Chapter 69: The saint corrupts the angel.
by fnovelpia
“What is holy power anyway?”
Just think of it as something that comes from deep within the heart.
“Uh, well, if you know, you might get hurt. It’s top secret.”
“Oh, come on, between us?”
“Even right now, perverts like you two see it coming from my chest and start talking about ‘milk containers’ or ‘holy power pouches.’ If I said it came from my womb, can you imagine the things people would say?”
The two of them flinched at my words.
Oh.
Did I say something weird?
“Oh, that sounds even more obscene.”
“Are you crazy? It’s not that it comes from different body parts, it’s just that we channel holy power differently from each area.”
“But isn’t it the same if it’s a woman? Even if it comes from the stomach?”
Now you’ve left me speechless.
“Wanna fight?”
“I’m sorry.”
It’s just something you use with the strength of your heart.
Maybe the Demon King doesn’t think I’d be here.
Crunch!
Frustrated, I took care of another old man.
This isn’t elder abuse.
I’m just slaying monsters.
“You need to wield a mace for people to understand.”
“Hey, that’s child abuse!”
The Pixie protested, pouting as if she felt wronged, even though I only pretended to hit her with the mace.
“Only acting like a child when it suits you?”
“Oh, well…”
She avoided answering and quickly turned her head away.
“She’s only an adult or a kid when it’s convenient for her.”
“Jeon Tae-yeon, I’m going to turn all the tissues in your house into sandpaper today.”
Why are these people always fighting among themselves?
Blowing your nose, peeing—both would hurt so much.
“Shouldn’t you go pee?”
“No way remote control could work… though, my real body did just tear some toilet paper to go pee. Kyaaaaaaa!”
Oh, so her real body and avatars can move separately, but they share sensations.
I just thought of something fun.
If I gathered five of her avatars and hit them all at once, would the pain multiply by five?
“I told you it’s true!”
“Wow, that’s brutal.”
“You shouldn’t forget I’m a Pixie.”
Jeon Tae-yeon crouched down, pressing her legs together, reacting just like a man getting kicked in the groin.
How hard did she rub it?
“But while we’re chatting, haven’t too many angels gathered around?”
“Yeah.”
“What’s that? That giant head thing?”
A giant head was floating in the sky.
It was different from the clumps of angels we’d seen.
It was just a huge head with wings floating around.
It was so gross.
These fallen angel vermin, after having their heads smashed by me, sometimes transform into bizarre forms like that.
“That’s still an angel. There are some that end up like that after being corrupted by magic.”
It’s like a chrysalis—just a stage where they gather experience before evolving.
“Isn’t that thing basically a fortress?”
It does kind of look like a small fortress.
“If you kill some people up there, it gathers experience and eventually evolves into a full-fledged fallen angel.”
They all look ridiculous, but they keep evolving.
If an angel stops doing angelic things and instead goes around killing as a fallen angel, it evolves—just like in those monster-raising comics.
You know, the ones where they evolve based on certain conditions.
“Wait a minute. No matter how you spin it, isn’t it weird for an angel to evolve? A fallen angel?”
“Pixie Yoonyeo, do you actually believe in angels?”
“No, it’s just weird. That thing doesn’t even look like a monster.”
It does look strange to me too.
An angel evolving like a monster—it’s nonsense.
But it’s a monster.
A demon.
It can only be seen as a demon.
“In that world, it’s a monster. In fact, they’re more monstrous than other mobs.”
So far, we’ve seen crying statues, angel clusters, and giant-headed angels.
That means the next one will inevitably be stronger.
I think the next one will probably be the fallen angel guard.
“So what do we do now?”
“Can’t we just kill that thing?”
It’s flying, but it’s big enough to hit with a spear.
“Wait, I kind of want to see it evolve.”
“I’m curious too. When will we get another chance like this?”
Are you kids or what?
Why are you curious about that?
“Why are you even curious about that? Ah, well, I guess a young girl like you might have fantasies about things like that.”
“Stop treating me like a child! It’s just that there’s never been anything like this on Earth before, so I’m curious. You may be sick of seeing them in the other world, but this might be my last chance here!”
True.
Angels probably won’t respawn again.
The fallen angels must’ve survived in the other world and gotten dragged here.
Right.
You’d be curious.
But that doesn’t mean we can just let ourselves get killed by it or bring people to it.
“But we can’t just let ourselves die to that thing, can we?”
“Uh, that’s true.”
The pixie looked sulky.
If I mess around now, things could get annoying.
“Hmm. There is a way, though.”
“There is a way?”
“Yes. I’m not sure if it’ll work, but for now, you two should rest.”
In the end, we just need to kill humans.
I kicked off the ground and soared into the sky.
I climbed onto the giant-headed angel, glaring at me, and gouged out its eye with my mace.
“Grraaaaagghh!”
The giant-headed angel thrashed around in the sky after losing its eye.
