The Priest of Corruption - Chapter 37

Pearly.

Pearly.

“What do you want? No, let’s postpone the conversation for later.”

When I released my hand, Pearly lightly landed on the floor and smiled.

“Why? Why don’t you ask now?”

With a wink, I pointed to Capel and the snowfield bats who were still rampaging. Rather than digging up information from Pearly, the priority was to organize the current situation. Pearly’s smile widened.

“As expected, it’s unusual! After all, it’s unique! If you’re a worshiper of evil spirits, why are you trying to save other people? Huh?”

“Please go back to the forest for now.”

“It’s cold! It’s cold! It’s so cold! You’re colder than the snow in midwinter…”

I didn’t feel the need to listen more. I ran across the snow with Pearly behind me. The Butcher screamed wildly once again.

Why hey hey hey!

I kicked off the snow field, jumped up, and fell down. Capel’s head fell and blood that hadn’t cooled down poured out.

Snowfield bats were also threatening in size, but basically, snowfield bats were very light compared to their size, so the guards at the top somehow held back the snowfield bats well.

The problem was the Capels. These guys, born warriors, knew better than anyone how to use their bodies to become powerful weapons.

The remaining Capels are now five no four.

Sajita’s spear had just pierced Kapel’s chin. Dakia and Carmen were also catching almost all of the capel together.

Among the remaining capels, I marked the largest one as my next prey.

As I ran away holding the butcher who was crying loudly, Capel, who was about to strike down the mercenary guards, caught my eye.

The moment our eyes met, he started running away into the woods without looking back. I had no intention of missing out. He moved the butcher to his left hand and took out the bone sword with his right hand. I added strength to the hand I was holding. The tight muscles exploded at the same time as the brain’s command.

hooked

The flying sword pierced Capel’s left leg. The monster, which suddenly lost its center of gravity, rolled on the floor. A distance that narrows at a rapid pace. The Butcher let out a ravenous scream.

Why hey hey hey!

Another round of blood and flesh splattered onto the white snowfield. I roughly wiped the bloody face and looked around.

The monsters were retreating.

Are you really going to gnaw your mind to the limit? The enemy was extremely tenacious and skilled. It must be dangerous to blindly pursue here. First of all, it is information.

I dragged the corpse of Capel I killed and headed for the top. Capel’s corpse was much more valuable than the snowfield bat. The upper body guards were busy arranging the corpses, leading their weary bodies.

After helping them roughly clean up, I took a sneak peek and headed toward the forest where Pearly had come out.

As we went a little deeper, a voice came from above the tree.

“It’s late! It’s late!”

Pearly jumped off a tree branch and landed lightly on the ground. She asked me with her eyes twinkling.

“Now! Will you do everything I want?”

I frowned slightly.

“What nonsense is that?”

“no?”

“Not at all. I’ll tell you in advance, but once you listen to it, if it’s a request that crosses the line I’ve set, I’ll just cut it right here.”

sereung.

The frost steel sword came out of its scabbard with a cold metallic sound. The butcher couldn’t write. It was obvious that the sound could be heard all the way to the upper camp not far away.

Pearly smiled mischievously.

“It’s bloody! It’s bloody! That’s why it’s even better!”

“So what do you want from me?”

“Mmm. Mmmmm.”

She clutched her chin and pondered for a while, then tilted her head.

“Isn’t there anything on your mind right now?”

“Then, I’ll start with my question. I have a lot to ask you, so please think about it slowly.”

“Good good!”

As I sorted out the corpses, I brought up one of the questions I had been organizing.

“How many worshipers of the evil god were put in to raid the caravan?”

“Let’s see… how many… one, two…”

Pearly tapped her lips and folded her fingers in turn. three fingers folded

“There are three of them except me!”

three. Are there guidelines for at least three worshipers of evil spirits to gather? Since last time, at least three of them have flocked together.

“What abilities do each of those three have?”

“I don’t know!”

“Why?”

Pearly grinned.

“Because I didn’t ask! I wasn’t curious! Besides, I just joined them! But you know what?”

“What?”

Pearly glanced around and whispered in a very small voice.

“They keep treating me as someone without me? To be honest! To be honest! I think it’s a bit too much!”

I guess I was like that too. I squeezed the words that protruded from my throat. There was no need to shut up the chattering information just because I was offended.

I put in a light chooimsae to make it feel good.

“They are really too many people.”

“Right! Right!”

“I’ll keep asking. Do you know why they raid the caravan?”

I had to find out from Pearly how the worshipers of evil spirits find the relics that sealed their mother’s divinity. If I could use that method too, it would be much easier to break Mother’s seal.

“Ummm… I’m sure I heard it…”

Pearly clapped in pairs at the end of thinking about what she had heard.

“Ah, yes! The necklace! I said I had to take the necklace from the merchant!”

good.

“I see. But do you know how you found out that the necklace belonged to the merchant?”

“I don’t know!”

The answer that popped out as soon as I said it. Yeah, to be honest, I wasn’t expecting much. How could you teach such a soft-spoken kid important information? I never taught you.

“But I know that!”

“What is it?”

