Assault – Sanctuary (2)
···I wonder if this is correct.
Me and Oh Yun-ha rushed into the empty room. Bedding was already prepared inside.
The uncle said in front of the door as if nothing special.
“If you have any discomfort, please tell me. I need to be comfortable staying for one night.”
This is the most inconvenient.
However, I couldn’t say such a thing without worrying about staying overnight. She said as Laura poked her face next to her uncle.
“If it’s okay with you, you can sleep with me.”
“Laura.”
“Ahaha. I have a bad sleep habit, so it must be a nuisance.”
Oh Yoon-ha smiled awkwardly and refused.
Laura doesn’t seem to know that he’s trying to keep him from getting involved with us as outsiders as much as possible. After all, she could have slept in the living room where she slept.
“Laura. Hurry up and go to sleep It’s a lung, isn’t it?”
“yes···. Good night to my brother and sister.”
widely. As the door closed, I and Yoon-eun sighed at the same time. The moonlight leaked into the room and it wasn’t that dark even with the lights on.
Oh Yoon-ha looked back at me. She was so shaded that she couldn’t see what expression she was making.
“Then how do you sleep now?”
Well, what do you have to say? I spread the extra blanket prepared in advance on the floor.
“You sleep in bed.”
Anyway, thanks to the perks, I don’t mind sleeping anywhere, and Oh Yun-ha’s recovery comes first. Then Oh Yoon-ha said as she stepped on the blanket I had spread.
“No! This should be fair.”
“What is fairness… Then sit together in bed?”
“I, I don’t care…”
Stuttering while bluffing.
“Don’t be silly. I can’t sleep in bed because my back hurts.”
“Uh, was it?”
no. It is a lie. Of course, I also like the bed.
But even if Oh Yun-ha doesn’t care, if Oh Yun-sung knows that they are sleeping together in bed, this might be the time to kill me. To be honest, even being in the same room is a dangerous category.
Oh Yun-ha, who had hesitated as if he was reluctant, laid down on the bed, and I lay down on the floor too.
“Jihan-ah, where is this place?”
I close my eyes to go to sleep right away, but she talks to me.
“You told me. It’s called a sanctuary.”
“No. I don’t mean that.”
As I closed my eyes, I heard an answer in a quiet voice. slurp. I hear the rustling of the cloth.
“If it was the Maiden Kess that attacked the expedition team…, then the people who made this sanctuary would be the Maiden Kess too, right?”
“Probably so.”
“Maybe you don’t know yet, but…”
When Oh Yun-ha hesitated and swallowed the back words, I spoke instead.
“It seems peaceful here. Is this the sound?”
“…you felt the same way. Yeah. I have to say it’s different from mine, but to be honest, I had a lot of bad thoughts about this sanctuary. But what I’ve seen now is no different from where we live.”
. . . agree.
In the barrier created by Eclipse, it was like a factory that forced people to confine and create believers for the sake of divine power.
It was safe to call it Hell Road. By inflicting torture and brainwashing on people, they turn them into fanatic believers and gain divine power from them. As if to prove such madness, the sky of the Eclipse barrier was a space full of bloody colors like the Nether.
But at least in this town I’ve seen there was no such disgusting feeling. The sky is clear and it is a natural scenery that makes you feel good even when you are still. If it hadn’t been for the Maiden Curse attack, I would have mistaken it for a place to save people.
“Is it okay if I ask them about Maiden Curse?”
“No. That’s a bit dangerous.”
It would be convenient to ask But since there are so many crazy people in the world, I can’t even ask. There are ways to determine whether something was said or not.
“It might just cause harm. We just need to stay here quietly and then leave.”
“Wow. I will.”
Oh Yoon-ha quickly understood whether it was just something he had said.
uhm. Just before entering this sanctuary, the system gave me another scenario quest.
In order to clear [Quest: Eclipse], the master of this barrier, ‘Maiden Curse’, must be destroyed. Even if it wasn’t a quest anyway, it was a force with many things to repay along with Aiden’s work.
