236. What you’re hiding 3
“They tortured you?”
“Even though there are many, they are wounds that have only recently appeared.”
Kang Seung-hyun took a closer look at the patient’s arm.
[I feel light divine power around the wound.]
[I feel light black magic in the wound.]
[The wound isn’t very deep.]
Judging by the condition, it seems that these children were attacked by divine skills and black magic right before the two arrived.
“It looks like we came in while we were working for a while.”
Kang Seung-hyun took out a homemade bandage and carefully wiped it on the patient.
“Why the hell did you do this…”
“You know how to learn the skills of Azul Continent?”
“You know that.”
The skills of Azul Continent are made through constant learning and painstaking effort.
For example, if you want to get [Slap], you can hit the scarecrow thousands of times with a branch or wooden sword until you get the skill.
“That’s why, in crime guilds, they deliberately support their members with a heated iron. Until you acquire fire resistance or fire property enhancement skills.”
“Oh, that must be very painful… Oh, then these guys can’t believe it?”
Kim Ho-jeong looked at the fallen three musketeers with a startled face.
“Did you torture the kids to gain power?”
“Yes, I can’t believe it.”
In other words, they were experimenting with living organisms to create beings with both dark magic and divine power.
‘Ordinary humans can’t handle black magic once they get divine power, and they can’t handle divine power once they get black magic.’
‘This is the immutable law of Azul Continent.’
‘Then, wouldn’t it be possible to break the law if both forces were obtained at the same time, with no error of one second?’
From there, the Church of Zumaire, who got the idea, planned an experiment to inject divine power and black magic into the human body at the same time without any error.
“Of course, the church cannot do it alone, and it is a plan that must be possible with someone who knows how to handle dark magic.”
A stupid idea that a sane person would never do.
Something even the money-mad Iver Church wouldn’t do.
However, the Church of Zmayre, blinded by the new power, broke the taboo and teamed up with a group of black magicians.
“Because they needed people to use black magic instead of them while they were using divine power.”
“They are really nasty guys.”
“That’s why you can continue to use the divine power even though you have joined hands with the black magician. I didn’t receive the power directly, I just borrowed it from the side.”
“Those who don’t seem to hold hands even if they die!”
“Originally, water and oil play separately, but if you use soap, they mix well. It’s like that.”
Even if we fight to the death, if there is a public enemy, there is a law of truce.
In addition, since the slogan of the Church of Zumare was ‘harmony and fusion’, it seems that the crazy idea of harmonizing with the black mage was possible.
“For that reason, such a terrible experiment on children…”
“The words are an experiment, and it’s just raw torture.”
At first, I would have experimented with adults.
You can tell by looking at the size of the mummies in the room.
“But it wouldn’t have turned out well.”
“So that’s why there were so many corpses…”
It is difficult for adults to acquire new skills.
As is the case with Earth, the older you get, the more time and effort you have to spend to acquire new skills.
“So I guess I changed my target to kids.”
Children have a higher skill acquisition rate than adults.
This is because those who have not learned anything can learn more easily than those who have learned halfway.
“Even if it’s the same piece of paper, it’s easier to use blank paper with nothing written on it than scribbles.”
‘Adults died because they could not withstand the conflicting powers of divine power and dark magic, but if a child had a high skill acquisition rate, wouldn’t there be an object that could withstand both powers?’
From then on, the Church of Zmayre began experimenting with children instead of adults.
“Because it’s a large church, kidnapping kids wouldn’t have been an issue. Naughty boys!”
“It wasn’t a denomination of hearsay, but it was one of the 10 largest denominations on the continent, so there would be no reason to be suspicious.”
They gathered test subjects through the church branches they had set up all over the Azul continent.
In the name of protecting orphans who have nowhere else to go.
Or on the pretext of educating Shinto children.
“I would have selected only a few of these kids and used them as test subjects. If too many kids disappear at once, the tail will be caught.”
Among the children recruited, if they thought they were worthy of being raised as church priests, they would send them to the Priory, and if they thought they were neither, they would send them to the mines and raise them for exploitation.
“Huh… I can’t speak.”
The children who were filtered and selected like that would have been taken to the headquarters of the church without knowing anything and participated in experiments like this.
“Of course, most of them couldn’t stand it and died.”
It is true that children have a higher skill acquisition rate than adults, but it is because they are much weaker than adults, and it is difficult to endure the torture of life in the process of acquiring skills.
“In the first place, there is no way that children can endure the torture that even adults can’t endure and die from.”
Seunghyun Kang looked at the corpse inside the prison.
The mummies here were not separately processed dead bodies, but the bodies of the test subjects could not withstand the torture and were degenerated like mummies.
“Uh uh…”
If the patient he’s caring for now is left alone, the black magic and divine power that are forcibly injected into his body will explode and he will turn into other mummies around him.
“Then what does this mean? Aren’t you just killing people with meaningless bullshit?”
“Usually, they just die, but there are extremely rare cases of children who survive torture.”
Seunghyun Kang looked at the children beside him.
All of them were physically exhausted and weak, but their minds were not broken.
“Maybe these kids have a place to go back to.”
“Where to return?”
“They are the children of the Church of Zumaire or separated from their families.”
Either way, they endured the torture because they had a reason to survive here.
I thought that if I quietly obeyed, I would be able to go home, see my family, and get out of here.
