humiliation.
humiliation.
“…you.”
As soon as Havas saw the blue-haired woman, he immediately recognized who she was. This is the first time I’ve seen her in person, but how could I not know?
Half of the libertio members dispatched to the Northern Kingdom had their heads blown off by that woman.
Priestess of the Seonghwa Church, Friedya.
I don’t know where the monster came from, but that woman was very dangerous. To the extent that even he, a member of the six prophets, has to be wary.
“It’s difficult. How difficult…”
A blue line stretched out. Pridja had never hesitated once in the face of the enemy. I’ve never seen an enemy speak out.
The struggle of a life that would soon die was out of her interest.
Her beloved sword ‘Death’ flashed on the blue blade and aimed precisely at Havas’ neck.
The moment Havas saw the sword approaching his throat, he had a clear intuition of death. Intuition soon became a heavy conviction.
The moment that sword blows his throat away, everything he was holding onto will end in vain.
It couldn’t be. How long have you longed to see God face-to-face? The high point he had longed for was right in front of his eyes.
bang!
The cane pierced the floor. The speed was unbelievable even for a crooked old man’s body. The rocky floor that formed the dining room crumbled and hundreds of tree trunks stretched out to grab Prydia.
Her blue hair, tied in a single ponytail, swayed, and her white shoes stepped on the stems. Moving forward without hesitation, she moved very softly and beautifully, like the brush strokes of a craftsman painting a masterpiece.
A body movement that truly embodies the ideal of a swordsman. Those who walk the path of the sword will pay the greatest respect they can the moment they see that gesture.
Havas was lost in that beauty for a moment. It took only an instant for him to regain his senses, but when he did, the blue blade of the sword completely covered his vision. He hurriedly dodged the sword. I couldn’t avoid it though.
squeak.
“Keugh!”
Havas’ left arm was cut off. He barely saved his head, grabbed the amputated surface of his left shoulder and flung himself backwards. The blue blade flashed again.
squeak.
This time, his right arm flew through the air. Only then did he realize that he hadn’t saved his head. She had planned to cut off both of her arms from the start.
The old man’s eyes widened with anger.
“dare!!! You want to play with me?! This Havas of blind faith!!!”
Freediya didn’t answer. I just swung my sword twice more. The face of Havas, whose legs were severed, fell to the floor. Cold stone floor and damp smell. Havas forgot what to say at the terrible humiliation.
Glancing at the old man’s body with cold blue eyes, he soon headed for what he cherished most.
“Yuna.”
“yes?”
Yeon, or Marnak, was very surprised by Havas, which had been cut to pieces in an instant. No, after all, he could count on one hand the number of times he’d seen his master use force properly. No matter how much I was ambushed while I was talking, I had no idea that one of the six prophets would be so vainly incapacitated.
Pridja smiled softly at her apprentice.
“Is it okay if I kill you like this?”
“Oh, that’s…”
Marnak’s head spun.
Can I kill you like this? However, if you look closely, his goal was to recover the divinity contained in the holy relic, not to subdue the six prophets. Just a moment ago, I had no choice but to kill the old man right away, but when I saw him crawling on the floor after being savagely beaten by Master, I felt the anger I had felt so far was very futile.
“Well, I think it would be easier to kill it for now.”
Prydia smiled softly.
“Okay.”
“no!!!”
The moment when Prydia raised her sword high. With a shrill voice, the purple-haired woman fell along the hole that Prydia had dug. It was Pearly.
“Wait a minute!!!”
The blue blade stopped. In fact, Pearly’s voice was something that Pridya had no interest in at all, but this time it was a little different. The reason she was able to arrive so quickly was thanks to Pearly’s puppeteer calling for Prydia.
As much as she had received, she decided that it would be better for her to listen carefully to what Pearly said. As the blue eyes stared blankly at Pearly, Pearly continued speaking urgently.
“He! If he dies, the completion of God’s Vessel will be delayed! It’s too late! So don’t kill me now!”
Instead of answering Pearly, Prydia looked at Marnak. The reason for taking this sword was because it only came out of his mouth.
Realizing Pridja’s intentions, Pearl quickly shouted at Marnak.
“we! we! You promised! I am the vessel of God! you what you want! Let’s share with each other! If you kill Havas right here and now, that’s the point! If he dies, the completion of the bowl will be delayed! really!”
