Genius Corpse-Collecting Warrior - Chapter 53
Ash Witch (5)
Damn it!
The ground freezes. The same was true for the grass and trees growing on it.
A chain with a biting coldness.
The chains that wrapped around the hounds of Calchas wiped out life wherever they passed, leaving behind only cold death.
And in front of him.
“You fucking bastards, get some sleep!”
Paladin Lucia Castachald, who was spitting out two curses, lowered her sword with her eyebrows furrowed.
Clang!
The sword imbued with divine power collides with Calchas’ chains.
For a brief moment, cold and pure white light collide continuously.
In the end, it was the divine power that won.
Charrrrr!
A chain thicker than a person’s forearm is cut into pieces and flies away.
However, Lucia could not straighten her frown.
How many pieces of chain have already been cut like this?
However, the chain armor covering the hound was still not even half broken.
Growling!
A hellhound running towards you with drool dripping.
Shining black teeth thrust their sharp tips into the wide-open maw.
The sacred tattoo on her leg emitted an intense light for a moment, and Lucia took a gliding step and dodged the ignorant hand-to-hand attack.
thud!
A hunting dog couldn’t keep up with its speed and stuck its head into a large tree.
Let’s go!
And the paladin’s sword flashes without missing an opportunity.
The elegantly curved blade of the dozen-pronged sword cuts several strands of the chain and stabs the hound’s eyes.
Wow!
The hound retreated, dripping dark red blood. Lucia took a deep breath and calmed down the momentum of the sacred tattoo.
‘…It’s not that easy.’
The Hound of Calchas.
She also knew about this house-sized hellhound, clad in cold chains, through her studies at the Knights Templar.
He is a minion raised by a demon called ‘Kalchas of the Chain Throne’.
And Calchas was the owner of one of the nine thrones under the evil god Enaxagus, and was the ninth in line to the throne.
Of course, even though it is the lowest, ninth, that ranking is only calculated among the demons directly subordinate to the evil god.
The power of directly assisting evil spirits was never something to be underestimated.
‘There are tens of thousands of hunting dogs like that around his throne.’
Lucia thought as she watched the chain shaking as the hound stumbled.
With just that chain alone, any normal person would have to be prepared to have their skin cut off by frostbite the moment they touch it.
There are thousands, if not tens of thousands, of those people.
Wow.
Strength goes into the hand holding the sword. I regain my composure, which was momentarily shaken.
The light of the sacred tattoo subtly fades, and the sacred power on the sword burns in the form of a white flame.
She is a human wearing cloth.
Although I am resisting with the power of the sacred tattoo, it is not easy to endure for long in the face of the cold of hell.
All it took was one attack.
A single blow that would break all the chains imbued with blue cold and sever the neck of the hunting dog.
Grrrr.
But she couldn’t easily take her feet off.
Another hunting dog was hovering around his wounded kin, waiting for her to pounce.
Crrrrr…….
The hunting dog’s blue eyes are shining with greed.
He had no intention of protecting his people.
He just waits for the moment when Lucia cuts off his compatriot’s head and then strikes after him, chewing up the paladin’s flesh and blood to devour it.
That was the nature of a monster as ruthless as the chill of the chains, and at the same time, it was the reason that was holding Lucia back at this moment.
If you cut off one guy’s head right now, you have to give an arm to the other guy.
However, if we entered into a war of attrition, it was obvious that we would lose due to the terrible coldness of the chains.
A situation where you can’t do this or that.
‘Come to your senses, you bitch. Dallen is alone against the witch who is in league with the evil spirit.’
Lucia bit her lips tightly.
It wasn’t a waste of money for about an arm.
Anyway, the life of a paladin is a series of struggles.
Wouldn’t that endless cycle end one day with the monster’s teeth and claws?
And if you can help eliminate the Ash Witch, a threat to the continent, it will end.
‘What could be a more glorious finale than that?’
Kwazijic!
beneath her feet.
The frozen ground cracks with a crash.
The wounded hound flinched and retreated, while his fellow hound growled greedily.
And that moment.
Kiing?
As if they had made a promise, the two hounds’ heads turned simultaneously to the other side of the forest.
‘what…?’
A question arose in a corner of my mind.
But there was no time to divert attention.
At the moment of decision, the tattoos surrounding both eyes were already glowing.
