Chapter 298 – Discrimination
“…Stand, paladin?”
“Why is the paladin…”
“I heard that you saw a paladin earlier…”
A whisper was heard.
The lives of slumber adventurers are similar to those of hunters in the original world.
Process the monsters and dimensional cracks in the labyrinth, obtain by-products, and sell them to make money.
Of course, the main sources of income are magic stones and crack cores.
They will have a hunting plan, and if it goes wrong, they might get angry.
The current situation could be said to be causing damage to them in order for me to be comfortable.
Even if it were me, I would have felt uncomfortable. But unfortunately… I am not the one who suffers the damage.
Let’s go
So it’s okay.
I opened my mouth after looking around at the adventurers who gave me a crooked look.
“Are you all gathered?”
“…”
There was no answer coming back.
I didn’t even expect it.
Face full of displeasure
I just kept my mouth shut at the appearance of me who seemed to be at odds with the Holy Knight Judith.
I opened my mouth without paying attention.
“What you guys have to do is simple. You just need to be verified by the paladins that you are not warlocks.”
Paladins can weed out warlocks.
However, it is not possible for us to go around and check every single person in the fortress.
It can be done, but it is too cumbersome and takes a long time.
There was such a convenient method, but there was no reason to use another method.
Fortunately, according to Judith’s words, the judgment of the warlock does not take long.
The adventurers who heard the notification close to my order are excited.
(Huh, a black magician?!)
(So the paladin…)
“Ah, no matter how you say it, is it okay for you to treat us like this?!”
A cry was heard from somewhere in the crowd.
“That’s right! We are not warlocks.”
“That, that’s right! No matter how much castle or paladin you are, isn’t it too much!”
– Hung-seong-gung-seong.
“We are free adventurers!!”
What kind of person he was, he said embarrassing things that he couldn’t even say in his sober mind.
What kind of bullshit
Freedom is bullshit.
If I told you that I came here to earn gold, I would understand.
Starting with that, the voices of dissatisfaction began to grow one by one.
The power of the crowd is amazing.
It made even a dog bark in front of a tiger.
I looked at them calmly, and among the humans expressing dissatisfaction, I lifted about five or six people with exceptionally loud voices with psychokinesis, like pulling radishes.
“What, what?!”
“Eh, magic?!”
Those who were pulled up into the air by telekinetic power struggled.
I pulled them out to the front.
When the telekinesis was released, those floating in the air landed on the ground in a hesitant manner.
“Judith. They are suspicious. Examine them.”
Those with loud voices caught my eye… And of course I just didn’t like them.
“Yes, I understand.”
Judith and the Paladins stride toward them.
“W-Where is this law… This is sashimi, tyranny.”
“No, that’s right…”
As the paladin approached, the image of him shouting fervently in the crowd was gone, but his voice at that time did not come out even half of the time.
One of them took notice of the paladin’s appearance, which seemed unlikely to be eaten, and ran away.
He was a male adventurer who looked like an ordinary swordsman.
Judith instantly moved in front of him and blocked it.
He sees Judith and hesitates.
“Hmm…?”
Judith, who was examining him closely, tilted her head, and soon her expression distorted.
“This corrupt seed! Divine Punishment!!”
Judith’s sword was pulled out in an instant and blew the adventurer’s head off.
He was just an ordinary adventurer.
Does that mean that a warlock doesn’t wear a gloomy robe?
“Mi-crazy!! Lord, I killed it!!”
One of the gathered adventurers shouted in astonishment.
The air froze at the sudden murder of Judith.
However, the quest reward message does not come.
‘…Wasn’t it? That…’
The decapitated adventurer hadn’t collapsed yet. And his body immediately started to swell.
-To-do-duk!!
“I-that…”
The adventurers nearby were startled and backed away.
A 3-meter-high, grotesque monster with a large torso without a head and clothes torn off the swelling torso was born.
“These worms are using bizarre tricks!”
A dazzling golden aura blade rises from Judith’s sword.
“Oh, Auror Blade…”
The adventurers looked at the golden aura blade that formed on her sword as if bewitched.
Judith’s Aura Blade moves in a graceful golden trajectory.
And the monster was cut to pieces in an instant.
