## Chapter 733 – Paladin Kim Kat

—The silver radiance shatters.

At the moment of impact, Garos’s claws literally turned to dust. The shock unleashed an overwhelming storm of sword energy, sending Garos, who had been hurtling towards me, flying into the distant sky.

—Whoosh!

“Kweeeeeeeeeeek!!!”

Garos flew like a missile.

“How dare you.”

He was never a match for me in the first place.

He was strong in his own right. Skilled and brave enough to call himself a high priest of an evil god. The silver radiance, possessing an aura-like effect, was also formidable.

But.

“How dare you try to escape from me.”

To escape from me.

Unforgivable.

“Celestial Demon’s Descent.”

I took a step forward.

—Kwaang!

Pursuing Garos as he flew.

“How dare you try to escape from me!!!!!!”

—Swaeeeeeeek!!!

I “flew” towards Garos. The inhuman power of the Celestial Demon’s Descent launched me like a cannonball, allowing me to catch up to Garos, who had flown ahead of me.

“Kuh, krrrk!!”

The moment I reached him.

Garos, until his last moment, tried to unleash his silver radiance to attack me. Of course, not with his claws. A bite using his teeth. He tried to move his neck to bite me until the very moment of his defeat.

However, my speed was faster than his neck movement.

Far faster.

My body was floating slightly higher than Garos. In that state, I aimed for the crown of his head and struck with my fist, as if breaking roof tiles.

“Asura Bloodshed Fist.”

—Kwaang!

My fist struck the crown of his head.

“Geheeeeek!!”

Garos, struck with an inhuman aerial headbutt, plummeted vertically like a meteor, crashing into the ground instead of flying towards the distant sky.

—Kukwakwang!!!

The Asura Bloodshed Fist contained that much power.

“Worthless trash.”

Below, where I briefly glanced, dust was rising.

Garos was lying face down.

—Whew.

My body, gradually losing energy, was also falling.

How many times had I freefallen like this? Three? Four? What was certain was that I had experienced it multiple times, enough to feel like it was the “nth” time.

Having experienced it multiple times meant I was familiar with it.

Above all, it wasn’t as ridiculously high as before.

—Koong!

I landed safely on the ground.

—Tingle.

At the moment of landing, my soles seemed to vibrate, but I immediately threw myself to the ground and rolled, mitigating the impact to some extent.

—Thud, thud.

After dusting myself off, I approached the prone Garos.

“Garos.”

I turned his body over.

“Kuh, krrrk…!”

He was in a terrible state, but he was still breathing. This inhuman bastard…! What kind of vitality did he have! He was a formidable foe!

Truly, a high priest of an evil god!

“To, to be defeated… by a human…!!”
“It is only natural for you monsters to be defeated by humans.”

I looked down at Garos, who was spitting out words, and told him the obvious fact. This land was already the land of humans. Several kingdoms had established themselves.

The land of the descendants who had overcome the Great War of the past and driven out the monsters.

“Kill… me…!!”

Having realized that, Garos requested death.

“You’re not going to beg for your life?”
“I have been defeated as a warrior…! And… with these injuries… it would be impossible to recover… Above all, a loser who has lost in battle and failed in his mission is not worth living!!”
“I wasn’t planning on letting you live in the first place, you son of a bitch.”
“…”
“What are you being so dignified about, as if you did something great?”
“Krr…”

Garos, that bastard, was a complete piece of shit who had been killing people according to the evil god’s oracle. These kinds of guys should be killed on sight.

How dare he kill farmers who were working hard and living in the countryside?

Spouting nonsense about being a warrior and a high priest, all he had done so far was massacre innocent people.

Fusion Confucianism will never forgive such a guy.

Even Garos’s own mother wouldn’t let him live, so who would let this guy live? Foolish mercy brings harm to the world.

“Garos. You said oracle? Where did you come from?”

Before killing him, I asked what I was curious about.

“Do you think… I would tell you that?”
“Just tell me this one thing. There’s a mountain range over there, did you come over it? I am the victor. As a warrior, I deserve that much of an answer.”

After adding words like “victor” and whatnot, Garos hesitated for a moment before answering, spitting out blood.

“The mountain range next to it… I crossed it.”

He crossed the mountain range.

The more I saw, the more I felt like the unidentified monster that the martyred paladin was chasing was this guy. Their paths overlapped, and similar incidents continued to occur here.

“So you killed humans while coming all the way here from your land.”
“…That’s right.”
“Was that also because of the oracle? Because of that thing called the Fragment of Moonlight?”

This Dark Forest was said to be the old sanctuary of the Lycanthropes. But he said one more thing there.

Kill humans and offer them to the full moon?

Something like that.

“My moonlight has been defeated by you…”

At that moment, the light began to disappear from his eyes.

“Kill more humans… If only I had gathered a little more moonlight…”

Garos babbled incoherently, reaching his arm towards the sky.

“Ah, great full moon… Your great warrior… has failed…”
“You son of a bitch! What are you dying on your own for!”

This bastard was suddenly trying to die!!

“Celestial Demon Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation!!!”

In desperation, I immediately made a fist hammer and applied artificial shock to his heart.

—Kwaang!!!

Garos then spewed out a large amount of blood like a zombie bomb from Metal Slug 3, and died on the spot.

No way, seriously!!!!!

“Agh! Shit! I accidentally killed him!”

How could I make such a mistake!

“This is definitely not what I intended!!!”

—Kkieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!

I immediately tore at my hair and screamed! CPR my ass, hitting him with a fist hammer instead of electric shock, does that even make sense!! How could I do such a thing!!

“Shit!”

—Hoo.

I took a deep breath and calmed myself.
I couldn’t help that I killed him.

