The Priest of Corruption - Chapter 14
escape.
escape.
bang!
Huge chunks of flesh and metal collided violently. After ramming the metal giant with its shoulder, the decaying giant opened its huge mouth and bit the metal giant’s forearm.
– That ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!
The metal giant raised his other hand and struck the decaying giant on the head. The head of the giant of decay was crushed and flesh splattered.
All the rotting flesh crumbled before reaching the floor. The headless body clenched its fists and struck the metal giant’s head again. With a harsh crash, the metal giant’s body crashed into the wall.
A new head came out of the mangled flesh
– that ah ah ah ah ah!!!
In the meantime, I quickly harvested the corpses of Sucus and Tonysa. Sucus was a man with two and a half fingers and Tonysa with three fingers. The divinity of 1100 rode through my hands and seeped into my body.
[Divinity: 4582]
After confirming the amount of divinity I had gathered, I looked at the two giants who were still fighting fiercely and said.
“Either way it’s going to take quite a while for one side to win.”
‘killing!’
“Like my mother said, I’ll stop playing and help.”
I leaned Carmen’s stunned body against the black door and took out my frost steel sword.
First of all, my goal is the blue jewel embedded in the middle of the white metal giant’s forehead, which is the only part that stands out in that huge body.
“going!”
bang!
I jumped out of my seat and plunged into a collision between chunks of flesh and chunks of metal.
– That ah ah ah ah ah!!!
The giant fist of the decaying giant responds to my movement and strikes the metal giant right in the middle of its chest. leaning torso. I ran towards the metal giant being pushed against the wall.
The divinity of corruption dwells from the bridge, and the ‘Gate of Corruption’ is activated. increasing strength. I felt a bit sick to my stomach, but I ignored it and focused on picking up my speed.
The resistance of the rough air hit me hard in the face. I accelerated and accelerated further, ignoring air resistance. The muscles in his legs felt as if they would explode. With his heart beating wildly, he rolled his foot violently and kicked the floor.
The accelerated body soared into the air like a beam of light.
I was reflected in the glassy eyes of the slowly rising metal giant. In the opaque reflected light, I thrust out my froststeel sword.
Caang!
The frost steel sword pierced the blue jewel with precision. Cracked jewels shattered and fell.
The metal giant moved even though the jewel in its forehead was shattered. A huge metal hand came toward me relentlessly. Still floating in the air, I couldn’t do anything about it.
“Help!”
– That ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!
A hand of decaying flesh slapped the metal giant in the face. I quickly grabbed the decaying giant’s forearm and hung on. The metal giant, whose jewels were broken, resisted violently, but the movement was noticeably slower than before, probably because the jewels were the main source of power.
I stepped on various parts of the decaying giant’s body, jumped down, and landed on the floor.
bang!
The violence that followed was one-sided. The slow metal giant was no match for the decaying giant. The huge metal body was crushed and crushed, unable to withstand the merciless destruction and stopped working.
The victorious giant of corruption let out a wild roar.
– That ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!
I smiled heartily and tried to say something of a compliment.
thud! thud! thud!
At that moment, three more metal giants fell from the ceiling.
“When will this be out?!”
‘killing…?’
My mother’s answer, asking if I couldn’t know even if she asked me, felt a bit sarcastic.
Before the Decaying Giant, beaten by one metal giant, could even stand up, a new metal fist struck the Decaying Giant in the head. Watching the unilaterally beaten giant of corruption, I quickly made a decision.
“Hold on a little longer! Until I run away!”
– Oh…
Boom!
The decaying giant tried to roar, but the metal giants wouldn’t allow it. Without regret, I turned my back and headed for the black door.
When it was opened earlier, it must have been opened from the bottom up.
“Haap!”
I put my hand under the huge black door and exerted all my strength to lift it. Of course, the door didn’t budge.
“Haaaaaaap!”
With a cheer, the divinity of corruption dwelled on my skin, and vivid dark green tattoos covered my entire body. Divinity, who had accepted the limit, activated the ‘Gate of Corruption’ without hesitation.
My muscles screamed for help. accelerating blood flow. Her skin turned bright red and blood vessels all over her body protruded.
And finally, the great black door slowly began to be heard.
Squeezing out all my strength, I lifted the door up to shoulder height and kicked Carmen, who had collapsed next to her, into the door. And quickly jumped into the gate and shouted.
“You can go back in moderation!”
I don’t know if the Decaying Giant, who was getting beaten up by the three metal giants, heard me, but he’s sure to take care of himself. I believed so.
bang!
A huge black door fell and slammed shut. Feeling exhausted, he sat down on the floor and spat out rotten intestines in return for the Gates of Corruption.
“Twi, ha ha. It was really hard, mother.”
‘killing!’
Mother continued to criticize her, asking why she brought Carmen alive. I replied leaning my back against the wall.
“In my heart, I wanted to save those two as well. I couldn’t save them because they died too quickly.”
‘killing!’
