The Priest of Corruption Chapter 189

Abiditas.

Abiditas.

“Is the food not to your liking?”

I brought it to an expensive place, but Cardi Show, who always eats well, chews the food differently than usual. I picked up a piece of meat nearby and shoved it into my mouth, but my tasteless tongue couldn’t tell what was wrong with the food.

“no. Don’t worry, the food here is good enough. Rather, it is not enough.”

A saggy voice somewhere. Cardisho cut a large piece of meat in front of him and stuffed it into his mouth. I took half of the meat off my plate and pushed it to Cardisho.

“I didn’t say it. I have already eaten enough.”

To my regret, I was not hungry at all because I ate so much filthy water. really embarrassing. Cardisho stared blankly at the meat I handed him and slowly opened his mouth.

“…you are overly kind.”

“Isn’t it better than leaving expensive meat behind? Anyway…”

I patted my cheek.

“I don’t even feel the taste. You have to work hard later, so please eat well.”

“…I get it.”

Cardisho stared at me for a long time before starting to eat the food again. I slowly sliced up the remaining meat and stuffed it into my mouth.

I didn’t want to lend a hand to Cardisho, but I couldn’t help it to get things done as quickly as possible.

We didn’t know when the counterattack would come, since our plan to eliminate all witnesses went awry and Havas revealed his face. In particular, since we were a group of people who could stand out just by walking around, it was too easy to pinpoint the location of the ship we were staying at.

What’s more, running amok at the sewage treatment plant overloaded the necklace that would hide my divinity.

“I ate them all.”

“Wouldn’t you like to eat something like dessert? I will buy them all.”

“…”

Cardisho’s eyes narrowed. She glared at me and stood up.

“If you keep acting like that, you will get a big nose injury someday. A woman who is a little easily mistaken somewhere might become obsessed with you.”

The words came out like bullets, so I couldn’t even understand half of them.

“yes?”

“let’s go. I didn’t ask you to listen.”

Cardisho grabbed my wrist and pulled me. I left the restaurant as she led me. After leaving the entrance, she smiled as if nothing had happened.

“So where are we going? Coincidentally, I also got a new set of armor, so I have something to write about.”

As the white fist hit the silver plate, a metal sound was heard. As Cardisho said, she was wearing armor she hadn’t seen before.

Red cloth padded under the silvery metal. Although the armor she wore was a very beautiful design, it was both ceremonial and practical.

“It’s a rather rare armor, but can you get something like this in one day?”

“That’s… ha.”

Cardisho’s face darkened at my question. She let out a deep sigh and shook her head.

“As you said, this is not something that can be easily obtained. Because this armor was in the warehouse of our Gwanghuigyo branch. Originally, I was just going to make a new light suit with my own money at the blacksmith, but suddenly I felt the divinity of the evil god, so I had no choice but to show my face to the branch. I can’t go out to catch the worshipers of evil gods with my bare body just because I don’t want to hear nagging.”

She murmured in a small voice, ‘How many people are stir-fried with something she broke and ate…’ and straightened her back.

“Thanks to that, the money was solid. I received support for simple tools like this and that.”

Apparently, Cardisho was very much loved by his fellow members of the Order. It’s only natural that she’s a good person.

“We’ll talk about it as we go.”

“good night. So where are you going first? Top of Abiditas? Or the upper state mansion?”

“I’m going to go to the mansion first.”

“Good. I happen to have a sacred object that can identify the worshipers of evil spirits.”

Cardisho sneaked out a small stick-shaped holy object and showed it to me. I distanced myself from Cardi Show a bit.

If I activate it on myself, I’ll immediately find out that I’m a worshiper of an evil god.

“You brought it well.”

“I just have one thing to worry about.”

“which…?”

A shadow fell over Cardisho’s face. She looked up at the sky with sad eyes.

“If everything you said is correct, isn’t the Abiditas I’m visiting right now a man of considerable status in the Liberatorio? He’s definitely not an easy opponent. So, I have to do my best, and in the end, there is a risk that my remodeled body will not be able to withstand the force and run out of control.”

