Genius Corpse-Collecting Warrior - Chapter 288

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Saint (1)

An alley full of filth and slime. Two shadows passed by on the wriggling wall.

“At least for now, it’s better not to be discovered by the demons.”

The young man, Farn, spoke softly.

Even as the ship raced faster than the arrow, the young paladin’s voice came through surprisingly clearly.

On the other hand, the footsteps running down the alley were as quiet as death.

A new type of paladin that runs silently around corners and corners and climbs over walls like water when the road is blocked by debris.

‘You surpassed General Manager Edgar Reinhardt. There was a reason why that nobleman was called Young Swordsman from the very beginning.’

Dallen thought as he followed after Parn, who had become a young man.

Anyway, fortunately among the misfortunes, time did not really pass by more than a dozen years.

The reason Parn suddenly aged was a phenomenon caused by a spell from Felver Valentino, the Elgaia Mage Tower lord.

According to Farn’s description, it is a spell created by projecting one’s self, who has grown into a swordsman ten years in the future, onto one’s current self.

‘It was said that the hand of the earth winds ahead of the spring…’

That was a secret in an area that Felber, ranked 6th, completely opened up.

The final spell was cast not only by altering one’s entire mental image, but also by using one’s own life as a catalyst.

Felber, who became semi-immortal after signing a contract with the Blood of the True Dragon, had a lifespan that was incomparably longer than when he was a human.

In that sense, the act of winding the timeline into the future is a miracle that requires the entire sacrifice of one’s life force, which has become stronger by reaching the hierarchy of the transcendent.

‘It’s not strange. In some contexts, it even surpassed Aliat’s capabilities.’

A white-eyed seer who can foresee the river of fate, predict the future, and even control the timeline assigned to the incarnations of the pantheon.

Even she, a monster who has lived for over a thousand years and can even predict the movements of evil spirits, could not do anything like directly touch the future that has not yet arrived.

This was a testament to how well Felber’s ability to bring results from the future into the present transcended all common sense.

Of course, it has the fatal disadvantage of costing one’s life.

Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuw

his thoughts continued, Dallen did not stop walking.

In the alley the two people passed, only the faint sound of the wind remained.

Their movements without any presence were so bizarre that they felt foreign.

If there were any survivors in the city who happened to witness the scene, they would have thought they had seen a ghost.

“After destroying the Diamond Palace, Enaxagus ascended high into the sky.”

Parn spoke again as he jumped over a three-story building.

“And not long after he went up, a red vortex came down from the sky toward the city.”

The young man’s gaze was directed to the other side of the city.

Towards the center of the city where the Geumgang Palace is located, towards the huge blood-red pillar that can be seen even though it is dozens of kilometers away.

The fact that it could be seen from this far away meant that the whirlpool was as tall and wide as a hundred or ten floors of a building.

The lower part probably covered the entire Diamond Palace. It was obvious even without looking what would have happened to the noble families and the servants who served them.

Boom… Boom…

The whirlpool was regularly spewing out reddish waves.

A wave that resonates similar to a heartbeat. Parn explained that it was that wave that polluted the city into a hellish environment.

“It only took three days for the entire labyrinth city to be contaminated.”

“Three days.”

“It was three days that felt like three years.”

While the conversation was going on, the two people’s footsteps crossed the castle wall.

Dallon and Farn entered the pure silver area and ran on the roofs of high-rise buildings.

Perhaps because it is closer to the Red Vortex, the contamination in the pure silver area was much more severe than in the bronze area.

Dallen raised his head and looked at the central square. There was a large hole in the place where the barrier tower was, and monsters from the labyrinth were constantly pouring out.

“This is what happened when the Daejeon system of the Diamond Palace collapsed.”

Parn, who noticed Dallen’s gaze, spoke.

“The power that suppressed the flooding of the labyrinth has disappeared. Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s a normal situation for so many monsters to come out.”

“It’s because of the damn bastard.”

“What are you talking about….”

