episode_0051

The Abyss Cult was the last remaining warlock organization on the continent.

Their organization, as its name suggests, was an organization centered around a religious leader.

Bialom, the leader of the Abyss Cult, was very irritated right now.

Now, the task of taking bloody revenge on those who despised them and bringing the demons they serve back to this world and throwing the continent into chaos is at hand.

I can’t believe the idiots under my command are making various excuses to avoid collecting the sacrifices.

I had a hard time holding back the desire to rip out all that blood and offer it to the demon god.

They were like pigs, but without them, the coup would be further postponed, so it was an inevitable choice.

“Master! It seems that there has been an intruder in the church now.”

A believer rushed in and reported to the religious leader who was cooling off his anger.

“Intruder?”

“Yes! The number seems to be around ten at most.”

Ten people? They are probably worms that crawled in out of curiosity after seeing the entrance dug by a tunnel snake.

At most, they are adventurers or mercenaries.

They creep into the dungeon thinking it might be a dungeon containing something valuable, and thankfully become sacrifices themselves.

“Good. The tea was already lacking in offerings. Catch them and take them to the warehouse.”

“That… It seems like several believers have already been harmed by these guys.”

“Pathetic guys!”

If you suffer from people like that, can you still say that you are a member of the Abyss Church that worships demon gods?

Of course, it’s not like there aren’t any mercenaries or adventurers with decent skills, so it wasn’t ridiculous, but it was still pathetic.

“I will step forward myself. Where are they?”

“I will guide you! Teacher.”

Bialom was annoyed by the pathetic behavior of his subordinates who made it his turn.

Still, I felt a little excited at the thought of tasting blood in person for the first time in a long time.

There was a different pleasure from killing subordinates or commoners.

Adventurers and mercenaries were quite fussy about the fact that they had learned how to fight, but they were no better than bugs.

It wasn’t overconfidence in myself, it was the truth.

Even Eustaf, the greatest wizard on the continent, could threaten him.

Or should we say that it is worth dealing with at least the Imperial Knights, which are said to be a collection of superhumans from the empire?

The other guys were just entertainment for him.

“Ha… Even if I think about it, it’s funny.”

Bialom burst out laughing. The Imperial Knights of Yustave.

In fact, was it because he wanted to deal with Yustav at least once?

Nicknamed the Human Dragon, he was a living legend who had been called the greatest wizard on the continent since Bialom was a child.

Although I might be defeated by magic, I had some confidence that I could probably win now that I had the power of the demon god.

But this was all just a vain illusion.

There was no way that Eustav, who was currently half-retired as a teacher at the academy, would come to a place like this.

Imperial Knights? That made even less sense.

They are people who did not participate in the last war. These are the royal dogs whose only priority is the safety of the imperial family.

The only enemies that threaten him are them, but they have no reason to come here. There was no need for Bialom to worry.

“Well, it’s been a while since I heard a fresh scream.”

Bialom’s steps were very light as he followed the subordinate who guided him to the place where the intruder appeared.

***

“Damn, what the hell is going on?”

Venom was hiding in the bushes and holding his breath.

When they went out to collect sacrifices under the order of the religious leader, Venom encountered soldiers surrounding their base and immediately hid in the bushes to observe the situation.

The entrances to the burrows dug by the tunnel snakes that the organization is using as passageways are all controlled.

In addition, all the members of the organization who were like his brothers who were running away from the inside were being slaughtered.

‘I think that guy over there is the leader of the group?’

A black-haired young man giving instructions to troops.

At a glance, the person who appears to be of high status probably appears to be in control of the troops.

If you kill the author, the scene will probably be swept up in chaos, and if you take advantage of that moment and join forces with the brothers who are running away, you will be able to break through the siege.

Of course, Venom’s skills could not penetrate those troops and those who appeared to be knights guarding the surrounding area.

However, there was no need to use one’s own skills to break through.

A black, fist-sized stone that Venom took out from within.

When magical power was injected into the place, it began to vibrate slightly, and earth tremors began to occur in the distance.

“What is it? Is this earth shaking an earthquake?”

