Chapter 276 – #61_Priest (6)
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One.
“Ahahahaha!”
A huge cavity used as a pump room and engine room when the rainwater tunnel was still functioning.
In the dark space where the ‘altar’ was originally placed.
Paola Xochitl, the cowardly witch laughed. She cried again.
A mad laugh crossed her hideously distorted half of her face, and then mad tears welled up.
All arrangements were perfect.
No, it would have been perfect.
The red knight took advantage of the weakened gap due to successive defeats and obtained the red branch.
What Paola was aiming for was the ‘distortion’ function of the red branch.
By extracting and borrowing the concept of distortion, we created an artifact that can twist not only causality but also the past.
For that, he obtained human ‘kites’, numerous corpses, and hearts with ‘Dagon’s flute’.
She maintained the function of the nervous system and brain of 1440 people and built an altar to pray constantly.
A lot of people died, but it didn’t matter.
Because I wanted to get it back at any cost.
Because I wanted to wash away the days filled with regret and atone for my sins.
The results are here.
Paola laughed and cried madly, swallowing her altar and hugging a large flower that had bloomed.
The shape resembles a graceful lotus flower blooming in a pond.
It was an artifact exuding a sacred and mysterious atmosphere, considering that it was born at the end of countless sacrifices and devouring lives.
“Ahahaha!”
To witches who seemed to be in her way, she sent the homunculus she had been rearing to kill or scare them.
There was nothing to worry about in her power gap.
A red knight with a fully bloomed red branch and 1200 white knights, its replicas, are prepared.
As expected, the witches who were in a hurry to take care of themselves ran away feeling threatened by trouble.
Proof of this is that among the remaining witches in Seoul, only three entered the rainwater tunnel.
In the course of the series, Paola crossed her clear line several times.
However, as the Witch of Whispers had told her, Duke Keter did not move.
Everything was going according to plan, like a lie.
There was only one stairway left to climb to achieve the long-awaited wish that had been prepared for decades.
The knights are sent out all at once to collect human lives.
An apprentice witch who dedicates her life, kite, and magic to this lotus flower… Revive
I was thinking of telling the resurrected woman that she had properly passed on her stigma.
I’m sorry.
That I was so afraid
I didn’t know that interrupting her ritual could cost the apprentice witch’s life.
It was all a mistake, and I love you so much.
She hugged her and wanted to apologize.
In the witch’s society, her master’s karma extends to her disciple.
The descendants of the outcast witch become outcasts, and the apprentice witch who inherits the stigma of public service becomes public service.
Very occasionally, it is discussed in the Tree of Sephiroth to break the chain of association, but it is a story that is close to impossible if it is a feat that caused an accident like Paola.
But to Paola, that wasn’t the point.
To revive her own apprentice witch, who neither her voice nor her face faded, and from which moment she even forgot her name.
That was all that was left of her.
If only there was one day, no, if only there were 12 hours, everything would have become a reality.
In this lotus of hers, she could have spent her last hours reviving her.
But that wind was blown away by a woman and a man.
Eloah Tiphareth.
A duke of the 23rd rank who is famous as a public hunter.
Paola was aware of her presence.
However, she thought that she could overcome as much as she was fully prepared, and in fact she was very close to winning.
The White Knights, who were continuously deployed, steadily forced Tiphareth to consume.
The red knights and white knights, who sortied out in unison after fully recovering their strength, won the victory against the terrifying duke.
Just one step forward.
If the red knight had taken her life, this fight would have been a victory for Paola.
Up until that point, the red bough had been intact.
The enemy knights were also severely damaged, but if she could retrieve the stigma of the 23rd tier witch, both the white knight and the enemy knight could be rebuilt in a short time.
Then the man who intervened in the fight turned the table upside down.
It was never a strong enemy.
It wasn’t even threatening.
It was a feeble existence that Paola did not even recognize as her power apart from her.
Then, he broke into a fight in the most important country and ended the life of an enemy knight.
So absurdly enough, at that point, Paola’s defeat was certain.
“Ahahaha….”
Paola couldn’t stand it because it was so funny.
It’s like chasing and overcoming powerful enemies, but then stumbling over a rock with the destination right in front of you.
No hatred, no anger.
Only emptiness and futility roar in the empty heart, wailing ears.
Now we must run away.
Reason told me.
Seeing as she entered the rainwater channel and immediately rushed in without thinking about which direction, Della must have told her where she was.
She will come here soon and condemn Paola for her crime.
In the first place, Paola was not the type to stand on the battlefield, and her opponent was that Tiferette.
There is no chance of winning.
“…….”
Paola looked at the lotus flower with an incomprehensible look.
Long-cherished desire, madness, obsession, regret, regret, atonement, sacrifice, resentment, and self-hatred.
The lotus flower, which illuminates the surroundings by scattering faint light, blooms gracefully without moving even in this situation, showing off its own figure.
There is no way you can escape.
The altar cannot move.
The lotus flowers bloomed by the altar are no different.
Twisting the original irreversibility of cause and effect, changing the past is a feat that no witch has ever accomplished.
The fact that Paola, who is only on the 19th rank, was able to complete the ‘Lotus Flower’, which has the function of reviving her lion, was possible because, apart from her madness and obsession, the element of ‘luck’ followed.