“It’s nothing.”

In any case, those monsters were not something to be dealt with right now.

Rather, the more important goal is Enaxagus, who is leading the demon army and the demonic forces that are rummaging through the city at this very moment.

“Until two days ago, when I left, the final resistance was taking place on Platinum Street.”

“It’s the platinum zone. Geumgang Palace would be better for defense.”

“That’s true, but wars don’t always go according to plan. “Once the Platinum Wall fell, the fight turned into a melee.”

The story was roughly that the wires had been separated.

The Diamond Palace side withstood Enaxagus’ direct offensive, and external forces, including Daelen’s colleagues, held their own bases to fight the demons.

This happened because the platinum wall fell too quickly and the infiltration of the demonic forces went beyond expectations.

Of course, it seemed like this was also a situation that had been assumed under Plan C or D.

In an ideal development, the situation would have flowed in such a way that external forces would have cleared out the demons and monsters to some extent and then attacked Enaxagus.

“But the plan was completely ruined when a predator appeared. The elves were eaten first, followed by the reinforcements of the Guild Federation and the orcs.”

“Be a predator. “The ancient beast that Bourbon was sealing away?”

“…yes. Enaxagus tamed it and made it more powerful. Kyle Berkus, as well as Sienna and the leader, could not handle it. Now he is no different from a new evil spirit.”

It’s a new evil spirit. Dallen thought for a moment.

“That’s a lot of experience.”

“yes?”

“Tell me who were the survivors when you left.”

***

“…Ouch.”

The fishy smell of blood fills my nostrils. My head makes a gong sound just by standing up.

It was probably because the shock had even reached his brain. Lucia couldn’t hold back something that was burning inside her and vomited it out.

[…Mother.]

He looks at her with concern. Lucia chewed her lips.

A faint crackling sound made my vision a little clearer. She turned her head in the direction from which the cheering sound came. Lying next to her was Akasha, a true dragon with blue and white scales the size of a house.

[Are you okay?]

“You’re in no position to say something like that.”

[If you were in the opposite situation, wouldn’t you have said the same thing?]

“…You look like someone so you speak clearly.”

The dragon laughed lowly. At the same time, it twitched its snout painfully.

Since nearly half of his side was torn into pieces, it was natural that it would be painful not only to smile but even to breathe.

Lucia raised her head. The shadow of a huge beast was slowly falling over her.

“…predator.”

A beast that Kyle Berkus Arven has sealed away for thousands of years. And after the seal was released, he was tamed by Enaxagus and became a disastrous being who gained the power of an evil god.

It looked like a huge rhino covered in shadow.

Except for the three pairs of flashing red eyes, its entire body, the size of several high-rise buildings combined, is covered in shimmering shadows.

That shadow was the curse itself embodied.

A curse of saturation that devours and digests all abilities and powers, turning them into its owner’s power.

“…Hmm.”

The long wound on her side was also the result of the curse of predation.

Thanks to this, nearly half of the sacred tattoos stopped working, and even the power of the realm could not be used.

Even the leader who had been pushing the beast for a long time could not overcome the curse in the end.

Siena and Kyle Berkus, who had injured the beast earlier, had also long since been heard from.

I thought Bjorn’s gunpowder would pierce the veil of curse and inflict a fatal blow, but the dwarf’s body was torn apart before the hard leather surrounding the huge body.

Cheongrinyong, who had been fighting and protecting her, ended up dying with its side eaten.

[…Mother.]

But I couldn’t sit down like this.

The spirit of a paladin is not to kneel against evil as long as there is minimal strength left to swing the sword.

Stand up with shaky legs. I aimed the tip of my sword with a trembling hand.

Squeeze out the divine power that has already been exhausted several times. It was the moment when the sparse sacred tattoos on his arms and legs shed pure white light.

Wedge─────

The sound of air being torn was heard. It was a disk of light that appeared like a flash of light from somewhere.

The disk of light that suddenly cut through the air appeared reddish because of the blood-red sky.