The soldiers and knights who were watching the surroundings were all taken aback by the sudden rumbling of the ground, and soon learned the identity of the rumbling.

“Keeek!!!”

A huge creature that soars up as soon as the ground disappears.

It was too huge to be a snake, and its appearance was too insignificant to be a dragon.

“It’s a tunnel snake!!!”

The identity of the creature was a tunnel snake.

If a giant earthworm had scales and a mouth with huge, sharp teeth, wouldn’t it look like this? A hideous appearance.

And the size itself made me feel intimidated because it seemed like the small garden was moving.

“Everyone, step back!!! Make sure only our guard knights follow me!”

The ordinary soldiers were so tired of the tunnel snake’s majesty that they were unable to move, and the only ones who moved were the guard knights.

The first to run out was leader Cross.

In just a few steps, he jumped up to the level of the tunnel snake’s head and swung his sword. His sword flashed brightly and drew a short curve in the air.

Sigh!

An amazing sight of the sharp scales of a tunnel snake, said to be able to cut even rough ores underground into pieces, being gently cut off.

Unfortunately, Cross was not the only one capable of showing such superhuman abilities.

Although there were only five people here, the remaining members of the knights each took out their weapons and rushed towards the tunnel snake.

I almost feel sorry for the tunnel snake, which seemed like an unapproachable monster.

‘What are those crazy people!!!’

Venom, who was watching the scene, was inwardly astonished.

I thought it was just an ordinary article, but it wasn’t at all. Venom had never seen an article showing such movement in his life.

Of course, this does not mean that the article is weak. Even if he were a knight from an ordinary country estate, he would not be able to injure even a fingertip even if dozens of armed commoners attacked him.

However, the one he called was a tunnel snake.

Considering how many people it took to control that tunnel snake, it should not have been subdued so easily.

‘Are you saying that they are some kind of royal knights!!!’

In this unbelievable situation, Venom wonders if the authors are part of the Royal Guard Knights, an order of knights directly under the emperor. I even thought about it.

I concluded that it was a ridiculous illusion.

Although the person who appeared to be the captain had black hair, there were often black-haired nobles in the empire other than the royal family.

The emperor is already old, so any male royal family member of that age would be the crown prince or the second prince.

Those who are called assholes and lechers come here directly and eliminate the warlocks?

It’s something the dog will laugh at.

‘Now that it’s like this, I have no choice but to use my last insurance policy.’

Venom took out the black stone from his chest again.

‘Chaos Crystal’

This black crystal, which can be obtained by offering a sacrifice to the demon god, has the ability to control demons, the demon god’s creatures.

A shabby monster could be controlled with a chaos crystal the size of a finger, but to control a monster the size of a tunnel snake, a crystal the size of this fist was needed.

There were hundreds of people who sacrificed to make this crystal.

It was a valuable item even within the religious order.

He was able to receive it because he was Venom, who was in charge of sacrificial hunting. In fact, it is a precious asset that you should have only one.

However, Venom had two Chaos Crystals.

In fact, it was his precious hidden asset that he had created by secretly stealing humans to sacrifice whenever he could.

I really wanted to keep this as a last resort, but it seemed like I had no choice but to use it to escape this siege.

The first tunnel snake is attracting the attention of those crazy knights, so if we attack their leader whose guard is now weak.

This time, chaos would break out and we had to take advantage of it to run away.

Originally, he tried to escape with his fellow cult members, but he ended up dying trying to save them.

Venom thought that it was okay that he would die in gratitude because the Demon God would later repay the blood they spilled anyway.

Venom prays earnestly to the Demon God for the strength to defeat those evil bastards and infuses mana into the second Chaos Crystal.

Soon, the ground trembled again in the distance, rapidly approaching.

“Could it be one more?”

Although they drove in the tunnel snakes that had previously appeared, the guard knights who had not yet finished them felt like it was a mistake.

I never thought there was one more.

The speed of the tunnel snake moving underground was so terrifying that even a knight on horseback could not keep up with it.

“Keeek!!!”

A giant snake-shaped monster coming out of the ground again.

“His Royal Highness the Prince!!!”

Of course, that was where the crown prince was.