Chapter 259 – #58_All Darkness Comes From the East (5)
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One.
An incalculable amount of time has passed.
The darkness without a ray of light first broke Della’s biological clock.
I can’t tell when to sleep, when to get up, or even how much time has passed.
Well, even if the biological clock was normal, this molgolo would not have been able to sleep.
The white spear that pierced Della’s body tightly pierced her tender flesh before it healed and turned into a part of her body.
There is no laughter either.
She took pride in her mental strength being strong enough to not be shaken by anything.
It was quite disgusting to be forced to watch the horrific things happening right in front of my eyes, pinned to the wall like stuffed insects.
– Woo woo woo!
Especially that sound.
A loud vibrating sound from the underground cavity pierces your ears.
I even had the urge to rip out my eardrums when I heard that terrible sound from the depths of hell.
“…….”
Della lifted her head, which was her helpless bow.
A haggard complexion, like that of an invalid who is about to die.
No matter how spiritual you are, the accumulated stress and pain in your body has already crossed the threshold.
At this rate, I might go crazy.
Della, holding back her swear words, stared at the strange object making her roar in the middle of the underground cavity.
It resembles a lotus flower that has not fully blossomed her peak.
Tens of meters in height and girth.
Huge peaks piled up in layers, waiting for the right time to wriggle.
All those petals are made up of human arm bones interlocked like a human praying.
The bizarreness of the artwork, which even Della, whose moral and ethical hurdles are infinitely low, does not stop there.
The stems that support the flowers are made up of skeins of red thread entangled like ropes.
At first glance, it reminds us of a messy wired bundle of cords. Its identity is the human central nervous system.
Under the stem wriggling slowly as if it were still alive, white, dull grayish-white flesh was twisted and entangled like fish intestines.
Hard to express with the modifier “One”, The lump of brain paste, which looks like a round ball of clay, is submerged under the brain water and blood on the floor, holding up the stem and bud of a lotus flower like a root.
A flower made of bone, a stem made of nerve bundles, and a root made of brains…
The identity of the lotus flower, which appears only in a trashy B-grade gore movie, is an altar.
A huge altar made of human bones, brains and nerve bundles.
It is also a collective art of the crowd that has changed to a compact size that leaves only the function to pray, hope, and crave Paola’s wish instead.
A human who gets caught up in that artwork will pray for Paola until his synapses and nerves burn out from overload.
No.
Although there is a question as to whether it should be called ‘human’ because it has already lost everything it should have as a human being.
-Oh oh oh oh
The vibrating sound, as if countless dead were screaming in unison, resounded loudly once more.
Another arm bone spreads out like a flower petal.
The “Red branch” Protrudes from the center of the lotus flower.
It is an artifact of the Red Knight with the characteristic of ‘Distortion’.
Della was well aware of its power.
The white knights who cloned the red knights, and the white spears they were holding, even though they were only replicas, resonated with the red branches and interfered with the magic.
However, what Paola was trying to do was not simply strengthening the fighting ability of the red branch.
Focus on the concept of ‘distortion’ possessed by the red branch, bring it to the limit, and control it in the direction you want.
It does not distort space or distort the magic field, but ultimately distorts order and distorts reality.
In other words, the fact that Paola’s apprentice witch died is aimed at ‘removing it from existence’.
“Keugh….!”
It wasn’t just Della who was an audience member at the disgusting performance.
The knights were created by collecting the hearts of ‘1200’ of the victims of the previous attack with Dagon’s flute.
And of the four witches who were hunted down with all available combat homunculus, one survivor is also viewing an art piece that will bring out an unprecedented disaster.
– Oh oh oh oh!
Paola Xochitl, on her knees under a lotus flower, praying.
Her madness and willingness to throw everything for a single wish was horrifyingly pure.
To the point where even in this terrifying sight, she looked like a saint at first glance.
-Chalpak!
Paola rose from her seat.
She approaches a witch hanging on her wall, not caring the least that her brain and blood are smeared on the hem of her own dress.
The red knight who had been protecting Paola also followed with a clicking sound.
“Hick… Hee… Profit… !”
Be cute too
Judging by her face, it was a young witch who had just become a witch.
The recognition that she was a chosen being who pursued the ultimate secret, and her eyes overflowing with self-consciousness and pride stemming from that, were no different from those of a frightened girl.
If you’ve experienced such horrific things, you probably would.
“Sal, please save me… Help me….”
Paola looked at the begging blonde witch through her tears and snot with her emotionless eyes.
It was an inorganic and dry gaze like an insect.
“I’ll do anything, anything… Please have mercy….”
The witch dropped as if her body would break.
If she hadn’t been impaled by her spear she probably would have clung to Paola’s feet and begged.
She might have been licking and licking her shoes.
Paola spoke in an unexpectedly benevolent tone to the frail witch who was rattling in fear.
“Don’t worry.”
She takes out a sharp blade made of obsidian in front of the young witch whose face is about to brighten at the slightest hope.
“It won’t hurt that much.”
“Now, wait…. Wait… Kheuk… Whoa… Aaaaa… !”
Soon after, a loud squealing sound rang out.
The sound of flesh being cut, the sound of removing the belly skin and removing the uterus.