Since the speed itself was not that fast, the animal also reacted to it. The guy snorted and pushed into the shoulder area, where the leather was the hardest.

Sigh!

[……!!]

The red disk scatters the curse and tears the skin.

The projectile that went through the shoulder went right through the body and came out tearing the waist on the other side.

Parallack – Boom!

Only then did the ax sink into the street flagstone with all its might.

It was the moment when the three pairs of eyes of the predator widened at the fact that an ax had pierced his body, not any spell or power.

「Hoemyeong(回冥)」

Gray shades sway in the air. The person sticking out in the sky above the beast’s head was a man wearing half-torn armor.

「Dabbo (踏步)」

A man who easily flips his body in the air like a professional acrobat. He stepped into the air and stretched out his legs while holding a large sword with both hands.

━━━━━━━━!!

A wide surface was drawn.

The trajectory of a sword striking from the height of a dozen floors of a building to the floor.

The sword strike without an ounce of magical power split everything it hit in two.

There was no sound or resistance.

The beast, which was about to step back due to an incomprehensible phenomenon, suddenly realized that each half of its body was moving separately.

[Grrr…!]

That was the end of him. The ending splits in half and collapses, spilling out its contents.

At the same time as the life left its eyes, the magical power of the curse covering its skin also exploded.

Dallen shook off his sword and turned back. The paladin who held out until the very end was looking at him.

“Dallen…”

The end of a long sentence. Blood dripping from the lips.

Dallen sheathed his sword and approached her. He stretched out his hand and wrapped it around Lucia’s back.

“Everyone…is dead. Why…”

The words were spit out while holding back tears. What meaning does the silence between words have?

It’s probably a feeling that can’t be expressed in words. Dallen patted his hand on his armor and gave a short answer.

“It’s okay.”

“Dal….”

“Take a break. “Don’t worry.”

The body I held lightly was thinner than before. It was not a good situation to share the aftermath for a long time.

Dallen left Lucia sitting for a moment and turned to the dragon, whose eyes were closed. Qing Linyong had died just before he defeated the beast.

“It was a lot of hard work.”

Akasha Liulak.

The left arm armor of the fifth Cheongrin and the exiled Dragon God.

In this world, Akasha called Dallen her father and followed him, but in the game, he was a disaster that turned the southern region into a frost hell.

‘The young one will follow you from the dragon cave. ‘He will have been your nemesis at some point and you can’t ask him to forget that grudge.’

Suddenly, I remembered a prophecy that Felber left behind a long time ago.

This is a story that he left behind as a will as he died from the reaction after using his territory to the limit against Cheongrin of the previous generation.

‘Still, I’ll ask you a favor. ‘Please gather the young ones.’

Who would have expected that the boss mob, which was nothing short of a natural disaster in almost every episode, would wait for him and become one of the heroes who stood against the apocalypse until the very end?

In the end, following Felber’s advice was one of the most successful choices.

Dallen placed his hand on the blue scales as he pondered the memories of that time.

[The body of a warrior from the southwestern part of the continent was found.]

[The body of a wizard who participated in the Great War was found.]

[The body of a dark moon noble hunter was found.]

[The body of a warrior who had lost his light was found.]

[The upright The saint’s body was found.]

The sentences that had been hovering over Qing Linyong’s head for a long time, even after several years had passed since the crack.

[Corpse of an upright saint]

– This is the corpse of a saint who fought against evil in the Holy Knights all his life. The paladin, who was so powerful that he was rumored to be as powerful as the knight commander in his lifetime, encountered the main temple that had been taken over by the Blue Dragon as soon as he returned from a long expedition to defeat an ancient evil. In exchange for burning all the sacred power he had built up throughout his life, the paladin He showed the miracle of resurrecting all the dead, and on the day he lost his life to the teeth of an angry Cheongrin, he was called a saint.

It was time to retrieve the body of the saint who had brought back countless lives beyond the transcendental monitor that marked the end.