And even for her, the time in which she could manifest the tattoo on both eyes was at most a dozen seconds.
The power of the tattoo is awakened, and a clear energy permeates the entire head.
Phew.
Exhale slowly and repeatedly.
At this moment, the magnitude of the power and sense expanded several times over by other tattoos is clearly recognized in my mind.
This tattoo engraved around the eyes is an extremely rare type of tattoo among the hundreds of sacred tattoos of the Holy Knights.
This was the secret technique of the Knights that strengthened the brain with divine power, directly enhancing the sophisticated and complex ability to perceive the world.
Phew.
In fact, the sacred tattoos of the Holy Knights also had their limitations.
No matter how much one’s strength and senses are strengthened, ultimately reaching a certain level requires intellect and will that transcend that of ordinary people.
This sacred tattoo surrounding both eyes was the Holy Knights’ answer to overcoming that limitation.
Due to the nature of imbuing divine power directly into the brain, I couldn’t even think of getting a sacred tattoo unless I had a good aptitude for it.
Lucia Castachald was so talented that she got that special tattoo at the age of 15.
Cry,
hundreds of chains shaking menacingly. A stream of cold air emanates from there.
The slipperiness of the frozen ground and the beating of the two hearts of a hunting dog.
The information received by the amplified senses was like the sea.
Under the power of the divine power that awakened the mind, all the information becomes one dough and presents a clear path and step.
Yep!
Her feet kicked the ground.
Grumble!
A white flame burns from the sword body.
The paladin’s remnant, shot like an arrow, cuts through all the chains of the hellhound and sweeps through the only path that can destroy its two hearts.
And what follows like a shadow is a long, straight straight line drawn by Danma’s white flame.
So so so so!
The cold created by the demonic energy of hell could not overcome the flame burning with divine power.
Rainwater falling chain.
Two hearts bursting when caught in white flame.
Wake up!
Even the scream of death cannot last long.
Lucia, who had torn the hunting dog the size of a house into pieces, immediately kicked down the arborvitae tree and turned around.
Crrr!
The hound, which belatedly realized the death of its compatriot, turned its head and tried to bite the paladin.
Sgak-!
The paladin’s sword had already cut the guy’s body in half.
thud-!
The bodies of two hellhounds falling down at the same time.
“Whoa! ha.”
Lucia took a deep breath, calming her aching back and pounding heart.
She hurriedly turned her head in the direction where the hounds were looking.
The fact that the monsters of hell reacted meant that something strange had happened to the summoner.
This means that something significant has changed in the fight between the witch and Dallon.
and.
“…uh?”
For a moment, she couldn’t believe her eyes.
There was only one large hole in the gray sky covered with the witch’s magic.
Rumble!
Thunder echoes from a hole in the sky.
The tremor of the air was so strong that even Lucia’s body, which was far away, trembled.
“What is that…”
Lucia stuttered.
However, Cheongi did not wait for her to calm down her shocked heart.
The air turbulent throughout the forest.
Divine power enough to distort the sky.
The climax was a ray of lightning that split the sky reflected in blue eyes.
***
“Fuck.”
Dallen swore. And then I flinched.
A man called God must be watching this. Can I swear?
However, when I thought about it, the fact that he returned the power to the holy sword meant that he was also watching everything he had done so far.
So Dallon just cursed once more.
“Cough! Fuck! “Wow!”
Cloudy ash penetrates the lungs of the mouth and nose.
It was a situation where I couldn’t get out without coughing.
The lightning that struck the ground, or rather the pillar of light that could not even be called a lightning, created a pit with a radius of well over ten meters.
In a scene that almost looked like a meteorite had fallen, everything was black except Dallen, who was holding a holy sword.
So, it literally means that it has become a heap of ashes.
Dallen waved his hands and walked out of the pit as the black ash swirled around even with the slightest movement.
“Cough! “If I use it twice, I’ll catch pneumonia.”
Because of the witch’s curse, all of his clothes disappeared, leaving not a single scrap of cloth left.
In the end, I was able to breathe comfortably only after scraping a large area of moss outside the pit and wrapping it around my nose and mouth.
“…outrageous…unbelievable.”
At that time, I heard everyone dying. Dallen turned his head.
In the middle of the pit, a witch whose muscles and bones had all been crushed and turned black was staring at him.
