Chapter 289 – Beast Resembling Someone

The cry of time finding its place.

The stillness that had permeated the air dissipated, and the forcibly soaring consciousness subsided.

The amplified senses are washed away in the stems that begin to flow.

I realized that the world that the goddess had arbitrarily stopped was heading towards the future again.

‘I’m back···.’

Gleipnir rubbed the chain in my hand at the same time as the incident, then disappeared into a gap in the air.

The prayer of the saintess, which had stopped, continued naturally, and her divine power began to shine.

– I wish in silence, show my inadequacies with humble prayers, and seek the grace of the goddess and the power of light.

– Do you yearn for healing to overcome your weakness and doubts and rise up? Give me the belief that I can find value in loving care, free from the despair of a sense of shame.

Atra lifted the empty glass, raised it slowly as if offering it to the sky, and lowered it again.

I put my hands together again for her prayer.

– May your lowly servant be qualified to pursue holy riches and grant a benevolent flow to nurture souls and uplift those in need.

I had the sutras spread out in front of her on her knees, but I wasn’t reading and reading her writings.

As she put her hands together for her prayers and closed her eyes.

Whether that sentence was memorized or spit out as it came to her mind, she was amazing at reciting it non-stop.

– Criminals standing in a flower field flooded with hydrangea flowers and light pouring…

Since I’m watching sincere prayers that I don’t want her mouth to dry up.

Here and there, the sound of sabujaksabujak and people who had no intention of hiding began to be caught.

‘It’s already gathering.’

– Chick!

A monster that hangs on top of a tree like a monkey and stares at the saintess inside the barrier.

Her eyes are red as her blood and her muscles are quivering as she gulps white foam through her mouth as if something serious is wrong with her head.

Her little teeth reminded me of rabies.

“…”

It is not a demon, but something that has been eroded by an unclean power such as black magic.

It is a type of monster that you will encounter infrequently when you live as an adventurer and roam a deep place that is no different from a demonic world where no one lives.

Rather than assigning a name to it and classifying it as a monster, it would be more appropriate to classify it as a phenomenon.

‘It walks on quadrupeds in five trees, one two…’

You should read a picture book to Gleipnir, who showed a lot of admiration in front of the goddess.

Just for today, I had no intention of attaching such filthy flesh, so I took out a throwing ax in the opposite hand and a warhammer with a divine spirit.

Well-

“Hmm.”

It’s not explosive, but the number is steadily increasing with the appearance of a scrape.

If the goddess is watching, this exorcism is a good thing for my women.

Jump!

Throwing her hatchet, the head of the monster hanging from the tree splintered and tumbled to the ground.

From that sound, things resembling ground-crawling beasts gave up their hesitation and started charging.

…
…

– Crack!!

– Wow!!

Atra does not turn his consciousness to the other side during prayer.

There was a dull sound of something being savagely smashed from behind.

Whether monsters vomited darkness and howled in her pain, she did not lose her focus in prayer.

– I am saved by merciful grace. The lowly servant ends the sacred conversation knowing that a holy being is the pinnacle of my devotion.

After her prayer, Atra slowly opened her closed eyes and saw the holy relics that held her light.

‘To be able to finish so quickly…’

It was a time when her knees were sore that she couldn’t even get up right away.

After lunch, after the prayer I had just begun, when I opened my eyes, darkness covered the floor.

Maybe dawn will come soon.

Considering the past, when this ritual ate up an ordinary day, this was an unbelievable feat.

‘Is there a singularity in the Sanctuary?’

Even though the same ritual had been repeated countless times, this was an unusual situation for the first time.

Atra didn’t think that her significant achievement was her own growth.

“Magella. Please take care of the holy relic.”

“Yes···.”

The holy relics that were scraped to the ground were completely filled with divine power.

The saintess saw Magella glancing out of her barrier with her tense face, awakened her spirit, broke her concentration, and turned her consciousness.

“Brother Roman…?!”

She couldn’t afford to think peacefully that there was a barrier.

The fact that the barrier hasn’t been shocked even once for such a long time.

It means that Roman was going through a lot of hardship outside.

As long as the ceremony was conducted in the sanctuary, there must have been a pile of strange things gathered around them as usual.

