Episode 649: Burglary of an empty house (2)
After finishing his conversation with Ludger, Salesin sat quietly for a while and let out a low laugh.
“Hehehe… Demon King… Isn’t that a truly arrogant title?”
The king of all demons…
It is a grand word that can overcome even the devil and the great devil.
“Yes, my cute younger brother wants it, so as a big brother, I have no choice but to gladly oblige.”
To Salesin, Ludger’s warning seemed merely cute.
From the beginning, the difference in power was too overwhelming.
This one has the power to move the entire continent…
The power of God that wiped out thousands, including Cardinal Patrick?
It’s definitely a threat… but there was too much Ludger had to endure in order to use it…
Now that Lumensis is watching you, you won’t be able to use the same power as before…
‘I should be grateful to the Cardinal, because he took advantage of this decoy to reduce the opponent’s strength.’
Now that Ludger’s power, which can be said to be the most variable, has been sealed…
There wasn’t much left for him…
All of the colleagues who came to rescue Ludger…
There are probably more cards prepared…
Well, isn’t that just like a firefly in front of the sun?
“More than anything, there are many mountains you have to climb… Who do you think is left in Galaharad’s inner city?”
Although Salesin was a prosperous king, he did not leave the holy kingdom for no reason.
I came out because I thought it was okay to leave.
“It’s been a while since we had a reunion between brothers, so this time we should hope for a reunion between siblings. Have fun fighting, little brother.”
I hope you don’t fall before I can even use my hands.
* * *
After finishing his conversation with Salesin, Ludger stared quietly in front of him.
A huge hall that shines reverently under the moonlight even at night.
Beyond the red carpet, there was a huge door made of pure white stone with a golden border.
The only passage to the inner world·
Heaven’s Gate·
But now the door was firmly closed…
The moment an external enemy invades, rather than withdrawing troops to fight, they enter a defensive battle.
Some may criticize this decision as cowardice, but in Ludger’s opinion, it was an excellent response.
What this means is that there is a capable commander within the castle…
‘If you look at Salesin being so confident, it means he has at least the rank of cardinal…’
Instead of fighting, I choose to endure and bide my time…
He was confident that support would come from outside.
‘It would take a lot of strength to open that one too…’
then·
We have no choice but to play one of the cards we have prepared…
“Surna…”
When Ludger called the name, a man slithered out from the shadows behind the pillars in the hall.
Owens, including Alex and Pantos, who had not yet sensed the presence, raised their guard.
“Stop, you are my guest.”
Everyone immediately became hostile to Ludger’s words…
Surna whistled at the sight.
“Hwiyu, that’s truly incredible loyalty… It would be great if our children were like that too…”
“There was a guy like that…”
“Well, the situation between Belkart and Nikolai became very sad… Belkart had a different purpose, and Nikolai acted presumptuously…”
“I didn’t call you now to talk about such trivial things… As you said, I came to the Holy Kingdom of Bretus…”
“Yes, it came in the end. Actually, I had a vague idea that it would end up like this.”
“You can open the road to the inner castle, right?”
“of course·”
Surna answered as if it was no big deal.
“It’s not like I’ve been just playing around all this time…”
“Is there a way?”
“The gate of heaven is a gate that has the power to repel an unauthorized person if he or she tries to enter. No matter how wealthy you are, it will not open unless the other side refuses.”
“Isn’t that the same for you as well?”
“That’s right… I’m also rejected… I’m the devil they want to kill the most in the first place… But you know what? On the other hand, in the case of a person with permission, the door can be opened very easily…”
“Is there anyone like that among these people?”
“one person·”
Surna walked trotting and stood in front of Ludger.
“There is someone prepared for this time, right? Cetadel·”
At Surna’s words, a new sense of popularity was felt at the scene.
Ludger recalled some of his memories as he looked at the newly revealed person.
“That person…”
“You’ve seen it at the Order Synod, right? “This is Cetadel, one of my lieutenants.”
Cetadel, wearing a black hood, lifted his hood up with both hands.
Then, with his long flowing silver hair scattering, a young man with a mysterious spirit appeared.
Just by looking at his immediate appearance, he was a handsome young man who could be believed to be in his mid-20s.
