…Keuhh! I just want to take care of it personally!”

The impressed Elise applied the brakes and started exploring again. The only things I could find here were mysterious documents or junk. Above all, there were only two pagan priests.

Will it end like this?
Just then, Lina said.

“Oh, brother… This place is suspicious.”

She said that as Lina, who was touching the wall.
I wondered what the heck was going on, so I went closer and saw it.

A hidden door was found.

“You bastard… It’s quite usable! Eh! Great job, our Lina!”
“Ah, ah… Yes.”

Lina paid for the meal after a long time!

After all, I have to get lost in the party!

She ruffled her hair and then she pushed the door. As soon as she pushed the door, what she saw was the stairs going down to the basement, and Elise and I went down with almost smiling faces.

I have no doubt that the real exhaust is right down there.
Whatever the truth may be lurking out there, it doesn’t matter now.

I was very angry because I couldn’t take any drop items from the 1st basement floor.