“…”
The children nodded silently.
As expected, everyone seemed to be enduring with only the will to go home.
“Of course, there is no way that the church will gracefully send out ‘talented people’ who survive the torture.”
Perhaps, even if the experiment is stopped, the Church of Zumare will thoroughly brainwash and train the surviving test subjects and treat them as loyal slaves of the Church forever.
“You bastards! I don’t know if it will be real or not, risking other people’s lives and working hard, and even if I survive, they won’t let me go home…”
Ho-jung Kim shouted trembling.
“I can’t forgive you for doing this!”
He was sloppy and was good at nothing other than being beaten, but nevertheless, he was a punching bag-style man who ran out unconditionally when he saw someone in danger.
“I was so pissed off, I wanted to destroy someone, but…”
Kang Seung-hyun is not a particularly righteous person.
He wasn’t very angry at the evil deeds of the Zumare Church, and he didn’t think anything of it when he saw the children who were imprisoned.
“There is a group that is perfect for crushing.”
However, it is very fun to legally destroy trash in the name of justice, so I decided to cooperate with Kim Ho-jung.
“Sensei Gagang! Are you trying to help?”
“of course.”
Seunghyun Kang replied with a bright smile.
Garbage with punching bag justice and justice.
The purpose is different, but it’s not enough as long as the result is good anyway.
“The explanation is roughly like this… Let’s solve the urgent first.”
[Observation Eye]
Kang Seung-hyun wiped the patient’s skin clean and activated [Observation Eye] once again.
[Stamina is very low.]
[It is full of large and small wounds.]
[Light divine power remains in the wound.] [
Skin damage due to dark magic.]
[The remaining holy power and black magic are resisting.]
[The two powers are on the verge of bursting out.]
“It’s quite dangerous.”
“How dangerous is it?”
“If you leave it alone, you’ll end up like those mummies over there.”
“Then it’s a big deal!”
First of all, it’s a problem that his body has weakened due to constant torture, but the biggest problem is that he is on the verge of shock death due to a collision between the holy power and black magic that remain in the body.
“In a word, it’s the exact opposite of the purpose of the Church of Zumare.”
“It’s really bullshit!”
Their purpose was to create a being with only the strengths of divine power and black magic, but the actual result revealed only the weaknesses of both sides.
“First of all, extracting the remaining two energies from the body is the priority.”
“How do you pull it out?”
“I have to use my magic.”
Kang Seung-hyun took out a magic potion.
This is because black magic has the property of contaminating magic power, ignoring other things.
Chow!
As the magic potion was poured onto the patient’s skin, the potion began to turn black.
“Ughhh! Ugh…!”
At the same time, the patient moaned in pain.
“Are you very sick?”
“It is because the remaining divine power in the body reacts with the drawn out black magic power. It must be quite painful.”
This is also the reason why you shouldn’t blindly use heals on someone who has been affected by black magic.
This is because the opposing forces collide, causing severe pain rather than recovery.
“If I continue like this, I will die of shock…”
Kang Seung-hyun quickly took out a gray powder and began to sprinkle it on his skin
.
Then, the powder shone lightly and the patient’s condition improved significantly.
“What is that?”
“The holy blockade powder that temporarily disables the use of divine power.”
[Sacred blockade powder]
[Slightly dissipates divine power when used.]
[Cannot use divine skills for 1 second when used.]
The duration is only 1 second at most, but if the timing is right, the divine skill activation is canceled. There was nothing like this to fool the priests because they could do it.
“Originally, I bought a bunch of them to fuck the priests of the Church of Zumare… I never thought they would be used for treatment.”
The magic potion sprayed on the patient’s skin absorbed the dark magic in the body, and at the same time, the divine blockade powder dissolved the divine power in the body, stabilizing the patient’s body that was on the verge of shock death.
“Whew…”
The child who was in pain let out a breath with a much more relaxed face.
“Looks like we’ve overcome a major hurdle with this.”
Kang Seung-hyeon went outside the prison and tore off the silver horse’s robe that the black magician was wearing.
“Why is that kinky robe?”
“Even though the silver horse’s robe doesn’t have a recovery ability, it can block dark magic.”
First, a clean homemade bandage was applied to the wound and the patient was wrapped in a silver horse robe.
In this way, you can protect your skin and prevent external black magic from reaching your body.
‘I’ve finished treatment, but I’m not feeling very well. It would be dangerous to be exposed to dark magic even for a moment.’
Kang Seung-hyeon looked closely at the patient and asked the other children.
“Are you guys all right?”
“I am still fine.”
“Me too.”
The children stood up without showing a single expression of struggle.
Everyone was full of scars, but they seemed to want to leave this place as soon as possible.
“Then I’ll leave this friend to you.”
“In my heart, I want to carry him on my back, but you are a tanker. I’ll do what’s right, everyone be careful and follow me!”
Kim Ho-jung smiled shyly and scratched his cheek.
“I just want to take the kids to a safe place.”
“There must be a lot of Zumare Church Thakari around here. So, in order to find a safe place, at least you have to go out of Ladaye
…” There’s no way they’ll let you go smoothly, and even if you go out somehow, the local Zumare Church branch will relentlessly pursue you.
“If that’s the case, you’d better overthrow the Order.”
Because I came in with that in mind in the first place.