Promises and future threats. Marnak weighed the two. It was a subject that was nothing to worry about. He avoided Pearly’s gaze.
“I’m sorry.”
“what?!”
It was right to remove the threat. If it’s a threat directed not at oneself but at one’s comrades.
“Master.”
a short word. No further explanation was needed. Prydia nodded lightly and struck down the sword.
“No, no, no, no!”
Havas, who had been silent until now, moved along with Pearly’s scream. A tremendous torrent of divinity raged. In the torrent, the old man’s body was shredded. The flying wreckage turned into stems, entangled and swelled, crashing like waves. Pridja swung her sword without delay, but the stems grew much faster than she could cut them.
Looking at the sight, she remembered the blue greatsword ‘Cheolche’ that she had left at the Wet Swallow.
If I had a bigger blade, I could have cut them all down at once.
Leaving behind a slight regret, she swung her sword mechanically. As her sword danced, dozens of cut stems tumbled across the floor.
New tree trunks spilled out between the collapsing walls. Havas’ voice resounded throughout the room.
“Today’s humiliation!!! I will never forget…”
Kwaaang!!!
The explosion swept the stems along with the flow of wild magic power. Dakia, who burst the stems pouring down with magic, gnashed her teeth.
“It’s different from before!!!”
When he was captured by Havas, he couldn’t use magic properly because he was afraid that others would be swept away by the narrow space, but it was a different story when there was enough space like now.
“That’s right!!! You must never just let go of that prophet who remembered my face!!! Even when you sleep, your back will be very disturbed!!! Clogged rocks!!! Please do something about it quickly!!!”
It’s been a long time since I hid my strength. Jamel struck all the divinities he could and displayed the power.
When all the broken pieces of stone covered Jamel’s body, a huge rock giant appeared.
“A stone is harder than a tree trunk… Huh?!”
thud!
The head of the rock giant hit the ceiling as he raised his head. Only then did Jamel realize that he had made the size too big.
“I can still swing my hands!!!”
Huge rocky grips tore at the swarming stems. Giselle shook her head as she watched the scene.
“He always lacks one thing. But you’re not moving?”
The black helmet parted, revealing Marnak’s face.
“I guess I missed this.”
“what?”
Marnac winked and pointed at Pearly. The embarrassment that covered her face just a moment ago had already disappeared, and only a smile filled the place.
Marnak glared at Perley.
“You knew that Havas could escape as much as he could if he was given just a moment. Is that why you were deliberately wasting time?”
Pearly grinned.
“Why ask when you know everything? And don’t be mad at me You were the one who tried to break the promise in the first place. You told me to kill Havath, even though you knew I wanted a full god vessel! Am I right or wrong?”
Although she was right, Marnak had no regrets.
“He threatened the lives of my colleagues.”
“therefore! It’s not now, you can wait a bit until you make the bowl and then kill it! you can’t no way! Did you just kill him and try to secretly take the artifact you want? Kill me!”
A playful bruise. Marnak couldn’t tell at the moment whether Perley was getting angry or just playing around as usual.
“no.”
In fact, Pearly was right to some extent. Whether or not the god’s bowl is complete, the holy object he wants will still be somewhere in this city.
“I knew it would be something like this, but! I feel a bit betrayed after experiencing it for real! listen!”
Pearly shrugged and glanced at Marnak.
“Don’t think of blaming me for letting Havas go! If it weren’t for me, your comrades you care so much would have been torn to pieces by Havas while you were messing around here! I also bought them time to escape! It was I who immediately called your fearsome master here! it’s me!”
Giselle, who was watching the situation unfold from the side, patted Marnac on the back of his hand and whispered softly.
“That’s right. If it hadn’t been for Pearly, the prophet might have caught him much sooner or anyone seriously injured.”
After a moment of silence, Marnak bowed deeply towards Perley. He still needed her help to find the relic.
“Thank you for protecting my colleague. Also, I apologize for my arbitrary behavior earlier.”
Her purple hair was flowing. Pearly, who had approached without realizing it, whispered into Marnak’s ear.
“It’s a bit disappointing. Honestly, I was hoping you were someone who could see the bigger picture.”
A soft, hard feeling pressed against the ear lobe. Perley, who had bitten Marnac’s ear lobe, smiled and stepped back.
“I’ll take a look! especially! But not twice!”
The purple iris split and split again. Each of the four pupils in the left eye contained Marnak. Pearly’s voice sank.