I didn’t get to hear what I wanted to hear, but anyway, I solved the case. But because I didn’t hear the story, a lot of doubts remained.

The silver radiance that this bastard used.
It was a kind of aura.

Did he use it with mana?
The energy felt different from that.

—Moonlight.

“Ah.”

It was moonlight.

Perhaps he was truly blessed by the god of the full moon and used a power similar to divine power?

He definitely said he collected moonlight by killing humans.

If you kill humans, do you really receive that blessing of moonlight? The more you kill, the stronger the power of moonlight becomes?

That seems likely.

If you offer sacrifices or please evil gods with inhuman actions, they sometimes bestow such blessings. Even Ejatz did that. But should this also be called divine power? Either way, it’s a power given by a god… Well, people are the ones who distinguish between evil gods and good gods.

The members of the Copper Celestial Angels and the Radiant Holy Cross also use divine power granted by their respective gods. They too, for some reason, were able to use the power called divine power.

But I don’t know the details of that part either.
It’s different for everyone.

Perhaps the god Verde or the god Eizermart read human thoughts, beliefs, and thought structures and grant them power.

There are so many things I don’t know.
I don’t properly understand mana or divine power.

In fact, is there anyone in this world who truly knows?

“Garos, you son of a bitch…!”

One thing was clear: Garos and the god of the full moon were both complete pieces of shit.

“Evil god of the full moon!!!”

I shouted, pointing my finger at the sky.

“Your evil purpose has been thwarted right here and now!! Using those pathetic Lycanthropes! You are a ball-less piece of shit!”

How many people died because of that bastard’s oracle!!

“Damn you, you piece of shit!! You damn son of a bitch!!!”

But I don’t know if the oracle was real or not, but Garos was truly a warrior who could carry out the oracle. He also had the power of moonlight. If so, it would be safe to say that the god of the full moon actually exists.

“You son of a bitch who boils pubic hair for soup!! That ugly, immoral, and disgusting name is the god of the full moon!!”

I spewed curses at the moon.

Upholding Fusion Confucianism, I, the truly macho Paladin Kim Kat, reborn as a true Love-Celestial Demon, do not fear the revenge of evil gods. In the first place, it is doubtful whether there will even be revenge.

The deities of this other world do not intervene in the world in that way. Just because there is a god, nothing will happen even if a criminal calls Verde a son of a bitch.

The gods of this other world are not omnipotent.

“Hoo.”

After pouring out a burst of anger, I felt my mind, which had been filled with excitement, clear up. It was a good fight for the first time in a while. Garos was a satisfying opponent.

But… this is their old sanctuary.

Whatever.
Let’s write it in the report.

First, I have to carry Garos’s corpse to the lord’s castle. I had to show the lord evidence that I killed the monster. And I’ll also take the leather home.

Should I make a suit out of this?

If I process Garos’s head and wear it like a hat, it will be savage as hell.

—Swish.

I picked up Garos’s corpse. The 2.5m tall body full of muscles was quite heavy, but it wasn’t a weight that would be a problem for me.

Is it a little over 200 kilos?

It feels like it’s more… Anyway, I just have to carry it to the lord’s castle. I’ll skin it there and take it with me. It’s too far to take the insides. It’ll rot quickly, so I can’t take it.

Now that I’m about to leave.

“Garos-nim!!!”
“Kreoahwoooooooooooo!!!”
“Humaaaaaaan!!”

From the forest in the distance, three Lycanthropes, almost as tall as me, popped out. Garos’s subordinates? Well, he was a high priest, so he would have some subordinates.

But their fur is all dark blue.

“I killed Garos! Anyone who wants revenge, come and attack me!!”

—Kuaaaaaaaaawooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

The first Lycanthrope, who roared the loudest, charged at me. But compared to Garos, he was smaller, slower, his arms were shorter, his claws were smaller, and he didn’t have the silver radiance.

A watered-down version of Garos.
A hopelessly pathetic level.

“Revenge for Garos-nim!!!”

—Swaeeeeeeek!!

Nevertheless, he rushes at me with a sharp momentum, reaching out his arm. Even if it’s a watered-down version, those claws are deadly.

But, it’s simple.

“Wilderness Blood Jade Hand.”

I lightly evade the attack by advancing diagonally and grab the neck of the guy who passes by me.

“Kehek!”

—Kwaddeuk!

I squeezed his neck as if squeezing juice from a fruit, strangling him to death, and —Tutatatatatatat! I held out the corpse like a shield to the second guy who was rushing in.

“U, Urga!!!!”

The startled guy changed direction instead of attacking.

“Is that the name of this shield?”

—Hwaeek!

I threw the corpse at the guy who changed direction with all my might.

—Peok!

The guy who collided with the corpse couldn’t overcome the impact and flew away with the corpse, and at the same time, I kicked off the ground and charged towards them, unleashing a powerful blow.

“Asura Bloodshed Fist.”

—Peoheok!!

“Kuhaaat…!!”

The fist that pierced through the back of the corpse, Urga, pierced into the heart of the second guy. Garos was still damn strong, but these guys aren’t.

“Go and tell the god of the full moon. This land belongs to us humans.”
“Kahak…!”

After killing the second guy in an instant, the Lycanthrope in the distance hesitated. Were the three subordinates that Garos brought the only ones?

—Paaat!

At that moment, the guy turned around and ran away.

I pulled my fist out of the corpse and followed him.

—Peoeong!

I grabbed the heart that came out and crushed it.

I can’t leave even one bastard alive.

The saintess’s order was to solve the problem that this lord requested, and it doesn’t end with just killing Garos.

If that wolf bastard who survived kills a resident, there will be a lot of talk. Judging by his level, it seems like adventurers could catch him if they joined forces, but there’s no reason to pass on what I can do now.