Nemesis (1)
We cleaned up the orcs several more times and followed the patient’s guidance towards our destination.
The road was quite complicated and there was a dark magic that lowered cognitive ability and caused wandering. Originally, it would have been a challenge to arrive, but the location in the patient’s head was closer to the feeling of where to go rather than the concept of finding a way, so it was relatively easy for them to find their nest. I was able to find the place where I turned on.
Even I, who didn’t know anything, could easily recognize that I had come to the right place.
As before, human corpses were not scattered like garbage on the street, but appeared hanging on poles, so it was impossible not to know.
Of course, the building in the center of this pole field must be their lair.
Until now, the corpses had a strong impression of being attacked by animals or monsters, but from now on, everyone seemed to be stunned by the corpses that felt endless malice.
As if they were dying in terrible agony until their death, the corpses hung on poles all had faces so distorted that it was difficult to recognize them.
“It’s a classic way to extract negative emotions from a creature.”
As I couldn’t take my eyes off the corpses, the agent said that as if he was used to it.
I thought that would be the case.
And that wasn’t all. The moment I opened my mouth to inform the agent, the agent reached out first.
“and…”
A cluster of light gathered in the agent’s hand and stretched like a whip, pulverizing the pole and the corpse in an instant.
What, you knew. Come to think of it, you said you were an expert in this field.
“Hee!”
The patient stepped back in fright in that needlessly cruel hand, and the knights frowned, and the agent pointed at us with the only intact head among the corpses scattered on the floor.
“Even in death, they become tools of demon worshipers.”
The corpse, with only the head remaining, didn’t look like anything special, but the next moment its eyes slowly moved and began to scan us.
While everyone was shocked by the bizarre sight, the agent who crushed the head of the corpse threw the head away.
“That’s just…”
“It’s a type of black magic that secures sight through a corpse.”
An agent shaking his hand as he answered the knight’s question.
It’s all good, but why are you doing such a useless performance that explodes the head of a corpse? It’s okay if you just let me know.
I sighed and cast the Purification Spell on the agent’s hand again.
“You’re not surprised or angry.”
That’s because I knew the black magic on those corpses.
Apart from that, there is no reason for an agent who is pursuing efficiency to bother cutting up a corpse while wasting holy power.
I don’t know if I’m alive above all else, but I’m not the type to take care of a corpse to show respect for the dead in an emergency like this.
The reason I’ve been burning the corpses so far is because, contrary to the agent’s guess, I’d be anxious if I left them alone.
“Because Rita-sama wouldn’t do such a thing unnecessarily.”
After I put the reason in one place and explained it concisely, the agent opened his eyes wide for a moment as if he had heard something completely unexpected.
“You sound nice to hear.”
He quickly hid his startled feelings, but it was no use at all because of his strangely fluctuating aura.
This agent is the type that is easier to understand than I thought.
“With this act, the guy who was securing his sight through the corpse must have been hit a little bit.”
That’s a nice sound to hear.
“We shouldn’t be optimistic. We’ve already been recognized by demon worshipers, so we don’t know what kind of attack they’ll attack from now on.”
Indeed, the agent seemed to be quite wary of the upcoming fight.
Certainly. There were dozens more poles similar to the one we just smashed hanging around, and if the devil worshipers noticed us, they might have messed up inside that building.
It was already bad at the point of fighting in a place where the opponent would have already preoccupied and prepared for defense.
No wonder there is a saying that even a dog eats half of it before entering his house.
Just wondering if there is a better way.
bang!
There was a great roar and the building next to us started to collapse.
What is it? The devil worshipers’ trick? Have you prepared something like a corpse bomb?
While thinking about that, the moment he reflexively tried to activate defensive spells, the voice heard from the collapsing building was quite familiar.
“My God! Some people arrived earlier than us! It’s a sin!”
“sorry!”
A now unsurprisingly familiar voice began to reverberate through the plaza.
“Huh? Aren’t you even an agent! Being pushed behind by the Beasts? This is a disgrace to our Knights! When the situation is over, everyone should stop thinking about going to sleep!”
“All right!”
As the dust begins to settle, a group emerges from within.
They were all dwarves wearing full body armor that looked stuffy.
And the person who stood at the forefront was the knight commander, whom I was tired of even mentioning.
Along with reassurance, I wondered.
How the hell did the dwarves get here? Did you find people in a similar situation to the patient over there?
I looked at them with feelings of half absurd and half glad.
The agent was also just looking at the knight commander, probably because it was an unexpected situation.
The knight commander approached us without hesitation and started talking to the agent.
“Nice to meet you, agent! How did you find these maggots’ lair sooner than I did?”
“We have traced the source of the corruption felt at the moment of becoming an orc by turning a human who was about to become an orc back into a human again.”