She will live her life as a witch and will probably never achieve this feat again in her lifetime.
Leaving this behind and running away is like giving up the last goal of her life.
So even as she heard the footsteps of her reaper coming to cut her own throat, she couldn’t move.
– Jeop-jeok jebuk jebuck
Careless footsteps.
With a quiet sound echoing through the cavity, the witch of the contract, Eloa Tiphareth, appeared.
2.
The mana he received from Siwoo was astonishingly pure.
It’s so transparent that if you’re not conscious of it, you’ll even forget its existence.
It took less than a minute to magnetize that pure mana and store it in a brand.
The characteristic of being a male witch is also surprising, but it was so bizarre that it became a subject of research because of the magic charge itself through sexual intercourse.
In any case, thanks to Siwoo’s dedication, Eloa was able to gain sufficient magic power.
With the payment of the contract price suspended, she strengthens her body with 6 contracts and stands in front of the joint with 4 contracts left for immediate use.
This is the pump room Della told you about.
Looking at the surrounding topography, it was similar to the map Sua branch manager gave.
“Will you wait here for a moment?”
“Is it okay if I don’t help with anything?”
Siwoo has already done his part.
The fact that there was no danger on the way to here must mean that Paola couldn’t afford it either.
It was more comfortable for Eloa to run amok to his heart’s content while waiting in a nearby area where he could go to help at any time.
“Do you not believe me?”
Eloa looked at Siwoo with a smile.
Siwoo, who looked at her face for a moment as if possessed, nodded slowly.
“I can’t, I’ll be waiting.”
Eloa brushed Siwoo’s hair once and headed for the battlefield.
As her iron door rattles open, her cowardly witch, who is the beginning and end of this whole fight, greets her.
It’s the first time I’ve met her face like this.
A feat that caused a terrible disaster and was planned to be caused in the future.
The cowardly witch looked so exhausted.
A face that shows off a distorted face and a beautiful off-white color.
Both of them are visibly emaciated.
The cowardly witch, who was supporting her body like hugging a large lotus flower, came down from her altar and faced Eloah.
“…… “
“…… “
The two looked at each other quietly.
Without saying a word, incomprehensible complex gazes intertwined in the air.
No need to talk
There is a mission to kill here.
There is a delusion that you have to survive here.
The two intuited that a battle would inevitably break out.
“It’s a bachina.”
Paola moved first.
The opponent is the witch of the contract.
She knew she couldn’t win, but her last hope was that she wasn’t all right.
Here, she plans to defeat the witch of the contract with all her might and find a way to move the lotus flower.
Now that there are no sacrifices left, the only thing Paola can offer to strengthen the homunculus is her pitiful body.
Her legs began to rot as turbid mana spread around her.
At the same time, a subspace opened behind Paola.
Thick strands of tentacles resembling octopus legs protruded and wrapped around Paola’s decaying legs.
Thousands of tiny mouths instead of suckers.
The homunculus, which gobbled up the scarce food for her size, became one with Paola’s body in return.
To make up for the gap in her lack of power, Paola threw her body as her prey to the last homunculus she served and fused it.
“Contract.”
Along with Eloa’s chant, a clear wave of magical power stirred the cavity.
Excluding the six contracts that have already been used up for body enhancement, there are a total of four available contracts.
His condition was still not normal.
In a state where the payment of the price has been forcibly suspended, mana is sufficient, but no sensation is felt at the tips of the body, such as the tips of the fingers or toes.
He just filled that void with magic and forcibly filled it up.
“I will cut you.”
The seventh letter glows as Eloa purses her lips.
A contract has been signed.
“I will cut you.”
Eloah’s contract is not simply ‘words’.
Her contract is based on her dictum, her self-suggestion and reality manipulation.
A contract once concluded has the characteristic of twisting the causal law in order to carry out it.
“I will cut you.”
For example, the moment you designate a single target and declare ‘I will cut’.
Eloa’s whole body functions to carry it out.
The eyes, the heart, the muscles, the fragments of the blood vessels, and even the fragments of the cells are beginning to be strengthened solely for the fulfillment of the contract.
“I will cut you.”
The last tenth contract is over.
This is why Eloati Ferret is near-invincible with her single opponent.
Her body was weighing down the air around her with an unprecedented amount of magical energy.
“Die!”
Tentacles extend from all sides.
A strange creature that could not exist under the laws of this world, assimilated with Paola and wielded the tentacles of death.
But.
“…… “
The flood of tentacles, well over hundreds of strands, couldn’t swallow even a single strand of Eloa’s hair.
It was because Eloa’s sword, which was swinging gracefully, was slashing through the tentacles that had assimilated with Paola, entering the quarantine.
The gap between the two was so overwhelming that Bondi Paola could not dare to face it.
Eloa’s body shoots forward.
She belatedly drove her sword deep into Paola’s heart, ignoring the tentacles that pursued her.
“Cuck!”
Dark red blood gushed out of Paola’s mouth.
Paola and the homunculus that became one with her met their end, flapping their tentacles in disarray.
Elroa drew her sword with a grave expression.
