Chapter 126 – Episode 126 Baek Cheong-Ha, the Granddaughter of the Eroded Sword Castle (3)

“I can’t see you.”

The Sword Master muttered while looking up at the ceiling while looking for a constellation.

“I can’t see it at all, yes.”

It’s been a day since I faced the monster who looked like Chungha’s older sister.
Swordsman and I wandered around the dungeon all day looking for a possible place for her to come out.
However, the huge temple-style dungeon was too wide for just the two of them to explore.

Also, I wasn’t in very good shape.
After overdoing the appraisal, her body was in disarray.
The slightest movement made her stomach churn, and her muscles ached as if they were going to tear.
It was all because of the damaged mana gate.

Because of that, after exploring for about 2 hours, I made a seat like this for about 20 minutes and rested.

“I should have brought a few guild members.”
“Heh heh, that’s what I mean.”
“But is that really true?”
“What do you mean?”
“You said there was a traitor in the Twilight Guild, right?”

The Sword Saint laughed at my question.
It was a self-deprecating smile.

“Okay. I don’t know exactly who. All I know is that some of my students are in contact with Daesung. That’s why I brought you. Even if others don’t know, you are someone you can trust.”
“I’m a bit embarrassed to say that.”
“Why, you want to join the Twilight Guild too? You should start as a new member.”
“All right. Wake up now.”
“Are you okay? Your complexion is not good.”
“It’s okay. Gotta get moving. Don’t we have a lot of time?”

The time was short and the dungeon to investigate was too wide.

“Okay. Let’s finish it as soon as possible. If Chungha appears again, be sure to stay behind me.”
“All right.”

After packing up, we moved our feet deep into the dungeon.

-Goooh!
-Kyarrup!

The number of them wearing strange armor increased.

“They can move again even if their heads are cut off, they are really annoying.”

Swordsman and I aimed for the back of the neck between the shoulder blades that Cheongha-noona had split when she killed him.
The red core visible between the armor.

As soon as it was destroyed, they stopped moving.

“It is terrible. Why the hell am I here…”

I looked at the picture drawn on the wall while listening to the words of the swordsman who removed the monster’s corpse with his feet.

Looking closely, I began to see things that were not visible on the first day.

In the picture, unknown monsters attacking humans were drawn.
The humans were helpless and worshiped at the eyes of their god-watcher.
Humans in the painting offering human bodies with offerings.
The Beholder’s Eye presented a red jewel to the body of a human sacrificed as a sacrifice.

The picture was cut off here.
But I could tell

‘Did they offer humans as tribute to make them weapons against monsters?’

I thought about it.
The monster who looked like Chungha’s older sister also had a red core on the back of her neck.
Like the monsters that were completely swallowed up by their armor and turned into monsters.

But she was obviously hunting similar monsters.

‘Why?’

The moment when the question bites its tail.

I turned my head to the intense gaze piercing me.

And there.

“Sword Saint, I found it.”

There were the eyes of the watcher, the same shape as the one that Cheongha-noona had disappeared.

***

Today, too, she opened her eyes in the void.

– Dedicate your allegiance to me. I will give you eternal pleasure and rest.

A voice is heard.
It was a voice I had heard a long time ago.
It was a woman’s voice, a man’s voice, an old man, a child.
Sometimes it was an inexplicable howling, a gurgling sound, or a mechanical sound.

Whatever it was, she could hear it.

When was the first time you heard this sound?
I don’t remember.
In the first place, she didn’t remember anything about herself.

She just remembered that she was human and that every day she had to resist this voice she heard.

-You’re still making a pointless resistance. She’s a kid who has forgotten who she even is. Forget everything now and accept me.
-I will give you a new name.

‘Shut up.’

She even forgot her native language.
She just communicated her own will to her voice.

– You still don’t know.
-You humans have abandoned you. They sacrificed you to me and saved their own lives. They handed over ownership of you to me. Why are you resisting?
-Isn’t that armor that became one with your body proving it?

A voice speaks.
It’s bullshit.
It’s a lie, don’t believe it

We must resist.
Have to resist
But her will to do so was too weak.

– I’ll show you.
– How will the people you trust greet you?
-Remember that the only one who truly loves and cherishes you is me.

She wakes up with her and her armor creeps up and covers her mouth and nose.

Couldn’t resist.
There was no strength left.

Magi oozes out of the armor that covers her nose and mouth like a mask.
She started to lose control of her entire body.
An unpleasant sensation that has continued for a long time.

This made her a minion of her voice.

It will be like that this time too.
Again…
She could tell

That this is the last time.

She is the last thing she can hold on to…

All she can do in this state is watch her own body move.

-Give up now.
-Hasn’t your body become unable to resist itself?

The voice seduces

While she resisted, her body moved according to the dictates of her armor.
The magi she inhaled and exhaled grew thicker, and her consciousness faded.
Consciousness gradually subsides.

She closes her eyes as she watches her body kill the ineligible sacrifice.
Garbage that needs to be disposed of.
She had to move diligently to clean her master’s temple.
She is the manager of the master’s temple…

‘Wake. I, I…’

She killed an ineligible victim.

-Monsters#%$@#$!
-Note, porridge@%$#@%#! Aaaaagh!

■■ People shouting unknown words.
Looking at her, her fear, her young voice shouting her ■■, she was calling her her monster.
What are you saying?
I can not understand.
Who are you?

It’s me, a ■■ like me.

‘■■ This… What?’

I am the manager of the temple.
He is a manager who manages the followers of the master and manages the offerings made by the followers.