‘Unexpectedly, the problem is…’
The people who live in this sanctuary.
Even if Oh Yun-ha didn’t express it, it seemed that she could understand what was on her mind. If this barrier disappears by destroying the Maiden Curse, what will happen to the people here? Of course there are bad guys, but there are good guys too.
It would have been better if it had been a hellish place like the original.
“Oh Yoon-ha. If the···.”
Instead of answering, you hear a whisper. I must have slept in the meantime because I was so tired.
‘I’m glad I fell asleep.’
I was about to ask something embarrassing. I closed my eyes again and relaxed my body to go to sleep.
I hope the scenery I saw is fake.
With such selfish thoughts, I fell asleep.
eyes lit up. I got up and stretched out. There was a pleasant feeling of coolness along with the sound of crackling bones.
Thanks to the special privilege, he has completely recovered his stamina and is in good shape. It’s just before dawn, so if you move now, it’ll be perfect.
‘Mana….’
it’s still a bummer No matter how hard I try with [Mana Conversion], the mana rod is not drawn up to the back of my hand. Still, it seems to be moving more than yesterday…
can’t help it
I got up to wake you up. Seeing Yoon-ha Oh sleeping on the bed, I burst out laughing.
‘My sleeping habits are very bad.’
He must have slept with a blanket on, but suddenly he turned upside down on the bed and twisted the blanket between his legs.
“Hey, wake up.”
Shaking her messy hair, Oh Yun-ha woke up with a dreamy look.
“…uh, good morning.”
“Yeah. Good morning. Get ready. It’s time to go out.”
“Do not sleep!”
While looking at Oh Youn-ha, she quickly put on a black hawk suit and came out of the room. In the living room, I saw an old man sleeping in an uncomfortable position on a chair. When we left, the man immediately got up.
It looks like they were watching him come out. It is an understandable reaction.
Me and Oh Yun-ha bowed our heads to the uncle.
“I’ve been blessed. I’ll just go.”
“···okay. Take care of yourself.”
squeaky. Then she heard the door open and Laura rubbed her eyes and came out of the living room. She was about to leave quietly, but she seems to have woken up by pretending to be popular.
Laura yawned as she saw us ready to go.
“Ha-am. Would you like to have breakfast and go? Are you going already?”
“Yes. I think it would be a hassle to stay longer. I have to go early.”
“… well. Then wait a minute. I even washed all the clothes I was wearing yesterday.”
Laura moved quickly and gave us clothes that had even been washed. I don’t have a face, but thankfully I was able to cover the suit I was wearing with plain clothes.
“Thank you very much.”
“What. It was a pleasure to see people I was meeting for the first time!”
After saying goodbye to Laura, I turned to my uncle for the last time before I left the house.
“That man. May I ask you one thing?”
“Do you often go to the temple?”
At that question, the uncle shut his mouth for a moment and shook his head.
“········No. I am not going.”
“Thank you for telling me.”
That’s enough. He bowed his head again and opened the door and went out.
We went back to the back where we had first entered so as not to meet other villagers. There’s nothing good about meeting people, so even if it’s a little difficult, I’m going to head towards the temple via the forest.
The spire of the temple was always visible in sight, so there was no need to worry about getting lost.
I asked Yoon-ha Oh, who rubbed her eyes as if she was still sleepy.
“How do you feel?”
“Full recovery!”
A blue stream flowed from Oh Yun-ha’s hand as she said that. It’s still hard for me to even move, but Manasa’s power seems to have adapted in the meantime. If it’s good news, it’s good news.
“Until yesterday, it didn’t move at all, but now I can control it even slightly. How much physical power can I use?”
“I’m glad. It’s hard because I’m not used to it yet.”
“Hmm. Combat should be avoided as much as possible. What about the plan?”
“Once you can go inside the temple, you’ll be able to talk behind the scenes.”
