Chapter 397 – King of the Storm.

Usher wanted to know what the spell was, but they wanted to leave right away.

“I wondered who opened the door to the sanctuary, but was it you? Jeremiah.”

If it hadn’t been for the voice I heard from the entrance. Usher immediately looked back and gripped his shield tightly. Yes, he already knew the gloomy, muddy old man’s voice.

“I thought I couldn’t find it no matter how much I searched for it, so it seems you hid it.”

The old man smiled and looked at him through the mask. He shook his head as he pulled out his sword and shuddered at the creepy gaze he felt even though he was behind the mask.

“You don’t have to be so vigilant. Ahaha. It looks like you were the one holding the key to the sanctuary.”
‘How?!’

I barely swallowed my words, but I couldn’t figure out how he had noticed that, and as I was surprised, the glinting eyes behind the mask grew longer.

“Hehe, this is the place where you continued to hang out after your ugly son left home. You only opened the door after he brought you. Isn’t it strange that you don’t know?”
“What.”

Could it be that he was the old man’s son? Usher clicked his tongue as he turned to Jeremiah with startled eyes.

“I’ve already told you that I’m not interested in this kind of religious game.”
“Hehe, you mean like that? No matter where you look, you can only see us as a member.”

Hearing his words, Jeremiah squeezed her hand hard enough to hear a strange sound from the staff she used as a torch.

“How can you deny that we carefully crafted each of those bones? Also, you made a woman in this area her concubine.”

The old man did not hide his leaky laugh as if he had seen something most amusing.

“You thought you got away, but you always couldn’t get away from us!”

His voice, so loud that it resonated throughout the room, scratched the walls and made him uncomfortable, but he suddenly lowered his voice.

“Isn’t it because there are no people up there who understand you?”
“…”

When Jeremiah answered him with silence, he smiled, showing his teeth as if he knew it.

“Everything about you comes from us. From your body and blood to your clothes and horses. Wasn’t it thanks to the ancient language I taught you that you even knew that the child was a child of paradise?”
“…What the hell are you talking about?”

Usher, agitated by the words, asked Jeremiah. Why does that man call himself a child of paradise? The old man said first, as he was watching him anxiously because he hadn’t said anything since before.

“It seems that you don’t even know who you are. Judging from the fact that you even willingly gave away the key, it must be so.”

He licked his lips as if he had found some tasty food.

“Paradisus, where everything from the ancient world is preserved. If you came from that place, you would know, right? The name of this flower.”

The next thing he lifted was a certain flower. Soft petals resembling the color of a girl somewhere, and stamens with sharp thorns between them.

“…That flower.”

What passed through his mind was the image of a flower field full of such flowers. Above all, it reminded me of the name of the flower I had forgotten.

“Companionization?”

Around the time I lived with my older sister Marie, I had heard adults say that such a flower was a superior flower. Then, it was Jeremiah who opened his mouth this time.

“No, that flower isn’t a love flower, it’s a flower. I think you’re wrong this time?”

Usher looked at the flower again at his words. As expected, the flower that was remembered as a love flower in his memory. Why did you forget It was a flower that I liked after meeting her Belka one day and thinking that it resembled her.

Hehe, haha!”

However, despite Jeremiah’s words, the old man was rather smiling happily.

“No! Do you still not know? The name Sanghwa doesn’t exist in this world anymore.”

It is the name of a flower that has already been extinct in ancient times.

“Don’t you see what it really means for a child who can’t even read an ancient language to know its name?!”

At those words, Jeremiah hardened again and Usher’s anxiety only grew.

“Now, son. Stop wandering now and come back to us. It will be more welcome if you take the child with you as a seed feeder along with the spell you have found out.”
“Ugh!?”

He knew that he was mistaken for a woman, but he didn’t expect to speak so blatantly, so the moment he fixed her sword and shield.

-Dalgak
“Mister?”

She trembled at the sight of Jeremiah turning towards her. The moment the old man’s smile grew thicker behind the mask, Usher saw it. The sight of him pulling something out of his bosom, opening something like a lid, and throwing it toward the wall they saw enchanted with.

“Little boy! Raise your shield!”

At Jeremiah’s words, Usher raised his shield towards the place where he threw something, and the moment he hid behind his own shield.

