Episode 234 Episode
75. Rani Salome (3)
What if not a human?
A demonic beast or something else. In any case, the heavy footsteps sounded quite hostile, and Murakan glared at the closed door.
“Get some little religious people.”
Even as Murakan said that, he did not put down the glass he was holding.
“I get it. Whatever it is, handle it as quietly as possible.”
“OK.”
thump thump!
The sound of footsteps stopped in front of Lani’s door.
Knock-!
And Murakan opened the door first and smiled. No, I tried to make it… but right after looking at them, I had no choice but to harden my expression.
The masters of footsteps walked on two legs and had two limbs, but they could not be called humans or monsters.
If you insist on it, you will be closer to a powerless and unhappy human being. It was also something that Jin had encountered once at the Colon Ruins before becoming a reserve rider.
‘Biological Golem…!?’
Suddenly.
The faces of the soldiers whom Murakan had put to sleep passed by. The faces of the two people who were leisurely standing guard duty were so ordinary.
They were people who didn’t have to go through this.
It was the same way when I first encountered the living golem in Colon. The stunned mercenaries turned into living golems out of nowhere and attacked Jin.
At that time, the mercenaries who became biological golems said this.
please kill yourself
‘Zipple you crazy bastards!’
The moment Jin bites his teeth.
The claws of the living golems, sharp as blades, flew into Murakan’s face.
A quick, savage blow that seems to have paid off considerably in the years since Colon.
If it had been Murakan before he regained his strength, he might have tolerated a small scratch. However, to Murakan now, it was as slow as a passing cloud.
Shaak!
Murakan raised his hand like a blade and swung lightly, cutting off four arms at the same time.
Murakan reaches out once again before the severed arm even falls to the floor.
Kwadeuk!
The place where his two hands, stained black with aura, were directed to the living golems’ battle. At once, Murakan figured out that their core ‘heart’ was there.
“I can’t save you.”
As Murakan clenched his fist lightly, the living golems’ hearts burst and they couldn’t even scream.
As soon as his heart broke, his swollen body began to rapidly shrink. There was no trace of them being human in their appearance, with only their blackened skin remaining.
The three of them stared at it for a few seconds without speaking.
Naturally, it was Lani who was most shocked. After gagging for a while, she managed to calm her trembling body and recall her identity.
She is the adopted daughter of the Holy King, a Holy Knight of the Dawning Society for the Protection of Doctrine, a subject of one person, and the daughter of Ayula.
Lani knelt beside them, pulling a Bible out of her bosom and opening it.
“Ayula, here my poor brethren have turned to you in search of peace. Please look down on their souls and comfort their unfair and futile deaths…” The
bright yellow light that emanated from her enveloped the corpse.
Glow….
The light soon became the flame of the holy Ayula, turning the bodies of the dead into ashes. After suppressing her vomiting and giving a short eulogy, Lani’s face had lost all of her alcohol.
The fragments of the heart Murakan broke did not disappear and remained on the floor.
“It’s a biological golem. I couldn’t even believe it when I saw it. How could there be something like this in the Holy Land? Could it be that we have come to the wrong country?”
Murakan picked up one of the fragments and inspected it. Jin also looked at the debris carefully. A glowing blue aura was clumped together in the fragments.
So there was a creepy sense of déjà vu, but it wasn’t a story to bring up right away.
“Lani Salome. I think it would be best to move to a safe place somewhere first. Soon they will send more people.”
Lani closed her eyes and nodded.
“…Okay, follow me.”
After leaving the empty hallway and following Rani, they did not leave the Eastern Temple.
“If they find out I’m gone, there’s nowhere to hide in the Holy Land. It would be safer here.”
Rani started to climb the huge stone statue of Ayula adorning the central wall on the first floor.
“Because you wouldn’t think that I, no one else, would have dared to ride Ayula’s body. Few people know about this secret passage.”
Ever since she was little, she was good at hiding or hiding something. After becoming the foster daughter of the King Seong, it was an ability that naturally developed after trying to escape all kinds of vicious bullying and burdensome gazes.
drooling-!
Rani turned the giant stone statue’s head with all her might.
Then Ayula’s head was pushed aside, revealing empty spaces inside the statue. When I went inside and turned my head back, it was pitch black.
The inside of the stone statue was connected by a ‘double basement’ leading to the drain of the Eastern Temple.
After walking for a few minutes to reach the gutter, Lani stumbled against the wall.
“Ha ha ha ha…!”
She was now weighed down by the feeling that her faith, which she had built up her entire life, was completely denied.
His father, Saint King Miklan, was kidnapped by Ziffle, and Vankela was corrupted to the extent that it could no longer be called the ‘Holy Kingdom’.
“Seongguk… is over.”
Jin met her eyes without answering.
‘The mind is on the verge of collapse.’