“Oh, such a method? Wait, targeting the moment when a human was about to fall, it’s possible to turn a human back? Beast tribes kill a human? Is that your specialty, agent? It seems ridiculous.”
The agent’s gaze reflexively turned to me.
Following that line of sight, the knight commander moved his gaze towards me as well.
“You mean this guy did it? He’ll be the next high priest of the Beast tribe… Huh?”
The Knight Commander, who was speaking out, stared at me as if he noticed something and found it difficult to believe what he had learned.
wait a while
“Are you guys crazy as a group? With only this number of young adults, hem… what if we bring them all the way here!”
Perhaps the commander of the knights knew about the black magic using the corpses lying around, he tried to keep his words down and raised his voice as if it were absurd.
I never thought I would come this far and hear this sound again.
“Gorg-sama. I asked. I wanted to help.”
“No matter how hard it is, there is such a thing as a degree. It’s not a place where you can come like this.”
“I know I’ve done something wrong. But it’s not too late to catch all the devil worshipers out there.”
“Huh, really…”
The knight commander shook his head without further refuting my words, probably because the demon worshipers were right in front of his nose.
by the way…
“By the way, how did Gorg-sama come all the way here?”
In response to my question, the knight commander pointed to the path he had passed.
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Let’s follow that finger to check. The road the Dwarf Knights have passed through is full of collapsed buildings.
…It’s a terrifying sight, but I have no idea what it did.
“Originally, we started the search with a small number of people.
Oh, did you just notice that? Didn’t black magic work properly because the commander of the knights was a master-class strong man?
“The dark magic of wandering scatters the cognitive abilities of the intelligent body. Before entering the range of the dark magic, it is difficult to release even me if I do not know if I protect myself with divine power and enter.”
As if reading my thoughts, the knight commander expressed his denial.
Then how…?
“But the black magic of wandering has a pretty big downside!”
Ah, it seems that there are some weaknesses that only experts can know about. Oh, then why didn’t the agent know? Is it a time difference?
“The scary thing about this black magic is that even if you think you’re going straight by confusing your cognitive abilities, you’ll go in a different direction when you wake up. But the space itself isn’t distorted, so if you mark the path you’ve walked, you’re walking straight. You’ll find out it’s not.”
Hmm… In a word, if I keep marking the path I’ve taken straight with something like a stone, at some point I’ll be able to find a stone that’s curved?
So I’m walking while constantly correcting the direction I’m walking?
“But if you’re going to get here using that method, you’ll need tens of thousands of stones. Besides, there are so many roads, so even if you do it that way, you’ll still end up in the same place…ah.”
The agent who presented the loopholes in the theory the Knight Commander had mentioned stopped talking and looked at the path the Knight Commander pointed out.
Then the knight commander raised his mace proudly and continued.
“If you come by destroying the building in a straight line, you don’t have to return to the road or throw stones at it. Just use the building as a guidepost!”
…if you’re in good shape, you don’t have to struggle with your brain. What are you talking about?
I was astonished at the absurd sound of collapsing buildings in a straight line instead of stones.
“I heard that this place doesn’t care whether there are casualties or financial losses anyway.”
No, that’s right, but…is this really true?
While I was perplexed, the commander of the knights cast a ferocious gaze at the building that seemed to be the hideout of the demon worshippers and said,
“If you look at the black magic of wandering, not the black magic of space distortion, it’s just chaff anyway. I can’t keep you here, so I’ll have to destroy it quickly.”
Reflexively, I grabbed the knight commander’s hand and stopped him as he approached the building.
The knight commander looked at me with a curious look.
If you were going to knock down the whole building, if you were planning on knocking it down from the outside, I would have hit a really big blow with my holy magic right away.
He was hesitant because of the possibility that there might still be survivors in the building, even though they were mutated.
I was about to stop the knight commander, but I hesitated for a moment.
If I confirmed inside the building to stop the knight commander saying that there might be survivors inside, I could really start a full-scale sit-in.
Even though I was doing something inefficient enough to consciously exclude the option of destroying the building before the knight commander came, I didn’t want to troll the person who said he would destroy the building himself.
It didn’t make sense for everyone here to risk it for one kid who might still be alive.
I am not such an altruistic person.
I looked at the kid who looked like he was going to cry again in surprise when he said he would destroy the building, but in the end I let go of the hand that held the captain of the knights.
If you happen to survive a building collapse…
The moment I was thinking that it was almost like escaping from reality.
profit.
With that sound, the front door to the hideout of the demon worshipers began to open.
“Help me…”
“Please save me…”
And countless humans started pouring out from the inside of the door.
Everyone had scars all over their bodies, and some were missing limbs somewhere.
“Stop! Don’t come closer!”