“I thought you were older…”
“Even though he looks like that, he’s actually very old…”
Setadel was someone Ludger had no information about…
Unlike other First Orders and lieutenants, Cetadel never once set out to do anything…
Looking at Setadel’s appearance even more, my first question arose as to whether it was Surna’s lieutenant…
This is because Cetadel’s eyes staring at Surna were dripping with disgust and anger.
“Are you a lieutenant?”
“A lieutenant. A lieutenant who has been by my side and assisted me for hundreds of years.”
“Shut up… This is the last time I listen to your bullshit… Surna…”
Cetadel fired harsh words at Surna…
Surna just shrugged her shoulders with a smile, as if she was used to Cetadel’s attitude.
Ludgar sensed that there was something between Cetadel and Surna…
“So I guess I didn’t call you to introduce you to a bad adjutant, and is this the key that will open the door?”
“Yes, that’s right, Cetadel, now it’s your turn to step forward.”
“···joy·”
Setadel snorted with an annoyed look on his face, but obediently headed towards the Heavenly Gate.
Ludger, who was watching the scene behind him, asked…
“Can the author really open the door? “Even I, the bloodline of Seonghwang, can’t open it?”
“Even if you are of royal blood, you are rejected because your existence has already been identified by them.”
“Is that guy different?”
“Yes… Setadel is different… I don’t know about you, but he is someone who was able to freely enter and exit this door in the past…”
“Can you freely enter and exit the heavenly gate?”
What on earth does this mean?
Ludger had no memory of the person called Cetadel…
“It’s no wonder… Cetadel was supposed to have died in history that day in the first place…”
“that day? “When are you talking about?”
“The day Saint Arkenis disappeared… and the day the archdemon Surna died…”
Ludger asked in disbelief at those words.
“Was he a devil too?”
“Ahaha… The devil… Those are words that Setadel would be angry at if he heard them… On the contrary… Setadel was the person who stood on the opposite side of the devil more than anyone else…”
Surna’s eyes capture the back of Cetadel, who places her palm toward the heavenly gate.
“He was an adjutant who assisted Saint Archenis in the past, and was one of the leading priests in the Holy Kingdom of Bretus. He was not a fake priest that exists now, but a priest that at that time could only be real.”
“But how can humans last such a long time?”
“It hasn’t been long since I changed my body…”
“what?”
“I know that? It is said that the priests of the old Lumensis were able to consecrate lost souls, communicate with them, and hear spiritual voices. Among them, Cetadel is a much better necromancer than the necromancers who deal directly with souls. They can trap the souls of sinners or protect innocent souls. “Free me or…”
“What is that…”
“They say the wizards of the old days were amazing, right? It’s similar… The old priests and paladin priests of the Holy Kingdom were also truly amazing… Because the miracle of Lumensis existed back then…”
“Saint Archenis…”
“okay·”
As soon as Surna nods…
Kugugoogung!
The door that seemed so closed and wouldn’t budge opened…
Indeed, Cetadel opened the gates of heaven with its own power…
“After the death of Arkenis, Setadel left the Holy Kingdom of Bretus and joined hands with me… And for the sake of the future, he bound his soul to himself and continued to change bodies for generations…”
“How on earth does the body… no, I think I know…”
Ludger recalled the biological test subjects that Victor Dreadful was experimenting with.
But what if similar experiments have been going on for a long time?
“He really looks like a ghost… That’s right… Cetadel put his soul into a body and passed it on for generations… He’s already changed his body more than 10 times… The reason he looks so young now is because he recently changed his body. It’s my fault…”
“…A person who is a priest rejects the laws of the world and joins hands with the devil?”
“It was Lumensis who first rejected the law…”
It was Setadel himself who answered…
“In the first place, what I served was Saint Archenis… not the false god Rumensis…”
“That’s why we had the same goals… so we were holding hands in this temporary alliance…”
Surna added a joke like a joke…
“Of course, even though it was temporary, the period was quite long…”
“Just for this moment, I have been watching and condoning your dirty and terrible actions from the sidelines… but that is over now…”
“The time to part ways is slowly approaching…”
Cetadel glared at Surna with burning eyes.
“Keep your promise…”
He growled in a broken voice and took a step back.
It seems like it’s your turn from now on…
“Well, the gates of heaven have opened. Shall we go inside now?”
The heavenly gate, which could be said to be the biggest wall, opened with ridiculous ease.
Just as Owens was perplexed, the other side probably felt the same, as countless figures were felt across the wide open passage.
