The Priest of Corruption - Chapter 97

gun and sword.

gun and sword.

Marnak pretended to look down at the woman who suddenly appeared and spoke to Dakia in his arms in a low voice.

“Are you sane?”

A nod close to wriggling. But that subtle movement was of a much more dynamic kind than when Marnak accepted the falling Dacia.

Dacia was coming out of her magical exhaustion faster than expected. Marnak quickly shook his head.

A moth-shaped monster with burnt wings and huge holes in its body. Somehow, unlike the red monster I had encountered before, named Coroth, the white moth monster was very slow to regenerate.

‘Is this guy specialized in attack rather than regeneration or defense?’

Of course, in terms of being alive with a hole the size of half of the body with the whole body burnt out, that moth monster was also a monster with tenacious vitality.

“What are you doing? Why don’t you put that wizard down and come down here?”

When the first apostle, ‘Advancing Iret’, lightly tapped the floor with the tip of the black halberd’s spearhead, Marnak slowly moved his body and whispered as he put Dakia on a chair in the audience.

“Even if you can move your body a little, if you don’t think you can run away enough, pretend to faint for now. I will take my time.”

little nod. Confirming that Dakia understood what he was saying, Marnak climbed over the balcony without hesitation and landed lightly on the first floor of the theater.

“Yes yes. mother. I know. hmm. I guess that would be a bit difficult. Because the situation is the situation. yes. All right.”

“What is he saying now? Why are you talking to yourself all of a sudden?”

To Iret’s question, Marnak answered quietly while holding the butcher.

“You don’t have to try to understand. You’re curious about me in the first place, aren’t you my conversation partner?”

“It doesn’t.”

After answering, Ilette slowly lowered her stance while holding the halberd.

Dark black halberd and black armor covering Iret’s entire body except for the head. Iret looked at Marnak with black eyes and said quietly.

“Don’t you use your authority? You are a priest.”

Why hey hey hey hey!!!

rotating cogs. Turning on the engine of the butcher, Marnak looked at Iret with indifferent eyes and answered.

“It is none of your business.”

Now that I don’t know how the situation outside is going, I didn’t know when the extermination flyers who felt strange here would come. If they showed up fighting using the power of corruption to the fullest when they came, it would be very difficult, so Marnak could not easily use his powers.

Even if he did use it, he was only going to use it to the extent of taking out the ‘Sword of Corruption’ for a moment and inserting it into the head of that moth monster colleague.

“okay?”

After replying briefly, Ilette smiled. As her lips parted, neatly sprouting white teeth peeked out.

“If you don’t like it, don’t.”

bang!

As soon as Iret’s words were finished, the woman in black armor rushed towards Marnak as a single line. Marnak calmly checked Iret’s trajectory and swung the Butcher.

Why hey hey hey!!!

The wildly rotating Immortalium saw blade collided with Iret’s halberd spear blade. As always, the Immortalium saw blade mercilessly grinds through enemies who dare to bare their teeth at it. The blade of a black halberd sharpening rapidly.

Empty!

But the Butcher couldn’t completely break the black halberd. Because the power carried by the halberd was too great. Marnak’s hand bounced with force.

It was the first time except for Master Friedya. The one who collided with the weapon with his bare body and deflected the sword. That’s why the power contained in that woman’s halberd was not an ordinary one.

Marnak was taken aback for a moment. Taking advantage of that opportunity, Ilette stomped out her foot. The nozzle protruding from the toe of Marnak’s lower body armor spewed fire.

distance slightly widened.

Marnak, who avoided Iret’s kick with a narrow gap, had to reorganize before the black gauntlet aimed at Marnak’s face and approached sharply. As he quickly raised his right arm to defend, a strong shock rushed through his arm.

bang!

With a sound like an explosion, Marnak’s body rolled across the floor and landed on the theater stage. Broken and scattered wood chips and dust.

Marnak got up slowly and removed the thick piece of wood from his waist, slowly staining his torn black clothes with red blood.

Marnak roughly threw away the pieces of wood and looked at Iret and said,

“I received it as a gift and tried it on only once, but it was torn and had holes all over the place, and it was covered in blood, so I won’t be able to wear it again. Hmm.”

The wound that had been punctured by a piece of wood quickly healed. Ilette looked at the scene with great interest.

“Aren’t you human too?”

Marnak gripped the butcher and opened his mouth slowly.

“‘you also’? Aren’t you a human?”

Ilette glanced at Adora, who fell asleep behind her and didn’t know how to get up, and answered.

“me? I used to be a person, but now I’m a bit far from being a person. A little too far.”

Upon Iret’s answer, Marnak quickly sorted out the situation. Judging from the woman’s behavior and the glance she just received, it was right to assume that she could turn into a gigantic monster like the singer ‘Adora’ who appeared earlier.

Then, in order to kill that woman without using authority, I had no choice but to wait until Dakia could use magic again.

Or take advantage of the gap and insert the sword of corruption. However, it was clear that if you kill the enemy like that, you won’t be able to harvest any divinity like in Coroth. There was definitely someone who would complain a lot if he dealt with it like that, so Marnak pushed his desire to use the ‘Sword of Corruption’ behind him.

He raised the butcher and spoke briefly to Iret.

“Then let’s start over.”

“What good…”

Boom!

smashed stage. Marnak, who had been seated, became a line and rushed towards Iret. The exact opposite situation.

Ilette slowly but accurately threw out her halberd. The previous engagement ended the understanding of the opponent’s capabilities.

Even in strength, you have the upper hand. You have the upper hand in speed too. In terms of physical ability, he had a perfect advantage, and that man’s swordsmanship was not particularly special. The only special thing is the armor that covers the man’s lower body and right shoulder, and that bizarre-looking ancient artifact sword. Just the two of you.