“Those who approach any further will be regarded as underlings of demon worshipers and will be killed immediately!”
The Dwarf Knights tried to stop them, but the people didn’t want to stop coming towards us, whether they couldn’t hear them or they were being chased by something more frightening.
Wow!
In addition, just in time for that moment, screams began to be heard from all around.
The voices of the orcs that hadn’t been dealt with since coming this far were clear.
“Oops. You can hear the sound from the invisible place. Those guys have canceled the dark magic of wandering.”
“Have you unlocked it?”
When asked, the knight commander nodded.
“It sounds like the humans and Orcs who have been trapped up until now are running amok.
Because he was scared, he meant that instead of a sit-in, he would create confusion and run away while blending into it. It seemed like the fact that the commander of the knights appeared here acted as a pretty big burden.
“We were ill-prepared. We do not have time to hold them. We must kill them all. Show mercy here and the devil worshiper might survive.”
As the knight commander said that and raised his mace, another sound began to be heard from inside the door.
“The most disgusting clerics! Now, even the different races are harassing us!”
As the person wearing the robe said so, he began to be enveloped in a gloomy aura.
It was conspicuous enough to tell at a glance that it was demonic power.
Seeing that, the Dwarf Knights rushed out and tried to subdue the demon worshiper, and behind the demon worshiper, heteromorphic monsters that were completely different from orcs appeared.
“It’s an improvised chimera and flesh golem.”
“Kyaaa!”
When the golem, made up of a chimera and a human with a terrifying appearance, began to eat the humans who were still at the door, the humans who had fled this way panicked and started running around.
i really want to cry
It was literally a mess.
The guy from the inside of that door who didn’t move a single step, exuding the aura of being a devil worshiper, was actually a bait to attract aggro.
There were definitely demon worshipers who had already mingled among the people, and I had seen those guys at first glance, but it wasn’t easy to distinguish them from the letters that came to them among the people who were popping out everywhere like now.
Some of the humans were already planted with the seeds of corruption, and even those who had already been corrupted and turned into orcs were constantly howling and raging here and there, as if the demon worshipers had stimulated them in some way.
It would be nice if the city side controlled all the places leading to this slum and general district, but there was a lack of management personnel, so such a large slum was formed, and somewhere there will be casualties.
After that? Devil worshipers went on a rampage and the city adjacent to the first academy of the empire was stained with blood. What did the church do?
It’s a terrifying subject to think about.
There will be a theory of responsibility about what the alternative church is doing.
It is a bigger problem than the persecution of the Holy Son in terms of human beings.
That’s because they couldn’t stop the cult’s greatest existence, the demon worshipers.
When the theory of incompetence came out, the fact that the high-ranking members of the church were even willing to undermine the status of the church for their own comfort made them even more angry.
I don’t even know if I’m going to sell me out.
It’s like saying that this happened because I kept pressuring the church with absurd excuses.
…Thinking about it, even if dirt gets in my eyes, I’ll never be able to see it.
I started gathering all the remaining divine power.
Could it be that the dark magic of wandering is gone and the orcs can flow back? Could it be that demon worshipers may run away as they all scatter to escape?
A barrier of light began to cover the sky.
Everyone’s eyes naturally turned to me.
It was the moment when a teardrop flowed from the lacrimal glands that had been stimulated when I felt like crying earlier.
It was sold a little bit. Let’s catch it later saying I don’t remember unconditionally.
“What is this…”
What is it? It’s a very strong barrier that will never go down until all demon worshipers and orcs are gone.
Shall we play tag?
The moment when the chaff demon worshiper met my eyes and started to control the chimera and the flesh golem and send them towards me.
The small Saint Life Beam I shot erased the chaff’s head.
A strange silence settled in the hall.
Everyone stopped on the spot and looked at me, so it was easy to read the words that came to people’s mind.
there’s one more
Perhaps because he was disguised as an ordinary pauper, the completely defenseless worshiper’s head was wiped clean.
This feels better than I thought. Being able to directly erase the cause of stress like this.
Biting the corner of his mouth that was about to soar, he refrained from biting his lips and began to search for the next target.
If there is a misunderstanding that he is a saint who rejoices in killing people, it will be a big deal.
Oh, one more guy over there.
The second time he sent the demon worshiper in disguise to Orion’s side, or to the devil he served, somewhere beyond the Nether, screams broke out among the people.
It’s hard to pick out when it starts moving again.
However, what followed was a little different from what I expected.
Most of the people fell on their knees and started praying to me, as if asking God for salvation.
Slightly embarrassed, I looked around and saw the knights, the knight commander, the agent, as well as the patient and the child, all kneeling on the floor.
I’m a little embarrassed. Why is everyone doing this all of a sudden?