Are you still obsessed with the remodeled priest of misfortune?

“Don’t worry too much. Haven’t you been training hard to adapt to your new body? It will be fine.”

I chimed in with her. Cardi shows I’ve seen so far were subtly enjoying that setting.

“okay. I hope all of this is worrying for nothing.”

She nodded heavily and looked at me with eyes sparkling like jewels.

“But if I go out of control…”

“I will take responsibility for this and make sure to stop it.”

“thanks. It’s just how I feel these days, but it’s really nice to have a colleague you can turn your back on.”

“Aren’t there members of the denomination in Cardisho?”

Cardisho laughed bitterly.

“When I go out on a mission with them, there are many cases where I have to protect them rather than stand behind them. Sadly, there are very few cases where people of my level are on missions together even in the Church, as there are only a handful of them… Hmm. Pretend you didn’t hear what I just said. You said something rude to your colleagues in the church.”

While talking, Cardisho noticed that he was grumbling and stopped talking.

“If I may add a little for fear of misunderstanding, what I just said is a story in terms of combat. Um… No matter how I try, I can’t pick up the mistakes. Strangely, when I’m only in front of you, I talk a lot uncharacteristically.”

“I haven’t heard anything.”

Cardisho grinned at my answer. It was the brightest smile she had ever worn that night.

“thanks. After all, you are a good man.”

***

We covered our faces and leaned against a high wall. Cardisho lifted his head slightly and looked at the building, which was larger than most aristocratic mansions.

“Where are you planning to enter? The security is tighter than expected, so I think you’ll have to subdue one or two guards to get in. But again, the biggest problem is that we don’t know the inside structure of the mansion.”

“Knowing that, I sent a reliable colleague ahead of time. It’s also for checking the inside structure of the mansion.”

“hmm? Isn’t it just you and me?”

Squeak.

A rat the size of a human head jumped off the wall and landed on his shoulder. A small silver knight was riding on the rat’s back. Terzio shouted in a very strong voice.

– Heir! As you commanded, along with Strum, I have grasped the structure of the mansion as much as possible without being seen!

“Good job. Where is Abiditas now?”

– As a result of overhearing the mansion’s servants, Abiditas is now confined to his room! However, I couldn’t confirm that they were actually in the room because there was a risk of getting caught!

“Then did you get the location of the room?”

– yes! We can guide you right now!

“All right. card show. I think it will be okay to really start now.”

Cardisho stared at the tiny Tergio.

“It’s always amazing to see you. How could such a large body shrink so freely? Please guide me well.”

– yes! Follow me! We also identified the weakest point of the boundary in advance.

Cardisho seemed to be curious about the small Tergio, but what I was curious about was how on earth I could ride a mouse as freely as a horse. It wasn’t the right time to ask, so I didn’t bother to ask.

Squeak!

Stroom jumped off my shoulder and began guiding us somewhere with quick movements. So we moved up the wall following the metal knight riding the rat.

– This is it! I’ll check it out in a while and come back.

Terzio deftly led Strum over the wall, disappearing, and before long pokes his head out over the wall again.

– I think you can come over!

I briefly exchanged glances with Cardisho. From now on, I couldn’t speak out unless it was really urgent. I blinked and Cardisho leaped first and disappeared over the wall. I kicked the floor after her.

When we climbed over the wall and landed on the floor without a sound, a large garden greeted us. Several torches wandering around. Even if I counted roughly, I was well over twenty.

If caught there, Aviditas would run away right away. He must have been told that he had been ‘plugged’.

Squeak.

Strum called us. I stopped my thoughts and followed Stroom across the garden quietly. Stroom scrambled up the walls of the mansion with great agility, which was not befitting of his heavy body.

Instead of entering the first floor, we entered the mansion directly through the railing on the second floor, avoiding the eyes of the guards.

“Hmmmmmmmm~”

A humming sound. The first ordeal came to us hiding on the second floor railing. A maid in the mansion was cleaning the hallway we were supposed to enter.

I glanced at Cardisho, and Cardisho pointed his finger at the maid and pressed his thumb to his chest.