The adventurers watched with bated breath as the monster was hacked to pieces by Judith’s sword.
The monster’s vitality was persistent.
The pieces of flesh wriggled and tried to stick to each other.
“Purification!!”
As the golden divine power from Judith’s hand poured over it, the flesh burned and turned to ashes.
-Keeek!!!
And a creepy final word rang out.
“Ji, the real black magician…”
Baron Patrick, who was next to him, was clearly shocked.
〈 Deal with the follower of the Demon Lord.〉
〈Acquired 1 skill point as reward.〉
A satisfying message came to mind.
Are the attributes different for each black mage?
When I caught the warlocks from the Dark Blood Clan, I don’t think they came back to life…But when I dealt with the warlocks in the old labyrinth, I came back to life.
“Oh… Coincidentally, there was a black magician among the disgruntled ones. What should I think of this?”
My not-quiet murmur echoed across the plaza.
Silence passed.
The adventurers just rolled their eyes and looked at each other.
Judith saw them and shouted.
“Come out one by one and be verified by the paladin!
The six paladins stand at an appropriate distance, and Judith and Theodore turn on their eyes to see if anyone is running away.
In particular, Judith’s eyes were savage after seeing Black Mage Taste?
Adventurers started to line up surprisingly quickly.
They peeked at Judith’s state.
Didn’t he realize that there was no point in resisting?
Angry adventurers turned into docile sheep.
When this situation came to pass, things proceeded swiftly.
The adventurers began to be examined by the paladins in an orderly manner.
The inspection doesn’t take long.
Excluding Judith and Theodore, who were watching the surroundings, the six paladins took charge of each row and quickly began examining it.
I watched it leisurely.
Wouldn’t it be over in about an hour?
《Is it a labyrinth? Unho, you finally moved.”
Terra has been in touch with her stigma.
《What are you doing now?》
Terra asked me if I had seen the paladins filtering out warlocks.
《What are you doing, you are looking for a warlock.》
“Why are you bothering me like that? If you use the mark I gave you, wouldn’t it be easier to spot the followers of the Demon King?”
“…How?”
《This true… Information on how to use the mark is all contained within it. You haven’t even thought to look at it yet?”
Terra pins her down.
For me, the stigmata did its job by handling paladins and decorating my armor.
I knew that it had other functions.
Is it a healing ability?
But that didn’t have any merit for me.
No matter how you look at it, the effect of my blood looked better.
Listening to Terra, it seemed that she could use other powers besides that.
When she thought that she had to use the stigma to find the warlock, as she said, information about how to use it came naturally to her head.
The way was easy.
It is to mix the power of the stigma with my cognitive abilities.
When I combined my cognitive ability and the power of stigmata according to the method that came to my mind, I was able to identify the black magician in an instant.
I felt a magical power completely different from that of other humans.
The number of black magicians was smaller than I thought.
Except for the one Judith dealt with, there was only one.
It was a hooded adventurer standing at the back of the line.
Looking at it with interest, I can see that he is pretending to be calm, but he is restless every time the line decreases.
The ability of the stigmata made it very easy to instantly identify a black magician.
“…”
I don’t know if I would have been in good shape from the beginning.
It’s going to be easier now… To tell Judith that it somehow looked out of shape.
…I’ll let you know sooner.
“What are you doing? Come on, don’t catch him.”
Terra urged me without knowing my thoughts.
She didn’t notice
It’s not polite to say that you’ve already figured out the truth after working so hard.
The golden time has passed.
If I say that I had such ability here, everyone will have a twinge of greed coming out of their mouths.
If you keep your mouth shut, none of that will happen.
In times like this, there is something to be said.
What you don’t know is medicine.
I decided to bury this truth in my heart.
And there are good words.
Awakening.
Later, it is enough to say that the ability of the stigmata has been newly awakened.
I thought it was a good way.
If Terra said that she felt sorry for the paladin’s hard search and gave her the ability, wouldn’t they rather shed tears and like it?
If only I keep my mouth shut, everything will go well.
《Unho, why the hell are you not catching him? I cannot understand your current behavior.”
“Be quite. Terra. Even if people can do it, there are times when they shouldn’t. Do you hear a lot about not paying attention?”
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