‘No, I am…’

-Worship me. It’s a little kid
-Because I care for you.
-There has never been a child with a high level of fitness like you. So serve me Soon I will make a sanctuary just for you.

I am the master’s follower and administrator.

‘I have to make the temple clean… Sun.’

For the master.
I’m all for my master.

And while doing so, he killed the enemy of the cheeky ■■ who broke into the master’s temple.
The master’s power was gifted to their dead bodies.
At least the guards of the temple would be able to do it.

The more enemies she killed that visited the temple, the deeper her consciousness fell.
The power of her armor grew stronger and engulfed her consciousness.
And her armor moved and behaved as if it were her.

The passage of time slows down.
Now, the time to regain her consciousness is getting shorter and shorter.
I have to survive.
I have to endure somehow…

Her own was so weak that she couldn’t shake off her mask covering her mouth and nose.

How much time has passed
How many humans have you killed?

She felt her armor engulf the last of her will whole.

The longing for the master was the proof.
Master…

Why was I resisting?
I am the manager of the master’s temple…

-Follow me. Hey I will show you more

The voice spoke, and she closed her eyes.

-It’s over now.

In her sinking spirit, she saw.

‘■… ■?’

Two ■■, enemies.

“It’s &%$%!”
“$%^$… Sister?”

They were the eyes of her who knew her.
However, having lost even her language, she could not hear.

What did you say?

‘You guys, look at me and say… ?’

But now she couldn’t help herself.
■■, Who had entered the dungeon so far, were stronger than the enemies.

It’s not just because it’s strong.
The strange feeling I get when I see them…

Woo woo.

Darker magi puts her consciousness to rest.
Like I don’t need her anymore.
She closed her eyes.

Okay.
I don’t need it anymore.
Who they are
Why did you come

Consciousness is clouded.

A little bit more.
Into the deep abyss.

The body floats.
I moved into the passage in the void prepared by the master.

She went into the void.
She saw the old man and the man following her reaching out to her.

-They offered you as a sacrifice to me.
-I’m here to kill you.

The master said
They said they came to kill her.
That’s why he looked at her so desperately.
Humans who dedicated me to their master.

In her fading consciousness, she saw.
At that moment when the young man’s strength fluctuated, his power swept through the void where she and her master were.

What was it?

The beginning was interesting.
It was not enough to dare to visit the master’s temple, so I was curious about the identity of that man who could release his power into the void.

Now, a long time has passed since I ran away from them.

Now one with the armor, she saw the two still wandering in her temple.
And the man met his eyes.

***

“Constellation…”
“There is probably Chungha noona in there.”
“You mean in there?”
“Yes, judging from my feelings, those eyes, no, the constellations are said to be the portal she uses.”
“Portal… Please tell me properly.”

I told you the information I saw with emotion.

[Eye of the Beholder – Expected Rating: ?]
[??]
[Watcher ? ? ? ? I started to get interested.]
[This is a portal that can be used by followers of the Beholder.]
[?]

Most of it is shrouded in the unknown, and the fact that it is a portal available to the followers of the Beholder.

“Let’s watch… I don’t know what that is, but being a follower of the Watcher means that our Chungha has become a follower of the monster painted on the wall?”
“Perhaps.”
“I thought it was an aisle, but what are we going to do then? We can’t get in, can we?”
“We can’t go in, so we have to induce them to come out.”
“Come out?”
“Yes.”
“How?”

Beholder’s devotee.
A dungeon that looks like a temple.
If you are a believer who enshrines him as a god, you will not be able to see the temple collapse as it is.

“I’m thinking of turning this temple into a mess.”
“Are you going to break everything?”
“Yes. If you are a believer, wouldn’t you come out angry when the altar was destroyed?”
“It’s a simpler method than I thought.”
“It’s called simple is best.”

I didn’t tell the Sword Saint, but I continued to feel the gaze from the gaze of the beholder.
Unless the watcher himself is looking at me.

‘Chungha noona is watching.’

Even though she approached like this, her presence did not disappear.
But I could feel that he was glaring at me with a lot of vigilance.

It didn’t seem like they recognized me and the Sword Master.
That would mean being a faithful believer.

I’ll have to stimulate you a bit.

“Let’s get started.”
“Okay.”

I cut down the pillars of the temple with the swordsman.

Guggug!!!

The wall collapsed, and the wall that had been painted with all kinds of patterns collapsed.
Not to clear the dungeon, but to entice Chungha noona to come out.

The more I destroyed the temple, the more I felt my gaze getting sharper.

“Can I do this?”

Quaang!

The Sword Master’s sword terribly trampled the wall.
The marble shattered and turned into a mess.

“I think you can destroy the altar over there.”

Like workers at a demolition site, we smashed walls, floors, and even pillars with our swords.
The moment the Sword Master tried to destroy the altar as I said.

Swoop.

Cheongha’s older sister’s jade ship protruding from the ceiling blocked the Sword Master’s sword from destroying the altar.

-%@#^&#!?*.

While making a terrifying sound through the mask.
She glared at me and her Sword Saint with her unfocused eyes, then opened her mouth again.

-Distrust… Those who… Porridge… Female.

I don’t know the Sword Master, but I could understand her words.
She didn’t recognize us.

“Please…”

For a moment, the swordsman gritted his teeth and glared at her.

“It’s been a while, let’s have a match with Grandpa.”

Mighty power rose from the body of the Sword Master who pulled out the sword.
I also raised my strength beside him.

“Let me take it down.”
“… I will support you as much as possible.”