The Priest of Corruption - Chapter 155

favor answer.

favor answer.

The feelings I felt after hearing Ater’s explanation were very simple.

isn’t that crazy

An intruder who suddenly appeared and killed my people, and you say you want them to live?

It was an incomprehensible response to me. Well, since I’m not him, I didn’t have any intention of giving advice.

“Is that so?”

After giving a rough answer, Ater looked at me and Pearly with wide eyes, then asked me a question.

“So… are you going to kill that crazy woman?”

“If I hadn’t fled too deep, I would.”

Although he coveted the divinity he would gain by killing her, if the monster had fled to the deepest part of the ruins, he would have given up and thought of leaving for the nearby city holding hands with his mother and Jamel rather than wasting time and effort to find it. Now, even if it wasn’t a cardi show, there was someone to help us.

Just Pearly.

Ater touched his chin with his skinny hand and then spoke without hesitation.

“By the time I settled down here, the road leading to the depths of the ruins had already collapsed.”

As I stared at him, Ather shrugged. What he meant to say was very simple.

“So if you go inside a little bit, you’ll find that crazy woman again.”

“Are you asking me to kill Cardisho?”

“I? no. I’m not asking anyone to kill me. Because being alive is very precious.”

Arter shook his head and searched the drawers of the table in the middle of his lab. After a while, he pulled out a syringe filled with red liquid and held it out to me.

I did not receive the syringe.

“What is this?”

“It’s a bit complicated to explain… Wait a minute. How should I explain this…”

He seemed to be agonizing over how to explain the meaning of his item to people outside the field.

“Please explain. If there’s anything I don’t know, I’ll ask.”

“okay. First of all, before I explain, I want to say that you might be mistaken. I’m not a doctor. It may produce similar results on the surface, but what I am doing is more like adding ‘something’ to an existing life.”

“Add it?”

“okay. It will be added.”

Ather nodded lightly and folded one of his fingers.

“look. Now suppose that this finger I folded was cut off. Doctors will try to stitch the severed finger together and put it back together. But my case is different. If it were me, I would give people who had their fingers cut off the ‘ability to grow their fingers back’ so that it would be okay even if they cut off their fingers. Do you know what the difference is between the two?”

“In the end, isn’t it a story about turning normal people into monsters?”

“It’s similar, but… the way it’s expressed is a bit like that. Anyway.”

He straightened the wrinkles on his slightly furrowed forehead and shook the syringe in his hand.

“What I’m researching these days is how to combine demons and humans. lets think. Beasts who can transform into animals at any time roam this world on two feet, so don’t you think it’s possible to mix a beast and a human?”

It was sophistry. A very obvious sophistry.

“Is that why you mixed the traits of a witch with Cardisho’s body?”

“That’s right, but most of the crazy women were dying, so I hit all the things that hadn’t been verified yet. Fortunately, the fusion of traits was very successful. My prediction was that her body wouldn’t be able to withstand it and would just collapse. okay. The so-called ‘miracle’ happened. There were only very minor side effects.”

The side effects were roughly predictable. At least she was fine when we met and talked to her in the cave.

“You go crazy periodically.”

“that’s right. It’s a very minor side effect compared to the wonderful results.”

“By the way, may I ask you one question?”

“What?”

There was still something unanswered.

“Did you mean that Cardisho could still use the authority with that body?”

“warrant? That’s not my area of expertise. Don’t you, the priest, know better about that field?”

As far as I know, I knew that God could always retrieve the power he bestowed on him. I couldn’t figure out why Cardisho, who had fallen half-mad, still had power. Is that what Shin likes to be called ‘light without warmth’?

“for a moment! for a moment! really! really! Are you asking because you don’t know?”

The answer came out of Pearly, who had been waiting for it. Pearly’s face filled his vision. Slightly embarrassed, he gently pushed her face away.

“Why does ‘Light Without Warmth’ not take away Cardisho’s power? Does Pearly know?”

Pearly tilted her head as if she had seen something strange.

“I can’t do that, so I just leave it like that! Once you have given authority in the first place, you cannot take it back, even if you are the god who gave it to you!”

“yes?”

She opened her eyes narrowly and looked at me.

“You really believed what the priests of the good gods were telling lies? That blatant lie that the gods can take away the powers they bestow upon you? thought! thought! try! If you can give and take away at any time, why would the gods pick and choose their priest? I just give it all away and then take away all the rest except for the one with the buds!”

The words… it’s done. Certainly, as she said, if the power could be bestowed and retrieved at any time, the good gods had no reason to choose their priest. It was a much more efficient way to scatter it randomly and leave only the side where you can see the ‘sprout’ as Perley said.

It was very clear that selection and deprivation would further tighten the leash around the priests’ necks, inspire their loyalty, and improve the overall quality of the priests.

I slightly turned my head to look at my mother, who was standing behind me, and she replied with a tilt of her head.

It was clear that he couldn’t remember that tilt, so he didn’t know well.

In the end, the reason Cardisho still uses the power is because it already belongs to her completely.

“okay.”

“you! coy! coy! You seem to know everything, but something you don’t know comes out of a strange place?”

