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“What are you really doing here?”
“ha…?”
At my question, Lily pricked up her black bunny ears as if she was dumbfounded, and quickly kicked the floor twice. The two large pieces of stone that were ripped from the floor flew like bullets and exploded the heads of the two worshipers of evil spirits who had not yet grasped the situation.
As the last headless body collapsed with a weak thump, Lily tapped the floor alternately with both feet, roughly brushing away the flesh and blood from the metal leggings. After roughly brushing off all the blood and flesh, she glared at my face again and frowned.
“Is it me who asked first? Why are you answering a question with a question? Have you ever learned how to be polite?”
As soon as I saw her face again for a moment, I tried to make her recognize who it was who said that you were an unlucky son of a bitch.
“I was just doing my job. Just in time, the people you just killed misunderstood us as belonging to the Liberatorio, so we were trying to use that.”
“…ha?”
Lily took a look at the corpses she had killed and let out a deep sigh as if she was dumbfounded.
“No, because these guys were working under a certain affiliation, they couldn’t even properly identify friends and family?”
“That’s an area I don’t know exactly. At first glance, they seem to be the personnel waiting inside the hideout…”
“Ah, those who come out and watch after work is over? Then it makes sense. But while the ceremony is still underway, why did they come out of hiding?”
“Because the hideout has collapsed.”
“…What?!”
Opening her eyes wide at the news that the hideout had collapsed, Lily quickly pricked her ears a few times, then completely ignored the fact that she was talking to me, kicked off her seat, and jumped out to somewhere.
As the distance widened in an instant, Cardisho and I were taken aback for a moment, but Cardisho pointed to Lily, who had already become a dot in the distance, and opened his mouth quickly.
“Follow me at once. You seem to know something.”
“yes.”
We kicked off the seat after Lily. Perhaps because she was saving energy, Lily was running at a moderately fast speed, so Cardisho and I caught up with her much more easily than we thought. I caught up with Lily and threw a horse at her.
“Where are you going in such a hurry?”
“That’s because you handled things incompetently!!! You really incompetent bastard!”
“What do you mean?”
When I asked again, Lily glared at me with a frown.
“I can tell from the way you walk around leisurely! What did you do with the bowl of God!!!”
I took a quick glance at Cardisho, who didn’t know that Pearly and I were worshipers of evil spirits.
“The ritual was perfectly thwarted. At least today, I guarantee that there will never be a god descending on this earth using that vessel.”
“That’s the problem you idiot!!!”
Lily, who was tight and screaming, spoke quickly.
“Whether you broke the bowl or used it for something else, it was the bowl that God was meant to be in!!! Do you know what that means?”
I laughed blankly and replied.
“I don’t know, so you didn’t follow me like this?”
Seeing my smile, Lily’s forehead dug a deeper valley.
“What if ‘something else’ goes in or breaks into a vessel that would have been enough for ‘God’? Where will all the power that is not used and left behind go!!!”
“…Are you going to regurgitate?”
“okay! you idiot! The regurgitation should have happened in the hideout unconditionally!!! What if you collapse the hideout, which is an isolated space!!! You messed up everything… Kek?!”
I quickly kicked Lily in the shin. Lily reacted immediately to my attack, but couldn’t stop her from losing her balance. Lily’s body rolled forward, unable to overcome the speed at which it was running.
Pulling despair from my waist, I put the tip of my sword at Lily’s neck as she bounced off the floor. Lily sat down on the floor and glared at me.
“What are you doing all of a sudden!”
I glared at her and said lowly.
“You knew what would happen if I interrupted the ceremony, but you didn’t tell me?”
“Why do I have to tell you that? What on earth do you have that is pretty?”
Lily said, twirling a finger at the side of her head.
“Are you really turned around? And if I told you that if Desferacio and I interrupted the ritual, the power might flow back, would you stop your plan? that’s not it! What kind of friends can we be? Will you tell me everything you know about Mijoo? Why do you want so many things when you’ve never given me a penny?”