This thing moves purely on instinct.
Think of it as a skeleton soaked in malice and murderous intent, but in angel form.
In other words—
“What are you doing?”
“Shh.”
Now, what shall I do next?
Even with her clones summoned, there are still many weeping angel statues left.
There’s also the old tree man.
While the winged clumps are randomly shooting lasers, using this eye-gouged statue is simple.
“Hey, listen to me carefully. Unless you want to die…”
“Ugh… Ughhh…”
It’s still muttering.
I slammed it down onto the ground.
“Hey, you should stay quiet. It’s better for you to listen to me.”
“Grrrr… grrrrgh!”
“Oh, still not listening, huh?”
Crack!
I smashed a corner of its head lightly with the mace.
“Graaaaagh!”
“Finally, it’s quiet. Now, stay still, alright?”
“Grrr…”
I gently stepped on the giant head while petting it.
Yeah, see?
Isn’t it better to stay quiet from the start?
“Here, take what I give you, okay? You might be able to evolve. You’re lucky to meet me—I’m going to help you out.”
“Grr… grrr…”
The giant-headed angel, stuck on the ground, stayed still.
Good.
A good kid listens to orders.
Instinct is scary like that.
In front of someone stronger, you get quiet.
“G-guhhh…”
I ripped off one of the old tree man’s limbs.
Lasers rained down from above, but the spiritual form of the winged clump couldn’t seem to hit the giant head.
The lasers kept missing me.
“Take it while I’m giving it to you.”
“Grr… grrr.”
The giant-headed angel opened its mouth wide.
I expected the old tree man to get swallowed up easily, but surprisingly, his survival instinct kicked in, and he began to struggle.
“Guhhh! Gaaaaah!”
“Oh, so you want to live?”
But sorry, I can’t let these cultists who believe in fallen angels off the hook.
Besides, they tried to kill us using spiritual force, so I can’t forgive that.
I shoved the old tree man into the giant angel’s mouth.
Crunch, snap!
“Kyaaaaaa!”
The giant-headed angel chewed up the old tree man, devouring him completely, bones and all.
One of the winged clumps in the air vanished in agony.
Wow.
Killing them like this is actually kind of fun.
“Good job, good job.”
“Grr… grrr.”
“Now, eat some more, okay?”
Using the giant-headed angel as a shield, I tore off more pieces of the old tree man and stuffed them into its mouth.
Crunch, snap!
The sound of flesh and bone being chewed was disgustingly loud.
Ugh, what a barbaric fallen angel monster.
Still, this method should give us more experience points.
By now, they should understand what I’m doing.
I intend to evolve it through team-killing.
I looked over at Pixie and Jeon Tae-yeon, who were staring blankly in our direction from a corner.
“Why don’t you guys bring over more old tree men? You can dodge the lasers, right? The accuracy is terrible, and they’ll focus on the giant head soon enough.”
“Uh… right, okay.”
“What are you thinking…”
If you’re traveling with me, you should at least understand this much.
They started dragging over the old tree men one by one.
As their numbers decreased, the lasers from above also dwindled.
“Grr… grrr…”
And the giant head began to change bit by bit.
By the time I fed it about five more crying angels as dessert along with the old tree man, the giant head finally began to shine intensely.
Before long, the other giant heads nearby were drawn to the light and swallowed up by it.
In other words, the evolving giant head started merging with the others.
“It has started evolving. Watch closely,.”
I said.
“What? Did you team-kill them just to evolve it?”
Of course.
“Yes. You said you wanted to see it, right? Only I can show you something like this.”
Before we knew it, the giant head was just a chunk of rock, and what was inside became more important.
A dark energy flowed out from within the rock-like giant head, and soon the stone began to crack and eventually shattered completely.
Crack, snap! Crack!
It finally shed its entire shell.
“Graaaaagh!”
A creature emerged from the rock, with a raspy, phlegm-filled voice.
It had black wings and a black angel ring.
“Ooooh! Jet-black wings! And a black angel ring on its head!”
The pixie’s eyes sparkled.
She’s still a kid, look at her eyes sparkle.
This is the first time I’ve seen a fallen angel evolve.
Its wings, its ring, and even its clothes were all black.
Its hair was white, which wasn’t bad, considering normal angels usually have golden hair.
Even the fallen angel’s…
“White hair, huh.”
“A strangely born angel.”
Wow.
The fallen angel did look cool.
But, unlike regular angels, it gave off a distinct, murky aura.
The fallen angel raised its head and stared at me intently.
Then, suddenly, its mouth stretched all the way to its ears.
“Finally, I can pay back this humiliation! You dared to feed my comrades to me and disgrace me! Now you will die, ahahaha!”
“Die!”
No, I’m not interested in that.
What I’m interested in is something else.
That jet-black angel ring on its head.
I want that.
I already have a regular angel ring, so I need to get this one too, don’t I?
I raised my mace high.
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