No matter how strong Roman was, if the battle continued for such a long time, he couldn’t help but worry.

“Oops!”

As I tried to move her throbbing knees in a hurry, the song came out.

Even so, she whimpered and tried to get up somehow, and when she used her dragon, Magella came and supported her saintess.

“Saintess. You don’t have to move so quickly… You don’t have to worry…”

“Yes?”

At Magella’s words, the saintess kept her eyes closed and looked around her.

It wasn’t just the darkness that came when the sun went down because the floor was pitch black.

Even the periphery of the brightly shining barrier is dyed black, so this is not the twilight bestowed by nature.

It was black blood.

“···No way!”

Only then did I know how many monsters had died.

It was an unprecedented amount, but it went against common sense that it was a heavy burden in front of platinum.

I imagined that a pitch-black hill would be created if I gathered only the flesh that had lost its shape and scattered around it.

Roman, who was vigilantly holding a blunt weapon discolored with black blood, finally turned his eyes to the saintess.

“You worked hard. Did it end well?”

“Thanks to my brother…!”

As the saintess bowed her head, Roman brought up the main topic with her undisturbed breathing.

“Then may I go back?”

“Can I just purify and move these things?

“Understand.”

Roman went to the waterside to wash his body and weapons before leaving his seat.

Let Atra begin the purification.

The blackened ground and black flesh faced the sun and began to hide like frightened darkness.

Wiping away the cold sweat from Atra, who had completed her rituals and purification in succession, Magella looked in the direction where Roman had disappeared before opening her mouth.

“… I don’t know if I dare to comment.”

“I couldn’t broaden my knowledge and only saw the results… How was it?”

At Atra’s question, Magella couldn’t hide her thoughtful face.

Standing beside her and assisting her in the ritual, Magella saw how only Roman could hunt them outside her barrier, so her feelings were complicated.

“Are you the same person… I have doubts and respect at the same time.”

“As I said, it’s safe and comfortable to come with you, right?”

“…”

“After each ritual, if you deal with them, I would lie down for a day and then move, right?”

When she proved that her words were not wrong in the end even though she was sweating, Atra’s face was proud.

Seeing that, Magella smiled as if she had lost.

“Sleep comfortably on the way.”

“Um… I’m sure it’d be better to recover for the sake of treatment.”

From the moment Roman returns.

Now you just have to die and run to the capital.

*****

Lilyne was sure she had never met such a beast in her life.

She said that if she had met something like this in the first place, she wouldn’t be alive herself.

To this she had the slightest doubt about Owen’s explanation.

– Kreuk.

“Huh? This…”

The scar on her chin that she encountered in the midst of loving her like that.

It wasn’t a wound from hunting crows just now, but the flesh had fully grown and settled down.

She examines the shape of the beast in front of her again.

Dark red eyes, black hair, scars on the chin, and promiscuous scars that can sometimes be seen when brushing soft hair.

I don’t think so.

Even though she thinks it can’t be.

Lilyne cautiously called out to someone who came to mind.

“Roman…?”

She couldn’t leave the thought that it was strange to attach ‘seed’ to an animal.

It’s awkward, but I try to call the name as it is.

– Woo woo woo!!!

A violent reaction came back to the name I called.

Howling through the dark space.

Wagging her huge tail, she sniffs Lilyne’s face with her nose and then licks it with her tongue.

– Sniff!

If they saw a beast of this size and attacked them, most would be frightened.

Until this time, Lilyne’s impression of seeing this creature that had protected her was different.

‘Cute···.’

Because dreams are my own world, no one sees them.

You don’t have to worry about someone’s gaze and suppress your desires.

Literally liberating.

“Right! Pretty!”

With both arms, he hugged tightly and stroked the mouth of a beast with bloody fangs.

Lilyne continued her thoughts in a complex way while laughing.

‘I told Mr. Roman…’

She was at a loss as to what she was thinking.

When she turns around and she sees herself in this serious situation, she has no sense of her realization that she is dying at the word that Roman stepped forward.

She actually even had her life saved in her moment of crisis.

If you are faced with a difficult problem that you cannot solve with your own abilities.

Who will you think of now?