The Priest of Corruption - Chapter 5

instinctive fear.

instinctive fear.

Coming.

Because of a single swear word I unknowingly spat out, the priest was precisely aiming for me and running. Belkyr raised all her nerves and shouted.

“I’ll take that priest for now! You guys organize the rest and help me!”

Of course there was no answer. Because he taught himself that way. Belkyr calmly drew an arrow and aimed at the body of the priest. It was necessary to inflict some more damage before facing directly close.

With two arrows stuck in his body, the priest calmly swung his sword and hit the arrows.

Belkyr had a hunch that wasting time would not be so easy.

“Fuck.”

Belkyr, swearing softly, took out the longsword he was wearing around his waist. A sword made of frost steel, a specialty of the Northern Kingdom, was the most valuable item he had brought with him when he deserted.

Caang!

The first collision was heavy. To the point where I wondered if it was right to collide with a sword wielded by a person. But Belkyr was no ordinary man either.

If Belkyr had been an ordinary person in the first place, he would have been caught and rolled on the cold prison floor without being able to resist the pursuit of the northern kingdom rangers.

He was a man who wore the modifier of genius for a long time.

Swords collided with swords and sparks flew. drain as much as possible Fortunately, the opponent was not very good at swordsmanship compared to his physical ability.

Belkyr’s judgment was correct.

It had only been a little less than three years since Marnak had properly learned swordsmanship. As a priest of corruption by profession, of course he had to learn swordsmanship from the ground up without any corrections.

‘Time drags on.’

Marnak bit his lip. The opponent was too good to be a thief. Inwardly, I lamented that the game balancing was shit, and then shouted out loud.

“how many is it!”

Belkyr couldn’t understand at all what the priest in front of him was shouting. How many do you suddenly have without cutting?

Swords collided and sparks flew again.

“What nonsense!”

Marnak did not answer. In the first place, he hadn’t asked Belkyr. The withered hand in his bosom stretched out two and a half fingers.

two and a half fingers.

If he had two and a half fingers, he had the same number of fingers as the most skilled ranger who chased after Marnak’s escape. A thief on the same level as a Ranger? Aren’t thieves usually supposed to be low level junk mobs? Marnak grumbled inwardly, kicked off his seat, and charged.

Even at the cost of some damage, I cut that thief.

If time was dragged here, he was at a disadvantage. If you don’t have divinity, you won’t die, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be incapacitated. If the limbs were cut off, it was quite difficult. It wasn’t that there was no way, though.

Belkyr noticed with his extraordinary eyes that the priest had decided something.

But it was fine. Because he could be aiming for himself. The preparations have already been made.

Marnak, who closed the distance in an instant, swung his sword as hard as he could, showing his gap as much as possible.

“Haaaap!”

My bones are whole bones that stick together again, so I give them my bones and take the enemy’s flesh. This was Marnak’s strategy.

Belkyr did not penetrate Marnak’s gaps. He just calmly returned Marnak’s sword. But the result was different from before.

The half-cut sword body flew through the air and stuck into the pure white snow.

“Hahahaha! That’s why I use frost steel!”

This was the reason why Belkyr had persistently attacked Marnak’s blade from earlier. How could a sword made of such cheap iron match this sword forged by a craftsman himself from frost steel?

Marnak, who had been pushed back from Tempal, groaned.

“Huh. Equipment difference.”

Belkyr pointed the tip of his sword at the priest.

“Anyway, the priest doesn’t seem to have anything, but I just let him go. We’re going to finish this one and leave the area, too? So why don’t we just laugh at each other and part ways?”

To be honest, if that priest ran away without even looking back, I wouldn’t have the confidence to catch up. At Belkyr’s polite suggestion, Marnak smiled.

“I’ll suggest the reverse. Stop stealing here and leave immediately. Then I’ll take care of you especially this time.”

“Are you seriously asking that? Do you really think that we’d just say ‘yes’ and leave?”

“That’s not…”

hooked

The flying arrow pierced Marnak’s head. Belkyr laughed like a mischief at the clean hit.

“It’s too late! You bastards! I thought I was going to die!”

The subordinate who shot the arrow grinned.

“Don’t be rude. I’ve seen the priest over there throw the sword that the priest ran amok with the captain tore it to pieces with a single sword.”

“Dude. It wasn’t done with a single knife. It was all split and cut after careful calculations.”

“Yes, yes. As expected, the captain is the best.”

“I’m proud of myself for a day or two. Did you kill them all anyway?”

“Yes. I killed all but one.”

“Did you really kill them all?”

Marnak asked casually as he pulled out the arrow stuck in his head.

The faces of Belkyr and his men hardened as they saw the bodies that should have died.

“Why are you all so surprised? It’s like seeing someone alive for the first time after being shot in the head by an arrow.”

Belkyr wanted to scream, ‘Because it’s right to see it for the first time!’ Marnak asked again slowly.

“I want you to answer my question soon. Did you really kill them all?”

The face of the priest who asked the question was absolutely calm. Belkyr swallowed and answered.

“Yes. Priest. Since everyone in your party is dead, how about we just go our separate ways? Huh?”

“I already gave you a chance to go our separate ways. You answered me with an arrow to the head.”

Marnak knelt on one knee in the snow and slowly brought his hands together.