Roughly understood, it seemed to mean that he would deal with it himself.

When I nodded in agreement, Cardisho lowered himself and quietly opened the door on the railing and threw himself into it. Cardisho, who took possession of the maid’s back in an instant, struck the maid’s neck with the blade of her hand.

Suddenly beaten, the maid collapsed like a doll with a thread cut. Cardisho accepted the collapsing maid with a very familiar gesture.

“Did you kill him?”

“I just fainted.”

Soon after, Cardisho took out a stick-shaped holy object from his waistband and placed it around the maid’s neck.

“As expected, the maid was not a worshiper of evil spirits. Tergio. Is there a place to hide people nearby? If you leave it in the hallway, it will be found right away.”

– There will be an empty room. follow me

“Go there.”

“Who…”

Puff.

While following Terzio’s guidance, he encountered a new maid, but Cardisho struck the new maid in the neck with a question-and-answer dance, causing her to pass out.

Hitting just to the point of fainting was harder than I thought, but he manages it really well.

Each of the maids, one by one, was laid neatly on the soft bed.

“Have you ever done anything like this before?”

“Subduing the target that will not be killed is the basic of the basics. I always try to keep killing to a minimum while on duty. The blood of others is not very pleasant in the first place.”

– Someone else is coming.

“Wait a minute.”

Cardisho fluttered and a small sound was heard. After a while she brought a new servant and laid it on the floor in an empty room.

“Rather than sneaking in something, it feels like knocking out at random.”

“Originally, as long as it is quiet, it is an infiltration. Come on, keep going.”

We knocked out all the servants we encountered and put them in an empty room. I don’t know if it’s because the mansion is big, but there were a lot of people walking around.

“Are you there?”

– yes. This is Abiditas’ room.

After going through the journey of cramming 18 servants into the room, we arrived in front of Abiditas’ room.

“I will attack from the right. Marnak, you take the left side.”

“All right.”

– Then what can I do?

“If our attack is blocked, please surprise us then.”

– I will do as you command!

“Then I will go.”

profit.

I carefully pushed the door open and saw a library filled with soft candle light. And a middle-aged man sitting in front of a desk.

“Someone comes in without knocking…”

With Aviditas, there was no reason to hesitate.

bang!

Cardisho and I jumped out of our seats and ran towards Aviditas. The middle-aged man with a slender impression reached out with both hands at a speed that did not suit his body at all and blocked Cardisho’s feet and fists.

empty!!!

The sound of metal colliding resounded even though flesh and flesh were clearly colliding. Besides, it didn’t feel like I was kicking my skin.

A middle-aged man widened his distance and glared at us with his eyes narrowed.

“I heard that the ‘stopper’ was hit, but I didn’t expect it to target me on the same day. Who the hell did you get the information from?”

“Would you like to tell me that? haap!”

Caught up with the middle-aged. The bracelet stretched and became a gauntlet covering both of my hands. I just hit the middle-aged man in the face.

Aaaaang!!!

The clear sound of metal colliding. Aviditas’ eyes, which received my fist to his face, shook with an unconcealable desire. The skin on his face, torn from the impact, flowed down. When the skin fell off, what was revealed was a skin made of metal.

[That in your hand! Immortalium! very good! Immortalium rolling in by itself!!!]

The desire for Immortalium. I soon realized that Lee was a gold man wearing human skin. I raised my clenched fist.

“You know what? Your face is already distorted.”

[face? What are you talking about? This is not my face.]

The wooden floor broke and a sharp metal awl came out and aimed at my side.

“I will help!”

bright red light. The light from the tip of the metal rod hit the metal thorn. A stray metal thorn scratches my cheek. Falling drops of red blood. The wound on his cheek healed in an instant.

While I was avoiding the attack, Abiditas’ lower body was already half melted and integrated with the mansion.

The fact that could be inferred from that appearance was extremely simple, yet fatally dangerous.

The entire mansion itself was the body of that gold man.

The gold people who had absorbed countless metals were mad.

[You idiots! Crawling into my body with your own feet! Thank you for the Immortalium you brought!!! ha ha ha!!!]