As we walked for several hours, we gave each other opinions, gave feedback, and devised a strategy. Just by sharing these stories, such as when a battle took place or when the final situation failed, you could think of a variety of responses in advance.
“Do you think it’s all over?”
As we got out of the forest, the temple that came up to our nose boasted a formidable majesty. The white temple had a pure white color without adornment, but that alone was perfect. The steeple I saw in the village stood tall as if it were piercing the sky.
‘The shape of the temple seems to be the same as in Eclipse.’
In front of the temple, there were so many people coming and going that it was impossible to count them even from a distance.
“Why are there so many people…?”
Oh Yun-ha muttered in shock. I had no idea that there would be so many people in the sanctuary.
It’s not weird. The information theory I heard from Aiden It was only about 10 years ago that Maiden Kess was kicked out of the tower. In the meantime, you’ve brought so many people into Sanctuary?
If so many people had disappeared, there must have been a rumor going around in some way.
If you don’t, it means there must be some special reason. In addition, there were still unanswered questions.
‘How the Maiden Kess, who used to be a wizard, was reborn as a religion with a sanctuary.’
In the case of Eclipse, a new deity was born out of the teacher’s despair and hatred.
The death of his younger sister outside he developed an immense hatred for the tower and the people living within the border. And it was the beginning of the religion, Eclipse, that gathered such people and performed miracles based on despair and hatred.
The protection of the tower, which disappeared in the second half, was also broken by Eclipse through a miracle of God.
‘Did the Maiden Curse also have a deity born out of hatred for the tower?’
But if it was a sanctuary based on hate, it wouldn’t have been so peaceful. Again, this is a question you have to know for yourself.
On the way down to the temple, Oh Yun-ha said, pointing to the clothes people were wearing.
“Jihan-ah. That’s the robe I was talking about.”
Some were wearing robes with white borders on a black background. An unusual pattern is engraved on the back. Looking at the difference from the Eclipse, the pattern of the Maiden Curse was clear.
“…perhaps some of those people are wizards who took their companions.”
Thousands of people were flocking to the temple to see if any event was being held. While observing them, Oh Yun-ha and I met her eyes and nodded her head without saying a word.
There was only one way to stay out of the crowd.
“Oops!!!”
“Bub!!!”
Youn-ha Oh put her hands together and apologized to them tied up naked.
“Sorry. uncles. We are in a hurry.”
“I don’t have time. Let’s go before anyone comes.”
We put on the robes we borrowed for a while and lowered the hood to the tip of our chin to cover our faces. Then he carefully came out of the alley, taking a look around.
“No one knows about this?”
You had to climb the stairs to enter the temple. We joined the crowd going up the stairs. After climbing the stairs to the end, I looked around the temple. Fortunately, the basic structure is the same, so it was expected that the interior would be the same.
‘There is only one underground place to lock up people.’
If you fall to the right instead of the central hall where believers pray, there will be a place guarded by troops. That’s the entrance to the dungeon.
“…I’m not kidding.”
The Temple of the Maiden Curse was huge. It was a sight I saw in the game, but Oh Yun-ha paused for a moment as if overwhelmed and looked at the temple. I whispered to Oh Yun-ha.
“It would be strange if we left here separately, so let’s go along with it.”
The inside of the large meeting hall, which was mixed with the crowd, was quiet. While the empty seats were quickly filling up, we did not sit down, but stood in the back and looked around the meeting hall. Those who have already come are praying.
However, for some reason, there were no religious symbols on the walls of the temple.
percussion percussion.
Then an old man who appeared to be the headmaster walked out. I looked carefully, but this is my first impression. It is not a character that was an enemy in the original.
However, the air current flowing through his body was unusual.
‘···Wizard?’
Even calling it a wizard is something vague. His mana, viewed as [under the essence of inquiry], was very turbid. Seeing that you are a teacher, is this mana mixed with divine power? It was difficult to draw conclusions because it was the first case I had seen.