The words that came out of Lily’s mouth were truly correct. Why would they tell me everything about how pretty I am?
However, it was the same for them to not look very pretty to me.
I tapped Lily’s chin with the tip of my sword and laughed.
“Tell me everything you know. Then I will try to live.”
As the quick-witted Cardisho moved to block Lily’s retreat, Lily checked her back with a frown and let out a deep sigh.
“A son of a bitch. Really, you will definitely be punished someday.”
‘killing!’
It’s so arrogant, so just listen to the whole story and kill it. It was a very tempting proposal, but it is not too late to make a decision after hearing the story.
Lily stood up slowly, not intending to attack, and looked me straight in the eyes.
“I’ll tell you as I move. It’s not good to stay here as long as the lair has collapsed.”
“I will allow that much.”
“Really, how can you hate every word you say? Be careful on your way at night. Even if it’s not me, I think there will be many people who will aim for your back.”
Lily ran off to somewhere again, and Cardisho and I chased after her again. Lily looked at my face, frowned again, and began to speak in a very disgusting voice.
“…if regurgitation occurs, of course, this does not necessarily mean that regurgitation will occur. The backflow of power is one possibility. Although it is the most likely case.”
“Couldn’t you just summarize and tell me the main points? The introduction is too long.”
At my words, Lily opened her eyes wide for a moment, then narrowed them, glared at me, and murmured.
“…A real no-nonsense bastard. Be sure to trip over me and fall.”
“What did you just say?”
“You were mean, so don’t keep questioning me unnecessarily. Anyway, I heard that if the power flows backward, some of the souls of the sacrifices that were collected into the vessel will take the large and small pieces of the vessel and return to this earth again.”
Does the soul come back? To be honest, I had no idea what was going to happen.
“Can you explain it in a way that is easier for me to understand?”
Lily licked her lips for a moment and then began a disorganized explanation.
“That is, when the soul takes part of the bowl, a miraculous abnormal phenomenon occurs, and when that happens, it is not simply the power of the bowl in reality, but it can be taken from the realm of the soul…” She tousled her hair roughly and turned to me
. screamed and screamed
“ah! I don’t even know exactly! I don’t know! In the first place, I’m not a theorist, and when I explained it, I just skipped it in one ear! okay! it’s okay? If you’re curious, listen to Desperacio, not me!!!”
It seemed that he really didn’t know how he was angry with his cheeks blushing slightly, so he didn’t feel the need to pry more at Lily. Looking at it now, it looks like it’s headed for Desperacio, but you can ask him directly.
“Marnac.”
Cardisho’s Low Call. She didn’t say much, but what stood in our way was a situation that needed no words.
smell of blood. Above all, the strong smell of iron was wafting from the barren land.
Lily sniffed too, and her complexion hardened.
“…I think this is fucked up.”
As soon as she had finished speaking, she kicked off the blood-smelling road and lightly jumped up onto a building in the street.
“From now on, it would be better to move without stepping on the ground.”
Cardisho and I also jumped up and onto the building, and Lily saw it, jumped over the buildings, and started moving again. Seeing that strange appearance, I caught up with Lily and asked.
“Suddenly strangely kind?”
“I’m just giving you advice because if something happens, we’ll have to stand back together.”
Even if it’s very sharp, do you know how to bend it if necessary? If not, he must be more concerned about Desperacio, whom he is looking for right now, than his immediate feelings.
The smell of blood wafting from the ground grew stronger as he silently advanced from roof to roof. As if there were even real puddles of blood.
“The smell of blood is so strong that I can’t smell anything else.”
Cardisho nodded slightly.
“Me too. There wasn’t even a single drop of blood, so the strong smell of blood. Now that my nose is a little better, my bones are hurting a little bit.”
“We are almost there.”