“Guests come in, and the landlord wants to welcome them warmly.”
“Yes, it’s just a ragtag group of people.”
Ludger pointed to Pantos with a glance.
“I’ve endured it well so far…”
Phew!
Intense speculation arose centered on Pantos…
The force was so strong that even the colleagues standing around were scared and backed away.
“You must have been itching to see the prey in front of you, but now you can run wild.”
Pantos walked forward…
As he walked, his pure white hair fluttered like a haze.
Pantos’ lips were pinched and fangs emerged…
The wild nature suppressed inside my body was looking forward to the upcoming hunt…
Pantos had no intention of suppressing it any longer.
“What level should it be?”
Pantos asked, squeezing out the last of his patience.
Normally, he would have rushed out as soon as he gave permission, but the fact that he asked this was proof that he had grown more than before.
In response, Ludger smiled and replied…
“Leave the form of your introspection behind…”
“It’s a difficult order…”
“After this fight, a bigger fight will break out… We have to fight the entire continent, but at least there should be space to welcome guests…”
“If that’s the case…”
Pantos laughed as if his expression was distorted…
“I can’t help it…”
With those words, Pantos disappeared from the scene.
Immediately after, a crack resembling a spider web appeared on the ground where Pantos was standing, accompanied by a loud noise that tore through the air.
Pantos became a white flash and shot towards the passage inside the Heavenly Gate.
The moment I thought I saw the afterimage, it completely disappeared beyond the dark shadowed passage.
and·
There were shouts and screams, along with a noise that felt like the world was collapsing from inside.
* * *
Wow!
A large man with a white death row hood covering his face swung an ax with both hands.
Even Pantos is not a big guy who can be easily dragged around anywhere, but that executioner was at least three heads taller than Pantos.
The height when seen with the naked eye is about 3m.
No matter how big he grew, it was a size that a human could never grow to be that gigantic.
‘Did you inject something into your body?’
It was a situation where he couldn’t shake the suspicion that something had been done to increase his size, but Pantos didn’t care.
At least some interesting-looking prey has appeared…
A huge ax that cuts through the air as if splitting firewood.
Pantos lightly held out his palm toward it.
Wow!
Contrary to expectations that his entire palm would be cut in half, Pantos held on to the blade of the ax with only his thumb and forefinger.
With that alone, the two-handed ax stopped…
The large executioner strained his arms to retrieve the axe. His muscles bulged like balloons, and even his tendons stood out.
But the Dok2 did not move…
Pantos stared at the executioner with cold eyes.
“It was a big piece of chaff…”
When I put pressure on my fingers, the ax blade cracked like a spider web and shattered like glass.
Pantos’ fist flew into the face of the executioner, who was embarrassed.
With a loud thumping sound, the headless body tilted backwards and fell.
The corpses of the Holy Knights were already full around Pantos, who was about to rip off his bloodless hands.
It’s not enough… This wasn’t enough…
Pantos perked his ears.
There is a sound. There is someone inside.
It also had a smell. It was the smell of a strong man. It was the smell of prey worth hunting.
Pantos immediately ran towards the direction of the smell.
The passage beyond the Heavenly Gate was complicated and felt like a maze, but it was of no use to Pantos.
Immediately, I saw a thick, locked steel door beyond the passage.
“It’s a hindrance…”
Pantos kicked the door with an accelerated kick as he ran.
The torn off door flew away, bouncing over and over again like a water swallow.
The moment when it seemed like it would fly all the way to the beyond…
The flying door suddenly stopped in the middle…
“I wondered if some heretic had invaded…”
The owner of the clumsy hand that held onto the steel door pushed it aside.
thud!
The weight of the huge door, which was only tens of centimeters thick, was well over a ton, and the opponent threw it away like taking out trash.
“It’s not a heretic, but a young animal came here.”
He was a small man…
Although his body was relatively small compared to Pantos, his neck was thick and his muscular body felt like a compressed rock.
“You are the one who is with the heretic who killed Bantam…”
The Holy Knight, who was staring at Pantos with a menacing gaze, soon gained momentum as he saw Owens appearing one after another from behind.
Ludger, who arrived at the scene following Pantos, stared intently at the people lined up beyond the ordinary paladin.
And when he found one person, his face became annoyed…
“That Salesin guy… I never thought he would leave something like that behind…”