-Kwaguagaga River!!
“Ugh!?”

Usher froze at the tingling sensation in his wrists as the explosion reverberated.

“Jeremiah, what did you do!? That spell…!”
“Ha ha! I’ve been dying to keep from laughing since the moment you mistook me for still not getting me out of this damn place!”

At the same time, Jeremiah, with Usher, passed her old man and started running toward her entrance.

-Quguaa!
“Mister! What is that?!”

He giggled when I asked, surprised by the appearance of the ruins that had even begun to crumble.

“I asked an alchemist named Helena. She wants me to create the most powerful bomb in her size.”
“Helena?”

Wasn’t she a doctor? Usher was dumbfounded even as he ran with him.

“You bastard!!”

Surprised by the angry old man’s voice coming quickly behind them, they glanced back to see him riding a gargoyle wrapped in bone armor like himself and running away from the collapsing place.

“Ha, as expected, he also brought Balak with him.”
“What’s the difference between Balak and a gargoyle?”

It seemed to him that it was simply a gargoyle dressed in bone armor.

“It’s different. Unlike other gargoyles, they have eyes, and as elites, they are treated like direct subordinates of the apostles.”

Somehow they managed to get out of there before collapsing into the hallway.

“You guys! Do you know what you guys did!!!”

Even the old man who was chasing them came out. Fortunately, there were only two gargoyles outside the Sanctuary.

“Kirrrr!”

Balak began growling, glaring at them as if sympathizing with his master’s wrath. Even compared to other gargoyles, Usher has a stronger grip on his shield with extraordinary momentum.

Haha! I’d rather get rid of that spell than have it read by you guys!”
“Yeah man!!!”
“Kyaaaaagh!”

In the end, seeing Jeremiah laughing cheerfully, the old man shouted again, and Balak, who heard that voice, eventually ran towards them.

“Ugh, this!”
“Kiaag!”

Usher was able to block his balak with his shield and thrust his rapier through the bone armor more easily than he thought. As soon as he felt the blade digging into his skin, he backed away, though he didn’t make a deep wound.

“Kirrrr.”

The guy started to circle around them as if he was wary of getting hurt.

“How to do?”

The attack was simple, but the power was beyond imagination. If I don’t use magic in the future, it will be difficult for me to endure properly, so I asked Jeremiah.

“Whoa, I don’t think it will take long, so there shouldn’t be a problem.”
“Quaaaaagh!”

Before he could ask what he was talking about, he heard the old man’s scream and turned his head there.

“He’s…!”
“Kissyaaaaa!!”

One of the gargoyles guarding the gate had jumped on the old man and was about to bite his neck.

“I’ve been afraid since I saw you following you, but I never thought I’d attack even an apostle.”

As Jeremiah continued to speak, Usher saw. In an instant, Balak passed by them and ran towards the old man. I didn’t know why, but my body was moving before I thought because I had an intuition that I shouldn’t let it go like this.

“Kiaaaaa!!!”

Once again a sharp scream rang out. When he came to his senses, his rapier was already piercing Balak’s back ankle. As Balak turned and glared at him, he pulled out his rapier and put his shield in front.

“Ouch!”
“Kishyaaak!”

Hearing the old man’s screams again, Balak glared at Usher, but somehow, using his other hand and foot, he ran toward him.

“Good job! Let’s run away in this gap!”

Listening to Jeremiah’s praise, he ran after him, and when he looked back, he saw a gargoyle that was still trying to attack the old man and tear off his head, and Balak, who arrived there but was blocked by another gargoyle and was fighting. It bothered me a little, but I couldn’t help it.

Unlike when they went there, they ran and ran without resting, and they were able to return to the hut village where they originally stayed.

“You’re back.”
“Young master!”

The first to discover and greet them were Gideon and Helena.

“Are you hurt anywhere?”
“I’m sorry, I wasn’t hurt at all…”

Rather, it was a problem because he was very concerned about Helena’s breasts brushing against him.

“Are you successful?”
“Okay, I’ll explain the details later, but there’s no problem.”

When Gideon heard Jeremiah’s story, he called out so that everyone in the community could hear.

“Everyone, hurry up and get ready! We’re leaving Parz today!”