The Priest of Corruption - Chapter 248

door of light.

door of light.

At Pearly’s urging to put the key pieces together, I pulled out the key that was already put together from my pocket.

The key, which was slightly longer than a normal key, had gaps between the pieces, as if it were cracked. Pearly put on a stunned expression when she saw that I had pulled out the intact key.

“what? Did you set it up in advance?”

“I gathered all the pieces in the first place, so there’s no reason not to put them together, right?”

The day I found the last piece, I tried to make a key by putting the three pieces of key fragments back and forth. It didn’t matter that I put all the pieces together, but nothing special happened.

“What is that!”

Perley, who readily acknowledged it, chattered as she closed the door that Jamel had opened with all her might.

“Now, there was just a blank wall behind this door, right? But after closing it again like this, with that key…”

‘Kill!’

While noticing that the cardigan show had disappeared, my mother, who had no reason to be in the shape of a hand, jumped out of my arms and landed gracefully.

‘Kill kill!’

He asked if he could not put the key in and turn it. I happily handed the key to my mother and asked Pearly.

“Is the person opening this dangerous or not?”

“If opening the door is dangerous, who will come in and out?”

but. At the most fitting words, I nodded my head toward my mother. With twinkling eyes, the mother quickly inserted the key in her hand into the door and turned it vigorously.

‘Say hat!’

‘Open! door!’ slogans that don’t have the same meaning. I smiled and watched the large door creaking open.

When the door opens again, finally…

‘Murder…?’

Another solid wall greeted us.

“Kyahahahaha! did you expect huh? huh? Did you expect a passageway to suddenly appear? Hee hee hee! Voila! What a great wall!”

The sight of Pearly giggling as he grabbed his stomach made it hard to tell whether we were here to raid the Liberatorio’s lair or just to hang out for the day.

I sighed and wiped my face.

“…isn’t 1 o’clock in a hurry right now? Stop laughing and tell me how to open the door quickly.”

Pearly tapped my shoulder, still twitching the corners of her mouth.

“okay okay! After this, there won’t be much to laugh at, so I joked with you to ease your nerves. Now, how do I use this…”

She closed the door again, held her mother’s hand together, and pushed the key through the keyhole, whispering to her mother.

“Don’t turn it yet, calmly concentrate and infuse divinity into the key.”

The mischievous mother narrowed her eyes and stopped glaring at Pearly, looked at the key in her hand for a moment, then slowly closed her eyes.

A shimmering flow of divinity. Riding the crack in the key, the dark green divinity rose up, gently scattering dim light.

Then, as the dark-green light filled all the gold in the key, Pearly whispered again into her mother’s ear.

“Now open the door again.”

Mother quietly turned the key, and then the dark green divinity that the key held in an instant rode the pattern of the closed door and flashed brilliantly for an instant.

Wooddeuk.

Jamel, who was standing next to her mother watching at the sound of something breaking, moved her feet and hid behind my back.

“Priest Marnak! Doesn’t that suddenly explode…?”

‘Hat killed?!’

Shocked by the sound of a possible explosion, the mother broke out in a cold sweat and quickly stepped back from the door and ran behind my back.

Soon, cracks that bloomed from the end covered the entire door, and the door began to warp with a loud sound. Seeing this, Jamel’s face turned white and he hid his head sticking out behind me and trembled.

“Exploding, exploding, exploding, really exploding!!!”

‘Murder at!’

While there was a little fuss, Pearly watched the creaking door with a relaxed expression. Along with the dark green light, the crooked door was sucked into the light and turned into a lump of light shimmering in dark green.

Seeing it as a portal, Pearly picked up the key that had fallen on the floor and held it out to me.

“Aren’t you curious?”

“What the hell is that door for?”

“I was inspired by the way the ruins of an ancient empire are hidden in the Liberatorio! In other words, the space was distorted to hide the hiding place! To get in there, you have to insert this key and turn it while breathing in the divinity of the evil god! Of course, there are a few more ways to get in, but they don’t matter at all right now!”

When I got the key and put it away, Pearly winked.