The heart has already stopped and the lungs have lost their function.
Nevertheless, the witch’s vitality was strong, seeing as she was maintaining her life through magical power.
“What is so absurd?”
“And that someone like you… killed Gola Kap. And the fact that the God of War chose a non-believer like you at such a sharp crossroads of fate…”
“Do not disparage other people’s faith. “Even though I was born like this, in my past life, when I was young, I heard people call me the church brother.”
“……what?”
The witch’s face distorted at the sudden foreign language.
The already torn and broken skin fell off due to the change in expression, revealing blackened bones and inner flesh.
Dallen went down the pit, brandishing the holy sword. He aimed the holy sword at the witch’s neck.
“Well, this isn’t something you should say in front of someone who is falling apart.”
“If you kill me, you will regret it. God’s warrior. “Do you know why?”
Dallen chuckled. What a funny bitch. You say you’re an atheist, you say you’re a warrior for God, and then you’re arbitrary?
The witch did not wait for Dallon’s answer. She said.
“There are two thousand Mandrake seeds sown in this forest. And five hundred of them are already fully grown, and a thousand are just waiting to sprout and bloom. “Even if you kill me, they won’t stop growing.”
Hmm.
I stop talking and take a painful breath. His crushed lips trembled as he spoke.
“And on a certain day and hour, according to my arrangement, all the mandrakes will pull themselves out onto the ground and scream. Then Lvivbach will become a city of death. “Wouldn’t you be able to prevent that tragedy if you keep me alive?”
After speaking, she took a deep breath. However, his expression seemed triumphant.
It’s like, can you still kill me? A face that says. Dallen muttered as he passed by.
“Mandrakes are sensitive to air.”
“…….”
“Lvivbach Forest has good water and air, making it the optimal environment for medicinal herbs to grow.”
The witch narrowed her eyebrows slightly.
“Are you trying to poison the forest’s groundwater? Or are you going to set fire to this forest? No matter how fast and stealthy you are, do you really think you can do something like that to the entire forest without the herbalists noticing?”
Dallen raised the corners of his mouth. He placed the holy sword on the floor and spread his hands wide towards the sky.
As the witch fell, all spells in the forest were broken, and the gray energy that covered the sky was also cleared away.
Under a night sky with sparse dark clouds.
Dallen quietly closed his eyes.
As you feel the magical wind flowing through the forest, the increased magical power level works to hold on to that wind.
What I picture in my head is red heat covering the entire sky.
His mouth memorized a short chant as he pictured before his eyes the red sky he had seen in the realm beyond imagery.
“Ignel – Celtideo Lagreta.”
Grumble.
The sky changes.
The dark clouds slowly turn red.
The sound of thunder that was heard intermittently changes into a strange tone.
Rumbling.
The sound is like the roar of a volcano just before it explodes.
By the time Dallen slowly lowered his hands, the red clouds that filled the sky began raining flames throughout the forest.
“How could you… cast the spell of the Sentai Ignella Magic Tower Master…”
The witch’s chin trembled. Dallen didn’t give any particular answer.
He simply raised the holy sword high and gave a soft arc.
The witch’s trembling head was split in two, and the vitality that had barely held on was completely extinguished.
“Fufu.”
Dallen sighed and relaxed his shoulders.
How many times have you used the realm while fighting witches? It was clear that I had done it at least twenty times.
In addition, as I received Mandrake’s screams and all kinds of spells, I had no choice but to benefit greatly from dragon blood in this fight.
As a result, what remains is a clammy body and noticeably dulled senses.
Anyway, I got four ashen corpses in return, so it wasn’t a loss-making business. Dallon naturally reached out to retrieve the body.
Rustling.
At that time, I heard a figure behind me.
Dallen regained his senses and turned with the holy sword in front of him.
And then we faced each other.
“This one…”
The paladin was holding his sword tighter than ever with his eyes wide open.
She raised her shield with her trembling left hand, half covering her blue eyes.
Only then did Dallan look down at himself. His armor and clothes were all burnt off, leaving his body exposed.
“hmm. “The fight was a bit intense.”
Dallen said, scratching his chin.
Then Lucia’s trembling lips opened and finally spit out a thick curse.
“Holy fuck, it’s so intense! “Why are you doing something naked outside like that? I’ll even bring you a piece of cloth, so I ask you to put it on right away!”