The Priest of Corruption - Chapter 63

entry into the ruins.

entry into the ruins.

When the red-haired one-horned woman asked who you are, I answered with a smile. Whoever that woman is, she’ll speak better than the sorceress lying face down here.

I answered her as I lifted my robe.

“I am Marnak, who serves the goddess of maintenance. The person over here is Princess Irmel of Dakia, the daughter of a mistress.”

As long as Dakia’s name was brought up, if that was a proper organization, they would have no choice but to reveal their true identity.

“Irmel…?”

The red-haired one-horned woman, who opened her eyes wide for a moment, scratched her hair, which was loosely tied up in a bun, and bowed her head toward Dakia.

“Hello? Princess. I’m Fossorina, who is in charge of the Royal Excavation Corps’ leader. It’s a great honor to meet you.”

Dacia bowed her head in response to Posorina’s greeting.

“Oh, yes. Hello.”

Fossorina slowly glanced at Dakia and me, then tilted her head.

“But how did the two of you know to come here? The fact that excavation is going on here must be top secret. And Tran, why is that bastard fooling around again?”

If it’s a royal excavation team, at least it’s a place run by the northern kingdom, so I’d like to trust it a little. The problem was that I had never heard of the excavation team’s existence.

The answer came first.

“First of all, I knocked out the wizard lying there.”

Posorina, who was looking at Dakia at my answer, turned her head and stared at me.

“A priest?”

“yes.”

“Then why did you faint?”

I shrugged and said.

“I couldn’t communicate with him, so I asked him to call someone else, and he got so excited.

I was worried that I might be held accountable for accidentally knocking out one of his subordinates, but Fossorina’s reaction put my concerns to shame.

“Well, that bastard is a bit speechless. I fully understand what happened. Priest.”

Fossori lamented, kicking the fallen wizard Tran with the tip of his toe.

“Really, even if this bastard wasn’t just a wizard, I’d cut him off with a bowl of jelly.”

The falling rain stopped. Fossorina frowned at the sun slowly revealing itself.

“Has the rain stopped already?

Dakia listened to Posorina’s words and asked cautiously.

“Can I make you some more water?”

Fossorina was delighted at Dacia’s invitation.

“Can you please?”

“Ah, yes. It’s not particularly difficult.”

“Thank you! Hey! Everyone come out here with a bucket of water!!!”

“yes!”

“yes!”

With Posorina’s cry, the scruffy-clad excavation team busily began carrying empty water containers. Dakia held out her hand and muttered an ancient language, and the magical energy in the air responded to her and turned into water.

“It’s water!!!”

The excavation members, each carrying a large bucket, diligently received water using streams of water falling from the air.

Fossorina watched the buckets being filled with a look of great satisfaction. I suddenly raised a question.

“By the way, if it’s water, can’t you ask the magician lying down here to make it for you?”

Posorina frowned slightly and let out a short sigh.

“Haha, I want to do that too. But that bastard doesn’t use magic to make water well.”

In fact, most wizards have tended to specialize in magic that suits their aptitude since childhood. As a result, in severe cases, there were wizards who could not use magic that did not fit their aptitude at all as they grew up. That seemed to be the case with Tran over there.

On the other hand, Dakia did not consciously use magic when she was young, so she didn’t go through the process of specializing in a specific magic, so she used various types of magic well, although she didn’t know it. Of course, if I took off the ancient artifact ring I was wearing now, I couldn’t properly control my magic.

“Could I ask you a question?”

At my question, Posorina looked at me and asked back.

“If the priest answers my question first, then I will answer too. For there must be something coming for something to go.”

“Okay. Go ahead and ask.”

Crimson eyes stared at me intently.

“How the hell did you find this place?”

In response to her question, I glanced at the people gathered around me. Although each of them was carrying tools and weapons, they did not appear to have undergone professional group combat training. Even if they were greedy, they were able to subdue them enough.

“Actually, we came here by following the coordinates written on the ‘key’.”

“Yes? The coordinates written on the ‘key’?”

“yes.”

Posorina’s eyes twinkled and she grabbed my hand.

“Oh, by any chance, the ruins. Can I go in too?”

I laughed awkwardly.

“That sounds like a little trouble.”

Despite my refusal, Fossorina’s eyes still twinkled.

“I’m not asking you to let me go in from the beginning. I’m just asking if you can take me out with the ‘key’ and show me around once you’ve got everything you need!”

After we pack everything up and leave? If that was the case, it was a request that could be granted. It was not a bad choice to establish a friendly relationship with the head of the excavation, Fossorina, as there was a very high chance that Dakia and I would inevitably come to this place when we left the ruins.

“I think that’s quite possible.”

Posorina bowed her head in gratitude for my acceptance.

“Thank you! Thank you so much!!!”

I managed to calm her, who couldn’t hide her excitement, and spoke up.

“Now would you mind if I ask you a question?”

“Yes, feel free to do so. I will answer everything to the best of my knowledge!”

While I was chatting with Posorina, Dakia was actively spraying water all over the place. The excavation team was always praising Dakia and filling the water bucket.

I turned my gaze back to Fossorina.

“I actually heard the word Royal Excavation Corps for the first time today. Is it a secret organization from the beginning of its existence?”

Posorina smiled awkwardly at my question and scratched the back of her head again.