“A door that has already been opened has ceased to exist! Hi-Hi! But the color is a little different from what I knew, so it’s questionable.”

She tilted her head as she looked at the door, which shimmered in dark green.

Isn’t it because the ordinary priest of evil spirits breathed divinity into it?

“I’ll check it out in a minute and come back!”

Pearly threw herself into the light before I could say anything. without knowing what might be in it.

We stood still and waited for Pearly, but she never thought of coming out again. Dakia, who had been quietly observing the situation, approached me and slowly opened her mouth.

“…could something have happened?”

Jamel quietly closed his eyes and bowed his head.

“…probably went to a good place.”

‘Kill and kill.’

Mother shook her head, saying she would never go to a good place for what Pearly had done.

“Yuna.”

Master Pridiya sneaked up to me and smiled softly at me.

“I think it would be good for Master Lee to go in and check it out for a while. What do you think?”

If it’s Master, it’s possible for him to come back safely no matter what’s inside.

Just as I was about to nod, the dark green light door slammed and vomited something.

A large chunk of meat protruded from the door, scattering something sticky. At first glance, the lump that seemed to have been ripped out violently by someone had never belonged to a person.

“Ah, a lot of uselessness! loads! It’s dirty!”

Then, Pearly, soaked in blood of all colors, burst through the door of light. She spit out even the blood in her mouth, and then continued to grumble and shake herself here and there.

“What was inside?”

Pearly narrowed her eyes, glared at her mother, and let out a deep sigh.

“No, when you open that one, it leads to the front door, right? But somehow it seems to have been connected to the experimental area. First of all, I’ve roughly organized the surroundings, so I’ll talk to you as we move. Follow me.”

After saying that, Pearly slipped back into the door of light and disappeared. I nodded, and Master Pridia led us, one by one, to the door of light.

“mother.”

I stopped my mother who was about to go in for the last time in front of me.

‘killing?’

Ask why you are calling. I suggested it euphemistically, looking at my mother.

“Wouldn’t it be safe for you to stay in my arms in the form of a hand?”

It’s a big deal if you walk around like that and get hurt.

My mother rummaged through her pockets and sneaked out her revolver-shaped ancient artifact, the ‘Slayer’, which she polished and polished every day.

‘killing!’

One word that you can help yourself too. Even if he died soon, it was clear that he didn’t want to return to his hands now.

I finally smiled bitterly and nodded my head.

“If I come back to your arms, promise me with your fingers that you will come back right away without saying anything.”

‘Kill kill!’

A word of promise. After making a promise with my mother, I held her hand tightly and entered the door of light.

***

snagging sound. The floor beyond the door of light was covered in a sticky liquid.

Thanks to the fishy smell that pierced the tip of my nose, I didn’t even have to guess what the identity of this liquid was.

It was probably a by-product of the process of killing a lot of Pearly.

Dakia, who entered first, lit up the surroundings subtly, dispelling the thick darkness with three flames created by magic. Dacia finally confirmed that everyone, including me, was safely inside, and then let out a sigh of relief and smiled at me.

“I thought if Pearly made the light too bright, someone might find us, so I made it moderately. How are you?”

“Good job.”

“Priest Marnak. It smells really bad in here.”

Jamel grabbed his nose and grumbled in a snoring voice. Giselle looked at Jamel and shook her head.

“Don’t grumble like a child and be serious. We’re not here to play.”

“I am not complaining. I reported every little thing to Priest Marnak! I read it in a book, but originally the reporting system was the most important thing!”

“…What book are you talking about?”

“A mystery novel in which adventurers isolated in ancient ruins die one by one by unknown monsters!”

“Haa…”

While Gisele grabbed her hair, I looked for Pearly. Pearly was looking for something while wandering around with the fire that Dacia had lit. I went over to her and asked.

“Where are we and where are we going now?”

Pearly responded by banging or touching the wall.

“This is the laboratory where the libertio conducted human experiments with people captured. Probably, all important research achievements have already been moved out of the capital as the work is underway today! And first we have to find the exit!”

