The Priest of Corruption - Chapter 9

fall.

fall.

Cornu is gone. I moved quickly and returned to the mercenary guild.

“Eh, Priest Marnak! What the hell is going on?”

“Stay where you are without moving a single step!”

“Huh?! What is that…”

I didn’t hear Erin’s answer. I rushed into my room, grabbed the frost steel sword, and headed straight for the room where the reformatory priests were staying.

“Mother! Is there!”

‘killing!’

Did you bring the holy relic? Without regret, I turned my back and returned to the first floor. Erin looked out the door and shouted urgently when she heard me coming.

“Four, priest! A monster, a monster! A monster is in the middle of the city!”

You didn’t run away like you told me to. effort was reduced.

“Now what do we do… Kyaa!”

I hugged Erin as it was.

“Priest Marnak?!”

“How are you?”

He kicked off the mercenary guild and ran out.

“yes?”

“Where is the doctor who entrusted Puere’s treatment? Guide me right away!”

I couldn’t let my barely saved life get caught up in this commotion and die in vain.

“help me!”

“Get out of the way! Don’t get in the way and get out of the way right now!”

“Ah ah ah ah!”

Tangled crowds and screams. The city had already been swallowed up by chaos.

– Gaaaaaa!

The giant monster ran amok, destroying everything it touched. Collapsing buildings and flying debris. The place where the devil had passed was only full of blood and flesh.

Atop the demon’s black head, a man in white armor raised a hammer and shouted.

“You are the scale of retribution!!!”

The huge battle hammer burned with pure white light. Orbs grabbed the raised hammer with one hand and struck it at the demon’s head.

“Die! Unclean!”

The battle hammer struck the demon’s head, and at the same time, a huge hammer of light fell from the sky. The demon that had been hit by the ‘hammer of punishment’ screamed in agony.

– Gaaaaaa!

As the huge black crocodile struggled like mad, many people were swept away and crushed again.

blood. blood. bright red blood. flesh. The flesh of the innocent. despair. fear. chaos.

Guess was crumbling.

“Erin!”

“yes yes?!”

“Come on to the place where Puer is!”

Erin’s finger pointed in one direction. I kicked off my seat and ran down the road. Even as I held Erin, my mother was silent. Because you know very well that I am serious now.

“Priest Marnak! Over there! Over there!”

The councilor where Puer was located was near the place where demons were rampaging. The councilor’s door was already open.

“Puer!”

Blood running down the floor. The original owner of this place was already dead. Taking advantage of the confusion, the two men who were robbing the clinic looked at me with a hesitant attitude.

garbage. Garbage that can’t be saved.

“Who, who?!”

Without hesitation, I single-handedly drew the froststeel sword and slashed the nearest man’s throat. Shaking off the blood on his sword, he grabbed the other head by the head and slammed it into the wall. My head, unable to overcome my strength, was crushed and blood and flesh splattered.

“Puer!”

Fortunately, Puer was lying on the bed in a state of unconsciousness with bandages wrapped around his body. I put my sword in and carried Puer away empty-handed.

“Hold on tight! I can’t lift it with both hands anymore!”

As Erin hugged me tightly as a signal, I ran towards the west gate of Gus. The streets were too crowded with citizens running for their lives. People who fell while running died as they were crushed by the crowd.

– Gaaaaaa!

I shook my head in a groan. If you go down this tight road, it will be too late.

I quickly looked around. Fortunately, a low roof that could be jumped up at once stood out. His judgment was quick and his body moved faster than he thought. Erin screamed.

“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

I ran from roof to roof and headed for the nearest west gate. The West Gate, where we finally arrived, was very crowded, just like the street.

“Yes, priest! There is a secret passage I know!”

“How is it?”

“You can go over there!”

Following Erin’s guidance, the place we arrived at was a small building.

“You can get out of Gus through the underground passage in this house! But the door is locked…”

“All right!”

The thick door shattered like a piece of paper when the door was violently kicked. I jumped down to the basement and dropped off Puer and Erin in front of the underground passage.

“If things get worse, just run away.”

“Sa, what about the priest?”

“I’m going back.”

Having secured the safety of the people he knew, it was time to rescue the strangers.

Erin tried to tell me something, but I didn’t listen and ran out of the building.

***

– Gaaaaaaa!

Another hammer of pure white light fell from the sky. The demon let out a pained scream and shook its head. Orbs held on to the white sword that had been driven into the demon’s head and withstood the shaking.

“You are the scale of retribution!!!”

A man with horns on his head lunged at the devil’s paws. A hammer that glowed white struck his front paw. The hammer of light falls down again. However, Cornu’s hammer was noticeably smaller in size than Orbs’. Of course, the blow was also weak.

– Gaaaaaa!

Cornu couldn’t avoid the demon’s paws. The one-horned man flew through the air like that, broke the wall, and landed.

Confirming that, I ran towards the place where Cornu was imprisoned.

“Priest Cornu!”

As I called his name through the wreckage of the building, I heard a voice creeping in from somewhere. I quickly headed to the source of the sound.

“Mah… Priest Renak… is that you…”

The condition of Cornu, who had been beaten by his forepaw, was miserable. The distorted armor had long since become the shackles that imprisoned his body, and bright red blood flowed endlessly through the gaps in the armor. I grabbed the half-crushed Cornu and asked quickly.