“Although our work is done in utmost secrecy, the reason the priest didn’t know about our existence is probably because the size of the Royal Excavation Corps is too small. These people here are all of the Royal Excavation Corps.”

Are all the people here? No matter how much you catch, there are less than fifty people?

“Aren’t there too few people? In my opinion, the excavation seems to be far short of progress.”

“You’re right, sir. But the small size is unavoidable. The Royal Excavation Corps isn’t a very well-paid organization. Oh, thank you.”

I accepted the small water bottle handed to me by the excavation team member, and drank it in, quenching my throat. She emptied the water bottle in an instant and smiled refreshingly.

“Keuh. It’s really cool! But how far have I been talking?”

“The Royal Excavation Corps said they don’t make enough money.”

“Ah! That’s all I’ve said! Priest, are you familiar with the ruins of the ancient empire by any chance?”

I shrugged and answered.

“I don’t know much, I just know what others know.”

“Is that so?”

Posorina continued her explanation as if she had been waiting.

“The ruins of the ancient empire are largely divided into two types. The ruins of the ancient empire that lie dormant in a space accessible through a ‘key’ and the ruins that fall asleep on the ground. Our excavation team excavates the ruins belonging to the latter It’s driven by purpose.”

it’s not worth the money

Unlike the ruins sleeping between the spaces accessible through the ‘key’, the preservation of the ruins sleeping in the ground was completely messed up. Even if we excavate the ruins that have been weathered and collapsed due to the long years of experience, there are many cases where none of the most important relics of the ancient empire are found because of the time.

In addition, it was considered worthless to excavate the ruins of an ancient empire buried underground because you could observe the perfectly preserved ruins of an ancient empire as long as you had a ‘key’. However, its academic value may be acknowledged.

“I roughly understood what you meant.”

“As expected, the priest is a brilliant person!”

I asked looking at the huge cave.

“Then are the ruins of an ancient empire sleeping here underground?”

Posorina nodded vigorously.

“Yes, it is. I’m guessing that’s pretty well preserved too. I can’t tell you all the details because it’s classified.”

“Then you asked me to take a tour of the ruins accessible through the ‘key’ because you felt the need to find out what kind of relationship they have with the ruins to be excavated here.”

She grabbed my hand again.

“Yes. That’s right. So please be sure to ask. I won’t be greedy for the relics obtained by the real priest and princess, so I’d like you to take a look inside the ruins when you’re done clearing the ruins!”

I gently removed her hand and smiled.

“Instead, we’ll probably be very tired when we come out of the ruins, so I’d like you to give us a place to rest.”

Posorina smiled broadly. It was a very healthy smile.

“That’s about as much as I can provide! I hope you come back safely.”

***

“Then I’ll open it!”

“yes.”

Dakia muttered an ancient word written on the key and pushed the key into the air, causing the space to distort and open the door leading to the ruins.

finally get in

I entered the ruins without hesitation while the people of the royal excavation team were watching. After a while, Dakia walked lightly and followed him into the ruins.

When the ‘key’ came over, the ‘door’ of the ruins that had been opened distorted and disappeared in an instant.

As a result, this place became a space completely cut off from the outside.

“Wow! It’s so pretty here!”

Dakia, who entered the ruins of an ancient empire for the first time in her life, was busy looking around with excitement.

The appearance of the ruins that greeted us was very similar to the appearance of the ruins where I obtained the butcher the other day.

A neatly manicured path. And a huge structure built at the end of the road.

Before I went in there I had something to do. I took out the holy relic I received from the struggling curiosity in my bosom.

An old earring-shaped relic.

‘killing!’

After seeing the holy relic, the mother shouted, ‘Finally!’ I closed my eyes and unsealed the holy object. The divinity that flowed from the holy relic permeated into my mother’s hands and into my body.

[Divinity: 16379]

It was time to awaken a new power.

“Mother. Please give me a new power.”

‘killing!’

[Divinity: 6379]

Ten thousand divinities disappeared and a new power permeated me. Information about the pouring power. Among them, he found the name of the authority he had obtained this time.

‘The sword of corruption.’

As he exercised his authority as a test, the air split open and a sword made of divinity of terribly thick corruption came out.

A divine sword that not only corrupts ‘everything it touches’ in an instant, but also corrodes metal.

That was the new power I had acquired.

Finally, I also got a powerful authority! I cheered in my heart and grabbed the sword of corruption floating in the air.

Dang-Geurang!

The sword of corruption tumbled across the floor of the ruins and scattered with divinity.

And Dacia’s screams burst out.

“Eh, Priest Marnak! Ox, your hand!!!”

“I’m fine. Don’t be too surprised.”

The moment I gripped the sword of corruption, my hand rotted and was crushed without leaving even a trace in an instant. Because of that, I had no choice but to miss the sword of corruption.

The Sword of Corruption was obviously a very powerful power.

However, my hand was no exception to the sword of corruption that corrupts everything it touches.

It’s not even a whole uranium sword, the strongest sword that kills even its owner with radiation exposure, and if it even melts my hand, what are you really trying to do?

“Mother, how did you give me to use this…?”

‘killing!!!’

A strong answer that I did not choose and gave. I let out a deep sigh and patted my chest…

Oh, my right hand wasn’t rotten yet.

Instead, he patted his chest with his left hand.

“I’m glad you’re bright though. Well, I’m sure there will be a way to use that sword somehow.”