“Do you know the way?”

“Honestly, I haven’t been to this area, so I don’t know. Still, it’s better this way than going straight through the front door. Rather well done! They wouldn’t even dream of us coming out of the testing area! Jamel! Jamel! Come here!”

Jamel, who was still covering his nose and frowning, hurriedly approached us at Pearly’s call.

“Yuk?”

Answering in a strange voice because of her nose being covered, she tilted her head toward Pearly. Pearly tapped the wall and pointed at it with her chin.

“Can you figure out the structure here?”

“I’ll try.”

Jamel removed his hand from his nose, shuddered for a moment at the stench coming in, then put his hand on the wall and murmured softly.

“O crumpled rock. Where do you go out of here? The smell here is giving me a hard time!”

As always, the prayer without a chin continued, and the divinity that bloomed at Jamel’s fingertips spread as power. With a shimmering divinity, it shone with the light of Jamel’s pale green eyes.

After a while, Jamel quickly removed his hand from the wall, covered his nose again, and pointed in one direction with the other hand.

“That way is for the exit. But it’s tightly blocked.”

“good job! good job!”

“Sirut!!!”

Pearly tried to stroke Jamel’s hair, but Pearly’s hands were dirty, so Jamel ran away from me in disgust. Pearly giggled and left in the direction Jamel had pointed out. We followed Pearly to the end of one of the walls of the large lab.

Pearly looked around at the closed door and shrugged.

“As expected, I never made it open from the inside. It must be opened from the outside unconditionally.”

“Then I will move everyone out of here.”

As Gisele rolled up her arms, Pearly shook her head.

“no. save your strength Rather than moving by power here…”

Pearly sneaked out and looked at Master Pridja in turn.

At first glance, it was a request to force open or break down the door. As I took a step forward to cut down the door, Master gently grabbed me by the shoulder and stopped me.

As she turned her head, Master’s blue eyes softened.

“Leave this to this pretty master.”

Before I could answer anything, Master’s hands became blurred for an instant, and the tightly closed door slowly collapsed.

A sword attack that is not easy to even watch. After barely following the blow with my eyes, I caught the collapsing door, stopped, and set it down to the floor as quietly as possible.

“Let’s keep going.”

“Whoa!”

As we entered the long passage, we were greeted with a bit of fresh air instead of the damp, damp, and stench-filled air of the laboratory.

Pearly opened her mouth as she took the lead.

“As far as I know, if you keep going like this, you’ll find a lab, but probably the researchers are non-combatants, so they’ll all have already left the capital…” At that moment,

my sensitive hearing caught a rustling sound not far away. I first glanced at Pearly, then jumped out of my seat and ran down the long aisle toward the epicenter of the sound.

The door waiting at the end of the passage was unlocked. I threw myself through the open door and thrust my sword at the moving figure.

But my sword couldn’t pierce the shape.

“Aaaaaaaa!!!”

Seeing me, the frightened man fell flat on the floor. At first glance, the man wearing a white coat and glasses appeared to be a researcher working here.

Seeing that he had no intention of fighting right away, I decided to subdue the man rather than cut him.

“If you move, you die.”

“yes yes!”

His white gown was torn in half and his hands and feet were tied together as the party arrived after me.

“Didn’t the Pearly researchers say they probably got away with it?”

“I know? Why is he here?”

The man who had been suppressed and was lying on the floor as if he was dying answered with a crawling voice.

“…I heard that the gods descend today… I want to directly observe and leave a record…”

“Whatever the reason is, what does it matter!”

After lightly cutting off her words, Pearly crouched down on the floor, made eye contact with the man, and smirked, her purple eyes shining.

“This living hideout map came into our hands like this! mister! Can you guide me well, huh? huh?”

The man who had been wriggling several times quietly opened his mouth.

“…I…mister…I’m not…I’m still…in my 20s…if I had to…say it…I’m an older brother…” ”

…”

Even that Pearly wait a minute I’m at a loss for words.

That single answer made me intuitively aware that this man would never be the normal kind of person.