“The client who entrusted the necklace to that merchant over there belongs to ‘Liberatio’!”

What is liberatio?

“Isn’t the liberatio a secret society of worshipers of evil spirits?”

“that’s right!”

“You belong there too.”

“right!”

“Aren’t the worshipers of evil spirits attacking us also members of the Liberatorio?”

“That’s right too!”

What the hell is going on? A demon worshiper entrusted a holy relic to Aurelius, and another demon worshiper moves to steal it?

Then there was only one answer.

“It’s mine.”

Yes, it’s weird when you get together with strange kids, but if you get along well, that’s even weirder.

“It’s not up to infighting! It’s just two factions fighting each other! Surprisingly, they work well together! They don’t even kill each other!”

“Why are the factions divided?”

Pearly, who was seriously thinking about it again, shook his head.

“I heard about it, but I can’t remember it well?”

“Isn’t there a faction you belong to? But you can’t remember?”

She stretched out her fingers and poked her chest, laughing.

“I’m neutral! Just give me money and I’ll move! Oh, get the ingredients!”

“What material do you mean?”

“What kind of material! Of course it’s the stuff I use! I’m a priest who worships the ‘swaying string’!”

Was that the reason he didn’t die? So far, all I’ve killed are dolls that have elaborately imitated her likeness.

“Right, you better be careful? The kids who came with me seemed to be preparing hard without me!”

“Why are you so kind to me?”

Two purple eyes curved in a soft arc. She answered in a voice that was not at all light, unlike before.

“Is it really okay if I ask you? Are you really curious about the ‘reason’ of the favor I’m giving you? I think that’s a little different from the questions you’ve asked me so far.”

Like a doll changing its hair, the atmosphere surrounding her changed. The current Pearly reminded me of a snake. A purple venomous snake with a very vicious poison.

I answered with a smile.

“Suddenly I’m not curious.”

Soon she whined like a child.

“Why! Why! Ask me! Ask me now!”

“No. You should have answered that when I asked. If I drag it on for longer than this, everyone will notice that I’m gone, so I’ll be gone. Please tell me what you want me to do.”

If you ask, you might be able to guess what the puppeteer wants.

Pearly replied with a wide smile.

“I’ll tell you that the next time we meet!”

“Is that so?”

“Yep!”

“Then goodbye.”

squeak.

The frost steel sword glistened in the moonlight and Pearly’s neck rolled across the floor. The neck that had lost its head spewed bright red blood. cried Pearly’s head rolling in the snow.

“see you again!”

With those words, Pearly’s breath stopped. Specifically, her doll.

“I wonder if this was a doll too.”

The red blood and flesh scattered on the floor were perfectly identical to those of real people. To the extent that I can’t even doubt that it’s a doll.

Is Pearly good at making dolls, or is the power of ‘swaying string’ superior? Probably both.

‘killing!’

“It’s almost all over, so it’s time to go back and do the palm massage we promised earlier,” he said, patting his excitable mother.

“I’ll do the massage after washing my body again.”

I slowly went back the way I had come. In the distance, the fires installed between the barracks of the upper ranks huddled together gave off a rippling light.

White snow began to fall.

This will slow down the movement at the top.

If I thought about being attacked again tomorrow by the worshipers of evil gods, I had to take a break for now.

I walked a little faster towards my barracks. Then someone called me.

“Priest Marnak?”

I turned my head to look at Dacia and smiled.

“Princess, you don’t know when the worshipers of the evil spirits will attack, so you should keep an eye on it at a time like this.”

Dacia nodded.

“I thought so anyway. But where did you go? I went to the barracks earlier, but they weren’t there.”

“I came here for a while because I felt the divinity of the worshipers of evil spirits around me.”

“Really?”

“Yes. Unfortunately, when I arrived, the demon worshiper had already left.”

She strode towards me and carefully wiped the hardened blood from my face with the cloth in her hand.

‘Kill!’

Along with my mother’s cry of where I dare to touch, I slipped back.

“The cloth gets dirty. Princess.”

“I was looking for a cloth to wipe my face in the first place. Oh, please don’t run away.”

Her strong will to wipe her face somehow forced me to stop in place. Dacia wiped my face meticulously and smiled contentedly.

“It’s done.”

“I was thinking of washing anyway.”

“Still, you’re more refreshed than before, right?”

“I do, but…”

She said goodnight as she placed an extra piece of cloth in my hand.

“Then wash up and get some sleep. Priest Marnak!”

“Hope the princess have a nice dream too.”

There were no further attacks by monsters that night.

Instead of having to wash again, I appeased my mother, who was mad at Dakia, by offering to wash my hair herself. It

had

to

be

.

_ As I was walking along the snowy highway, I heard a loud roar from somewhere.

Looking in the direction from which the sound came, I remembered what Pearly said last night

. The kids seemed to be preparing hard for something without me!’

White snow. The snow was pouring down from the mountain in wild waves, right at us. It

wasn’t another raid that the demon worshipers had been diligently preparing for, excluding Pearly.

It was an avalanche.

I shouted wildly toward the top.

“Leave everything you have and run! Now!”