“Please don’t let me down.”
“I will keep that in mind.”
“good! That’s all I need!”
Pearly slaps Marnak on the back.
“And if we had killed Havath here anyway, another prophet would have come and taken his relics before we even found them! It’s not just you who are greedy! Hi-Hi!”
Kwaaang!!!
Huge rock fists smashed tree trunks. Jamel’s madness echoed in the distance.
“Hee ha ha ha!! Today I! Defeated the Prophet!!! Now I’m not afraid of Liberatorio!!!”
Giselle shook her head as she watched the scene.
“I’ll have to get him and go back quickly before the priests attack.”
***
“Quaaaaaaagh!!!”
The seeds that had settled in the man’s head germinated. The head exploded and the overflowing stems intertwined with each other to take the shape of an old man.
Took.
A limbless body tumbled across the floor. Havas bit his lip. Due to being cut by the master, regeneration was slow. A sword attack that transcends logic hurt the essence of existence. It wasn’t irreversible, but it was clear that it would take a very long time.
“Fridya…”
Humiliation and anger. A stem growing from the floor lifted the limbless torso and sat it on a chair.
The wrinkled skin slowly expands, and the roots of the hair that had been leaking white are dyed a tantalizing brown and regain their original color.
reversal of aging. He decided to regain the youth he had put off by following his convictions.
I couldn’t give up the cause because I was swayed by a small stubbornness. Because he had sworn to serve God on this land.
Havas sat on a chair and muttered slowly closing his eyes.
“When we meet again, we will never be able to relax like today.”
***
“In the end, we didn’t get anything…”
Leaving behind Pridya, who didn’t know where he went, he chased the divinity of the evil god, but the only thing Khadisho and the priests found was a ruined sewage treatment facility. The priests continued to search, but unable to find any clues, the priests scattered along the road.
So Cardisho trudged toward the Wet Swallow.
A worshiper of an evil god who hid in the imperial facility.
“What the hell is this country going to… where is it going…”
“Kadi show.”
“hmm?”
When I turned my head, I saw a man with a soft smile. It’s what I feel every time I see that guy, but the atmosphere was really comfortable. I don’t know why women are so twisted.
“Is it Marnac? What is this place… Ah, have you been chasing the divinity of evil spirits? I guess I haven’t seen your face. It seems that the roads diverged. Did you stay up late at night without eating properly?”
Marnak came close. Cardisho was slightly nervous at a slightly closer distance than usual.
“Do you have something to say?”
“Then I’ll buy you some food, so would you like to go somewhere with me for a while?”
“Where are you going?!”
Marnak looked around and whispered softly.
“It’s a bit like that on the street…”
Buying a meal in the middle of the night and going somewhere together, that’s a place to talk about! Cardisho’s hair was hotter than ever. Soon, she recalled a rumor she had heard somewhere.
It is said that if a man comes to meet a woman in the middle of the night, it is unconditionally obvious. Especially if you’re asking for a drink.
Cardisho asked in a trembling voice.
“Are you drinking too?”
“A drink or two would be fine if Cardisho wanted it… but too much would be troublesome.”
You drink too! Cardisho’s face flushed red. She thought it was a good thing that it was the middle of the night and her face was not visible.
“By the way, what about the others… would you really mind going with me…?”
“yes.”
Marnak fiddled with the piece of key he had been carrying in his pocket.
After all, everyone else had fallen asleep a long time ago because they were rolling around in the sewers today. According to Pearly, it would take some time for Havas to recover, so he had to secure a key fragment for the Abiditas Merchant Corps in the meantime.
So, he entrusted the security of the party to his master and immediately set out to find Cardisho. When it comes to the worshipers of evil spirits, Cardisho’s personality made it clear that she would step in and help out.
“Let’s go. I will buy them all.”
“…I’m active.”
“yes?”
“Oh, I didn’t say anything. Come on, take the lead. I will go eat and drink.”
***
“Worshipers of evil spirits…? Then he asked me to go with him after dinner…”
“Yes, because I found a place where I thought there might be a worshiper of an evil god.”
“I see…”
Again.
A small drop of water rolled down Cardisho’s eye. The giddy temptation she had thought of was nowhere to be found. Cardisho wiped away his tears without Marnak’s knowledge and nodded.
“Yeah, I knew everything. I knew everything. Really…”