“Oh Yoon-ha. How do you see it?”
“Ugh. I have a lot of mana. I’m guessing you’re the head of this place? . . . Oh, you’re holding something strange.”
As Oh Yun-ha said, there was a strange monster in the teacher’s arms. The failed chimera, the grotesque mass of flesh, swelled up and down as if breathing, exhaling ooze from dozens of holes on its surface.
It looked frowned upon just looking at it, but the believers here looked at it with ecstatic eyes instead of avoiding their gaze.
Just as they felt something strange, one of the members of the congregation limped and walked to the pedestal where the headmaster was.
“Master! Please do a miracle for me too!”
oo!!! The believers, who had been quietly praying at the voice, suddenly began to shout and applaud. The large assembly hall shook violently.
“What are these people?!”
Yoon-ha Oh was taken aback by the sudden madness and stepped back.
“Come here.”
The teacher’s voice resounded clearly in the noise. Eventually, the headmaster pulled out a dagger from his arms, and a mana rod was drawn on the back of the headmaster’s hand, imbued with magic.
Whoops! The teacher stabbed the leg of the lame person who was approaching him deeply with a dagger. And he randomly stabbed the monster holding the dagger soaked in the blood that flowed from there.
“Awesome profit!!!”
Soak! Along with the sound of ripping through flesh, the demonic screams were terrifying. Then, the madness of the believers, who had been screaming until now, quickly subsided, and everyone was praying with their clasped hands.
I could see the flow of mana moving in my eyes.
The magic that resided in the dagger wrapped around the leg of the lame man, and the energy of that mana flowed into the monster through blood.
“crazy···.”
I was shocked to see the monster. Hundreds of curses were placed on living monsters. I can feel malice and pain just by looking at the flow, but it felt like a lie that I was still alive.
‘Maybe that terrible appearance…’
It may be the influence of a curse.
“What. Your legs are moving!”
“Oh oh!”
The cripple’s disability doesn’t get better. It was just transferred to the monster.
‘That’s not a miracle…’
It is simply a curse that transfers one’s pain to another.
One after another, other believers came forward and the process was repeated. A terrible scream rang out when they stabbed the demons with their swords containing their pain and curses.
“Oh oh!!!”
When the cry of a monster filled with pain resounded in the spacious meeting hall, the believers who heard the sound were moved and cried out. Some wept, and others were so happy that it was like a song of paradise.
Now I can see why there were no symbols on the walls of the temple.
Because it was the symbol of the Maiden Curse, and the Godhead was that living monster. However, even if it was a symbol, it was an obscene and disgusting act of concentrating their suffering in one place and using it as an amulet.
It is the divine power that comes from that twisted belief that has created such a peaceful-looking sanctuary.
As I looked at the frenzied spectacle, I felt like a fool for my worries last night.
Fuck. Then yes. There’s no way this is normal.
nothing more to see Oh Yun-ha and I got out of there and started walking. Everyone was focused on the curse that everyone called a miracle, so no one cared about this.
I said as I walked down the hallway towards the dungeon.
“Let’s go save people like this.”
“for a moment. Do you know where you are going?”
“uh. If you go this way, you will definitely come out.”
It was a crowded structure twisted several times to reach the dungeon, but unless the structure changes, it’s like a front yard to me.
Before long, I went around the quiet corridor a few times, and at a dead end, there was an unusually black iron door that was different from the color of the temple. And in front of it were guarded by people wearing masks.
This is the mask worn by the guys who attacked Aiden and me in the past.
“Uh. what are you Don’t you know that it’s forbidden to enter this place?”
When they found us, they approached us with their weapons drawn. I grabbed the Assault Wolf under the robe.
‘Soul season.’
Soul iron blended into the assault wolf’s muzzle at my will. This also made it possible to reduce noise.
“Get out of there. You bastards.”
I pointed the gun and pulled the trigger.