After being scolded for being too soft, I glanced at Carmen and said,
“Besides, isn’t the author special?
‘… kill kill.’
After a moment of silence, my mother expressed her intention to agree as if my thoughts were reasonable.
The reason the Mother of Decay was convinced was that Carmen was a human with three and a half fingers.
A human who can grow into a four-fingered person who, when harvested, gives ten thousand divinities, the equivalent of one power. That was Carmen Baltas.
“In addition, I really liked the cheerful personality of the author, so I wanted to save him personally.”
‘killing!’
At my mother’s advice not to give affection easily, I just smiled quietly.
“Even if you don’t want to give it to someone, doesn’t it mean that it won’t be given to you? If you eat and laugh together, you get attached to it. Please don’t be so angry.”
When I took a moment to catch my breath, I could move my body a little. This aisle was too cramped for the metal giants to enter, but since the future was uncertain, it was decided that it would be better to move and see.
I picked up Carmen and walked slowly down the hallway, which glowed in a soft blue light. As I moved a little further, Carmen let out a low moan and came to her senses.
“Is this…?”
“Are you out of your mind?”
“Ugh… My head is very dizzy.
“I’ll drop you off. Let’s rest here for a while.”
Carmen clung to the wall and vomited a few times before sitting down on the floor and asking me.
“Are Sukus and Tonysa really dead…?”
“Yes. Unfortunately.”
Hearing my answer, he looked down at the floor with gloomy eyes.
“The moment the metal giant fell from the ceiling, I had to activate the ‘key’ right away. My greed killed them both.”
“Have you known each other for a long time?”
Carmen shook her head.
“No. I got to know you both recently through employment. But that doesn’t make my faults go away. But where the heck are you?”
“Beyond the black door.”
“What the heck…”
He didn’t want to ask me what to do, but he kept quiet.
“It wouldn’t be polite to ask me about something I don’t want to see, even if it means knocking me out. Besides, isn’t Priest Marnak the savior of my life now? I’ll bet Balthas’ castle to repay this grace.”
I reached out to Carmen and smiled.
“I’m looking forward to it.”
Carmen smiled bitterly and took my hand.
“You don’t make any specifications.”
“It’s because I tend to give everything, so it’s okay. Anyway, if you’re feeling better now, I think you’d better start walking. I didn’t deal with that metal giant, I just ran away.”
“Yes. That’s right.”
We slowly moved towards the end of the hallway. At the end of the corridor was a door with a blue pattern, but no ancient words were written on it.
This is definitely a reward room!
I calmed my beating heart and said to Carmen.
“It looks like we’ve reached the end of the ruins. Let’s go in quickly.”
We reached out and pushed the door open gently, welcoming us to an altar in the middle of the room and an ‘exit’ beyond it.
Two objects were placed on the altar.
A necklace with beads the size of two thumbs and a sword.
Carmen’s eyes lit up when she saw the necklace.
“What was written in the book was true! Priest Marnak! I really have no respect for you, but can I ask you just one thing? Please give me that necklace. I will go out and make sure to pay you back.”
I tilted my head at the sight of him being so desperate.
“What the hell is that necklace for?”
Carmen explained to me as she picked up the necklace.
“This necklace is an item called ‘The Guide of Blood and Flesh.’ When you pour your blood into this marble and think of the blood kin you want to find, this marble will swallow your blood and point you in the direction of the blood kin you want to find.”
As I listened to his explanation, I remembered Carmen’s origins. Bastard son of Ansis Baltas. His father must have been in the capital of the palace, so I guessed roughly who he was looking for.
Carmen looked at my expression and nodded.
“You’re probably right. I’m looking for my mother, whom I’ve never met.”
Looking at his dark eyes, I quickly organized my thoughts.
A necklace to find blood kin meant nothing to me anyway. Here, it was much better to be generous and hand over the necklace and collect his reward later.
I smiled and said.
“Then would it be all right if I took this sword here?”
“I’m not interested in anything other than this necklace. And if it wasn’t for Priest Marnak in the first place, wouldn’t I already be dead? Rather, it’s too bad that Priest Marnak only has a sword.”
In fact, even while Carmen was explaining something about the necklace, her eyes were still on the sword. This sword had a very unusual appearance…
bang! bang! bang! bang!
“Priest!”
Something broke through the passageway and was charging toward this room. I quickly picked up the relic sword and shouted.
“Let’s go to the ‘exit’!”
Quaang!
A huge metallic hand broke through the door and lunged at us without hesitation. We succeeded in jumping into the ‘exit’ by a narrow margin just before the giant hand grabbed us.
I quickly got up and looked for Carmen as the white snow field rolled wildly over me.
“Are you alive!”
As white snowflakes fell from the sky, a hand in a black leather glove came out of nowhere and touched the floor.
Carmen, covered in snow, looked at me and smiled.
“I don’t want to see a lump of metal bigger than me for a while.”
I giggled and replied.
“That goes for me too.”