She would have been buried under that scream.
-Oh oh oh oh oh
“…….”
Screams cut off like a suddenly turned off radio.
A piece of red meat was clutched in Paola’s hand.
A chunk of fresh meat imbued with her witch’s stigma and magical powers.
Paola walks toward the lotus with a reverent gait, holding her blood-dripping womb dearly in her hands.
“It’s a bachina.”
As she knelt down to offer her offering, countless skeletal arms handed her flesh.
-Oh oh oh
-Oh oh oh
-Oh oh oh oh
An incomparable number of petals bloomed all at once.
The white knights surrounding the common area all at once began pounding the floor with their spears.
The white spear that resonated with the red branch vomited a whining cry, and Paola prayed again in the midst of the commotion.
The opportunity is now.
In a frenzied roar reminiscent of a demonic ritual, Della raised his mana.
Perhaps feeling that human magical power alone was not enough to speed up the ceremony, Paola offered an additional witch’s brand as a sacrifice.
Every time that happened, the lotus blossomed at a very fast pace.
Whenever that happens, everyone, including the white knight, focuses only on controlling consciousness.
In other words, it is the only chance to escape by using the mana that has been barely gathered so far.
– Empty! Empty! Empty!
Della forcibly pulled out the spear through his arm, not paying attention to the opening of his wound.
Terrible pain that turned the head white.
While feeling the flesh and muscles that had become one with the white spear being torn apart, she pulled out the spears from her whole body one by one.
“Keugh… Ugh….!”
Every time I pull out one sack, I feel like my consciousness is about to fly away.
Della, who managed to pull out a total of 12 spears, crawled out of the gap of the white knight who was pounding the spear like an excited fanatic.
There is not much time.
According to the data accumulated by observing three witches being sacrificed so far, the white knights are on high alert again in about five minutes.
“Hey… Heck….”
It should be blocked.
Should be informed
Paola’s plan isn’t over yet.
Even if you raise a lotus flower and bring out the full potential of her red branch, more magic power is needed to carry out her resurrection ritual.
In other words, she plans to launch 1,200 white knights and red knights all at once to stage a massacre.
Just as he used Dagon’s flute to randomly kill civilians.
How many will die
Ten thousand? 100 thousand? 1 million?
Perhaps there will be more victims than the Plague Witch.
“Keugh… Keugh….”
As she managed to get out of the cavity and crawled up to the large tunnel, Della realized that she couldn’t survive this way.
Her bleeding was so great that she forcibly pulled out her spear, which was clamping down on her affected area.
Death or fainting from excessive blood loss.
Neither can it escape her consciousness.
“Whoa… Whoa… “
Della caught her breath and lifted one of her fingers.
It was already a handful of mana supporting his rag-like body, so he couldn’t use wasteful magic like healing magic.
Della rolled up the hem of her sleeve and held it in her mouth, stroking the affected area with the flames of her fingertips.
“…… !!!!!”
Death-like pain.
The smell of seared skin and burning meat.
Della’s tightly clenched gums also bleed from the pain, which would not be strange if she died of shock if she were a human.
Controlling her bleeding with an ignorant and radical method, Della barely raised her body on the wall of the rain tunnel, where her socks were tattered.
Leading her tattered body as if she were dragging her feet.
But there was no moment of reassurance for her.
-Clap clap clap clap
The sound of footsteps coming from far away is heading this way.
Perhaps it belonged to the white knight who had been deployed without participating in the ceremony.
Should not be caught
Even when Della’s body was in perfect condition, all she had to do was kill 20 white knights.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the white spear, which resonates with the distortion ability of the red branch, is an anti-witch weapon for killing witches.
Even if I went out and informed them of all the conspiracies, would there be a way to deal with those knights?
Unless it’s a witch who can use powerful physical attacks like Duke Tiphareth or Ea Sadal Melik, she won’t be able to defeat her…
However, it is not too late to enjoy this relaxed sentiment even after completely escaping.
“Damn it… Cool! Cool!”
Using her inappropriate foul language, Della began to run, using her magic to support her creaking body.
With every step she took, she felt a crushing pain through her body.
-Clap clap clap clap clap clap
She can’t get caught here again.
In Della’s eyes, who had squeezed the last of her strength, she saw a light shining straight down in the distance.
When she first came to see Paola on her own, it was the escape she had been keeping an eye on in case of an emergency.
“Come on… !”
Della made wings of flame with all her might.
This is 45M underground.
In this physical state, climbing her ladder was impossible.
She must fly at once.
Della’s body rose in an instant, with her large wings like those of a phoenix, and even shattered her large steel cover.
“Ugh… !”
As she pushed through the iron door, she almost fainted again, but she came out anyway.
Her fresh air, which she hadn’t smelled in a while, tickled her lungs pleasantly.
“Whoa… Whoa… First of all, I need to go to the location point… “
All facts must be reported.
Let her be protected and treated there.
In the eyes of Della, who ran out of the alley with that goal in mind.
-Kikii Iik!
White light comes on
Although a sports car with a bizarre grille like a horse’s hoof braked belatedly.
– Empty!
I couldn’t stop Della’s body from rising like a sheet of paper.