I don’t know why he didn’t use the authority while being a priest, but it was time to make him pay the price for his negligence.

Caan!!!

The black halberd, which had regained its original form even though the blade had been ripped earlier, collided with the butcher.

pushing force. But Marnak was not at all taken aback. In the first place, if it was a fight where I couldn’t gain the upper hand in strength and speed, I’d been sick of it. From Master Prydia.

Master always told him. Swordsmanship is all about cutting, stabbing, and blocking. It’s just a combination of these three.

In addition, Pridja always added a word to Marnak.

‘From my point of view, you don’t really need to learn a new swordsmanship. Just surrender to your sword as your instinct tells you.’

Teachings that I don’t know what they mean. And still Marnak did not understand its meaning. That’s why I ran away.

Empty!

The butcher who was pushed out like before. But the result was different from before. Because the angles of the paths the two collided were different.

block and drain

Why hey hey hey hey!!!

The simple action was amplified by the butcher’s spinning saw blade. The serrated blade moved as if sucking a black halberd.

As a result, the halberd, which must have had more power, bounced. Taking advantage of the gap, Marnak squeezed himself into the gap between the long weapons.

Instead of being surprised by the unexpected results, Ilette responded calmly. narrowed gap. It was already too late to swing the halberd to block it.

Then there is only one answer.

Took.

Ilette let go of the halberd without hesitation. The coming tooth blade. She reached out from her waist and pulled out a black sword and struck it straight up.

Empty!

If the gap narrows, you just need to use the weapon that fits the narrow gap. Having trained as a knight all her life, she could handle only one or two weapons.

A butcher who can’t overcome his strength and rises. Marnak also forcibly held the sword, but instead of creating an opening, he let go of the butcher without regret.

Iret was slightly, very slightly angered at the cheeky attitude of letting go of the sword without any regrets even though he had no secondary armament like himself. This was an act of disrespect for the opponent he was fighting against.

“Haap!”

She thrust out her sword to slash this disrespectful arrogant opponent.

clap.

The back of Marnak’s right hand cracked and four muzzles came out. He smiled and said to Iret.

“Originally, the downfall of a knight comes from guns and cannons.”

“what?!”

The magical energy stored in the four muzzles gathered without hesitation, and a blue light emerged. Marnak said playfully, thrusting his fist right into Iret’s face.

“pop.”

Kwaaaaaang!!!

As the four muzzles spewed out the stored magic power, the magic power soon became a phenomenon called destruction and burst into Iret’s face, who was not wearing anything. Swept away by the magic cannon, her body rolled over the floor and crashed into the wall.

A cloud of dust rises and pieces of the outer wall fall off. Marnak held out his right hand once more.

A total of three rounds of stored horsepower. One shot at the moth monster. Just hit that woman in the head. Two shots were fired, so all he had left.

“There is still one step left.”

Kwaaaaang!!!

As if it didn’t matter whether Iret was fine or not, Marnak fired one more shot of her magical cannon precisely at the place where Iret was imprisoned. The strong blue light pierced the outer wall of the theater along with Iret’s body.

hollow hole. Seeing the sight beyond, Marnak widened his eyes.

Even in broad daylight, a black curtain covered the sky. And screams and screams from all over the city.

Huge chunks of green flesh sprouted from all over the city. I don’t know if it’s correct to call a tree-like creature made up of chunks of blue flesh a tree.

The trees brandished their branches like whips, carving destruction all over the city. Destruction of blood and flesh.

Marnak bit his lip when he saw the city under attack. The outer walls of the theater not only prevented sounds from leaking out, but also blocked sounds coming from outside, so I was able to realize the current situation only now that there was a hole in the wall.

Even though the divinity of the evil god appeared in the theater, it was clear that the destruction squadron did not come, no, the reason why they did not come was because they, too, were busy running around to stop Beatus’ current massacre.

bang!

A black mass came crashing down on Marnak. Unlike before, the blade of the halberd flew precisely toward his neck. Marnak activated the ‘Gate of Corruption’ without hesitation and threw himself to pick up the butcher who had fallen to the floor.

Caan!!!

The halberd blade and the butcher bounced back at the same time. A close-knit force. Marnak grasped the identity of the protruding black thing.

Black wine that goes down to the waist. A knight in a black helmet with long fringes growled at him. In Ereth’s voice.

“Cowardly using an artifact in a confrontation!”

Marnak shrugged and replied.

“If it’s an artifact, I used it from the beginning…?”

In hindsight, he was right. Because the sword he was using was absolutely not from this era. Ilette gnashed her teeth inside the helmet and replied.

“That’s not what I’m talking about!!!”

“I never said I would stick with you fair and square from the start.”

Marnak’s eyes caught sight of the green flesh trees running amok within the city.

“And there is no reason to hold me back from using my powers anymore. No one will come here anyway.”

At those words, Iret finally felt the divinity flowing from Marnak’s whole body through the door of corruption. she said in a slightly surprised voice.

“…you were a worshiper of evil spirits?”

Marnak shook his head and replied.

“It doesn’t matter now.”

“Well, whether you are a worshiper of evil spirits or not. It doesn’t really matter.”

Ilette lowered her stance while wearing the black helmet.

“Then, I’ll go without looking at you. Try your best to stop it.”

bang!

The black knight galloped across the earth. The tip of the halberd aimed precisely at Marnak’s neck and advanced like a ray of light. Marnak shook his head and said.

“That is not important either.”

Then he murmured lowly.

“mother.”

bang!!!

Iret was hit and bounced off by a lump of rusty iron before he even questioned what it was. The giant of corruption that appeared tearing apart space blew away Ireth very easily and let out an unstoppable roar.

– That ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah! !!

Marnak smiled and spoke softly.

“The most important thing is that it is an environment where I can use my authority without paying attention.”