“I don’t think a person can know everything. By the way, did Jamel know about this too?”

When his name suddenly popped up, Jamel was startled and answered quickly.

“yes yes! I knew too! Of course, I thought Priest Marnac would know, so I didn’t bother to say it…”

While Jamel was talking, he glanced at his mother. seemed to think

“I didn’t ask to blame you. Don’t be discouraged.”

“yes!”

Jamel straightened his back and nodded vigorously. It’s safe to say that quick recovery is one of Jamel’s greatest strengths.

I’ll clear your doubts too. It was time to listen to what Ather was trying to bring out. He wouldn’t have bothered to pull a syringe out of a drawer to show off his syringe.

I looked at Ather and opened my mouth.

“What do you want from me?”

“Are you going to kill that crazy woman?”

It was an opportunity to obtain ten thousand divinities, but there was no reason to reject it.

“yes.”

“Then, could it be possible for you to administer this drug just once before killing her?”

He once again held out the syringe containing the red drug toward me.

“Is this a cure that might curb the madness she caused? Perhaps, if my calculations are correct, the crazy woman will come to her senses after taking this drug.”

Cardi Show returns to his senses. When she comes to her senses, it becomes a bit burdensome to kill. If you can’t kill it, of course you can’t get divinity.

Judging by her condition, it was clear that a real bout was needed to administer the drug. The club of light made of divinity was dangerous enough to threaten my life.

I closed my eyes for a moment and thought of the red-haired woman walking through the cave. A character that is upright and considerate of the weak. If she knew what was going on inside Ather and his patients, would she have killed them? I don’t know why, but I don’t think I would have killed him.

But risking my life for just a bag of beef jerky and a small favor from her was a bit unreasonable.

If so, I have no choice but to make ends meet.

I looked at the skinny man and smiled.

“If I bring Cardisho alive, what will you do for me?”

Arter answered very lightly. As if he had already expected me to ask this question.

“If you bring in a woman who has been well-medicated, I will take a special look at your condition and give you something good.”

“Looking after your physical condition…? What does it mean?”

A bony finger pointed at my face.

“You are a modified human being.”

“…how did you know?”

“There are many grounds, but if I had to take a picture and explain it to you, even if the speed of reflection of light by your pupils is fast, it is too fast. To an extent outside the category of natural creatures. If you were a master, it would be a different story, but you don’t look like a master.”

I unknowingly touched my eyes. Are you aware of such trivial facts? Ather, who looked simple, began to look like a hermit hiding a brilliant intelligence.

Pearly chattered beside me in a smirking voice, as if seeing my surprised look was so much fun.

“surprised? surprised? I’m not sponsoring anyone! really! really! Only smart people are chosen and sponsored!”

I quickly calmed down my surprise and weighed the scale in my heart with a weight on the opposite side.

When the drugs work and Cardisho comes back to his senses, take her to Ater and get what he says is ‘fine’.

What if the drug Ather gave me doesn’t work? Then all you had to do was kill Cardisho and take ten thousand divinities.

In the case of the former, it would be possible to relieve even the small debt of heart that was lost to Cardisho. Whatever the outcome, it wasn’t a bad story at all to me.

“So what are you going to do?”

I answered while taking the red syringe in his hand.

“I’ll try my best.”

“That’s right, don’t die trying to forcefully administer drugs. It would be a bit embarrassing if you died trying to do me a favor.”

“Can I just ask you one question?”

“Um… what is it?”

“Why are you still trying so hard to keep Cardisho alive? The taste has gone, and she won’t be able to say that she wants to live anymore.”

Ather stared at me and answered indifferently.

“I do it because I can. Besides, clinical trials are the most important thing for a drug made. In that sense, that crazy woman is a perfect example.”

“Is that the answer?”

“What more do you need here?”

short answer. With this answer, I have neatly summarized my evaluation of Arter.

He also had some taste.

***

Dim light. It may have been insufficient light to see an inch ahead for the criminals, but it was quite enough for me.

In the desolate darkness, she was perched on a dry rock. The crimson eyes moved slowly and captured me. Her lips parted and a low voice came out.

“O ‘light without warmth’. Give me… the strength to protect the weak…”

A wave of crimson light like the sun pushed away the darkness. My eyes let out a silent scream of pain as I saw the sudden light appearing in the darkness.

In the agony of going blind, my body began to regenerate both eyes at an extremely fast speed, as always.

A blurry figure moved in the bright light.

Caang!!!

heavy shock. The frost-steel sword swung against it made a loud noise as it collided with the light. Stepping back, I put some of the jerky she gave me in my mouth and chewed it. Both eyes were slowly adjusting to the light.

“It’s been said that giving from strangers isn’t something that can be taken lightly, and now I think that’s the case.”

Cardisho ignored anything I said and was lowering himself to pounce on me again. I lightly twisted my wrist holding the frost steel sword. The tip of the sword drew a soft curve in the air. I was in very good shape.

“It’s time to get a cardi show injection. Personally, I hope you get well after getting the injection I brought.”

I smiled and gently waved the tip of my sword.

“Because that’s all I can do for a bagful of beef jerky.”