“Mother of Corruption. Your son is in trouble. I am so perplexed and frightened that I do not know what to do. If you have been watching, don’t you think it is time for you to exert yourself?”

A prayer that is roughly recited as it comes out. It was clear that if other priests saw the prayer, which was even playful, they would go on a rampage, calling it an act of blasphemy.

But in the first place, authority is enough for those who wish for it and those who respond.

Marnak wished, and the Mother of Decay complied.

Marnak’s slowly opened eyes were filled with dark green light. Belkyr realized something was wrong.

“Hey! Shoot them all! Shoot them! Don’t just stare blankly at them, bastards!”

Marnak was instantly turned into a hedgehog by the flying arrow. At the same time, the green light lashed out at the ground, enveloping them in a huge circle.

Belkyr gave the most appropriate order for the current situation with extraordinary notice.

“This, retreat for now! Jump out you bastards!”

The thieves rushed over the snow and soon ran into an invisible wall.

“Gee, I can’t get past it! Captain! There’s an invisible wall!”

“I know, you bastards!”

What blocked them was the basic skill that the priest of corruption learns when changing jobs, ‘the line that the living cannot cross’.

‘The line that the living cannot cross’ is a skill that must be used by the Priest of Corruption in case of an unexpected situation before exercising its power, and it played a role in preventing the living enemy from fleeing and hiding the divinity of corruption.

The hedgehog Marnak’s mouth opened slowly.

“If you want to cross that boundary. You must either kill me, or break my heart. Or just kill yourself yourself.”

Belkyr clenched his teeth and drew out his sword, shouting.

“Hey! Everyone, take out your sword! Even a monster will die if you cut it into small pieces! It’s not like that!”

“you’re right!”

“That’s right! Arrows have small holes, so I don’t know if I can survive, but as the captain said, if I cut them to pieces, I’ll die!”

In unfounded confidence, the thieves drew their swords in unison.

Marnak spoke nonchalantly as he pulled out the arrows stuck in his body one by one.

“Your opponent will not be me, but the one who is coming now.”

“That’s what…”

thud!

The air was torn apart and a huge creature fell.

four huge arms. A head with only a mouth on a flat bare face. Embedded in the belly of the dark green giant was the torso of a muscular man with a split stomach.

The giant slowly decayed from the outside and at the same time new flesh sprouted.

Finally, the giant’s mouth opened and let out a scream.

– That ah ah ah ah ah!

The first power that Marnak obtained after offering 10,000 divinities from the first holy relic.

The ‘Giant of Decay’ responded to Mother’s call and descended to the ground.

Marnak said as he pulled out the last arrow stuck in his head.

“You can do whatever you want with the exception of the head.”

– That ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!

A roar that echoes the brain. The giant’s roar seemed to forcibly bring out everything deep inside a person. Belkyr’s instinct screamed for help.

“Poetry, fuck…”

Kwajik.

That word was the last thing Velkyr uttered before being crushed by the decaying giant.

“Aaaaaaagh!”

“Save me! Priest! Please help me!”

Crushing flesh and tearing screams. Marnak looked at the slaughter of the decaying giant with a calm face. Marnak slowly tapped his mother’s hand in his breast pocket and smiled.

“This is the first time I’ve summoned that giant friend, and it’s a friend who makes my heart feel magnificent just by looking at it. I really like this power. Mother.”

***

– That ah ah ah ah ah ah!

The decaying titan disappeared as quickly as it had appeared after screaming goodbye.

‘killing!’

“Yes, yes. This time, I really killed all the enemies as my mother wished. My party is all dead.”

They went out vigorously, but no one was able to save them.

While arranging the bodies of the party in one corner, I searched one by one and retrieved the mercenary plaques.

‘killing!’

“Are you saying you want me to retrieve the divinity from the corpse right away? That’s not possible, Mother. If I retrieve the divinity, won’t the corpse rot and disappear? Then the mercenary guild members who will come to investigate the site in the future will surely find the current situation strange. Mother As you know, it’s time for me to take care of myself.”

‘killing!’

“I’ve heard well that you should just absorb all the divinity and turn it into powder before going to another city. But this son dares to oppose his mother’s words.”

‘Murder…?`

“Look over there.”

At the place I pointed to, there were the heads of thieves that the giants of corruption had collected.

“That’s twenty-nine silver coins on my head. I remember clearly what I was looking at for. Mother. Huh?!”

The moment he tried to retrieve the mercenary plaque from Puer’s chest. His chest moved very slowly. Puer’s bear cub’s body barely held his breath.

I laughed out loud.

“But you saved one, Mother.”

‘killing!’

“I’m going to go anyway, to finish it so that I can go comfortably. I will take this bear cub back to Gus and save it. It will definitely help my reputation greatly. So please help me quickly. Mother.”

After the short prayer, a divine protection was placed on Puere’s body to prevent the wound from getting

worse .

!!!’

The Corruption Mother exclaimed urgently,

“Ah, that’s right. I guess I can’t do without my mother. I almost forgot.”

I picked up a sword off the floor and put it around my waist.

The frost steel sword that the dead thief boss was so proud of earlier.

“Thanks to my mother, I have the money to buy a sword. I’ll press it and do it.”

‘Murder…!`