Lily pointed to a building in the distance with a calm expression. The building, which looked holy at first glance, seemed to be owned by a certain denomination.
“Is Desferacio over there?”
“huh.”
Being a worshiper of an evil god and standing proudly in a church building, I really count the worshipers of an evil god who seem to have no more sense of crisis than me. To be honest, I was a little surprised.
“But why are you there?”
“We are gathering survivors to save even one more. Priests usually focus on dealing with the source of the problem rather than saving even one more. Instead, we focused on saving lives. It’s actually the largest of the empty buildings, so it’s just being used.”
Desperacio saves people?
When I looked at Lily with a questioning look, Lily patted her head and frowned.
“If at least one less person dies, the number of sacrifices will decrease. is not it?”
“I guess so.”
understood at once. Didn’t they save people’s lives because they were precious, but did they save them just to reduce the number of sacrifices going to the vessel?
Jumping over the building and landing at the entrance of the church building, the man standing at the entrance checked Lily’s face and his expression brightened.
“Are you back?”
“Goodbye. What about Desperacio?”
“He had been here until just a moment ago, and then he suddenly took on a serious expression and entered the building.”
“okay? I get it right away Keep an eye out.”
After giving a rough answer, Lily took a step towards the entrance of the building.
Click.
And the moment she stepped out, a sound that could never be heard on the dry ground was heard. Lily reflexively looked down at the floor where the sound came from. She sighed lightly.
“Ah…”
A puddle of blood, unknown to whom it belonged, was filled up on the earth that had been dry for sure until just now. Lily quickly pulled her feet from the pool of blood and stepped back.
Even I felt a little dizzy at the thicker smell of blood wafting from the pool of blood. I frowned slightly and pointed inside the building.
“Go in and tell Desperacio…”
Before he could finish his words, something rose from the pool of blood.
It resembled something like jelly-like lumps of hardened blood. The blood clot quickly increased to its size and then changed into a human-like shape.
The bloody face, without eyes or nose, was split horizontally and torn. The throat that could be seen through the torn mouth twitched and tried to say something.
squeak.
Before the gore monster could spit out anything, he first decapitated it. The jelly-like head fell into a pool of blood and the snapping sound was heard again.
I said quickly after watching Lily and the Cardi Show.
“I don’t know what this is right now, but let’s go in quickly.”
Before they could answer anything, a faint vibration was felt throughout the empire’s capital. The tremors got lower and lower, and in an instant fell into the realm of human hearing.
Cries of incomprehensible screams echoed throughout the capital of the Northern Empire.
Lily heard screams not far away and ran into the building without looking back. Cardisho looked at the headless monster lying on the floor and said to me:
“It seems that these monsters have appeared all over the capital. However, seeing that he collapses more easily than expected, there is no need to worry too much…”
Phew.
Countless things that looked like thorns protruded from the bloody body and stabbed everyone around. Cardisho and I threw ourselves back to avoid it, but the man guarding the door here couldn’t escape.
“Ouch.”
After pouring out handfuls of vomit, the man glared at us with bloodshot eyes, then opened his mouth at us with blood thorns piercing his body.
“Kiaaaaaaaaaa!!!”
The thorns in the man’s body lingered, but still covered the man’s skin and swallowed him.
The man who instantly turned into a bloody monster looked at me and opened his mouth again.
[ㅇ…a…b…ㅕ…ㅇ…?]
Even though it was neither accurate nor complete, it was definitely a ‘word’ with a meaning.
I got goosebumps. That monster’s voice didn’t come from my ears, but it resonated directly inside me, and it seemed like it was scratching at random.
The gore monster, now able to speak, glanced at the two of us and, without thinking for a second, jumped out of its seat and ran into the building.
“Did you just listen to the Cardi Show? You said that monster.”
Cardisho, who was about to chase after the monster, listened to me and tilted his head.
“…the monster spoke? What the hell does that mean? All I could hear was screams that didn’t make any sense at the time?”