“Where is the other priest?”

The priest named Petina, who came with them, was nowhere to be seen. Cornu managed to gather his strength and let out the words.

“Petina… is dead.”

“The devil! Is there a way to put the devil to rest?”

“There is. Another holy object we brought… Right now, Priest Orbs… the white sword you put in the demon’s head… If that sword penetrates that thick hide and drives it into your brain… the demon will die.” …”

Squeezing out the last of his strength, Cornu finally uttered the words and died. I put my hand on his head and closed my eyes.

“Mother of Corruption. I will reap this man.”

With a quiet prayer, Cornu’s body decayed in an instant, leaving only the distorted armor. The two-fingered man turned into a hundred divinities.

With roughly all the information, it was time to put a stop to the rampaging demon.

As he left the building and drew his frost steel sword, the sword slid out of its scabbard.

– Gaaaaaa!

The demon was still running wild in pain.

“You are the scale of retribution!!!”

The Orbs, clinging to the demon’s head, struck the hammer tenaciously and persistently with one hand. Upon closer inspection, I could see that the hammer was not striking the demon’s scalp, but the hilt of a white sword.

Is that sword the holy thing that puts the devil to sleep?

A huge black body smashed through the building and rushed towards this place. The ground shook violently at the footsteps of life heavier than the building. In the midst of the shaking, I calmly aimed for an opportunity.

– Gaaaaaaa!

Eventually, the moment the devil approached right in front of us. With a quick throw, he plunged his frost-steel sword into the demon’s leg-skin and clung to it.

With the devil’s struggle, his body shook violently. In the midst of the shaking, I calmly climbed up the devil’s legs bit by bit and headed for my head.

“You are the scale of retribution!!!”

The light fell again with a fierce shout.

– Gaaaaaa!

The world turned upside down in a wild roar.

The devil, running out of patience, tumbled across the floor with his gigantic body. It was clear that if I continued like this, I would be crushed and no shape would remain, so I pulled out my frost steel sword and kicked off the demon’s body.

As I fell from the height I had barely climbed, the rough air resistance welcomed me. The land that I could see far away came to me in an instant. I calmly rolled over to minimize the impact of the fall. My flesh was washed away, and the white priest’s clothes were stained red with my blood.

Amid the excruciating pain, I quickly got up. My drug-enhanced body responded to my brain’s commands as if it had been waiting.

– Gaaaaaa!

A most refreshing roar. When I woke up, I found traces of perfectly crushed orbs. Unlike me, he couldn’t escape the calamity created by that gigantic body.

Looking up at the devil’s head, he saw a white sword lodged in the devil’s crown.

Finally, the devil who killed all the priests of edification began to destroy indiscriminately as if his resentment was not resolved.

The screams of those who had not yet escaped echoed.

I ran again Passing on a flat road, over the wreckage of a collapsed building, climbing over the rooftops of buildings, and jumping up.

hooked

A frost-steel sword pierced the demon’s tail hide. It couldn’t do any damage to the frost steel black demon, which was no bigger than a needle compared to its massive body.

The demon ignored me and continued to destroy the gwis.

I moved forward little by little, leaning on the froststeel sword over the demon’s wildly swaying body.

The target is that holy object stuck in the devil’s head. Orbs’ efforts were not in vain, except for a small part of the pure white blade, which had already dug deep into the devil’s head.

Right now, if I push that holy relic just a little bit, the devil’s rampage will be over.

– Gaaaaaa!

My body trembled incessantly to the devil’s rampage. When the shaking was too much to bear, I clung to the demon’s body with a firm grip on the froststeel sword in my hand, waiting for the shock to pass.

The demon’s rampage intensified. I quietly and patiently climbed up the devil’s back and finally arrived at the pure white sword.

The demon’s body trembled violently again. I reached out my hand toward the white sword in front of me. It was such a hasty and foolish choice that I was distracted by the sword right in front of me.

‘killing!’

Something bounced in the shaking vibration. My mother’s hand, freed from my arms, flew through the air and began a free fall toward the floor.

‘Murder, love, love, love!!!’

pop.

Mother’s voice disappeared. downturned silence. The anxiety of being alone in the world tightened my throat. I couldn’t breathe properly.

mother. mother. mother! mother!!!

Now, the sword in front of me didn’t matter. Without hesitation, I jumped off the devil’s head.

The landing was a total failure. My legs, unable to overcome the shock, were crushed. I cried like a child

“Mother! Where are you! Mother!!!”

Just then, a small voice entered my heart.

‘Murder…’

I crawled on my hands in the direction of the voice. His fingernails were broken and his fingertips were stained bright red. Still, I continued to crawl.

Finally I reached my mother’s hand, which had fallen on the rubble. Peace returned to my mind.

“Ah. Mother…”

‘killing!’

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m really sorry. Because I was so impatient, I almost lost my mother.”

‘Kill! Kill! Kill!’

“What can I say… Yes?!”

Looking in the direction the Mother of Decay pointed, I saw the crushed bodies of the Orbs.

And a small mirror in front of them.

‘Killed!!!’

That mirror was the sacred relic that sealed the divinity of corruption that my mother and I were anxiously searching for.

I smiled as I held the mirror

. Indeed it is. Mother, this has become a lot of fun.”