The fact that she collapsed was completely understandable.
But there was no way I could comfort her anyway. How can Jin comfort those who are losing their only family, their country, and their faith?
Instead, Jin could provide practical help.
“Choose, Rani Salome. If you are so tired and tired that you don’t even want to take revenge, I will send you to a land where you can spend the rest of your life quietly without asking anything. I’ll guarantee you safety for the rest of your life and give you enough money to not have to work. You can leave with us right now.”
Then Jin met Rani’s eyes.
“But if that’s not the case, wake up and say something meaningful so that we can help each other right away. How many enemies are there, since when did they hold the castle to their will, is there anyone in the castle that they can trust in the meantime, etc.”
“…It is true that I helped you at Santel. But I can’t use that as a pretext to tell you to save my father from now on and fight with Ziple.”
“Why?”
Lani couldn’t speak for a while.
“Are you willing to risk your life for me and the kingdom? Are you really Runkandel?”
“Yes, I am Runcandel. Therefore, Zipple is originally my enemy, and helping you is partly to repay the favor. It is a choice to subjugate the Holy Kingdom as Runcandel. Letting the Seongguk be ruled by Ziffle is, in the end, a loss for me and my family.”
“Uh hmm. Little. That’s true, but isn’t it a bit cold? How disturbed the religious man must be right now…”
“So you move calculatedly too. It means to do business with me. As the successor of Runcandel and the successor of the Holy King.”
Silence passed.
Murakan grasped Jin’s intentions and looked at Rani with serious eyes.
When she got used to the stench from the scale in the gutter, Rani opened her mouth again.
“…Please understand the embarrassing behavior, Jean Runcandel. All right, I’ll do as you say. I will make a deal with Runcandel.”
In the short time before he said this, many changes had taken place inside Rani.
This Runkandel prospective rider, who looked much younger than himself, obviously did not love Seongguk as much as he did.
However, he was ashamed of the fact that Jin was much more sensitive to the well-being and interests of the kingdom than he was.
“Okay, I’ll decide what to take after rescuing the Holy King or driving Ziffle out of the Holy Kingdom. What you will take is me and a reinforcement named Murakan. In particular, unlike the first time you met this guy, he’s gotten pretty strong, so you can pamper him to your heart’s content.”
Jin let out a sigh of relief.
If Rani had asked to leave in desperation, she would have had to figure out where to start from the beginning.
If you drive Ziffle out of the Holy Kingdom, you will be able to help your benefactor and show respect for yourself once you return to your family.
“…First, let me explain the current situation that I have grasped.”
Ziple had already acquired major personnel organizations in the Holy Land one by one for several years.
Among them, the first group that became Jipl’s dog was the Order of the Holy Knights, to which Rani Salome of the Doctrine Guardian Dawn Society belongs.
“That’s why my father sent me to the Doctrine Guardian Dawning. Since there is no one I can trust but me, he told me to mix in with them and look. It seems that until recently, even my father was not sure.”
“Then the King Seong must have been convinced after he reported the Santel incident this time.”
“that’s right. Ziple kidnapped my father right after my report. At first, he tried to trick me with that fake. He’s the one who imitates his father’s tone of voice and behavior.”
However, there was one fact that only some of King Seong’s closest aides knew.
King Seong could not move his left index finger. While Rani felt that the Holy King’s divine power was lower than before, she saw that the fake one was using her left index finger intact while eating.
As soon as Rani asked about it, Ziple cut off the index finger of the King’s left hand and sent it to her room. And that, too, through a paladin of the same age that Rani had always believed in.
It was at that moment that Rani fell into despair.
“You bad taste, you perverted children.”
“Did you keep your fingers?”
When Jin asked, Lani shook her head.
“As soon as I checked, it burned and disappeared.”
“A seal of fire. It is a magic that cannot be used unless it is related to Shinu. It is the work of Kelliac Ziple or Kadoon.”
In other words, the party’s opponent is Zipple. Among them, it was Kelliac, the lord.
Although Murakan has regained his strength, it is obviously impossible to fight the entire Ziffle.
However, the story was different if it was a ‘war of public opinion’ rather than a physical battle. Even though the King’s fingers disappeared, the living golem’s heart fragment remained in Jin’s arms.
‘Biological Golem and Transfiguration. That will tangle your ankles.’
When Jin took out a piece of his heart and showed it to Lani, he understood.
“Are you going to claim that as proof that Zipple turned the Seongguk soldiers into living golems?”
“okay.”
“I am the only witness.”
“No, I’ve interfered with Ziffle’s biological golem experiment before. There’s a witness and a big reporter waiting to report it.”
“…I beg your pardon?”
“But that is not enough. There must be several more convincing evidence to unmask Zipple, and they must be detonated simultaneously. Who else knows that the real sage king can’t use his left index finger?”
